The goal of this petty-bourgeois cadre, in which I would include the bourgeois, capitalist exploiter, Engels, is in building Marxism into a mass democratic movement and party through electoral and cultural political engagement, precisely by showing Marxism’s accessibility and applicability to our lives.
I like this Marx. I hope he manages to gain a firm footing in the United States. Karl Marx in America is a start in building the narrative of how a generation of American intellectuals are beginning to analyze the history of Marxism in the United States not as a failure but as a continuing tradition, with the present being an historically important moment in its development and to which we can contribute.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/09/08.htm
KARL " You know that the institutions, mores, and traditions of various countries must be taken into consideration, and we do not deny that there are countries -- such as America, England, and if I were more familiar with your institutions, I would perhaps also add Holland -- where the workers can attain their goal by peaceful means. " MARX - 1872
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