August Nimtz: Marx, Douglass and the Fight for Racial Equality: a Panel with Kyle Edwards

August Nimtz: Marx, Douglass and the Fight for Racial Equality: a Panel with Kyle Edwards February 26 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm August Nimtz: Marx, Douglass and the Fight for Racial Equality: a Panel with Kyle Edwards Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 7 p.m. East Side Freedom Library, 1105 Greenbrier Street, Saint Paul, MN 55106 Sign up here for this free virtual event: https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.app.neoncrm.com/event.jsp?event=268& Join the East Side Freedom Library with noted University of Minnesota scholar August Nimtz and his coauthor Kyle Edwards as we explore the present-day themes illuminated in their book The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution: Comparing Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass in Real-Time. What sort of politics leads to real emancipation? This question led Nimtz and Edwards back to the Civil War and Reconstruction. Their work engages a conversation with two competing political perspectives, liberalism and Marxism, examining the biggest breakthrough for the millennial-old democratic quest after the French Revolution occurred – the abolition of chattel slavery in the United States. But it does so with a purpose for today. As CLR James said, “You can study history and understand where we are today and why and where we are going tomorrow.” August H. Nimtz, Ph.D., is a nationally renowned professor of political science and African American and African studies in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. He specializes in Marxism, political economy, politics of race, class & ethnicity, and African politics. Kyle A. Edwards is a Curriculum Associate at the University of Minnesota. He is a member of AFSCME 3800 and author of “Those Deluded, Ill-Starred Men: Frederick Douglass, the New National Era, and the Paris Commune.” THIS VIRTUAL EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE FOR THE CAUSE OF SOLIDARITY! SIGN UP FOR YOUR LINK HERE: https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.app.neoncrm.com/event.jsp?event=268&