aidan-beatty

5 Articles by: Aidan Beatty

Aidan Beatty is a lecturer in history at Carnegie Mellon University. He is author of The Party Is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism.

Marxism, an American Tradition

In the United States, like in most countries, critics of Marxism present it as a rootless foreign import. Yet both American admirers of Karl Marx and conservatives’ attacks on him have granted Marxism a distinctive place in US public life.