Reconstructing Capital: The American roots and humanist vision and humanist vision of Marx's thought

Abstract

Welsh argues that John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry VA, a slave uprising in Bolivar MO and the American Civil War all contributed to dramatic changes in Karl Marx's plans for "Capital." That work revealed a new philosophic methodology based in the struggles of the Russian serfs, American slaves, Abolitionists and the working class of Europe and the US