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Lloyd, Brian. "A Miserable Fit of the Blues: Pragmatism, Exceptionalism, and the Failure of American Marxism, 1900-1922," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, August 1991. Advisor: David Hollinger (11, 2, 16)
This study analyzes the scientific conceptions of “American reality” used by pre-WWI pragmatist and Marxist intellectuals to legitimize agendas for the reconstruction of social theory and translate Marxism into an American idiom. The crisis sparked by the outbreak of war and revolution in Europe, in turn, spurs the construction from pragmatist material of an Anglo-American image of national identity. The poverty of American Marxism derives in large measure from radicals’ decision at this critical juncture to appropriate rather than contest this image, a move that renders superfluous the commitments defining Marxism as a distinctive philosophical and political tradition.
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