{"id":331867,"date":"2017-10-24T11:26:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T10:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/immigration-and-socialist-strategy-in-america-past-and-present\/"},"modified":"2017-10-24T11:26:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T10:26:27","slug":"immigration-and-socialist-strategy-in-america-past-and-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/immigration-and-socialist-strategy-in-america-past-and-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration and socialist strategy in America, past and present"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h4>Thomas Mackaman\u2019s <em>New Immigrants and the Radicalization of American Labor, 1914-1924<\/em><\/h4>\n<h2>Immigration and socialist strategy in America, past and present<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Eric London<br \/>\n    <br \/>24 October 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>In his book <em>New Immigrants and the Radicalization of American Labor, 1914-1924<\/em> (2017, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcfarlandbooks.com\/book-2.php?id=978-1-4766-6249-7\">McFarland &amp; Company<\/a>, $35), author and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Kings College professor Thomas Mackaman calls \u201cthe phenomenon of mass international immigration\u201d the \u201cmost consciously-experienced element\u201d of the contradiction between the growth in the productive forces and capitalist social relations based in the nation-state system.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageRight\" style=\"width:200px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/0c631902-6ec0-496a-a26e-3aafd0f8f11F\/image.jpg?rendition=image480\"  width=\"200\" style=\"width:200px;\" \/><span><em>New Immigrants and the Radicalization of American Labor, 1914-24<\/em>, by Thomas Mackaman<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The massive influx of people from all corners of the world over the course of centuries\u2014from 1620, really\u2014is a critical foundation of a great American contradiction: On the one hand, a diverse working class has grown up through decades of racial, ethnic and cultural cross-pollination and carries forth the country\u2019s democratic, egalitarian, and cosmopolitan traditions. On the other hand, the powerful xenophobic and backward tendencies promoted by the capitalist class and its state and military institutions, which increasingly dominate all aspects of political and cultural life.<\/p>\n<p>Mackaman, who writes historical articles and book reviews for the <em>World Socialist Web Site<\/em>, takes up this question from the standpoint of historical materialism. He has done what historians must strive to do: hold a lantern to those overlooked but decisive moments in history the lessons of which must be assimilated to combat political reaction today. <em>New Immigrants and the Radicalization of American Labor<\/em> is not a general labor history of the 1914-24 period. Instead, the book is centered on three&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/10\/24\/book-o24.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Thomas Mackaman\u2019s New Immigrants and the Radicalization of American Labor, 1914-1924 Immigration and socialist strategy in America, past and present By Eric London 24 October 2017 In his book New Immigrants and the Radicalization of American Labor, 1914-1924 (2017, McFarland &amp; Company, $35), author and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Kings College professor Thomas Mackaman calls \u201cthe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-331867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}