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If the United States has been so hostile to Marxism, what accounts for Marxism's recurrent attractiveness to certain Americans?\xa0Marxism and America: New Appraisals\xa0(Manchester University Press, 2021)\xa0sheds new light on that question in essays engaging\xa0sexuality, gender, race, nationalism, class, memory, and much more, from the Civil War era through to 21st century cultures of activism.\xa0This book is an invaluable resource\xa0for historians and theorists of US political struggle.\nI was joined for this\xa0interview by editors\xa0Christopher Phelps\xa0and\xa0Robin Vandome\xa0(both\xa0University of Nottingham), and contributors\xa0Mara Keire\xa0(Oxford University)\xa0and\xa0Andrew Hartman\xa0(Illinois State University).\xa0\nWe discussed the impetus behind the book and its broader scholarly context, before turning to\xa0Mara's chapter ("Class, commodity, consumption: theorizing sexual violence during the feminist sex wars of the 1980s")\xa0and finally Andrew's chapter\xa0("Rethinking Karl Marx: American liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War"). We hope you enjoy our conversation as much as we enjoyed recording it!\nCatriona Gold\xa0is a PhD candidate in Geography at University College London, researching security, subjectivity and mobility in the 20-21st century United States. Her current work concerns the US Passport Office; she has previously published on US Africa Command and the 2013-16 Ebola epidemic. She can be reached by\xa0email\xa0or on\xa0Twitter.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies