Michael Dending: I think we still have to write those histories in the US and across those US boundaries. Oftentimes, he says, liberal traditions see the US as the kind of as a European extension. "Grouchy at least would let us think that maybe Brazilian Marxists could help us think about a new American Marxism"
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