Marx and the Chartist
Karl Marx’s friendship with Chartist radical and labour poet Ernest Jones set him on a path to embracing anti-colonialism as a necessary step to overcoming capitalism.
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Thierry Drapeau is a lecturer of Industrial Relations at Université du Québec en Outaouais in Canada. He is currently working on a book on the Atlantic history of working-class internationalism.
Karl Marx’s friendship with Chartist radical and labour poet Ernest Jones set him on a path to embracing anti-colonialism as a necessary step to overcoming capitalism.