August Nimtz
· ProfessorUniversity of Minnesota · African American and African Studies
Active 1973–2026
About
August Nimtz is a faculty member in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on Marxism, political economy, politics of race, class and ethnicity, African politics, and political development. He is involved in the creation and transmission of knowledge about politics and political science, with an emphasis on original research, creative teaching, and public service. His work contributes to understanding the intersections of political economy and social issues, particularly within the context of race and ethnicity, and he is engaged in the academic community through his role in the department.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Sociology
- History
- Law
- Philosophy
- Economic history
- Media studies
- Epistemology
Selected publications
Marxism and the Black Struggle
2026-05-20
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingMore than ten years ago, Robert Allen wrote in his very popular Black Awakening in Capitalist America that the “long-standing unsolved problem” for Afro-American radicals “lies in finding the proper relationship between a purely national (or racial) analysis and program on the one hand, and a purely class analysis and program on the other.”1 Much has occurred in the Black American struggle since the appearance of Allen’s book. But in one form or another, the debate continues between proponents of both positions.
The Thesis of the Inevitability of Reformism: Fiction and Occlusion
Polity · 2025-08-18 · 1 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingScience & Society · 2025-10-29
article1st authorCorrespondingFrom a Constitutional to a Revolutionary Civil War: ‘the Cruel and Apocalyptic War Had Become Holy’
2024-07-26
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingPrelude to the Conflagration: From Paris to Fort Sumter
2024-07-26
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingThe Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution
2024-04-07 · 1 citations
book1st authorCorrespondingNimtz's and Edwards's real-time comparative political analysis offers a unique look at two historically consequential figures with two very different theoretical and political perspectives, both of whom expertly examined the most contentious issue of the nineteenth century. By juxtaposing the political thought and activism of Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass, Nimtz and Edwards are able to make insightful observations and conclusions about race and class in America. The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal reveals how two still competing political perspectives, liberalism and Marxism, performed when the biggest breakthrough for the millennial-old democratic quest after the French Revolution occurred – the abolition of chattel slavery in the United States. In so doing, it presents potential lessons for today.
The End of the War and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction
BRILL eBooks · 2024
1st authorCorresponding- History
Marx and Engels on the Race Question: A Response to the Critics
2024-07-26
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding2024-07-26
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingToward the Convergence of Douglass and Marx: From Fort Sumter to the Trent Affair
2024-07-26
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Frequent coauthors
- 8 shared
Kyle A. Edwards
- 3 shared
Crystal Bartolovich
- 2 shared
Timothy A Brennan
The University of Texas at Austin
- 1 shared
Pranav Jani
The Ohio State University
- 1 shared
Giovanni Arrighi
New Mexico State University
- 1 shared
Paul Buhle
- 1 shared
Marguerite Ylvisaker
- 1 shared
Joseph Dorinson
Awards & honors
- College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award, 1991
- Horace T. Morse-University of Alumni Association Award for O…
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