Udløbet Debat Mandag 02. jun. 2025 - 16:30-18:45 The Future of the American Left Hjem // Arrangementer // The Future of the American Left Fighting the oligarchy – then and now The future of the American Left – Fighting the Oligarchy – then and now? We’re welcoming the historians behind the international research project Transplanting Socialism, along with American professor Andrew Hartman, author of the new book Karl Marx in America. In conversation with Mogens Lykketoft, former Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of the UN General Assembly, Hartman will examine the current state of the American Left – and discuss its political prospects, both now and in the future. Since the 2008 financial crisis, an American left has struggled to reemerge as a vital force on the American political landscape. The surprisingly popular presidential campaigns run by the democratic socialist Bernie Sanders are a possible way to measure this reemergence. Another way to evaluate the current state of the American left is that rate at which more Americans are reading, writing, and thinking about Karl Marx since the 1960s or perhaps even 1930s. But, in a time when the Democratic Party seems powerless in the face of right-wing authoritarianism, what does this mean for the future of the American left? Mandag 2. juni kl. 16.30-18.45 Billet: 100 kr. // gratis for studerende. BOOK BILLET » Program: Introduction of Transplanting Socialism and the exiled Danish socialist leaders Louis Pio and Paul Geleff by Associate Professor Anders Bo Rasmussen and Senior Researcher Tina Langholm Larsen. Introduction of Karl Marx in America by Professor Andrew Hartman. Discussion between Mogens Lykketoft, former president of the UN General Assembly and Professor Andrew Hartman. Moderator: Niels Bjerre Poulsen.