In this episode, I talk with August Nimtz, the author of several books, including Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough, The Ballot, The Street—Or Both?, and The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution: Comparing Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass in Real-Time. August covers a wide range of topics, including Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Frederick Douglass’s connections to the British Chartist movement; Douglass as a revolutionary liberal during the Civil War and where his thinking intersected with and diverged from Marx and Engels; the relevance of Martin Luther King Jr.; the distinction between bourgeois and democratic republics; and the demand for a democratic constitution in the United States.