US Trotskyism 1928-1965. Part I : Left Opposition in the United States. Dissident Marxism in the United States: Volume 2.
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TextSeries: Historical Materialism Book SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2017Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (716 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9789004356986
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- HX83 .U8 2018
Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Documentary Trilogy on US Trotskyism -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Left Opposition in the United States (Le Blanc) -- The Central Figure -- The Collective Project -- Culture Clash -- Diversity and Complications -- Limitations and Strengths -- Chapter 2. Communist League of America (Palmer) -- 1. For the Russian Opposition! Against Opportunism and Bureaucracy in The Workers (Communist) Party -- 2. What is Wrong with the Communist Party? -- How Did the Present Leadership of the RCP Attain Such Power? -- How is the RCP and All Other Communist Parties Controlled by One Faction -- How is This Unanimity in All Communist Parties Brought About? -- Lovestone and Losofsky -- The Control of Party Members in Soviet Russia -- Revolutionary Methods Must Adapt Themselves to Different Stages of the Work -- The Trotsky Opposition -- Is Trotsky a Menace to the Communist Party? -- Stalin Says: 'Communists are Too Independent to be Controlled by Moscow' -- 3. Tasks of the American Opposition -- 4. The Cult of the 'Third Period' -- Juggling with 'Periods' -- A 'New Line' for a 'New Period' -- The Comintern Rights -- Ultra-Left Adventurism of Centrists -- Class against Class -- 5. United Front on Unemployment: An Open Letter to the Communist Party -- Hoover's Promises -- Economic Cycles of Capitalist Production -- Present Status of Working Class Movement -- From Wrong Estimates Flow Wrong Conclusions -- Playing into the Hands of Reformism -- What Must be Done? -- 6. 'The Red Army Sings the International Sometimes When It is Not Absolutely Necessary' -- 7. 'The Knife is at Their Throat' -- 8. Unite to Smash Fascism! Forward to Communist Unity and Common Action of All Working-Class Organizations -- So-called United Front Proposals -- Proposals of Manifesto.
The Soviet Union is in Danger! -- For Communist Unity -- 9. For A New Party and a New International -- American Perspectives -- Fundamental Principles -- For Revolutionary Internationalism - Against the Theory of Socialism in One Country -- Defense of the Soviet Union -- The United Front -- Trade Union Policy -- Against the Right-Wing Apologists of Stalinism -- Party Democracy -- Forces for the New Party -- Chapter 3. Building Revolutionary Forces (Le Blanc) -- 1. The Workers Party is Founded -- 2. Letter to Ruth Querio -- 3. Marxist Politics or Unprincipled Combinationism? -- Introduction -- Two Lines in the Fusion -- The Workers Party up to the June Plenum -- The Origin of the Weber Group -- A Final Note: The Muste Group -- Conclusion -- 4. Workers Party Calls All Revolutionary Workers to Join the Socialist Party -- Turning Point at Detroit -- The Question of War -- The Break with the Old Guard -- Degeneration of the Communist Party -- Party Democracy -- 5. The Crisis in the Party -- Stalinists 'Help' Us -- Stalinist Cure for SP -- The Paul Porter Pamphlet -- The Massachusetts Liquidators -- The Altman Group -- The Clarity Group -- The Perspective of the Appeal -- Chapter 4. Founding the Socialist Workers Party (Bias) -- 1. The New Party is Founded -- 2. Declaration of Principles -- Part I -- Part II -- Part III -- 3. The Internal Situation and the Character of the Party -- 4. Constitution of the Socialist Workers Party -- Article I. Name -- Article II. Purpose -- Article III. International Affiliation -- Article IV. Membership -- Article V. Units of Organization -- Article VI. Administration -- Article VII. Young People's Socialist League -- Article VIII. Initiation Fees and Dues -- Article IX. Discipline -- Article X. Qualifications for Elections -- Article XI. National Conventions.
Article XII. Amendments -- Article XIII. Press -- Chapter 5. Labour Struggles (Palmer) -- 1. The End of The New York Hotel Strike -- Left Wing Fights to Rebuild Amalgamated Union -- Discrimination against Strike Militants -- NRA and the Strike Leadership -- The Left Wing Organizes -- Rebuild the Amalgamated -- 2. Minneapolis and Its Meaning -- 3. Labor Marshalls Forces for Banner May Day -- Before the Crisis -- Short Cut Proves a Trap -- Radical Thought Gaining -- The Wrong Way -- Against False Shibboleths -- For a Workers' World -- 4. Roosevelt Steals Labor Party Thunder -- Labor Chiefs Use New Deal as Safety-Valve -- Raw Deal for Auto Workers -- No Serious Labor Party Swing -- Local Bodies Powerless -- FD's Eye on 1936 -- No Labor Party Wanted Now -- 5. Deeper into the Unions -- 6. Labor Unity - A New Stage -- Roosevelt and Labor Unity -- Future of the CIO -- Labor against Fascism -- The Unemployed -- Summary -- 7. The Unions and Politics -- AF of L Policy -- CIO and Labor's Non-partisan League -- For an Independent Labor Party -- 8. 'If You are Afraid, You Lose Your Independence' -- Chapter 6. 'The Negro Question' (Bias) -- 1. Work among Negroes -- 2. Trifling with the Negro Question -- 3. The Negro and the Class Struggle -- The Problem of Labor Power -- The New Role of the Negro -- 4. The Negro Question in America -- 5. Shifts in the Negro Question -- 6. Preliminary Notes on the Negro Question -- I. -- II. -- III. -- IV. -- 7. The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North America -- 8. The Destiny of the Negro -- Negroes in African Civilization -- The Ghana Empire -- The High-water Mark -- Emancipation from Slavery and the Destruction of Feudalism -- Europe's First Dealings with Africa -- Capitalists Make Their Revolution -- An End to Slavery.
Negro in the French Revolution -- The Destiny of the Negro -- The Bourgeois Revolutions -- A New Need for Africa -- 9. The SWP and Negro Work -- Negroes Often Deceived -- Nationalist Tendencies -- For a Negro Organization -- Chapter 7. Confronting Stalinism (Pollack) -- 1. 'At the Sixth World Congress' -- 2. The Dog Days of the Left Opposition -- Faction or Party? -- The Propaganda Task -- 'Third Period' Policies -- Hard Times -- The Old Print Shop -- 3. 'The Decay of the Stalinist Party' -- 4. Communists Play 'Follow the Leader' -- Convention Adds Nothing New -- A Combination That Terrifies -- Bourgeois Democracy versus Fascism -- Revolutionary Phrases Retained -- Zig-Zag Policy -- 5. The Dewey Commission -- 6. Revolution and Counter-revolution in Russia -- Chapter 8. Political Complications (Le Blanc) -- 1. Footnote for Historians -- 2. Intellectuals in Retreat -- Part I: Introduction -- The Frying Pan of the Intellectuals -- When is a Program a Program? -- Part II: The Formal Program of the Anti-Stalinist Intellectuals -- A Question of Tone -- Dialectical Materialism as Whipping Boy -- Against 'One-Party Dictatorships' -- Lenin is the Father of Stalin -- In Summary -- Part III: The Actual Program -- Straws in the Wind -- The New Leader's Dress Parade -- Emily Post in the House of the Hanged -- The League of Abandoned Hopes -- Where the Road Ends -- Part IV: What to Do? -- For a Reorientation -- Chapter 9. Ruptures, 1939-40 (Pollack) -- 1. The Struggle for a Proletarian Party -- 1. What the Discussion Has Revealed -- 2. A New Stage in the Development of American Trotskyism -- 3. Their Method and Ours -- 4. The Organization Question -- 5. The Intellectuals and the Workers -- 2. The War and Bureaucratic Conservatism -- 1. The Origin of the Party Crisis -- 2. The War and the Party Crisis.
4. The Nature of Bureaucratic Conservatism -- 5. Bureaucratic Conservatism in Action -- 7. The Clique and Its Leader -- 8. Cannon's 'Theory of Crises' -- 9. The Sterility of Bureaucratic Conservatism -- 10. The Alternative -- 3. Speech on the Russian Question -- A Sharp Dividing Line -- The Importance of Theory -- Defensism and Defeatism -- 'Conservatism' on the Russian Question -- The Class Forces -- The Decisive Criterion -- The Danger of a False Position -- The Stalin-Hitler Pact -- The Invasion of Poland -- The Invasion of Finland -- Foreseen in Program of Fourth International -- 4. From a Scratch - To the Danger of Gangrene -- The Philosophic Bloc against Marxism -- The Abstract and the Concrete -- Economics and Politics -- 'Concentrated Economics' -- Comparison with Bourgeois Wars -- Conjunctural Defeatism, or Columbus and the Egg -- 5. Open Letter to James Burnham -- Is There Logic in Identifying Logic with Religion? -- 'Science' against Marxism and 'Experiments' against Program -- Theoretical Bewilderment and Political Abstentionism -- The Petty-Bourgeoisie and Centralism -- Conclusions -- 6. Science and Style: A Reply to Comrade Trotsky -- The Skeleton Undraped -- Dialectics as a Red Herring -- What are the Issues? -- 7. Resolutions of the SWP National Convention -- A. The Organizational Principles upon Which the Party was Founded -- B. The Organizational Conclusions of the Present Discussion -- C. Resolution on Discipline -- D. Supplementary Resolution on the Organizational Question -- 8. Post-convention Reports and Decisions -- A. The Convention of the Socialist Workers Party [Report] -- B. The Suspension of the Burnham-Shachtman-Abern Group (Statement of the National Committee) -- C. The Expulsion of the Shachtman-Abern Group [Report] -- 9. Exit Letter.
Chapter 10. Holding the Line: Smith Act Trial (Palmer).
This first of three documentary volumes U.S. Trotskyism 1928-1965. Part I: Emergence, spans 1928 to 1940, with a rich selection of primary sources on labor and social struggles, intellectual history, and the revolutionary impact of Leon Trotsky's perspectives on U.S. socialism.
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