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Trotskyism in the United States

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The essays in this volume deal with various aspects of the history of the revolutionary socialist current in the United States that came to be identified as "American Trotskyism". One of the most dynamic currents in the U.S. left from the late 1920s to the 1980s, deeply committed to working class democracy and internationalism, it had an intellectual and political impact well beyond the number of its members. The essays offer the most definitive history of that movement to be produced so far, giving a sense of some of its most colourful personalities and outstanding achievements - as well as its serious limitations. This work is an essential starting point, offering a sample bibliography for those who wish to carry out further research. More than this, the author develops interpretations that confront the meaning of revolutionary politics in the U.S., as they relate the efforts of the Trotskyists to the broader developments of the twentieth century.
George Breitman (1916 - 1986) was one of the leaders of the US Trotskyists: branch organizer, editor of the weekly Militant, member of the Socialist Workers Party's National Committee, acclaimed analyst of the ideas of Malcolm X, and editor of a multivolume collection of Leon Trostsky's writings. Paul Le Blanc is professor of history at La Roche College and the author or editor of many books on the labor movement, including Black Liberation and the American Dream, A Short History of the U.S. Working Class, U.S. Labor in the Twentieth Century, Rosa Luxemburg: Reflections and Writings, From Marx to Gramsci, andLenin and the Revolutionary Party. For many years he was the consulting editor for Humanity Books' Revolutionary Studies series. Alan Wald is H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. He has been active on the Left since the 1960s and is author of several books, including The New York Intellectuals, The Responsibility of Intellectuals, and Writing from the Left.
Trotskyism in the United States: The First Fifty Years; The Liberating Influence of the Transitional Program: Three Talks; George Novack, 1905-92: Meaning a Life; Leninism in the United States and the Decline of American Trotskyism; From the Old Left to the New Left and Beyond: The Legacy of Prospects for Socialism in the United States; The End of "American Trotskyism"? Problems in History and Theory; Index.
"Contemporary American radicals have much to learn from this book. In a set of spirited, insightful essays, Paul Le Blanc and Alan Wald ably defend the tradition of American Trotskyism even as they make clear their rejection of much that went by the name
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