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Part III: Resurgence
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US Trotskyism 1928-1965
Part Ill: Resurgence
Uneven and Combined Development
Dissident Marxism in the United States, Volume 4
Edited by
Paul Le Blanc
Bryan Palmer
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Contents
1 Introduction: a Party of Uneven and Combined Development 1
Paul Le Blanc
2 New Stirrings 21
Paul Le Blanc
1 Jean Blake, 'The Continuing Struggle for Negro Equality' 25
2 Murry Weiss, 'McCarthyism: Key Issue in the 1954 Elections' 33
3 Evelyn Reed, 'The Myth of Women's Inferiority' 43
4 Marjorie McGowan,Jeanne Morgan,Jack Bustelo (Joseph Hansen),
'Debate on Cosmetics' 65
5 Harold Robins, 'Automation - Menace or Promise?' 89
6 Murry Weiss, 'The Vindication of Trotskyism: Khrushchev's Report on
Stalin's Crimes' 100
7 James Robertson, 'New Stage for the Youth' 112
8 Evelyn Sell, 'Really Beat?' 119
9 James P. Cannon, 'United Socialist Political Action in 1958' 130
3 NewPathways 139
Paul Le Blanc
1 Tim Wohlfarth, 'Youth Report to the Eighteenth National
Convention' 149
2 Frances James, 'Africa's Bid for Freedom' 153
3 Joseph Hansen, 'Theory of the Cuban Revolution' 161
4 Hedda Grant (Hedda Garza), 'Still a Man's World' 180
5 Melba Baker (Melba Windoffer), 'Women Who Work' 183
6 Myra Tanner Weiss, 'Kennedy: The Candidate and the President' 193
7 Political Committee, Socialist Workers Party, 'Preparing for the Next
Wave of Radicalism in the United States' 204
8 Theodore Edwards (Edmund Kovacs), 'Kennedy's War in
Vietnam' 220
9 Farrell Dobbs and Joseph Hansen, 'Reunification of the Fourth
International' 229
1 o Evelyn Reed, 'A Study of the Feminine Mystique' 244
11 James P. Cannon, 'The Triple Revolution: Political Implications and
Program for Action' 255
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4 Challenges of Black Liberation 272
Paul Le Blanc
1 Lois Saunders, 'The South's Dilemma' 275
2 Fred Halstead, 'The Jackson Freedom Ride' 287
3 George Breitman, 'How a Minority Can Change Society' 298
4 Robert Vernon (Robert Des Verney), 'Why White Radicals Are
Incapable of Understanding Black Nationalism' 316
5 Socialist Workers Party, 'Freedom Now: The New Stage in the Struggle
for Negro Emancipation and the Tasks of the swr' 347
6 Richard Kirk (Richard S. Fraser), 'Revolutionary Integrationism' 373
7 George Breitman, 'Malcolm x: The Man and His Ideas' 390
5 Divergences and Consolidations 403
Paul Le Blanc
1 Sam Marcy (Sam Ballan), 'The Global Class War and Destiny of
American Labor' 406
2 V. Grey (Vincent Copeland), 'China, Hungary, and the Marxist
Method' 413
3 Tim Wohlfarth, 'Summary for Minority on World Movement' 415
4 James Robertson, 'The Centrism of the swr' 420
5 Tim Wohlfarth et al., 'Call for the Reorganization of the Minority
Tendency' 426
6 Richard Kirk and Clara Kaye (Richard Fraser and Clara Fraser),
'Radical Laborism Versus Bolshevik Leadership' 428
7 Farrell Dobbs and George Novack, 'The Organizational Character of
the Socialist Workers Party' 436
6 Debates and Interventions 460
Paul Le Blanc
1 Joseph Hansen, 'Deutscher on Trotsky' 466
2 George Breitman and Joseph Hansen, 'Exchange of Views on
Deutscher Biography' 483
3 Arne Swabeck and John Liang (Frank Glass), 'The Chinese
Revolution - Its Character and Development' 489
4 Tom Kerry, 'Maoism and the Neo-Stalin Cult' 502
5 James P. Cannon, 'Don't Strangle the Party' 517
CONTENTS VII
7 History and Theory 533
Bryan Palmer and Paul Le Blanc
1 Grace Carlson, 'The Myth of Racial Superiority' 539
2 Joseph Hansen, 'Hayek Pleads for Capitalism' 550
3 Harry Frankel (Harry Braverman), 'Three Conceptions of
Jacksonianism' 566
4 William F. Warde ( George Novack), 'A Suppressed Chapter in the
History of American Capitalism: The Destruction of Indian
Communal Democracy' 576
5 William Gorman, 'W.E.B. Du Bois and His Work' 594
6 Jean Simon (Jean Tussey), 'Tom Paine - Revolutionist' 608
7 George Breitman, 'How Stalinism Will Be Ended' 620
8 Myra Tanner (Myra Tanner Weiss), 'Sternberg vs. Karl Marx' 625
9 Joyce Cowley, 'Women Who Won the Right to Vote' 639
10 John G. Wright (Joseph Vanzler), 'Feuerbach-Philosopher of
Materialism' 658
11 James P. Cannon, 'Intellectuals and Revolution: The Case of C. Wright
Mills (Letter to George Novack)' 666
12 William F. Warde (George Novack), 'C. Wright Mills' The
Marxists' 669
Bibliography 689
Index 700
Dissident Marxism in the United States 720
CHAPTER 1
Introduction: a Party of Uneven and Combined
Development
Paul Le Blanc
This is the concluding volume in a trilogy of documentary materials cov
ering the history of Trotskyism in the United State from 1929 to 1965. It is
part of a broader multi-volume project on 'Dissident Marxism in the United
States', involving the development of us Marxism outside of the Communist
and Socialist parties in the period from the late 1920s to the early 1960s. This
includes an already published volume on the Communist Party Opposition
headed by Jay Lovestone, and forthcoming volumes on 'independent Marxism'
unaffiliated with the specific groups mentioned here.
The people who were drawn to the Trotskyist banner sought to forge a genu
inely revolutionary pathway from the violence and oppression of capitalism
to a better future of socialist democracy, the control of the world's economic
resources by laboring majorities for the good of humanity-a cause which they
believed had been betrayed by the bureaucratic leaderships and badly com
promised programs of the mass reformist-Socialist parties and by the global
Communist movement led by Joseph Stalin. The overall history of us Trotsky
ism is covered in a number of other works and cannot be rehearsed in this
introduction ( though the introductions of all three volumes provide some of
the essentials). The most ambitious effort to date in mapping a general history
is Robert]. Alexander's International Trotskyism, but also useful and serviceable
is the recently republished Trotskyism in the United States: Historical Essays and
Reconsiderations containing contributions by George Breitman, Paul Le Blanc,
and Alan Wald.1
A limitation of the three large volumes presented here is that they do not
cover the subsequent history of those groupings which broke from the Trot
skyist mainstream - such as those associated with Hugo Oehler, Max Shacht
man, C.L.R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya, Bert Cochran, Sam Marcy, Clara
Fraser and Richard Fraser, Tim Wohlfarth, James Robertson, and others. The
disputes which resulted in those splits are recorded here, and work by others
1 See Alexander 1991 and Breitman, Le Blanc and Wald 2016.
