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Trotskyism in the United States

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An outstanding set of informative essays, providing an unsurpassed account of the dynamic revolutionary socialist current known as American Trotskyism.
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In the new edition of this definitive work on the history of the revolutionary socialist current in the United States that came to be identified as "American Trotskyism," Paul Le Blanc offers fresh reflections on this history for scholars and activists in the twenty-first century. Includes a preface written especially for the new edition of this distinctive work.

Paul Le Blanc is a professor of History at La Roche College and author of Choice Award–winning book A Freedom Budget for All Americans.

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Price: $22.00
Pages: 352
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Publication Date: 01 November 2016
Trim Size: 8.25 X 5.13 in
ISBN: 9781608466856
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

HISTORY / United States / General, History of the Americas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Social classes, Political ideologies and movements
Alan Wald: Among Alan Wald’s widely acclaimed writings is The New York Intellectuals (1987).
Paul Le Blanc: Paul Le Blanc is a professor of History at La Roche College, has written on and participated in the U.S. labor, radical and civil rights movements, and is author of such books as Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience, and Lenin and the Revolutionary Party.
George Breitman: George Breitman (1916-86) edited internationally influential volumes of works by Malcolm X and Leon Trotsky.

  • Part I. Outlines and Essentials

    • 1. Trotskyism in the United States: The First Fifty Years
    2. The Liberating Influence of the Transitional Program
    3. George Novack, 1905-92: Meaning a Life

  • Part II: Reconsiderations

    • 1. Leninism in the United States and the Decline of American Trotskyism
    2. From the Old Left to the New Left and Beyond: The Legacy and Prospects for Socialism in the United States.
    3. The End of “American Trotskyism”? Problems in History and Theory