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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511345903321

Titolo

The 'American exceptionalism' of Jay Lovestone and his comrades, 1929-40 . Volume 1 Dissident Marxism in the United States / / edited by Paul Le Blanc and Tim Davenport

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-27213-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (716 pages)

Collana

Historical Materialism Book Series, , 1570-1522 ; ; Volume 83

Disciplina

324.273/75092

Soggetti

Communism - United States - History - 20th century

Communism - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- 1 What is the Communist Party Opposition? / Bertram D. Wolfe -- 2 Politics, Activism and Marxism of the Lovestone Group / Paul Le Blanc -- 3 The Organisational Roots of Jay Lovestone’s Communist Party Opposition / Tim Davenport -- 4 The Lovestone Split of 1929 / Paul Le Blanc and Tim Davenport -- 5 Russia and International Affairs: 1929–36 / Paul Le Blanc and Tim Davenport -- 6 International Affairs: 1937–40 / Paul Le Blanc and Tim Davenport -- Photographs / Paul Le Blanc and Tim Davenport -- 7 Social Struggles in the United States / Paul Le Blanc and Tim Davenport -- 8 Marxist Theory / Paul Le Blanc and Tim Davenport -- 9 Fadeout / Paul Le Blanc and Tim Davenport -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The first 'American Exceptionalists' belonged to a left-wing current led by Jay Lovestone. Briefly in control of, then dramatically expelled from, the US Communist Party, they maintained an independent existence on the US Left from 1929 to 1940. Some became prominent in the labour and civil rights movements, while Will Herberg became a prominent Jewish theologian and an editor of the conservative National Review, and Bertram Wolfe worked as an anti-Communist ideologist with the US State Department. Lovestone himself collaborated with the CIA to help



shape the Cold War foreign policy of the AFL-CIO. Yet earlier documents and articles from the Lovestone group provide rich information and remarkable insights on twentieth-century realities and radicalism.