Marxist Leadership in the U.S.: Revolutionary Continuity; Birth of Communist Movement 1918-1922

by Farrell Dobbs, Jack Barnes (Editor)

PARTIAL LIST OF agrarian; All-Russian Congress; All-Union Congress; American Bolshevik Bureau of Information; American Federation of Labor; Anarcho-syndicalists; Anti-Socialist Law; Arco Valley; George Asheknudzie; Associated Toilers Club; Baku Congress; Bavaria; Bolshevik Party; Bridgman Conference; etc., etc. FULL TITLE Marxist Leadership in the Revolutionary Continuity, Birth of the Communist Movement 1918-1922.

240 pages, Hardcover

Published September 1, 1983

Reviews

[Marc Lichtman · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the second and last (because of Dobbs' death) of his series on Marxist leadership in the United States. This one starts in 1918 with revolutionaries regrouping (primarily in the left-wing of the Socialist Party) to form a party like the one that led the Russian Revolution. Dobbs has his own ideas and views the fight for "Americanization" of the US party in a somewhat different way than James P. Cannon did in his writings. The first volume of the series is Revolutionary Continuity Vol. 1: Marxist Leadership in the U. S., 1848-1917.

But this should be studied in conjunction with books like Cannon's First Ten Years of American Communism: Report of a Participant and The History of American Trotskyism, 1928—1938: Report of a Participant.