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.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume 83
• TeilnehmendeR: Blanc, Paul le,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 83.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (716 pages).

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.

Table of Contents

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.