Home

Books
AudioBooks

subscription titles

Book
Audio
Photos
Reviews
Comments
Quotes

Add book

Book

the struggle for a proletarian party

by james patrick cannon

Religion & Spirituality » Christianity » Reference

Added by: Denise Matzav...

Users who like this book

txt fb2 rtf pdf epub pdb

Description:

In this book James P. Cannon, the founder of the communist movement in the U.S touches upon the organization questions of how to lead the revolutionary party. It is also the record of a historic fight, summation of over twenty years’ effort and experience in building the Marxist revolutionary party in the United States. The fight that it deals with—between the Marxist wing of the Socialist Workers Party and the petty-bourgeois opposition—will undoubtedly be recorded as one of the classic struggles in the annals of Marxist faction fights.

get subscription

Read an excerpt:

...meeting, including its confidential aspects, what this one had said, what the other one had said, and what had finally been decided all our "military" secrets. Altman published this report broadcast in the ranks of the Socialist Party, and it caused us no little embarrassment and damage. The report of our con- fidential meeting, which Altman published, consisted of a letter written by Abern to a factional associate in another city who was not even a member of the National Committee and who had no right whatever to the information that was withheld from other com- rades for the time being, for obvious reasons. According to Abern, the letter went astray in the mails and fell into Altman's hands. Needless to say, this betrayal of confidence, on top of all the experience that had gone before, aroused the greatest indignation in the leading circles of our party. Drastic action against Abern was seriously contemplated. Indignation mounted still higher a short time later when it was...