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Bryan D. Palmer reinterprets the history of labour and the left in the United States during the 1930s through a discussion of the emergence of Trotskyism in the most advanced capitalist country in the world. Focussing on James P. Cannon, the founder of American Trotskyism, Palmer builds on his previously published and award-winning book, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928, with a deeply-researched and elegantly-written study of Cannon and the Trotskyist movement in the United States from 1928-38.Situating this dissident communist movement within the history of class struggle, both national and international, Palmer examines how Cannon and others fought to revive a combative trade unionism, thwart fascism and the drift to war, refuse Stalinism's many degenerations, and build a new Party and a new International-both of which would be dedicated to reviving and realizing the possibilities of revolutionary socialism. The result is a peerless study that provides a definitive account of the largest and most influential Trotskyist movement in the world in the 1930s, an effort whose results recasts established understandings of the more extensively-studied experience of United States working-class militancy and the place of the Comintern-affiliated Communist Party within it

Front Matter -- Introduction -- Introduction to Part 1 -- Critical Theory, Historical Materialism and the Ostensible End of Marxism: The Poverty of Theory Revisited -- Historical Materialism and the Writing of Canadian History: A Dialectical View -- Writing about Canadian Workers: A Historiographic Overview -- Introduction to Part 2 -- Night in the Capitalist, Cold War City: Noir and the Cultural Politics of Darkness -- The Hands That Built America: A Class-Politics Appreciation of Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York -- Sugar Man's Sweet Kiss: The Artist Formerly, and Now Again, Known as Rodriguez -- Introduction to Part 3 -- Rethinking the Historiography of United States Communism: Questioning American Radicalism -- Before Braverman: Harry Frankel and the American Workers' Movement -- The Personal, the Political, and Permanent Revolution: Ernest Mandel and the Conflicted Legacies of Trotskyism -- Introduction to Part 4 -- Hobsbawm's History: Metropolitan Marxism and Analytic Breadth -- Hobsbawm's Politics: The Forward March of the Popular Front Halted -- James Patrick Cannon: Revolutionary Continuity and Class-Struggle Politics in the United States, 1890–1974 -- Paradox and the Thompson 'School of Awkwardness' -- References -- Index.

The pieces collected in the first volume of Marxism and Historical Practice: Interpretive Essays on Class Formation and Class Struggle, offer a rich, empirically grounded survey of North American social struggles and a sustained reflection on the more general questions of historical transformation

Bryan D. Palmer's award-winning study of James P. Cannon's early years (1890-1928) details how the life of a Wobbly hobo agitator gave way to leadership in the emerging communist underground of the 1919 era. Written with panache, Palmer's richly detailed book situates American communism's formative decade of the 1920s in the dynamics of a specific political and economic context

Bryan D. Palmer's award-winning study of James P. Cannon's early years (1890-1928) details how the life of a Wobbly hobo agitator gave way to leadership in the emerging communist underground of the 1919 era. Written with panache, Palmer's richly detailed book situates American communism's formative decade of the 1920s in the dynamics of a specific political and economic context.