My plan is to first work on the history of the small U.S. groups that split from "official Trotskyism." Some of these groups (e.g., the
Revolutionary Workers League) broke over issues like the
French Turn, but never evolved beyond official Trotskyism on issues such as the nature of the Soviet Union. Others (e.g., the
Marxist Workers League and the
Revolutionary Marxist League) made a more substantial break, seeming to come -- late, and less clearly -- to positions already developed by the
communist left. And still others, like
Paul Kirchhoff or David Atkins, ended up squarely within the ranks of the communist left.
Ideas for new pages
1930s U.S. Trotskyism
Attilio Salemme (in progress)
Communist Workers Group (US split from RWL?)
Edward Sard (pseudonym F.L. Demby)
Harry Roskolenko
Karl Mienov (maybe too hard to document?)
Max Geltman
Russell Blackwell (pseudonym Rosalio Negrete)
Ruth Stamm Dear (sister of Tom Stamm, likely a member of the Communist Workers Group listed above)
Tom Stamm (founder of a group that split from RWL but kept the name; by most accounts an interesting guy and possibly inventor of term "ping-pong")
My plan is to first work on the history of the small U.S. groups that split from "official Trotskyism." Some of these groups (e.g., the
Revolutionary Workers League) broke over issues like the
French Turn, but never evolved beyond official Trotskyism on issues such as the nature of the Soviet Union. Others (e.g., the
Marxist Workers League and the
Revolutionary Marxist League) made a more substantial break, seeming to come -- late, and less clearly -- to positions already developed by the
communist left. And still others, like
Paul Kirchhoff or David Atkins, ended up squarely within the ranks of the communist left.
Ideas for new pages
1930s U.S. Trotskyism
Attilio Salemme (in progress)
Communist Workers Group (US split from RWL?)
Edward Sard (pseudonym F.L. Demby)
Harry Roskolenko
Karl Mienov (maybe too hard to document?)
Max Geltman
Russell Blackwell (pseudonym Rosalio Negrete)
Ruth Stamm Dear (sister of Tom Stamm, likely a member of the Communist Workers Group listed above)
Tom Stamm (founder of a group that split from RWL but kept the name; by most accounts an interesting guy and possibly inventor of term "ping-pong")