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Strains in a Revolutionary Leadership: Dobbs-Cannon Tensions in the US Socialist Workers’ Party

[This article is based on an unpublished manuscript by Farrell Dobbs, his Schematic on Party History.[1] Quotations from the Schematic begin each section of the article.] James P. Cannon and Farrell Dobbs were outstanding historical figures in the socialist and communist movement of the United States. A member of the Socialist Party and Industrial

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Strains in a Revolutionary Leadership: Dobbs-Cannon Tensions in the US Socialist Workers’ Party

Gender and/in the nation: Converging and diverging discourses

Call for Papers: Eastern Marxisms – A Special Issue of Historical Materialism

Reflexive Materialism: The Philosophy of Hans Heinz Holz as Foundation of Materialist Dialectics

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