The 'American exceptionalism' of Jay Lovestone and his comrades, 1929-40
By: edited by Paul Le Blanc and Tim Davenport
Series: Dissident Marxism in the United States -- volume 1; Historical materialism book series -- volume 83
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 692
ISBN-13: 9789004224438; 9789004272132
Subjects: Communism; History
Description: 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 labor 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 673- 619) and index.