The 'American exceptionalism' of Jay Lovestone and his comrades, 1929-40. Volume 1, Dissident Marxism in the United States / edited by Paul Le Blanc and Tim Davenport.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface; Acknowledgements; Part 1 Introducing the Lovestone Group; Chapter 1 What is the Communist Party Opposition?; Chapter 2 Politics, Activism and Marxism of the Lovestone Group; Part 2 The Split and its Origins; Chapter 3 The Organisational Roots of Jay Lovestone's Communist Party Opposition; Chapter 4 The Lovestone Split of 1929; 1. Proposals of the Delegation of the Sixth National Convention of the Communist Party of the United States to the American Commission of the ECCI.

2. Speech Delivered by Joseph Stalin in the American Commission of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, 6 May 19293. Speech Delivered by V.M. Molotov in the Session of the American Commission, 12 May 1929; 4. Address by the Executive Committee of the Communist International to all Members of the Communist Party of the United States, 14 May 1929.

5. Statement by the Delegation Chosen by the Sixth National Convention of the Communist Party of the United States of America to Present the Views of the Party Convention to the Executive Committee of the Communist International, 14 May 19296. First Speech Delivered by Joseph Stalin in the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, 14 May 1929; 7. Second Speech by Joseph Stalin in the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, 14 May 1929; 8. Party Split Telegram Sent to New York, 15 May 1929.

9. Decisions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USA on the Address of the Communist International, 18 May 192910. The Significance of the Comintern Address; 11. Material for the Enlightenment of the Party Membership on the CI Address to our Party; 12. Statement of the Central Committee on the Expulsion of Jay Lovestone from the Communist Party of United States of America; 13. Appeal to the 10th Plenum of the ECCI on the Last Comintern Address and the Expulsions and Removals Now Taking Place in the Party, 10 July 1929.

14. Statement of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USA on the Appeal of Jay Lovestone and Others to the Communist International15. For the Sixth-Congress Decision, for the Preservation of the Leninist Line of our Party. Against the Party-Wrecking Campaign. Against the Expulsion. For Bolshevik Unity; 16. Statement of the Polbureau of the CPUSA on Expulsions; 17. Declaration to the Plenum of the Centra Committee; Part 3 Evolution of the Communist Party Opposition; Chapter 5 Russia and International Affairs: 1929-36; 1. The Crisis in the Communist International.

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