Malcolm X And The Third American Revolution The Writings Of George Breitman

by Marcus, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9781591020974
• ISBN10: 1591020972
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-11
• Publisher: Humanities Press

Summary

One of those rare leaders on the American left who appealed to both blacks and whites, George Breitman helped lay the foundations for one of the most remarkable developments of American political history after World War II: the brief but promising relationship between black liberationist Malcolm X and the Trotskyist Socialist Workers' Party (SWP). This valuable collection of the key writings of a leading figure on the radical American left provides a unique view into important social movements and major events of 20th-century American history.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: George Breitman, Malcolm X, and the Third American Revolution
by Anthony Marcus	9	(14)
I. BLACK LIBERATION
Chapter 1: George Breitman on Black Liberation and Marxism
by Malik Miah	23	(42)
George Breitman on Black Liberation
Chapter 2: Anti-Negro Prejudice: When It Began, When It Will End (1954)	33	(10)
Chapter 3: How a Minority Can Change Society (1964)	43	(22)
Chapter 4: Marxism and the Negro Struggle by Harold Cruse (1964)	65	(46)
Marxism and the Negro Strugggle (Reply by Breitman)	79	(32)
Chapter 5: Malcolm X: The Man and His Ideas (1965)	111	(24)
Chapter 6: The National Question and the Black Liberation Struggle in the United States (1968)	135	(18)
II. SOCIALISM
Chapter 7: George Breitman and the Marxist Method
by Steve Bloom	153	(8)
George Breitman on Socialism
Chapter 8: The Trenton Siege by the Army of Unoccupation
(With Introduction by John Spain Jr.) (1936)	161	(28)
Chapter 9: Wartime Crimes of Big Business (1943)	189	(14)
Chapter 10: Should Progressives Work in the Democratic Party?
(Debate with Carl Haessler) (1959)	203	(26)
Chapter 11: Is It Wrong for Revolutionaries to Fight for Reforms? (1969)	229	(10)
Chapter 12: The Liberating Influence of the Transitional Program: Three Talks (1975)	239	(60)
1. The Ludlow Amendment	239	(24)
2. The Labor Party Question	263	(21)
3. The S WP, Then and Now	284	(15)
Chapter 13: The Rocky Road to the Fourth International, 1933-38 (1979)	299	(56)
Appendix A: The International Opposition and the Communist International	331	(5)
Appendix B: A Report on the 1936 Conference by Max Shachtman	336	(5)
Appendix C: Trotsky's Position in 1936	341	(14)
III. THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF GEORGE BREITMAN
Chapter 14: Writer, Organizer, Revolutionary: The Life and Legacy of George Breitman
by Paul Le Blanc	355	(46)
BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, AND OTHER WRITINGS	401	(4)
INDEX	405