Crisis and Leadership : A Revolutionary Critique...

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Edition: Revised
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Pub. Date: 2000-05-01
Publisher(s): Red Letter Pr
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Summary

Cultural Writing. The story of how and why the Socialist Workers Party abandoned its revolutionary program is an important chapter in American history. The party was the inheritor of the ideas of the Russian Revolution and Leon Trotsky, but when the radical 1960s exploded the SWP was paralyzed by its ties to the most privileged sectors of labor and its ambivalent and wildly contradictory approach to people of color, youth, and women. Written in 1965 by partisans of the fight to reorient the party, CRISIS AND LEADERSHIP provides a visionary analysis of economic and political developments and a hard-hitting indictment of racism and sexism in the union movement and the Left.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the 2000 Edition 5(12)
Dr. Susan Williams
Introduction to the 1969 Edition 17(6)
David Dreiser
Part 1. The Crisis
The International Dilemma
23(14)
Factors of the crisis
23(1)
Political economy of the crisis
24(8)
The proletarian stage of the Permanent Revolution
32(3)
Decomposition of European reformism
35(1)
The internationalism of the freedom struggle
36(1)
The National Dilemma
37(38)
Bonapartism in the state and the growth of fascism
37(7)
Revolution in the South
44(5)
Revolt in the ghetto
49(10)
The emancipation of women
59(8)
The labor movement
67(7)
The coming pre-revolutionary situation
74(1)
Part 2. Leadership
Character of the Present Leadership
75(9)
Non-interventionist
78(2)
Anti-theoretical
80(1)
Neo-economist
81(1)
Centrist?
82(2)
Strategy of the Holding Operation
84(2)
Non-Democratic Centralism
86(5)
The Nominating Commission
87(1)
The Control Commission
87(1)
War against political minorities
88(1)
The new school of socialist discipline
89(2)
Unprincipled Politics
91(4)
The regime helps organize the Cochran faction
92(1)
The regime protects Wohlforth against himself
93(1)
The regime punishes the wrong man
94(1)
The Weiss Grouping
95(8)
The differences
95(4)
The ``soft'' split
99(2)
The concealed years: transitional stage to the new course
101(2)
The Organizational Question
103(10)
Relationship of programmatic and organizational issues
103(3)
Leadership accountability
106(1)
Factional showdown in the party corral
106(2)
Dissidence outlawed
108(2)
The self-critical spirit of revolutionists
110(3)
Appendix 1. A Transitional Program for the Southern Revolution 113(56)
Appendix 2. Statements in Support of the Southern Freedom Struggle
A memorial to Congress
115(4)
Protest against the Washington State candidates' loyalty oath
119(1)
Statement to the 1964 Democratic National Convention
120(3)
Appendix 3. Founding Documents of the Freedom Socialist Party
Statement of resignation from the SWP
123(14)
Statement by the former Seattle Branch on SWP and YSA disruption
137(4)
Why we left the Socialist Workers Party
141(12)
Why we organized a new socialist party
153(5)
Program of the Freedom Socialist Party
158(11)
Notes 169(18)
Index 187

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