Written: 1953
Transcribed and edited by: Chris Gilligan, September 2025.
Background: Transcribed from the copy available at the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection [External Site]. An unfinished rough draft, presented by Raya Dunayevskaya for discussion at first Convention of Correspondence Committees, July 1953.
I: SPLIT IN THE SOCIALIST MOVEMENT IN AMERICA AT THE END OF WORLD WAR I
1) – Debs
2) – The Immigrants
3) – The Life and Activity of the Communist Party Members
4) – The End of An Epoch and the Appearance of a New Type of Organizer: the Lovestonite
1) – Its Opponent, Trotsky
A – OUR BEGINNINGS
1) – The Theory of State-Capitalism
2) – 2. Trotskyism, Orthodox and Otherwise
B – THE LIFE OF THE STATE-CAPITALIST GROUPING
1) – Education, Propaganda, Agitation: a new addition to our leadership
2) – The Rank and File Worker
3) – The Negro
4) – The Women
5) – The Youth
C – ORGANIZATION FOLLOWS POLITICS: THE LEADER AND THE LINE
1) – James P. Cannon and Martin Abern
2) – Max Shachtman and James Burnham
IV: OUR ORGANIZATION AND OUR PAPER
A – OUR ORGANIZATION
1) – White and Negro Relations
2) – Relations of Various Layers in Our Own Organization
1) – Intellectual Domination or the "Reign of Terror" in the Youth
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