James P. Cannon
James Patrick Cannon was an American Trotskyist and a leader of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).
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- Kansas City
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Trending topics shown first"The Militant, a newspaper published by the Socialist Workers Party"
"The Bolshevization of the party in this sense means the final ideological victory of Marxism and Leninism, or in other words, of Marxism in the period of imperialism and the epoch of the proletarian r…"
"The economic prerequisites for the socialist revolution are fully matured in the US. The political premises are likewise far more advanced than might appear on the surface."
"Yes, reaction is in full sway in America. Many of our finest spirits, our bravest boys, our best fighters, wear their lives away in the penitentiaries of America. The boys that threw themselves into t…"
"This knowledge will not fall from heaven; it will be acquired only by those who have the mind and the will to study, as Marx required of his first disciples. Wilhelm Liebknecht’s little volume of remi…"
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1890
Born
Birth1974
Died
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