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 American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore more inclined to seek a rough settlement of difficulties…"
"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…"
"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…"
"Recoiling against the cult of Stalin, which caused such devastation in the American radical movement, some people now describe all reference to the Marxist authorities as the cult of Marx, the cult of…"
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1890
Born
Birth1974
Died
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