Flashcards: American Trotskyists

Harry Braverman (December 9, 1920 – August 2, 1976) was an American Marxist, political economist and revolutionary.

Max Shachtman (/ˈʃɑːktmən/; September 10, 1904 – November 4, 1972) was an American Marxist theorist.

Joseph Leroy Hansen (June 16, 1910 – January 18, 1979), was an American Trotskyist and leading figure in the Socialist Workers Party.

Murray Bookchin (January 14, 1921 – July 30, 2006) was an American anarchist and libertarian socialist author, orator, historian, and political theorist.

Morris Slavin (1913–2006) was a scholar of the French Revolution, a Marxist historian, and an early American Trotskyist activist between the 1930s and 1950s.

Jean Louis Maxime van Heijenoort (/væn ˈhaɪən.ɔːrt/; French: [van ɛjɛnɔrt]; July 23, 1912 – March 29, 1986) was a pioneer historian of mathematical logic.

Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr.

Irving Kristol (January 22, 1920 – September 18, 2009) was an American columnist, journalist, and writer who was dubbed the "godfather of neo-conservatism.

Farrell Dobbs (July 25, 1907 – October 31, 1983) was an American Trotskyist, trade unionist, politician, and historian.

Stephanie Coontz (born August 31, 1944) is an author, historian, and faculty member at Evergreen State College.

Raya Dunayevskaya, born Raya Shpigel (Russian: Ра́я Шпи́гель; May 1, 1910 - June 9, 1987), later Rae Spiegel, also known by the pseudonym Freddie Forest, was the American founder of the philosophy of Marxist Humanism in the United States of America.

James Patrick "Jim" Cannon (February 11, 1890 – August 21, 1974) was an American Trotskyist and a leader of the Socialist Workers Party.

Irving Howe (/haʊ/; June 11, 1920 – May 5, 1993) was a Jewish American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Felix Morrow (June 3, 1906 – May 28, 1988) was an American communist political activist and newspaper editor.

Hal Draper (born Harold Dubinsky; September 19, 1914 – January 26, 1990) was an American socialist activist and author who played a significant role in the Berkeley, California Free Speech Movement.

Willie Mae Reid is an African-American politician who ran as the Socialist Workers Party candidate for Mayor of Chicago in 1975, winning 16,693 votes but coming in third place against Richard J.

Willmoore Kendall (1909 – June 30, 1967) was an American conservative writer and a professor of political philosophy.

David Kenneth Ritz "Dave" Van Ronk (June 30, 1936 – February 10, 2002) was an American folk singer.

Stephen Suleyman Schwartz (born September 9, 1948) is an American Sufijournalist, columnist, and author.

Gertrude Himmelfarb (born August 8, 1922), also known as Bea Kristol, is an American historian.

Harold Robert Isaacs (1910–1986) was an American journalist and political scientist.

Edward Hugo Oehler known as Hugo Oehler (1903 - 1983) was an American communist.