Ideologies / Trotskyist / James P. Cannon
§ The minds · 1890–1974 · United States · Party leader
James P. Cannon
American Trotskyism
Built the US revolutionary left.
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Governance+50
LibertarianAuthoritarian
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The founder of American Trotskyism, whose Socialist Workers Party carried Trotsky's banner through decades of US labour and anti-war struggle.
social
Labour militant and civil-liberties defendant.
economic
Workers' ownership through a revolutionary vanguard.
governance
Disciplined party-building outside the Stalinist orbit.
Notable for
- Founded the Socialist Workers Party
- Defendant in the Smith Act trial
- 'The History of American Trotskyism'
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