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Marxist Politics or Unprincipled Combinationism? Internal Problems of the Workers Party

by Max Shachtman

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Written: 1936
Source: Prometheus Research Library, Prometheus Research Series No. 5, New York, 2000
Transcription/Markup/Proofing: John Heckman.
Public Domain: Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line 2006/Prometheus Research Library. You can freely copy, display and otherwise distribute this work. Please credit the Marxists Internet Archive & Prometheus Research Library as your source, include the url to this work, and note the transcribers & editors above.

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Table of Contents

Editorial Note

Introduction by the Prometheus Research Library

Marxist Politics or Unprincipled Combinationism? Internal Problems of the Workers Party, by Max Shachtman

Introduction

Two Lines in the Fusion

The “French” Turn and Organic Unity

Blocs and Blocs: What Happened at the CLA Convention

The Workers Party Up To the June Plenum

The Origin of the Weber Group

A Final Note: The Muste Group

Conclusion

Appendix I

Resolution on the Organizational Report of the National Committee, 30 November 1934

Appendix II

Letter by Cannon to International Secretariat, 15 August 1935

Letter by Glotzer to International Secretariat, 20 November 1935

Appendix III

National Committee of the Workers Party U.S., December 1934

Glossary

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