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James Burnham & Max Shachtman

Intellectuals in Retreat

A political analysis of the drift of the anti-Stalinist intellectuals from Marxism towards reformism. – A critique of Sidney Hook, Max Eastman, Eugene Lyons, Benjamin Stolberg, Charles Yale Harrison and other critics of Bolshevism, where they stand and where they are going.

(January 1939)

From The New International, Vol. V No. 1, January 1939, pp. 3–22.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’ Callaghan for the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL).

[I. Introduction]
The Frying Pan of the Intellectuals
When Is a Program a Program?

II. The Formal Program of the Anti-Stalinist Intellectuals
A Question of Tone
Dialectical Materialism as Whipping Boy
Against “One-Party Dictatorships”
Lenin is the Father of Stalin
In Summary

III. The Actual Program
Straws in the Wind
The New Leader’s Dress Parade
Emily Post in the House of the Hanged
The League of Abandoned Hopes
Where the Road Ends

IV. What To Do?
For a Reorientation

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