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Burnham is the father of Neoconservatism, which oddly is a heretical branch of Trotskyism created by the "Burnham-Shachtman Split" - the same event that ultimat
by pessimizer 4y ago
Burnham is the father of Neoconservatism, which oddly is a heretical branch of Trotskyism created by the "Burnham-Shachtman Split" - the same event that ultimately spawned the recently important DSA.
History is bizarre.
The split in the Socialist Workers Party between the majority (Leon Trotsky, James Cannon) and the minority factions (Max Schachtman, James Burnham)
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/fi/1938-1949/swp-wpsplit/index.htm https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/fi/1938-1949/...
James Burnham: Letter of resignation from the Workers Party
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/burnham/1940/05/resignation.htm https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/burnham/1940/0...