Marxism And Historical Practice: Interventions And Appreciations Volume Ii

Bryan D. Palmer, Ph.D. (1977), SUNY-Binghamton, is Canada Research Chair in the Department of Canadian Studies, Trent University. His prize-winning monographs, edited collections, and articles on the history of labour and the left, and historiography and theory, have been translated and published in Greek, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and other languages. Among his many books are James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 (UI Press, 2007) and the Brill-published Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers’ Strikes of 1934 (2013).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART I: THEORETICAL AND HISTORIOGRAPHIC INTERVENTIONS1. Critical Theory, Historical Materialism and the Ostensible End of Marxism: The Poverty of Theory Revisited2. Historical Materialism and the Writing of Canadian History: A Dialectical View3. Writing about Canadian Workers: A Historiographic OverviewPART II: REEL HISTORY: COMMENT ON THE CINEMATIC4. Night in the Capitalist, Cold War City: Noir and the Cultural Politics of Darkness5. The Hands that Built America: A Class-Politics Appreciation of Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York6. Sugar Man’s Sweet Kiss: The Artist Formerly, and Now Again, Known as RodriguezPART III: HISTORIOGRAPHY: THE REVOLUTIONARY LEFT7. Rethinking the Historiography of United States Communism: Questioning American Radicalism8. Before Braverman: Harry Frankel and the American Workers’ Movement9. The Personal, the Political, and Permanent Revolution: Ernest Mandel and the Conflicted Legacies of TrotskyismPART IV: APPRECIATIONS10. Hobsbawm’s History: Metropolitan Marxism and Analytic Breadth11. Hobsbawm’s Politics: The Forward March of the Popular Front Halted12. James Patrick Cannon: Revolutionary Continuity and Class-Struggle Politics in the United States, 1890–197413. Paradox and the Thompson ‘School of Awkwardness’ReferencesIndex