Jay Lovestone arrived with his mother, Emma, and his siblings, Morris, Esther and Sarah at Ellis island on September 15,1907.
11 Facts About Jay Lovestone
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Jay Lovestone became secretary and then president of the CCNY chapter.
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Jay Lovestone met William Weinstone and Bertram Wolfe in ISS, who would go on to become his factional allies in the Communist Party.
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Jay Lovestone was on the original organizing committee, the Committee of 15, with Wolfe, John Reed and Benjamin Gitlow.
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Jay Lovestone stayed with this group after it reversed its stance, and joined the National Organizing Committee in founding the Communist Party of America on September 1,1919, at a convention in Chicago.
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In 1921, Jay Lovestone became editor of the Communist Party newspaper, The Communist, and sat on the editorial board of The Liberator, the arts and letters publication of the Workers Party of America.
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Jay Lovestone led the expulsion of Cannon and his supporters in 1928.
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When Stalin purged Bukharin from the Soviet Politburo in 1929, Jay Lovestone suffered the consequences.
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Jay Lovestone refused and departed for the Soviet Union to argue his case.
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Jay Lovestone insisted that he had the support of the vast majority of the Communist Party and should not have to step aside.
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When he returned to the US, Jay Lovestone was forced to pay for his insubordination and was expelled from the party for his support of Bukharin and the Right Opposition and for his theory of American exceptionalism, which held that capitalism was more secure in the United States and thus socialists should pursue different, more moderate strategies there than elsewhere in the world.