Max Shachtman emigrated with his family to New York City in 1905.
30 Facts About Max Shachtman
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Max Shachtman thereby joined the official communist movement by virtue of the Workers' Council's dissolution by merger.
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Max Shachtman was persuaded by Martin Abern to move to Chicago to become an organizer for the communist youth organization and edit the Young Worker.
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Max Shachtman edited Labor Defender, a journal of International Labor Defense, which he made the first photographic magazine on the US left.
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Max Shachtman took up a series of positions as a journalist, which allowed him the time and resources to bring the American Trotskyists into contact with their co-thinkers.
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Max Shachtman attended the first European conference of the International Left Opposition in April 1930 and represented the CLA on the International Bureau of the ILO.
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Max Shachtman's working relationship with Abern was strengthened in 1929 and 1930.
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Max Shachtman was known for the liberal use of humor and sarcasm in his polemical speeches.
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Trotsky and other leaders of the International Left Opposition complained to the CLA that Max Shachtman had intervened against them within the ILO's fragile European affiliates.
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When Trotsky's household moved to France in July 1933, Max Shachtman accompanied them on their journey from Turkey.
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Important to the strike's victory was the strike daily The Organizer; although Farrell Dobbs was listed on its masthead as the editor, Max Shachtman wrote much of it and organized its production.
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In 1934, after the CLA merged with the AWP to form the US Workers Party, Max Shachtman began editing the party's new theoretical journal, New International.
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Max Shachtman gave the report on the political situation at the SWP's 1938 convention.
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At the SWP's founding congress, Burnham proposed that the USSR was no longer a degenerated workers' state: Max Shachtman spoke for the majority view that it remained a workers' state, and considered it important enough to hold a vote by roll call on the resolution.
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Max Shachtman came into closer contact with other left-wing intellectuals in or around the SWP, including James Burnham, Dwight Macdonald and the group around Partisan Review.
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Max Shachtman became a focal point for many in the milieu of the New York Intellectuals.
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In January 1938, as editor of the SWP weekly, Socialist Appeal, Max Shachtman had given front-page coverage to a campaign to prevent recommittal of Fred Beal in North Carolina where he had been convicted in 1929 for conspiracy in the strike-related death of a policeman.
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Beal, returned from exile in the Soviet Union, had just published a memoir, Proletarian Journey, in which he identified the Soviet party-state bureaucracy as a "new exploiting class", a formula Max Shachtman was later to adopt.
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In 1938, Max Shachtman shocked Trotsky by publishing an article in the New International in which James Burnham declared his opposition to dialectical materialism, the philosophy of Marxism.
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Trotsky and others criticized Max Shachtman for failing to convene the resident IEC or using its authority to reduce the tensions developing in the SWP.
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Alongside the WP's paper Labor Action, Max Shachtman continued to edit New International, the Trotskyist magazine which his supporters had taken with them on resigning from the SWP.
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Max Shachtman was present in Grand Rapids for the 1944 UAW convention, helped convince its Rank and File Caucus to stand fast against the no-strike pledge, and felt triumphant when a convention majority voted the pledge down.
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In 1949, Max Shachtman's group dropped its self-description as a "party" and became the Independent Socialist League.
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Max Shachtman maintained contact with Trotsky's widow, Natalia Sedova, who generally agreed with his views at that time.
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In 1962, Max Shachtman published The Bureaucratic Revolution: The Rise of the Stalinist State.
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Max Shachtman helped pressure the SP to work with the Democratic Party in order to push the Democrats to the left.
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Max Shachtman favored a negotiated peace settlement rather than a unilateral US withdrawal from the Vietnam War.
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Max Shachtman died in Floral Park on November 4,1972, from coronary failure.
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Max Shachtman was 68 years old at the time of his death.
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Individuals influenced by Max Shachtman's organisations have shared his opposition to Stalinism.