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	Omega-News: George Bush's Philosophers
		Shachtmanites such as the National Endowment for Democracy's Carl Gershman and the American Enterprise Institute's scholar in residence Joshua Muravchick specialize, as bureaucrats or writers, in intellectual forms of combat.
		Their views were far from identical—Straussians emphasized the obligation of noblesse oblige while the Shachtmanites' paradigmatic institution, even after the abandonment of Marxism, was the trade union—but they joined in rejecting the libertarian view of human beings as individuals whose social relationships consist of contracts freely entered into.
		Shachtmanites loyal to labor lingered on the scene, everyday political opponents who retained a vestigial usefulness when hawkish foreign policy initiatives needed a bipartisan veneer.
	omega.twoday.net /stories/991719 (1740 words)

	Max Shachtman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With the eager participation of the Shachtmanites, the SP took an active role in the civil rights movement and the early events of the New Left.
		The Shachtmanites eventually became irreparably divorced from the New Left because of their unwavering support for the Vietnam War (1957-1975).
		In 1972, Shachtmanites supported Democrat "Scoop" Jackson's presidential primary bid, as Jackson was by then the only major candidate who favored a continuation of the War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Max_Shachtman (3069 words)

	AEI - Short Publications
		Under such tutoring, the Shachtmanites became fierce anti-Communists, as did other veterans of the Left: the followers of Norman Thomas and Jay Lovestone, and such individual writers as Whittaker Chambers, Sidney Hook, George Orwell, and Arthur Koestler.
		Likewise when Harrington was a member of the Shachtmanites or the Socialist party, he was "sectarian," according to Isserman, but when he split to found his own little group, then he was no longer sectarian but the victim of sectarianism.
		The Shachtmanites finally disbanded in 1958 to join the Socialist party, abandoning the last vestiges of their distinct ideological line.
	www.aei.org /publications/pubID.11887,filter.all/pub_detail.asp (2391 words)

	Ronald Radosh Serves Up New Leftovers
		One curious effect of the Reagan era upon political discourse was to introduce the expression "Shachtmanite" into the Washington pundit's vocabulary, however briefly and imprecisely.
		This was a term from the Depression-era cafeteria feuds of New York's City College, referring to a particular species of revolutionary for whom the Soviet Union represented not merely the betrayal of socialist principles but a complex historical problem, to be solved through the correct application of the Marxist algebra.
		A few of us still use expressions like "Shachtmanite" and "Stalinoid," of course, just as there are people who can, when the need arises, write in cuneiform.
	www.mclemee.com /id77.html (1116 words)

	Tom Hayden
		But since the Shachtmanites were Trotskyists, their real venom was reserved for rivals on the left.
		The Shachtmanites were vectors of a toxic leftist tradition that Michael himself once described (in reference to Bella Abzug!) as "high-minded viciousness, an ugly inheritance from Karl Marx's dyspeptic, angry attitude toward all opponents."
		Rejected by the Shachtmanites as too soft, alienated from the New Left as too establishment, Michael drifted politically in the seventies and eighties into more modest, pragmatic attempts to revive democratic socialism and function as part of a left wing of the Democratic Party.
	www.tomhayden.com /articlesGA7.htm (2585 words)

	Internet Archive Forums: View Post
		In March 1972, a Unity Convention was held to finalize the merger of the Socialist Party with the Democratic Socialist Federation.
		The tightly disciplined Unity Caucus, as the Shachtmanite wing now styled themselves, were by now suspicious of Harrington, and succeeded in pushing through the Convention a constitutional amendment providing for a "troika" in the Chairmanship.
		In the Democratic primaries, the Shachtmanites supported Henry Jackson, a hawk and a strong supporter of Israel (the latter having become a litmus test for the Shachtmanites).
	www.archive.org /iathreads/post-view.php?id=21245 (750 words)

	Trotsky's ghost wandering the White House
		Shachtman had a legion of young followers (known as Shachtmanites) active in labour unions and had an umbrella group known as the Social Democrats.
		When the Shachtmanites started working for Senator Jackson, they forged close ties with hard-nosed Cold War liberals who also advised Jackson, including Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz; these two had another tie to the Trotskyism; their mentor was Albert Wohlstetter, a defence intellectual who had been a Schachtmanite in the late 1940s.
		Because of their long battles against Stalinism, Shachtmanites were perfect recruits for the renewed struggle against Soviet communism that started up again after the Vietnam War.
	www.prisonplanet.com /trotskys_ghost_wandering_the_white_house.htm (1607 words)

	History News Network
		Indeed, at the time when it was a real force to contend with in the U.S. labor movement, it was concentrated in the Minneapolis-based over-the-road trucking branch of the Teamsters’ Union, hardly a redoubt of Yiddishkeit, and its main ally was a Norwegian, Harry Lundeberg of the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific.
		In the late 1940s the Shachtmanites enjoyed significant influence in the United Auto Workers thanks to a bloc with Walter Reuther, who was not Jewish.
		The argument was made in the early 1940s that the Shachtmanites who eventually moved in a conservative direction had been a foreign element in the Trotskyist movement, but that is another story entirely.
	hnn.us /comments/14427.html (1313 words)

	Scandalize my Name: Stories from the Blacklist (L. Proyect)
		He told a funny story about some Shachtmanites he knew who had ended up in the International Department of the AFL-CIO reporting to Jay Lovestone.
		When the miners learned that the two Americans were Shachtmanites, the mood changed completely.
		Drinks were served and a convivial debate opened up which lasted through the night about the class nature of the Soviet Union, with half the miners insisting in orthodox Trotskyist fashion that it was a degenerated workers state and the other half defending Shachtman's "third camp" position.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/culture/scandalize_my_name.htm (1042 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Other American by Maurice Isserman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		...Almost from the outset, the Shachtmanites and other veteran socialists were offended by the younger generation's arrogance and elitism, and were especially appalled by the willingness of the student radicals to open their ranks to Communists...
		...What the Shachtmanites lacked in numbers (they never amounted to more than a few hundred activists), they made up for in dedication and intellectual firepower...
		...As for the anti-Communism of the Shachtmanites, Isserman's refusal to acknowledge the moral basis of their position, though perfectly in line with his own unflagging New Left commitments, is inexcusable in a historian who, at this late date, still fails to acknowledge the horrific costs of Communism around the world and, most relevantly, in Vietnam...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V109I4P67-1.htm (1848 words)

	RED VOCABULARY (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Shachtmanites believe that the Stalinist rulers of Communist countries are a "new (ruling) class", completely distinct from the workers.
		Left Shachtmanites consider Communist nations to be as bad as imperialist nations (often calling Soviet aggression "imperialist"); the more right-wing, social democratic Shachtmanites (including Shachtman and SDUSA) consider Communist nations to be worse than Western capitalism, usually siding with the US government in international conflicts.
		In America, Shachtmanite groups include the ISO, the International Socialist wing of Solidarity, and (most notoriously) Social Democrats USA.
	reds.linefeed.org.cob-web.org:8888 /vocab.html (4786 words)

	Michael Harrington: Socialist to the End (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Harrington later described his comrades as "determined but unhysterical anticommunists engaged in seemingly Talmudic exegeses of the holy writ according to Karl Marx." From Shachtman he inherited his signature theories of democratic Marxism and bureaucratic collectivism, as well as his socialist outrage at the communist perversion of socialism.
		A decade later he embarrassed many of his comrades by spending the money on a move to the suburbs, for the sake of his children, all the while realizing that his wife and children suffered from his long lecture-touring absences from home.
		By 1972 Harrington was finished with the right-leaning Shachtmanites, but not with the dream of building an American democratic socialist movement.
	www.religion-online.org.cob-web.org:8888 /showarticle.asp?title=1969 (3684 words)

	Geoff White Interview (Part 2) - The Struggle for Trotskyism in the SWP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I fully accepted and was able to argue with the Shachtmanites on this question.
		We had a youth movement, and there were people in the YPSL [Young Peoples Socialist League—youth group of the American social democracy], I believe, who were actually Shachtmanites, not social democrats, and the question was whether they were going to break or be thrown out of the YPSL.
		I was less interested in smashing the Shachtmanite betrayers of the working class and all that kind of horseshit.
	www.bolshevik.org /1917/no8/no08geff.html (6108 words)

	[REDYOUTH] George Bush's Philosophers, by Benjamin Ross / DISSENT / Summer 2005
		Consider these: • Straussian politics focuses on ideas; Shachtmanite politics expresses interests.
		Those who would not follow this evolution were hived off.
		What they lack in common is an animating ideal.
	pinko.net /pipermail/redyouth/2005-September/000500.html (1806 words)

	The Left Wing of the Possible
		But given the nature of Harrington's idiosyncratic career, ''The Other American'' is also a veritable Zagat's guide through the left sectarian factions of the last three-quarters of the 20th century.
		Not that Harrington, who died of cancer at the age of 61 in 1989, was a sectarian.
		And here is where the difference between the Shachtmanites and the Cannonites comes in.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/00/05/28/reviews/000528.28navaskt.html (782 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Maurice Isserman
		Key Shachtmanites, including Harrington, eventually rose to lead the Socialist Party, but Harrington personally gravitated toward the more moderate Thomas and away from Shachtman.
		Harrington evolved, with most of the liberal left, from discomfort to all-out opposition to a war that was, after all, the product of a liberal Democratic administration.
		The Shachtmanite majority of the Socialist Party actually supported the war, basically because most of organized labor supported the war.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.17.00/otheramerican-0033.html (880 words)

	Trotskycons? Pasts and present.
		And the fact is that many of the original generation of neoconservatives had a background of association with Trotskyism in its Shachtmanite iteration — that is, they belonged to or sympathized with a trend in radical leftism that followed the principle of opposition to the Soviet betrayal of the revolution to its logical end.
		The Shachtmanites, in the 1960s, joined the AFL-CIO in its best Cold War period, and many became staunch Reaganites.
		By the time they emerged, the Shachtmanites were all quite long in the tooth.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/928360/posts (2034 words)

	The Bankruptcy of "New Class" Theories
		It was the Shachtmanites’ bowing to the pressure of bourgeois public opinion which was the real basis for their flight from the Fourth International’s program.
		By the time of their liquidation into the dregs of American social democracy in 1958, the Shachtmanites were declaring, “We do not subscribe to any creed known as Leninism or defined as such.
		Especially important for authentic Trotskyists is the Shachtmanites’ devastating critique of the “Proletarian Military Policy.” The PMP, for which Trotsky himself bore a heavy measure of responsibility, represented a profound revision of Marxism on the fundamental question of the class nature of the capitalist state.
	www.icl-fi.org /english/esp/archives/oldsite/NEWCLASS.HTM (12207 words)

	Internationalism and the SWP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Next, he began sidling up to the Shachtmanites, acting disloyally and carrying information to the Shachtmanites when we were in struggle with them.
		One of our young comrades went over one evening to the Shachtmanite headquarters to buy a pamphlet or a copy of Labor Action, and there was Morrow, sitting with half a dozen grinning Shachtmanites and regaling them with a report of our own Political Committee meeting that he had just come from.
		The Shachtmanites were not loyal in their unity negotiations, and we didn't propose to let them monkey with our party.
	www.bolshevik.org /history/pabloism/InterandSWP.html (9607 words)

	DUB Messages / George W. Bush, Trotskyite? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The legislation establishing the National Endowment for Democracy mandated that most of its funding, at least initially, would go to the Free Trade Union Institute (FTUI), an arm of the AFL-CIO's International Affairs Department.
		Aside from the subsidy, however, the benefits to the Shachtmanites were also ideological: from their perch at the NED, they could egg on the administration to confront the Soviet Union and agitate for the prosecution of the cold war to the fullest — all at taxpayers' expense.
		When the Soviet Union imploded, however, so did the rationale for the NED — and it narrowly escaped the budget ax.
	www.imperialdub.com /dubmessages/viewtopic.php?pid=4942 (737 words)

	The Michigan Socialist \| National News \| The dialectics of neoconservatism
		By 1972, Shachtman and his supporters had gained a majority in the Socialist Party and consequently blocked a resolution opposing the Vietnam War.
		Soon after, the Shachtmanites launched Social Democrats USA as a new organization to further his strategy of realignment.
		Among Shachtman’s most ardent supporters were the young Socialist Party and SDUSA members who would shape the future of the neoconservative ideology.
	news.mi-socialists.org /tms007-neocons.html (2159 words)

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		Two of the main founders of the Shachtmanite ideology were Max Shachtman and Tony Cliff.
		Left Shachtmanites believed that the Stalinist USSR was "as bad" as American capitalism, while right Shachtmanites believe that the Stalinist USSR was "worse" evil than American capitalism.
		Perhaps the most well-known Shachtmanite group is the one he helped found, Social Democrats USA, which mainly exists in the upper bureaucracy of the labor union AFL-CIO.
	www.democraticunderground.com /cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=printer_format&om=2028&forum=DCForumID35 (2329 words)

	History News Network
		I would rather have an honest dictator than something that masquerades as "democracy" when it is not.
		I would sign up for the Military tomorrow if there were a clear purpose to our actions beyond either corporate profit (Realists), vague democratic idealism (Leftist interventionists and Shachtmanites) or International Globalism (Kofi and Javier Solana).
		I would rather have something I can really believe in than to fight and die for an ephemeral value.
	hnn.us /comments/52420.html (575 words)

	The Trotskyist Movement on the Jewish Question
		The 'Shachtmanites' had a greater following in the New York local, which was also more Jewish in membership than the rest of the country.
		Cannon were called 'Cannonites' by followers of Max Shachtman, who in turn were known as 'Shachtmanites' to the former, and both of these terms bore slightly pejorative connotations.
		Nevertheless, or perhaps because of this, it is common in Trotskyist circles to refer to rival tendencies as followers of a particular leader.
	www.wernercohn.com /Trotsky.html (9434 words)

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