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In this livestream, Caleb Maupin examines the complicated and often overlooked history of the Trotskyist movement during the Cold War, from the death of Leon Trotsky through the ideological splits that produced dramatically different tendencies across the international socialist movement. The discussion explores Leon Trotsky, James P. Cannon, Max Shachtman, Gerry Healy, Sam Marcy, Michel Pablo, Ernest Mandel, the Socialist Workers Party, Workers World Party, the Spartacist League and Spartacists, the Fourth International, Pabloism, Healyism, and Shachtmanism—and the fierce disputes over Stalin, the Soviet Union, China, anti-imperialism, deformed and degenerated workers’ states, and the nature of world revolution.

How did Trotskyism change after Trotsky’s death? Why did Michel Pablo become such a controversial figure? What led Sam Marcy and his supporters to break with the Socialist Workers Party? How did Gerry Healy and his tendency understand the Soviet Union and the Cold War? Where did the Spartacists fit into these battles? And how did some currents originating in the anti-Stalinist left eventually intersect with Cold War anti-communism and neoconservatism?

The livestream also examines controversies surrounding the CIA, Congress for Cultural Freedom, U.S. intelligence operations, anti-Soviet intellectual networks, labor organizations, cultural institutions, and the broader Cold War campaign against communism. Join Caleb Maupin for a deep dive into an obscure but consequential chapter of political history: Cold War Trotskyism, the CIA, the Fourth International, the Soviet Union, Marxism, anti-communism, and the ideological battles that reshaped the international left.

Topics: Leon Trotsky • Gerry Healy • Sam Marcy • Michel Pablo • Ernest Mandel • Max Shachtman • James P. Cannon • Spartacist League • Spartacists • Socialist Workers Party • Workers World Party • Fourth International • Pabloism • Shachtmanism • Trotskyism • CIA • Congress for Cultural Freedom • Cold War • Soviet Union • USSR • Marxism • Communism • Anti-Communism • Anti-Imperialism • Neoconservatism • Cold War History 🎙️

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