George Novack

George Norvack (1905-1992). An American Communist politican and Marxist theoretician. Born in Boston and Harvard educated, Novack was on a successful track in the publishing business, when the beginning of the Great Depression radicalized him. He joined the Trotskyist Communist League of America in 1933 and was a member of the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party from 1940 to 1973.

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American - Communist - Marxist - Boston - Harvard - Great Depression - Trotskyist - Socialist Workers Party

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In 1937-40 Novack served as the secretary of the American Committee for the Defence of Leon Trotsky. This body initiated the celebrated 1937 Dewey Commission of Inquiry into the charges made against Trotsky in the Moscow show trials and whose verdict pronounced them a complete frame-up.

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Leon Trotsky - Moscow show trials

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George Novack was one of the 18 SWP leaders imprisoned in World War II under the Smith Act.

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World War II - Smith Act

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Novack produced a number of books on various aspects of Marxism. An Introduction to the Logic of Marxism, America's Revolutionary Heritage, Democracy and Revolution, Empiricism and Its Evolution, Humanism and Socialism, The Origins of Materialism, Polemics in Marxist Philosophy, Revolutionary Dynamics of Women's Liberation, and Understanding History, Marxist Essays.

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