- George Novack
George Novack (
August 5 ,1905 ,Boston, Massachusetts –July 30 ,1992 ,New York City ) was an AmericanCommunist politician andMarxist theoretician.He attended
Harvard University , earning a B.A. in 1926, and an M.A. in 1927. He was on a successful track in the publishing business, when the beginning of theGreat Depression radicalized him. He joined theTrotskyist Communist League of America in 1933 and was a member of the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) from 1940 to 1973.In 1937-40 Novack served as the secretary of the American Committee for the Defence of
Leon Trotsky . This body initiated the celebrated 1937Dewey Commission , that inquired into the charges made against Trotsky in theMoscow show trials and whose verdict pronounced them a complete frame-up.George Novack was one of the 18 SWP leaders imprisoned in
World War II under theSmith Act .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".External links
* [http://www.marxists.org/archive/novack/index.htm George Novack Internet Archive] . On line archive at
Marxists Internet Archive .
* [http://www.trotskyana.net/Trotskyists/Bio-Bibliographies/bio-bibliographies.html Bio-bibliographical sketch of George Novack] at the "Lubitz TrotskyanaNet".
* [http://www.pathfinderpress.com Pathfinder Books, the bookstore of the Socialist Workers Party] . Publisher of Novack's books.
* Novack, George. [http://www.marxists.org/archive/novack/works/1967/sep/x01.htm "Radical Intellectuals in the 1930s"] . International Socialist Review Vol. 29, No. 2, March-April 1968, pp. 21-34. Text of speech to Socialist Scholars Conference, N. Y., Sept. 1967. Transcription/Editing: 2005 by Daniel Gaido. HTML Markup: 2005 by David Walters. Retrieved May 13, 2005.
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