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Bryan D. Palmer reinterprets the history of labour and the left in the United States during the 1930s through a discussion of the emergence of Trotskyism in the most advanced capitalist country in the world. Focussing on James P. Cannon, the founder of American Trotskyism, Palmer builds on his previously published and award-winning book, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928, with a deeply-researched and elegantly-written study of Cannon and the Trotskyist movement in the United States from 1928-38.Situating this dissident communist movement within the history of class struggle, both national and international, Palmer examines how Cannon and others fought to revive a combative trade unionism, thwart fascism and the drift to war, refuse Stalinism's many degenerations, and build a new Party and a new International-both of which would be dedicated to reviving and realizing the possibilities of revolutionary socialism. The result is a peerless study that provides a definitive account of the largest and most influential Trotskyist movement in the world in the 1930s, an effort whose results recasts established understandings of the more extensively-studied experience of United States working-class militancy and the place of the Comintern-affiliated Communist Party within it

The pieces collected in the second volume of Marxism and Historical Practice: Interventions and Appreciations, capture the range of Palmer's interests as a historian of popular culture attuned to the necessity of class analysis and as a sensitive critic of historical practice

The pieces collected in the first volume of Marxism and Historical Practice: Interpretive Essays on Class Formation and Class Struggle, offer a rich, empirically grounded survey of North American social struggles and a sustained reflection on the more general questions of historical transformation

Bryan D. Palmer's award-winning study of James P. Cannon's early years (1890-1928) details how the life of a Wobbly hobo agitator gave way to leadership in the emerging communist underground of the 1919 era. Written with panache, Palmer's richly detailed book situates American communism's formative decade of the 1920s in the dynamics of a specific political and economic context

Cover -- Cultures of Darkness -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I An Overview -- 1 A Walk on the Dark Side The Metaphorical Night -- PART II Class and Gender in the Dissolution of the Ancien Régime -- 2 Blood, Bread, and Blasphemy Peasant Nights -- 3 Witches Europe and America -- PART III Marginality and the Age of Revolution -- 4 Libertines, Licentiousness, and Liberty The Underworld of Pornography's Political Beginnings -- 5 Conspiracies of the Night Anglo-French Radicalism, Jacobinism, and the Age of Revolution -- 6 Monsters of the Night Historicizing Fantasy -- PART IV Exchange Relations, Empire's Underside, and Early Capitalism -- 7 Productions of the Night Dark and Dangerous Labors -- 8 Dark Continents Empire and Race -- 9 In the Shadow of Empire Pirates and Maroons -- PART V The Transforming Power of Capital -- 10 Sociabilities of the Night Fraternalism and the Tavern -- 11 Nights of the Bomb Throwers The Dangerous Classes Become Dangerous -- 12 Working for the Devil Dark Dimensions of Exploitation -- PART VI Eroticism and Revolutions: The Pleasures and Dangers of Difference -- 13 Nights of Leather and Lace Transgressive Sexualities -- 14 Festivals of Revolution Light Out of Dark -- 15 Decade of Darkness The Fascist Night -- PART VII Making Cultures in the Heart of Capitalist Commodification -- 16 Blues, Jazz, and Jookin' Nights of Soul and Swing -- 17 A Walk on the Wild Side Bohemia and the Beats -- 18 Noir The Cultural Politics of Darkness -- PART VIII Race and Capitalist Crisis -- 19 Nights of Accumulation Banditry, Mafias, and the Contemporary Spirit of Capitalism -- 20 The Implosion of the City Nights of Race Rage and Riot -- PART IX Conclusion -- 21 Dark Cultures and the Politics of Transgression/Transformation -- Notes -- Index.