This biography examines the ideas and political career of perhaps the most significant and influential American Marxist in the period 1890-1914. The text examines how De Leon, as leader of the Socialist Labour Party, and editor of its journal, the "Daily People", played a key role in the development of the early American Marxist socialist movement. The author describes a complex and committed Marxist thinker who refused to compromise his belief that capitalism had to be abolished. He traces De Leon's career from joining the SLP in 1890, through his relationship with the American Federation of Labour. He also explores De Leon's influence on other thinkers such as Lenin, and assesses his role in the failure of socialism to take root in the USA.
- ISBN10 0719021901
- ISBN13 9780719021909
- Publish Date 1 February 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 May 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Manchester University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English