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This is the first volume in an incomplete series by Dobbs (the National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party from 1953 to 1972) that had been planned to historically trace the efforts of revolutionary Marxists in the United States to develop "the cadres of a proletarian revolutionary party needed to lead the fight to end capitalist rule, establish a workers' and farmers' government, and open the road to a socialist order" from its beginning roots in European Marxism through to the 1960s. Dobbs completed two volumes reaching to the year 1922 before his death in 1983. Revolutionary Continuity is primarily a historical discussion based on previous narratives and the written record of participants. This first volume covers the years 1848 (the year of the publication of the Communist Manifesto) to the 1917 Russian Revolution. The key themes he explores involve the fight to organize the working class into industrial trade unions; the fight for political and social consciousness and action by the workers' movement; and the fight for an independent working class political party. Later volumes were to incorporate Dobbs's recollections of his own personal involvement in seeking to build a proletarian vanguard party. An appendix contains letters and writings from Marx, Engels, and Lenin on the workers movement in the U.S. cited by the Dobbs. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
