- Harry Braverman
Harry Braverman (1920 – 1976) was an American
Communist and political writer. He sometimes used the pseudonym Harry Frankel.Braverman became active in the American
Trotskyist movement in 1937 and soon joined the newly founded Socialist Workers Party.In the 1950s, Harry Braverman was one of the leaders of the so-called "Cochranite tendency", a current lead by
Bert Cochran within the broader Socialist Workers Party. The "Cochranites" rejected revolutionary agitation under the dual pressures of relative post-World War II capitalist prosperity and the accompanying McCarthy-era anti-communist witch-hunt. They argued that the current capitalist expansion would last for an extended period of time, which precluded renewed revolutionary struggles by working people. Eventually the "Cochranites", including Braverman, were expelled from the SWP. They formed theAmerican Socialist Union , to whose journal Braverman was a regular contributor.During the early 1960s, Harry Braverman worked as an editor for
Grove Press , where he was instrumental in publishingThe Autobiography of Malcolm X . Braverman's most important book was "Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century", which examines the degrading effect of capitalism on work in America. The book was published 1974. He died fromcancer in August 1976.ee also
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Social criticism External links
* [http://www.marxists.org/archive/braverman/ Harry Braverman’s Writings] on Marxists Internet Archive.
* [http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/%7Efelwell/Theorists/Braverman/index.htm Braverman's Marxist Analysis] .
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