Revolutionary Marxist League
Encyclopedia
The Revolutionary Marxist League was a small Communist sect that existed from 1939 - 1940 in New York City
. It was led be Karl Joerger and Antillio Salamme. The origins of the RML lay in a group called the Marxist Policy Committee which was apparently a "stooge" group of Oehler supporters within the Trotskyist movement. The chairmen of this group, Becket, felt that their line was no different that that of the orthodox Trotskyites and quickly expelled them, and the MPC then rejoined the Revolutionary Workers League.
Its ideological position consisted of a rejection of both Stalinism and Trotskyism, which it regarded as an inverted form of Stalinism
. It was equally harsh in its denunciation of the various splinters from official Trotskyism
:
The RML published a mimeographed organ called Revolutionary Action. It apparently ran from Vol. I #1 1938 to Vol. II #1 February 1939.
Around 1940 they merged with the Marxist Workers League
, led by K. Mienov, to form a group called the Workers Party, which nevertheless seems to have been disbanded soon thereafter.
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. It was led be Karl Joerger and Antillio Salamme. The origins of the RML lay in a group called the Marxist Policy Committee which was apparently a "stooge" group of Oehler supporters within the Trotskyist movement. The chairmen of this group, Becket, felt that their line was no different that that of the orthodox Trotskyites and quickly expelled them, and the MPC then rejoined the Revolutionary Workers League.
Its ideological position consisted of a rejection of both Stalinism and Trotskyism, which it regarded as an inverted form of Stalinism
Stalinism
Stalinism refers to the ideology that Joseph Stalin conceived and implemented in the Soviet Union, and is generally considered a branch of Marxist–Leninist ideology but considered by some historians to be a significant deviation from this philosophy...
. It was equally harsh in its denunciation of the various splinters from official Trotskyism
Trotskyism
Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky considered himself an orthodox Marxist and Bolshevik-Leninist, arguing for the establishment of a vanguard party of the working-class...
:
“We cannot emphasize too much our position that we have nothing in common with the Trotskyite brand of Stalinism or any other inverted form of Stalinism. The various types of Trotskyites (OehlerRevolutionary Workers LeagueRevolutionary Workers League may refer to:*Revolutionary Workers League/Ligue Ouvrière Révolutionnaire, a Canadian Trotskyist group*Revolutionary Workers League...
, FieldFielditesThe Fieldites were a small leftist sect that split from the Communist League of America in 1934 and known officially as the Organizing Committee for a Revolutionary Workers Party and then the League for a Revolutionary Workers Party. The name comes from the name of its leader B.J.Field.- History...
, MarlenLeninist League (US)The Leninist League was a communist political party in the United States. It published a newspaper, In Defense of Bolshevism.Its origins lay in the Revolutionary Workers League of Hugo Oehler, which had originated in the Trotskyist movement, but rejected Trotskyism in 1937...
, et al.) ...”
The RML published a mimeographed organ called Revolutionary Action. It apparently ran from Vol. I #1 1938 to Vol. II #1 February 1939.
Around 1940 they merged with the Marxist Workers League
Marxist Workers' League (US)
The Marxist Workers League was the name of two splinter groups from the Revolutionary Workers League in the 1930s.The first group split in early 1936 and "after a sensational existence of both its members for 19 days" rejoined the Trotskyists....
, led by K. Mienov, to form a group called the Workers Party, which nevertheless seems to have been disbanded soon thereafter.