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George Breitman (February 28, 1916) was born on 28 February, 1916 in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., is an American political activist (1916–1986). Discover George Breitman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

Popular As February 28, 1916
Occupation Publisher · political activist
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 28 February 1916
Birthday 28 February
Birthplace Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of death 19 April, 1986
Died Place New York City, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1916

George Breitman (February 28, 1916 – April 19, 1986) was an American communist political activist and newspaper editor.

George Breitman was born February 28, 1916, in a working-class neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey to a Jewish family, the son of Benjamin Breitman, an iceman, and his wife Pauline Trattler Breitman.

He attended public school in Newark.

Upon graduation from Newark Central High School, Breitman was employed in the ranks of the Civilian Conservation Corps.

He later found a job working in the New Deal's Works Progress Administration.

1929

In that capacity, he served as editor of a 14-volume collection entitled Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1929–1940, which was published from 1969 to 1979.

1930

Breitman followed the Workers Party into the Socialist Party of America in the middle 1930s, before leaving to become a founding member of the Socialist Workers Party in December 1937.

Although politically a child of the 1930s, Brietman was deeply influenced by the radical movements of the 1960s and 70s seeing them as a harbinger of a coming social revolution which he prophesied would have a "combined character" being both a socialist revolution of the working class against capitalism merged with the struggles and demands of "specially oppressed" people: Blacks, Latinos and other nationally oppressed people; women, gays and others, groups Brietman pointed that were, like the American population in general, overwhelmingly working class.

Brietman described the radical movements of that period as constituting a "New Radicalization"

that was deeper and broader than the ones he described as occurring before the Civil War among abolitionists and small farmers and later among industrial workers and socialists during the turn of the century in the era of the Bolshevik Revolution up through the 1930s.

He thus saw that it portended the prospect of a great social upheaval.

In a certain sense he adopted and translated into Old Left and orthodox Marxist terms, New Leftist ideas.

For this he was denounced as a Herbert Marcuse like revisionist by sectarian Marxists, while others viewed his ideas as entirely correct, even visionary, which explored the issues Marcuse addressed on a deeper level, reconciling them with revolutionary Marxism, whose adherents, in the words of Lenin, must at all times be "tribunes of the people" responding to every manifestation of tyranny and oppression.

1935

Breitman returned to Newark in 1935 and joined the Trotskyist movement as a member of the Spartacus Youth League, the youth section of the Workers Party of the United States (WPUS).

He joined the adult WPUS that same year.

He also of became involved in the unemployed movement of the period as a leading activist in the New Jersey Workers Alliance.

1939

He was elected to the SWP's governing National Committee for the first time in 1939 and served continuously in that position until 1981.

He was also frequently a member of the party's Political Committee, which handled day-to-day operations of the organization.

1940

In 1940, Breitman married Dorothea Katz (1914–2004).

He was four times the SWP's candidate for the United States Senate for New Jersey, running in 1940, 1942, 1948, and 1954.

1941

Following the departure of Max Shachtman and his political associates to form a new Workers Party, Breitman was named editor of the SWP's weekly paper, The Militant. He held that post from 1941 until 1943, when he found himself drafted into the U.S. Army and sent to France.

1946

In March 1946 he participated in the first post-war conference of the Fourth International, held in Paris.

He was arrested at this meeting along with other participants but quickly released, owing to his American citizenship.

After the war, Breitman was once again named editor of The Militant, handling primary editorial duties from 1946 to 1954.

1947

During this time, he wrote copiously, publishing over 500 articles in The Militant from 1947 to 1955.

1954

In 1954, the Breitmans moved to Detroit, where for the next 13 years they served as District Organizers for the SWP.

There George and Dorothea Breitman helped to organize the "Friday Night Socialist Forum" (later called the "Militant Labor Forum"), a weekly lecture series that attracted participants a broad range of activists from labor, radical, and black liberation groups.

To pay the bills, Breitman worked as a printer and proofreader for the Detroit Free Press. As such, he was a member of the International Typographical Union.

1960

He is best remembered as a founding member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and as a long-time editor of that organization's weekly paper, The Militant. Breitman also supervised and edited several important publishing projects as the head of the SWP's publishing house in the 1960s and 1970s.

Breitman returned from Detroit to New York in the late 1960s to take over management of the SWP's publishing arm, Pathfinder Press.

1965

During his time at the helm of Pathfinder, Breitman was instrumental in the publication of various collections of writings by SWP leading light James P. Cannon and a pioneering selection of writings by Malcolm X, entitled Malcolm X Speaks (1965).

1970

In the late 1970s Breitman opposed what he saw as a growing fixation of the SWP's top leadership on the Castroist leadership of the Cuban Communist Party, and became involved in a factional opposition group in the SWP beginning in 1981.

1984

This disagreement over the direction ultimately led to Breitman's expulsion from the SWP in 1984.

Despite ill health, Breitman played a leading role in the foundation of the Fourth Internationalist Tendency, which sought to unify U.S. supporters of the Fourth International.

Continuing his editorial activities, he was a contributing editor of the group's journal, Bulletin in Defense of Marxism.

Breitman used several pseudonyms over the course of his life, including most famously "Albert Parker," but also ""Philip Blake," "Drake," "Chester Hofla," "Anthony Massini," "John F. Petrone," and "G.

Sloane."

1986

Breitman died of a heart attack on April 19, 1986, in New York City.

Breitman's papers are held by the Tamiment Library at New York University.

The Breitman papers, consisting of 30 linear feet of material collected in 63 archival boxes, is open for use by scholars without restriction.