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The American Exceptionalism of Jay Lovestone and His Comrades, 1929-1940 Edited by Tim Davenport and Paul Le Blanc Few figures in the history of the American Left can claim a more significant and yet contradictory legacy as Jay Lovestone.
Its origins stretch back to 1927, when a prominent American communist, Jay Lovestone, suggested that capitalism was so advanced in the United States that it would preclude a communist revolution here.
The American Exceptionalism of Jay Lovestone and His Comrade Dissident Marxism in the United States: Volume 1 (Historical Materialism): Paul Le Blanc Paul Le Blanc (Ph.D., 1989) University of Pittsburgh, is Professor of History at La Roche College. He is author or editor of twenty-five books related to the labour movement, including A Fre.
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Coining a new term, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin condemns the “heresy of American exceptionalism” while expelling American communist leader Jay Lovestone and his followers from the Communist International for arguing that U.S. capitalism constitutes an exception to Marxism’s universal laws.
United States. But neither wrote of “American exceptionalism.” And the first ones who did—Pope Leo XIII in the 1890s and American Communist Jay Lovestone in the 1930s—used exceptionalism as a term of opprobium. Not until the 1950s did Max Lerner, then Daniel Boorstin and many more authors turn American Exceptionalism.
In 1929, Communist leader Jay Lovestone informed Stalin in Moscow that the American proletariat wasn’t interested in revolution. Stalin responded by demanding that he end this “heresy of American exceptionalism.” And just like that, this expression was born.