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Hal Draper
Overview
Hal Draper (born Harold Dubinsky; September 19, 1914 – January 26, 1990) was an American socialist activist and author who played a significant role in the Berkeley, California, Free Speech Movement. He is known for his extensive scholarship on the history and meaning of the thought of Karl Marx and Marxian socialism.
Draper was a lifelong advocate of what he called "socialism from below", that is, self-emancipation by the working class, in stark opposition to both capitalism and Stalinist or Bolshevik bureaucracy. He was one of the creators of the Third Camp tradition, a form of Marxist socialism emancipated from State apparatus.
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Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most commonplace republicanism, for the flattest democracy, is forthwith punished as an “assault upon society,” and is branded as “Socialism.” Finally the High Priests of “Religion and Order” themselves are kicked off their tripods; are fetched out of their beds in the dark, hurried into patrol wagons, thrust into…
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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In the conditions of the proletariat, those of old society at large are already virtually swamped. The proletarian is without property; his relation to his wife and children has no longer anything in common with the bourgeois family relations; modern industrial labor, modern subjection to capital, the same in England as in France, in America as in Germany, has stripped him of every trace of national character. Law…
Karl Marx, Manifesto of the Communist Party
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The process of leading men's thought and imagination away from the use of force will be greatly accelerated by the abolition of the capitalist system, provided it is not succeeded by a form of State Socialism in which officials have enormous power. At present, the capitalist has more control over the lives of others than any man ought to have; his friends have authority in the State; his economic power is the…
Bertrand Russell, Proposed Roads to Freedom
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Philosophers who discussed Hal Draper
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- Heinrich Heine
- Joseph Stalin
- Karl Marx
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- Marxism
- Russian Empire
- Jews
- Soviet Union
- Socialism
- Monthly Review
- Ukraine
- University of California, Berkeley
- New Left
- Schocken Books
- Oxford University Press
- Bolsheviks
- Capitalism
- Trotskyism
- New York City
- Communism
- Irving Howe
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Place in the tradition
Part of Socialism.