Register of the Arne Swabeck papers
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Title: Arne Swabeck papers
Date (inclusive): 1913-1999
Collection Number: 87019
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
21 manuscript boxes
(8.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Memoirs, other writings, correspondence, resolutions, bulletins, minutes, pamphlets, and serial issues, relating to socialist
and communist movements in the United States, and especially to the Socialist Workers Party and other Trotskyist groups in
the post-World War II period.
Creator:
Swabeck, Arne
Access
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Use
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Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1987.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Arne Swabeck papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
1890 |
Born, Denmark |
1916 |
Emigrates to the United States. Joins the Socialist Party and the Industrial Workers of the World |
1919 |
Participates in Seattle General Strike |
1922 |
Attends Fourth Congress of the Third International |
1925 |
Elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States of America |
1928 |
Expelled from the Communist Party, along with James Cannon and other Trotskyists |
1928-1967 |
Participates in the American Trotskyist movement, first in the Communist League of America and then in the Socialist Workers
Party
|
1933 |
Meets with Trotsky in Prinkipo, Turkey |
1967 |
Expelled from the Socialist Workers Party |
1967-1986 |
Continues political activity as a supporter of Maoism, participating briefly in the Progressive Labor Party |
1986 |
Died |
Scope and Content Note
Received in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1987, the papers of Arne Swabeck provide an insight into the history
of American radicalism in the 20th century. Over a lifetime of political activity, Swabeck participated in such events as
the 1919 Seattle General Strike and the founding of the Communist Party of the United States of America, and was involved
in the American Trotskyist movement from its very beginnings. Swabeck's unpublished autobiography, which includes a chapter
on his meeting with the exiled Leon Trotsky in 1933, is part of the collection (see "From Debs to Mao," 1975, in the SPEECHES
AND WRITINGS series).
The Swabeck papers contain articles, theoretical writings, and speeches from the whole of his political career, tracing his
evolution from trade union militant to Trotskyist activist. During his many years as a member of the Socialist Workers Party,
Swabeck contributed to various Trotskyist publications, and by the late 1950s, both he and his wife identified themselves
as supporters of a kind of Maoism, becoming part of a small "Pro-Chinese Tendency" within the S.W.P. Following his expulsion
from the S.W.P., Swabeck continued to attempt to reconcile Trotskyism and Maoism, and was briefly a member of the Progressive
Labor Party.
Swabeck conducted an extensive political correspondence, and these letters detail many of the internal debates of the American
Trotskyist movement. The collection contains letters mainly from the "Pro-Chinese" phase of Swabeck's activity. The PRINTED
MATTER series includes an extensive selection of Trotskyist publications, as well as some material relating to China and the
New Left.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Communism -- United States
Socialism -- United States
Fourth International
Socialist Workers Party
BIOGRAPHICAL FILE
1956-1998
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence and writings of family members, arranged within a family file, and obituary of Arne Swabeck.
Swabeck, Edgar and Marjorie (the son and daughter-in-law of Arne Swabeck)
box 1, folder 1
Correspondence
1956-1992
Scope and Contents note
Holographs and typescripts
box 1, folder 2
Writings
1959-1998
Scope and Contents note
Holographs and typescripts
Swabeck, Hilde (the wife of Arne Swabeck)
box 1, folder 3
"Red China - Catalyst of World Revolution," (using the name Hilde Macleod)
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 4
"A Rank and File Testimony: Why I Resign from the Socialist Workers Party after 33 Years Membership"
1967
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 5
Obituary
1986
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
CORRESPONDENCE
1946-1981
Scope and Contents note
Letters and enclosures, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent. Includes enclosures, copies of letters neither to
nor from Arne Swabeck, and correspondence conducted in association with Hilde Swabeck.
box 2, folder 5
Breitman, George
1951-1981
box 2, folder 8
Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co.
1975
box 2, folder 11
Dreiser, David
1966
Scope and Contents note
See also Morgan, Dan file in Box/Folder 4 : 8
box 2, folder 14
Fraser, Dick and Clara
1963-1966
Gordon, Doug and Rosemary
box 3, folder 4
Graber, Henry and Mary
1965-1971
box 3, folder 7
Hinton, William
1967-1971
box 3, folder 8
International Socialist Review (Tom Kerry)
1963-1965
box 3, folder 9
J.R.S. Productions, Inc. (Jeremy Pikser, Carol Shaffer)
1979-1980
box 3, folder 10
Jensen, Barbara and Lars
1974-1975
box 3, folder 12
Kastner, Myrtle
1971-1972
box 4, folder 1
Lennep, Joel van
1963-1964
box 4, folder 2
Lippmann, Walter
1980-1981
box 4, folder 5
Minnesota Historical Society (Michael Brook)
1971-1972
box 4, folder 7
Monthly Review Press (Harry Braverman, Nora Lapin)
1965-1981
box 4, folder 8
Morgan, Dan
1964-1982
Scope and Contents note
Pseudonym of David Dreiser. See also Box/Folder 2 : 11
box 4, folder 9
New American Movement (Ben Dobbs, Roberta Lynch)
1975-1976
box 4, folder 13
Pathfinder Press (Lee Evans)
1977
box 4, folder 16
Preis, Art and Ethel
1962-1965
box 4, folder 17
Progressive Labor Party (Milton Rosen)
1965-1968
box 4, folder 18
Revolutionary Communist League
1974-1975
box 4, folder 23
Sinclair, Louis
1960-1966
box 4, folder 24
Socialist Organizing Committee
1976
box 5, folder 1
Socialist Workers Party (Farrell Dobbs, Rosemary Stone)
1959-1976
box 5, folder 3
Strong, Anna Louise
1964-1967
box 5, folder 4
Studies on the Left (Helen M. Kramer, Martin J. Sklar, James Weinstein)
1962
box 5, folder 5
Trainor, Lawrence P.
1961-1965
box 5, folder 9
Warwak, Isadore
1961-1967
box 5, folder 10
Weiss, David L.
1972-1975
box 5, folder 11
Weiss, Murry and Myra
1960-1979
box 5, folder 12
Wise, Matt and Karen
1962-1966
box 5, folder 14
Workers World Party (Sam Marcy)
1967
SPEECHES AND WRITINGS
1922-1977
Scope and Contents note
Articles, autobiography, essays, lectures, and speeches, arranged chronologically by title. Includes related correspondence.
box 5, folder 16
Unidentified notes
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 5, folder 17
"The Alliance of the Workers and Peasants under the Leadership of the Working Class in China,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 5, folder 18
"Black Gold and Imperialist Robbery in the Middle East,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 5, folder 19
"Carl Skoglund,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 5, folder 20
"China - Points from Trotskyist Movement,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 5, folder 21
"Comments on Khrushchev-Eisenhower Visits,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 6, folder 1
"The European Common Market: Toward New Prosperity or New Crisis?"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 6, folder 2
"In Defense of Dialectics,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 6, folder 3
Lectures on the history of the American Trotskyist movement
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph notes
box 6, folder 4
"Lenin's Role,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 6, folder 5
"New Unionism in the Mines,"
Labor Unity
undated
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 6
Notes on meeting with Trotsky
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 6, folder 7
"Oblique Detractors of Marxism,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 6, folder 8
"Trotsky and the Theory of Permanent Revolution,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 6, folder 9
"Report on NAM,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 6, folder 10
"Scientific Theory and Practice in the Field of Communication,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 6, folder 11
"Some Notes for an Autobiography,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 6, folder 12
"Uninterrupted Revolution in China,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 6, folder 13
"Where We Stand,"
undated
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 6, folder 14
Writing on Shanghai
undated
Scope and Contents note
Holograph
box 6, folder 15
"The Building Trades Problem,"
Labor Herald, .
1922 June
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 16
"Building Trades Militants Organize,"
Labor Herald, .
1923 June
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 17
"Coal Miners in Revolt,"
Workers Monthly, .
1925 May
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 18
"The Makers and Masters of Steel,
Workers Monthly, .
1925 August
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 19
"Organizing to Fight the Steel Trust,"
Workers Monthly, .
1925 September
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 20
"Report of Preliminary International Conference - International Left Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists)," .
1933 February
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 6, folder 21
"Discussions with L. D. Trotsky," .
1933 March 4
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 6, folder 22
"The Decay of the Stalinist Party,"
New International, .
1934 July
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 23
"The Stalinists and Pacifism,"
New International, .
1934 August
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 24
"The A.F. of L. at the Crossroads,"
New International, .
1934 September-October
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 25
"The A.F. of L. at San Francisco,"
New International, .
1934 November
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 26
"The Second Roosevelt Election,"
New International, .
1934 December
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 27
"American Trade Union Problems - I,"
New International, .
1935 January
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 28
"American Trade Union Problems - II,"
New International, .
1935 March
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 29
"The New International,"
New International, .
1935 May
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 30
"The Passing of the N.R.A.,"
New International, .
1935 July
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 31
"Is a Third Party Coming?"
New International, .
1935 August
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 32
"The Real Meaning of the United Front,"
New International, .
1935 October
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 33
"The A.F. of L. Begins to Face Issues,"
New International, .
1935 December
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 34
"Does the A.F. of L. Face a Split?"
New International, .
1936 February
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy (incomplete)
box 6, folder 35
"What Is This Business Revival?"
New International, .
1936 April
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 36
"The Trade Unions in Politics,"
New International, .
1938 March
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 37
"Hitler's 'New Order',"
Fourth International, (pseudonym used, William F. Simmons).
1941 March
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 38
"World Role of U.S. Capitalism,"
Fourth International, (pseudonym used, William Simmons).
1943 December
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 39
"U. S. Capitalism Heads for Bankruptcy,"
Fourth International, (pseudonym used, William Simmons).
1944 June
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 40
"Trotsky on America's Role in Europe,"
Fourth International, (pseudonym used, William Simmons).
1944 August
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 41
Lectures on Marxism, .
1945
Scope and Contents note
Holograph notes
box 6, folder 42
"The Outlook for a Labor Party,"
Fourth International, (pseudonym used, William Simmons).
1945 February
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 43
"European Perspectives,"
Fourth International, (pseudonym used, William Simmons).
1945 April
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 6, folder 44
"Trotskyist Tasks in Europe,"
Fourth International, (pseudonym used, William Simmons).
1945 July
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 7, folder 1
"Lessons of the 1919 Seattle General Strike,"
Fourth International, (pseudonym used, William Simmons).
1945 December
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 7, folder 2
"American Imperialism at Home and Abroad,"
Fourth International, (pseudonym used, William Simmons).
1946 May
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 7, folder 3
"The Housing Shortage,"
Fourth International, .
1947 February
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 7, folder 4
"Rise and Decline of U.S. Capitalism," lecture, .
1947 May
Scope and Contents note
Holograph notes
box 7, folder 5
"Two Pages from American Labor History,"
Fourth International, .
1947 September-October
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 7, folder 6
"Three Years of the British Labor Government,"
Fourth International, .
1948 March-April
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 7, folder 7
Lectures on capitalism, .
1949
Scope and Contents note
Holograph notes
box 7, folder 8
"Dynamics of Revolutionary Change: A Historical Vindication,"
Fourth International, .
1949 September
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 7, folder 9
"Some Comments on Falling Rate of Profit,"
Fourth International, .
1949 November
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 7, folder 10
Lectures on the history of American communism, .
1950
Scope and Contents note
Holograph notes
box 7, folder 11
"Crisis on Three Continents," lecture, .
1950 December
Scope and Contents note
Holograph notes
box 7, folder 12
"The Method of Marxism," lecture series, .
1951
Scope and Contents note
Holograph and typescript
box 7, folder 13
"Economic Roots of the Labor Crisis,"
Fourth International, .
1951 March-April
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 7, folder 14
"Inflation and the Arms Economy,"
Fourth International, .
1952 May-June
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 7, folder 15
Lecture on the history of the Communist Party of the United States of America, .
1953
Scope and Contents note
Holograph notes
box 7, folder 16
Speech at banquet of the Socialist Workers Party, Minneapolis, Minnesota, .
1953 October 24
Scope and Contents note
Holograph notes
box 7, folder 17
"Social Relations in U.S. Today,"
Fourth International, .
1954 Winter
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 7, folder 18
"Lessons of the Hungarian Revolution," .
1956 November 30
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 7, folder 19
"American Prosperity Undermines Itself,"
International Socialist Review, .
1957 Winter
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 7, folder 20
"The Soviet Challenge to Capitalist Economy,"
International Socialist Review, .
1957 Spring
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 7, folder 21
"Why Beck Is Not Their Real Target,"
International Socialist Review, .
1957 Summer
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 7, folder 22
"Lenin Memorial 1958," .
1958
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 7, folder 23
"A World in Crisis,"
International Socialist Review, .
1958 Winter
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 7, folder 24
"The 'Recession' Deepens,"
International Socialist Review, .
1958 Spring
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 7, folder 25
"What Price Depression?"
International Socialist Review, .
1958 Summer
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 7, folder 26
"The Split in the AFL-CIO,"
International Socialist Review, .
1958 Fall
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 7, folder 27
"Soviet Union and
The Militant Anniversary," speech, .
1958 November
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 7, folder 28
"Production, Profits and Inflation,"
International Socialist Review, .
1959 Winter
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 7, folder 29
"Trotsky's Diary in Exile," .
1959 March
Scope and Contents note
Holograph notes
box 7, folder 30
"Who Is Ahead?"
International Socialist Review, .
1959 Spring
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 7, folder 31
"May Day Celebration 1959," speech, .
1959 May 1
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 7, folder 32
Lectures on the history of the American labor movement, .
1959 November-1960 March
Scope and Contents note
Holograph notes
box 7, folder 33
"The Real Meaning of the Summit Blow-Up," .
1960 June
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 7, folder 34
"The Race into Space," .
1961
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 7, folder 35
"On the Post-Stalin Soviet Developments," .
1962 July 31
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 7, folder 36
"In Defense of Dialectics,"
International Socialist Review, .
1962 Fall
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 7, folder 37
"Social Relations in Cuba and Its Relations with the Soviet World," speech, .
1962 October
Scope and Contents note
Typescript notes
box 7, folder 38
Banquet speech, .
1962 December
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 7, folder 39
"On the Cuban Situation," .
1962 December 22
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 7, folder 40
"Draft Resolution for the Party Convention," .
1963
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 7, folder 41
"Idle Plants and Idle Men in a Stagnant Economy," .
1963 April
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 8, folder 1
"Proposal to the Plenum," .
1963 December 27
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 8, folder 2
"The Conflict in the Fourth International and the Position of the S.W.P. on the China Question," .
1964 July
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 8, folder 3
"On Khrushchev's Downfall," .
1964 December 10
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 8, folder 4
Report to convention of the Socialist Workers Party, .
1965
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 8, folder 5
"The Minority Position on China and Related Questions," .
1965 June 1
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
"Marxism, Science and Society,"
1966
box 10, folder 5
"The Socialist Cultural Revolution in China," .
1966 September 22
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 10, folder 6
"An Addendum to the Socialist Cultural Revolution in China," .
1966 October 22
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 10, folder 7
"Party Policy on the Chinese Revolution and in the Anti-War Movement," .
1967 May 13
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 10, folder 8
Statement on being expelled from the Socialist Workers Party, .
1967 July
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 10, folder 9
Writing on China, .
1969 October
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 10, folder 10
"On Base Building," .
1969 December 5
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 10, folder 11
"Fascism, Black Workers and Unions," .
1973 November
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 10, folder 12
Article on Chinese Trotskyism
1974
Article on James Cannon
1975
"From Debs to Mao," autobiography
1975
box 12, folder 10
Printed copy of chapter 3, "Visiting Trotsky at Prinkipo," published in
Studies in Comparative Communism
1977 Spring-Summer
box 12, folder 12
Article on Angolan civil war, .
1976 January 16
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 12, folder 13
Article on China submitted to
The Guardian (New York), .
1976 December 28
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 12, folder 14
"Dialectics and the Basic Political Education Course,"
NAM Discussion Bulletin, .
1977 Autumn
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
SUBJECT FILE
1957-1978
Scope and Contents note
Articles, book excerpts, clippings, memoranda, minutes, and reports, arranged alphabetically by subject.
China--Politics and government
box 13, folder 2
Hungary--History--Revolution, 1956
PRINTED MATTER
1913-1980
Scope and Contents note
Bulletins, monographs, and serial issues, largely relating to Trotskyism, China, and the American New Left
box 21, folder 1
1 print depicting unidentified group of individuals (including Arne Swabeck?)
undated
box 21, folder 2
1 print depicting Arne and Hilde Swabeck
undated
box 21, folder 3
4 prints depicting Arne and Hilde Swabeck, and other individuals
1966
box 21, folder 4
2 prints depicting Arne Swabeck
1969
box 21, folder 5
PHONOTAPE
1967
Scope and Contents note
1 phonotape recording of the National Guardian China Forum, New York,1967 March 23.