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﻿<title﻿>﻿New Socialist Magazine, Martin Glaberman - Obituary﻿</title>﻿

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﻿<b﻿>﻿Martin Glaberman 1918-2001

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by Peter Graham ﻿<br﻿>﻿

﻿<i﻿>﻿New Socialist Magazine, April - May 2002﻿</i>﻿<br﻿>﻿<br﻿>﻿<br﻿>﻿

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Professor and socialist Martin "Marty" Glaberman died December 17, 2001 

in Detroit at the age of 83. He edited and wrote numerous publications, 

many of which were produced when he was an autoworker. Many socialists 

have been inspired by the writings made available by Glaberman and have 

benefited from his insight. The legacy of the numerous classes he gave 

on Marx's Capital to socialist groups and individuals will survive him.

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Although his political involvement began in the early 1930's at the age 

of 13, it was in 1941 when he began his collaboration with C.L.R. James 

and other members of the Johnson-Forest Tendency. They believed that 

both the Soviet Union and capitalist countries were moving to a new stage 

of capitalism, state capitalism. Public ownership, whether in 

capitalist countries or in the Soviet Union, did not necessarily mean that 

workers had control over the means of production.

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Glaberman and others in this tendency attempted to correct what they 

saw as the subordination of black struggles by the white working class 

and other Marxist organizations. The notion of the vanguard party was 

questioned and finally rejected. The workers' councils of the 1956 

Hungarian revolution illustrated to them that the working class did not need a 

party to direct it to revolution. This organized current existed in a 

number of forms until it was dissolved at the initiative of Glaberman in 

1970.

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Many of Glaberman's writings consider the role of workers themselves in 

both creating bureaucratic organizations like unions and challenging 

them. Anyone seeking answers to why labour has withdrawn themselves from 

struggles during the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City and the 

Ontario Conservative convention last month will find Glaberman essential 

reading.

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A selection of Martin Glaberman's writings can be found at: 

http://ca.geocities.com/red_black_ca/bewick.htm.

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