Aficionados of American Trotskyism: Was Himmelfarb the last of the Shermanites, as early split from the Shachtmanites? Gertrude Himmelfarb, Conservative Historian of Ideas, Dies at 97 https://nyti.ms/2F9I3u4
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Famous Shermanites in later life: sociologists Seymour Martin Lipset and Philip Selznick, political scientists Martin Diamond and Herbert Garfinkel, historians Himmelfarb and Marvin Meyers, and, of course, Irving Kristol.
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Leaving aside the innate tendency of Trotskyists to split, the ostensible reason was that the Shermanites were breaking with the Bolshevik tradition and soon to enter the Socialist Party, while the Shachtmanites still saw themselves, at this time, as Leninists.
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The Shermanites were among the one-time Trotskyists that Shachtman and Burnham exorciated in "Intellectuals in Retreat," where they made the ridiculous claim that John Dewey had been a Stalinist. https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/burnham/1939/intellectuals/part1.htm …
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There's a list of Shermanites in one of Alan Wald's book -- I'm pretty sure she was the last of them.
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