Paul Le Blanc (historian) explained

Paul Le Blanc
Birth Name:Paul Joseph Le Blanc
Birth Date:1947
Nationality:American
Citizenship:United States
Occupation:Historian
Professor of History
Website:laroche.edu
Alma Mater:University of Pittsburgh
Discipline:Modern History
Sub Discipline:Marxism, Leninism, Trotskyism
Workplaces:La Roche University

Paul Le Blanc (born 1947) is an American historian at La Roche University in Pittsburgh, as well as a labor and socialist activist. He has written and edited more than 30 books on topics such as Leon Trotsky and Rosa Luxemburg.[1] [2]

Background

Paul Joseph Le Blanc was born in 1947 in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania and spent his childhood in Clearfield, Pennsylvania.[1] His parents, Gaston Le Blanc and Shirley Harris, were labor activists; he has two sisters.[3]

Le Blanc studied at the University of Pittsburgh, focusing on history and receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971, a Master of Arts degree in 1980, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1989.[1]

Career

In 1965, Le Blanc joined the “New Left” group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).[4] In 1966, as a conscientious objector, he worked for the Quaker-based American Friends Service Committee in Pittsburgh and Baltimore. In the early 1970s, he served on the board of the Pittsburgh Peace and Freedom Center and the coordinating committee of the National Peace Action Coalition (1971-1974). He opposed the Vietnam War and supported anti-racist activity – most prominently as part of the Pittsburgh Black Construction Coalition of 1969 – pro-feminist activities, defense of Latin American political prisoners, and Central America solidarity work.[5]

In the 1990s, he became active in the Thomas Merton Center (Pittsburgh).[6] He has been a member of the Socialist Workers Party (USA), the Fourth Internationalist Tendency, Solidarity (United States), and the International Socialist Organization (until it terminated in 2019[7]). He was active in efforts to create a Labor Party. He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.[8]

Since 2000, Le Blanc has supported the Green Party. He has opposed war and militarism, including US military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also collaborated closely with South African poet and global justice activist Dennis Brutus in building Pittsburgh participation in World Social Forums taking place in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2003 and Mumbai, India, in 2004.[9]

In 2000, Le Blanc joined the faculty of La Roche College (renamed La Roche University in March 2019)[1] as Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences (2003-2009) and as a professor of history.[10]

He has lectured for the International Institute for Research and Education[11] [12] [13] [14] [15] and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation[16] [17] and writes for the Center for Economic Research and Social Change's International Socialist Review.[18]

Personal life

Le Blanc married and had two sons.

Le Blanc is currently a member of:

He has been a member of:

Influences

Le Blanc's influences include: David Montgomery, Philip S. Foner, Frank Lovell, Richard N. Hunt, Paul Sweezy, George Breitman, Ernest Mandel, and Michael Löwy.

Works

Magazines and journals to which he contributes include:

Publications include:

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Paul Le Blanc, Ph.D.. La Roche University. 12 January 2018.
  2. News: Paul Le Blanc. Haymarketbooks.org. Haymarket Books. 12 January 2018.
  3. Book: Blanc, Paul Le. Left Americana. 2017-03-27. Haymarket Books. 9781608467525. en.
  4. Paul. Le Blanc. Reluctant Memoir, Part 2. Solidarity. July–August 2018. 4 February 2019.
  5. Web site: Guide to the Paul LeBlanc Papers, 1967-1998 AIS.1974.17 Historic Pittsburgh. historicpittsburgh.org. 2019-10-19.
  6. Web site: Socialist Viewpoint ... news and analysis for working people. www.socialistviewpoint.org. 2019-10-19.
  7. Web site: Le Blanc . Paul . United States Left: What happened to the International Socialist Organization . Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières . 3 June 2019.
  8. Books by DSA Authors. Democratic Left. Democratic Socialists of America. March 15, 2019.
  9. Web site: The World Social Forum and Global Justice. 30 November 2001 . en. 2019-10-19.
  10. See: https://laroche.edu/Templates/DirectoryDetailFaculty.aspx?id=3600 and Web site: Page on la Roche Website RELOCATED! . 2014-08-02 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140808053552/http://www.laroche.edu/pr/release-print.asp?NewsID=229 . 2014-08-08 .
  11. Web site: Paul. Le Blanc. Bolshevism as a revolutionary collective. International Institute for Research and Education. 4 November 2017. 12 January 2018.
  12. Web site: November 4: October 1917: Emancipation and self-organization in the Russian Revolution. International Institute for Research and Education. 12 January 2018.
  13. Web site: Paul. Le Blanc. The Left and social movements in Trump's USA. International Institute for Research and Education. 30 March 2018. 12 January 2018.
  14. Web site: Paul. Le Blanc. N° 27 Leninism in the United States and the Decline of the Socialist Workers Party. International Institute for Research and Education. 12 January 2018.
  15. Web site: Fred Leplat . Alex. No.60 October 1917 – Workers in Power. International Institute for Research and Education. 12 January 2018.
  16. Web site: Paul . Le Blanc. Paul Le Blanc: International conference in China on Lenin's thought. Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal's vision. 8 December 2012. 4 February 2019.
  17. Web site: Paul. Le Blanc. China: Lenin's ideas, Marxism discussed at international conference in Wuhan. Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal's vision. 2 January 2013. 4 February 2019.
  18. Web site: Paul Le Blanc. Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal's vision. 4 February 2019.
  19. News: Paul . Le Blanc. Bernie Sanders, US politics & socialism today. Green Left Weekly. 13 August 2019. 4 December 2019.
  20. Paul . Le Blanc. Pathways for building a revolutionary party. International Viewpoint (Fourth International). 17 October 2019. 4 December 2019.
  21. Web site: Paul Le Blanc. International Viewpoint (Fourth International). 12 January 2018.
  22. Web site: Paul Le Blanc. 6 September 2017. Jacobin. 12 January 2018.
  23. Paul Le Blanc. Monthly Review. Monthly Review Foundation. 12 January 2018.
  24. Paul Le Blanc. Socialist Worker. International Socialist Organization. 12 January 2018.
  25. Book: Le Blanc , Paul . Permanent Revolution in Nicaragua. Fourth Internationalist Tendency. 1984.
  26. Book: Paul Le Blanc. Dianne Feeley . In Defense of Revolutionary Continuity. Socialist Action. 1984. 9781608468645 .
  27. Book: Reflections on the Fourth Internationalist Tendency. Sell. Evelyn. Bloom . Steve. Lovell . Frank. Le Blanc . Paul. https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/fit/fitpaul.htm. The Transitional Program: Forging a Revolutionary Agenda for the United States. Fourth Internationalist Tendency (FIT). February 1988. 23 June 2019.
  28. Book: Le Blanc , Paul . Lenin and the Revolutionary Party. 12 January 2018.
  29. Book: Paul Le Blanc. In Defense of American Trotskyism: Revolutionary Principles and Working-Class Democracy. Fourth Internationalist Tendency. 1992.
  30. Book: Paul Le Blanc. Scott McLemee. C.L.R. James and Revolutionary Marxism: Selected Writings of C.L.R James, 1939 - 1949. Humanities Press. 1994. 9780391038240. 4 February 2019.
  31. Book: Paul Le Blanc. Scott McLemee. C.L.R. James and Revolutionary Marxism: Selected Writings of C.L.R James, 1939 - 1949. Haymarket Books. 2018. 9781608468645. 4 February 2019.
  32. Paul. Le Blanc. Letter to the Editors. Solidarity. July–August 1996. 4 February 2019.
  33. Book: Le Blanc , Paul . Paul Le Blanc. A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century. 12 January 2018.
  34. Book: Paul Le Blanc. Thomas Barrett. Revolutionary Labor Socialist: The Life, Ideas and Comrades of Frank Lovell. Smyrna Press. 2000. 9780918266422. 4 February 2019.
  35. Book: Le Blanc , Paul . Marx, Lenin, and the Revolutionary Experience: Studies of Communism and Radicalism in the Age of Globalization. Routledge. 2006. 14 July 2019.
  36. Paul. Le Blanc. History on the Printed Page. Solidarity. July–August 2018. 4 February 2019.
  37. Paul. Le Blanc. Does Lenin Still Matter?. International Socialist Review. May–June 2008. 4 February 2019.
  38. Book: Immanuel Ness. Paul Le Blanc. International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest. Wiley. 13 April 2009. 9781405184649. 4 February 2019.
  39. Web site: Paul. Le Blanc. Lenin's Marxism. International Institute for Research and Education. 2011. 12 January 2018.
  40. Book: Le Blanc , Paul . Unfinished Leninism: The Rise and Return of a Revolutionary Doctrine. Haymarket Books. 2014. 9781608464265. 12 January 2018.
  41. Book: Frances Goldin. Debby Smith . Michael Steven Smith. Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA. Perennial/HarperCollins. 2013. 4 February 2019.
  42. Book: Le Blanc , Paul . Leon Trotsky. Critical Lives. University of Chicago Press. 2015. 12 January 2018.
  43. Book: Le Blanc , Paul . Leon Trotsky. Reaktion Books. 16 March 2015. 12 January 2018.
  44. Book: Paul Le Blanc. Peter Hudis. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II: Economic Writings 2. Verso. August 2016. 9781784783921. 12 January 2018.
  45. Book: Paul Le Blanc. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II: Economic Writings 2. Verso. May 2017. 12 January 2018.
  46. Book: Le Blanc , Paul . October Song: Bolshevik Triumph, Communist Tragedy, 1917-1924. Hay Market Books. 2017. 9781608468782. 4 February 2019.
  47. Book: Paul Le Blanc. Ernest Mandel. David Mandel. October 1917: Workers in Power. Merlin. 2017. 9780850367270. 4 February 2019.
  48. Book: Le Blanc , Paul . Left Americana: The Radical Heart of US History. Hay Market Books. 2017. 9781608467525. 4 February 2019.
  49. Book: Tim Davenport. Dissident Marxism in the United States, Volume I. Haymarket Books. 2015. 9781608467525. 4 February 2019.
  50. Book: Paul Le Blanc. Bryan Palmer. Thomas Bias. Andrew Pollack. US Trotskyism 1928-1965. Part I: Emergence: Left Opposition in the United States -Dissident Marxism in the United States. Brill. 2018. 9789004224445. 4 February 2019.
  51. Book: Paul Le Blanc. Bryan Palmer. Thomas Bias. Andrew Pollack. U.S. Trotskyism 1928-1965. Part II: Endurance: The Coming American Revolution. Brill. 2018. 9789004224452. 16 June 2019.
  52. Book: Le Blanc , Paul . Revolutionary Studies: Essays in Plain Marxism. Hay Market Books. 2018. 9781608467815. 4 February 2019.
  53. Book: Le Blanc , Paul . The Passion of Rose Luxemburg. Roam Agency. 2018. 12 January 2018.
  54. Book: Paul Le Blanc. Bryan Palmer. Thomas Bias. Andrew Pollack. U.S. Trotskyism 1928-1965. Part III: Resurgence: Uneven and Combined Development. Haymarket. 26 November 2019. 23 June 2019.

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