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Gitlow reached the summit of his political life as a Communist Party leader shortly after the conclusion of the 1928 campaign, when on March 16, 1929, Gitlow was named to the three-man Secretariat at the helm of the Communist Party, assuming the post of Executive Secretary.
Gitlow then became a member of the Communist International executive committee and presidium, and also held a high position in the American Communist Party. While serving as general secretary in 1929, he and some associates were expelled by Moscow for not following the international communist line.
Aug 21, 2024 · In 1929, thanks to Joseph Stalin (whom he had once met), Gitlow was expelled from the Communist Party. Infuriated and feeling betrayed, Gitlow and others organized the Communist Party, U.S.A. Meanwhile, the 39-year-old radical became a man without an ideological anchor. He drifted.
Gitlow v. New York —decided in 1925—was the first Supreme Court decision applying the First Amendment’s free speech protections to abuses by state governments. There, Benjamin Gitlow was arrested for distributing a “Left-Wing Manifesto,” which advocated socialism in America.
Jan 1, 2009 · Benjamin Gitlow, a socialist leader, was convicted under New York’s criminal anarchy law for publishing 16,000 copies of the Left-Wing Manifesto, which advocated “the proletariat revolution and the Communist reconstruction of society” through strikes and “revolutionary mass action.”
Jan 12, 2017 · Benjamin “Ben” Gitlow (December 22, 1891 - July 19, 1965) was a prominent American socialist politician of the early 20th century and a founding member of the Communist Party USA. From the...
In Gitlow , the Supreme Court sustained the conviction of Benjamin Gitlow, a member of the American Communist Party, for violating a New York statute that criminalized the advocacy of "the doctrine that organized government should be overthrown by force or violence ... or by any other illegal means."
