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The New York Intellectuals were a group of American writers and literary critics based in New York City in the mid-20th century. They advocated left-wing politics but were also firmly anti-Stalinist. The group is known for having sought to integrate literary theory with Marxism and socialism while rejecting Soviet socialism as a workable or acceptable political model.
Trotskyism emerged as the most common standpoint among these anti-Stalinist Marxists. Irving Kristol, Irving Howe, Seymour Martin Lipset, Leslie Fiedler, and Nathan Glazer were members of the Trotskyist Young People's Socialist League.
Many of these intellectuals were educated at City College of New York ("Harvard of the Proletariat"), New York University, and Columbia University in the 1930s, and associated in the next two decades with the left-wing political journals Partisan Review, Dissent, and the then-left-wing but later neoconservative-leaning journal Commentary. Writer Nicholas Lemann has described these intellectuals as "the American Bloomsbury".
Some, including Kristol, Sidney Hook, and Norman Podhoretz, later became key figures in the development of neoconservatism.
Members
Writers often identified as members of this group include:
See also
Anti-Stalinist left
Communism
Frankfurt School
Trotskyism
Neoconservatism
References
Bibliography
Further reading
External links
Lives of the New York intellectuals by Robert Fulford in The Globe and Mail
The Failure of the New York Intellectuals by Daniel Silliman in Comment
Arguing the World, a PBS documentary
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