Hal Draper
Obituary
Year Published: 1990
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX3849
American Marxist 1914-1990.
Abstract:
Hal Draper, a socialist writer and scholar whose political activism ranged over half a century, died in February at the age of 75. Involved in student activism in the 1930's, Draper helped to inspire the Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley in 1964, one of the first and most important events of the Sixties radical upsurge. He was involved in the Trotskyist movement in his earlier days, working as an organizer for the Young People's Socialist League in the 1930's, and as a shipyard worker during the Second World War. He was one of the founders of the Centre for Socialist History at Berkeley. His writings include the four-volume work Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution. One of his most influential works was the essay "The Two Souls of Socialism", which argued that there were two fundamentally opposed views of what socialism was: the one, which saw it as something to be imposed from above, the other, which say it as something that could only be created democratically from below. (See excerpts from "The Two Souls of Socialism" in this issue of the Connexions Digest.)
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