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American anarchist (1902–1990)
Sam Dolgoff (10 October 1902 – 15 October 1990)
[1] was an
anarchist and
anarcho-syndicalist from Russia who grew up, lived and was active in the United States.
Biography
Dolgoff was born to a Jewish family in the
shtetl of
Ostrovno in
Mogilev Governorate ,
Russian Empire (in present-day
Beshankovichy Raion ,
Belarus ), moving as a child to
New York City in 1905 or 1906, where he lived in the
Bronx and in
Manhattan 's
Lower East Side where he died. His father was a house painter, and Dolgoff began house painting at the age of 11, a profession he remained in his entire life.
After being expelled from the
Young People's Socialist League , Sam joined the
Industrial Workers of the World in 1922 and remained an active member his entire life, playing an active role in the anarchist movement for much of the century. He was a co-founder of the Libertarian Labor Review magazine, which was later renamed
Anarcho-Syndicalist Review to avoid confusion with America's
Libertarian Party .
Dolgoff was a member of the
Chicago Free Society Group in the 1920s,
Vanguard Group member and editor of its publication
Vanguard: A Journal of Libertarian Communism in the 1930s, and co-founded the
Libertarian League in New York in 1954. He wrote articles for anarchist magazines as well as books as the editor of anthologies, some of which are listed below. He was active in many causes, and attended groups like New York's
Libertarian Book Club regularly.
Dogloff died of congestive heart failure at the age of 88 in 1990.
[8]
Selected bibliography
See also
References
Sources
Avrich, Paul (2005).
Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America .
AK Press .
ISBN
978-1904859277 .
Cornell, Andrew (2016).
Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century . Oakland: University of California Press.
ISBN
978-0-520-28675-7 .
Dolgoff, Anatole (2016). Left of the Left: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff . Chico, CA:
AK Press .
ISBN
9781849352482 .
OCLC
923553775 .
"Review: Left of the Left: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff By Anatole..." Rebel Worker . Vol. 35, no. 3. Australia: Anarcho-Syndicalist Network. 3 January 2018. pp. 16–17. (
PDF )
Sucher, Joel.
"Left of the Left: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff (A Book Review)" . HuffPost .
Conatz, Juan (19 July 2016).
"A review of Left of the left: my memories of Sam Dolgoff by Anatole Dolgoff" . libcom.org .
"Left of the Left: my memories of Sam Dolgoff [Book review]" . Kate Sharpley Library Bulletin (90). 2017.
ISSN
1475-0309 .
Gerould, Frank (11 July 2016).
"Fellow Worker Sam Dolgoff (1902-1990)" . Socialism Reaffirmed .
Clark, John (22 January 2017).
"Sam Dolgoff: A Life at the center of American anarchism for seventy years" . Fifth Estate Magazine . No. 397.
Dirnbach, Eric (February 28, 2017).
"Facing the wind: the life of Wobbly organizer Sam Dolgoff" . Roar .
Cole, Peter (2016).
"Left of the Left: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff Review" . Anarcho-Syndicalist Review . Vol. 68.
Cashbaugh, Sean (February 2017).
"Review of Dolgoff, Anatole, Left of the Left: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff" . H-Net .
Radosh, Allis (16 June 2018).
"Free Radicals" . Jewish Review of Books . pp. 22–24. (
PDF )
Kayton, Bruce (2003), Radical Walking Tours of New York City ,
Seven Stories Press ,
ISBN
1-58322-554-4
Porton, Richard (1999), Film and the Anarchist Imagination ,
Verso Books ,
ISBN
1-85984-702-1
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