Cannon writes: “The first six years of American communism–1918-1923–represent a heroic period from which all future revolutionary movements in this country will be lineal descendants. … The revolutionist who would deny it is simply renouncing his own ancestry. …”
In this volume, assembled over a number of years in correspondence with historian Theodore Draper, Cannon traces the struggles during the “heroic period” through the “transformation of the once revolutionary organization into its opposite.”
