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From the article (version of December 6, 2004):

Hal Draper (1914 -1990) was a socialist activist, Marxist, Left-Shachtmanite, and author. Initially a member of the Young People's Socialist League he was won with that organisation to Trotskyism. Along with the YPSL he took part in the founding of the Socialist Workers' Party in 1938.

By 1940 he was part of a faction within the SWP which objected to the internal regime of that party and was developing an analysis of the USSR as a bureaucratic collectivist society in which a new class, the state bureaucracy, held social and state power. In 1940 they became the Workers Party led by Max Shachtman.

By 1948 the WP believed that the prospects for revolution were receding and that it must transform itself into a propaganda group. Therefore it became the Independent Socialist League and Hal Draper continued as one of its leading writers and functionaries.

---> Could you PLEEEEAASE add which part of the world you are talking about? I came across this page via the List of socialists, and I have no idea! <KF> 10:53, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)

Part of world

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Draper lived and worked in the United States. (Brooklyn is part of New York City.Dogru144 (talk) 13:28, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relative?

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Is he related to the labor activist, David Dubinksy?Dogru144 (talk) 13:28, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]