Herbert Moxon, a Victim of the 'Bolshevisation' of the Communist Party

Bibliographic Data

ID2763623
AuthorsBeris Penrose (corresponding author)
Year1996
Issue70
Pages92
Publication date1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLabour History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0023-6942 • E-ISSN: 1839-3039
PublisherLiverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2307/27516411
OpenAlexW2312900376
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited2

Much has been written about the factional dispute within the Communist Party of Australia [CPA] during 1928-1929 which culminated in the removal of Jack Kavanagh and his supporters from positions of authority, and the installation of a new leadership under Herbert Moxon, Lance Sharkey and later J.B. Miles.1 However, much less has been written about the crucial first two years of Moxon and Sharkey's control of the CPA even though these years represented a turning point for the party. These two years were a period of intense machinations by the new leadership, first against Kavanagh and his supporters, and later against Moxon himself. But more importantly, in these two years the CPA underwent two major changes which would dramatically alter its character for decades to come. The first was the abandonment by the leadership of an independent assessment of the Australian political and economic situation. Instead the party implemented directives from the Communist International [Comintern] which bore little relevance to Australian conditions. The second was the

Abandonment (legal) · Character (mathematics) · Communism · Economic history · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Australian History and Society · History · Law

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