Sam Dolgoff

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Sam Dolgoff (10 October 1902 – 15 October 1990){{cite web |title=Dolgoff, Sam, 1902-1990 |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86093012.html |website=Library of Congress |access-date=24 December 2022}} was an anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist from Russia who grew up, lived and was active in the United States.{{sfn|Porton|1999|p=40}}

Biography

Dolgoff was born in the shtetl of Ostrovno in Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire (in present-day Beshankovichy Raion, Belarus),{{sfn|Avrich|2005|p=419}} moving as a child to New York City in 1905 or 1906,{{sfn|Avrich|2005|p=419}} 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.{{sfn|Avrich|2005|p=419}}

After being expelled from the Young People's Socialist League, Sam joined the Industrial Workers of the World in 1922{{sfn|Avrich|2005|p=420}} 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.{{sfn|Dolgoff|2016|p = 361}}

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{{sfn|Kayton|2003|p=155}} in the 1930s, and co-founded the Libertarian League in New York in 1954.{{sfn|Dolgoff|2016|p =259}} 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.{{sfn|Avrich|2005|p=419}}

Dogloff died of congestive heart failure at the age of 88 in 1990.{{cite web|title=Sam Dolgoff, 88, Dies; Organizer for I.W.W.|work=The New York Times|date=October 26, 1990|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE6DD1539F935A15753C1A966958260|accessdate=September 28, 2016}}

Selected bibliography

Ethics and American Unionism (1958)
The Labor Party Illusion (1961)
Bakunin on Anarchy (1971; revised 1980)
The Anarchist Collectives: Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution, 1936–1939 (1974)
[http://libcom.org/files/Dolgoff,%20Sam%20-%20The%20Cuban%20revolution,%20A%20critical%20perspective.pdf The Cuban Revolution: A Critical Perspective] (1974)
"American Labor Movement: Rebellion in the Ranks" Interrogations No. 3, 1975.
[http://libcom.org/files/Dolgoff%20-%20The%20Relevance%20of%20Anarchism%20to%20Modern%20Society.pdf The Relevance of Anarchism to Modern Society] (1977)
A Critique of Marxism (1983)
"[https://radicalarchives.org/2010/12/11/dolgoff-modern-tech-anarchism/ Modern Technology and Anarchism]" (1986)
Fragments: A Memoir (1986, {{ISBN|0-946222-04-5}}).
Third World Nationalism and the State (Anarchist Communist Federation of North America) (1983)

References

Sources

{{cite book|last=Avrich|first=Paul|author-link=Paul Avrich|title=Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America|publisher=AK Press|year=2005|isbn=978-1904859277 }}
{{Cite book |last1=Cornell |first1=Andrew |title=Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century |date=2016 |isbn=978-0-520-28675-7 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Oakland }}
{{cite book|last=Dolgoff|first=Anatole|title=Left of the Left: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff |publication-place=Chico, CA |publisher=AK Press|year=2016|isbn=9781849352482 |oclc=923553775 }}
{{cite magazine |date=3 January 2018 |title=Review: Left of the Left: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff By Anatole... | magazine=Rebel Worker | volume=35 |number=3 |pages=16–17 |location=Australia |publisher=Anarcho-Syndicalist Network | url=http://news.infoshop.org/reviews/review-left-of-the-left-my-memories-of-sam-dolgoff-by-anatole-dolgoff/}} ([http://www.rebelworker.org/archive/REBEL%20WORKER%20ARCHIVE/rw%20dec-jan%202018.pdf#page=16 PDF])
{{cite magazine |last=Sucher|first=Joel | title=Left of the Left: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff (A Book Review) | website=HuffPost | url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/left-of-the-left-my-memories-of-sam-dolgoff-a-book_b_5923788fe4b07617ae4cbefe}}
{{cite web | last=Conatz |first=Juan | title=A review of Left of the left: my memories of Sam Dolgoff by Anatole Dolgoff | website=libcom.org | date=19 July 2016 | url=http://libcom.org/blog/review-left-left-my-memories-sam-dolgoff-anatole-dolgoff-18072016}}
{{cite journal |date=2017 | title=Left of the Left: my memories of Sam Dolgoff [Book review] |journal=Kate Sharpley Library Bulletin |issn=1475-0309 |number=90 | url=https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/djhc6m}}
{{cite web |last=Gerould |first=Frank | title=Fellow Worker Sam Dolgoff (1902-1990) | website=Socialism Reaffirmed |date=11 July 2016 | url=http://socialismreaffirmed.blogspot.com/2016/07/fellow-worker-sam-dolgoff-1902-1990.html}}
{{cite magazine |last=Clark |first=John | date=22 January 2017 |title=Sam Dolgoff: A Life at the center of American anarchism for seventy years | magazine=Fifth Estate Magazine |number=397 | url=https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/397-winter-2017/sam-dolgoff/}}
{{cite magazine |last=Dirnbach |first=Eric |date=February 28, 2017 |title=Facing the wind: the life of Wobbly organizer Sam Dolgoff |magazine=Roar |url=https://roarmag.org/essays/sam-dolgoff-biography-review/}}
{{cite magazine |last=Cole |first=Peter |date=2016 |title=Left of the Left: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff Review |magazine=Anarcho-Syndicalist Review |volume=68 |url=https://syndicalist.us/2016/09/26/asr-68-fall-2016/}}
{{cite web |last=Cashbaugh |first=Sean |title=Review of Dolgoff, Anatole, Left of the Left: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff | website=H-Net |date=February 2017 | url=https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=47425}}
{{cite magazine | last=Radosh | first=Allis | title=Free Radicals | magazine=Jewish Review of Books | date=16 June 2018 | page= |pages=22–24| url=https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/3222/free-radicals/}} ([https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/lowres_34summer18-2.pdf#page=22 PDF])
{{citation|last=Kayton|first=Bruce|title=Radical Walking Tours of New York City|publisher=Seven Stories Press|year=2003|isbn=1-58322-554-4}}
{{citation|last=Porton|first=Richard|title=Film and the Anarchist Imagination|publisher=Verso Books|year=1999|isbn=1-85984-702-1}}

External links

[https://bobcat.library.nyu.edu/permalink/f/ci13eu/nyu_aleph000848032 Papers, 1874–1991 (bulk 1937–1977)] at the New York University Wagner Archives
[https://www.revoltlib.com/people/sam-dolgoff/view.php Sam Dolgoff, Collected Works and Info] on RevoltLib.com
[http://libcom.org/history/dolgoff-sam-1902-1990 An obituary and short biography of Sam Dolgoff] on libcom.org

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