Erwin Marquit
Erwin Marquit (born 1926) received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, City College of New York, 1948, was a Doctor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Warsaw, 1963 and received his Master of Physics, University of Warsaw, 1957.[1]
Communist Party reformer
In 1991 , Erwin Marquit was one of several hundred Communist Party USA members to sign the a paper "An initiative to Unite and Renew the Party"-most signatories left the Party after the December 1991 conference to found Committees of Correspondence.[2]
CoC National Conference endorser
In 1992 Erwin Marquit, University of Minnesota, endorsed the Committees of Correspondence national conference Conference on Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the 90s held at Berkeley California July 17-19.[3]
Socialist Scholars Conference
Erwin Marquit, Editor, Nature Society & Theory; Paul Le Blanc; Ahmed Shawki, International Socialist Organization and Sam Farber were speakers on the The Leninist Party: Authoritarian or Revolutionary? panel sponsored by the International Socialist Organization and Fourth International Tendency at the Tenth Annual Socialist Scholars Conference. The conference was held April 24-26, 1992 at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York City.[4]
Endorsed Communist Party Call
On March 30 2002 the Communist Party USA paper People’s Weekly World called for a national holiday in honor of late Farm Workers Union leader Cesar Chavez. The article was followed by a long list of endorsers including Erwin Marquit, Almost all endorsers were confirmed members of the Communist Party USA.[5]
In 2009 Erwin Marquit was a contributing editor and a member of the of the Editorial Collective of Political Affairs, theoretical journal of the Communist Party USA.[6]
References
- ↑ http://www.physics.umn.edu/people/marquit.html
- ↑ Addendum to Initiative document
- ↑ http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/CCDSbckgrnd.pdf
- ↑ SSE Tenth Annual Conference Program, 1992
- ↑ http://www.pww.org/index.php/article/articleview/882/
- ↑ http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/static/17/1/3/,,