CPGB founding member, chief theoretician for half a century, and pioneer of Marxist historiography on India
After Khrushchev's 1956 Secret Speech, Dutt told the CPGB Political Bureau: 'On Stalin's sun there were, unsurprisingly, some spots.' The Soviet system, he added, had 'demonstrated the ability of a socialist society to recognise and correct its mistakes.'
Founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and its chief theoretician for half a century, a Marxist historian and journalist. His Fascism and Social Revolution (1934) analysed fascism as an extreme form of monopoly-capitalist crisis, his India Today (1940) pioneered Marxist historiography on India, and he served as CPGB General Secretary in 1939–1941, replacing Harry Pollitt over the party's anti-war line at the outbreak of World War II.
Career Timeline
- 1920Founding member, CPGB
- 1921–1974Founded and edited Labour Monthly (53 years)
- 1923–1965Member, CPGB Executive Committee
- 1924Alternate member, ECCI Presidium
- 1925–1935Comintern representative (Belgium & Sweden); supervised Communist Party of India
- 1936–1938Editor, Daily Worker
- 1939–1941General Secretary, CPGB
- 1943–1965Vice-chairman then Vice-president, CPGB