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James Burnham  

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  • American political theorist James Burnham (1905–1987) was one of the most influential anticommunist thinkers of the cold war era. Like many anticommunists, he started out as a Trotskyite, but eventually he moved away from Trotskyism and began a slow journey to the right. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Burnham, James]

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