Trotskyism emerged as the most common standpoint among these anti-Stalinist Marxists.
Irving Kristol, Irving Howe, Seymour Martin Lipset, Leslie Fiedler, and Nathan Glazer were members of the Trotskyist Young People's Socialist League.
[1] Many of these intellectuals were educated at City College of New York ("Harvard of the Proletariat"),[2] New York University, and Columbia University in the 1930s,[citation needed] and associated in the next two decades with the left-wing political journals Partisan Review, Dissent, and the then-left-wing but later neoconservative-leaning journal Commentary.
[citation needed] Writer Nicholas Lemann has described these intellectuals as "the American Bloomsbury".
[citation needed] Some, including Kristol, Sidney Hook, and Norman Podhoretz, later became key figures in the development of neoconservatism.