Background
Paine was born in New York City in 1901. His father George Lyman Paine, Senior was an Episcopal priest and a Christian Socialist, the son of philanthropist Robert Treat Paine.
Paine was born in New York City in 1901. His father George Lyman Paine, Senior was an Episcopal priest and a Christian Socialist, the son of philanthropist Robert Treat Paine.
Harvard University.
After graduating from Harvard University in 1922, G. Lyman Junior. became an architect. In the mid-1930s, Lyman became active in Marxist politics. The Johnson-Forest group split from the main current of the Trotskyist left at the beginning of the 1950s, setting up the Correspondence Publishing Committee which produced the newspaper Correspondence.
Lyman Paine died in 1978 and Freddy Paine in 1999.
Both are buried on Sutton Island, Maine where they had summered for many years.
Objective thinking on communism 1952.