[lbo-talk] Prabhat Patnaik on Paul Sweezy

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Sat Mar 13 13:14:09 PST 2004


http://www.flonnet.com/fl2106/stories/20040326004103000.htm

OBITUARY A SAINT AND A SAGE PRABHAT PATNAIK

Volume 21 - Issue 06, March 13 - March 26, 2004 India's National Magazine from the publishers of THE HINDU

[snip]

The revival of interest in Marxism on the campuses in the late 1960s led to Sweezy's visiting several universities to lecture on Marxism, until he discovered that university administrations were using his visits as an excuse for denying tenure to young Marxist scholars. Their argument was that a tenured faculty of Marxist scholars was unnecessary in view of the availability of distinguished Marxists from outside. Upon learning this, Sweezy discontinued these visits.

[snip]



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list