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Article: Academic post-Communism.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- July 31, 1987
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ACADEMIC POST-COMMUNISM
IN THE American academy today avariety of Marxisms have become an influential fashion. A few fantasizers such as Professor Bertell Ollman of New York University and Professor Howard Zinn of Boston University appear to be throwbacks to the 1930s, but by and large today's academic Marxisms are not the clearly defined metaphysical "science' of the early days, when one could get the strict Party line from the Daily Worker or even drop in on Party headquarters near Union Square.
Today's academic Marxism does not,well, know much. It does not concern itself with such formerly central tenets as the labor theory of value, the dictatorship ...