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Absolutely not.  Sweezy was not an intellectual -- someone who could be Schumpeter's favorite colleague, even as a student -- but a KGB hack, applauding each and every execution.

Brad De Long wrote:

 >Brad, this is a real stretch.  I don't agree with Stalin's interpretation of the
>theory of value, but if I did, I would not feel guilty about supporting the
>execution.
> You write as though there is a mental process called "agreement" going on here--as if Paul Sweezy reads Stalin's _Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR_, analyzes it, decides which parts are accurate and helpful, and then incorporates it into his mental framework. Surely you are not so naive...  Brad DeLong

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