Prabhat Patnaik on Paul Sweezy

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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


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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.

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