Volume 6, Number 9 · May 26, 1966
A Marxist America
By Robert L. Heilbroner
Monopoly Capital
by Paul A. Baran, by Paul M. Sweezy
Monthly Review Press, 401 pp., $8.75
Until his death in 1964, Paul Baran was virtually the only left-wing Marxist economist in the United States who held a full-time academic appointment. Since he was nothing if not outspoken in his beliefs, he was undoubtedly a trial for the authorities at Stanford, who, to their credit, resisted continual pressure from patriotic organizations to fire him. Somewhat less to their credit the university repeatedly passed over him for salary increases until finally the Economic Department protested in his behalf. Nevertheless when he died, people of many political opinions paid tribute to his personal courage and warmth as well as to his intellectual penetration.
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