Volume 30, Number 17 · November 10, 1983
In the American Grain
By Irving Howe
Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist
by Nick Salvatore
University of Illinois Press, 437 pp., $24.95
One reason Marxist historical writing often—not, of course, always—turns out to be dry and pedantic is that the Marxist mind finds itself drawn, with an almost punitive willfulness, to such abstractions as 'social forces,' 'political positions,' and 'relations of production.' Before these formidable categories, the actual figures of history tend to fade.
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