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Paul Sweezy, 93; Scholar of Marxist Economics
The Los Angeles Times ^ | March 7, 2004 | Elaine Woo

Posted on 03/07/2004 1:24:43 PM PST by mosel-saar-ruwer

The money quotes:

The possibility that Paul Sweezy would one day be recognized as America's leading radical economist seemed unlikely early in his life: His father was a Wall Street investment banker whose income afforded Sweezy a privileged education at such bastions of the ruling class as Philips Exeter Academy and Harvard University. But his family wealth, he would later acknowledge, was what gave him the freedom to spurn capitalism and carve a path to its polar opposite...

He had a home in Larchmont, within commuting distance of Monthly Review's Manhattan offices, as well as a 25-acre farm in New Hampshire that he inherited from his parents. They also left him a trust fund that freed him from trying to get by on Monthly Review's meager salary.

"I don't live like a proletariat and I don't pretend to," he once told the Los Angeles Times. "I think I am lucky to be able to devote a piece of the economic surplus [to] fighting the system."


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: economictheory; marxism; paulsweezy
Hypocrite.
1 posted on 03/07/2004 1:24:43 PM PST by mosel-saar-ruwer
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Bump.
2 posted on 03/07/2004 1:25:36 PM PST by mosel-saar-ruwer
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To: mosel-saar-ruwer
I like the "93" part. Indicates we won't have to put up with his crap much longer - he'll be sunning/roasting with his heroes Marx, Lenin and Stalin soon enough.
3 posted on 03/07/2004 1:27:30 PM PST by Hank Rearden (Never let your life be directed by people who could only get government jobs.)
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To: mosel-saar-ruwer
Definition of a typical socialist.
4 posted on 03/07/2004 1:27:44 PM PST by spyone
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Marx was not an economist. He was a historian.

So if this guy studied Marx, how does that make him some kind of "economist"?

Just another dead idiot if you asked me. Waste of skin.
5 posted on 03/07/2004 1:45:05 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: mosel-saar-ruwer
thanks for the quotes.

Yes, in LA I have had the privilege of meeting a few actual, avowed Marxists in my day.

All were University Professors. All had TERRIBLE morality problems, lecherous behavior with students AND a greedy money grubbing attitude that actually should have landed them in jail. One of these profs is a lesbian, I might add.

The thing about commies and Marxists is this. They project that all life is about is money and "class consciousness". This leaves a legacy of the current kleptocracy in Russia and fiendish, tyrannical behavior as you have in China. It also has left more people dead in one century (the 20th) than any other genocide the world has ever known.

The blood of 200 million martyrs in on Karl Marx, Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, Ho Chi minh, Castro, etc. Wish college profs would teach these FACTS to their students instead of the constant whine against capitalism and the US of A
6 posted on 03/07/2004 1:49:15 PM PST by CalifornianConservative
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To: Hank Rearden
Weird. After only about 20 years on this earth, I figured out what marxism really is. This is after I swallowed the garbage 24/7/365. How stupid and ignorant does a person have to be to believe this nonsense at the age of 93?
7 posted on 03/07/2004 2:00:33 PM PST by boop
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To: Bon mots
Marx was not an economist.

Obviously. I once started reading his "Das Kapital". The first two chapters made it clear that he could not grasp the difference between cost and value. I saw no point in reading any further.

8 posted on 03/07/2004 2:07:13 PM PST by Aarchaeus
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To: CalifornianConservative
"They project that all life is about is money and "class consciousness".

I think it is really strange that these people then spend a lot of their lives going for the money and establishing an elite class; while identifying capitalism as the culprit. Makes no sense.

9 posted on 03/07/2004 3:17:01 PM PST by freekitty
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To: Bon mots
Marx was not an economist. He was a historian.

Marx was a political tract writer who postured as an economic historian.

10 posted on 03/07/2004 6:09:43 PM PST by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: nonliberal
I appreciate the tip of the hat to LeMay...
11 posted on 03/07/2004 10:41:22 PM PST by CalifornianConservative
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