Marxist economist Paul Sweezy dies at 93

[Khephra]

NEW YORK (AP) _ Paul Sweezy, a one-time economist at Harvard University and an expert in Marxism, died Saturday in Larchmont, N.Y. He was 93.

Sweezy co-founded the Marxist journal The Monthly Review in 1949. He edited and wrote about 100 articles for the journal, which currently has a monthly circulation of about 7,000. Other contributors included Albert Einstein, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jean-Paul Sartre, Che Guevara and Joan Robinson.

Sweezy wrote more than 20 books, including a well-known collaboration with Paul Baran, "Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order" (1966). Throughout his career, he argued that government and working people had to cooperate to overcome what he saw as capitalism's limitations.

He earned a bachelor's degree and a Ph.D. from Harvard, becoming a Marxist during a year at the London School of Economics. He spent four years in the Army during World War II.

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[pnorman]

1. Thanks for the notice

Paul Sweezy will be deeply missed. Founding a magazine like Monthly Review in 1949 took great courage; the sort we may need in days to come. Here's that magazine's website: http://www.monthlyreview.org/

pnorman
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[MacCovern]

2. A Sweezy Quote:

"If it were generally understood, capitalism would soon be identified for what it is, the mortal enemy of human kind and many other forms of life on the planet."

[David__77]

3. Sweezy.

I've enjoyed reading Monthly Review over the years. It's always refreshing when a voice is out there mercilessly ripping into neo-liberal economics. Sweezy has had a tremendous impact on political economy on the left. He dates from another era during which rigorous intellectual product was truly valued.