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...apart today, it helps to look at the difference in their attitudes back in the sixties. Cleaver's own radicalism seems to have burned him out and left him to fall into the secure lap of his arch-enemy, the right wing. Cleaver was always an activist first and academian second. Back then, he characterized himself as "a full time revolutionary in the struggle for black liberation in America." His posts as chairman of the Black House Council and Minister Of Information for the Panthers continually placed him on the FBI's list of "potentially dangerous individuals." In this spirit...
...control over academe, but not all scholars found their discretionary authority restricted. In fact, in areas where applied social science research could improve the coherence of domestic or foreign policy, the conditions of scholarship were often approved, so that in the relative vacuum of Brezhnev's final years successful academian burcaucrats, like Primakov, were able to turn themselves and their institutes into quasi-formal political advisers of the Central Committee of the Central Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU...
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