Word: marxianism
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Last April the promise smacked of mere rhetoric--radical graduate students in the department insisted that the "compromise" was no compromise at all, but simply a way of giving lip-service to the hiring of radical faculty and the teaching of Marxian economics while discreetly refusing to take any action in either area...
That thought merged a kind of messianism with Hegelian and Marxian determinism, the idea that vast and blind historical forces sweep across the world's stage without important regard to personalities. But of course that Marxist thought is invalidated by Marxist his tory ? the crucial "heroic" role played by men like Marx himself, and Lenin and Stalin. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. suggests that "men have lived who did what no substitute could ever have done; their intervention set history on one path rather than another. If this is so, the old maxim There are no indispensable men' would seem another...
...refusal this year came in a closed meeting of senior faculty held on April 31. There the department voted down a committee report written by one of its most prominent members which recommended the inclusion of Marxian economics in the required graduate curriculum...
...reformers' efforts to bring the issue of Marxian economics up in the guise of structural change in the curriculum marked a change in strategy from previous years. On other occasions, the political controversy had been focused on the department's refusal to give any Marxian economists tenure...
...this year, though, it was increasingly clear that the department didn't want to hire Marxians at all. From a high of five radicals two years ago, the Marxian contingent has dropped to two professors...