Word: marxist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debate on the academic left continued this weekend in a conference on "Sociology and History," which featured as speakers the Marxist historians Christopher Lasch '54, Eugene Genovese and the well-known sociologist Norbert Elias...
Basch and Genovese, professors of history at the University of Rochester, discussed the roles of the Marxist intellectual as critic and activist and the relationship of social sciences and Marxism...
...added he believes that Marxist intellectuals who continue to stress revolution may neglect their role as social critics in analyzing the exploitative practices of capitalist society...
Genovese said Saturday the Marxist intellectual has a commitment to both activism and criticism...
...conference coincided with the publication of the first issue of "Marxist Perspectives," a quarterly journal of history that focuses on leftist historical interpretations. Genovese, Lasch and John Womack '59, professor of History, are all supporters of the quarterly...