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...department is to change. The inclusion of alternative methods of analysis in the curriculum and the general exam is the worst sort of farce if the department does not hire professors capable of teaching alternative theories. One Economics graduate student defined the problem last week, saying, "They put Marxist analysis on the last general exam, but there was no one in the department teaching Marxist economics...
This helps to explain the lack of tolerance extended to radical social science at Harvard, most clearly in the Economics Department. In their absolute rejection of Marxist economics, for example, the senior faculty was rejecting both a societal analysis and, more importantly perhaps, a view of themselves that dragged them into the dirt of the social system. To recognize the radicals' claims would, the radicals say, require the tenured faculty to admit the possibility that their view of truth, objectivity and the independent power of ideas and intellectuals--in short, their identity as academics--wrong...
...discipline's lack of a large majority consensus among sociologists on what sociology is. Skocpol says, "If you go into opposition in economics, you are disputing a generally undisputed science. But in sociology, there is no absolutely dominant body of doctrine, like neo-classical economics." To be a Marxist sociologist, Skocpol and Taylor say, is to uphold one critical theory--even if it is the most critical theory--among many others...
...because of sociology's lack of all-encompassing theory tied to the existing social order, sociologists have a tendency towards the accommodation of radical views. Senior sociologists at Harvard, like Seymour Martin Lipset and Daniel Bell, have integrated Marxist modes of analysis into their own theories. A parallel development would be impossible for any neo-classical economist. For this reason, and also because the senior Sociology faculty is somewhat to the left of Economics, an Economics-type purge of radicals seems unlikely. Taylor said last week, "In the Sociology Department, there are various sorts of Marxist sympathizers and very leftish...
Bomb Blasts. At least two nations oppose the lifting of sanctions. Chile has complained that Cuba flew arms to the late Marxist President Salvador Allende before he was overthrown. Uruguay insists that Castro still underwrites the Tupamaro guerrilla movement. Bolivia, whose military government last week put down an army revolt, and Paraguay may also vote no on the grounds that they are subject to Castroite subversion. Almost as if to underscore such claims, bomb blasts rocked both the Bolivian embassy and the Brazilian Cultural Institute in Quito before the conference...