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...Among students and faculty, [Marxism] doesn't cut much ice anymore," says Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics John Womack Jr. '59, a self-described Marxist who has been at Harvard since...
...Womack remembers when Communists had it hard on campus. During the McCarthy witchhunts of the 1950s, not even Harvard's clout could repel the anti-Communist fervor...
Students, too, benefited from the University's liberalism. Womack remembers that under state law, pro- fessors had to sign a loyalty oath not to join the Communist Party. "A friend of mine refused to sign it, and the University finally didn't make him," Womack says...
...University never suggested in any way that it cared what I thought politically," Womack says. "It's sort of a non-issue" among faculty...
...Womack says he remembers incident "about 10 years ago, when William Buckley wrote an article saying that Harvard let very dangerous people on the faculty, namely...