Background
Sweezy, Paul Marlor was born on April 10, 1910 in New York City. Son of Everett Benjamin and Caroline (Wilson) Sweezy.
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One of the twentieth century’s foremost Marxian economists discusses the dialectical method, the contradictions of capitalism, and the future of Marxism.
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This is the fourth in a continuing series of collected essays by the former editors of Monthly Review on the state of the U.S. economy and its relation to the global system. Like its predecessors, this volume focuses on the most recent phase of the development of U.S. capitalism, stressing the profound contradictions of the underlying processes of capital accumulation and pointing the way to the fundamental reforms that are the essential precondition for a real economic revival.
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This is the fourth in a continuing series of collected essays by the former editors of "Monthly Review" on the state of the U.S. economy and its relation to the global system. Like its predecessors, this volume focuses on the most recent phase of the development of U.S. capitalism, stressing the profound contradictions of the underlying processes of capital accumulation and pointing the way to the...
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(The problems of countries which occupy an intermediate po...)
The problems of countries which occupy an intermediate position between capitalism and socialism are undoubtedly among the most important in the modern world. The experiences of the Soviet Union have now been supplemented by those of Eastern Europe, North Korea and North Vietnam, and perhaps most important, China and Cuba. A large technical literature has grown up on the economics of these transitional societies, but the leading ideas and concepts of the analysis have been pioneered nowhere so well as in these pages. The several articles of the discussion began in October 1968 when Paul M. Sweezy, co-editor of Monthly Review, published an article on the current problems of socialism. This article led to an exchange of views between Sweezy and Charles Bettelheim, Director of Studies at the School for Higher Studies in Social and Economic Science, the Sorbonne. The second part of the book consists of three articles from Monthly Review on the same general subject matter: "Lessons of Soviet Experience," "The Lessons of Poland," and "The Transition to Socialism". Despite diverse origins and times of writing, the pieces in this book maintain a unity of topic. They concern the economic, social and political aspects of the attempt to create a new society after the governmental power of the old has been destroyed and replaced. Central to the entire discussion is the possibility that the policies adopted by the new governments under the stress of economic and political difficulties may result in the creation of a new capitalism in "statist" forms.
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(The problems of countries which occupy an intermediate po...)
The problems of countries which occupy an intermediate position between capitalism and socialism are undoubtedly among the most important in the modern world. The experiences of the Soviet Union have now been supplemented by those of Eastern Europe, North Korea and North Vietnam, and perhaps most important, China and Cuba. A large technical literature has grown up on the economics of these transitional societies, but the leading ideas and concepts of the analysis have been pioneered nowhere so well as in these pages. The several articles of the discussion began in October 1968 when Paul M. Sweezy, co-editor of Monthly Review, published an article on the current problems of socialism. This article led to an exchange of views between Sweezy and Charles Bettelheim, Director of Studies at the School for Higher Studies in Social and Economic Science, the Sorbonne. The second part of the book consists of three articles from Monthly Review on the same general subject matter: "Lessons of Soviet Experience," "The Lessons of Poland," and "The Transition to Socialism". Despite diverse origins and times of writing, the pieces in this book maintain a unity of topic. They concern the economic, social and political aspects of the attempt to create a new society after the governmental power of the old has been destroyed and replaced. Central to the entire discussion is the possibility that the policies adopted by the new governments under the stress of economic and political difficulties may result in the creation of a new capitalism in "statist" forms.
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Sweezy, Paul Marlor was born on April 10, 1910 in New York City. Son of Everett Benjamin and Caroline (Wilson) Sweezy.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1931. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1937. Doctor of Letters (honoris causa), Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1983.
With economics department Harvard University, 1934-1942. Former editor Monthly Review. Visiting professor Cornell University, Stanford University, New School Social Research, University California, Davis, Yale University, Hosei University, Tokyo, University Manchester, England.
Lecturer Cambridge (England) University, 1971. President Monthly Review Foundation, Inc.
(This landmark text by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy is a cla...)
(The problems of countries which occupy an intermediate po...)
(The problems of countries which occupy an intermediate po...)
( One of the twentieth century’s foremost Marxian economi...)
(This is the fourth in a continuing series of collected es...)
( This is the fourth in a continuing series of collected ...)
(Since its first publication in 1942, this book has become...)
(A socialist programme presented in Berlin in 2010 giving ...)
(A socialist programme presented in Berlin in 2010 giving ...)
(Early leftist analysis of Castro's revolution.)
(Latin American Studies, Latin American History)
(Economics, Political Studies, Marxist Studies)
(Political Studies, Marxist Studies)
(Book by Leo Huberman and Paul M. Sweezy)
(Book by Sweezy, Paul M.)
(Book by Sweezy, Paul M., Bettelheim, Charles)
(1970's economics)
(Journal)
Author or editor: Monopoly and Competition in the English Coal Trade, 1950-1850, 1938, The Theory of Capitalist Development, 1942, Socialism, 1949, The Present as History, 1953. Co-author: (with Leo Huberman) Cuba: Anatomy of a Revolution, 1960, (with Paul Baran) Monopoly Capital, 1966, (with Leo Huberman) Socialism in Cuba, 1969, (with Charles Bettelheim) On the Transition to Socialism, 1971, (with Harry Magdoff) The Dynamics of the United States Capitalism, 1972, Modern Capitalism and Other Essays, 1972, (with Harry Magdoff) The End of Prosperity, 1977, Post Revolutionary Society, 1981, (with Harry Magdoff) The Deepening Crisis of the United States Capitalism, 1981, Four Lectures on Marxism, 1981, (with Harry Magdoff) Stagnation and Financial Explosion, 1987, (with Harry Magdoff) The Irreversible Crisis, 1988.
I became a Marxist during a year of study at London School of Economies and Political Science, London, United Kingdom in
3 when I became convinced that mainstream economics of the kind I had been taught at Harvard had little to contribute toward understanding the major events and trends of the twentieth century. On returning to the United States, I discovered that North-American Marxism was practically nonexistent. In these circumstances, I acquired what I later described as ‘a mission in life’,
e., to do whatever I could to make Marxism an integral and respected part of the intellectual life of the country — or, in other terms, to contribute to establishing a serious and authentic North-American brand of Marxism.
I pursued this mission by means of teaching, writing and publishing — since 1949 through the medium of Monthly Review magazine and Monthly Review Press publishing house. During this period I have been closely associated with a distinguished group of colleagues, all of us together being sometimes referred to as a ‘Monthly Review School1, (Leo Huberman, Paul A. Baran, Harry Braverman and Harry Magdoff). We have, I think, played an important part in establishing Marxism on a firm foundation in the United States.
We have also of course sought to advance Marxist social science through theoretical and empirical studies. My own dis
tinctive contributions have tended to be mainly in two areas: the functioning of capitalism in its latest (monopoly, imperialist, global) stage, and the transition between social systems (feudalism to capitalism, and capitalism to socialism).
Served with Army of the United States, 1942-1946.
Married Zirel Dowd, June 17, 1961. Children by previous marriage: Samuel Everett, Elizabeth MacDougall, Martha Adams.