Background
Legters, Lyman Howard was born on February 15, 1928 in Jamestown, New York, United States. Son of Lyman H. and Nettie (Saunders) Legters.
(Early in his life, Marx had perceived the prevailing soci...)
Early in his life, Marx had perceived the prevailing social system as being so deeply flawed as to be irreparable. He was as impatient with utopian fantasies as he was with mere tinkering, and so he was driven to develop not only the intellectual forecast of bourgeois capitalism's necessary demise but also the plan of human action that would at once hasten that demise and school the revolutionary actors for the post-revolutionary task of constructing a good society. The essays in this 1981 book examine the problems that have arisen from attempts to implement Marx's critical theory. The centrality of the good society is hardly to be doubted in the context of that theory. As long as socialist regimes continue to invoke Marx's name, they necessarily render themselves subject to the norms contained within or implied by Marx's understanding and endorsement of freedom, equality, justice and human self-realization in a community.
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Legters, Lyman Howard was born on February 15, 1928 in Jamestown, New York, United States. Son of Lyman H. and Nettie (Saunders) Legters.
Bachelor of Arts Michigan, 1949. Master of Arts, Boston University, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy, Free University Berlin, 1958.
Associate director University Pittsburgh, 1958-1959. Associate professor American University, Washington, 1959-1962. Specialist, chief United States Office Education, 1962-1965.
Professor George Washington University, 1965-1966. Professor emeritus history of Russia and Eastern Europe University Washington, Seattle, since 1966. Project director States and Societies in E.-Center Europe, since 1988.
Visiting professor Columbia University, New York City, 1973, University Warsaw, Poland, 1982. Board directors History Abstracts, Santa Barbara, California, 1970-1978.
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Served as sergeant United States Army, 1951-1953.
Married Marie Bird; children: Lyman, Matthew, Nettie, Douglas.