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“The Academicizing of Marxism”
Editors:
I am dismayed by Frank Parkin’s blanket denunciation of Marxist academics in the Spring 1980 issue of Dissent (“The Academicizing of Marxism,” pp. 172-80). Parkin’s critique of Althusser and Poulantzas is useful but says nothing that has not alrea...