Max Eastman claimed he never heard mention of Marx while a PhD student in philosophy at Columbia U. His first wife Ida Rauh explained to him why Marx was not on reading lists at the Ivies. “You don’t think the people who own the earth are going to give it up voluntarily, do you?”
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Re provincialism and 'why Marx was not on the reading list at the Ivies', am reminded of the Time-NewYorker rivalry and this incredible line: “They should learn that there is no provincialism so blatant as that of the metropolitan who lacks urbanity.”pic.twitter.com/DVl0d1UjNr
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Also the provincialism of a philosophy department. My guess is Marx might have been read by Charles Beard students
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And the people around Sidney Hook.
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More like the provincialism of a philosophy department that included John Dewey.
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it is remarkable how conservative and traditionalist the elite colleges were before the mid-20th century. Harvard students volunteered to put down the Lawrence strike in 1912 -- and the peace movement had little support in such schools during WW I
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