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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Replying to @HartmanAndrew
Maybe a product of American provincialism? As Joyce makes clear in Portrait, undergrads in Dublin at the same time definitely heard of Marx.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
More like the provincialism of a philosophy department that included John Dewey.
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Replying to @HartmanAndrew @HeerJeet
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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Before the GI Bill, colleges and universities (CUNY etc being exception) really were for the top 1% or maybe top 10%. Had the politics of their class.
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