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Time magazine’s “Person of the Twentieth Century,” Albert Einstein hardly needs an introduction. However it is less known that Einstein was a lifelong socialist, activist for progressive causes, and even, on occasion, a self-described “revolutionary.”1 Although it does not appear that Einstein was specifically a Marxist, he wrote this essay for the founding issue of the Monthly Review, a Marxian socialist journal, in 1949. The essay is one of the best short portrayals of the socialist perspective.
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John J. Simon, “Albert Einstein, Radical: A Political Profile,” Monthly Review Volume 57, Number 1 (May 2005), p. 12.
See Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984).
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Sitton, J.F. (2010). Introduction. In: Sitton, J.F. (eds) Marx Today. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117457_10
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