Socialist Scholars Conference 1966
The 1966 Socialist Scholars Conference, was held September 9-11 , at the Hotel Commodore, New York.[1]
Steering Committee for 1966
In 1966, the following served on the Steering Committee for the 1966 Socialist Scholars Conference:[2]
- James E. Becker, New York University
- Arthur Bierman, City College of New York
- Norman Dain, Rutgers University
- Vernon K. Dibble, Columbia University
- Philip S. Foner, New York
- Eugene D. Genovese, Rutgers University
- Ann J. Lane, Sarah Lawrence College
- Louis Menashe, (Chairman) Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
- James O'Connor, San Jose State College
- Paul M. Sweezy, Monthly Review
- James Weinstein, Studies on the Left
Panels
On Socialist Man
- Robert S. Cohen, Boston University
- Shane Mage, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
- Donald McKelvey, Student Union for Peace Action
- H. H. Wilson - Chairman, Princeton University
Components of Contemporary Revolutionary Movements
- Africa: Irving Markovitz, Queens College
- Asia: Franz Schurmann, University of California, Berkeley
- Latin America: James Petras, University of California, Berkeley
Commentators:
- Gordon Lewis, University of Puerto Rico
- Robert Wolfe, New York University
- Chairman: Robert S. Browne, Fairleigh Dickenson University
Libermanism and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
The New System of Economic Management and Planning in the USSR
- Victor Perlo, New York
A Critique of Economic Soviet Economic Union Reforms
- Allen Solganick, University of Maryland
Soviet and Eastern European Economic Reforms: A Hallway House
- Alexander Erlich, Columbia University
Commentators:
- Harry Braverman, New York
- Lynn Turgeon, Chairman, Hofstra University
Realism in Literature Fantastic Realism
Critical Realism
- Norman Rudich, Wesleyan University
Commentators:
- Harvey Blume, Columbia University
- Gaylord Leroy, Temple University
- Vernon K. Dibble, Chairman, Columbia University
Poverty and Powerlessness
Organizing the Poor: Can it Be Done?
- Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, Columbia University
Commentators:
- Sherman Barr, Mobilization for Youth
- James Haughton, Harlem Unemployment Center
- Oscar Lewis University of Illinois
- William Ryan Yale Universty
- Chairman, Judith Mage, Social Service Employees Union
Critique of Baran and Sweezy, Monopoly Capital
- Karl Niebyl, Temple University
- Russ Nixon, New York University
- James O'Connor, San Jose Sate College
- John Owen, Johns Hopkins University
- Paul M. Sweezy, Monthly Review
- Russ Nixon, Chairman
Dinner Address:
- Conor Cruise O'Brien
- Albert Schweitzer, Professor of Humanities, New York University, Introduced by Warren I. Susman, Rutgers University
Political Ideology of American Corporate Liberalism
The Corporate Ideology of American Labor Leaders: From Gompers to Hillman
- Ronald Radosh, Queensborough Community College
The Corporate-Liberal Ascendancy and the Socialist Acquiescence: An Inquiry into Strange Times
- Martin J. Sklar, Rochester University
Commentators:
- Philip S. Foner, New York City
- Gabriel Kolko, University of Pennsylvania
- James Weinstein, Studies on the Left
- Robert Engler, Sarah Lawrence College
The Crisis of the Comintern: Fascism and the Popular Front
Communist Theories of Fascism, 1921-1935
- John M. Cammett, Rutgers University
The Formation of the Popular Front in France: Socialist-Communist Unity of Action in 1934
- Leslie Derfler, Carnegie Institute of Technology
No Pararan! - Notes on the Origins of the Frente Popular
- Robert G. Colodny, University of Pittsburgh
Commentators:
- Helmut Gruber, Chairman, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
- Manuela Dobos-Schleicher, Columbia University
Contemporary Imperialism
The Economics of Contemporary U.S. Imperialism
- Harry Magdoff, New York
Commentators:
- James E. Becker, Chairman, New York University
- Brijen Gupta, Brooklyn College
- Michael A. Lebowitz, Simon Fraser University
The Legacy of Negro Slavery
The Legacy of Negro Slavery and the Roots of Black Nationalism
- Eugene D. Genovese, Rutgers University
Commentators:
- Herbert Aptheker, American Institute for Marxist Studies
- Frank Kofsky, University of Pittsburgh
- C. Vann Woodward, Yale University
- Nathan Hare, Chairman, Howard University