Harry Cleaver

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Harry Cleaver Jr.
University of Texas, Austin, The New School[1]
Notable worksReading Capital Politically

Harry Cleaver Jr. (born 21 January 1944) is an American scholar,

autonomist reading of Karl Marx's Capital. Cleaver is currently active in the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico.[1]

Education

Cleaver began his undergraduate studies at

PhD in economics. While at Stanford, Cleaver was active in the Anti-war Movement. As a student activist opposed to the Vietnam War, Cleaver protested the Stanford Research Institute's alleged connection to the United States Department of Defense, which became the impetus for his dissertation research into the connections between the Green Revolution and social engineering.[5][6] Cleaver's frustrations with mainstream economic theory during this period in his studies led him to embrace Marxism.[1]

Career

Teaching

In 1971, Cleaver was hired as an assistant professor at the

New School for Social Research in the department of economics. In 1976, Cleaver took a position in the economics department of the University of Texas at Austin where he taught for 36 years, retiring in 2012.[7]

Partial bibliography

Books

  • Cleaver, Harry (2019). 33 Lessons on Capital: Reading Marx Politically. London: Pluto Press. .
  • Cleaver, Harry (2017). Rupturing the Dialectic: The Struggle Against Work. Chico: AK Press. .
  • Cleaver, Harry (1979). Reading Capital Politically. Austin: University of Texas Press. .

Articles

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Cleaver, Harry. "Policy Activism". Harry Cleaver Homepage. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  2. ^
    ProQuest 302779342
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  3. ^ Cleaver, Harry (May 2009). "Curriculum Vitae for Harry Cleaver". Harry Cleaver Homepage. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
  4. ^ "Faculty Bio - Harry Cleaver Jr". The University of Texas at Austin - College of Liberal Arts. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
  5. ^ Cleaver, Harry. "Research". Harry Cleaver Homepage. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  6. JSTOR 1821541
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  7. ^ Cleaver, Harry. "Teaching". Harry Cleaver Homepage. Retrieved 8 June 2016.

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