Leo Huberman (
Newark, New Jersey
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economist. In 1949 he founded and co-edited ''
Monthly Review'' with
Paul Sweezy
Paul Marlor Sweezy (April 10, 1910 – February 27, 2004) was a Marxist economist, political activist, publisher, and founding editor of the long-running magazine ''Monthly Review''. He is best remembered for his contributions to economic theory ...
. He was the chair of the Department of Social Science at
New College, Columbia University; labor editor of the newspaper
PM; and the author of the popular history books ''Man’s Worldly Goods'' and ''We, the People: The Drama of America''.
Life
The next-to-youngest of eleven children of Joseph and Fannie Kramerman-Huberman he was born and grew up in Newark, New Jersey. Six of his siblings died in infancy. From the age of eleven he studied at Newark State School, as well as supporting the family by working in a celluloid factory, as an electrician's mate and in the post office. After graduating from high school in 1926, he spent two years at Newark State Normal School, where he received a teacher’s diploma and started teaching in the elementary schools at the age of eighteen. He served as a teacher at a private experimental school until 1932.
In 1925, he married a high school classmate—also a school teacher Gertrude Heller. For their honeymoon they hitch-hiked across the country to California and back to New Jersey.
His first book ''We the People'' was published in London and he gained a place at the
London School of Economics
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. He later attended
New York University
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In 1832, th ...
and completed a science degree in 1937. He held a post at
Columbia University
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in the Faculty of Social Sciences. From 1940, he became editor and columnist for the magazine ''U.S. Week''. In 1949, with Paul Sweezy and backed by
F.O. Mathiessen
Francis Otto Matthiessen (February 19, 1902 – April 1, 1950) was an educator, scholar and literary critic influential in the fields of American literature and American studies. His best known work, ''American Renaissance: Art and Expression in ...
, he founded the left-wing magazine ''Monthly Review'', and became its chief editor.
He continued to write and publish on socialist topics until his death in 1968.
Works
''Man’s Worldly Goods: The Story of The Wealth of Nations '', and ''We The People: The Drama of America'' were initially written for young people but were revised for an adult audience.
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Footnotes
Further reading
* Christopher David Brady
Mid-Century American Marxist: The Progressive Education of Leo Huberman MA thesis. University of Oregon, 1999.
External links
Articles by Leo Huberman at ''Monthly Review''''A Fool’s Game. The China-India Border Dispute''
by Leo Huberman and Paul Sweezy (1963)
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1903 births
1968 deaths
Marxist theorists
American socialists
Revolution theorists