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Harold R. Isaacs

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Paul Phillips

Paul Phillips has recently retired from the University of Manitoba after thirty-four years in the department of Economics. He is a Professor of American Studies at the University of Ljubljana in Sl

Teo Ballve

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Anna Rochester

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Teodor Shanin

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Robert Biel

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John W. Murphy

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Suvira Jaiswal

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Uma Chakravarti

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Ernest Mandel

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Clara Zetkin

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