Bertell Ollman

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Bertell Ollman (born April 30, 1935 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) is a political scientist and author of several books on Marxist theory . He teaches dialectical methodology and socialist theory at New York University .

academic career

Ollman studied at the University of Wisconsin , where he was 1956 Bachelor of Arts and 1957 Master of Arts in political science. He continued his studies at Oxford University, where he received an Artium Baccalaureus (AB) in philosophy, politics and economics in 1959, a Master of Arts in political theory in 1963 and a doctorate in political theory in 1967. Since he had already gained teaching experience, he began teaching immediately after his doctoral thesis at New York University.

After Ollman's offer to chair the Government Department at the University of Maryland at College Park was withdrawn in 1978 , he sued newspaper editors Robert Novak and Rowland Evans , accusing them of column slandering, leading to the withdrawal of the Offer.

Both had described Ollman's teaching method in a column as indoctrination, including an anonymous quote from another professor who allegedly said: "Ollman has no reputation within the subject, but is simply an activist" ("Ollman has no status within the profession , but is a pure and simple activist "). Ollman's lawsuit was denied by the DC Circuit Court , which found Novak and Evans' column to be covered by the right to freedom of expression. The United States Supreme Court on May 28, 1985 denied Ollman's motion for a writ of certiorari .

In 2001, Ollman received the newly established Charles McCoy Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Department of New Political Science at the American Political Science Association .

Ollman made an appearance on the television program Hannity & Colmes , where he was accused of having given Sean Hannity a lower grade as a professor in the 1980s for being a conservative and a supporter of Ronald Reagan . Ollman noted that he had been a professor of political science at New York University for 40 years, saying that if he had discriminated against conservative students, “would not have stayed long” (“would not have lasted long ").

Ollmann has also taught at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and as visiting professor at Oxford and Columbia University .

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Class Struggle board game

Ollman is also the author of Class Struggle , a board game based on his Marxist ideas, and from 1978 to 1983 was the director of Class Struggle, Inc., the company that originally manufactured and marketed the game. The game was later brought out again by the board game publisher Avalon Hill . The game became famous for its unusual and controversial theme.

Works

  • Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society . 2nd edition (1st edition 1971). Cambridge University Press, 1976; translates into Spanish, Italian and Korean
  • Social and Sexual Revolution: Essays on Marx and Reich , South End Press, 1978
  • Class Struggle Is the Name of the Game: True Confessions of a Marxist Businessman . Wm. Morrow Publications, 1983
    • Ballbuster? True Confessions of a Marxist Businessman . 2nd extended edition. Soft Skull Press, 2002
  • Marxism: an Uncommon Introduction , Stirling Publications, New Delhi 1991
  • Dialectical Investigations , Routledge 1993
  • Market Socialism: the Debate Among Socialists , as editor and co-author. Routledge, 1998, Chinese edition, 2000
  • How to Take an Exam ... and Remake the World . Black Rose Books, Montreal, Spring 2001
  • Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx's Method . University of Illinois Press, Urbana / Chicago 2003, ISBN 0-252-07118-2 , translated into Turkish
    • Ulrich Pagel: Marxists can dance too! Review in: Marx-Engels-Yearbook 2006 . Akademie Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-05-004426-2 , pp. 280–285

Associate Editor

  • Studies in Socialist Pedagogy , Monthly Review Press, 1978
  • The Left Academy: Marxist Scholarship on American Campuses
    • Volume I, McGraw Hill, 1982
    • Volume II, Praeger Publications, 1984
    • Volume III, Praeger Publications, 1986
  • The US Constitution: 200 Years of Anti-Federalist, Abolitionist, Feminist, Muckraker, Progressive, and Especially Socialist Criticism , New York University Press, 1990
  • Dialectics: the New Frontier , special volume by Science and Society , Fall 1998

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The case v Bertell Ollman, Appellant. Rowland EVANS, Robert Novak ( Memento June 13, 2008 on the Internet Archive ) on AltLaw.org
  2. ↑ OLLMAN v. EVANS, 471 US 1127 (1985)
  3. ↑ Class Struggle on boardgamegeek.com
personal data
SURNAME Ollman, Bertell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee