Harold Wolpe: the revisionist marxist
SOURCE: The fabric of dissent: public intellectuals in South Africa
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE AUTHOR(S): G.Houston
SOURCE EDITOR(S): V.Reddy, N.Bohler-Muller, G.Houston, M.Schoeman, H.Thuynsma
KEYWORDS: INTELLIGENTSIA, LAWYERS, POLITICS, RACIAL SEGREGATION, WOLPE, HAROLD
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11818
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15849
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15849
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE AUTHOR(S): G.Houston
SOURCE EDITOR(S): V.Reddy, N.Bohler-Muller, G.Houston, M.Schoeman, H.Thuynsma
KEYWORDS: INTELLIGENTSIA, LAWYERS, POLITICS, RACIAL SEGREGATION, WOLPE, HAROLD
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11818
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15849
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15849
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Abstract
South African lawyer, sociologist, political economist and anti-apartheid activist Harold Wolpe was an intellectual whose prime concern was to create a new moral and political order. He is fondly remembered for his Hollywood-thriller-like prison escape, and the dramatic manhunt that followed, but his real legacy is his deconstruction of the relationship between capitalism, segregation and apartheid. By insisting that social research should be based on the needs of the liberation struggle, he successfully married academic rigour with activism.-
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