Bertell Ollman

Bertell Ollman (b. 1936) is a professor of politics at New York University. He has written and edited books including Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society, Social and Sexual Revolution: Essays on Marx and Reich, Dialectical Investigations, How to Take an Exam...and Remake the World, and most recently Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx's Method. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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1936 - New York University - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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He is also the creator of Class Struggle, the world's first Marxist board game, and from 1978-1983 was president of Class Struggle, Inc., the company that produced and marketed the game. In 1978, after being offered and then denied the chairmanship of the Government Department at the University of Maryland College Park, he became the principal in one of the most important academic freedom struggles of the last half century. BALLBUSTER? True Confessions of a Marxist Businessman (2002) offers an autobiographical account?missing neither the politics or the humor?of both struggles. In 2001, he won the first Charles McCoy Life Achievement Award from the New Political Science section of the American Political Science Association.

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Class Struggle - Marxist - University of Maryland College Park - American Political Science Association

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