Mid-century American Marxist: The progressive education of Leo Huberman

Leo Huberman (1903--1968) co-founded the socialist magazine Monthly Review with Paul Sweezy in 1949 as the Red Witch Hunt was revving up. Remarkably, the magazine survived this audacious start and exists to this day. Leftist intellectuals the world over know of the works of the Monthly Review School of economics thinkers comprised of Paul Sweezy, Paul Baran, Harry Magdoff, and Harry Braverman. But Leo Huberman, although a best selling writer in the 1930s and a well-known figure on the left until his death, has become "one of the century's forgotten radical economic popularizers." This paper provides a clearer picture of the young Leo Huberman into the 1930s through his family background, education, associations, work and experience.