Starr, ‘Was Marx Wrong’ (review of Social Mobility) – The Communist 7-1-1927
Posted here (PDF above)
“Was Marx Wrong?”
By Burn Starr
The Communist
July 1, 1927
pp. 323-326
a highly critical review of Sorokin’s Social Mobility.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
July 2022
I have reposted
at
“Russia of To-day”
by Henry Noble MacCracken
review of
современное состояние России (sovremennoye sostoyaniye Rossii; The
Present State of Russia)
By Pitirim Sorokin
Prague, 1922
I had previously posted the wrong document; and the full text of this very illuminating and hard to find article was not available.
Henry Noble MacCracken was the President of Vassar College.
— Roger W. Smith
Sidney Hook review of ‘Society, Culture & Personality’ – NY Times 8-17-1947
Posted here as a PDF file (above) is review of Society, Culture and Personality by Pitirim A. Sorokin:
“Man’s Destiny: A Scientific View”
(review of Society, Culture, and Personality)
By Sidney Hook
The New York Times
August 17, 1947
The review is a harsh, biting attack on Sorokin’s scholarship and views.
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Sidney Hook (1902-1989) was an American philosopher known for his contributions to the philosophy of history, the philosophy of education, political theory, and ethics. After embracing Communism in his youth, Hook was later known for his criticisms of totalitarianism, both fascism, and Marxism-Leninism.
— Roger W. Smith
March 2018
Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin 