Bertell Ollman (b. 1936) is a professor of politics at New York University. He teaches both dialectical methodology and socialist theory. 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. 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in New York City. ... For other places with the same name, see Milwaukee (disambiguation). ...

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, Ollman sued columnists Robert Novak and Rowland Evans, alleging that a column they authored libeled him, resulting in the rescinding of his offer. His suit was defeated by the D.C. Circuit Court, who held that Novak and Evans' column was protected speech. In 2001, he won the first Charles McCoy Life Achievement Award from the New Political Science section of the American Political Science Association. Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ... The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UMD or UM, formerly UMCP) is a public coeducational university situated in suburban Maryland just outside Washington, DC. The flagship university of the University System of Maryland, it is commonly referred to as simply the University of Maryland, but the formal... Robert David Sanders Novak (born February 26, 1931) is a conservative American political commentator and journalist. ... Rowland Evans (?? - 2001) is an American journalist. ... The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, known informally as the D.C. Circuit, is the federal appellate court for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. ... The American Political Science Association, founded in 1903, serves more than 15,000 members in more than 80 countries, bringing a variety of services to political scientists both inside and outside academic institutions. ...

Works

• Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society (Cambridge U.P., l97l; 2nd ed., l976). This book has gone through thirteen printings, sold close to 30,000 copies, and been translated into Spanish, Italian, and Korean
• Studies in Socialist Pedagogy, co-ed (Monthly Review Press, l978)
• Social and Sexual Revolution: Essays on Marx and Reich (South End Press, l978)
• Class Struggle Is the Name of the Game: True Confessions of a Marxist Businessman (Wm. Morrow Pub., l983); 2nd expanded ed. entitled Ball Buster? True Confessions of a Marxist Businessman (Soft Skull Press, 2003)
• The Left Academy: Marxist Scholarship on American Campuses, co-ed., vol. I (McGraw Hill, l982)
• The Left Academy..., co-ed., vol. II (Praeger Pub., l984)
• The Left Academy..., co-ed., vol. III (Praeger Pub., l986)
• The U.S. Constitution: 200 Years of Anti-Federalist, Abolitionist, Feminist, Muckraker, Progressive, and Especially Socialist Criticism, co-ed. (N.Y.U. Press, l990)
• Marxism: an Uncommon Introduction (Stirling Pub., New Delhi, l99l)
• Dialectical Investigations (Routledge, l993) A French translation is forthcoming
• Market Socialism: the Debate Among Socialists, ed. and co-author (Routledge, l998). A Chinese translation appeared in 2000
• Dialectics: the New Frontier, co-ed. (Special Issue of Science and Society, Fall, l998); an expanded version of this issue will soon be published as a book
• How to Take an Exam...and Remake the World (Black Rose Books, Montreal, Spring, 2001)
• BALLBUSTER? True Confessions of a Marxist Businessman, 2002 (Soft Skull Press, 2002)
• Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx's Method (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2003). Turkish translation has been completed in February 2007 by Cenk Saraçoğlu and published by Yordam Publishing / İstanbul and a Chinese translation is being prepared.
• My Resignation From the Jewish People (www.dialecticalmarxism.com/resignation)

Trivia

• He appeared on "Hannity & Colmes" to face the accusation that as Sean Hannity's professor in the 1980s, he had given him a lower grade for being a conservative and a supporter of Ronald Reagan.
• In 1991, Bertall Ollman published the following remarks in a journal published by the American Political Science Association, appearing after the USSR had collapsed:

“Paradoxically enough, the objective conditions for socialism in the USSR are now largely present, but because of the unhappy experience with a regime that called itself ‘socialist’ the subjective conditions are absent . . . on the other hand . . . the Soviet Union might be saved by a socialist revolution in the West as our capitalist economy goes into a tailspin.”

External links

• DIALECTICAL MARXISM The Writings of Bertell Ollman

• The Dialectic and ideas on alienation by Bertell Ollman

• The Dialectic by Bertell Ollman

• Supreme Court's denial of cert in Ollman v. Evans