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Revision as of 18:20, July 9, 2017
Walter Weyl was an intellectual leader during the Progressive Era, and a founder[1] of The New Republic magazine. Walter Lippmann wrote of Weyl that "He was by far the best trained economist in the progressive movement. He was the only active Bull Moose I ever knew who thought the Progressive program could be justified by statistics of the social facts as well as by moral denunciation."[2]
His son was Nathaniel Weyl.
Weyl wrote in his best known work The New Democracy(1912) that Marxism (which he called "absolute socialism") is "essentially religious."[3] Despite being anti-Marxist, Weyl was a committed progressive.
References
- ↑ What We Lost With the Loss of the New Republic
- ↑ Public Persons, by Walter Lippmann
- ↑ The New Democracy, p. 52, "For, buttressed though it was by reasonings from science, absolute socialism remained in its appeal essentially religious."