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The Return of Karl Polanyi
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 61, Number 2, Spring 2014
- pp. 30-33
- 10.1353/dss.2014.0027
- Article
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In the first half century of Dissent’s history, Karl Polanyi almost never made an appearance in the magazine’s pages. On one level this is surprising, because Polanyi was a presence in socialist circles in New York City from 1947 through the mid-1950s, the period of Dissent’s gestation. On another level it is unsurprising, in that Polanyi was a heterodox thinker—even among fellow socialists. With some significant exceptions, it has taken decades to recognize the extraordinary theoretical contributions to socialist thought that he made in his masterpiece, The Great Transformation: The Social and Political Origins of Our Time,first published in 1944.