Biography:Harry Cleaver

Short description: American Marxist scholar (born 1944)

Harry Cleaver Jr.
Cleaver lecturing at the University of Texas at Austin
Born	(1944-01-21) January 21, 1944
Nationality	American
Occupation	Professor emeritus
Children	3
Academic background
Education	PhD
Alma mater	Stanford University
Thesis	'The Origins of the Green Revolution (1975)
Doctoral advisor	John G. Gurley
Academic work
Discipline	Economics
Sub-discipline	Marxian economics, Autonomist Marxism
Institutions	University of Texas, Austin, The New School
Notable works	Reading Capital Politically

Harry Cleaver Jr. (born 21 January 1944) is an American scholar, Marxist theoretician, and professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He is best known as the author of Reading Capital Politically, an autonomist reading of Karl Marx's Capital. Cleaver is currently active in the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico.

Education

Cleaver began his undergraduate studies at Antioch College in 1962, graduating with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1967. At Antioch, Cleaver became involved in the American Civil Rights Movement and began his lifelong engagement with political activism. From 1964 to 1965, Cleaver studied abroad at the University of Montpellier where he engaged with the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France. In 1967, Cleaver enrolled at Stanford University to begin a PhD in economics. While at Stanford, Cleaver was active in the Anti-war Movement. As a student activist opposed to the Vietnam War, Cleaver protested the Stanford Research Institute's alleged connection to the United States Department of Defense, which became the impetus for his dissertation research into the connections between the Green Revolution and social engineering. Cleaver's frustrations with mainstream economic theory during this period in his studies led him to embrace Marxism.

Career

Teaching

In 1971, Cleaver was hired as an assistant professor at the Université de Sherbrooke in Montreal, Quebec where he taught for three years, finished his dissertation, and studied Québécois nationalism. From 1974 to 1976, Cleaver was a visiting assistant professor at the New School for Social Research in the department of economics. In 1976, Cleaver took a position in the economics department of the University of Texas at Austin where he taught for 36 years, retiring in 2012.

Partial bibliography

Books

• Cleaver, Harry (2019). 33 Lessons on Capital: Reading Marx Politically. London: Pluto Press. ISBN 978-0745339979. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745339979/33-lessons-on-capital/. 
• Cleaver, Harry (2017). Rupturing the Dialectic: The Struggle Against Work. Chico: AK Press. ISBN 978-1849352277. https://www.akpress.org/rupturing-the-dialectic.html. 
• Cleaver, Harry (1979). Reading Capital Politically. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0292770157. http://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/357k/357krcp.html. 

Articles

• Cleaver, Harry (1998). "The Zapatista Effect: The Internet and the Rise of an Alternative Political Fabric". Journal of International Affairs 51 (2): 621–640.  Author's published version.
• Cleaver, Harry (1996). "The "space" of cyberspace: Body politics, frontiers and enclosures". Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 9 (1): 239–247. doi:10.1080/07407709608571263. 
• Cleaver, Harry (1994). "Kropotkin, Self-valorization And The Crisis Of Marxism". Anarchist Studies (2): 119–135. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/harry-cleaver-kropotkin-self-valorization-and-the-crisis-of-marxism.pdf. Retrieved 8 June 2016. 
• Cleaver, Harry (1989). "Close the IMF, abolish debt and end development: a class analysis of the international debt crisis". Capital & Class 13 (3): 17–50. doi:10.1177/030981688903900102. 
• Bell, Peter; Cleaver, Harry (1989). "Marx's crisis theory as a theory of class struggle". Research in Political Economy 5 (5): 189–261. 
• Cleaver, Harry (1977). "Malaria, the Politics of Public Health and the International Crisis". Review of Radical Political Economics 9 (1): 81–103. doi:10.1177/048661347700900106. PMID 11615136. 
• Cleaver, Harry (September 4, 1976). "Political Economy of Malaria De-Control". Economic and Political Weekly 11 (36): 1463–1473. 
• Cleaver, Harry (March 27, 1976). "Internationalisation of Capital and Mode of Production in Agriculture". Economic and Political Weekly 11 (13): A2–A5+A7–A16. 
• Cleaver, Harry (1972). "The Contradictions of the Green Revolution". The American Economic Review 62 (1/2): 177–186.  Author's published version.

External links

• Harry Cleaver's personal website
• aut-op-sy email list
• Harry Cleaver at libcom.org
• Harry Cleaver Study Guide to Marx's Capital Volume 1
• Reading Capital Politically by Harry Cleaver