Clyde W Barrow
Biographic Data
| ID | 376441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clyde W Barrow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clyde W |
| FAMILY NAME | Barrow |
| SIGNATURE | BARROW C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Political Science, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6846-3728 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
God, Capitalism, and the State
During the 1980s, a neoconservative cultural counterrevolution organized in response to the previous two decades of political turmoil and intellectual ferment, which had resulted in the emergence of a strong academic left in American universities. The cultural counterrevolution began with several acts of academic repression designed to purge some of the most prominent leftists from academia, although this repression mostly took other forms during…
Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science
Reflections on Universities, Politics, and the Capitalist State: An Interdisciplinary and Intergenerational Discussion with Clyde W. Barrow
Since its publication in 1990, Clyde W. Barrow’s book, Universities and the Capitalist State: Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education, 1894-1928, has been a touchstone text for generations of scholars studying higher education. This conversation between Barrow, Heather Steffen, and Isaac Kamola examines the book’s legacy in order to explore how the interdisciplinary study of higher education has changed over the p…
John Rensenbrink, 1928–2022: In Memoriam
Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power
What’s in a Name? From New Political Science to Critical Political Science
There is no evidence that the founders of the Caucus for a New Political Science (CNPS) put much thought into the organization’s name because it was initially founded as an ad hoc caucus and there was no expectation that it would still exist more than a half-century later. However, even in the intellectual context of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the name “New Political Science” was something of an oddity as comparable dissident movements in ot…
Rebellion in America: Citizen Uprisings, The News Media, and the Politics of Plutocracy, written by DiMaggio, Anthony R
Whither the Dangerous Class: Bribed Tool of Reactionary Intrigue or New Revolutionary Agent
I want to thank Judith Grant and Claire Snyder-Hall, the co-editors of New Political Science, for organizing this symposium on my book, The Dangerous Class: The Concept of the Lumpenproletariat (20
Leo Panitch, 1945-2020 In Memoriam
Leo Panitch, Canadian Research Professor Emeritus (York University) passed away on December 19, 2020 from complications related to COVID-19 that he contracted while being treated in the hospital fo
Globalization and the Emergence of the Fortress State
The Dangerous Class: The Concept of the Lumpenproletariat
Marx and Engels' concept of the "lumpenproletariat," or underclass (an anglicized, politically neutral term), appears in The Communist Manifesto and other writings. It refers to "the dangerous class, the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society," whose lowly status made its residents potential tools of the capitalists against the working class. Surprisingly, no one has made a substantial study of the…
A Bribed Tool of Reactionary Intrigue: Black Panther Ideology and the Rise of A White Lumpenproletariat
The “dangerous class,” the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution; its c
The Republic: Conversations on Fundamentals
In more than 230 years of statehood, the United States has created its own distinctive way of living and governing--a way which its citizens cherish, but about whose essence, for want of definition, they frequently disagree. Charles Beard offered, in a synthesis of his life work, a permanent statement on the nature of the American Republic. To carry out his purpose, Beard discusses, among other subjects, the making of one nation out of many peopl…
Rights of American Citizens
Republic: Conversations on Fundamentals
Marxist Political Theory, Diversity of Tactics, and the Doctrine of the Long Civil War
In The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Engels “openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.” However, by 1872, Marx suggested that in some countries it was possible for workers to “achieve their aims by peaceful means.” Since that time, Marxist political theorists have debated whether a transition to socialism can be achieved by parliamentary means alone or whether the trans…
There are Better Alternatives than Easton: A Critical Rejoinder to William J. Kelleher
In the last issue of this journal, Dr. William J. Kelleher claimed that my earlier discussion of the intellectual origins of the CNPS has some serious misconceptions which may obscure the formation of a clear vision of the Caucus’s options for future endeavors. His main concern is that I misunderstand David Easton’s systematic political theory, which Kelleher argues may provide a bridge between official political science and a more radical politi…
A critical rejoinder to Manfred B. Steger
Manfred Steger’s response to our critique of globalization theory studiously avoids a confrontation with our basic thesis that nation-states are the principal agents of globalization and the continuing guarantors of the political and material conditions necessary for capital accumulation on a global scale. Steger still fails to recognize that the state is more than just one important actor in the global arena because a state has the capacity to e…
Globalization theory and state theory: The false antinomy
Since the 1990s, globalization theorists have published a never-ending litany of books and articles about the crisis of the nation-state, the eclipse of the state, the retreat of the state, and even the end of the nation-state. Globalization theory has, on a regular basis, dismissed the nation-state as irrelevant to understanding contemporary political and economic development. However, this paper reexamines the relationship between globalization…
The Political and Intellectual Origins of New Political Science
In 1967, the burgeoning discontent of many political scientists culminated in the establishment of the Caucus for a New Political Science. The Caucus included political scientists of many diverse viewpoints, but it was united methodologically by a critique of behavioralism and by the idea that political science should abandon the myth of a value-free science. This article reviews the political and intellectual origins of New Political Science by …
Toward a Critical Theory of States: The Poulantzas-Miliband Debate after Globalization
Toward a Critical Theory of States: The Poulantzas-Miliband Debate after Globalization
We have recently lived through the turmoil of a global financial crisis that originated in the United States and, despite the platitudes of neo-liberal ideology, nation-states were deeply involved in managing this crisis, if "the state" is again a preeminent actor in the global economy, then state theory and the problem of the state should also return to the forefront of political theory. Toward a Critical Theory of States is an intensive analysi…
The Coming of the Corporate-Fascist University
Additional informationNotes on contributorsClyde W. BarrowClyde W. Barrow is Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley. His publications include Universities and the Capitalist State (1990), More Than a Historian: The Political and Economic Thought of Charles A. Beard (2000), and Globalisation, Trade Liberalisation, and Higher Education in North America (2003). He has also published numerous articles on state t…
Realpolitik in the American University: Charles A. Beard and the Problem of Academic Repression
Charles A. Beard resigned from Columbia University on October 8, 1917 at a time when modern universities were emerging as significant institutions in the economic and political development of the United States. Thus, Beard’s highly publicized resignation came at a time when universities were under exceptional scrutiny by economic and political elites, who increasingly viewed higher education institutions as either private corporations which they …
Politics Denied: Comments on Waismel-Manor and Lowi’s “Politics in Motion”
For the last quarter-century, many political scientists—mostly dissidents within the discipline—have concurred with David Ricci’s conclusion in The Tragedy of Political Science that the discipline now serves “less as an instrument for solving problems than as a component part of the problem itself.” 1 Similarly, in Disenchanted Realists, Raymond Seidelman concluded that by the mid-1980s political scientists were at a “professional impasse” over t…
The Return of the State: Globalization, State Theory, and the New Imperialism
The interest in state theory that swept academic circles following the Miliband–Poulantzas debate waned considerably in the late 1980s and 1990s so that much of the last decade was notable for the impoverishment of state theory. Indeed, during this time, there was a never ending litany of books and articles on the crisis of the nation-state, the eclipse of the state, the retreat of the state, and even the end of the nation-state. The central them…
The Intellectual Origins of New Political Science
In 1967, the burgeoning discontent of many political scientists culminated in the establishment of the Caucus for a New Political Science. The Caucus included political scientists of many diverse viewpoints, but it was united methodologically by a critique of behavioralism and by the idea that political science should abandon the myth of a value-free science. In recent years, political scientists have authored numerous commentaries on "the traged…
Critical Theories of the State: Marxist, Neo-Marxist, Post-Marxist
The Political and Intellectual Origins of New Political Science
In 1967, the burgeoning discontent of many political scientists culminated in the establishment of the Caucus for a New Political Science. The Caucus included political scientists of many diverse viewpoints, but it was united methodologically by a critique of behavioralism and by the idea that political science should abandon the myth of a value-free science. This article reviews the political and intellectual origins of New Political Science by …
Intellectuals in Contemporary Social Theory: A Radical Critique
Contemporary social theorists have been remarkably consistent in advocating an analytically defined ideal-type of the modern intellectual. This ideal-type presents the intellectual as a politically autonomous critic pursuing knowledge for its own sake. I argue that this concept rests on the presupposition of specific empirical and historical conditions concerning the social organization of intellectuals. To the degree that these presuppositions a…
What’s in a Name? From New Political Science to Critical Political Science
There is no evidence that the founders of the Caucus for a New Political Science (CNPS) put much thought into the organization’s name because it was initially founded as an ad hoc caucus and there was no expectation that it would still exist more than a half-century later. However, even in the intellectual context of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the name “New Political Science” was something of an oddity as comparable dissident movements in ot…
Realpolitik in the American University: Charles A. Beard and the Problem of Academic Repression
Charles A. Beard resigned from Columbia University on October 8, 1917 at a time when modern universities were emerging as significant institutions in the economic and political development of the United States. Thus, Beard’s highly publicized resignation came at a time when universities were under exceptional scrutiny by economic and political elites, who increasingly viewed higher education institutions as either private corporations which they …
Politics Denied: Comments on Waismel-Manor and Lowi’s “Politics in Motion”
For the last quarter-century, many political scientists—mostly dissidents within the discipline—have concurred with David Ricci’s conclusion in The Tragedy of Political Science that the discipline now serves “less as an instrument for solving problems than as a component part of the problem itself.” 1 Similarly, in Disenchanted Realists, Raymond Seidelman concluded that by the mid-1980s political scientists were at a “professional impasse” over t…
The Rationality Crisis in US Higher Education
Over the course of the last century, many of the stresses and contradictions of advanced capitalism have been displaced onto colleges and universities, which are now directly attached to the state whether legally, politically, or financially as an important component of the ideological and economic state apparatuses. As a component of the ideological and economic state apparatuses, the university is implicated in the state’s ongoing fiscal crisis…
Building a Workers' Republic: Charles A. Beard's Critique of Liberalism in the 1930s
Charles Beard's sympathizers have correctly dismissed conservative claims that he was a Marxist, but they have often substituted the equally misleading claim that he was a forebearer of mainstream liberalism in the post-New Deal United States. In the 1930s Beard developed a blueprint for a "workers' republic" that went far beyond the bounds of welfare liberalism or New Deal economic policy. Beard's proposals for constitutional reform envision a p…
Universities and the Capitalist State: Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education, 1894-1928
Counter-movement within the labor movement: Workers' education and the American federation of labor, 1900–1937
This article examines the historical development and sudden collapse of the workers' education movement from 1900 to 1937. Workers' education was a vital component of early dissident strategies to overturn the AFL's dominant philosophy of business unionism with a broader and more politicized philosophy of social unionism. The article concludes that the pattern of events leading to the demise of workers' education as an opposition movement provide…
Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power
Rebellion in America: Citizen Uprisings, The News Media, and the Politics of Plutocracy, written by DiMaggio, Anthony R
Globalization theory and state theory: The false antinomy
Since the 1990s, globalization theorists have published a never-ending litany of books and articles about the crisis of the nation-state, the eclipse of the state, the retreat of the state, and even the end of the nation-state. Globalization theory has, on a regular basis, dismissed the nation-state as irrelevant to understanding contemporary political and economic development. However, this paper reexamines the relationship between globalization…
The Coming of the Corporate-Fascist University
Additional informationNotes on contributorsClyde W. BarrowClyde W. Barrow is Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley. His publications include Universities and the Capitalist State (1990), More Than a Historian: The Political and Economic Thought of Charles A. Beard (2000), and Globalisation, Trade Liberalisation, and Higher Education in North America (2003). He has also published numerous articles on state t…
Plain Marxists, Sophisticated Marxists, and C. Wright Mills’ The Power Elite
The Power Elite, rather than at Ralph Mili-band's The State in Capitalist Society . However, Poulantzas failed to recognize that an earlier encounter between Marxists and The Power Elite occurred during the 1950s, when Marxists such as Paul M. Sweezy and Herbert Aptheker took Mills to task, but in ways that yielded a wholly different and far more constructive outcome. The first encounter between Mills and the Marxists was a lively engagement that…
Beyond Progressivism: Charles A. Beard's Social Democratic Theory of American Political Development
In one of his last published works, Vernon Louis Parrington authored the introduction to a book entitled The Growth and Decadence of Constitutional Government . In it he endorsed the book's claim that ratification of the U.S. Constitution had been accompanied by “bitter class divisions.” In Parrington's view, the struggle for ratification was accurately described as both a political “clash between aristocracy and democracy” and an economic class …
Intellectuals in Contemporary Social Theory: A Radical Critique
Contemporary social theorists have been remarkably consistent in advocating an analytically defined ideal-type of the modern intellectual. This ideal-type presents the intellectual as a politically autonomous critic pursuing knowledge for its own sake. I argue that this concept rests on the presupposition of specific empirical and historical conditions concerning the social organization of intellectuals. To the degree that these presuppositions a…
Charles A. Beard's Social Democracy: A Critique of the Populist-Progressive Style in American Political Thought
Charles A. Beard is commonly paired with James Allen Smith, Vernon Louis Parrington and others as major figures in the Populist-Progressive tradition of American political thought. This article, however, argues that Beard is properly understood as a critic of Populist-Progressive theories of the American state. From a comparison of Beard with Smith and Parrington, the author concludes that he differed from them in his view of American constitutio…
The Meaning of Crisis: A Theoretical Introduction. James O'Connor
Counter-movement within the labor movement: Workers' education and the American federation of labor, 1900–1937
This article examines the historical development and sudden collapse of the workers' education movement from 1900 to 1937. Workers' education was a vital component of early dissident strategies to overturn the AFL's dominant philosophy of business unionism with a broader and more politicized philosophy of social unionism. The article concludes that the pattern of events leading to the demise of workers' education as an opposition movement provide…
Styles of Intellectualism in Weber's Historical Sociology
The prevailing concept of the intellectual in contemporary sociology is an ideal type derived from Weber. Intellectuals are understood as politically disinterested, socially unattached individuals, who in their subjective intentions pursue knowledge for its own sake. Weber's ideal type thus provides the action framework for a sociology of knowledge that has been used as a direct counterclaim to Marxist theories of ideology. The author challenges …
Universities and the Capitalist State: Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education, 1894-1928
Journal Article Universities and the Capitalist State: Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education, 1894–1928. By Clyde W. Barrow. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. xx + 329 pp. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $17.25.) Get access G. Charles Newman G. Charles Newman State University of New York, College at Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, V…
Universities and the Capitalist State: Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education, 1894-1928
Corporate Liberalism, Finance Hegemony, and Central State Intervention in the Reconstruction of American Higher Education
The origins of the American university system are generally traced to a reform cycle that began in the late 1890s and culminated in the 1920s when most colleges and universities adopted institutional structures, faculty routines, and financial systems that approximated those of a modern corporation. As contemporary educational historians have rewritten the saga of higher education reform, the institutional changes that swept through colleges duri…
Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859- 1877. Richard Franklin Bensel
Universities and the Capitalist State: Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education, 1894-1928
From Marx to Madison: The Seligman Connection in Charles Beard's Constitutional Theory
Since the publication of Charles Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, conservative scholars have denounced it as "Marxist," while radical scholars have often embraced it as an exemplary piece of Marxist political theory. Yet Beard steadfastly denied that his Economic Interpretation was Marxist in its origin or import. Many scholars have dismissed Beard's disclaimers as a polemical maneuver, but this article asserts that they sh…
Critical Theories of the State: Marxist, Neomarxist, Postmarxist
Critical theories of the state: Marxist, Neo-Marxsist, Post-Marxist
Beyond Progressivism: Charles A. Beard's Social Democratic Theory of American Political Development
In one of his last published works, Vernon Louis Parrington authored the introduction to a book entitled The Growth and Decadence of Constitutional Government . In it he endorsed the book's claim that ratification of the U.S. Constitution had been accompanied by “bitter class divisions.” In Parrington's view, the struggle for ratification was accurately described as both a political “clash between aristocracy and democracy” and an economic class …
Critical Theories of the State: Marxist, Neo-Marxist, Post-Marxist
The Diversionary Thesis and the Dialectic of Imperialism: Charles A. Beard's Theory of American Foreign Policy Revisited
In 1916, Charles A. Beard was denouncing Germany as “a danger to civilization” and calling for American participation in World War I on the side of the Entente Allies. Like John Dewey and other social-democrats, Beard saw the Great War as an opportunity to advance the interests of the European working class by breaking “the union of the Hohenzollern military caste and the German masses whose radical leaders are Social Democrats”. Even after the V…
Building a Workers' Republic: Charles A. Beard's Critique of Liberalism in the 1930s
Charles Beard's sympathizers have correctly dismissed conservative claims that he was a Marxist, but they have often substituted the equally misleading claim that he was a forebearer of mainstream liberalism in the post-New Deal United States. In the 1930s Beard developed a blueprint for a "workers' republic" that went far beyond the bounds of welfare liberalism or New Deal economic policy. Beard's proposals for constitutional reform envision a p…
The Marx Problem in Marxian State Theory
More than a quarter century after the Miliband-Poulantzas debate renewed interest in Marxist political theory, there is still no agreement on what constitutes a Marxist theory of the state. The state theory debate has produced a range of competing theories including instrumentalism (Miliband), structuralism (Poulantzas), derivationism (Altvater), systems analysis (Offe), and organizational realism (Skocpol). Each of these theories is grounded in …
The Return of the State: Globalization, State Theory, and the New Imperialism
The interest in state theory that swept academic circles following the Miliband–Poulantzas debate waned considerably in the late 1980s and 1990s so that much of the last decade was notable for the impoverishment of state theory. Indeed, during this time, there was a never ending litany of books and articles on the crisis of the nation-state, the eclipse of the state, the retreat of the state, and even the end of the nation-state. The central them…
Plain Marxists, Sophisticated Marxists, and C. Wright Mills’ The Power Elite
The Power Elite, rather than at Ralph Mili-band's The State in Capitalist Society . However, Poulantzas failed to recognize that an earlier encounter between Marxists and The Power Elite occurred during the 1950s, when Marxists such as Paul M. Sweezy and Herbert Aptheker took Mills to task, but in ways that yielded a wholly different and far more constructive outcome. The first encounter between Mills and the Marxists was a lively engagement that…
Ralph Miliband and the Instrumentalist Theory of the State: The (Mis)Construction of an Analytic Concept
The concept of instrumentalism that is so closely associated with Ralph Miliband's theory of the state is not merely an oversimplification and caricature of Miliband's political theory, but an artificial polemical construct superimposed on his and others' historical and empirical analysis of the state in capitalist society (Domhoff, 1990, p. 42). Many, if not most, of the criticisms directed at Miliband's political theory during the 1970s state d…
Class, Power and the State in Capitalist Society: Essays on Ralph Miliband
This collection of new essays re-examines and evaluates central themes in the work of Ralph Miliband, a leading contributor to Marxist political theory in twentieth century. It provides an essential r
The Intellectual Origins of New Political Science
In 1967, the burgeoning discontent of many political scientists culminated in the establishment of the Caucus for a New Political Science. The Caucus included political scientists of many diverse viewpoints, but it was united methodologically by a critique of behavioralism and by the idea that political science should abandon the myth of a value-free science. In recent years, political scientists have authored numerous commentaries on "the traged…
The Rationality Crisis in US Higher Education
Over the course of the last century, many of the stresses and contradictions of advanced capitalism have been displaced onto colleges and universities, which are now directly attached to the state whether legally, politically, or financially as an important component of the ideological and economic state apparatuses. As a component of the ideological and economic state apparatuses, the university is implicated in the state’s ongoing fiscal crisis…
Politics Denied: Comments on Waismel-Manor and Lowi’s “Politics in Motion”
For the last quarter-century, many political scientists—mostly dissidents within the discipline—have concurred with David Ricci’s conclusion in The Tragedy of Political Science that the discipline now serves “less as an instrument for solving problems than as a component part of the problem itself.” 1 Similarly, in Disenchanted Realists, Raymond Seidelman concluded that by the mid-1980s political scientists were at a “professional impasse” over t…
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