Legassick, Martin

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الاسم الرئيس (باللاتينية)
Legassick, Martin
تاريخ الميلاد
1940
تاريخ الوفاة
2016-03-01
أماكن أخرى ذات صلة
Cape Town (South Africa)
هيئة ذات صلة
University of the Western Cape
مهنة
Historians
College teachers
لغات ذات صلة
eng
النوع الاجتماعي
male
MARC
MARC

أرقام تعريفية أخرى

VIAF: 42083530
Wikidata: Q6775989
Library of congress: n 80097380
مصادر المعلومات
  • Hidden histories of Gordonia, 2016:title page (Martin Legassick) page 4 of cover (1940-2016; was Emeritus Professor of History, University of the Western Cape; historian, activist and author)
  • Towards socialist democracy, 2007:t.p. (Martin Legassick) p. 4 of cover (Martin Legassick has a long history of political involvement and activism. He is an emeritus professor at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa)
  • Wikipedia, July 28, 2025(Martin Legassick; born in Edinborough, Scotland in 1940; a central figure in the "revisionist" school of South African historiography, drawing on Marxism, that revolutionized study of Apartheid by highlighting the importance of political economy, class contradictions and imperialism; also a critic, from the left, of positions taken by the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party; emigrated with his parents to South Africa in 1947; attended Diocesan College, Cape Town; became a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford in 1960; completed his PhD at the University of California; worked at universities in the United Kingdom and Tanzania, where he became active in the ANC and the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) in exile; in 1979 he was suspended with others from the ANC for allegedly forming a faction; they then launched the Marxist Workers Tendency of the ANC; he left academia in 1981 to become a full-time anti-apartheid activist; after the unbanning of the ANC in 1990 he returned to Cape Town and to academia; later became an activist working with groups in Cape Town including the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign (2000s) and others; the Workers and Socialist Party is a South African political party from the MWT tradition that takes Legassick's work as an important reference point; died 1 March 2016 after a battle with cancer)
  • His The National Union of South African Students ... 1968, c1967.
  • Towards socialist democracy, 2007:t.p. (Martin Legassick) p. 4 of cover (Martin Legassick has a long history of political involvement and activism. He is an emeritius peofessor at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa)