Hillel H. Ticktin is a

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theorist and economist. He was born in

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in 1937, but had to leave to avoid arrest for political activism. He then lived and studied in the

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, where his PhD thesis, which was critical of official Communist Parties, was rejected. In 1965 he began teaching at

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, which in 2000 appointed him professor of Marxist studies. He retired in 2002. In 1973, he co-founded ''Critique, a Journal of Socialist Theory.'' He is an honorary senior research fellow in social sciences administration, and an honorary professorial research fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at Glasgow University.

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Hillel Ticktin's 'Commentary on Crisis' editorials
(published 4 times a year). {{DEFAULTSORT:Ticktin, Hillel 1937 births British political writers Stalinism-era scholars and writers Historians of communism British Marxists South African Marxists Living people British economists Marxist theorists Marxist writers Academics of the University of Glasgow