The Commitment of an Intellectual.

Presents a brief intellectual biography of Paul Sweezy, a major theoretician and influential thinker, which was drafted in September 2003. Family and educational background; Areas to which Sweezy's intellectual influence were global in its reach; Circumstance in which Sweezy found himself increasingly attracted to Marxism; Papers written by Sweezy that played a large role in the later theory of monopoly capital, as developed by Sweezy and Paul Baran.