Schumpeter himself was very right-wing politically. His private correspondence was full of anti-FDR invective. During the Second World War, he came under FBI scrutiny as a possible Nazi sympathizer. And in some of his correspondence he did express some sympathy for Hitler. On the other hand, he did have some very left-wing doctoral students and teaching assistants like Sweezy and Minsky. The neo-Keynesian Paul Samuelson was another one of his students. He went to bat for both Sweezy and Samuelson when they were up for tenure at Harvard. To Schumpeter's consternation, neither man got tenure there. Samuelson probably did not get tenure because he was Jewish, while Sweezy did not get it because he was a red. Samuelson was able to decamp across the river at MIT, where he would soon become the department chair, in which capacity he was able to build that into a world class economics department. Sweezy, on the other hand, was never able to get tenure anywhere, although over the years he did have a number of visiting professorships. As late as the 1960s, it was the case that Sweezy's friend Paul Baran would be the only tenured Marxist economics professor in the US. And Baran would face a serious attempt by wealthy right-wing alumni to oust him from his professorship at Stanford. That attempt failed but the stress from that likely caused his premature death.
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