superlinc [none/use name]

Thanks for the fact-check.

Bold to imply that Polanyi was not a Marxist. Certainly not an orthodox Marxist, to be fair. But due to McArthyism he had to use a lot of euphemisms for more explicitly Marxist terms (I remember reading that he had to live in Canada and commute into the USA to teach because his wife was a radical forbidden from entering the US).

Further, Polanyi’s concepts of embeddedness and the indeterminacy of capital became pivotal to the Marxist labour process theorist like Braverman and Burawoy. You can’t read a single Marxist anthropology paper without seeing Polanyi’s influence either, he is thoroughly a part of the Marxist anthro / soci canon.