His ferocious condemnation seemed to indicate that everyone from really aggressive vegans to Pol Pot belonged to one big network of knowing and premeditated evil.

"In 1968, Genovese wrote a critical historiography of the major studies of slavery in the Americas from a hemispheric perspective. Religion was an important theme in King (1979) argued that Genovese incorporated the theoretical concepts of certain 20th-century revisionist Marxists, especially the ideas of Starting in the 1990s, Genovese turned his attention to the In his personal views, Genovese moved to the right. How they managed to exhibit such critical intelligence in their scholarship and so little in their politics is an enigma defying rational explanation. He considered the demand by Marxist anthropologist In the 1960s, Genovese in his Marxist stage depicted the masters of the slaves as part of a "seigneurial" society that was anti-modern, pre-bourgeois and pre-capitalist. He was expelled from the American CP in 1950, at the age of 20, but remained close to its politics long after that. People may throw out a couple of names to challenge this statement, but the operative term here is “substance.” Genovese published landmark studies like As for the term “renegade,” well… The author of the most influential body of Marxist historiography in the United States from the past half-century turned into one more curmudgeon denouncing “the race, class, gender swindle.” And at a The two of them belonged to an extremely small and now virtually extinct species: the cohort of left-wing intellectuals who pledged their allegiance to the Soviet Union and other so-called “socialist” countries, right up to that system’s very end. What really took the cake was that he’d become the president of the Organization of American Historians in 1978-79. His finds that slave revolts increased in frequency and …

Dialectical Anthropology, 36:245-262. Paternalist ideology, they believed, also gave the institution of slavery a more benign face and helped deflate the increasingly strong abolitionist critique of the institution.

The Unemancipated Country: Eugene Genovese’s Discovery of the Old South By Robert L. Paquette This essay originally appeared in the Summer 2014 issue of Academic Questions (Volume 27, Number 2). You hear that on talk radio all the time, but never from a winner of the Bancroft Prize for American history. Begun originally in 1979 under the aegis of Thomas Fleming and Clyde Wilson, it featured in its pages essays by such luminaries as Mel Bradford, Cleanth Brooks, Eugene Genovese (not a Southerner, but an internationally-recognized historian who developed a sympathetic fascination about the South), Tom Landess, Russell Kirk, Reid Buckley (brother of William), Andrew Lytle, Don Livingston, and many others. But they did: Hobsbawm remained a dues-paying member of the Communist Party of Great Britain until it closed up shop in 1991.The case of Genovese is a little more complicated. In the mid-1960s, as a professor of history at Rutgers University, he declared his enthusiasm for a Vietcong victory. Genovese wrote this book to strongly show the readers that slave families shaped their own unique culture, different from those of white families. Eugene Genovese is one of the foremost American historians. The Radical Caucus, he said, were a bunch of "totalitarians." With Eric Hobsbawm, they didn’t have much occasion to celebrate.

– and Julius remembered him as a worthy opponent.

THE DEATH OF EUGENE D. GENOVESE IN SEPTEMBER 2012 BROUGHT to a close a remarkable career. It angered Richard Nixon at the time, and I recall it being mentioned with horror by conservatives well into the 1980s.

For the slaveowners, paternalism allowed them to think of themselves as benevolent and to justify their appropriation of their slaves' labor.