Louis Patsouras is a former professor of history at Kent State University in Ohio. His other published works include Simone Weil and the Socialist Tradition, The Crucible of Socialism, Debating Marx, Essays on Socialism, Continuity and Change in Marxism, The Anarchism of Jean Grave, Thorstein Veblen and the American Way of Life and, most recently, Karl Marx and Other Socialists: Problems of Socialism, the Fall of Communism and a Proper Socialism/Ecology, self published by AuthorHouse.