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His initial intention in attending the London School was to work with the conservative economist Friedrich Hayek. However, in the heated debates then taking place, particularly among younger scholars, Sweezy found himself increasingly attracted to Marxism. Key influences inducing this change in perspective were lectures he attended by Harold Laski at the London School and reading Leon Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution ..