Ellen Meiksins Wood

Ellen Meiksins Wood (born 1942 in New York City) is a Marxist scholar. Wood was born Ellen Meiksins one year after her parents, Latvian Jews active in the Bund, arrived in New York from Europe as political refugees. She was raised in the United States and Europe. Wood received a B.A. in Slavic languages from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962 and subsequently entered the graduate program in political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, from which she received the Ph.D. in 1970. From 1967 to 1996, she taught political science at Glendon College, York University in Toronto, Canada. She has written many books and articles, some conjointly with her husband, Neal Wood (1922–2003). Her book The Retreat from Class...