sentences:  Soon enough he was working for the Office of Strategic Services, and part-time for the Institute for Social Research at Columbia University, before becoming a founding member of "Dissent" and entering the academy.Henry Pachter understood Marxism as a critical method capable of questioning its political employment from a historical and materialist standpoint that emphasized the ability of the working class (rather than a party) to control its destiny.He never viewed it as a “science” or a form of economics guaranteeing the inevitable victory of the proletariat.