David McLellan

David McLellan, born in 1940, is an English scholar of Marxism and was formerly a professor of political theory at the University of Kent. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and read Classics at St John's College, Oxford. He is visiting professor of political theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, and has also been a visiting professor at the State University of New York and a guest fellow in politics at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Simla. He has written extensively on the thought of Karl Marx, and also on Friedrich Engels and Simone Weil. His books include The Young Hegelians and Karl Marx, published in 1969.