Leo Panitch

Leo Victor Panitch (3 May 1945 – 19 December 2020) was a Canadian philosopher, editor and political scientist. He was a professor at York University. Starting in 1985, he was co-editor of the "Socialist Register". Panitch was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was a supporter of Marxism.
Panitch died on 19 December 2020 at a hospital in Toronto, Ontario from pneumonia caused by COVID-19 and multiple myeloma, aged 75.