Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 10:35:04 -0500
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-panix.com>
Subject: RE: AUT: capitalist cuba?


>I've been sitting this one out, actually deleting most of the messages 
>unread, as it's not of central interest to me. I had the misfortune of 
>reading a few of the last posts, though and feel compelled to respond.
>I suppose Louis that Alan should go get a more worker-y job like postal 
>carrier or better yet, steel worker, so as to be a member of the industrial 
>working class, right? I'm willing to go with you that teaching art history 
>at columbia is not a revolutionay endeavor, but then, no form of employment 
>under capitalism is revolutionary, by definition, right? Since when are we 
>looking to employment to "serve as an example for the working class"? Isn't 
>it revolutionary practice that ought to be the example? Not all of us are 
>lucky enough to able to be professional revolutionaries Lou.
>cheers
>Nate

You didn't understand what I wrote at all. Frankly, it matters little what
people do from 9 to 5. What I do object to is the notion that writing books
and articles to burnish one's CV is what Marx would be doing today. You can
usually glean what a professor does when he is not CV-building by doing a
google search or by looking at his university's website. If anybody,
especially Wallach, can tell me what he has been doing for the past 25
years to challenge capitalism, I'd be very interested to hear more. If he
has done nothing, that's fine. Just let him throttle back on all the
gaseous ultraleft rhetoric, as if he were fighting hierarchy on his campus.
The closest this guy gets to a worker is probably when a maid comes to
scrub the toilet in his office on campus.


Louis Proyect
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