Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 16:38:30 -0500 From: Furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu (Yoshie Furuhashi) Subject: RE: M-I: Re: Academic Marxism? In response to Scott, Wes, and Will: I agree with you in that the academicization of Marxism is a big concern. (As Lou's comments on Subcomandante Marcos, etc. indicate, probably this is not much of a problem in the Third World.) But I think that the continuing depression of the academic job market and casualization of academic labor will bring Marx out of seminars and libraries. The ruling class have and will squeeze not only Marxist academics but also all kinds of academics out of the comfort zones of the middle class wages and benefits; many of us will be kicked out of the universities altogether. Many leftists of the 60s went to factories "out of choice" in search of the "real" working class. The 90s Marxists won't have this choice; people who might have become "Professors of Marxism," had they undergone their graduate education a couple of decades ago, are more likely to find themselves in some other kinds of service sector, and some of them will become "organic intellectuals" of the non-industrial working class. Admittedly, what I just wrote is rather too optimistic. But the current period of capitalist crisis looks to me like one full of dangers as well as opportunities. We just have to seize those opportunities and work toward the unity of marxist theory and practice. yoshie --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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