File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1997/97-04-15.135, message 41


From: "Rosser Jr, John Barkley" <rosserjb-AT-jmu.edu>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Levy's dissertation?
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 23:44:43 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)


     What?  Alan Freeman doesn't have a Ph.D.?  And to 
think that I spoke civilly to him at the just completed 
Eastern Economic Association meetings!  Tsk, tsk, shame on 
me.
     I certainly hope this isn't true of Paul Cockshott, 
Allin Cottrell, and David Laibman as well, because, 
gosh-a-whoop, I spoke civilly to them as well.  My my, what 
is this world coming to?, :-)
Barkley Rosser
On Sun, 6 Apr 1997 22:27:08 -0400 (EDT) Gerald Levy 
<glevy-AT-pratt.edu> wrote:

> LNP (the snitch) wrote:
> 
> > Jerry, how come you never did a dissertation?
> 
> You certainly have a way of throwing-up a cloud of dust and abuse to avoid
> confronting your own abyssmal record on Spoons lists.
> 
> As for my dissertation ...
> 
> [short answer]
> 
> I became a PhD candidate in 1982 at the New School. At the time I was
> working on an auto assembly line in New Jersey. It's rather hard to write
> a dissertation at the same time you are working full-time in industry and
> involved in trade union struggles ...
> 
> In 1985 I started to teach as an adjunct and have been teaching at 3
> colleges since. If you knew anything abut the working conditions (and pay
> and benefits) of adjunct faculty, you would know how difficult it is to
> complete a dissertation under those circumstances. Also, beginning in
> 1996, and lasting for about five years, I was an elected trade union
> representative and involved in leading a very nasty trade union struggle
> against discrimination and mass firings at that school. 
> 
> Then in 1990, I became involved in community struggles in the Lower East
> Side/East Village. 
> 
> Since 1995, I've been involved in coordinating a professional project of
> Marxist economists (and, of course, remain politically active in community
> struggles).
> 
> In short, the pressures of work and political activism interfered with my
> ability to complete my dissertation.
> 
> I am rather surprised (actually, I'm not) at your elitist slight against
> those without PhDs. Perhaps you are unaware of the many Marxist economists
> such as the late Maurice Dobb, Alan Freeman, and many others who also
> don't have their PhD's? 
> 
> Jerry
> 
> 
> 
> 
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