Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 16:19:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Gerald Levy <glevy-AT-pratt.edu> Subject: Re: M-TH: New Zealand "reforms"? Doug Henwood wrote: > No Jerry, I'm not an economist, though I guess technically speaking you > aren't either, since you never did finish that diss, so you lack the > precious credential of a doctorate. That's funny: I have never heard any economist (bourgeois, heterodox, vulgar, or Marxist) state that one had to have completed one's PhD to be counted as an economist. So I wonder: where did you get this misplaced elitist conception from? > I'm a journalist. That's what I said, wasn't it? > In fact, I'm proud of > being a journalist and not an economist, since economics, even in many of > its Marxian manifestations, is a debased discipline. Ha! And being a journalist isn't "debased"???!!! > I am, however, proud > to call myself a Marxist, even if I don't meet your standards of purity. > But if I'd written a book that matched your standards of purity, it > wouldn't be in its fourth printing. [Hmm ... makes one wonder how many copies were in each printing.] Well ... if that's the standard to judge "Marxists" by, then I guess Stephen King is much more of a "Marxist" than you will ever be ... since he sold more books! A lot of your hated pomo pals must be more "Marxist" than you for the same reason. Maybe we just ought to make this question into a popularity contest: whoever gets the most "dollar votes" gets to claim being the most Marxist. Jerry --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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