Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 19:34:40 -0500 (EST) From: wesley david cecil <wcecil-AT-ucs.indiana.edu> Subject: Re: universities In response to the many posts about academics and radicalism, I see no reason why academics are expected to be any more radical than anyone else. As a group, I imagine that statistically academics are pretty representative of the politics of the middle-class at large of which they are a member. Why would we expect otherwise? I mean, Marx was an intellectual and wanted to be an academic, he seemed to mostly write write write, why should we do anything else? Finally, considering the emphasis Marx placed on the proletariat, shouldn the revolution arrive, why wouldn't the revolutionaries burn the universities down with all the other repressive state apparati? Wes ------------------
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