File spoon-archives/marxism.archive/marxism_1994/94-10-31.000, message 39


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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