Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 10:06:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: universities


This is irony, right? Marx was never involved in political agitation, 
right? The proletariat wants to stay dumb and would love a chance to burn 
a university? People never transcend their class origins either, right?

Doug

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On Wed, 5 Oct 1994, wesley david cecil wrote:

> 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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