>I note with feigned surprise the conflation of "academic" with
>"intellectual" along with the implication that "intellectual"
>is the same as "intelligent" or "mentally competent." Can't
>think until graded and stamped by bourgeois institutions, eh?
That's because in an anti-intellectual attack, "academic" & "intellectual" are ideological conflated & used interchangeably. That is why DP can get away with attacking Engels (of all leftists!!!) as an instance of "academic Marxism," though Engels was not an academic.
Yoshie