The left: still dying (was Re: European Unions)

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sun Apr 8 06:27:52 PDT 2001


Gordon:


>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



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