> Prominent right-wing intellectuals have backing from private sources
> & are often ensconced in think tanks. Left-wing intellectuals, in
> contrast, are quite often employed in higher education: e.g., Noam
> Chomsky, Grace Chang, Patricia Hill Collins, Evelyn Nakano Glenn,
> bell hooks, Mimi Ambramovitz, Andrew Ross, Edward Said, Howard Zinn,
> so-called "academic Marxists" like Pat Bond, Robert Brenner, John
> Bellamy Foster, Martha Gimenez, David Harvey, Richard Lewontin,
> Manning Marable, James O'Connor, Michael Perelman, Adolph Reed, Jr.,
> Alan Wald, Ellen Wood, and so on, and so forth. The Right won't
> suffer much in terms of intellectual production when higher education
> & the public sector in general are selectively cut back, because
> their main bread doesn't come from it, but the Left (who work mainly
> in the humanities & social sciences) do -- and the Right knows *that*.
It depends on which Left-wing intellectuals you are reading. I read plenty who aren't connected to academia.
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