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

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>  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.
>
><< Chuck0 >>

Let's take Doug Henwood, for instance, who is a petty producer, not a 
wage worker at a university.  You & DP claim to have read his _Wall 
Street_ & admired its clarity, etc.  Have you guys looked into his 
bibliography & thought about who wrote articles & books he draws 
upon, sometimes to support his arguments, sometimes to harvest 
empirical data, other times to criticize arguments in them?

Another example.  Lots of people have made much of global warming. 
Whose work do they cite to support their arguments?

In short, activists & intellectuals in non-academic contexts draw 
upon works produced by academics, and vice versa.

Yoshie