On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 10:14:15 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
writes:
> Steve Perry wrote:
>
> >well, in any case the added presence of comrade louie louie seems
> assured of
> >taking lbo dialogue down yet another path to the academic parlor.
> as if one
> >was needed.
>
> This use of "academic" isn't very helpful, or in this case, is it
> very accurate. WWP is a small party of limited popular appeal that
> has almost nothing to do with the academy. Yoshie is a grad student
>
> who does lots of activism. "Academic" in this case is just an
> epithet.
I suspect that we are seeing here a touch of good old-fashion American anti-intellectualism here - shades of Richard Hofstatder! Perhaps, Chip Berlet might want to pipe in here. And no, I am not an academic, nor do I play one on TV.
Jim F.
>
> Doug
>
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