marxist sociology

[Justin Schwartz]

>Perhaps, Justin and Chris Doss might wish to do us the favor of analyzing
>the political role of Russian academics and intellectuals in the
>post-soviet era.  I get the
>impression that many of them have simply continued to play the role
>of apparatchiks, except instead of kowtowing to diamat and "official
>Marxism"
>they now kowtow to either free market liberalism or to right-wing
>nationalism.
>They seemed for the most part to have been noticeably silent when
>Yeltsin's
>cronies were robbing the country blind, and I am not aware of too much
>significant
>opposition from them to Putin either.

You hit the nail on the head. I actually stopped following those people 
after I left the academy, they're not interesting in themselves. But as far 
as I can tell, with some honorable exceptions (Kagarlitsky comes to mind), 
there's not a lot more to be said about them. jks

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