[lbo-talk] Stomping Out the Reds/Go Blue

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--- Gregory Geboski <greg at mail.unionwebservices.com>
wrote:
> Lance Murdoch wrote:
> 
> << Michigan State College >>
> 
> Uh, that's Michigan State University, which at the
> time I attended as an undergrad was the third
> largest in the US. It was also easier to be Red
> there, at least at that time (late 70s-early 80s),
> than at the University of Michigan, an elite
> institution with more ideological controls. MSU's
> faculty had a fairly good batch of 60s-era
> troublemakers who could never pass the gatekeepers
> at U-M/Harvard/Stanford, I would guess.

As a late 70s-early 80s vintage U-M red, I represent
that remark. Nothing against East Lansing, mind you,
we did  a lot of work with comrades there. No
invidious comparisons. But Ann Arbor in that era was a
good time and place to be a commie, and there were a
fair lot of us. Now, as to the faculty then: there was
a pretty decent political economy program in the econ
dept, since shut down (Tom Weisskopf), Dean Baker and
Mark Weisbrot, whom people will know, as well as Hans
Ehrbahr, were in grad school with me in that era. My
main dept, philosophy, had Peter Railton (still does),
at that time a Marxist (I know he's still a leftist);
at the end of my time there the dept hired Elizabeth
Anderson, one of the leading left philosophers today.
English, there was and is my comrade Alan Wald;
physics there's Dan Axelrod; Natural resources, Bunyan
Bryant; sociology there was Tillt and Geoff Alexander
and Howard Berman -- oh, U-M was red enough in them
days. 

 

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