[lbo-talk] Re: Anti-intellectualism [Was Thunderbird}

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Dec 8 15:47:17 PST 2004


T Fast wrote:


>Somewhat incoherent but does capture nicely the persistent strain of
>populist anti-intellectual leftist here and elsewhere.

The Oranges? Heavens no, they were a plague. They spewed jargon of the most ludicrous sort, and apparently their theory was that the working class was finished as an agent of revolution, and the real action now is in the academy. As I recall, Kelley had first-hand experience of these loons in Syracuse.

Doug



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