[lbo-talk] A gem of a speech from Zoellick on socialists, anarchists, and anti-globo protesters

[wrobert at uci.edu]

Actually I think that andie is exaggerating the lack of Marxists within
the academy.  At least at my school (UCI), the history department still
has a strong emphasis on historical materialism and their is a fairly
orthodox Maoist in the sociology department.  There is also a fair amount
of discussion of Marxism within the English and Comp Lit departments.  I
had the same experience at the University of Minnesota as well.  Robert
Wood


> I will say that this simply is not the case in Canada save for economics
> departments and even there some departments have very strong heterodox
> traditions.  Political Science departments have at least one token Marxist
> and one other radical some are even dominated (as in they can get other
> Marxists / radicals hired) by Marxists and their fellow travellers and I
> am
> not talking about small schools.  As you move away from political science
> things get even brighter.  I have never pulled my punches or hid my left
> credentials and it has not held up my advancement.  Now I would grant that
> in the US things are much much worse.  And if I wanted to get a job at
> Harvard I would have to triangulate way more then Michael Piore.  But hey
> who would want to teach there and to what end?  Ivy league schools in the
> US
> have always been bastions of upper class privilege. That a Marxist or
> radical has ever been hired even as an adjunct is a major victory and more
> of a surprise than it would be to hear of an abolitionist eating at Lord
> Palmerton's table.
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