The unique contribution of this guy lies in the details. How about: "I deny Levy’s false and defamatory charge that I proposed cannibalism."
Or the place on his site, in a section on "Left Authoritarianism," where Kliman announces in* bold face type* that* *"we have a responsibility to expose, denounce, and bring to justice those who commit acts of suppression and other injustices." Further down, he mentions an example of this: something another Marxist economist wrote *in a chapter of a book that Kliman edited.*
The whole drama began over the following dispute:
[Quote] Levy charges that I called Screpanti a “‘damned liar’ because [Screpanti] has a different interpretation.” It would indeed be very anti-pluralistic to do so.
But I did not do so. My title suggests that Screpanti’s *critique *of Marx -- not his interpretation -- is equivalent to a “damned lie.” [Quote]
It all ends creepily enough: "Another world is possible -- a world without character assassins like Jerry Levy."
The other guy, Levy, seems almost as crazy.
Seth
bitch at pulpculture.org wrote:
>The whole thing, particularly the end ("I call upon Jerry Levy...) reminds
>me of the Red Orange wankers from my grad school days. They'd use the same
>tactic, calling out profs the deemed not marxist enough, to answer for
>their sins in the same way as this blog entry does. They also wrote screeds
>about various profs engaging in the same demand they account for their
>sins. Search on "jennifer cotter" "rosaria champagne" and you'll probably
>find a couple of lengthy screeds where Cotter calls out Champagne for her
>sins teaching an English lit class.
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>somehow, i think I know Jerry Levy from somewhere. But I'm not placing it
>at the moment.
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>At 01:00 AM 11/25/2007, Seth Ackerman wrote:
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>>http://akliman.squarespace.com/stop-character-assassination/
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>>Wow.
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>>Check out this page (actually, a series of pages) from the website of
>>the Marxist economist Andrew Kliman, who somehow has a job teaching at
>>Pace University. It concerns a personal dispute between himself and
>>Jerry Levy, another Marxist economist who also teaches at schools in
>>NYC. I have never - ever - read anything more crazy, unintentionally
>>hilarious (yet vaguely unnerving) than this. Really, don't stop reading
>>until the denoument. It just gets better and better.
>>
>>Seth
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