[lbo-talk] teaching the pampered rich at Harvard

John Thornton jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jul 23 11:14:50 PDT 2008


This is not obvious at all. I won't go into why.

John Thornton

Carrol Cox wrote:
> Obviously no one on this list bothered to search out and read the essay
> new angel cited the other day: "Telling the Truth About Class." It is
> profoundly relevant to almost every one of the major threads on this
> list lately: the theory/Butler thread, the Adolph Reed thread & its
> transformation in to a witbd? thread, and the present thread. Read it.
> It is profound.
>
> Carrol
>
> shag wrote:
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>> you perceive people as being horrified that the great professors are being
>> treated like clerks at safeway. that's not what anyone here means, i don't
>> think. the problem is turning an education into commodity that exists only
>> to be exchanged. i guess you can say that this is just part of the process
>> of all that's solid melting into air, all that's holy is profaned.
>>
>> and that's true but while we shouldn't valorize the past and mourn for
>> something lost that we never had, i can't see why we should celebrate it in
>> that punishing, on your knees before the truth, prostrate yourself, bare
>> and wimpering, before the truth of capitalist reality suckers -- because
>> that goes in the other extreme which is equally intolerable.
>>
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