[lbo-talk] intellectual quackery

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Sat Dec 5 10:08:42 PST 2009


On Sat, December 5, 2009 8:52 am, Eric Beck wrote:


> <http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/2009/12/jane_hamsher_off_the_rez.html>
>
> "So far as students are subject to the kind of intellectual quackery
> peddled by LBO-Talk-types (who are typically are academics or aspiring
> ones), I think quite a lot of harm is done in preventing effective
> activism. I.e., lefties as well as dembots have their methods to help keep
> the ruling class ruling.
>
> Posted by Peter Ward | December 4, 2009 7:23 PM"
>
> What's funny about this is that most of the people you think are
> academics or aspiring ones are neither academics nor aspirants.

And then there's the small fact that us academics on the list are horribly exploited service-workers, not six-figure-income superstars with Ivy tenure.

-- DRR



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