> At 11:39 AM 4/26/2010, martin wrote:
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> Channeling David Horowitz? Yes, that's certainly disagreeable. Or perhaps
>> you were referring to his 'New Left' phase.
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> No I was referring to the Horowitz who says U.S. universities are filled
> with Marxist professors. I don't think we should help him spread that lie,
> even inadvertently.
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That universities are filled with Marxist professors is a completely different claim than that Marxists [1] are highly likely to be academics - or, at the very least, have the sort of personality that would lead one to become a grad student, if one had the opportunity. To state the obvious, there aren't too many American Marxists out there.
[1] Although the way shag's using the term, I think she means a sort of instinctive approach - focus on solidarity, structural explanations, &c. - that doesn't require one to have ever heard of C-M-C' to be a "Marxist."