> On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:33:38 -0500
> Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2. Just so we're clear, your argument is this: because universities don't
> > do what you want them to do there is no reason to defend any aspect of
> them
> > much less support the people working in them against neoliberal attacks
> on
> > their wages, benefits, working conditions or livelihoods...
>
> Not at all. I like it when any group of toilers fights back against
> neoliberalism, whether they work in a university or an abattoir.
> What I was objecting to is the notion that it was particularly
> important for edumacation workers to succeed in their fight
> because the institutions they work in play such an valuable
> and 'progressive' role in the society. This argument fails,
> I think, because the premise is false.
>
> Well, thank goodness I was putting forth just the argument you say I was
making... otherwise you'd have no point to make.
And thank goodness you cleared up the fact that an argument which denigrates defending the repeatedly dissed "status quo" also means supporting resistance to neoliberalism, 'cuz they sound different to me.
Last point, as Doug pointed out moments ago... there's this guy, who's like famous and stuff on the left, who wrote a great deal about imminence - I've read him, his work is a pillar of my leftishnessism, some other folks find reading his stuff edifying, too. I'm just sayin'.