On Dec 6, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Jordan Carroll wrote:
> While universities are flawed institutions and there are indeed limits to
> free inquiry, it's hard to imagine anywhere else in America where people
> get paid to teach Marx. And, right now, I'm sitting in a rather sleepy ag
> school which is host to a tent city and an administrative building
> occupation organized by anti-capitalist activists. That probably wouldn't
> last long in a factory, prison or office building.
No shit.
It used to annoy the hell out of me when people would respond to a criticism by saying "compared to what?" Maybe I'm getting soft in my old age but now I understand the response. Yeah, universities are kinda fucked, but compared to what? Some fantasy think tank in one's head?
Doug