[lbo-talk] University Bashing

[Carrol Cox]

This is primarily the sport of those who have had graduate training; it is
almost entirely absent among leftists who have NOT gone to a university, who
usually have warm respect for it. This was true in the Civil Rights Movement
here in Bloomington/Normal Illinois. About two years after my 'last headline
appearance' Jan was in the checkout line at the local K-Mart. A Black woman
behind her saw her credit card, and asked, "Are you Carrol Cox's wife?" Of
course universities, like  every other institution in capitalist society,
are structured to maintain order & subservience to capital. And like almost
all institutions they are also double-edged. Everything that has been said
on this list about faculty could also be said about hospiaal workers,
migrant labor, and factory workers. You just have to pick the right example
and apply it to the whole shebang. Cheap criticism. Capitalism and
capitalist societies NEED & use the education system. It is probably the
need that will ultimately be the cutting edge for the destruction of
capitalism.

Cheap Criticism. Grow up people.

Carrol