[lbo-talk] dreaming in public

[Carrol Cox]

The primary fact abut any college or university is that it is a place where
working-class people earn a living (and faculty is included in  working
class). Any attack on the university is therefore, first of all, an attack
on the working class. Any statement abut faculty which compares their
conditions to the conditions of other workers anyplace in the world is an
attack on the whole working class, and hence whatever the intentions of the
speaker or writer that person is engaged in a defense of capitalism,. 

Such comparisons are pissing contests, one of the major elements in
working-class disunity. It is the same thing as saying women are worse off
than Latinos, or Latinos are worse off than Indian peasants.

I'm not reading what others have to say on this thread  . . . I'm afraid of
becoming personally contemptuous of people I respect.

I regard respect for university workers as a matter of principle. Which side
are you on?

Carrol