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<> 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 <> <> ___________________________________ <> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk <>
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