[lbo-talk] The attack on public workers

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Jan 27 20:02:08 PST 2011


Didn't Joanna mention lately that an Oakland teachers union officer say that the members were demoralized by the attack?

I'm pessimistic as usual. Those under attack won't be able to mount a successful 'counterattack,' and the consequences will leak through the whole economy.

But some might, and if a resistance did get going it could be of great importance. We have a strong union member (IEA) in our anti-war group, and we're turning a lot of our attention to the attack on teachers. We will see.

Carrol

P.S. I read Newman's Idea of the University in 1957 or so & I may have an incorrect memory of this. Early in the book he notes of the 18th-c British University that it was intellectually, morally, socially, spiritually corrupt --

BUT: (and I'm vague here as how he expressed: this is my paraphrase) iit turned out several generations of men who built the English Empire, did this, did that.

It did so merely by collecting a bunch of young men together for a few years, though it offered nothing else, that collecting was enough. That 'rhymes' as it were with Riesman's hypothesis.



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