[lbo-talk] MH & DG on university

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Feb 25 07:12:52 PST 2012


On Feb 25, 2012, at 9:55 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote:


> At a forum on the future of OWS, Malcolm Harris asks about student debt and how the university could ever be a place worth saving as a place that ignites the political imagination if the only thing the university has done so far is to immiserate people to the point that they are now capable of an insurrectionary political imagination.

Doesn't that outcome please Malcolm, even if the mechanism wasn't what one might have predicted?

But, really, that's not "the only thing the university has done so far."


> Graeber defends the university as a place to light up, kick back, get laid and that's perfectly OK because others are thinking about the meaning of life, reading up on revolutionary history, etc.
> http://youtu.be/K1bfo775dnI?t=1h15m57s

It's also been paying his salary for many years.


> Penny Red is making furious faces as HArris speaks because Mark Crispin Miller

Oldie but goodie - MCM sings:

http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/MCM-Queen.mp3

Doug



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