[lbo-talk] Swartz was second suicide

[Wojtek S]

Good luck with that.  The push toward privatization/commercialization
of research and science has been underway since the 1980s, complete
with enabling legislation.  Commercialization of academic pubs is just
a footnote in that larger trend - and one may add - a necessity in the
new brave neoliberal world of research for pay.  Journals could not
survive without charging user fees, so boycotting them is shooting
oneself in the foot.

This kind of reminds me of a slogan prominently displayed on Polish
campuses in the Soviet era - "Science in the service of the people."
Many academic disliked it, countering that science should be an
independent pursuit of truth, not a service to anyone.  I wonder what
these guys would be saying now, that in the neoliberal model science
is in the service of profits.  That old slogan looks very nostalgic
today.

Wojtek

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Chuck Grimes <cagrimes42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Swartz was second suicide
>
>
>> see
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>> http://rt.com/usa/news/swartz-prosecutor-suicide-hacker-050/
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>> Joanna
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> In case people don't know JSTOR is just a consortium of journals. There is a
> movement to boycott them by some of the sciences.
>
> CG
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Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."