[Marxism] 'Tenured radical' tries to revive professors group

[Ruthless Critic of All that Exists]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Mark Lause <markalause at gmail.com> wrote:

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> You're right, though.  Books contribute nothing.
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> Good thing, you channel Karl Marx so well.

I notice the sarcasm, but note that Marx wrote for the common people.
He wrote _Capital_, but he also wrote "Value, Price and Profit" so
that workers could read it in their study circles.

Howard Zinn started a Marxist study circle when he was a shipyard
worker at the age of eighteen. Socialism will win more adherents if
more people helped start study groups among laborers, prisoners and
factory workers than teach in universities (whether tenured or
adjunct).

In any case... being an adjunct actually could have the advantage that
you have to teach more students and so come in contact with more
people that you can influence, than a tenured professor can. That's a
silver lining to the rise in adjunct positions.

Marxists who are in the academy should *refuse* tenure as a matter of
principle, and in cases they already have tenure, they should
voluntarily give it up and request adjunct positions for themselves.