Louis Proyect wrote: >In some ways, >Chomsky with his blend of anarchism and libertarianism is less timid than >the averaged tenured Marxist professor. They have been trained to write in >a lofty, non-judgemental manner about history and economics, but rarely in >the exhortative manner found in Chomsky's writings. Where are all these tenured Marxist professors? You been reading Reed Irvine and Roger Kimball? Even in cult studs the Marxists are having a terrible time of it these days - can't get jobs, can't keep jobs, etc. As for political science and economics, well you could probably count 'em only having to remove one shoe. The ones that are tenured - in cult studs, economics, and poli sci - are mostly over 50, remnants of an earlier era. And over the past couple of years I've gotten to know a few of the younger Marxist cult stud scholars, the kinds of people you & Eric Alterman like to make fun of. Most of them are serious people who do real political work - prisons, labor organizing, antiwar. So who are all these frivolous, self-indulgent tenured radicals anyway? Doug
