Gord Sellar wrote:
> I think that there is some kind of heritage of McCarthyism that makes
> the word (communism) a lot dirtier in in the US consciousness than in
> some other places. In my experience in Canada, Communism is more
> laughable among the mainstreamer and non-academics...
There are a lot of small towns in Alberta where being a Communist could
get you lynched. (Well, not really *lynched.* But the communist wouldn't
get any service at the local diner, and drunken kids might do horrible
things to his truck. :) )
> ... and, for the value of so many materialist critics and theorists,
> Marxist thought remains important among humanities and social-sciences
> academics of all stripes for the questions it raises and, for most
> mainstream and leftist humanities academics it is also especially for
> its ability to diagnose to some degree, although far less for any
> imagined or real ability to treat what is diagnosed.
Same thing would apply to academics. Sometimes they go up their summer
cottages and don't come back... Rumor has it they're placed in reducation
camps, renamed "Bubba," and forced to knit tea cozies with biblical
phrases on them... Don't even ask about the moose calls. :)
Kevin Street
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