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Thanx, Jamie. Kiss, kiss Sent from my Windows Phone ------------------------------ From: james pitman Sent: 6/18/2014 3:31 PM To: Mark Lause; Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition Subject: Re: [Marxism] Re And I thought I was the only person who couldn't stand Sebastian Budgen Budgen is probably the most outspoken proponent of intellectual property rights since Metallica. Whoever stuck up for him on the basis of his fb profile is a one-man idiot. Most of the stuff he posts is behind a pay wall. He was the biggest single voice on the HM board for not barring the swp from future HM conferences for their rape apology. He bullied a marxist academic out of his job at SOAS on the basis of a personal feud. He calls people 'scabs' for downloading pdfs. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and he now uses it to beat people who 'rise above their station with'. If people think that's defensible then you're really not a marxist - you're a jerk. Jamie On 18 June 2014 18:35, Mark Lause via Marxism <[email protected]> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > The hierarchy is immensely more arcane and complicated than this, perhaps > because there has never been a UAW to make it more standardized. > > THE ideological foundation of an academic self-perception centers on the > notion that it is somehow, when all is said and done, a meritocracy. And > that there a key signifiers that provide a shorthand for merit. Tenure is > only one of them . . . and it is not necessarily the most important. A > graduate student in an elite university might well rank higher than the > hard working employed academic in a lesser institution, whether tenured or > adjunct. > > As far as the organized Left is concerned, that same grad student can be > the voice of the oppressed proletarian against the armchair (ie., not a > member of a sect) petty bourgeois academic. I have seen this, experienced > it and laughed about it for many years. > > Whatever the yardstick, the plebes are just not going to measure up . . . > particularly if they don't stay in their place. > > The problem comes when we buy into that meritocracy stuff or, worse, the > notion that some institutional connection means merit. > > Solidarity, > Mark L. > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: [email protected] > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/marinercarpentry%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
