====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ======================================================================
i haven't said anything against HM. I know 99% of HM editorial board in uk. Prob the main person is a close personal friend, another was my lodger. Budgen is, at best, seriously disliked by the rest of the board. To claim HM for budgen's credit, esp. on the terms you've given, seems to elide over the fact he's never published anything etc etc I was going to copy edit for HM, but it works out at less than a fifth of minimum wage; this is sebastian's doing, and indicative of his poisonous influence on the left. Gossip aside, do u not think the academic colonisation of the radical/ marxist left is not in the tiniest bit problematic? Before going back to uni, aged about 36, I was a docker [longshoreman] and then a carpenter. I can promise you people in those sort of jobs don't give a fat fuck about anything that's ever published in HM. I, however, lap it up. But only because I know it's niche esoterica for people like us - if you seriously believe that articles about hegel's influence on fichteanism or whatever = a future blueprint for humanity, then you're in need of psychiatric help. Myself, I tend to think somebody's attitude towards rape apology remains fairly important. Jamie On 18 June 2014 20:58, Mark Lause <markala...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu > > 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: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu >> Set your options at: >> http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/marinercarpentry%40gmail.com >> > > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
