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---------- Original Message ---------- From: Louis Proyect via Marxism <[email protected]> Subject: [Marxism] Vera Shlakman, Professor Fired During Red Scare, Dies at 108 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 10:25:02 -0500 ----------------------- But when she was summoned before a public hearing of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, led by Senator McCarran, a Nevada Democrat, Dr. Shlakman invoked her constitutional guarantees of free speech and privilege against self-incrimination when asked about her membership in the Communist Party. “Do you believe that a member of the Communist Party can be a college teacher?” Robert J. Morris, the subcommittee counsel, asked Dr. Shlakman at the hearing, held on Sept. 24, 1952, at the United States Court House in Foley Square in Manhattan. ----------------------- Robert Morri's line of questioning seems to reflect the sorts of arguments that the ex-Marxist philosopher Sidney Hook presented in his NT Times article (later expanded into a book), "Heresy, Yes – But Conspiracy, No." (https://www.dissentmagazine.org/wp-content/files_mf/1390433798d15Hook.pdf). And her reply - “I think that any teacher must be judged on the basis of his performance in the classrooms; that if a teacher follows professional standards in the classroom, and is a scholar, he is entitled to teach as any citizen.” - is the standard rejoinder to Hook on that issue. And there is also her response that speculations, similar to those concerning the fitness Communists to teach in universities, had been raised against devout Roman Catholics. That response was particularly a propos, since Sidney Hook in his book, Reason, Social Myths and Democracy, had written that: " Catholicism is the oldest and greatest totalitarian movement in history." Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math ____________________________________________________________ 1 Simple Trick Removes Eye Bags & Lip Lines in Seconds Fit Mom Daily http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5a1d90d2bd3ad10d2505dst04vuc _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
