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On 11/18/10 10:52 AM, Angelus Novus wrote: > ====================================================================== > > G. M. Tamas — author of the groundbreaking Telling the Truth about Class as > well > as a myriad of other publications, has been a member of the Institute of > Philosophy at the Hungarian Academy (and is one of the institute’s past > chairs) > and is the latest victim of a right-wing purge. He was asked recently, at the > age of 62, by the new chair (an analytical philosopher of language) to > resign, > on the pretext of his lack of formal foreign language competency certificate > (he speaks exquisite English, German, French, and also publishes regularly in > these three languages, and is also fluent in Latin and classical Greek) and > lack of sufficient “professional” publications (obviously, Socialist Register > etc. are not deemed professional and are politically suspect). Unfortunately, > the petition has not been translated into English, but please sign it and > please get others to put their name to it as a matter of urgency. > > > www.petitiononline.com/MTAFKInt/ > Tamas is indeed first-rate: http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=10743 ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
