While looking for old sources discussing the "manpower channeling" policies of the U.S. Selective Service (draft) during the Vietnam war, I uncovered a treasure trove of 1960s essays on the military-industrial-academic complex. The first one that caught my eye was "The University and the Political Economy" by James O'Connor. O'Connor later wrote *The Fiscal Crisis of the State* and founded the journal, *Capitalism Nature Socialism.* "The University and the Political Economy" appeared in the 1969 first issue of *Leviathan*, which was a successor to *Viet-Report, *enlisting many of the latter journal's key personnel. <https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV_EgX0edkzFtM1lYf3IFElMtszUXhJ_vlvy5m9NlYqL-cmaCPSSBdCM3FmvCNYkWFo7ZqHsDE-IePLBXlQp0jckyHkbHjRWEaX1Un56n5tGXbkU_3ZpeBtulOul-eLCiHezxXz3sJMYaiJ791Uf9THG9cBl3s6myOuIUA1Zcc2iXDtYrpiLnFve4z_d__/s5400/Jacobs-Leviathan-both%20pages%20copy.jpg>
I had some difficulty finding a digitized copy online of the *Leviathan* issue but then it turned up on the old standby, JSTOR, which has a nice collection of alternative press literature. Also on JSTOR was the prospectus for *Leviathan*, chronicling its metamorphosis from *Viet-Report* to *Leviathan.* The last footnote in O'Connor's article cites *The Iceberg Strategy: Universities and the Military Industrial Complex *by none other than Martin Nicolaus, whose "Unknown Marx" I have cited several times over the last five months, most recently in "The *Unknown* Unknown Marx <https://econospeak.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-unknown-unknown-marx.html>" as well as the cumbersomely titled, "Proletariat and Middle Class in Marx: Hegelian Choreography and the Capitalist Dialectic." which I cited in "Seeing the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns <https://econospeak.blogspot.com/2023/12/seeing-frowns-on-jugglers-and-clowns.html>." O'Connor noted that Nicolaus's "Iceberg Strategy" shared his general point of view that "colleges and universities constitute four great departments of the U.S. ruling class," encompassing production, merchandising, state bureaucratic social control, and imperialist rule. <https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6HP2AnzoKjag8zoXxI60xDu-XPMWSimMR-SnByw-L4NywezY8cXiwDBotjNqOlZH5kx7iJyfnwVXB-YOHVCyEDi4768u1yQ_fB3QSA2ej9lobJmilJd4AimbesStrJTJCRNNBcd-_QLYnyshITbL9KPfSf1WTkP7vC3V6cScCrPfD9qDFql1gbE-lo5QG/s4612/maroon.jpg> Martin Nicolaus was an associate editor of *Viet-Report* and on the editorial staff of *Leviathan.* His "Iceberg Strategy" was from a talk he gave in November 1967 at a conference on the university and the military at the University of Chicago. Nicolaus described overt military research at universities as only the tip of an iceberg: In our discussions about the military and the universities, what are we aiming at and what are we trying to do? It seems to me that it's very clear that the military--the baby burners and the people who study how to burn babies -- are only the top of the educational iceberg. … If we don't see that the whole thing is oriented at the policy level toward specialization and destruction of individuals and induction of individuals into the industrial system, then it seems to me that our strategy is not going to get off the ground. … The strategy we have now, of getting people to see the little peak of military research at the top of the iceberg and blasting that doesn't seem to me to be enough. Nicolaus did not lay out a strategy for tackling the whole iceberg but clearly his essays on the unknown Marx and the new middle class were aimed at grappling with what was needed to know to develop such strategy. The transition from *Viet-Report* to *Leviathan* arose as editors increasingly viewed the need for "a more sophisticated understanding of American imperialism as a product of specific economic and social arrangements" and "a more coherent theory of revolutionary social change."... continued at: https://econospeak.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-university-at-war-and-iceberg.html Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30205): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30205 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/105900094/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
