Michael talks of being in a quandary about what to do next. One of the things that frustrates me about professional intellectuals (and why I didn't stay in academia) is that they are content with reading and writing for themselves. This is true, ironically (perhaps especially true) of many Marxist intellectuals, despite Marx's famous thesis on Feuerbach about the need to stop analyzing and start changing the world. Just a question for folks on Pen: how many of us are involved in parties, coalitions, unions, labour councils, peace groups, environmental organizations or whatever? Inquiring non-academics want to know. Cheers, Sid Shniad
