Re: [A-List] Re: New Economy bull

[Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby@xxxxxx>]

I'd like to continue this fascinating quibble with you Xxxx, but I'm shaving my
head with a rusty razor while chewing on tinfoil and listening to the Bee Gees
sing opera. Perhaps when I'm not so taken up.

Macdonald


 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Xxxx Xxxxxx" <xxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <a-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [A-List] Re: New Economy bull


> > Because I don't live in a socialist country yet, and between classes I'm
> trying
> > to rectify that problem as well. Academia, I stand by it, is about keeping
> ideas
> > away from the masses, whereas revolutionaries are for making ideas the
> masses
> > own and learning from them, the true teachers (not some prof who quotes
> Karl or
> > Weber).
>
> It is not black and white. A prof who quotes Karl or Weber can be
> politically active. Academia is not an obstacle to being a political
> activist. Few, but I can still count. I, myself, am a political activist.
> Evidently, you have a dogmatic view of academics.
>
> Revolutionaries and academics need to learn from each other, rather than
> excluding each other.
>
> After all, it is easy to talk about "making the ideas that masses own"
> (whatever that means), while you are not part of the masses. When was the
> last time you were a factory worker? keh.
>
>
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> Xxxx A. Xxxxxx
> Ph.D Candidate, ABD
> Department of Political Science
> Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy
> University at Albany, S.U.N.Y.
> 135 Western Avenue
> Albany, NY 12222
> xxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx
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> "Frequently the only possible answer is a critique of the
> question and the only solution is to negate the question."
> Grundrisse, "The Chapter on Money,"
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Macdonald Stainsby" <mstainsby@xxxxxx>
> To: <a-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 12:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [A-List] Re: New Economy bull
>
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Xxxx Xxxxxx" <xxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > well, if you think so, why are you pursuing a degree in a college, in an
> > > "utterly bourgeois institution", where you are in the service of utterly
> > > bourgeois academics?.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>