Re: On Academe and the list was Re: NACLA and Colombia

["Lou Paulsen" <wwchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How about me?  I'm sort of an academic.  I recently did my first peer review
for the Sociological Quarterly.  I'm a "self-hating academic" though ;-)

Yoshie is right that there is no "academic class" but you have to admit that
a lot of academics haven't caught on to this fact.  False consciousness
burgeons.

My experience with the "Marxist section" of the American Sociological
Association is that there is an almost complete disjunction between them and
the socialist parties, unlike anything you would find in Europe.  Some of
them do interesting and valuable research and would very much like to see
the revolution happen somehow.  But for the majority, the motto is:
"Previously philosophers have described the world; the thing, however, is to
describe it using Marxist concepts."

L. Paulsen