Re: Just a thought

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

>When you start to look at the quantitative picture like that, it seems
>rather silly and puberal to denounce Anderson or Brenner for their
>lecturing ability. Anybody who is seriously interested in the growth of
>American socialism would presumably argue we need more Andersons and more
>Brenners, and for that purpose denouncing them is not going to help !
>
>Just a thought,
>
>Jurriaan

Nobody is "denouncing" Brenner or Anderson. I thought that the student
ratings were funny. Just like Albion Urdank's smelly dogs. They have the
same thing at Columbia. I may have crossposted some disrespectful views on
Gayatri Spivak here--I can't remember.  In contrast to the rarefied world
of New Left Review and Verso books, the rude, misspelled comments of
undergraduates bring these kinds of people down to earth. Furthermore, I
honestly don't care if somebody is a good teacher or not. My beef with
Anderson and Brenner is over Marxist theory not whether they inspire
students or not. The best teacher I ever had in my life was Heinrich
Blucher, who was Mr. Hannah Arendt. From him, I learned to distrust
Marxists. Great. For my views on Brenner, go to:
http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/economics.htm



Louis Proyect
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