Re: John Holloway debate/McLaren

[Mervyn Hartwig <mh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message , James Daly <james.irldaly@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

> In practice some
> academics are careerists, some are whores (telling their paymasters
> whatever it is that they want to hear), some are affected and
> precious -- and here I think Lou was right about Holloway; sharing an
> allusion to Blake with cognoscenti but not letting the hoi polloi
> (which in this case includes me) in on it is just that.

I don't have a copy of the book in front of me, and going by what you
say nor do you, so it's just a prejudiced assumption that Holloway
doesn't refer to Blake. I'll bet my bottom dollar that he does! He
certainly does in an article of his I read in *Historical Materialism*
(in which by the way he develops a critique of autonomism - so it's
misleading to refer to him straightforwardly, as Lou and Alex Callinicos
do, as an autonomist.)

'Cognoscenti', 'hoi polloi' - is this plain English?

Mervyn