[Marxism] The CIA and the classroom: background by David Horowitz

[Brian Shannon <Brian_Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Horowitz's 1969 Ramparts article sums up earlier Ramparts magazine
revelations on the history of the CIA on campus, the role of
foundations--in particular the Ford Foundation--and additional material
that he gathered together.

This extract is the final paragraph:

    What may have seemed like an isolated scandal in 1966 can now be
recognized as a universal condition of organized intellect in America.
The saddest part is that the academics have become such eager victims.
They have internalized the limits placed upon them. They fiercely
uphold a strict academic professionalism. But it is no more than expert
servitude to oppressive power, to a system whose wages are poverty and
blood. They do not see that what they have really embraced is the
perverted professionalism of the mercenary and the hired gun.

Ramparts, October 1969
Sinews of Empire
by David Horowitz
http://www.cia-on-campus.org/internat/sinews.html

from Brian Shannon
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