RE: [Marxism] Purging liberals from the academy

["Austin, Andrew" <austina@xxxxxxxx>]

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From: marxism-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Sayan Bhattacharyya
Sent: Sat 9/9/2006 2:07 AM
To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition
Subject: Re: [Marxism] Purging liberals from the academy

Everyone who died in the World Trade Center was a "bureaucrat"? Janitors and 
waiters who died also formed part of a "technocratic corps"?

This is what Churchill wrote:

"True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They 
formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial 
empire - the 'mighty engine of profit' to which the military dimension of U.S. 
policy has always been enslaved - and they did so both willingly and knowingly. 

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Churchill: "I don't believe that there is any reasonable definition by which 
you can consider a food service worker or janitor or even a fireman or a random 
passerby as being a member of a technocratic core. How do you to define pushing 
a broom as being a technical operation? It was rather clearly stated who I was 
talking about."

Sayan, let's follow logic, shall we?  If we can't do that, then can we at least 
listen to what Churchill says?

Churchill: "The reference was to - the thesis on banality of evil that was 
produced by Hannah Arendt a long time ago. ... The people who perform the 
technical functions that results in the impoverishment, immiseration and 
ultimately the deaths of millions in order to maximize profit. and I don't 
believe that there is any reasonable definition by which food service workers, 
firemen, janitors, children, random passerby fit that definition. And it is 
clearly articulated. You just read it. ...I would have gone further to explain 
the Eichmann reference to be a framed by Hannah Arendt that Eichmann was 
essentially a bureaucrat, a technician. He killed no one, but he performed 
technical functions with a great degree of proficiency and full knowledge that 
the outcome of his endeavor would be essentially mass murder. ... And I don't 
believe it is any great mystery that there is cost and consequence to the way 
the US does businesses work as usual and its projection of economic dominance 
upon the planet. I think that's a reasonably clear proposition." 

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0502/04/pzn.01.html 
<http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0502/04/pzn.01.html> 

Andrew

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