[Marxism] Re: Purging liberals from the academy

[Brian Shannon <brian_shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Sep 9, 2006, at 11:55 AM, Sayan Bhattacharyya wrote:
>
> 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.


From a revolutionary point of view, which I am sure Sayan would  
agree with, what is missing, above all, is the revolutionary argument  
against the strategy of terrorism itself. Its shallow "success"  
exists only in the void of a consistent political opposition to  
imperialism. Defense of Churchill's right to stay as a teacher should  
always have been subordinate to our criticism of the strategy of  
terrorism and the strategy of his ridiculous and entirely  
diversionary comments.

Churchill chose to answer the attacks on the morality of Al Qaeda  
with an attack on the morality of the victims. This is "liberalism"  
on both sides.

Brian Shannon



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