Re: [Marxism] Review of a Mark Lause book

["farmelantj@xxxxxxxx" <farmelantj@xxxxxxxx>]

What has been forgotten here is that Marx did aspire
to become a professor.  That's why he studied to
get himself a doctorate for in the first place.
The idea was that once he had gotten his doctorate,
his friend Bruno Bauer would then help him to
get an academic post.  That plan was foiled when
the Prussian government decided to crack down
on the Young Hegelians, including Bauer who
was suspected of atheism, and so lost his own post.
At that point Marx realized that he no longer
had any chance of getting his own academic post
and so he turned to journalism.

Jim F.

-- "S. Artesian" <sartesian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a different take on this:  why are we even bothering to debate "why 
become a professor?"  Some welcome the opportunity to study, investigate, 
research and teach. That's why.  We do not measure these things on a scale 
of revolutionary correctness.

Why become a doctor?  A poet?  A physicist?  Yes, Mr. Einstein why did you 
waste all that time on relativity when you could have joined the Fourth 
International?

Well, said Mr. Einstein, because it interested me.

That's good enough.

Besides, being a professor is much better than playing at devil's advocate.




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