[Marxism] Bluntly worded comment on my blog

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

The other day David Kettler, a professor emeritus at Bard, complained 
about bloggers sticking their noses into Bard's business which should 
have been adjudicated between Joel and Botstein ostensibly. Here's what 
Anarcho-Polpotist (love that tag!) wrote in my blog entry quoting Kettler:

Kettler has correctly recognised Louis (and implicitly, likes of the 
lumpen who visit/maintain ‘blogs’ as this) as danger. Undoubtedly they 
are a danger to the institutional stifling of dissent and a danger to 
such institutional authority and a danger to the society which sustains 
it and, surely, a danger to the sugar-coating which Kettler is using to 
shove this disgusting act down our throats.

Victor Klemperer, perhaps, had Kettler and Botstein’s counterpart German 
intellectuals in his mind while writing - “If one day the situation were 
reversed and the fate of the vanquished lay in my hands, then I would 
let all the ordinary folk go and even some of the leaders, who might 
perhaps after all have had honourable intentions and not known what they 
were doing. But I would have all the intellectuals strung up, and the 
professors three feet higher than the rest; they would be left hanging 
from the lamp posts for as long as was compatible with hygiene.”



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