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Budgen is probably the most outspoken proponent of intellectual property rights since Metallica. Whoever stuck up for him on the basis of his fb profile is a one-man idiot. Most of the stuff he posts is behind a pay wall. He was the biggest single voice on the HM board for not barring the swp from future HM conferences for their rape apology. He bullied a marxist academic out of his job at SOAS on the basis of a personal feud. He calls people 'scabs' for downloading pdfs. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and he now uses it to beat people who 'rise above their station with'. If people think that's defensible then you're really not a marxist - you're a jerk. Jamie On 18 June 2014 18:35, Mark Lause via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > The hierarchy is immensely more arcane and complicated than this, perhaps > because there has never been a UAW to make it more standardized. > > THE ideological foundation of an academic self-perception centers on the > notion that it is somehow, when all is said and done, a meritocracy. And > that there a key signifiers that provide a shorthand for merit. Tenure is > only one of them . . . and it is not necessarily the most important. A > graduate student in an elite university might well rank higher than the > hard working employed academic in a lesser institution, whether tenured or > adjunct. > > As far as the organized Left is concerned, that same grad student can be > the voice of the oppressed proletarian against the armchair (ie., not a > member of a sect) petty bourgeois academic. I have seen this, experienced > it and laughed about it for many years. > > Whatever the yardstick, the plebes are just not going to measure up . . . > particularly if they don't stay in their place. > > The problem comes when we buy into that meritocracy stuff or, worse, the > notion that some institutional connection means merit. > > Solidarity, > Mark L. > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/marinercarpentry%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
