I can only say that I have disagreed with Steve Resnick a number of times,
and never received the treatment Baiman describes. Steve Resnick has a
strong personality. He doesn't put up with shit, as they say. And he is a
decent person and dedicated teacher. I can't imagine him having thrown you
out of a class (he doesn't have the power to do so in any case) for having
"disagreed" with him. Perhaps you did more than disagree with him; it
wouldn't surprise me. I wasn't there and I don't know; but I could not let
this obvious scurrilous ad-hominen attack go by unchallenged. This is a
real low. Low, man, low!
Antonio callari
>On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Blair Sandler wrote:
>
>>
>> I hate to say it but UMass Amherst is the obvious place to go, with Rick
>> Wolff, Steve Resnick, Sam Bowles, Nancy Folbre (and Ann Ferguson down the
>> hall), Julie Graham in geography, David Kotz, Jim Crotty, Jim Boyce, even
>> (shudder) Herb Gintis. :) Whatever anyone thinks of any of these
>> individuals or their work, UMass offers a broad range of different
>> heterodox perspectives on social theory.
>
>Jen, Blair,
>
> As someone who was
>suspended from Steve Resnick's class for daring to disagree with him
>(in a non-disruptive academic way - Eric Neilson , Gary Dymsky, and others
>who were in t hat class are my witnesses) , I would not put him on this
>list. I found the essentially dogmatic view of Marxism espoused by
>Resnick and
>Wolf (in 1981 - I havn't bothered to keep up with their stuff since for
>obvious reasons) to be profoundly disturbing and distressing.
> I know this debate has been had (p-robably many times) on Pen-L,
>but I thought my experience might be of interest (Jen, if you go to U
>Mass which does have some excellent people , I would advise that you
>steer clear - as much as possible of R&W).
>
>In Solidarity,
>
>Ron Baiman
>Roosevelt Univ.
>Chicago, IL
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