Nor did his mentor, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Edwin_Ayres
who, in defending UT president Howard Rainey (a parallel to today's
ouster of UVA president)
http://www.texasobserver.org/forrestforthetrees/the-war-on-public-universities

was branded a communist and "in1951 the Texas Legislature [. . . .]
voted 130-1 for the university to show cause as to why he should not
be fired."
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00035/cah-00035.html


On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote:
> Carrol Cox wrote:
>> Back in the '50s sociology was one of the places Marxist scholars  'hid out'
>> as it were during The Great Repression. They helped to keep something alive
>> during the dark years.
>
> I wouldn't say that C. Wright Mills "hid out."
> --
> Jim Devine / "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they
> are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to
> reality." -- Albert Einstein
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