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 > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
