Michael wrote:
Right, but the ostensible reason was not ideology. Anderson's position was eliminated. No talk about ideology. I would be that Yale did not say that anarchism was a factor, although it could possibly have said that activities were.
Yoshie was correct to point out that there have been victimizations but this has been true all along. Michael Parenti and Eugene Genovese (those were the days!) lost their jobs for their antiwar activity in the 1960s. I think that Jim Blaut had some problems as well. But I think that the case of a tenured professor getting fired is extremely rare. My guess is that untenured professors like Graeber and Anderson are often victimized for their politics although it is always represented as "personnel" considerations involving collegiality, etc. The rightwing has complained the loudest about being victimized in this fashion but my guess is that this is highly exaggerated. -- www.marxmail.org
