To be precise, w/o prejudice to LP's intent or point, Genovese was forced out of Rutgers U. (two years before I got there) for saying: "Those of you who know me know that I am a Marxist and a Socialist. Therefore, unlike most of my distinguished colleagues here this morning, I do not fear or regret the impending Viet Cong victory in Vietnam. I welcome it."
That's the way I remembered it recounted. The version below is different, maybe more authoritative since it comes from a local source: I'm a Marxist and a Socialist and I welcome a Communist victory in Vietnam. I do not believe American foreign policy is irrational. I believe it to be rational, intelligent, crude, and predatory." http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njh/1960/vietnam/vietpolicy.htm Good times. This goes a bit beyond the bounds of "antiwar activity." Sorry to go so off-topic, but I now read (http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/10257.html) that EG has sunk several levels lower, if you thought that wasn't possible, by giving a friendly blurb to a book by some Aryan nation fucktard minister. Mbs 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
