Where they spend 5 minutes talking about the political news. Than spend an hour plus dissecting some shit movie/show no one cares about.
Where they spend 5 minutes talking about the political news. Than spend an hour plus dissecting some shit movie/show no one cares about.
Plenty of people study history and don't become so nihilistic so I don't think it's just that. I find it hard to imagine Christman in an organiser context, which reminds me of a lot of my academic left-comm type friends who are super well read but just intractably cynical.
Totally agree. Its the form of Marxism you'll find in academies and universities, one detoothed of real power.
To be fair academics are innately detoothed of power because of their class position
We shouldn't forget that a lot of the real work in Universities isn't done just by the tenured professors. Sure, they are the ones that set the overall class position of the university's teachings and the direction of research (and get all the glory), but the actual ground work of propagating that ideology to the student body and out to the world is through exploited graduate students and forever-associate professorships, who are only usually boosted to tenure if they are willing to continue the work and ideology of the currently tenured. Which is why organizing university labor is definitely something that should be a goal for any movement looking to capture an ideological foothold