Academics

[Donald J Donaker (Don)]

 

The recent absence of academic quotes is refreshing, hopefully it continues.

 

Quote pertaining to academics. The author is purposely omitted since there is a good chance that a scoff and a condescending remark, "Consider the source," would be provoked, if the source is named.

 

The hell with engendered biases, the meaning is what counts, so here goes it:

 

"Lecture rooms on mineralogy, on astronomy, on the differential calculus, on law, on electricity, on anatomy, on all of these and similar subjects, are not liable to become centers from which mental corruption radiates. True, there may be, as there often is, corruption in the appointment of the professors in these, as in all other branches—but the corruption ends there. The reason is obvious. There is no motive for misdirecting instruction. There may be lack of up-to-dateness; there may be even ignorance; a set purpose to corrupt and mislead is not likely.

 

It is otherwise with regard to the social sciences. Some indirectly, most of them directly, bear upon the class struggle. Indeed, it would go hard to pick out one branch of the social sciences that is not begotten of the palpitations of the class struggle. Where the class struggle palpitates, material interests are at stake. It is an established principle that the material interests of a ruling class, in part, promote immorality. To promote incapacity to reason upon the domain of sociology is one of the corrupt practices of ruling class material interests."

 

Comment:

 

Safeguarding one's academic tenure surpasses all else, including definitive logic concerning social science. Part and parcel of America's, alluded to, freedom and democracy. A truce with academic quotes that feebly relate to the class struggle, serving as a pox on the house of the working class.

 

The person who discovered gold, causing the California gold rush, did not create the gold; likewise the person, the author of the above quote did not create the industrial union concept, he discovered it. Each of that person's revilers has a mental shovel to bury, not the body, but the meaningful logic contributed to the cause of the working class. The mental shovels are passed on from generation to generation to the continuation of reviling of the person who devoted his life towards the emancipation of the working class. Long since his time, he has been relegated to the status of a non person.

[Donald J Donaker (Don)]

Of course the capitalist class, together with their "kept" politicians and labor lieutenants (the union hierarchy), looked on with glee when their acute nemesis from within the ranks of the working class was purged by the vast majority of workers. The problem, a brief irritation to the capitalists, was eliminated for them, free of charge.

[Donald J Donaker (Don)]

 

The comment below was submitted in response Matthew Andrews subject: Trade deficits, not robots, are costing us jobs. It has a correlation to the failure of academics impart a clear meaningful message relating to the subject.

 

Are you aware of the new word added to the lexicon of English language here in the US, which is reshoring (indicated as a spelling error here).? Not as bad as another new word (cybernation), entered in the Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary in 1962, but never hit the main stream media, yet it was a rage within private manufacturing discourse. 

 

The market is competitively driven by a constant reduction in price.  The exponential trend is that the conversion of manufacturing to robotic production reduces the cost of production thereby allowing the lowering of the price on the market. There is ample information available to attest to that.

On Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 7:05:59 AM UTC-5, Donald J Donaker (Don) wrote:

[Donald J Donaker (Don)]

 

 Under the subject: "Trade deficits, not robots, are costing us jobs," Andrew commented:  ""Isn't there more than one incentive (that is, other than reducing the cost of production) for manufacturers to locate here?"

 

My reply there has relevance to this subject, "Academics," because no reference is provided to an academic for an answer. Why not?

 

My reply was:  "Promoting WIIU to fellow workers. Fellow workers are far from knocking down the door to get into the WIIU. How do you expect the need to know workers to receive needed information when you have volunteered to join their ranks as a recipient of need to know information in order to make an informed decision to join the WIIU. To make it short, you should be able to answer their questions. If the case be that you need to know, then you should avail yourself of the basics that the WIIU was founded upon."

On Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 7:05:59 AM UTC-5, Donald J Donaker (Don) wrote: