kasama-rl
27th January 2008, 19:53
This snarky piece of anti-communism appeared in the Boston Globe (http://boston.com/bostonglobe/) opinion pages (Jan. 27, 2008). Intent: Publicly finger and ridicule progressive academics and artists for speaking out against the chilling of radical thought.
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Free Bob Avakian!
Oh, he’s already free? Never mind.
By Mark Oppenheimer
IT WAS HARD to miss, splashed recently across a full page of The New York Review of Books: an advertisement featuring the boldface words, “Dangerous times demand courageous voices. Bob Avakian is such a voice.”
Wrapped around those words, Talmud-page-style, were, to the left, a short essay about the importance of Avakian’s “compelling approach to Marxism” and, to the right, a list of dozens of signatories, including academic superstars like Cornel West, performers like Rickie Lee Jones and Chuck D., and activists like Cindy Sheehan.
for the rest of this..... (http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/boston-globe-snipes-avakian-engage-project/)
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Free Bob Avakian!
Oh, he’s already free? Never mind.
By Mark Oppenheimer
IT WAS HARD to miss, splashed recently across a full page of The New York Review of Books: an advertisement featuring the boldface words, “Dangerous times demand courageous voices. Bob Avakian is such a voice.”
Wrapped around those words, Talmud-page-style, were, to the left, a short essay about the importance of Avakian’s “compelling approach to Marxism” and, to the right, a list of dozens of signatories, including academic superstars like Cornel West, performers like Rickie Lee Jones and Chuck D., and activists like Cindy Sheehan.
for the rest of this..... (http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/boston-globe-snipes-avakian-engage-project/)