Video: Occupy Wall Street & Capitalism: A Professor’s Response
“Karl Marx was an intellectual radical. What that means is that he sought to get at the root cause of social ills with his analysis. Despite my extreme disagreement with Marx on his diagnosis, I have always been attracted to intellectual radicalism. Not the fashionable radical chic of rock stars, etc., but the nerdy radicalism of scholars and public intellectuals. Not a radicalism evident where the cool-kids party while skipping school, but a radicalism born in the library and in reading dusty old books and studying long and hard to try and figure things out. Think hard, read widely, think even harder, then attempt to write clearly — that is the intellectual radicalism that I find exciting.”
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