The Academic as the Embodiment of the Modern Revolutionary Proletariat

The Modern Academic has emerged as the embodiment of the Modern Revolutionary Proletariat. It is the Academic who is today the leader of the proletariat—the modern instantiation of class struggle.

by Tim Gill

A spectre is haunting Academia and that is indeed the spectre of communism.

In the janitorial professorial offices.

In the classrooms.

In the graduate labs.

But should this come as any surprise?

The Modern Academic—that is, the Graduate Student, the Adjunct, the Researcher, the Post-Doctoral Scholar, the Professor—has emerged as the embodiment of …