Enough of this!! CSE and Capital and Class is a membership organisation as it always has been. People should turn up to the meetings if you want to change policy. Why not submit non-academic content to the journal? By the way it's a bit rich that some members bemoan the academic content/audience of Capital and Class while submitting highly specialist articles on value and the like which are wholly aimed at a tiny specialist academic audience and have no resonance whatsoever with common sense alternatives or the broader non-academic community. Nor is this the first time people have harped back to a supposed Golden Age when C&C was allegedly run by activists and non academics and was far more inclusive, effectual, relevant, etc, etc, etc. In fact, like it or not, academics have always dominated Capital and Class (look through the archive) . At least the current EB is actively seeking to encourage non-academics to join in the running and content of the journal (by for example including Polemics, relaunching Behind the News, and by launching a new debates orientated section. And, of course, non-academic activists are welcomed by the CSE and C&C as the always have been.
So, lets have less of this harping back to some mythical Golden Age of C&C and more active involvement in the CSE and the journal and the articulation of feasible and attractive alternatives to Tory capitalism
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From: To complement the journal 'Capital and Class' (ISSN 0 309 8786) on behalf of Chris Ford
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Very well put Alan. It is high time that the Conference of Socialist
Economists and Capital and Class moved away from academia and
re-connected to the workers and allied social movements. Actually
putting itself at service to assist the movement.
Chris
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Sent: Thu, 10 May 2012 11:02
Subject: Re: critique
Agree with you absolutely, Alan.
Paul
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I think this depends on the answer to the question, who are 'we',
exactly?
When 'we', the founders of Capital and Class, set it up, it was not
conceived of, and was not confined to, academics.
In fact, it was fairly explicit, as I recall it, that C&C rejected the
imposed division of the world into academics and non-academics.
Somewhere along the way, this changed. I'm not quite sure when, and even
less sure why. I am even less sure why 'non-academics' as the
journalists
like to paint themselves, feel obliged to scapegoat someone they choose
to
demonise as 'academics' in such a way as to exempt themselves from any
duty
of scholarship (as if the record of journalist economists were any
better)
nor why the 'academics' feel it necessary to defend themselves in the
terms
in which they are attacked.
The real problem as I see it is a generalised failure of paid
intellectuals,
whether they work for newspapers, universities, or for that matter,
banks or
think-tanks, to respect basic criteria of the search for truth, where
matters of economic science are concerned. In this I don't see that the
journalists have done any better than anyone else, but I don't feel
obliged
to make this point by defending some spurious record of the academics.
A
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Sent: May-09-12 4:48 PM
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So what can we do to respond to Aditya Chakrabortty? Do we need to write
more for the non-academic milieu, in newspapers, blogs etc? Or is it the
case that we should combine our academic activities with activism in the
political arena?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/07/academics-cant-answer-cr
iticism-analysis
Martin Upchurch
Professor of International Employment Relations Middlesex University
Business School The Burroughs Hendon London NW4 4BT
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