Just in case we need a little more clarification on a professor's harmless "opinions:"

From the article I linked above: "I'm totally opposed to capitalism, and I think that the majority of the people of this country ought to get together and transform the system," Smith, 47, told the Houston Chronicle for its Sunday editions.



Smith's personal political beliefs drew the ire of some after a Sept. 20 column he wrote for The Galveston County Daily News in which he argued that dropping atomic bombs on Japan wasn't needed to end World War II.

In November, some of Smith's students handed out fliers during a ceremony at the 3,400-student campus in honor of Veterans Day. The fliers advertised a demonstration against the war in Afghanistan.

Fifteen students later signed a letter that was published in a local newspaper, condemning the decision to hold the veterans' ceremony on campus because it seemed like a formal endorsement by the college of the current war.



From a Yahoo BBS from Dec. 2000:

Mr. Dennis Lawler has asked,"Who the heck are the Progressive Workers Organizing Committee?" We are a new organization of working class people who are committed to fundamental social and political change in the U.S. We are based in Galveston County.



We are committed to developing the kinds of radical political education and independent political action which will contribute to the eventual abolition of capitalism and its replacement by a humane and democratic socialism. We are sponsoring the forums on the Presidential election crisis because we believe it is important not only to help people understand how this election is being "stolen" but also to help people understand that the working class majority will lose regardless of which bourgeois candidate assumes the Presidency. For more information on the forums or our organization, please contact me at praxis@wt.net or (409) 938-1211 ext.217 or (281) 534-7638.



I love how a university professor--now tenured--is apparently now a member of the "working class."

Oh the kids love him, and everyone is preaching tolerance for "all views."

Again, plug a professed Nazi into this story. Do you think everyone would be saying the same things about "tolerance," "diversity," and "all sides being represented?" Hell, forget the Nazi. Just plug a religious Republican into this story, and see where all this call for "diversity" ends up.*

This wouldn't even be an issue if it was just this one guy. But as we have seen, there are thousands like him spread through American higher education. Why this particular Marxists became a news story is more than I can see.

*Waiting for the expected sophomoric cheap shot.