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October 24, 2011
Bard College professors attack Occupy Wall Street
Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
Don't count us as surprised when you-know-who's name pops up in a game of "who's worse."
In my email exchange with [Bard College professor Roger Berkowitz] last year, I brought up the names of a number of Bard trustees who certainly fit the description of “one percenters”, all of whom he regarded as “respected people”.
It is difficult to figure out which one of them has abused democracy the worst. Is it Bruce Ratner who used political connections to get the green light for an abysmal development project in downtown Brooklyn and who secretly funded Astroturf “civil rights” groups to back Ratner’s ambitions?
Or is it Stewart Resnick who uses his connections to the Democratic Party in California to divert precious water resources to his pistachio nut and pomegranate plantations, leaving ordinary citizens without clean drinking water and toilets that will not flush? One wonders if this muddle-headed liberal would be so willing to defend the Stewart Resnicks of the world if it was his drinking water that was coming out of the faucet the color of tobacco juice.
Posted by eric at October 24, 2011 11:24 AM