So this chart, which I made using the numbers in S. Mintz' recent Inside Higher Ed. piece (link and original source below) on the change in permanent faculty for 14 history departments is catastrophic.
— Bret Devereaux (@BretDevereaux) December 16, 2022
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As you'd expect, of course someone brings up domination of leftoid/radlib ideologues as the reason for pushing people away.
It was evident two decades ago that academic historians were hollowing out their profession by elevating ideology & fads over the needs of students, public & long-term interests of univ & discipline. These figures are sad but reflect a generation of professional irresponsibility.
And it predictably it casues seethe from a lot of totally not leftist History-cels including a POC historian who says it's due to lack of funding.
This is a completely incorrect account of why the discipline declined in the academy. Historyโs demise reflects the financialization of higher education & the decline of public/private support for humanities research. It has nothing to do with โideology.โ
Yeah "financialization". History in the past was a field where some talented polymath did all the research as a hobby. There's a very good reason why most people aren't interested in funding mediocre ideologues and their rants.
Goes on a long screed about how it's "finance capitalisms" fault while simultaneously arguing about how they should've convinced more billionaires to donate for their """"""research"""""".
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Some dude suggests offering more military history courses which would be cooler and that doesn't go well.
The popularity of history podcasts show this is self-inflicted. Why don't more colleges, for example, offer military history?
Terrible take. Podcasts are entertainment that might be informative on the side.
And you get +++ military history when studying a specific region/era.
But one teacher canโt cover โevery cool battle in all of historyโ with anything like depth or intellectual integrity.
Anyway. Lots of copium in there as they witness the slow decline of their field.
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Come to brazil (any thirdie country really) and youll see thats not true
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Should have specified Anglophone academic spaces.
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Anglos are worse. 1 billion Indians died and lost trillions it seems.
https://mronline.org/2019/01/15/britain-robbed-india-of-45-trillion-thence-1-8-billion-indians-died-from-deprivation/
2022: https://mronline.org/2022/12/14/british-empire-killed-165-million-indians-in-40-years/
All of the above are based on """studies"""
Al Jazeera with actual slaves prints this shit: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/5/6/rich-countries-drained-152tn-from-the-global-south-since-1960
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/2/how-british-colonial-policy-killed-100-million-indians
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/12/19/how-britain-stole-45-trillion-from-india
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Thats not Marxist historiography though, thats just being a leftoid
The last time Marxist historiography was popular in the west was like 1992 and the sole area where they did any good work was in studying enclosures and peasant revolts in early modern England
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Monthly review is like the gold standard of Marxist thought in the west. These are the people who do research on peasant revolts and enclosures and such.
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I didnt mean the publication, I meant that particular article. I just skimmed it but it looks like its just boring econ history mixed with leftoid sneed. Doesnt even have buzzwords smh
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Yeah that's what academic Marxism is.
And there's buzzwords
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Its not academic Marxism unless they say "material basis" at least 3 times, CMV
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J. Sakai is the only academic Marxist I read.
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Arenโt Brazillian historians mostly coke heads who spent most of their time nailing their big-bootied students?
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Not true, some are weedheads
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Can you blame them?
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Anywhere that copes and sneeds in the world will still believe in dependency theory, the academic equivalent of the tribesman thinking the guy with more yams used black magic trickery to take them from his garden.
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Structuralism and CEPAL as a whole are like malignant tumor on Latin American economics
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What's wrong with structuralism?
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By structuralism I meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuralist_economics
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Oh, you're talking about the nonsense that led to import substitution policy. Yeah, frick that noise.
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