Everyone here shitting on academia don't seem to realise that Marx, Engels, Adorno and so on were all academics but that doesn't make them irrelevant. Are you even a Marxist or just some dumb fag who didn't get into uni and is now super salty about it? Also, Lenin, Mao, Luxemburg etc all proved that you can both be an academic theoretician and an active organiser and revolutionary at the same time. In other words, if you hate academics, you hate theory, and if you hate theory, you're not a Marxist. Fuck off back to Zig Forums.
How does one go about becoming a "successful" leftist academic?
Logan Campbell
Sebastian Torres
Marx and Engels did not have radical left academic careers (a contradiction in terms). Adorno didn't organize the working class.
Owen Richardson
Yeah, one more reason to hate her. Fuck Trots.
He's not asking how to manage to be a proper Marxist while existing in academia. He's asking how to succeed in academia while pretending to be Marxist.