Propagandizing at the MLA

A great piece, from Jonathan Marks at Commentary.

RELATED: At Instapundit, "TOLERANT ACADEMIA: Modern Language Association’s fascist douchebags outlaw The Daily Caller from convention."

And following the links takes us to this precious piece, at the (Revolutionary Communist) Progressive Labor Party, "Modern Language Association Convention PL’ers Put Communism on the Agenda":

Party members gave papers on various facets of literary radicalism: the role played by communists in the proletarian and post-colonial literary movements; speculation about post-class society in literary works focusing on racism and sexism; debates over the “idea of communism” in current political theory. The current economic crisis, along with the dire job market faced by many humanities scholars and teachers, has many MLA members querying the legitimacy of capitalism.

That's from last January, which just goes to show, the more things change, the more they stay the same.