Some time ago, a book entitled “The professors” (The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America) written by “David Horowitz” was published in the United States. The subject of this book is the introduction of one hundred and one university professors whose crime was to speak about the Holocaust and the Jews in their classrooms and books. In addition to publishing this book, professors at other universities have been warned not to use their work because these people have crossed the red line. In general, when freedom is unlimited, it creates problems that will ultimately limit it. The following text introduces “Professor Anatole Anton”, one of the one hundred and one professors discussed by the author of the book.
Professor Anatole Anton
San Francisco State University
— Professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University
— Former chair of the Philosophy Department
— Co-coordinator of the Radical Philosophy Association
Professor Anatole Anton is professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and the former chair of the department. He “writes and researches on political philosophy, the philosophy of social science, and Hegel and Marx.” He is also the general editor of the San Francisco State University Series in Philosophy.
Professor Anton is co-coordinator of the Radical Philosophy Association, an anti-capitalist group of Marxist professors who “believe that fundamental change requires broad social upheavals but also opposition to intellectual support for exploitative and dehumanizing social structures, [including] capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, disability discrimination, environmental ruin, and all other forms of domination.” The Radical Philosophy Association supports Cuba’s Communist dictatorship and opposes U.S. economic and military aid to Israel, on grounds that such aid is “perceived” as supporting “the enem[y] of Muslim nations.” The Association has taken a strong stand against the war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Radical Philosophy Association attributes the terrorist threat to America’s ill-advised support for “corrupt and repressive regimes” in the Third World.
In a September 27, 2004 email circulated to his colleagues, Anton wrote: “Companeros [sic], I thought a number of you might find these words by E.L. Doctorow [on the “Unfeeling President”] moving and useful and therefore might want to circulate them widely.” President Bush, according to Doctorow, “does not suffer the death of our twenty-one-year-olds who wanted to be what they could be…. [He] does not know what death is. He hasn’t the mind for it…. How then can he mourn? To mourn is to express regret and he regrets nothing…. He does not drop to his knees, he is not contrite, he does not sit in the church with the grieving parents and wives and children…. He does not feel for the families of the dead,… He cannot mourn but is a figure of such moral vacancy as to make us mourn for ourselves.”
Research: Lisa Makson
