[aruanan]

They have every right to do so and should be free to engage in academic revisionism in their field.

This is a good thing. Do you want people to still be teaching the phlogiston theory of combustion? Do you want fields that have been taken over by leftists not to be subject to revisionism?

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Revisionalism is not always a "GOOD thing" as you say. We are talking here about a history professor. I understand the definition of historical revisionalism to be: any departure from or modification of actual fact and true historical reality, custom and practice, especially with the view toward interpolating modern theories, customs or practices into a fictional historical setting"

I once read.... "We as a culture and proud nation should preserve our factual history whether it is something that may embarrass some particular social, political, racial or geographic group of people. But there are social "Do Gooders" that believe that our "actual history" of particular events are degrading and embarrassing and that may damage someone’s self-esteem if perpetuated in the annals of history. Unfortunately, these pressure groups have intentionally misinterpreted, deluded, distorted and to the point completely eliminated essential parts of our nation’s history in school textbooks, and books."

This professor obviously is a huge fan of Marx (ie: his web site, although I do believe that the page of his photos of Marx has been taken down since we stated this thread... probably pressure from the school). Do you wander if he relates historical revisionalism to his duty to "set the world right on who Marx really was"... you know, give history a new spin? Is this GOOD?