At Poly in the early 80s, I had a lecturer with a toxic maladjusted personality..

She'd been one of the original late 1960s Marxist workers revolutionary uprising students..

In 1983 she was a comfortably well off middle-aged middle-class ideology lecturer..

Whatever her reason, she targeted me for a lot of her spiteful bitterness.

Once I innocently and naively questioned something she said in a seminar, suggesting she hadn't explained it clearly for us to take in and understand..

Her immediate reaction was to damn me with the accusation that I was "anti-intellectual"...!!!???

Then continue to bully me for remainder of the year, trying to destroy my confidence,
hinting I should resign from my degree..

So naturally, I have long since been wary of that kind of bitter academic 'socialist'...

Btw, I spent that summer vacation working at Butlins to get my head back together grounded in proper working-class culture..

F*** the elitist academics...