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THIS ARTICLE CALLS ON AMERICA TO FIGHT CAPITALISM BEFORE IT "DESTROYS US AND OUR PLANET." IT STATES THAT, "TODAY, HUMAN SOCIETY, AND THE BIOSPHERE ITSELF, CANNOT SURVIVE THE ORGANIZED GREED AND ENVIRONMENTAL RUINATION THAT THE SYSTEM DEMANDS FOR ITS CONTINUED EXISTENCE. THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR: REVOLUTION IS BEING THRUST UPON US. THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE. WE MUST MAKE THE TRANSITION TO SOCIALISM NOW IF WE AND NATURE ARE TO SURVIVE ON A PLANET AND IN SOCIETIES."

The present crisis facing intellectuals & the university is rooted in the collapse of the boundaries that traditionally have marked out a position of privileged particularity for them. This collapse has exposed a contradiction in the goals of the university & affirmative action (AA): the former is committed to excellence & the cultivation of distinction, while the latter is obliged to seek equity & uniformity. It is concluded that AA undermines academic standards as well as the university's nonbureaucratic collegiality. In Ivory Tower and Red Tape: Reply to Adler, David Pan argues that Adler's identification of a contradiction between the goals of AA & the university forces his attack on AA into a defense of particularist university interests.