Marc Becker

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Marc Becker is an associate professor at Truman State University in Latin American Studies. He was recently profiled in David Horowitz's book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, because of his involvement with Historians Against the War [1], an organization of historians opposing the United States involvement in Iraq.^[1]

Becker is also a co-founder of NativeWeb (http://www.nativeweb.org/), which compiles information about indigenous peoples around the world. .^[2]

Becker has published a book and several articles on José Carlos Mariátegui.^[3] Currently most of his academic work is on Indigenous movements in the South American country of Ecuador.^[4]

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"Stunned. I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy! (Think Wayne's World)... Academic freedom is like muscles in that if we don't use it, it begins to decay... Horowitz wants to intimidate people like me who oppose imperialism and neoliberal economic policies into being quiet. If we are quiet, than we have lost our academic freedom." [2]

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^ David Horowitz, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America (Washington, DC: Regnery Pub., 2006), 50-51.
^ Guillermo Delgado-P. and Marc Becker, "Latin America: The Internet and Indigenous Texts," Cultural Survival Quarterly 21, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 23-28; Charles Bowen, Modem Nation: The Handbook of Grassroots American Activism Online (New York: Times Business, 1996), 134-35.
^ Marc Becker, Mariátegui and Latin American Marxist Theory, Latin American Series Number 20 (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies, Monographs in International Studies, 1993); Marc Becker, "La presencia intellectual de José Carlos Mariátegui en los Estados Unidos en los años 20," Anuario Mariateguiano 6, no. 6 (1994): 255-69; Marc Becker, "Mariátegui y el problema de las razas en América Latina," Revista Andina no. 35 (July 2002): 191-220; Marc Becker, "Mariátegui, the Comintern, and the Indigenous Question in Latin America," Science & Society 70, no. 4 (October 2006): 450-79.
^ See, for example, Marc Becker, "Indigenous Communists and Urban Intellectuals in Cayambe, Ecuador (1926-1944)," International Review of Social History 49 (Supplement 2004): 41-64 and Marc Becker, "Una Revolución Comunista Indígena: Rural Protest Movements in Cayambe, Ecuador," Rethinking Marxism 10, no. 4 (Fall 1998): 34-51.