ABSTRACT
We have developed a militant practice as academics who participate in university life as authors, teachers, and administrators of our institutions, but also stand with exploited and oppressed groups. We do not see our job as bringing the truth to the unschooled masses, nor are we naive enough to believe that all wisdom lies “with the people.” We do not believe that by going among the people we lose our status as petty bourgeois. Instead, we feel comfortable functioning as what Gramsci called “organic intellectuals” and doing what Staughton Lynd calls the work of accompaniment (Lynd 1997).
