The obits for Melbourne University's Stuart Macintyre, dead at 74, will be replete with paeans for his role in shaping the history curriculum taught in Australian schools. Less noted, and certainly not critically, will be his Marxist adherence to the class struggle, his slight academic achievements and, as Keith Windschuttle noted in 2008, his shameful and unseemly defenestration of Geoffrey Blainey. One normally shouldn't speak ill of the dead, but in this instance it is unavoidable
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