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On 4/26/14 5:45 PM, Mark Lause wrote:
I raise this point because periodically the idea that institutional interest in radicalism generally and Marxism in particular is a sign that "our idea are getting a hearing." Rather, I'd suggest that institutions like universities exist to establish a kind of hegemony over such discussions and define them into rather harmless dead ends. This current problem simply represents another aspect of this.
Yeah, it's the same mindset that exists at HM, Socialist Register and Verso. There's the paywall, print-oriented world for the enlightened tenured radicals and their dissertation students angling to be the next generation to take the place of Robert Brenner and Leo Panitch. They are like Plato's philosopher-kings.
And then there is us. The sans-culottes, the unwashed, the rabble who rely on the Internet and don't feel that the disappearance of a journal is a blow to the working class, especially when it is hardly aware of the existence of HM or NLR.
That being said, I give a lot of credit to Monthly Review for making their articles available on-line in a reasonable amount of time and not charging $125 for their books. I am no fan of the captain of that ship, one John Foster Bellamy, but they are keeping the "popular" roots of MR alive.
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