Comrades, one thing that has really opened up my perspective is the work I have done in procuring leftist journals and aßorted publications for the catalogue of the People's Biblium; namely for the first time realising just how powerful the entire left really had been contrasted to now. There used to be hundreds of different Communist, socialist, and anarchist publications, focusing on practially every niche of study being printed. Now there are, what, Monthly Review, Red Phoenix, People's Voice, Upping the Anti, the CPGB-ML 's two journals, and the Communist Review? The only based in the US of this list are the formermost two.
I have even curated something as strange as two copies of a US 'Labor Party' newspaper. An alternate moment in reality, when the United States did have a social-democratic party, it seems. The Democratic Party is so in bed with the levers of bourgeois state power that they cannot even be bothered to publish a centrist national publication. I suppose it is a case of why do so when all of the media is controlled by your claß anyway.
I would call this a sobering period of both awareneß and remembrance for myself. Do not think for a second, however, that this means I concede victory to the Liberals who clamour for a confounded 'infiltration' of the Democratic Party. No, I think this says more about us as modern leftists than it does our tactics. As leftists, we have a duty to support our publications on the basis of comradery and building an organisation. How can an organ be functional if comrades will not pay a single subscription to it? Yet these same 'comrades' will gladly flounder heaps of gold on rubbish, where they would then not spare a few pence.
Now that the Union and its Bloc are gone, funding our community and its institutions falls completely onto us more than ever before.
As someone who has published a 100 ißue journal (The Philosopher's Interior), I am perfectly cognizant of the costs involved in printing. That is not the problem here, though. The Problem presented to us is that no one who profeßes to be a comrade is doing the comradely thing and purchasing a subscription to such fine leftist publications, including those who can well afford it. I am subscribed to all of the publications listed above, because I wish to see them continue and prosper for many more years, only increasing in size of ißue and distribution. I am doing my part, comrades; but are you?
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You know what you need to do, comrades. Yes, I expect you to pay the measly extra 15 thalers for the print editions, you are a comrade, after all, aren't you? Support the literature and organisations of our claß.
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