An Old Story

Harkening back to that august period during the first world war, when Woodrow Wilson authorized the postmaster, Albert S. Burleson, to peek into the mail and halt anything he felt was seditious, (see Espionage Act of 1917, and especially the Sedition Act of 1918) killing distribution of important socialist magazines like The Masses, the Postal “Service”, this time out, is raising rates for small publishers. What this means is that independent magazines like The Nation, struggling as they do with small budgets, suddenly find themselves confronted with an exorbitant cost increase.

If you can, please help the Nation by contributing, here. Also please click on the above stamp to join the campaign to maintain freedom of speech for small independent and progressive magazines.

At MLG last year

KB just sent me this pic from last year’s MLG. Apparently an MLG photo album may be forthcoming, which would of course be great. I also appreciate that this picture, taken surreptitiously, includes PF, who for reasons only the marxist gods might fathom, appears in all photos with myself at the MLG.

grad unions a must

Public Service Announcement

Back from the Marxist Literary Group

The Summer Institute is over, and I hope to resume regularly posting again. I gave a paper on Jack London and received a lot of nice feedback from people who heard our panel. K gave a good paper on the dialectic. Jetsam also gave a really good paper on post-fordist literature. It was a solid conference.

The Fourth Estate

Incarcerex

At work writing my presentation for the MLG summer institute today.

Relevant Rage

Jetsam and I share a soft spot for these guys. I saw them in ‘93, when my politics were somewhere left of existential teenage “something stinks.” Yeah, sure, they sell records. So what. More bandwidth for agitation. Viva!

Youth For Obama

This is silly, of course. It makes manifest what Obama, in the absence of policy, has to offer–namely, sex appeal. Myself, I don’t have a crush on Obama. He’s a moderate democrat. Will he be the next Chief Executive Officer of the global bourgeoisie? This video is as substantive as, at moments, his campaign.

I feel compelled to point out the obvious: the other candidates (with the exception of Saint Kucinich) are worse.

Guess Who’s Back

Just when phase 3 was nicely kicking in, I moved and have been more of less off-line for awhile. Well, finally, after the hiatus, I hope to be posting somewhat regularly again. Is this the 4th act?