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i was in borders in weegistan today. this fine bookshop has an impressively extensive selection of magazines.

i was perusing the political / news mags and was completely astounded by the number of (fairly glossy / high production values) socialist journals on offer.

by contrast, the spectator was the only vaguely right wing one there, although i'm not sure of the position of some of the american mags they had.

this had me pondering the (by implication) size of the audience there must still be for this stuff.

what does it mean - comments from socialists especially welcome:

does this mean there are still tons of you out there?

does this mean socialists are on average bigger readers than others?

does this mean that in glasgow in there is more local demand for socialist journals?

does this mean that borders prefers socialist journals (this i'd think highly unlikely - bidness is bidness)

is there are readership base that justifies one journal, but it's split into many journals via schism and counter schism?

i tell you what though, the armchair socialist that comes to debating forums like this has reams of packaged material at his disposal...