socialist journals

[egb_hibs]

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...

[Smurf]

These Socialist magazines will all i'd imagine run at a loss.. Subsidised by well off Socialists...

Right wing magazines would also run at a loss i'd imagine but Capitalists are more wise with their money...

[Colr]

I used to pick up Marxism Today every once in a while in my youth. Somewhere I have a truly laughable edition from 1990 about what the world will be like in the 90s.

[Bartok]

For some reason that escapes me completely, socialism still has an cultural and intellectual appeal that belies its place in history, ie the dustbin. I too have marvelled at the appeal of these coffee-table Das Kapitals, seemingly bought by the sort of socialist who makes more money than most of us.

There is also a curious kind of intellectual elitism intimately connected with socialism, and to my mind it fits well with the middle class marxist, which explains that only 'education' is required to allow the ignorant person to see the light. Nothing to do with a century of repression, subjugation, famine, civil war, mass imprisonment and human suffering on a previously unknown scale then.

[Dub]

Originally Posted by Colr

I used to pick up Marxism Today every once in a while .

Always had you pegged as a trouble maker

[Colr]

Originally Posted by Dub

Always had you pegged as a trouble maker

Come the revolution there's a few like you on here that will be up against the wall, sonny Jim!!!