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Subject: Re: Grenada - (nf)
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ucbesvax!turner    Nov  4 18:16:00 1983

Somehow, you fail to point out the most obvious thing of all: the Militant
is yet another left-sectarian vanguard party organ.  You may take exception
to the label "left-sectarian", but in defending yourself you would point
to a number of other left-sectarian parties (each with its own pathetic
little political organ), and make arcane ideological distinctions that
fly far over the head of the average net.politics reader.

Hey, I read these papers sometimes.  Sure, they have some pretty good
coverage of world events.  But that's about all they're good for.  The
domestic coverage is usually hopelessly skewed toward magnifying the
significance of the associated vanguard sect, far out of proportion to
the events it is supposedly instigating or involved in.  And the editorials
are thickets of heavily ideological rhetoric, shrill and often obscure.

To those of you out there who want a leftish perspective on world events,
you need not stoop to buying the Militant.  You can read

	    Socialist Review	- prissy, but well-written
	    In These Times	- rather self-important, but with good
				  domestic coverage; newspaper format
	    Inquiry		- enjoyable libertarian rag
	    Monthly Review	- grossly doctrinaire at times;
				  not strongly recommended
	    Dissent		- top-notch; good at sniffing out
			          its own articles of creeping faith
	    Working Papers	- long background articles, but
				  palatably written; all domestic coverage

There is, sadly, no anarchist publication that lives longer than about
three months.  Otherwise I would find one to recommend.  (And have some-
thing to read that I slavishly agreed with on every point.  I guess that's
just what comes of being more left and sectarian than anybody else.)

So enjoy.  Or don't.  But read.
---
Michael Turner