humor

[Louis Proyect]

Another thing to think about under the general rubric of leftists being
INTERESTING. (Humor thus is only one way of keeping people's attention.)
The left groups in the US are generally "vanity" outfits, like Pacifica
radio programming or public access cable TV. Without the need to make a
profit, there is very little feedback mechanism. In the SWP, a group that I
have the most familiarity with, you had a subsidized newspaper. It lost
money. Hence the question of its readability was irrelevant.

That is one reason that Doug's LBO and Ken Silverstein's Counterpunch are
so lively. They have to be if the rent is to be paid.

Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)