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From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
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> Who reads these various publications? What is their motive for reading
> them? How do these publications _change_ the political activity of their
> readers?
>
> Would the answers to these questions be any different if the
> publications in question were even better written? If they were worse
> written?
God knows that the happenings of lived experience arrive with their own self-evident and fully revealed narratives replete with abundant references to the sacred texts of political economy, right? I mean really, journalism is such a contemplative act.
Still working on that theory of the necessary and sufficient conditions of revolution, eh?
Dennis Breslin