[lbo-talk] A 'Progressive Conference'

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Doug:
> Nation's 160,000. Maybe I'm biased, but I think it's an awful lot
> better than most of what I see in the "left" press (I'm excluding The
> Nation from this comparison) - smarter, more informative, and funnier
> too. Far duller sheets are more widely circulated and quoted. Such is
> life I guess.

Dollars and Sense is a pretty good left econ pub too, but suffers from
the same low readership problem.  The problem is that any Left position
is mightily unpopular in the US (it is a Dog's country, after all)  and
those who are attracted to it are idealistic/culturalistic types, often
with upper middle class background, who do not give two shits about how
the real world really works.

Wojtek