<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body> Chris, Be fair. First, I notice that you really don't like Boris K.in general.  Second, the newspaper that publishes Boris' editorials is not a self-styled leftist radical paper but a mainstream publication that makes no claim whatsoever for its correct political stance and Boris makes no claims for it either. I don't know what Perry Anderson is doing at NLR, but I've met plenty of "radical" academicians who have washed their hands of any responsibility for leadership/teaching etc., by saying stuff like "there is no working class in the U.S.", "socialism is dead," "socialism is totally discredited," etc.....and then enjoying the perks of their academic career which is often built on the frisson of their would be radicalism. So, I do share Boris' disgust. Joanna Chris Doss wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid20050425173203.60118.qmail@web41829.mail.yahoo.com"> <pre wrap="">--- Joseph Wanzala <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jwanzala@hotmail.com"><jwanzala@hotmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">-------------- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.zmag.org/suicidenlr.htm">http://www.zmag.org/suicidenlr.htm</a> The Suicide of New Left Review by Boris Kagarlitsky </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Pot. Kettle. Black. Kagarlitsky is on the editorial board of a newspaper whose columnists have argued within recent months that: 1. Only the US has the power to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of the evil Iranian mullahs, so Russia should stop its complaints (Pavel Felgenhauer). 2. Life and death are personal matters, so the state shouldn't provide free medicine for sick people (Yulia Latinina). 3. When the pensioners were protesting monetization of benefits, the Kremlin gave in to their demands. When people protested Bush's inaugural, Bush did nothing. The US is a democracy. Therefore, that the Kremlin gave in to protestors' demands means that Russia is not a democracy (Latinina again). Pot. Kettle. Black. Nu, zayats, pogodi! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mail.yahoo.com">http://mail.yahoo.com</a> ___________________________________ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>