On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:23:25 -0700 (PDT), Angelus Novus
<fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Dmytri!
>
>> What do you think of Junge Welt?
>
> I want to like it, but to be honest I think it's
> rather boring much of the time.
Not really too much of a surprise.
What about the TAZ?
Have you heard of Spotless Verlag?
> but I'm still young enough to not really care
> about Ernst Busch or socialist realist culture.
You take that back! We have the entire Ernst Busch collection at home.
> Instead, I'd like solid background information on how,
> for example, derivatives function or what a
> "collateralized debt obligation" is.
I wonder if that is too much for any daily, it seems like even the major papers don't really give too much background or technical information.
> Again, I'd really like to like JW, especially since I
> think a far-left daily is necessary. I just wish
> there existed a better one.
Jungle World was a splinter group of Junge Welt, right?
Maybe it's simply impossible to have a broad enough group, the hip and the strident will eventually fall out.
"Hip" socialist activism must be Utopian, delusional and selective in it's gaze by it's nature, because Hipness requires projecting a sense of fun, personal power and strong identity that implies at least a certain level of privilege, which can also breed complacency. Being happy enough with ones own intellectual and cultural sophistication and a comfortable enough socio-economic condition. Whereas the strident naturally regard such self-satisfied smugness as elitist and of no use to the movement, preferring "shrill" calls to arms, and avoiding overly witty or decorative language as being too allusive for the masses they imagine they are mobilizing.
Anyway, I'll be in the UK for the month of August, I hope you will have time to meet for a drink when I return in September, would love to find out more about what you are up to.
Cheers.
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