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[Mike Beggs]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara
<bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> wrote:
> To be honest I never heard of Guy Rundle or Overland.  He means December
> 2008, not "2009" and he bastardizes the word "Leninist" (or perhaps I should
> blame the KKE directly for that), but that was some interesting analysis.
>  What of SYRIZA polling like 15-20 percent like a year and a half ago?  I
> thought they were posed to eclipse the KKE. What's their social base?
>  Youth, urban intellectuals and a chunk of the unions?

Yeah, '2009' is a typo. Rundle's a freelance Marxist writer who has a
reasonably high profile here through sheer force of will, wit, and
quality of writing. I subscribe to Crikey mainly to read him; how
often do people like us get an op-ed writer we can identify with? That
piece is not really representative of his style - he writes quite a
few essays but mostly daily journalism and op-eds. He recently
published a book on the 2008 US election which he covered Fear and
Loathing style for Crikey - 'Down to the Crossroads'.

Overland's a venerable Australian left-wing literary journal.

Mike