[Marxism] Re: Answering a Query and another Query

["DoC" <donaloc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Calvin, a chara,

I am not a British subscriber but will present my advice on sources of
information anyhow.

I don't know the Class and Capital that LP refers to.

I used to take NLR - but its a hopeless case. It's so bloody liberal,
crass and intellectually-self absorbed its just a waste of good money.

I like Monthly Review - despite the recent article on China - which I
thought was somewhere between left-opportunistic and stupid. It's the
only journal I take these days from overseas and its worth the money.

I think it's best to try to grab news from the capitalist press and
filters such as the left lists on the internet.

The British Guardian is a good newspaper but its social-democratic
veneer just doesn't wear on me. Although if I had to buy a British daily
on merit - this would be it. (Aside that is from the Morning Star)

The British Independent is a liberal, bourgeois paper. Its owner (an
Irish sell-out) bowed his knee to the British monarch gaining a
knighthood for services rendered and vouchsafing his intervention in the
British market. I dislike people even quoting from the paper.

Strangely, I much prefer reading the out-and-out capitalist line of
papers like the Financial Times and The Business (an EU business paper -
which is probably better than the FT). I try to pick these up most
days - as it tells you more about capitalist dynamics than all the
liberal articles in the Guardian or Independent. They don't seem to want
to sell their 'facts' in a manner which will convey some moral benefit -
for them its all about money and that's honest anyway.

For me the rest of the British (English) press is not worth paying for
or even reading. (the only exception was the British Mirror before it
was gagged by the Brit Govt for a brave anti-war stance).

In Ireland, the Irish Times is a left-liberal rag - but the best daily
we have. The Irish Independent (sister to The Independent in England) is
another rag - one I wouldn't pay for. The Irish News (in Belfast) is a
liberal-nationalist rag - I don't buy it. Instead, I prefer the
out-and-out Unionist conservative Belfast Telegraph - particularly on a
Wednesday - when it does Business and is informative. The other main
Irish paper is the Irish Examiner - which I find is a decent paper
although not very good on detailed analysis.

Of the Sunday papers - like the Sunday Times and Torygraph, the Sunday
Independent (Ireland) is fed by MI5/6. I just don't read them. The only
decent Irish Sunday paper is the Sunday Business Post which is excellent
and on-line. It's a bourgeois-nationalist paper and despite its
bourgeois ideological basis is much more informative than than the two
left-liberal (post-nationalist) papers like the Observer (Britain) or
Tribune (Ireland).

I would be interested if Jurriaan could present a similar analysis of
mainland EU papers. What are the best papers in the rest of Europe? We
can get them here if ordered. They may be useful.

Le meas mór,
DoC.

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