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Forums.Hipinion.com: All Things Left of Liberal
by genghis sean » Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:55 pm
What are some radical left/strong left periodicals to read that are well written and more professional/academic than things like Raw Story
New Left Review - http://newleftreview.org/ has been the standard bearer of the academic left for much of the past 45 years or so. almost all of the prominent leftist intellectuals have been published in it and its usually populated by many of the leading figures of the academic left from issue to issue. its a journal though so accessibility varies greatly from article to article. New Left Review's publishing arm is Verso Books ( http://www.versobooks.com/ ), a major and fantastic source for Left publications (lots of good stuff regularly available on their website as well). A great deal of the books published in this thread are published by Verso.
A longstanding fixture of american democratic socialism is In These Times ( http://www.inthesetimes.com/ ), notable amongst other things for being Kurt Vonnegut's favorite publication. They would stand more to the left of Mother Jones, which sort of straddles a democratic socialist and social-democratic bent, and The Nation, who is further right and mainly articulates social-democratic and left liberal sentiment. I do actually read both Mother Jones and The Nation with some regularity, they can have good content even if they're both guilty of the shallow defining-ourselves-as-just-against-republican-stupidity deal that defines far too much of the liberal media.
you've probably already seen a lot of references to Jacobin ( http://www.jacobinmag.com ) in this thread and it along with The New Inquiry (though TNI specializes more in cultural critique even if I would define it as generally left of liberal) are defined by their superior writing, accessibility, mixture of web/print content, and generally written by people of hipinion's general generational bracket.
A bit British-oriented but still tons of great academic-oriented content from the newish New Left Project ( http://www.newleftproject.org/ ). Famous for its longstanding association with Noam Chomsky is Z magazine ( http://www.zcommunications.org/zmag ), which leans libertarian socialist/academic anarchist. I don't check their content super frequently but I've read a lot of good things from them.
Truthout ( http://truth-out.org/ ) is certainly the leading Left source for sorta Huffington Post style amalgamated news and opinion. I make sure to check it out everday. Reader Supported News ( http://readersupportednews.org/ ) is another quality source in this vain. Both of them are ostensibly 'progressive' oriented though certainly left of liberal. Both Common Dreams ( http://www.commondreams.org/ ) and Truthdig ( http://www.truthdig.com ) are sources of original content in a Democracy Now! vein. Oh yeah, Democracy Now! is always a good source of video ( http://www.democracynow.org/ ).
Maybe my favorite video-based site is The Real News, which offers very sober and serious analysis, usually packaged into 10 minute pieces. I'm a big fan of these guys and especially Paul Jay. This isn't received wisdom, hearsay and rash inferences - if a point is to be made its usually going to be established. Lots of good economics content too for econ nerds like me. Their collection of youtubes that they gather is also a valuable source.
For a mixture of art and Left politics there is Guernica Magazine ( http://www.guernicamag.com/ ), Idiom Magazine ( http://idiommag.com/ ) and Art Threat ( http://artthreat.net/ ) all of which I would certainly recommend.
For more ostensibly Marxist academic analysis there is Platypus 1917 ( http://platypus1917.org/ ), an organization who hosts panels and fora as well as publishes the Platypus Review, which is worth reading every month its published. I'm in the midst of trying to get a Platypus chapter up and operational in montreal and know a bunch from Platypus personally. Mostly of a post-Trotskyist bent but really the publish a very wide range of left of liberal views and content. To see what the diehard Maoists are up to these days there's the Kasama Project ( http://kasamaproject.org/ ), whom I really don't identify with but I often find it interesting to see what they're thinking about and discussing - usually lots to do with Nepal and South America.
I know I'm missing a lot of shit right now but I think that's a pretty decent start.
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Forums.Hipinion.com: All Things Left of Liberal
by genghis sean » Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:55 pm
What are some radical left/strong left periodicals to read that are well written and more professional/academic than things like Raw Story
New Left Review - http://newleftreview.org/ has been the standard bearer of the academic left for much of the past 45 years or so. almost all of the prominent leftist intellectuals have been published in it and its usually populated by many of the leading figures of the academic left from issue to issue. its a journal though so accessibility varies greatly from article to article. New Left Review's publishing arm is Verso Books ( http://www.versobooks.com/ ), a major and fantastic source for Left publications (lots of good stuff regularly available on their website as well). A great deal of the books published in this thread are published by Verso.
A longstanding fixture of american democratic socialism is In These Times ( http://www.inthesetimes.com/ ), notable amongst other things for being Kurt Vonnegut's favorite publication. They would stand more to the left of Mother Jones, which sort of straddles a democratic socialist and social-democratic bent, and The Nation, who is further right and mainly articulates social-democratic and left liberal sentiment. I do actually read both Mother Jones and The Nation with some regularity, they can have good content even if they're both guilty of the shallow defining-ourselves-as-just-against-republican-stupidity deal that defines far too much of the liberal media.
you've probably already seen a lot of references to Jacobin ( http://www.jacobinmag.com ) in this thread and it along with The New Inquiry (though TNI specializes more in cultural critique even if I would define it as generally left of liberal) are defined by their superior writing, accessibility, mixture of web/print content, and generally written by people of hipinion's general generational bracket.
A bit British-oriented but still tons of great academic-oriented content from the newish New Left Project ( http://www.newleftproject.org/ ). Famous for its longstanding association with Noam Chomsky is Z magazine ( http://www.zcommunications.org/zmag ), which leans libertarian socialist/academic anarchist. I don't check their content super frequently but I've read a lot of good things from them.
Truthout ( http://truth-out.org/ ) is certainly the leading Left source for sorta Huffington Post style amalgamated news and opinion. I make sure to check it out everday. Reader Supported News ( http://readersupportednews.org/ ) is another quality source in this vain. Both of them are ostensibly 'progressive' oriented though certainly left of liberal. Both Common Dreams ( http://www.commondreams.org/ ) and Truthdig ( http://www.truthdig.com ) are sources of original content in a Democracy Now! vein. Oh yeah, Democracy Now! is always a good source of video ( http://www.democracynow.org/ ).
Maybe my favorite video-based site is The Real News, which offers very sober and serious analysis, usually packaged into 10 minute pieces. I'm a big fan of these guys and especially Paul Jay. This isn't received wisdom, hearsay and rash inferences - if a point is to be made its usually going to be established. Lots of good economics content too for econ nerds like me. Their collection of youtubes that they gather is also a valuable source.
For a mixture of art and Left politics there is Guernica Magazine ( http://www.guernicamag.com/ ), Idiom Magazine ( http://idiommag.com/ ) and Art Threat ( http://artthreat.net/ ) all of which I would certainly recommend.
For more ostensibly Marxist academic analysis there is Platypus 1917 ( http://platypus1917.org/ ), an organization who hosts panels and fora as well as publishes the Platypus Review, which is worth reading every month its published. I'm in the midst of trying to get a Platypus chapter up and operational in montreal and know a bunch from Platypus personally. Mostly of a post-Trotskyist bent but really the publish a very wide range of left of liberal views and content. To see what the diehard Maoists are up to these days there's the Kasama Project ( http://kasamaproject.org/ ), whom I really don't identify with but I often find it interesting to see what they're thinking about and discussing - usually lots to do with Nepal and South America.
I know I'm missing a lot of shit right now but I think that's a pretty decent start.
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