M-TH: Re: Monthy Review - friend or foe

[Rob Schaap]

G'day John,

I've never had the pleasure of reading an MR (not a single Oz newsagent
stocks it), but I've read several of Wood's books (the latest being
*Democracy Against Capitalism*) and at least one article.  She's genuine,
clever and a good writer (renewing my confidence in the Marxian take on
things every time).  Like me (and, alas, this is about the only point of
comparison) she may spend too much time shooting at postmodernist
quasi-theorising (whose multifarious identities would fragment unto
nothingness all the more quickly if we just ignored its unreadable
opacities, I've come to decide), but I reckon she's terrific.  And she's one
of the few editors who's not about a hundred years old, too, no?

And I hear a lot about what MR has been doing during her stewardship - no
problem there, either, I'd've thought!

Ego wars, perhaps?

Time for Doug (to whom, many thanks for letting Hugh's little gratuity glide
past) to put his finger to the pulse, I reckon.  Wassa story, Doug?

Cheers,
Rob.


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