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I recall AK Press publishing some absolutely disgusting garbage by cranks. I don't expect much from any of these places. They're just for-profit book publishers pandering to a specific demographic. It just so happens that that demographic happens to have some kind of soft spot for the Syrian government. Amith R. Gupta On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 1:46 PM, John Reimann via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Is the call on Verso to stop publishing Blumenthal a call for censorship? > > If this were a call to some mainstream capitalist publisher, such as Dutton > for example, then an argument could be made. Even that, though, has to be > qualified. Any serious capitalist publishing house, just like any serious > capitalist journal, has certain standards as far as accuracy. I think it's > a fair question to ask whether Blumenthal meets those standards. Of course, > none of us has seen his latest piece, but I think it's fair to guess that > it's about as accurate as what he's been churning out so far. > > In any case, though, we're not talking about a mainstream capitalist > publisher; we're talking about Verso, which bills itself as the foremost > publisher of "radical" books. Would Verso publish a book by a supporter of > Netanyahu? Or of Nerandra Modi? Or Trump or Putin, for that matter? If so, > then they have abandoned their claim to be a "radical" publishing house. > So, why should a book by a supporter of Assad be published by them? What's > the difference? > > I support the original letter 100%. > > John Reimann > > -- > *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black > Jacobins" by C. L. R. James > Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ > options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
