Honestly I could've told you that just from looking at their website. A "radical" publisher with almost no Marx, Engels, or Lenin and no Stalin, Mao, Fanon, or really any works from the revolutionaries who have built socialism? I would get it if they were just anarchists but then they publish plenty of stuff by social democrats and other new left types.
Fair point, you're not 100% certain, but on the other hand, we are 100% certain that Haymarket receives money from the the National Endowment for Democracy, so I don't trust them at all.
Thanks for sharing! I have met both Dan La Botz and Anand Gopal in NYC. Eye-opening (but sadly not too surprising) that they have been effectively coopted by the state Department. Got to love imperialism “from below.”
I feel similarly about Verso Books. They're left publications for sure, but the scope of their publications never seems to enter the realm where it can be pro-soviet, or pro-ML, and tend to exist heavily in the theory-without-practice realms of "post-left" and postmodernism
Radical publisher Haymarket books. I'm serious.
For those who don't know: the CIA has a history of creating publishers to influence the intellectual narative, their own archives say so.
Honestly I could've told you that just from looking at their website. A "radical" publisher with almost no Marx, Engels, or Lenin and no Stalin, Mao, Fanon, or really any works from the revolutionaries who have built socialism? I would get it if they were just anarchists but then they publish plenty of stuff by social democrats and other new left types.
Eh, could be, but I think the bigger issue there is that almost everyone prominent on the "mainstream left" is tied in with nonprofit money.
Yeah, but money from the National Endowment for Democracy is worse.
Noooo
There there, Verso Books and Pluto Press are still good.
But how can you know??
I do read mostly Verso, haven't ever gotten anything from Haymarket.
Fair point, you're not 100% certain, but on the other hand, we are 100% certain that Haymarket receives money from the the National Endowment for Democracy, so I don't trust them at all.
I was mostly joking, poking fun at the eternal paranoia that comes with being a leftist ;)
But thanks I had no idea about this.
Thanks for sharing! I have met both Dan La Botz and Anand Gopal in NYC. Eye-opening (but sadly not too surprising) that they have been effectively coopted by the state Department. Got to love imperialism “from below.”
I feel similarly about Verso Books. They're left publications for sure, but the scope of their publications never seems to enter the realm where it can be pro-soviet, or pro-ML, and tend to exist heavily in the theory-without-practice realms of "post-left" and postmodernism
I get your point, but at least they're not taking money from the National Endowment for Democracy. For me, that's a dealbreaker.