Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 08:59:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Scott McLemee <mclemee-AT-igc.apc.org>
Subject: M-TH: Henwood & exploitation



	As someone with a little experience with the left press, I've got 
to say that Doug Henwood's LEFT BUSINESS OBSERVER pays as badly as 
anyone, from the figure he named a couple years ago when I was thinking 
of trying to write for it.  So what?  Does Jerry Levy think Henwood's 
relationship with his writers is one of alienated value-production?  He 
pays for shit for the same reason every other left magazine does.  Except 
the ones that don't pay at all.  Nobody in his or her right mind goes 
into this kind of work to make a buck.  And the notion that LBO has much 
"capital" beyond DH's perseverance is symptomatic at best, demagogic at 
worst.

	But I have an idea.  Jerry Levy should go rob a bank or two, set 
up a magazine, and create a genuine community of freely associated 
laborers.  Is suggesting this gangsterism?  No more than is indicating 
that somebody deserves to be knee-capped with a shotgun.   


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