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R.I.P. LiP

Amidst the demise of Clamor, Punk Planet, Satya and LiP, Tipping the Sacred Cow: The Best of LiP reads like a super-special edition—complete with illustrations, a “theft ethics” quiz, a glossary of culture-jamming lingo and other useful appendices

By Erin Polgreen

These days, it ain’t easy being indy. The last 12 months have seen the demise of Clamor, Punk Planet, Satya and LiP. Not only have we lost a set of publications committed to the cultivation of progressive thought, intriguing activism and culture-jamming, but we have also lost four great forums of initiation for the next generation of thinkers and activists.… return to article

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    Never heard of any of these rags.  But if you think they have some importance, I’ll take your word for it. 

    But if the radical Leftist small press is in decline, the radical Leftist large press is also in decline: NYT, WaPo, LAT, not to mention CBS, NBC, and ABC.

    So, what does it all mean?  If nobody is willing to buy your message, how will you continue to distribute your message?

    Don’t do like your predecessors, Lenin and Stalin.  They robbed banks to finance revolutionary activities.  Not very moral of them, but then they did not claim morality anyway.  Just as you don’t.

    But you cannot steal your way to revolution as they did, and you can’t propagandize your way to revolution because no one is buying, and no one is going to elect you.

    So sad.  RIP.

    United States Posted by scorp on Nov 20, 2007 at 8:56 PM

    WHAT?????

    United States Posted by Jarrett Dapier on Nov 30, 2007 at 6:00 PM

    At the Mercy.

    In the resonant
    cypress situated,
    like a trembling
    leaf, in the breath
    of a novel and
    innocent morning,
    a sparrow alights
    and always, in the
    sun’s redness, a
    delicate flake
    discovers a dream.

    Francesco Sinibaldi

    Italy Posted by Sinibaldi on Dec 15, 2007 at 1:44 PM
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