A Lovely Little Liberal Lefty Leaflet

Ok, ok, I lie it's not a leaflet it is infact a magazine but I like alliteration. So the other day I was out shopping with vouchers I had won at work for being a good little capatalist slave and making evil corperation guy loads of monies, or something like that. Having bought a number of items at HMV whilst on sale I was left with just one five pound voucher, good at most stores. I decided that I would purchase an art magazine, Juxtapose or Art Box, at WHSmiths and maybe a bar of chocolate. Diverging from this plan whilst searching for my creative containers I stumbled upon ADBUSTERS (united kingdom). This issue held the title "The polotis of post anarchism: How to live without dead time. Snapping it up along with some galaxy I failed to appreciate the irony of buying an anti-corporation magazine with vouchers awarded to me for being a good corporation minion. I will admit now that I have yet to fully read all the articles within between it's covers though I imagine I will. Of those I did read they where full of damning comments on the society of today, on capatalism and the fascist right that clearly rule. Within it's pages where some undeniabley fantastic quotes, some interesting imagery and some well written peotry. And if it had been a person I would have grabbed it's cheek and in a manner more common to pre-school TV presenters have said: "AWWW aren't you so cute! YES YOU ARE! YES YOU ARE!" and then maybe pulled some faces.

I have no trouble admitting that I am a member of the Liberal left and if made to make a choice Marx would be my man. However I am not so blind to see the faults, unfortunately these writers are that blind. The views they pump out are naive and not exactly ground breaking. I will also admit that some articles where better than others, and I praise the attempt to push the Left agenda but there is so much laking. For example many articles attacked narcissism, yet where with out challenge or depth, and put to a background of arty photography, articles put there for the sake of themselves and a pride in that view, a narcissism of it's self. There is no counter argument and no attempt to put the argument in a way of trying to convince someone but rather they have already accepted their superiority and the fact that they are right. There is at it's heart some great ideas and concepts, things I whole heartedly agree with, but with them is pushed ideoligies that have little basis and views that are ill thought out. There is no joy in a discussion if everyone simply agrees. It would also be easy to attack the magazine for having pretentious nature however I feel that most magazines could be labelled such. So this is a magazine that has some real good things about it, if at the very least the ability to inspire the dicussion and debate it lacks, but the execution is poor. More importanlty though despite it's high quality I fail to see how at four pounds someone somewhere isn't making a tidy little profit, though maybe that is a cynacism in me. Perhaps the best thing about this magazine is that it is hopefull despite it's negativity towards the current situation.