The New Left Review and Richard Stallman

The New Left Review and RICHARD STALLMAN

RICHARD STALLMAN, TALKING TO THE MAILMAN. 2018-10. Interview by Rob Lucas https://newleftreview.org/II/113/richard-stallman-talking-to-the-mailman

also be sure to read

History of LISP, Emacs, Symbolics (Daniel Weinreb Rebut Richard Stallman)

curiously, that interview article is from New Left Review 113.

who is this “New Left Review”, and what's “New Left”?

The New Left Review is a bimonthly political academic journal covering world politics, economy, and culture which was established in 1960. In 2003, the magazine ranked 12th by impact factor on a list of the top 20 political science journals in the world.[1]

[2018-10-28 New Left Review]

i looked up one of the guy who wrote an article on that issue, Göran Therborn, is a retired socialist professor.

all the other article titles in the issue, sound too much like post modernism stuff.

basically, the mag is communist's mag.

it's interesting that in the 1990s, when linux, apache, perl, rose to stardom, Free Software Foundation and Open Source advocates deny any association with communism.

but, on the eve of election in 2016, jwz wrote a sinister article disclosing that the logo of mozilla is explicitly intented to mimic communism theme. (Mozilla was the first big open source house. It was formed when Netscape lost the browser war.)

and now, many left in usa openly fly hammer and sickle flag (e.g. antifa in Berkeley, Portland, NYC). And, i think, to many open source or fsf fans but absolutely anti communism, anti post-modernsim, anti sjw gang, it's a annoying realization.

see old articles Netscape Browser Sucks (2002) and Communism, American, and Open Source (2002)