This is the first day of the new LeftCenterLeft weblog and the last of the website it is replacing, Marxists for Keynes. I have moved all old posts over already, and will spend the next couple of weeks getting them in order and cleaning up dead links as well as tinkering with the layout and design. So bear with me, as I feel the result will be a better weblog.
Why the change? For one thing, I felt that the tongue-in-cheek tone of Marxists for Keynes wasn’t getting across and instead the name sounded cultish or farouche to a lot of folks. If readers find the posts themselves out there politically, fine, but I felt no need to poison the well with the name.
At the same time, changing has allowed me to move from Blogger to Movable Type, which really is a far superior platform for blogging. Now I can have comments, categories, and reading lists, not to mention more advanced things like content syndication (for those of you using news aggregators). In sum, I can have an easier-to-read, more interactive blog.
Some things will go in the process, beyond the domain name. It looks like the Bourdieu page will be homeless indefinitely (unless someone wants to volunteer to host it). I will also get rid of the Bloomsbury Group and combine the “policy” and “culture” weblogs. The result I hope will be lighter and less dry reading.
So feel free to add your comments to posts here. And feel free to email and let me know what you think of the new site.
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