[bustgoesbust]

Forget the Devil wears prada - Debbie Stoller hasn't got taste enough to buy prada. She calls herself a feminist?????? What crap! What feminist borrows everyones ideas craftsters or people in general.? I know everyone in publishing does it,but come on.

I loved this magazine because I thought that the idea was coming from an indie mag. Meanwhile the Editor in Chief is picking on a small business. Maybe she'll give them credit. Don't pay no way then she takes Sew Fast Sew Easy's idea for her books and the stupid bitch doesn't even check to see if its trademarked.

Then she files two applications for trademarks - gets refused and then smacks it to them. Uhhh! Miss Debbie hits SFSE with a petition to take their trademark. SHe thinks everything is hers. She wants it even if she's the bully devil.

Take it first hand from an intern who watched her at it every day. You are being lead down the stoller road to HELL! Boycott BUST! By JANE or other magazines that do good with their money!!!!!!

[koffeewitch]

It's not "capitalism" that funds the libraries; it's people. There is nothing capitalist about our income tax system, in fact the best capitalists find ways NOT to pay taxes. I would certainly agree that rich people have done great things. Socialism does NOT prevent people from attaining wealth, by the way. You can even have a free rather than a planned market under a socialist economic system. You can have socialism and a democratic government. (It's the only kind of socialism we're talking about. We're not advocating a totalitarian system). You can have socialist businesses. Only the means of production would be owned by workers collectively. In the truer days of capitalism, most children entered the factory by age 4. Factory workers died by the age of 35. Most people could not read, and so they could not teach their children or alter their fate. Labor unions (many of them from the American Communist Party) changed the lives of workers and created our "middle class". Unfettered capitalism always leads to imperialism.