[Marxism] Irami’s off the hook
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * https://www.redandblack.com/opinion/opinion-irami-osei-frimpong-s-actions-are-protected-under-the/article_4e6b355a-3901-11e9-a818-2fb169327ddf.html 2.25.19“Since the release on Jan. 16 of a video of Irami Osei-Frimpong lecturing at a Young Democrats meeting last fall and the subsequent release of the Campus Reform article the day after, the University’s social media platforms have been inundated with comments either defending or condemning the PhD candidate. Many users demand that Osei-Frimpong be terminated from his position as a TA. Their reasoning ranges from accusations of hate speech and racism to terroristic threats and incitement. However, many of these claims about Osei-Frimpong’s statements are legally inaccurate and would get the University in more trouble than lost donors.“ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] A defection from the "axis of resistance"
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * This is interesting. Dan Glazebrook has an article in the latest CounterPunch magazine (the bi-monthly print publication) titled "Alexander Dugin and the Politically-Correct Fascism Gaining Ground on the Left" that breaks with the "axis of resistance" bloc that he was at one time associated with as a contributor to RT.com and Mint Press. Clearly, there must have been some dust-up between him and me at some point over his pro-Assad, pro-Putin politics since he had blocked me on FB, one among my legion of ideological adversaries. But this new article shows a surprising shift away from the sort of junk you get from Grayzone, Consortium News, UNZ Review, Off-Guardian, Moon of Alabama, Global Research, et al. Furthermore, what makes his article particularly interesting is how much it overlaps with the research of Alexander Reid Ross, who is persona non grata in "axis of resistance" circles, so much so that he might be described as the Von Helsing to vampire Max Blumenthal. If there's any good reason to subscribe to CounterPunch magazine, it is to stay abreast of important trends on the left like this, not to speak of helping to fund America's most important voice of the left. From Glazebrook: Alexander Reid-Ross explains how these Duginist sites and think tanks then amplify their influence across the rest of the web: “Dugin’s thought pieces are read by journalists and editors with other sites like Fort-Russ, which claims to receive some millions of views per month. RT and Sputnik pick up stories and writers from sites like Fort-Russ and Katehon, elevating the Kremlin’s “spin” to more and more users. They then bring on leftist journalists from North Atlantic countries in order to make that spin more attractive to larger audiences in the West.” Fort-Russ’s own website confirms this strategy: “With 3 million readers a month, we have often featured ‘uncomfortable truths’ which ‘mainstream’ Kremlin-backed sources like RT and Sputnik were unable to. We gave the raw story to readers before RT and Sputnik found the right angle to couch it in. As a result, many of our features and breaking stories have been featured by both of these outlets later on.” In December 2013, Dugin compiled a list of hundreds of politicians and intellectuals he sought to cultivate through involvement with RT, entitled “Countries and persons, where there are grounds to create an elite club and/or a group of informational influence through the line of Russia Today”. The list included rightwingers like Viktor Orban and de Benoist as well as leftwingers such as Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Thane Rosenbaum and Jonathan Mark suggest Arab Muslims don’t belong in America
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * https://mondoweiss.net/2019/02/rosenbaum-jonathan-suggest/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] THE EMPIRE BEHIND THE COUP
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Justin Akers Chacón, author of Radicals in the Barrio and No One is Illegal, documents the ties connecting Venezuelas right-wing coup-makers, Latin American reactionaries and the bipartisan rulers of the world's most powerful government. https://socialistworker.org/2019/02/26/the-empire-behind-the-coup _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The forgotten Northern, pre-Civil War origins of Jim Crow - The Washington Post
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/02/20/feature/the-forgotten-northern-pre-civil-war-origins-of-jim-crow/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Moderator's note
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Perhaps you meant me, J.Masko? I was unaware of this as I mostly lurk. Ty On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 5:25 AM Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > POSTING RULES & NOTES > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > * > > I just purged a number of messages from A. Stewart and J. Pasco from the > moderator's queue because they had more than 3 recipients. In the > future, please stay within 3 recipients if you want to avoid being held > in a moderator's queue. > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mediacrusher%40gmail.com > -- J.A. Masko "The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned." Antonio Gramsci. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Bill Jenkins, Who Tried to Halt Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Dies at 73
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * NY Times, Feb. 26, 2019 Bill Jenkins, Who Tried to Halt Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Dies at 73 By Katharine Q. Seelye Bill Jenkins, a government epidemiologist who tried to expose the unethical Tuskegee syphilis study in the 1960s and devoted the rest of his career to fighting racism in health care, died on Feb. 17 in Charleston, S.C. He was 73. His wife, Dr. Diane Rowley, said the cause was complications of sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease. Dr. Jenkins was working as a statistician at the United States Public Health Service in Washington in the 1960s when he first learned of the infamous Tuskegee study. In that study, the federal government deceived hundreds of black men in Macon County, Ala., where Tuskegee is the county seat, into thinking that their so-called “bad blood” — they weren’t told that they had syphilis — was being treated when it wasn’t. The researchers had wanted to see what unchecked syphilis would do to the human body and used these men as guinea pigs, without their informed consent. The disease, which is usually transmitted by sexual contact and can cause brain damage, paralysis, blindness and death, ran its course in several of the men. Some infected their wives, who passed it on to some of their children. The study lasted from 1932 to 1972. A colleague told Dr. Jenkins about the study while it was still going on, but not in much detail. Dr. Jenkins did some research and found dozens of articles about it in medical journals, so he understood that it was not being done in secret. Even local chapters of the American Medical Association supported it. Still, he was troubled by the ethics of the situation and spoke to his supervisor. “Don’t worry about it,” his supervisor told him. Dr. Jenkins later learned that the supervisor was among those monitoring the study. Dr. Jenkins, who was black, and some colleagues wrote an article about it and sent it to other African-American doctors and to a few reporters. But Dr. Rowley, his wife, said he did not include any background or explanatory information, and the news media did not pick it up. Eventually, another health service epidemiologist, Peter Buxtun, gave the information to The Associated Press. The A.P. article appeared on the front page of The New York Times and elsewhere and shocked the nation. The study was soon halted. For Dr. Jenkins, the Tuskegee study confirmed what he had long believed — that medical research was biased against people of color and that this study was just the tip of the iceberg. It would change his life. He would go on to devote himself to trying to reduce disease and illness among African Americans and other people of color, in part by recruiting more such people into the public health professions. He was one of the first researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to recognize how dramatically AIDS was affecting black men. He helped organize the first conference on AIDS in underserved neighborhoods and became the C.D.C.’s director of AIDS prevention for minorities. And for 10 years he oversaw the government’s Participants Health Benefits Program, which provides free lifetime medical care to the men of the Tuskegee study and their eligible family members. A doctor in Tuskegee, Ala., drew blood from a subject of the government’s experiment on black men to determine what happens when syphilis is left untreated. The men were deceived into thinking that they were being treated.CreditNational Archives at Atlanta “What they deserve is the best medical care we can provide,” Dr. Jenkins told The Times in 1997. “I try to give them the care that I would want to give to my mother.” Susan Reverby, author of “Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy” (2009), said in a telephone interview that Dr. Jenkins had successfully fought to expand the benefits for survivors and their families, insuring that health care, like nursing homes, would be covered in addition to medical care. “They were the only people in America who would have universal health care,” Ms. Reverby said. Dr. Jenkins was also among those who helped extract an official apology from the federal government for the Tuskegee study. In 1997, President Bill Clinton invited the surviving eight subjects of the Tuskegee study and their families to the White House; five of the survivors went, and on May 16 Mr. Clinton delivered a formal apology on behalf of the country. “No power on Earth can give you back the lives lost, the pain suffered, the years of internal torment and anguish,” Mr. Clinton said. “What the United States
[Marxism] No More Steve Mnuchins
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * What makes Mnuchin a perfect representative of our current era is the level of outright criminality that defines so much of his career. He thus joins the ranks of this new era of elites — presidents, judges, intelligence officials, and more — who have gone beyond mere morally questionable yet technically legal behavior, or even covert illegality, and instead now openly flout the law in service of a goal that looks more and more to be about simply grabbing as much wealth as possible in the face of impending economic and ecological collapse. https://jacobinmag.com/2019/02/steve-mnuchin-trump-treasury-foreclosures _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] That thing you do | Richard Seymour on Patreon
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Yesterday, Momentum founder Jon Lansman made headlines for his claim that antisemitism "is a widespread problem" in Labour, and that Labour underestimates "the scale of it". Expanding on his point on Twitter, Lansman estimated that there were probably "a few hundred" "hardcore antisemites" in Labour. He argued that more incidents would undoubtedly be recorded if the party adopted a proactive approach to rooting it out, rather than waiting for complaints. I just want to parse Lansman's intervention. Because his language is wildly misleading, and doesn't match up to his specific claims. And we can't pretend that it doesn't matter how politicians choose their words. We know it matters. The resulting headlines were all of the type: 'Momentum founder admits widespread antisemitism in Labour'. https://www.patreon.com/posts/that-thing-you-24946485 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] How a Green New Deal could exploit developing countries
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * https://theconversation.com/how-a-green-new-deal-could-exploit-developing-countries-111726 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Moderator's note
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Will do. This was the result of my using email via the phone, with which I'm not familiar (nor particularly happy). On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 8:25 AM Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > POSTING RULES & NOTES > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > * > > I just purged a number of messages from A. Stewart and J. Pasco from the > moderator's queue because they had more than 3 recipients. In the > future, please stay within 3 recipients if you want to avoid being held > in a moderator's queue. > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/markalause%40gmail.com > _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Moderator's note
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I just purged a number of messages from A. Stewart and J. Pasco from the moderator's queue because they had more than 3 recipients. In the future, please stay within 3 recipients if you want to avoid being held in a moderator's queue. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] ZCommunications » Budgeting for black-out in South Africa
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * By Patrick Bond The African country with by far the most advanced infrastructure and largest energy supply increasingly appears to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown, in its economic, ecological and electricity systems. On a Sunday afternoon, February 10, generation capacity of more than 6500 MegaWatts of power supplied by the parastatal agency Eskom failed to materialize. The next five days witnessed an historic low point when the country’s installed electricity dropped to only 60% availability (27,000 MW out of 43,000 MW), resulting in persistent ‘load-shedding’ black outs. https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/budgeting-for-black-out-in-south-africa/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Reading in an Age of Catastrophe | by Edward Mendelson | The New York Review of Books
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Hutchinson’s ambitions extend beyond the 1940s to larger questions about American culture. Critics and philosophers who interpret American culture in a vocabulary learned from European culture mislead themselves and their professional disciples. In the 1940s Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno wrote still-influential essays about the debased American popular-culture industry, but as Hutchinson observes, they had assumed—naively and provincially—that the American class system matched the Central European class system, that American mass culture, like European kitsch, had been imposed on the lumpen masses by their economic overlords. In reality, American mass culture arose from different classes producing, out of their own varied sources, cultures of their own, most famously in the rise of jazz, which Adorno loathed. At the same time, American popular arts absorbed visual and verbal techniques from the most rarefied avant-garde in ways that had few European parallels. The Batman comic books, Hutchinson reports, adopted the styles of expressionist film and modernist typography. (This was not a new development: the Krazy Kat comic strip showed comparable influences twenty years earlier.) Popular culture became receptive to self-conscious modernism in ways unique to the decade. Gertrude Stein, “no longer a joke in the newspapers and popular magazines,” had become “a respected cultural icon,” commissioned by Life magazine in 1945 to travel with American troops while gathering material for a long photo essay on postwar Germany. Hutchinson reproduces the magazine’s photo of Stein posing with a half-dozen soldiers at the wreck of Hitler’s bunker. full: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/03/07/george-hutchinson-abyss-reading-age-catastrophe/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] China and Saudi Arabia: The Xinjiang Factor – LobeLog
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * In the lead up to MbS’s visit to China, Uyghur groups had expressed hope that the crown prince would address their plight with the leadership in Beijing. Yet shortly after arriving to Beijing, MbS seemingly endorsed Beijing’s “securitization campaign” in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwest China, where over one million Chinese Muslim citizens, mainly from the Uyghur ethnic minority group, are detained in “re-education camps” or “vocational training schools.” MbS said that “China has the right to carry out anti-terrorism and de-extremization work for its national security.” Chinese President Xi Jinping told MbS that Beijing and Riyadh must work together to “prevent the infiltration and spread of extremist thinking.” https://lobelog.com/china-and-saudi-arabia-the-xinjiang-factor/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] MMT, Minsky, Marx and the money fetish | Michael Roberts Blog
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Minsky’s journey from socialism to stability for capitalist profitability comes about because he and the post-Keynesians deny and/or ignore Marx’s law of value, just as the ‘market socialists’, Lange and Lerner, did. The post-Keynesians and MMTers deny that profit comes from surplus value extracted by exploitation from the capitalist production process and it is this that is the driving force for investment and employment. Instead they all have a money fetish. With the money fetish, money replaces value, rather than representing it. They all see money as both causing crises and also as solving them by creating value! That leads them to ignore the origin and role of profit, except as a residual of investment and consumer spending. https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/02/26/mmt-minsky-marx-and-the-money-fetish/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Of Insects and Men
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The deadly ecological effects of wiping out insects became obvious in the UK when grey partridges starved to death. They could not find insects to feed their chicks. The 2019 review rightly identifies “intensive farming” and its deleterious pesticides as one of the main “drivers” of insect decline and extinction. But what is intensive farming? It’s the violent metamorphosis of peasant farming to a factory armed with chemicals and giant mechanical implements. It entails the growing of genetically engineered crops requiring, usually, the heavy and repeated application of synthetic fertilizers and weed killers, the removal of hedgerows and trees and, otherwise, the landscaping of large flat fields to accommodate irrigation, drainage, and large machines. full: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/26/of-insects-and-men/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
