Re: [Marxism] Worker strike actions in Donbass?

2014-05-06 Thread Sergii Kutnii
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Rabkor is essentially writing fantasy fiction about Donbass.

In reality, miners' unions are pro-unity and took part in unity
rallies in Donetsk under Ukrainian flags. They have a good reason to
do so: the problem of Donbass is that the coal expensive and
low-quality, all the mines are very deep because all the top layers
have already been mined; thus Donbass coal mines wouldn't survive free
market competition.

However, Ukrainian government keeps them afloat by subsidies for two reasons.

The first reason is that coal miners are surely the best organized and
most militant group of workers in Ukraine that launched massive
strikes in the 90s so the government fears them.

The second one is Russian gas price for Ukraine which is so high that
it's reasonable to buy Russian gas back from the EU countries. This
creates demand for Ukrainian coal as an alternative to Russian gas.

Should Donbass join Russia, this would change since Russia has much
cheaper open-pit coal from Siberia, not saying about oil and gas. In
the Russian part of Donbass all coal mines were closed except the two
belonging to Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov.

And independent Donbass would not have the financial resources needed
to sustain its coal mining. Thus miners have good reasons for being
pro-unity.

The recent strike in Krasnodon on Rinat Akhmetov's mines had pure
economical reasons - it was directed against Akhmetov's wage cuts and
according to reports from the site of the events, the miners distanced
themselves from separatists and did not put forward anti-government
slogans.

As for Yenakiyevo, Ukrainian media report just about 300-strong mob of
separatists seizing Akhmetov's company office. I can't either verify
or confirm their relation to miners or metal workers.

Thererfore separatists are generally hostile to miners' unions. Here
are some statements:

http://kvpu.org.ua/uk/news/6/3144/zayava-nezalezhnoi-profspilki-girnikiv-ukraini-shhodo-zagrozlivoi-situacii-v-kraini

http://kvpu.org.ua/uk/news/6/3142/zayava-kvpu-shhodo-ostannikh-podijj-v-kraini

http://kvpu.org.ua/uk/news/4/3148/separatisty-zakhvatili-gp-%22artemugol%22-v-gorlovke

I would say that the pro-Russian militias pose greater fascist threat
to miners than government in Kiev.


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[Marxism] Why not make Canberra the cannabis capital of Australia?

2014-05-06 Thread en . passant
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If Canberra is to survive the dopes it could do worse than look at dope.

http://enpassant.com.au/2014/05/06/why-not-make-canberra-the-cannabis-capital-of-australia/


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[Marxism] Blog post: Playing To Win

2014-05-06 Thread michael yates
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Full at http://cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2014/05/05/playing-win/



When I was a boy, I loved sports. Baseball was my passion, and I could be 
found in the backyard, even in the middle of winter, endlessly throwing a 
rubber-coated baseball into the air and hitting it as far as I could with my 
bat. I played organized ball from the age of nine to twenty-two, in Little 
League, Pony League, American Legion, High School, College, and in town 
leagues. When I began teaching, basketball became my new sports obsession, and 
I played seven days a week for many years.



In a working class town, excellence in sports was much prized, and for me, 
helped secure my budding “manhood.” It greatly aided my desire to fit in, to be 
considered someone who was physically tough. Sports allowed me to be good at 
something and respected at the same time. Academic excellence wasn’t even a 
close second.



It was impossible then, in the 1950s ane 1960s, just as it probably still is, 
to be sports-crazy and not worship competition. When I played, I wanted to win. 
Defeat bothered me; there was never a game that I didn’t do whatever I could to 
win. This often led me to behave badly. I had no sympathy for teammates whose 
performance was below par. I’d yell and scream at them. Once when I was fifteen 
and pitching in an important contest, our third baseman dropped an easy pop 
fly. I shouted an obscenity at him. My father was watching the game and was so 
angry at my outburst that he came onto the field and told me to apologize. To 
little effect, however; I wasn’t chastened and didn’t change my behavior. . . 
. 

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[Marxism] Thomas Piketty Interview: Economist Discusses His Distaste for Marx | New Republic

2014-05-06 Thread Louis Proyect

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Re: [Marxism] Thomas Piketty Interview: Economist Discusses His Distaste for Marx | New Republic

2014-05-06 Thread Andrew Pollack
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An important interview in which he exposes his willful ignorance. He admits
never having read any Marx except the Manifesto, yet blithely slanders Marx
for having no data.

So leave aside the fact for now that he says nothing about surplus value,
rates of profit (falling or otherwise), or any other key Marxist economic
concept (well, not nothing: he lies and claims Marx didn't deal with
productivity increases).

What he means by Marx having no data is that Marx doesn't accumulate the
kind of data that can be plugged into an x-y graph comparing two variables,
which is the be-all and end-all for mainstream economists (Piketty doesn't
do it in a particularly sophisticated way, but that's for he and his
colleagues to deal with).

Marx DOES include more than enough data to prove the validity of his
formulas for surplus and profit rates and on that basis to outline laws of
motion, patterns of accumulation etc.

And all that is a solid basis for empirical investigations like those of
Shaikh and Tonak on national accounts which expose Piketty's data for the
amateurish conglomeration it is.


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[Marxism] Israeli Soldier Who Cocked Gun at West Bank Teens Sparks IDF Rebellion | VICE News

2014-05-06 Thread Louis Proyect

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[Marxism] Alan Guth: What made the Big Bang bang - Magazine - The Boston Globe

2014-05-06 Thread Louis Proyect

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How did something come out of nothing?

http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2014/05/02/alan-guth-what-made-big-bang-bang/RmI4s9yCI56jKF6ddMiF4L/story.html


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Re: [Marxism] Australian Socialist Alliance edges into the Putinite camp

2014-05-06 Thread Nick Fredman
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On 06/05/2014, at 8:52 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote:

 But even more puzzling is the absence of debate on their own mailing list on 
 Yahoo or here about all this. I have trouble figuring out whether this is a 
 function of the sort of disdain for the petty-bourgeois Internet shared by 
 the ISO and the SWP or instead a pronounced tendency in their ranks toward 
 allowing an orientation to be determined by specialists like Renfrey 
 Clarke. 

For one thing a lot of Internet discussion has moved to Facebook, for good or 
ill. For another Renfrey isn't necessarily revered as an expert, for example on 
Libya where there was a lot of public discussion around 2011-12 and if I recall 
correctly to the extent there was any line adopted, Renfrey's very positive 
stance towards the rebels was a minority one. See e.g. 
http://links.org.au/node/2300. For a third thing Socialist Alliance's line 
clearly isn't what's in Links, as there's a variety of views there. Socialist 
Alliance is discussing a line for a conference in a month, which is:

[From 
http://alliancevoices.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/draft-international-perspectives.html]

7. The fragile recovery from the GFC and the Great Recession that followed has 
been at the expense of the large majority of people who have been forced to 
shoulder the main burden. As a result a continuing political crisis of 
neo-liberalism continues to break out into political upheavals and what the IMF 
calls “geopolitical risks”. These include the continuing wars and uprisings in 
the Middle East, the conflict in Ukraine and the continuing popular 
mobilisations against austerity in southern Europe.

8. However, many of these mass uprisings also revealed the limits of 
spontaneous revolts as well as the challenges – and necessity – of developing 
the self-organisation and political consciousness of the oppressed and building 
a political force that represents the interests of the oppressed and is capable 
of leading a struggle for political power against the ruling classes. In the 
absence of such developments, right-wing populists, local elites and 
imperialist powers will exploit the situation. We can see this dynamic unfold 
in Egypt, Syria and the Ukraine.

9. The Socialist Alliance will continue to stand in solidarity with all 
struggles against oppression and exploitation even where we disagree with the 
political leadership of such struggles. For instance, we defend the supporters 
of the Muslim Brotherhood and other dissidents facing brutal repression under 
the Egyptian military regime, even though we disagreed with the politics of MB 
and the former Morsi government.

10. We oppose – and seek to expose – any imperialist intervention and 
manipulation of these conflicts but we reject the approach of those leftists 
who in the name of opposing imperialism whitewash bloody dictatorships like 
that the Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad. Similarly, while we condemn the 
interference of the US and EU in the conflict in Ukraine we also call for an 
end to the intervention by the Putin government of Russia. We support the right 
of self-determination of Ukraine as well as the right of people in the Crimea 
to decide their future; however, this must include the right of the Crimean 
Tartars to return to their homeland. 

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Re: [Marxism] Bandera and Ukraine

2014-05-06 Thread Paul Flewers
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I know Chris Ford well and readily acknowledge his expertise on the history
of Ukraine, but I'm surprised that he wrote that 'put
simply without Stalinism there would have been no Bandera'. The hard-line
Ukrainian nationalism -- 'integralism', as it was often called -- that
Bandera espoused was around well before Stalin's taking over the reins in
Moscow, and the integralist OUN, of which Bandera became a major leader,
was formed in 1929, that is, just as Stalin took over and some years before
the famine in Soviet Ukraine, and Bandera had become its chief propaganda
officer in 1931. No doubt the famine in Soviet Ukraine reinforced Bandera
in his views, but he was an integralist well before it happened.

If we interpret Chris' statement in the way that without the Stalinist
experience, Bandera's brand of integralism would not have taken off; again,
I would dispute this. Integralism was a common factor right across Eastern
Europe in the interwar period, and it occurred within nations that were
established, such as Poland, and amongst nationalities who did not have a
nation-state of their own, Ukrainians being a notable case (there was also
a Jewish brand of integralism, articulated by Jabotinsky). Ukrainian
integralism grew up largely in Poland, which incorporated much of Western
Ukraine, and whose regime persecuted Ukrainians as bad as if not actually
worse than it persecuted Jews within its borders. Again, news of the famine
in Soviet Ukraine would have intensified Ukrainian integralism, but it grew
up to quite some degree in response to Polish chauvinism and in parallel
with such sentiments across the area.

Integralism had movements amongst most if not all nationalities right
across Europe in the interwar period, and, especially in Eastern Europe, it
keyed in neatly with existing anti-Jewish sentiments, in places (such as
Poland) informing government policies when integralists got into office,
and creating a murderous brew which erupted when the Nazi invasion took
place, with the Nazis both permitting and encouraging pogrom gangs to run
amok.

The very real crimes of Stalinism in Ukraine, whether or not or to what
degree they were propelled by specific anti-Ukrainian sentiments on the
part of the Soviet bureaucracy (it's a moot point, as Russification took
place in all non-Russian areas and the 1932-33 famine also badly hit
southern Russia and Kazakhstan), gave a big impetus to Ukrainian
integralism, but I would suggest that even had the Soviet Union not evolved
into Stalinism, the famine not occurred and the Soviet regime had not
expanded into what was in 1939 Polish territory, a brand of extreme
right-wing Ukrainian nationalism with definite fascist features would have
come into being, and would have been no less murderous towards other
nationalities, especially Jews, than the other integralists in the area at
the time.

Paul F

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[Marxism] Ukraine -- Reactionary Elements On Both Sides

2014-05-06 Thread Paul Flewers
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A pretty good piece here 
http://www.dreamdeferred.org.uk/2014/05/ukraine-slides-towards-civil-war-there-is-no-good-side-to-choose/:
'...  neither Euromaidan nor the pro-Russian movement in the east has
raised the sort of politics and demands that could unite workers across
Ukraine. They remain entrenched in the traditional political divide --
formerly expressed in voting for parties aligned with the two wings of
Ukraine's oligarchy: one whose interests lie with the EU and the other
whose interests are closely tied to Russia. Now this dead-end politics has
been militarised. And this has a dynamic of its own -- one that is
spiralling out of control as the formal state structures implode
helplessly.'

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Re: [Marxism] Australian Socialist Alliance edges into the Putinite camp

2014-05-06 Thread Louis Proyect

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On 5/6/14 9:30 AM, Nick Fredman wrote:

For one thing a lot of Internet discussion has moved to Facebook, for good or 
ill.


Really? Why don't you point me in the right direction since both the 
Links and Greenleft FB groups are pretty much the same thing as the 
Green Left Mailing list on Yahoo, a place for Terry to send out links to 
Links and Greenleft articles. I'd love to see some discussion about 
Ukraine on the Yahoo mailing list. From the looks of things there, 
Ilitis, Clarke, Annis and Kagarlitsky speak for your membership. I only 
hope that you people put the Borotba statement on Links for 
informational purposes since it is really toxic. Just about all the 
evidence it puts forward originated from Russia. I expect that Annis 
and Ilitis take this garbage seriously but anybody who hasn't drunk 
Putin's Kool-Aid would not.



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Re: [Marxism] Bandera and Ukraine

2014-05-06 Thread Louis Proyect

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On 5/6/14 9:33 AM, Paul Flewers wrote:

I know Chris Ford well and readily acknowledge his expertise on the history
of Ukraine, but I'm surprised that he wrote that 'put
simply without Stalinism there would have been no Bandera'. The hard-line
Ukrainian nationalism -- 'integralism', as it was often called -- that
Bandera espoused was around well before Stalin's taking over the reins in
Moscow, and the integralist OUN, of which Bandera became a major leader,
was formed in 1929, that is, just as Stalin took over and some years before
the famine in Soviet Ukraine, and Bandera had become its chief propaganda
officer in 1931. No doubt the famine in Soviet Ukraine reinforced Bandera
in his views, but he was an integralist well before it happened.


Yes, in fact it was during the heroic days of the Comintern that 
hostility to communism--or at least a distorted form--took root. Let me 
refer to that FI article that I scanned in to remind you of the 
circumstances:



http://louisproyect.org/2014/04/20/lenins-party-great-russian-chauvinism-and-the-betrayal-of-ukrainian-national-aspirations/

Skrypnyk, a personal friend of Lenin, and a realist always studying the 
relationship of forces, was seeking a minimum of Ukrainian federation 
with Russia and a maximum of national independence. In his opinion, it 
was the international extension of the revolution which would make it 
possible to resist in the most effective fashion the centralising 
Greater Russian pressure. At the head of the first Bolshevik government 
in the Ukraine he had had some very bitter experiences: the chauvinist 
behaviour of Muraviev, the commander of the Red Army who took Kiev, the 
refusal to recognize his government and the sabotage of his work by 
another commander, Antonov-Ovseyenko, for whom the existence of such a 
government was the product of fantasies about an Ukrainian nationality. 
In addition, Skrypnyk was obliged to fight bitterly for Ukrainian unity 
against the Russian Bolsheviks who, in several regions, proclaimed 
Soviet republics, fragmenting the country. The integration of Galicia 
into the Ukraine did not interest them either. The national aspiration 
to sobornist’, the unity of the country, was thus openly flouted. It was 
with the “Katerynoslavian” right wing of the party that there was the 
most serious confrontation. It formed a Soviet republic in the mining 
and industrial region of Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih, including the Donbas, with 
the aim of incorporating it into Russia. This republic, its leaders 
proclaimed, was that of, a Russian proletariat “which does not want to 
hear anything about some so-called Ukraine and has nothing in common 
with it”. This attempted secession could count on some support in 
Moscow. The Skrypnyk government had to fight against these tendencies of 
its Russian comrades, for the sobornist’ of the Soviet Ukraine within 
the national borders set, through the Central Rada, by the national 
movement of the masses.


The first congress of the CP(B) of the Ukraine took place in Moscow. For 
Lenin and the leadership of the Russian CP(B) the decision of Tahanrih 
had the flavour of a nationalist deviation. They were not ready to 
accept an independent Bolshevik party in the Ukraine or a Ukrainian 
section of the Komintern. The CP(B) of the Ukraine could only be a 
regional organization of the pan-Russian CP(B), according to the thesis 
“one country, one party”. Is the Ukraine not a country?



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[Marxism] Steal This E-Book? : The New Yorker

2014-05-06 Thread Louis Proyect

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Marx died in 1883. Last month, the problem he described reappeared in 
digital form. The volunteers who manage the Marxists Internet Archive, a 
free online repository of Marxist writing from the nineteenth and 
twentieth centuries, received a letter from Lawrence  Wishart, a London 
publishing house, asking them to remove several hundred early texts by 
Marx and Engels from their site. Lawrence  Wishart has partial 
ownership of the rights to the only complete English translation of the 
Marx  Engels Collected Works, a set of fifty volumes representing a 
thirty-year effort by translators. The copyright is shared with 
International Publishers, based in New York, and a long-defunct Soviet 
publishing house called Progress Press.


full: 
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[Marxism] tankies abuse Cecily McMillan's cause

2014-05-06 Thread Andrew Pollack
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http://rt.com/op-edge/157084-protests-activist-wall-street/

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[Marxism] [Trotskyist Fraction] Immigrants resist Obama’s massive deportations

2014-05-06 Thread Juan Andres Gallardo
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http://www.ft-ci.org/Immigrants-resist-Obama-s-massive-deportations?lang=en

... Although the movement has had its experience with the Democrats, it
still must break definitively and create an organization independent of the
bourgeois parties. A true moblization of the rank-and-file is necessary in
the workplaces and in the streets to demonstrate the power of immigrant
workers

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[Marxism] [Trotskyist Fraction] Argentina. May 1st: With the Left and the Combative Unionists

2014-05-06 Thread Juan Andres Gallardo
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http://www.ft-ci.org/May-1-With-the-Left-and-the-Combative-Unionists?lang=en

In 2013, the election of the Left and the workers Front (FIT) showed
that hundreds thousands of workers oppose the government, standing for a
working class independence alternative. The strike and roadblocks have
revealed the potential of the working class and have demonstrated what can
be accomplished by the unions if the Left steps up to the front, refusing
to stop until rupturing the austerity measures.

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Re: [Marxism] Bandera and Ukraine

2014-05-06 Thread Louis Proyect

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On 5/6/14 9:56 AM, Louis Proyect wrote:

e it happened.


Yes, in fact it was during the heroic days of the Comintern that
hostility to communism--or at least a distorted form--took root. Let me
refer to that FI article that I scanned in to remind you of the
circumstances:


Correction. Andrew Pollack scanned it, I did the OCR.


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[Marxism] [Trotskyist Fraction] Marx Is Back, a mini-series of fiction based on the Communist Manifesto!

2014-05-06 Thread Juan Andres Gallardo
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First episode:
http://www.ft-ci.org/Marx-Is-Back-a-mini-series-of-fiction-based-on-the-Communist-Manifesto?lang=en



*May 1st a special film series is coming out : Marx Is Back, a
mini-series of fiction based on the Communist Manifesto !*

Marx Is Back takes place in todays’ Argentina, which suffers like other
countries the blows of economic crises. Workers of a printing house are
facing suspensions and lay-offs; a group of workers are organizing to fight
back as the union officials try to push them aside. At the same time,
Martin, part of the workers’ group, starts to read the Communist Manifesto
and ends up meeting Karl Marx himself, is he dreaming or is it reality ?
All through the episodes Marx appears in the story, exposing his
revolutionary ideas regarding social classes, the crises, the State and
communism.

The famous actor Carlos Weber (Marx en el Soho) plays the role of Karl
Marx in this story along with a group of young actors from the independent
national scene.
The series was produced by the IPS (Instituto del Pensamiento Socialista)
and directed by the Contraimagen group and the TVPTS (online TV channel).
It was initiated by the PTS (Socialist Workers’ Party), a member of the
Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores (Left and Workers’ Front), as
part of its work to spread Marxist ideas throughout the country.

Coming out fittingly on May 1st, International Workers’ Day, this fictional
mini-series aims at uniting actual history with the fundamental ideas of
the classic Marxist pamphlet The Communist Manifesto.

The 4 episodes will be issued online throughout May, each Thursday, in
Spanish with subtitles available in English, French and Spanish. They’ll be
available on www.tvpts.tv, www.pts.org.ar, and social networks.



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[Marxism] [Trotskyist Fraction] Venezuela: With the businessmen, everything; without the businessmen, nothing?

2014-05-06 Thread Juan Andres Gallardo
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[Marxism] [Trotskyist Fraction] Spain: Panrico and Coca Cola: A big step in the coordination of the struggles

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http://www.ft-ci.org/Spain-Panrico-and-Coca-Cola-A-big-step-in-the-coordination-of-the-struggles?lang=en



...The working women and men of Panrico and Coca Cola are leading the
biggest strikes in Spain. The war cry of Coca Cola Fuenlabrada is Neither
closures nor layoffs, a program of struggle linked to the Zero layoffs,
zero wage cuts of the strikers at Panrico. If it is a matter of
coordinating or socializing the the struggles, these courageous working men
and women are trailblazers

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[Marxism] Golden Dawn on the crisis in Ukraine

2014-05-06 Thread Louis Proyect

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(A new anti-imperialist movement in the offing? Golden Dawn et al, the 
Syrian Baathists, Counterfire, Seumas Milne, RT.com and George Galloway.)


Ukraine is Washington’s pretext for a conflict with Russia. The threat 
of conflict is evident from the flood of propaganda in the Zionist 
media. Putin is demonized daily as Saddam Hussein and Qaddafi were 
earlier, while known Zionist newspapers like the Washington Post and New 
York Times, present daily 'evidence' Russian troops are ready to invade 
Ukraine. The only things missing are the weapons of mass destruction in 
order to have a complete repeat.


The events in Ukraine demonstrate clearly that American imperialism has 
launched a strategy, the first unsuccessful steps which were Syria and 
Iran, weakening and elimination of Russia as a Great Power. Russia is 
the most serious obstacle to the American imperialism to assert its 
hegemony in the Middle East, East Mediterranean, and Eurasia.


https://news.vice.com/article/i-know-you-are-a-fascist-but-what-am-i


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Re: [Marxism] tankies abuse Cecily McMillan's cause

2014-05-06 Thread aaron s. amaral
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The Marcyites' standard celebration of dictators, and their reduction of
popular movements to arms of the US government, all in the defence of my
enemy's enemies, does not surprise me in the least. But this line made me
double take: The US and western media have raved on and on about the
*bravery* of wealthy Chinese people who *heroically* engage in public
indecency on a beach.

Public indecency? Really. May the Holy Spirit of Lenin help us when
Workers' World become the upholder of proletarian morality with the backing
of the Chinese government. I hope they are at least profiting,  like the
now-departed Cde. Healy, for their cheerleading...

-aaron a.


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 Seek for food and clothing first, then
the Kingdom of God shall be added unto you.
   Hegel, 1807

  The class struggle, which is always present to a historian influenced by
Marx, is a fight for the crude and material things without which no refined
and spiritual things could exist. Nevertheless, it is not in the form of
the spoils which fall to the victor that the latter make their presence
felt in the class struggle. They manifest themselves in this struggle as
courage, humor, cunning, and fortitude. They have retroactive force and
will constantly call in question every victory, past and present, of the
rulers. As flowers turn toward the sun, by dint of a secret heliotropism
the past strives to turn toward that sun which is rising in the sky of
history. A historical materialist must be aware of this most inconspicuous
of all transformations.

-Walter Benjamin, Spring, 1940

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[Marxism] Does anyone have access to JSTOR

2014-05-06 Thread Ernest Leif
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http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2979/blackcamera.3.2.140?uid=3739832uid=2134uid=4581453457uid=2uid=70uid=3uid=4581453447uid=3739256uid=60sid=21104117351223

It's an interview with Khalil Muhammad on the film Nothing But A Man


Thanks in advance,


Ernest

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[Marxism] In South Africa, A.N.C. Is Counting on the Past

2014-05-06 Thread Louis Proyect

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NY Times, May 6 2014
In South Africa, A.N.C. Is Counting on the Past
By NORIMITSU ONISHI

ALEXANDRA, South Africa — In this poor black township on the outskirts 
of Johannesburg, the campaign posters exhorting voters to return the 
African National Congress to power in Wednesday’s election reached deep 
into the party’s glorious past.


“Do it for Madiba,” said one poster, referring to Nelson Mandela, South 
Africa’s first black president, by his clan name.


“Do it for Chris Hani,” another poster declared, referring to the 
firebrand A.N.C. leader assassinated in 1993.


The posters, put up by the South African Communist Party, the A.N.C.’s 
partner in government since the end of white rule in 1994, avoided 
mentioning the country’s current president, Jacob Zuma, who is beset by 
scandal. But the misdirection was not fooling Nomakwezi Buya.


“They are just abusing the names of Mandela and Chris Hani because they 
are dead people,” said Ms. Buya, 59, who is a former A.N.C. loyalist who 
says she will vote for a breakaway party this time. “They are not 
keeping their legacy alive.”


Five months after the death of Mr. Mandela, the party is counting on its 
dead heroes to keep its current, sullied leadership in power. It is 
likely to work: The A.N.C. is poised to win overwhelmingly in this 
nation’s fifth democratic election, granting a second term to Mr. Zuma, 
72, whose popularity was further eroded by a recent report detailing the 
misuse of $23 million in public funds to upgrade his private home.


But a projected decline in support is expected to chip away at what has 
effectively been a one-party state since the end of apartheid 20 years 
ago. By how much remains the key question.


In recent months, young men have looted shops, burned tires and hurled 
rocks in townships surrounding Johannesburg and Pretoria, in what are 
called “service delivery protests” aimed at the A.N.C.


Dissident veterans of the party are urging voters to spoil their ballots 
in a “Vote No” campaign. The Economic Freedom Fighters, a new party that 
is led by the former leader of the A.N.C.’s youth wing and is calling 
for the nationalization of mines and banks without compensation, is 
attracting the young and angry. Traditional A.N.C. allies like the 
National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, the nation’s biggest 
trade union, have also broken away.


Their message — that the party that freed South Africa is now led by a 
corrupt class that has failed to raise the standard of living of the 
average black South African — resonates here in this traditional A.N.C. 
stronghold.


Still, the absence of a clear alternative for the black majority, as 
well as older black voters’ enduring loyalty to the figures who 
liberated them, has given the A.N.C. an insurmountable lead in the polls.


“The people that go to vote are our grannies, our parents, because they 
came with the A.N.C. from far,” said Tshidiso Nonyane, 25, who voted for 
the party in the past but has not registered for this election. “The 
A.N.C. is going to win because of those people. If there was another 
party that would truly bring jobs, better housing and stuff like that, 
that would be better.”


A college graduate with a degree in marketing, he is now working at a 
McDonald’s.


“The youth is not voting because there’s no point in voting,” he said. 
“Even on that day, we won’t even be watching the news to check who is 
winning or what because we know the A.N.C. is going to win. So the 
A.N.C. is only winning for the wrong reasons.”


Nevertheless, this election, the most competitive in South Africa’s 
post-apartheid history, offers some hints of the forces that could 
loosen the A.N.C.’s grip on power in the years ahead. The Democratic 
Alliance, the main opposition party traditionally associated with white 
South Africans, has attracted middle-class blacks and begun widely 
campaigning in black townships like Alexandra with the message of 
“Together for jobs.”


“For the first time, the A.N.C. is not taking electoral victory for 
granted,” said Steven Friedman, a political analyst at the University of 
Johannesburg. “Even if the competition is being hyped up, the A.N.C. is 
taking it seriously, and that is politically significant.”


As an example, Mr. Friedman said, the party had directed its lawmakers 
to pass only legislation popular among voters in the run-up to the 
election — the first time it had bothered to do so.


Here in Alexandra, Ms. Buya was planning to vote for the Congress of the 
People, a party started by dissident A.N.C. members in 2008. Asked why, 
she waved her arms inside her small shack where she lives with her two 
daughters and two grandchildren under a thin roof made of corrugated metal.


“We still live here after 

Re: [Marxism] Worker strike actions in Donbass?

2014-05-06 Thread h0ost
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On 05/06/2014 06:08 AM, Sergii Kutnii wrote:
 
 http://kvpu.org.ua/uk/news/6/3144/zayava-nezalezhnoi-profspilki-girnikiv-ukraini-shhodo-zagrozlivoi-situacii-v-kraini
 
 http://kvpu.org.ua/uk/news/6/3142/zayava-kvpu-shhodo-ostannikh-podijj-v-kraini
 
 http://kvpu.org.ua/uk/news/4/3148/separatisty-zakhvatili-gp-%22artemugol%22-v-gorlovke
 
 I would say that the pro-Russian militias pose greater fascist threat
 to miners than government in Kiev.

Thanks for the info.  KVPU is the independent trade union federation,
correct?



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[Marxism] NEW FROM VERSO: BOHEMIANS BY DAVID BERGER AND PAUL BUHLE

2014-05-06 Thread VersoMail Verso
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Bohemians: A Graphic History

by David Bergerhttp://www.versobooks.com/authors/1836-david-berger and Paul 
Buhlehttp://www.versobooks.com/authors/266-paul-buhle



OUT NOW





Marvelously drawn tribute to free thinkers ... Engaging, informative, and 
inspiring. – Joe Sacco

http://www.versobooks.com/books/1563-bohemians





The countercultures that came to define bohemia spanned the Atlantic, 
encompassing Walt Whitman's Brooklyn and the Folies Bergère of Josephine Baker, 
Gertrude Stein's salons and the Manhattan clubs where Dizzy Gillespie made his 
name. Edited by Paul Buhle and David Berger, Bohemians is the graphic history 
of this movement and its illustrious figures. The stories collected here 
revisit the utopian ideas behind millennial communities, the rise of Greenwich 
Village and Harlem, the multiracial and radical jazz and dance worlds, and the 
West Coast, Southern, and Midwest bohemias of America, among other radical 
scenes.

Drawn by an all-star cast of comic artists, Bohemiansis a broad and 
entertaining account of the rebel impulse in American cultural history. 
Featuring work by Spain Rodriguez, Sharon Rudahl, Peter Kuper, Sabrina Jones, 
David Lasky, Afua Richardson, Lance Tooks, Milton Knight, and more.

The ebook edition is expanded from the paperback edition, and includes 
additional chapters on the swing music scene, La Boheme and midwest bohemians, 
as well as expanded material on the Greenwich Village intellectuals, Walt 
Whitman and Harlem jazz club Minton's Playhouse.



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DAVID BERGER was born and raised first in Brooklyn and then in that most 
bohemian of suburbs, Croton-on-Hudson. He currently writes, teaches and 
occupies Wall Street while residing in Chelsea with his wife, the 
singer/songwriter Audra MsBlu Berger.



PAUL BUHLE, formerly a senior lecturer at Brown University, produces radical 
comics. He founded the SDS Journal Radical America and the archive Oral History 
of the American Left and, with Mari Jo Buhle, is coeditor of the Encyclopedia 
of the American Left. He lives in Madison.



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who've moved against society's grain and turned their backs on convention. 
Engaging, informative, and inspiring.
– Joe Sacco, author of Palestine



Words become graphic and the graphics bring Bohemia alive in this wonderful 
history by Buhle and Berger. There is nothing worse than being severed from 
one's own roots, as demonstrated by decades of identity movements, there is 
nothing worse than being stripped of one's heritage, unless it's the theft of 
identity by thieving oppressors. This graphic anthology beautifully 
reconstructs the roots of America's counter-culture from the lost stories of 
men and women, blacks and whites, gay and straight who were the original 
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– Tom Hayden



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– Sarah Schulman, author of The Gentrification 
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Once again, Paul Buhle has assembled a stellar group of writers and 
cartoonists to illuminate a subject often ignored by the wider pop-obsessed 
culture. The stories in Bohemians: A Graphic History bristle with real-life 
energy and detail, bringing this slice of history to vibrant life. The tale of 
Yosl Cutler's radical Yiddish puppets by Joel Schechter (featuring Spain 
Rodriguez's last published work, with an assist by Jay Kinney), is worth the 
price of admission alone.
– Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead



Delightful, witty, and informative, Bohemians is a bar-raising performance in 
the genre of graphic histories… a comic-art volume that narrates a complicated 
story of race, sex, and rebellion with great aplomb to provide portraits that 
are candid and humane.
– Alan M. Wald, author of The New York Intellectuals



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– Kirkus Reviews



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[Marxism] Smoke and Mirrors: The Roots of Russian Revanchism

2014-05-06 Thread Matthew Russo
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Chris Floyd has finally had enough:

http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2389-smoke-and-mirrors-the-roots-of-russian-revanchism.html

See also my comment in the list.

-Matt

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[Marxism] Despite the narrative, Syria’s rebels may be gaining ground | The National

2014-05-06 Thread Louis Proyect

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One of the recent changes in the conflict has been that the rebels are 
becoming more organised and more effective. Infighting is still common, 
but they are learning to coordinate operations.


It is safe to say that the Free Syrian Army, in particular, is back 
after months of being eclipsed by Salafist and jihadist groups. A 
process of consolidating rebel factions under a common leadership is 
underway.


According to rebel sources, the FSA is winning back armed factions, 
previously acquired by religious groups. These factions are joining the 
FSA for several reasons, not least because the FSA is increasingly 
better funded and as supplies to extremist forces are no longer steady 
as was the case in the past – unless such forces control resources 
inside Syria, such as oilfields.


Read more: 
http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/despite-the-narrative-syrias-rebels-may-be-gaining-ground#ixzz30xuGpeba

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[Marxism] Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement

2014-05-06 Thread MM
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06 May 2014
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement

The ANC Must be removed from Office

For nine years our movement has boycotted elections. We have been clear that no 
political party represents the interests of the poor and that it was necessary 
for us to build our own power in order to present our own needs and demands to 
society. In these nine years we have won many victories but most of us remain 
in shacks. Twenty years of shack life is a disgrace in a democracy.

Corruption is also a disgrace. In Durban you get nothing without a membership 
card for the ANC. All development goes through the councillors and their ward 
committees and ANC branch executive committees. Development is there to make 
ANC leaders rich and to control the rest of us by only making it available to 
ANC members. Development is not for the people. This kind of corruption is a 
disgrace in a democracy.

But an even bigger disgrace is the repression that we have faced from the ANC, 
its members, its leaders and its assassins. They have banned our marches; 
attacked our marches; arrested us on trumped up charges; assaulted us in 
detention; used armed men to drive us from our homes with police support; used 
death threats, attacks in our homes and torture in police stations to 
intimidate people to manufacture evidence against us; detained us for months 
and months while we wait for a trial that gets thrown out of court because 
there is no evidence against us; used their anti-land invasion unit to evict us 
for political reasons and beaten and shot us in our communities. Senior members 
of the ANC and the Municipality have made public death threats against us. Two 
activists were assassinated in Cato Crest last year and another, an unarmed 
teenage girl, was executed by the police.

We cannot go on with this level of repression. As everyone knows we are not the 
only people who face this kind of repression. We all know about Andries Tatane 
and all the others murdered by the police on protests. We all know about the 
Marikana Massacre.

In Durban court orders are just ignored by the Municipality and so the courts 
cannot protect us. Mostly the media and civil society tend to agree that 
because we are poor and black we are automatically violent and criminal and too 
stupid to think our own politics and so we do not get that much protection from 
the media and civil society either. We have some valued comrades on the left 
among the middle classes but mostly this left just wants to bus us into its 
meetings so that it can look credible without having any interest at all in our 
struggles, our ideas or our safety. NUMSA asked us to support their march in 
Durban but they have not shown any concern to support us when we face 
repression. The EFF also asked us to support their march in Durban but, like 
NUMSA, they have not supported us when we face repression. So far our 
experience of both these organisations is that they are operating like the left 
NGOs – we are treated as if our only role is to provide the large numbers of 
people that they need to be bussed in to justify their politics.

Because we cannot carry on like this we took a decision to vote against the 
ANC. We did not want to split our vote. We decided to collectivise our vote in 
order to make it stronger. Our main priority was that the ANC must be removed 
from office. We knew that this will not happen in this election but we were 
still clear that if we can weaken the ANC then we must do that. Also we knew 
that if we collectivise our vote all the political parties will know that there 
is a large bloc of votes that will be available at the next election for the 
party that does the best job in opposing repression and takes the best position 
on shack settlements.

We decided that all political parties except the ANC would be invited to make a 
presentation to the movement. Some of our members did not want to invite the DA 
to make a presentation as they are known to represent the rich and, in Cape 
Town, they are no different to the ANC when it comes to illegal and violent 
evictions. However we debated this at length and decided to invite them to make 
a presentation on the grounds that the removal of the ANC was our first 
priority and the weakening of the ANC was our second priority.

The DA, EFF, NFP and WASP all accepted the invitation to make a presentation to 
our members at the Diakonia Centre on 25 April and they all came and made their 
presentations.

The delegates to that meeting then returned to their branches to discuss the 
presentations there. We met again on 2 May and held a general meeting. At this 
meeting the general leadership did not vote as their role was to facilitate the 
meeting. The rest of the delegates voted and the 

[Marxism] Ukraine: The Only Way to Peace by Anatol Lieven | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

2014-05-06 Thread Louis Proyect

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By Anatol Levien, a long-time observer and writer on Ukraine.

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/may/05/ukraine-only-way-to-peace/


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[Marxism] Anti-Gay Republican Outed as Former Drag Queen | Issue Hawk

2014-05-06 Thread Louis Proyect

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http://issuehawk.com/igor/2014/05/05/anti-gay-republican-outed-as-former-drag-queen.html


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Re: [Marxism] Ukraine: The Only Way to Peace by Anatol Lieven | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

2014-05-06 Thread Greg McDonald
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That duck is treading water, for now at least, and given political
exigencies, it may be dead in the water. The parliament in Kiev just voted
down even the possibility of holding a referendum. It was voted down due to
security concerns.  Makes sense. Can't very well put off a planned
military attack, dictated by the terms of the IMF agreement, in order to
hold some silly plebiscite.

And also, they outlawed the communist party.

What is truly strange and terrible about this looming disaster is that all
the leading players already know and agree about what the only solution can
be, even if they disagree on the details and the timing: a federal Ukraine
with elected regional governments and robust protection for regional
interests. This, *not* further separation, is what Moscow is proposing; and
this is what the Ukrainian interim president, Olexander Turchynov, has
publicly hinted at for the Donbas. Although the rebels in Donetsk and other
eastern cities have declared the Donetsk Republic and are now planning an
independence referendum on May 11, many easterners, too, have indicated
that they want some kind of federalization and not independence or
annexation to Russia. As
interviewshttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/world/europe/behind-the-masks-in-ukraine-many-faces-of-rebellion.htmlpublished
in Sunday’s *New
York Times* make clear, even some rebel commanders themselves hope to keep
Ukraine united.



 By Anatol Levien, a long-time observer and writer on Ukraine.

 http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/may/05/ukraine-
 only-way-to-peace/




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[Marxism] Who can police the post-superpower capitalist world order? | Slavoj Žižek | Comment is free | The Guardian

2014-05-06 Thread Louis Proyect

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[Marxism] Corey Robin - Clarence Thomas' counter-revolution

2014-05-06 Thread Dennis Brasky
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http://coreyrobin.com/2014/05/05/clarence-thomass-counterrevolution/

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[Marxism-Thaxis] This is the full 50 volumes of the Lawrence Wishart MECW in searchable, retail-like quality.

2014-05-06 Thread Charles Brown
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/10041593

This is the full 50 volumes of the Lawrence  Wishart MECW in
searchable, retail-like quality.

Marx/Engels Collected Works (MECW) is the largest collection of
translations into English of the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels. It contains all works published by Marx and Engels in their
lifetimes and numerous unpublished manuscripts and letters. The
Collected Works, which was translated by Richard Dixon and others,
consists of 50 volumes. It was compiled and printed between 1975 and
2005 by Progress Publishers (Moscow) in collaboration with Lawrence
and Wishart (London) and International Publishers (New York).

The Collected Works contains material written by Marx between 1835 and
his death in 1883, and by Engels between 1838 and his death in 1895.
The early volumes include juvenilia, including correspondence between
Marx and his father, Marx's poetry, and letters from Engels to his
sister. Several volumes collect the pair's articles for the Neue
Rheinische Zeitung.

Other volumes in the Collected Works contain well-known works of Marx
and Engels, including The Communist Manifesto, The Eighteenth Brumaire
of Louis Napoleon, and Capital, lesser-known works, and previously
unpublished or untranslated manuscripts. The Collected Works includes
13 volumes of correspondence by the mature Marx and Engels, covering
the period from 1844 through 1895.
Although the Collected Works is the most complete collection of the
work by Marx and Engels published to date in English, it is not their
complete works. A project to publish the pair's complete works in
German is expected to require more than 120 volumes.

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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] This is the full 50 volumes of the Lawrence Wishart MECW in searchable, retail-like quality.

2014-05-06 Thread rdumain
I don't know how torrents work. I downloaded a pdf which I think is 
vols. 1-47. 


On Tue, 6 May 2014 23:28:23 -0400, Charles Brown cb31...@gmail.com wrote:
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/10041593


This is the full 50 volumes of the Lawrence  Wishart MECW in
searchable, retail-like quality. 


Marx/Engels Collected Works (MECW) is the largest collection of
translations into English of the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels. It contains all works published by Marx and Engels in their
lifetimes and numerous unpublished manuscripts and letters. The
Collected Works, which was translated by Richard Dixon and others,
consists of 50 volumes. It was compiled and printed between 1975 and
2005 by Progress Publishers (Moscow) in collaboration with Lawrence
and Wishart (London) and International Publishers (New York). 


The Collected Works contains material written by Marx between 1835 and
his death in 1883, and by Engels between 1838 and his death in 1895. 
The early volumes include juvenilia, including correspondence between

Marx and his father, Marx's poetry, and letters from Engels to his
sister. Several volumes collect the pair's articles for the Neue
Rheinische Zeitung. 


Other volumes in the Collected Works contain well-known works of Marx
and Engels, including The Communist Manifesto, The Eighteenth Brumaire
of Louis Napoleon, and Capital, lesser-known works, and previously
unpublished or untranslated manuscripts. The Collected Works includes
13 volumes of correspondence by the mature Marx and Engels, covering
the period from 1844 through 1895. 
Although the Collected Works is the most complete collection of the

work by Marx and Engels published to date in English, it is not their
complete works. A project to publish the pair's complete works in
German is expected to require more than 120 volumes. 


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