[Marxism] Spain: Anti-austerity Podemos would win if elections held now, poll finds
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[Marxism] Putin on Trotsky
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[Marxism] Cooper Union Says Ending Free Tuition May Make It More Accessible - Students - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Re: [Marxism] al-Qaeda influenced by Marxism? Really?
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. * To the extent that there is any truth to this, it's probably similar to the way that American conservatives like Rush Limbaugh (or rather his ghost writers) are influenced by Gramsci. They might have picked up a few catch phrases but are probably lacking any sort of a deeper understanding of Marxism. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: [Marxism] al-Qaeda influenced by Marxism? Really? Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 08:07:48 -0400 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 doubt that Juan Cole got this right, especially after his last gaffe on how jihadists were emulating the Bolsheviks by killing Charlie Hebdo cartoonists. I forward it as a demonstration of how ignorant Cole can be on occasion. I might look further into his allegation later on.) http://www.juancole.com/2015/04/conflicts-sunni-shiite.html 4 Fish to Never Eat Click to Learn 4 Fish to NEVER Eat #40;avoid these like the plague!#41; http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/553106247bf9262446d8st03vuc _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: A Century After Armenian Genocide, Turkey’s Denial Only Deepens - NYTimes.com
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[Marxism] Fwd: Ethiopians talk of violence and land grabs as their homes are earmarked for foreign investors | World news | The Guardian
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Re: [Marxism] Miners vs Ecologists/Syriza in northern Greece
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[Marxism] Fwd: Water, Capitalism and Catastrophism » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
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. * Two films concerned with water and environmental activism arrive in New York this week. “Groundswell Rising”, which premieres at the Maysles Theater in Harlem today, is about the struggle to safeguard lakes and rivers from fracking while “Revolution”, which opens at the Cinema Village next Wednesday, documents the impact of global warming on the oceans. Taking the holistic view, one can understand how some of the most basic conditions of life are threatened by a basic contradiction. Civilization, the quintessential expression of Enlightenment values that relies on ever-expanding energy, threatens to reduce humanity to barbarism if not extinction through exactly such energy production. This challenge not only faces those of us now living under capitalism but our descendants who will be living under a more rational system. No matter the way in which goods and services are produced, for profit or on the basis of human need, humanity is faced with ecological constraints that must be overcome otherwise we will be subject to a Sixth Extinction. Under capitalism, Sixth Extinction is guaranteed. Under socialism, survival is possible but only as a result of a radical transformation of how society is organized, something that Marx alluded to in the Communist Manifesto when he called for a “gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.” full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/17/water-capitalism-and-catastrophism/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Jacobin interview with Antarsya leader
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. * Subject: Jacobin interview with Antarsya leader https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/04/antarsya-syriza-communist-party-greece-euro/ *4 Fish to Never Eat* Click to Learn 4 Fish to NEVER Eat (avoid these like the plague!) http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3142/55310b8f7dc6ab8f5c8ast03duc InflammationSolution.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3142/55310b8f7dc6ab8f5c8ast03duc _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Jacobin interview with Antarsya leader
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. * On 4/17/15 9:38 AM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote: Subject: Jacobin interview with Antarsya leader https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/04/antarsya-syriza-communist-party-greece-euro/ A useful article but isn't it about time the left should stop using the stupid jargon rupture? It is so pretentious. The reason lies exactly on the question of strategy. The main dividing line today in Greek society does not concern simply the question of austerity. It has more to do with whether there is going to be a rupture with the main narrative of the Greek bourgeoisie for the past five decades, namely the attachment to the “European Integration” process. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] April in Petrograd - Weekly Worker
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Re: [Marxism] al-Qaeda influenced by Marxism? Really?
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. * On 4/17/15 8:07 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: JUAN COLE: I see evidence of al-Qaeda thinkers, like Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was the number-two man for a long time, before bin Laden was killed, being influenced by Marxist thought, and radical Marxism. This is very clear in the technical terms that the Muslim far-right uses. They talk about a vanguard. This was a Leninist term. In some radical forms of Marxism, activists were impatient with the working class, which seemed not to want to fulfill its historical duty by rising up against the business classes, and so it engaged in sabotage—not everywhere all the time, but there were some groups that did that kind of thing in hopes of provoking a class war, because they knew the business classes would call upon their agents, the police, to crack down hard on sabotage and workers’ activism and so forth. I think that al-Qaeda picked up this kind of thinking from the Marxist fringe in places like Egypt and so forth. I think that it is a deliberate strategy on their part, the sharpening of contradictions, or the heightening of contradictions, as it’s called. I think it explains everything that happened in Iraq. I just posted this comment: Juan, I see you are doubling down on this business about al-Qaeda being influenced by Karl Marx. I have deep respect for you as an expert on the Middle East but I think you are in over your head when it comes to Marxism. You are describing something much more akin to Blanquism. The idea that sabotage was used to provoke the workers by inciting police repression is simply wrong. Sabotage has been used by socialists in guerrilla warfare such as in Cuba when pro-Batista sugar mills were burned but it was not and is not a tactic for sparking worker resistance. They burned sugar mills in Cuba in order to weaken the social base of a dictatorship and not in order to bring about police repression. The Cuban people did not need lessons on how repressive the capitalist state could be, after all. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Syria Comment » Archives The Kobani Model: Strengthening Kurdish-Arab Relations in Syria - Syria Comment
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[Marxism] al-Qaeda influenced by Marxism? Really?
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 doubt that Juan Cole got this right, especially after his last gaffe on how jihadists were emulating the Bolsheviks by killing Charlie Hebdo cartoonists. I forward it as a demonstration of how ignorant Cole can be on occasion. I might look further into his allegation later on.) http://www.juancole.com/2015/04/conflicts-sunni-shiite.html DAVID SPEEDIE: Thank you for clearing this up. [Laughter] It obviously is a fraught and complex thing. Let’s move to Europe, if we may, just a couple of questions there. On Europe, specifically in France, you use a very interesting term, a phenomenon you called “sharpening the contradictions,” saying that attacks such as Charlie Hebdo—and presumably, later the incident in Belgium and then in Copenhagen—are actually contrived by al-Qaeda to create a backlash that will bring politically unengaged Muslims into the fold. Explain that a little bit. JUAN COLE: I see evidence of al-Qaeda thinkers, like Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was the number-two man for a long time, before bin Laden was killed, being influenced by Marxist thought, and radical Marxism. This is very clear in the technical terms that the Muslim far-right uses. They talk about a vanguard. This was a Leninist term. In some radical forms of Marxism, activists were impatient with the working class, which seemed not to want to fulfill its historical duty by rising up against the business classes, and so it engaged in sabotage—not everywhere all the time, but there were some groups that did that kind of thing in hopes of provoking a class war, because they knew the business classes would call upon their agents, the police, to crack down hard on sabotage and workers’ activism and so forth. I think that al-Qaeda picked up this kind of thinking from the Marxist fringe in places like Egypt and so forth. I think that it is a deliberate strategy on their part, the sharpening of contradictions, or the heightening of contradictions, as it’s called. I think it explains everything that happened in Iraq. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Jacobin interview with Antarsya leader
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. * -Original Message- From: Louis Proyect via Marxism https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/04/antarsya-syriza-communist-party-greece-euro/ A useful article but isn't it about time the left should stop using the stupid jargon rupture? It is so pretentious. MK: Perhaps. But it is translation, and the question of ensomatosi i rixi - incorporation (into the bourgeois state) or rupture - has been put forward as the key dividing line within the Greek left for some decades now - there was even a book published in the 1990s with exactly that name - so it sounds more natural and less pretentious in Greek The reason lies exactly on the question of strategy. The main dividing line today in Greek society does not concern simply the question of austerity. It has more to do with whether there is going to be a rupture with the main narrative of the Greek bourgeoisie for the past five decades, namely the attachment to the “European Integration” process. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mkaradjis%40gmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Balotelli targeted by 4, 000 racist messages on social media - report
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[Marxism] Fwd: NESTLÉ, the Military and Colombia | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Fight for $15 a Union » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
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 Fight for $15 a Union by CARL FINAMORE The Fight for $15 minimum wage campaign came to San Francisco in the very early hours of April 15. Around 100 protestors assembled at 6am and then marched very orderly through the doors, packed the dining area and shut down for one hour the McDonalds in the heart of the city’s Latino Mission district, an area which itself is a focal point of the city’s gentrification and displacement of working class residents. Speakers spoke inside with bullhorns, something that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago when arrests would have been certain. The political climate has dramatically changed in a very short time. full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/17/the-fight-for-15-a-union/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Fwd: Jacobin interview with Antarsya leader
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. * -- Forwarded message -- From: Andrew Pollack acpolla...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:36 AM Subject: Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Jacobin interview with Antarsya leader To: Louis Proyect l...@panix.com It sounds a little fancy, but the meaning is clear, i.e. the need for a break - as opposed to tinkering or overhauling. On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: On 4/17/15 9:38 AM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote: Subject: Jacobin interview with Antarsya leader https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/04/antarsya-syriza-communist-party-greece-euro/ A useful article but isn't it about time the left should stop using the stupid jargon rupture? It is so pretentious. The reason lies exactly on the question of strategy. The main dividing line today in Greek society does not concern simply the question of austerity. It has more to do with whether there is going to be a rupture with the main narrative of the Greek bourgeoisie for the past five decades, namely the attachment to the “European Integration” process. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: War, Patriotic Fervor and Opening Day at Fenway Park » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
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 get up when the National Anthem plays because it’s not worth the hassle of being seen as unpatriotic among the many who stand. What shocks, however, is how the game of baseball has been conjoined with the national secular religion of unquestioning patriotism. Sport is now conflated with an aggressive and militaristic nationalism, as could be seen in the sky above Fenway as two F-16 fighter jets made a scheduled flyby over the baseball stadium. Having grown up as a diehard Red Sox fan from a family of likeminded Red Sox fans, I never remember any such display happening during my childhood attendance at the park. The single recognition of patriotism at ballgames during opening ceremonies has now morphed in unison with the many wars the U.S. fights. The seventh-inning stretch is now peppered with additional songs such as “God Bless America,” sung on this opening day by a talented 12-year-old student. At some point during the game a military officer in attendance at the game was recognized for his service in both Afghanistan and Iraq. When the National Anthem was sung, the playing field was filled with soldiers flanking the honor guard that carried the flag. full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/17/war-patriotic-fervor-and-opening-day-at-fenway-park/ My take: http://louisproyect.org/2008/06/17/baseball-and-capitalism/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Jacobin interview with Antarsya leader
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. * Andrew Pollack wrote Subject: Jacobin interview with Antarsya leader https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/04/antarsya-syriza-communist-party-greece-euro/ Several things struck me as I read this discussion, not comprehensive or in any particular order but maybe central in many respects. First, the tendency to speak of the student movement and its twists and turns in terms that did not relate it to the lives of actual working, struggling people in the midst of a deep depression - their hopes and their fears in light of their experiences and assessment of the situation, the alternatives and the prospects as they see them, and how that relates to the feasibility of any specific program, to the left of Syriza especially; second, the lack of detail or responsive analysis when asked to identify the strains of Althusserianism that he saw in parts of the student movement and their perceived significance - in effect, he shined it on and it wasn't pursued (although possibly in view of avoidance to use time most productively); third, the absence of any engagement with the real problems, in detail, in working within a hostile capitalist structure to effect socialist transition, effectively foiling the bankers' rigid ploys in a way that at the same time engages the strengths of the Greek working class constituency - this discussion is absent here, and it has to underlie elucidation of any viable program of transition, every step of the way, or it's all about organizational leftish muck; and fourth, absence of a detailed critique in whatever thumbnail form of the tactical strengths and weaknesses and the resulting prospects for Syriza, and how Antarsya would better it. I have another question that has not been adequately dealt with to my mind: the significance for the prospects for a radical outcome of the presence of a somewhat uniquely large small business component in the Greek economy. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Greece releases migrants from 'barbaric' detention centres
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 people that were there, were living an indescribable barbarity,” said Greek immigration minister Tasia Christodoulopoulou. According to Christodoulopoulou, many of the detainees were illegally being held indefinitely. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58778 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Monday 4/20: Beyond Empire: Targeted Killings and the Future of Human Rights Sexton Lounge @ 4PM
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. * Monday 4/20: Beyond Empire: Targeted Killings and the Future of Human Rights Sexton Lounge @ 4PM Happening next Monday (4/20) in Sexton Lounge (2nd Floor Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan Street) at 4pm! A Roundtable discussion featuring the following guests: Chase Madar: Contributor to the London Review of Books, Le Monde diplomatique, The Nation, The National Interest, The American Conservative, TomDispatch and elsewhere; author of The Passion of [Chelsea] Manning: The Story Behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower (2013). He is a graduate of NYU Law School (JD 2004) and a former staff attorney at Make the Road New York. Mary Ellen O’Connell: Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law and Research Professor of Dispute Resolution—Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame. She was a vice president of the American Society of International Law (2010-2012) and chaired the International Law Association’s Committee on the Use of Force (2005-2010). Among her publications: What is War? An Investigation in the Wake of 9/11 (edited volume, 2012); The Power and Purpose of International Law (2008); International Law and the Use of Force, Cases and Materials (2d ed. 2009), and International Law and the “Global War on Terrorism” (2007). Marilyn Young: professor of history at NYU. She is the author of Rhetoric of Empire: American China Policy, 1895–1901 (1969), with William Rosenberg, Transforming Russia and China: Revolutionary Struggle in the 20th Century (1980), The Vietnam Wars, 1945–1990 (1991), and one of the editors of Human Rights and Revolutions (2007). Omar Shakir: Human Rights Lawyer and co-author of Living Under Drones, a joint Stanford Law - NYU Law report that documents the civilian consequences of US drone practices in Pakistan. Omar was previously a fellow at Human Rights Watch based in Cairo, where he investigated abuses in Egypt. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Co-sponsored by NLG (NYU Law Chapter), Muslim Law Students Association, and South Asian Law Students Association. Light refreshments will be served. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
