[Marxism] [UCE] Fwd: Greece’s Ex-Finance Minister Tells All - The New Yorker
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[Marxism] Fwd: Edge of Europe, End of Europe by Timothy Snyder | NYR Daily | 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. * (I have had big problems with Timothy Snyder's anti-Communism in the past but this article expresses a somewhat surprising affinity for Ukrainian Marxism before Stalinism sank in.) In the 1920s, under the leadership of the Ukrainian proletarian writer and poet Mykola Khvylovy, Ukrainian communists established an exemplary set of cultural institutions promoting experimental culture. Khvylovy’s main idea as a critic and sponsor of new literature was that Ukraine could leap forward to what he called a “psychological Europe” by way of a new Ukrainian high culture that offered fearless meditations on the predicaments of modern life. By “Europe” he meant the embrace of Europe but also the attempt to transcend its genres. He saw this as the appropriate task of Ukrainian and Russian literature, separately, and rejected the idea that Russian culture had forms beyond the European and that these should guide Ukrainian writers. Some of the best novels of the period, such as Valerian Pidmohylny’s The City, are about the experience of socialism in Ukraine’s great cities. Khvylovy himself described living in Kharkiv in a way that is hard to experience as romantic: “In a faraway church a fire is burning and forms a poem. I am silent. Maria is silent.” But then, as Shevelov saw it, came Joseph Stalin and a new ideology of Russian provincialism. Soviet socialism was no longer a universal project that could begin from nations building a new European culture, but rather a highly centralized economic transformation, directed from Moscow, whose failures could be blamed on the satellite nations, above all Ukraine. The collectivization of agriculture, begun in earnest in 1930, was supposed to transform the agrarian population of places like Ukraine into modern proletarian societies. Deprived of their land and of its fruits by collectivization and requisitions, peasants in Soviet Ukraine starved and sent their children to the cities to beg. The Kharkiv police were expected to remove two thousand hungry children from the streets each day in early 1933. Khvylovy and the other Ukrainian writers saw this with their own eyes. Stalin blamed the failures of collectivization on Ukrainian nationalism and punished the leaders of the new Ukrainian avant garde. In March 1933 Khvylovy killed himself. In 1934 the capital of Soviet Ukraine was moved to Kiev. In 1937 and 1938 Kharkiv became one of the centers of Stalin’s Great Terror. An entire generation of artists and writers (including the novelist Pidmohylnyi) were murdered by the NKVD. After the Soviet Union invaded Poland in 1939, Polish prisoners were transported to Kharkiv to be shot. The idea of communism as international liberation everywhere was replaced by the Stalinist conceit that communism was a specific system of political control directed from Moscow. From this perspective it is easier to see how many Ukrainians today understand their own most recent revolution in 2013 and 2014. For Ukrainians, the promise of Europe is not only as a common market for Ukrainian goods and a spur to political reform; it also figures as an idea of reciprocal recognition of European states and civil societies that could bring Ukraine out of the shadows of Russian provincialism. But the revolution—though its activists came from throughout the country—was concentrated on the Maidan in Kiev. In the postwar decades, Kiev was the Soviet capital; in the post-Soviet decades, Kiev has become a proudly European metropolis. In the eastern city of Kharkiv, where Sovietization after 1930 meant provincialization, the atmosphere is much more post-colonial. During the revolution, opinions in Kharkiv were very much divided, with a large number of people joining an “Anti-Maidan” against the pro-European movement. This was an encounter between violent and non-violent methods of protest, as the Anti-Maidan specialized in beating and humiliating their political opponents. Serhiy Zhadan, Kharkiv’s best-known poet and novelist, had his skull broken by the anti-Europeans in early 2014. full: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/jul/21/ukraine-kharkiv-edge-of-europe/ _ 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: Follow-up to Tsipras surrender to Troika
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 important articles on the follow-up to the Tsipras surrender to the Troika: Greece: The First Consequences of the Capitulation, by Eric Toussaint http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article35519 Greece: The struggle for the soul of Syriza, by Soritiris Martalis, Syriza CC member, interviewed by Lee Sustar http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article35484 plus another article worth reading, by Phil Hearse, a British FI leader, that (inter alia) critiques the positions taken by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin Dreaming in Technicolor - On Greece and the debate in the international left http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article35478 Richard _ 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: Grexit, De Long and the wages of Sinn | Michael Roberts Blog
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Re: [Marxism] [UCE] Fwd: Greece's Ex-Finance Minister Tells All - The New Yorker
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. * Subscriber only -Original Message- From: Marxism [mailto:marxism-boun...@lists.csbs.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Louis Proyect via Marxism Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 9:49 AM To: rfidle...@sympatico.ca Subject: [Marxism] [UCE] Fwd: Greece's Ex-Finance Minister Tells All - The New Yorker 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. * http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/03/the-greek-warrior _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/rfidler_8%40sympatico.ca _ 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] [UCE] Fwd: Greece's Ex-Finance Minister Tells All - The New Yorker
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 Greek Warrior How a radical finance minister took on Europe—and failed. BY IAN PARKER On July 4th, the night before a referendum asked the Greek people to decide how far their debt-ridden government should accommodate the demands of its main creditors—the “troika” of the European Union, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund—Yanis Varoufakis, the country’s minister of finance, sat outdoors at an Athens restaurant, wearing a T-shirt with an outline of Texas on the front. In January, Varoufakis, an economist who had been teaching at the University of Texas at Austin, abruptly entered Greek politics, becoming the public face of the country’s defiant negotiations with European leaders. After months of fatigue, he had slept for much of the day, and he was in a good mood. Varoufakis, who is fifty-four, had the peace of mind of someone who was certain of an election result and already savoring the satisfactions to follow. His government, the left-wing Syriza party, would lose. The people would vote “yes”—that is, in favor of making more concessions than Varoufakis and Alexis Tsipras, the country’s forty-year-old Prime Minister and the leader of Syriza, had said that they could stomach. Varoufakis would resign as a minister, and would never again have to endure all-day meetings in Brussels and Luxembourg, listening to other European finance ministers scold Greece for its disobedience. And he would no longer need to marshal scant supplies of discretion to disguise the fact that he and Tsipras had, in recent weeks, lost significant faith in each other. Varoufakis had not given up his hostility toward the troika, or the economic arguments underpinning that hostility, but he spoke as if Syriza’s weeklong campaign of slogans and street protests in support of ohi—“no”—were already archived in Greece’s long history of resistance to external aggressors. A “yes” vote, Varoufakis declared, was “inevitable.” He was with his wife, Danae Stratou, an artist whose work mainly involves installations and photography, and his friend James Galbraith, an American economist who is a professor at the University of Texas. Galbraith had been acting as an unpaid adviser on an informal international team that included Jeffrey Sachs, an economist at Columbia University. According to Varoufakis, Sachs had been sending “missives for the past two weeks, saying, ‘Demand debt relief. You need it. If it’s not granted, then default.’ ” It was ten o’clock. Far fewer tourists were about than on a typical July evening, and at the restaurant Greek voices were low. When a passerby took Varoufakis’s hand—the minister preferred a right-angled bro-shake with Greeks—he kept shaking it with an almost violent intensity. It had been a disorienting few days, during which Greeks often described an event or a conversation as having taken place a while ago, before realizing that it had happened only yesterday. Aristides Baltas, a philosopher of science who is currently serving as the minister of education, told me that time had become “dense.” At the end of the previous week, negotiations between Greece and its troika creditors had stalled, and Tsipras called the referendum. On June 28th, the European Central Bank declined to increase the level of day-to-day credit available, under a program called Emergency Liquidity Assistance, to Greece’s ailing private banks; they were almost out of cash, after months of a slow-motion bank run. Greeks were hoarding euros at home. Varoufakis set in motion what he called “a tragic mechanism” to restrict withdrawals. (The next night, a Monday, he told Stratou, on returning from work, “Honey, I shut the banks.”) Greeks could now withdraw from A.T.M.s no more than sixty euros a day. A shrunken economy shrunk further, although it was still possible to make unlimited electronic transfers within Greece. Determined to empty bank accounts, for fear that deposits would be devalued or lost, Greeks paid their bills: Varoufakis spoke of “huge” sums flowing into the tax office. The government had made contingency plans for a temporary alternative currency, in the form of electronic I.O.U.s. On June 30th, Greece missed a payment to the I.M.F., joining three other countries in arrears: Somalia, Sudan, and Zimbabwe. Three days later, Klaus Regling, the head of the European Stability Mechanism, which was managing the debt that Greece owed to the countries of the E.U., e-mailed Varoufakis to remind him that, because of the missed I.M.F. payment, the European Financial Stability Facility had the option of asking for immediate
[Marxism] Fwd: Emerging Forms of Leftism in the Millennial Generation
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 quote often loosely assigned to Winston Churchill – “If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart; If a man is not a conservative by 40, he has no brain” – may come to mind. But are the results of this poll merely the sign of naïve, utopian-laden minds, as this quote suggests, or do they represent a sane and collective response to the continued failures of a capitalist system that seeks to funnel wealth to a few at the top? Fortunately, for those who seek social and economic justice for the working-class majority, the wave of Leftist political activity that has swept the US over the past few years suggests the latter. full: http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=12361 _ 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: Emerging Forms of Leftism in the Millennial Generation
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. * While this essay in North Star is not without interest, it would have been nice if the author had buttressed his arguments a bit more with some data. For example, on race, this piece from the Washington Post suggests that millennials are just slightly less likely than previous generations to see blacks as in certain ways inferior to whites. The most revolutionary generation was my own, the much-maligned baby boomers, who initiated the biggest change ever in the US in terms of racial equality. Also, using an old poll about how millennials are more favorable toward socialism than capitalism begs a lot of questions. What do people think socialism is, etc.? Finally, I am skeptical of the power of social media to break down differences. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/white-millennials-are-only-a-little-bit-less-racist-than-their-parents-which-is-still-pretty-racist Of course, the author is trying to discern trends in the present, not an easy thing to do. Time will tell. _ 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: The Syriza Dilemma | Jacobin
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[Marxism] A people's history of taxation - a draft abstract for a paper
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 an abstract I have drafted for a paper on tax, war, democracy and revolution. It is early days yet - I have just started doing the research - and the Conference is six months away so I hope to be finished before then. The history is necessarily truncated, and so will be a potted history. Each area of examination deserves its own much deeper and thorough analysis but that would lose the sweep of history I am trying to capture. And I only have about 30, words. It will be an important part of my PHD. I would be grateful for any suggestions, thoughts, comments, especially about useful works on the various areas mentioned in the abstract below I am looking at. http://enpassant.com.au/2015/07/28/a-peoples-history-of-taxation-an-abstract-for-a-paper/ _ 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] A stain that won't wash off
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. * Labour’s attempt to scapegoat people with “Chinese surnames” for the shortage of “affordable” house properties in Auckland is blatantly racist. Firstly, they’re not targeting people with “English surnames” or “Welsh surnames” or “pakeha surnames”. They’re targeting Chinese surnames. Racist! Secondly, when have Little, Twyford et al attacked white/New Zealand capitalists? They don’t. So the part of the term “Chinese capitalists” which is relevant is the word “Chinese” not “capitalist”. That’s not anti-capitalism, that’s racism! Moreover, how likely are the Chinese super-rich to buy rental properties in Auckland anyway? About as likely as Donald Trump or Gina Rhinehart or Eric Watson. If you’re super-rich and interested in property, you build tower blocks, you own mines, you own big factories or massive retail chains. You don’t piddle about buying a few rental properties in Auckland. *Classic racist scapegoating* Labour’s campaign is classic racist scapegoating. And it’s part of a tradition. A hundred years ago the Labourites waged racist campaigns against impoverished. . . full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/a-stain-that-wont-wash-off-labours-racist-campaign-aganst-those-with-chinese-surnames/ _ 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: Once more on the IT implications of a Grexit | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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[Marxism] Borotba Stalinist Aleksey Albu claims there are European leftists fighting with the separatists in the Donbass
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 guy is seriously deluded (or a complete hack - maybe both). I wonder whether there is any truth to his claims about European leftists coming in to fight with these outlaw bands. I know Die Linke is particularly deluded by Russian propaganda, but I can't imagine what other European leftists would possibly be taken in by this bullshit... [this is only a partial translation of the most relevant passages...] Aleksey Albu: European leftists have come to Alchevsk to get combat training Aleksandr Chalenko Journalist, Ukraina.RU author Ukraina.Ru author Aleksandr Chalenko interviews a deputy of the Odessa Oblast Council, one of the leaders of the Russian Spring in Odessa and an active participant in the events of 2 May. At present, Albu “emigrated” to the Lugansk People’s Republic and is helping the young republic achieve statehood. - Alyosha, why and how did you make the decision to join the Prizrak [ghost] brigade commanded by Alekseya Mozgovoy? -I decided to join Prizrak for various reasons. The main one being that I want to do all I can to topple the Kiev government of nationalists and oligarchs. I also want to help this unit - my comrades - which is fighting them. I don’t want to partake in battle – which is not due to fear, but my worldview: I do not want to kill a man because [I know] I will be tormented the rest of my life by the regret of depriving someone of their son, father, or brother. I even have an ID that lacks the permits for carrying or maintaining a weapon. What do you do in the brigade? -I have become a specialist in financial/economic issues. Since this is not an army, but a people’s militia, there aren’t any guidelines for my position and it’s not clear what my duties are. I can only determine my goals that I set for myself. The unit needs for the fighters to have regular provisions of food and there are obligations to the indigent strata of the population who need to be fed. Aleksey Borisovich Mozgovoy has tried to resolve this issue by creating a war economy. I want to help further his efforts. - How were you received in the brigade? -I was received very well in Prizrak since my comrades from Borotba and communists from other organizations are fighting here. A few “Prizraks” came to know me after [our] attempts to create an Odessa Autonomous Republic on 3 March of last year and [our attempts] to organize a takeover of the oblast administration and after the events of 2 May. Therefore they barely did a check on me in the special department; they said there were great reviews from Odessa. …- How do the leftists that came to fight or help out in the Prizrak battalion see themselves? -There are a good many leftists in Prizrak. There are a lot of European leftists in particular – ones who believe that the capitalist crisis will lead to the destabilization of the situation inside their own countries and came here to gather some experience and prepare for a similar situation [as we face here]. Many of Prizrak’s leaders are leftists. The majority, however, are apolitical - they are fighting against the nationalists, fighting to liberate their land, and protect their loved ones. There are members of the Ukrainian Red Army here, which was formed in May of last year – underground fighters who passed through the Ukrainian prisons [zastenki]. In addition, the DKO – the Volunteer Communist Detachment – fights as part of Prizrak. The DKO holds position at the 44th checkpoint as wel as in the area around the Denetskiy village. A lot of leftists work in the Information Detachment [Informotryad], in the political department, and in Prizrak’s other structures, which is definitely a more leftist unit than others. Nevertheless, there are a lot of communists in the LNR [Lugansk People’s Republic]. - A lot of leftists in Russia and Ukraine supported the Euromaidan and do not support Novorossiya. Why is that? -It’s a complicated question and it’s difficult to answer it in just two words. Yes, in fact, a lot of people claiming to be leftists supported the coup in Ukraine. But how can a “leftist” support the Nazis from “Right Sector”? A “leftist” should be on the side of progress, yet what’s happening in Ukraine is a return to feudalism. For a communist, the main issue should be that of ownership of the means of production. Here in Novorossiya, a large number of enterprises have been nationalized, the workers are trying to establish councils of worker collectives and direct the enterprises on their own. But in Ukraine this issue isn’t being addressed at all. This issue is well understood by the
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Once more on the IT implications of a Grexit | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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[Marxism] FT: The make believe world of eurozone rules
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[Marxism] WSJ: A Personal War - America’s Marxist Allies Against ISIS
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Re: [Marxism] Screwed by vulture funds, Puerto Rico is the US's 'Greece'
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. * adgagn...@gmail.com I don't want 8 Best Wishes, - A On Jul 27, 2015 12:50 AM, Stuart Munckton 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. * The world has been focused on the spectacle of the “Troika” of the International Monetary Fund, European Union and the European Central Bank crushing the Greek people, but it is far from the only example of strong nations using a “debt crisis” to extract more wealth from those that are weaker. A case in point is the US colony of Puerto Rico. In a June 28 *New York Times* interview, the governor of the Caribbean archipelago nation declared its debt of US$73 billion “is not payable. There is no other option. I would love to have an easier option. This is not politics. This is math.” https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/59595 -- “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/adgagneri%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
Re: [Marxism] Screwed by vulture funds, Puerto Rico is the US's 'Greece'
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. * adgagn...@gmail.com I don't want 8 Best Wishes, - A On Jul 27, 2015 12:50 AM, Stuart Munckton 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. * The world has been focused on the spectacle of the “Troika” of the International Monetary Fund, European Union and the European Central Bank crushing the Greek people, but it is far from the only example of strong nations using a “debt crisis” to extract more wealth from those that are weaker. A case in point is the US colony of Puerto Rico. In a June 28 *New York Times* interview, the governor of the Caribbean archipelago nation declared its debt of US$73 billion “is not payable. There is no other option. I would love to have an easier option. This is not politics. This is math.” https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/59595 -- “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/adgagneri%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
