[Marxism] Trump-Sanders as rejection of Bush-Obama austerity

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"...Many Americans seem to have concluded that the political system is so 
corrupt and dysfunctional that only a total outsider can be trusted to take 
charge. The point was driven home to me while talking to a potential Trump 
voter on the fringes of the Plymouth rally. This man, a prosperous-looking 
lawyer, told me that if he did not vote for Mr Trump he would opt for Mr 
Sanders.

"The Trump and Sanders pitches to the voters have certain strong similarities. 
Both lambast all mainstream politicians as in hock to corrupt special interests 
and lobbyists. Mr Trump, a billionaire, makes a virtue of the fact that his 
campaign is self-financed — making him immune, he says, to the pressures 
brought to bear on all the other Republicans by their donors. Mr Sanders has 
raised most of his campaign money from small donations and has put Hillary 
Clinton on the back foot by pointing to the hundreds of thousands of dollars 
she has accepted in speaking fees from the likes of Goldman Sachs.

"Mr Sanders’ argument that “the business model of Wall Street is fraud” is 
finding an audience. Indeed, if anybody has said a good word about Wall Street 
in this election, I must have missed it. The most that Mrs Clinton will do is 
to suggest tentatively that “greed” in high finance, while bad, is not the only 
pressing problem facing the US...

"...America’s political class is only beginning to grasp the depth of the 
anti-establishment mood that is gripping the US. Almost eight years after the 
financial crisis, this mood seems to be growing in strength, not weakening.

"...all the talk is of students reeling under unpayable debts; and of parents 
having to work at two or three low-paid jobs to make ends meet. The idea that 
the economy is “rigged” in favour of insiders is now embraced, in some form, by 
most of the candidates in both the Republican and Democratic parties…"


http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/9a42636c-cc22-11e5-a8ef-ea66e967dd44.html#axzz3zgFeKC56
 


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[Marxism] Now online: Re Palestine - report of the democratic opposition in the 1947 UN debate on Palestine

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Hi there, 

it is now online at www.mlwerke.de or more directly at 
http://www.mlwerke.de/NatLib/default.htm 


There was a democratic opposition in the Fall 1947 UN General Assembly 
resisting the colonialist partition plan. This was "Sub-Committee 2 of the ad 
hoc Committee on the Palestinian Question" and its analysis and proposals were 
largely forgotten seen the normative power of the facts. 

This committee explained that the partition plan was not only against the 
charter of the UN, but would also result in a non viable situation. It proposed 
three draft resolutions concerning 

1. to call the International Court of Justice to consider the legality of the 
UNGA discussing such a colonial partition plan; 

2. to solve the problem of the Jewish refugees by the countries concerned, not 
the small and poor Palestina; 

3. to propose cornerstones of a democratic constitution of a unitary republic 
Palestine with equal rights for all and nobody to be discriminated by color of 
the skin, religion, birth, etc. 

In its appendix, the Committee supplied a number of statistics about the 
demography and economy of post war Palestine. 

In the editors Supplements, you wil find in Supplement 1 a time table of the UN 
dealing with the Palestine Question in 1947, and the voting record on the 
various resolutions, all this drawn from the official UN documents. 

In Supplement 2, you will find documents how the warring imperialist parties in 
the 1st World War tried to dupe Jews for the war in Europe, and Arabs for the 
British conquest of the "land bridge to India". The chapter from the 1937 Royal 
Peel Commission Report shows that the main purpose of the Balfour declaration 
was the situation of the European war in the fall of 1917, with the Russian 
Revolution going on and threatening to take Russia out of the Entente war 
coalition. You find also the leaflet which the united Austro-German armies 
distributed "To the Jews in Poland" - in Yiddish, but in a latin transcript. 


Go to www.mlwerke.de or more directly to 
http://www.mlwerke.de/NatLib/default.htm 


Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Lüko Willms

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[Marxism] Fwd: Iowa's radical message | SocialistWorker.org

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(Is Sanders really a "democratic socialist" candidate? Why? Because he 
calls himself one? Doesn't this cheapen the term socialist? It is one 
thing for a Norman Thomas to be described as a "democratic socialist" 
but at least there was some consistency given the roots of the Socialist 
Party in the Second international. How does someone running as a 
candidate of the Democratic Party get to call himself a socialist? The 
Democratic Party has been consistently opposed to socialism for 140 
years, either revolutionary or reformist, hasn't it? What is it that I 
am missing?)


But for now, the biggest news of the night--bigger than Ted Cruz's 
"upset" or Donald Trump's underwhelming total or Marco Rubio's 
surge--was that a democratic socialist candidate fought the previously 
presumptive Democratic nominee to a draw.


http://socialistworker.org/2016/02/02/iowas-radical-message
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[Marxism] Interview with Eric Toussaint - Potemkin Review

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http://potemkinreview.com/eric-toussaint-interview.html






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[Marxism] Fwd: Bernie Sanders Loves This $1 Trillion War Machine - The Daily Beast

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/09/bernie-sanders-loves-this-1-trillion-war-machine.html
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[Marxism] Nuance or Bernie boosterism

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Dave(Ratbag ) Riley posted part of a  a Green Left Weekly article that
gave, he said, a nuanced view of Bernie Sanders campaign.
I learnt some years ago that it always pays to look closely at what Riley
says as there is always an outside chance that  there is something true in
it. I therefore had a look at the whole article to which I have linked.
In my view it is a lot closer to boosterism than nuance

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61039
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[Marxism] Fwd: Books interview: David Harvey | Times Higher Education (THE)

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The eminent anthropologist on Gielgud, T. S. Eliot, the big blind spots 
of big data, and a very tatty copy of Marx’s Grundrisse


https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/interview-david-harvey-city-university-of-new-york-graduate-school
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[Marxism] Fwd: Syria: The Stolen Revolution | The Brooklyn Rail

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[Marxism] "Is It Time To Stop Using Race In Medical Research?"

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http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/02/05/465616472/is-it-time-to-stop-using-race-in-medical-research

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[Marxism] Fwd: Bernie Sanders is no revolutionary - The Washington Post

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In Sanders’s 2006 campaign for the Senate, the Democratic Senatorial 
Campaign Committee — heavily funded by Wall Street interests — helped 
his bid with about $200,000 in contributions and ads, CNN reported over 
the weekend.


Since he arrived in the Senate in 2007 and continuing through last 
summer, Sanders has regularly hosted the DSCC’s retreats on Martha’s 
Vineyard and in Palm Beach, Fla., for wealthy donors (including 
lobbyists). Sanders also allowed the committee to do a direct-mail piece 
signed by him, and his campaign has a joint fundraising agreement with 
the Democratic National Committee, just like Clinton’s.


Sanders has often boasted that he doesn’t have a super PAC. But, as The 
Post’s Matea Gold has noted, an ad hoc network working to elect Sanders 
“is also employing professional political tactics, such as the use of 
entities that can raise and spend unlimited sums.”


full: 
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[Marxism] Fwd: A return to the question of whether Russia is imperialist | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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One of the main talking points of the pro-Kremlin left is that Russia is 
not imperialist. This goes hand in hand with an analysis claiming that 
Putin’s intervention in Ukraine was purely defensive, a move against the 
genuine imperialists in Washington, London and elsewhere.


The last time I dealt with this question was in June 2014 when I replied 
to Roger Annis, a tireless defender of Kremlin foreign policy. Annis has 
once again made the same arguments on Links magazine in Australia in an 
article co-written by Renfrey Clarke who shares his orientation to 
Russia. Titled “Perpetrator or victim? Russia and contemporary 
imperialism”, it rehashes many of the same arguments that are supposedly 
based on Lenin’s “Imperialism, the final stage of Capitalism”.


As I indicated in a commentary on John Clegg’s article “Capitalism and 
Slavery”, I find social science definitions of terms like capitalism, 
socialism and imperialism problematic. To start with, they are 
describing economic systems that are global in character so when they 
are used to taxonomically describe a particular country, they are 
strained to the breaking point. When Trotsky took up the question of 
whether the USSR was socialist, he answered in terms that defied the 
formal logic of the social scientist: “To define the Soviet regime as 
transitional, or intermediate, means to abandon such finished social 
categories as capitalism (and therewith “state capitalism”) and also 
socialism. But besides being completely inadequate in itself, such a 
definition is capable of producing the mistaken idea that from the 
present Soviet regime only a transition to socialism is possible.”


full: 
https://louisproyect.org/2016/02/09/a-return-to-the-question-of-whether-russia-is-imperialist/

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[Marxism] What Norman Thomas told Upton Sinclair

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(From Greg Mitchell's "Campaign of the Century")

Words are symbols. You alone, or you with the help of a certain number 
of California voters, cannot make the word Democratic a symbol for 
Socialism. That word with its capital D is a symbol for the party which 
bitterly discriminates not only against Negroes but white workers in the 
South, for the party of Tammany Hall in New York, and Hague in New 
Jersey. There are not words enough in the dictionary for you to explain 
to the great masses of common folk who have looked to your books for 
leadership the different sense in which you are Democrat. Still less 
will you be able to explain your defection to the multitudes in Europe 
who have hailed you as prophet and spokesman of their hopes.

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[Marxism] Fwd: Bernie Sanders Voted For The Act That Helped Crash The Economy | Crooks and Liars

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http://crooksandliars.com/2015/12/surprise-bernie-sanders-voted-act-crashed
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[Marxism] Fwd: Tensions between Upton Sinclair and the Socialist Party | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Re: [Marxism] What Norman Thomas told Upton Sinclair

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very powerful rhetoric really.

comradely

Gary

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> (From Greg Mitchell's "Campaign of the Century")
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> Words are symbols. You alone, or you with the help of a certain number of
> California voters, cannot make the word Democratic a symbol for Socialism.
> That word with its capital D is a symbol for the party which bitterly
> discriminates not only against Negroes but white workers in the South, for
> the party of Tammany Hall in New York, and Hague in New Jersey. There are
> not words enough in the dictionary for you to explain to the great masses
> of common folk who have looked to your books for leadership the different
> sense in which you are Democrat. Still less will you be able to explain
> your defection to the multitudes in Europe who have hailed you as prophet
> and spokesman of their hopes.
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[Marxism] New book on Cuba from Monthly Review Press

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We are pleased and proud to publish Steve Cushion's "A Hidden History of the 
Cuban RevolutionHow the Working Class Shaped the Guerrillas’ Victory." This is 
a masterful account, based on original archival research and oral history done 
in Cuba, of the virtually unknown role of the Cuban working class in securing 
the victory of the rebels led by Fidel Castro that marked the beginning of the 
Cuban Revolution. The author, before he earned a PhD and became a university 
lecturer, was for 20 years a London bus driver. He has been an active socialist 
and trade unionist his entire adult life. An organic intellectual, in the best 
sense of those words.
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=36ce609ae68971b4f060ad9c7=335ff50795=7c9269ff30
  
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Re: [Marxism] New book on Cuba from Monthly Review Press

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On 2/9/16 10:01 PM, Michael Yates via Marxism wrote:

We are pleased and proud to publish Steve Cushion's "A Hidden History
of the Cuban RevolutionHow the Working Class Shaped the Guerrillas’
Victory." This is a masterful account, based on original archival
research and oral history done in Cuba, of the virtually unknown role
of the Cuban working class in securing the victory of the rebels led
by Fidel Castro that marked the beginning of the Cuban Revolution.
The author, before he earned a PhD and became a university lecturer,
was for 20 years a London bus driver. He has been an active socialist
and trade unionist his entire adult life. An organic intellectual, in
the best sense of those words.
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=36ce609ae68971b4f060ad9c7=335ff50795=7c9269ff30


Looking forward to this one, having read Julia Sweig's "Inside the Cuban 
Revolution" that demonstrates the mass, urban base of the struggle. As 
opposed to the dismissal of the revolution as a rural putsch led by 
petty bourgeois guerrillas, Sweig's book puts the student and working 
class movement on an equal plane with the rural armed struggle. It looks 
like this new book will push this analysis even further.

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Re: [Marxism] Amid crisis, Sanders takes aim at 'billionaire class'

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Everything folk are saying about Bernie Sanders is probably very true.
He aint ridgy didge. Of course: this is the Democratic Party.
But that is missing the point -- the tacticial point.
He just won in New Hampshire
https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61056
...and there is a conversation going on that you/we have to engage
with. Say whatever you like about Sanders (I do) but it behoves us not
to sit on our hands or denigrate from the sidelines.
Formula-by-numbers propaganda does not cut the mustard.
Under the Sanders banner is all those MILLIONS of people you want
to/we want to build a socialist option among...or even (god forbid) a
broad left party.
And i say that not because he is simply a Democrat populist -- but
because he has moved the dialogue a tad outside the constraints of
neoliberalism and austerity.
That he calls himself a 'socialist' -- while a handicap -- is also a
handy and useful plus.
"You want to talk about REAL socialism...!"
What if Sanders had stood as an independent...or for the Green Party?
Done the Camejo/ Nader thing? Even with the same politics? The same
rhetoric?
Would he be so much the persona non grata?
And where does the Sanders groundswell go when whatever happens?
Seriously: where?

dave riley
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