[Marxism] Helen Clark as next UN supremo
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 following was written when Helen Clark stepped down as Labour Party leader following their defeat in the 2008 general election. Since then Clark has gone on to a career at the United Nations in New York. Her latest vanity project is to run for head of the United Nations, a position for which the National Party government has nominated her. * *She might have failed in her ambition to be NZ’s first woman prime minister so she has set her sights on being the first female secretary-general of the United Nations. In this position she gets to wave her finger not at the population of one country as when she sat atop NZ politics, but at the whole world. * *Imperialism Inc, and repressive leaders around the globe, know she is a ‘safe pair of hands’. The oppressed and exploited of the world will now, assuming she gets the post, be confronted by oppression in a pants suit instead of oppression in a pin-stripe suit. * *Big progress for middle class women, zero progress for the exploited and oppressed.* by *Daphna Whitmore* The end was swift. Stepping down on election night Helen Clark ended 16 years as the Labour Party’s leader and nine years as Prime Minister. As Labour’s longest serving head, she was one of its most capable and helped shape the organisation into an urban liberal capitalist party. Full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/the-reign-of-helen-clark/ _ 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] NZ Labour Party's endless anti-Chinese racism and the left
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. * Mid-March saw yet another outburst of anti-Chinese racism by the leadership of the 'Labour' Party. National Party prime minister John Key wittily retorted, “Last year they wanted to stop people with 'Chinese-sounding surnames' buying houses in Auckland, now they want to stop them cooking your chicken chop-suey”, as Labour's latest racist outburst targeted migrant workers working in 'ethnic' – essentially Asian, especially Chinese – restaurants. Indeed, on more and more issues Labour is revealed as being to the right of National. They're to the right of National on. . . Full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/more-labour-anti-chinese-racism-and-the-left-tags-along-behind-them-still/ _ 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] Jacobin editor urges voting for Clinton in swing states
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'm not sure I'm following the train of thought here. Is the issue that John Halle endorsed Bernie and then switched, allegedly to please the people who write for Jacobin? That sounds kind of bizarre. I was not very close with him during my days at Bard but I remember him being fairly principled. Then again I don't think we were Facebook friends. - Amith On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > POSTING RULES & NOTES > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > * > > On 4/4/16 3:41 PM, Michael Yates via Marxism wrote: > >> Halle has turned into one of the biggest jackasses on the internet, >> accusing anyone, in the most slanderous terms, of being ultra >> leftists and elitists if they are not all-in for Bernie Sanders. He >> so much wants the approval of the Brooklyn "intellectuals" close to >> Jacobin that he seems not to be able to help himself. >> > > I suppose it is my saving grace that I am way too old to be a Brooklyn > hipster. > > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%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] Fwd: Philly Socialists: Organize the Unorganized, Pay the Organizers! | Chuffed | Non-profit charity and social enterprise fundraising
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Re: [Marxism] Jacobin editor urges voting for Clintony in swing states
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 level of discussion with most of the young and inexperienced supporters of Bernie Sanders tends to be quite interesting and time spent listening and talking with them is always productive. It's the "experienced" and "mature" "theorists" who sound more like people arguing over their sports teams. One of my favorite habits among them is to label anyone not supporting Sanders as being "against Bernie." I'm coming out of this process with entirely deflated respect for many people who bloody well should know better. Worse, I have yet to see any real strategic thinking behind it at all, other than the faith that somehow--in complete opposition to the candidate's stated purpose--what they're doing will contribute to reconstituting a serious independent socialist movement. Like getting on a bus with "Denver" on the front and expecting it to fly you to Havana. I wish it would be more surprising that--contrary to everything most of them have been insisting for months--we're hearing the first sounds of their drumbeat for Hillary, which will accompany rabid denunciations of everyone who won't vote her as a "social fascist" ally of Trump and "the Republican War on Women." It's not original at all, but it's what passes for politics in the U.S. of A. Btw, this is why I've been saying that "Stalinism" has long been meaningless in an American context. Absolutely shitty lesser-evil policies is simply endemic to the American two-party system. Solidarity! Mark L. _ 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] question re Panama Papers
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. * Is there any analysis in them, or just leaked files? I ask because clearly we are headed toward a situation akin to that of 2008; i.e. just as then we had to make clear it wasn't primarily a "financial" crisis, but rather one playing out in the financial sphere because of longer-term dynamics of capital, so today we will have to combat conspiracy theories and explain how those same dynamics, and basic class structures, allowed this admittedly gigantic wave of corruption to flourish. _ 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: How economists rode maths to become our era’s astrologers | Aeon Essays
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Re: [Marxism] Jacobin editor urges voting for Clinton in swing states
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 4/4/16 3:41 PM, Michael Yates via Marxism wrote: Halle has turned into one of the biggest jackasses on the internet, accusing anyone, in the most slanderous terms, of being ultra leftists and elitists if they are not all-in for Bernie Sanders. He so much wants the approval of the Brooklyn "intellectuals" close to Jacobin that he seems not to be able to help himself. I suppose it is my saving grace that I am way too old to be a Brooklyn hipster. _ 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] Jacobin editor urges voting for Clinton in swing states
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. * Louis Proyect says, "I probably should have mentioned that I learned about this on John Halle's timeline, who endorsed it. Halle was at one time very strong on the "lesser evil" question. I imagine that there is a lot of social pressure to adapt to the Democrats this year. If you printed out all the articles ventilating about Trump, they'd probably reach the planet Mars." Halle has turned into one of the biggest jackasses on the internet, accusing anyone, in the most slanderous terms, of being ultra leftists and elitists if they are not all-in for Bernie Sanders. He so much wants the approval of the Brooklyn "intellectuals" close to Jacobin that he seems not to be able to help himself. His saving grace is that his prose is dreadful, and no halfway intelligent person could bear to read it. _ 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: Sharecropper Nation | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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Re: [Marxism] What Do the Panama Papers Reveal?
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. * Yes, what a "conspiracy"! It is directed against the British government, the Russian, the Chinese, the Gulf states, the Syrian, the Argentine etc. However, one thing is true: Americans seem to be absent. This does not make the revelations untrue but it might be the case the the US had some influence to be left out of the investigations. But of course, I am not in the position to find this out. Am 04.04.2016 um 18:30 schrieb Louis Proyect: On 4/4/16 12:10 PM, RKOB via Marxism wrote: http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/europe/panama-papers/ The Putinite Left has already begun to characterize this as a conspiracy against the Kremlin: http://off-guardian.org/2016/04/03/panama-papers-cause-guardian-to-collapse-into-self-parody/ -- Revolutionär-Kommunistische Organisation BEFREIUNG www.rkob.net ak...@rkob.net Tel.: 0650 406 83 14 --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _ 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] What Do the Panama Papers Reveal?
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 4/4/16 12:10 PM, RKOB via Marxism wrote: http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/europe/panama-papers/ The Putinite Left has already begun to characterize this as a conspiracy against the Kremlin: http://off-guardian.org/2016/04/03/panama-papers-cause-guardian-to-collapse-into-self-parody/ _ 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] What Do the Panama Papers Reveal?
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Panama Papers · ICIJ
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 Panama Papers is a global investigation into the sprawling, secretive industry of offshore that the world’s rich and powerful use to hide assets and skirt rules by setting up front companies in far-flung jurisdictions. Based on a trove of more than 11 million leaked files, the investigation exposes a cast of characters who use offshore companies to facilitate bribery, arms deals, tax evasion, financial fraud and drug trafficking. https://panamapapers.icij.org/ _ 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
