Re: [Marxism] Please help: Spanish Civil War

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yes to all the recommendations; and Broue's always worthwhile

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Re: [Marxism] Please help: Spanish Civil War

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Thank you to all who replied! You've given me a lot to work with! 

Out of curiosity, has anyone read this particular book on the Spanish Civil War?

http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/The-Revolution-and-the-Civil-War-in-Spain

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> Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in 
> the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939, by 
> Adam Hochschild. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 
> 464 pages. $30.

The current issue of "The Volunteer" has an excerpt from Hochschild's book:

http://www.albavolunteer.org/2016/03/dont-try-to-catch-me-the-first-volunteer/

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Re: [Marxism] Please help: Spanish Civil War

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Harpers, April 2016
A Foreign Cause
Why the Spanish Civil War feels so distant
By William Deresiewicz

Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939, by 
Adam Hochschild. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 464 pages. $30.


Some eighty years ago, several thousand young Americans went to Spain to 
fight — and, many of them, to die — in the service of a country that was 
not their own. Nothing like that had happened on such a scale before, 
and nothing like it has happened since. They went despite the active 
opposition of their own government, which would treat them, upon their 
return and for many years thereafter, as politically suspect. They left 
jobs, schools, families, sweethearts. They went to enlist on the side of 
the Republic in the Spanish Civil War, the great cause of the day, 
joining more than 40,000 other foreign volunteers from some fifty 
countries. They would go on to suffer a higher rate of combat deaths — 
more than one in four — than the U.S. military during any of its wars, 
and would become the first integrated American force to serve under an 
African-American commander. Their unit, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 
became a fixture of radical legend for decades to come. Lincoln veterans 
were lionized at antiwar demonstrations in the 1960s and at 
demonstrations against U.S. involvement in Central America in the 1980s. 
Their preeminent figure, Robert Merriman, a graduate student at Berkeley 
when he left for Europe, served as a model for the character of Robert 
Jordan, the hero of For Whom the Bell Tolls.


The Lincolns are a natural subject for Adam Hochschild. A civil-rights 
and antiwar activist in his youth, Hochschild worked as a journalist for 
Ramparts and cofounded Mother Jones. Since 1990, he has produced a 
string of historical works on themes of social justice: The Mirror at 
Midnight, on apartheid South Africa; The Unquiet Ghost, on Stalin’s 
reign of terror; King Leopold’s Ghost, on the colonization of the 
Belgian Congo; Bury the Chains, on the struggle to abolish slavery in 
the British Empire; and To End All Wars, on resistance in Britain to 
World War I. Hochschild came across half a dozen Lincoln veterans over 
the years, he tells us, and was longtime friends with two of them. (The 
unit’s last surviving member turned one hundred in December.) “All of us 
who care about social justice feel a need for political ancestors,” he 
writes, “and surely, it seems, that’s what these men and women . . . were.”


Spain in Our Hearts is at its best as narrative and portraiture. 
Hochschild focuses his story through about a dozen individuals: 
Merriman, the brigade’s most energetic and valiant commander; Marion, 
his wife, who joined him in Spain and worked at brigade headquarters; 
Pat Gurney, a bohemian English artist who fought with the Lincolns and 
fell in love, to mixed results, with Toby Jensky, an American nurse; 
James Neugass, an upper-class Jew from New Orleans who became an 
ambulance driver; the mysterious Vincent Usera, a tall and handsome 
Puerto Rican officer who had a tendency to desert his men in battle and 
who may well have been an American intelligence agent.


Surrounding them are journalists such as Herbert L. Matthews, who 
reported for the New York Times from the Republican zone and often found 
himself undercut by his editors; William P. Carney, his openly Francoist 
counterpart across the front; and Virginia Cowles, a beautiful Boston 
debutante who charmed her way around both sides of the war. Hemingway 
comes and goes, sometimes with the glamorous and forceful Martha 
Gellhorn, soon to be his third wife, though despite the novelist’s 
commitment to the cause and his occasional acts of genuine courage, 
Hochschild usually presents him in the debunking-condescending mode 
that’s de rigueur these days. Orwell also appears, not because of any 
substantial connection to Americans in Spain — one often feels 
Hochschild straining at the limitations of his source material, the 
diaries, letters, and memoirs that constitute his primary route to the 
action — but because the author of Homage to Catalonia provides an 
irreplaceable witness to the workers’ revolution, led by anarchists and 
anti-Stalinists, that took place in Barcelona and its environs during 
the early months of the war.


Spain in Our Hearts is less satisfying when it comes to context and 
meaning. Hochschild sketches out the causes and course of the war, 
including the involvement, or, crucially, non-involvement, of the 
leading powers, but he tells us little of the climate of opinion in the 
United States — what the press and the public thought about the Lincolns 

Re: [Marxism] Please help: Spanish Civil War

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> Could any comrades here recommend some 
> good English-language histories of the 
> Spanish Civil War? Something that might 
> accompany a reading of For Whom the Bell Tolls...? 

If you haven't already, check out the website of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade 
Archives (ALBA):

http://alba-valb.org/

You will find many valuable resources there.

You mentioned *For Whom the Bell Tolls*. The current issue of ALBA's quarterly 
magazine, "The Volunteer," has an article on the death of Robert Hale Merriman, 
a prototype for Hemingway's Robert Jordan. 

http://www.albavolunteer.org/2016/03/the-death-of-major-robert-hale-merriman/

There is also an interesting article on the naming of the Lincoln Battalion:

http://www.albavolunteer.org/2016/03/naming-the-lincoln-battalion/

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Re: [Marxism] Please help: Spanish Civil War

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You can read Felix Morrow's book on the Spanish Civil War online. It 
hews closely to Trotsky's analysis who had a much better handle on the 
flaws of the left in Spain than on his own supporters there:


https://www.marxists.org/archive/morrow-felix/1938/revolution-spain/


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Re: [Marxism] Please help: Spanish Civil War

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Hi Shalva,

George Orwell (yes, the very same) recommended Franz Borkenau's The Spanish
Cockpit (9781842120064), I believe. Haven't read it myself but Orwell's
commentary on this work and obviously his first hand experience in Spain
convinced me to put it on my list of things to read.

You can find his thoughts about all this and the issues arround other
immediate post-Civil War histories in the footnotes of Homage to Catalonia,
volume 4 of The Complete Works of George Orwell (Secker & Warburg, 1997)

Might be a good place to start.

Craig Butosi, MA, MLIS, BMus Hons.
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[Marxism] Please help: Spanish Civil War

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Spanish Civil War? Something that might accompany a reading of For Whom the 
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[Marxism] Happy May Day

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Happy May Day to all. Solidarity. And congratulations to Louis and Marxmail. 
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Re: [Marxism] The LIES about Stanford SJP

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Hi,

That was weird. The actual content of Jeff's original post (about Stanford
and BDS and all that) did not show up on my computer. I did not actually
see the content (if you can call it that) of his post, only the title.

In any case, we are bound by Louis' rule. If others want more information
about the contradictions in the BDS movement (we've certainly talked about
them before) you can contact me off list or scour MarxMail for previous
conversations where I've addressed it.

- Amith

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[Marxism] TOMORROW: Palestinian Refugees Speak, Voices from the Nakba

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*IN OUR OWN WORDS: VOICES FROM THE NAKBA*

*Date: Monday, May 2*


*Time: 6:00PMLocation: NYU School of Law, Vanderbilt Hall Rm. 210, 40
Washington Square South, New York NY*

Description: On May 14, 1948, 18-year-old Mariam Fathallah, her family, and
the rest of the Palestinian town of Al-Zeeb were forced out of their homes
and into Lebanon. By the end of the year, their 4,000 year-old community
was leveled and half of all Palestinians in Palestine had been killed or
expelled. Palestinians know this event as the Nakba ("the catastrophe").
Mariam, now 86 years old and respectfully known as Umm Akram, has spent the
last 68 years in crowded, makeshift refugee camps, where she has raised
three generations of children who are waiting to return to their homes in
Palestine. She has lived through 5 Israeli invasions of Lebanon and the
1976 Tel Al-Zaatar camp massacre which killed 2,000 refugees.

Amena El-Ashkar, 23, is the granddaughter and great granddaughter of Nakba
survivors and has known no home other than a refugee camp.

Umm Akram and Amena are among six million Palestinians not living in
Palestine. They are citizens of no country. *Come hear their story. *

https://www.facebook.com/events/1694328587503764


Middle Eastern dinner will be served.

Hosted by NY4Palestine
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[Marxism] Happy May Day

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And also the 18th anniversary of Marxmail. Two more years and I'll host 
a banquet at the Stork Club in NYC for the 20th.

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[Marxism] On Budget Eve: Deflation & The Limits to Privatised Keynesianism

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https://withsobersenses.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/on-budget-eve-deflation-the
-limits-to-privatised-keynesianism/

Tuesday 3rd May will see the first budget of the Turnbull-Morrison Coalition
government. It is also the date of the Reserve Bank¹s next monetary policy
decision. So it is an important day for fiscal and monetary policy. Like
most people (including the well paid opinion-makers of the commentariat) I
have no idea what the budget will contain. It is unlikely that the
government will be able to break the impasse facing the state: a general
tendency of slowing growth
 , rising state debt
  and a pool of sullen and largely
inchoate opposition amongst the population to various attempts by the state
to address both. The picture is complex. On this blog I have written a lot
about ŒCapital¹s Plan A
 ¹­ the stimulation of the economy via infrastructure spending to be
financed in part by cuts to social reproduction and through the Œrecycling¹
(read privatisation or leasing) of state owned assets. This plan, at a
Federal level is stalled, due in part to the 2015 defeat of the Qld LNP
government on the question of leasing power assets. However the recent
Victorian state budget is built around increased infrastructure spending
financed by the leasing of a port and a higher level of debt[i]
 . Preceding the Federal budget
there has been a warning from JPMorgan and from Moody¹s about the potential
for Australia to lose its AAA rating, projections from Deloitte about the
size of the increase in both debt and deficit and,what surprised everyone,
the release by the Australian Bureau of Statistics of the latest CPI figures
showing .2% deflation in the last quarter (Australian Bureau of Statistics
2016d 
 , Greber 2016
 , Janda 2016
 , Martin 2016
 ). It is this last point I
want to look at. What does this latest news tell us about the both the
direction of capital accumulation and the tensions and fault-lines of
antagonism that constitute capitalist society in Australia?

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[Marxism] Fwd: The complete transcript of Larry Wilmore’s 2016 White House correspondents’ dinner speech - The Washington Post

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Surprisingly sharp takedown of Obama and other Washington insiders. I 
may have to begin watching Wilmore, who replaced Stephen Colbert.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2016/05/01/the-complete-transcript-of-larry-wilmores-2016-white-house-correspondents-dinner-speech/
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Line That May Have Won Hillary Clinton the Nomination | Rolling Stone

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According to one study, about two-thirds of all subprime loans between 
2000 and 2007 were made to people who already owned their homes. The 
targets were often elderly, in particular men and women of color. 
Visiting loan officers convinced these borrowers to use the homes they'd 
poured their savings into their whole lives as ATM machines.


The pitch was: refinance your home, and get a little extra spending 
money each month! Lots of people went for it. But there was mischief 
hidden in the fine print of many of these "refi" deals, which often 
quickly exploded. Before long, the now-departed agent's promises would 
evaporate into a toxic quicksand of debt, unforeseen penalties and 
foreclosure.


Like a lot of reporters who covered the crash era, I initially 
misunderstood the profound racial element in the subprime drama. This 
wasn't the S crisis or the Enron-era accounting scandals or even the 
Internet bubble, a speculative craze that devoured the savings of white 
Middle America.


Subprime was different. It was fueled by a particular kind of predatory 
lending that targeted a very specific group of people.


In the 2000s, armies of smooth-talking real-estate hustlers from 
companies like Countrywide and New Century poured into residential areas 
across the country, but particularly into black neighborhoods. They made 
wild promises, in many cases offering huge loans in exchange for little 
or no money down.


Once the agents got signatures on these loans, they quickly sold them up 
the financial river to Wall Street, where the great banks repackaged 
them for resale at huge profit to pension funds and other investors. The 
scheme depended on getting huge numbers of names on new loans.


Thanks to a number of settlements, we now know that some companies got 
many of those new signatures via intentional strategies targeting black 
and Hispanic customers. The most infamous example was Wells Fargo, which 
paid a $175 million settlement for systematically overcharging black and 
Hispanic borrowers.


full: 
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-line-that-may-have-won-hillary-clinton-the-nomination-20160428?page=2

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Re: [Marxism] The LIES about Stanford SJP

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I guess I didn't make myself clear. When I referred to the Allison Weir 
thread, it was shorthand for the Stanford SJP meeting as well since it 
involved Weir as a principal irritant.


Maybe six months from now there will be another incident involving her. 
We can have the same food fight then but for now, it is over.


On 5/1/16 6:36 AM, Jeff via Marxism wrote:

I think I have dealt with slanders 1, 2, and 3, which can be further
discussed if someone thinks my points are inaccurate or wishes to augment
them. Points 4-8 I will address as soon as I have time to write further.

- Jeff

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Re: [Marxism] The LIES about Stanford SJP

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Amith's reply misses the subject of my post and won't be answered.

Exactly what happened that evening at Stanford wasn't my concern, and in
fact isn't very much contested in terms of the hard facts. My intention is
to dispel the slanders (lies and half-truths) against Stanford SJP that
Amith has disseminated following the event at which there was a clash
between Stanford SJP and an unnameable friend of his.

I think I have dealt with slanders 1, 2, and 3, which can be further
discussed if someone thinks my points are inaccurate or wishes to augment
them. Points 4-8 I will address as soon as I have time to write further.

- Jeff


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>I'd suggest you look at what the Palestinian refugee herself had to say as
>well as the multiple Facebook posts from Stanford SJP effectively
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Re: [Marxism] Cryptocurrencies

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Varoufakis wrote a couple:
https://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/04/22/bitcoin-and-the-dangerous-fantasy-of-apolitical-money/
https://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2014/02/15/bitcoin-a-flawed-currency-blueprint-with-a-potentially-useful-application-for-the-eurozone/

This one from uncomputing:
http://www.uncomputing.org/?p=237


And from Naked Capitalism:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/11/everything-i-was-afraid-to-ask-about-bitcoin-but-did.html

--David.

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[Marxism] Cryptocurrencies

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I am looking for some good articles on cryptocurrencies, especially Marxist 
articles, but they don't have to be Marxist--just good (scholarly or popular).

I have tried searching myself, of course, but I didn't come up with much. 

I thought this article by Doug Henwood was good:

http://www.thenation.com/article/bitcoin-future-money/

I also read this article by Ben Gliniecki:

http://www.marxist.com/bitcoin-utopian-reflection-of-capitalist-nightmare.htm

Any recommendations would be very much appreciated.

--Kevin

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