Re: [Marxism] Brexit article worth reading

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On 6/25/16 9:25 PM, A.R. G via Marxism wrote:

They turned over
Libyan weapons to [Islamic State], al-Qaida and [Nusra Front].


In fact the opposite is true.

Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2012:

U.S. officials say they are most worried about Russian-designed Manpads 
provided to Libya making their way to Syria. The U.S. intensified 
efforts to track and collect man-portable missiles after the 2011 fall 
of the country’s longtime strongman leader, Moammar Gadhafi.


To keep control of the flow of weapons to the Syrian rebels, Turkey, 
Saudi Arabia and Qatar formed a joint operations room early this year in 
a covert project U.S. officials watched from afar.


The U.S. has limited its support of the rebels to communications 
equipment, logistics and intelligence. But U.S. officials have 
coordinated with the trio of countries sending arms and munitions to the 
rebels. The Pentagon and CIA ramped up their presence on Turkey’s 
southern border as the weapons began to flow to the rebels in two to 
three shipments every week.


In July, the U.S. effectively halted the delivery of at least 18 Manpads 
sourced from Libya, even as the rebels pleaded for more effective 
antiaircraft missiles to counter regime airstrikes in Aleppo, people 
familiar with that delivery said.


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Re: [Marxism] Brexit article worth reading

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“If there is anyone who is responsible for the Brexit, it is Hillary
Clinton and Barack Obama,” he said. “They destroyed Libya. They turned over
Libyan weapons to [Islamic State], al-Qaida and [Nusra Front]. It was their
war in Syria, where many of these weapons ended up, which created the
massive exodus of refugees into Europe. This exodus exacerbated nationalism
and anti-immigrant sentiment."

The quote from Michael Hudson is very problematic. Even assuming his
narrative about the cause of the refugee crisis were accurate, he appears
to be suggesting that the mere presence of immigrants/refugees os the cause
of the backlash toward them. A very bizarre attribution of causality.

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> This is dangerous nonsense. It's bad enough that Hudson, the main basis for
> all Hedge's arguments, blames the banks and only the banks for the systemic
> crisis.
> But what's worse is that Hudson - quoted approvingly by Hedges - blames the
> UK's immigration crisis on "Obama's wars" in Ukraine, Libya and Syria --
> once again conveniently denying agency to the masses in all three
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Re: [Marxism] Brexit article worth reading

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This is dangerous nonsense. It's bad enough that Hudson, the main basis for
all Hedge's arguments, blames the banks and only the banks for the systemic
crisis.
But what's worse is that Hudson - quoted approvingly by Hedges - blames the
UK's immigration crisis on "Obama's wars" in Ukraine, Libya and Syria --
once again conveniently denying agency to the masses in all three countries.
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley: David Williams: 9780820320335: Amazon.com: Books

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A good companion piece to William's critique of the "solid south" is Thomas
G. Dyer's "Secret Yankees", which examines a circle of pro-unionists in
Atlanta during the civil war.

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> Both books come highly recommended. I do believe Williams is still at
> Valdosta state. The latter book is cast as a history from below approach to
> the Civil war. I will try to post some more examples in this vein. I just
> need to pull a few down from my shelf.
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley: David Williams: 9780820320335: Amazon.com: Books

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Both books come highly recommended. I do believe Williams is still at
Valdosta state. The latter book is cast as a history from below approach to
the Civil war. I will try to post some more examples in this vein. I just
need to pull a few down from my shelf.
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[Marxism] Brexit article worth reading

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This is how you get a socialist, be it Green or another party, elected this
year

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/2008_all_over_again_20160624

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley: David Williams: 9780820320335: Amazon.com: Books

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He has another book, Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War.
http://m.accessatlanta.com/news/entertainment/calendar/q-a-david-williams-historian-author-civil-war-how-/nQxmg/
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> As it turns out, I recommended the wrong book the other day that had "Rich
> Man's War" in the title even though it was germane to the topic of refusing
> to fight for the ruling class. Nelson Blackstock, who knows firsthand about
> the lives of workers in the South, clarified that the book he referred me
> to was about opposition to the Civil War, not WWI even though the class
> dynamics were identical. He was talking about a book very much in the
> spirit of "The Free State of Jones".
>
> 
>
> In Rich Man's War historian David Williams focuses on the Civil War
> experience of people in the Chattahoochee River Valley of Georgia and
> Alabama to illustrate how the exploitation of enslaved blacks and poor
> whites by a planter oligarchy generated overwhelming class conflict across
> the South, eventually leading to Confederate defeat.
> This conflict was so clearly highlighted by the perception that the Civil
> War was "a rich man's war and a poor man's fight" that growing numbers of
> oppressed whites and blacks openly rebelled against Confederate authority,
> undermining the fight for independence. After the war, however, the upper
> classes encouraged enmity between freedpeople and poor whites to prevent a
> class revolution. Trapped by racism and poverty, the poor remained in
> virtual economic slavery, still dominated by an almost unchanged planter
> elite.
>
>
> full:
> https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Mans-War-Confederate-Chattahoochee/dp/0820320331
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[Marxism] Fwd: Rich Man's War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley: David Williams: 9780820320335: Amazon.com: Books

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As it turns out, I recommended the wrong book the other day that had 
"Rich Man's War" in the title even though it was germane to the topic of 
refusing to fight for the ruling class. Nelson Blackstock, who knows 
firsthand about the lives of workers in the South, clarified that the 
book he referred me to was about opposition to the Civil War, not WWI 
even though the class dynamics were identical. He was talking about a 
book very much in the spirit of "The Free State of Jones".




In Rich Man's War historian David Williams focuses on the Civil War 
experience of people in the Chattahoochee River Valley of Georgia and 
Alabama to illustrate how the exploitation of enslaved blacks and poor 
whites by a planter oligarchy generated overwhelming class conflict 
across the South, eventually leading to Confederate defeat.
This conflict was so clearly highlighted by the perception that the 
Civil War was "a rich man's war and a poor man's fight" that growing 
numbers of oppressed whites and blacks openly rebelled against 
Confederate authority, undermining the fight for independence. After the 
war, however, the upper classes encouraged enmity between freedpeople 
and poor whites to prevent a class revolution. Trapped by racism and 
poverty, the poor remained in virtual economic slavery, still dominated 
by an almost unchanged planter elite.



full: 
https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Mans-War-Confederate-Chattahoochee/dp/0820320331

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[Marxism] Boris Kagarlitsky: as dizzy as ever

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If Sanders could, perhaps for the first time in US history, form a 
Social-Democratic block that would unite the working class with the 
angry young middle class, Trump heads a revolt of the industrial 
bourgeoisie against financial capital, with the support of a large 
section of workers.


full: 
http://thewire.in/44020/big-money-capitalism-has-lost-favour-and-the-working-class-is-playing-its-trump-card/

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[Marxism] William Pelz, " A People's History of Modern Europe"

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Presentation at the Open University of the Left . . . posted at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW8O5cXhsAY
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[Marxism] 'Beyond Bernie: Still Not With Her' by Kshama Sawant

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http://www.socialistalternative.org/2016/06/24/bernie/


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[Marxism] Postcapitalism

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LRB, Vol. 38 No. 13 · 30 June 2016

Owen Hatherley
PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason
Allen Lane, 368 pp, £8.99, June, ISBN 978 0 14 197529 0

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World without Work by Nick 
Srnicek and Alex Williams

Verso, 256 pp, £12.99, October 2015, ISBN 978 1 78478 096 8

Both Paul Mason’s PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future and Nick Srnicek 
and Alex Williams’s Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World 
without Work advocate things that seemed to have disappeared from 
thinking on the left sometime in the late 1960s: technological optimism, 
futurism, the making of programmes and the issuing of demands as opposed 
to bearing witness through protest. Both use the curiously neutral 
coinage ‘postcapitalism’ for their alternative, rather than socialism, 
social democracy, communism or anarchism, each of these tainted for the 
authors in one way or another.


Srnicek and Williams reject practically everything that the 
Euro-American left has thought and done since 1968, bar a somewhat 
tokenistic acknowledgment of the importance of sexual and racial 
‘intersectionality’. Their problem isn’t with ‘identity politics’ – the 
common bugbear of everything-went-wrong-in-the-1960s leftists – but with 
the abandonment of the belief that a society beyond capitalism is both 
possible and necessary. ‘From predictions of new worlds of leisure, to 
Soviet-era cosmic communism, to Afro-futurist celebrations of the 
synthetic and diasporic nature of black culture, to post-gender dreams 
of radical feminism,’ they write, ‘the popular imagination of the left 
envisaged societies vastly superior to anything we dream of today.’ It’s 
especially frustrating because ‘today, on one level, these dreams appear 
closer than ever,’ through the ever greater expansion of automation, the 
communal production and distribution of open-source software and 
‘copyleft’ systems of repudiated ownership, and the possibilities opened 
up by 3-D printing. Srnicek and Williams came to notoriety in 2013 when 
they issued a ‘Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics’, affirming 
‘mastery’, technology and the liberatory possibilities of capitalism if 
pushed beyond its limits. It was a heady and largely unconvincing 
theoretical melange, fuelled by a rather Weimar Republic sense of 
apocalyptic excitement (‘After Hitler, us!’). Inventing the Future is 
more sober; the manifesto was wilfully offensive, but here the authors 
are keen to make converts.


Mason, who arrives at postcapitalism from a background in technology and 
economic journalism, and a sometime involvement in Trotskyist politics, 
begins his ‘guide to our future’ at the border between Moldova and the 
Russian-backed statelet of Transnistria: a place, he tells us, where 
people would rather the stability of dictatorship than the chaos of 
neoliberalism. The river Dniester is ‘the geographic border between 
free-market capitalism and whatever you want to call the system Vladimir 
Putin runs’ (it remains unclear why that system shouldn’t also be called 
‘free-market capitalism’). To cross into Putinland is to realise that 
‘the best of capitalism is over for us’: around 2050 it will all start 
to collapse, through climate change, ageing, migration and economic 
dysfunction. Both Mason and Srnicek/Williams are sceptical that the 
Keynesian anti-austerity programmes of Corbyn, Sanders, Podemos or 
pre-capitulation Syriza – to ‘suppress high finance, reverse austerity, 
invest in green energy and promote high-waged work’, as Mason puts it – 
are nearly enough to stop the rot. But the lack of a viable systemic 
alternative is ‘logical, if you think the only alternative is what the 
20th-century left called “socialism”’, which Mason defines sweepingly as 
‘state control and economic nationalism’ along with a ‘brutal 
hierarchy’. For the much younger Srnicek and Williams, the problem is 
reversing the errors of post-1968 left-libertarians; for Mason, they 
didn’t go nearly far enough.


Mason especially displays the sort of belief in historical necessity and 
progress that most Marxists have learned to be deeply embarrassed by. 
Postcapitalism is both necessary and possible because ‘capitalism can no 
longer adapt to technological change.’ In language that recalls Marx’s 
preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, ‘it will 
be abolished’ because it has exhausted its productive resources, and 
harbours ‘something more dynamic that exists, at first, almost unseen 
within the old system’. The two books share an excitement about the 
possibility of a ‘new kind of human being’, but mean different things by 

[Marxism] Fwd: Brexit voters have more in common with Arab Spring protesters than they would like to think | Voices | The Independent

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A Patrick Cockburn article, as stupid as ever. It evoked this comment 
from Idrees Ahmad on FB:


Did you not see those EU jets bomb your home? Didn't the EU just destroy 
your hospital? Weren't your children tortured by the EU mukhabarat? What 
about that woman that was EU-raped?


Yes, the disgusting sack of shit Patrick Cockburn actually wrote this. 
He compares the Arab Spring protesters to rightwing Brexiters and claims 
they "demonised" the regimes the way the UKIP demonises the EU.


Remember: this is the man that Jeremy Corbyn invited to advised his 
party on Syria; this is the man Noam Chomsky cites as his main authority.


http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-result-leave-arab-spring-protest-vote-boris-johnson-nigel-farage-a7101276.html
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[Marxism] Fwd: The impact of Brexit | Michael Roberts Blog

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Michael Roberts warned that a Grexit would be no panacea. He has a 
similar warning on Brexit:


And here is the real point.  Devaluation only really affects demand. The 
other side of the equation is supply and productive capacity. 
Devaluation doesn’t necessarily do anything to promote investment and 
higher productivity. Some even argue that devaluation can reduce the 
incentive to be efficient because you become competitive without the 
effort of increasing productivity.  What really matters is what is going 
to happen to business investment and profitability.


Higher production costs from imports, weaker demand at home and abroad 
are likely to discourage UK companies from investing at home and foreign 
investors from stepping in.  And overall profitability of UK companies 
at the end of 2015 was still below the peak of 1997, while profitability 
in the key manufacturing sector for exports was half that of 1997.


If the UK tips into recession, the demand for EU exports (German cars, 
French wine, Italian clothing etc) is going to weaken.  And so a 
recession in the UK could push the EU back too.  And this is in an 
environment where global economic growth has slowed to its lowest rate 
since the end of the Great Recession, where global corporate profits 
growth is at zero and business investment is dropping in many economies.


full: 
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2016/06/24/the-impact-of-brexit/

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[Marxism] Momentum on 'Brexit' vote: Labour movement must show way forward for the working class

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https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/62021
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