[Marxism] Noel Ignatiev comments on my review of "Free State of Jones'

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Louis Proyect review of Free State of Jones: 
http://portside.org/2016-07-02/free-state-jones. Thanks. One more bit of 
information I have not seen anywhere: in 1946, when the CIO Woodworkers 
Union was organizing in Mississippi, among the most active of the 
organizers were descendants of Newt and his band. I have seen that 
nowhere; even Victoria didn't mention it. I learned it from Ken 
Lawrence, who learned it from local people. That would have made a 
better epilogue than the Davis case.

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[Marxism] Continuing use of internment without trial and prison repression in north of Ireland

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https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2016/07/22/speech-by-rnus-paul-crawford-at-july-3-newry-anti-internment-rally/

https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2016/07/22/maghaberry-prison-administration-steps-up-aggression/
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Re: [Marxism] Robert Reich on a new third party

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Don't we already have another party, i.e. the Greens? What is he talking
about?

- Amith

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> No Billy, we can't buy you a new tricycle right now.  If we do, we won't
> have the money to pay our rent to that mean old landlord, and we'll be
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> But if you're a good boy now, you will get what you want for Christmas.
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> -Original Message-
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> >Subject: [Marxism] Robert Reich on a new third party
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> >This was from a Nation Magazine symposium on the post-Sanders conjuncture.
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> >ROBERT B. REICH
> >A Third Party vs. Big Money
> >
> >The next move for Bernie Sanders’s political revolution is to set up a
> >third party (shall we call it the New Progressive Party?), whose primary
> >goal should be to get big money out of politics.
>
> The New Progressive Party should begin right after the November election
> (we mustn’t do anything in the interim that increases the odds of a Trump
> takeover of America), with Bernie as its
> chairman and his e-mail list of supporters as its core.
>
> Robert B. Reich, a former secretary of labor in the Clinton
> >administration, is a professor of public policy at the University of
> >California, Berkeley
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Re: [Marxism] Robert Reich on a new third party

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No Billy, we can't buy you a new tricycle right now.  If we do, we won't have 
the money to pay our rent to that mean old landlord, and we'll be living in 
cardboard boxes out on the street.

But if you're a good boy now, you will get what you want for Christmas.

Bobby Reich 
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>Subject: [Marxism] Robert Reich on a new third party

>This was from a Nation Magazine symposium on the post-Sanders conjuncture.
>
>ROBERT B. REICH
>A Third Party vs. Big Money
>
>The next move for Bernie Sanders’s political revolution is to set up a 
>third party (shall we call it the New Progressive Party?), whose primary 
>goal should be to get big money out of politics. 

The New Progressive Party should begin right after the November election (we 
mustn’t do anything in the interim that increases the odds of a Trump takeover 
of America), with Bernie as its 
chairman and his e-mail list of supporters as its core.

Robert B. Reich, a former secretary of labor in the Clinton 
>administration, is a professor of public policy at the University of 
>California, Berkeley


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Re: [Marxism] Why are the ‘eco-extremist tendency’ so fucked?

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> To be clear I condemn them.

Why not just condemn their ideas?

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[Marxism] Chris Wood song about the police murder of Jean Charles de Menezes, London, July 22, 2005

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It hardly seems 11 years since this police killing.

Chris Wood is one of the finest of the 'new wave' British folkies.  Great
artist in his own right as well as a key figure in the Imagined Village
project.

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[Marxism] The leadership contest in the UK

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 Gregory writes 'With this creep being the standard bearer of the right I
hope Gary MacLennan is correct in his confidence in a Corbyn victory'.

We will see, Gregory.  The signs though are good.  I wish I had the same
chance of winning the Lotto.

I have just downloaded Richard Seymour's free book from Verso on the Corbyn
drama and when I have gotten to it, I will post on it.

What makes me confident, even though I am reading UK politics from
Australia, is that Smith is forced to fight as a "radical" and a
"leftist".  When Corbyn took over, the criticism was he was unelectable
because he was too left wing. Now the criticism is that he is not very good
at Question Time in Parliament. And Smith is claiming to be more radical.

That is a joke of course that fools no one.  But it is significant that the
common sense around Corbyn's "unelectability" is disintegrating. As it
stands some 40 of the MPs who voted for a no-confidence motion against
Corbyn are showing signs of uneasiness, in the face of a huge surge in
party membership and the subsequent threat they could be dis-endorsed. They
boycotted the launch of Smith's challenge for the leadership.

When you look over the side of the ship and you see the rat tails flicking
in the water you know there is a problem.

The smart thing now is for the Old Right and the Soft Left to sneak out of
the bed while the Blairites doze on. On the 26th the judge is due to hand
down his judgement on whether Corbyn can be automatically included on the
ballot.  That I think is the last card in the anti-Corbyn hand.

The Blairite challenge was badly conceived and executed. The Old Right and
the Soft Left are left carrying the anti-Corbyn banner and the best they
can come up with is Smith's "fury" over Parliamentary Question time and his
claim to be "normal" because he has a wife and children.
What is worse for Corbyn's enemies is that the dirty tricks Watson has
unleashed have not worked. And only Corbyn stands between the
Parliamentarians and the revenge of the members.

comradely

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Re: [Marxism] Robert Reich on a new third party

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Or it's just talking left to hustle up votes for $hillary. Hold him to it
but don't spare the scepticism!

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> That's true but this call is far bolder than anything that will ever come
> out of Sanders's mouth.
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>>
>> Yes, It legitimates the idea of getting out of the two-party
>> strait-jacket.
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>> . . . .and it's just another case of where a Democratic party functionary
>> lands somewhere way the devil to the left of the official labor movement.
>>
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[Marxism] Clinton/Trump Neoliberalism: a Media Critique

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For the media and film critics out there:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/21/clintontrump-neoliberalism-a-media-critique/


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Yes, It legitimates the idea of getting out of the two-party strait-jacket.

. . . .and it's just another case of where a Democratic party functionary
lands somewhere way the devil to the left of the official labor movement.

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That's true but this call is far bolder than anything that will ever 
come out of Sanders's mouth.


On 7/21/16 1:44 PM, Dennis Brasky wrote:

Reich is a Democratic Party hack who was silent about neoliberal
corporate policies and Big $$ domination of US politics when he served
loyally in the Bill Clinton Administration. His proposal to begin work
on this "new party" AFTER the November election so as not to help the
"greater evil" Trump tells us all we need to know about this fraudster.

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Reich is a Democratic Party hack who was silent about neoliberal corporate
policies and Big $$ domination of US politics when he served loyally in the
Bill Clinton Administration. His proposal to begin work on this "new party"
AFTER the November election so as not to help the "greater evil" Trump
tells us all we need to know about this fraudster.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism <
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>
> ROBERT B. REICH
> A Third Party vs. Big Money
>
> The next move for Bernie Sanders’s political revolution is to set up a
> third party (shall we call it the New Progressive Party?), whose primary
> goal should be to get big money out of politics. Nothing else worth doing
> is possible unless we reclaim our democracy, and we can’t do that through
> our current Democratic or Republican parties, both of which are beholden to
> big money. The New Progressive Party should begin right after the November
> election (we mustn’t do anything in the interim that increases the odds of
> a Trump takeover of America), with Bernie as its chairman and his e-mail
> list of supporters as its core.
>
> Unlike the spin-off organizations from past progressive candidacies, such
> as Howard Dean’s Democracy for America, the New Progressive Party would be
> explicitly political, recruiting and fielding candidates in the 2018
> midterm elections for the Senate and House—as well as the presidency in
> 2020—who are committed to reforming our democracy. Rather than relying on
> fund-raising efforts at election time, the party would be funded by
> dues-paying members (say $1 to $5 a month, depending on your income) who
> are actively involved in establishing and participating in local and state
> chapters. New Progressives would be the lifeblood of the next generation of
> politics, carrying on Bernie’s political revolution by creating a new and
> vibrant center of countervailing power in America.
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Re: [Marxism] Robert Reich on a new third party

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Sounds like Reich is channeling Lawrence Lessig,  who campaigned on that 
platform in the Democrat primaries and got zero traction.

- Original Message -From: Louis Proyect 

ROBERT B. REICHA Third Party vs. Big Money

The next move for Bernie Sanderss political revolution is to set up a 
third party (shall we call it the New Progressive Party?), whose primary goal 
should be to get big money out of politics. Nothing else worth doing is 
possible unless we reclaim our democracy, and we cant do that through 
our current Democratic or Republican parties, both of which are beholden to big 
money. 
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[Marxism] Robert Reich on a new third party

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This was from a Nation Magazine symposium on the post-Sanders conjuncture.

ROBERT B. REICH
A Third Party vs. Big Money

The next move for Bernie Sanders’s political revolution is to set up a 
third party (shall we call it the New Progressive Party?), whose primary 
goal should be to get big money out of politics. Nothing else worth 
doing is possible unless we reclaim our democracy, and we can’t do that 
through our current Democratic or Republican parties, both of which are 
beholden to big money. The New Progressive Party should begin right 
after the November election (we mustn’t do anything in the interim that 
increases the odds of a Trump takeover of America), with Bernie as its 
chairman and his e-mail list of supporters as its core.


Unlike the spin-off organizations from past progressive candidacies, 
such as Howard Dean’s Democracy for America, the New Progressive Party 
would be explicitly political, recruiting and fielding candidates in the 
2018 midterm elections for the Senate and House—as well as the 
presidency in 2020—who are committed to reforming our democracy. Rather 
than relying on fund-raising efforts at election time, the party would 
be funded by dues-paying members (say $1 to $5 a month, depending on 
your income) who are actively involved in establishing and participating 
in local and state chapters. New Progressives would be the lifeblood of 
the next generation of politics, carrying on Bernie’s political 
revolution by creating a new and vibrant center of countervailing power 
in America.


Robert B. Reich, a former secretary of labor in the Clinton 
administration, is a professor of public policy at the University of 
California, Berkeley, and the author, most recently, of Saving 
Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few.

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[Marxism] Corbyn's opponent lobbyist for drug companies

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This article gives some background on Owen Smith who has been put forward
to try to defeat Jeremy Corbyn in the British Labour Party. He was a
lobbyist for giant drug companies and made the "mistake" of helping to open
the way for a Tory attack on the National Health . With this creep being
the standard bearer of the right I hope Gary MacLennan is correct in his
confidence in a Corbyn victory


http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/20/owen-smith-i-have-never-advocated-privatisation-of-the-nhs
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Re: [Marxism] question re social media etiquette

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He attacked my pro-US Green Party position on FB as aiding the fascist,
Islamophobic Trump forces.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism <
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>
> A Facebook friend just posted a long status on Turkey by Sam Charles Hamad,
> basically an apologia for Erdogan and the AKP, whitewashing his crimes, and
> holding him up as democracy's best bet in the country.
>
> If this sounds familiar it's because Hamad used the same method when
> analyzing Egypt (i.e. pandering to Morsi as democracy's best hope).
> In the case of Egypt, Sam also viciously denounced those who asserted the
> need for the country's workers to take the lead. He hasn't yet done so
> regarding Turkey (although workers are noticeably absent from his
> analysis), but I'm sure he'll get there.
>
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: ‘That Thing’s Coming Down Today’ « LRB blog

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On 7/21/16 10:29 AM, Ernest Leif wrote:

If I recall Rick Wolff had an interesting piece about the Yale strike of
'96.

I think this is it here:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/466890?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents


There's also this:


Chronicle of Higher Education, May 6, 2005
Look for the Union Label

Veterans of Yale's graduate-student strikes are forging their experiences
into scholarship

By DAVID GLENN

Late last month, for the sixth time since 1990, graduate teaching
assistants at Yale University went on strike. The strikers' demands have
changed little from those in the previous five walkouts: better health
benefits, child care for students with families, and an end to Yale's
practice of reducing teaching assistants' wages after their fourth year in
graduate school.

Chief among the strikers' demands throughout the years has been that Yale
recognize their union -- the Graduate Employees and Students Organization,
or GESO -- as a collective-bargaining agent.

In the 18 years (and counting) of conflict over teaching assistants' rights
at Yale, pro-union students have developed an elaborate subculture of
activism. In some cases, cadre wins out over classroom: At least a dozen
veterans of the student union have left academe for jobs in the labor
movement. The union's opponents, meanwhile, have developed their own
vibrant tradition of criticism. A satirical leaflet they distributed in
2000, for example, announced a fictitious GESO workshop that would train
students "to shirk personal responsibility while whining with self-absorbed
urgency."

The Yale union battles, whatever their outcome, have already left a lasting
imprint that goes deeper than the leaflets and counterleaflets piling up in
New Haven. In a small way, the conflict has left its mark on scholarship
itself.

Several of the graduate-student union's most visible organizers in the
mid-1990s -- an era marked by a bitterly contested grade strike -- are now
junior professors of history, political science, and American studies at
other campuses across the country.

Those young scholars bonded at Yale a decade ago in part because of their
mutual frustration with then-fashionable academic leftists "who were
willing to analyze power but not willing to build social movements," says
Corey Robin, an assistant professor of political science at City University
of New York's Brooklyn College who spent much of the 1990s as a GESO organizer.

During the past three years, a number of Yale graduate-school labor
veterans have published several acclaimed books on economic and political
conflict. All of them say that, in one way or another, their scholarly
projects have been profoundly affected by their bruising experiences at Yale.

Skeptical at First

Mr. Robin, who is perhaps the most prominent of the GESO veterans,
published his first book last fall. In Fear: The History of a Political
Idea (Oxford University Press), he explores how theorists from Montesquieu
to Judith Shklar have understood the roles played by anxiety and terror in
political life. Among the book's themes is that contemporary liberal and
communitarian theorists have paid far too little attention to
private-sector tyranny in the workplace.

When Mr. Robin arrived at Yale as a graduate student in 1990, he initially
found the nascent union movement tedious and misguided. He attended a GESO
event during his first week on campus. "They were going on about how Yale
is a feudal institution where everyone had to rely on the patronage of the
faculty," he recalls. "And I sort of raised my hand and said, What's so bad
about that?"

Within a year, however, Mr. Robin grew much more sympathetic to the union's
arguments. In particular, he was angered by the manner in which the
university established a policy that required graduate students to complete
their doctorates within six years. "There was no grandfather clause," he
says. "I had friends who were in their seventh year, who were suddenly not
allowed to register or to use the library."

Mr. Robin was only in his first year, and at some remove from the rules'
impact. But he was bothered by what he saw as the university's
imperiousness. "I'm not a lazy person," he says. "I certainly believe in
getting work done and all the rest of it. But there was something about
this whole chunk-'em-in-chunk-'em-out philosophy that I really did find
noxious."

New Vantage Point

At a rally that spring, Mr. Robin came to see Yale's student-union
activists as "people who actually had a view of the university that was
quite close to my own."

Mr. Robin had conceived of writing a dissertation on fear before he joined
the union, but the eventual project was 

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If I recall Rick Wolff had an interesting piece about the Yale strike of
'96.

I think this is it here:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/466890?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Socialist Singularity - Los Angeles Review of Books

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There could scarcely be a more opportune moment, then, for the 
appearance in English of the late Cuban science fiction master Agustín 
de Rojas’s epic novel The Year 200. This final and most ambitious 
installment of a trilogy is now being published for the first time in 
English by Restless Books. De Rojas’s book, first published in 1990 as 
the Soviet Bloc collapsed, has the potential to reintroduce 
English-speaking readers to the suppleness, complexity, and productive 
ambiguities of the left-utopian tradition in science fiction. The Year 
200 speaks the language of cybernetics, that mostly forgotten ancestor 
of Silicon Valley futurism, and reveals some of the ways in which it did 
and did not anticipate our present dilemmas. De Rojas’s lucid fictional 
world intersects with many of our contemporary technological obsessions 
but charges them with remarkably distinct political valences.


full: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-socialist-singularity/
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Re: [Marxism] question re social media etiquette

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Thanks for the clarification Louis. Here's what Hamad wrote:

"I genuinely give up. I'm not a fan of Erdogan, though I've been accused by
idiots of being a supporter and member of the AKP, and I actually, much to
the chagrin of some of my pro-AKP comrades (and I do regard them as
comrades of the first class), supported the protests in Taksim Square and
Gezi Park. My view on the AKP has never been that they've slid into petty
authoritarianism because they're 'Islamist', as they just simply are not in
governmental or even ideological terms 'Islamist' by any reasonable
definition of that term, as in those who wish to see sharia as the sole
source of law and rule by the ulama. They are a socially conservative party
rooted in social classes that were for decades locked out of Turkish
politics and culture by various different 'secular' elites. Those who
conjure the spectre of 'Islamism' regarding the AKP are almost certainly
doing so to cynically exploit Islamophobia for political reasons - it has
absolutely no veracity in the manner in which they've governed as a party.
The problem was when the great awakening of democracy occurred within
Turkey, its agents were not going to let it go. They didn't want to see a
return to the bad old days when their cultural values and when their
political rights were curtailed and sneered at - so they became one of the
most loyal bases of any democratic political party in the world. The
opposition to the AKP has been dismal over the course of its rule, which
has meant that the AKP has essentially become the only truly national party
in Turkey, commanding massive shares of the vote even at its lowest points
and garnering the support not just of socially conservative Turks, but an
even wider and varied base - it has managed even to gain 50% of the vote
among Kurds. Indeed, the accusations of them being 'Islamists', which is an
obsession of some parts of the opposition and much of the US and European
right, is seen by the AKP base as evidence of these forces' will to
disenfranchise them and curtail their political and cultural agency as
Muslims. For those who know anything about Turkish history, they have very
good reason to fear this.
Those who are squeamish over the way the Turkish government are dealing
with the coupists might want to bear in mid that over 100 Turkish civilians
defending democracy were murdered by these fascists - imagine the
atrocities that would've been necessary had the coup succeeded in smashing
democracy? Think of Rabaa and Nadha. Think of the constant brutality of the
Egyptian counter-revolution. Those Turks throwing up the R4BIA four finger
salute certainly know exactly what I mean here.
But the popularity of the AKP has led to problems with the leadership and
an increasing authoritarianism that even some AKP supporters have openly
criticised. The AKP leadership, not all of them, but certainly the
pro-Erdogan 'wing, are a perfect vindication of the logic behind that old
saying about absolute power corrupting absolutely - but the power they have
gained has been through the ballot box. And they have not yet been
corrupted absolutely - one of the key features of the great swell of
popular activity against the recent failed putsch was the lack of pictures
of Erdogan. Even AKP supporters knew that what was happening during the
putsch was bigger than Erdogan and bigger than the AKP - it was a battle
for the soul of Turkey. A fight against the return to the days where
democracy was despised and the aspiration of the many were so firmly
discarded in favour for the interests of the few. Where the military
reigned supreme.
I have nothing but resolute opposition to any authoritarianism practiced by
Erdogan and the AKP, but the fact is, as we saw from the election wherein
the AKP failed to get an overall majority, they can still be removed from
power and challenged democratically. However, hope for me lies in the base
of the AKP. Those politicised by their own historic struggles against
authoritarianism and those who have, more than any other country in the
world, pushed their party towards showing solidarity with Palestinians,
with pro-democracy Egyptians (until this day, Turkey recognises Mohamed
Morsi as the legitimate president) and, more importantly through the sheer
scale of the events, aiding the victims of Assad, Iran and Russia's terror
in Syria. It's the base of the AKP that drive this - not these myths of
Erdogan's 'Neo-Ottomanism' or, indeed, the idea that he was particularly
averse to Assad, whom he once called a friend (though Erdogan and many of
his comrades were of course once jailed for their beliefs - so it's also
not true to say 

Re: [Marxism] question re social media etiquette

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On 7/21/16 8:56 AM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote:

Is it acceptable to post someone's Facebook status on a public list?


Usually they don't care but about 3 years ago or so I was taken to task 
by Corey Robin by crossposting something from his timeline here. I was 
startled frankly that he read Marxmail and also annoyed that he would 
think that his rights had been violated. My feeling is that if you post 
something on the Net, you should expect it to be crossposted. The only 
exception to that rule is email.

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[Marxism] question re social media etiquette

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A Facebook friend just posted a long status on Turkey by Sam Charles Hamad,
basically an apologia for Erdogan and the AKP, whitewashing his crimes, and
holding him up as democracy's best bet in the country.

If this sounds familiar it's because Hamad used the same method when
analyzing Egypt (i.e. pandering to Morsi as democracy's best hope).
In the case of Egypt, Sam also viciously denounced those who asserted the
need for the country's workers to take the lead. He hasn't yet done so
regarding Turkey (although workers are noticeably absent from his
analysis), but I'm sure he'll get there.

So, here's the etiquette question:

Is it acceptable to post someone's Facebook status on a public list? I ask
both as a general rule and in circumstances like mine where the author has
blocked me.
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[Marxism] Corbyn launches campaign

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My usual twitter feed has not yet caught up the Corbyn launch. However,
judging by the grudging praise from his enemies in the main stream media,
he has had a triumph. He is set now to campaign in front of massive crowds
until the conference in September.

This coup has turned out to be a disaster. It had two phases first the
Blairites struck staging their rolling resignations.  That did not work
then the Old Right under Watson appears to have taken over the coup. His
strategy was to keep Corbyn off the ballot paper and when that failed he
tried to disenfranchise Corbyn's base. That has failed too.

So now the specter of deselection as the grimmest of Grim Reapers has come
on the stage.  The Right have alienated the new members by depriving them
off a vote and banning meetings and suspending branches but they cannot
keep doing that. The memerbs will have a chance to DE-select the MPs who
went against their wishes. If the Corbyn slate for the NEC gets up then
There will be no centre to impose right wing MPs on left wing
constituencies.

Already some of Corbyn's enemies are suing for peace. That will become an
even greater number.

I am reminded of Sun Tzu's injunction in the *The Art of War*, not to
charge the enemy when they occupy the high ground.  Corbyn has the moral
high ground thanks to plotting and the dirty tricks that Watson and his
allies have unleashed.

He also has the fire power to take his enemies out.  And they know it.
What though can they do?  They cannot call off the campaign, much as they
would love to now. They have maneuvered Corbyn into a position of strength.
He may not be very good at Prime Minister's Questions times but only the
elite think that is an important arena. Out in the streets and halls across
England he is unbeatable and the idiots who tried to topple him will be
about to see the full might of the Corbyn movement build up over the summer
and all the way to the Party Conference.

All very pleasing.

comradely

Gary
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[Marxism] Fwd: Fla. police shoot black man with his hands up as he tries to help autistic patient - The Washington Post

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/21/fla-police-shoot-black-man-with-his-hands-up-as-he-tries-to-help-autistic-patient/
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[Marxism] Free labour, the US civil war and the making of an American working class

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Interview with Marxmail regular Mark Lause, here:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/07/21/free-labour-the-civil-war-and-the-making-of-an-american-working-class-interview-with-mark-lause/
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