[Marxism] New on Redline - workers' liberation blog
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. * Some recent pieces on Redline blog: The great Irish workers leader James Connolly on "All hail the mob - the incarnation of human progress": https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2016/08/24/all-hail-the-mob-the-incarnation-of-human-progress/ The grubby history of the Olympic Games (short version): https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/08/23/the-grubby-history- of-the-olympic-games/ A wonderful display of solidarity with the Palestinians by Glasgow Celtic soccer fans (short video): https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2016/08/22/celtic-soccer-fans-back-palestinians/ When revolution was in the air - we interview two readers who were active in working class, anti-Vietnam War and civil rights movements in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s (writer Barbara Gregorich and dulcimer player Phil Passen): https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2016/08/18/when-revolution-was-in-the-air-barbara-gregorich-and-phil-passen- interviewed/ The changing global working class - today a majority of the working class is in the Third World; what political implications does this have for advocates of workers' liberation globally?: https://rdln.wordpress.com/ 2016/08/12/imperialism-study-group-some-notes-on-the- changing-global-working-class/ And in Firefighter News we look at the new Fire & Emergency Service and more: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/15680/ Phil for the Redline blog collective _ 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] 'Respect for diversity' and modern capitalist ideology
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[Marxism] Who are the Melungeons?
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 Melungeons, who are generally understood to be part American Indian, might have been descendants of a group of people who shared blood ties to the freed Turkish slaves, Roanoke colonists and native peoples. https://louisproyect.org/2008/06/25/turks-and-american-indians/ The story of the Melungeons is at once a footnote to the history of race in America and a timely parable of it. They bear witness to the horrors and legacy of segregation, but also to the overlooked complexity of the early colonial era. They suggest a once-and-future alternative to the country’s brutally rigid model of race relations, one that, for all the improvements, persists in the often siloed lives of black and white Americans today. Half-real and half-mythical, for generations the Melungeons were avatars for their neighbours’ neuroses; latterly they have morphed into receptacles for their ideals, becoming, in effect, ambassadors for integration where once they were targets of prejudice. http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21705639-story-appalachian-people-offers-timely-parable-nuanced-history-race _ 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: Fatima; In Order of Disappearance | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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[Marxism] Reaction to Green party resolution on BDS
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 Vancouver Sun has a daily circulation of 156,158. My guess is that makes it smaller than newspapers in Toronto and Montreal, but larger than other papers in Canada. ken h "Green Party lost its way" http://vancouversun.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-may-must-renounce-anti-israel-resolutions Vancouver Sun Editorial Board August 24, 2016 Editorial: May must renounce anti-Israel resolutions Canada's Green Party can thank Elizabeth May for slowing its descent into a sinkhole of irrelevance and disrepute. By choosing to remain as leader, May, who represents the B.C. riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands and is the party's only elected member of Parliament, provides a patina of purpose over a caucus that has lost its way. Two resolutions supported by a majority of Green delegates at the party's biennial convention this month singled out the only liberal democracy in the Middle East - and a century-old Jewish organization - for abuse and opprobrium. Members passed a resolution supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement that seeks to demonize and delegitimize the State of Israel in the hope that its activities will bring about, not peace, but the country's demise. Another resolution calls on the Canada Revenue Agency to revoke the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund, an organization founded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Palestine, which was controlled by the Ottoman Empire from 1517 to 1917 and under the British Mandate from 1918 to 1948. The JNF invests in research in forestry, watershed management, carbon sequestration, alternative energy sources, animal and plant reintroduction and arid land management problems. Of all organizations for the Green Party to attack, this seems an odd choice. Although May says she opposed the BDS resolution, she is listed as one of 29 co-sponsors of the JNF resolution. She said the resolution was brought forward by Corey Levine, a member of Independent Jewish Voices, an anti-Israel group that uses the fig leaf of Jewishness to lend support to Iran, deny the Holocaust, participate in anti-Semitic Al-Quds protests, encourage terrorism against Israelis and promulgate lies about Israel's history, society and policies. That a majority of Greens have bought into IJV's false narrative is disturbing but perhaps not surprising. May welcomed anti-Israel activists Paul Manly and Dimitri Lascaris into her shadow cabinet knowing both support the BDS movement. And May herself voted against a parliamentary motion in February that condemned the BDS movement, citing free speech concerns. It passed with a 229 to 51 vote. It seems clear that the Green Party has drawn marginalized groups expounding extreme anti-Israel and anti-Jewish views. Notwithstanding her own ambiguous position, May must insist that such views have no place in Green Party policy. Otherwise, she risks leading a fringe party into oblivion. _ 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] immigrant fathers in America a century ago
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. * When the movement began in the late 1960s for teaching Black history and providing bilingual education for Latinos, some whites protested that when their immigrant ancestors came to the US, they had no such programs and would have opposed them because they “wanted to assimilate into American society as quickly as possible.” This book maintains that this was much more the case with the children of immigrants, and that their parents – usually the fathers – feared and resented assimilation and did whatever they could to oppose it because it inevitably meant the loss of their patriarchal power, reduced to a mere first among equals. http://www.delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?p=3140 _ 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] Fwd: Why the State Matters | Jacobin
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[Marxism] the federal government did not want houses in urban areas
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[Marxism] Fwd: Anti-imperialism and the Syrian Revolution | SocialistWorker.org
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Why the State Matters | Jacobin
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 8/25/16 9:45 AM, Andrew Pollack wrote: Glad he took a dig at localist "solutions." But - even though he mentioned the Bolshevik Revolution - he's not willing to go further than pressuring the state to rein in capital, and so does a huge disservice to the movement. Meanwhile what's the latest on the Native peoples taking on the state over that pipeline? NY Times Op-Ed, August 25 2016 Taking a Stand at Standing Rock By DAVID ARCHAMBAULT II Near Cannon Ball, N.D. — It is a spectacular sight: thousands of Indians camped on the banks of the Cannonball River, on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. Our elders of the Seven Council Fires, as the Oceti Sakowin, or Great Sioux Nation, is known, sit in deliberation and prayer, awaiting a federal court decision on whether construction of a $3.7 billion oil pipeline from the Bakken region to Southern Illinois will be halted. The Sioux tribes have come together to oppose this project, which was approved by the State of North Dakota and the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The nearly 1,200-mile pipeline, owned by a Texas oil company named Energy Transfer Partners, would snake across our treaty lands and through our ancestral burial grounds. Just a half-mile from our reservation boundary, the proposed route crosses the Missouri River, which provides drinking water for millions of Americans and irrigation water for thousands of acres of farming and ranching lands. Our tribe has opposed the Dakota Access pipeline since we first learned about it in 2014. Although federal law requires the Corps of Engineers to consult with the tribe about its sovereign interests, permits for the project were approved and construction began without meaningful consultation. The Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior and the National Advisory Council on Historic Preservation supported more protection of the tribe’s cultural heritage, but the Corps of Engineers and Energy Transfer Partners turned a blind eye to our rights. The first draft of the company’s assessment of the planned route through our treaty and ancestral lands did not even mention our tribe. The Dakota Access pipeline was fast-tracked from Day 1 using the Nationwide Permit No. 12 process, which grants exemption from environmental reviews required by the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act by treating the pipeline as a series of small construction sites. And unlike the better-known Keystone XL project, which was finally canceled by the Obama administration last year, the Dakota Access project does not cross an international border — the condition that mandated the more rigorous federal assessment of the Keystone pipeline’s economic justification and environmental impacts. The Dakota Access route is only a few miles shorter than what was proposed for the Keystone project, yet the government’s environmental assessment addressed only the portion of the pipeline route that traverses federal land. Domestic projects of this magnitude should clearly be evaluated in their totality — but without closer scrutiny, the proposal breezed through the four state processes. Perhaps only in North Dakota, where oil tycoons wine and dine elected officials, and where the governor, Jack Dalrymple, serves as an adviser to the Trump campaign, would state and county governments act as the armed enforcement for corporate interests. In recent weeks, the state has militarized my reservation, with road blocks and license-plate checks, low-flying aircraft and racial profiling of Indians. The local sheriff and the pipeline company have both called our protest “unlawful,” and Gov. Dalrymple has declared a state of emergency. It’s a familiar story in Indian Country. This is the third time that the Sioux Nation’s lands and resources have been taken without regard for tribal interests. The Sioux peoples signed treaties in 1851 and 1868. The government broke them before the ink was dry. When the Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Missouri River in 1958, it took our riverfront forests, fruit orchards and most fertile farmland to create Lake Oahe. Now the Corps is taking our clean water and sacred places by approving this river crossing. Whether it’s gold from the Black Hills or hydropower from the Missouri or oil pipelines that threaten our ancestral inheritance, the tribes have always paid the price for America’s prosperity. Protecting water and our sacred places has always been at the center of our cause. The Indian encampment on the Cannonball grows daily, with nearly 90 tribes now
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Why the State Matters | Jacobin
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 agree with Andy, it's an interesting article and well worth reading. What Parenti does, and without using the term, is laying out a survey of *Bonapartist* political-economy over the last 250 years. However, what I find very valuable here is the understanding of the role of the State as a *prerequisite* for development as capitalism transformed into Imperialism. This article as a survey of industrial development under the many areas of the globe that have gone through this process is a direct affront to...the Libertarian's who believe that only unbridled, unregulated and form where the state buts out of development can work. The a-historical nature of the Libertarian economic program is slammed and destroyed by this article. Libertarianiam is exposed as a fantasy, at least historically, by the thesis Parenti develops here. While Parenti avoids the need for workers revolution and maybe in contradiction to what Andy's implies, the 'solutions' part of his article has a kind of "transitional" program of immediate demands, or perspectives, that flow from the arguments in the article. That is, "mitigating fossil fuel use" he suggests wisely, means using the power of the State, even under capitalism, to enforce other forms of energy. He notes "We need movements that, at least for now, seek to use state power to force capital into new patterns of investment and technological development." I'm for that in some ways. It makes political sense for a movement concerned about climate change, to push for this even if it's book ended by capitalist political economy. He does, perhaps, give to much legitimacy to the concept of the State's "autonomy" and doesn't realize the contradictions between what was in the ruling class' long term interests during the periods in countries he describes and today's speculative based Imperialist political economy. Because of this he doesn't go the necessary step further to suggest that implementing such a radical plan, Imperialism will simply remove that 'autonomy' the State has to insure it's present domination over nature for purposes of short term profit. Still, his description of how development occurred is very valuable. David Walters _ 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] Fwd: Why the State Matters | Jacobin
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. * Glad he took a dig at localist "solutions." But - even though he mentioned the Bolshevik Revolution - he's not willing to go further than pressuring the state to rein in capital, and so does a huge disservice to the movement. Meanwhile what's the latest on the Native peoples taking on the state over that pipeline? On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:01 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. > * > > Christian Parenti has some very odd ideas about the "developmental state" > but this is still worth reading. > > https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/10/developmentalism-neoliber > alism-climate-change-hamilton/ > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/acpollack2%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] [UCE] Fwd: How Bernie spent his millions was anything but revolutionary.
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Chomsky Puzzle: Piecing Together a Celebrity Scientist - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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[Marxism] [UCE] Plagiarism?
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