Re: [Marxism] Vas Bien Fidel.

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Thank you Prijay for posting these.  Deeply appreciated.

comradely

Gary

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Prashad, Vijay via Marxism <
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> In today's The Hindu, I have a short remembrance of Fidel Castro as the
> conscience of the Third World. It is based on watching him at the 1983 New
> Delhi NAM and then at the 2001 WCAR in Durban. He was the shadow all over
> my book, The Darker Nations. You can find the essay here,
> http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/The-voice-of-the-Third-World/
> article16711547.ece.
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> Also, in rediff, Prakash Karat of the CPIM has a short remembrance of
> Castro as the living embodiment of the Revolution,
> http://www.rediff.com/news/special/prakash-karat-fidel-
> the-eternal-revolutionary/20161127.htm.
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> In ten days, in Frontline, you can find my longer essay on Cuba and US
> imperialism.
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> Warm regards, Vijay.
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> Vijay Prashad
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[Marxism] Vas Bien Fidel.

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In today's The Hindu, I have a short remembrance of Fidel Castro as the 
conscience of the Third World. It is based on watching him at the 1983 New 
Delhi NAM and then at the 2001 WCAR in Durban. He was the shadow all over my 
book, The Darker Nations. You can find the essay here, 
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/The-voice-of-the-Third-World/article16711547.ece.

Also, in rediff, Prakash Karat of the CPIM has a short remembrance of Castro as 
the living embodiment of the Revolution, 
http://www.rediff.com/news/special/prakash-karat-fidel-the-eternal-revolutionary/20161127.htm.

In ten days, in Frontline, you can find my longer essay on Cuba and US 
imperialism.

Warm regards, Vijay.


Vijay Prashad
Professor of International Studies
Author: The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution 
(2016<http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520293267>).
Co-Editor (with Karim Makdisi): Land of Blue Helmets: The United Nations and 
the Arab World (2016<http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520286948>).
Columnist: Frontline, Alternet and BirGün.

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[Marxism] Aleppo in a time of monsters

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[Marxism] Fwd: Was there an alternative to Fidel Castro’s “Stalinism”? | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Today I was shocked by the torrent of denunciations aimed at the 
Stalinist “dictator” Fidel Castro. No, I am not talking about CBS or 
CNN, where it might be expected. Rather it emanated from FB friends, 
most of whom supported Tony Cliff’s theory of State Capitalism but with 
some anarchists as well. I was also shocked by the vehemence that 
exceeded anything that Sam Farber or Mike Gonzalez wrote for the 
occasion even though they were as bad as I might have expected.


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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-War]: Wilson on Spence, 'A History of the Royal Navy: Empire and Imperialism'

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From: H-Net Staff 
Date: Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 10:38 AM
Subject: H-Net Review [H-War]: Wilson on Spence, 'A History of the Royal
Navy: Empire and Imperialism'
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Daniel Owen Spence.  A History of the Royal Navy: Empire and
Imperialism.  London  I.B.Tauris, 2016.  xiii + 238 pp.  $35.00
(cloth), ISBN 978-1-78076-543-3.

Reviewed by Evan Wilson (Yale University)
Published on H-War (November, 2016)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

British naval history is clustered around great wars. Historians of
the late-eighteenth-century navy have filled bookshelves with Horatio
Nelson biographies, but also with social, cultural, strategic,
economic, and technological examinations of the emergence of
Britain's maritime supremacy. Historians of the two world wars have
been similarly busy, debating war aims, technological changes, grand
strategy, and the roles of aircraft and submarines. In between the
two clusters, the bookshelves are lightly populated. Compared to the
eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, the long stretch of the
nineteenth century that saw the height of the British Empire is
understudied.

Daniel Owen Spence's survey of the navy's role in the British
imperial project is well-positioned to fill that gap. It also aims to
fill a gap in its own series, A History of the Royal Navy, which upon
completion will include no less than fourteen volumes. (The sheer
size of the project makes possible redundancies inevitable, and one
of the first questions to ask about the volume under review here is
how it will mesh with a forthcoming volume on "The Victorian Age.")
Taken together, the series is a kind of curriculum vitae of the navy.
Published by the National Museum of the Royal Navy, the series makes
grand claims about how it "sheds new light on almost every aspect of
Britain's Royal Navy" (p. xv). This is perhaps a step too far, but
that should not be seen as a serious criticism. The series is
fundamentally a work of synthesis, and should be evaluated in those
terms. A more important question is the audience. It seems clear from
the series introduction and the volumes already published that at
least one aspect of the audience is intended to be ministers
threatening budget cuts. Though Spence does well to avoid a
triumphalist approach, the series explicitly reminds its audience
that the navy has a long and important history.

Works of synthesis targeted at academic audiences place serious
demands on both the author and the publisher, and Spence's volume
simply does not have the bibliographic heft to satisfy those already
familiar with British naval history and its historiography,
particularly in the age of sail. From the perspective of a general
reader, though, Spence is more successful. He has a clear perspective
in his narrative, namely naval operations and cultural influences in
an imperial context. He skips neatly over operations and institutions
not directly relevant to the empire. There are no French invasion
scares in this book, no what-if accounts of Jutland, and no
explorations of the Royal Dockyards. Instead, we read of gunboats in
China, the long history of competing claims to the Falklands, and the
navy's role in spreading cricket. The book is organized roughly
chronologically from the Tudors to the twentieth century, but it is
also organized thematically: beginning with arguments for empire in
the early modern period, Spence moves through science and
exploration, gunboat diplomacy, colonial cultures, the development of
colonial naval forces, and the postcolonial period.

The collateral damage of Spence's single-minded focus on imperial
operations and cultures is a tendency to lose the chronological
thread. When discussing the slave trade, Spence neglects to provide
the general survey of the slave trade that one might expect in a work
of synthesis. Instead, he bounces around confusingly. He begins at
the 1807 Slave Trade Act, then jumps forward to Lagos in 1860 and
then back to the American Revolution in 1775 and then forward again
to manpower shortages in 1916 and then back again to punitive
expeditions to Canada in the 1720s. Academics will not be the only
readers suffering from whiplash and confusion.

One explanation for the chronological difficulties is that in
addition to his narrative of imperial operations, Spence has an
argument to make. The navy served as the security force for Britain's
global "paternalistic mission": religious conversion to Christianity,
economic conversion to free trade, and cultural and legal conversion
to Western norms. Naval operations spanned the globe, and

[Marxism] Austria: Black Block Zionists attack Arab Migrants

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During an anti-racist Demonstration on 26 November**in Vienna*, *Black 
Block Zionists attacked Arab Migrants who marched in the contingent of 
the Austrian section of the RCIT. This incident has been reported in 
national media. For more informations see this report (with pictures and 
videos): http://www.thecommunists.net/rcit/zionists-attack-rcit-austria/




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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-War]: Prushankin on Reardon and Vossler, 'A Field Guide to Gettysburg: Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places, and People'

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Date: Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 10:37 AM
Subject: H-Net Review [H-War]: Prushankin on Reardon and Vossler, 'A Field
Guide to Gettysburg: Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History,
Places, and People'
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Carol Reardon, Tom Vossler.  A Field Guide to Gettysburg:
Experiencing the Battlefield through Its History, Places, and People.
 Chapel Hill  University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
Illustrations, maps. 464 pp.  $22.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8078-3525-8.

Reviewed by Jeffery S. Prushankin (Millersville University of
Pennsylvania)
Published on H-War (November, 2016)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

According to recent estimates, there are over sixty-five thousand
books written about Gettysburg, with subjects ranging from the memory
of Pickett's Charge to the menu at General Pickett's Buffet. None of
these books accomplish what Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler have
achieved with _A Field Guild to Gettysburg: Experiencing the
Battlefield through Its Historical Places and People_. As its title
indicates, the book allows the reader to reconstruct, interpret, and
essentially understand the Battle of Gettysburg through the eyes of
those who fought. Although _A Field Guide to Gettysburg_ generally
follows the Park Service auto tour, there are several additional
opportunities that make this anything but a standard excursion.

The book is divided into three main sections, one for each day of the
battle, and each section is subdivided into chapters that follow that
day's events. Each chapter is broken into subsections that correspond
with one of thirty-five tour stops. Tour stops begin with an
orientation that allows the reader to pinpoint the location on one of
the corresponding forty-seven maps and to begin to understand the
significance of the battlefield itself as a primary source.

Next, the authors ask "What Happened Here?" and provide a few
paragraphs of powerful prose describing events that took place at
that location. The authors often use the words of soldiers, from
officers to enlisted men, to develop the narrative and accordingly,
put the reader into the action. The clearly drawn maps depict troop
movements, some down to the company level, facilitating an
understanding of the battle from the soldier's point of view. To
further explore the action from this perspective, Reardon and Vossler
then ask "Who Fought Here?" and "Who Commanded Here?" These areas of
investigation describe the troops engaged as well as the
personalities involved. All of this makes the following heading "Who
Fell Here?" that much more powerful. The use of individual vignettes
helps illustrate that each number in a casualty report was an
individual, a real human being, not merely a statistic or a name in a
history book tucked away on some dusty bookshelf. Indeed, the authors
often examine the impact of death upon a soldier's family, thus
personalizing the battlefield. For several tour stops, the authors
include the heading "Who Lived Here?" that considers the civilians of
Gettysburg whose lives were disrupted and in some cases destroyed by
the carnage of battle and its lingering aftermath. The study of each
tour stop concludes with the heading "What Did They Say about It
Later?" offering the reader a consideration of how Gettysburg began
its evolution in historical memory.

It is not uncommon to see visitors to Gettysburg traipsing across the
battlefield with the Official Records in one hand, a map in the
other, and a backpack loaded with the complete works of Harry Pfanz.
To a great extent, _A Field Guide_ _to Gettysburg_ eliminates the
need to carry that weight. Reardon and Vossler have provided an
instant classic in a single volume that is both eminently readable
and exceptionally useable, ideal for those participating in staff
rides, educational tours, or a self-guided exploration of the
battlefield. Even if one lives nowhere near the battlefield, _A Field
Guide to Gettysburg_ is a perfect companion book to supplement
traditional Gettysburg monographs.

Citation: Jeffery S. Prushankin. Review of Reardon, Carol; Vossler,
Tom, _A Field Guide to Gettysburg: Experiencing the Battlefield
through Its History, Places, and People_. H-War, H-Net Reviews.
November, 2016.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=39354

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States
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[Marxism] Fwd: How Industrialization Brought About the Decline of Vertebrate Species

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New research hints that contemporary habitat losses may have initiated 
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Re: [Marxism] The true Fidel Castro

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I would start with this book.
https://www.amazon.com/Fidel-Castro-Life-Spoken-Autobiography/dp/1416562338

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I have been following this list for at least a year. I continue to learn
from the great information posted here. But now it's time for me to post. I
hope this post is appropriate.

I grew in Florida during the 1970s and 80s. Fidel was a pariah. I would
like to be able to say I challenged this thinking, but I didn't. However I
did think even then that Miami had serious anger management issues and they
just spouted the same tired angry cliches. The Cuba I learned about via my
radio was vastly different from what I was told was fact.

In college, around 1990, I took a course on the Cuban Revolution. It
greatly changed my views not only on Cuba, but about the US's disastrous
history of imperialism. What I learned and remembered dove tails with what
Louis Proyect posted yesterday. <
http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/state_and_revolution/cuba.htm>

All of this brings me to my question. What books do you recommend about
Fidel and the Cuban Revolution in general? I see many available, but it
seems more than not, they're just anti-Castro pablum.

BTW, Louis, I have now found this page of yours <
http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mypage.htm> which I plan to reference as I
continue my journey left.
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