[Marxism] Tim Anderson’s 'Dirty War on Syria' demolished

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Finally we have this excellent, extremely well-researched piece by
Brian Slocock that demolishes Tim Anderson's "book" The Dirty War on
Syria and reveals the complete drivel it is based on:

Tim Anderson’s Dirty War on Syria:
https://pulsemedia.org/2017/04/05/tim-andersons-dirty-war-on-syria/

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Articulating Trumpism, or, Thanks, Obama! | Berkeley Journal of Sociology

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I read this with considerable care.  It is part of a discourse that I
actively dislike.  It begins with an incorrect assumption about Trump's
power. The argument is that he has a hold over the "people" and we should
all shit our pants accordingly.

We need instead to take seriously Levenson's own criticisms of the role of
the Democrats and the trade union bureaucracy in their absolute complicity
with neoliberalism. I fully endorse these btw.

My take on Trump's "victory", as I have said before, is that this was an
election that it was almost impossible for the non-Democrat candidate to
lose and Trump came close to losing it. Levenson should begin his analysis
not with Trump's victory but rather with the fact that his power base is so
small and moreover it is unstable.

For the present Trump would appear to have captured the moment of
opposition  Clinton made that easy by campaigning for the status quo. But
Trump is now the POTUS and so inevitably he becomes the target of the
impulse to oppose.

At some stage the buffoonery will have to stop.  He knows how to continue
campaigning, but he will also have to start governing.  And so far he has
made an absolute hash of that. He has been defeated on Obamacare and Border
control. And that is because he does not command a sufficiently broad
consensus.

Nor does he have a solution to the ravages that neoliberalism has inflicted
on the American working class. Some Keynesians think he does, but I do not
believe that.  If I am correct the House that Trump built will come
crashing down around him.  Then even Levenson will realize that the Emperor
has no clothes.

comradely

Gary





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[Marxism] from Facebook - Dear Noam Chomsky

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Dear Mr. Chomsky,

Yesterday the Syrian regime launched a suspected chemical attack on Idlib.
Today it bombed the hospital treating the victims. The last time you broke
your silence on Syria was to condemn students for denying a platform to a
speaker who had justified the regime's crimes and slandered its victims. Do
you believe that a westerner's right to deny genocide is more sacrosanct
than a Syrian's right to life? Do you have any regrets?

Best wishes,

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Re: [Marxism] Sanders: 'Make Democrats a party of the working class, not liberal elite'

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On 4/4/17 4:06 PM, Joaquin Bustelo via Marxism wrote:

This might cause a shitstorm here, but I'm going to send it anyways:

"Bernie has now projected "Our Revolution" as, in essence, the start of
a different party even while operating in the Democrat framework by
counterposing the idea of a working class party to a party of the
liberal elite

"I think that Marxists need to recognize the movement towards something
akin to a social-democratic party that the 'Our Revolution' faction of
the Democratic Party represents, and figure out how to relate to it."

[For my part, I'm in despite the capitalist so-called nature of the
Democratic Party, partly because I don't believe that things have a
"nature" or "essence" or some other invisible dimension that makes them
what they are.]

Full:

http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2017/04/sanders-make-democrats-party-of-working.html




What's so new? You used to post pro-Obama crap in 2007 just like Fred 
Feldman.


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[Marxism] Sanders: 'Make Democrats a party of the working class, not liberal elite'

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This might cause a shitstorm here, but I'm going to send it anyways:

"Bernie has now projected "Our Revolution" as, in essence, the start of 
a different party even while operating in the Democrat framework by 
counterposing the idea of a working class party to a party of the 
liberal elite


"I think that Marxists need to recognize the movement towards something 
akin to a social-democratic party that the 'Our Revolution' faction of 
the Democratic Party represents, and figure out how to relate to it."


[For my part, I'm in despite the capitalist so-called nature of the 
Democratic Party, partly because I don't believe that things have a 
"nature" or "essence" or some other invisible dimension that makes them 
what they are.]


Full:

http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2017/04/sanders-make-democrats-party-of-working.html

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Re: [Marxism] Lenin's theory of imperialism

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Excellent indeed - in particular, a useful antidote to John Riemann's view
that the current world situation somehow evokes eve of World War I, with
China in the role of Germany and the USA as ... the Ottoman Empire?!

http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=13237


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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Just Wait Until I Get Tenure

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There are two questions at issue.  First is whether professors will
individually have more freedom of action and be able to exercise speech
more freely when they get tenure.  The second is whether professors in
general tend to get more radical when they get tenure.

On the first point, I don't think there's any question but that the
security of tenure permits these things.  As to whether professors choose
to exercise them is a different matter, as it the question of whether they
can find a way to make their input relevant or meaningful.  I am quite
confident that they almost never do.

I'm sure the the more general question can be demonstrated to the full
satisfaction of any academic conference assembled to define what "radical"
means. Academe exists in this matter to translate radicalism--"Marxism," no
less--into something so abstract as to lack all social meaning..

This is all has been overshadowed by the exponential growth of higher
education in the 1960s and the grand delusion of the that universities
could change the world.  Perhaps few could see at the time how the "Red
University" could be institutionalized through the Ford Foundation's
funding of Black Studies, the development of Gender studies and the
wonderful obtuseness of institutionalized hothouse "theory."  But none of
this should be too surprising today.

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Gas Attack Is Said to Kill Dozens in Syria - The New York Times

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There will be an emergency protest in New York, 5 pm, Dag Hammarskjold
Plaza, Wednesday (tomorrow).
Facebook event will be up this afternoon.
I've encouraged the organizers to mention Yemen, draw connections between
US and Russian occupations and atrocities.

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[Marxism] Maoists for Trump? In China, Fans Admire His Nationalist Views

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NY Times, Apr. 4 2017
Maoists for Trump? In China, Fans Admire His Nationalist Views
By CHRIS BUCKLEY

BEIJING — They protest, picket and sing to defend Mao’s memory, yearning 
for the East to be red again. But lately some of China’s Maoists are 
finding inspiration in an unlikely insurgent in the West: Donald J. Trump.


Mr. Trump “has torn up the old rules of the ruling elites, not just of 
the capitalist West,” said Zhang Hongliang, a polemicist who is the 
loudest proponent of what could be loosely called “Maoists for Trump.” 
In a recent essay, Mr. Zhang lauded the American president as being 
alone among national leaders daring “to openly promote the political 
ideas of Chairman Mao.”


President Xi Jinping of China will be sizing up Mr. Trump during a visit 
to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida this week, in the leaders’ first 
summit meeting. Meanwhile, many ordinary Chinese people have also been 
taking the measure of the new American president and have been 
bewildered, incensed and yet, sometimes, inspired.


The global wave of nationalist, anti-establishment sentiment that Mr. 
Trump rode to power has washed ashore in China, encouraging a hard-left 
fringe that is hostile to capitalism and Western influence, and that the 
Communist Party has long sought to cultivate — and contain.


China’s Maoists are a small minority; most Chinese have no desire to 
revive the ruthless, convulsive politics of the Mao era. But the 
Maoists’ growing assertiveness, echoed in their embrace of aspects of 
Mr. Trump’s agenda, could help push the country in a more authoritarian 
direction.


They also complicate the efforts of Mr. Xi to play both sides of an 
ideological divide: as a robust defender of Mao’s legacy, but also a 
proponent of market liberalization and even a champion of globalization 
in the Trump age.


It is a paradox that these admirers of Mao Zedong, a Marxist 
revolutionary who railed against Western imperialism, have found things 
to like about this American president, a property tycoon with a cabinet 
crowded with millionaires. But they want Mr. Xi to take a page from Mr. 
Trump’s “America First” script and protect Chinese workers from layoffs, 
privatization and foreign competition.


“Trump opposes globalization, and so should China,” said one article on 
Utopia, a popular Maoist website. “Trump’s ideology has oriented toward 
China, and he is learning from China,” said another hard-left Chinese site.


China’s neo-Maoists, as they are sometimes called, are loosely united by 
demands for stringent economic equality, zealous nationalism and a 
loathing of the capitalist West and liberal democracy.


“Many of the same ideas now animating the global populist movement have 
been the hallmarks of the neo-Maoist movement for over a decade,” said 
Jude Blanchette, a researcher in Beijing who is writing a book about the 
movement.


“The neo-Maoists have also clearly benefited from the rise of Xi 
Jinping, as he has blasted a pretty large dog whistle in their 
direction,” Mr. Blanchette added.


Many on China’s far left see Mr. Trump as a dangerous foe who has 
questioned established American policy on Taiwan, vowed to confront 
China’s hold on the disputed South China Sea and threatened to cut 
Chinese exports to America.


But some Maoists say Mr. Trump also offers a model. They think he led a 
populist revolt that humbled a corrupt political establishment not 
unlike what they see in China. They cheer his incendiary tactics, 
sometimes likening them to Mao’s methods. And they hear in his remarks 
an echo of their own disgust with Western democracy, American 
interventionism and liberal political values.


Maoist meetings and websites dwell on a clutch of enemies, including the 
C.I.A. and America in general, genetically modified crops and advocates 
of privatizing state companies. But they reserve a particular venom for 
liberal Chinese intellectuals and celebrities who have condemned Mao.


In the West, Mr. Zhang argued, the nationalists are on the right while 
the left generally supports internationalism. “But China is the 
opposite,” he said. “Chinese rightists are the traitors, while Chinese 
leftists are the patriots.”


The Communist Party never repudiated Mao’s legacy after his death in 
1976, but it condemned his excesses, including the violent Cultural 
Revolution, and for years he was ignored or discredited while Deng 
Xiaoping pursued economic liberalization.


In the 1990s, though, the party refurbished Mao’s image and fostered a 
popular revival to bolster its authority and blunt calls for political 
liberalization. Officials started using Maoists to intimidate liberal 

[Marxism] [UCE] Remembering the Assassination of MLK Jr

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[Marxism] Gibralter (was Re: worth a read)

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So the Brits are issuing provocations to the Spanish State. Monarchy vs
Monarchy! Bring on the 30 Years War!

Seriously. This is stooopid beyond belief. What is it with politicians?
Sheesh.

There are hundreds of studies showing how the Spanish can seize The Rock
and the British defend it. At the end of the day, surprise attack by
thousands of special operations troops from the Spanish Army could easily
overwhelm, with surprise, the waiting teams of British Army troops. Or they
could just cut the water off. Or anything.

The stupid British politician thinks this would be a repeat of the Malvinas
war. Highly unlikely since unlike Argentina that had to send troops
hundreds of miles into the South Atlantic to defend their sovereignty over
the islands, Gibraltar IS physically attached to the Spanish mainland. What
would the British do...invade Valencia and Andalusia in a pincer movement?
Seriously?

All this about BREXIT! Zz.


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[Marxism] Fwd: Articulating Trumpism, or, Thanks, Obama! | Berkeley Journal of Sociology

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[Marxism] Fwd: Just Wait Until I Get Tenure

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By Michael Yates.

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[Marxism] Fwd: Why Trump Lies - Los Angeles Times

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[Marxism] Fwd: New President, Same Old Deal: The Parallels Between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Donald J. Trump

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A bit exaggerated but worth reading.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/40060-new-president-same-old-deal-the-parallels-between-franklin-d-roosevelt-and-donald-j-trump
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[Marxism] Fwd: Tulsi Gabbard Denies New Report Of Trump's Role In Her Syria Trip | The Huffington Post

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Re: [Marxism] worth a read

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I think that the John Bull's poor old psyche must be terribly self-confused
at this point.

As I understand it, Gibraltar has been a point of posturing for years.  And
I would have thought the Conservatives to be much be much more concerned
about the issues Brexit poses closer to home--Scotland in particular.

Cheers,
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