Re: [Marxism] Marx was not a Greeny

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On 4/21/17 9:55 PM, David McMullen via Marxism wrote:


If Marx were around today he would be appalled by many things. Here are
a few items on that long list.

 * the massive influence of the green movement and the total absence of
   a real left;
 * the fact that hundreds of millions of people still engage in
   backward peasant agriculture;
 * the way that intellectual property rights and the green movement
   have held back the development of biotechnology; and
 * the appallingly small number of people working in the hard sciences.



David, have you read John Bellamy Foster's "Marx's Ecology" or Paul 
Burkett's "Marxism and ecological economics"? Or James O'Connor? Joel 
Kovel? Jason Moore? You do understand--I hope--that there is a world of 
difference between them and Al Gore.


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Re: [Marxism] Marx was not a Greeny

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If Marx were around today he would be appalled by many things. Here are 
a few items on that long list.


 * the massive influence of the green movement and the total absence of
   a real left;
 * the fact that hundreds of millions of people still engage in
   backward peasant agriculture;
 * the way that intellectual property rights and the green movement
   have held back the development of biotechnology; and
 * the appallingly small number of people working in the hard sciences.

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[Marxism] Fwd: Syria Sources in English – Wondering where to start in trying to understand what's going on in Syria? How about here? A list of sources of different sorts, by a professor of research.

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[Marxism] Fwd: Anton Shekhovtsov's blog: Marine Le Pen Is No Patriot of France

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The Front National became a fall-back option for the Kremlin, because 
Moscow adopted a wait-and-see attitude towards the political 
developments in France and, after the Republican primaries, decided that 
it would support François Fillon, who is known for his soft stance on 
Russian domestic and international policies, rather than Le Pen. And 
only after Fillon started losing popularity because of the 
“Penelopegate” did the Kremlin, again, decide to turn to Le Pen and even 
invite her to Moscow to demonstrate who Putin’s preferred candidate in 
the French presidential election was.


full: 
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Re: [Marxism] Marx was not a Greeny

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Can hardly wait. Already pre-ordered with Amazon.

Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique 
of Political Economy will be auto-delivered wirelessly to your Kindle on 
August 22, 2017.


It will be interesting to see how he shows that Marx did not really mean 
that capitalism was a fetter on the development of the productive forces..

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Re: [Marxism] re Story circulating re Venezuela

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Yes, my understanding is that by Venezuelan standards and in contrast to 
the advance publicity, the 'mother of all marches' fizzled (except in 
the external media)./m


On 4/21/2017 3:59 PM, Gary MacLennan wrote:
Did the Day of the Right just simply fizzle out?  Workers armed is 
something of a disincentive I suspect 


comradely

Gary

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Ken H wrote:

According to news accounts, Citgo, the Venezuelan oil company
donated $500,000.00 to the Trump inauguration fund.
It this story is true and if the bribe had led to loosening of
sanctions against Venezuela, we might have to accept that it was a
good use of Venezuelan money.
ken h
--
--No question about the accuracy of that citgo donation but the
story gets a bit murkier with the report of an additional 2/3s of
a million donated by a well-connected figure [Habboush] and the
subsequent access to the Trump government for talking about
dropping sanctions on Vzla:

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/excess-trump-inauguration-cash-pairs-with-


donor-access-926017091769.

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Re: [Marxism] re Story circulating re Venezuela

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Did the Day of the Right just simply fizzle out?  Workers armed is
something of a disincentive I suspect 

comradely

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> According to news accounts, Citgo, the Venezuelan oil company donated
> $500,000.00 to the Trump inauguration fund.
> It this story is true and if the bribe had led to loosening of sanctions
> against Venezuela, we might have to accept that it was a good use of
> Venezuelan money.
> ken h
> --
> --No question about the accuracy of that citgo donation but the story gets
> a bit murkier with the report of an additional 2/3s of a million donated by
> a well-connected figure [Habboush] and the subsequent access to the Trump
> government for talking about dropping sanctions on Vzla:
> http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/excess-trump-inaugu
> ration-cash-pairs-with- donor-access-926017091769.
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[Marxism] Tesla Workers File Charges With National Labor Board as Battle With Elon Musk Intensifies – Capital & Main

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Re: [Marxism] Marx was not a Greeny

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David McMullen wrote,
> 
> The attempt by John Bellamy Foster of Monthly Review to show that Marx 
> was a greeny requires some rather weird interpretations of Marx's writings.
> 

Not just Marx was concerned with the environment, but many socialist workers 
in the Germany of his time. But Marx wasn't a bourgeois environmentalist. His 
writing brought out the need for economic regulation and planning by the 
working people as a whole, while today's establishment environmentalists look 
towards market measures, or dream that restricting growth will solve matters 
without planning. Foster is right to point to the importance of Marxism for 
the environment. But Foster's faults include drowning concrete problems in 
philosophical generalities, prettifying state-capitalism, and evading the 
distinction between different class types of economic planning. "Monthly 
Review" is to Marxism what "green free-marketers" are to environmentalism.

I wrote an article in 2007 which deals with Marx's standpoint, Foster's 
standpoint, and the needs of the present environmental struggle.

"A review of John Bellamy Foster's 'Marx's Ecology':
Marx and Engels on protecting the environment"

(http://www.communistvoice.org/40cMarx.html)

The table of contents is 

* The writings of Marx and Engels
* Alongside and after Marx and Engels
* Lenin and the early Soviet Union
* Stalinist and state capitalist ecocide
* Marxism and global warming
* --Not market methods, but direct regulation of production
* --Class basis of environmental destruction
* --The nature of state regulation
* --Bringing the masses into the environmental struggle
* Foster's Marxism without teeth 

-- Joseph Green

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[Marxism] re Story circulating re Venezuela

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Ken H wrote:

According to news accounts, Citgo, the Venezuelan oil company donated 
$500,000.00 to the Trump inauguration fund.
It this story is true and if the bribe had led to loosening of sanctions 
against Venezuela, we might have to accept that it was a good use of 
Venezuelan money.

ken h
--
--No question about the accuracy of that citgo donation but the story 
gets a bit murkier with the report of an additional 2/3s of a million 
donated by a well-connected figure [Habboush] and the subsequent access 
to the Trump government for talking about dropping sanctions on Vzla: 
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/excess-trump-inauguration-cash-pairs-with- 
donor-access-926017091769.


 
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[Marxism] Fwd: Syria Changed the World - The New York Times

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An interview with Yassin al-Haj Saleh,

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/sunday-review/one-countrys-war-changed-the-world.html
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[Marxism] when Leeuwenhoek discovered microorganisms

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 "And then, Leeuwenhoek looked at some water -- specifically, water of
Berkelse Mere, a lake near Delft. Sucking some of the turbid liquid into a
glass pipette and mounting it on his microscope, he saw that it was teeming
with life: 'little green clouds' of algae, along with thousands of tiny,
dancing creatures. 'The motion of most of these animalcules in the water
was so swift, and so various upwards, down­wards and round about that 'twas
wonderful to see,' he wrote, 'and I judged that some of these little
creatures were above a thousand times smaller than the smallest ones I have
ever yet seen upon the rind of cheese.' They were protozoa -- the diverse
group of organisms that includes amoebas and other single-celled
eukaryotes. Leeuwenhoek had become the first person ever to see them.


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[Marxism] Story circulating re Venezuela

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According to news accounts, Citgo, the Venezuelan oil company donated 
$500,000.00 to the Trump inauguration fund.
It this story is true and if the bribe had led to loosening of sanctions 
against Venezuela, we might have to accept that it was a good use of Venezuelan 
money.
ken h

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/venezuela-donated-500-000-trump-090700306.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuela-oil-subsidiary-gave-trump-inauguration-500-000-141903042.html
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[Marxism] ‘They Starve You. They Shock You’: Inside the Anti-Gay Pogrom in Chechnya

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NY Times, April 21 2017
‘They Starve You. They Shock You’: Inside the Anti-Gay Pogrom in Chechnya
By ANDREW E. KRAMERA

GROZNY, Russia — It was supposed to be a night out. But for the young 
man who calls himself Maksim, as for scores of other gay men arrested in 
a pogrom this month in Russia’s Chechnya region, it pivoted into nearly 
two weeks of beatings and torture.


Maksim said it had started with a chat room conversation with “a very 
good old friend who is also gay,” and who suggested that they meet at an 
apartment. When Maksim arrived, however, he was greeted not by his 
friend but by agents who beat him. Later, they strapped him to a chair, 
attached electrical wires to his hands with alligator clips and began an 
interrogation.


“They yelled, ‘Who else do you know?’” Maksim said, and zapped him with 
current from time to time. “It was unbearably painful; I was hanging on 
with my last strength,” he added. “But I didn’t tell them anything.”


Gay men have never had an easy life in Chechnya. But the targeted, 
collective punishment of gays that began last month under its 
pro-Kremlin leader, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, is a new turn in the region’s 
long history of rights abuses.


Novaya Gazeta, an opposition newspaper, first reported the pogrom, 
saying that at least 100 gay men had been arrested and three killed in 
the roundup. Human Rights Watch corroborated those findings.


The sweep has been widely condemned by Western governments, the United 
Nations and rights groups. Activists in Russia have set up an 
underground network to spirit the victims out of Chechnya and to protect 
them from potentially violent reprisals from their families and others. 
The victims use assumed names in their everyday dealings.


The following account is based on interviews with Maksim, who is in his 
20s, and two other gay men who were detained by Chechen security agents.


Homosexuality is taboo in Chechnya and the mostly Muslim surrounding 
areas of the Caucasus region in southern Russia. “This society is highly 
homophobic,” said Ekaterina L. Sokiryanskaya, Russia project director 
for the International Crisis Group and an authority on Chechnya. 
“Homosexuality is condemned. It is believed Islam considers it a great sin.”


Nevertheless, before the crackdown, gay men in Chechnya could at least 
lead social lives, if heavily closeted ones, Maksim said. They met 
largely in private chat rooms on social networking sites with names like 
the Village or What the Mountains Are Silent About.


“When two gay men meet, they don’t tell one another their true names,” 
Maksim said. Men met at cafes or at apartments rented for a night, he 
said. “Nobody suspected my sexual orientation, not even my best friends.”


The crackdown began after GayRussia, a rights group based in Moscow, 
applied for permits for gay pride parades in the Caucasus region, 
prompting counterprotests by religious groups, the men said. In 
Chechnya, it became something even worse — a mass “prophylactic” 
cleansing of homosexuals, the security service agents told the gay men 
as they rounded them up.


The men were held for as little as a day or as long as several weeks, 
according to Human Rights Watch and to interviews with gay men who later 
escaped the region. Some “returned to their families barely alive from 
beatings,” said Tanya Lokshina, Russia program director for Human Rights 
Watch.


Among the fatalities documented by the organization were one man who 
succumbed during torture and two others who died in “honor killings” by 
relatives after the police released them.


“Human Rights Watch has been getting numerous reports about attacks by 
security services under Ramzan Kadyrov’s control, and those reports are 
extremely disturbing,” Ms. Lokshina said. “This is another opportunity 
to reinforce the culture of fear.”


The Chechen authorities’ response to the global outrage over the pogrom 
has provoked new incredulity. In a telephone interview, Mr. Kadyrov’s 
spokesman, Alvi Karimov, said the reports of an anti-gay pogrom had to 
be false because such men did not exist in Chechnya.


“In Grozny, have you ever noticed people who, by their appearance or 
manners, resemble people who are oriented in the wrong way?” Mr. Karimov 
asked.


“A policy is developed for a problem,” he said, referring to a report 
that said the arrests were official policy. “I can officially say there 
is no policy because there is no problem. If there were a problem, there 
would be a policy.”


In a televised meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on 
Wednesday, Mr. Kadyrov characterized as “libelous” news reports that the 
security services 

[Marxism] Fwd: Documentaries That Punch

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As a rule of thumb, political documentaries work best when they have a 
hero and a villain just like in narrative films. One of the most 
memorable examples is Michael Moore squaring off against Roger Smith in 
“Roger and Me”. Granted, the richer and more entrenched in the 
Democratic Party Moore has become, the more the likability factor has 
worn off. But back in 1989 who could not love the shambling son of an 
auto worker trying to track down and confront the corporate boss 
responsible for shutting down the GM plant in Moore’s home-town and 
other rust belt cities?


You can see the same sort of human drama in “Citizen Jane: Battle for 
the City” that opens on April 21 at the IFC Center and Lincoln Plaza 
Cinema in New York and on VOD platforms. Citizen Jane is Jane Jacobs, 
the author of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” that was 
published in 1961 and was in its way as important as Rachel Carson’s 
“Silent Spring” that was published a year later. If Carson’s book was a 
clarion call for preserving the integrity of the natural world, so was 
Jacobs’s book a call for preserving the integrity of the urban world, 
specifically New York City.


full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/21/documentaries-that-punch/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Vacation’s Over: Obama Returns to Public Life Next Week - The New York Times

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(No surprise here. After all, Obama paved the way for Trump.)

And yet, Mr. Obama’s supporters, who have been waiting eagerly for the 
former president to respond to his successor’s accusations and policy 
reversals, are likely to be disappointed.


Even as he witnesses President Trump’s relentless and chaotic assault on 
his legacy, Mr. Obama remains stubbornly committed to the idea that 
there is only one president at a time. Those closest to him say the 
former president does not intend to confront Mr. Trump directly on 
immigration, health care, foreign policy or the environment during any 
of his events.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/us/politics/barack-obama-post-presidential-events.html
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Main Issue in the French Presidential Election: National Sovereignty

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(Is Diana Johnstone angling for a Sean Spicer type job after Marine Le 
Pen is elected?)


"Le Pen insists that all French citizens deserve equal treatment 
regardless of their origins, race or religion. She is certain to get 
considerable support from recently nationalized immigrants, just as she 
now gets a majority of working class votes. If this is 'fascism', it has 
changed a lot in the past seventy years."


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Re: [Marxism] Marx was not a Greeny

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These comments are amusing. Foster is a great scholar and compared to these 
carping comments here, his work speaks for itself. We have a new book coming 
out in August, by Kohei Saito, the leading expert on what Marx wrote, in his 
published works and in a few thousand pages of his notebooks (which these 
critics know nothing about). The book is titled Karl Marx's Ecosocialism. It 
will put the lie to those still claiming that Marx was  a Promethean. Of 
course, nothing will satisfy the diehards. They stick to their beliefs, wearing 
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Re: [Marxism] Marx was not a Greeny

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On 4/21/17 9:51 AM, DW via Marxism wrote:

I doubt Marx would supported GMOs or, for that matter, "opposed" them
either. I think he would of weighed the science as to their safety,
efficacy (he was concerned with soil fertility!) and how they would of
helped or hindered the expansion of the forces of production...which was,
despite Foster's *denialism*, is at the heart of everything Marx stood for
and runs counter to the "Green" narrative of "small is beautiful" and "we
use too much".


David, first of all, it is "would have", not "would of". You are a 
college-educated person and should be able to make such an elementary 
distinction.


Second of all, the use of GMO's is directly related to industrialized 
agriculture. If there is anything clear about Marx's writings on 
agriculture, it is that he favored what is now called "organic" solutions.

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Re: [Marxism] Marx was not a Greeny

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I very much appreciate David McMullen take down of John Bellamy Foster's
*projection* of Foster's environmentalism onto Marx and Engels in his books
on the subject. About time.

I doubt Marx would supported GMOs or, for that matter, "opposed" them
either. I think he would of weighed the science as to their safety,
efficacy (he was concerned with soil fertility!) and how they would of
helped or hindered the expansion of the forces of production...which was,
despite Foster's *denialism*, is at the heart of everything Marx stood for
and runs counter to the "Green" narrative of "small is beautiful" and "we
use too much".

But I wouldn't predict in any direction what Marx would of thought of any
of this well over 100 years after his death. Largely because I do think the
idea that capitalism would still exist would of come as a real shock after
so many years.

McMullen makes this clear in his use of quotes from Marx and Engels,
bringing us back to the core belief of the contradictions, the main ones,
of capitalism. Most 21st Century self-described Marxists are either
ignorant of this or in denial.

Oddly, and I'd like David's take on this, is that the *best* discussion of
these issues doesn't come from Foster or...even here on this list where the
only reply is the *immature* remark from our Moderator: "So what is your
point? That Marx would have backed GMO?" ... from a minority by some of the
"Eco-Socialist" blogs like climateandcapitalism.com where they really do
take this seriously. The increasingly malevolent "de-development" crowd who
try to tie Marx to their faux-ideology are only twisting Marx's views into
a form indistinguishable from faith-based dogma.

I have no doubt that (and here some credit most go to Foster on
highlighting this) Marx and Engels were concerned about the effects of
rapid industrialization on the health of our species and on the ecology
itself. Clearly their view of a planned industrial society would be based
on the very wise use of our resources and the use of science to mitigate
the worst effects of developing the productive forces...but
all...totally...inside the paradigm of *unleashing the development of those
productive forces*.

David Walters
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Re: [Marxism] Uyghur Nation

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Truncated the final paragraph:

The Uyghur story is, Brophy concludes, "a history of creative responses 
from below to imperial, national, and revolutionary state policies", and 
this valuable contribution to the field will no doubt encourage scholars 
to think about the history of the peoples of Xinjiang in a wider Central 
Asian context. A question remains, however - and one beyond the scope of 
this inquiry - as to how the new state-promoted "Uyghur" category came 
to be adopted by people in Xinjiang in the decades after the communist 
takeover of the region. What is remarkable is that a "palimpsest of 
Islamic, Turkic and Soviet notions of national history and identity" 
created by activists outside Xinjiang could have resonated so widely 
among Xinjiang's diverse population. In this respect, the Uyghur case is 
probably unique, and David Brophy's book thus deserves to be read by 
anyone with an interest in nation-building.

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[Marxism] Uyghur Nation

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The Times Literary Supplement, April 21 2017
Identity politics
by NICK HOLDSTOCK

David Brophy
UYGHUR NATION
Reform and revolution on the Russia-China frontier 368pp. Harvard 
University Press. £29.95 (US $39.95).

978 0 674 66037 3

The history of China's 10 million Uyghurs is politically fraught. Those 
who believe that Uyghurs have a legitimate claim to self-determination, 
or at least to greater autonomy, within the far western region of 
Xinjiang often argue that their association with the region stretches 
back to antiquity. Conversely, those who believe that Uyghurs don't 
deserve special status may claim that Uyghur ethnicity is an entirely 
modern creation imposed by the state on the Muslim inhabitants of a 
scattered set of oases in the early twentieth century. Trying to 
navigate between these extremes is complicated by the frequency with 
which many accounts, intentionally or otherwise, blur the already fuzzy 
conceptual line between "nation" and "ethnicity". David Brophy's Uyghur 
Nation offers a fresh perspective on Uyghur history by using Russian, 
Chinese and Turkic sources to chart the development of the discourses 
that would ultimately produce the modern Uyghur identity.


One of the challenges for anyone attempting to write about Uyghur 
history is how to deal with the relationship between the pre-modern and 
more contemporary usages of the term "Uyghur". The first historical 
reference to Uyghurs occurred in the sixth century, when they were 
described as a nomadic people. During the eighth century they 
established a kingdom in Mongolia, but the following century they were 
driven south by invaders into presentday Gansu and Xinjiang in China. 
There they founded a Buddhist kingdom, referred to as "Uyghuristan", 
which soon diverged into different kingdoms, into which Islam made 
gradual inroads from the eleventh century onwards. By the sixteenth 
century the people of the region were more likely to be identified in 
terms of their religion and language than in terms of any connection to 
"Uyghuristan". It wasn't until the late nineteenth century that Ottoman 
and Tatar intellectuals, drawing on orientalist scholarknown ship, 
reintroduced what Brophy calls, in recognition of its multiple strands, 
"Uyghurist" discourse.


The title of Brophy's book may suggest the author intends to explain the 
ethnogenesis of today's Uyghur identity in terms of an anticolonial 
struggle against the Chinese, but as he quickly makes clear his aim is 
not to reinterpret the past "through the lens of conflicts that were yet 
to come". His main focus is on the places and peoples on both sides of 
Xinjiang's western frontier rather than on events in the region itself. 
Brophy makes a persuasive claim that while Xinjiang was part of the Qing 
Empire from the mid-eighteenth century to the early twentieth, it was 
culturally and economically orientated towards the regimes that bordered 
it, principally the Ottoman and Russian Empires. Accordingly, he 
compares frontier areas around Kashgar (in south-west Xinjiang) and the 
Ili region (in the north-west) to treaty ports such as Shanghai, and 
traces the development of the different intellectual and political 
debates that arose in these regions during the late nineteenth century. 
In the Ili region, where Xinjiang émigrés were as "Taranchis", there 
were attempts to promote Jadidism, a Central Asian reformist educational 
movement that sought to introduce secular elements to traditionally 
religious schools. Around Kashgar, which was more orientated towards the 
Ottoman Empire, notions of pan-Turkism held more sway.


Even after Uyghurist ideas were reintroduced at the start of the 
twentieth century they remained contradictory, and they often didn't 
correspond to the people to whom the term now applies. Some Ottoman 
intellectuals regarded Uyghurs as pioneers of Turkic civilization, but 
without particular reference to the peoples of Xinjiang; one scholar 
counted "Ottomans, Hungarians, and particularly the Finns" as Uyghurs. 
Nor was there an obvious groundswell of opposition to the Qing Empire 
within Xinjiang that was ready to be mobilized by Uyghurist discourse. 
For Brophy, the crucial factor that allowed Uyghurist discourse to gain 
wider acceptance was the opportunity that resulted from the Russian 
Revolution. By that time there were around 100,000 Uyghurs in Soviet 
territory, and those in Semireche (modern day south-eastern Kazakhstan) 
were most closely aligned to communism. They used the Stalinist theory 
of nationalities to shape Uyghurist discourse into a clearer sense of a 
Uyghur nation, though the term remained bedevilled 

[Marxism] Conflict in Syria: stop instrumentalising women’s rights

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https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/maria-al-abdeh/syria-instumentalising-women-s-rights
Conflict in Syria: stop instrumentalising women’s rights
Maria Al Abdeh  19
April 2017

The international community is not listening to us. It must depoliticise
the fight against sexual violence and humanise the countering violent
extremism strategy.
Maria Al Abdeh is Executive Director of Women Now For Development (WND).
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Re: [Marxism] Marx was not a Greeny

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On 4/20/17 10:53 PM, David McMullen via Marxism wrote:


The greening of Marx of course requires Foster to explain away how Marx
and Engels talked about communism unleashing the productive forces.


So what is your point? That Marx would have backed GMO?
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