[Marxism] Academic gathering on Marx
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. * Marx's Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism International Conference May 24-26, 2017 Toronto The Marx Collegium York University Conference Participants: Immanuel Wallerstein, Etienne Balibar, Saskia Sassen, Bob Jessop, John Bellamy Foster, Silvia Federici, Richard Wolff, Moishe Postone, Kevin B. Anderson, Bertell Ollman, Leo Panitch, Ursula Huws, Michael Kraetke, Terrell Carver, Ricardo Antunes, Himani Bannerji, Seongjin Jeong, Alfonso Maurizio Iacono, Mauro Buccheri, Pietro Basso, George Comninel, Paresh Chattopadhyay, William Roberts, Gary Teeple, Kohei Saito, Paula Rauhala, Tomash Dabrowski, Babak Amini, Marcello Musto. Conference Program: http://www.marxcollegium.org After the eruption of the international financial crisis in 2008, Marx's Capital received renewed academic and popular attention. Leading newspapers throughout the world discussed again the contemporary relevance of its pages. Faced with a deep new crisis of capitalism, many are now looking to an author who in the past was often wrongly associated with the "actually existing socialism", and who was hastily dismissed after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. For many scholars, today Marx's analyses are arguably resonating even more strongly than they did in Marx's own time. This international conference brings together several world-renowned sociologists, political theorists, economists, and philosophers, from diverse fields and 13 countries. Its aim is to explore diverse scholarly perspectives and critical insights into the principal contradictions of contemporary capitalism and, in so doing, to draw attention to alternative economic and social models. The presenters will critically reconsider Marx's Capital as a work that continues to provide an effective framework to understand the nature of capitalism and the transformations of our times. ADMISSION TO THIS CONFERENCE IS FREE Conference Organizer: Marcello Musto, York University Info: marcello.musto at gmail.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
Re: [Marxism] US must occupy Syria now?
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 25/04/2017 03:46 πμ, David McMullen via Marxism wrote: Peace has to be imposed by an outside force. Otherwise the war will drag on causing more death and destruction. In particular, the regime needs an outside force to surrender to and the Alawites protected from slaughter. “We must get away from the utopian notion of simply abandoning the colonies. . . . The colonies are there; we must come to terms with that. Socialists too should acknowledge the need for civilized peoples to act somewhat like guardians of the uncivilized. . . . " Eduard Bernstein JA _ 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] US must occupy Syria now?
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. * Peace has to be imposed by an outside force. Otherwise the war will drag on causing more death and destruction. In particular, the regime needs an outside force to surrender to and the Alawites protected from slaughter. As for wiping out Al Qaeda and Daesh, I imagine the legitimate opposition will be able to contribute a lot more to that effort if the regime has been neutralized. _ 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: The Slide Rule and the Crowbar: Henry David Thoreau in the Anthropocene - Los Angeles Review of Books
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[Marxism] Fwd: Treating Mental Health Patients as Criminals
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. * http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/24/treating-mental-health-patients-as-criminals/ A more interesting article than usual by Patrick Cockburn whose son Henry is schizophrenic. I reviewed Cockburn's book about Henry here: http://www.swans.com/library/art17/lproy72.html _ 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] pandering to the Assad-enablers
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. * Featured prominently on today's Socialist Worker (US) website is this great speech on Leninism by Paul Le Blanc: https://socialistworker.org/2017/04/24/how-is-leninism-relevant-today Unfortunately, the speech was delivered at the Russian Revolution centennial conference of Counterfire, the group behind the Assad-enabling Stop the War Coalition. I would hardly characterize apologetics for genocide as being within the Leninist tradition. We spend a lot of time on social media debating whether to try to stop reactionary speakers from presenting their views (a tactic I'm against); we also need to be discussing when revolutionaries should tell counterrevolutionaries where to stick their conference speaking invitations. _ 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: Tony Wood on Russia | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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. * This weekend I went to the Historical Materialism conference in NY held at NYU that is basically an academic conference with presentations by graduate students and professors. Unlike the Left Forum that meets in early June, you won’t find any 9/11 Truther or Assadist panel discussions. That’s the upside. The downside is that you are likely to hear someone read a jargon-filled paper on their brand-new interpretation of Gramsci’s theory of hegemony for 15 to 20 minutes until your eyelids feel like they have been tied to anvils. I went to hear Lars Lih and Eric Blanc defend Stalin and Kamenev as closer to Lenin on theorizing the Bolshevik revolution than Trotsky but was far more interested in hearing what Todd Chretien had to say in response. Todd was very good but far too civil. I would have thrown a pie in Lih’s face myself. I only wish I had been able to hear George Ciccariello-Maher speak at a “Roundtable on Training Political Cadre: Historical Lessons and Currents [sic] Methods”. His insights on turning over garbage bins as a currents methods to stop fascism must have really wowed all the sociology students. Instead of running down every panel discussion I attended, I want to touch on a couple of high points in this post and a follow-up tomorrow. The first today will recap Tony Wood’s presentation on Putin’s Russia that was included in a panel titled “Critical Geopolitics Today” and the one tomorrow will be about how CUNY adjuncts are pressing for their demands in the Professional Staff Congress (PSC). I am not sure about Wood’s background but right now he is working on a PhD in Latin American History at NYU, which might explain how he ended up speaking at the conference. Wood is best known as a Russia specialist and has been around for a while. Since he would likely be close to 50 after getting a PhD in Latin American History and qualified at that point for getting a position as an adjunct like the people I will be talking about tomorrow, I am not sure why he is bothering. But good luck to him anyhow since he is fucking brilliant. full: https://louisproyect.org/2017/04/24/tony-wood-on-russia/ _ 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] US must occupy Syria now?
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 changed the subject for discussion of this part of David's post. David, much as I hate the pretend 'anti-imperialist' stance that an imaginary US intervention against Assad (in some parallel universe) would create ... "more killing" than now, I can't understand why you have taken the complete opposite tack here. It seems to be "the situation is so catastrophic, that even a US occupation would be better, to end the killing." Seems to me that this is falling into precisely the same trap as the pro-Assad and "no good guys in Syria" (!!) crowds fall into: no faith in the Syrian people to look after their own house. It can only be disaster, "like in Libya" (where the killing rate over the last 5 years is about 1/100th that of Syria, but never mind logic). If Assad falls, ISIS will take power etc etc. Jihadists etc. Fratricide. Everyone is bad in those God-forsaken places, only a progressive/secular enlightened tyrant with western values like Assad, or ... a US/western occupation, can save the Syrians from themselves. I'm not saying you think this, but somehow it is the same logic. Have you asked Syrians about this? Because one thing seems to me for sure - even those anti-Assad Syrians who do favour certain forms of western intervention - usually some kind of no-fly zone to protect civilians, or targeted strikes on genocide-airfields - normally oppose any idea of western/US ground troops. They don't need troops, they've got 150,000 in arms - just that those arms are not the kind you need to fight an airforce (as anti-aircraft weapons have been blocked from reaching the rebels for 5 years by CIA border guards, ie, by the spooks of the power you think should occupy Syria). -Original Message- From: David McMullen via Marxism Anyone who is anti-war must support massive US intervention in Syria to end the bloodshed and help the country in the painful process of getting back on track politically and economically. In other words we need a US lead occupation. The Russians should not be a major obstacle. They know the Assad regime's days are numbered and they share the same concern about defeating Al Qaeda and ISIS. I really hope the US military is starting the trickle of troops and equipment that will need to become a torrent in the next month or so. Their job will be to the end the civil war by destroying Al Qaeda and Daesh (ISIS) and any other troublemakers, and then facilitate the postwar political process. I am talking about something similar to the NATO occupation of Bosnia which ended the slaughter and genocide in that country 20 years ago. Continuing massacres in Syria only add to the urgency of massive intervention. We must demand that Trump acts immediately. _ 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: Lenin and the Russian Spark - The New Yorker
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. * A hundred years ago this week, a German train that had been secretly carrying Lenin and other revolutionaries ended its journey in St. Petersburg. http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/lenin-and-the-russian-spark _ 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] Poutou on first round of elections, and the need to mobilize; mentions Syria
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[Marxism] Secret Testimony and Internal Records Identify who Bankrolled Terror in Colombia
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[Marxism] We can do better than capitalist liberty
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. * Communist Manifesto Project YouTube channel. Latest video We can do better than capitalist liberty Communism can only succeed with the maximum amount of individual liberty. And only communism can deliver both "negative" and "positive" liberty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8odjqnuepQM All videos, audios and transcripts https://sites.google.com/site/communistmanifestoproject/home/audio-1/audio-page The Communist Manifesto Project Website http://tinyurl.com/tcm21c-project Transcript US must take the Bosnia option and occupy Syria now! Anyone who is anti-war must support massive US intervention in Syria to end the bloodshed and help the country in the painful process of getting back on track politically and economically. In other words we need a US lead occupation. The Russians should not be a major obstacle. They know the Assad regime's days are numbered and they share the same concern about defeating Al Qaeda and ISIS. I really hope the US military is starting the trickle of troops and equipment that will need to become a torrent in the next month or so. Their job will be to the end the civil war by destroying Al Qaeda and Daesh (ISIS) and any other troublemakers, and then facilitate the postwar political process. I am talking about something similar to the NATO occupation of Bosnia which ended the slaughter and genocide in that country 20 years ago. Continuing massacres in Syria only add to the urgency of massive intervention. We must demand that Trump acts immediately. If America's western allies were not so pathetic they would be putting on the pressure and announcing their own contribution to an American lead effort. It would also be a good time to ask why the major western European countries do not have the transport and logistic capacity to project military power into the Middle East North Africa region and have to rely excessively on the United States. _ 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
