[Marxism] 50th anniversary of the Detroit rebellion of 1967

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[Marxism] Fwd: Why Autocrats Fear LGBT Rights | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

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[Marxism] Fwd: Anthony Scaramucci Attacks Reince Priebus as Leaker and Vows to Oust Him - The New York Times

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The shit is starting to hit the fan big time.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/us/politics/scaramucci-priebus-leaks.html
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Everything Trump Does Must Be Viewed Through This Lens

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I supported (and voted for) Stein - until her campaign began carrying water for 
the Democrats.

The neocons believed enough of Trump’s campaign speeches to fly to HRC, invent 
the fantastical Russiagate scam, and have spooks up to and including Brennan 
threaten coup to prevent his administration’s putting his critiques into 
practice. (They seem to have succeeded.)

Surely a building a revolutionary movement involves talking to people about 
that?

"People not only don't know what's happening to them, they don't even know that 
they don't know” (Chomsky).

Regards, CGE


> On Jul 27, 2017, at 3:12 PM, Louis Proyect  wrote:
> 
> On 7/27/17 3:55 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
>> A list devoted to the ideas of the one who said, “...the productive forces 
>> developing in the womb of bourgeois society create the material conditions 
>> for the solution of that antagonism … arising from the social conditions of 
>> life…”?
> 
> We have had productive forces up the wazoo for a century at least. Our job is 
> building a revolutionary movement that can convert them to produce use values 
> rather than exchange values. The Trump presidency is a vicious attack on the 
> American people, from immigrants to gays to wage workers. It is also an 
> attack on our health with Monsanto getting the green light to sell a 
> carcinogenic pesticide that had been banned by the EPA. Health care will 
> disappear soon, with the crappy Obamacare going first. You can talk all you 
> want about how inadequate it is but my unemployed brother-in-law can get 
> medical care without paying a penny now. People like you, Paul Craig Roberts 
> and Michael Hudson conned yourself into believing Trump's campaign speeches 
> just like Carl Davidson conned himself into believing Obama's speeches in 
> 2007. Paul Craig Roberts and Michael Hudson seemed to have awoken from their 
> opium pipe fantasies but you seem to still be intoxicated.


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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Everything Trump Does Must Be Viewed Through This Lens

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On 7/27/17 3:55 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:

A list devoted to the ideas of the one who said, “...the productive forces 
developing in the womb of bourgeois society create the material conditions for 
the solution of that antagonism … arising from the social conditions of life…”?


We have had productive forces up the wazoo for a century at least. Our 
job is building a revolutionary movement that can convert them to 
produce use values rather than exchange values. The Trump presidency is 
a vicious attack on the American people, from immigrants to gays to wage 
workers. It is also an attack on our health with Monsanto getting the 
green light to sell a carcinogenic pesticide that had been banned by the 
EPA. Health care will disappear soon, with the crappy Obamacare going 
first. You can talk all you want about how inadequate it is but my 
unemployed brother-in-law can get medical care without paying a penny 
now. People like you, Paul Craig Roberts and Michael Hudson conned 
yourself into believing Trump's campaign speeches just like Carl 
Davidson conned himself into believing Obama's speeches in 2007. Paul 
Craig Roberts and Michael Hudson seemed to have awoken from their opium 
pipe fantasies but you seem to still be intoxicated.

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Everything Trump Does Must Be Viewed Through This Lens

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A list devoted to the ideas of the one who said, “...the productive forces 
developing in the womb of bourgeois society create the material conditions for 
the solution of that antagonism … arising from the social conditions of life…”?


> On Jul 27, 2017, at 2:42 PM, Louis Proyect  wrote:
> 
> On 7/27/17 3:33 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
>> And to see what has happened in China in the generation since Tiananmen 
>> Square, makes it difficult to deny economic development there.
> 
> Of course there is "economic development". There was "economic development" 
> in Nicaragua under Somoza. The GDP was rising dramatically as cattle ranches 
> met the market demand for fast food restaurant supplies. There was economic 
> development in South Korea under the Chaebol system. The Asian tigers were a 
> big fucking deal a while back. In Erdogan's first term, there were 
> expectations that Turkey would "take off". Thomas Friedman has an article at 
> least every 3 months about the next great thing happening somewhere in the 
> Third World.
> 
> Like I said, Carl, this is a Marxism list, not an "economic development" list.


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[Marxism] Fwd: Tory Porn | Jonathon Sturgeon

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Nolan’s boarding-school Tory-ite anti-art is predicated on the general 
terribleness of Hollywood, a fact that puts the obsequiousness of his 
critical admirers into relief. Film critics are now paid to find a 
balance between positive and negative reviews, to worry over the way an 
American audience spends money on movie tickets. This 
criticism-as-consumer reports plays in Nolan’s favor because he is a 
director of audiences and not an auteur working against the system. “We 
all find films through Hollywood,” Nolan told the Times. “Nobody watches 
Godard when they’re ten years old.”


https://thebaffler.com/the-immediate-experience/tory-porn
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[Marxism] Fwd: For Ravens’ John Urschel, Playing in the N.F.L. No Longer Adds Up - The New York Times

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One of the N.F.L.’s smartest players did the math and decided to retire 
after just three years in the league.


The player, John Urschel, an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens 
who received much publicity for his off-season pursuit of a doctorate in 
math at M.I.T., told the team on Thursday that he was hanging up his 
cleats at age 26.


Urschel’s decision came two days after the release of a study by 
researchers in Boston in which all but one of 111 brains of N.F.L. 
players they studied showed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a 
degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head hits.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/sports/football/john-urschel-baltimore-ravens-retires-nfl-cte-study.html
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Everything Trump Does Must Be Viewed Through This Lens

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On 7/27/17 3:33 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
And to see what has happened in China in the generation since Tiananmen 
Square, makes it difficult to deny economic development there.


Of course there is "economic development". There was "economic 
development" in Nicaragua under Somoza. The GDP was rising dramatically 
as cattle ranches met the market demand for fast food restaurant 
supplies. There was economic development in South Korea under the 
Chaebol system. The Asian tigers were a big fucking deal a while back. 
In Erdogan's first term, there were expectations that Turkey would "take 
off". Thomas Friedman has an article at least every 3 months about the 
next great thing happening somewhere in the Third World.


Like I said, Carl, this is a Marxism list, not an "economic development" 
list.

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Everything Trump Does Must Be Viewed Through This Lens

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The US ruling class’ mad hostility to Putin arises in part from the fact that 
he scuppered the Clinton administration’s plans to turn post-Soviet Russia into 
a Third World country, a supplier of raw materials, controlled by foreign 
(mainly US) capital (vide 
>).

And to see what has happened in China in the generation since Tiananmen Square, 
makes it difficult to deny economic development there.

It’s those 'economic developments' that American capitalism finds so 
threatening - and is willing to kill a lot of people to counter. 

One might say that’s been clear since Halford Mackinder - and in the USG, since 
the Open Door Policy...

—CGE


> On Jul 27, 2017, at 2:04 PM, Louis Proyect  wrote:
> 
> On 7/27/17 2:40 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
>> As they have all along, the 1% demand policies that retard Eurasian economic 
>> development and integration, which they (rightly) see as a threat to the 
>> hegemony of the US elite.
> 
> Eurasian economic development? What a joke. There is no such thing as 
> "economic development" under capitalism. This is the Marxism list, not the 
> import-substitution, post-Keynesian mailing list--in case you hadn't noticed.

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Everything Trump Does Must Be Viewed Through This Lens

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On 7/27/17 2:40 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:


As they have all along, the 1% demand policies that retard Eurasian 
economic development and integration, which they (rightly) see as a 
threat to the hegemony of the US elite.


Eurasian economic development? What a joke. There is no such thing as 
"economic development" under capitalism. This is the Marxism list, not 
the import-substitution, post-Keynesian mailing list--in case you hadn't 
noticed.

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Everything Trump Does Must Be Viewed Through This Lens

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And the only way Trump can win is by striking back at the War Party, who are 
trying to drive him from office, so that they can renew the Obama-Clinton 
administration's war provocations against Russia and China. 

As they have all along, the 1% demand policies that retard Eurasian economic 
development and integration, which they (rightly) see as a threat to the 
hegemony of the US elite.

They seem quite frightened by Trump’s ending CIA support for anti-Assad Syria 
rebels: 
>.
 The Company is contemplating mutiny. 

—CGE

 
> On Jul 27, 2017, at 1:20 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
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> New White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci pledged to “fire 
> everybody” to stop leaks to the press and almost immediately threatened 
> Reince Priebus, implicitly accusing him of a felony. Meanwhile, the rift 
> between Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions suggests Sessions may be out 
> before long. What does Trump hope to gain from the purges in the highest 
> reaches of his administration?
> At this juncture the priorities of Donald Trump have winnowed down to a 
> single agenda item: saving himself and his family from legal culpability for 
> their campaign interactions with the Russians and their efforts to cover up 
> those transactions ever since. Almost everything this president does must be 
> viewed through this single lens. If you do so, you’ll find his actions 
> usually make sense.
> 
> This overriding motive explains both this week’s orchestrated staff turmoil 
> in the White House and the simultaneous assaults on the civil rights of 
> transgender American troops and all LBGTQ employees in the private workplace. 
> The primary purpose of all of it is to distract from investigations into 
> potential Trump-family criminality and to galvanize a base that Trump 
> believes will protect him against the rule of law. If you have already 
> forgotten Jared Kushner’s loophole-strewn profession of innocence from 
> Monday, that’s the point.
> 
> full: 
> http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/everything-trump-does-must-be-viewed-through-this-lens.html
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[Marxism] Fwd: Everything Trump Does Must Be Viewed Through This Lens

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New White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci pledged to 
“fire everybody” to stop leaks to the press and almost immediately 
threatened Reince Priebus, implicitly accusing him of a felony. 
Meanwhile, the rift between Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions 
suggests Sessions may be out before long. What does Trump hope to gain 
from the purges in the highest reaches of his administration?
At this juncture the priorities of Donald Trump have winnowed down to a 
single agenda item: saving himself and his family from legal culpability 
for their campaign interactions with the Russians and their efforts to 
cover up those transactions ever since. Almost everything this president 
does must be viewed through this single lens. If you do so, you’ll find 
his actions usually make sense.


This overriding motive explains both this week’s orchestrated staff 
turmoil in the White House and the simultaneous assaults on the civil 
rights of transgender American troops and all LBGTQ employees in the 
private workplace. The primary purpose of all of it is to distract from 
investigations into potential Trump-family criminality and to galvanize 
a base that Trump believes will protect him against the rule of law. If 
you have already forgotten Jared Kushner’s loophole-strewn profession of 
innocence from Monday, that’s the point.


full: 
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/everything-trump-does-must-be-viewed-through-this-lens.html

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[Marxism] Fwd: A Sociology of the Smartphone

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https://longreads.com/2017/06/13/a-sociology-of-the-smartphone/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Chelsea Manning: President Trump, Trans People in the Military Are Here to Stay - The New York Times

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[Marxism] Two views on Aleppo

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From Robert Fisk, an embedded journalist:

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/syria-great-mosque-of-aleppo-ummayad-rebuild-the-city-a7858846.html


From Daniel Hilton, a real journalist:

The Daily Star (Lebanon)
July 7, 2017 Friday
Fear and loathing in Aleppo city

by Daniel Hilton

Seven months since the last rebel fighter was expelled from its eastern 
neighborhoods, Aleppo is a city on edge, where lawlessness rules and 
hunger bites.


BEIRUT: Seven months since the last rebel fighter was expelled from its 
eastern neighborhoods, Aleppo is a city on edge, where lawlessness rules 
and hunger bites.


Dragged into the Syrian civil war in 2012, residents of the country's 
commercial capital might have been forgiven for thinking that some 
degree of security and normality would return to Aleppo's streets after 
regime forces took complete control last December.


Instead Aleppines have found their city overrun by militias, whose 
violence and criminality has prompted the government to take action – 
with mixed reports of success.


The militias are a hangover from the regime's final assault on east 
Aleppo, where it relied heavily on paramilitary regiments and 
Iran-backed fighters to win the battle.


"After these groups regained control of all Aleppo they turned into 
gangs who harass the city's residents and interfere in all matters of 
their lives," one Aleppo resident, who wished to remain anonymous out of 
concern for their safety, told The Daily Star.


According to the resident, the militias are numerous and diverse, each 
staking control of parts of the city and setting up checkpoints.
Some are the remnants of the regime's previous fighting force; others 
are loyalist groups known as Popular Committees by government 
supporters, or less kindly as "shabiha" – shady thugs – to others.
Armed to the teeth, these militiamen make a point of deploying in key 
areas of the city, such as those containing water wells, electricity 
generators and petrol stations.


For people just concerned with going about their daily business, the 
threat of violence and even death at the hands of these militias has 
been only too real.


Last month a 13-year-old boy named Ahmad Jawash leaned into a car full 
of men in military fatigues in the hope that he would sell some chewing 
gum and biscuits. Instead one of the passengers pulled out a gun and 
shot him in the head, before escaping in broad daylight.


Although shocking – the murder prompted Aleppo Gov. Hussein Diyab to 
assure it "would not pass unnoticed" – the incident in west Aleppo's 
upmarket Mogambo district was part of an increasingly worrying trend.


June also saw the death of Talar Vosekain, a Syrian-Armenian dentist, 
who was struck by an unlicensed car as she strolled down the sidewalk.


And in the same month, players from the Al-Ittihad football club were 
assaulted out of the blue by thugs wielding pump-action shotguns and 
knives, just as they were picking up a teammate to go to training.
Theft, too, has become widespread. Militias have set up headquarters 
between the residential neighborhoods in the city's east, from which 
they loot homes and businesses in the former rebel bastion.


According to Baraa al-Agha of the Syrian Network for Human Rights 
activist group, which documents abuses committed during the war, 
hundreds of homes have been looted – "especially those affiliated with 
armed opposition factions or media activists."In the neighborhoods of 
Masaken Hanano, Sakhour and Al-Saleheen many houses have been torched by 
the militias as an act of revenge against their opposition-supporting 
owners.


"When the militias need money, they come to a house and say it's 
terrorists' and take it," Abdulkafi al-Hamdo, an activist who was 
expelled from Aleppo in December and now lives in rebel-held Idlib 
province, told The Daily Star.


Civilians in the city's east are also at risk of arrest and detention.
Between the beginning of 2017 and July 6, the SNHR has documented the 
arrest of no less than 423 civilians – including 21 women and 17 
children – who refused to leave east Aleppo for rebel-held areas.


Yet some of the hardships experienced by Aleppo residents are found 
across the political divide and social strata.


Women have increasingly become targets of the thugs and militias that 
roam the streets, according to pro-opposition website Enab Baladi, which 
quoted a resident as saying many women had been subject to kidnapping 
and rape.


Meanwhile, on local and regime loyalist webpages reports have surfaced 
about an alleged incident where a girls' dormitory at a university was 
stormed by a group of young men, who were 

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On 7/27/17 12:31 AM, Ken Hiebert via Marxism wrote:

I have noted that there isn’t much discussion of the current crisis on this 
list.


FT.com, July 26 2017
The deeper that special counsel Robert Mueller digs, the more the 
president panics

Edward Luce

The guns of August are cocked and ready. Donald Trump is wondering aloud 
whether to fire his attorney-general, Jefferson Sessions. Coming from 
the top, such speculation can only end in Mr Sessions’ departure. The US 
president is also musing about who will rid him of the troublesome 
special counsel, Robert Mueller. That, too, must eventually end in Mr 
Mueller’s exit. Both are a question of timing. My hunch is August. But 
it could be months away. Or tomorrow.


The point is that Mr Trump will do what he must to block the 
investigation. His latest escalation was triggered by Mr Mueller’s 
decision to broaden his probe to include the Trump Organisation’s 
financial dealings with Russia. Washington gossips have speculated that 
Vladimir Putin possesses lurid tapes of Mr Trump. The idea of such 
“kompromat” might ignite our prurience. But it always seemed 
far-fetched. In contrast, there is ample cause to scrutinise Mr Trump’s 
history of business dealings with Russian counterparts.


The further Mr Mueller progresses, the more Mr Trump panics. His 
reactions betray his motives. No reasonable observer could conclude that 
Mr Trump is willing to open his books. Having refused to release his tax 
returns, he risks a constitutional crisis to stop US law enforcement 
officers from looking into his business dealings. The two are obviously 
connected. Sooner or later, serious investigators end up following the 
money. Mr Mueller is nothing if not thorough. Mr Trump is nothing if not 
ruthless.


It can only result in a collision. The question is whether the US 
republic can walk away unscathed. Comparisons with Watergate are often 
facile. But Richard Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre” in October 1973 is 
too pressing a parallel to ignore. Elliot Richardson, his 
attorney-general, resigned after he had refused to dismiss the special 
prosecutor, Archibald Cox. Then the deputy attorney-general, William 
Ruckelshaus, stepped down for the same reason. Only on the third try 
could Nixon find an official pliable enough to do his bidding. That man 
was Robert Bork.


Mr Trump faces the same problem. Having recused himself from anything 
related to the Russia investigations, Mr Sessions does not have the 
authority to fire Mr Mueller. But his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, is 
unlikely to do so either. It was he who appointed Mr Mueller after 
having fired James Comey, the head of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, in May. Mr Trump is thus busy smearing both Mr Sessions 
and Mr Rosenstein. He is preparing his base for the purge to come. Say 
what you like about Mr Trump, but he is easier to read than a traffic light.


It is at this point a constitutional crisis would erupt. America’s 
founding fathers created a system based on laws, not men. But it is down 
to people to uphold the system. In theory, there is nothing stopping Mr 
Trump from doing whatever he likes. Most constitutional lawyers say you 
cannot indict a sitting president — even if he has repeatedly obstructed 
justice. If Mr Mueller were sacked, in other words, no court would 
reinstate him. The same applies to Mr Sessions, and as far down the 
chain as Mr Trump cared to go.


The US republic’s ultimate safety net is public opinion. So far most 
Americans are not inflamed by the Russia investigations. It is hard to 
blame them. People in Washington are obsessed by the day-by-day dramatic 
twists. But most ordinary Americans lack the time to absorb the endless 
waves of detail. Who cares if Mr Sessions held undeclared meetings with 
the Russian ambassador during the campaign? Politics is a dirty game and 
the people who throw mud are usually covered in it themselves.


The other safety net is impeachment. Unless public opinion turns sharply 
against Mr Trump, a Republican-controlled Congress is unlikely to act. 
Nixon had no place to hide after it was revealed he had taped his Oval 
Office conversations. The Saturday Night Massacre was his last-ditch 
attempt to stop the tapes from falling into public hands. It was only 
after they were released that a critical number of Republicans turned 
against Nixon. That was during a far less partisan era than today.


Ironically, one thing protecting Mr Sessions is that he is more Trumpian 
than Mr Trump. In the past few months he has been busy putting “America 
First” into practice by stepping up deportations of illegal immigrants. 
This has won him 

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or the Free Syrian Army.

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