[Marxism] After the horrible Earthquake in Mexico: Fight against the incompetent Government!

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Re: [Marxism] Ian Angus skewers Jacobin magazine issue on the environment

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On 2017/09/26 04:12 AM, DW via Marxism wrote:

...
The more interesting thing, IMO, is not Parenti but Angus' non-take on
ecomodernism. There is little substance in his charges against them (there
is, actually, but Angus fails to document this). I have of course a lot in
common with some aspects of ecomodernism, which in someways is a helluva
lot closer to the actual Marxist outlook on what is *needed* to solve the
environmental crisis than, say, the Greens or Greenpeace, Joseph Romm or
others Angus defends or quotes.


Yes, although Greenpeace has begun to move to an environmental justice 
perspective, the difficulty in getting useful discourses between the 
camps remains. There's an argument - which I try to move into the realm 
of contemporary climate politics here: 
http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/files/Bond_Frankfurt_talk_June_2016_version_of_19_April.pdf 
- drawing upon advice offered more than 20 years ago by David Harvey in 
his book Justice, Nature and the Politics of Difference. In suggesting 
that "the environmental justice movement has to radicalize the 
ecological modernization discourse," the key passage (3 'grafs) is this:


At this conjuncture, therefore, all of those militant particularist 
movements around the world that loosely come together under the umbrella 
of environmental justice and the environmentalism of the poor are faced 
with a critical choice. They can either ignore the contradictions, 
remain with the confines of their own particularist militancies - 
fighting an incinerator here, a toxic waste dump there, a World Bank dam 
project somewhere else, and commercial logging in yet another place - or 
they can treat the contradictions as a fecund nexus to create a more 
transcendent and universal politics. If they take the latter path, they 
have to find a discourse of universality and generality that unites the 
emancipatory quest for social justice with a strong recognition that 
social justice is impossible without environmental justice (and vice 
versa). But any such discourse has to transcend the narrow solidarities 
and particular affinities shaped in particular places - the preferred 
milieu of most grass roots environmental activism - and adopt a politics 
of abstraction capable of reaching out across space, across the multiple 
environmental and social conditions that constitute the geography of 
difference in a contemporary world that capitalism has intensely shaped 
to its own purposes. And it has to do this without abandoning its 
militant particularist base.


The abstractions cannot rest solely upon a moral politics dedicated to 
protecting the sanctity of Mother Earth. It has to deal in the material 
and institutional issues of how to organize production and distribution 
in general, how to confront the realities of global power politics and 
how to displace the hegemonic powers of capitalism not simply with 
dispersed, autonomous, localized, and essentially communitarian 
solutions (apologists for which can be found on both right and left ends 
of the political spectrum), but with a rather more complex politics that 
recognizes how environmental and social justice must be sought by a 
rational ordering of activities at different scales. The reinsertion of 
the idea of "rational ordering" indicates that such a movement will have 
no option, as it broadens out from its militant particularist base, but 
to reclaim for itself a noncoopted and nonperverted version of the 
theses of ecological modernization. On the one hand that means subsuming 
the highly geographically differentiated desire for cultural autonomy 
and dispersion, for the proliferation of tradition and difference within 
a more global politics, but on the other hand making the quest for 
environmental and social justice central rather than peripheral concerns.


For that to happen, the environmental justice movement has to radicalize 
the ecological modernization discourse. And that requires confronting 
the fundamental underlying processes (and their associated power 
structures, social relations, institutional configurations, discourses, 
and belief systems) that generate environmental and social injustices. 
Here, I revert to a key moment in the argument advanced in Social 
Justice and the City (Harvey, 1973: 136-7): it is vital, when 
encountering a serious problem, not merely to try to solve the problem 
in itself but to confront and transform the processes that gave rise to 
the problem in the first place. Then, as now, the fundamental problem is 
that of unrelenting capital accumulation and the extraordinary 
asymmetrics of money and political power that are embedded in that 
process. 

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Tsk, tsk. I expected a bit more from Ian on this rebuttal to Parenti. I
have this issue of Jacobin and though I always enjoy many of it's articles
(and dislike as many) I have not read the Parenti piece. Largely because I
don't find him, generally, particularly insightful on anything. Parenti,
like Trotsky, and like Louis or most of us are not really *qualified* to
comment knowingly in this regard. We are all quite outside the expertise
needed. So we rely on others.

Trotsky may of been wrong on atomic energy, but he certainly didn't have
his head up his ass on this. It was, and *remains* an informed position and
that he did in fact view future advent of atomic energy that would replace,
or might replace coal or oil, is factually accurate. France did *exactly*
that in getting off of oil and coal as did the United States with oil. The
US continued to use coal however, France did not. The two carbon footprints
are noticeable for each country in the difference in their footprint sizes.
It is particularly large for the U.S. and small by European standards for
France. One can, again, argue the merits of this or that form of energy, on
can't argue that Trotsky's prognostication was very accurate. Thusly, head,
not in ass.

On some of the actual specific issues involved. I do agree with Ian Angus
that "Carbon Capture" is something of a fraud (he doesn't use that term, I
do but he implies it). It can be done. There is a large Dept. of Energy
Plant that was running in North Dakota (I think) that removed CO2 (and CO)
from coal burning. It is the only plant in the world that I believe is
running or was successful. But Parenti's thing here is directly from the
atmosphere. It has already been demonstrated by the U.S. Navy despite what
Angus notes about the same Navy looking for better methods of doing it. The
problem is that it use (by the Navy and every proposed system) vast amounts
of the electricity produced by the nuclear reactors on the submarine. I'm
all for the R by anyone who can efficiently help lower CO2 in *enough*
time to make a difference! But honestly it's probably better to use the
most efficient form of solar energy for this: photosynthesis in the growing
of massive amounts of trees and restoring vast tracts of prairie land where
it won't interfere in farming. The bottom line that Angus implies is that
it's damn expensive to conceive of doing this mechanically from the
atmosphere directly.

The more interesting thing, IMO, is not Parenti but Angus' non-take on
ecomodernism. There is little substance in his charges against them (there
is, actually, but Angus fails to document this). I have of course a lot in
common with some aspects of ecomodernism, which in someways is a helluva
lot closer to the actual Marxist outlook on what is *needed* to solve the
environmental crisis than, say, the Greens or Greenpeace, Joseph Romm or
others Angus defends or quotes. All of whom are *reactionary*
de-development types to varying degrees. The ecomodernists problem,
generally, is that they look to purely technological solutions and eschew
social ones. I've debated, interestingly both ecomodernists and Greens over
their adherence (in some case for the former, not all or even a majority by
any means) to natural gas. Both green-wash this dangerous fossil fuel and
ignore the long term consequences. More another time, perhaps.

David
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[Marxism] Fwd: Eric Reid: Why Colin Kaepernick and I Decided to Take a Knee - The New York Times

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Kap, Cops and Confederate Statues: a Better World Without Double Standards

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On 9/25/17 8:36 PM, Tristan Sloughter via Marxism wrote:

Right, he was not removed -- but I wouldn't say that you can't consider
it still being driven out.

But I don't think it relates to this, in part because his behavior
during the whole thing ended up being the main reason I thought he
shouldn't be in leadership. I didn't vote for him, taking issue with his
opinion for orientation with the Democratic Party, and afterward took
issue with his not mentioning CLEAT in his statements that year, but
reading his later statements and hearing about his interactions with
comrades after the election became as much a concern as the rest for
many of us.


I don't know that much about Fotente but was struck by Serpico's praise 
of the Black officer that asked him to speak at a rally for Kaepernick. 
What would a left group do if a younger version of Serpico applied for 
membership? Or this Black officer?

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Right, he was not removed -- but I wouldn't say that you can't consider
it still being driven out.

But I don't think it relates to this, in part because his behavior
during the whole thing ended up being the main reason I thought he
shouldn't be in leadership. I didn't vote for him, taking issue with his
opinion for orientation with the Democratic Party, and afterward took
issue with his not mentioning CLEAT in his statements that year, but
reading his later statements and hearing about his interactions with
comrades after the election became as much a concern as the rest for
many of us.
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Kap, Cops and Confederate Statues: a Better World Without Double Standards

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Danny Fentone wasn’t officially outsted. DSA’s NPC came o the conclusion
that there wasn’t a proper mechanism for recall of Fentone. NPC called for
a dialogue with Fentone to remedy the impasse. Fentone then decided to
leave DSA because he felt DSA has gone too Left and new DSA members were
not like the old DSA members.

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Re: [Marxism] Ian Angus skewers Jacobin magazine issue on the environment

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On 9/25/17 12:54 PM, Michael Yates via Marxism wrote:

Ian Angus, author of the fine book, Facing the Anthropocene, rakes Jacobin's 
environment issue over the coals. Here he focuses on the truly preposterous 
essay by Christian Parenti. Jacobin has disgraced itself with this issue. It 
claims to be a magazine of the left. Nothing could be further from the truth.


http://climateandcapitalism.com/2017/09/25/memo-to-jacobin-ecomodernism-is-not-ecosocialism/



You can get an idea of how bollixed up this Jacobin issue is with the 
Leon Trotsky quote that prefaces it:


Faith merely promises to move mountains; but technology, which takes 
nothing “on faith,” is actually able to cut down mountains and move 
them. Up to now this was done for industrial purposes (mines) or for 
railways (tunnels); in the future this will be done on an immeasurably 
larger scale, according to a general industrial and artistic plan. Man 
will occupy himself with re-registering mountains and rivers, and will 
earnestly and repeatedly make improvements in nature. In the end, he 
will have rebuilt the earth, if not in his own image, at least according 
to his own taste. We have not the slightest fear that this taste will be 
bad.


— Leon Trotsky, Literature and Revolution

To put it bluntly, Trotsky had his head up his ass on such questions. 
Like this:


The phenomena of radio-activity are leading us to the problem of 
releasing intra-atomic energy. The atom contains within itself a mighty 
hidden energy, and the greatest task of physics consists in pumping out 
this energy, pulling out the cork so that this hidden energy may burst 
forth in a fountain. Then the possibility will be opened up of replacing 
coal and oil by atomic energy, which will also become the basic motive 
power.


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[Marxism] Fwd: Kap, Cops and Confederate Statues: a Better World Without Double Standards

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(After reading this by a former NYC cop, it makes you wonder if the DSA 
was right in ousting Danny Fetonte.)


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[Marxism] Fwd: Gregg Popovich of San Antonio Spurs -- United States 'embarrassment to the world'

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[Marxism] Fwd: Health Bill Appears Dead as Pivotal G.O.P. Senator Declares Opposition - The New York Times

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[Marxism] Report from Germany

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*K. Reimann reports from Dresden in eastern Germany:*

As we know, yesterday was Election Day in Germany. I knew exactly that,
despite my efforts, the AfD was going to win and that Angela Merkel was
going to remain in power simply by default. The SPD with Martin Schulz had
made no visible attempt at all to introduce themselves and present new
ideas here


One of the brilliant posters of the Afd. “Burkas? We prefer bikinis.”

at all, except for a few sings on lamp posts with things like *For Our
Children*. Blah, blah, blah. Nothing serious. Meanwhile the AfD had posters
that covered issues in the news, albeit in a most at least for me revolting
manner. We want Bikinis, Not Burkas. Increase the Birthrate, Make Babies,
etc. All things that are relevant.

And so, this morning, there was no shock in the least tiny bit. I even
forgot to look at the results until later in the morning because for me it
was so clear. The one thing that made me saddened me was that Saxony, the
part of Germany I live in, was so overwhelmingly pro AfD, and even more
specifically, that part of Saxony that includes Dresden. As with other
elections, I had to question where all these people were who voted AfD.
More than 20%. Not my circle of friends! But still, it didn’t take long to
think of people even in my circle (my daughter’s friends’ parents,
neighbors, etc) who might have (or even definitely did) voted for AfD. So,
I was not in the least tiny bit surprised.

Read entire article:
https://oaklandsocialist.com/2017/09/25/report-from-germany-2/

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[Marxism] What's Happening at the Council for the National Interest

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Maybe Philip Giraldi and Alison Weir got a divorce. I'm guessing that 
Giraldi's recent articles have caused a split with Weir because they 
lend support  to the idea that she is an anti-semite or, at least, 
consorts with anti-semites. How could she not know that his outlook on 
so-called "Jewish" machinations was nothing but anti-semitism?! She is 
probably trying to distance herself from him or lose face with lots of 
her followers at the CNI and If Americans Knew. Just a guess.

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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Asia]: Roy on Van Dyke, 'Merchants of Canton and Macao: Success and Failure in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Trade'

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Paul Arthur Van Dyke.  Merchants of Canton and Macao: Success and
Failure in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Trade.  Hong Kong, China  Hong
Kong University Press, 2016.  xlvii + 443 pp. Illustrations.  $79.00
(cloth), ISBN 978-988-8139-32-3.

Reviewed by Tirthankar Roy (London School of Economics)
Published on H-Asia (September, 2017)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha

Chinese Merchants in the Eighteenth Century

Canton (Guangzhou) was central to Chinese maritime enterprise from
the end of the seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century.
During these years, a form of institutionalization of maritime trade
took shape, and large Chinese trading firms, the Qing emperor's
court, and the European companies and private traders built stakes in
it. The extensive scholarship in the field, in which the author of
_Merchants of Canton and Macau_ made significant intervention
earlier, established the general outline of what is sometimes called
the Canton system or in this book, the Canton era (p. 16). The main
elements of that system are the Qing Empire's desire to regulate the
trade and yet keep it reasonably competitive, negotiations biased to
favor large firms (European joint stock companies, or Co-hong, the
syndicate of Chinese firms through which the companies were allowed
to deal), and extensive use of trade credit. The Co-hong factor
helped standardize weights and measures, advances, and exchange
rates, thus fostering credit transactions and imparting stability to
the business done by those outside the license system--inland
merchants, for example. The general outline also shows how smuggling,
corruption, institutional weaknesses such as the inadequacies of
credit markets and bankruptcy rules, and the limited financial
capacity of some of the Co-hong firms strained the system and
contributed to its decline. In fact, as this book observes, very few
Co-hong firms survived in the mid-nineteenth century. But until then,
the Canton era formed a crucial part of Eurasian trade of the
eighteenth century, by means of which tea emerged as a mass
consumption good in the Eastern world, silk and porcelain redefined
the idea of luxury, Chinese junks developed ties in Southeast Asia,
and trade generated revenues for the state.

What is different in _Merchants of Canton and Macau_? Several things.
First, the book is focused on merchants rather than the system. As
Van Dyke puts it, "historians sometimes forget that we are talking
about real people" (p. 16). This shift of attention from the context
to the people delivers a more fluid, varied, and unpredictable
picture than we would obtain otherwise. Inland merchants and
merchants outside the Co-hong guild, for example, receive due
attention. One of the surprising results of the shift is that some of
the biggest Chinese trading firms appear institutionally quite weak
(carrying unsustainable debt), which raises the question, how did
they carry on for so long? The answer to that question is embedded in
the second contribution of the book, the rather less original thesis
that the Qing state imposed "limits to their expansion" (p. 13), even
as political connections helped to overcome the debt burden. The book
asks a counterfactual--why did the large Chinese trading firms not
expand overseas despite signs that some of them were keen to do
so?--and answers that the state discouraged such attempts, being
afraid of losing revenue and perhaps the prospect that it would not
be able to offer protection to merchants in the seas. In the end, the
rules of the game were tilted in favor of the European companies, and
the Chinese merchants operated within stricter limits. "All that
mattered was that harmony was maintained in Canton," Van Dyke writes,
and the revenues were assured (p. 15). The ambiguous role of the
state should interest those who might read a business history work
like this one to explain the emergence of world inequality from the
early 1800s.

Van Dyke's work is distinguished by the breadth of archival research
and the ability to use sources in several languages, which, among
other advantages, allows inclusion in this account of Macau under
Portuguese administration. Fifty-five pages of endnotes, long
quotations from sources, sixty-four appendices spanning over a
hundred pages, seventy-eight illustrations including photos of
documents, an eleven-page list of abbreviations, and a huge

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On 9/25/17 11:56 AM, Carl G. Estabrook via Marxism wrote:

But the last year has seen the US political establishment turn aside those 
attacks and force the Trump administration to pursue the neolib and neocon 
policies - as HRC would have done. In that sense, she won. —CGE



Carl, you are the mirror image of the people who signed the Progressives 
for Obama open letter in 2007 except in this instance you seem to be 
making the case ex post facto for "Progressives for Trump". I can see 
the names already on that statement: Diana Johnstone, Boris Kagarlitsky, 
Mike Whitney and Slavoj Zizek. I'd come up with other names but more 
important work beckons.

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[Marxism] Ian Angus skewers Jacobin magazine issue on the environment

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Ian Angus, author of the fine book, Facing the Anthropocene, rakes Jacobin's 
environment issue over the coals. Here he focuses on the truly preposterous 
essay by Christian Parenti. Jacobin has disgraced itself with this issue. It 
claims to be a magazine of the left. Nothing could be further from the truth.


http://climateandcapitalism.com/2017/09/25/memo-to-jacobin-ecomodernism-is-not-ecosocialism/

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Re: [Marxism] Doug Henwood Dispatches Hillary and Her New Book to Remainder Bin of History | Washington Babylon

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Clinton was surely a bad candidate, but Trump was the first major party 
candidate in 40 years to attack the neoconservative and neoliberal policies 
(more war and more inequality, respectively) followed by all recent 
administrations, notably Obama's.

But the last year has seen the US political establishment turn aside those 
attacks and force the Trump administration to pursue the neolib and neocon 
policies - as HRC would have done. In that sense, she won. —CGE


> On Sep 25, 2017, at 10:19 AM, Andrew Stewart via Marxism 
>  wrote:
> 
> http://washingtonbabylon.com/3128-2/
> 
> Doug Henwood Dispatches Hillary and Her New Book to Remainder Bin of History
> Doug Henwood
> September 25, 2017
> I’m late getting to this review. It’s partly because, unlike most reviewers, 
> I didn’t have a free pre-publication copy of Hillary’s awful book and had to 
> pay good money for it myself. [Editor’s note: We’ll pay for it, but it could 
> reduce your fee by a negligible amount. If anyone wants to pay for Doug’s 
> book let him or me know.] And when I read it, I was overcome with boredom and 
> despair and couldn’t imagine writing a standard review. But since I wrote a 
> Harper’s cover story that turned into a book on Hillary I felt like I had to 
> do it. But I’m not sure I can.
> 
> Were I to write a standard review, I might recall some of my history with 
> HRC. When I started doing research for the Harper’s article in the summer of 
> 2015, I was on a secret email list for liberal pundits called the Cabalist. I 
> was recruited as an ideological diversity hire. Never a good fit from the 
> first, relations between me and the Cabalisters deteriorated as I shared my 
> feelings about their favored candidate. I said, ideology aside, she was a 
> terrible candidate—a bad and widely un-liked politician, one whose poll 
> numbers usually fell with increased exposure, with a million scandals just 
> waiting to blow up at any minute. Add to that her miserable ideology—she 
> believed in nothing but tweaking the status quo in profoundly tedious 
> ways—and they might come to regret signing on to her still-unannounced 
> campaign.
> 
> Saying this provoked intense fury. I was accused of enabling Ted Cruz (Trump 
> was still a gleam in his own eye). When I asked them to convince me 
> otherwise, they reacted with fury, but no answers. If these Democrats—mostly 
> liberals, whatever it means to be a liberal today—whose business was making 
> and analyzing political argument, including one who wrote a book about 
> Hillary (or, more precisely, about her feelings about Hillary) couldn’t make 
> a case for her, then who could?
> 
> I was right, of course. As was everything I subsequently wrote about her—the 
> emptiness of her campaign, her shittiness as a politician, her fealty to 
> convention, all of which contributed to her disgraceful loss to the 
> abominable Trump.
> 
> Were I to write a real review, I might also point to Jonathan Allen and Amie 
> Parnes’ Shattered, the story of her dismal, meandering campaign and its 
> hilarious depictions of her staff desperately trying to invent reasons for 
> her running and coming up empty. That, and their neglect of traditional 
> campaigning strategies like polling in crucial states and knocking on 
> people’s doors and reliance instead on preposterous statistical models that 
> turned out to be fantastically wrong.
> 
> Hillary raises some of these issues in What Happened only to deny them. She 
> did have a reason for running, she assures us: because she loves to help 
> people, particularly women and children. And she did have a viable campaign 
> strategy—it’s just that no one noticed it and it proved unviable. She 
> concedes she’s deeply unpopular and untrustworthy, but just can’t understand 
> why. Several times she takes responsibility for the campaign’s mistakes—not 
> an easy thing for her to do, as anyone past the intro level of Hillary 
> Studies knows—but never for more than a sentence or three, as she quickly 
> moves from the confessional mode to blaming Comey, the Russians, the emails, 
> and misogyny. Nothing is ever really her fault; decks are always stacked 
> against her.
> 
> A few words on the misogyny question: there’s no doubt that Hillary has 
> suffered from loads of vile, sexist attacks over the decades. It’s hideous 
> stuff. But she and her acolytes have used this to deflect any legitimate 
> criticisms of her politics or personality. And her habit of making herself 
> into the rightful heir of the long and admirable line of American feminist 
> struggle since Seneca Falls is annoying and deceptive. 

[Marxism] Doug Henwood Dispatches Hillary and Her New Book to Remainder Bin of History | Washington Babylon

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http://washingtonbabylon.com/3128-2/

Doug Henwood Dispatches Hillary and Her New Book to Remainder Bin of History
Doug Henwood
September 25, 2017
I’m late getting to this review. It’s partly because, unlike most reviewers, I 
didn’t have a free pre-publication copy of Hillary’s awful book and had to pay 
good money for it myself. [Editor’s note: We’ll pay for it, but it could reduce 
your fee by a negligible amount. If anyone wants to pay for Doug’s book let him 
or me know.] And when I read it, I was overcome with boredom and despair and 
couldn’t imagine writing a standard review. But since I wrote a Harper’s cover 
story that turned into a book on Hillary I felt like I had to do it. But I’m 
not sure I can.

Were I to write a standard review, I might recall some of my history with HRC. 
When I started doing research for the Harper’s article in the summer of 2015, I 
was on a secret email list for liberal pundits called the Cabalist. I was 
recruited as an ideological diversity hire. Never a good fit from the first, 
relations between me and the Cabalisters deteriorated as I shared my feelings 
about their favored candidate. I said, ideology aside, she was a terrible 
candidate—a bad and widely un-liked politician, one whose poll numbers usually 
fell with increased exposure, with a million scandals just waiting to blow up 
at any minute. Add to that her miserable ideology—she believed in nothing but 
tweaking the status quo in profoundly tedious ways—and they might come to 
regret signing on to her still-unannounced campaign.

Saying this provoked intense fury. I was accused of enabling Ted Cruz (Trump 
was still a gleam in his own eye). When I asked them to convince me otherwise, 
they reacted with fury, but no answers. If these Democrats—mostly liberals, 
whatever it means to be a liberal today—whose business was making and analyzing 
political argument, including one who wrote a book about Hillary (or, more 
precisely, about her feelings about Hillary) couldn’t make a case for her, then 
who could?

I was right, of course. As was everything I subsequently wrote about her—the 
emptiness of her campaign, her shittiness as a politician, her fealty to 
convention, all of which contributed to her disgraceful loss to the abominable 
Trump.

Were I to write a real review, I might also point to Jonathan Allen and Amie 
Parnes’ Shattered, the story of her dismal, meandering campaign and its 
hilarious depictions of her staff desperately trying to invent reasons for her 
running and coming up empty. That, and their neglect of traditional campaigning 
strategies like polling in crucial states and knocking on people’s doors and 
reliance instead on preposterous statistical models that turned out to be 
fantastically wrong.

Hillary raises some of these issues in What Happened only to deny them. She did 
have a reason for running, she assures us: because she loves to help people, 
particularly women and children. And she did have a viable campaign 
strategy—it’s just that no one noticed it and it proved unviable. She concedes 
she’s deeply unpopular and untrustworthy, but just can’t understand why. 
Several times she takes responsibility for the campaign’s mistakes—not an easy 
thing for her to do, as anyone past the intro level of Hillary Studies 
knows—but never for more than a sentence or three, as she quickly moves from 
the confessional mode to blaming Comey, the Russians, the emails, and misogyny. 
Nothing is ever really her fault; decks are always stacked against her.

A few words on the misogyny question: there’s no doubt that Hillary has 
suffered from loads of vile, sexist attacks over the decades. It’s hideous 
stuff. But she and her acolytes have used this to deflect any legitimate 
criticisms of her politics or personality. And her habit of making herself into 
the rightful heir of the long and admirable line of American feminist struggle 
since Seneca Falls is annoying and deceptive. There’s nothing feminist about 
having supported welfare reform, mass incarceration, and every episode of 
imperial war in modern American history.

Were I to write a real review, I could devote hundreds, even thousands of words 
to these matters, and countless others I haven’t even touched on. One could 
spend a paragraph or two analyzing a sentence like this: “I started calling 
policy experts, reading thick binders of memos, and making lists of problems 
that needed more thought.” I could make fun of the fact that she nicknamed her 
campaign van “Scooby.” Or mock her claim that she wrote this lifeless tome at 
her kitchen table.

But I don’t want to do that. What I want to do is draw attention to 

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Germany stutters | Michael Roberts Blog

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Jewish-American megadonor fuels German Islamophobic far-right party

https://theintercept.com/2017/09/22/german-election-afd-gatestone-institute/

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 7:09 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism <
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> The other irony is that the co-leader of the AfD is no poor populist of
> the people, but instead Alice Weidel is a former economist at Goldman Sachs
> and financial consultant – shades of UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who is a
> stockbroker. These representatives of capital have no connection with their
> rank and file voters but attempt to rise to power on prejudice and
> mendacity.
>
> https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/germany-stutters/
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[Marxism] Lutte Ouvriere on robots, unemployment and capitalism

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[Marxism] Colonialism Never Gives Away Anything for Nothing

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Zohra Drif’s *Inside the Battle of Algiers* is an emotionally riveting
historical adventure that is both exhilarating and breathtaking. It is also
an intellectually provocative study of a once-common form of political
struggle that combined Marxist and nationalist thought in order to free the
colonies from their yoke.

http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2017/09/colonialism-never-gives-away-anything.html

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[Marxism] Fwd: Climate Armageddon Revisited

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[Marxism] Fwd: Tomgram: Nomi Prins, In Donald Trump's Washington, The House Always Wins | TomDispatch

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[Marxism] Fwd: Germany stutters | Michael Roberts Blog

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The other irony is that the co-leader of the AfD is no poor populist of 
the people, but instead Alice Weidel is a former economist at Goldman 
Sachs and financial consultant – shades of UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who 
is a stockbroker. These representatives of capital have no connection 
with their rank and file voters but attempt to rise to power on 
prejudice and mendacity.




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