[Marxism] God, Jesus, and Vietnam
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[Marxism] the post-industrial world of Chicago steel
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. * Rows of modest brick bungalows still line the streets in Walley’s old neighborhood, Chicago’s East Side, and her mother and her sister Susie still live there. But just outside this residential core lie vast, chemically contaminated brownfields that extend for miles—former mill sites, most of which remain undeveloped. As you approach these barren stretches of land, all signs of human life drop away, save for the cars passing by. Here and there, slabs of concrete peek through the weeds like bare patches of scalp. “This was the entrance to the main gate,” Walley says as we drive past the old Wisconsin Steel site. All I can see of the once-mighty industrial behemoth is a chain-link fence blocking access to an overgrown driveway. To get at the roots of the trauma her community endured, Walley has spent hundreds of hours digging into the corporate decisions surrounding mill closures and the laws that allowed such closures to proceed with ease. She argues that the industrial unraveling that happened in communities like Southeast Chicago and Detroit, Michigan, was not an inevitable result of globalization. Certainly, American industry faced more competition from overseas as the 20th century progressed, and it continues to face such competition today. But in the end, she thinks, regulations that favored the interests of businesses over those of workers were what cemented the U.S. industrial collapse. “One of the narratives that’s really problematic is, ‘This is just progress to the new kind of economy,’” Walley says. Beginning in the 1970s, the political pendulum swung toward laxer regulation of corporate activities—a trend that accelerated during the Reagan era. Hands-off federal laws allowed companies to merge and acquire new companies with little interference, and companies were permitted to operate more fully while in the throes of bankruptcy. Laws like these aided many investors’ strategies of buying up older U.S. manufacturing enterprises, neglecting pension funds, milking profits, and allowing the enterprises to go bankrupt—which is just what happened at Wisconsin Steel, where Chuck Walley once worked. To this day, workers are left with limited recourse against such corporate schemes, and in many cases, labor unions have had difficulty securing additional benefits or job retraining for workers who have been laid off. In Canada, she points out, policies were in place in the 1970s and 80s that encouraged companies to modernize and funnel profits back into mill upkeep. As a result, not a single Canadian steel mill closed at a time when increasingly neglected and obsolete American mills were falling like dominoes. Germany, too, has managed to maintain a robust industrial economy despite fierce global competition. https://www.sapiens.org/culture/postindustrial-world-chicago-steel/ _ 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: Can We Still Trust Julian Assange and WikiLeaks?
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[Marxism] Moderator's note
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[Marxism] Fwd: Keystone Pipeline Leaks More Than 5, 000 Barrels of Oil - The New York Times
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Re: [Marxism] The origins of the Electoral College
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[Marxism] shocking!!! Black Americans 75% more likely to live near toxic oil and gas facilities
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[Marxism] reports of mass rape of Rohingya women and girls
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[Marxism] The origins of the Electoral College
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 paper, the Electoral College served well as a way to steer theoretically between the large and small states and between oligarchy and democracy. What the Framers never discussed was how the thing was supposed to work in practice, or why it would be effective in meeting their goal of a chief magistrate who felt like the people's choice without being beholden to parties, parochial interests, or popular opinion. Excesses of democracy were still a far bigger worry for most of the Framers, who filled the Constitution with firebreaks against the potential depredations of the mob." https://delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?p=3466 _ 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] Finally, an escape from a capitalist-destroyed planet!
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. * And a mere 11 light years away - what could possibly go wrong? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/08/aurora-kim-stanley-robinson-review-science-fiction On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Dennis Brasky via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > 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. > * > > https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/science/planet-ross-128.html > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ > options/marxism/fred.r.murphy%40gmail.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
[Marxism] Fwd: Adam Shatz · The President and the Bomb · LRB 16 November 2017
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[Marxism] Fwd: When Does a Watershed Become a Sex Panic? | The New Yorker
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[Marxism] Fwd: Is This Professor ‘Putin’s American Apologist’? - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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[Marxism] Fwd: We Knew Julian Assange Hated Clinton. We Didn’t Know He Was Secretly Advising Trump.
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[Marxism] Trump lifts trophy ban so rich people can slaughter elephants
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[Marxism] Fwd: Poison Ivies | Chris Lehmann
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[Marxism] Fwd: Stan Van Gundy: NBA and NFL Player Protests Are Patriotic | Time
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