[Marxism] Australia accused of delaying Chinese students' visas - The World - ABC News

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My friend David Brophy comments on Sinophobia.

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[Marxism] How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of ‘Race’

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On 3/23/18 8:25 PM, hari kumar via Marxism wrote:

Hi: I would be grateful of the whole article in some way could be posted -
especially interested in this issue. Would that be possible? Thanks for
considering,
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How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of ‘Race’
Gray Matter

By DAVID REICH MARCH 23, 2018

In 1942, the anthropologist Ashley Montagu published “Man’s Most 
Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race,” an influential book that argued 
that race is a social concept with no genetic basis. A classic example 
often cited is the inconsistent definition of “black.” In the United 
States, historically, a person is “black” if he has any sub-Saharan 
African ancestry; in Brazil, a person is not “black” if he is known to 
have any European ancestry. If “black” refers to different people in 
different contexts, how can there be any genetic basis to it?


Beginning in 1972, genetic findings began to be incorporated into this 
argument. That year, the geneticist Richard Lewontin published an 
important study of variation in protein types in blood. He grouped the 
human populations he analyzed into seven “races” — West Eurasians, 
Africans, East Asians, South Asians, Native Americans, Oceanians and 
Australians — and found that around 85 percent of variation in the 
protein types could be accounted for by variation within populations and 
“races,” and only 15 percent by variation across them. To the extent 
that there was variation among humans, he concluded, most of it was 
because of “differences between individuals.”


In this way, a consensus was established that among human populations 
there are no differences large enough to support the concept of 
“biological race.” Instead, it was argued, race is a “social construct,” 
a way of categorizing people that changes over time and across countries.


It is true that race is a social construct. It is also true, as Dr. 
Lewontin wrote, that human populations “are remarkably similar to each 
other” from a genetic point of view.


But over the years this consensus has morphed, seemingly without 
questioning, into an orthodoxy. The orthodoxy maintains that the average 
genetic differences among people grouped according to today’s racial 
terms are so trivial when it comes to any meaningful biological traits 
that those differences can be ignored.


The orthodoxy goes further, holding that we should be anxious about any 
research into genetic differences among populations. The concern is that 
such research, no matter how well-intentioned, is located on a slippery 
slope that leads to the kinds of pseudoscientific arguments about 
biological difference that were used in the past to try to justify the 
slave trade, the eugenics movement and the Nazis’ murder of six million 
Jews.


I have deep sympathy for the concern that genetic discoveries could be 
misused to justify racism. But as a geneticist I also know that it is 
simply no longer possible to ignore average genetic differences among 
“races.”


Groundbreaking advances in DNA sequencing technology have been made over 
the last two decades. These advances enable us to measure with exquisite 
accuracy what fraction of an individual’s genetic ancestry traces back 
to, say, West Africa 500 years ago — before the mixing in the Americas 
of the West African and European gene pools that were almost completely 
isolated for the last 70,000 years. With the help of these tools, we are 
learning that while race may be a social construct, differences in 
genetic ancestry that happen to correlate to many of today’s racial 
constructs are real.


Recent genetic studies have demonstrated differences across populations 
not just in the genetic determinants of simple traits such as skin 
color, but also in more complex traits like bodily dimensions and 
susceptibility to diseases. For example, we now know that genetic 
factors help explain why northern Europeans are taller on average than 
southern Europeans, why multiple sclerosis is more common in 
European-Americans than in African-Americans, and why the reverse is 
true for end-stage kidney disease.


I am worried that well-meaning people who deny the possibility of 
substantial biological differences among human populations are digging 
themselves into an indefensible position, one that will not survive the 
onslaught of science. I am also worried that whatever discoveries are 
made — and we truly have no idea yet what they will be — will be cited 
as “scientific proof” that racist prejudices and agendas have been 
correct all along, and that those well-meaning people will not 
understand the science well enough to push back against 

Re: [Marxism] Marxism Digest, Vol 173, Issue 31

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Re: Andrew Pollack 
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Subject: [Marxism] How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of
?Race?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/opinion/sunday/genetics-race.html


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[Marxism] Moishe Postone archive

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Most of Moishe Postone's work has been collected at the following link, 
for anyone interested:


https://wetransfer.com/downloads/75e6ce27860d9c293053ca2791793f0120180318154448/051600



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Re: [Marxism] Russia Endorses Putin as a Trusted Leader While Washington and London Condemn Him (Again) | The Nation

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On 3/23/18 5:21 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:

Seems accurate and unobjectionable. What’s wrong with tit?


Spend $3.99 on this documentary and you'll find out:

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Re: [Marxism] Russia Endorses Putin as a Trusted Leader While Washington and London Condemn Him (Again) | The Nation

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Seems accurate and unobjectionable. What’s wrong with tit?


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> Stephen F. Cohen, what a clown.
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[Marxism] Russia Endorses Putin as a Trusted Leader While Washington and London Condemn Him (Again) | The Nation

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Stephen F. Cohen, what a clown.

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[Marxism] Review of Gerald Horne’s *The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism* | Martin Empson | Resolute Reader

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http://resolutereader.blogspot.com/2018/03/gerald-horne-apocalypse-of-settler.html


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[Marxism] The Long March of the Corporate Rights Movement - Los Angeles Review of Books

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[Marxism] Thinking Clearly about the White Working Class | Michael D. Yates | Monthly Review

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Thanks for posting this, Louis. I welcome comments.
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[Marxism] The Workshop; A Bag of Marbles | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Two French films open today in New York that are deeply engaged with the 
country’s malaise both present and past. Laurent Cantet’s “The 
Workshop”, which can be seen at the IFC Center, examines the troubled 
interaction between a successful novelist Olivia Dejazet and seven local 
students attending her writer’s workshop in La Ciotat, a southern town 
once dominated by the defunct ship-building industry and the militant 
Communist-led trade unions to which their workers belonged. Now, the 
only boats being built in La Ciotat are yachts for the super-rich who 
are resented by the economically depressed locals, including the 
students. “The Bag of Marbles” that opens at the Landmark on 57th Street 
is set in Vichy France and tells the story of two Jewish boys who are on 
the run from the Nazis. In preparing the boys for their trek across 
France into the Italian-controlled south of the country, their father 
trains them to deny their Jewishness. Over the kitchen table, he grills 
them as if he were a Gestapo interrogator. “Are you Jewish?”, he snarls 
at Joseph, the 10-year old who is more vulnerable than his 12-year old 
brother Maurice. When the boy says no, the father slaps him across the 
face and repeats the question. After 4 or 5 slaps, the father is 
satisfied that they are ready to send on their way.


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[Marxism] A Caribbean Giant Passes: Wilson Harris, RIP

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By Paul Buhle.

We learn only now that novelist Wilson Harris (1921-2018) passed, 
several weeks ago, in Chelmsford, England. With him passes, very nearly, 
 generations of highly political, English-language Caribbean 
literature. George Lamming, of Barbados, remains frail but has spent a 
life on the Left; V.S. Naipaul, raised in Trinidad, is active and as 
always, on the Right. Wilson Harris was outside the usual political 
spectrum, but definitely on the side of liberation, that is liberation 
of the ecosphere, of the earth’s inhabitants at large, and of all the 
cultures now endangered with extermination.


https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/23/a-caribbean-giant-passes-wilson-harris-rip/
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[Marxism] The Man Who Should Be Dead

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Ildar Ildusovich Dadin is a hero.

He risked his life exercising his rights to free speech and peaceful 
demonstration in modern day Russia and paid for it with nearly three 
years in prison during which time he was tortured both mentally and 
physically.


Ildar Ildusovich Dadin is still alive. Yet many like him, journalists, 
activists, people of conscience, have wound up dead at the hands of the 
Russian state. Here are just some of the names of recent victims: Sergei 
Yushenkov, Anna Politkovskaya, Galina Starovoitova, Stanislav Markelov, 
Anastasia Baburova, and, perhaps most famously, Boris Nemtsov. There are 
many more names that could be added.


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[Marxism] The ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ Is Ballooning, 87,000 Tons of Plastic and Counting - The New York Times

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(Generally, I send an entire article to the list from the NYT since they 
have a paywall. When I only send the link, it is only because the 
accompanying graphics are essential, as they are in this case. If you 
ever run into exceeding the paywall limits, contact me off-list and I 
will send you the entire article.)


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/climate/great-pacific-garbage-patch.html
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[Marxism] Not so good to be the future king

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You think your life is tough -count your blessings that you are not the
prince.
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[Marxism] 'Human scum and bloodsucker': Bolton's White House appointment fans worries over hawkish record in Asia

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[Marxism] How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of ‘Race’

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[Marxism] Hunting Witches in Washington – LobeLog

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Finally, is Russiagate an example of mass hysteria? Certainly the media 
has engaged in a feeding frenzy. But that’s to be expected for a news 
story involving the president, a foreign power, money, and intrigue. 
Certainly the Democrats are trying to make political hay out of the 
scandal. They’d be stupid not to, though Russiagate has not figured 
prominently in recent Democratic victories in Virginia and Pennsylvania.


Otherwise, Russiagate hasn’t produced a set of investigations at all 
levels of American society a la the Red Scare of the 1950s. Mueller has 
been rather narrow in its focus on Trump and his team, and the 
investigation has been quite sober in its rhetoric.


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[Marxism] Imagine having so much money you can spend it on Instagram “influencers” « Systemic Disorder

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[Marxism] The Fed, trade wars and recession | Michael Roberts Blog

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[Marxism] Flashing for the Refugees on the Unarmed Road of Flight

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