[Marxism] Women march against Turkish threats in Deir Ez Zor (ANF)

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Re: [Marxism] Turkish-backed rebels pushing for further mass displacement from Afrin

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The correct link is (I hope) :

http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/98ae459b-3de2-4b29-866c-3d4c3590f1ed



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Turkish-backed rebels pushing for further mass displacement from Afrin:


http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/98ae459b-3de2-4b29-866c-3d4c359


'The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based war monitor, 
said that Turkish-backed rebels are 
demanding that residents from Afrin be permanently expelled.

'SOHR reported that the groups have requested from the Turkish authorities 
permission to displace those from Afrin and its countryside completely, and 
confiscate “their property, livelihoods, farms, homes and their contents in 
full.”

'However, according to the human rights watchdog, Turkish authorities rejected 
this demand, fearing this would push the international community against the 
rebels and “push the whole world to intervene in favor of the Kurdish 
inhabitants of the area, and issued their orders to wait.”

'In August, Amnesty International 
said 
that the Turkish forces occupying the Kurdish city of Afrin since March were 
giving allied Syrian armed groups free rein to commit serious human rights 
abuses against civilians.

'The SOHR report suggested that Turkish authorities have told the rebels that a 
forced exodus from Afrin was part of their future program.

'This is what happened slowly, as hundreds of families who remained in Afrin 
have fled as a result of the escalation of violations against them of 
kidnapping, beatings, assaults, looting, theft, and assaulting women and 
girls,” SOHR said'



Christians fear Turkish attack could end Christianity in northeast Syria:


http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/deeea6a9-a23a-40bf-95ab-4094a1d924f7


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[Marxism] Turkish-backed rebels pushing for further mass displacement from Afrin

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Turkish-backed rebels pushing for further mass displacement from Afrin:


http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/98ae459b-3de2-4b29-866c-3d4c359


'The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based war monitor, 
said that Turkish-backed rebels are 
demanding that residents from Afrin be permanently expelled.

'SOHR reported that the groups have requested from the Turkish authorities 
permission to displace those from Afrin and its countryside completely, and 
confiscate “their property, livelihoods, farms, homes and their contents in 
full.”

'However, according to the human rights watchdog, Turkish authorities rejected 
this demand, fearing this would push the international community against the 
rebels and “push the whole world to intervene in favor of the Kurdish 
inhabitants of the area, and issued their orders to wait.”

'In August, Amnesty International 
said 
that the Turkish forces occupying the Kurdish city of Afrin since March were 
giving allied Syrian armed groups free rein to commit serious human rights 
abuses against civilians.

'The SOHR report suggested that Turkish authorities have told the rebels that a 
forced exodus from Afrin was part of their future program.

'This is what happened slowly, as hundreds of families who remained in Afrin 
have fled as a result of the escalation of violations against them of 
kidnapping, beatings, assaults, looting, theft, and assaulting women and 
girls,” SOHR said'



Christians fear Turkish attack could end Christianity in northeast Syria:


http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/deeea6a9-a23a-40bf-95ab-4094a1d924f7


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[Marxism] What Does Donald Trump Think About When He Thinks About “Wall”? | The New Yorker

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By Masha Gessen

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[Marxism] Busted for violating Facebook Community Standards a second time. | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Re: [Marxism] E. O. Wight

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He's also one of the few well-known Marxists of recent times who's done
serious quantitative work on class and social structure (i.e. inferential,
multivariate analysis of person-level data). While his framework tends to
the structuralist and the confusion of socio-economic status with class,
the effort should be acknowledged and emulated a lot more, especially as
there's a lot more open source availability of software and data than in
his early days.

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> > On 12/30/18 9:36 PM, Jim Farmelant via Marxism wrote:
> >> The sociologist Erik Olin Wright, who is known for his research on
> social class, and for his contributions to Analytical Marxism, is seriously
> ill with leukemia. He has been keeping a blog with updates on the course of
> his illness.
> >>
> https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/erikolinwright/journal?fbclid=IwAR2bIey2Mx4vyPy3Ji4HL5FIVMx5uVFCpN1FdjwNMwpDnPrCcoAOy7dIHQo
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> >
> > I am very sorry to hear this. I have deep differences with Wright over
> his support for China being "socialist" but he has been willing to debate
> these issues when most acclaimed academics would just ignore a jerk like me.
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[Marxism] Capitalist word play

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Happy New year
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Re: [Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Protest federal shutdown!

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End the federal shutdown NOW; full pay for all federal workers!
No! to the Wall; Release all asylum seekers!
Full federal assistance and services for all who need it; no reduction in
food stamps, etc.
Full pay raise for all federal workers; for an immediate $5/hr raise for
all!"

read entire article:


I have no idea why we get these security issues. Probably a function of 
U. of Utah's IT exercising too much control.


Anyhow, go here and look for the article:

https://oaklandsocialist.com/

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[Marxism] India’s railroads had 63,000 job openings. 19 million people applied. - The Washington Post

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Re: [Marxism] E. O. Wight

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> On Dec 31, 2018, at 7:58 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
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> On 12/30/18 9:36 PM, Jim Farmelant via Marxism wrote:
>> The sociologist Erik Olin Wright, who is known for his research on social 
>> class, and for his contributions to Analytical Marxism, is seriously ill 
>> with leukemia. He has been keeping a blog with updates on the course of his 
>> illness.
>> https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/erikolinwright/journal?fbclid=IwAR2bIey2Mx4vyPy3Ji4HL5FIVMx5uVFCpN1FdjwNMwpDnPrCcoAOy7dIHQo
>>  
>> 
> 
> I am very sorry to hear this. I have deep differences with Wright over his 
> support for China being "socialist" but he has been willing to debate these 
> issues when most acclaimed academics would just ignore a jerk like me.


Latest news:

"I can now give more definitive news about my medical situation. According to 
the latest indicators, I have three or four weeks left to live. There may be 
surprises of course, this happens. And I continue to make use of whatever chemo 
is left to fight the AML, but the fact of the matter is we have run out of 
options. And the doctors feel there are something like three or four weeks left.

"This means I've shifted into a different mode of operation. I told the doctors 
that my priorities are unequivocally to maximize the amount of energy I have, 
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thing about this dreadful news is that I can drop the food restrictions that 
are concerned with food borne illnesses.  We're thus having a sushi banquet 
tonight. If my taste buds don't cooperate, I'll kill them! 

"Looking forward, I will continue the blog, but it will be a bit more 
intermittent, since I have other writing priorities that are more important.  
In particular, the letter to my grandchildren. If any significant change in my 
condition occurs, of course I will do a blog post on that."

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[Marxism] C. L. R. James in the Age of Climate Change

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[Marxism] Review of David Alan Johnson, "Diploma Mill: The Rise and Fall of Dr. John Buchanan and the Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania" (opinion)

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Re: [Marxism] A fruitless conversation

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Hi John

You have struck upon something extremely important here. The way the
Assadist anti-imperialists seem to jump seemlessly from a discussion about
facts to their "position", which is apparently independent of and above
mere facts.

It's tempting to prescribe a simple underhand disinterest in the truth
among these people, as they make contortions to justify Assad's latest
enormity. However, it goes deeper than that, and you're right that it's a
matter of their whole methodology.

Stalinists have a mechanistic, faux materialism which is best shown by
their obsession with labelling people "objectively" revolutionary or
counter revolutionary. Rather than seeing people of having their own
agency, they see them as mindlessly driven by "objective" forces beyond
their control. Dialectical mysticism. Therefore, a Stalinist can genuinely
believe that the Syrian people are "objectively" reactionary because they
are opposed to Assad, who is "objectively" progressive because he is
(supposedly) opposed to U.S. Imperialism.

Facts, when you think in this manner, are irrelevant. Facts themselves
become "objectively" revolutionary or counter revolutionary depending on
whether they fit your world view.

Tim N

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> I had the misfortune of having a discussion with one of those left
> Assadists. He made all the claims about US "regime change" in Syria. He
> also denied that the US is just a bit player in Syria, that the major
> imperialist force there is Russian imperialism. I told him I'd send him
> some articles. I sent him three: One was an article of Michael Karadjis.
> The second was this article of mine (
>
> https://oaklandsocialist.com/2018/05/19/revolution-and-counter-revolution-in-syria-a-reply-to-r-l-stephens/?fbclid=IwAR0qg1Ky3NC5vQ4I2Mf15uTbfVS5Hd2EImZulZSBPF8BDwxjSPhhR-QpoHU
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>
> The third was a recent article from the Washington Post about what's
> happening in Assad's prisons. I also commented that we should start from
> the point of view of what the Syrian working class is experiencing. Here's
> his response:
>
> Don't agree. We have to look at it from the point of view of the US WC
> which is rife with the chauvinist, nationalist and racist justifications
> that have been given for continued US presence in the ME and everywhere
> else on the globe.
>
> Read article by Michael K.. There is no position in it except for a
> backhanded justification for maintaining a US presence there to defend
> Kurds, topple a dictator (Assad) and fight Islamic fascism (ISIS). Its
> pro-imperialist, anti-imperialism which is all I hear from the left.
>
> Here is what I stand for. A defeat of the US army in Syria or anywhere else
> it is located on the globe. The best way to be an internationalist in the
> US is to call for the removal of ALL US forces everywhere on the globe and
> our goal as revolutionaries is for our soldiers to come home and turn their
> guns on their rulers who sent them abroad for the interest of Capitol. I
> support a removal of troops in Syria (as I support the removal of ALL our
> troops everywhere) but recognize the this was NOT accomplished by the
> anti-war movement which collapses entirely behind the Dems and the Obama
> regime once he took power and has to recovered since.
>
> My reply:
> I wasn't going to reply because my experience is that discussions are
> fruitless with those who use the same method as you do, (I say that because
> your method is absolutely rampant on the left).
> If you recall, the discussion started over a dispute not over our
> "position" but over actual facts, over the actual history and actual
> situation in Syria. I told you that I'd send you some articles to show that
> you had the facts wrong. You don't comment on that. Instead, you jump
> immediately to your "position".
> You have the facts wrong on what is happening and what has been happening
> in Syria. And facts matter. That is the starting point of Marxism, as
> opposed to idealism.
> I'll note another thing: All three articles start with the situation in
> Syria, what the Syrian masses have been experiencing. The Washington Post
> article - which I take it you didn't read - is very graphic on that. It
> shows very clearly that Assad's methods differ very little from 

[Marxism] A fruitless conversation

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I had the misfortune of having a discussion with one of those left
Assadists. He made all the claims about US "regime change" in Syria. He
also denied that the US is just a bit player in Syria, that the major
imperialist force there is Russian imperialism. I told him I'd send him
some articles. I sent him three: One was an article of Michael Karadjis.
The second was this article of mine (
https://oaklandsocialist.com/2018/05/19/revolution-and-counter-revolution-in-syria-a-reply-to-r-l-stephens/?fbclid=IwAR0qg1Ky3NC5vQ4I2Mf15uTbfVS5Hd2EImZulZSBPF8BDwxjSPhhR-QpoHU
)

The third was a recent article from the Washington Post about what's
happening in Assad's prisons. I also commented that we should start from
the point of view of what the Syrian working class is experiencing. Here's
his response:

Don't agree. We have to look at it from the point of view of the US WC
which is rife with the chauvinist, nationalist and racist justifications
that have been given for continued US presence in the ME and everywhere
else on the globe.

Read article by Michael K.. There is no position in it except for a
backhanded justification for maintaining a US presence there to defend
Kurds, topple a dictator (Assad) and fight Islamic fascism (ISIS). Its
pro-imperialist, anti-imperialism which is all I hear from the left.

Here is what I stand for. A defeat of the US army in Syria or anywhere else
it is located on the globe. The best way to be an internationalist in the
US is to call for the removal of ALL US forces everywhere on the globe and
our goal as revolutionaries is for our soldiers to come home and turn their
guns on their rulers who sent them abroad for the interest of Capitol. I
support a removal of troops in Syria (as I support the removal of ALL our
troops everywhere) but recognize the this was NOT accomplished by the
anti-war movement which collapses entirely behind the Dems and the Obama
regime once he took power and has to recovered since.

My reply:
I wasn't going to reply because my experience is that discussions are
fruitless with those who use the same method as you do, (I say that because
your method is absolutely rampant on the left).
If you recall, the discussion started over a dispute not over our
"position" but over actual facts, over the actual history and actual
situation in Syria. I told you that I'd send you some articles to show that
you had the facts wrong. You don't comment on that. Instead, you jump
immediately to your "position".
You have the facts wrong on what is happening and what has been happening
in Syria. And facts matter. That is the starting point of Marxism, as
opposed to idealism.
I'll note another thing: All three articles start with the situation in
Syria, what the Syrian masses have been experiencing. The Washington Post
article - which I take it you didn't read - is very graphic on that. It
shows very clearly that Assad's methods differ very little from fascism.
Again, your method - which as I say is rampant - shows a lack of concern
for that, a lack of concern for the torture which millions of Syrian people
are experiencing. Socialists will never build an international movement of
working class people with that attitude. I don't intend to reply any
further for the reason I explained.

And to think that his method is rampant on the left!

John Reimann
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[Marxism] US, SDF demonstrate another dimension of "withdrawal"

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*International Coalition & SDF militias commit a massacre during the
storming a village of Deir Al-Zour (Photos)*

*  4 Jan, 2019 15:05Syria  *

http://nedaa-sy.com/en/news/10842?fbclid=IwAR14H0OarYdGg3IQwdvSlM6w80m-nWKQrshvHBL0aCe2k3vPeJGat3G3kKw


International Coalition forces and "Syria's Democratic Forces" militias
committed a massacre of civilians from one family in the eastern
countryside of Deir al-Zour during their raid on the village.

The massacre was terrible in the town of Kashkiya, killing seven civilians,
including two women and a child, as well as others were injured after a
raid carried out by militants to their home at dawn Friday," the local
network "Furat Post" reported.

The militants of "Syria's Democratic Forces" raided the houses of the
people in the town on the pretext of searching for persons accused of
affiliating to the "Islamic State" organization, and followed by clashes
that prompted the International Coalition air forces to intervene with
helicopters and targeting them with automatic weapons.

This comes a day after a massacre committed in the besieged town of
Al-Shafa, the eastern countryside of Deir al-Zour, in which 11 people from
one family were killed by the bombing of the International Coalition over
their home.

It is noteworthy that the "Islamic State" organization has taken control of
only three towns in the eastern villages of Deir Al-Zour: Al-Soussa,
Al-Shafa and Al-Bagouz, as well as areas of the uninhabited Badia, the
villages of Deir Al-Zour and Homs in the center of the country
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