[Marxism] REVEALED: How Gulf states hatched plan with Israel to rehabilitate Assad

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Re: [Marxism] Saudi Arabia and the West’s Right Wing: A Dubious Alliance – LobeLog

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Another right wing current that is favourable to the Saudi government is The 
Epoch Times.  It was started by Chinese Americans and is bitterly 
anti-communist.
They report that are are published in 35 countries and in 21 languages.
It is widely distributed.  I found one in the library in a nearby small city.
ken h

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[Marxism] Brazilian slavery

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*Today's selection -- from **Early Latin America** by James Lockhart and
Stuart B. Schwartz.* By far the greatest number of slaves from Africa were
shipped to Brazil, some four million as compared to 390,000 that went to
North America. The reason? Brazil's nascent economy was based almost
entirely on sugar, and the brutal work of the sugar *engenhos*, where up to
10 percent of the slaves died each year:

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Re: [Marxism] Marx for me (and hopefully for others too)

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> On Jan 7, 2019, at 6:09 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
>  wrote:
> 
> by Branko Milanovic
> 
> http://glineq.blogspot.com/2018/12/marx-for-me-and-hopefully-for-others-too.html
>  
> 

Branko seems like a nice man, but this from his remarks is just wildly wrong:

"The last among Marx’s contribution that I would like to single out—perhaps the 
most important and grandiose—is that the succession of socio-economic 
formations (or more restrictively, of the modes of production) is itself 
“regulated” by economic forces, including the struggle for the distribution of 
the economic surplus.”

Of course, the struggle over distribution of the surplus is emphatically *not* 
an “economic force” that “regulates” the “succession of socio-economic 
formations.” It is, rather, *political* — precisely why Marx was not an 
“economist,” but a writer of political economy.

Neal Faulkner’s brilliant Marxist History of the World does a much better job 
articulating the core engines of history:

—

Three engines drive the historical process. First, there is the development 
of technique. Progress can be defined as the accumulation of knowledge that 
makes possible better control over nature, increases in labour productivity, 
and a bigger store of economic resources available for the satisfaction of 
human need. 

Progress in this sense is not inevitable. Entire generations of peasants in, 
say, Shang China, Mycenaean Greece, or Norman England might live out their 
entire lives without experiencing a significant innovation in either 
agricultural 
or domestic equipment. Only in modern capitalist society is the development 
of technique inherent in the mode of production. In making this point, Marx 
explicitly states: 'Conservation of old modes of production in unaltered form 
was ... the first condition of existence of all earlier industrial classes.' 

Progress in pre-capitalist society was haphazard, not intrinsic to the dynamic 
of the socio-economic system. In pre-class society, for example, ecological 
crisis 
threatening the survival of human groups was probably of critical significance. 

The Neolithic Revolution seems to have been a response to climate change 
and a sharp decline in game. In early class society, on the other hand, the 
development of technique was subject to a wider variety of influences, some 
of them catalysts of innovation, others barriers to progress. To understand 
this, we need to review the other two engines of the historical process. 

The second engine is competition among rulers for wealth and power. This 
takes the form of conflict within ruling classes - among rival aristocratic 
factions, for example - and conflict between ruling classes, as in wars between 
rival states and empires. 

In modern capitalist society, such competition has both economic and 
politico-military dimensions. The two world wars were essentially wars 
between rival national-capitalist blocs. 

In pre-capitalist class societies, by contrast, competition between rulers was 
essentially political and took the form of competitive military accumulation. 
The world was divided into rival factions and polities. Political insecurity 
was a permanent condition. The result was military competition - a relentless 
drive to amass soldiers, fortifications, and armaments faster than one's 
rivals. 

The third engine of the historical process is the struggle between classes. 
In the ancient world, competitive military accumulation required the ruling 
class to increase the rate of exploitation and extract more surplus from the 
peasantry. But there were two limits to this process. First, the peasantry and 
the economic system had to be able to reproduce themselves: over-taxation 
would - and sometimes did - destroy the material foundations of the social 
order. The second was the peasants' resistance to exploitation. 

We know very little about the class struggle in the Bronze Age. One 
exception is provided by documents of the second millennium bc from Thebes 
(modern Luxor) in Egypt. They concern a community of skilled quarrymen, 
stonemasons, and carpenters who made the temples and tombs of the elite. 
These documents record class tension. Though the craftsmen were relatively 
well paid and worked moderate hours, bullying managers sometimes tried to 
tighten the screws. On one occasion, those deemed 'surplus' to requirements 
were made to undertake forced labour. But the exploited sometimes fought 
back. One of the documents records that, in 1170 bc, backed by their wives, 
the craftsmen went on strike - the first recorded example 

[Marxism] Israel and Academic Freedom: An Exchange | The New York Review of Books

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Veteran working class activist Don Franks on Unions need "much larger
systematic change":
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/unions-need-much-larger-systematic-change/

Don on Three suggestions for the NZ Council of Trade Unions:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/01/04/three-suggestions-for-the-nz-council-of-trade-union/

Marx Bicentennial (articles on Marx, esp political economy):
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[Marxism] Housekeeping’s Patron Saint - Los Angeles Review of Books

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I CAN TELL YOU the moment Roma revealed itself to be an indulgence, a 
liberal pose struck by a director whose infrequent output has helped 
build an unsupportable myth about his genius. It involves a trip to the 
movies, every director’s favorite shorthand for the magical, 
transporting power of cinema that saves them the trouble of having to 
conjure that power themselves.


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[Marxism] The Shrinking Middle Class | Fortune

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[Marxism] The Deadweight of Structure: A Response to René Rojas on Latin America’s Pink Tide | NACLA

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[Marxism] What Materialist Black Political History Actually Looks Like | nonsite.org

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Adolph Reed is really great at sticking his foot in his mouth. This 
article is filled with howling stupidities.


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[Marxism] Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life

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LRB, Vol. 41 No. 1 · 3 January 2019
Got to go make that dollar
Alex Abramovich

Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life by Jonathan Gould
Crown, 544 pp, £12.99, May 2018, ISBN 978 0 307 45395 2

Otis Redding was born in 1941 on a farm in Terrell County, Georgia, 150 
miles south of Atlanta, but raised further north in Macon, a small, 
bustling city at the geographical centre of the state. Of the cotton 
fields but not from them, he was a sharecropper’s son who grew up in an 
early iteration of America’s inner-city projects, forming a gospel 
quartet with the neighbourhood boys, joining a junior choir at the 
church where his father was a deacon, banging away on a drum set his 
mother bought him with money she had earned as an Avon lady in town.


Otis was the fourth of six children. The youngest was born in 1955. The 
projects, which had been new when the Reddings moved in, were already 
crumbling, and so the family moved, out of the Tindall Heights Homes and 
into a house they had bought on a dirt road just outside the city 
limits. They had a vegetable garden, a hog pen, a chicken coop. 
Redding’s most recent biographer, Jonathan Gould, says that Otis (14 at 
the time) ‘felt a special disdain for anything that smacked of 
“country”, flatly refusing to wear the overalls his parents bought for 
him’. Four years later, the house burned to the ground and the Reddings 
moved back to Tindall Heights.


The year Redding turned 14 was also the year that Little Richard – a 
Macon native who had made a small name for himself as a gospel singer 
before switching over to rhythm and blues – recorded ‘Tutti Frutti’. 
Redding fell in love with the song, and with Little Richard’s voice, 
which he found himself capable of imitating. In 1957, when Little 
Richard returned to the church and left his band, the Upsetters, without 
a front man, Redding – who had been winning amateur talent shows around 
Macon – was tapped to fill in for a while. By the summer of 1958, he had 
dropped out of school, teamed up with a local guitarist named Johnny 
Jenkins, and joined a group called Pat T. Cake and His Mighty Panthers.


Soul music was coming into its own. Ray Charles was recording for 
Atlantic Records; Sam Cooke had left the Soul Stirrers; James Brown was 
touring with his Famous Flames. But Otis Redding wasn’t a soul singer 
yet. Billed as Otis ‘Rockin’ Redding or ‘Rockhouse Redding’, he sang 
rock and roll and remained heavily indebted to Little Richard. Bouncing 
around with Jenkins, who had split off from the Panthers to form the 
Pinetoppers, Redding played frat parties throughout the South and worked 
odd jobs, moonlighting as a well-digger, petrol station attendant and 
hospital orderly. He had his first child, married the child’s mother, 
Zelma, and made a few forgettable records, one of which came out on 
Macon’s short-lived, regrettably named Confederate label. But Redding 
was still very young, and determined to make it. ‘Everything he told me, 
I just believed him, because he believed in himself to the fullest,’ 
Zelma told Peter Guralnick.


In the summer of 1962, a month before his 21st birthday, Redding got his 
big break. On 14 August or thereabouts (accounts vary), he drove Jenkins 
to Memphis to record at Stax and persuaded the studio’s founder, Jim 
Stewart, to let him sing a few songs too. ‘The first track they 
attempted was the latest of Otis’s Little Richard impersonations,’ Gould 
writes. ‘With Steve Cropper playing rhythm and Johnny Jenkins on lead, 
the band struck an uneasy balance between rockabilly and blues that only 
exaggerated the outdated sound of the material.’


If Redding had gone home then – if Stewart had cancelled the session – 
that might been the whole story. Instead, in Gould’s telling:


Steve Cropper sat down at the piano, an instrument he could barely play. 
When he asked Otis what key he wanted to sing in, Otis said it didn’t 
matter. ‘Just play me those church things,’ he told Cropper, who 
correctly took that to mean a 16-bar gospel progression in 12/8 time. 
Otis led them into the song with a vocal pickup that began: ‘These … 
arms … of … mi – ine.’


‘I keep singing them sad, sad songs,’ Redding would sing a few years 
later. ‘Sad songs is all I know.’ This was a put-on: by then, he had 
written and recorded ‘Security’, ‘Respect’ and ‘I Can’t Turn You Loose’ 
– songs in which he continued to channel Little Richard’s exuberance – 
as well as a rollicking cover of ‘Satisfaction’ (which the Rolling 
Stones had conceived as a homage to Redding and the Stax studio sound; 
Keith Richards later called the Stones’ version ‘a demo for Otis’). 
Slow, pleading ballads like 

[Marxism] The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World

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LRB, Vol. 41 No. 1 · 3 January 2019
What lives and what dies?
by Francis Gooding

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World by 
Steve Brusatte

Macmillan, 404 pp, £20.00, May 2018, ISBN 978 1 5098 3006 0

‘It was a bad time to be alive,’ Steve Brusatte tells us. A comet or 
asteroid about six miles across had just collided with the Earth, in the 
area we know as the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The speed of its 
arrival compressed the atmosphere ahead of it with such force that air 
temperatures became hotter than the surface of the sun; the energy 
released on impact was equivalent to a billion atomic bombs. It smashed 
through 25 miles of the Earth’s crust, plunging down into the mantle 
below, leaving a crater a hundred miles wide. Identified in 1991, it has 
been named the Chicxulub Crater, after the nearest town.


The shockwaves generated global earthquakes of immense magnitude. What 
had been solid ground rippled and bounced like liquid for thousands of 
miles. Vast volcanic eruptions were triggered, and giant tsunamis surged 
across the oceans and far inland. Winds of six hundred miles an hour 
howled across the planet, and the molten rock thrown up into the 
atmosphere by the impact rained down in a hail of hot glassy blobs and 
spears, heating the air as it fell until the forests ignited and living 
things cooked. All this within the first two hours or so. Soot, dust and 
smoke filled the atmosphere, eclipsing the sun, and for years afterwards 
the Earth was cold, dark and bathed in acid rain. This ‘nuclear winter’ 
was sufficiently severe and long-lasting to halt photosynthesis on land 
and in the oceans, causing the collapse of those ecosystems that had 
survived the initial cataclysm. Some 70 per cent of living species were 
eliminated. Foremost among those that perished were the charismatic, 
mysterious creatures whose lineage had dominated the planet for well 
over a hundred million years – the dinosaurs.


Brusatte’s The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a biography of these 
magnificent lost beings and their world, and it closes, as it must, with 
an account of the catastrophe that destroyed them. It could hardly end 
otherwise; after all, if there is one thing that truly defines the 
dinosaurs it is that they are all – well, almost all – dead, and no 
matter how many bones are dug up or how far the science of their lives 
advances, the climax of the story is always the same. Their certain 
extinction is a fixed point in a fast-moving field, and it’s the 
necessary finale to any account of their reign.


The current accepted theory – that an asteroid strike caused the 
end-Cretaceous mass extinction – was first put forward in 1980 by the 
geologist Walter Alvarez, working with his father Luis, a physicist and 
Nobel Prize winner. Brusatte, a reader in vertebrate palaeontology at 
Edinburgh, describes being taken as a student by Alvarez to a rocky 
gorge in Perugia near Gubbio, where a band of fine clay running through 
the limestone marks the place where the geologist had his initial 
insight. This thin band, now known as the K-Pg boundary, is ‘a bookmark 
separating the limestones of the Cretaceous below from those of the 
post-extinction Palaeogene period above,’ Brusatte writes.


It was while looking at these rocks for clues to the formation of Italy 
and the Alps that Alvarez first became intrigued by the fact that, 
beyond this marker, all the pages of time’s book seemingly went blank. 
Below the line was a profusion of diverse fossil shells from the 
planktonic foraminifera that crowded Cretaceous oceans; above it, almost 
nothing. And not only did tiny sea creatures disappear at the boundary 
line, but fossils of larger creatures are absent immediately above it 
too, both on land and at sea. There are no dinosaurs above it at all: 
‘Nothing,’ Brusatte writes, ‘not a single bone or a single footprint 
anywhere.’ That this boundary marked the end-Cretaceous extinction was 
already evident to geologists, but what precisely it signified was not 
known. Alvarez’s key intuition was that the band of clay itself might 
provide evidence for what sort of event had caused much of life on Earth 
to vanish 66 million years ago.


With the help of his father, Alvarez had samples of the clay analysed 
for iridium, a heavy metal that is rarely found on Earth’s surface, but 
which is common in space, and which falls from the heavens as cosmic 
dust at a fairly constant rate. The Alvarezes were trying to ascertain 
how quickly or slowly the band had been deposited. If one assumes the 
typical pace of accumulation, a large amount of iridium would suggest it 

[Marxism] [UCE] Re: Will 2019 be the year Trump goes down? |SocialistWorker.org

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It was good to see a socialist group mention Trump's money-laundering past,
even if it was just a throw-in along with a whole list of other crimes of
Trump.

The article lists all the examples of the divisions at the top, how
different wings of the capitalist representatives are moving against Trump.
I think overall they will prefer to leave him in office and try to get him
out in 2020... as long as he's not a threat to domestic stability. That
means, as long as there's not a mass movement from below. And that is
exactly the question that the article completely fails to even consider -
in other words, the role of the working class.

Will the US see a renewed mass protest movement, maybe similar to the
yellow vests in France? If so, when and around what issue? If the
government shut down lasts much longer, then not only will nearly 1 million
federal workers not get paid, recipients of federal aid such as food stamps
and WIC won't get their money. This means, literally, that they will have
nothing to eat. Nothing. Will this lead to food riots or something of the
sort? I think it is such a movement that would be decisive in getting the
main tops of the capitalist class and their representatives and strategists
to move against Trump now, rather than wait till 2020. (I'm not saying they
wouldn't without that, but I think it's a lot less likely. I think they
were starting to conclude they had to when Trump announced his withdrawal
from Syria, but it now seems he's backing down from that move.)

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[Marxism] Blaming workers for the problems capitalism created | John Russo and Sherry Linkon | People's World

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Re: [Marxism] Paul Buhle: "Who Would Believe It? Annals of the New Left Era"

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corrected link for Paul Buhle's book review

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/08/who-would-believe-it-annals-of-the-new-left-era/

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 10:45 AM Alan Ginsberg 
wrote:

> Counterpunch book review, Jan. 8, 2019
>
> "Of the various factions that sundered the Students for a Democratic
> Society at its most promising moment, 1969, when it had perhaps a hundred
> thousand student members and followers, the Progressive Labor Party is the
> one that has seemed to have fallen out of history. Apart from pretty
> uniformly unfriendly descriptions in various historical accounts, “PL” (as
> known to all, friend or foe) has had no talented memoirist, no extended
> documentary film treatment, and apparently no faithful members who could
> stick with it and make much of a claim for its value beyond the early
> 1970s.
>
> "Here, at last, is such a work. Although privately published, *You Say
> You Want a Revolution* has a chance in today’s fluid book market to reach
> thousands of old-timers and even young radicals with something far better
> than a “message.” The reminiscences in here are deeply personal, often
> deeply local, and offer just the kind of text that tells us how politics
> was lived, not written about by the intellectuals, or about the leaders who
> are remembered, while followers are forgotten. On those grounds alone, it’s
> a worthy book."
>
> full at ttps://
> www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/08/who-would-believe-it-annals-of-the-new-left-era/
>
>
>
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[Marxism] Paul Buhle: "Who Would Believe It? Annals of the New Left Era"

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Counterpunch book review, Jan. 8, 2019

"Of the various factions that sundered the Students for a Democratic
Society at its most promising moment, 1969, when it had perhaps a hundred
thousand student members and followers, the Progressive Labor Party is the
one that has seemed to have fallen out of history. Apart from pretty
uniformly unfriendly descriptions in various historical accounts, “PL” (as
known to all, friend or foe) has had no talented memoirist, no extended
documentary film treatment, and apparently no faithful members who could
stick with it and make much of a claim for its value beyond the early
1970s.

"Here, at last, is such a work. Although privately published, *You Say You
Want a Revolution* has a chance in today’s fluid book market to reach
thousands of old-timers and even young radicals with something far better
than a “message.” The reminiscences in here are deeply personal, often
deeply local, and offer just the kind of text that tells us how politics
was lived, not written about by the intellectuals, or about the leaders who
are remembered, while followers are forgotten. On those grounds alone, it’s
a worthy book."

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[Marxism] Art of the Monstrous: Burtynsky and the Anthropocene

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https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/08/art-of-the-monstrous-burtynsky-and-the-anthropocene/

An art exhibit by Edward Burtynsky, whose films I have covered over the 
years:


https://louisproyect.org/2007/05/31/manufactured-landscapes/

https://louisproyect.org/2014/04/04/the-unknown-known-watermark/

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[Marxism] Étienne Chouard: “The Constituent Yellow Vests appeal to all humanity.” « Algérie Résistance

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[Marxism] Fwd: Breaking News: Did CIA Director Gina Haspel run a black site at Guantánamo?

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[Marxism] Anticommunism without communism | Richard Seymour on Patreon

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Why is today's far-right growing without any stimulus from threatened 
revolution? Why is it that, from Birthers to Brazil, today's 
reactionaries instead hallucinate a communist threat against which to 
agitate?


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[Marxism] Ed Martin: What Romney Really Meant | Washington Babylon

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Please share via social media 

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[Marxism] Iowa and Motherf%$kers | Washington Babylon

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[Marxism] First Iranian Film Festival at the IFC Center in NYC | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Ever since 2014, I have made the case for Iranian films on CounterPunch 
(see links to the articles below).


At the risk of sounding like one of those reviewers addicted to 
superlatives for Hollywood films that appear in full-page ads in the NY 
Times, let me say that the five films I have seen in advance of the 
Iranian Film Festival that opens next week at the IFC Center in New York 
on January 10th beat the pants off of Roma, Widows, The Favourite, The 
Green Book or any other films that have the inside track for Academy Awards.


They incorporate the elements that have draw attention to Iranian films 
worldwide for the past forty years, including a swan song for Abbas 
Kiarostami, a director/screenwriter that Martin Scorsese describes as 
having “the highest level of artistry in the cinema.” It is a supreme 
irony that a state with a well-deserved reputation for censorship is 
capable of serving as an incubator for great art but then again the 
greatest music ever written catered to the tastes of both church and 
nobility.


Let’s be grateful that the batch of five films discussed below, which 
push the envelope of Iranian cultural norms, can still be made. To some 
extent this reflects a cultural thaw under Hassan Rouhani who is 
determined to open up the country’s economy to foreign investors, even 
if Donald Trump is just as determined to keep the doors closed. I was 
ecstatic to see that one of the five films was directed by Jafar Panahi 
who I consider one of the world’s greatest directors. Though under house 
arrest between 2010 until 2015, he was still defiant enough to make a 
film in 2011 on an iPhone inside his home titled “This is Not a Film” 
that was up to his usual high standards. He still cannot leave Iran, 
even if in film circles he is considered to be on a par with Kiarostami.


At the risk of indulging in hyperbole, I advise seeing as many of these 
films as possible at the IFC. They will remind you of not only how films 
can reach the level of fine art but provide insights into a country that 
is as important geopolitically as any on earth.


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[Marxism] Author of recent academic hoax faces disciplinary action by Portland State

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[Marxism] Karl Marx on India: An Assessment (Part I) | The Daily Star

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https://www.thedailystar.net/literature/news/karl-marx-india-assessment-part-i-1680130

part 2: 
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[Marxism] Forgotten France rises up, by Serge Halimi (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, January 2019)

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[Marxism] Saudi Arabia and the West’s Right Wing: A Dubious Alliance – LobeLog

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In a move similar to Russian efforts to influence European politics, 
Saudi Arabia has also forged close ties to conservative and far-right 
groups in Europe that include the Danish People’s Party and the Sweden 
Democrats as well as other Islamophobes, according to member of the 
European parliament Eldar Mamedov.


Writing on LobeLog, Mamedov said the kingdom frequently worked through 
the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) bloc, the third largest 
grouping in the European parliament. Saudi Arabia also enjoyed the 
support of European parliament member Mario Borghezio of Italy’s Lega, 
who is a member of Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF), a bloc of 
far-right parties in the parliament.


The kingdom’s strategy, in a twist of irony, although in pursuit of 
different goals, resembles to a degree that of one of its nemeses, 
Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama, the world’s largest Muslim non-governmental 
organization that has opposition to Saudi Arabia’s puritan strand of 
Islam carved into its DNA and has forged close ties to the European 
right and far-right in its bid to reform the faith.


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[Marxism] ASSA 2019 part one – the mainstream: avoiding recessions | Michael Roberts Blog

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Past annual conferences of the American Economics Association have had 
some dominant themes: rising inequality, slowing productivity and 
secular stagnation.  But in 2018 and in the 2019 conferences, the focus 
switched – at least among the mainstream economic stream that 
overwhelmingly dominate ASSA – to whether there will be a new recession 
in the US and globally, which could be perhaps triggered by a trade war 
between the US and its main economic rival China. At ASSA 2019, the big 
issue was whether mainstream economics had learnt the right lessons from 
the debacle of the Great Recession; and what monetary and fiscal 
policies of stimulus are best to avoid another slump or at least get out 
of one quickly?


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