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Just in case you don't remember, or are too young to remember

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[Marxism] Blackwater successor to aid China's "war on terror"

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Blackwater founder's Hong Kong firm signs Xinjiang training camp deal

Agence France-Presse

Sat 2 Feb 2019 01.20 AEDT First published on Fri 1 Feb 2019 15.38 AEDT

A Hong Kong-listed security firm founded by Erik Prince has signed a
preliminary deal with authorities in China to build a training centre in
Xinjiang, where Uighur Muslims have experienced a huge security crackdown

.

Frontier Services Group, which specialises in providing security and
logistics for businesses operating in risky regions, said it had signed a
deal to run a training base in the city of Kashgar, according to a
statement posted on its Chinese website.

The firm was founded by Erik Prince, a former US Navy Seal and the brother
of the US education secretary, Betsy DeVos.
Prince was also the founder of the US military contractor Blackwater, whose
mercenaries had a prominent and controversial role during Washington’s wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan – including the 2007 killing of 14 unarmed Iraqi
civilians by Blackwater employees

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Re: [Marxism] Turkey accuses US Coalition members of supporting HTS in Syria

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I assume you're aware that al-Masdar is vile Assadist propaganda? The fact
that it is now channeling absurd Erdoganist propaganda about "the US
supports al-Qaida" - jesus, who hasn't heard that grotesque fairy tale
before - is evidence of how far apart the Turkish and US positions remain
in Syria..

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[Marxism] THE OPENING STAGES OF A SOCIALIST REVOLUTION IN FRANCE HAS BEGAN! BY ANTHONY BRAIN – Anthony Brain apply Trotskyism for today and tommrow!

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[Marxism] Venezuela's crazy economics, by Temir Porras Ponceleón (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, December 2018)

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[Marxism] Guaranteed to stink

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(Just received from a publicist.)

Hi there,

See below regarding today’s announcement that Eddie Redmayne, Sacha 
Baron Cohen, Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jonathan Majors and Alex 
Sharp will star in The Trial of The Chicago 7 for Aaron Sorkin.


Full details are below.

Best,
Rachel

EDDIE REDMAYNE, SACHA BARON COHEN, SETH ROGEN,
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT, JONATHAN MAJORS AND ALEX SHARP
TO STAR IN THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 FOR AARON SORKIN

Rocket Science will Handle International Sales and Introduce in Berlin

Los Angeles, February 1, 2019 – Academy Award® winner Aaron Sorkin 
(Molly’s Game, The Social Network, The West Wing, Steve Jobs) will 
direct The Trial of the Chicago 7, which will star Academy Award® Winner 
Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything, The Danish Girl, Les 
Misérables, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) as Tom Hayden, 
Academy Award® nominee and Golden Globe® winner Sacha Baron Cohen (Les 
Misérables, Hugo, The Dictator, Borat, Bruno, Sweeney Todd) as Abbie 
Hoffman, Emmy Nominee Seth Rogen (This is the End, Steve Jobs, The 
Disaster Artist, Knocked Up) as Jerry Rubin, Golden Globe Nominee Joseph 
Gordon-Levitt (Inception, Looper, Snowden, The Walk) as Richard Schultz, 
Jonathan Majors (Hostiles, Lovecraft Country, Last Black Man in San 
Francisco, White Boy Rick) as Bobby Seale, and Alex Sharp (To the Bone, 
How to Talk to Girls at Parties) as Rennie Davis.


Based on Sorkin’s screenplay, the film is based on the infamous 1969 
trial of seven defendants charged by the federal government with 
conspiracy and more, arising from the countercultural protests in 
Chicago at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.  The story is set in 
1968 and 1969, but it speaks directly to the divisiveness of our times 
and how young people can take on power and change the world.


Aaron Sorkin, acclaimed screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright 
works include Emmy Award winning hits The West Wing (27 Emmy Awards) and 
The Newsroom. He won the Academy Award®, Golden Globe and BAFTA for Best 
Adapted Screenplay, for the Social Network and won the Golden Globe for 
Best Adapted Screenplay for Steve Jobs. He made his feature directorial 
debut in 2017 with Molly’s Game, which he also wrote.


Director Aaron Sorkin said, “I’m thrilled to be making a movie about one 
of one of the craziest, funniest, most intense, most tragic and most 
triumphant trials in American history. C-7 may take place in the late 
’60’s, but there’s no better time to tell this story than today.”


Onboard to produce is Academy Award® nominee Marc Platt, who received 
nods for producing Bridge of Spies and La La Land, which earned him a 
BAFTA and PGA win, respectively. His producing credits also include Mary 
Poppins Returns, The Girl on the Train and Into the Woods. He is joined 
by Matt Jackson, whose credits include Molly’s Game, The Journey, Snitch 
and End of Watch.


Rocket Science will handle the international rights and introduce to 
foreign buyers in Berlin next week. CAA Media Finance will represent the 
US rights.


Sorkin, Baron Cohen, Redmayne, Majors and Sharp are represented by CAA. 
Gordon-Levitt is represented by WME and Rogen by UTA.




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[Marxism] Scientist Who Rejects Warming Is Named to EPA Advisory Board - Scientific American

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[Marxism] [UCE] Report from El Dorado County, CA

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"Shortly after the orange buffoon was (tongue in cheek) elected as
president we started to hear rumors of a progressive group in Placerville!
I can’t quite remember how I heard about the first El Dorado Progressives
meeting I think it might have been the farmers market, one place in El
Dorado county we felt comfortable expressing our political views. Our first
meeting was at Totem Coffee (one of our hang outs). I believe around 50 to
60 people showed up. Heather and I were blown away! 50 progressives in
Placerville??? We be having shit now! All I could think is when does the
revolution start!?"

El Dorado County is the spitting image of Trump Country. From rural
Pennsylvania to the Sierra foothills in California, this sort of thing is
happening in areas like this throughout the United States.

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[Marxism] Va. Gov. Northam’s medical school yearbook page shows men in blackface, KKK robe - The Washington Post

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[Marxism] Talking about the new Jerusalem – Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour

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Simon Hannah, the author of a good book on the history of British 
Labour, just started a blog:


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Re: [Marxism] Labour history

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re Ken's comment below: Many years ago I heard Frank Lovell (SWP labor work
leader) give a talk on the book which he began by saying that "when you
finish the book labor's story is STILL untold!"

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[Marxism] Labour history

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I picked up a copy of Labor’s Untold Story by Boyer and Morais.
It is the 27th printing, 2009, published by the United Electrical Workers.

It seems to be widely available, but if you are aware of an archive that meeds 
a copy, please let me know.

Judging from the index, there is no mention of the Teamster strikes in 
Minneapolis in 1934 or the Toledo Auto-lite Strike.

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[Marxism] Turkey accuses US Coalition members of supporting HTS in Syria

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[Marxism] There’s No Time for Gradualism

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The urgency of climate change has never been clearer. We need a bold 
vision of a good and livable future — and a political program to match.


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[Marxism] David Harvey on China's influence - Democracy at Work (d@w)

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[Marxism] PM Press Reissues Radical America Komiks, Proving There Is Still Hope For Humanity | Washington Babylon

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[Marxism] A Few Brave Women and Men: Members of Congress write Pompeo to oppose war of terror on Venezuela | Washington Babylon

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[Marxism] Rubber-Bullet Liberalism

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The Yellow Vests movement has faced shocking police violence. And it’s 
not just from a few bad apples: it’s part of President Macron’s strategy 
to silence protest.


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[Marxism] A Billion Black Anthropocenes

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[Marxism] Harold Bradley, premier Nashville session man and AFM official

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[Marxism] The best films of 2018 | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Up until a few years ago—I really can’t say exactly when—all of the 
“art-house” movies I reviewed for CounterPunch or my blog were out of 
the reach of most readers unless you lived in New York or other cities 
where theaters like the Film Forum or the Laemmle could be found. Some 
eventually made their way to art-house versions of Netflix like Fandor 
or Mubi but they entailed a monthly subscription fee.


Despite my hostility to Jeff Bezos and everything he stands for, Amazon 
Prime Video is a reliable outlet for such films. So is iTunes, Starz, 
Hulu and other VOD venues that have helped to keep art-house cinema 
alive. Along with the digital camera, another breakthrough benefiting 
independent film makers, such venues ensure that an envelope-pushing 
film shown at an art-house will have a good shot at reaching a broader 
audience. As I did last year, I worked my way through the films I 
reviewed in 2018 to determine which are now available on Amazon (and 
likely other VOD sites) in order to come up with my decidedly 
non-Hollywood recommendations.


I should state, however, that the best film of 2018 listed below is a 
Hollywood film: Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed”. Rumor has it, however, 
that the film will be snubbed at next month’s Academy Awards because 
Schrader Tweeted that he would like to work with the disgraced Kevin 
Spacey. It is worth mentioning that Ethan Hawke, who played the tortured 
minister in Schrader’s film, has addressed these issues in a Vanity Fair 
article titled “Ethan Hawke: “There’s a Whole Generation That’s on Trial 
Right Now” that is in keeping with the actor’s shrewd understanding of 
the film industry. I particularly liked this quip:


	The real problem, Hawke says, is concepts like the best-popular-film 
Oscar, which would have detracted from awards season’s true goal: to 
boost the signal on under-seen, artistically challenging films. “There 
already is a popular Oscar. It’s such a dumb thing to say. The popular 
Oscar is called the box office,” he said. “They’re mad they don’t get 
prizes. You know, well—guess what, dude? Your car is your prize. Those 
of us who don’t have a car need a prize.”


As for the films that will walk away with a wheelbarrow of Oscars, I 
found that most were unbearable to watch. After 15 minutes, I ejected 
the following from my DVD player: “The Favourite”, “A Star is Born”, and 
“Crazy Rich Asians”. Of course, I haven’t gotten around to “Bohemian 
Rhapsody” and “First Man” yet.


Below are my recommended films. Since the idea of rating anything is 
abhorrent to me in the first place, they appear in alphabetical order. I 
will excerpt from my review and provide a link to the original. As 
stated before, the list was culled from Amazon Prime Video but if your 
hatred for Jeff Bezos understandably keeps you from spending a few 
dollars there, you can try iTunes, et al. (Not that Apple is any 
bargain, either.)


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[Marxism] Consequences of the HTS Take-Over in Northwest Syria

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Western Think Tank obviously worried

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[Marxism] Steve King: the View From His District

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[Marxism] How the Right Learned to Loathe Higher Education

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Chronicle of Higher Education, January 31, 2019
How the Right Learned to Loathe Higher Education
Conservative dislike of the academy isn’t new. But it is alarming.
By Kim Phillips-Fein

In October 2017, Donald Trump Jr. spoke at a fund-raising event held at 
AT Stadium, in Dallas, intended to raise money for scholarships at the 
University of North Texas. Despite the stated goal of supporting 
education, the president’s son used the occasion to lambaste the elitism 
and pretense of the modern university. Higher education, rather than 
improving the lives of young people, made them "unemployable" by 
teaching courses in "zombie studies, underwater basket weaving, and, my 
personal favorite, tree climbing." Universities, he argued, offered 
parents the following deal: "We’ll take $200,000 of your money; in 
exchange, we’ll train your children to hate our country."


In his mockery, Trump Jr. echoed one of the more disturbing works of 
literature to be published in recent years — the 2014 novel Victoria. 
This strange book (written by William S. Lind, under the pseudonym 
Thomas Hobbes) fantasizes about the eruption of civil war in the United 
States, driven by a multicultural politics emanating from academia. By 
the early 21st century, Lind writes, universities had become expensive 
"diploma mills crossed with asylums for the politically insane: howling 
Bluestockings, inventors of ‘Afrocentric history,’ mewling ‘advocates’ 
for the blind, the botched and the bewildered." Knife-wielding Christian 
revolutionaries consequently set upon a faculty meeting at Dartmouth, 
stabbing 162 "politically correct luminaries" to death as just 
punishment for their professed "cultural Marxism."


Generations of conservatives have seen scholars as responsible for 
corrupting the young and teaching them to hate their countries.
Lind’s fantasy of disemboweling faculty members is, of course, quite far 
from Trump Jr.’s speech. But the two depictions of academia — 
overpriced, faddish, engaged in a project of political indoctrination 
rather than education — have some queasy similarities. From Milo 
Yiannopoulos’s trolling to the website Professor Watchlist (which 
purports to "expose and document college professors who discriminate 
against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the 
classroom") to the popularity of the epithet "snowflake," it is no 
secret that the right today views universities as ground zero for 
political conflict. As the right-wing self-help guru Jordan Peterson, 
based at the University of Toronto, puts it, "Dangerous people … are 
indoctrinating young minds with their resentment-laden ideology."


This hostility is not limited to those at the extreme. Rather, such 
attitudes have filtered to the core of American politics. A study 
conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2017 found that 58 percent of 
Republicans don’t trust institutions of higher education (up from 32 
percent in 2010) — with confidence declining the older and wealthier the 
respondent. State funding for public universities has long been in 
decline, but the cuts accelerated after 2008, so that by the end of 
2018, overall state funding for two- and four-year colleges was more 
than $7 billion less than in 2008. Average annual published tuition at 
four-year colleges has risen by 36 percent, and much more sharply in 
some states: Arizona, for example, has increased tuition at its state 
colleges by 91 percent since 2008.


Today’s conservative dislike of academia — as shrill as it is — is 
nothing new: On the contrary, it builds on more than 50 years of animus 
directed at higher education, with many of the ideas contributed by 
heroes in the conservative pantheon such as William F. Buckley Jr. and 
Irving Kristol. Not for nothing did Lind dedicate Victoria to the 
granddaddy of conservative intellectuals, Russell Kirk, author of the 
1953 book The Conservative Mind.


The conservative hostility toward universities stems from myriad sources 
— for some thinkers on the right, the problem has to do with the role of 
professors in spreading heterodox economic ideas; for others, the way 
that the university opens the door to feminism, gender studies, and 
critical race theory. But despite the differences, there are common 
themes that surface again and again. Generations of conservatives have 
depicted intellectuals and scholars as a disruptive, chaotic force, 
people who willfully unsettle what would otherwise be harmonious 
societies, corrupting the young and teaching them to hate their 
countries, their traditions, their families, and their faiths. For 
conservatives, universities are powerful 

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[Marxism] Cambodia: A Country for Rent

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NY Review, FEBRUARY 21, 2019 ISSUE
Cambodia: A Country for Rent
Richard Bernstein

Not that it should have been a surprise, but China was the only major 
country that declined to join the international criticism of Cambodia’s 
prime minister, Hun Sen, as he ensured that he would run effectively 
unopposed in the parliamentary elections on July 29, 2018, turning them 
into a sham and largely dismantling what remained of Cambodia’s 
democratic structures. Among Hun Sen’s actions was the arrest and 
imprisonment on transparently ridiculous charges of Kem Sokha, the 
leader of the Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP), the only 
opposition party capable of challenging his rule. That occurred just 
after midnight on September 3, 2017, when some one hundred armed police 
descended on Kem’s Phnom Penh home and hauled him off to a rural prison 
near the Vietnamese border, where he remained for a year before being 
released on bail to await trial. With the only other Cambodian 
opposition figure of national stature, Sam Rainsy, living in enforced 
exile, Hun Sen had no credible challenger in the elections. His party 
won all 125 seats in the National Assembly.


There were other acts of brazen and undisguised repression that provoked 
the disapproval of much of the world apart from China. Cambodia’s main 
English-language newspaper, The Cambodian Daily, which had done good 
professional reporting on the country for twenty-four years, training a 
generation of Cambodian journalists in the process, was closed down on 
dubious charges of tax evasion. NGOs, including the National Democratic 
Institute, which is affiliated with the Democratic Party in the US, were 
expelled from the country. Most important, perhaps, Hun Sen’s compliant 
Supreme Court, two months after Kem’s arrest, dissolved the CNRP and 
banned 118 of its senior figures from politics for five years.


The purpose of this repression is obvious. Kem and his party had 
performed well in parliamentary elections six years ago despite the 
ruling party’s efforts to manipulate them, including the occasional 
unsolved murder and attacks on opposition rallies. In 2017 the CNRP 
received 44 percent of the vote in local elections, compared to 49 
percent for Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party. Given the widespread 
disaffection with Hun Sen and his corrupt cohort, especially among 
younger voters, many Cambodian and foreign observers believed that if 
the July 29 vote had been free and fair, Kem might well have won, 
thereby unseating Hun Sen after thirty-three years in power.


Among the problems of Cambodian democracy is that the country is not 
strategically important enough for the United States and the 
international community to take effective measures against Hun Sen’s 
violations of Cambodia’s laws. Still, as in the past, there has been 
plenty of international condemnation, especially from the countries that 
over the years have been Cambodia’s most important providers of aid and 
investment. The US announced a ban on visas for officials “involved in 
undermining democracy in Cambodia,” and Congress made its annual aid 
package—worth about $75 million a year—conditional on Kem Sokha’s 
release and the reinstatement of the CNRP. Japan and Australia 
criticized Hun Sen’s turn toward dictatorship, though Japan, maintaining 
a policy of “engagement” with Cambodia, did not withdraw aid or impose 
sanctions. The EU complained about the “further effort to restrict the 
democratic space in Cambodia.”


Of potentially greater impact, the EU created a commission of inquiry to 
determine whether Cambodia should continue to receive the preferential 
tariff arrangement that it enjoys as a Least Developed Country, which, 
if withdrawn, would do great harm to the country’s economy, given the 
importance of its growing export industries, which send some $6 billion 
worth of goods, mostly clothing and footwear, to the EU annually.


China, however, not only demurred but explicitly backed Hun Sen’s 
consolidation of power. As a Foreign Ministry spokesman in Beijing said 
hours after Kem Sokha’s arrest, China “supports the Cambodian 
government’s efforts to protect national security and stability.” It’s 
noteworthy that the formal charge against Kem and the CNRP was 
complicity with the United States in an effort to overthrow the 
Cambodian government, in what Hun Sen has long referred to as a “color 
revolution.” By supporting what was effectively a coup by Hun Sen, China 
was at least indirectly approving his tendency to accuse the United 
States of undermining “national security and stability,” which is how it 
characterizes American criticism of 

[Marxism] The Fake Threat of Jewish Communism

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NY Review, FEBRUARY 21, 2019 ISSUE
The Fake Threat of Jewish Communism
Christopher R. Browning

A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism
by Paul Hanebrink
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 353 pp., $29.95

One of the great merits of Paul Hanebrink’s A Specter Haunting Europe is 
its demonstration of how Europe’s most pervasive and powerful 
twentieth-century manifestation of anti-Semitic thought—the myth of 
Judeo-Bolshevism—emerged before the rise of National Socialism and has 
continued to have a curious life long after the Holocaust and the defeat 
of Nazi Germany. Hanebrink’s approach is not to repeat what he considers 
an error of the interwar era—the futile attempt to refute a myth on the 
basis of historical facts and statistical data. A small kernel of truth 
underpinned the stereotype of the Jewish Bolshevik: a number of 
well-known early Bolshevik leaders (Béla Kun, Leon Trotsky, Karl Radek, 
and others) were of Jewish origin. That Stalin killed almost all of 
them, that overall a very small percentage of Jews were Bolsheviks, and 
that many prominent non-Jewish revolutionaries (Lenin and Karl 
Liebknecht, for example) were mistakenly identified as Jewish had no 
countervailing impact, because, Hanebrink writes, the Jew as “the face 
of the revolution” was a “culturally constructed” perception.


Trying to discredit powerful political myths with mere facts, as we know 
all too well today, is a frustrating endeavor. Thus Hanebrink seeks 
instead to understand the historical background and the “cultural logic” 
of the myth of Judeo-Bolshevism—how it functioned and morphed through 
different phases. Ultimately Judeo-Bolshevism embodied, in the form of 
“Asiatic barbarism,” an imagined threat to national sovereignty, ethnic 
homogeneity, and Western civilization conceived as traditional European 
Christian hegemony. It fused, in short, political, racial, and cultural 
threats into a single “specter haunting Europe.”


Hanebrink notes that amid the exhaustion, defeat, and political 
dissolution of many European countries at the end of World War I, the 
threat of the spread of Bolshevik revolution from Russia into Europe 
caused not only widespread fear and loathing but fear and loathing that 
identified Jews as the real cause of Bolshevism. He is correct, I think, 
to point out that this pervasive identification required more than the 
prominence of Jewish revolutionary leaders, and that Judeo-Bolshevism 
was constructed from the “raw materials” of earlier anti-Semitism. For 
Hanebrink the “three venerable pillars” of anti-Jewish thought were the 
attributions to the Jews of social disharmony, conspiracy, and 
fanaticism, which made Judeo-Bolshevism both a coherent idea and a 
ubiquitous, self-evident assumption.


Here I think that Hanebrink could have been more concrete; in particular 
he could have shown how easily the negative stereotype of the Jew that 
had originated in the Middle Ages could be updated for the twentieth 
century. Even before the crisis of 1918–1919, which combined the 
experiences of defeat and revolution for many Europeans, Jews were 
invariably disproportionately represented in liberal and socialist 
parties because they were not welcome to participate in conservative and 
Catholic political parties. The tendency to stigmatize anything to the 
left of conservative as Jewish was already evident in 1912, when the 
electoral victory in Germany of the liberal democrats, Social Democrats, 
and Catholics—who also made up the “Weimar Coalition” of 1919 that was 
largely responsible for drafting the Weimar Constitution, so despised by 
German conservatives—was dubbed the “Jew election.”


The Jew of the Middle Ages, an infidel, became the Jew of the twentieth 
century, a political subversive. With emancipated Jews being the most 
visible beneficiaries of the modern commercial and industrial economy by 
the end of the nineteenth century, the medieval epithet of Jewish usury 
had already been replaced with that of rapacious Jewish capitalism, and 
after 1914 the image of the Jew as an economic threat was only 
intensified by accusations of Jewish war profiteering and black 
marketeering. The Jew as a clannish outsider in medieval Christendom was 
easily transformed into the Jew as an unassimilable minority and alien 
internal threat, at a time when other European nationalities were 
striving to construct new nation-states out of the ruins of multiethnic 
empires.


As a result of the postwar flood of refugees and the return of prisoners 
of war (like Béla Kun) from a Russia wracked by revolution and civil 
war, the “wandering” Jews among this mass 

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nder the Banner of Marxism, the main polemic reprinted here, was, as Alan 
Johnson indicates (Solidarity 5.12.18), directed against an attempt by Ernest 
Erber to trace the origins of Stalinist totalitarianism in Lenin’s political 
theory and practice. Most people, including this reviewer, will have never 
heard of Erber, or his split from the Shachtman group, which was a small 
minority within a small minority of Trotskyists on the already marginal 
American left. What is the importance of the writings from this dispute?

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