[Marxism] The Death of a Once Great City | Harper's Magazine
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Re: [Marxism] Benjamin and Kolhatkar support Rouhani
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[Marxism] Benjamin and Kolhatkar support Rouhani
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. * Here is a link to an interview that Sonali Kolhatkar did with Medea Benjamin, who just published a book on Iran. We can put to one side the fact that Kolhatkar shows herself to be completely ignorant of the most basic facts of Iranian history. She clearly seems to think that the shah was in power before Mossadegh was overthrown. But that's just minor. Benjamin talks about the rich culture of Iran and its different national minorities. But not a word about the vicious repression of those minorities. She mentions the green revolt of a few years ago, but even makes that seem like something positive about the regime - as if the fact of those protests shows that Iran is a democratic state. But the most disgusting part is this: During the entire show, there's not a mention of the current protests in Iran. Nothing about the women protests, nor the movement of Iran's Arabs and Kurds, nor the labor strikes. No, the only hint of anything going on there is a mention of the MEK, which as she pointed out is linked with US imperialism. She thereby leaves the impression that any movement against that vicious, far right, clerical regime is due to US imperialism. In other words, what she's doing is supporting the regime. And, of course, not one serious question from Kolhatkar. I wrote her a letter of protest. I suggest that others do likewise. With politics like this, then we should have supported Hitler and Mussolini when they went to war with the US! Oh, wait, that's exactly what the red brown alliance leads to. Here's the link: http://www.risingupwithsonali.com/inside-iran-the-real-history-and-politics-of-the-islamic-republic-of-iran/?fbclid=IwAR04lgL5-ZGLnRolPCXS3nTC29dvVuSVKNYU00aNP7QF4yzEoSaJCXl7m-E John Reimann -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] open letter to Pinker (and Gates) on global poverty
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. * How Britain stole $45 trillion from India And lied about it. by Jason Hickel Al Jazeera, 19 Dec 2018 https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/britain-stole-45-trillion-india-181206124830851.html On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 6:10 PM Dayne Goodwin wrote: > A letter to Steven Pinker (and Bill Gates, for that matter) about global > poverty > by Jason Hickel, February 4, 2019 > https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-poverty > https://thisishell.com/interviews/1042-jason-hickel > > _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] open letter to Pinker (and Gates) on global poverty
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[Marxism] Neoliberalism Unchained | Dollars
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[Marxism] Ilhan Omar Apologizes After Tweet Is Called Anti-Semitic
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[Marxism] Top 10 Ignoramuses in the 116th Congress-James Inhofe | Washington Babylon
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[Marxism] A Response to a Common Criticism of Rep. Ilhan Omar | Washington Babylon
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[Marxism] "Assad or We Burn the Country" | International Review
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[Marxism] Mitch McConnell Backs Down to Donald Trump, Agrees to Support National Emergency Declaration
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[Marxism] Roger Stone on Lyndon LaRouche
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Re: [Marxism] Lyndon LaRouche, Cult Figure Who Ran for President 8 Times, Dies at 96
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[Marxism] Lyndon Larouche: The Conspiracy Theorist Who Ran For President 8 Times (HBO) - YouTube
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[Marxism] American Socialism, Revisited – LAWCHA
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[Marxism] Amazon abandons its plans to build New York City headquarters – VICE News
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[Marxism] What Black Americans Lost by Siding with Democrats - The Atlantic
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Re: [Marxism] Inside China’s crackdown on young Marxists | Financial Times
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 2/14/19 9:19 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: https://www.ft.com/content/fd087484-2f23-11e9-8744-e7016697f225 From behind the paywall: Inside China’s crackdown on young Marxists Why is the communist power arresting and detaining leftist students? by Yuan Yang Luke, an undergraduate student at one of China’s elite universities, recalls the day he became a committed Marxist. It was not in the countless hours of compulsory Marxism lectures he endured as part of the undergraduate curriculum, but during his first-year winter break in Beijing. Along with 20 other young workers, he squeezed into a minivan with nine seats and was driven to a small workshop on the outskirts of the city. There, he put together cardboard packages for 12 hours in a below-freezing room with no heating. What startled him most were the hands of the dozen young women living in the workshop, which were “swollen like radishes” from the cold. Unlike him, they had not had the opportunity to finish school. The boss of the workshop had brought them there from their hometown, and they did not know when they could go back. “They were like slaves. I thought, this capitalist mode of production can turn people into feudal serfs,” says Luke (not his real name). As he applied acrid-smelling adhesives to the cardboard, he turned over the “tiny coincidences” that separated the lives of the young women from his own, as a student at one of China’s most celebrated universities. The women were the children of workers, as he was, and were about the same age. “I had a really strong wish,” he remembers. “I wanted to make things better.” Luke threw himself into leftist student organising on campus, speaking to and supporting the many cleaners, cooks, guards and rubbish collectors working there. Then, last July, he read online about the arrest of 29 workers and activists who had tried to register a union at a factory belonging to Jasic Technology, a manufacturer of welding equipment. It was the biggest mass arrest of workers for three years. In August, he travelled to the Jasic site in the southern manufacturing hub of Shenzhen, following a call for support that went out to leftist student groups across the country. Student activists at a rally for Jasic workers in Shenzhen, August 2018 On August 24, not long after his arrival, Luke’s dormitory of activists was raided by police, and about 50 students were taken into custody. The mass detention was one of the most contentious crackdowns on student protesters since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. After a series of kidnappings and arrests both on and off China’s most prestigious campuses, a total of 42 people remain in detention, including 21 students and recent graduates, as well as activists, social workers, trade-union staff and Jasic workers. Many have lost contact completely with their families, while relatives have been pressured by police not to speak to the media or to contact lawyers. The story of the Jasic workers, and the students who supported them and set the issue aflame, highlights a paradox at the heart of modern China. While the country is controlled by a Communist party government that trumpets Marxist rhetoric, its economy has flourished since the 1980s partly thanks to the development of “state capitalism” — a liberalisation that has allowed private markets and mass consumption to thrive within strict parameters set by the state. Last May, President Xi Jinping gave a speech to mark the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth, proclaiming him “the greatest thinker of modern times”, and arguing that the 19th-century German philosopher “pointed out the direction, with scientific theory, toward an ideal society with no oppression or exploitation”. Yet China’s government has turned a blind eye to worker exploitation as the country has become a global economic powerhouse, with income inequality exceeding that in the US. “The objection of many on China’s new left — not just students — is that China is a socialist country in name but capitalist in reality, and that inequality, pollution and corruption are a consequence of this anomaly,” says Rana Mitter, professor of Chinese history at the University of Oxford. The state’s concerted oppression of young Marxists partly reflects the tension within the Chinese Communist party’s own origin story: that it has not preserved the communist ideals behind its revolutionary success under Chairman Mao. In 1978 the party formally ditched the idea of class struggle, deeming it too divisive, and instead prioritised economic development. “The students’
[Marxism] ‘How to Hide an Empire’ Shines Light on America’s Expansionist Side
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. * NY Times, Feb. 14, 2019 ‘How to Hide an Empire’ Shines Light on America’s Expansionist Side By Jennifer Szalai The word “empire” has a distinct place in the American lexicon: readily applicable to other countries but rarely, if ever, to the United States itself. Even in the spring of 2003, when American forces were occupying Iraq and Afghanistan and government officials were writing torture memos, the defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld seemed almost offended when a reporter asked whether the United States was engaged in anything like “empire-building.” “We’re not imperialistic,” Rumsfeld insisted. “We never have been. I can’t imagine why you’d even ask the question.” The tone of aggrieved incredulity may have been laid on a little thick, but Rumsfeld’s sentiment neatly aligned with how many Americans prefer to see their country — as a republic that was born from revolution and necessarily hostile to imperial rule. This self-image is “consoling, but it’s also costly,” Daniel Immerwahr writes in “How to Hide an Empire.” “At various times, the inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured and experimented on. What they haven’t been, by and large, is seen.” Even today, barely half of mainland Americans know that Puerto Ricans are fellow citizens. Critics of American foreign policy have long accused the country of imperialism in a general sense — of meddling and bullying, starting wars and inciting coups — but Immerwahr, a historian at Northwestern University, wants to draw attention to actual territory, to those islands and archipelagos too often sidelined in the national imagination. For decades, scholars have researched American colonialism in places like the Philippines and Puerto Rico; Immerwahr builds on their work to encourage a shift in the typical “mainland” perspective of American history, showing that “territorial empire” hasn’t been just an aberration but an inextricable part of the country’s fabric, woven throughout. To call this standout book a corrective would make it sound earnest and dutiful, when in fact it is wry, readable and often astonishing. Immerwahr knows that the material he presents is serious, laden with exploitation and violence, but he also knows how to tell a story, highlighting the often absurd space that opened up between expansionist ambitions and ingenuous self-regard. He divides the history into three phases. The first was the 19th-century period of westward expansion, including President Andrew Jackson’s forcible expulsion of Native Americans from their land. By the middle of the century the second phase was also beginning, as the United States started to notice enticing bits of territory outside the continent, including small islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific. These places were rocky, barren and devoid of people; what they offered was plenty of nitrogen-rich bird droppings, the better to remedy the “soil exhaustion” of a rapidly industrializing United States. The Guano Islands Act of 1856 decreed that whenever an American citizen found guano on an uninhabited, unclaimed island, “such island, rock or key may, at the discretion of the president, be considered as appertaining to the United States.” “It was an obscure word, ‘appertaining,’” Immerwahr writes, “as if the law’s writers were mumbling their way through the important bit.” It seemed to signal a discomfort, or at least the semblance of it. Soon enough, such official compunction was decidedly on the wane. Theodore Roosevelt, serving as William McKinley’s assistant secretary of the navy, pursued the Spanish-American War of 1898 with the zeal you would expect of someone who toted around a book called “Anglo-Saxon Superiority.” Immerwahr devotes several chapters to the ensuing five decades, as the United States annexed Puerto Rico and the Philippines, brutally crushing independence movements, torturing Filipino insurgents with “the water cure” and giving mainland doctors veritable carte blanche to treat Puerto Rico as a medical laboratory. Seen through Immerwahr’s lens, even the most familiar historical events can take on a startling cast. Take World War II in the Philippines: Pointing to the murderous combination of American shelling and Japanese slaughter of civilians, he calls the war “by far the most destructive event ever to take place on U.S. soil.” The role that racism played in the country’s colonial acquisitions was palpable but sometimes counterintuitive. While imperialists often spoke about “civilizing” the “savages,” some of the most ardent anti-imperialists
[Marxism] Lyndon LaRouche, Cult Figure Who Ran for President 8 Times, Dies at 96
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. * NY Times, Feb. 14, 2019 Lyndon LaRouche, Cult Figure Who Ran for President 8 Times, Dies at 96 By Richard Severo Lyndon LaRouche, the quixotic, apocalyptic leader of a cultlike political organization who ran for president eight times, once from a prison cell, died on Tuesday. He was 96. His death was announced on the website of his organization, La Rouche/Pac. The statement did not specify a cause or say where he died. Defining what Mr. LaRouche stood for was no easy task. He began his political career on the far left and ended it on the far right. He said he admired Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan and loathed Hitler, the composer Richard Wagner and other anti-Semites, though he himself made anti-Semitic statements. He was fascinated with physics and mathematics, particularly geometry, but called concerns about climate change “a scientific fraud.” He condemned modern music as a tool of invidious conspiracies — he saw rock as a particularly British one — and found universal organizing principles in the music of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. Some called him a case study in paranoia and bigotry, his mild demeanor notwithstanding. One biographer, Dennis King, in “Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism” (1989), maintained that Mr. LaRouche and his followers were a danger to democratic institutions. Mr. LaRouche denigrated a panoply of ethnic groups and organized religions. He railed against the “Eastern Establishment” and environmentalists, who he said were trying to wipe out the human race. Queen Elizabeth II of England was plotting to have him killed, he said. Jews had surreptitiously founded the Ku Klux Klan, he said. He described Native Americans as “lower beasts.” Even so, Mr. LaRouche was able to develop alliances with farmers, the Nation of Islam, teamsters, abortion opponents and Klan adherents. Acolytes kept Mr. LaRouche’s political machine going by peddling his tracts and magazines in airports, and by persuading relatives and friends to donate large sums to help him fight his designated enemies. He operated through a dizzying array of front groups, among them the National Democratic Policy Committee, through which he received millions of dollars in federal matching money in his recurring presidential campaigns. His forces also sponsored candidates at the state and local levels, including for school board seats. His movement attracted national attention, especially in 1986, when two LaRouche followers, Mark Fairchild and Janice Hart, unexpectedly won the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor and secretary of state, respectively, in Illinois. Adlai E. Stevenson III, the Democratic candidate for governor of Illinois that year, was appalled. He denounced the LaRouche group as “neo-Nazis” and refused to run with Mr. Fairchild and Ms. Hart, organizing a third-party bid instead. He, as well as the LaRouche supporters, lost to James R. Thompson, the Republican incumbent. Some voters said they had voted for Mr. Fairchild and Ms. Hart because they had been endorsed by Mr. LaRouche’s National Democratic Policy Committee, which they thought was affiliated with the mainstream Democratic Party. Critics of Mr. LaRouche said he had used that committee to deceive people abroad as well. In 1982, he managed to arrange a meeting with President José López Portillo of Mexico, evidently because Mexican officials thought Mr. LaRouche represented the Democratic Party. “I’m as American as apple pie,” Mr. LaRouche once said. Whatever he was, he received thousands of votes in his campaigns for president. In 1980, he outpolled Gov. Jerry Brown of California by a thousand votes in the Democratic presidential primary in Connecticut. In 1986, the candidates fielded by his National Democratic Policy Committee received 20 to 40 percent of the vote in local elections in California, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas. Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr. was born on Sept. 8, 1922, in Rochester, N.H., to Lyndon and Jesse (Weir) LaRouche. He grew up in the Quaker tradition. His father was a traveling salesman for the United States Shoe Machinery Corporation, and his mother once ran a Quaker meeting in Boston’s Back Bay. His was not a happy childhood. Boys would pick on him, he said, but he refused to fight them, which only brought more disapprobation. It got no better after the family moved to Lynn, Mass. He regarded himself there as an outcast and had few friends in high school. He was not an “ugly duckling,” he said, “but a nasty duckling.”
Re: [Marxism] Harvey has begun a new series
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. * He also has a new podcast - here Harvey riffs on Shakespeare and Game of Thrones to explain The Geopolitics of Capitalism: http://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/the-geopolitics-of-capitalism-part-1-of-2 On Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 12:19 AM Ralph Johansen 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. > * > > fyi: > > David Harvey has just begun a new course of lectures on Marx's Capital > Volume I which, on the evidence of the 1st series, we can expect to be > an entertaining, deeply probing and informative project. > > Harvey has been teaching this course annually and sometimes even more > frequently at Johns Hopkins and then at CUNY since 1971. His last series > on Capital was delivered in 2007 and since much has changed since he > offers this new series. If anything I know of could make this supposedly > turgid text an acceptably easy read, it's Harvey's commentary. He > describes Capital 1 as a major work of literature, with its abundant > references to the classics including Shakespeare, Balzac, the Greeks, > Romans, Enlightenment figures as well as his contemporaries. > > Most importantly, it's become ever more clear in our time that the > capitalist system is increasingly counterproductive and antagonistic to > human welfare. We learn daily how cruel and irrelevant is this means of > subsisting, which confines more of us all the time to the brutal > "informal economy," how inimical it is to the lives of, at the least, > the nearly half of us on the planet, more than 3 billion according to > UNESCO, who still live on less than $2.50 a day, 1/3 in extreme poverty > at less than $1.25 a day, and the 1 billion children who live in > poverty. After all this time, running against the vaunted promise of > "progress." While we here in the so-called "developed" regions consume > at least 1/4 of the globe's resources, energy, GDP, and are the major > contributors, certainly per capita and in terms of skewed net > distribution, to the ruin of the ecology of our planet. > > Any reasonable person who has or hasn't given it much thought, plainly > when confronted with these truths, must realize how insane that is and, > if at all human in the sense of "humane", that person will understand > the imperative need to change that system. Not "reform" it, since it's > basic, driving premise and sine qua non is profit on investment, not > human welfare. Human welfare is only served in capitalism within the > confining and diminishing limits of profitability. Change it. > > And you don't change squat unless and until you understand it. To read > this text is an essential beginning in that undertaking. So check it out. > > It begins here > https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=526=n5vu4MpYgUo. > > This 1st lecture was given on Feb. 7 and the series continues weekly > except for Feb. 14. > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://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: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The Utterly Bizarre Life of Lyndon LaRouche
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[Marxism] Inside China’s crackdown on young Marxists | Financial Times
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[Marxism] Don't blame the Israel lobby on Christian zealots
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[Marxism] Exposure to weed killing products increases risk of cancer by 41% – study | Business | The Guardian
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