Re: [Marxism] Trump and the reluctance to reckon with something fundamentally new

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Trump may have changed his rhetoric (no longer talking about invading 
Venezuela), but he has not changed his actual policy (economic blockade).

I suspect the change of rhetoric was mainly due to the failure of Guaido's 
latest coup attempt.  Only a handful of soldiers responded to Guaido's call.

If the Venezuelan army remains united, a US invasion would be very costly.  The 
US has been hoping for a split in the army, in which case US forces might 
intervene in support of the anti-Maduro section.

In the absence of such a split, I think a full scale invasion is unlikely.  
(Raids across the border are possible)

Trump is continuing the blockade in the hope that a continuing and deepening 
economic crisis in Venezuela will eventually lead to a split in the army.  
Activists in the United States and its allies should be campaigning vigorously 
to end the blockade.

I don't think Trump's comments welcoming a Russian role in Venezuela are very 
significant.  Short of shooting down Russian planes flying to Venezuela, the US 
can't stop Russia from sending aid, so it doesn't matter what Trump says about 
it.

Chris








From: John Reimann <1999wild...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Marxism] Trump and the reluctance to reckon with something 
fundamentally new

Chris, please quote me accurately, meaning in context. I did not say that 
Trump's blockade is irrelevant; I said that what you raise is irrelevant to my 
main point. In relation to the blockade, my main point was how Trump completely 
changed the tune of his administration (as communicated by Bolton and Pompeo) 
immediately after talking with Putin. THAT was the point.

In any case, there really is a lot more to Trump's foreign policy than 
Venezuela, as I demonstrated in my article.

John Reimann

On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 3:19 PM Chris Slee 
mailto:chris_w_s...@hotmail.com>> wrote:
John Reimann says that Trump's economic blockade against Venezuela is 
"irrelevant" in judging whose interests Trump serves.

I think the blockade has been imposed in the interests of the US ruling class, 
which does not want to see left wing governments in Latin America that 
challenge the economic interests of US corporations.

If John thinks that Trump follows instructions from Putin, he has to explain 
why it is in Putin's interest for Venezuela to be blockaded by the United 
States and its allies.

Chris Slee

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To be blunt, the responses of Chris Slee and Richard Fidler to this article
are perfect examples of exactly what I was raising: The failure of
socialists to absorb what is happening in US politics. The failure to
consider that the way capitalism has ruled in the US ever since the Civil
War is undergoing a basic shift. (Disclaimer: Please note that I'm not
saying it's all the way there, but just the fact that we've gone this far
is huge.)

Venezuela is only one small part of this issue. And in any case, what Chris
Slee raises concerning Trump's Venezuela policy is really irrelevant to the
main point I was making.

Marxists, above all others, are supposed to be looking at the big picture.

John Reimann

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Re: [Marxism] NY Times: Art Kunkin, Counterculture Newspaper Publisher, Dies at 91

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On 5/8/19 9:50 PM, Alan Ginsberg via Marxism wrote:

(founder of L.A. Free Press)

“What made the difference between the alternative press in the 1960s and
the mass media,” he said, “was that the mass media looked on all events as
isolated — errors that the system could correct. The sense of the 1960s
alternative press was that these issues were all connected, that they
indicated a certain sickness of the society. And this sickness has not
decreased.”

Arthur Glick Kunkin was born on March 28, 1928, in the Bronx to Irving and
Bea Kunkin. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1945.

He was an organizer for the Socialist Workers Party and acquired some
journalism experience working on The Militant, the party’s newspaper, as
well as other leftist publications.

full at
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From arthur.kunkin at gmail.com  Mon Aug  2 10:12:51 2010
From: arthur.kunkin at gmail.com (Art Kunkin)
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 09:12:51 -0700
Subject: [Marxism] test
In-Reply-To: 
References: <7d80080e-f509-4d48-870f-d1968ebe8...@gmail.com>
<4c56e52b.6040...@optonline.net>

Message-ID: 

Thank you. I wondered about this since I am on gmail and noticed that I was
not receiving my own posts.

Not so incidentally and since I am already writing, let me note that I am
aware that the people on this list are getting older every day and many must
be on the verge of -- let me say this as politely as possible -- getting
ready to go into the great beyond. Since I am now 82 years old myself and
have been a journalist/activist in the movement for over 60 years -- WP,
SWP, Johnson-Forest, and SP -- and want to continue for as long as possible,
this has been a great concern to me. If this thought has occurred to others,
please look at my website where I propose an answer to this problem,
www.alchemyrevealed.com. Seriously! Art Kunkin



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Re: [Marxism] Trump and the reluctance to reckon with something fundamentally new

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Perhaps my point about the Congress wasn't clear enough.   If it were
possible to have a single renegade officeholder, the situation of the
Congress makes explicitly clear that that's not the situation we face.  If
Trump represented some kind of renegade from the broad agenda of the
American ruling class agenda, the financial base of his drones would
shrivel like an old prune.  Not only hasn't this happen, but it remains as
likely as not that they're going to be able to carry the next election.
(This is particularly so given the DNC-Pelosi strategic hope to avoid
anything that would "alienate the Trump voters."

And if Trump is getting played by the capitalist oligarchs of Russia on a
range of issues, it doesn't necessarily place him beyond the broad
parameters of what the American ruling class sees as its mainstream.  And
when he has gone too far on some things--like not imposing the sanctions
the Congress voted on Russia--the rest of the government has pulled him
into line.

Cheers,
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[Marxism] NY Times: Art Kunkin, Counterculture Newspaper Publisher, Dies at 91

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(founder of L.A. Free Press)

“What made the difference between the alternative press in the 1960s and
the mass media,” he said, “was that the mass media looked on all events as
isolated — errors that the system could correct. The sense of the 1960s
alternative press was that these issues were all connected, that they
indicated a certain sickness of the society. And this sickness has not
decreased.”

Arthur Glick Kunkin was born on March 28, 1928, in the Bronx to Irving and
Bea Kunkin. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1945.

He was an organizer for the Socialist Workers Party and acquired some
journalism experience working on The Militant, the party’s newspaper, as
well as other leftist publications.

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[Marxism] Where Did the South African Left Go Wrong? | The Nation

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Re: [Marxism] Trump and the reluctance to reckon with something fundamentally new

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Chris, please quote me accurately, meaning in context. I did not say that
Trump's blockade is irrelevant; I said that what you raise is irrelevant to
my main point. In relation to the blockade, my main point was how Trump
completely changed the tune of his administration (as communicated by
Bolton and Pompeo) immediately after talking with Putin. THAT was the point.

In any case, there really is a lot more to Trump's foreign policy than
Venezuela, as I demonstrated in my article.

John Reimann

On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 3:19 PM Chris Slee  wrote:

> John Reimann says that Trump's economic blockade against Venezuela is
> "irrelevant" in judging whose interests Trump serves.
>
> I think the blockade has been imposed in the interests of the US ruling
> class, which does not want to see left wing governments in Latin America
> that challenge the economic interests of US corporations.
>
> If John thinks that Trump follows instructions from Putin, he has to
> explain why it is in Putin's interest for Venezuela to be blockaded by the
> United States and its allies.
>
> Chris Slee
> --
> *From:* Marxism  on behalf of John
> Reimann via Marxism 
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 8 May 2019 10:46:06 PM
> *To:* Chris Slee
> *Subject:* Re: [Marxism] Trump and the reluctance to reckon with
> something fundamentally new
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> To be blunt, the responses of Chris Slee and Richard Fidler to this article
> are perfect examples of exactly what I was raising: The failure of
> socialists to absorb what is happening in US politics. The failure to
> consider that the way capitalism has ruled in the US ever since the Civil
> War is undergoing a basic shift. (Disclaimer: Please note that I'm not
> saying it's all the way there, but just the fact that we've gone this far
> is huge.)
>
> Venezuela is only one small part of this issue. And in any case, what Chris
> Slee raises concerning Trump's Venezuela policy is really irrelevant to the
> main point I was making.
>
> Marxists, above all others, are supposed to be looking at the big picture.
>
> John Reimann
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[Marxism] Support Ken Silverstein's Investigation of Sen. Marco Rubio, A Major Player in War on Venezuela!

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Re: [Marxism] Trump and the reluctance to reckon with something fundamentally new

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John Reimann says that Trump's economic blockade against Venezuela is 
"irrelevant" in judging whose interests Trump serves.

I think the blockade has been imposed in the interests of the US ruling class, 
which does not want to see left wing governments in Latin America that 
challenge the economic interests of US corporations.

If John thinks that Trump follows instructions from Putin, he has to explain 
why it is in Putin's interest for Venezuela to be blockaded by the United 
States and its allies.

Chris Slee

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fundamentally new

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To be blunt, the responses of Chris Slee and Richard Fidler to this article
are perfect examples of exactly what I was raising: The failure of
socialists to absorb what is happening in US politics. The failure to
consider that the way capitalism has ruled in the US ever since the Civil
War is undergoing a basic shift. (Disclaimer: Please note that I'm not
saying it's all the way there, but just the fact that we've gone this far
is huge.)

Venezuela is only one small part of this issue. And in any case, what Chris
Slee raises concerning Trump's Venezuela policy is really irrelevant to the
main point I was making.

Marxists, above all others, are supposed to be looking at the big picture.

John Reimann

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Re: [Marxism] The Reason Renewables Can't Power Modern Civilization Is Because They Were Never Meant To

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On 5/8/19 2:33 PM, DW via Marxism wrote:

The UK has
decided to build around 8KWs of new nuclear. This might eliminate the need
to repeat the failure in Germany.


So what if it did?

This fixation on energy is what drives me nuts about the Jacobin/DSA 
left and the David Walters/Leigh Phillips/George Monbiot glow in the 
dark brigade. The answer to our problems is socialism, not a more 
efficient light-bulb. Unless we address all of these calamitous threats 
to the world, which range from dying insects to plastics in the ocean, 
we are fucked.

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[Marxism] Thomas Cole, William Cullen Bryant, and the American Indian | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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In the past couple of months, I have begun to work intensively on a film 
titled “Utopia in the Catskills” that is inspired by an article in the 
leftist PM newspaper from 1947 with the same title. It celebrated 
Woodridge, NY, my hometown that had a thriving co-op movement that was 
inspired by the Rochdale principles and a Communist Party cadre that was 
based in the poultry farms in the next village.


Originally, I had intended only to focus on the southern Catskills that 
was the home of Woodridge and the mostly Jewish resort industry. I 
decided to include some material on the northern Catskills in order to 
put Woodridge into context but soon figured out that the Utopia theme 
was just as appropriate to the northern Catskills, where the mountains 
can actually be found. By the time you get to Woodridge, the only 
mountains to be seen are those of the Shawangunk Ridge that is connected 
to a range in Pennsylvania.


The segment on the northern Catskills will deal with the mountain lions 
and their extinction since the question of species extinction looms so 
large today. It was the mountain lion that the Catskills are named for, 
after all. The word for cats in Dutch is Kaaters and for river is Kill. 
When Henry Hudson’s crew explored the mountains when the Half Moon was 
docked near Bard College, my alma mater, they saw mountain lions in 
profusion. By 1900, they had been hunted to extinction. It will also 
deal with the ethnic cleansing of the Lenape Indians who made the 
Catskills their home—the Mohicans and the Munsees.


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[Marxism] The Guardian's trial offer

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I bought the Guardian at my local pharmacy.  On the back they advertised a 
trial subscription, $6.00 for 6 issues.
I thought I’d try it.  I was surprised when they did not contact me after 6 
issues to see if I wanted to continue.
And I was annoyed to see money coming out of my credit card account.

Looking back at their communication to me at the beginning of the subscription, 
I see that they had explicitly told me that I had signed up for a subscription 
past the 6 issues.
I admit that I just glanced at the message when I got it.

I got no satisfaction on their website, but I had no trouble reaching them by 
way of a toll free number.  My subscription will be cancelled soon, at the next 
opportunity.

I think the Guardian is a useful publication and I would like to see it from 
time to time.  I’m not sure I want to spend so many hundred dollars for a years 
subscription.

My point is this.  Their trial subscription is not what I expect a trial 
subscription to be.

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Re: [Marxism] The Reason Renewables Can't Power Modern Civilization Is Because They Were Never Meant To

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Shellenberger's article is excellent and spot on. People should read it. So
a few things...

On Britain: there are only about 8GWs of installed capacity right now
anyway, of coal. Thanks to both natural gas and nuclear, coal is on it' way
out regardless of what happens elsewhere in terms of new generation in the
country. I really want folks to take a look at the "Electricity Map" to see
real-time carbon footprint of each country or region. It is very
enlightening:
https://www.electricitymap.org/?page=country=false=true=false=GB


Secondly, MM is absolutely correct. The key difference this last week was
natural gas. Natural gas and wind/solar go together perfectly since all
countries with wind and solar need some sort of back up for the make up of
generation daily depending on the time of day and the weather. And all this
made possible by...fracking.

The UK is the one country in western Europe with a large and influential
anti-nuclear/pro-wind/solar lobby. They *do* have a strong wind lobby but
it's not organized politically as it is in other countries. The UK has
decided to build around 8KWs of new nuclear. This might eliminate the need
to repeat the failure in Germany.

Shellenberger has an excellent series on Germany and it's failed "
*Energiewende*" policy.

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Re: [Marxism] The Reason Renewables Can't Power Modern Civilization Is Because They Were Never Meant To

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> On May 8, 2019, at 12:50 PM, William Quimby via Marxism 
>  wrote:
> 
> And yet Britain just experienced an entire week without coal-generated 
> electricity...without mass panic,
> it would seem?

They did it by burning enormous amounts of natural gas — 45% of the total mix 
during the period in question: 
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-sets-new-record-for-days-without-coal-power-11713755

And despite what you may have heard, natural gas is far more dangerous for the 
climate than coal in the relatively near term: 
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/why-natural-gas-makes-global-warming-worse

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Re: [Marxism] Trump and the reluctance to reckon with something fundamentally new

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In reply to Mark Lause: My thesis is
1) Trump is to a great degree under the control of a foreign and rival
capitalist class.
2) This means that to a large degree he is acting against the mainstream of
the US capitalist class, which does not control its president.
3) This entire situation amounts to a major step towards bonapartism, which
means a fundamental shift in how capitalism has ruled in the US. It is
unprecedented.

Mark says that the takeover of the Republicans by Trump is due to "donor
dollars and their expectations." Just the opposite, as the situation of the
US Chamber of Commerce - which I cited - shows. It is clear that the
takeover is due to Trump's popularity with the base of the Republican
Party, first and foremost the evangelicals. That is in contrast to the
major donors, such as the Chamber of Commerce.

Yes, a layer of them have come to accept and even support Trump because
he's good for their bottom line in the short term. Again, as I pointed out,
the WSJ is the prime example of this. But it is despite the fact of the
Russian mafia capitalist influence. It is exactly because of the extremely
short term (as in next quarter's financial report) orientation of this wing
of the US capitalist class.

Mark writes, "the process forms something of a continuum, in which there are
certainly leaps." But his entire emphasis is on the "continuum". Yes, we
have seen hints of what is happening in previous administrations. That
includes the increasing gathering of power into the hands of the executive
branch vs. the legislative. But what we are seeing now is very far from a
continuum. It is not even a "leap"; it's a break from the past (in the
influence of a rival capitalist class).

Mark paraphrases Marx's comment that philosophers before him have sought to
interpret the world. The point, however, is to change it." What Marx never
said was that a large part of our task is, exactly, to understand the world.

As to where the mass mobilizations will come from. That's most definitely
something I've raised time and again. Unfortunately, we Marxists have
almost zero ability to build such mobilizations. And inevitably, when they
do come they will do so with massive confusions. That makes it all the more
important to try to lend what little clarity we can.

I have to say, I do think that Mark's overall reply exemplifies the
approach of much of the socialist and even the Marxist left in that it
fails to recognize exactly such a sharp break.

John Reimann


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Re: [Marxism] The Reason Renewables Can't Power Modern Civilization Is Because They Were Never Meant To

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And yet Britain just experienced an entire week without coal-generated 
electricity...without mass panic,

it would seem?



But I am not sure if what is happening in Britain is a direct 
contradiction to the drift of the Forbes
article - it may be that Britain has had much greater success than 
Germany with off-shore wind.


- Bill

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Entrepreneurs like Elon Musk proclaimed that a rich, high-energy 
civilization could be powered by cheap solar panels and electric cars.


Journalists reported breathlessly on the cost declines in batteries, 
imagining a tipping point at which conventional electricity utilities 
would be “disrupted.”


But no amount of marketing could change the poor physics of 
resource-intensive and land-intensive renewables. Solar farms take 450 
times more land than nuclear plants, and wind farms take 700 times 
more land than natural gas wells, to produce the same amount of energy.


full: 
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[Marxism] A Closer Look at those Jobs Numbers

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Re: [Marxism] Ex-CIA honcho named Kent State University's chair of the 50th May 4 Commemoration Advisory Committee

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Obviously ANY CIA official (except ones breaking with and exposing the
Agency) should be driven out of such events.
I have to say parenthetically it's interesting that her function at the CIA
was logistics and related support. Logistics has of course been key to wars
and the careers of the up and coming officers at least since Grant and
probably before. And perhaps her choice was a nod to the capitalists whose
logistic dominance is key in the current phase of the system.


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[Marxism] Fwd: Ex-CIA honcho named Kent State University's chair of the 50th May 4 Commemoration Advisory Committee

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1. Stephanie Smith, an associate professor in Kent State's School of 
Journalism and Mass Communication, was recently chosen as the chair of 
the 50th May 4 Commemoration Advisory Committee.


In this role, Smith will be a leader in creating, planning and executing 
all commemoration events, as well as overseeing plans and work with the 
May 4th Task Force, May 4 families and survivors and Kent State 
students, staff and faculty.

http://www.kentwired.com/latest_updates/article_2e393a60-6dc3-11e9-aece-b340769a2792.html

2. from Stephanie Smith's bio
Smith retired in 2011 from the United State Federal Government, after 27 
years of service, 25 of them with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). 
She also had significant executive experience in defense (U.S. Navy) and 
public diplomacy (Department of State).


As a Senior Intelligence Service executive in the CIA, Smith led 
thousands of employees; designed and managed programs worth several 
billion dollars; interacted regularly with Congress; and traveled 
extensively, including throughout two war zones (Afghanistan and Iraq). 
She was selected as a member of CIA's Senior Intelligence Service in 
2000 and achieved its highest rank. Smith led the largest of CIA's four 
directorates, the Directorate of Support, and reported directly to the 
Director of CIA for hiring, security, global logistics, facility 
support, finance, acquisitions and medical services worldwide. In this 
role, Smith was also accountable to Congress, the media, and the 
American public.


https://www.kent.edu/jmc/profile/stephanie-d-smith

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[Marxism] Ex-CIA honcho named Kent State University's chair of the 50th May 4 Commemoration Advisory Committee

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1. Stephanie Smith, an associate professor in Kent State's School of
Journalism and Mass Communication, was recently chosen as the chair of the
50th May 4 Commemoration Advisory Committee.

In this role, Smith will be a leader in creating, planning and executing
all commemoration events, as well as overseeing plans and work with the May
4th Task Force, May 4 families and survivors and Kent State students, staff
and faculty.
http://www.kentwired.com/latest_updates/article_2e393a60-6dc3-11e9-aece-b340769a2792.html

2. from Stephanie Smith's bio
Smith retired in 2011 from the United State Federal Government, after 27
years of service, 25 of them with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
She also had significant executive experience in defense (U.S. Navy) and
public diplomacy (Department of State).

As a Senior Intelligence Service executive in the CIA, Smith led thousands
of employees; designed and managed programs worth several billion dollars;
interacted regularly with Congress; and traveled extensively, including
throughout two war zones (Afghanistan and Iraq). She was selected as a
member of CIA's Senior Intelligence Service in 2000 and achieved its
highest rank. Smith led the largest of CIA's four directorates, the
Directorate of Support, and reported directly to the Director of CIA for
hiring, security, global logistics, facility support, finance, acquisitions
and medical services worldwide. In this role, Smith was also accountable to
Congress, the media, and the American public.

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Re: [Marxism] Trump and the reluctance to reckon with something fundamentally new

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Just a couple of admittedly superficial observations on this.

Capitalism has changed radically over the course of American history--and
since the days the first Marxist observers talked about divisions in the
ruling class.  Most clearly, it has become increasingly more integrated
internally.  However, divisions are relative.

We can't see much daylight between the White House and the Republican
officeholders in general.  That's a reflection of, among other things,
donor dollars and their expectation.  And we see this ratified by the
corporate media and the "mainstream" of Democratic officeholders who are
themselves timid to the point of complicity.

Are there institutional changes taking place?  Yes, but there always has
been.  On the generational watch of the Boomers, the presidency has
continued to accrue vast new powers.  This was done mostly, but not
exclusively, by Republicans--Nixon, Reagan, Bushdaddy, Dubya, and Trump.
And Democrats accepted it at every step, every seizure of new power.  And
the liberals accepted it and sanctioned it.  And most of the
self-identified Left found excuses for the liberals.  And those that didn't
were preoccupied with sectarian wranglings to no substantive purpose.

So, the process forms something of a continuum, in which there are
certainly leaps.   But we're a far cry from analogies to the disruptions
(and opportunities) of the Civil War and the Reconstruction.

But, as old Karl suggested, the point is not to solve the world but to
change it.  People have probably never had less faith in the institutions
of capitalist rule.  Yet, where are the ongoing mass mobilizations?  And
what are radicals doing to encourage them?

These seem to be more productive avenues to explore.

Cheers,
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[Marxism] Syria: Defend Idlib against Assad and Putin!

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[Marxism] Regime preservation: How US policy facilitated Assad’s victory

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 Here in my debut on the wonderful al-Jumhuriya site, I have attempted to
comprehensively take apart years of nonsense spouted by pro-Assad writers
(like the epigone version of Ben Norton) about what they claim was some US
role in pushing "regime change" against Assad in Syria, which both denies
the agency of the millions of Syrian people who rose up to overthrow a
tyrannical regime, while also being false to the very core factually. "As
the military conflict in Syria has been largely decided in favor of the
Bashar al-Assad regime, there have been a number of attempts to review the
role of US intervention, or lack thereof, in the Syrian outcome. Late last
year, Washington’s special envoy to Syria, Jim Jeffrey, clarified that
while the US wants to see a regime in Damascus that is “fundamentally
different,” it is nevertheless “not regime change” the US is seeking.
“We're not trying to get rid of Assad.” Much commentary jumped on this as
some kind of major shift in US policy, or a signal the US had “given up” on
regime change. Yet, as will be shown below, the US never had a “regime
change” policy. On the contrary, Washington has always sought a modified
form of regime preservation. Jeffrey’s statement was followed by President
Trump’s announcement of an immediate US withdrawal from Syria. While the
“immediate” was later dropped for reasons of expediency, a more gradual US
withdrawal is still on the cards; a process coinciding with a creeping
rapprochement with Assad by Trump’s Gulf allies, spearheaded by the United
Arab Emirates and Bahrain restoring diplomatic relations with Syria in late
December 2018."
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[Marxism] Regime preservation: How US policy facilitated Assad’s victory | AlJumhuriya.net

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A close examination of eight years of US policy in Syria shows 
Washington’s objective has never been regime change, but rather “a 
modified form of regime preservation,” writes Dr. Michael Karadjis in a 
comprehensive review of the record.


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[Marxism] New Yorker woman cartoonist, Yesh Din member Nurit Karlin dies

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[Marxism] Arab residents rally against YPG rule in Syria's Deir Az Zor

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/05/arab-residents-rally-kurdish-rule-syria-deir-az-zor-190508061316059.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-deir-al-zor/anti-kurdish-protests-grow-in-syrias-deir-al-zor-residents-locals-idUSKCN1SE039


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[Marxism] Jasic Struggle: Debate Among Chinese Maoists

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LAST JULY, 2018, 89 workers at the Shenzhen Jasic Technology Co. Ltd. 
demanded the right to set up a workplace union. Although over the past 
decade there have been a growing number of disputes and strikes by 
Shenzhen workers, the Jasic case is unusual because it was openly 
supported by a group of self-proclaimed Maoists and Marxist university 
students and recent graduates.


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[Marxism] Meet the Democratic Counterrevolution’s Self-Appointed Leader

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A New Jersey Congressman is the attack dog of the party's centrist wing 
against the "socialists".


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Re: [Marxism] Trump and the reluctance to reckon with something fundamentally new

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To be blunt, the responses of Chris Slee and Richard Fidler to this article
are perfect examples of exactly what I was raising: The failure of
socialists to absorb what is happening in US politics. The failure to
consider that the way capitalism has ruled in the US ever since the Civil
War is undergoing a basic shift. (Disclaimer: Please note that I'm not
saying it's all the way there, but just the fact that we've gone this far
is huge.)

Venezuela is only one small part of this issue. And in any case, what Chris
Slee raises concerning Trump's Venezuela policy is really irrelevant to the
main point I was making.

Marxists, above all others, are supposed to be looking at the big picture.

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[Marxism] BBC - Future - The perils of short-termism: Civilisation’s greatest threat

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(This is exactly what keeps me up at night. The idea that the ruling 
class could care less about what is in store for us a thousand years 
from now. In a very real sense, this is what riles me up so much about 
the DSA/Jacobin left that doesn't seem to understand the urgency of the 
situation with its meliorism. Maybe it will take some enormous 
catastrophe to get working people to wake up to the reality that they 
are in a car speeding down a highway 90 miles an hour with nobody in the 
driver's seat.)


That's why researchers, artists, technologists and philosophers are 
converging on the idea that short-termism may be the greatest threat our 
species is facing this century. They include philosophers arguing the 
moral case for prioritising our distant descendants; researchers mapping 
out the long-term path of Homo sapiens; artists creating cultural works 
that wrestle with time, legacy and the sublime; and Silicon Valley 
engineers building a giant clock that will tick for 10,000 years.


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[Marxism] Humanity must save insects to save ourselves, leading scientist warns | Environment | The Guardian

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[Marxism] Józef Czapski: painter, prisoner, and disciple of Proust

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On the morning of 2 September 1939, the Polish painter Józef Czapski, 
then 43 years old, slipped a slim volume of the memoirs of André Gide 
into his greatcoat pocket and headed off to war with invading Nazi 
forces. In a secret protocol to the Nazi-Soviet pact guaranteeing 
non-aggression between the two powers, formalised on 23 August, Stalin 
and Hitler had agreed that the Polish state would be destroyed and its 
territory and people divided between them. Sixteen days after the German 
invasion, Soviet troops entered Poland from the east. Surrounded by 
German and Soviet forces at Lwów, Czapski’s unit had to surrender. The 
Germans turned over the Polish forces to the Soviets, and he began two 
years of incarceration in Soviet camps.


Though he did not know it, he and the others held with him were marked 
down for death. In March 1940, the head of the NKVD (later KGB) 
Lavrentiy Beria and three members of the Politburo signed a memorandum 
in which the Polish officers were condemned to execution. The operation, 
which was completed in eight weeks, began with the prisoners being 
transported to sites in and around Katyn, a forest near the Russian city 
of Smolensk. In all, around 22,000 soldiers – mostly officers who in 
civilian life had been lawyers, doctors, writers, artists, scientists, 
engineers and other professional people – were shot by a single bullet 
in the back of the head. Over a 28-day period a single individual, 
Vasily Blokhin (1895-1955), the chief executioner at Lubyanka prison in 
Moscow (where he killed the writer Isaac Babel and the avant-garde 
theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold), is said to have shot around 7,000 
prisoners. He used German revolvers, which he brought with him in a 
suitcase, as he found the Soviet-made variety unreliable. For his 
services to the Soviet state Blokhin received the Order of the Red Banner.


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[Marxism] Uber, Lyft Drivers Go On Strike Nationwide | HuffPost

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[Marxism] “What Went Wrong in the Nineties”: NATO, the EU, and Eastern European Cinema | Lefteast

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If I could summarize the discussion titled “What Went Wrong in 
the Nineties” held at the GoEast Film Festival in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 
April, I would draw on the name of the festival itself to call it: “Go 
West!” Bringing together an eclectic mix of professionals, the 
hour-and-a-half-long talk turned out to be not only a lesson in further 
humility for the austerity-ridden and transition-fatigued East 
Europeans, but a telling example that what actually did go wrong in the 
nineties—namely the financialization of Eastern Europe and its (re)turn 
to the status of a Western colony—continues to be openly celebrated (in 
a majority of political circles) rather than critiqued and deplored.


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[Marxism] South Africa: the dashing of a dream | Michael Roberts Blog

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The World Bank calls South Africa “the most unequal country in the world 
by any measure”. Inequality of consumption has increased under the ANC 
government to a huge gini ratio of 0.63.  Inequality in wealth is even 
higher: the richest 10% of the population held around 71% of net wealth 
in 2015, while the bottom 60% held just 7%. Furthermore, 
intergenerational mobility is low, meaning inequalities are passed down 
from generation to generation with little change over time. Ramaphosa 
encapsulates the country’s failure to tackle inequality at its root. He 
is a wealthy tycoon, part of a narrow black business elite that has been 
forged by ANC policies.


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[Marxism] IDF's chief rabbi-to-be permits raping women in wartime

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[Marxism] The Reason Renewables Can't Power Modern Civilization Is Because They Were Never Meant To

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Entrepreneurs like Elon Musk proclaimed that a rich, high-energy 
civilization could be powered by cheap solar panels and electric cars.


Journalists reported breathlessly on the cost declines in batteries, 
imagining a tipping point at which conventional electricity utilities 
would be “disrupted.”


But no amount of marketing could change the poor physics of 
resource-intensive and land-intensive renewables. Solar farms take 450 
times more land than nuclear plants, and wind farms take 700 times more 
land than natural gas wells, to produce the same amount of energy.


full: 
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/06/the-reason-renewables-cant-power-modern-civilization-is-because-they-were-never-meant-to/

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[Marxism] A war is brewing over lithium mining at the edge of Death Valley - Los Angeles Times

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The drilling request has generated strong opposition from the Center for 
Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club and the Defenders of Wildlife, who 
say the drilling project would be an initial step toward the creation of 
a full-scale lithium mining operation. They say lithium extraction would 
bring industrial sprawl, large and unsightly drying ponds and threaten a 
fragile ecosystem that supports Nelson’s bighorn sheep, desert tortoises 
and the Panamint alligator lizard, among other species.


https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-death-valley-lithium-mine-california-environment-20190507-story.html?outputType=amp
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[Marxism] A World to Win. The Life and Works of Karl Marx. Sven-Eric Liedman. A Marxist Review.

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This appears in the latest Chartist magazine).

“I have attempted to explain not only who Marx was in his time” announces 
Sven-Eric Liedman, “but why he remains a vital source of inspiration today.” 
This major biography, published in Swedish in 2015, aims to offer a “portrait 
of Marx unobscured by what happened after his death.”

The book is also, the Preface to this English edition explains, a counterweight 
to Gareth Stedman Jones’ Karl Marx Greatness and Illusion, which appeared 
(2016) after the present work’s original publication. Jones, he asserts, tends 
to overshadow Marx’s own writings through his detailed portraits of the 
inspiration of his thought, and the early socialist and workers’ movement. 
Jones saw Marx’s crowning achievement in the years when the International 
Working Men’s Association, the First International, began to flourish, from 
1864 to 1869. In that study this was the period when the author of Capital 
deployed “a language with which politically aware working men at the time could 
identify”.


https://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2019/05/08/a-world-to-win-the-life-and-works-of-karl-marx-sven-eric-liedman-a-marxist-review/?fbclid=IwAR20ltEAy3tmqaRTGICokq81oEbf8N9ACVr23gQFe-fiC-mLRL1K01hH3c4


Andrew Coates
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[Marxism] On the Israeli Aggression against Gaza

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A Statement from Marxists in Israel / Occupied Palestine)

https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/on-the-israeli-aggression-against-gaza/

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