[Marxism] Che in Ireland

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Interesting film footage and interview. . .

https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/che-guevara-in-ireland/
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[Marxism] Lively, incisive and erudite: Marxist Literary Criticism Today, by Barbara Foley | Tony McKenna | Culture Matters

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https://www.culturematters.org.uk/index.php/culture/theory/item/3166-lively-incisive-and-erudite-marxist-literary-criticism-today-by-barbara-foley


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[Marxism] The PSC-CUNY Contract—The Case For Voting NO | Portside

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https://www.portside.org/2019-11-03/psc-cuny-contract-case-voting-no
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[Marxism] The world in struggle, the left in crisis

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October 2019 - the world in struggle (excerpts)

from the Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice list, October 31, 2019

The last few months have shown a resurgence of mass protest around the world. 
October alone has seen the outbreak of gigantic mass protests in Lebanon, Iraq, 
Chile, and elsewhere. Demonstrators have defied security forces, arrests, and 
curfews, to shake regimes from Africa to Latin America to Hong Kong.

This year saw millions of people demonstrate against governmental inaction 
about climate change. But it has also seen people rise in one country after 
another, fed up with unemployment, lack of public services, corruption, and 
oppression. The people have demanded the fall of corrupt and sectarian regimes 
(Iraq, Lebanon), the end of austerity and the resignation of conservative 
presidents (Chile, Ecuador, Honduras, Haiti), and the right to 
self-determination 
(West Papua, Kashmir, Catalonia). They have brought down two long-standing 
tyrants (in Sudan and Algeria), and are fighting to prevent the substitution of 
military regimes for these dictators. They have stood together in defiance of 
sectarian divisions (Lebanon, Iraq). And this is just a partial listing.

It is not an accident that protests break out around the world. Globalization 
has 
brought to every corner of the world, not just naked capitalism but also mass 
protest. The demonstrations in country after country have their own particular 
triggers -- whether a metro fare increase, a taking away of subsidies, or a 
racist 
atrocity. But they are not just demonstrations against this or that individual 
act; 
they are mass uprisings against year after year of conservative economics, year 
after year of privatization, year after year of contempt for the well-being of 
the 
people.  ...  They are a sign of the cracking of neoliberalism. The world 
tomorrow 
will not be what it is today. ...

The present-day governments are meeting these protests with force, with 
shootings, arrests, curfews, and shutdowns of mass media. ...  So much for 
international law, which protects corporations but not workers. But in one 
country 
after country, the presidents or prime ministers, splattered as they are with 
workers' blood, have had to make concessions. And in some cases, they have 
been kicked out, although the whole regime has only been shaken.

The leadership of these protests are mainly not the old trends of the left, not 
the 
Stalinist, Trotskyist, anarchist, religious sectarian, or nationalist trends. 
In many 
places, these long-time trends have dirtied their hands in taking part in the 
ruling 
regimes, or making corrupt deals with them. New activists and groupings are 
arising. In Lebanon and Iraq the slogan of the day is "all means all" -- that 
is, we 
want the fall of "all" the politicians in the current regime, they are all 
corrupt, not 
just the president or the dominant party.

This crisis of the left forces embraces the environmentalists as well. This 
year has 
seen mass climate strikes, which are an important part of the world movement, 
but it is notable that the establishment environmentalists -- or even most 
ecosocialists -- have little to do with the other movements. The establishment 
environments look for supposedly realistic deals with the corporations and 
present ruling forces, and recoil with shock from what is for them, and not 
just for 
the tyrants, troublesome mass protests. Indeed, these are protests which, 
likely 
as not, denounce governments implementing austerity in the name of carbon 
pricing.

Today's struggles are not the precursor to immediate social revolution or 
workers' 
regimes; they are instead important and necessary steps on the road to the 
working class gaining its political independence. This is a wave of struggle 
that 
faces many dangers, and also faces the need to develop its own durable 
organization and orientation. If the people are rising up around the world, the 
far 
right is also organizing around the world, while the clock is ticking on 
environmental catastrophe. We are moving not towards an inevitable gradual 
victory, but towards great clashes in the world. But so far, the working 
masses, 
while uniting for a time in uprisings against  various exploiters, don't have a 
clear 
picture of what system should replace them. The old trends are discredited, and 
a 
new trend is yet to establish itself. So dealing with the crisis in the left is 
a 
necessary part of solidarity with the heroic struggle of the demonstrators 
around 
the world.

Solidarity with the workers and oppressed people of the world! <>

A partial listing of countries where the people have 

Re: [Marxism] Syria's Al-Assad: Trump, Openly Criminal, is the best US President we could Wish for

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Even though Trump is ignorant, his Syria policy did have a certain logic from 
the standpoint of US imperialism.

By giving a green light to the Turkish invasion of northeastern Syria, he aimed 
to restore relations between Turkey and the US, which had been damaged by the 
US alliance with the SDF against ISIS.

But other sections of the US ruling class had different priorities.  They were 
worried that the defeat of the  SDF would allow ISIS to revive.  This could 
destabilise US allies in the Middle East.

It could also lead to an increase in terrorism directed at Western targets.  If 
freed ISIS prisoners were to carry out attacks on US embassies etc, there would 
be a search for someone to blame, and those who encouraged the Turkish invasion 
would be obvious candidates.

The anti-Trump faction was also aware that if the US withdrew the SDF would 
turn to Russia for help.

The conflict between Trump and other sections of the ruling class has resulted 
in an incoherent policy, where US troops were first withdrawn and then sent 
back or replaced by new troops.

Chris Slee




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Subject: Re: [Marxism] Syria's Al-Assad: Trump, Openly Criminal, is the best US 
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The clock isn't right even once a day in this case.

yes, Assad is correct that Trump is the best US president for Assad. But
not for the reason he gives here.

Trump is the best for Assad because Trump just made an abrupt move that
allowed the Assad regime tom re-take almost the entire northeast border,
which it has been locked out of for 7 years; and it was no accident, he
openly said he supported the SDF doing the deal with Assad. He just thanked
Assad and Russia for help locating al-Baghdadi, though they both deny
having any knowledge of it. He formally cut off whatever funding for the
some FSA units that had still remained, even though much of it was largely
dormant by late Obama period anyway. He also ended the $200 million program
funding civil initiatives in opposition areas in Syria. His government made
even clearer than Obama that the only "rebels" who get any US arms were
those who don't rebel, ie, agree to only fight ISIS and not Assad. His
government gave Assad permission to bomb even these US-backed anti-ISIS
rebels, even within a US-protected enclave, when one unit had the gall to
*fight back* when attacked by Assadist troops. He dramaticalLy stepped up
the bombing of HTS in the early months, killing 57 worshippers in an Idlib
mosque (that was around the time that Tulsi Gabbard condemned Trump for not
bombing them enough). The US airforce even directly fought alongside
Assadist and Russian forces helping them conquer Deir Ezzor from ISIS. So,
yes, Trump is the best US president for Assad

However, Assad claims he is the best US president because his statement
about the US might "keep the oil" shows how transparent he is about US
policy. Except it doesn't. Anyone who thinks US policy is to "keep the
oil", or that it entered Syria to seize Syria's insignificant amount of
destroyed oil wells, has really no idea. Trump made that statement not to
be transparent, but because he is a political illiterate. He is good for
Assad in that sense because he enables Assad, and a whole lot of leftist
and far-right political illiterates, to say "see, it was all a war for
oil". Which of course is rubbish; the statement is only Trump being dumb.

The entire policy of returning troops, just after they left, using the
excuse of "protecting the oil", is a face-saving device for US imperialism,
aimed at trying to rescue some of its lost credibility, and keeping some of
the links it had made with the SDF, which Trump burnt. US imperialism wants
to keep doing what it was doing before October 6, before Trump ripped up 5
years of US work: maintaining an SDF statelet (for the time being, I don't
believe long-term), with a number of aims, mostly to keep fighting ISIS, as
a buffer to Iran, and to keep a foot in the political process which is
otherwise dominated by Russia, Turkey and Iran via the Astana process.. So
they are maintaining one, a much smaller one than before. Trump wanted
right out. So they said the word "oil" to bullshit him, coz they remembered
Trump had 

Re: [Marxism] Paying for Medicare for All

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Warren's Plan to Pay for Medicare For All
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11=VYsC93Od2Gs

On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 9:41 PM MM  wrote:

> On Nov 2, 2019, at 10:02 PM, Dayne Goodwin via Marxism <
> marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
> Paying for Medicare for All
> by Elizabeth Warren, Medium, November 1
>
> https://medium.com/@teamwarren/ending-the-stranglehold-of-health-care-costs-on-american-families-bf8286b13086
>
>
> Warren has fallen into the fatal trap that “scarcity-of-money”
> propagandists have been constantly setting and baiting for decades.
> State-funded public services don’t “cost” a country anything; they are
> injections of liquidity that improve the lives of those who are served, and
> unleash the spending power of the people who are employed to provide them;
> they also lend themselves to growth in union membership and power. This is
> why public services have been gutted under neoliberalism, and why
> blank-check deficit spending has been anathemized for anything but the
> military.
>
> As Sanders advisory Stephanie Kelton succinctly puts it, money doesn’t
> grow on rich people. Government spending isn’t dependant on taxes (although
> taxation plays a role in keeping inflation in check, and in shaping the
> broad outcomes of an economy, even in class terms — i.e., which class has
> how much spending power). This is the main lie of neoliberalism (and its
> post-WWII precursors) that folks writing under the flag of “modern monetary
> theory” have been at pains to expose and debunk. Here’s a good piece on it:
>
> "Modern monetary theorists believe that confusion around money has
> distracted economists from the real things that affect the economic health
> of society ― natural resources, technology, available labor. Money is a
> tool governments use to manage these variables and solve social problems.
> It is not a scarce resource that governments have to track down in order to
> pay for projects.
>
> …
>
> “‘The basic idea is that the government can’t run out of money,' Kelton
> said. 'It creates money just by spending.’
>
> “When people talk about government profligacy bankrupting their
> grandchildren or triggering a cataclysmic debt crisis, Kelton argues,
> they’re conflating the experience of a typical family, which has to get
> money from somewhere outside the household to meet expenses, with that of
> a sovereign government, which creates money as part of its basic operation.”
>
> Link:
> https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/stephanie-kelton-economy-washington_us_5afee5eae4b0463cdba15121
>
> Warren’s perpetuation-by-silence of the lie that we “can’t have nice
> things” unless we squeeze money out of the rich is just further proof of
> her radical establishmentarianism.
>
>
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[Marxism] It's the End of California as We Know It

[Michael Yates via Marxism]

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After reading Farhad Manjoo's op-ed in the NYT, I wrote this on Facebook:


One of the best op-ed writers in the New York Times and certainly the most 
radical is Farhad Manjoo. In a column today, he writes about the "end of 
California," the state in which he has lived most of his life. He says,

"Now choking under the smoke of a changing climate, California feels stuck. We 
are BlackBerry after the iPhone, Blockbuster after Netflix: We’ve got the wrong 
design, we bet on the wrong technologies, we’ve got the wrong incentives, and 
we’re saddled with the wrong culture. The founding idea of this place is 
infinitude — mile after endless mile of cute houses connected by freeways and 
uninsulated power lines stretching out far into the forested hills. Our whole 
way of life is built on a series of myths — the myth of endless space, endless 
fuel, endless water, endless optimism, endless outward reach and endless free 
parking.

One by one, those myths are bursting into flame. We are running out of land, 
housing, water, road space and now electricity. Fixing all this requires 
systemic change, but we aren’t up to the task. We are hemmed in by a resentful 
national government and an uncaring national media, and we have never been able 
to prize sustainability and equality over quick-fix hacks and outsized prizes 
to the rich."

The question is, how will these multiple problems be dealt with. Should we go 
on a building spree: hundreds of thousands of windmills and millions of solar 
panels, with millions of high-paying jobs, so that growth can continue? Should 
we invest a trillion dollars or so to try to suck carbon dioxide out of the 
atmosphere? Or should we demand that production be communalized; that obscene 
financial wealth be confiscated; that agriculture be revolutionized (California 
is the country's most important agricultural state) through decentralization 
combined with agroecology and control by those who now do the actual farm 
labor; that unnecessary production and consumption be drastically curtailed; 
that the great desert cities like Los Angeles be wound down, so to speak; that 
air travel, cruises, shipping, and the like be greatly reduced; that we begin 
to convert those endless suburban tracts into livable and sustainable spaces; 
and so on and so forth. Let's take the best of any Green New Deal and push it 
as far left as possible. What, really, in this day and age, with the 
environment collapsing around us, do we have to lose?

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[Marxism] Joker | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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The first thing that strikes you about “Joker” is its open homage to two 
of Martin Scorsese’s films: “Taxi Driver” and “King of Comedy”. From 
“Taxi Driver”, it borrows the main character’s borderline personality 
and the portrayal of New York City as hell on earth. Travis Bickle, the 
Vietnam evidently suffering from PTSD, puts it this way: “All the 
animals come out at night – whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, 
fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and 
wash all this scum off the streets. I go all over. I take people to the 
Bronx, Brooklyn, I take ’em to Harlem. I don’t care. Don’t make no 
difference to me. It does to some. Some won’t even take spooks. Don’t 
make no difference to me.”


While “King of Comedy” is not considered vintage Scorsese, it was made 
to order for his main character Arthur Fleck, whose last name even 
evokes De Niro’s character in “Taxi Driver”. In “King of Comedy”, De 
Niro plays an aspiring stand-up comedian who idolizes Jerry Langford, 
the Johnny Carson-like late night host played by Jerry Lewis. To connect 
with Scorsese’s film, De Niro is cast as a late night host but with much 
more of a mean streak—think of David Letterman waking up on the wrong 
side of bed.


full: https://louisproyect.org/2019/11/03/joker/
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[Marxism] It’s the End of California as We Know It

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NY Times Op-Ed, Nov. 3, 2019
It’s the End of California as We Know It
By Farhad Manjoo

SAN FRANCISCO — I have lived nearly all my life in California, and my 
love for this place and its people runs deep and true. There have been 
many times in the past few years when I’ve called myself a California 
nationalist: Sure, America seemed to be going crazy, but at least I 
lived in the Golden State, where things were still pretty chill.


But lately my affinity for my home state has soured. Maybe it’s the 
smoke and the blackouts, but a very un-Californian nihilism has been 
creeping into my thinking. I’m starting to suspect we’re over. It’s the 
end of California as we know it. I don’t feel fine.


It isn’t just the fires — although, my God, the fires. Is this what life 
in America’s most populous, most prosperous state is going to be like 
from now on? Every year, hundreds of thousands evacuating, millions 
losing power, hundreds losing property and lives? Last year, the air 
near where I live in Northern California — within driving distance of 
some of the largest and most powerful and advanced corporations in the 
history of the world — was more hazardous than the air in Beijing and 
New Delhi. There’s a good chance that will happen again this month, and 
that it will keep happening every year from now on. Is this really the 
best America can do?


Probably, because it’s only going to get worse. The fires and the 
blackouts aren’t like the earthquakes, a natural threat we’ve all chosen 
to ignore. They are more like California’s other problems, like housing 
affordability and homelessness and traffic — human-made catastrophes 
we’ve all chosen to ignore, connected to the larger dysfunction at the 
heart of our state’s rot: a failure to live sustainably.


Now choking under the smoke of a changing climate, California feels 
stuck. We are BlackBerry after the iPhone, Blockbuster after Netflix: 
We’ve got the wrong design, we bet on the wrong technologies, we’ve got 
the wrong incentives, and we’re saddled with the wrong culture. The 
founding idea of this place is infinitude — mile after endless mile of 
cute houses connected by freeways and uninsulated power lines stretching 
out far into the forested hills. Our whole way of life is built on a 
series of myths — the myth of endless space, endless fuel, endless 
water, endless optimism, endless outward reach and endless free parking.


One by one, those myths are bursting into flame. We are running out of 
land, housing, water, road space and now electricity. Fixing all this 
requires systemic change, but we aren’t up to the task. We are hemmed in 
by a resentful national government and an uncaring national media, and 
we have never been able to prize sustainability and equality over 
quick-fix hacks and outsize prizes to the rich.


All of our instincts seem to make things worse. Our de facto solution to 
housing affordability has been forcing people to move farther and 
farther away from cities, so they commute longer, make traffic worse and 
increase the population of fire-prone areas. We “solved” the problem of 
poor urban transportation by inviting private companies like Uber and 
Lyft to take over our roads. To keep the fires at bay, we are now 
employing the oldest I.T. hack in the book: turning the power off and 
then turning it back on again. Meanwhile, the rich are getting by: When 
the fires come, they hire their own firefighters. (In the case of the 
Getty fire in Los Angeles, their gardeners and housekeepers still had to 
go to work, though.)


Does all this sound overdramatic? You might point out that if it seems 
like dystopian apocalypse in California, it’s because it has always felt 
like dystopian apocalypse in California. The California of Joan Didion, 
Charles Manson and Ronald Reagan was no picnic; nor was the California 
of Pete Wilson, Rodney King or Arnold Schwarzenegger. California has 
always been a place that seems to be on the edge and running on empty, 
and maybe the best you can ever say about it is, hey, at least we’re not 
Florida.


But this time it’s different. The apocalypse now feels more elemental — 
as if the place is not working in a fundamental way, at the level of 
geography and climate. And everything we need to do to avoid the end 
goes against everything we’ve ever done.


The long-term solutions to many of our problems are obvious: To stave 
off fire and housing costs and so much else, the people of California 
should live together more densely. We should rely less on cars. And we 
should be more inclusive in the way we design infrastructure — 
transportation, the power grid, housing stock — aiming 

Re: [Marxism] Syria's Al-Assad: Trump, Openly Criminal, is the best US President we could Wish for

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The clock isn't right even once a day in this case.

yes, Assad is correct that Trump is the best US president for Assad. But
not for the reason he gives here.

Trump is the best for Assad because Trump just made an abrupt move that
allowed the Assad regime tom re-take almost the entire northeast border,
which it has been locked out of for 7 years; and it was no accident, he
openly said he supported the SDF doing the deal with Assad. He just thanked
Assad and Russia for help locating al-Baghdadi, though they both deny
having any knowledge of it. He formally cut off whatever funding for the
some FSA units that had still remained, even though much of it was largely
dormant by late Obama period anyway. He also ended the $200 million program
funding civil initiatives in opposition areas in Syria. His government made
even clearer than Obama that the only "rebels" who get any US arms were
those who don't rebel, ie, agree to only fight ISIS and not Assad. His
government gave Assad permission to bomb even these US-backed anti-ISIS
rebels, even within a US-protected enclave, when one unit had the gall to
*fight back* when attacked by Assadist troops. He dramaticalLy stepped up
the bombing of HTS in the early months, killing 57 worshippers in an Idlib
mosque (that was around the time that Tulsi Gabbard condemned Trump for not
bombing them enough). The US airforce even directly fought alongside
Assadist and Russian forces helping them conquer Deir Ezzor from ISIS. So,
yes, Trump is the best US president for Assad

However, Assad claims he is the best US president because his statement
about the US might "keep the oil" shows how transparent he is about US
policy. Except it doesn't. Anyone who thinks US policy is to "keep the
oil", or that it entered Syria to seize Syria's insignificant amount of
destroyed oil wells, has really no idea. Trump made that statement not to
be transparent, but because he is a political illiterate. He is good for
Assad in that sense because he enables Assad, and a whole lot of leftist
and far-right political illiterates, to say "see, it was all a war for
oil". Which of course is rubbish; the statement is only Trump being dumb.

The entire policy of returning troops, just after they left, using the
excuse of "protecting the oil", is a face-saving device for US imperialism,
aimed at trying to rescue some of its lost credibility, and keeping some of
the links it had made with the SDF, which Trump burnt. US imperialism wants
to keep doing what it was doing before October 6, before Trump ripped up 5
years of US work: maintaining an SDF statelet (for the time being, I don't
believe long-term), with a number of aims, mostly to keep fighting ISIS, as
a buffer to Iran, and to keep a foot in the political process which is
otherwise dominated by Russia, Turkey and Iran via the Astana process.. So
they are maintaining one, a much smaller one than before. Trump wanted
right out. So they said the word "oil" to bullshit him, coz they remembered
Trump had this thing about how the US "should have kept Iraq's oil". So a
literate guy, Defense Secretary Esper, explains clearly that "We want to
make sure that SDF does have access to the resources in order to guard the
[IS] prisons, in order to arm their own troops, in order to assist us with
the 'defeat ISIS' mission." A logical statement of ruling class interest.
Far from the US "keeping the oil", the US is just continuing to protect SDF
control of the oil, control the SDF has had since the US helped them seize
the oil from ISIS. By protecting the SDF the last 5 years, the US was
thereby already protecting its control of the oil. Nothing new at all,
except that previously the US was protecting the SDF more extensively. But
then Trump makes the completely illiterate statement that the US will be
"keeping the oil", an entirely different thing, and one with no relation to
reality, or US ruling class intentions. He didn't say that because he is so
transparent about US intentions, he said it because he says a lot of dumb
things.

On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 1:39 AM Fred Murphy via Marxism <
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>
> Even a stopped clock is right twice a day 
>
> On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 8:16 AM Louis Proyect via Marxism <
> marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
> >
> > https://www.juancole.com/2019/11/syrias-criminal-president.html
>
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[Marxism] Biggest Iraqi Crowds in History Demand changes in Bush Constitution

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Re: [Marxism] Syria's Al-Assad: Trump, Openly Criminal, is the best US President we could Wish for

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The statement by Assad (and I agree he's right about the "value" of Trump's
transparency even though he [Assad] is a mass murderer) does raise an
interesting question ---

1)  Is Trump --- due both to his idiocy AND to his ultra-nationalism --- an
UNWITTING agent of the withdrawal of the US from "the American Empire"??
2)  Think about it -- the policy of the US since the end of World War II
(if Larry Shoup is right it began before the US had even entered WW II) has
been to secure a WORLD WIDE "empire" (an "empire of so-called free trade" a
la the 19th century British version --- in Latin America and elsewhere
besides the official colonies) -- initially to protect long term interests
against the axis powers in the early years of WW II, then to protect the
"free world" from "godless communism [!!]" after WW II and then to keep it
expanding and "under control" after WW II --- and TRUMP has explicitly (if
not in practice due to the foot-dragging of the residual establishment that
still exists up and down the bureaucracy and the government in general)
repudiated that 

BUT HAS HE?Is he SO DUMB that whatever he wants, the American empire
keeps chugging along OR has he damaged it enough that --- "objectively" ---
he has begun a process that will mean the long run unravelling of the
American empire??

AND --- since we want desperately to stave off the domestic fascism that he
and his minions are in the process of creating, are we willing to "allow"
the restoration of a true American imperialism under whichever candidate
(outside of Bernie -- and MAYBE Warren) the Dems put up against him??

THis last question is why the first question if vitally important 

(I miss Bill Williams -- he had such great insights )

:https://www.juancole.com/2019/11/syrias-criminal-president.html
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Re: [Marxism] PYD/YPG boasts its joint operations with Assad's army

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If Assad's army was willing to cooperate with the SDF in resisting the Turkish 
invasion, that would be a good thing.  But they can not be relied on to do 
this.  There may be occasional clashes between Assad's army and the invaders, 
but up to now the regime has offered little resistance to the invasion.  See 
for example:

https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/people-from-border-villages-of-dirbesiye-only-sdf-can-protect-us-38938

Assad hopes that the Turkish invasion will weaken the SDF sufficiently that 
they will submit to his rule.  At the same time he is probably worried that 
Turkey, having occupied a large part of northern Syria, will try to make its 
occupation permanent, like the Israeli occupation of the Golan heights.  So 
there is some possibility of conflict between Assad and Turkey, despite their 
common interest in crushing the Rojava revolution.

Chris Slee

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Subject: [Marxism] PYD/YPG boasts its joint operations with Assad's army

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The "Rojava Network" (close to the PYD/YPG) boasts that it has
“liberated” some areas with the help of Assad’s army. So they no longer
deny that they are fighting hand in hand with the butcher.

https://twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/1190746640996618241


So the so-called "Rojava Revolution" (a myth to lull the so-called
"left") is defended with the armies of Assad, Trump and Putin. And we,
naive Marxists, thought that one has to fight against imperialist Great
Powers and dictatorships! Fortunately, Öcalan enlightens our knowledge!


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[Marxism] Everywhere is Rojava, everywhere is resistance

[Chris Slee via Marxism]

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https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/everywhere-is-rojava-everywhere-is-resistance-38978

(Rallies against the Turkish invasion throughout northeastern Syria)

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[Marxism] PYD/YPG boasts its joint operations with Assad's army

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The "Rojava Network" (close to the PYD/YPG) boasts that it has 
“liberated” some areas with the help of Assad’s army. So they no longer 
deny that they are fighting hand in hand with the butcher.


https://twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/1190746640996618241


So the so-called "Rojava Revolution" (a myth to lull the so-called 
"left") is defended with the armies of Assad, Trump and Putin. And we, 
naive Marxists, thought that one has to fight against imperialist Great 
Powers and dictatorships! Fortunately, Öcalan enlightens our knowledge!



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