[Marxism] Glenn Greenwald

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Good to see the takedown of the latest piece by Glenn Greenwald. Overall,
he is just a slightly disguised conspiracy theorist/Assad supporter. In
this article (
https://theintercept.com/2017/04/07/the-spoils-of-war-trump-lavished-with-media-and-bipartisan-praise-for-bombing-syria/)
he covers up for Assad. In this one (
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/11/the-deep-state-goes-to-war-with-president-elect-using-unverified-claims-as-dems-cheer/)
he trots out that sorry old deep state claim in order to defend Trump.

He's just another hack libertarian. It really says something about the
sorry state of affairs on the left that so many take him seriously.

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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Capitalism and COVID-19

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Capitalism and COVID-19
Global competition or global workers’ cooperation?
By Bonnie Weinstein, May/June 2020
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Socialism is a world-wide solution to end the devastation and destruction 
brought about by capitalist competition for the highest profits off the backs 
of the masses of humanity and the rape and pillage of the world’s natural 
resources. It can’t be fully realized country-by-country. The transformation to 
socialism can only be accomplished through the cooperation of all the workers 
of the world.
 
Now, we, the masses are struggling through a worldwide pandemic—a virus 
exacerbated by environmental filth, pollution, mass poverty, racism, lack of 
healthcare—all caused by capitalism’s need to acquire ever-more profits.
 
In an April 23, 2020 article by Kristin Toussaint titled, “American 
Billionaires Have Gotten $280 Billion Richer Since the Start of the COVID-19 
Pandemic” 1 that appeared in Fast Company Toussaint stated:
 
“Though the coronavirus itself may not discriminate in terms of who can be 
infected, the COVID-19 pandemic is far from a great equalizer. In the same 
month that 22 million Americans lost their jobs, the American billionaire 
class’s total wealth increased about ten percent—or $282 billion more than it 
was at the beginning of March. They now have a combined net worth of $3.229 
trillion. The initial stock market crash may have dented some net worth at 
first—for instance, that of Jeff Bezos, which dropped down to a mere $105 
billion on March 12. But his riches have rebounded: As of April 15, his net 
worth has increased by $25 billion. Eric Yuan, founder and CEO of Zoom, was one 
of the few to see an increase in net worth even as the markets crashed, and 
he’s now up $2.58 billion. …These ‘pandemic profiteers,’ as a new report from 
the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank, calls them, is just 
one piece of the wealth inequality puzzle in America. In the background is the 
fact that since 1980, the taxes paid by billionaires, measured as a percentage 
of their wealth, dropped 79 percent. We’re reading about benevolent 
billionaires sharing .0001 percent of their wealth with their fellow humans in 
this crisis, but in fact they’ve been rigging the tax rules to reduce their 
taxes for decades—money that could have been spent building a better public 
health infrastructure,” says Chuck Collins, director of the Program on 
Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies and coauthor 
of the new report, titled ‘Billionaire Bonanza 2020: Wealth Windfalls, Tumbling 
Taxes, and Pandemic Profiteers.’”
 
Yet, in spite of the increased profits being accumulated at the top of the 
capitalist economic food chain, personal protective equipment (PPE) is in short 
supply for those who need it the most—the healthcare workers and all workers 
who are out in the public doing essential work in grocery stores, delivering 
food from farms, running transit systems, processing food products, etc.
 
Yet the great capitalist industrial complex is unable to manufacture them. That 
is being left to charity.
 
Fashion designers are sewing face masks and scrubs and donating them to 
healthcare workers. Other wealthy celebrities are donating money and supplies. 
Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL quarterback, donated $100,000, saying that 
communities of color “are being disproportionately devastated by COVID-19 
because of hundreds of years of structural racism.”2
 
Capitalism’s ineptitude

Instead of scientists coming together across the globe to cooperate in a vast 
effort to fight this pandemic—by sharing information and collaborating to find 
new treatments and cures—the capitalist corporations in each country are in 
competition with each other to 

[Marxism] John Bellamy Foster's New Book

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John Bellamy Foster's new book, The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, 
has just been published by Monthly Review. The product of 20 years of research, 
it is truly a major and monumental work. With chapters on William Morris, 
Christopher Caudwell, Frederick Engels, and every major British, Soviet, and US 
radical ecological scientist, it traces the development of ecology since the 
death of Marx. Foster shows, among many other things, that Engels was 
extraordinarily prescient in terms of the environment, demonstrating that 
Engels was not just Marx's collaborator and patron but an important and 
original thinker is his own right. All in all, this is an impressive book. I 
learned much I didn't know in every chapter.  This book is well-worth reading 
and studying.

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[Marxism] Why touch is important

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Why Zoom, etc. is good but no substitute. My strong suspicion is that being
in the physical presence of others (as opposed to online connection) also
matters:

Losing Touch: Another Drawback of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Losing Touch: Another Drawback of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Affectionate touches tap into the nervous system’s rest and digest mode,
reducing the release of stress hormones, bolstering the immune system, and
stimulating brainwaves linked with relaxation.

It had been seven weeks since I’d touched another human being. Arms
outstretched, I walked quickly toward my dad, craving his embrace. In the
instant before we touched, we paused, our minds probably running quick,
last-minute calculations on the risk of physical contact. But, after
turning our faces away from each other and awkwardly shuffling closer, we
finally connected. Wrapped in my dad’s bear hug, I momentarily forgot we
were in the midst of the worst global crisis I have ever experienced.

“Touch is the most powerful safety signal of togetherness,” says Steve
Cole, a psychiatrist and biobehavioral scientist at the University of
California, Los Angeles.

Like more than 35 million other Americans, I live alone, and with the
guidelines of physical distancing set by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, I hadn’t been getting close to anyone to avoid being
infected with (or potentially spreading) SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes
COVID-19. I’d been working, thankfully, at home and staying connected with
friends and family through Zoom and Skype, but those virtual interactions
were no replacement for being with loved ones in person.

“When we get lonely and isolated our brainstem recognizes that suddenly we
are in insecure territory and flips on a bunch of fight-or-flight stress
responses without us even knowing it,” Cole says. “There’s all sorts of
things in our social world that lead us to calculate that we are either
safe or unsafe. You can think of physical touch, supportive and
affectionate touch, as the most fundamental signal that you’re with
somebody who cares about you . . . a fundamental signal of safety and
well-being.”

What touch does to the immune system
Stress, which for many of us during the coronavirus pandemic has grown
considerably, can flood the body with hormones, such as cortisol and
adrenaline, as part of the fight-or-flight response. Left to build up over
time, those accumulating stress hormones can lead to high blood pressure,
heart disease, and growing levels of anxiety.

Touch is hitting all of the right buttons to affect physiological processes
that are that are critically important to keeping us healthy.

—John Capitanio, University of California, Davis
The feeling of security that comes with holding hands or hugging is a
result of a cascade of physical and biochemical changes in the body and the
brain that can counter the fight-or-flight response. Tiffany Field, the
director of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami Miller
School of Medicine, has been studying that cascade of changes for more than
three decades, focusing mainly on the effects of massage. What she and
others have shown is that anything that moves the skin with a bit of
pressure—hugging, holding hands, massage—stimulates pressure receptors
beneath the skin. Those receptors then send electrical signals to the vagus
nerve, a superhighway of the nervous system with thoroughfares leading to
nearly every organ of the body and a direct line into the brainstem, which
automatically regulates breathing, blood pressure, and heart rate.

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[Marxism] Cécile Rol-Tanguy, French Resistance Fighter, Dies at 101

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NY Times, May 20, 2020
Cécile Rol-Tanguy, French Resistance Fighter, Dies at 101
By Eva Mbengue

Cécile Rol-Tanguy, a heroine of the French Resistance who helped lead a 
popular uprising against the German occupation of Paris, died on May 8 
at her home in Monteaux, about 130 miles from Paris. She was 101.


Her family announced the death.

Ms. Rol-Tanguy joined the Resistance at age 21, after the Nazis moved 
into Paris.


She acted as a clandestine liaison officer for her husband, Henri 
Rol-Tanguy, a prominent Communist and a colonel of the Forces Françaises 
de l’Intérieur (French Forces of the Interior), who worked alongside 
Gen. Charles de Gaulle’s London-based Free French Forces.


Not afraid of taking risks, Ms. Rol-Tanguy would sometimes disguise 
herself by changing her hairstyle and adopting a code name. Using forged 
documents, she was allowed to pass through German checkpoints and go 
from one part of Paris to another. She carried machine guns, grenades, 
ammunition and sensitive documents, sometimes hidden in sacks of 
potatoes in her child’s baby carriage.


“I never had fear in my stomach,” she said in an interview with the 
television network France 24 in 2014. “If you do, you can’t do anything.”


In August 1944, hidden in the catacombs of Paris, she helped her husband 
organize the uprising. On Aug. 19, she put up posters calling for 
immediate revolt against Hitler’s occupying forces: “France is calling 
you! To arms, citizens! To arms!”


A week later, Paris was liberated and General de Gaulle drove 
triumphantly down the Champs-Élysées. Ms. Rol-Tanguy was the only woman 
he invited to a reunion to thank the Resistance, held on Aug. 26 in 
Paris’s City Hall.


At the end of the war, General de Gaulle designated 1,038 people 
Resistance heroes. Only six of them were women. Ms. Rol-Tanguy was not 
one of them.


Marguerite Marie-Cecile Le Bihan was born on April 10, 1919, in Royan, a 
resort on the French Atlantic coast. Her parents moved to a Paris suburb 
when she was a year old and later settled in the 19th Arrondissement of 
Paris.


Her father, François Le Bihan, was an electrician who had served in the 
French Navy and helped found the French Communist Party in 1920. As a 
Communist, he was sent in 1943 to Auschwitz, where he died. Her mother, 
Germaine Jaganet, was a homemaker who was also a member of the Resistance.


Ms. Rol-Tanguy was brought up in a highly political environment, 
dedicated to international Communism and the fight against fascism. When 
she was a teenager her family offered shelter to political exiles from 
Italy, Germany, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.


She left school at 16 and joined Jeunes Filles de France, a Communist 
Party organization that fought for gender equality and worked to end the 
poor housing conditions in which working-class families used to live.


That same year she started doing secretarial work for the Paris 
metallurgical workers union. There she met Mr. Rol-Tanguy, a foundry 
worker and union official.


When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, Mr. Rol-Tanguy fought 
alongside the Spanish Republicans against Franco’s right-wing rebellion. 
Ms. Rol-Tanguy worked with the Aid for Spain Committee. He returned 
wounded in 1938, and they married a year later.


She is survived by their four children, Hélène, Jean, Claire and 
Francis, and a number of grandchildren. Mr. Rol-Tanguy died in 2002.


Ms. Rol-Tanguy was emblematic of the role women played in the Resistance.

In 2014, she agreed to accept the medal recognizing her as a grand 
officer of the Legion of Honor, the highest distinction in France, in 
the name of all women Resistance fighters. “I am sad to see that women 
have been forgotten,” she said. “Many were arrested, tortured and deported.”


“I have always said that de Gaulle didn’t give women the right to vote. 
We won it,” she said in an interview, referring to an ordinance de 
Gaulle issued in April 1944.


In 1996, she became co-president of the organization Les Amis des 
Combattants en Espagne Républicaine (Friends of the Spanish Republican 
Fighters). She frequently gave talks about the Resistance in schools.


“When I visit schools,” she told France 24 in 2014, “I keep telling 
children that liberty always needs to be defended.”


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[Marxism] A Child’s Christmas in Woodridge | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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[Marxism] The Worst Is Yet to Come

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NY Times Op-Ed, May 20, 2020
The Worst Is Yet to Come
By Farhad Manjoo

For as long as I can remember, I have identified as an optimist. Like a 
seedling reaching toward the golden sun, I’m innately tuned to seek out 
the bright side.


Of course, in recent years this confidence has grown tougher to 
maintain. The industry I’ve long covered, technology, has lost its rebel 
edge, and grown monopolistic and power hungry. The economy at large 
echoed these trends, leaving all but the wealthiest out in the cold. All 
the while the entire planet veered toward uninhabitability.


And yet, for much of the last year, I remained an optimist. A 
re-energized Democratic Party looked poised to push for grand solutions 
to big problems, from health care to education to climate change. There 
was finally some talk about reining in monopolies and creating a fairer 
economy. Things weren’t looking good, exactly, but if you squinted hard, 
you could just make out a sunnier future.


Now all that seems lost. The coronavirus and our disastrous national 
response to it has smashed optimists like me in the head. If there is a 
silver lining, we’ll have to work hard to find it.


To do that, we should spend more time considering the real possibility 
that every problem we face will get much worse than we ever imagined. 
The coronavirus is like a heat-seeking missile designed to frustrate 
progress in almost every corner of society, from politics to the economy 
to the environment.


The only way to avoid the worst fate might be to dwell on it. To 
forestall doom, it’s time to go full doomer.


Why so glum? It is not just that nearly 92,000 Americans are dead and 
tens of millions are unemployed. It’s not just that our federal 
government has been asleep, with Congress unable or unwilling to push a 
disaster-response bill on anything like the scale this crisis demands, 
and an inept president unable to muster much greater sympathy than, 
“It’s too bad.” It’s not only that global cooperation is in tatters when 
we need it most.


It is all these things and something more fundamental: a startling lack 
of leadership on identifying the worst consequences of this crisis and 
marshaling a united front against them. Indeed, division and chaos might 
now be the permanent order of the day.


In a book published more than a decade ago, I argued that the internet 
might lead to a choose-your-own-facts world in which different segments 
of society believe in different versions of reality. The Trump era, and 
now the coronavirus, has confirmed this grim prediction.


That’s because the pandemic actually has created different political 
realities. The coronavirus has hit dense, racially diverse Democratic 
urban strongholds like New York much harder than sparsely populated 
rural areas, which lean strongly to the G.O.P. That divergent impact — 
with help from the president and his acolytes — is feeding a dangerous 
partisan split about the nature of the virus itself.


Consider the emerging culture war about wearing masks or about whether 
to take certain unproven therapies. Look at the protests over whether 
it’s safe to reopen. Now play these divisions forward. As The Times’s 
Kevin Roose wrote last week, when a vaccine does emerge, what if many 
Americans, fed on anti-vax rumors, simply refuse to take it?


The virus’s economic effects will only create further inequality and 
division. Google, Facebook, Amazon and other behemoths will not only 
survive, they look poised to emerge stronger than ever. Most of their 
competition — not just small businesses but many of America’s physical 
retailers and their millions of employees — could be decimated.


Worst of all, it’s possible that the pain of this crisis might not fully 
register in broad economic indicators , especially if, as happened after 
the 2008 recession, we see a long, slow recovery that benefits mainly 
the wealthy. There are already signs that this is happening: Thousands 
died, millions lost their jobs, but stock indexes are rebounding.


The economic impacts feed into the political ones: The virus-induced 
recession could further destroy the news industry and dramatically 
reduce the number of working journalists in the country, our last 
defense against misinformation.


Even worse, the virus is making a hash of emerging solutions to 
entrenched problems. As The Times’s Conor Dougherty chronicled in 
“Golden Gates,” his recent book on America’s housing crisis, activists 
have lately been finding success in pushing to build more housing in 
restrictive regions like the San Francisco Bay Area. The virus may put 
such reforms on ice. And consider the grim 

[Marxism] Our Economic System Fuels Outbreaks, Says Evolutionary Epidemiologist Who Predicted the Pandemic - Sputnik International

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Rob Wallace interview

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[Marxism] Jairus Banaji on Tran Duc Thao, Husserl scholar and Marxist (from FB)

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Tran Duc Thao (1917–93) joined the École Normale Supérieure in 1939 and 
worked on Husserl under the supervision of Jean Cavaillès. Much later he 
would write, “In 1941-42 I did my thesis on Husserl’s method with Jean 
Cavaillès. Merleau-Ponty was emphatic about the cardinal importance of 
(Husserl’s) Erfahrung und Urteil and Krisis to any (future) attempt to 
reorient the phenomenology of essences in the direction of a theory of 
time rooted in a history creative of forms. In the light of our 
experience of the war, one increasingly felt that such a tendency would 
realize itself in the marxist conception. But the latter was barely 
visible at this time except on the hazy horizon of the kind of 
eclecticism typical of intellectuals.”


Thao’s early dissertation on Husserl was completed in 1942. When the 
decision to establish Husserl’s archive (some 15,000+ pages in 
manuscript or cyclostyled form, none of it published) was taken in Paris 
in that year, the committee that took charge of this project consisted 
of Merleau-Ponty, Jean Cavaillès, Jean Hyppolite and Tran Duc Thao. 
Cavaillès had attended Husserl’s lectures at the Sorbonne in 1929 and 
was the oldest member of this group; Thao, only 25 then, its youngest. 
About the latter’s dissertation Cavaillès told Léon Brunschvig, “Thao 
has written a superb mémoire on Husserl, a Husserl who’s been somewhat 
hegelianized”. Of the total holdings of Husserl’s unpublished work only 
some 5000 pages were eventually brought to Paris, in 1944–46, thanks 
largely to Thao, with Merleau-Ponty’s personal assurance. It was these 
manuscripts that Thao studied and used for the seminal 1951 book called 
Phénoménologie et matérialisme dialectique. But by 1958 when the Husserl 
archive was formally established in Paris, Thao himself had been gone 
six or seven years, having returned to Vietnam to work for the 
revolution going on in his country.


Despite his abiding interest in phenomenology, Thao saw himself as a 
committed Marxist. Already in 1948, he had “penned a celebrated article 
for Les temps modernes on the Franco-Russian philosopher Alexandre 
Kojève in which he argued for the superiority of Marx over Hegel”. And 
along with other Vietnamese in France he had “campaigned in support of 
the Vietnamese revolution”, contributing articles on colonialism and 
Indochina to Les temps modernes. It has even been said that Thao was the 
leading figure in the journal’s opposition to colonialism (McHale, “Tran 
Duc Thao”, p.10).


What follows on Thao’s experiences back in Vietnam is taken from 
McHale’s revealing article on Thao (link below). By the mid-fifties, a 
few years after his return, Tran Duc Thao was contributing articles to 
the periodical “Nhan van” (Humanity) attacking Party abuses and calling 
for more democracy. His name was expunged from the historical record in 
these years and only came up again in 1958 when he was forced to 
“self-criticize” and subjected in fact to a second self-criticism when 
the first was scathingly rejected.


Thao’s Marxism was distinguished, unusually, by the “greater attention 
(he paid) to questions of individual rights, responsibilities, and 
freedoms” (p.15). McHale explains that he distinguished between the 
content of freedom and its form, arguing that while the Vietnamese had 
overthrown French imperialism and were in that sense free (in content), 
“the form of freedom is individual freedom” and this meant having the 
rights of free speech, right of assembly, and freedom of the press. 
Secondly, while Thao had come around to seeing labor and thus class as 
the arena of struggle even as early as 1948 in his essay on Kojève, he 
paid no attention to the role of parties. McHale writes, “throughout his 
later writing, one can sense that to Thao, the Party is secondary to the 
people: the people are the vanguard of history, and the Party gets in 
trouble when it forgets that elementary fact” (p.16).


In October 1956 Thao had called on the Vietnamese Workers Party to 
struggle against bureaucracy, factionalism, and the cult of personality. 
“These maladies were widespread in society ‘but only in the leadership 
do they have the capacity to cause great harm to the people’” (p.17). 
The backlash to these criticisms meant that Thao became “a victim of the 
1956-58 crackdown on dissidents, and is mostly forgotten in the larger 
sweep of Vietnamese history” (p.18). The dissidents were, of course, 
denounced as “Trotskyists”.


Thao himself was stripped of his university position and forced to leave 
public life permanently. “[H]e later noted how, "paralyzed," he was 
unable to "speak" for years…Until the 1980s, he 

[Marxism] If Trump Wins Again, Don't Blame Progressives - CounterPunch.org

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[Marxism] RIAC :: War, the Economy and Politics in Syria: Broken Links

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Russian warns about Assad creating a bigger mess by emphasizing complete 
military victory rather than fixing economic and social conditions 
outside of Idlib.


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https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/20/conspiracies-and-the-coronavirus-in-the-usa-and-germany/

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[Marxism] He joked about killing endangered species. Trump gave him a top environment job | Environment | The Guardian

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/20/william-perry-pendley-trump-pick-top-environmental-post-endangered-species

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[Marxism] Defend Socialists and Environmental Activists in Izhevsk | Lefteast

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Since late April, Dmitriy Tsarenko (aka Morozov), one of the leaders of 
the Russian Socialist Movement’s branch in Izhevsk, Udmurtia, has been 
under increasing pressure from the state apparatus—in particular, from 
the Interior Ministry’s “Center for Combating Extremism,” often wielded 
by the authorities against political opponents. On May 15th, the police 
attempted to charge him with an arson attack on the office of Russia’s 
ruling United Russia party, and on May 18th, Dmitriy was officially 
charged with on the ridiculous offense of “justifying terrorism” in 
connection with a speech he gave at a protest in March. There, Morozov 
demanded that antifascists jailed as part of the Network Case, which was 
fabricated by the secret police, be freed. Breaking this article of the 
Russian Criminal Code can carry a sentence of up to three years.


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https://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/defend-socialists-and-environmental-activists-in-izhevsk/


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[Marxism] Limit growth: liberate degrowth | openDemocracy

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What we are experiencing is not degrowth but rather a tragedy. ‘Surely, 
nothing could be worse,’ wrote Hannah Arendt in The Human Condition 
(1958) than ‘the prospect of a society of laborers without labor’. The 
economic implications of containing the COVID-19 pandemic means that 
currently we have a growth society without growth or its engine,workers. 
But, this is not degrowth.


Degrowth is to growth as quality is to quantity, totally different. 
Growth is pure quantity: it is quality neutral. It is only because we 
live in a capitalist society where having more money is associated with 
a better quality of life that such confusion arises — so, degrowth is 
confused with lack, poverty and austerity. In reality degrowth stands 
for quality of life within planetary limits. This is the real opposite 
of capitalist growth.


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[Marxism] » 2020 Green Election Strategy

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Michael Albert interviews Howie Hawkins

https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/2020-green-election-strategy/

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[Marxism] Will the millennial left make peace with the "lesser evil" of Joe Biden? It's complicated | Salon.com

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By Asad Haider, Salon's house Marxist.

https://www.salon.com/2020/05/20/will-the-millennial-left-make-peace-with-the-lesser-evil-of-joe-biden-its-complicated/

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