[Marxism] My Personal Recollections about George Shriver - Socialist Action

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By Marilyn Vogt-Downey

https://socialistaction.org/2020/06/12/my-personal-recollections-about-george-shriver/

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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Asia]: Sheikh on Prange, 'Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast'

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Date: Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 5:00 PM
Subject: H-Net Review [H-Asia]: Sheikh on Prange, 'Monsoon Islam: Trade and
Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast'
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Sebastian R. Prange.  Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval
Malabar Coast.  Cambridge  Cambridge University Press, 2018.  358 pp.
 $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-42438-7.

Reviewed by Samira Sheikh (Vanderbilt University)
Published on H-Asia (June, 2020)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha

Sheikh on Prange, _Monsoon Islam_

The apparently peaceful arrival of Islam in Kerala, brought by
merchants, not marauders, is often compared favorably to that in
north India, but there has been inadequate thought given to how Islam
came to be transferred. In Malabar, modern Kerala, there is a
powerful story about the first Indian Muslim, the seventh-century
Cheraman Perumal, who, after seeing the moon split into two before
reuniting, came to understand that the miracle he had witnessed had
been performed by a man named Muhammad. Later, the king voyaged to
Arabia in the company of a group of Muslim pilgrims, where the
Prophet Muhammad converted him to Islam. Cheraman Perumal never
returned to his homeland but Islam was taken to Malabar by a group of
his Arab associates. While this early conversion narrative might be
legend, Sebastian Prange argues that its "story-world" (pp. 2, 7,
107) is reflective of prevailing patterns of religion, trade, and
rule in the Indian Ocean world, one that he calls "Monsoon Islam."
Islam in this zone did not transfer fully formed from a hypothetical
Arabian origin. It evolved, he argues, out of "the tension between
the global and the local, between competing impulses and imperatives
of severalty and syncretism" (p. 23). Prange's book is an attempt to
understand the creative engagements, facilitated by politics and
trading contacts, that went into "realizing" Kerala's characteristic
versions of Islam (p. 4). While the book's subject is Kerala, its
implications go further: it encapsulates and develops much recent
thinking about Islam and its transmission, emphasizing its local,
vernacular, and contested histories as shaping and forming the
broader Islamic world.

_Monsoon Islam _is arranged around spaces--port, mosque, palace,
sea--which are the rubrics for its four chapters. Its locale is the
Malabar coast between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries when local
production of pepper and other spices made it a coveted trade
destination. As traders, and not rulers, are the main actors in the
tale, Prange did not find epigraphic and courtly sources particularly
helpful, nor the few Malayalam historical records that have survived,
most of which are primarily concerned with temples or royal
households. The book's key records include Arabic texts and epigraphs
from India and Yemen, travel writings, the Cairo Geniza records in
Judeo-Arabic, a handful of Malayalam sources, and sixteenth-century
European accounts. Prange's profuse notes do not merely name-check
lists of references; they reflect a generous and serious
acknowledgement of previous scholarship in multiple languages. The
book is carefully produced with a list of thirty-six pages of primary
and secondary sources and a useful table with English, Malayalam, and
Arabic transliterations of place names. Closely argued and densely
packed with detail, this volume should be of equal interest to the
specialist and the general reader.

The first chapter sets up Kerala's sea-facing economy, where
multiethnic merchant communities generated institutional and legal
mechanisms to establish the networks of trust required for business.
Kerala's pepper made it a destination for far-flung trade from an
early period and in its ports could be found Tamils, Christians,
Jews, Gujaratis, Chinese, Zoroastrians, and Muslims from a variety of
ethnic and geographical origins. Interestingly, local Malabar
merchants did not participate directly in maritime commerce; it was
left largely to settlers. From the thirteenth century, Muslims
started to dominate the sea trade and Islamic law became the shared
legal system (even "legal _mentalité,_" p. 63) for setting up trade
arrangements--including partnerships and risk-spreading systems--and
resolving disputes. Prange rounds up recent research that shows the
preponderance of Islamic law in the western Indian Ocean, a
circumstance that necessitated the presence of Muslim _qadi_s, or
judges, in all ports.

The second chapter (titled "Mosque") is perhaps the most fascinating
of the book, offering a close look at the central legend that has
come to characterize Islam in 

[Marxism] George Shriver obit by his daughter

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[Marxism] Video of port of Oakland shutdown

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Here is a video of the shutdown of the Port of Oakland by the ILWU.
https://oaklandsocialist.com/2020/06/20/video-juneteenth-port-of-oakland-shutdown/

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[Marxism] 2020 Socially Relevant Film Festival–the Virtual Cinema reboot | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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On Friday, March 13th, CounterPunch published my survey of films 
appearing at the 2020 Socially Relevant Film Festival in New York. On 
the following Monday, I received word that all of the festival theaters 
were shutting down because of the pandemic. I am reposting my article to 
give you an idea of what will now be available as part of the Virtual 
Cinema reboot of the festival. At six dollars per film, you will be able 
to see some leading edge narrative and documentary films.


full: 
https://louisproyect.org/2020/06/20/2020-socially-relevant-film-festival-the-virtual-cinema-reboot/


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[Marxism] Asian Solidarity with Black Lives

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Asian Solidarity with Black Lives: Dismantling Racial Capitalism

Free Online Event Monday June 29, 2020 from 1:30pm to 3:00pm PDT

Anti-Asian and Anti-Black racism and oppression are pieces of Canada’s 
concealed histories, which continue on today. At this pivotal time, solidarity, 
particularly among racialized groups, is needed more than ever. With Min Sook 
Lee as the moderator, Winnie Ng and Carol Wall will discuss their perspectives 
on Anti-Asian and Anti-Black racism, solidarity between Asian and Black 
communities, as well as share their insights on dismantling racial capitalism.

Min Sook Lee, an award-winning documentary film director/producer of such 
documentaries as “Migrant Dreams”, an educator, and a political activist.
Carol Wall, a labour and social justice activist who has had an extensive and 
diverse career within labour in which she recently retired as the Ontario 
Regional Director for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
Winnie Ng, a labour rights activist, educator, and community organizer with a 
deep commitment to anti-racism, equity and worker empowerment. Winnie is 
currently an Adjunct Professor with the School of Social Work, Ryerson 
University.
Go to eventbrite to register: 
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This event is co-sponsored by the Asian Canadian Labour Alliance, Coalition of 
Black Trade Unionists, Ontario Federation of Labour - Workers of Colour 
Committee, OPSEU Coalition of Racialized Workers, OPSEU Provincial Human Rights 
Committee, and Toronto & York Region Labour Council - Chinese Workers Network.
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[Marxism] Opinion | The Gaps Between White and Black America, in Charts - The New York Times

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Obviously must be seen on the NYT website.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/19/opinion/politics/opportunity-gaps-race-inequality.html

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Re: [Marxism] The SEC and Mississippi's Rebel Flag

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Unfortunately, when polled, half (45%) of Mississippians say they do not want 
to change their flag.

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Subject: [Marxism] The SEC and Mississippi's Rebel Flag

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The South Eastern Conference and the NCAA announced that it would not hold
'championship' events in the state until it removed the Confederate flag
from its own state flag.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/19/us/mississippi-flag-sec-trnd/index.html

This, in my opinion, is as great a change as the NASCAR's to the culture of
the South as the SEC, and especially so its college football, is sacrosanct.

Until 2010 U of Mississippi still has as its mascot a rebel soldier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Reb

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[Marxism] New Cuban blog states editorial line - International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

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Cuba is experiencing a crisis today only surpassed by the Special 
Period. At least, that is what is perceived, lived and understood by the 
Cuban working class, which does not care about statistics, but a daily 
scenario marked by long queues which last for hours and little 
merchandise to buy. As if that were not enough, when we return to 
“normality”, we will find a completely different landscape from the one 
we left; worse, because there was an acute crisis before, reflected in a 
shortage of basic necessities.


We will return to a “normality” that will then be marked by having 
closed borders for at least three months. Therefore, the tourism 
industry will have lost almost a million foreign clients; if we give a 
conservative figure. The Cuban economy has developed such a dependence 
on tourism that this blow will demonstrate - again! - how dangerous it 
is to be tied to a single economic sector.


http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article6682

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[Marxism] Trump Sends Message With Prosecution of Molotov Cocktail Lawyers

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https://theintercept.com/2020/06/19/brooklyn-lawyers-molotov-cocktails-trump/

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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] The Makings of Modern Conservatism in California in the 30s

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Heard an interesting interview this morning on NPR:

In the 1930s, America experienced the Great Depression, the New Deal, 
and the presidencies of both Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt. 
California, meanwhile, witnessed a serious shift in the Republican Party 
- a shift that would impact the entire country for decades to come. 
Kathryn Olmsted, a professor of history at the University of California 
Davis and author of Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big 
Business Roots of Modern Conservatism, says that all sorts of factors 
came together to make conservatives see the government “as a force for 
evil, instead of a force for protecting the markets.” From crops to 
communism, she explains how California paved the way for modern 
conservatism.


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