Re: [Marxism] Harper's Published an Awful Open Letter About "Toleration" | The Mary Sue
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * So Noam Chomsky is a transphobia-defender now? This piece is garbage. Of course some of the people in the list are right-wing hypocrites (Bari Weiss, obviously) but the rest of this piece is trash. Indeed, the list of examples that the author presumes the signatories are criticizing don't consist of examples of people using their platforms to be awful. Some of them, particularly the quoting of the N-word show the exact opposite: that positions of power and influence are being used to teach the works of anti-racist luminaries like MLK and James Baldwin. Another example was a graphic video that showed the (graphic) nature of lynchings and slavery. This echoes the manipulative campaign that was used by neoliberal types to get rid of the communist mural at the high school in San Francisco that properly labelled George Washignton a slave owner. I wonder if any of these trigger-warning types would suggest shutting down the Holocaust museum because its content is graphic? That the author of this piece throws in quoting the N-word from one of their books with trying to dehumanize transgender people or something is absolute nonsense. Moreover, the author seems to have conveniently left out all of the times where leftist causes have faced cancellation and censorship, the most obvious being Palestine. I'm inclined to agree with the author that people criticizing you is not a form of "censorship" per se but the use of Twitter, Facebook, etc. to swarm on professors for making ideological faux pas is a deeply troubling development in my book.In my view the bigger issue is that this dynamic is simply ignored when the targets are leftists, and indeed, this piece simply erased the most prominent example of cancel culture and censorship on college campuses, which is the attempts to destroy the lives of scholars and activists for Palestine. Amith R. Gupta On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 7:04 PM Michael Meeropol via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > POSTING RULES & NOTES > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > * > > And Deirdre McCloskey is a trans-phobe? > > (answer: She was born Donald McCloskey ) > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com > _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Harper's Published an Awful Open Letter About "Toleration" | The Mary Sue
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[Marxism] Interview: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers | JSTOR Daily
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[Marxism] Harper's Published an Awful Open Letter About "Toleration" | The Mary Sue
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[Marxism] Degrowth Considered – The Brooklyn Rail
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Re: [Marxism] ? Anthony Fauci: The Last American Hero?
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I agree with the article, but it only scratches the surface. Today, CNN and MSNBC are lionizing Fauci and shouting from the rooftops about the White House's refusal to allow Fauci to speak to the US media. Last I looked, however, Fauci was not in solitary confinement in some prison. There is nothing stopping him from doing what a series of State Department officials did and defy Trump and speak to the media. He is complicit. But these are the very least of Fauci's sins. By confining himself to talking about face masks, social distancing, etc., he is moving attention purely in the direction of of dealing with the symptoms and totally away from dealing with the underlying causes of this and other zoonotic diseases. Once again, those are factory farming and habitat destruction. Sooner or later, if these two practices continue unabated, we will see a new pandemic that is far more deadly than is SARS-CoV19. And no amount of facemasks will prevent millions - maybe tens or even hundreds of millions - from dying. John Reimann -- *“Science and socialism go hand-in-hand.” *Felicity Dowling Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Freedom Means Can Rather Than Should: What the Harper's Open Letter Gets Wrong | Literary Hub
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * As a person who deals with both gender and sexuality-derived bigotry because of queerness, I understand the impulse here but frankly find all the responses a tad childish. Freedom of speech is defined by the right to not have your exercise of speech punished or repressed BY THE STATE. What lies at the core of this argument is the following scenario: Activists are successfully organizing crowds to reject granting venues for certain speakers. Some of the aggrieved are facing further repercussions for their bad opinions via firing from work. When it is a matter of state compelling the excommunication, expulsion, or job termination of a certain party, that is wrong. That needs to be opposed vigorously precisely because it crosses a very dangerous line between the citizenry and the state. But when this is an engagement in the private sphere, lacking any kind of imposition or endorsement from the state (as is the case here), that's actually just another dimension of the First Amendment being exercised, FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION. You as a private individual do not have the right to impose yourself onto other individuals and force their engagement with you. A Klansman does not have the right to say to me "You must grant me a forum and debate by default." Furthermore, look at the power dynamics. All the aggrieved parties in this are rich liberals with a substantial audience and access to powerful forums. Besides her rather repulsive gender politics, JK Rowling is a gazillionaire children's book author who played a predominant role in the whole Jeremy Corbyn/Labour Party "anti-semitism" fracas < https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/jk-rowling-attacks-saint-jeremy-in-biblical-tweet/>. She's a dyed-in-wool neoliberal who was thick as thieves with Gordon Brown. This is a tempest in a teapot. -- Best regards, Andrew Stewart Message: 1 Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 13:39:53 -0400 From: Michael Meeropol To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition Subject: Re: [Marxism] Freedom Means Can Rather Than Should: What the Harper's Open Letter Gets Wrong | Literary Hub Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" So the reason this letter is no good is because it was signed by J.K. Rowling and doesn't mention the fight for LGBTQ rights? So Noam Chomsky is guilty by association? All American communists were Stalinist mass murderers by association?? All black men have to answer for a black rapist? All gay people have to answer for a single child molester? (or a mass murderer like Juan Corona) All Jews have to answer for Benjamin Netanyahu? After reading this piece, I re-read the letter very carefully to see where it denied the reality of trans people. Couldn't find it Even THE BELL CURVE should be attacked and refuted not burned or taken out of a library --- When Steven J. Gould refuted it, he first READ it!! The writer seems to be asserting that the letter is wrong because it implicitly (or specifically) defends the right of anti-trans bigots to assert that there is no such thing as a truly trans person (ridiculous idea but there are plenty of them) --- but all it really does is caution the rest of us to resist the urge to PUNISH "wrong" speech -- that's what the OTHER SIDE does all the time and we should not give them ammunition https://lithub.com/freedom-means-can-rather-than-should-what-the-harpers-open-letter-gets-wrong/ > _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Freedom Means Can Rather Than Should: What the Harper's Open Letter Gets Wrong | Literary Hub
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 7/9/20 1:39 PM, Michael Meeropol wrote: So the reason this letter is no good is because it was signed by J.K. Rowling and doesn't mention the fight for LGBTQ rights? Jesus Christ, Michael, what in the hell is the letter trying to remediate? Why don't you tell me which bad behavior it is meant to overcome? Transgender people and their supporters writing nasty Tweets to Rowling? What exactly is it that you think we need to fight against? Social media is the weapon of the weaponless. These people like Nick Lemann, Dean Emeritus of the Columbia Journalism School, can't get over the fact that anybody with a computer and an Internet connection can raise all sorts of hell. They remind me of the Vatican getting riled up over Gutenberg's printing press that would allow the commoners to compose a pamphlet that reflected their own needs, both religious and material. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 9 Jul 2020 at 7:33, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: > > The Cosmonaut team inaugurates the ecology series by discussing John > Bellamy Foster´s seminal book Marx´s Ecology on its twentieth > anniversary. A review of John Bellamy Foster's "Marx's Ecology": Marx and Engels on protecting the environment by Joseph Green, August 2007 (http://www.communistvoice.org/40cMarx.html) Introduction The writings of Marx and Engels Alongside and after Marx and Engels Lenin and the early Soviet Union Stalinist and state capitalist ecocide Marxism and global warming --Not market methods, but direct regulation of production --Class basis of environmental destruction --The nature of state regulation --Bringing the masses into the environmental struggle Foster's Marxism without teeth Excerpt from the introduction: Heat waves, dry spells, storms, floods, and other disasters are raising the issue of global warming more and more urgently. This is going to put all economic ideas and practices to the test. Which ones contributed to global warming and other environmental problems? Which ones can help solve these problems? Many apparently well-established economic practices and views are going to become outdated rather soon. Will Marx and Engels' ideas be among them? Many people think that they could have cared less about ecological questions. But "Marx's Ecology: materialism and nature" by John Bellamy Foster is one of several books in the last decade that show that Marx and Engels were intensely interested in the ecological problems of their time. They wrote about these problems; kept abreast of the advance of scientific knowledge about them; showed the relationship of these problems to the free market and private ownership; regarded these problems as one of the important proofs of the need for social planning of production, land use, and the overall economy; and held that socialist society would have to reunite town and country in order to protect the environment. Moreover, Marx and Engels's views are of interest, not mainly because they were right in their controversies with various of the personalities of the time, but because Marxism remains relevant to today's ecological problems. ... global warming, if anything, raises the question of emancipating the economy from the dictatorship of private profit even more strongly than before. The failure of free market methods, such as carbon trading and carbon taxes, to sufficiently curb greenhouse gas emissions will lead to the need for direct regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. This and other environmental issues will eventually raise the issue of economic planning, locally, regionally, and even globally. This raises the question of whether this planning will be subordinated to the profits of the corporations, or whether corporate ownership will increasingly be infringed upon. Struggle will take place over who will pay for environmental disasters and the necessary economic reconstruction, and whether economic planning will go on behind the backs of the masses or with their participation. All this raises the questions of class struggle and socialism, and hence of Marxism. Unfortunately, Foster is more interested in protracted argumentation on the most general philosophical questions than with what has to be done to solve the ecological issues of our day. For example, he refers repeatedly to the Greek materialist philosopher Epicurus (341 - 270 BC), his Roman adherent Lucretius (99 - 55 BC), and their connection to Marx's original philosophical development. Hellenistic philosophy will always retain a certain interest, but it would seem rather peripheral to a book on Marxism and the environment. Foster ends up criticizing Engels, Lenin, and just about everyone else, for supposedly not being philosophically knowledgeable enough about materialism and dialectics, due to lack of sufficient attention to Epicurus. As a result, according to Foster, theorists who were "supposedly emphasizing dialectical perspectives that rejected both mechanism and idealism" would really be mired in "Marxist positivism". (2) This sort of windy nonsense aside, he nevertheless provides some background information on a number of the major scientific and political figures of Marx and Engels' times, both those whose work Marx and Engels valued and those whom they opposed. - (Footnote 2) Foster, Ibid. , pp. 230, 231. Foster laments that it was only at the end of his life that Engels, in his view, took real notice of Epicurus. He says that, worse yet, no subsequent Marxist had obtained even this level
Re: [Marxism] Freedom Means Can Rather Than Should: What the Harper's Open Letter Gets Wrong | Literary Hub
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * So the reason this letter is no good is because it was signed by J.K. Rowling and doesn't mention the fight for LGBTQ rights? So Noam Chomsky is guilty by association? All American communists were Stalinist mass murderers by association?? All black men have to answer for a black rapist? All gay people have to answer for a single child molester? (or a mass murderer like Juan Corona) All Jews have to answer for Benjamin Netanyahu? After reading this piece, I re-read the letter very carefully to see where it denied the reality of trans people. Couldn't find it Even THE BELL CURVE should be attacked and refuted not burned or taken out of a library --- When Steven J. Gould refuted it, he first READ it!! The writer seems to be asserting that the letter is wrong because it implicitly (or specifically) defends the right of anti-trans bigots to assert that there is no such thing as a truly trans person (ridiculous idea but there are plenty of them) --- but all it really does is caution the rest of us to resist the urge to PUNISH "wrong" speech -- that's what the OTHER SIDE does all the time and we should not give them ammunition https://lithub.com/freedom-means-can-rather-than-should-what-the-harpers-open-letter-gets-wrong/ > _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Dead Letter: Rescuing Free Speech from the Liberals who Claim to be Defending It | The Public Autonomy Project
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 7/9/20 1:04 PM, Michael Meeropol wrote: Notice, the attack on the letter and letter-writers does not say ONE WORD is opposition to ONE SENTENCE in the letter --- and ignores the most important sentence --- that such behavior HELPS the right-wing ... Oh, come on, Michael. The cancel culture consists of powerless and mostly young people writing angry Tweets. On the other hand, Cary Nelson got Steven Salaita fired because of his pro-Palestinian writing. Harper's, the sponsor of this meretricious letter, is owned by John MacArthur who is one of the signers. He has also fired multiple editors because they didn't agree with him on an article and to preempt a union organizing drive. Anyhow, I have an article on this in tomorrow's Counterpunch. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Dead Letter: Rescuing Free Speech from the Liberals who Claim to be Defending It | The Public Autonomy Project
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I read the original letter --- Does the writer of this post not know that VIRTUALLLY ALL of the people who signed the letter have been in the forefront of the arguments in favor of ending repression in the US? THe whole point of the letter is that people purportedly on "our side" have (unwittingly but definitely anyway) given aid and comfort to the fascists by becoming EXAMPLES of "left-wing" illiberalism --- it's the same thing that permitted the right wing in the early 1990s to attack "political correctness" --- These attacks from the right are ridiculously dishonest and often wrong accusing people incorrectly --- BUT there have been examples where people have lost their jobs because they crossed some line or other of political purity --- that happens to be the truth --- The signers of this letter want people to keep their eyes on the prize and the prize is ANTI-FASCISM --- ANTI-TRUMPISM --- Unwitting support for the right wing fascists is dangerous to our side. Notice, the attack on the letter and letter-writers does not say ONE WORD is opposition to ONE SENTENCE in the letter --- and ignores the most important sentence --- that such behavior HELPS the right-wing (lMike Meeropol) On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 https://publicautonomy.org/2020/07/09/free-speech/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-SHERA]: Taroutina on Reischl, 'Photographic Literacy: Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors'
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * -- Forwarded message - From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW Date: Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 12:33 PM Subject: H-Net Review [H-SHERA]: Taroutina on Reischl, 'Photographic Literacy: Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors' To: Cc: H-Net Staff Katherine M. H. Reischl. Photographic Literacy: Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors. Ithaca Cornell University Press, 2018. 320 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-2436-7. Reviewed by Maria Taroutina (Yale-NUS College) Published on H-SHERA (July, 2020) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha Katherine Reischl's eloquent new monograph examines the complex and multivalent ways in which some of Russia's leading authors understood and engaged with the novel medium of photography. The book begins with the 1860s and runs roughly through to the late 1930s, with the conclusion focusing on the post-World War II works of Vladimir Nabokov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Reischl traces the chronological evolution of photography as a technological, cultural, and visual medium, while simultaneously analyzing a diverse set of authorial word-image strategies that were employed by key literary figures at specific historical junctures. Each discrete case study is contextualized within a dense network of political, ideological, cultural, and theoretical concerns surrounding questions of modern subjectivity, authorial authenticity, and visual and literary representation, all of which evolved with and responded to the continuously shifting environment of late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Throughout the course of the book, Reischl attends to the numerous connections and continuities between individual authors and projects, carefully scrutinizing their cross-temporal dialogues across several decades. The book opens with the late nineteenth century and a consideration of Lev Tolstoy's exponentially growing authorial celebrity and the manner in which it was further augmented by the proliferation of the photographic medium, so much so that the writer's frequently reproduced image became an important visual emblem for his entire epoch. The chapter also investigates the subtle and pervasive influence that photography exerted on Tolstoy's writing and highlights several instances of the author's "camera eye" at work in his various novels, such as _The Cossacks_ (1863) and _Anna Karenina_ (1878). It culminates with a discussion of Tolstoy's "crisis of authorship" and the intense dispute that broke out over his copyright and literary legacy between his wife, Sofia, and his chief disciple, Vladimir Chertkov, with the latter prevailing so that Tolstoy's image ultimately became "the property of the public sphere" (p. 51) at the same time that photography was recognized in Russia as an artistic medium in its own right. The second chapter similarly interrogates the photographic and literary experimentations of the novelist, short-story writer, and playwright Leonid Andreev and, to a lesser degree of Silver Age authors Vasilii Rozanov and Maksimilian Voloshin. Here Reischl emphasizes the idiosyncratic and generative intersections between Andreev's public persona and the intimate images of his domestic life, which he photographed himself and strategically deployed as visual extensions of his fictional, literary worlds, whose esoteric, demonic themes mirrored photography's liminal ability to connect the realms of the living and the dead. Reischl contends that through the active fusion of "life writing and light writing as method" (pp. 15-16) writers like Andreev, Rozanov, and Voloshin embraced a novel form of creative modernist intermediality that became integral to the very "formation of [their] literary imagination[s]" (p. 17). The ensuing two chapters shift their attention to the Soviet era and survey the different ways the regime harnessed photographic processes and documentary writing toward forging a new Soviet citizenry and socialist state. Photography was employed on a large scale as both a pedagogical and agitational tool, with many "author-photographers" rising to the task at hand throughout the 1920s and 1930s. The third chapter specifically bridges the pre- and postrevolutionary epochs by exploring the documentary writing and photography of the Symbolist ethnographer and diarist Mikhail Prishvin, who strove to renegotiate and rebrand his authorial subjectivity in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution and the novel demands of Soviet society. Mikhail Prishvin advanced the hybrid new genre of the _ocherk_, which united text and image in a mutually generative dialectical relationship_. _Comparing his prerevolutionary publication _The Land of Unfrightened Birds_ (1907),
[Marxism] Dead Letter: Rescuing Free Speech from the Liberals who Claim to be Defending It | The Public Autonomy Project
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-War]: King on DeLucia, 'Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast'
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * -- Forwarded message - From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW Date: Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 10:18 AM Subject: H-Net Review [H-War]: King on DeLucia, 'Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast' To: Cc: H-Net Staff Christine M. DeLucia. Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast. New Haven Yale University Press, 2020. 496 pp. $32.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-300-24838-8. Reviewed by Alice King (University of Virginia) Published on H-War (July, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey In _Memory Lands_, Christine M. DeLucia analyzes the historical memory of King Philip's War among Native and non-Native people in New England between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. Prompted by colonial expansion, the war was fought between English colonists and a coalition of Native groups including the Wampanoag and their leader Philip, or Metacom, between 1675 and 1678. DeLucia argues that a broader understanding of the shadow of King Philip's War is best accessed through the "memoryscapes" that developed in the war's wake (p. 1). Residents of the Northeast enacted their remembrance of the war not principally through language, as Jill Lepore contends in _The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity _(1999), but through material factors like landscapes, monuments, archives, and objects, and the immaterial: ceremonies, stories, and relationships. These visible and invisible commemorations infused the landscape with memory, emotion, and narrative, creating chorographic links between past and present. The Northeast was not a _tabula rasa _waiting to be inscribed by English pens, DeLucia argues, but a rich and complex "memorial terrain" before and after the war (p. 15). These memories and places are inherently dynamic, changing with the seasons, with time, with use and neglect. _Memory Lands _is a correspondingly dynamic story that spans centuries and traverses multiple locations in order to capture Native "survivance:" Indigenous endurance in the face of persistent colonialism (p. xvii). DeLucia's methodology has not been to every scholar's taste: _Memory Lands _weaves together colonial records, material objects, literature, ceremonies, interviews with descendant communities, and the author's own photographs and stories, driven by "decolonizing methodologies" which stress that valuable knowledge exists in multiple places, including in the oral traditions of Native peoples (p. 20).[1] Historians often zoom in on conflict: after all, conflicts generate reams of sources that appear to offer certainty. However, if we only ever deal with Native communities through the lens of conflict, DeLucia contends, it skews our understanding of their experiences. We need to recognize "regathering, recovery, [and] regeneration," as well as "extraordinary violence" (p. 23). Native peoples did not vanish from the picture, as first Puritans and later Yankees would have us believe; instead, they adapted and survived, remembering their histories in complex and varied ways. In part 1, "The Way to Deer Island," DeLucia traces how Native peoples have navigated the lasting effects of colonialism in the land and waterscapes around Boston in the wake of King Philip's War. In October 1675, Massachusetts Bay leaders used Deer Island, a peninsula just north of Boston, as an internment camp for Praying Indians, a decision ostensibly for the Natives' protection but one rooted in deep fears about their loyalty. "Unknown numbers" of Native people died from hunger and exposure while confined to the island (p. 30). Despite colonial efforts, Boston remained a Native space during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, even as white Bostonians memorialized King Philip's War and told mythical stories of vanished Indians who had passed out of existence through colonial violence, cultural atrophy, and racially mixed marriages. Native presence persisted even as Boston handed Deer Island over to the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to be used as a sewage treatment plant in the 1990s. Native groups including the Muhheconneuk Intertribal Committee on Deer Island lobbied unsuccessfully against the plant. DeLucia bookends part 1 with the 2010 Deer Island Sacred Run and Paddle, organized by the Natick Nipmuc Indian Council. Tribal members and supporters paddled _mishoonash_, wooden dugout canoes, from Plymouth Plantation to Deer Island, a sacred journey retracing the movements of their ancestors and a powerful statement of Native survival in the face of attempted exile and destruction. Part 2, "The Narragansett Country," takes a similar
[Marxism] The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda Online performance
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Ishmael Reed wrote a rebuttal play to *Hamilton* that he premiered last year Off Broadway and is now doing a web broadcast of it for free on Tuesday, 7/14/20 at 8:00 PM. Reservations are available via < https://ci.ovationtix.com/35133/production/1030128?performanceId=10552165> -- Best regards, Andrew Stewart _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] COVID-19: Penn State Professors Write Open Letter Petitioning Return to Campus in the Fall
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[Marxism] Here Not Death but the Future Is Frightening: The Twenty-Eighth Newsletter (2020).
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Asia]: Rangarajan on Zhang, 'The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128'
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Best regards, Andrew Stewart - - - Subscribe to the Washington Babylon newsletter via https://washingtonbabylon.com/newsletter/ Begin forwarded message: > From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW > Date: July 9, 2020 at 9:40:13 AM EDT > To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > Cc: H-Net Staff > Subject: H-Net Review [H-Asia]: Rangarajan on Zhang, 'The River, the Plain, > and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128' > Reply-To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > > Ling Zhang. The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental > Drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128. Studies in Environment and > History Series. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2016. 328 pp. > $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-15598-5. > > Reviewed by Mahesh Rangarajan (Ashoka University) > Published on H-Asia (July, 2020) > Commissioned by Sumit Guha > > Given the salience of large dam projects and river engineering across > Asia today, stretching from the Yangtze and Mekong to South Asia and > beyond, this is a timely and deeply insightful work. Contrary to what > is commonplace logic, the control of river water flows with dykes and > embankments not only was well known in Song China but also played an > indirect and critical role in an environmental drama for over eight > decades commencing in July 1048. Drawing on a formidable range of > sources, Ling Zhang weaves together a tapestry of state action, river > water flows, and societal crises that makes one rethink much more > than the period of Chinese history she has studied. This is a rare > work where the epic scale is enriched throughout by attention to lost > and forgotten voices. Hebei Province, where waters broke loose and > played havoc, is central to the work, but it is looked at in a way > that "the stories of those _who lost in the game of history_ were the > hidden companion of growth. Dead bodies, hungry refugees, salinized > earth, disappeared streams and vanished trees," she writes in lucid, > often charged but meticulous prose, "had participated in the making > of history long before we were willing to address their existence" > (pp. 283-84, emphasis added). > > The breaching of the banks was a catastrophe for those in the river's > path: Hebei had no direct association with the Yellow River for > centuries but was to be intimately tied in with its tribulations for > eighty years. At the end of this period, the river abruptly changed > course never to flow this way again. The day it changed course was > catastrophic for many. Contemporaries who witnessed the catastrophe > recalled people "turning into food for fish and turtles" or journeys > a thousand li long (Zhang estimates it was five hundred kilometers) > with "roads full of corpses of dead men" (pp. 2-3). As many as eight > out of ten households had to relocate to save their lives and take > only the few belongings they could carry. The land was to a large > extent rendered desolate, with raging waters and large patches of > sand deposited on once fertile fields. This deep environmental and > human tragedy had a date, time, and place in an episodic sense. > > And it had deep roots; it is here that Zhang expertly brings > disparate elements of high politics of state making and the > technologies of river control together with the sociocultural milieu > of the times. The Song era has long been a subject of scholarly > inquiry. In the period 1048-1128, it saw a close connection between > the Yellow River and Hebei in a manner that the latter paid the > heavier price. The argument here is simple in insight though > multilayered in terms of the story. The Yellow River was controlled > via state-built dykes. From the mid-tenth century onward there was a > clear regional bias; the attempt was to secure Henan, the core zone > of the northern Song state, and to push the river waters toward Hebei > to the North. There were indeed floods in both the South and North, > but over time their intensity on the latter front only increased. > This pushing to the North was not mere oversight but arose from an > overlap of strategic logic and political power play where the river > was to be both object and actor. This study is a corrective to any > simple reading of the Song period as an era of economic growth by > perceptively bringing the changing ecology into the trope of > state-society-economy relations. > > The first Song emperor, Taizu, secured Henan and stabilized the > state, integrating Hebei as a peripheral region. The fear of nomadic > invasion led to investment in ponds to slow down enemy advances. The > advancement of the
[Marxism] Freedom Means Can Rather Than Should: What the Harper's Open Letter Gets Wrong | Literary Hub
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[Marxism] » Anthony Fauci: The Last American Hero?
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * By Mike Davis. Despite his famous halo of truthfulness, Fauci has deliberately misled the public on several occasions during the crisis. At the beginning of the outbreak, he and CDC Director Robert Redfield defied medical common sense and lied about the efficacy of face mask usage. While news programs were showing entire Asian societies safely masked, we were told that face coverings were unnecessary, useless, and possibly dangerous. https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/anthony-fauci-the-last-american-hero/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] "You Seem To Have No Conscience": Activists Stop Crown Heights Landlords From Evicting Tenants - Gothamist
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[Marxism] ‘Cancel Culture’ Is How the Powerful Play Victim | by Jessica Valenti | Jul, 2020 | GEN
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[Marxism] A Semester to Die For – Spectre Journal
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * “Covidiots” is what one colleague called the ten administrators who, representing an annual base salary pool of more than $2 million, delivered a reopening roadmap identical to just about everyone else’s, lampooned by McSweeney’s as “A Letter from Your University’s Vice President for Magical Thinking.” What alarms me, however, isn’t that our universities are in the hands of people too dunderheaded to distinguish science from superstition, medicine from magic. To the contrary, we find at the helm people who do grasp—and embrace—how tragically we will be failed by iPhone apps and personal safety kits. Malthusian thinking, not magical thinking, is what we are up against. https://spectrejournal.com/a-semester-to-die-for/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Harper’s Magazine’s ‘Cancel Culture’ Letter Kicks Off Circular Firing Squad in Media
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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature - COSMONAUT
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The Cosmonaut team inaugurates the ecology series by discussing John Bellamy Foster’s seminal book Marx’s Ecology on its twentieth anniversary. Join Niko, Ian, Matthew, and Remi as they discuss the context of this work, and how it started a rediscovery of Marx’s ecological politics. They discuss how ecology informed Marx’s understanding of the world since his doctoral thesis, the relationship between Marx, Darwin, and Malthus and the concept of metabolic rift. https://secure-web.cisco.com/1rb8fkGtg1uIXXO1C4w0FvAKgCCMKoybyiEzVGYWi7aSruDZZojJNuOiTsgkOQpSwZifBGstDbqHiTYfoCOwEhvYwXRqJ1Syz1efl_ydy4yYfkne5qVoB_Xdg6_JVUst3etTBYofuu1T7Q3cAvzvaMg--ca-jUHtVr-DZgLCQgPSOMH3PPF3S66YS9oiJRbVQpgW0hksG1xT00zoWrax10UrVFKTqvVW9jiZidLVJEnrRXz7AFrm-9um5_us8YpRg_Ot3CYjzxl1PGkE-RMuRkF5PilIAi75FLtGkWCqxpXzK9uYYBVIXVUeNCqOE2ZCrL5YaMwK2BPWAulZ4NHn3NnGXBvOwOLecm-ecglJ2PJl2snZIyhBFWWVChySz1uBu/https%3A%2F%2Fcosmonaut.blog%2F2020%2F07%2F08%2Fmarxs-ecology-materialism-and-nature%2F _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Biden and Sanders deepen their cooperation
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * *Here we see two things: First the right wing Joe Biden of yesterday can become the liberal Joe Biden of tomorrow. It all depends on the situation on the ground, including what sort of movement exists in the streets. Second, the real role of Bernie Sanders is a rallying of the liberal forces inside the Democratic Party. This means continuing to enable that party to bring millions of workers and others into their fold while ensuring that nothing too "radical" is accomplished. Here's the text of the article:* https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/us/politics/biden-bernie-sanders.html?referringSource=articleShare "Allies of Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled a sweeping set of joint policy recommendations on Wednesday, a significant if tentative sign of cooperation among Democrats as Mr. Biden’s campaign continues its appeals to the progressive left. Mr. Biden is expected to adopt many of the recommendations, which were submitted by six policy task forces and cover a wide range of issues including health care, criminal justice, education and climate change. For all of the details, the lengthy recommendation document amounted to a collection of widely acceptable liberal proposals, many of which Mr. Biden has already embraced in his bid for party unity. And they come at a time when policy differences that stood out in the primary campaign have largely faded to the backdrop as Democrats look toward a shared goal: defeating President Trump. The recommendations to Mr. Biden on economics include broader and costlier plans than he has championed so far in his campaign, and the proposals on climate change include new benchmarks for reducing carbon emissions. Though Mr. Sanders favors universal, single-payer health care, the recommendations adhere to Mr. Biden’s approach of building on the Affordable Care Act. And Republicans will find plenty to fault among the proposals, like a 100-day moratorium on deportations, a move that Mr. Biden had previously backed. The policy recommendations will also most likely frustrate some in the Democratic Party’s activist wing who believe they do not go far enough. The task forces did not recommend plans that Mr. Sanders promoted like “Medicare for all,” tuition-free public college for everyone or canceling all student debt. As the economic and public health impact of the coronavirus pandemic became clear, some consensus between the two factions of the party had already begun to form. The groups also met amid intense unrest over racial injustice, spurred by the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police, that has focused attention nationwide on systemic racism and inequality. Among the recommendations put forth by the health care task force are new health insurance programs for the duration of the pandemic. The task force suggested government-funded COBRA coverage for people who recently lost job-based coverage, and the creation of a new Obamacare plan that would have no deductible and would be free for low-income Americans. The document also adds new details to an existing Biden campaign proposal to create a “public option” plan, which would be run by the Medicare system to compete with private health insurers. That plan would include a no-deductible option. Low-income Americans who are not eligible for Medicaid would be automatically enrolled in the plan at no cost, though they could opt out if they wished. Anyone else would be eligible to buy it if they preferred it to other choices. Other recommendations included a proposal from the economy task force for an executive order to prohibit federal contracts with companies that pay less than a $15 minimum wage or that do not remain neutral in unionization efforts; a goal from the climate change task force to eliminate carbon emissions from power plants by 2035; and the creation of an environmental justice fund to address the disproportionate burden of pollution and environmental hazards that communities of color bear. The task forces also gave broad policy recommendations to the Democratic National Committee’s platform committee. In a statement, Mr. Biden commended the task forces’ work and expressed gratitude toward Mr. Sanders “for working together to unite our party, and deliver real, lasting change for generations to come.” Mr. Sanders, for his part, acknowledged the progress his supporters had made — but also nodded to some lasting disappointment. “Though the end result is not what I or my supporters would have written alone, the task forces have created a good policy blueprint that will move this country in a much-needed progressive direction and substantially
