Re: [Marxism] Bill DiFazio

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> Anyone read his book on longshore? I remember one anecdote about how
> buy-outs allowed dockworkers to spend time at home taking care of
> offspring, parents, etc.
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[Marxism] how the market killed testing

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/health/coronavirus-testing-lab-capacity.html
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Re: [Marxism] One initiative - COVID-19 Coming Together - Vancouver!

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sounds promising, keep us posted
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[Marxism] Italy in confinement, working classes suffering

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http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article6453
note self-organization efforts
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[Marxism] “We’re Not Going to Work Through Coronavirus”

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https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/coronavirus-strikes-italy-workers-health-fiat-auto-plant?fbclid=IwAR0y6A1x3Qr32mIL5-jfNQ-KS3fAJQWilGewjXH_GWLzV-oX2tz1YshNHZo
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[Marxism] grassroots groups' demands re coronavirus

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https://newpol.org/demands-from-grassroots-organizers-concerning-covid-19/
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[Marxism] Chicago labor coalition demands 15 days paid sick leave

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https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2020/3/11/21175105/coronavirus-unions-sick-leave-debt-forgiveness-mortgage-payments-shut-offs-evictions?fbclid=IwAR2CIlIpi80lcqpw4cZi_s0Pr3Sh-r7Zty0V0eGoXjjuYBsIALBuqsdNXaI

Emulate this initiative - and empower unions' members to raise
workplace-specific demands and actions.
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[Marxism] "moderate" Dems and health care

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re the anecdote Dayne passed along (snipped quote below): Tony Mazzocchi
often used that story as evidence of the need for a Labor Party. And health
care was always at the center of the Party's activities.
IMO the corona virus catastrophe could put independent political action
back on the agenda, as unions and allies fight to make the bosses pay for
the crisis.
Dayne wrote:
"It was evident Hillary is thinking a lot about politics.  Can you
realistically tell me, she asked, that there are any big powers that
support single-payer and that can take on the insurance industry’s lobbying
and advertising budget?  “I said, ‘About 70 percent of the U.S. people
favor something like a single-payer system,’” Himmelstein recalls.  “‘With
presidential leadership that can be an overwhelming force.’  She said,
‘David, tell me something interesting.’”
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[Marxism] The Unlikely Life of a Socialist Activist Resonates a Century Later

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(new thread because I can't figure out how to trim excess content)
I read the new bio of Rose Pastor Stokes and unfortunately it says almost
nothing about her prominent role in the CP.
See discussion and mentions of her time in the CP in Bryan Palmer's Cannon
bio; in John Riddell's united front book; in Mari Jo Buhle's Women and
American Socialism; and references in each of them about her. She was a
leader of the Goose Caucus (the undergrounders), and in that capacity a
delegate to the fourth Comintern congress. (She was active in the debate
there about African-Americans, in which Claude McKay took part; I'm looking
for details.) She was also central to the debate about whether and how to
build CP-led neighborhood-based women's groups.
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Re: [Marxism] The Unlikely Life of a Socialist Activist Resonates a Century Later

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A search at marxists.org of her name turns up lots of stuff by and about
her - including her role in the CP leadership in the early '20's. See btw
the letter by James P. Cannon to her arguing against a separate women's
group.

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> NY Times, March 5, 2020
> The Unlikely Life of a Socialist Activist Resonates a Century Later
> By Jennifer Szalai
>
> Rebel Cinderella
>  From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
> By Adam Hochschild
> Illustrated. 303 pages. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $30.
>
> She was an impoverished Jewish immigrant from Russia who had started
> working in a cigar factory at the age of 11; he was the scion of an
> old-money Episcopalian family who enjoyed a mansion on Madison Avenue
> and a weekend house with a bowling alley.
>
> When Rose Pastor married James Graham Phelps Stokes on the shores of
> Connecticut in 1905, the couple insisted on omitting the word “obey”
> from the ceremony. They became active members in the Socialist Party,
> lending their support to a labor movement under siege during a time of
> widening inequality.
>
> Rose’s socialist commitments were seamlessly aligned with her life
> experience; Graham’s were more surprising, but he took to them with the
> ardor of a convert. Writing to his “darling Mother,” who like many women
> of her station put a lot of stock in her own charitable deeds, he asked
> whether she “recognized the injustice of the system which provides you
> with your great income at the expense of others; and whether you
> recognized the relation between this system and the terribly widespread
> suffering which you endeavor so earnestly to relieve.”
>
> In “Rebel Cinderella,” Adam Hochschild writes movingly about an unlikely
> pair who also served as a potent symbol. The public was so fascinated by
> the couple that some Americans kept scrapbooks documenting Rose’s
> fairy-tale ascent. For several years, she was mentioned in the press
> more than any other American woman. Hochschild notes that as the Gilded
> Age yielded to the Progressive Era, Rose and Graham seemed like the
> ideal embodiment of socialist ambitions: “What could better symbolize
> the hope of human brotherhood than such a marriage of rich and poor,
> native-born and immigrant, Gentile and Jew?”
>
> Hochschild is a superb writer who makes light work of heavy subjects,
> having published books about the conflagration of World War I and the
> brutal colonialism of Belgium’s King Leopold II. In “Rebel Cinderella,”
> he brings his roving curiosity to bear on a figure whose public life
> coincided with the roiling decades of the early 20th century, with its
> grotesque economic disparity, vicious anti-Semitism, seething white
> nationalism and swelling anti-immigrant fervor. The time of upheaval
> that he writes about bears an unnerving resemblance to our own.
>
> The name Rose Pastor Stokes may no longer be familiar, but Hochschild
> found plenty of newspaper clippings in his research, along with
> thousands of letters, unpublished memoirs, Rose’s diary and even reports
> detailing the surveillance of her by the predecessor of the F.B.I.
> Unearthing some mournful poetry Rose wrote about her time in the cigar
> factory, Hochschild corroborates her grim portrait with notes made by a
> factory inspector. Where information is scant or nonexistent, he deploys
> elegant workarounds that evoke a vivid sense of time and place. About
> Graham’s bachelor years before meeting Rose, he writes: “For unmarried
> men of his class and time, any sexual experience was likely to be
> furtive and paid for.”
>
> When Rose met Graham she was working as a reporter for The Jewish Daily
> News (a job she was offered after writing an occasional column about
> factory life), living on the Lower East Side as the sole breadwinner in
> a household that included four of her younger siblings and their mother.
> Graham had a medical degree and was living in settlement housing, where
> the wealthy lived alongside the poor, which appealed to his sense of
> noblesse oblige. He was charmed by her, recounting in a letter how much
> he enjoyed her 25th birthday, when she invited him to her humble
> apartment and offered him a glass of milk, bread and butter, an egg and

Re: [Marxism] "Miranda's Rebellion"

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Agree with John. These women are inspiring.

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> This is one of the best pieces of journalism I've read in a long, long
> time. These two Southern, white middle class women share their lives and
> their struggles. It shows something about what's happening in the US that
> all the Gallup and Quinnipiac polls and sociological surveys cannot. I urge
> people to read it.
>
> 'It is white women in the Deep South who have remained the loyalists, the
> research showed, giving Trump 64 percent of their vote in 2016, a figure
> that did not include Miranda Murphey, who had first started reevaluating
> her politics after the election of Barack Obama, even though she had voted
> Republican.
>
> “It was all the comments I kept hearing, like, ‘Change the channel, I don’t
> want to see that black face,’ ” she said. “It was always that he was black,
> not that he was liberal, not that there was a problem with some policy. I
> always thought being a Republican meant supporting the military and lower
> taxes, not being racist and ignorant.”
>
> Then came Trump, who Miranda found so morally repugnant that for the first
> time in her voting life she wrote in the name of the Libertarian Party
> candidate and went to bed expecting that good and decent conservatives
> would do the same. She woke up realizing she was wrong. Church members had
> voted for Trump. Her parents had gone for Trump. Phillip: Trump'
>
> And then came Liz, a new English teacher in her district who was outspoken
> and had a sticker on her cellphone with an image of Justice Ruth Bader
> Ginsburg and the word “Dissent.” She was not like anyone Miranda had met
> before, a Republican who’d become a Democrat and who described her
> Trump-era self as a “full-on rage machine.”
>
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> https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/02/29/mirandas-rebellion/?arc404=true
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[Marxism] GE's "Neutron Jack" dies

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A key figure for tracking the ups and downs and strategies of US capital.
Watching GE is crucial for understanding the continuing significance of
manufacturing in the US economy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/business/jack-welch-died.html
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[Marxism] Unions Push F.T.C. to Study if Amazon Warps the Economy

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/technology/amazon-unions-ftc.html
Unions Push F.T.C. to Study if Amazon Warps the Economy
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Re: [Marxism] What happened to Richard Dawkins? | Overland literary journal

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A useful expose', thanks.
As a complement see critiques of Dawkins' own reductionist variant of
evolutionary biology by Niles Eldredge.

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> What happened to Richard Dawkins? How did an acclaimed scientist and
> public intellectual transform himself into the dreary boor regularly
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> tweet about gender or race?
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Re: [Marxism] I t?s Time for the Left to Build a Force Outside the Democratic Party

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https://www.labornotes.org/2020/02/teacher-strikes-boost-fight-racial-justice-schools
 Teacher Strikes Boost Fight for Racial Justice in Schools



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> > rallied against a sellout contract in New York. There was even a campaign
> > towards a wildcat strike (which didn't get off the ground). Prior to
> that,
> > thousands of construction workers actually shut down central streets in
> > Manhattan in protest against a major nonunion construction project.
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> > In 1999, 2,000 carpenters did go on a wildcat strike in the SF Bay Area.
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> There are strikes and there are strikes. When these carpenters get the
> wage they rightfully deserve, they will go back to the atomized
> existence that characterizes all of the blue collar/factory workers in
> the USA. When I see carpenters showing up at protests against ICE or at
> a cops out of the subways protest under their own union banner, I'll sit
> up and pay attention.
>
> What are the teachers doing now who were on a wildcat strike that Eric
> Blanc wrote a book about? Any sign of them doing anything except going
> to work each day and then returning home to look after family affairs?
>
> I am afraid John is susceptible to what Freud called projection, even
> though I generally have little use for his theories. As a young college
> student, just like most people who hooked up with Labor Notes, et al,
> John was radicalized by the war in Vietnam, read Karl Marx, and
> concluded that only the working class can lead the USA to socialism.
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> Unfortunately, most carpenters don't travel that road. Just go out to
> Queens or New Jersey and find a bar where they hang out after work. See
> if you can get them interested in helping to launch a new party of the
> working-class. Don't blame me if they look at you as if you have
> two-heads. Not to speak of losing some teeth.
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Re: [Marxism] Largest Ever Strike in India Shakes Up Modi Govt

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IMO this is ESSENTIAL reading and should be shared widely, especially for
those who will be puzzled as to why not more has been changed.
In the same vein see the article on France's multiple strikes/revolts, each
of which had us saying "this is the one!":
http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article6347


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Re: [Marxism] Cold War Propagandist: Nicolas Nabokov, JFK, and the Shostakovich Wars - Los Angeles Review of Books

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A personal footnote for what it's worth.
During the US war against Vietnam I was in my high school's band. One day
we went on a field trip to hear a local orchestra. The conductor was with
the US military, and he appeared in full dress uniform.
On the  playlist was a piece by Shostakovitch, and the conductor introduced
it by saying that it was an important work even if the Soviet Union was a
horrendous dictatorship.
At that age I had only the most vague politics, but I remember thinking to
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Re: [Marxism] 100 Years of U.S. Communism

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I can't believe Wald left out Cannon's History, the bulk of which is at:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/cannon/works/ltrindex.htm
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Re: [Marxism] Review of Sean Wilentz's biography of Andrew Jackson

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In contrast, if I remember right, Schlesinger added a preface to his own
Jackson bio apologizing for not taking on the anti-indigenous character of
Jackson's politics in his original edition.
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[Marxism] What Will It Take to Clean Up the Electric Grid? It’s a huge undertaking to slow climate change, but we’ve done big things before.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/16/opinion/climate-change-grid.html
stresses that the barriers are social and political, not technical
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Re: [Marxism] Some conversations here in Chile

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Interesting quotes on privatization.
And loved the distinction between reforming health insurance versus the
healthcare system as a whole (remember that our focus in the US is almost
exclusively about insurance).


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[Marxism] Carol Brightman, Mary McCarthy biographer, Vietnam War activist

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Re: [Marxism] Bolivia: The historic Thesis of Pulacayo

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Re: [Marxism] PG electricity shutdown in N. California

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Would like to hear more about the union's position and activities, as well
as of communities.
This is important not only for energy workers and consumers but for climate
change activism as well -- i.e. if we are to get past the (hugely
impressive) street rallies the question of worker/community control will
have to be posed at specific strategic sites.
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Re: [Marxism] Tim Wohlforth

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See Wohlforth's own "The Prophet's Children" and reviews of it.
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[Marxism] Mark von Hagen dies.

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So sad. Mark was a great guy. His work should inspire those who are
battling today's Durantys. And check out his book on the Red Army.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/world/europe/mark-von-hagen-dies.html






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[Marxism] PRC, Obama praise Chinese factory in US

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Re: [Marxism] A Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Under Socialism

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First to get a potential straw man out of the way: I find the article by
Kampf-Lassin fairly tepid when it comes to speculating on post-revolution
eating practices and institutions.
But the article should be motivation for more wide-ranging speculation.
For instance, Trotsky pointed out the impact of the low state of
development on collective kitchens, as workers preferred home meals to
poorly provisioned centers:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/women/life/23_07_13.htm
In the meantime mammoth chain restaurants, fast food and otherwise, have
mushroomed under capitalism on a generally higher state of development from
a technical standpoint. Going to an objectively-socialized restaurant is
viewed generally as a treat (while also reducing time spent cooking at
home).
So the question is: What are we to do with them once they're socialized?
A last note on how such socialization would happen: my guess is that during
general strikes, instead of just setting up food banks for strikers in a
particular company or industry (as we've seen in recent strikes by teachers
et al.), that strikers will take over the thousands of restaurants -- and
keep them in public hands if the strikes are victorious.

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Re: [Marxism] NY Times: Sidney Rittenberg, Idealistic American Aide to Mao Who Evolved to Counsel Capitalists, Dies at 98

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Actually this particular biography has been widely critiqued, especially by
left anti-Maoists, for its sloppiness and fabrications. See in particular
"Was Mao Really a Monster?" edited by Lin Chun and Gregor Benton.
Everything written and edited by Benton is essential, both for his
documentation of Mao's crimes and for his gathering of Chinese Trotskyist
writings.

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[Marxism] Mandel on socialist planning

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After suffering through the annoying and reactionary bilge of Bastani, it
should be a welcome relief for comrades to revisit Mandel's classic on how
class struggle can lead to a genuinely democratic socialist society:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/1986/09/planning.html
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[Marxism] a new/old example of internationalism

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>From the MIA's "What's New" page:

https://www.marxists.org/history/dominican-republic/1965/volunteer-aid.htm

Dominican Republic 1965
Suggest Volunteers to Aid Dominicans
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Re: [Marxism] Ex-CIA honcho named Kent State University's chair of the 50th May 4 Commemoration Advisory Committee

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


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

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[Marxism] "It's All About Your Benjamins"

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This morning on leaving home I stepped through the usual collection of
menus, merchandise offers and other come-ons -- including one from
Northfield Bank with the slogan in the subject line and a picture of the
Franklin bill covering the brochure's face.

Someone in their advertising department who doesn't follow the news?
Or perhaps in fact someone with a sense of humor who actually follows the
news closely?
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[Marxism] "His Dark Materials" coming to HBO

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Maybe comrades already knew this, but just in case: HBO is bringing Philip
Pullman's "His Dark Materials" to TV.
Woo hoo!
It's months away - enough time to read or re-read the books (and to give
them as
Christimas presents ( irony intended).
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Michael Chabon 
MARCH 25, 2004 ISSUE 
The Golden Compass

by Philip Pullman
Knopf, 399 pp., $11.95 (paper)
The Subtle Knife
by Philip Pullman
Knopf, 326 pp., $11.95 (paper)
The Amber Spyglass

by Philip Pullman
Knopf, 518 pp., $11.95 (paper)
Lyra's Oxford

by Philip Pullman
Knopf, 55 pp., $10.95
[image: Philip Pullman]
Philip Pullman;
drawing by David Levine1.

Pity those—adventurers, adolescents, authors of young adult fiction—who
make their way in the borderland between worlds. It is at worst an
invisible and at best an inhospitable place. Build your literary house on
the borderlands, as the English writer Philip Pullman has done, and you may
find that your work is recommended by booksellers, as a stopgap between
installments of Harry Potter, to children who cannot (one hopes) fully
appreciate it, and to adults, disdainful or baffled, who “don’t read
fantasy.” Yet all mystery resides there, in the margins, between life and
death, childhood and adulthood, Newtonian and quantum, “serious” and
“genre” literature. And it is from the confrontation with mystery that the
truest stories have always drawn their power.

Like a house on the borderlands, epic fantasy is haunted: by a sense of
lost purity and grandeur, deep wisdom that has been forgotten, Arcadia
spoilt, the debased or diminished stature of modern humankind; by a sense
that the world, to borrow a term from John Clute, the Canadian-born British
critic of fantasy and science fiction, has “thinned.” This sense of
thinning—of there having passed a Golden Age, a Dreamtime, when animals
spoke, magic worked, children honored their parents, and fish leapt
filleted into the skillet—has haunted the telling of stories from the
beginning. The words “Once upon a time” are in part a kind of magic formula
for invoking the ache of this primordial nostalgia.

But serious literature, so called, regularly traffics in the same wistful
stuff. One encounters the unassuageable ache of the imagined past, for
example, at a more or less implicit level, in American writers from Cooper
and Hawthorne through Faulkner and Chandler, right down to Steven
Millhauser and Jonathan Franzen. Epic fantasy distills and abstracts the
idea of thinning—*maps* it, so to speak; but at its best the genre is no
less serious or literary than any other. Yet epic fantasies, whether
explicitly written for children or not, tend to get sequestered in their
own section of the bookstore or library, clearly labeled to protect the
unsuspecting reader of naturalistic fiction from making an awkward mistake.
Thus do we consign to the borderlands our most audacious retellings of what
is arguably one of the two or three primal human stories: the narrative of
Innocence, Experience, and, straddling the margin between them, the Fall.

Any list of the great British works of epic fantasy must begin with *Paradise
Lost*, with its dark lord, cursed tree, invented cosmology and ringing
battle scenes, its armored angelic cavalries shattered by demonic engines
of war. But most typical works of contemporary epic fantasy have
(consciously at least) followed Tolkien’s model rather than Milton’s,
dressing in Norse armor and Celtic shadow the ache of Innocence Lost, and
then, crucially, figuring it *as a landscape*, a broken fairyland where
brazen experience has replaced the golden days of innocence; where, as in
the Chronicles of Narnia, it is “always winter and never Christmas.”

A recent exception to the Tolkienesque trend is Pullman’s series of three
novels, *The Golden Compass*, *The Subtle 

[Marxism] platform capitalists' latest profit reports

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Yesterday's quarterly profit announcements prompted the three Times
articles below about the big platform capitalists' increasing centrality to
system profitability. For instance:
"These deals illustrate what Mr. Nadella has called
an
increase in the “tech intensity” of companies as they evolve. “Digital
technology today is not about tech companies doing innovation. It is about
the rest of the world doing innovation with technology,” Mr. Nadella said
in a call with analysts on Wednesday."
In the past I've mentioned the continuing centrality of GE et al. to
manufacturing and to the system as a whole. The focus of Microsoft, Amazon
et al. on business services is a parallel phenomenon.
(see Nick Srnicek's book "Platform Capitalism")

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/technology/amazon-earnings-one-day-prime-shipping.html


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/business/dealbook/microsoft-1-trillion.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/technology/microsoft-earnings.html?module=inline
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Re: [Marxism] A sectarian passes on

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A search for articles at this link by and about Robertson yields some
> interesting material, especially on how to assess the Cuban Revolution --
> the issue over which his sectarian character reached full flower.
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Re: [Marxism] Yes, a Planned Economy Can Actually Work

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> 5. In my 1998 article on IT and socialist self-management I have a section
> on potential uses in the sphere of social reproduction ("care work" etc.).
> The struggles since then in this sphere - strikes and organizing by nurses,
> teachers, childcare workers etc. - have all included staffing demands, i.e.
> worker to patient/student/elder etc. ratios. At some point those ratios
> will be flashpoints in national and global struggles as society-wide
> calculations and the demands shaped by them come forward.
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Re: [Marxism] Yes, a Planned Economy Can Actually Work

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1. Great stuff, Dave
2. The book has a great chapter on Neurath Lange Leontief and others cited
by Jim.
3. The chapter on Chile does a wonderful job of describing the use of its
embryonic network IN STRUGGLE.
4. The objective socialization represented by Walmart Amazon et al is
described thoroughly both in its current incarnation and inspiringly in
terms of the potential for worker expropriation and control.
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Re: [Marxism] Yes, a Planned Economy Can Actually Work

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I read the book in less than a day, eagerly anticipating each new argument
in this wide-ranging defense of democratic socialist planning.
Please read and promote it!
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2822-the-people-s-republic-of-walmart


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[Marxism] Yes, a Planned Economy Can Actually Work

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: from NY Times "Live Briefing" re Boeing

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> Maybe I missed it but the coverage in recent months of Boeing's slashing
> of inspectors at its factory are now forgotten in the mainstream media.
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[Marxism] commune

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I hadn't heard of this magazine so started to familiarize myself with it.
1. The 2nd article linked below has a wonderful passage describing
tech-supported strike aid - which IMO could be one facet of a revolutionary
transition to society-wide communal calculation. And they highlight and
organize around the need to expand the definition of tech worker.
2. On the other hand, the article linked immediately below is a shockingly
blithe and dangerous hosanna for Maoism.
https://communemag.com/maoism-and-the-air-we-breathe/

https://communemag.com/technology-and-worker-power/
A FEMINISM AT EASE WITH COMPUTATION

For Ari, this is not only about organizing in the tech industry. She uses
technologies to fight for housing justice, for climate justice, and against
mass incarceration. “When the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota
Access Pipeline started, with each update I wondered: ‘What the hell am I
*not *doing there?’” At the time, she was doing anti-racist organizing in
Missoula, Montana. Since she had to stay at her job, her options were
limited but not exhausted. From Missoula, Ari helped coordinate deliveries
of supplies to the water protectors. “A lot of the donated materials sent
to the occupation were useless and were being burned on arrival.” From
talking with people at Standing Rock, she learned that water protectors
needed specific pieces of equipment—for example, propane and gas lamps. “We
used Facebook to centralize the coordination. People would go to the
donation spot, begin sorting, and we would send supplies along with people
who were making trips out to the camp.” This coordination became a virtual
supply chain for necessary materials, and a new model for connecting
struggles across multiple locations. This is an example of what she calls *tech
optimism*, the repurposing of a tool like Facebook in the service of
revolutionaries.
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[Marxism] Mosher Machover on AIPAC

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Date: Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 1:43 PM
Subject: [Marxism] Comment on Bricmont and Johnstone on AIPAC
To: 
List members might be interested in Moshé Machover's comments on
Jean Bricmont and Diana Johnstone's latest, 'The People Against the 800
Pound Gorilla' <
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/13/the-people-against-the-800-pound-gorilla/
>.

Their basic thesis is that AIPAC determines US policy in the Middle East
against real US interests. This is the same "tail wags dog" thesis argued
by Mearsheimer and Walt -- except that the latter are more sophisticated,
and stress that the Israel lobby is much wider that AIPAC and includes many
more Christians than Jews. They also don't belong to the left, but are
bourgeois political "scientists".

According to this thesis Israel is the most powerful state in the entire
world, as it can compel even the US to do its bidding, willy-nilly!

The flaw in this thesis is: why do the decision-making political elite and
dominant big-business interests in the US allow this alleged manipulation
of US foreign policy if it is really so much against their interests. If
big business -- the MIC, oil companies etc -- were really against this,
they could surely muster enough resources to counter AIPAC. To defend
themselves against the charge of antisemitism, they could easily find
enough Jews to help refute this charge.

The answer is that Israel is really an important strategic asset for the US.

Bricmont and Johnstone consider and refute various alternative explanations
as to why the US seems to do what is in Israel's but not US interest. But
they omit to mention the two most evident points.

1. Israel, possessing by far the strongest military force in the region, is
also the most deeply committed to US dominance in the Middle East. Unlike
other ME states, its commitment to the US is independent of which party is
in office, and is not threatened in the foreseeable future by a popular
anti-US internal opposition. It is therefore most reliable as US regional
Rottweiler. No other ME state is in anything like this position.

2. Specifically, in the case of Iran (and hence its allies Syria and
Hizbullah), what B fail to consider is the Mafia principle: in order to
maintain credibility, any display of disobedience and insufficient
compliance must be severely punished and made an example of. So, with
respect to Iran the strategic interests of Israel and US imperialism
coincide. Israel jealously guards its regional hegemony (as main junior
partner of the US), and is committed to prevent any regional state becoming
a credible rival. The US is interested to preserve its credibility as the
the dominant power, and punish any disobedience.

Note, that it was the credibility issue that Obama stressed in his last
speech before he climbed down.

The role of AIPAC and the (much wider) Israel lobby is however very
important: it is to silence dissent and prevent challenge in the press and
Congress to US policy that is in the interest of the dominant part of the
US ruling class, but would otherwise be quite unpopular.

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Re: [Marxism] Democrats Sic the Hyenas on Rep. Ilhan Omar | Washington Babylon

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It's all about the money
Ain't a damn thing funny



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Re: [Marxism] Falling demand for milk puts the future of Sullivan dairy farms at risk

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See Times article today on growing use of AI in various fields -- including
milking cows:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/13/technology/farm-technology-milkers-robots.html?module=inline

This as milk price drops are killing the sector (see Louis's article and
others below).

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>  From my home-town paper. The collapse of dairy farming in NY State has
> hit this area very hard. Like the hotel industry that collapsed 40 years
> ago, this will be the next to go.
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[Marxism] new Mike Davis book

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A wonderful book in general, and perhaps the best succinct argument I've
seen for why computers can and should be used for planning in a socialist
democracy. (See end of Chapter 1.)
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2779-old-gods-new-enigmas
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Re: [Marxism] Labour history

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re Ken's comment below: Many years ago I heard Frank Lovell (SWP labor work
leader) give a talk on the book which he began by saying that "when you
finish the book labor's story is STILL untold!"

Ken wrote:

> Judging from the index, there is no mention of the Teamster strikes in
> Minneapolis in 1934 or the Toledo Auto-lite Strike.
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[Marxism] Harold Bradley, premier Nashville session man and AFM official

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/obituaries/harold-bradley-dead.html
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Re: [Marxism] Who Shut Down the Shutdown? | New Politics

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why did Park not mention the flight attendants' union head call for a
general strike?

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> Who ended the shutdown? The Democrats? Nancy Pelosi? Mitch McConnell?
> None of the above.
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> The shutdown got shut down when workers took Laguardia Airport off-line
> on Friday, January 25. A rolling disaster of massive commercial
> disruption was about to unfold for capitalist America and that pushed
> the GOP over the edge.
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> Disgusted and outraged employees – TSA security and FAA air traffic
> controllers – did what their unions should have done at least two weeks
> ago.  We don’t know what positive role IF ANY their national union
> leadership played here. More likely, as with all great accomplishments
> for workers rights, the real leadership probably came from the bottom,
> from the workers collectively voting with their feet.
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> In past momentous worker actions (like getting the 8 hour day) what
> typically happened was some outrage finally broke the camel’s back and
> thousands of workers hit the streets, with their leadership frantically
> racing to catch-up with the members. We’ll have to watch and see if the
> current union leadership at the top even bothers to get out and walk
> quickly, let alone run; to acknowledge the profound lesson we just
> learned, again.
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[Marxism] On Revolution and Internationalism: Socialist Strategy Today

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Re: [Marxism] 'A Prairie Home Companion' is wretched and unlistenable - SBNation.com

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Right on, Ken

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> The Road to Avonlea, a spin-off from Anne of Green Gables.
> http://avonlea.sullivanmovies.com/  This series lovingly recreates a past
> that never existed.   For example there is little indication of the harsh
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Re: [Marxism] YPG seeks alliance with Assad

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"“Reaching a solution between the autonomous administration and the Syrian
government is inevitable because our areas are part of Syria,” said Khalil."
So much for Ocalanist federated non-state communal blah blah blah.
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Re: [Marxism] Russia Without Putin

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Wood's book sounds great.
See also Holmstrom and Smith:
https://monthlyreview.org/2000/02/01/the-necessity-of-gangster-capitalism/

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[Marxism] Amazon's last minute capacity

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... but an expropriated Amazon's infrastructure under democratic control
would easily resolve any technical difficulties facing a new socialist
distribution program (and WITHOUT the back-breaking labor currently
dominant).
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/technology/amazon-last-minute-gifts-shopping.html
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Re: [Marxism] 1917 Food Riots Led By Immigrant Women Swept U.S. Cities

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Great article.
See also "Common Sense and a Little Fire," Annelise Orleck

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[Marxism] teacher candidates

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Obviously this new momentum must find a home in independent labor politics
or be crushed by the Dems.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/nov/24/midterm-elections-teachers-public-office-education
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[Marxism] By Protecting Veterans’ Health, You May Protect Your Own

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/10/opinion/sunday/veterans-department-health-hospitals.html?fbclid=IwAR25MwPUV_m67i1-pMERKQuZaDSW8Feu790rioWCGsdPFav_BAegTgv8qUU
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[Marxism] new Deutscher articles at MIA

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His archive has grown substantially recently. I'm no Deutscherite but this
is clearly essential reading.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/deutscher/index.htm
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[Marxism] Judith Kazantzis RIP

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Poet, feminist, socialist, supporter of Palestine

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/23/judith-kazantzis-obituary
and
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/obituaries/judith-kazantzis-dead.html
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[Marxism] Bankers of the World, Unite!

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Bankers of the World, Unite!
To stabilize our economy, we should unionize the financial sector.
https://www.thenation.com/article/bankers-of-the-world-unite/

Very narrowly focused on the unionization of bank workers and what that
would mean for liberal regulation of the industry.-- as opposed to bank AND
class/community control of investment on an economy-wide basis.
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Re: [Marxism] Reply to S. Jeong on labor-time calculation

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For US ruling class attempts to craft structures - to some extent and for
their own purposes --  the advantages of the nonmarket activity Jim
describes, see Robert Cuff and Bruce Catton on the War Industries Board of
WWI and the War Production Board of WWII.
(See also articles in New International and Fourth International on what
this meant for workers and households.)

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[Marxism] The Russian Ukrainian Underground A People’s Revolt Against Stalin

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New at MIA:
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/ni/vol15/no04/vsf.html
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: [Critical-Syria] several new articles from Al-Jumhuriya

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Oops! Here's the links.

https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/content/towards-partnership-rejoinder-yassin-al-haj-saleh
and
https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en

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[Marxism] Fwd: [Critical-Syria] several new articles from Al-Jumhuriya

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All the articles forwarded here from Al-Jumhuriya are worth reading. One in
particular - "Towards Partnership" - is an interesting critique from a
non-Stalinist perspective of calls for solidarity by prominent leftist
Yassin al-Haj Saleh


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Date: Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 8:42 AM
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[Marxism] The Most Important Least-Noticed Economic Event of the Decade

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A localized recession in manufacturing-heavy areas can explain a lot of
things.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/upshot/mini-recession-2016-little-known-big-impact.html?rref=collection%2Fissuecollection%2Ftodays-new-york-times
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[Marxism] Brecht/Mandel on conspiracy theories

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See Chapter 8 in "Delightful Murder," which quotes Brecht in discussing the
social roots of conspiracy theories.
The Brecht quote:
https://cartographiesoftheabsolute.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/patrolling-the-catastrophe/
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Re: [Marxism] Two new films

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Looks great. Anyone seen Loznitsa's "Maidan"?
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Re: [Marxism] Understanding the UAW fiasco in Tennessee

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[Marxism] The Big Hole in Germany’s Nazi Reckoning? Its Colonial History

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/world/europe/germany-colonial-history-africa-nazi.html?rref=collection%2Fissuecollection%2Ftodays-new-york-times
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Re: [Marxism] In memory of Fred Feldman (John Riddell)

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So sad. Thanks for the news.
And thanks to John for his commentary and links. More are available through
the Search field at marxists.org
His Vietnam reporting and analysis IMO is timely once again both with
regard to the country and our methodology.

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Re: [Marxism] Amazon's antitrust activist

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My comment on Facebook:

More liberal antitrust nonsense.
"She also said it “could make sense” to treat Amazon’s e-commerce operation
like a bridge, highway, port, power grid or telephone network — all of
which are required to allow access to their infrastructure on a
nondiscriminatory basis."
But those sectors show precisely why "better markets" are a diversion.

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Re: [Marxism] "I am part of the resistance"... from the inside

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> Thanks for the comment about the "deep state" - it's such an amateurish,
> lazy, antimaterialist concept when usually applied.
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> really shows the grip the mainstream of the capitalist class still has. It
> shows that Trump will still have a ways to go to institute pure one-man
> rule. Most important, it dispels the silly notion of the "deep state". As
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[Marxism] data for planning

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This paper was found via a link in a Times article about corporate
consolidation and pricing trends. But I'm linking it here as another
example of the huge amounts and types of publicly-available data with
potential for democratic socialist planning.

More Amazon Effects: Online Competition and Pricing Behaviors
https://www.kansascityfed.org/~/media/files/publicat/sympos/2018/papersandhandouts/825180810cavallopaper.pdf?la=en
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[Marxism] A Castle Built on Sand? Ukrainian Literature and Crimea

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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-castle-built-on-sand-ukrainian-literature-and-crimea/
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Re: [Marxism] book for review

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IMO this book definitely deserves a review, as it appears to provide a new
justification for various "left" governments and reformist experiments.
I would be happy to be proven wrong...


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Re: [Marxism] David McReynolds in the context of American radicalism | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Louis is right about this:
"I suspect that David helped to keep the various factions together since he
was such a warm and empathetic figure."
Fred Halstead's "Out Now" relates several instances in which Dave helped
keep things together, with the same sort of respect for democracy and
principle shown by his mentor Muste.
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Re: [Marxism] Two movies

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/world/asia/crazy-rich-asians-cast-singapore.html
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[Marxism] Times: Walmart Is Finding Success in the Grocery Aisle

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[Ripe for the pickin' (expropriating, that is). Think back to previous
government takeovers during times of war and class struggle.]

"Walmart said on Thursday that it expected to offer home delivery of
groceries to 40 percent of the United States population by the end of the
year."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/business/walmart-earnings.html?rref=collection%2Fissuecollection%2Ftodays-new-york-times
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[Marxism] Duterte and the prospects for struggle in the Philippines

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http://marxistleftreview.org/index.php/no-16-summer-2018/157-duterte-and-the-prospects-for-struggle-in-the-philippines
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Re: [Marxism] Apple's $1 Tr. valuation and corporate consolidation

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Agreed, a crucial article!

Regarding its impact on the falling rate of profit, I have to assume the
short-term profit booms will slacken and then reverse given the tremendous
increase in the organic composition of capital represented by the high-tech
nature of the industry (one could say a meta-high-tech) -- but I leave it
to Michael Roberts for a final say.

And of course this is all more evidence of the need for a socialist program
for the industry - including the industries ensnared in Apple et al.'s
tentacles.

p.s. see articles on huge gains made by China's Huawei
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[Marxism] Road to Wigan Pier/Homage to Catalonia new at MIA

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The Road to Wigan Pier:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/orwell/1937/road-wigan-pier.htm
and
Homage to Catalonia:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/orwell/1938/homage-catalonia.htm
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Re: [Marxism] The Forgotten Vision of Market Socialism

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So when workers take over their workplaces and coordinate their planning
efforts, what will these lame-brains say? "Oh, no, just wait 'til we get
our socialized banks going, now toddle off back to work..."
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[Marxism] Review: In ‘Prairie Trilogy,’ All-American Stories of Socialism

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 Review: In ‘Prairie Trilogy,’ All-American Stories of Socialism
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/movies/prairie-trilogy-review-socialism.html?rref=collection%2Fissuecollection%2Ftodays-new-york-times
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[Marxism] more pseudoscience on genes

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"Many Genes Play a Role in Educational Attainment, Enormous Genetic Study
Finds"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/science/genes-education.html?rref=collection%2Fissuecollection%2Ftodays-new-york-times

Actually the article repeatedly says there is no statistically significant
link between genes and education.
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Re: [Marxism] Iraqi uprising against US-Iranian regime: "All of you are thieves"

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 I would just add to what's below that so far reports of Moqtada al Sadr's
stance toward the uprising say he is a) warning against physical repression
of the movement and b) calling on the victorious parties in the recent
elections to hold off on forming a government.
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[Marxism] Watergate - context for today's debates

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Type Watergate in the keywords field:

http://www.index.themilitant.com/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=NI_Index_Public&-loadframes

Full of useful context for understanding why and what the ruling class does
when it's in political crisis (and how to know when it isn't).
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[Marxism] Decade After Crisis, a $600 Trillion Market Remains Murky to Regulators

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/22/business/derivatives-banks-regulation-dodd-frank.html

$600 TRILLion!!!

Who's out there ready to push for abolition of derivatives?

AND who's also ready to argue for worker control of the banks?
(remember to read Lenin in 1917 and 1918)
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Re: [Marxism] Falling demand for milk puts the future of Sullivan dairy farms at risk

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what explains the falling demand?
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[Marxism] [UCE] uprising in Haiti

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http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article5609
and
http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article5610
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[Marxism] bring back the CCC!

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... and make it global

California Is Preparing for Extreme Weather. It’s Time to Plant Some Trees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/climate/california-is-preparing-for-extreme-weather-its-time-to-plant-some-trees.html?rref=collection%2Fissuecollection%2Ftodays-new-york-times

and

In India, Summer Heat May Soon Be Literally Unbearable
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/climate/india-heat-wave-summer.html?rref=collection%2Fissuecollection%2Ftodays-new-york-times=click=todayspaper=rank=package=highlights=1=collection
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[Marxism] burning kites

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HUNDREDS of kites have made it into "Israel," causing widespread fires in
Zionist fields. Has anyone else seen news of this IMO brilliant tactic?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/09/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-kites-embargo.html?rref=collection%2Fissuecollection%2Ftodays-new-york-times
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[Marxism] on the domestic front

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New at MIA are three articles by Grace Carlson on domestic issues. Over the
last few years MIA has uploaded lots of articles by women members of the
SWP and WP on these issues from the '30s, '40s and '50s.
A bibliography IMO is worth constructing.

https://www.marxists.org/admin/new/index.htm
26 June 2018: Added to the Grace Carlson Archive in the Encyclopaedia of
Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):

* Best Medical Care Given Fala’s Pups While Infants of Poor Suffer Neglect
(1945)
* ‘Learn to Relax by Cultivating Hobby’ Is Radio Advice to Overworked
Mothers (1945)
* Poorly-Housed Workers Long for ‘Dream Home’ (1945)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Marty Goodman & the Riazanov Library]
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[Marxism] Libya – the development of the Qadhafi [Gaddafi] regim

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New at MIA:
Libya – the development of the Qadhafi [Gaddafi] regime
International Socialism, Summer 1984
Jon Bearman

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/1984/isj2-024/bearman.html
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[Marxism] new book against pseudo-anti-imperialists out today in Kindle

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https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1164-indefensible
Indefensible
Democracy, Counterrevolution, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism
by Rohini Hensman

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Re: [Marxism] Family separation and the churches

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Comrades of a certain age will remember Ray Stevens' use of that hymn as
the intro to his hit song "Everything is Beautiful," which contains this
line:
 "We shouldn't care 'bout the length of his hair/Or the color of his skin."
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[Marxism] 6th NY taxi driver commits suicide

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 NY Taxi Workers Alliance


June 15 at 6:02pm  ·


SIXTH NYC DRIVER DEAD FROM DESPAIR

With heavy hearts, we write to tell you that yellow cab lease driver Abdul
Saleh hung himself today, becoming the sixth of our driver brothers to
commit suicide in recent months.

Reach out for help. It is there for all of us.

If you are feeling desperate please know that you are not alone. The
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or contact
the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741-741.

Unite to win change. Together, we have the power. We will not stop until we
win the regulations we need.

DO NOT GIVE UP. WE WILL OVERCOME THIS CRISIS TOGETHER.

Join us for our press conference
This Monday, June 18th
11:00AM
Outside City Hall Gates: Broadway & Murray

Statement from NYTWA ED Bhairavi Desai:

On Eid al-Fitr, a day that Muslim families come together to celebrate the
end of the holy month of Ramadan, Abdul Saleh took his life because he saw
no end to the burden of poverty.

Six of our brothers have now committed suicide in recent months, their
livelihoods devastated by a business model that fails to recognize the
basic humanity of the workers who keep our city moving and by a political
system that prefers sound bytes to solutions to economic desperation.

Brother Abdul was 59 years old and he should have been planning for
retirement and rest after 30 years of serving the public and the city, but
instead he was exhausted by the cruelty of ending each 12-hour workday with
less in his pocket than the day before. Many aging drivers no longer see
retirement in sight and can't imagine continuing to work such a grueling
job until their last day on earth.

These suicides from financial desperation come at a time when income
inequality is at a record high and after the CDC acknowledged that economic
hardship increased the risk of suicide. This is more than a mental health
issue.

We will not allow the status quo of callousness toward struggling drivers
to continue for one more day. We will not sit idly by as Wall street
behemoths and their shills try to derail regulation or limit it to just one
sector of drivers when every driver in every sector - including yellow taxi
lease drivers, yellow taxi owner-drivers, green cab drivers, livery drivers
black car drivers, and app-dispatched drivers - is sinking deeper into
profound desperation.

Suicide can't be the only way that desperate poor people find mercy.
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[Marxism] truckers' strikes

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 In the last month there have been nationwide truckers' strikes in Brazil,
China, Iran and Argentina.
Have I missed any?
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