[Marxism] Pegida Rally in Toronto shut down

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Re: [Marxism] Noory and Pinker

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This also aired last night here in Ontario, Canada:

https://tvo.org/video/programs/the-agenda-with-steve-paikin/the-best-of-times

One of Pinker's more notable talking points in this interview: that
inequality is something we shouldn't be focussing on, and, elsewhere, that
people are billionaires in an age of unprecedented inequality is not really
a moral outrage (says the Harvard professor). Abundance over distribution.
Yikes.

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> Given my old age frailties, I get up to pee multiple times at night. After
> returning to bed, I often turn on the radio briefly before going back to
> sleep. Among the preset stations is WOR-AM that hosts George Noory's "Coast
> to Coast", a talk show devoted to flying saucers, ESP, astrology, bogus
> health advice, Assadism (Noory is a rightwing Lebanese-American) and other
> forms of what Leon Trotsky described as "capitalist society...puking up the
> undigested barbarism" of fascism. Instead of the usual supernatural
> mumbo-jumbo purveyor, guess who Noory was interviewing last night. None
> other than Steven Pinker peddling his new book. Noory was glad to hear that
> we've never had it so good.
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[Marxism] Venezuela - Cryptocurrency "Petro" created to Circumvent US Sanctions

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https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/13580

I have no idea about the implications of this policy, as I am not a
monetarist. I'd love everyone's take on this. Interesting tactic, but...

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[Marxism] The History of White People (Nell Irvin Painter) - CBC Sunday Edition

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There is no such thing as the 'white race' — or any other race, says
historian


http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-september-17-2017-1.4291332/there-is-no-such-thing-as-the-white-race-or-any-other-race-says-historian-1.4291372

Listen (33 mins.)


http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1047616579814/



"At least, there's no scientific basis for race. Human DNA is about 99.9
percent the same across the full spectrum of skin colour and ethnicity.

Yet, race has been one of the most powerful narratives in the world for
hundreds of years, in enlightened Western democracies and despotic regimes
alike. Ideas about race have structured societies and politics, created
national myths, and led to enslavement, war and genocide.

And a belief in the supremacy of white people remains persistent and
pernicious in some quarters — an invention, just as race (including the
white race) was an invention.

Nell Irvin Painter is an eminent American historian who made the story of
the white race the subject of her landmark book The History of White
People. She's the Edwards Professor of American History Emerita at
Princeton University."



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[Marxism] Textbook Recommendation - Scaling Techniques (Social Sciences)

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Comrades,

I was wondering if anyone on the list might recommend a good textbook or
handbook on scaling techniques for social science research (I use this term
broadly). I am particularly looking for information on the development of
Likert scales, Thurstone scales, and Guttman scales, as well as the
statistical tools used in each.

Though I've found several promising titles and have a modest background in
quantitative methods, I'd like to know what you would recommend or have
found immensely useful. Some specific areas that I need to look into are
reliability testing, validity testing, and a general overview of the
process of creating these scales.

So far, I've found:

Spector, Paul E. - Summated Rating Scale Construction  An Introduction
(Sage)
Netemeyer, et al. - Scaling procedures: Issues and applications (Sage)
Various online resources like: socialresearchmethods.net (good primer but
lacking specificity)

Thanks all,

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Why Is Dating in the App Era Such Hard Work? - The Atlantic

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"What dates like these remind me of is job interviews. Everything is riding
on your initial appearance Everything in capitalist society, including
people and nature, are seen from the point of view of their exchange value."

Weigel's observations reminded of Eva Illouz's *Cold Intimacies: The
Makings of Emotion Capitalism;* in particular, where she says that the
entire dynamic of online dating is completely reversed from previous forms
of Romantic interaction: "If attraction usually precedes knowledge of
another person, here knowledge precedes attraction ... [P]eople are
apprehended first as a set of attributes and only then ... do they
apprehend the bodily presence of another". The idea here being that online
dating is a sort of marketplace of commodified personalities (profiles),
which are nothing more than readily computable, idealized representations
of the self  that happen to be measurable, machine-readable aggregates of
discrete attributes and variables (the profile structures themselves
configured and predetermined by the dating service).

If alienation is the loss of the bond to reality, as Marx suggests, then
the superstructural manifestation of the online dating world is a pretty
compelling example. *Cold Intimacies *comes highly recommended, by the way.


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Re: [Marxism] Please help: Spanish Civil War

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Hi Shalva,

George Orwell (yes, the very same) recommended Franz Borkenau's The Spanish
Cockpit (9781842120064), I believe. Haven't read it myself but Orwell's
commentary on this work and obviously his first hand experience in Spain
convinced me to put it on my list of things to read.

You can find his thoughts about all this and the issues arround other
immediate post-Civil War histories in the footnotes of Homage to Catalonia,
volume 4 of The Complete Works of George Orwell (Secker & Warburg, 1997)

Might be a good place to start.

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> the Bell Tolls...? Many thanks in advance!!!
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Re: [Marxism] Economic Planning/Centralization and Computation - The Work of Cockshott and Cottrell

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>The problem, however, with cy.Rev and Cockshott-Cottrell alike is that
their vision of feasible socialisms rest on utopian foundations. They view
computers as the key that can unlock the door to a more just and humane
society.

Indeed, Louis. I suspect that the risk of committing to a technological
determinism in the area that Cockshott and Cottrell work is quite high -
perhaps a product of such a focused question they attempt to tackle
(socialist calculation). I think Eden Medina nails it when discussing
Chile's Cybersyn Project
:

5. We need to think big, because technology alone will not create a better
world.

We need to be thinking in terms of systems rather than technological quick
fixes. Discussions about smart cities, for example, regularly focus on
better network infrastructures and the use of information and communication
technologies such as integrated sensors, mobile phone apps, and online
services. Often, the underlying assumption is that such interventions will
automatically improve the quality of urban life by making it easier for
residents to access government services and provide city government with
data to improve city maintenance.

But this technological determinism doesn’t offer a holistic understanding
of how such technologies might negatively impact critical aspects of city
life. For example, the sociologist Robert Hollands
 argues that
tech-centered smart-city initiatives might create an influx of
technologically literate workers and exacerbate the displacement of other
workers. They also might divert city resources to the building of computer
infrastructures and away from other important areas of city life.

He contends that progressive smart cities should first try to understand
human interactions in urban environments and how they systematically
produce power inequalities. Technologies should then be integrated into
city environments in ways that ameliorate these disparities.

Beer shared Hollands’ perspective. Throughout the Cybersyn Project, Beer
repeatedly expressed frustration that Cybersyn was viewed as a suite of
technological fixes — an operations room, a network of telex machines, an
economic simulator, software to track production data — rather than a way
to restructure Chilean economic management.

Beer was interested in understanding the *system* of Chilean economic
management and how government institutions might be changed to improve
coordination processes. He viewed technology as a way to change the
internal organization of Chile’s government.

If he were alive today, Beer would undoubtedly lament that e-government
initiatives to put existing forms online or computerize existing processes
miss opportunities to make organizations themselves more effective.

We must resist the kind of apolitical “innovation determinism” that sees
the creation of the next app, online service, or networked device as the
best way to move society forward. Instead, we should push ourselves to
think creatively of ways to change the structure of our organizations,
political processes, and societies for the better and about how new
technologies might contribute to such efforts.

The challenges faced by Cybersyn’s protagonists were not unique to their
era — we will face similar ones. While the project was far from perfect,
its lessons should not be ignored by those seeking a future where
technology is democratically harnessed for social good.


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> There are other efforts to reconcile computer technology and socialism
> that differ quite strikingly from cy.Rev's "Third Wave" vision. W. Paul
> Cockshott and Allin Cottrell co-authored "Towards a New Socialism: a
> Post-Soviet Model" to promote such a vision. Cockshott is a computer
> systems engineer and his expertise helps to give the book a firm grounding
> in the technology it espouses. They advocate centralized planning though
> the wide-scale use of networked computers, rather than the decentralized
> version of market socialism that cy.Rev embraces. Instead of rejecting a
> Soviet-type model out-of-hand, they present a re-engineered version.
>
> Cockshott and Cottrell argue that the labor theory of value can provide
> the underpinning for both wages and prices in a socialist society. If we
> can quantify how long it costs to produce something, then we should not
> only be able price it accurately but make sure that 

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Hi all,

This is a great start. Thanks for the leads everyone. Much appreciated.

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> There are other efforts to reconcile computer technology and socialism
> that differ quite strikingly from cy.Rev's "Third Wave" vision. W. Paul
> Cockshott and Allin Cottrell co-authored "Towards a New Socialism: a
> Post-Soviet Model" to promote such a vision. Cockshott is a computer
> systems engineer and his expertise helps to give the book a firm grounding
> in the technology it espouses. They advocate centralized planning though
> the wide-scale use of networked computers, rather than the decentralized
> version of market socialism that cy.Rev embraces. Instead of rejecting a
> Soviet-type model out-of-hand, they present a re-engineered version.
>
> Cockshott and Cottrell argue that the labor theory of value can provide
> the underpinning for both wages and prices in a socialist society. If we
> can quantify how long it costs to produce something, then we should not
> only be able price it accurately but make sure that factories can do it on
> time. This seems somewhat like the operating principle of the former Soviet
> Union, so why didn't it work there?.
>
> The answer is two-fold. Besides the lack of democracy, there was also
> inadequate information available to economic planners. Only sophisticated
> computer systems can provide this information. They say, "If we want to get
> a more objective source of cost data, we need a system of data collection
> that is independent of the market. This is where computer technology comes
> in. We need a computerised information system that gives production
> engineers unbiased estimates of the labour time costs of different
> technologies."
>
> The recent infatuation with market pricing in formerly socialist nations
> seems oddly placed, given the generally irrational nature of the market
> itself. Cockshott and Cottrell note that "market prices are used as a cost
> indicator in capitalist countries, but they have a certain arbitrary
> character. An artist dies in poverty. A few decades later his pictures
> change hands for millions. A sudden panic hits the stock markets. In a
> matter of hours hundreds of billions are wiped of stock prices. Farmers
> destroy crops because the prices are too low. Walk through the poor areas
> of a British or American city and you will see the pinched faces and
> stunted figures of people for whom food is too expensive."
>
> If the proper computation of labor values is necessary for economic
> planning, what is better, according to Cockshott and Cottrell, to perform
> this function than modern supercomputers. Scientists use them for weather
> forecasting, atomic weapons design, oil prospecting and nuclear physics.
> Would it not be reasonable to expect a national planning bureau to make use
> of them as well?
>
> They, like the publishers of cy.Rev, are cyber-optimists but welcome the
> idea of state management of the economy. They make the case succinctly for
> a mix of advanced automation and old-fashioned "state socialism":
>
> "If detailed plan-balancing is way beyond the reach of the human brain,
> can the calculations be performed successfully using computers? Our answer
> will be `yes', but we wish to anticipate some criticisms. During the 1960s,
> as mainframe computers began to become widely available, many Soviet
> economic cyberneticians were very optimistic, but since that time the
> overall impact of the computer on Soviet planning has disappointed those
> early expectations. Of course it was not just in the USSR that the benefits
> of computerisation were greatly oversold in the 60s. Computerisation is no
> panacea. There are many problems with the economic mechanism in the USSR
> which would have to be tackled before the application of extra
> computer-power can be expected to yield much of a dividend. (One example:
> the irrational and semi-fossilised pricing system, with the prices of many
> goods stuck at levels which guarantee shortages and queues.)
>
> But having said that, the computer and telecommunications technology of
> the late twentieth century does present striking opportunities for the
> regulation of the economy. We believe that the more real danger at present
> is an over-reaction to the `failed promise of the computer'. One should
> remember that the USSR is somewhat behind the West in computer technology,
> and the types of computer system available to Soviet planners in the 60s
> and even 70s 

[Marxism] Economic Planning/Centralization and Computation - The Work of Cockshott and Cottrell

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Hi all,

I thought I'd both share and inquire about the work of socialist economists
Allin Cottrell and W. Paul Cockshott. In particular, their book Towards a
New Socialism  I've
long been fascinated by the 'how-to" of centralized economic planning and
the possibilities of realizing such an economy by applying modern
computation to track economic inputs and outputs, hence completely
destroying some of the assumptions and exhortations found in the work of
von Mises and the Austrian School (briefly and vulgarly, his argument that
no single authority can possibly calculate all economic inputs and outputs
to run an economy, that Markets must do this).

I wanted to know if any comrades on here are familiar with Cockshott's and
Cottrell's work, or if you have reading recommendations from other
socialist cliometricians working in the centralized economic planning and
computing sphere? I have never heard of them until very recently so I have
much reading to do; I wondered what you all thought about their work, and
the reception their work has received over the years.

Thanks all,

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[Marxism] Rudaw - Kurdish Media Outlet

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Hi all,

I just came across Rudaw: www.rudaw.net/english, a major Kurdish news
outlet operating out of Erbil. It describes itself rather vagluely as such:

Rudaw is a Kurdish media network funded and supported by Rudaw Company. The
network aims to impart news and information about Kurdistan and the Middle
East in a professional manner. Those interested in Kurdistan and the
Kurdish cause can follow the latest developments in the region in both
Kurdish and English through Rudaw’s multiple platforms.

It seems well established and funded, given the scope of multi-lingual
content on their website (TV, Radio, Internet, etc.). But I wonder what
it's funding sources are: American, Turkish, etc. I have yet to scan to get
an idea of its reportage too.

Perusing some university periodical indexes (without access to any of the
content) has come up with very little about Rudaw. (And yes, I've seen the
Wikipedia entry)

Has anyone looked into the political economy of Kurdistan's media
landscape? I'd be quite interested in hearing from anyone who has an eye on
this area.

Thanks,

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: U.S. Shelves Its $500M Syrian Rebel Army - The Daily Beast

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I wonder what this means for US-Turkey relations - heck, more importantly,
for future YPG-US relations. Also, I'm still a little fuzzy on how the US
views the relationship between the YPG/YPJ and the PKK. Do they see these
groups as essentially cut from the same cloth, or otherwise? I get the
impression that the YPG are attempting to distance themselves from the PKK
(or am I wrong here?). With all this in mind, my guess is that we are going
to see some interesting dialogue or some interesting political posturing
between US and Turkey in the coming weeks.

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 This article claims that the USA has decided to back the YPG as the most
 effective enemy of Daesh. Will out anti-imperialsts now begin to demonize
 the Kurds as an American proxy?


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Re: [Marxism] Report: Schools for Canada First Nations 'Cultural Genocide'

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Hi all,

As follow-up to this, see below for the full PDF reports from the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, just released:

http://www.deslibris.ca/en-US/Results.aspx?yearpub=2015publisher=Truth+and+Reconciliation+Commission+of+Canada


Let me know if the link doesn't work.

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 Report: Schools for Canada First Nations 'Cultural Genocide'
 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSJUNE 3, 2015, 1:01 A.M. E.D.T.

 TORONTO — Canada's decades-long government policy requiring Canadian First
 Nation children to attend state-funded church schools amounted to cultural
 genocide, a long-awaited report has found.

 Truth and Reconciliation Commission chair Justice Murray Sinclair said
 Tuesday the residential schools represent one of the darkest and most
 troubling chapters in our collective history.

 The report is the result of a six-year study of Canada's former government
 policy requiring Canadian aboriginals to attend the schools, often the
 scenes of physical and sexual abuse. First Nation leaders have cited the
 legacy of abuse and isolation as the root cause of epidemic substance abuse
 on reservations.

 From the 19th century until the 1970s, more than 150,000 aboriginal
 children were required to attend Christian schools to rid them of their
 native cultures and languages and integrate them into mainstream Canadian
 society.

 More than 130 residential schools operated across Canada.

 The federal government previously admitted that physical and sexual abuse
 in the once-mandatory schools was rampant and Prime Minister Stephen Harper
 issued an historic apology in Parliament in 2008. Many students recall
 being beaten for speaking their native languages and losing touch with
 their parents and customs.

 The goal of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was to give survivors
 a forum to tell their stories and to educate Canadians about that dark
 chapter in the country's history.

 Sinclair, a First Nations Canadian judge, described how the commission
 heard from residential school survivors who were robbed of the love of
 their families.

 They were stripped of their self-respect and they were stripped of their
 identity, Sinclair said.

 The commission was created as part of a US$5 billion class action
 settlement in 2006 between the government, churches and the 90,000
 surviving First Nation students.

 Alma Scott was one of thousands of survivors in Canada who recounted her
 experience to the commission. She described being taken to a school in Fort
 Alexander, Manitoba, at the age of five.

 I just remember feeling really sad, and I was in this truck full of other
 kids who were crying, and so I cried with them, said Scott.

 Among the TRC report's 94 recommendations, it calls on the federal
 government to launch a national inquiry into the number of missing and
 murdered aboriginal women. It also seeks an apology from the Pope on behalf
 of the Roman Catholic Church. And it recommends the government fully adopt
 and implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
 Peoples as the framework for reconciliation.

 The TRC's summary also makes clear that the expectations of the aboriginal
 community in the wake of Harper's apology for the residential school
 tragedy in 2008 have not yet been met.

 Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief Perry Bellegarde said the prime
 minister's 2008 apology will be empty if it is not followed with action.

 Harper said he apologized for the devastation caused by the schools seven
 years ago. He didn't call it a cultural genocide Tuesday or promise to
 enact any of the report's 94 recommendations.

 Sinclair said he was scheduled to sit down with Harper later Tuesday.

 A center at the University of Manitoba will become the permanent home for
 all statements, documents and materials gathered by the commission. It is
 scheduled to open this summer.

 In Australia, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a formal apology in
 Parliament in 2008 to the so-called Stolen Generations — thousands of
 aboriginals who were forcibly taken from their families as children under
 assimilation policies that lasted from 1910 to 1970.

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[Marxism] History of Kronsradt Rebellion

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Hi all,

Apart from Lenin's thoughts on the Kronstadt rebellion, any advice on where
one can find a good history on the topic? Seems to be several such
histories in wide circulation; but I'd like to tap into the list's CW on
where to begin.

Thanks all!

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Re: [Marxism] How to Attract Female Engineers

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9 programming languages and the women who created them

I'd also add to that list Henriette Davidson Avram, who, in the 1960s
created the MARC (MAchine-Readable Cataloguing) data exchange protocol,
which, like HTML, enables libraries throughout the world to exchange
bibliographic data via computer networks. Though slowly going the way of
the Dodo because of 'more universal' protocols in play like, well, HTML and
XML, it is still the internationally-recognized data exchange protocol
among library information systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriette_Avram

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On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Jim Farmelant via Marxism 
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 9 programming languages and the women who created them


 http://www.infoworld.com/article/2920296/application-development/9-programming-languages-and-the-women-who-created-them.html

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 Computer programming in its earlier days was a much more female-oriented
 profession than it is today. That was primarily because back during the
 Second World War, US government defense labs hired many recent female
 college graduates with math or science degrees to perform the laborious
 computations that were required for such things a compiling artillery
 tables and such. Back in those days the people who performed such
 computations were called computers.  During the war the first electronic
 digital computers were built and so some of these young women were then
 redeployed to program the newfangled ,machines, so many of the earliest
 computer programmers were women. Thus, some of the most notables in
 computer science, for example, Admiral Grace Hopper,  who invented the
 first compiler, was a developer of early programming languages and headed
 the committee that developed COBOL,  and there were other people like Ruth
 Teitelbaum and Marlyn Meltzer, who were among the first programmers for the
 ENIAC, which was the first electronic digital computer.

 For a long time thereafter, women continued to play a leading role with
 programming. On the other hand, computer programming was not a particularly
 high status profession. Scientists and engineers, amongst others, tended to
 look down upon programming as glorified clerical work. Eventually,
 attitudes changed, and computer programming was re-conceptualized as an
 engineering discipline. Starting in the late 1960s, it started to become
 fashionable to call programmers, software engineers (the term having been
 coined by another female pioneer in computer science, Margaret Hamilton).
 With this reconcptualization of the discipline, the status (and pay) for
 programmers gradually went up. It was now seen as a field that was
 eminently suitable for men, so the numbers of women in the field declined.
 After all, in the popular imagination at least, engineers are supposed to
 be men.



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 Makes sense to me.

 It would be interesting to also look at how women are drawn to economics
 when their programs prioritize equally social-value 

Re: [Marxism] new Jacobin issue?

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Hi Andrew,

A comrade was kind enough to let me take a look.
Eden Medina's article is great; it's a summary of her book with advice on
its relevance today. That alone is worth the price of admission (assuming
they fix the log-on issues). But buy her book too!!!

Are you referring to Medina's book Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology
and Politics in Allende's Chile (MIT Press, 2011, 9780262016490)? If so,
this sounds like a fascinating read.

Many thanks,

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The growing intimacy between Bard College and the American military | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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On the topic of the political economy of the university-military-industrial
nexus:

University of Western Ontario partnership with General Dynamics (2004):

http://communications.uwo.ca/western_news/stories/2004/December/western_general_dynamics_collaborate.html


Faculty of Information and Media Studies (UWO) response (my alma mater ft.
my former colleagues on the panel) (2011):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc1feQMwChw

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 Parents, don’t let your kids grow up to be Bardians.

 I say that as a Bard graduate who went there when it was a bohemian
 outpost even if it wasn’t very radical. There’s one thing I know, however.
 Under President Reamer Kline, an Episcopalian minister who ruffled the
 feathers of the student body on more than one occasion, you would have
 never seen the kind of outrageous partnership with the US military that has
 been developing under President-for-life Leon Botstein, who once had the
 temerity to invoke Karl Marx in a commencement address in the 1980s. Well,
 you know what they say about the devil quoting scripture.

 full: http://louisproyect.org/2014/09/16/the-growing-intimacy-
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[Marxism] Free ebook - Verso's The Case for Sanctions against Israel

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Hi all,

Bringing to your attention the following. Free downloadable edited e-book
from Verso:

http://www.versobooks.com/books/956-the-case-for-sanctions-against-israel

Best to all,

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[Marxism] Cdn PM Stephen Harper: Putin's a Communist (wait, or is it Nazi, or Marxist, or Morlock?)

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This one is too easy, but I thought I'd let it make the rounds:

CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/stephen-harper-attacks-vladimir-putin-and-evil-communism-1.2660700
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/stephen-harper-attacks-vladimir-putin-and-evil-communism-1.2660700

GLOBE AND MAIL:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/harper-goes-on-full-scale-verbal-attack-against-evil-communism/article18938819/

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