[Marxism] France: Protests erupt after green activist killed in anti-dam struggle
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 controversial Sivens dam project in south-west France has been temporarily suspended after the death of 21-year-old activist Remi Fraisse while protesting at the site on October 25. An autopsy found that Fraisse had likely died from a police stun grenade that hit him in the back. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57749 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] South Africa: 'We will continue to mobilise the working class for socialism', NUMSA's defiant response to COSATU | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
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[Marxism] Fwd: bellingcat - Origin of the Separatists’ Buk: A Bellingcat Investigation
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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] South Africa: 'We will continue to mobilise the working class for socialism', NUMSA's defiant response to COSATU | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
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[Marxism] South Africa: 'We will continue to mobilise the working class for socialism', NUMSA's defiant response to COSATU | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
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[Marxism] Fwd: A dozen ISIS fighters killed after chefs infiltrate camp and POISON terrorists' lunch - Mirror Online
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: A dozen ISIS fighters killed after chefs infiltrate camp and POISON terrorists' lunch - Mirror Online
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 11/9/14 8:38 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 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. * I don't think the Mirror is very reliable but let's hope so this time. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/dozen-isis-fighters-killed-after-4590573 Bullshit, just as I suspected. http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/how-true-is-the-undercover-chefs-poison-isis-fighters-story--ey8IVSxDwl _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The DLC takeover of the Democratic Party
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’s a link to an excellent background piece on how “the Democratic elites ensconced in the law firms, foundations, banks, and media executive suites” moved to dismantle the social and regulatory reforms of the New Deal and previous Democratic Party administrations under the tutelage of a consummate insider, Al From. Like so many accounts of political change, however, Stoller's review of From's memoir attributes too much to the role of individuals without taking into account that construction of the new ideological framework and party structures - not only within the DP but also in European social democratic parties - was mostly owing to the decades-long decline in the economic weight and political influence of the trade unions resulting from globalization, tech change, and other factors. The greatly altered balance of forces between capital and labour was inevitably reflected at the political level in these left-centre parties in the emergence of the Clintons, Blairs, Schroders, and Hollandes and their full abandonment of a shrinking trade union base in favour of an increasingly dominant professional and corporate wing out of whose ranks they emerged. http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/11/matt-stoller-democratic-party-acts-way.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Documentaries about Marx and Marxism?
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 think there are a large number of graphic or cartoon presentations of Marxist ideas. I have only seen a few and am not able to recommend one over another. ken h http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbTIJ9_bLP4 Manifestoon[edit] One of Drew's best known works is Manifestoon, a collage of classic cartoons edited to help illustrate the narration: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' Communist Manifesto. When the clips are re-contextualized, the subversive nature of the trickster character in classic cartoons is presented in a new perspective.[4] The video has been shown at large institutions such as Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Barcelona Cultural Center and uploaded to web sites like theInternet archive[5] and YouTube.[6] Nicole Brenez, the curator of Cinematheque in France listed Manifestoon as one of the top ten films of the 1990s. [7] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdmxBtAW26o _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Building Outside the Democratic Party | Jacobin
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[Marxism] Fwd: Europe’s new left parties can make the dreams of 1968 come true | Srecko Horvat | Comment is free | The Guardian
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[Marxism] WHAT THE LIBERAL BOURGEOIUS MANOUVRES AGAINST THE CONSERVATIVE BOURGEOIS ELEMENTS COULD POSSIBLY LEAD TO?
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[Marxism] Fwd: Our Place in the World: 1625. The Idea of Progress and the Cuban Revolution
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. * In “Normality and Progress in Cuba” (Havana Times, October 30, 2014) Fernando Ravsberg reports on the Cuban television program Circulo de la Confianza (“Circle of Trust”) that he and others discussed the idea of progress and how it applies to Cuba. Mr. Ravsberg correctly argues that progress in Cuba should be compared not with the achievements of the industrial capitalist societies but with the conditions of the periphery of world economy, in particular countries of the Caribbean and Latin America. Although I have used Ravsberg’s argument in my classes, academic conferences and political gathering dealing with the Cuban revolution for the past 25 years I think it is high time to reconsider the idea of progress itself. The idea of progress The contemporary concept of progress originated with the Enlightment (Robert Nisbet, History of the Idea of Progress,1969). It is associated with advances in social organization and attending progress in science and technology that are assumed to improve the human condition by enhancing quality of life. What has happened historically is more complicated. The rise of the capitalist mode of production represented a revolution in social organization of Western Europe. The emerging capitalist system benefited from the Scientific Revolution (1550-1700) and technological development that increased productivity in agriculture and laid the basis for the Industrial Revolution (1760-1830). A number of bourgeois revolutions, in particular in France and in United States, paved the way for historically unprecedented social progress. However, the process of original accumulation of capital marginalized the peasantry and subsequent capitalist industrialization super-exploited the new proletarians. The rise of capitalism in Western Europe also relied on plunder of far away lands, including the slave trade, and the new democratic republic in Western Europe and North America became colonial and imperialist powers that undermined progress in the periphery to facilitate their expatiation. Thus, the promise of progress was only partially realized by the working people of the capitalist center and largely unrealized by the masses in the periphery. full: http://forhumanliberation.blogspot.com/2014/11/1625-idea-of-progress-and-cuban.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Another attempt: South Africa: 'We will continue to mobilise the working class for socialism', NUMSA's defiant response to COSATU | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal,
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[Marxism] The face Canada showed the world
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[Marxism] Brazil's MST: 'Our challenge is to fight for structural reforms'
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. * Social movements face the big challenge of continuing the fight for structural reforms in Brazil. We have to continue the struggle for land, continue pushing for a referendum for a constituent assembly and demand that the government democratise the media. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57751 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: NYU tech-work program pays students only $10/hr | New York Post
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Re: [Marxism] Documentaries about Marx and Marxism?
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. * Thanks to Ken, Michael and Paul for their very useful suggestions of documentary films. Glenn I think there are a large number of graphic or cartoon presentations of Marxist ideas. I have only seen a few and am not able to recommend one over another. ken h _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Mexico: New protests after claims 43 students were executed
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[Marxism] Global social movements meet in Venezuela to push climate action
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[Marxism] Leftist ideals becoming mainstream?
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[Marxism] Tony Cliff: from Zionism to Marxism
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Re: [Marxism] The DLC takeover of the Democratic Party
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. * These are certainly significant changes and it's no accident that these reflect international trends, but I'm not sure how they greatly altered balance of forces between capital and labour. In the case of the U.S., the political parties basically obtain legitimacy for ruling class interests by recasting them into something that enough participating voters can buy or, at least, buy in preference to what seems to them to be a worse alternative. It might be argued, perhaps, that the stronger labor movement we used to have in this country meant that Democratic party's need to mediate constituted a brake of sorts on how blatantly it pursued a capitalist agenda. But it always pursued that agenda. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the changing balance of forces between capital and labour contributed to these political party shifts, no? Solidarity! Mark L. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Gaza needs freedom and normalcy, not just aid
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[Marxism] ACT politicians reject Independent Commission against Corruption
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[Marxism] Hezbollah: US Not in Favour of Destabilizing Syrian Gov’t
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. * From the anti-imperialist horse's mouth: US Not in Favor of Destabilizing Syrian Gov’t, Takfiris to Witness Huge Collapse http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=180277cid=71fromval=1frid=71seccatid=271s1=0 Syrian Army--- US top political officials have sent secret messages to the Syrian leadership via a third party assuring that Washington does not support any effort and is not in favor of destabilizing the Syrian government. further, the messages revealed US enthusiasm to a political solution where the Syrian system would have the upper hand. --- Estimations and expectations from both military experts and security sources say a huge collapse is expected in the front of Takfiri military groups in both Syria and Iraq. --- Takfiri leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi has harshly criticized his followers in Lebanon after the huge losses they suffered recently on the Lebanese army hands, he depicted their reactions as light and immature that can only be done by amateurs _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Tony Cliff: from Zionism to Marxism
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'm no Cliff fan either, Phil but this was very good indeed -full of basic human decency. comradely Gary _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
