[Marxism] Fwd: Israel lobby’s battle for domination of campus debate Tikun-Olam Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם

[Louis Proyect via Marxism]

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Tonight, I want to present a portrait of two Israel studies programs on 
two different campuses to show one that largely honors the traditions of 
fair, open academic discourse and another that flagrantly violates them. 
 The two campuses are the University of Illinois-Chicago and Brandeis 
University.


full: 
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2014/11/15/israel-and-a-tale-of-two-campuses/

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[Marxism] Alawite critic of Assad arrested for stating the regime is collapsing

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http://eaworldview.com/2014/11/syria-daily-leading-opposition-activist-arrested-says-regime-collapsing/
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Re: [Marxism] Freedom of Press by George Orwell

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on Freitag, 14. November 2014 at 22:04, Dayne Goodwin via Marxism wrote:

> A rare and lost preface to Animal farm; novella written by George Orwell.
> This preface better known as Freedom to Press was written by Orwell
> himself...

  Thanks for sending this out! I didn't know that yet. 

  BTW, there is a fairly complete collection of George Orwell's writings is to 
be found at http://orwell.ru  and his preface to "Animal Farm" is also 
available there: http://orwell.ru/library/novels/Animal_Farm/english/efp_go  

  It is worthwhile to browse the whole catalogue on http://orwell.ru for a 
number of other essays by Eric Blair, not only in English, but also in some 
other languages, especially in Russian, as one might expect. 

  George Orwell aka Eric Blair is still my favourite English writer. 
 
Cheers, 
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany

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[Marxism] Surging tar sands oil exports to US

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Canadian oil from the Alberta tar sands is pouring into the US at a record pace 
despite the delayed Keystone XL pipeline, according to the report below from 
Bloomberg News. Tar sands exports to American refineries in Oklahoma and along 
the Gulf Coast have risen by 83% over the past four years and are set to double 
to 400,000 barrels per day next year. The heavy crude sells at a discount, and 
is driving the lighter West Texas and imported blends from Mexico, Venezuela 
and the Middle East onto the world market, adding to the global supply glut and 
collapsing oil prices. 

The North American oil industry is reportedly unfazed by the Obama 
administration’s failure to approve Keystone XL as well as recent indications 
that it will veto any legislation by the new Republican-controlled Congress 
allowing the pipeline to proceed. Canadian pipeline operators like Enbridge, 
the country’s largest, and TransCanada, which owns the Keystone system, have 
simply increased capacity in their other lines and are relying more heavily on 
rail transport to get their oil to market. “Keystone is kind of old 
news…producers have moved on,” a Texas oil analyst told Bloomberg. 

The current blasé attitude of Canadian producers and American refiners to the 
delays around Keystone XL and the added capacity it would bring onstream is 
most likely owing to the sharp fall in global oil demand. While the issue is 
still being exploited by politicians in Canada and the US, meaningful pressure 
from the industry on the American government to approve the pipeline would 
probably only return if there is a strong recovery in the market.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-14/keystone-left-behind-as-canadian-oil-pours-into-u-s-.html?alcmpid=mostpop
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[Marxism] I/O analysis and climate change

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Just posted this to Facebook and figured I'd get some responses here too:

Any other fans of Wassily Leontief out there? Looking for non-subscriber
access to his articles, especially those on input-output analysis and
pollution control. This technique IMO is key to constructing a
worker-driven, democratic plan for a just transition from climate-killing
capitalism to earth/species-friendly socialism.

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Re: [Marxism] Goodbye to Leninism

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The notion, contained in Louis's Counterpunch article, that Lenin was 
attempting to build a party along the lines of Syriza (Greece) or Podemos 
(Spain) is patently absurd to anyone who knows the first thing about Russian 
revolutionary history.

Lenin was attempting to build a revolutionary socialist party. Syriza and 
Podemos are  avowedly electoral-reformist. True, Lenin thought he was 
attempting to construct a mass workers' party along the lines of German Social 
Democracy, adapted to Russian conditions. But he took as good coin Kautsky's 
many affirmations of the SPD's revolutionary . Rosa Luxemburg and her 
co-thinkers were quicker than Lenin to perceive, after 1910, the hollowness of 
Kautsky's declarations.

In his own party, however, Lenin always fought to maintain the integrity of 
Marxism as a revolutionary doctrine, and strove for separation from, rather 
than unity with, those who veered off in a reformist direction. Under the cover 
of the revolutionary phraseology supplied by Kautsky, the reformists had 
captured all the key organizational positions in the SPD well before their 
capitulation in 1914. Precisely because Lenin did not allow this to happen in 
Russian Social Democracy, because he drew a strict line of demarcation between 
the Bolsheviks and the Russian reformists (Mensheviks and others) at every 
stage,  was his party to distinguish itself from the SPD and other Western 
parties by withstanding the war fever of 1914, and, ultimately, taking 
advantage of revolutionary opportunities to lead the working class to power 
three years later.

There are many people, Louis clearly among them, who don't think we need a 
revolutionary party today. We can have that argument. But let us do so without 
massaging the historical record. Louis wants to have his cake and eat it too. 
He wants to claim Lenin's historical legacy while embracing contemporary 
left-reformism. He can only do this by inventing a soft-focus, left-ecumenical 
Lenin who never existed. It's always been a big job to preserve the truth about 
Russian revolutionary history in the face of the Stalin School of 
Falsification, and, more recently, of the anti-Soviet reactionaries who now 
nearly monopolize academic discourse (like Stephen Kotkin, of recent mention). 
A new, reformist-social democratic revisionist school of Soviet history is the 
last thing we need!   
   
Jim Creegan 
 



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Re: [Marxism] Goodbye to Leninism

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In the article, L.P. writes: "the traditional Leninist groups were 
completely outside the process that led to the triumph of the July 26th 
Movement in Cuba or the FSLN in Nicaragua. Like a tsunami, these massive 
revolutionary movements swept across a nation, casting sects aside in 
their wake."


Cuba survived independent of imperialism and took the socialist road 
because the Castro group and the Communists merged fairly soon after 
liberation. Nicaragua is an even smaller country than Cuba and without 
the geographic defense enjoyed by an island, so for a lesson about 
non-Leninist attempts at socialism, bow your head over the grave of 
Chile's elected socialist president, Salvador Allende.


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[Marxism] An old enigma of the movement

[Anthony Boynton via Marxism]

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Decades ago, I spent a few years in the Workers League, the offspring of
the old Socialist Workers Party that led to the current abomination of the
Worldwide Socialist Web. The nemesis of the Workers League was the
Spartacisoid League which was inhabited by alcoholic vampires and
psychological damaged people.

One person who had passed through both of these august sects was a guy
named Shane Mage. Mage, despite his descent from Healyite orthodoxy into
Spatracisoid heresy and even worse, psychidelic Buddhism, as held in some
esteem by Workers League leaders. apparently, he had been a smart guy.

So when some one using that name popped up on this list, I paid attention.

Must be a different person, I thought.

Anthony


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On Nov 5, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Louis Proyect wrote:
>>
>
> So weird to see Shane fulminating against the Fourth International
> for adapting to Stalinism when his primary role on Marxmail is to
> serve as a transmission belt for RT.com talking points.

I wonder where on "RT.com" (which, in fact, I have never even seen--
except maybe for occasional and unnoteworthy reposts on Johnson's
Russia List) it describes Putin as a "Czar" or refers to his KGB
status.  Louis and a few others posting on Syria and the Ukraine could
perhaps more properly be described as "a transmission belt for
Washington Post Editorial Board talking points," but since I refuse to
accept slander as an acceptable element in political discussion I
would never say any such thing.


Shane Mage
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Re: [Marxism] The language of white expats in the Middle East that makes one's blood boil

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Q: "There’s been press about the poor living conditions of foreign workers."
A: "Brand Dubai is about selling prestige and material luxury — Lamborghinis, 
and David Beckham owning an island. That luxury tacitly depends on this 
population of inferiors, but Brand Dubai doesn’t obscure its working practices 
like the brand of the U.S. does, for example.

I really question this whole moral tourism, where travelers wag their fingers 
at the locals. There’s something slightly repellent about that to me because if 
you want to see people working in difficult conditions, there’s plenty of that 
in the United States."

"Inferiors"? For fuck's sake. 

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/travel/joseph-oneill-on-dubai-a-place-in-formation.html?_r=0&referrer=
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[Marxism] Queer class struggle hits the big screen with pride

[Stuart Munckton via Marxism]

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If you haven't seen the recently released *Pride* yet, you need to get to a
cinema. It'll moisten your eyes, swell your heart, make you tap your feet
and inspire you to join the next pride parade.

It tells the true story of the birth of the Lesbians and Gays Support the
Miners group (LGSM), formed in solidarity with British miners during their
prolonged struggle against the Thatcher government. It shows the solidarity
the gay and lesbian activists developed with the striking mining community
in the small village of Onllwyn in south Wales.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57789

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original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made,
through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man
Under Socialism

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[Marxism] Heaven or Hell? Books look back on the German Democratic Republic

[Stuart Munckton via Marxism]

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The German Democratic Republic (GDR) disappeared a quarter of a century ago
after 41 years’ existence. The East German state is mostly remembered as
“Stasiland”, as Anna Funder’s history of its secret police is called.

Yet, for all of its Stalinist failings, East Germany’s values still
stubbornly retain many Germans’ endorsement, especially those of the
eastern regions. In 2008,*Der Spiegel* surveyed young Germans nationwide
and discovered that most defended what the GDR stood for.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57790

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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
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[Marxism] The latest from Obama on Assad

[Clay Claiborne via Marxism]

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Just minutes ago in the Q&A after Obama's speech at the G20 in Brisbane.
Reporter: Just to be clear. are you active looking for a way to remove him
[Assad] as a part of that political transition?
President Obama: No.

Like I've been saying:

How Obama has supported Assad's gas murder always


Obama's Real Syria Policy: Endless War


The Courtship Continues: Obama stopped French strike on Assad


The Courtship Continues: Obama's New Gift to Assad


How Obama Helped Assad Kill with Poison Gas in Syria


Win-Win for Assad as Obama Response to CW Mass Murder Put on Hold


Obama Denied Gas Masks to Assad's Victims


Obama's Dilemma and Assad's Opportunity


Barack Obama's Courtship of Bashar al-Assad


Barack Obama's Courtship of Bashar al-Assad Exposed!


Obama "green lights" Assad's slaughter in Syria


Assad's Redline and Obama's Greenlight!


Chemical weapons use in Syria, Has Obama's red-line has been crossed?


AP weighs in on Obama's Green Light for Assad's slaughter in Syria


Syria: Obama's moves Assad's "red line" back as SOHR reports 42,000 dead!


SecState John Kerry and his "dear friend" Bashar al-Assad


How Obama's *'No MANPADS for you'* policy in Syria is backfiring


More thoughts on Obama's 'No MANPADS for you!' policy


Obama: Did the CIA betray Assad's opposition in Syria?


Obama planning drone strikes against Assad's opposition in Syria


How Obama helps Assad: US tried to start war between FSA & al Nusra Front




Clay Claiborne, Director
Vietnam: American Holocaust 
Linux Beach Productions
Venice, CA 90291
(310) 581-1536

Read my blogs at the Linux Beach 

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[Marxism] Fisk: Embedded journalist extraordinaire: FSA is a myth, never seen it etc

[Michael Karadjis via Marxism]

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Fisk: Embedded journalist extraordinaire, has never seen any evidence 
FSA exists as he travels around with Assad army! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIyg7xaLGTY 


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