[Marxism] Submission re: Syria

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Per the recent controversy re: Syria, I composed this piece to provide a
brief ideological background, I think it goes very deeply into an Old Left
fight between Trotsky and Lenin. Special thanks to Louis Proyect and other
voices on this list that aided in this effort, I could not have done it
without your vital aid.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/10/what-spain-in-1936-teaches-us-about-syria-in-2015/

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I greatly appreciate the kind words and insightful comments. However, just to 
push back respectfully and stimulate discussion, two points:

A) The Stalin national question is laid out first in the 1914 book OF MARXISM 
AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION, which Lenin wholeheartedly embraced, and it was in 
that book that the two stage theory is outlined. Trots of the more grouchy 
variation, in my experience, are prone to emphasize that they think Stalin 
plagiarized the work from others and that Lenin impacted how it was written in 
a major way.

2) The emir was used as an example but not a solitary one, he was invoked to 
justify Soviet backing of Chiang Kai Shek in China and other bourgeois 
anti-imperial national liberation fighters.

Best regards,
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> On Nov 12, 2015, at 2:02 PM, Joseph Green  wrote:
> 
> Andrew Stewart wrote:
>> 
>> Per the recent controversy re: Syria, I composed this piece to provide a
>> brief ideological background, I think it goes very deeply into an Old Left
>> fight between Trotsky and Lenin. Special thanks to Louis Proyect and other
>> voices on this list that aided in this effort, I could not have done it
>> without your vital aid.
>> 
>> http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/10/what-spain-in-1936-teaches-us-about-syria-in-2015/
> 
> The theoretical issue raised by Andrew Stewart is of a great deal of 
> interest. Stalin and Trotsky present themselves as polar opposites, but in 
> reality both separated anti-imperialism from the class struggle and from 
> Leninist anti-imperialism.  
> 
> Stewart points to Stalin's famous passage in "The Foundations of Leninism" 
> concerning the Emir of Afghanistan and "the revolutionary character of a 
> national movement under the conditions of imperialist oppression". I analyzed 
> this passage in detail in my article "Anti-imperialism and the class 
> struggle" from June 2002 (www.communistvoice.org/29cEmir.html). At the time 
> Stalin was writing, the then-Emir of Afghanistan was not a bloodstained 
> dictator like Bashar al-Assad, but a reformer, who sought both to introduce 
> domestic reforms in Afghanistan and to preserve Afghan independence against 
> British imperialism. It was correct for the the Soviet Union to develop 
> relations with the Emir's government; this did not betray the popular 
> movement in Afghanistan. However, Stalin went overboard in painting the Emir 
> as a revolutionary. Stalin's theorizing was a problem even then, and it later 
> has been used as a theoretical basis for such monstrous crimes as supporting 
> the Taliban as "anti-imperialist". Indeed, the article I linked to discusses 
> Stalin's stand with reference to the debate on that time against those who 
> regarded the Taliban as anti-imperialist.
> 
> The same article also deals with Trotsky's stand with respect to Emperor 
> Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. Just as it was correct for the Soviet Union at 
> that time to support the Emir of Afghanistan against British imperialism, it 
> was correct for Trotsky to back the Ethiopian government against Italian 
> invasion in the 1930s. But just as Stalin went overboard in painting the Emir 
> as a revolution, Trotsky went overboard in painting Haile Selassie as a 
> revolutionary. He dreamed that Selassie would perform revolutionary deeds 
> that would "mean a mighty blow not only at Italian imperialism but at 
> imperialism as a whole, and would lend a powerful impulsion to the rebellious 
> forces of the opressed peoples". In reality, Selassie fled Ethiopia right 
> after Trotsky dreamed that he might be a new Cromwell or Robespierre (those 
> were strange models for a socialist to put forward in the 20th century, but 
> that's Trotsky for you), and the Ethiopian people were left to fight the 
> occupiers by themselves. When Selassie returned to Ethiopia, he did his best 
> to continue absolutist rule.
> 
> Thus both Stalin and Trotsky, despite apparently opposite theories, were 
> overboard in painting various figures as revolutionaries. And both Stalin's 
> theorizing on the Emir of Afghanistan, and Trotsky's theorizing on Haile 
> Selassie, were used by some groups to defend the Taliban's struggle. These 
> groups regard themselves as great anti-imperialists, but they are non-class 
> anti-imperialists, who are dragging the good name of anti-imperialism through 
> the mud.
> 
> Leninist anti-imperialism is quite different from either Trotsky's version of 
> permanent revolution or Stalin's version of multi-stage revolution. I wrote 
> about Lenin's views in "An outline of Leninist anti-imperialism" 
> (www.communistvoice.org/29cOutline.html). It is 

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There's a story I really like about a rabbi (it was told by Alan
Dershowitz, but that is besides the point):

A rabbi and his student are sitting studying Torah one day and a husband
and wife come to them with a domestic complaint.

The man says 'Rebbe, my wife has not given me sons, she does not clean, her
cooking is awful, and she is very bitter, I feel I have the right to be
angry'. The rabbi says 'you are right, my son.'

Wife says 'Rebbe, he never loved me, he only married me for the dowry, he
drinks, he cheats on me, and I feel I have the right to be angry'. Rabbi
replies 'you are right, my daughter'.

The student says 'Rabbi, they can't both be right'. Rabbi smiles. 'You are
right, my student!'

I originally wrote this as a media analysis piece talking about RT (English
language, that is) and other Western left outlets, I think there is a touch
of Eurocentrism at play that is steering the way this is being debated. You
are much wiser than I on these matters and also are correct on your points.

My own view is that, in the epoch of neoliberalism, why in the name of all
that is holy are we referring back to texts written in the time of the gold
standard when there has been a huge social revolution in South America
following the rise of Chavez that has a little more relevance? As I said in
the piece, as well as in an earlier one about Slavoj Zizek, the Soviet
Union was corrupted by things having far more to do with the Leninist
vanguard notion than with a post-WWI invasion of Russia and the Civil War.
The anarchists and left-leaning Marxist socialists knew well before the
Revolution that the Bolshevik vanguard theory was a debacle, that is why
Rosa Luxemburg was critical of it. My own view is that the Marx-Bakunin
split was half based around genuine philosophical issues and half based
around idiotic ego posturing. In many ways, the American Left today is
moving ever so slowly towards the synthesis of the two.

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Joseph Green 
wrote:

> Andrew Stewart wrote:
>  > I greatly appreciate the kind words and insightful comments. However,
> just
> >to push back respectfully and stimulate discussion, two points:
> >
> I appreciate your response, Andrew, and I agree its useful to look further
> into these theoretical matters.
>
> > A) The Stalin national question is laid out first in the 1914 book OF
> >MARXISM AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION, which Lenin wholeheartedly embraced,
> and
> >it was in that book that the two stage theory is outlined.
>
> The distinction between different types of revolution was being made by
> Marxists long before Stalin was born, to say nothing of his book of 1914.
> The
> distinction between bourgeois-democratic and socialist revolutions is a
> basic
> point of Marxism. The Trotskyist version of "permanent revolution" holds
> that
> Marxism is outdated on this point.
>
> In an "An Outline of Leninist anti-imperialism" I discuss Lenin's
> presentation of what the Trotskyists call "two-stage revolution." It's also
> In "Leninism and the Arab Spring" (www.communistvoice.org/46cLeninism.html
> ),
> I discuss the continuing relevance of this distinction to the analysis of
> the
> Arab Spring.
>
> The world isn't simply either/or: Stalinism or Trotskyism. There is life
> outside the spheres of Trotskyism and Stalinism.  But to see an alternative
> analysis, one needs to take the time to examine it.
>
> >Trots of the more grouchy variation, in my experience, are prone to
> >emphasize that they think Stalin plagiarized the work from others and that
> >Lenin impacted how it was written in a major way.
>
> So it seems that they are obsessed with spin control rather than serious
> analysis. We need to look into more important issues. We need to examine
> the
> Marxist theory of the different types of revolution, the Marxist version of
> "two-stage revolution" and of the tactics of the working class in such
> revolutions; we need to evaluate whether it holds today, and whether both
> Stalinist and Trotskyist theory departs from it.
>
> >
>  > 2) The emir was used as an example but not a solitary one, he was
> invoked
> > to justify Soviet backing of Chiang Kai Shek in China and other bourgeois
> > anti-imperial national liberation fighters.
>
> There are many examples, and each of them involves specific issues of the
> local economic and political situation. Each requires its own particular
> analysis.
>
>  But sometimes it is useful to go deeper in a couple of examples in depth.
> Clarity doesn't necessarily come from a large number of examples, if each
> one
> is covered superficially.
>
> So let's stay on Afghanistan and 

[Marxism] Submission , SEX WORKERS UNIONIZING

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I have been working on this story for a while and have more to follow. As a 
personal favor, please consider sharing this on your various social networking 
accounts. The Providence Police and mafia have a history of abusing these 
laborers and so publicity is the only way to prevent genuine suppression and 
political violence that is genuine and not delusional.

http://www.rifuture.org/sex-workers-of-rhode-island-unite.html

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I don't know why you want to get into a line of talk like that, I have been 
rather polite and mature about this. My own view is that these ideas have some 
relevance and some elements are frankly useless. This piece of writing was 
meant to be a bit of media analysis and not a theoretical debate. Quite frankly 
there is a touch of Eurocentrism at play when people are quoting texts from the 
era of the gold standard and not even mentioning the writings of the South 
American socialists who are talking about neoliberalism and American empire in 
this century. It strikes me that you are taking an effort at mild humor in a 
direction towards nastiness and condescension. Why is your business, I just 
don't have to take your bait and give you the satisfaction of engaging on that 
level. I imagine part of it stems from the "anti-revisionist" bit you are 
about, which in my understanding is focused on arguing about Stalin's glory 
while failing to accept that the man had no grasp of Hegel's dialectical
  method.

Best regards,
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> On Nov 14, 2015, at 12:41 AM, Joseph Green  wrote:
> 
> 
> Andrew Stewart wrote:
>> There's a story I really like about a rabbi (it was told by Alan
>> Dershowitz, but that is besides the point):
> 
> It seems to me that you don't have a serious attitude to the theoretical 
> issues involved. So-and-so said this, and so-and-so said that, but as you 
> have explained, you really don't care about most of it.  The amusing thing is 
> that the result was that nevertheless your article on Syria was  better than 
> most of those in that publication, and would raise theoretical issues to 
> others reading it. But it seems to me that to really escape the 
> Stalinist/Trotskyist framework, it would take serious consideration of the 
> theoretical issues underlying the debate on anti-imperialism. It takes work, 
> and not just feelings, however justified some of them might be. And the 
> anti-revisionist trend I am from has been preoccupied with dealing with what 
> the experience of the world movement shows, and how theory has to develop to 
> deal with it. 
> 
> In any case, to each their own, as far as how to deal with theory. Best 
> wishes.
> 
> -- Joseph Green

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[Marxism] Eric Draitser on Mali

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I have enjoyed Draitser's podcasts for CounterPunch, he obviously has some
skills there and has created a product that has some real legs to it. That
said, I am finding myself skeptical of what he is saying here and would be
remiss if I did not mention he has previously gone in some directions both
on the podcasts he works on and in print that I find myself disagreeing
with, particularly with regards to Syria.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/01/terror-in-mali-an-attack-on-china-and-russia/

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[Marxism] Rhode Island College President

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Issues involving labor and college governance have led to this story going
international. I have been reporting on the matter and see things from a
different angle.

http://www.rifuture.org/ric-faculty-on-college-council-votes-confidence-for-president-carriuolo.html

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Spike Lee Did the Wrong Thing (Sheldon Ranz)

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Two reasons why.

First, Liberia is an African country and therefore we are not dealing with
a minority that is being exploited in the way Africans are here in America.

Second, the fault lies with the white power structure. If someone should be
getting refused Sex, it should be Rahm Emanuel, not the poor people of
color victimized by his policies.

Thanks for sharing, Louis.

The critic mentions Liberia, but does not discuss it further.  If the
Lysistrata approach worked there, what's wrong with a filmmaker proposing
it here?

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> Chi-Raq contributes to a long-held tradition of citing Black women?s
> bodies as both the source and the solution to social problems. In the
film,
> he has  the movement completely rely upon the premise of hot young
scantily
> clad women refusing to have sex with their gangsta men. The inference is
> that Black women have so much power and we can fix society if only we
would
> use our sexual power. In other words, all the responsibility is on us?and
> our genitalia.
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Re: [Marxism] Marxism Digest, Vol 146, Issue 38

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Thank you for your work Dr. Prashad, I continue to admire and enjoy it.

Since you have been working on the Syrian issue for a while now and previously 
wrote on the Turkish-Daesh oil topic, I wonder what your feelings are on the 
FSA and Erdogan's potential to support a libertarian communist community among 
the Kurds in Rojava and other border areas.

On Sunday, over a million Indian communists and sympathizers gathered at 
Kolkata's Brigade Ground. Here is my report of the rally and of the Plenum 
being held by the CPI-M, 
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/28/red-brigade-indian-communists-rally-and-reflect/.

While in Ramallah, Palestine, I gave a talk on the state of the Indian Left. 
The video of that talk - in English and Arabic - is available here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfzRl-wCIIE=youtu.be. It was held, by 
the way, in the Edward Said Hall.

Warm regards,
Vijay.

Best regards,
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> On Dec 29, 2015, at 2:00 PM, marxism-requ...@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote:
> 
> On Sunday, over a million Indian communists and sympathizers gathered at 
> Kolkata's Brigade Ground. Here is my report of the rally and of the Plenum 
> being held by the CPI-M, 
> http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/28/red-brigade-indian-communists-rally-and-reflect/.
> 
> While in Ramallah, Palestine, I gave a talk on the state of the Indian Left. 
> The video of that talk - in English and Arabic - is available here: 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfzRl-wCIIE=youtu.be. It was held, by 
> the way, in the Edward Said Hall.
> 
> Warm regards,
> Vijay.
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[Marxism] Essure controversy, worth sharing with women you care about

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Watch this video from The Real News Network, I think you'll find it
interesting. This is a segment dealing with the very medically-dangerous
contraception method Essure, which is proving to be loaded with
side-effects. The issue is that it is an example of huge problems with the
Affordable Care Act's medical devices laws.

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content=view=31=74=15409

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[Marxism] Murray Bookchin in Syria

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I have previously written about the way Bookchin felt about Bernie Sanders, 
this is a development that I wish had come across my radar earlier. I apologize 
in advance to those who will say that they have been saying it all along, I 
have been under the weather for a while.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/syrian-kurds-murray-bookchin_5655e7e2e4b079b28189e3df

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[Marxism] Lenin on Clausewitz

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It occurs to me that part of the dialogue re: Syria must include an
understanding about statecraft and practicality. I would refer folks to
Lenin's study of Clausewitz and war so to grasp what is at stake. The
discussion is not about who is better than other, it is about who is
getting backing from state powers and what will happen as an aftermath of
the war's end. Is a neoliberal like Obama going to support a libertarian
communist project like that in Rojava or is he going to do the same as he
did in Libya?

http://www.clausewitz.com/bibl/DavisKohn-LeninsNotebookOnClausewitz.pdf

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[Marxism] Sex worker rights awareness

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So I have been covering the labor rights agitation of sex workers here in
the Providence area that are looking to unionize and decriminalize their
labor. I am fully cognizant of the concerns raised by some quarters about
human trafficking issues and try to hash through that here. The abuse
talked about her by police using the BackPage website is going on
nationwide so, if you see this issue pop up in the headlines of your local
news, keep this in mind.

http://www.rifuture.org/backpage-and-bust-how-to-harass-sex-workers-and-influence-people.html

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Re: [Marxism] TRUMBO Film thoughts

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The record is pretty clear on SPARTACUS, Trumbo actually had arguments with 
Kirk Douglas over the script orientation, he wanted to keep with Fast's 
original work and talk about McCarthyism but Douglas was on a secular Zionist 
kick and wanted to make it about Israel. There is a Kubrick biography by John 
Baxter that talks about this. Also remember that SPARTACUS was filmed in 
Franco's Spain, so irregardless of Trumbo and Fast being Reds, Kirk Douglas was 
not.

Best regards,
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>> On 11/27/15 4:14 PM, Andrew Stewart via Marxism wrote:
>> 
>> I have recently seen the TRUMBO film and agreed that it is a
>> fantastic picture. That said, I have yet to see anything that deals
>> with the fact that the two films that listed Trumbo in the credits,
>> SPARTACUS and EXODUS, are proto-hasbara Zionist propaganda pictures
>> that continue to be used to delegitimize Palestinians. Any thoughts?
> 
> 
> Well, Exodus was certainly hasbara but Spartacus? Maybe you can explain why 
> on that one. The film is based on a Howard Fast novel. He was a Communist and 
> the film is obviously sympathetic to a slave revolt.
> 
> But if you want to see a film that incorporates Trumbo's unique perspective, 
> I recommend "Lonely are the Brave" that is based on a novel by Edward Abbey 
> called "The Brave Cowboy". Abbey was an anarchist and a deep ecologist.

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[Marxism] TRUMBO Film thoughts

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I have recently seen the TRUMBO film and agreed that it is a fantastic picture. 
That said, I have yet to see anything that deals with the fact that the two 
films that listed Trumbo in the credits, SPARTACUS and EXODUS, are 
proto-hasbara Zionist propaganda pictures that continue to be used to 
delegitimize Palestinians. Any thoughts?

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Re: [Marxism] TRUMBO Film thoughts

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I apologize if my original response seemed snarky or snotty, my bad.

As for Kubrick, I do not have access to the entire article but, unless it
is citing some archival materials I am not familiar with (a very likely
thing), I think the record on SPARTACUS is clear. I took a film class on
Kubrick at RI College and never came across Kubrick expressing interest in
much of anything except psychoanalytic theory and anti-consumerist
thinking. Kubrick had almost zero control over production, it was Kirk
Douglas's show and basically it was a color-by-numbers quick paycheck. In
fact, it was such a miserable experience for him that he moved to England
to get away from the American studio system shortly thereafter and refused
to produce a film unless he had absolute and total control, from script
approval to final cut. From thereon, he created what are argued to be his
masterpieces, starting with LOLITA, though I do think that PATHS OF GLORY
and the other earlier features he made before SPARTACUS were pretty decent.
This article is actually pretty informative (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus_(film)).

As for the history of the Left and Israel, Jacobin magazine ran a great
article on this topic some time ago, (
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2013/04/palestine-and-the-left/). Even Noam
Chomsky was enchanted by kibbutz living and moved to live on one for a
while. I've recently been reading some material by Iriving Howe that
includes his argument that everyone should join the Democrats to push a
Scandinavian social democratic model and look to Israel as the socialist
motherland.

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Louis Proyect  wrote:

> On 11/27/15 5:39 PM, hasc.warrior.s...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> The record is pretty clear on SPARTACUS, Trumbo actually had arguments
>> with Kirk Douglas over the script orientation, he wanted to keep with
>> Fast's original work and talk about McCarthyism but Douglas was on a
>> secular Zionist kick and wanted to make it about Israel. There is a Kubrick
>> biography by John Baxter that talks about this. Also remember that
>> SPARTACUS was filmed in Franco's Spain, so irregardless of Trumbo and Fast
>> being Reds, Kirk Douglas was not.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Andrew Stewart
>>
>
> It has been many years since I saw "Spartacus" but apparently you are
> right.
>
> "Kirk Douglas, a passionate Zionist, wanted the history depicted to
> parallel the story of the Jewish people and clashed with screenwriter
> Dalton Trumbo, who was more interested in making the film a comment on
> modern-day politics and the Cold War."
>
> full: http://www.classicmoviehub.com/facts-and-trivia/film/spartacus-1960/
>
> Apparently it wasn't only Douglas who was a Zionist. So was Kubrick the
> director:
> http://adaptation.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/03/30/adaptation.apv006.abstract
>
> The only thing worth considering is that in the 1950s and very early 60s
> many people on the left, including Douglas and Kubrick, had not figured out
> how shitty Israel was. In fact a guy I know who is very involved with the
> Israeli left (his son is a refusenik) came to Israel in the mid-50s from
> Detroit where he was in the CP. He was under the impression at the time
> that radicals could help turn Israel into a kind of vanguard for radical
> change in the Middle East. He was obviously wrong as he would readily admit
> today but back then it was a lot easier to be fooled.
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[Marxism] An appeal to LGBTQQI comrades

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Folks, I have just gone through a nasty spat with a solidarity group that I am 
a part of due to an article about Harry Hay I am planning to write. I would 
really appreciate it if people who were in the struggle for liberation in the 
70s and 80s could share their insights and thoughts about Hay and his whole 
episode with NAMBLA. As a prefatory disclaimer, I have absolutely no interest 
in apologies for child rape and think that there is never any reason to justify 
the hurting of a child under any circumstances at all. Please don't let the 
following message be construed otherwise.

I'm not old enough to remember that period and I can only ask questions. Was he 
trying the classic boring in strategy that Lefties were doing in the 70s and 
80s to reform an organization to stimulate a debate over consent laws and how 
same sex relationships are not given the Romeo and Juliet laws that protect a 
romantic partner in heterosexual contexts when one of the lovers, usually the 
male, becomes an adult and could be liable for statutory rape charges? Was he 
out of his mind and trying to screw around with kids? A little of both?

Hay is a very hard figure for queer journalists like me to do justice to. On 
the one hand, his activism and founding of Mattachine Society and Radical 
Faeries was extremely important because he combined LGBTQQI civil rights causes 
with a Marxist class analysis that groups like Human Rights Campaign run away 
from with fear. He began doing agitation for gay men when they were being 
exiled from the Federal employment rolls during the McCarthy era and literally 
being electrocuted in mental institutions. On the other hand, NAMBLA, an 
organization that I would be happy to see evaporate from the face of the earth. 
Hay founded the modern gay men's rights advocacy movement and was prophetic in 
repudiating assimilation trends that are becoming a reality before my eyes, 
especially in terms of the role white sexual minorities can play in 
gentrification of the major cities. Part of the Left tradition is having heroes 
that are NOT saints, despite the efforts of the various Leninist-derived cos-pla
 y groups that pretend to be politically inclined. 

And just to be clear, Hay was not the only gay guy on this NAMBLA trip, Allen 
Ginsberg was also and arguably sounded completely bonkers when he spoke on the 
topic in comparison to Hay.

Any insights?

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[Marxism] Audio documentary about the Spanish Civil War music

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This is a new audio documentary I made about the much-loved recordings made
by some rather famous folks in solidarity with the Second Spanish Republic.
It is 61 minutes and includes an interview with Dr. Peter Glazer, a member
of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives who has written the liner notes for
the Smithsonian reissues of these songs. His father performed on the
original recordings and he wrote his thesis on the topic.

http://www.rifuture.org/songs-of-the-spanish-civil-war-an-audio-documentary.html

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[Marxism] Vote Pact as the start of a new united front from below

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Think seriously about this one, it has potential in the aftermath of the
Sanders campaign.

http://www.rifuture.org/libertarian-and-green-presidential-primary-developments.html

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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Empire]: Masson on Cohen, 'Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era'

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Useful reading for Palestine activists.

Best regards,
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> Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era'
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[Marxism] Fwd: Elena Mora resigns from the CPUSA ? Houston Communist Party

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Recently got a book from 1993 titled NEW STUDIES IN THE POLITICS AND
CULTURE OF US COMMUNISM that is quite good. Mark Naison, who wrote the
excellent COMMUNISTS IN HARLEM DURING THE DEPRESSION, has a chapter called
REMAKING AMERICA: COMMUNISTS AND LIBERALS IN THE POPULAR FRONT. Naison
makes clear that the CPUSA had its greatest successes building the CIO
because they knew when to shut up and not wear their politics on their
sleeve, something that seems elusive to many people today. For all that can
said about juche, they did demonstrate they are a little flexible by
calling themselves a Workers Party.

A friend of mine pointed out recently that a political candidate running
under a Working Families Party banner would win easily. The issue at hand
is that Leftists do not know when they are failing to act politically and
instead like a religion. Politics is about compromises and coalitions with
those you do not agree with. Union organizers who want to be successful
need to be willing to work with laborers who are white supremacists, wife
beaters, and all sorts of other undesirable things. If they don't want to
include them, they are begging for those undesirable folks to be scabs or
stoolies. The recent book RECONSTRUCTING LENIN talks about how Lenin said
that Bolsheviks must not isolate and must be willing to join bourgeois
parties in a pre-revolutionary situation.

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Bernie S?anders? popularity does not alter in any way the negative
connotations of the words ?communism? and ?Communist Party.? As a matter
of fact, his popularity is an argument in favor of changing our name; in
favor of trying to create an organization that reflects and represents
the values he talks about and to which people are attracted.

?I have been pushing for such big changes, first and foremost, in our
name, but more than that. I?m for an entirely new formation with
radical, democratic, egalitarian, humanistic, ecological, socialist
politics; with an organizational culture that encourages innovation and
experimentation, requires critical discussion and scrupulous realism,
and prizes collectivity and transparency.

I think we need an organization that fits how people live, work, think
and feel today, which is so profoundly different from even a decade, let
alone a century, ago.

full: http://houstoncommunistparty.com/elena-mora-resigns-from-the-cpusa/

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[Marxism] Pension heist

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Watch out for this one in your state!

http://www.rifuture.org/fbi-sec-raimondo.html

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[Marxism] Pension Heist

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Part two of our research on this topic. John Arnold may already be at work
in your state.

http://www.rifuture.org/raimondo-john-arnold.html

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[Marxism] Brexit article worth reading

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This is how you get a socialist, be it Green or another party, elected this
year

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/2008_all_over_again_20160624

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[Marxism] Fwd: Bargaining Update

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I previously wrote on this topic for CounterPunch (
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/15/the-verizon-standoff-and-the-future-of-labor-communication-and-privacy/
).


*Regional Bargaining Report*


*Friday February 5, 2016*


As you know from prior bargaining reports the CWA District 1/IBEW Local
2213 and IBEW New England Regional Committees made a proposal which
addressed needs of both the Company and the Union. One of the critical
issues for the Company is the cost of healthcare. The Union addressed this
in our proposal which would *save the Company over $200 million* during the
term of the contract.


Another critical issue for the Company is workforce flexibility and the
Union made a proposal to help the Company reduce the workforce in a way
that would not hurt our members.


Two weeks ago the Company rejected the Union’s proposal and gave the Union
another unacceptable proposal which did not address any of the Union’s
critical needs.


Over the last week there have been more high level discussions where our
Union leadership told Verizon executives that since we addressed the
Company’s needs, we expect the Company to address our needs.


We went back to the bargaining table yesterday to receive another proposal
from Verizon. The Company still has many retrogressive demands on the table
and has failed to meet any of the Unions needs.


Earlier today Marc Reed put out another deceptive e mail about the status
of bargaining. He stated that the Company has “presented proposals that
would provide the Company greater flexibility in managing the work and the
work force while recognizing current job security provisions”. What their
proposal really means is that the Company will withdraw their Job Security
proposal if the Union agrees to all of the following:



   - *Transfers*: Close centers and transfer workers up to 99 miles.
   - *Force Adjust Plan*: Change the way the Company declares surpluses
   which could be done by Article 8 area or organization (impacting thousands
   of members)
   - *Temporary Transfers*: Ability to transfer employees anywhere in the
   footprint (Virginia to Massachusetts).
   - *Article 8*- Destroy the definition of our Article 8 units.

*Giving the Company the ability to move you wherever and whenever they want
is not how the Union defines Job Security.*


In New York, Verizon’s Vice-President Jay Beasley implemented a new process
called QAR, where managers are required to sit employees down and question
them for hours about their daily activities. We demanded that they stop
this practice of intimidation and harassment and told them if they want a
new process in the future they must bargain over the issue.


It is clear to your Bargaining Committee that this enormously profitable
company- which made $18.3 billion in profits in 2015 and paid its top five
executives $44.5 million in 2014- is determined to gut our contract and
destroy the working conditions that CWA and IBEW have fought so hard and
earned over the last 50 years.

 We need every member engaged in this fight.  It is more important than
ever that we take this fight to a new level.



*Ready to STRIKE for a fair contract!!!*



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[Marxism] Flint water

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And the rest of us...

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/02/how-many-flints-americas-coast-to-coast-toxic-crisis.html

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[Marxism] Weekend at Bernie's Kibbutz

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The press has missed this point, worthy of discussion.

http://www.rifuture.org/weekend-at-bernies-kibbutz.html

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Re: [Marxism] Putin

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I think I have been pretty mature here. I am quite familiar with the
National Question and related ideas.

On the other hand, you are prone to this Manichean opposites game you call
Marxism that has almost no recognition of things that actual political
scientists talk about when they do actual Marxist studies on international
relations.

On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 12:22 AM, Louis Proyect  wrote:

> On 2/12/16 11:39 PM, Andrew Stewart wrote:
>
>> Does it ever occur to you that this line of discussion is very similar
>> in theme to the anti-Bolshevik Left discourse of a century ago?
>>
>
> No, it is consistent with Lenin's writings on the national question. You
> need to get up to speed on this, Andrew.
>
> Here's a good place to start:
>
>
> https://johnriddell.wordpress.com/2014/05/20/national-liberation-and-bolshevism-reexamined-a-view-from-the-borderlands/
>
>
>


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Re: [Marxism] Putin

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Does it ever occur to you that this line of discussion is very similar in
theme to the anti-Bolshevik Left discourse of a century ago? The anarchist
narrative in the Ukraine and from people like Emma Goldman was all about
democratic rights. The Communist response was "Oh, right, because there was
no Russian Civil War going on and active encirclement by the West?" This
was Trotsky's response to Kronstadt and Nestor Makhno.

It strikes me that is very relevant to this logic here.

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:47 PM, Louis Proyect  wrote:

> On 2/12/16 10:08 PM, Andrew Stewart wrote:
>
>>
>> Vijay Prashad explaining the history of the World Muslim League last
>> fall re: Syria
>>
>> http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content=view=31=74=14797
>>
>
> Yeah, but that is a disservice to the Chechen rebels' much more complex
> political trajectory.
>
> From something I wrote about Chechnya in 2013:
>
> In the provocatively titled “Che Guevaras in Turbans” (New Left Review
> I/237, September-October 1999), Derlugian made the case for the Islamist
> guerrillas and Shamil Basayev in particular. Basayev, who was killed by a
> Russian car bomb in 2006, was responsible for some of the most sensational
> terrorist attacks that persuaded many liberals and radicals to adopt a
> plague on both your houses position with respect to the Second Chechen War.
> While Derlugian was no apologist for terror, he provided some background on
> Basayev that never found their way into the customary reportage in the left
> press:
>
> During his brief period as a student in Moscow, aside from the
> fateful Professor Borovoy, Basayev met Cubans and learned from them about
> Ernesto Che Guevara. The young Chechen commander carried a picture of Che
> in his breast pocket through the Abkhazia war of 1992–93, where he was
> rescuing the fellow Abkhazian mountaineers from the marauding Georgian
> warlords—and where he was apparently trained, supplied, and supported by
> the Russian military who saw their interests as lying in the subversion of
> Georgia’s independence.
>
> full: https://louisproyect.org/2013/05/14/reflections-on-chechnya/
>
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[Marxism] St. Buddy Cianci

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No doubt some members have seen the news of Cianci's death.

I grew up during his time in office and vividly remember some of his major
news stories. There is a very unique dynamic to Rhode Island. Everybody is
related to everybody. With the exception of the few remaining WASPs and
Jewish families on the East Side, the majority is Catholic. About 65 years
ago the local mob families entered the political process and took over the
Democrats, who run this place like a one-party Soviet state gone to hell.

Here's my reporting on this:
http://www.rifuture.org/st-buddy-cianci-2.html

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Re: [Marxism] Putin

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There is a closing option for the popup. As for Checnya, you do understand
that their aspirations were manipulated and hijacked by CIA-linked World
Muslim League, right? This is the same set that was involved with al Queda
and bin Laden.
http://www.arabwestreport.info/en/year-1999/week-47/11-mwl-chief-calls-muslims-show-solidarity-chechens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_World_League

Vijay Prashad explaining the history of the World Muslim League last fall
re: Syria
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content=view=31=74=14797

The world is sadly a violent place where the CIA has manipulated the
aspirations of people for its own ends and continues to.

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote:

> On 2/12/16 9:26 PM, Andrew Stewart via Marxism wrote:
>
>>
>> Diana Johnstone has a new interview with Eric Draitser about her book on
>> Clinton, QUEEN OG CHAOS, worth a listen, particularly in her discussion of
>> Putin.
>>
>> http://store.counterpunch.org/diana-johnstone-episode-30/
>>
>>
> Too fucking much. I clicked the link to hear good old Diana and was
> confronted by a popup ad asking for money, without a fucking "x" to close
> the stupid popup. Maybe there was one somewhere but my fucking cataracts
> makes looking for it a chore. Curse Eric Draitser's eyes. To hell with
> Diana Johnstone. And these are people I used to sound like in the early
> 2000s before Putin's genocidal war on the Chechens turned me around.
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[Marxism] Putin

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Diana Johnstone has a new interview with Eric Draitser about her book on
Clinton, QUEEN OG CHAOS, worth a listen, particularly in her discussion of
Putin.

http://store.counterpunch.org/diana-johnstone-episode-30/

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[Marxism] Communists and black liberation

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My latest piece on the history of the Old Left and African Americans.

http://www.rifuture.org/have-a-radical-black-history-month-communism-and-black-liberation.html

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Re: [Marxism] Communists and black liberation

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If that is the case, my discussion and research on the topic with Gerald Horne 
and several others who are involved in the scholarship indicated that 
theoretical nuances is far different than how the public reaction in America 
developed. You are being tremendously combative and condescending here and I 
don't think that is necessary, especially considering that as a film scholar I 
have seen massive gaps in your criticism but don't exactly make a spectacle of 
it. 

Best regards,
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> 
>> On 2/20/16 3:12 PM, Andrew Stewart via Marxism wrote:
>> My latest piece on the history of the Old Left and African Americans.
>> 
>> http://www.rifuture.org/have-a-radical-black-history-month-communism-and-black-liberation.html
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Andrew Stewart
> 
> Andrew, Stalin's understanding of the national question was highly 
> problematic as Jim Blaut pointed out in an article:
> 
> http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/10/021.html
> 
>Stalin put forward a fully diffusionist theory of nationalism in 1913; 
> ironically, his point of departure was Lenin's earlier views, before Lenin 
> had analyzed the dynamics of colonialism and imperialism.
> 
>Stalin's 1913 essay, “Marxism and the National Question,” has had immense 
> influence on Marxism down to the present, mostly because its basic thrust is 
> to argue that nationalism is essentially a bourgeois phenomeno and national 
> movements are not, in most cases, progressive and they will not, in general, 
> succeed in forming new states, an argument that has almost always been used 
> by those Marxists who reject nationalism in general or oppose some particular 
> national movement (see Blaut 1987). Stalin's theory starts with the axiom 
> that national movements are simply an aspect of the rise of capitalism; they 
> are progressive only when capitalism is commencing its rise in a particular 
> region; they are not progressive—— are either frivolous or reactionary—in all 
> other circumstances. Capitalism has now fully risen, says Stalin; therefore 
> national movements are not progressive, although (putting forward the 
> Bolshevik position) the right of peoples to struggle for independence must be 
> recognized. This is pure Euro- Marxism. It sees capitalism as a wave 
> diffusion spreading out from Western Europe across the world's landscapes, 
> and nationalism as nothing more than a part of that diffusion;hence 
> as”bourgeois national- ism.”
> 
> ---
> 
> That does not get into the question of why so many Blacks ended up hating the 
> CPUSA, which involved its practice. When A. Philip Randolph began organizing 
> a March on Washington in 1941 to protest the KKK and demand desegregation in 
> the army, the CPUSA denounced him as undermining the war effort.
> 
> The CPUSA did a lot of good things in the 1930s and 40s to fight racism but 
> given its bureaucratic methods and its subservience to the Kremlin, it was a 
> poor substitute for the kind of organizing that was necessary.
> 
> When Malcolm X began building a Black nationalist movement in the 1960s, he 
> was denounced by the CPUSA for being "divisive", which was the strange 
> inverse of its "Black Belt" program. In the 1920s, they pushed for it despite 
> the lack of a mass movement for it and when Blacks began pushing for Black 
> control of the Black community in the mid-60s, they opposed it.
> 
> When you keep making big mistakes like this, you lose credibility. That is 
> among the reasons the CP is falling apart like all other Leninist sects.
> 
> 
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Re: [Marxism] Communists and black liberation

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Again, Gerald Horne, a tenured professor that writes about black history and 
labor history has said something quite different from what you have. I advise 
you to take it up with him and do some actual scholarship.

Best regards,
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> On Feb 20, 2016, at 5:22 PM, Louis Proyect  wrote:
> 
>> On 2/20/16 4:17 PM, hasc.warrior.s...@gmail.com wrote:
>> If that is the case, my discussion and research on the topic with
>> Gerald Horne and several others who are involved in the scholarship
>> indicated that theoretical nuances is far different than how the
>> public reaction in America developed.
> 
> This is the Marxism list. If you don't want to be criticized, don't post 
> links to articles that make the case for Stalin. I know that this might sound 
> like ancient history but I was educated in Marxism by Trotsky's bodyguard Joe 
> Hansen.
> 
> Stalin's movement was based on bureaucratic fiat. The Black Belt theory 
> developed during the Third Period, an ultraleft disaster of biblical 
> proportions. In the USA it was hardly a factor in the CP's impact on American 
> society but in Germany it helped to lead to the rise of Nazism.
> 
> We are still paying for the CP's mistakes. There was a basis for a working 
> class party in the 1930s but the CP sabotaged it because it saw the DP as a 
> useful ally in the popular front (until Hitler made a pact with Stalin.) What 
> did it mean for the CP to function effectively as the left wing of the DP 
> when this was essentially the party that defended slavery and Jim Crow and 
> whose Dixiecrat wing was never challenged by FDR? A *racist* party that the 
> Daily Worker extolled?
> 
> From an interview with Ira Katzelson on his book "Fear Itself", a debunking 
> of New Deal myths:
> 
> Q: Your book is very moving on what you call the “southern cage” and FDR and 
> the Democratic Party’s Faustian bargain with southern Democrats -- to 
> preserve white supremacy and segregation laws in order to pass New Deal 
> legislation. I think the level of racism and oppression in the south may stun 
> some younger readers.
> 
> A: We might begin by recalling that in the 1930s and 1940s -- before the 1954 
> Brown v. Board of Education decision -- we had seventeen states in the Union, 
> not just the eleven that seceded during the Civil War, but seventeen states 
> that mandated racial segregation. Not one representative from those states, 
> ranging from the most racist like Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi, to the most 
> liberal and not racist like Claude Pepper of Florida, ever opposed racial 
> segregation in this period. So you had seventeen states, thirty-four United 
> States senators and a disproportionately large House of Representatives 
> delegation because seats are apportioned on the basis of population not 
> voters, and this was a period when the South had a very low turnout, low 
> franchise electorate.
> 
> There were rules like the poll tax and literacy tests to keeps black from 
> voting, and those rules also kept many whites out of the electorate. So you 
> had a small electorate, a one-party system and therefore great seniority for 
> Southern members of Congress with control over key committees and legislative 
> positions of leadership -- that is, disproportionate power.
> 
> And the Democratic Party in this period -- the agent of the New Deal in 
> Congress -- was composed of a strange-bedfellows alliance of a Northern, 
> principally immigrant, Catholic and Jewish, big-city, labor-oriented 
> political base, together with a Southern, largely non-immigrant, non-urban, 
> mostly Protestant, rural base. They could not have been more different in 
> those respects, yet together they composed the Democratic Party. To secure 
> party majorities for New Deal legislation, it was necessary to keep the two 
> wings together, which meant that the south had a veto over all New Deal 
> legislation.
> 
> After 1938, the Southerners composed a majority of the Democrats in Congress 
> because Republicans began to make a comeback as they won Democratic seats in 
> the North. But [the Republicans] did not win Democratic seats in the South. 
> In 1940, every U.S. senator from the South was a Democrat just at the moment 
> when the Republicans had begun to make a comeback in the House and in Senate 
> seats outside the South. The consequence was that, in the 1940s, it wasn’t 
> just that Southern members of Congress could say no to what they didn’t like. 
> They actually were the authors of the preferences that shaped every single 
> legislative outcome in the 1940s.
> 
> Nothing could be passed into law against the wishes of the 

Re: [Marxism] Communists and black liberation

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I'm pretty sure I have been open and honest about the fact that Stalin was 
awful but that he pulled a clever ruse on a large number of foreign Leftists 
for a few decades. I don't know how one could read my statements as anything 
but that and I frankly don't have any patience for this type of liberalism 
masked by revolutionary verbiage. It is worth noting that, although Malcolm X 
said the CP was being divisive, his ideas and thinking were based in Frantz 
Fanon, who in turn was informed by Marxism-Leninism. The contradiction between 
what was said of and by Stalin and his actions in Russia in reality is a 
tragedy of epic proportions. You obviously don't care about that.

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> On Feb 21, 2016, at 10:16 AM, Joseph Green  wrote:
> 
> Andrew Stewart wrote: 
>> My latest piece on the history of the Old Left and African Americans.
>> 
>> http://www.rifuture.org/have-a-radical-black-history-month-communism-and-black-liberation.html
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Andrew Stewart
> 
> It's unfortunate that Stewart's article poses as a defense of Stalin, as he 
> ended up as the butcher of nationalities in the Soviet Union. He presided 
> over the reversal of the Leninist policy towards nationalities, and his 
> regime carried out the bloody mass deportation of entire small nationalities. 
> These stands were based on his presiding over the dying out of the Russian 
> revolution; under Stalin, the Soviet Union became the land of a new, 
> oppressive state-capitalist system with a new bourgeoisie.
> 
> But Stewart's article also raises the issue of the history of the CPUSA's 
> work against the oppression of the black masses. The pluses and minuses of 
> the CPUSA's work against racism at the time when it was still a revolutionary 
> party are important to consider. At the that time, it defended the interests 
> of the black people in a way different from that of all other left trends in 
> the general movement. "On the history of the CPUSA and the CI on the black 
> national question in the U.S." goes into some of this history.
> 
> I list the subheads below, and the full article can be found at
> http://www.communistvoice.org/WAS8511CPUSA-BNQ.html
> 
> On the history of
> the CPUSA and the CI on
> the Right to Self-Determination
> 
> (From the Workers' Advocate Supplement, vol. 1, #9, Nov. 15, 1985)
> 
> Subheads:
> 
> Introduction:
> -The CPUSA Has Become a Corrupt Party Defending the Liberal Bourgeoisie
> -The Neo-Revisionists and National Fetishism
> -Learn from the History of the Communist Movement
> 
> On the history of the CPUSA and the CI on the black national question
> in the U.S.
> (Based on a Speech at the 2nd National Conference of the MLP,USA)
> 
> -The First Years of the CPUSA
> -The Emergence of the CPUSA
> -The IWW -- The Industrial Workers of the World
> -The Trade Union Education League
> -The African Blood Brotherhood
> -Backward Features of the Left Wing of the Socialist Party
> -Overcoming Social-Democratic Carry-Overs
> -The CP, However, Didn't Yet Grasp the Revolutionary Role of the Black 
> People's Movement
> -The 6th Congress of the Communist International on the Black National 
> Question
> -The 1928 Resolution of the CI on the Negro Question in the U. S. 
> -The Work of the CPUSA Moves Forward
> -The 1928 Resolution Found Fertile Ground in the CPUSA
> -Resistance to the CI's Analysis of the Black National Question
> -The Debate Leading up to the 1930 CI Resolution
> -The 1930 Resolution of the CI
> -Apparently a Scheme for a Secessionist Revolt
> -Limits on the National Fetishism in the 1930 Resolution
> -Rapid Growth of the CP's Influence Among the Black Masses
> -Liquidationism and the Black National Question
> -National Fetishism Helps Sidetrack the Repudiation of Browderism
> -Nation-Building and Anti-Assimilationism Versus Leninism
> -Omitting the Question of the Revolution
> -The Neo-Revisionists Champion National Fetishism
> -Oppose National Fetishism While Carrying Forward the Struggle Against Racism 
> and National Oppression!
> [Notes -- July 2008]
> -On the Workers' Advocate Supplement
> -On Stalin
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[Marxism] Vote Pact

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If you are working with a third arty candidate this year, Vote Pact is
going to prove to be key to building inroads, in my opinion. I talked with
Sam Husseini about his idea.

http://www.rifuture.org/sam-husseini-explains-why-you-should-create-a-vote-pact.html

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[Marxism] Andrew Stewart: Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick on the Easter Rising and Irish politics

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To commemorate the Easter rising here is my interview with artist Jim 
Fitzpatrick about his artwork commemorating the event as part of the Reclaim 
1916 movement. I'm aware that Jacobin is doing a commemorative issue also. 
Fitzpatrick is the artist who made the famous screen print of Che and also a 
few album covers, including one for Thin Lizzy.

http://rimediacoop.org/2016/04/24/jim-fitzpatrick-on-the-easter-rising-and-irish-politics/


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[Marxism] Alison Weir

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Not to beat a dead horse, but Jeff seems to be utterly naive about being a
single-issue policy advocate. I recently wrote about this topic the
following:

Several months ago, when we were beginning to discuss having Ms. Weir come
to Rhode Island, the efforts of people affiliated with the New England
branch of If Americans Knew and myself were hindered by figures affiliated
with local Providence campuses and Jewish Voice for Peace who repeated a
variation of these lies, saying that Weir had refused to dis-affiliate with
known white supremacists. Leaving aside how problematic it is for academic
types who participate in the gentrification of Providence to talk about
white supremacy, it also is indicative of a total lack of maturity
regarding politics. When you are a single-issue policy advocate, that role
requires, in order for one to be effective, that one speaks with parties on
both sides of the aisle to make any real headway in their efforts. Is Ralph
Nader now to be considered a stool pigeon because he once made a speech at
the Chamber of Commerce? That is the level of silliness at play here.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/15/alison-weir-as-the-first-casualty-of-hasbara-2-0/

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[Marxism] Actually something decent

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I have been writing for this outlet for a while and they do the best kind
of work to cover the Left in RI and give it a voice. If you can help out
here it would be appreciated.

http://www.rifuture.org/help-me-avoid-losing-my-home-in-a-tax-sale.html

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[Marxism] The Occupation of the American Mind: a Film That Palestinians Deserve

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Great film 


http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/23/the-occupation-of-the-american-mind-a-film-that-palestinians-deserve/


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Re: [Marxism] Request re ACW, ante-bellum South etc

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I have done extensive work on this topic.

First, in terms of slavery, you need to understand it was NOTHING like
pre-modern slavery in terms of brutality or even length, pre-modern slaves
were really closer to indentured servants, taken as prisoners of war, who
would be freed after a period of time. We had a whole abolition movement
over this difference.

Economically, slavery was not going to die out, it was reinvigorated and
turned into a major economic engine for the agricultural sector of the
entire US by Eli Whitney's cotton gin.

Culturally, the white supremacist power structure was unable to conceive of
anything but slavery as a normalized part of life.

Last year Jacobin Magazine published a very good issue commemorating the
abolition of slavery, their Issue 18 (https://www.jacobinmag.com/storeissues)
that was surprisingly good. I have a lot of issues with that publication
for all kinds of reasons but they did a good job here.

Another useful tool is the first episode of Ken Burns's CIVIL WAR
miniseries, though the rest of the series is pretty spotty in terms of his
fetish for Shelby Foote.

Finally, consider for your own uses checking out the journalism by Marx and
Engels that they did on this topic, they wrote a good deal. There was a big
fuss some time ago from Lawrence and Wishart, the CPGB publisher, about the
Marxist internet archive having all the material up but you can get around
this by using the Wayback Machine and going to this link (
https://web.archive.org/web/20130614233905/http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1861/us-civil-war
).

The Foners, Du Bois, and Lerone Bennett Jr have some great material worth
checking out also.


Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 15:37:12 +1200
From: John Edmundson 
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Subject: [Marxism] Request re ACW, ante-bellum South etc
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Hi,
I'm teaching a bunch of 16-18 year old history students and we're looking
at the causes and consequences of the American Civil War.

We have started looking at the nature of the Southern States pre-war and
the nature of US chattel slavery. They need to understand issues like the
idea that if the Union had not pressured the South (over things like
Lincoln's plan to not expand slavery into new states), slavery might have
died out anyway. At this stage I have suggested to them that chattel
slavery was more robust and flexible than pre-modern slavery (eg slave
owners could hire out their slaves to the railway building companies etc)
and that therefor the institution could conceivably have survived a lot
longer. I pointed out to them that slave owners could choose to make more
"conventional" investment choices but chose to reinvest in slaves and
cotton lands as a means of achieving a return - that "unfree" slave labour
is different from "unfree" peasant labour in that it can be sold to another
slaver where a peasant is bound to the land. I've suggested that in many
ways US slavery was a distorted version of capitalism rather than a whole
different pre-modern economic system.

However I feel a bit out of my depth here and have been improvising a bit.
I wonder if anyone could point me to some accessible online resources on
this question (and the Civil War issue itself) that I could use.

Obviously when we come to the consequences, I'll be looking at
reconstruction, the enduring legacy (Jim Crow etc), ongoing loyalty to the
Southern flag with all that that suggests, popular culture (music etc). I
know there are lots of US people on this list and y'all know about this
stuff . . .

Thanks in anticipation,
John

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Re: [Marxism] Request re ACW, ante-bellum South etc

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I have no clue what you mean by "political Marxism". The contours of the
historical discourse at this point have been pretty well-defined by Gerald
Horne's work and his excellent COUNTERREVOLUTION OF 1776, which argues that
the American Revolution was a war for the preservation of the American
slavery-based capitalist system. By this point the contention about whether
the American colonial economy was capitalist has become a moot point, it is
now whether the events of 1776 were fought by American capitalists in their
revolutionary role described by Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto
or if the British were in reality fulfilling this role.

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Louis Proyect  wrote:

> My stuff on this is fairly narrowly focused on refuting the application of
> Political Marxism to slavery but it does refer to a lot of useful
> background material, including the close ties between the NYC bourgeoisie
> and the slaveocracy. It is all here:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/origins.htm
>
> Under the heading "Capitalism, slavery and the Brenner thesis".
>



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Re: [Marxism] Request re ACW, ante-bellum South etc

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I think that is a problematic position. In my perspective, capitalism as a
system is globalization of trade, the creation of trans-Atlantic
multi-national monopoly. And that goes back to one thing, the slave trade.
Before that there were market relations between various ports of call going
back centuries, obviously. But the Triangle Trade was the engine that drove
the creation of a globalized market that went way beyond anything that
existed before that and went into the realm of capital as opposed to cash.
Admittedly my view is Afro-centric as opposed to Euro-centric, mostly
because I believe that the scramble for resources has always been based
around Africa rather than Europe, but I think current events in the news
demonstrate Africa is still the center of world trading efforts, hence the
contention between China and Russia on the one hand and the US on the other.

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Louis Proyect  wrote:

> On 5/18/16 6:15 PM, Andrew Stewart wrote:
>
>> I have no clue what you mean by "political Marxism".
>>
>
> This is the term used to describe Robert Brenner's theory about the
> origins of capitalism in the British countryside in the 16th century as a
> contingent event that produced large scale farms through the enclosure
> acts, etc. It attracted a number of acolytes including Charles Post who
> interpreted it to mean that slavery in the USA was precapitalist since
> according to Brenner you can't have capitalism without "free" wage labor.
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[Marxism] Radiohead album review

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I really like this one.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/20/radiohead-and-the-end-of-the-utopian-dream/

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[Marxism] Hegel for Marxists made easy

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The ever-present bane of many Leftists today is the fact that at the core
of a good deal of socialist philosophy lies the nearly incomprehensible
work of Hegel, the German philosopher whose dialectical system inspired
Marx. Lenin’s famous quote about Hegel seems almost like a challenge from
beyond the grave akin to Marx’s final thesis on Feurbach.

In the proper contexts, Hegel can be an enriching philosophical exercise
that helps one better understand the workings of culture and society. In
the hands of one who misunderstands these things, perhaps most notably in
the instance of vulgar Communists who do not know any better, it is a
galling opposites game bearing striking resemblance to Manichean theology.

Andy Blunden, an Australian philosopher and writer who is a member of the
Marxist Internet Archive has created a new paper that lays out the
philosophical genealogy of Marxism in relation to Hegel and provides a
level of understanding, in simple English, about Lenin’s famous quote. In
his paper Goethe, Hegel, and Marx, he outlines the philosophical genealogy
that is essential to grasp when try to tackle this question. Capital
Through the Hegelian Looking-Glass describes how Marx used Hegel’s
intellectual devices to write his analysis of political economy, delivered
in the form of a book review on a volume related to this topic. Blunden was
kind enough to sit down for an interview with me where he outlines his
finding in terms that are easy to understand. The entire program is 83
minutes.

https://rimediacoop.org/2016/05/15/andrew-stewart-from-goethe-to-lenin/

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Re: [Marxism] Marxism Digest, Vol 150, Issue 18

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It is well known that your accusations of racism against Weir are unfounded and 
false. This entire issue is based on guilt by association and conjecture. The 
only thing Alison has done wrong is make Democratic Party politicians look bad.

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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 08:28:47 -0700
From: Ken Hiebert 
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A. R. G. said April 14 (in part):
Also, I did
some googling of Stanford SJP's website. If their story was already
nonsensical enough (who shuts down an event over crackpots in the audience?
There would be 0 leftist events left), they are apparently still listing If
Americans Knew as a resource on their own website
. 


Ken Hiebert replies:
I looked at the SJP website and A. R. G. is right.  They do have a link to If 
Americans Knew.  I also found this announcement on their website, "We will 
announce our fall 2014 meeting time and location shortly!"
Evidently they have not been keeping their website up to date.  I understand 
some activist groups have switched to Facebook and other platforms to tell 
people about themselves and their events.


I looked at the Stanford SJP  Facebook posting of April 8.
https://www.facebook.com/StanfordSJP/posts/1015517068540461
"Ms. Weir, however, has made a number of remarks that blatantly attack the 
Jewish people as whole. In addition, Ms. Weir has also made derogatory remarks 
about Arabs, endorsed speech by a former head of the KKK, denied the impact of 
South African Apartheid, and referred to communism as a Jewish conspiracy."

Does A. R. G. think that SJP is misrepresenting Weir's statements?

Best regards,
Andrew Stewart 

> On Apr 14, 2016, at 2:00 PM, marxism-requ...@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote:
> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 08:28:47 -0700
> From: Ken Hiebert 
> To: marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu
> Subject: [Marxism] Palestinian Refugee: Stanford students censored me
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> A. R. G. said April 14 (in part):
> Also, I did
> some googling of Stanford SJP's website. If their story was already
> nonsensical enough (who shuts down an event over crackpots in the audience?
> There would be 0 leftist events left), they are apparently still listing If
> Americans Knew as a resource on their own website
> . 
> 
> 
> Ken Hiebert replies:
> I looked at the SJP website and A. R. G. is right.  They do have a link to If 
> Americans Knew.  I also found this announcement on their website, "We will 
> announce our fall 2014 meeting time and location shortly!"
> Evidently they have not been keeping their website up to date.  I understand 
> some activist groups have switched to Facebook and other platforms to tell 
> people about themselves and their events.
> 
> 
> I looked at the Stanford SJP  Facebook posting of April 8.
> https://www.facebook.com/StanfordSJP/posts/1015517068540461
> "Ms. Weir, however, has made a number of remarks that blatantly attack the 
> Jewish people as whole. In addition, Ms. Weir has also made derogatory 
> remarks about Arabs, endorsed speech by a former head of the KKK, denied the 
> impact of South African Apartheid, and referred to communism as a Jewish 
> conspiracy."
> 
> Does A. R. G. think that SJP is misrepresenting Weir's statements?
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Re: [Marxism] The Occupation of the American Mind ...

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Since the teenage passive aggressive tone and self-aggrandizing codicil are 
quite obvious, I will just say three things:

1) God forbid a Marxist have contact with other proletarians and perhaps help 
them overcome their capitalist ideological programming, including chauvinism of 
any variety. That would be unthinkable.

2) If American Jews are so threatened by white supremacy why is Trump endorsed 
by Sheldon Adelson? Don't like the guilt by association? Then don't use it on 
Weir!

3) Don't you have a real job?


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http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/23/the-occupation-of-the-american-mind-a-film-that-palestinians-deserve/

In his Counterpunch piece The Occupation of the American Mind: a Film That
Palestinians Deserve, Andrew Stewart models the inclusivity that he would like 
to see in the Palestine solidarity movement.
He says, "Does Alison Weir, as a single-policy advocate, go on the radio shows 
of a few folks who might be white nationalists?"   He avoids the term white 
supremacist which might give offence to some white nationalists.
If Alison Weir's outreach to white nationalists is successful we can look 
forward to some of them joining our demonstrations.  We'll have to think about 
some expressions that we thoughtlessly use, such as "Israeli apartheid."   Not 
everyone sees apartheid as something bad.
   ken h

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> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 21:16:08 -0700
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> To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition
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> Cc: hasc.warrior.s...@gmail.com
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> http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/23/the-occupation-of-the-american-mind-a-film-that-palestinians-deserve/
> 
> In his Counterpunch piece The Occupation of the American Mind: a Film That
> Palestinians Deserve, Andrew Stewart models the inclusivity that he would 
> like to see in the Palestine solidarity movement.
> He says, "Does Alison Weir, as a single-policy advocate, go on the radio 
> shows of a few folks who might be white nationalists?"   He avoids the term 
> white supremacist which might give offence to some white nationalists.
> If Alison Weir's outreach to white nationalists is successful we can look 
> forward to some of them joining our demonstrations.  We'll have to think 
> about some expressions that we thoughtlessly use, such as "Israeli 
> apartheid."   Not everyone sees apartheid as something bad.
>ken h
> 
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[Marxism] Clinton/Trump Neoliberalism: a Media Critique

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For the media and film critics out there:

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[Marxism] Responding to Robert Reich

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I ironically tackled this topic in my newest essay on Counterpunch.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/22/building-a-post-election-movement/

And for the record, Robert Reich is full of piping hot crap. Unfortunately it 
also is in the interests of fairness to point out that the Greens need to step 
up their game and do some housecleaning to get problematic personalities into 
positions where they would do less harm. Jill Stein has a great campaign that I 
am supporting but the Greens have to figure out their PR going into the general 
election so to counter the negative press being generated by the Clintons, 
there is a nasty game at play on the Democratic side and the Greens are not 
ready to go dirty yet.


That's true but this call is far bolder than anything that will ever 
come out of Sanders's mouth.

> On 7/21/16 1:44 PM, Dennis Brasky wrote:
> Reich is a Democratic Party hack who was silent about neoliberal
> corporate policies and Big $$ domination of US politics when he served
> loyally in the Bill Clinton Administration. His proposal to begin work
> on this "new party" AFTER the November election so as not to help the
> "greater evil" Trump tells us all we need to know about this fraudster.

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[Marxism] Why Trump Will Win (It has nothing to do with the economy)

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https://rimediacoop.org/2016/07/25/andrew-stewart-why-trump-will-win/

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[Marxism] Amilcar Cabral film

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Just sending along this recent piece about a film that was fundraising in the 
Ocean State recently. Perhaps if you can LIKE and SHARE it via social networks 
we can help them get a few dollars from our more affluent friends?

http://www.rifuture.org/documentary-the-heart-of-amilcar-cabral-filmed-in-rhode-island.html

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[Marxism] Some recent journalism of mine

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I am doing some independent writing now on the election. Here's my newest
stuff. Due to the effort to do this independently, it would be my great
privilege if you would LIKE/SHARE this on your various social networks like
FaceBook, Twitter, Google+, etc.

Why Trump Will Win (It Has Nothing To Do With Fascism):
https://rimediacoop.org/2016/07/25/andrew-stewart-why-trump-will-win/

If Trump Loses:
https://rimediacoop.org/2016/07/27/andrew-stewart-if-trump-loses/

Various Rhode Island Videos from the DNC Protests in Philly
https://rimediacoop.org/2016/07/29/various-rhode-island-videos-from-the-dnc-protests-in-philly/

Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer after the DNC
https://rimediacoop.org/2016/07/29/andrew-stewart-remembering-fannie-lou-hamer-after-the-dnc/

Countering The Nader Baiter Mythology
https://rimediacoop.org/2016/07/29/andrew-stewart-countering-the-nader-baiter-mythology/

An Interview with Anthony Maselli about DNC Protests
https://rimediacoop.org/2016/07/30/andrew-stewart-an-interview-with-anthony-maselli-about-dnc-protests/

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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Diplo]: Schoenbaum on Herf, 'Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967-1989'

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Jeffrey Herf.  Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West
German Far Left, 1967-1989.  Cambridge  Cambridge University Press,
2015.  Illustrations. 493 pp.  $29.99 (paper), ISBN
978-1-107-46162-8; $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-08986-0.

Reviewed by David Schoenbaum (University of Iowa)
Published on H-Diplo (July, 2016)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach

One of Thomas Mann's finest creations, Dr. Serenus Zeitblom,
remembers things past. History, in this case World War II, is
meanwhile happening in real time right outside his window. Sooner or
later, as Jeffrey Herf's new book reminds us, virtually every
historian with a concurrent interest in twentieth-century Germany and
life after Adolf Hitler experiences a Zeitblom moment, recalling the
past while history is occurring right outside. But relatively few
have acted on it with Herf's single-mindedness. Herf himself
acknowledges the shadow of Zeitblom in the very first sentences of
his preface.

Among the fallout products of World War II were two German states,
each a protégé of the victorious superpowers. Both made it their
mission to "master the past," as the prevailing euphemism had it. But
it was clear from the moment of conception that they were reading
from very different playbooks with a very different sense of what
needed to be mastered.

With an eye to foreign and especially American expectations, West
Germany regarded Jews as the canary in its postwar mine shaft.
Concern for Jews enjoyed near constitutional status, and included the
State of Israel as well as individuals. An extensive schedule of
reparations, both individual and collective, was among the early
items on the Federal Republic's to-do list, negotiated at the summit
by West Germany's first chancellor and Israel's first prime minister.
In the backwash from the Suez conflict a few years later, there were
even covert arms transfers.

With an eye to Soviet expectations, East Germany went the other way.
In fact, a diaspora of thoroughly assimilated Jewish functionaries
and intellectuals returned to fill senior positions in government,
the media, and academia. Their offspring grew up as socialist princes
and princesses, presumptive heirs to the socialist kingdom. But there
was nothing specifically Jewish about their or their government's
interests or concerns. Occasional exceptions, like the novelists
Stefan Heym and Jurek Becker, addressed Jewish themes. There was even
a flicker of interest in 1987, when an improbable flirtation with
Washington led to the appointment of an American rabbi and Shoah
survivor to serve as rabbi to East Berlin's tiny congregation. But in
principle, the mantle of anti-fascism was one size fits all, and
there was no affirmative action for Jews after a honeymoon interval
in 1947-48.

Eager to get Britain out of the Middle East and connect with an
influential subculture of Jewish sympathizers, the Soviet Union
supported a two-state partition of Palestine. It initiated transfer
of captured German arms to the Haganah via Czechoslovakia. It raced
the United States for the honor of being first to recognize Israel.
But it ended abruptly as Joseph Stalin rediscovered his inner
_pogromchik_, and the romance was gone by the mid-1950s. As the
post-Ottoman order crumbled and European trustees were replaced by
indigenous nationalists and military dictators, Moscow declared the
new regimes "progressive" and East Berlin joined the chorus,
supporting the postcolonial Arab states against the postcolonial
Israel.

A decade after the Suez Crisis, East Germany, like its Soviet patron,
declared Israel the aggressor in the Six-Day War. It then proclaimed
Israeli occupation of the Sinai, West Bank, and Golan imperialist. In
the follow-on wars with Egypt and Syria, East Germany stood with the
Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular. But so did a cohort
of young West Germans, determined to expiate the sins and failings of
their parents by assassinating bankers and public officials at home
and hijacking airplanes abroad in the name of anti-imperialist
anti-fascism.

This is where Herf comes in. In 1976, a couple of self-proclaimed
revolutionaries from Frankfurt took over a French airliner en route
from Tel Aviv to Paris and diverted it to Entebbe, a major town in
central Uganda. Herf, in West Germany to research his dissertation,
could hardly help but notice as they separated 

[Marxism] My latest in Counterpunch

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A potential route for socialist development worth considering.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/11/dual-power-as-the-route-to-democratic-socialism-sanders-or-no-sanders/

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[Marxism] Seymour Hersh 2 part interview with Tariq Ali

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Discusses the entire slate of work he has been doing in the last few years.

https://rimediacoop.org/2016/08/11/world-today-the-world-according-to-seymour-hersh/

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[Marxism] My interview with Jill Stein

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If you are so inclined, share and like widely on social media.

http://www.rifuture.org/exclsuive-interview-jill-stein-green-party.html

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[Marxism] Worthwhile reading for eco activists

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Looks like the Koch brothers and local labor leaders in Providence are up
to some silliness. Please like and share on social networks

http://www.rifuture.org/union-industry-astroturf-ri.html

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[Marxism] (no subject)

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Having been active in both movements while also working in unionized public 
schools, which is the front line of labor's struggles against systemic racism 
and poverty, I think that you have a great start here but that you have to 
bring into discussion the cultural analysis of CLR James and Gramsci regarding 
spontaneity and action that takes place outside of the workplace and goes into 
the neighborhood, something that has defined every successful revolutionary 
moment. The Bolsheviks didn't win because they had a great union model, it was 
because they had a slogan that had almost nothing to do with the workplace, 
"Peace, Land, and Bread". The part about all power to the Soviets was about 
dual power to an organ that was meant to replace social services. This is what 
a lot of people miss.

https://louisproyect.org/2016/07/19/occupy-wall-street-black-lives-matter-workers-and-communists/


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[Marxism] Fwd: New! Samir Amin's "Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism"

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> clear consistency of approach, and, above all his absolutely unwavering 
> condemnation of the ravages of capital and of bourgeois ideology in all its 
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> the trajectory of Russian capitalism, the Bolshevik Revolution, the collapse 
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> Amin manages to combine an analysis of class struggle with geopolitics—both 
> crucial to understanding Russia’s complex political history. He first looks 
> at the development (or lack thereof) of Russian capitalism. He sees Russia’s 
> geopolitical isolation as the reason its capitalist empire developed so 
> differently from Western Europe, and the reason for Russia’s perceived 
> “backwardness.” Yet Russia’s unique capitalism proved to be the rich soil in 
> which the Bolsheviks were able to take power, and Amin covers the rise and 
> fall of the revolutionary Soviet system. Finally, in a powerful chapter on 
> Ukraine and the rise of global fascism, Amin lays out the conditions 
> necessary for Russia to recreate itself, and perhaps again move down the long 
> road to socialism. Samir Amin’s great achievement in this book is not only to 
> explain Russia’s historical tragedies and triumphs, but also to temper our 
> hopes for a quick end to an increasingly insufferable capitalism.
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Judaic]: Wohl on Barzel, 'New York Noise: Radical Jewish Music and the Downtown Scene'

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Subject: H-Net Review [H-Judaic]: Wohl on Barzel, 'New York Noise: Radical
Jewish Music and the Downtown Scene'

Tamar Barzel.  New York Noise: Radical Jewish Music and the Downtown
Scene.  Profiles in Popular Music Series. Bloomington  Indiana
University Press, 2015.  Illustrations. 328 pp.  $75.00 (cloth), ISBN
978-0-253-01550-1; $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-01557-0.

Reviewed by Lillian Wohl (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion)
Published on H-Judaic (August, 2016)
Commissioned by Matthew A. Kraus

Radically Jewish: Explorations in Experimental Music in New York's
Lower East Side

"Was the music of the RJC (Radical Jewish Culture)
moment--particularly at its most abstract and esoteric--'Jewish
music'?" asks ethnomusicologist Tamar Barzel, introducing a central
question fueling her ethnography of "Jewishly identified" music in
New York's Lower East Side avant-garde music scene during the 1990s
(p. 15). New York Noise: Radical Jewish Music and the Downtown Music
Scene, published by Indiana University Press's Profiles in Popular
Music series, addresses the emergence of a postmodern musical
consciousness that pushed the boundaries of existing ideas about
Jewish music through the aesthetic language of experimental sound in
late twentieth-century artistic innovation in New York City--with
lasting resonances in Europe as well.

Barzel's inquiry lends itself to no easy answers, and fittingly, she
avoids the unsatisfying task of trying to provide them, instead
aiming to render the complexity of what she calls a "moment" rather
than a "movement" in experimental Jewish music in an analysis of the
circulating discourses, performance practices, and recordings of
notable musicians on the scene (p. 5). Her musician-centered
ethnographic study of the social, cultural, and artistic meanings of
a new kind of Jewishly identified music--which challenged established
notions of how, when, and under what circumstances music can be
identified as Jewish--highlights the ways in which, within a
"crisscrossing network of different music scenes," these musicians
could address concerns that resonated with them as downtown
experimentalists: how to "write new music that was Jewishly
identified and yet also in keeping with their other
work--unconventional, experimentalist, and wide-ranging" (p. 3).
Barzel's attention to the years of 1992 to 1998 brings into focus a
six-year period during which the scene came to life, but whose
impact, Barzel notes, did not simply come to an abrupt end.

Marking the 1992 festival for Radical New Jewish Culture in Munich,
Germany, as the beginning of the RJC moment, Barzel discusses a
pivotal period of artistic activity during which musicians "produced
provocative new work while engaging discursively with the personal
and conceptual issues it raised" (pp. 3-4). For many participants,
the festival engendered a "mutual recognition about an aspect of
identity whose significance, and indeed existence, had so far gone
largely unacknowledged in their creative lives" (p. 4). John Zorn,
composer, saxophonist, and figurehead of RJC, curated the event and
also premiered his programmactic octet _Kristallnacht_, initiating a
moment of reflection on experimental sound and its connection to
postmodern Jewish life. Unlike the klezmer revivalists who began
turning to the "usable past" to reinstate East European Ashkenazic
klezmer music, folk life, and folk music as potent markers of Jewish
identity, the New York experimentalists "insisted on articulating a
radically personal Jewish musical voice" that was detached from the
nostalgic connections to Jewish musical memory that the klezmer
revivalists fostered (p. 6). The sounds emerging from the RJC moment
drew instead from and constructed in its wake such idioms as
"neo-klezmer, hardcore and acid rock, neo-Yiddish cabaret, free
verse, free jazz, and electronic sound canvases" (p. 2).

As Barzel discusses, the Lower East Side played an important role in
facilitating the RJC moment, placing RJC in a wide panorama of
musical activity in New York City in the 1990s before sweeping
changes to music scenes after 9/11 and the widespread appropriation
of social media in the 2000s. Simultaneously the home to jazz, free
improvisations, punk rock, classical composition, New Wave, and later
No Wave, "punk's avant-garde incarnation," the Lower East Side also
occupied an important place in American Jewish history and Jewish
collective memory (p. 18). The "downtown scene" that grew out of this
neighborhood in the 1990s--referenced in the title of her
book--evokes "not only the musical production that happened amongst
Zorn and his frequent collaborators, 

Re: [Marxism] can we trust Assange

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 The Times has been the Clinton campaign newsletter since 2006 and makes no 
bones about it. Pravda had more objectivity! Alex Gibney is such a phony.

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Subject: [Marxism] Can We Trust Julian Assange and WikiLeaks?
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NY Times Op-Ed, August 8 2016
Can We Trust Julian Assange and WikiLeaks?
By ALEX GIBNEY

The release of a cache of emails from the Democratic National Committee 
by WikiLeaks last month has raised a great many questions ? about the 
role of the D.N.C. in trying to influence the primary and about the 
alleged interference of Russian intelligence in an American election.

It also raised long-debated questions about WikiLeaks itself, about how 
an organization dedicated to radical transparency continues to bring 
secretive worlds to light. And the episode reveals some of the 
weaknesses of WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, like their 
recklessness with personal data and their use of information to settle 
scores and drive personal agendas.

I?ve had my own run-ins with Mr. Assange. During the making of my 2013 
film, ?We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,? I spent an agonizing 
six hours with him, when he was living in an English country house while 
out on bail. I was struck by how insistently he steered the conversation 
away from matters of principle to personal slights against him, and his 
plans for payback. He demanded personal ?intel? on others I had 
interviewed, and dismissed questions about the organization by saying, 
?I am WikiLeaks? repeatedly. (Later, Mr. Assange and his followers 
attacked both me and my film.)

Even given that history, I believe that WikiLeaks was fully justified in 
publishing the D.N.C. emails, which provided proof that members of the 
D.N.C., in a hotly contested primary, discussed how to undermine the 
campaign of Bernie Sanders. They are clearly in the public interest.

As for Mr. Assange?s animus against Hillary Clinton ? he has written 
that she ?lacks judgment and will push the United States into endless, 
stupid wars which spread terrorism? ? that is evidence of bias, but no 
more than that. After all, many news outlets are clearly, and sometimes 
proudly, biased.

We still don?t know who leaked the D.N.C. archive, but given Mr. 
Assange?s past association with Russia, it wouldn?t surprise me to learn 
that it was a Russian agent or an intermediary. Mr. Assange insists this 
is a mere distraction from the issue of D.N.C. interference, but the 
answer is also in the public interest. We should all be concerned 
(although hardly surprised) if it is that easy for the Russians to break 
into the D.N.C. and possibly United States government networks.

As for the way the leak was published, Mr. Assange and WikiLeaks have 
more to answer for. Contained in the D.N.C. archive were Social Security 
numbers and credit card data of private individuals, information that 
served no public interest. Mr. Assange defended this invasion of privacy 
by claiming that deleting the information would have harmed the 
integrity of the archive.

But there is a responsible tradition of redacting potentially harmful 
private information. In 2010, just before publishing the first Afghan 
war logs provided to WikiLeaks by Chelsea Manning, Mr. Assange and a 
group of journalists from The Guardian, The New York Times and Der 
Spiegel were engaged in a tussle over redacting the names of Afghan 
informants. The three publications all decided to do so, but Mr. Assange 
disagreed. As he told Nick Davies of The Guardian, ?If an Afghan 
civilian helps coalition forces, he deserves to die.?

Others present at this time insist that he was concerned about their 
safety but had little technical ability to do the redactions on a tight 
deadline. The net result: Mr. Assange held back 15,000 documents and 
published the rest, including the names of about 100 Afghan civilians.

There is no evidence that any of those people were killed. But people 
could have been hurt. And his refusal to redact allowed the United 
States government to deflect attention from the evidence of possible war 
crimes by claiming that Mr. Assange had blood on his hands.

In an underappreciated part of the WikiLeaks saga, computer-savvy 
volunteers at the organization corrected Mr. Assange?s mistake and used 
an inventive computer program to scrub names and identities from the 
second leak 

[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-War]: Demchak on Gorodetsky, 'The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943'

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> From: H-Net Staff 
> Date: August 7, 2016 at 11:35:38 AM EDT
> To: h-rev...@h-net.msu.edu
> Subject: H-Net Review [H-War]:  Demchak on Gorodetsky, 'The Maisky Diaries: 
> Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943'
> Reply-To: H-Net Staff 
> 
> Gabriel Gorodetsky, ed.  The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the
> Court of St James's, 1932-1943.  Translated by Tatiana Sorokina and
> Oliver Ready. New Haven  Yale University Press, 2015.  Illustrations.
> 632 pp.  $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-18067-1.
> 
> Reviewed by Tony Demchak (Kansas State University)
> Published on H-War (August, 2016)
> Commissioned by Margaret Sankey
> 
> _The Maisky Diaries_ is an edited one-volume edition of the extensive
> diaries of Ivan Mikhailovich Lyakhovetsky (who chose the
> revolutionary name "Maiskii"), who served as Soviet ambassador to
> London from 1932 to 1943. According to the editor, Gabriel
> Gorodetsky, all three volumes of the original, unedited diary are
> forthcoming from Yale University Press, including his extensive
> commentary (p. xii). While readers await the publication of the full
> edition, the abridged version is an extremely valuable resource in
> its own right.[1]
> 
> 
> Maisky's diary is almost unique because so few Soviet officials kept
> standard diaries, especially important officials like ambassadors.[2]
> Indeed, as the editor points out, "Maisky's diary is not the typical
> Soviet diary, a vehicle to 'self-perfection,' which was encouraged by
> the regime as a means of political education and transformation" (p.
> xiii). Rather, it is a more traditional diary of the day-to-day
> events and meetings that took place in Maisky's life. It contains not
> only his opinions and ideas on the major diplomatic events of the day
> but also his personal remembrances of political and cultural figures
> in 1930s and 1940s London. For example, Maisky was fond of David
> Lloyd George (who he often affectionately termed "the old man") and
> George Bernard Shaw and his wife, and even recounts meetings with H.
> G. Wells.
> 
> In addition to the diary itself, Gorodetsky provides an introduction
> and conclusion that describe the details of Maisky's life before and
> after the period of the diary. Interspersed with the diary entries
> are explanatory notes that help fill in the gaps between entries.
> Every time an individual is mentioned for the first time, Gorodetsky
> provides a footnote listing the person's occupation and relevance to
> the period. A recommendation for future editions might be to include
> these footnotes in an appendix as well, as sometimes Maisky goes
> several entries between mentioning individuals for the first and
> second time. Readers who are not already familiar with the cast of
> characters, so to speak, might get lost.
> 
> Maisky's own writing style is approachable and easy to understand.
> One of the best lines in the diary occurs in a May 1939 entry, where
> Maisky proclaims, after a visit to Geneva, "The League of Nations
> smelled of carrion" (p. 195). The translators, Tatiana Sorokina and
> Oliver Ready, do an excellent job of translatingthe Russian prose
> into readable English, avoiding the trap of rendering Russian idioms
> too literally into English.
> 
> For a work as long and detailed as this one, there are few errors of
> note. One of the only obvious mistakes occurs late in the book, as
> Gorodetsky incorrectly attributes a name in a footnote. In a quote
> from Lloyd George about Poland in the period after World War
> I--"There wasn't one sensible man among them!... Egged on by
> Clemenceau, the Poles lost all restraint and refused to listen to me
> or Wilson" (p. 521)--Gorodetsky identifies "Wilson" not as American
> President Woodrow Wilson but the secretary of British ambassador to
> the Soviet Union Stafford Cripps, George Masterson Wilson. At another
> point, he claims that the engineers in the Metro-Vickers case of 1933
> were arrested in London; they were actually arrested in Moscow (p.
> 6). These errors are far and few between, however, and do little to
> affect the scholarly erudition of Gorodetsky's overall commentary.
> 
> Readers already intimately acquainted with the details of interwar
> and World War II foreign policy will not find anything shocking in
> the pages of this book. Maisky, for example, was as surprised as
> anyone when the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was announced; Maisky had
> done his best to encourage closer Anglo-Soviet relations throughout
> the entirety of his term in office. However, the 

[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-War]: Asaadi on Razoux, 'The Iran-Iraq War'

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> From: H-Net Staff 
> Date: August 7, 2016 at 11:34:55 AM EDT
> To: h-rev...@h-net.msu.edu
> Subject: H-Net Review [H-War]:  Asaadi on Razoux, 'The Iran-Iraq War'
> Reply-To: H-Net Staff 
> 
> Pierre Razoux.  The Iran-Iraq War.  Translated by Nicholas Elliott.
> Cambridge  Belknap Press, 2015.  Illustrations. xviii + 640 pp.
> $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-08863-4.
> 
> Reviewed by Robert Asaadi (University of Minnesota)
> Published on H-War (August, 2016)
> Commissioned by Margaret Sankey
> 
> Pierre Razoux's The Iran-Iraq War ambitiously sets out to address
> what the author frames as the unanswered questions of the Iran-Iraq
> War. These can be classified into two primary categories: cause and
> duration. First, the book is concerned with understanding the cause
> of the war. Causal analysis of war is perhaps the oldest and most
> robust field of inquiry in International Relations, with scholars
> taking Thucydides's analysis of the causes of the Pelopennesian War
> as one of the discipline's foundational texts. While the book does an
> excellent job highlighting the motives and interests of the
> belligerent states, particularly in the Iraqi case, it would have
> benefited from a more sustained treatment of the remote causes, or
> structural factors, that gave rise to the particular domestic
> political actors that occupy a position of prominence as the movers
> of history in Razoux's analysis.
> 
> This prioritization of immediate causes over remote causes mirrors
> the tendency among some social scientists who embrace either a
> strictly rationalist epistemological approach or a thin
> constructivist approach which prioritizes agency over structure. War,
> as is the case with other forms of collective violence, necessarily
> involves both the strategic calculus of influential actors and the
> constraining and enabling effects of the already existing social and
> political structures in which these actors are situated. A
> shortcoming in Razoux's analysis is that he overestimates the degree
> to which these actors, as either opportunists, power-maximizers, or
> revolutionary ideologists, were the makers of their own history, and
> he underestimates or ignores the deeper structural conditions that
> functioned as the conditions of possibility for the emergence of
> these actors in the first instance. For example, the book's third
> chapter "How Did It Come to This?" sets out to show that "the
> Iran-Iraq War resulted first and foremost from the desire for
> confrontation of two men with conflicting ambitions, Saddam Hussein
> and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini." These leaders, according to Razoux,
> were then able to mobilize Iraqi and Iranian society to war because
> of their societies' latent ancient hatreds and, as he puts it, their
> "ancestral rivalry" (p. 45). In a mere twenty-two pages in this
> chapter, Razoux somewhat clumsily reconstructs the history of the
> region from the early sixteenth century to the onset of the Iran-Iraq
> War. This partial analysis is ultimately unpersuasive as an appraisal
> of the structural factors that instead needed to be considered in
> greater depth when asking what caused the Iran-Iraq War. Furthermore,
> the repetition of the Orientalist trope of primordialism as a causal
> motivation for war seems misplaced in his otherwise well-measured
> analysis.
> 
> The book's second question aims to explain the war's duration. Why
> did this bloody and costly war last eight years, making it the
> longest war of the twentieth century? In contrast to the somewhat
> banal observation that the war was caused by leaders who wanted it,
> the book's explanation for the war's duration is given much more
> sustained analysis and cuts across the three images of analysis of
> international politics (individual, state, and international). Razoux
> effectively outlines how the logic of Cold War balancing and the
> simple profit motive of arms manufacturers alongside regional balance
> of power dynamics and the domestic political peculiarities of Iran
> and Iraq coalesced to perpetuate the hostilities. Appendix F,
> "Foreign Military Assistance," is particularly instructive in this
> regard, as it catalogues the specific forms and amounts of military
> assistance both Iran and Iraq received throughout the course of the
> war, which helped sustain the conflict.
> 
> Overall, the book is a significant contribution to the existing
> scholarly literature on its subject for several reasons. First,
> Razoux's meticulous archival research gathers and organizes a 

[Marxism] Book review Markets Not Capitalism

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Worthwhile reading material, please LIKE and SHARE via social networks:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/09/markets-not-capitalism-the-book-to-define-a-new-united-front/

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[Marxism] Fanon question

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I am currently working on a project involving Fanon and wonder if anyone
knows a study guide worth using?

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Re: [Marxism] Brexit

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You need to wrap your head around the idea that neoliberalism has
thoroughly subverted the logic of the Old Left so to support hegemony of
capital. How do you not see the EU as essentially a crude neoliberal
doppelganger of Trotsky's United States of Europe? The Marxist political
economy of 1916 is effectively used by capital now to serve its whims,
class struggle an emancipatory politics need to change their coordinates
and use Marx's dialectic as a framework rather than a dogma. Alex Cockburn
embraced this logic, hence his support of the anarcho-communist Center for
a Stateless Society and their book MARKETS NOT CAPITALISM.

http://radgeek.com/gt/2011/10/Markets-Not-Capitalism-2011-Chartier-and-Johnson.pdf

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That?s not the only reason to believe Brexit was about xenophobia.

Torsten Bell, director of the UK economic think tank Resolution
Foundation, set out to test the hypothesis that "areas hardest hit by
the financial crisis, or those where migration is said to have held down
wages, voted heavily to leave."

In other words, he tested the exact argument the pro-Leave camp is
making: that people who voted to leave made a rational decision based on
the real economic effects they?ve suffered from the rise in immigration.
If that were the case, you?d expect places that have gotten poorer in
the past decade (when mass migration took off) would have been the
places that voted most heavily to leave the EU.

But that?s not what Bell found. In fact, he found no correlation at all
between areas where wages have fallen since 2002 and the share of votes
for Leave in the referendum

full:
http://www.vox.com/2016/6/25/12029786/brexit-uk-eu-immigration-xenophobia

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[Marxism] Hamilton can go screw

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http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/01/skip-hamilton-and-read-gore-vidals-burr/

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[Marxism] RI Cooperative

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We are forming a coop in RI for people in the 1099 gig economy who do not
have health insurance or retirement from their employers. If you know
someone in the Ocean State who meets that criteria, please forward this
message to them.

https://rimediacoop.org/2016/07/03/ri-media-coop-first-meeting/

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[Marxism] Black bloc

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I'm able to speak as an objective observer and journalist here. Occupy and 
before that the Seattle 99 protests were organized by the very people who later 
participated in black bloc tactics. They are one and the same group of people 
and this can be verified by everyone from Jeff St. Clair to old timers in the 
peace movement. If you disagree with the tactics, ok, I disagreed with the 
Socialist Party's tactics about racism during the Norman Thomas years. But it 
is an undeniable lie to create a bifurcation between organizers and Black Bloc 
practitioners, they are one and the same from my experience and observations. 
This means you have to be building a dialogue rather than antagonizing them and 
ostracizing them. This is a phenomenon that Chris Hedges also has encountered 
and which resulted in him being ostracized by the Occupy Wall Street organizers.

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[Marxism] Providence Teachers Union rally

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Please help spread this around via social media and any other methods to
build support for this important fight.

https://rimediacoop.org/2017/02/01/ptu-jan-rally-2017/

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[Marxism] 4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump – Medium

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Very important article 
https://medium.com/@DaleBeran/4chan-the-skeleton-key-to-the-rise-of-trump-624e7cb798cb#.cn881n34q


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[Marxism] Syria is plagued with radioactive contamination: Dr. Leuren Moret

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http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/02/17/510986/Syria-is-plagued-with-radioactive-contamination-Dr-Leuren-Moret

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[Marxism] Political Gingervitis Episode 5 Gerald Horne

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https://rimediacoop.org/podcast/political-gingervitis-episode-5-gerald-horne/

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[Marxism] Providence community event about environmental racism

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Rhode Island Jobs with Justice is going to be holding a town hall meeting at 
Bell Street Chapel regarding environmental racism that is impacting the West 
End/Olneyville neighborhoods. I have personally been able to discuss the event 
with director Mike Araujo and one particular issue that he is concerned about 
deeply is residents being exposed to lead and other toxins that are being 
released into the air by illicit and nonunion renovations on an old mill in the 
area of Eagle Square. This is a very good opportunity for community 
interaction. Food, childcare, and translation services are being provided. 
Click the link below to if interested in attending so they can have an accurate 
count for food service.

https://www.facebook.com/events/250860052025792/?ti=icl

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[Marxism] Global Trumpism

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Very good lecture by Mark Blythe

https://youtu.be/txNVg64RkYs

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[Marxism] Political Gingervitis episode

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A comedy show with Marxist analysis.

https://rimediacoop.org/podcast/political-gingervitis-episode-4-don-debar-and-david-abraham/

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[Marxism] Andrew Stewart: Counter Trump’s White Nationalism With Left Nationalism | Rhode Island Media Cooperative

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https://rimediacoop.org/2017/01/20/andrew-stewart-counter-trumps-white-nationalism-with-left-nationalism/


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[Marxism] Interview with Vijay Prashad

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Has material here useful especially for organizers.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/17/exiles-from-the-future-an-interview-with-vijay-prashad/

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Re: [Marxism] Vote for Clinton?

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I'm so amazed you are advocating for voting for someone who arms fascists
at home and abroad in the name of your la-la land fantasies about Trump
being more awful than the police-prison-industrial complex. Quite being
such a diva.


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racism. Did you hear his speech on immigration?

Nobody here comments.Nobody here cares. Where are the exposures of Trump's
white nationalist connections.

I feel like the treachery of the "anti-imperialist" Left,which is no
stranger to white chauvinism, has come home/

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Re: [Marxism] Vote for Clinton?

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I'd like to interject here something Mumia himself said in a recent column:

If Trump is the price we have to pay to defeat Clintonian neoliberalism –
so be it.

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(http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/19/the-time-is-now-to-defeat-both-trump-and-clintonian-neoliberalism/
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In other words, Clay, get over yourself. Mumia has been what I view as the
greatest revolutionary thinker in America for decades. If he says it, I'm
more inclined to take his judgments more seriously than this Chicken Little
act. All Trump has done is show the world how awful white Americans
actually are and always were. It is painful and awful to see the violence
he inspires. But that white trash was going to do that anyways without
Trump, all he did was give them a new Tea Partier figurehead, before him it
was Sarah Palin and Glen Beck. Further, I would argue that a) denying that
the fascists in this country are police is itself racist and b) pissing off
his followers by giving Clinton a victory is a very bad idea.

https://rimediacoop.org/2016/07/27/andrew-stewart-if-trump-loses/



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On 9/1/16 7:44 PM, Clay Claiborne wrote:
>
> Are you now ready to revise your estimate of Trump's chances?

Clay, let me repeat what I have already said. My political orientation
was based on what I learned from Peter Camejo in the early 80s. I took
an interest in the Greens after attending a standing room only for Ralph
Nader in 2000 and it deepened after Peter became his running mate in
2004. Nader was not running as a Green that year because "Demogreens"
were afraid that he would steal votes from John Kerry.

In other words, I am a strong supporter of the Green Party (even though
I am not a member). I always vote Green, including for Howie Hawkins who
is on Marxmail. Half the editorial board of the North Star website are
involved with the Greens either as candidates (Brandy Baker and Jim
Brash) or as frustrated members (Mark Lause).

I have political principles that I am strongly committed to. One of them
is total opposition to both the Democrats and Republicans. In the best
of all possible worlds, the Labor Party that some leftish AFL-CIO
bureaucrats formed back in the 1980s would have taken off but they
lacked the nerve, just like the Demogreens.

I don't think that the Greens will lead a revolution in the USA that is
so desperately needed but it is a way-station on that path. If something
better came along, I'd hook up with that in a heartbeat. But surely you
must understand by now that I would rather be waterboarded than vote for
Hillary Clinton.
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Pennsylvania]: Neumann on Taft, 'From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City'

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Chloe Taft.  From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the
Postindustrial City.  Cambridge  Harvard University Press, 2016.  336
pp.  $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-66049-6.

Reviewed by Tracy Neumann (Wayne State University)
Published on H-Pennsylvania (September, 2016)
Commissioned by Allen J. Dieterich-Ward

Most places are riven by social, cultural, and economic divides, but
they rarely map as neatly onto local geography as they do in
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a city of approximately 75,000 split in two
by the Lehigh River. In the eighteenth century, Moravians established
a communitarian religious settlement on what is now the quaint,
middle-class North Side. When iron and steel production came to town,
the Moravians relegated it, and its blue-collar workforce, to the
other side of the river. Now home to Lehigh University and the Las
Vegas Sands Casino, which was built on part of the former Bethlehem
Steel site, the South Side remains a working-class neighborhood and a
first stop for many new immigrant families. In _From Steel to Slots:
Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City_, Chloe Taft deftly
explores the cultural and historical rifts embedded in Bethlehem's
landscape, as well as the economic development agendas that have
ordered and disordered the city since the Moravians' arrival. She
uses the demise of "the Steel" and the opening of "the Sands" to
explore "how locals have variously embraced and grappled with the
remaking of their steel town as a postindustrial city" (p. 3). Along
the way, Taft upends conventional narratives of deindustrialization
and postindustrial rebirth. When "lived from day to day," she argues,
"postindustrialism reflects an ongoing process marked by complicated,
and at times paradoxical, continuities" that challenge a neat
distinction between "before and after" (p. 247).

_From Steel to Slots_ marks a welcome turn in the deindustrialization
literature. In the early 1980s Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison
supplied a foundational definition of deindustrialization as the
"widespread, systematic disinvestment in the nation's basic
productive capacity," which explained high unemployment rates, a
"sluggish" domestic economy, and the United States' failure to
successfully compete in international markets.[1] Following Bluestone
and Harrison's postulation that deindustrialization pitted "capital"
against "community," early research typically took the form of
community studies focused on how particular industries or workforces
deindustrialized. ⁠After the turn of the twenty-first century,
scholars expanded their use of the term to encompass social, spatial,
and political processes as well as economic change. In an
introduction to an edited collection that has become a standard work
in the field, Jefferson Cowie and Joseph Heathcott called
deindustrialization "a historical transformation that marks not just
a quantitative and qualitative change in employment, but a
fundamental change in the social fabric on a par with
industrialization itself," a definition that explicitly rejected the
idea of deindustrialization as a primarily economic process. They
argued that "what we call deindustrialization may best be understood
with hindsight as one episode in a long series of transformations
within capitalism" and that "broader meanings emerge from the
de-linking of investment and place, the deinstitutionalization of
labor relations machinery, de-urbanization (and new forms of
urbanization), and perhaps even the loosening of the connection
between identity and work."[2] A more recent wave of scholarship
posits deindustrialization and postindustrial redevelopment as part
of "metropolitan capitalism," as a regional or transnational rather
than purely local phenomenon, and as constitutive of
neoliberalism.[3]

Taft's clear-eyed analysis combines the best aspects of these various
historiographical strains, all while avoiding the nostalgia trap that
so many scholars have fallen into when writing about the industrial
past. In Bethlehem, she finds, the "rupture between community and
capital is not so complete" (p. 41). Taft's challenge to Bluestone
and Harrison emerges from a persuasive blending of archival and
ethnographic approaches. It is also surely influenced by the
emotional distance between the mass plant closures of the late 1970s
and early 1980s and the later, more gradual, and better-managed

[Marxism] How to actually hinder Trump Votes

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Given the recent song and dance routine on the list, here is me
demonstrably taking a vote away from Trump AND being able to vote for Jill
Stein to insure that Trump does not get a vote.

https://rimediacoop.org/podcast/with-clinton-and-trump-votepact-is-more-vital-than-ever/

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[Marxism] Green candidate in Oregon

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Help the guy out if possible

https://www.gofundme.com/alex4oregonGREEN?rcid=d0c6ed186bff11e690f3bc764e04c5a7

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http://washingtonbabylon.com/six-questions-for-jim-jatras-on-aleppo-boy-atrocity-porn-and-our-godawful-war-loving-media/

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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-War]: Bonk on Jampoler, 'Embassy to the Eastern Courts: America's Secret First Pivot toward Asia, 1832-37'

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Suggestive title of what can be expected from a Clinton administration.
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Andrew C. A. Jampoler.  Embassy to the Eastern Courts: America's
Secret First Pivot toward Asia, 1832-37.  Annapolis  Naval Institute
Press, 2015.  Illustrations. 256 pp.  $44.95 (cloth), ISBN
978-1-61251-416-1.

Reviewed by James Bonk (College of Wooster)
Published on H-War (September, 2016)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

The history of US relations with Asia in the first decades of the
nineteenth century has received little scholarly attention. Andrew C.
A. Jampoler's book, a study of two US diplomatic missions to Asia
from 1832 to 1834 and 1835 to 1837, contributes to our understanding
of US efforts to establish trade relations with Asia during the 1830s
and the considerable obstacles to their success.

The fate of US diplomacy to Asia in the 1830s rested on the unlikely
shoulders of Edmund Roberts, a former merchant from Massachusetts who
proposed and led both diplomatic missions. Roberts, introduced in the
first chapter of the book, had little experience in diplomacy and
even less in Asia. In the 1820s, he had been appointed to, but never
occupied, the post of US consul of Demerara (in Guyana). His
experience in Asia was limited to a single voyage to the Indian Ocean
in 1828. A personal connection in the US administration and a chance
encounter in Zanzibar with Sayyid bin Sa'id, the ruler of Oman and
Zanzibar and an influential figure in the Indian Ocean trade, seem to
have been his main qualifications to lead the two missions.

Roberts, who died while at port in Macao in 1837, achieved only
modest diplomatic success. He negotiated and ratified two treaties:
one with Siam and the other with the sultanate of Muscat. However, as
Jampoler points out, the treaties had little direct impact on US
trade with Oman or Siam, neither of which offered commodities of
interest to US merchants. Other ambitions bore even less fruit.
Negotiations with Cochin China (Vietnam) broke down, Chinese
officials ignored Roberts entirely, and the ship never made it to
Japan.

Roberts is the main actor in the book, but the narrative is
structured around the movement of the USS _Peacock_, the ship that
carried him on both diplomatic missions. The book focuses as much on
the journey of the ship from port to port as on the final
destinations in Asia. Jampoler's decision to write a ship-centered
account of US diplomacy has its tradeoffs. On the plus side, he is
able to provide a detailed account of life at sea and in port in the
1830s. Jampoler uses a rich set of primary sources--from ship logs to
the diaries of medical officers--to shed light on both the mundane
discomforts and moments of peril that confronted transoceanic
travelers. These details, interesting for their own sake, are perhaps
more important for what they say about the limits of human agency in
the early history of US diplomacy. The book makes it clear that the
outcomes of US diplomacy in Asia during the 1830s were decided less
by the skill of negotiators or schemes of politicians than the
contingencies of travel. Negotiations with Cochin China, for
instance, appear to have been stymied in part by strong winds that
had blown the _Peacock_ more than 120 miles south of its intended
port. Roberts's death of severe diarrhea, another not infrequent
peril of travel at the time, brought the entire diplomatic mission to
an abrupt end in 1837. Jampoler includes a picture of Roberts's grave
in Macao, one of many illustrations in the book.

On the down side, the focus on the movement of the ship means that
the book offers more breadth of coverage than depth of analysis. The
book provides numerous historical vignettes to contextualize the
reception of the _Peacock_ in such ports as Macao, Batavia, Rio de
Janeiro, and Honolulu. These vignettes are, in most cases, completely
necessary for understanding local responses to the unexpected arrival
of a US naval vessel. But they distract from the main topic of the
book--America's diplomatic pivot to Asia. Jampoler might have spent
more time considering the larger political context in which this
pivot took place, the personal or political agendas driving this
pivot, and the ways in which the pivot to Asia fit into the larger
picture of US diplomacy.

These shortcomings aside, the book has much to commend it. In
addition to its rich portrayal of life aboard ship and many

[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Diplo]: Veeser on Tillman, 'Dollar Diplomacy by Force: Nation-Building and Resistance in the Dominican Republic'

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Ellen D. Tillman.  Dollar Diplomacy by Force: Nation-Building and
Resistance in the Dominican Republic.  North Carolina  University of
North Carolina Press, 2016.  288 pp.  $29.95 (paper), ISBN
978-1-4696-2695-6.

Reviewed by Cyrus Veeser (Bentley University)
Published on H-Diplo (September, 2016)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach

_Dollar Diplomacy by Force: Nation-Building and Resistance in the
Dominican Republic _makes a significant contribution to the study of
Dominican-American relations in the early twentieth century. Ellen D.
Tillman's greatest achievement is thoroughly integrating US and
Dominican archival sources, often providing in a single paragraph
contrary national views of the same event. The title captures that
dual perspective--that a policy which Washington declared could
stabilize weak nations without US military control became, on the
receiving end, a story of subverted sovereignty and systematic
violence.

Tillman's focus is the attempt by the US government to create a
professional, apolitical, and national military in the Dominican
Republic before and during the marine occupation of 1916 to 1924.
Covering a period previously explored by Bruce Calder, Julie Franks,
Wilfredo Lozano, Alan McPherson, Richard Turits, and Bernardo Vega,
among others, Tillman traces the evolution of an American-sponsored
military from the frontier guard instituted under the customs
receivership in 1905 to the Guardia Republicana in the chaotic years
after the assassination of Ramon Cáceres in 1911 to the Policía
Nacional Dominicana during the occupation itself. Noting that "the
story is at its core a transnational one," she grounds her study in
records from the US Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia, and the
Archivo General de la Nación in Santo Domingo (p. 3). The emphasis
on bilateral agency goes beyond the sources Tillman so thoroughly
mines: she argues that "the delicate balance of foreign imposition
and Dominican opposition opened a way for change that could only
occur once both Dominicans and U.S. officials reached a point of
compromise and negotiation" (p. 7).

Early chapters provide background on Dominican society and the first
encroachments of American power. Regionalism was a defining trait of
the Dominican Republic, "often more divisive than class in Dominican
society" (p. 15). As in other Latin American nations, poor
transportation and limited communication allowed relative autonomy to
local caudillos, and both the national government and the military
were "centralized more in name than in fact" (p. 17).

Private US investment expanded in the Caribbean republic in the late
nineteenth century, and when the nation defaulted on international
loans floated by a Wall Street firm, Theodore Roosevelt seized the
occasion to declare his corollary to the Monroe Doctrine and install
a customs receivership, which undermined Dominican sovereignty by
placing control of the country's finances in the hands of US
officials. This preamble to the later occupation is crucial, since
the ongoing but ad hoc US interference nourished powerful
anti-American sentiments well before 1916.

Tillman demystifies the supposedly pacific nature of the new policy
of dollar diplomacy. As presented to the American public, dollar
diplomacy was a benign, innovative method to bring stability to the
troublesome nations of the Caribbean and Central America. In the
Dominican case, as the _New York Times_ exulted, "Uncle Sam has waved
the wand that produces National transformations, and lo! A republic
has appeared where government is of the people, peace is assured, and
prosperity is perennial."[1] In fact, even as Roosevelt proclaimed
the receivership, US naval officers like Albert Dillingham and
Charles Sigsbee used the threat of force to coerce the Dominican
government to submit to the arrangement.

With the inception of the receivership, the republic's security
became an American concern, and from its earliest days, US officials
felt frustrated by the impotence of the Dominican government. To
stifle the lucrative contraband trade with Haiti, Americans created
the frontier guard, a first step in what Tillman shows is a
twenty-year struggle to build a military body responsive to US
interests. The frontier guard offered good pay but, to the
disappointment of the occupiers, succeeded in recruiting only the
most desperately poor Dominicans. In a 

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Fwd: How A Decision In May Changed The General Election - BuzzFeed News

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Again Clay, I took a vote away from Trump by engaging in a Vote Pact and
voting Green.

What are you doing to talk potential Trump voters out of voting for Donald?

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Trump's not more fascist. You and I are just falling for Clinton propaganda.

We should remember these "Left" voices that are helping to sell Trump.

Clay


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Re: [Marxism] The events in relation to Benghazi and Syria explained

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ally
> the island of Lampedusa. Libya in 2010 operated patrol boats provided by
> Italy with Italian personnel on board to interdict boat migrants on the
> high seas and in Libyan waters and return them summarily to Libya with no
> screening to identify refugees, the sick or injured, pregnant women,
> unaccompanied children, victims of trafficking, or victims of violence
> against women. All interdicted boat migrants are detained upon arrival in
> Libya in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. Libya is not a party to the
> 1951 Refugee Convention and has no asylum law or procedure. In April,
> Libyan Foreign Secretary Moussa Koussa said his country “does not have any
> refugees but only illegal migrants who break the laws.” In July the
> government said that there were 3 million irregular migrants in Libya. A
> new law on “Illegal Migration” criminalizes trafficking of migrants but
> does not mention protections for refugees.
> >
> > In June, Libya closed the office of the UN High Commissioner for
> Refugees (UNHCR) in Tripoli and expelled its representative. It later
> allowed the office nominally to reopen but only with highly restricted
> permission to work on behalf of refugees and asylum seekers whom it had
> registered prior to closing, and without access to newly detained migrants
> and asylum seekers.
> >
> > On June 28, a group of detained Eritrean migrants tried to escape from a
> migrant detention center after Libyan officials allowed Eritrean embassy
> officials to take their photos and forced them to complete forms raising
> fear of deportation. In response, Libyan authorities transported 245
> Eritrean detainees from the Misrata detention on Libya’s northern coast to
> another detention center at al-Biraq, north of Sabha, in an apparent
> attempt to deport them. Some of these Eritreans were among those whom Italy
> had forcibly returned to Libya without giving them an opportunity to claim
> asylum. After an international outcry, Libya released this group but did
> not provide them with any support or protection. They remain in Libya.
>
> Clay Claiborne, Director
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> Read my blogs at the Linux Beach <http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/>
> <http://wlcentral.org/user/2965/track>
>
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Andrew Stewart <
> hasc.warrior.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> God forbid someone show support for a government of which Nelson Mandela
>> said
>>
>> “I have also invited Brother Leader Gaddafi to this country [South
>> Africa]. And I do that because our moral authority dictates that we should
>> not abandon those who helped us in the darkest hour in the history of this
>> country. Not only did they [Libya] support us in return, they gave us the
>> resources for us to conduct the struggle, and to win. And those South
>> Africans who have berated me, for being loyal to our friends, literally
>> they can go and throw themselves into a pool.”
>>
>>
>> http://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents/we-wont-turn-our-back
>> -on-gaddafi--nelson-mandela
>>
>> But what does Madiba know in comparison to Clay?
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Clay Claiborne <clayc...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Andrew Stewart via Marxism <
>>> marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> https://rimediacoop.org/2016/09/26/draitser-stewart-clinton-libya/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Its a sad day when I see some of the most extreme CT supports for the
>>> fascist Gaddafi regime:
>>>
>>> In brief, we know from the emails that Clinton’s longtime aide and press
>>>> operative Sidney Blumenthal emailed her multiple times about new
>>>> developments within Libya regarding a new Golden Dinar currency that
>>>> Muammar al Gaddafi was developing. Backed with the accumulated wealth of
>>>> the Libyan state from its nationalized oil resources as well as large
>>>> stores of gold and silver, the Golden Dinar was intended as a pan-African
>>>> currency that would pose a serious threat to the American dollar, the EU
>>>> euro, and the French franc.
>>>
>>>
>>> And some of the most chauvinist attacks on the Libyan thuwar:
>>>
>>>> What emerged in Libya as the US-backed rebels began to take control was
>>>> simply a pogrom. Black Africans were lynched by these rebel Islamists with
>>>> a viciousness and systemic nature that go

[Marxism] Useful info for those involved in Green campaign

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Talkin' bout my generations...

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/10/the-quiet-desperation-of-millennials.html

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[Marxism] The events in relation to Benghazi and Syria explained

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https://rimediacoop.org/2016/09/26/draitser-stewart-clinton-libya/

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[Marxism] AntiWar.com

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Always interesting to get a view of what the Libertarians are saying.

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2016/10/02/defense-gary-johnson/

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God forbid someone show support for a government of which Nelson Mandela
said

“I have also invited Brother Leader Gaddafi to this country [South Africa].
And I do that because our moral authority dictates that we should not
abandon those who helped us in the darkest hour in the history of this
country. Not only did they [Libya] support us in return, they gave us the
resources for us to conduct the struggle, and to win. And those South
Africans who have berated me, for being loyal to our friends, literally
they can go and throw themselves into a pool.”


http://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents/we-wont-turn-our-back-on-gaddafi--nelson-mandela

But what does Madiba know in comparison to Clay?

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Clay Claiborne <clayc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Andrew Stewart via Marxism <
> marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
>> https://rimediacoop.org/2016/09/26/draitser-stewart-clinton-libya/
>>
>>
>>
> Its a sad day when I see some of the most extreme CT supports for the
> fascist Gaddafi regime:
>
> In brief, we know from the emails that Clinton’s longtime aide and press
>> operative Sidney Blumenthal emailed her multiple times about new
>> developments within Libya regarding a new Golden Dinar currency that
>> Muammar al Gaddafi was developing. Backed with the accumulated wealth of
>> the Libyan state from its nationalized oil resources as well as large
>> stores of gold and silver, the Golden Dinar was intended as a pan-African
>> currency that would pose a serious threat to the American dollar, the EU
>> euro, and the French franc.
>
>
> And some of the most chauvinist attacks on the Libyan thuwar:
>
>> What emerged in Libya as the US-backed rebels began to take control was
>> simply a pogrom. Black Africans were lynched by these rebel Islamists with
>> a viciousness and systemic nature that goes hand-in-hand with their brand
>> of extremism, an ideology that embraces racism, homophobia, and sexism
>> backed by American ally Saudi Arabia.
>>
>> In other words, Clinton was aligning herself with the very deplorables
>> she now pigeonholes as followers of her opponent.
>>
>
> Recycled on this list. Louis may embrace his new friends but I stand by my
> defense of the Libyan revolution. This is all trash I debunked years ago.
>
> http://claysbeach.blogspot.com//2013/01/my-libyan-diaries_786.html
>
> Its no accident that US Greens turn out to be big supporters of fascism
> worldwide. In my next blog post I will show how fascist Trump supporters
> are warming up to Jill.
>
>
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Re: [Marxism] The events in relation to Benghazi and Syria explained

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This is a speech from long before that took place. He was saying such
things as soon as he was able to.

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 3:59 PM, MM <marxmai...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Oct 5, 2016, at 3:41 PM, Andrew Stewart via Marxism <
> marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
> But what does Madiba know in comparison to Clay?
>
>
> If you knew anything about Mandela’s final years, I doubt you’d be
> inclined to make him the focus of your fallacious appeal to authority. This
> is from about a year after that speech:
>
> "Mandela is said by those close to him to be suffering from a form of
> senile dementia, which doctors say is common in the very old. He gets
> confused and is easily upset and agitated. Importantly, for a man who was
> obsessed with the news, his family and the military now largely protect him
> from the details of everyday life."
>
> From here: http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/26/world/africa/south-africa-
> mandela-importance/
>
> And before you resort to imagining a quick descent over the course of
> 2011, it is pretty well known that he was fading (and sheltered) long
> before then.
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-War]: Miller on Moe, 'Roosevelt's Second Act: The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War'

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Date: Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 9:40 AM
Subject: H-Net Review [H-War]: Miller on Moe, 'Roosevelt's Second Act: The
Election of 1940 and the Politics of War'
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Richard Moe.  Roosevelt's Second Act: The Election of 1940 and the
Politics of War.  Pivotal Moments in American History Series. New
York  Oxford University Press, 2013.  xvi + 376 pp.  $29.95 (cloth),
ISBN 978-0-19-998191-5.

Reviewed by Jaclyn Miller (Kansas State University)
Published on H-War (October, 2016)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

Richard Moe, a veteran White House staffer and former president of
the National Trust for Historic Preservation, presents in Roosevelt's
Second Act: The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War an intensive
and nuanced interpretation of a decisive year in American politics
and of the man who presided over it. Moe finds new things to say
about a figure already much explored in historical scholarship in
examining Franklin D. Roosevelt's journey to a third term in the
context of international turmoil. Moe characterizes Roosevelt in
terms neither hagiographic nor unsympathetic, recognizing his at
times "arrogant and manipulative" politics as well as his strongly
felt "moral core" (pp. xv, 327). Ultimately, he argues that the
president's conviction that Britain and worldwide democracy needed
saving, combined with his growing certainty that he was the best man
for the job, guided him in his decision to run again. International
events pulled a reluctant nation toward supporting a president whose
domestic policies had begun to lose favor in recent years, and toward
a more actively interventionist foreign policy.

_Roosevelt's Second Act _places a microscope on a short period of
time, which allows for a richness of detail about the ensemble of
characters surrounding FDR, especially the other potential Democratic
candidates for president, a wide range of American isolationists, and
his eventual electoral opponent, Wendell Willkie. FDR first
cultivated New Dealers Harry Hopkins and Harold Ickes as possible
candidates to replace him, before settling most of his efforts on
Secretary of State Cordell Hull. The president deemed Hull the ablest
candidate regarding foreign affairs and the most electable, but Hull
remained reluctant to run. This fact, along with Roosevelt's distaste
for the other alternatives--including Vice President John Nance
Garner and Democratic National Committee Chairman James
Farley--helped move the president to run for a third term. One of the
strongest sections of this book describes Roosevelt's machinations
surrounding the 1940 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. A
dismal affair that exposed the president's propensity to manipulation
and stubbornness, particularly with regard to his insistence upon an
unpopular vice presidential candidate (Henry A. Wallace), the event
nonetheless placed the assembly firmly in the incumbent's hands.

Among the nation's many isolationists were pacifists, socialists,
German sympathizers, communists, and even New Dealers focused on
domestic economic problems. Such polarizing figures as Charles
Lindbergh, who described the German air power he had witnessed on
several visits to that country in periodic radio addresses and
speeches before the isolationist group America First, garnered
favorable public opinion. Though Americans would not all have
supported the appeasement Lindbergh urged, many agreed that their
country should stay out of "Europe's War."[1] Moe's attention to the
multifaceted isolationism of everyday Americans is important to his
argument. FDR's overwhelming belief that democracy's preservation was
tied to the United States' willingness to aid those opposing fascism
and the election of a president strong enough to do this required
overcoming widespread isolationism.

Events in Europe provided the push needed to get past this hurdle.
Adolf Hitler made progressively clearer steps toward continental
domination and posed a pressing threat to Great Britain, his last
major democratic foe in the region after Germany installed a puppet
regime in Vichy France. This situation forced Americans to realize
the seriousness of the war. Even the more isolationist Republican
Party selected a candidate for the general election who supported
internationalism. Moe's treatment of Willkie as an individual and
politician is thorough and insightful. Though Willkie made a mistake
in delaying his campaign after the Republican convention, thereby
allowing Roosevelt to make strides with voters by presenting himself
as an assertive commander in chief, his 

[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-War]: Griffin on Mitchell, 'Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War'

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Nancy Mitchell.  Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War.  Cold
War International History Project Series. Stanford  Stanford
University Press, 2016.  880 pp.  $45.00 (cloth), ISBN
978-0-8047-9385-8.

Reviewed by Benjamin Griffin (United States Military Academy)
Published on H-War (September, 2016)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

Nancy Mitchell's Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race in the Cold War is a
phenomenal addition to the scholarship of the Cold War. Drawing
heavily on archival research conducted in the United States, Britain,
and South Africa and on documents from Cuba and Zimbabwe, the book
presents an in-depth and engaging international history of President
Jimmy Carter's foreign policy. Mitchell does a commendable job of
providing context, ensuring that the book is readily accessible
regardless of a reader's expertise. It is an essential and enjoyable
read for any historian interested in the late Cold War or modern
Africa.

The book provides a much-needed, exhaustive examination of US policy
in Africa. Mitchell moves the account easily between the Horn of
Africa and southern Africa, providing an in-depth study of the areas
where the United States most actively engaged. What is most
remarkable about this book is the ease with which it captures the
very different dynamics at work in the two regions. Mitchell deftly
demonstrates how local actors in Ethiopia and Somalia sought to play
the Americans and Soviets against one another to achieve their own
aims. The objectives and issues at stake closely resembled those of
other Cold War struggles in the developing world. _Jimmy Carter in
Africa_ effectively builds on the work of Odd Arne Westad's_ Global
Cold War_ (2005). It shows that the major actors had varying degrees
of desire and commitment, resulting in an inconsistent and ultimately
detrimental policy toward the region.

Rhodesia proved more complicated. Noting that "the domestic politics
of race" infused the issue, Mitchell shows the difficulty of both the
Ford and Carter administrations in developing a viable strategy to
bring about majority rule (p. 8). Mitchell expands on the themes of
Thomas Borstelmann's _Cold War and the Color Line _(2001), by showing
how racial tensions caused the spheres of international and domestic
policy to merge. Rhodesia becomes a central issue in the fight
between the executive and legislative branches, restricting the
options of the Carter administration. _Jimmy Carter in Africa_
furthers this narrative through its treatment of Andy Young, Carter's
controversial ambassador to the United Nations. Mitchell portrays
Young in a nuanced fashion. Though largely sympathetic to him, the
author takes care to note how his candidness with the press
complicated Carter's efforts in Rhodesia by drawing congressional and
public ire.

_Jimmy Carter in Africa _takes aim at several common interpretations
of the Carter administration. Mitchell paints Carter as a "dedicated
Cold Warrior" throughout his presidency, who consistently followed an
orthodox version of containment in Africa. While agreeing that
Carter's demeanor contributed to misperceptions, Mitchell argues that
the president was an "inept idealist." The book is largely successful
in showing that Carter's twin desires for "racial justice" in
Rhodesia and his "deep Cold War instincts" were more compatible than
they are often portrayed (p. 8). Mitchell also compellingly places
Carter back at the center of his own administration, showing him to
be a driving force behind his foreign policy. The internal turmoil
between Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's national security advisor, and
Cyrus R. Vance, his secretary of state, that marks many accounts of
Carter's policy process is absent in the book. At times Mitchell
advances these revisions to Carter's image too far; however, the book
still offers a welcome and fresh perspective on how the
administration operated.

In judging Carter's policy toward Zimbabwe, Mitchell declines to
moderate her sense that the policy was a "Cold War victory" in light
of the later "murderous thuggery" of President Robert Mugabe (p.
679). This lets the Carter administration off too easily. While
Mitchell's sense that it is not fair to judge a policy entirely by
its outcome is accurate, it does not mean that results should be
entirely absent from its study. Questions about why the
administration did not understand Mugabe's true nature are both 

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: How Obama Helped Lay the Groundwork for Trump?s Thuggery | The Nation

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More typical non-Marxist silliness from The Nation. Obama did cause the
rise of Trump. But he did this through his wretched austerity policies,
refusing to prosecute banksters, furthering the consolidation of the FIRE
sector's hold on the economy, and about a dozen more domestic policies.
Blaming international policy for the results of domestic policies is like
blaming spoiled apples for tainted orange juice. Really lazy
bait-and-switch here.

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[Marxism] Eva Bartlett on Syria

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http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/08/26/eva-bartlett-its-not-a-civil-war-this-is-a-war-on-syria/

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Re: [Marxism] Don DeBar:US waging war against Syria in conjunction with ISIL

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Meet yours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y

Marxists for neoliberalism, how cute



Meet you new friend:

http://en.alalam.ir/news/1650590

American journalist Don DeBar says the United States is in fact waging a
> war against the government and people of Syria in conjunction with the ISIL
> terrorist group
>
> Don DeBar, an anti-war activist and radio host in New York, made the
> remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Wednesday while commenting
> on the recent purported beheading of American citizen Abdul-Rahman Kassig
> by ISIL militants.
>

All the Pro-Putin mouthpieces will be in the Never Hillary camp. #
*NeverHillary* 
=POTUSTrump



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Re: [Marxism] Don DeBar: Election analysis and the Trumpenproletariat | Rhode Island Media Cooperative

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Thus spaketh the neoliberal missionary to we puny Marxists.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:23 PM, Clay Claiborne <clayc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Don Debar supported Gaddafi and Assad. He is also a Putin follower so it
> should surprise anyone that he is a Trump supporter as well.
>
> I am not certain what strategy is needed to produce the necessary unity of
>> program and action required to advance the interests of the working class
>> in this tangled condition, but it is evident to me that supporting Clinton
>> is NOT it. Her election is the goal of precisely the forces that have been
>> working to take down this working class uprising in each and all of its
>> forms. In the face of that, it is obvious to me that our task is to take
>> her – and, thereby, the elite assembled behind her – down instead.
>>
>
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>> Very good analysis here. All the Clinton boosters should take note.
>>
>>
>> https://rimediacoop.org/2016/09/26/don-debar-election-analysis/
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