[Marxism] WikiLeaks' Quito cables show how USAID undermined sovereignty
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == After more than 50 years in Ecuador, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) closed up shop http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/USAID-Closes-Shop-in-Ecuador--20141001-0095.html last month. The Ecuadorian government said USAID has been asked to leave Ecuador, while a US Embassy official claimed it was USAID’s decision http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/10/ecuador-usaid-agreements_n_5301713.html . It appears that after more than two years of trying, the US and Ecuador failed to negotiate http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/15/us-ecuador-usa-idUSBRE9BE0HV20131215 the terms of a new bilateral assistance agreement. Part seven of the seven-part series based on US cables published by WIkiLeaks https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57531 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] [Critical-Syria] #AirDrop2Kobane
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I posted a few I'm fond of: https://twitter.com/Gorran_Change/status/521400957213880322 https://twitter.com/re2baz/status/52140658648576 https://twitter.com/clayclai/status/521385173284171776 https://twitter.com/baghdadinvest/status/521407355817558017 https://twitter.com/clayclai/status/521393084907548672 https://twitter.com/clayclai/status/521392195753218048 https://twitter.com/ProfJCharmley/status/521408998550290432 https://twitter.com/clayclai/status/521401864454017024 Clay Claiborne, Director Vietnam: American Holocaust http://VietnamAmericanHolocaust.com Linux Beach Productions Venice, CA 90291 (310) 581-1536 Read my blogs at the Linux Beach http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/ http://wlcentral.org/user/2965/track On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Danny Postel dannypos...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Clay. If there are any good articles/appeals/petitions pertaining to this crisis, please do post them here. I just looked up #AirDrop2Kobane on Twitter and didn't see any particuarly good tweets -- but I suppose that comes with the territory if it's the 3rd most popular hashtag in the world at the moment... On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Clay Claiborne clayc...@gmail.com wrote: The Kurds in Kobane are running low on food and ammo. This is their biggest problem and they have been demanding air drops to re-supply them. Yesterday there was a massive twitter storm campaign that pushed the hashtag #AirDrop2Kobane to 3rd place in Trending Worldwide for much of the day. Its the way I spent part of my Sunday. The media isn't reporting any air drops but they aren't reporting the demand or the twitter campaign either, just US bombs being dropped on who knows who. FYI Clay Claiborne, Director Vietnam: American Holocaust http://VietnamAmericanHolocaust.com Linux Beach Productions Venice, CA 90291 (310) 581-1536 Read my blogs at the Linux Beach http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/ http://wlcentral.org/user/2965/track -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Critical Syria group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to critical-syria+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to critical-sy...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/critical-syria. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Train wreck -- burning
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == [If the picture and formatting don't show up, you might want to go to my blog, where this post might appear more fully: http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2014_10_01_archive.html] That's the Palacio de Gobierno, the seat of the government in the State of Guerrero, Mexico, in flames late Monday afternoon. Behind these were flames that sear, not the flesh, but the soul. On September 26, cops from the city of Iguala massacred students from a nearby heavily-indigenous rural teacher's college. Six people were killed, dozens wounded, and 43 students were arrested and vanished ... disappeared. Also vanished are Iguala's mayor, who told radio interviewers shortly before going on the lam that he knew nothing of the events until reading about it in the newspapers, since he had been at a dance that night; the mayor's wife, honoree at the festivities and sister to four former capos of the Beltrán Leyva cartel and founding leaders of its successor, Guerreros Unidos. Also not to be found are the owners of the main movie theater, the supermarket, the shopping mall, the jewelry store and many other Iguala businesses. But that is not so surprising once you realize that they share a name that appears time and again on title deeds and incorporation papers: namely and to wit, the name of the honorable mayor. The chief of police is also gone, albeit he is not the same person as the mayor, only an accomplice. Also an accomplice is the governor of the state of Guerrero, who not only is not a fugitive, but refuses to resign his position. The picture above captures the reaction of the population to his demurral. The Iguala massacre will go down in history with the Tlatelolco massacre of hundreds of students in 1968 as one of the greatest crimes of Mexico's rulers. And the country's political class has followed its usual pattern of pretending nothing has happened: President Enrique Peña Nieto said it was a local matter and it took him nine days, until Monday October 6, before he could bring himself to take even a smidgen of responsibility, and that only after mass graves with the charred remains of 28 persons were found. He spoke again on Friday the 10th, two weeks after the massacre and after more clandestine graves were found. “En un Estado de Derecho no cabe la impunidad, he thundered, which means, under the rule of law, there is no place for impunity. He did not, however, explain what such idyllic cliches have to do with Mexico, as the mayor of Iguala --his whereabouts still unknown-- nevertheless managed to get a judge to issue an injunction against the mayor being arrested or questioned. From my perch as co-host of an Atlanta Spanish-language talk radio show with a mostly Mexican audience, watching these events unfold over the past two-and-a-half weeks, has been like watching a train wreck in slow motion. President Peña Nieto seems to think the whole thing can still be papered over with a few phrases promising to punish those responsible, now that his explanations of the division of responsibility between federal and state authorities has failed to satisfy. But watching the TV news videos of the burning Palacio de Gobierno only keeps pushing through my mind part of a song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00G1mS_fGWAfeature=youtu.bet=6m12s I first heard sometime in high school, nearly a half century ago. /Down on our knees we're begging you please,// //We're sorry for the way you were driven.// //There's no need to taunt just take what you want,// //and we'll make amends, if we're living.// //But away from the grounds the flames told the town// //that only the dead are forgiven.// //As they crumbled inside the ringing of revolution. /Joaquín/ / Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Comment on Political Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == (From Dermokrat) Louis, If you haven’t done so yet, check out Tom Brass’ Labor Regime Change in the Twenty-First Century (Chapter II in particular). He has a very good discussion of Marx/Engels’ views on unfree labor (e.g. slavery) within capitalism (spoiler alert: Marx was entirely comfortable referring to plantation owners as capitalists). I also recommend these articles by Phillip McMichael: 1)(1987)“Bringing Circulation Back into Agricultural Political Economy: Analyzing the AnteBellum Plantation in its World Market Context,” Rural Sociology, 52, 2 2)(1988) “The Crisis of the Southern Slaveholder Regime in the World Economy.” In Rethinking the Nineteenth Century: Contradictions and Movements, (ed.) Francisco Ramirez (Westport, Conn: Greenwood). 3) (1991) “Slavery in the Regime of Wage – Labor: Beyond Paternalism in the U.S. Cotton Culture,” Social Concept, 6, 1. 4) (1991) “Slavery in Capitalism: The Rise and Demise of the U. S. Ante-Bellum Cotton Culture” Theory and Society Vol. 20, No. 3, Special Issue on Slavery in the New World (Jun., 1991), pp. 321-349 (http://author.cals.cornell.edu/cals/devsoc/research/research-projects/upload/slavery-in-capitalism-T-S-91.pdf) You may also be interested in Wilma Dunaway’s The First American Frontier, which examines the incorporation of Appalachia into the capitalist world-system, Tomich’s Through the Prism of Slavery, and David Montejano’s Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986. Lastly, I think Jason Moore showed just how simplistic the Brenner thesis was re: the transition to capitalism in this long essay for Review: http://www.jasonwmoore.com/uploads/Moore__Nature_and_the_Transition_from_Feudalism_to_Capitalism__REVIEW__2003_.pdf But to chime in on the debate above, Post/Brenner have a very simplistic formula capitalism = capitalist mode of production = free wage labor. That simply cannot explain the persistence of unfree labor relations within the US and other advanced economies today. The relations of production under capitalism will be decided by a multitude of factors within any given social formation – the size of the reserve army of labor in particular. And once any given mode of production moves from being one primarily geared toward the production of use values to one exclusively concerned with exchange values, we’ve certainly moved away from “pre-capitalist”… Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Stateless democracy: How the Kurdish women’s movement liberated democracy from the state
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[Marxism] Fwd: Israeli Professor Calls for Palestinian Genocide Tikun-Olam Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם
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[Marxism] Fwd: Dabiq, the magazine of ISIS justifies Slavery Rape of Non-Muslim female POWs
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[Marxism] FREE LABOUR, CAPITALISM AND, THE ANTI-SLAVERY ORIGINS OF CHINESE EXCLUSION IN CALIFORNIA, IN THE 1870s
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hat tip to Richard Seymour on this article that shows now the Workingman's Party in California combined anticapitalist and racist ideology. http://past.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/09/18/pastj.gtu030.full.pdf I first encountered the reactionary elements of a workerist interpretation of Marxism in an article I wrote about Timothy Messer-Kruse's The Yankee International: 1848-1876: Dogmatic Marxism's hostility toward non-class demands has been around for a very long time, judging from the evidence of Timothy Messer-Kruse's The Yankee International: 1848-1876. (U. of North Carolina, 1998) Furthermore, you are left with the disturbing conclusion that this problem existed at the very highest levels of the first Communist International, and included Marx himself. The people who launched a section of the Communist International in the USA were veteran radicals, who had fought against slavery and for women's rights for many years. They saw the emerging anti-capitalist struggles in Europe, most especially the Paris Commune of 1871, as consistent with their own. They saw revolutionary socialism as the best way to guarantee the success of the broader democratic movement. What European Marxism would think of them is an entirely different matter. full: http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/american_left/woodhull.htm Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] anti-imperialism and solidarity in Australia
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There's a vibrant debate going on over at Facebook among Australian comrades about what approach to take toward Kobani. It mirrors debates elsewhere over Syria as a whole, with the two positions being solidarity with the Kurds against IS, versus a strictly anti-intervention stance. I am not suggesting we replay that debate (with way over a hundred comments as of now) here, but if the comrades think any new points have been made not raised in earlier parallel debates, or if its reappearance on this front sheds any light on the original question, please share. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] anti-imperialism and solidarity in Australia
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Can you share the link? I probably won't join in, but am interested in seeing what's been said. On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: There's a vibrant debate going on over at Facebook among Australian comrades about what approach to take toward Kobani. It mirrors debates elsewhere over Syria as a whole, with the two positions being solidarity with the Kurds against IS, versus a strictly anti-intervention stance. -- Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] anti-imperialism and solidarity in Australia
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Surely that's not an alternative: solidarity with the Kurds against IS (and against Turkey, backed by the US) as a matter of self-defense is compatible with a demand for US withdrawal from the region, and the submission of the matter to the UNSC, in accord with the UN Charter. --CGE On Oct 14, 2014, at 8:25 AM, Joseph Catron via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: There's a vibrant debate going on over at Facebook among Australian comrades about what approach to take toward Kobani. It mirrors debates elsewhere over Syria as a whole, with the two positions being solidarity with the Kurds against IS, versus a strictly anti-intervention stance. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] A Black Detective, an 1870 Trial and a What If
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NY Times, Oct. 14 2014 A Black Detective, an 1870 Trial and a What If Michael A. Ross's 'Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case' By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER Michael A. Ross, the author of a well-regarded study of the Supreme Court during the Civil War, thought of himself as a “meat and potatoes” legal historian. But a decade ago in a New Orleans archive, something a bit spicier caught his eye: an 1870 newspaper article describing the “voodoo abduction” of a white toddler by two mysterious black women. “I thought to myself, ‘This can’t possibly be true,’ ” Mr. Ross recalled recently by telephone. The voodoo angle turned out to be hysterical rumor. But as he read on, Mr. Ross, now a professor at the University of Maryland, discovered an all-but-forgotten story of a sensational investigation and trial that gripped New Orleans and the national press for almost seven months. “There were so many other twists and turns that I was hooked,” he said. Those twists, recounted by Mr. Ross in “The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law and Justice in the Reconstruction Era,” published this week by Oxford University Press, include psychic consultations, a shadowy “House of Secret Obstetrics” and the derring-do of a crack Afro-Creole police detective versed in the latest “French” techniques — seemingly the first black detective in the United States to take part in a case that received national attention, Mr. Ross says. The story also offers something else that was all but unheard-of in pre-Civil Rights-era trials involving African-Americans accused of crimes against whites: genuine suspense about the outcome. Alfred L. Brophy, a historian at the University of North Carolina School of Law, said in an interview that at virtually any other moment, such a case would almost certainly have ended in a “legalized lynching.” “Ross has unearthed an important story,” Mr. Brophy said. “Historians are going to argue about its broader significance for a long time.” Beyond academia, Mr. Ross said he hoped his whodunit would add complexity to the public understanding of Reconstruction, restoring a sense of contingency to a period that is too often read as leading inexorably to Jim Crow. “It was not inevitable that Reconstruction was going to fail,” Mr. Ross said. “There was a moment of real possibility.” That moment was certainly a fraught one. When Mollie Digby, the 17-month-old daughter of Irish immigrants, was reported to have been kidnapped by two African-American women on June 9, 1870, the case immediately became enmeshed in broader social and political tensions. To the white press, it was more proof that Louisiana was descending into racial chaos under Henry Clay Warmoth, the Illinois-born radical Republican governor. But to the government, it was a chance to prove that a newly integrated and professionalized police force — 28 percent of New Orleans’s officers were African-American — would aggressively investigate crimes allegedly committed by blacks. The police chief put his top black detective, John Baptiste Jourdain, on the case. Jourdain, the son of a white Creole father and free black mother, had already left a historical footprint. In 1864 he was among some 1,000 Afro-Creoles who signed a petition asking Lincoln to extend the vote to the free blacks of Louisiana. In 1867 he testified before a Congressional committee about bloody riots of the previous year, when officers from New Orleans’s police force, then still all-white, helped a mob attack a biracial state convention. Jourdain, Mr. Ross writes, had studied investigative techniques originating in France, including deductive reasoning and the use of disguises, which he adopted during the Digby investigation. He interacted easily with whites involved in the case, including Thomas Digby, Mollie’s father, who repeatedly welcomed him into the family home, Mr. Ross relates. “We think of the Irish and African-Americans as being at one another’s throats, and yet here the interactions were all quite respectful,” the historian said. After a child who seemed to be Mollie turned up in a covert maternity hospital for unwed mothers, Ellen Follin, an Afro-Creole woman who ran the hospital in her home, was arrested and put on trial with her sister. The anti-Reconstruction papers were filled with inflammatory speculation about the two beautiful and mysterious “child stealers,” who maintained that the baby had been left there by a stranger. But in the courtroom, Mr. Ross writes, due process prevailed through a parade of bizarre revelations and odd characters. To Mr. Ross, the orderly trial — and the peace that was maintained in New Orleans after the racially mixed jury handed down an acquittal —
Re: [Marxism] FREE LABOUR, CAPITALISM AND, THE ANTI-SLAVERY ORIGINS OF CHINESE EXCLUSION IN CALIFORNIA, IN THE 1870s
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm having trouble getting access to this piece. However, the Workingmen's Party of California grew from the interests of small Euro-American proprietors resisting the rise of railroads and the forces of industrial capitalism. Like all such operations its appealed to workingmen, but no more so than the major capitalist parties. And, it was prone, like all, to embrace misleading labels. It was hardly anticapitalist in the sense of opposing the capitalist order in general. And it was certainly never Marxist in any way, shape or form. Solidarity, Mark L. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] FREE LABOUR, CAPITALISM AND, THE ANTI-SLAVERY ORIGINS OF CHINESE EXCLUSION IN CALIFORNIA, IN THE 1870s
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == People can access this document via the following link http://scholar.harvard.edu/rudi_batzell/publications/free-labour-capitalism-and-anti-slavery-origins-chinese-exclusion Am 14.10.2014 um 16:48 schrieb Mark Lause via Marxism: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'm having trouble getting access to this piece. However, the Workingmen's Party of California grew from the interests of small Euro-American proprietors resisting the rise of railroads and the forces of industrial capitalism. Like all such operations its appealed to workingmen, but no more so than the major capitalist parties. And, it was prone, like all, to embrace misleading labels. It was hardly anticapitalist in the sense of opposing the capitalist order in general. And it was certainly never Marxist in any way, shape or form. Solidarity, Mark L. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/aktiv%40rkob.net --- Diese E-Mail ist frei von Viren und Malware, denn der avast! Antivirus Schutz ist aktiv. http://www.avast.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] FREE LABOUR, CAPITALISM AND, THE ANTI-SLAVERY ORIGINS OF CHINESE EXCLUSION IN CALIFORNIA, IN THE 1870s
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 10/14/14 10:48 AM, Mark Lause wrote: I'm having trouble getting access to this piece. However, the Workingmen's Party of California grew from the interests of small Euro-American proprietors resisting the rise of railroads and the forces of industrial capitalism. Like all such operations its appealed to workingmen, but no more so than the major capitalist parties. And, it was prone, like all, to embrace misleading labels. It was hardly anticapitalist in the sense of opposing the capitalist order in general. And it was certainly never Marxist in any way, shape or form. Solidarity, Mark L. Mark is right that the party was not Marxist but it certainly had a working class base. From the article The Workingmen's Party of California by Ralph Kauer in the Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Sep., 1944). I would only add that the generally uncritical view of the party in this 1944 article reflects the nativism that prevailed in both scholarly and progressive movements in the USA at the time: In November Denis Kearney was arrested,as were several of the other leaders who organized meetings to protest against his imprisonment. The authorities erred if they believed that the arrest of Kearney would weaken the movement, for it had a directly opposite effect.The sympathies of laborers throughout the state were aroused and the party was strengthened.Kearney was acquitted,and a few days later more than eight thousand workers marched in a Thanksgiving Day parade in San Francisco which celebrated both the holiday and the release of their leader.The paraders carried placards with such slogans as: Labor shall be King; This is a country for free white labor, not coolie labor; and The ballot before the bullet. In the same month,the party was successful in electing J.E. Clark assemblyman from Santa Clara County.This success was followed in March by victories in the municipal elections of Oakland and Sacramento. At the close of March, the Workingmen's party consisted of at least two branches in each of the twelve wards of the city of San Francisco with a total membership of about fifteen thousand workers.There were also clubs scattered throughout the state, Oakland having the second largest membership with a roll of seventeen hundred laborers. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Civility Disobedience | Bully Bloggers
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Has incivility become the new obscenity? Everywhere one turns these days, it seems, ‘civility’ is being held up as a norm to which we all agreed to be held accountable. When was this consensus to be civil arrived at? Nobody can quite say. It must have been when we weren’t looking. But it’s suddenly everywhere: in open letters and videotaped homilies by university presidents, in the conference themes of progressive scholarly organizations, even in the campaign ads of Midwestern sheriffs (HT Ali Abunimah). Liberal icons John Stewart and Stephen Colbert even convened a national rally in 2010 “To Restore Sanity and/or Fear,” a sardonic retort to what those who attended perceived to be the raucous incivility of Tea Parties (HT Lisa Duggan). And indeed, civility sounds like a value all but a lunatic fringe should consent to. But it’s effects on our freedoms can be surprisingly negative. The exercise of what we could be forgiven for assuming were our “civil liberties” — freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, common use of public space — increasingly hit tripwire detectors for incivility, often with arbitrarily punitive consequences. full: http://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/civility-disobedience/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] new at MIA: Voice of Industry, 1845-48
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.marxists.org/admin/new/index.htm *14 October 2014:* Added to the USA History Publications Page http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/index.htm#pubs is the complete run of *Voice of Industry* http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/voice-of-industry/index.htm, one of the earliest workers papers ever published in the U.S. From 1845 through 1848, the journal detailed the conditions of workers during the rise of the Industrial Revolution in the pre-Civl War era. [Thanks to the Riazanov Library Project and IndustrialRevolution.org http://industrialrevolution.org that did the original digitization from microfilm] Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Turkish Airstrike Hits Kurds, Complicating Fight Against Islamic State - NYTimes.com
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Let me see if I got this straight. Turkey is a tool of American imperialism that is attacking the Kurds, another tool of American imperialism if you take the Turkish left seriously. There is evidence aplenty that Erdogan favors ISIS even if his Islamism is more in line with the Muslim Brotherhood than Salafism. But no matter, all these contradictions are really a smokescreen put up by the USA to conceal its real purpose which is to effect regime change in Syria. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/world/europe/turkey-airstrike-kurds-isis.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Turkish Airstrike Hits Kurds, Complicating Fight Against Islamic State - NYTimes.com
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Lou, I have no idea what you're talking about. I think I gather that some of those claims are yours, while you're attributing the others to someone else? But if I'm on the right track - something I'm not at all sure of - the distinction between the categories is far from clear. On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: Let me see if I got this straight. Turkey is a tool of American imperialism that is attacking the Kurds, another tool of American imperialism if you take the Turkish left seriously. There is evidence aplenty that Erdogan favors ISIS even if his Islamism is more in line with the Muslim Brotherhood than Salafism. But no matter, all these contradictions are really a smokescreen put up by the USA to conceal its real purpose which is to effect regime change in Syria. -- Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] A review of This non-violent stuff’ll get you killed
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://convincingreasons.wordpress.com/2014/10/15/this-non-violent-stuffll-get-you-killed/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Well, this is odd: More French Jews said to join Islamic State Read more: More French Jews said to join Islamic State
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == 'It's important to note that it's a very small minority,' the French official told Channel 2. http://www.timesofisrael.com/more-french-jews-among-is-ranks -- Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] [lbo-talk] Well, this is odd: More French Jews said to join Islam ic State Read more: More French Jews said to join Islamic State
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I seem to recall that a few years ago, Al Quiada had an American-Jewish spokesman. He, of course, had converted to Islam before becoming a jihadist. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: Joseph Catron jncat...@gmail.com To: LBO lbo-t...@lbo-talk.org,Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu,Progressive Economics pe...@lists.csuchico.edu Subject: [lbo-talk] Well, this is odd: More French Jews said to join Islamic State Read more: More French Jews said to join Islamic State Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 21:50:20 +0300 'It's important to note that it's a very small minority,' the French official told Channel 2. http://www.timesofisrael.com/more-french-jews-among-is-ranks -- Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað. ___ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk Map Your Flood Risk Find Floodplan Maps, Facts, FAQs, Your Flood Risk Profile and More! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/543d7a7b5c2717a7b4100st01vuc Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] FREE LABOUR, CAPITALISM AND, THE ANTI-SLAVERY ORIGINS OF CHINESE EXCLUSION IN CALIFORNIA, IN THE 1870s
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I like the article, in general. It's very informative and I agree in recommending it to anyone interested in the history of the labor movement or the Left. That said, it's terribly difficult to put solid numbers on the party's base. (Rather like taking the size of the SWP a century later based on what it claimed or told the media). Certainly, almost every party with any substance to it is going to have something of a working class base in the cities. That doesn't make New York CIty's Tammany Hall a labor party. So, too, rhetorical appeals mean little. This was also the period in which the Republicans ran U.S. Grant and Henry Wilson as the Workingmen's candidates and had them on a Workingmen's ticket in places. This is a common problem, particularly in U.S. history, where parties and candidates just can't be taken on face value based on what they claim. Its anticapitalist dimension s explained in footnote 23 on the seventh page. It consisted of ‘bounding’ and ‘embedding’ capitalist social relations within a moral and political order. I don't read that as anticapitalist in any sense. Indeed,there's not single capitalist politician of any standing in the U.S. today that couldn't say the same thing. On a related note, I think it was the late 1970s when David Roediger wrote an article on the antislavery origins of the eight-hour movement. In that case, you had abolitionists and antislavery radicals continuing beyond the Civil War to fight for a shorter workday. In the case of the Workingmen's Party of California, many of these characters were just plain thugs and proslavery Democrats who were continuing to sail on that course under other auspices. Yes, I get the common opposition to bond labor, but I just don't trust the rhetoric. More fundamentally, though, if we're going to generalize about the movement's predispositions, etc., we should probably base it on the genuine working class radicals and socialists who were around at the time. Best, Mark L. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The tide turns against Political Marxism | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 13.10.2014 23:59, Louis Proyect wrote: On 10/13/14 5:29 PM, Einde O'Callaghan via Marxism wrote: full: http://louisproyect.org/2014/10/12/the-tide-turns-against-political-marxism/ On your Facebook page, Louis, I've commented that you don't really appear to be familiar with the theoretical tradition that the ISO and ISR come from. Certainly in the publications of the British SWP there has been a constant critique of Brenner and Political Marxism from its early days. I posted a link to a transcript of a 2004 e3bqate between Chris Harman and Robert Brenner: http://www.isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=219 Actually, Einde, now that I think about it since replying on FB, I am not sure that I accused the British SWP of Political Marxism--lots of other things obviously, but not that. If you saw evidence of that, please let me know. I might have slipped up. I thought I'd replied to this but apparently it hasn't got through (or at least I can't find it anywhere) or maybe I accidentally sent it just to you, Louis. I didn't mean to imply that you accused the SWP of political Marxism, Louis. I was just trying to point out that the theoretical tradition that the ISO and ISR come from has a long history of criticising and opposing the Brenner thesis and the political conclusions drawn from it. In your 2004 piece you mention Harman's contribution (and link to an article by Harman criticising Brenner) but you don't actually say what Harman had to say. This isn't a criticism, since you were discussing Brenner specifically. I was just trying to jog your memory because of your remarks in your recent article. Einde O'callaghan Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] YPG Spokesman Polat Can: We are Working with the Coalition against ISIS
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In an exclusive interview with the daily Radikal, Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) Spokesperson Polat Can says they are officially working with the International Coalition against ISIS, and their representative is in the Joint Operation Command Center. Q. Mr. Polat Can, you have been leading a fierce struggle against ISIS in Kobane for almost month. The world is watching Kobane. What is the situation there? In the morning, the Kobane resistance will be on its 30th day and a new, long-winded process will start. Everyone knows that the resistance that YPG put up against ISIS is unprecedented by the forces in the region, especially in comparison to the Iraqi army. Cities ten times the size of Kobane surrendered to ISIS in a few days and those cities were not even besieged with considerable force. However, when they started attacking Kobane, they gathered their forces from around the region, from places including Minbij, Raqqah, Jarabulus, and Tal Hamis. What I mean by considerable force is tanks, cannons, heavy artillery and thugs whose numbers were in the tens of thousands. They wanted to capture Kobane within a week, but they did not succeed. Then, they wanted to say their Eid prayers in Kobane, and they could not do that either. Since last week, they seized some streets in East Kobane, and now they want to capture the whole city, but they can’t advance. As they try to make their way, they sustain considerable losses. Especially within the last few days, both YPG attacks and the air strikes against ISIS terror led by international coalition forces have increased. They sustained major losses, many of their bodies and weapons passed into the hands of the YPG. Q. So, can we say that Kobane is relatively safe from danger? No, saying this would be major heedlessness. Because ISIS still controls a large portion of Kobane. In addition, all of the villages in Kobane are occupied by ISIS. The resistance we started both within and around Kobane is ongoing. ISIS continues to receive renewed assistance. This war is a matter of life and death for us in every way. Thus, it is not yet possible to say that there is no danger. Q. You are saying that ISIS consists of tens of thousands of people and constantly renewed support. Your numbers are very small in comparison. Do you receive any kind of support? Kobane has been under an embargo for the last year and a half. None of the major forces from other cantons have been able to reach Kobane. Kobane is resisting with its own efforts. Some Kurdish youth have been able to reach Kobane from the north of Kurdistan, especially through Suruç. Some arrived Kobane in small groups from the cantons of Afrin and Jazira. In addition, some of the youth from Kobane who were living abroad came to Kobane to protect their city. Some of the small groups from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) are here under the name of “The Volcano of Euphrates.” This is all of our power and support. Unfortunately, we did not receive any additional military support, neither from the South, nor from other places. Q. What can you tell us about the air strikes by the coalition led by the United States? For the last few days, the air strikes have been numerous and effective. We can clearly state that, had these attacks started a couple weeks ago, ISIS would not have been able to enter Kobane at all. ISIS would have been defeated 10-15 kilometers away from the city, and the city would not have turned into a war zone. Full interview: http://civiroglu.net/2014/10/14/ypg_usa/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Foreign Policy: Actually, All Pakistanis Don't Hate Malala
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == We should expect American and British media ... to be capable of viewing the Muslim world outside the prism of terrorism. But doing that may not be as fun as aggregating some conspiracy tweets and hitting publish. http://atfp.co/1ts5ViL -- Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] PFLP calls for united revolutionary support for Kurds at Kobane
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[Marxism] When Racism Was a Science
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NY Times, Oct. 14 2014 When Racism Was a Science 'Haunted Files: The Eugenics Record Office' Recreates a Dark Time in a Laboratory's Past By JOSHUA A. KRISCH An old stucco house stands atop a grassy hill overlooking the Long Island Sound. Less than a mile down the road, the renowned Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory bustles with more than 600 researchers and technicians, regularly producing breakthroughs in genetics, cancer and neuroscience. But that old house, now a private residence on the outskirts of town, once held a facility whose very name evokes dark memories: the Eugenics Record Office. In its heyday, the office was the premier scientific enterprise at Cold Spring Harbor. There, bigoted scientists applied rudimentary genetics to singling out supposedly superior races and degrading minorities. By the mid-1920s, the office had become the center of the eugenics movement in America. Today, all that remains of it are files and photographs — reams of discredited research that once shaped anti-immigration laws, spurred forced-sterilization campaigns and barred refugees from entering Ellis Island. Now, historians and artists at New York University are bringing the eugenics office back into the public eye. “Haunted Files: The Eugenics Record Office,” a new exhibit at the university’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute, transports visitors to 1924, the height of the eugenics movement in the United States. Inside a dimly lit room, the sounds of an old typewriter click and clack, a teakettle whistles and papers shuffle. The office’s original file cabinets loom over reproduced desks and period knickknacks. Creaky cabinets slide open, and visitors are encouraged to thumb through copies of pseudoscientific papers. “There’s a haunted quality, that’s the nature of the files,” said John Kuo Wei Tchen, a historian at N.Y.U. and co-curator of the exhibit. (This reporter is a student at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, a separate branch of the university.) “We hoped we could evoke a visceral feeling of what it was like to be in a detention center, where people were presumed to be ineligible unless proven otherwise.” When the Eugenics Record Office opened its doors in 1910, the founding scientists were considered progressives, intent on applying classic genetics to breeding better citizens. Funding poured in from the Rockefeller family and the Carnegie Institution. Charles Davenport, a prolific Harvard biologist, and his colleague, Harry H. Laughlin, led the charge. “There were many prominent New Yorkers involved in eugenics,” Dr. Tchen said. “It was initially about how to become more efficient as a modern society.” Researchers sought out “unfit” families in the Manhattan slums and the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. They cataloged disabilities and undesirable traits, scribbling the exact dimensions of heads and arms. Psychiatric institutes sent crates of case files to the office, where the chief characteristics of “the feebleminded” were collated into pedigree charts. Davenport himself devised a sophisticated apparatus to quantify skin color. “The Eugenics Record Office was built around very systematized ideas that still might be seen as legitimate today,” said Noah Fuller, an artist and co-curator of the exhibit. “At the time, this was widely accepted as legitimate science.” By the 1920s, the office had begun to influence the United States government. Laughlin testified before Congress, advocating forced sterilization and anti-immigration laws. Congress complied. The Immigration Act of 1924 effectively barred Eastern Europeans, Jews, Arabs and East Asians from entering the country. And thousands of people who were deemed unfit were sterilized. The University of Heidelberg in Nazi Germany later awarded Laughlin an honorary degree for his work in the “science of racial cleansing.” He accepted the award, and his research on Long Island continued to influence Nazi ideology throughout World War II and the Holocaust. When war broke out in Europe, widespread discomfort with eugenics and Nazism turned public sentiment against the office. In the late 1930s, an independent review by the Carnegie Institution found the office unfit to conduct human scientific research, citing biases and heavy reliance on anecdotal evidence, and it was closed in 1939. “The Eugenics Record Office was flawed in terms of methodology, taking hearsay evidence, and in terms of bias, accepting evidence that resonated with social prejudices,” said Daniel Kevles, a science historian at Yale University who is not involved in the N.Y.U. exhibit. As Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory turned its genetic focus to breeding better plants and animals, the eugenics
[Marxism] US: No plans to include FSA or any moderate rebels in anti-ISIS mission
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == “The U.S. government does not trust the Free Syrian Army much at all, that’s pretty clear. They are basically telling the FSA that they are not part of their plans and they are going to start from scratch.” No Syrian Rebels Allowed at ISIS War Conference http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/14/no-syrian-rebels-allowed-at-isis-war-conference.html There will be no Syrians at Tuesday’s 21-nation coalition meeting on ISIS, as the U.S. makes clear to the existing moderate Syrian rebels they are not part of the mission. President Obama will join a meeting of top defense officials from 21 countries Tuesday to discuss the war against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Missing from the confab: anyone that’s actually from Syria. The U.S. government has no near-term plans to include the Free Syrian Army or any other moderate rebel group in the military mission to fight ISIS. None of these opposition figures were even invited to the anti-ISIS coalition meeting being held at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington and chaired by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey. U.S. defense officials told The Daily Beast the Syrian rebel groups are simply not partners in the airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, which have been failing to stop the Islamic State’s advances both in northern Syria and western Iraq. “We’ve said this is an Iraq-first strategy,” Col. Edward Thomas, spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told The Daily Beast. “We have not yet moved to the stage in Syria where we would work with partners on the ground.” Top administration officials have repeatedly acknowledged that airstrikes will not be enough to accomplish President Obama’s stated goal to degrade and destroy ISIS. But a month after the U.S. and its partners began bombing inside of Syria, there is still no military coordination with the rebels fighting ISIS on the ground—and no plans to do so. The U.S. strategy is to train and equip a new rebel army slowly in bases in Saudi Arabia and possibly Turkey, but not to work with the Free Syrian Army structure as it exists now. “Some of [the FSA] elements may be brought into a credible force in the future, but we’re not there yet,” Thomas said. Being excluded from Tuesday’s coalition meeting is only the latest clear signal to the Syrian Opposition Coalition and the FSA from the Obama administration that they don’t see these groups as a credible or trusted partner in the fight against ISIS. Before the airstrikes began, the Obama administration was promising to work with the opposition groups. Gen. Bashir, the chief of staff of the Supreme Military Command, came to Washington in May with Syrian Opposition Coalition leadership and met with top officials. But now those leaders are being marginalized. The moderate Syrian opposition was not part of the decision to strike inside Syria and they say the lack of coordination led to an incident last month when the U.S. almost bombed an FSA base near Idlib. The CIA maintains discreet relationships with a few opposition fighting groups but has not increased the weapons flows to these brigades since the U.S. led war against ISIS inside Syria began. “The U.S. government does not trust the Free Syrian Army much at all, that’s pretty clear. They are basically telling the FSA that they are not part of their plans and they are going to start from scratch.” Multiple Syrian opposition leaders told The Daily Beast that FSA brigades in northern and eastern Syria, who have been fighting and losing to ISIS all year, have been trying to feed targeting intelligence and other useful information to the U.S. military but they have not gotten any response and they claim the airstrikes have been undermined because ISIS has been able to avoid taking any real damage. “If the Supreme Military Council and the Free Syrian Army are not involved in the upcoming meeting in Washington regarding eliminating ISIS, then we are excluding our ground troops and commanders that have real-time intelligence and expertise in fighting ISIS and thus undermining the entire strategy to defeat ISIS,” said Mouaz Moustafa, an official with the Coalition for a Democratic Syria, an umbrella group of Syrian-American NGOs. U.S. military officials said that the FSA is simply not up to the task. Thomas noted that the Tuesday coalition meeting was focused on defense ministers from countries. The SOC and the SMC have some connections to fighting groups on the ground, but don’t operate as a real military command structure and don’t have direct influence on all the fighters carrying the FSA banner. What’s more, the “moderates” often wind up in alliances of convenience with hard-core Islamists. One of the reason the FSA base in Idlib was almost bombed? It was right next to an outpost
Re: [Marxism] US: No plans to include FSA or any moderate rebels in anti-ISIS mission
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 10/14/14 9:29 PM, mkaradjis . via Marxism wrote: The ground forces that matter the most are indigenous ground forces. And we don’t have a willing, capable, effective partner on the ground inside Syria right now. I thought that's what the Syrian army was. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] In Petersburg, Cannibal Corpse Fans Confront the Russian Orthodox Police State
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Fans Confronted by Riot Police at Canceled Concert By Sergey Chernov The St. Petersburg Times Wednesday, October 15, 2014 Eighteen music fans were detained Sunday as hundreds protested against the last-minute cancellation of a Cannibal Corpse show outside the Kosmonavt music club in St. Petersburg. The organizer, the Moscow-based agency Motley Concerts, claimed the cancellation was caused by unspecified “technical reasons,” but the fans believed it was done under pressure from the authorities. The American death metal band’s St. Petersburg concert was set to be the last in their eight-date Russian tour in support of their 13th studio album, “A Skeletal Domain.” Although the band’s five previous Russian tours went ahead without any problems, this year’s tour was marred by controversy caused by a massive campaign of formal complaints from Orthodox activists about alleged “Satanism” and “extremism” in Cannibal Corpse’s lyrics. Out of the eight planned concerts, the band managed to play only four. On Oct. 11, the band’s concert in Moscow was canceled when people were already in the venue. Before that, a concert in Ufa scheduled for Oct. 5 was canceled when the venue abruptly closed “for technical reasons.” On Oct. 10, Cannibal Corpse’s concert in Nizhny Novgorod was shut down by armed masked police officers 30 minutes after it had started. A number of fans were detained and taken for compulsory drug tests. In a petition to the head of administration of Nizhny Novgorod, fans wrote that the true reason for the anti-drug operation was to stop the concert, which they believe was an act of censorship, which is prohibited by the Russian constitution. Neither the organizer nor the venues in the four cities admitted any pressure from authorities and the band did not make any statement about the cancellations. On Sunday, fans were not let into the venue even though it was supposed to open at least an hour before the concert’s scheduled 8 p.m. start. When asked, the guard at the doors said both the public and guests would be allowed to enter “later.” When several hundred stood around Kosmonavt 25 minutes before the scheduled start, a young man brought a notice from the organizers and read it aloud. It said the concert had been canceled for technical reasons but ticket holders were welcome to a signing session with the band and to spend an evening in the venue. The notice then went from one person to another until a fan set it on fire to cheers from the crowd. Despite the invitation, the doors were still closed, leading disappointed fans to crowd around near the entrance. Soon they were chanting the band’s name as well as profane insults toward Moscow Orthodox activist Dmitry Tsorionov, also known as Enteo, and Legislative Assembly deputy Vitaly Milonov, whom they saw as responsible for the cancellation. The fans criticized the Kremlin’s current policies of isolation from the West and promotion of traditionalism. One fan shouted an offensive anti-President Vladimir Putin slogan while another commented sarcastically about the official line of Russia “rising from its knees.” “I would not love the Russian Orthodox Church more for this,” one fan said. People discussed how they had been waiting for months for the concert and bought expensive tickets, while others had come from other cities and had to take days off from their jobs and find a place to stay in St. Petersburg. Although there had only been one police vehicle parked near the venue initially, OMON riot police started to arrive at the site at 8:15 p.m. Bottles flew at the officers while people expressed their disappointment and outrage at the treatment. Cannibal Corpse’s music played loudly from one of the cars parked near the venue. The OMON police retreated into their truck to put on helmets and take batons but did not immediately intervene, instead maneuvering in the street near the venue, blocking and unblocking it, as bottles kept coming and various fans protested in different ways. People flooded the street and passing cars had their tires pierced by broken glass. The first arrests occurred at around 8:30 p.m., when a dozen officers rushed at two fans standing at a distance from Kosmonavt, beat them with batons and dragged them to the police vehicle. A video posted by a fan showed them apparently being beaten with a baton inside the vehicle as well. An hour later there were much fewer people in the street, with some heading home and others lining up for the signing session in the venue, which eventually started to let people enter, although very slowly after multiple checks. According to the police, the 18 detained fans were charged either with “disorderly conduct” or with “being drunk in public,” offenses that are punishable by
