[Marxism] Pacific Islands demand climate action after extreme Cyclone Pam destroys Vanuatu
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[Marxism] An alternative to the neoliberal university?
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On Friday 13 February, an organization of concerned students calling itself The New University (http://newuni.nl/) occupied the Bungehuis, one of the University of Amsterdam’s buildings and one of the Humanities Faculty’s primary locations. The students are protesting the financialization of academic life, and are calling for the radical democratization of university management. According to press releases issued by the students, their decision to occupy a university building was only taken after they had become convinced that all other options for entering into discussion with the university's management had been exhausted, and many less impactful forms of protest had already been exercised (see http://humanitiesrally.com/). http://enpassant.com.au/2015/03/18/an-alternative-to-the-neoliberal-university/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: ZCommunications » Netanyahu deserves the Israeli people, and they deserve him
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[Marxism] Fwd: What lies beneath Die Linke’s silence over Syriza? | LeftEast
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[Marxism] Fwd: Stephen King: How to write | Books | The Guardian
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[Marxism] Upstairs Downstairs/India Pakistan
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[Marxism] Reviews: Aasif Mandvi’s ‘No Land’s Man’ and Maz Jobrani’s ‘I’m Not a Terrorist, but I’ve Played One on TV’
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * NY Times, Mar. 18 2015 Reviews: Aasif Mandvi’s ‘No Land’s Man’ and Maz Jobrani’s ‘I’m Not a Terrorist, but I’ve Played One on TV’ By DWIGHT GARNER I’M NOT A TERRORIST, BUT I’VE PLAYED ONE ON TV Memoirs of a Middle Eastern Funny Man By Maz Jobrani 225 pages. Simon Schuster. $24. NO LAND’S MAN By Aasif Mandvi 192 pages. Chronicle Books. $22.95. There’s a loaded moment in Maz Jobrani’s new memoir, “I’m Not a Terrorist, but I’ve Played One on TV,” in which this Iranian-American comic finally catches a break in the stand-up world. It’s 1999, and he’s been invited by Mitzi Shore, owner of the Comedy Store in Los Angeles, to become a regular at her venerable club. There’s a catch, he discovers. Ms. Shore wants him to perform in a turban and a robe. “Was this racist?” Mr. Jobrani writes. “Was there a word for being both flattered and insulted at once?” Wearing this garb onstage is “the Persian equivalent of blackface.” He reluctantly agrees to do it. A man needs to eat. Luckily, Ms. Shore soon agrees it’s a bad idea. There’s a similar moment in “No Land’s Man,” a new book from Aasif Mandvi. He’s best known for being, as he puts it, the “senior Middle East/Muslim/All Things Brown correspondent” on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.” New to New York City and scrounging for work, he wears a turban and does a broad Indian accent while auditioning to be a snake charmer in a television ad. (Mr. Mandvi was born in what is now Mumbai but grew up in England and the United States.) The emotion he feels is shame. While discussing this and the other roles — cabdrivers, terrorists, deli owners — he was asked to play, Mr. Mandvi quotes a friend’s useful term for acting out painful racial stereotypes in order to find work. That term is “patanking.” It derives from the way the Indian accent sounds to American ears. If you want to know what it’s like to be a South Asian actor in the United States, Mr. Mandvi writes, here’s something to try. Say “patank patank patank” aloud. Now say them with an Indian accent. Finally, say them while wearing a turban and wobbling your head from side to side. “If you are laughing right now,” he declares, “you’re a racist!” Work being scarce early in his career, he admits, “I gladly patanked my way as far up the ladder as I could.” Although Mr. Jobrani is Iranian and Mr. Mandvi is South Asian (both are from Muslim families, though neither is particularly religious), each of their books is, in the largest sense, about patanking and its discontents, and about their attempts to climb free of detestable typecasting. I liked their books. Each is slim, and not a great deal more than the sum of its parts. But each has plenty to say about matters of race, assimilation, embarrassing family members, life in America for brown-skinned people before and after 9/11, the vagaries of international pop culture and making it in big, dumb, fizzy, sometimes beautiful America. Photo Maz Jobrani Credit Ben Bernous “I’m Not a Terrorist, but I’ve Played One on TV” is the broader of the two. There are more jokes per page, in a Dave Barry, rat-a-tat-tat kind of way. About 80 percent of these jokes, like corn kernels, pop. Mr. Jobrani describes, while playing a terrorist in an especially witless Chuck Norris movie, trying to inject some humanity. “I dug deep to understand how my character had developed up until the point that Chuck Norris would kick him in the face.” Mr. Jobrani’s mother is almost as funny as he is. “Vhy you keep dying?” she asks him. (The spelling is Mr. Jobrani’s rendering of her accent.) After viewing the Norris film, she says: “There vas plenty of opportunities to kill him, but he kill you instead.” “No Land’s Man” is more searching. It resembles a Spalding Gray monologue. Mr. Gray’s “Swimming to Cambodia” was in part about the small role he had in the Roland Joffé film “The Killing Fields” (1984). Similarly, a central section of Mr. Mandvi’s book details his experience living in the producer and director Ismail Merchant’s London apartment and starring in Mr. Merchant’s 2001 semiflop, “The Mystic Masseur.” This section ends with an absurdist slice of social comedy. Mr. Merchant, during an elegant dinner party, mischievously accuses Mr. Mandvi of damaging an expensive piece of furniture: “He was having sex on my chair, and he broke it!” Each of these writers is excellent on his childhood. Mr. Jobrani was born in Tehran. His family moved to the United States in the late 1970s, when the author was 6, fleeing the chaos of the Iranian revolution. The Jobranis were wealthy. Back home, his father owned an electric
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: On John Gray’s critique of Steven Pinker | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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[Marxism] Fwd: Karl Marx and Intersectionality Logos Journal
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * But what did Marx actually have to say about the inter-relationship of race, gender, and class? Actually, quite a lot. Unfortunately, the post-Marx Marxists who formalized his thought were often unaware of this, or worse, in some cases rejected outright Marx’s thought on race and gender. Take, for example, his writings on race and class and their relationship to capital. Even before the Communist Manifesto, the young Marx theorized that modern capitalism existed on the foundation of Black slave labor: “Direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present-day industrialism turns as are machinery, credit, etc. Without slavery there would be no cotton, without cotton there would be no modern industry” (Marx and Engels, Collected Works [hereafter MECW] 38, pp. 101-2, trans. slightly altered). Thus, it was not only a question of capital’s exploitation of legally free wage labor inside Britain, the leading industrial power of the day, but also one of a wider set of relationships that involved a type of unfree labor, slave labor, organized in a highly modern capitalist sense, one that had marked differences from Roman or other earlier forms of slavery. As Marx wrote in the 1861-63 preparatory manuscript for his magnum opus, Capital, the relentless pressure of value production, of capital accumulation, gave this modern capitalist form of slavery a ruthless, almost genocidal character, working Africans to death: “If the capitalist sets the worker to work for e.g. 20 hours today, tomorrow he will be incapable of working the normal labor time of 12 hours or perhaps any labor time at all. If the overwork extends over a long period, the worker will perhaps only preserve himself and therefore his labor capacity for 7 years instead of the 20 or 30 years for which he might otherwise have preserved it…. This is still at this moment the case in Cuba, where after 12 hours in the fields the Negroes have a further two hours of manufacturing labor to perform in connection with the preparation of sugar or tobacco” (MECW 30, pp. 182-83). full: http://logosjournal.com/2015/anderson-marx/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] 3 European Powers Say They Will Join China-Led Bank
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * NY Times, Mar. 18 2015 3 European Powers Say They Will Join China-Led Bank By ANDREW HIGGINS and DAVID E. SANGER BRUSSELS — Ignoring direct pleas from the Obama administration, Europe’s biggest economies have declared their desire to become founding members of a new Chinese-led Asian investment bank that the United States views as a rival to the World Bank and other institutions set up at the height of American power after World War II. The announcement on Tuesday by Germany, France and Italy that they would follow Britain and join the Chinese-led venture delivered a stinging rebuke to Washington from some of its closest allies. It also called into question whether the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, which grew out of a multination conference in Bretton Woods, N.H., in 1944 and established an economic pecking order that lasted 70 years, will find their influence diminished. The announcement by Germany, Europe’s largest economy, came only six days after Secretary of State John Kerry asked his German counterpart, Frank Walter-Steinmeier, to resist the Chinese overtures until the Chinese agreed to a number of conditions about transparency and governing of the new entity. But Germany came to the same conclusion that Britain did: China is such a large export and investment market for it that it cannot afford to stay on the sidelines. American officials have fumed that China never approached the Group of 7 — the consortium of economic powers that the United States has led — but rather decided to pick off individual members, setting a deadline of the end of March for them to decide whether to join the new organization, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which many refer to by its initials, the A.I.I.B. China, in turn, has long chafed at the idea that the World Bank’s president is traditionally an American, and that France appoints the head of the I.M.F. “This has been a power struggle,” one senior European official said. “And we have moved from the world of 1945.” In Washington, Jen Psaki, the State Department spokeswoman, declined to criticize the countries that announced they would seek to participate, but expressed reservations. “It will be important for prospective members of the A.I.I.B. to push for the adoption of those same high standards that other international institutions abide by, including strong board oversight and safeguards,” she said. The European decision is bound to help efforts by Xi Jinping, China’s president and Communist Party chief, to reshape the global balance of power, starting with the institutions that underpin it. Mr. Xi’s predecessors chose to join some of those institutions, including the World Trade Organization, and work from within to amend some of their rules more to China’s liking. But with the new bank, China appears to be stepping up previously halting efforts to also build new, Sino-centric institutions from scratch. China’s control of the bank, however, will face constraints. Britain has insisted on a senior post on its board, and Germany will do the same. China has worked for years to break what it regards as an unfair grip by the United States on global political and financial institutions and to set up rival structures more responsive to Chinese demands for a voice in international affairs commensurate with its status as the world’s second-biggest economy. “China is shaping an alternative universe and getting America’s European allies to support it,” said Theresa Fallon, a China expert at the European Institute for Asian Studies, a Brussels research group. The United States lobbied its allies not to join the new China-based bank. The United States has argued that the bank at best duplicates, and at worst undermines, the role of the Washington-based World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, which has its headquarters in the Philippines, a close American ally at odds with Beijing over the South China Sea. The I.M.F., which manages financial crises, is less directly affected. Ms. Fallon said she expected that South Korea, another close American ally, would also sign up for the new bank and that “in the end, only Japan won’t say yes.” China, she said, is offering a “whole economic and political package that provides an alternative to the creaking international structures shaped by the U.S. in the postwar period.” Western officials and anticorruption groups have long criticized China’s lending practices, particularly for infrastructure projects in Africa involving Chinese companies, saying they foster corruption and undercut efforts by the World Bank and
[Marxism] Fwd: U.A.E. Incident Raises Questions for Colleges That Open Campuses in Restrictive Countries - Global - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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[Marxism] Fwd: NYU professor is denied entry to the UAE, where the university has a campus @insidehighered
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Re: [Marxism] new Jacobin issue?
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * great quote which I had totally forgotten! :) thanks On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:26 AM, ioannis aposperites via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 18/03/2015 02:39 μμ, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote: The databases and networking of a Walmart, a V.A., a Medicare system are more than we would need to democratically decide on production, services, consumption, etc., with all decisions properly articulated at the appropriate level in planning hierarchies (i.e. to maximize combining control and input with efficiency). You are prepared to do this as is no other country. Nowhere else has the study of the internal market reached such intensity as in the United States. It has been done by your banks, trusts, individual businessmen, merchants, traveling salesmen and farmers as part of their stock-in-trade. Your soviet government will simply abolish all trade secrets, will combine all the findings of these researches for individual profit and will transform them into a scientific system of economic planning. In this your government will be helped by the existence of a large class of cultured and critical consumers. By combining the nationalized key industries, your private businesses and democratic consumer cooperation, you will quickly develop a highly flexible system for serving the needs of your population. If America Should Go Communist: https://www.marxists.org/ archive/trotsky/1934/08/ame.htm _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Israeli apartheid week spans the globe
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On Mar 17, 2015, at 5:27 PM, Dennis Brasky via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: This list can be proud to have Joe Catron as a contributor! http://www.palestinechronicle.com/10-years-after-modest-launch-israeli-apartheid-week-spans-the-globe/ Agreed, Dennis. Joe belongs to the long heroic tradition of committed internationalists who have given expression to their political beliefs by participating in dangerous foreign conflicts, and he deserves our maximum respect. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Israeli apartheid week spans the globe
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * He, along with Hazem Jamjoum, will also be speaking at IAW events at New York University. https://nyusjp.wordpress.com/ On Tuesday, March 17, 2015, Dennis Brasky via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * This list can be proud to have Joe Catron as a contributor! http://www.palestinechronicle.com/10-years-after-modest-launch-israeli-apartheid-week-spans-the-globe/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] new Jacobin issue?
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Hi Andrew, A comrade was kind enough to let me take a look. Eden Medina's article is great; it's a summary of her book with advice on its relevance today. That alone is worth the price of admission (assuming they fix the log-on issues). But buy her book too!!! Are you referring to Medina's book Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile (MIT Press, 2011, 9780262016490)? If so, this sounds like a fascinating read. Many thanks, C _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The Future of Left and Independent Electoral Politics: conference May 2-3, Chicago
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * http://leftelect.org THE CALL From impending climate catastrophe to the renewed assault on working class living standards, we don’t have time to waste on the status quo, lesser evils, and token reforms. The richest 1% may own the two major parties, but the past year has seen an uptick in left electoral activity. From Kshama Sawant’s election as an open socialist on the Seattle City Council to the numerous other socialist and independent left campaigns in Chicago, New York, and elsewhere throughout Fall 2014 and Spring 2015, interest in a working class alternative is growing. However, in order to really begin building a viable electoral alternative, we first need to forge unity between our disparate campaigns. Those of us struggling to build a left pole in the electoral arena have much to learn from one another. Therefore we propose a gathering of candidates, individuals, and organizations committed to a left political alliance in opposition to the two-party system of corporate-capitalist rule. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] new Jacobin issue?
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 18/03/2015 02:39 μμ, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote: The databases and networking of a Walmart, a V.A., a Medicare system are more than we would need to democratically decide on production, services, consumption, etc., with all decisions properly articulated at the appropriate level in planning hierarchies (i.e. to maximize combining control and input with efficiency). You are prepared to do this as is no other country. Nowhere else has the study of the internal market reached such intensity as in the United States. It has been done by your banks, trusts, individual businessmen, merchants, traveling salesmen and farmers as part of their stock-in-trade. Your soviet government will simply abolish all trade secrets, will combine all the findings of these researches for individual profit and will transform them into a scientific system of economic planning. In this your government will be helped by the existence of a large class of cultured and critical consumers. By combining the nationalized key industries, your private businesses and democratic consumer cooperation, you will quickly develop a highly flexible system for serving the needs of your population. If America Should Go Communist: https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1934/08/ame.htm _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The coming crisis in China
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[Marxism] Fwd: Life and Machines at the Bottom of the Pit » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * (I actually liked Elysium.) Life and Machines at the Bottom of the Pit by KIM NICOLINI Okay, I am ready to put myself on the line and be one of the few people who have dared to give Neil Blomkamp’s Chappie (2015) a favorable review. Quite frankly, I loved the movie, and I really feel no need to apologize for my enthusiasm. Sure, there are many reasons why certain people feel obliged to be Blomkamp Haters. His second film Elysium (2013) was a complete bomb compared to his groundbreaking first film District 9 (2009). Still, both films are dystopian visions of contemporary economics and expose the ever growing chasm between the Haves and Have Nots. The films focus out outsiders in general and put class before race, and as such they provide universal messages about the marginalized in an economic System that continues to shove the large majority of people into impoverished to the fringes while the few and the privileged live high on the hog. I have no complaints about either of the films from an ideological standpoint, even if the second as a disappointment. full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/18/life-and-machines-at-the-bottom-of-the-pit/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Ernie Tate, the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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[Marxism] Fwd: Doctors as Targets in Syrian War » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * This should make clear that CounterPunch is not the same as WSWS.org et al that are pro-Assad. The fact that so few articles like this appear on CP is much more a function of a lack of people submitting them. It should be obvious--unfortunately--that for every Michael Karadjis there are 50 Seumas Milnes. A decade or so from now people will look back at this period and scratch their heads over how fucked up the left was. http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/18/doctors-as-targets-in-syrian-war/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Perry Anderson book
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[Marxism] feminist/labor solidarity in China
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * https://libcom.org/blog/free-womens-day-five-statements (plus for background: http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article34588) I wonder what the BRICS (multipolar world) fans, no doubt exulting over the European powers joining the new China bank yesterday, would say about this? _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] The coming crisis in China
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * For a contrary view see this piece by former Marxist John Ross, now teaching in China. What he calls a “socialist market economy”, others call “state capitalism”. For many years, I have made my living by supplying companies more accurate analysis of economies such as China than could be found in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Economist. Such publications have not been able to comprehend the superiority of China's economic structure to that of the West, and have therefore made repeated erroneous predictions. It seems that there are still openings in that field and, in light of the continuing errors in such publications, the factual record for 2014 again clearly shows that those seeking more accurate predictions of what will happen in China’s economy will find these in China's media, from China's top economists, and in China's own growth projections. Full: http://ablog.typepad.com/keytrendsinglobalisation/2015/02/chinas-economy-grew-3-times-faster-than-the-us.html On Mar 18, 2015, at 9:05 AM, Dennis Brasky via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: http://www.democracyjournal.org/36/the-coming-china-crisis.php?utm_source=Book+Updateutm_campaign=03%2F18%2F2015utm_medium=email _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Afghan Militia Leaders, Empowered by U.S. to Fight Taliban, Inspire Fear in Villages
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * (I have just finished reading Anand Gopal's No Good Men Among the Living, an amazing book about Afghanistan that I will be reviewing for CounterPunch. The article below describes the morass that exists in Afghanistan that Gopal's book puts under a microscope. Like the occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan is a nation that will continue writhing for quite some time to come.) NY Times, Mar. 18 2015 Afghan Militia Leaders, Empowered by U.S. to Fight Taliban, Inspire Fear in Villages By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN KABUL, Afghanistan — Rahimullah used to be a farmer — just a “normal person living an ordinary life,” as he put it. Then he formed his own militia last year and found himself swept up in America’s exit strategy from Afghanistan. With about 20 men loyal to him, Rahimullah, 56, soon discovered a patron in the United States Special Forces, who provided everything he needed: rifles, ammunition, cash, even sandbags for a guard post in Aghu Jan, a remote village in Ghazni Province. Then the Americans pulled out, leaving Rahimullah behind as the local strongman, and as his village’s only defense against a Taliban takeover. “We are shivering with fear,” said one resident, Abdul Ahad. Then he explained: He and his neighbors did not fear the Taliban nearly as much as they did their protectors, Rahimullah’s militiamen, who have turned to kidnappings and extortion. Mr. Ahad ran afoul of them in January, he said in a telephone interview. Militiamen hauled him to a guard station and beat him so badly that neighbors had to use a wheelbarrow to get him home. Scattered across Afghanistan, men like Rahimullah continue to hold ground and rule villages. They are a significant part of the legacy of the American war here, brought to power amid a Special Operations counterinsurgency strategy that mobilized anti-Taliban militias in areas beyond the grasp of the Afghan Army. From the start, some Afghan officials, including former President Hamid Karzai, objected to the Americans’ practice of forming militias that did not answer directly to the Afghan government. They saw the militias as destabilizing forces that undermined the government’s authority and competed with efforts to build up large and professional military and police forces. Now, many of those concerns have become a daily reality in Afghan villages. “For God’s sake, take these people away from us,” Mr. Ahad, 36, said of Rahimullah’s militiamen. “We cannot stand their brutality.” About 50 miles northeast of Mr. Ahad’s village, other anti-Taliban fighters arrested a 13- or 14-year-old boy in January and then killed him, the boy’s father said. And in the northern province of Kunduz, men in a militia that had received American support raped a 15-year-old boy last year after forcing him to join, according to a United Nations inquiry. From the beginning of the American presence here, the United States doled out cash to militias and warlords. Paramilitary forces were raised to guard American bases. The C.I.A. trained and funded at least six paramilitary forces, with names such as the Khost Protection Force and 0-4, to pursue the Taliban and Al Qaeda. The Afghan Local Police program, with nearly 30,000 Special Forces-trained militiamen nominally answering to the central government, is the biggest and best-known result of the American counterinsurgency strategy, and it has been successful in places. But reports of abuses and banditry by units in the program have hurt its reputation. Then there are militia groups like Rahimullah’s that have also received American training or support over the years but operate under even less oversight. In Ghazni Province, the drive to create militias gained momentum after a series of anti-Taliban uprisings in 2012 emerged in areas once considered lost. Until they pulled out of Ghazni’s districts last year, American Special Operations units gave cash, ammunition and even armored vehicles to men who had little or no official connection to the Afghan government and were often former insurgents themselves. One of them is Abdullah, a militia commander with a chiseled, almost gaunt face, who wishes “my brothers,” as he still calls the American Special Forces soldiers, had not left late last year. “Whatever they wanted me to do, I would do for them,” he said. “If they tell me to kill someone, I will kill them.” The Americans, he said, had once fought alongside him in Ghazni’s Andar district, offering a sense of discipline — not to mention firepower and air support. Abdullah described the growing desperation and brutality of a war he and his 150 men now fight
Re: [Marxism] Noam Chomsky on the Roots of American Racism - NYTimes.com
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[Marxism] Greece jostling Germany/Eurogroup
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Greek PM demands EU stop 'unilateral actions' as tensions flare by Costas Pitas and Caroline Copley ATHENS/BERLIN March 18, 2015 (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras lambasted European partners on Wednesday for criticizing a new anti-poverty law hours before it is voted on, saying it was the euro zone rather than Athens that must stop unilateral actions and keep its word. Tsipras's impassioned speech to parliament as it prepared to vote on his government's first bill marked the latest escalation in a war of words between Athens and its creditors that has raised the risk of a Greek bankruptcy and euro zone exit. European Council President Donald Tusk called a meeting on Greece for Thursday evening at Tsipras' request on the sidelines of an EU summit with the leaders of Germany, France, the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the chairman of euro zone finance ministers. The leftist Greek leader is pressing for a political decision to break Greece's cash crunch, while the creditors have insisted Athens must first start implementing previously agreed economic reforms and hold detailed talks on its financial plans. . . . http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/18/us-eurozone-greece-eu-idUSKBN0ME0NM20150318 Warnings Raised of a Greek Exit From the Euro by Liz Alderman NYTimes March 18/19 print PARIS — Just a few weeks ago, fears that Greece might exit the euro union subsided when Europe extended its financial bailout. But as a new war of words escalates between Athens and its creditors, talk of a “Grexit” is heating up. In the last several days, European and American banks, think tanks and ratings agencies have issued a fresh round of warnings and studies calculating the damage to the currency union if Greece were to default on its debts or stop using the euro. . . . One of the main sticking points is Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s pushing ahead with an anti-austerity agenda that creditors say conflicts with pledges he made on Feb. 20 in winning an agreement to let Greece extend its 240 billion euro, or $254 billion, bailout program for four months. That deal was crucial to giving Greece the ability to unlock loan money it badly needs. But so far, no funds have been forthcoming. On Wednesday, Greece’s Parliament approved a number of anti-poverty measures despite warnings from creditors that the legislation ran contrary to the overall package of changes Greece had agreed last month to adopt. And it probably did not help Greece’s debt diplomacy that members of Mr. Tsipras’s Syriza party were among the thousands of European demonstrators in Frankfurt on Wednesday protesting, amid tear gas, European Central Bank policies. . . . Tax receipts have fallen by more than €1 billion since the Syriza party came to power in January. In the face of the cash squeeze, the state has said it might have to borrow money from national pension and farmers’ funds to avoid default, and withhold back payments owed to hospitals and other state entities. Several of Greece’s largest companies are also privately complaining that the state has not paid them millions of euros owed for construction and other state contracts since December. A number of large and medium Greek companies have started withdrawing cash overnight from their Greek bank accounts to banks in London, Luxembourg and elsewhere, and returning the money in the morning to finance their business operations, according to Athens-based analysts, bankers and Greek company officials aware of the transfers. All declined to speak for attribution. The practice — which is legal and was last used widely by Greek companies and multinationals with Greek operations in 2012, when fears of a Greek euro exit ran high — is meant to protect the companies’ euro holdings in case capital controls are imposed overnight or over a weekend in Greece, or in the event of some other financial calamity, these people said. . . . http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/business/international/warnings-raised-of-a-greek-exit-from-the-euro.html Germany Is Risking Greece’s Euro Exit, Tsipras Ally Says by Patrick Donahue and Birgit Jennen BloombergBusiness March 18, 2015 Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government risks pushing Greece out of the euro area with austerity demands, creating an “incalculable” economic threat to the shared currency, a leader of Germany’s biggest opposition party said. Sahra Wagenknecht, whose anti-capitalist Left party opposes Merkel’s policy prescriptions for keeping the euro intact, said rhetoric by policy makers such as Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble is draining investor confidence in the Greek government. . . . Wagenknecht favors
[Marxism] 10,000 protest austerity @new ECB bldg. in Frankfurt
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * An expected 10,000 people are taking part in protests in Frankfurt, Germany on Wednesday over the opening of new headquarters for the European Central Bank. The protests, arranged under the ‘Blocupy’ banner, chose the opening due to the bank’s role in the implication of austerity policies across the continent, particularly in Greece. “We want the austerity politics to end,” Ulrich Wilken, one of the organisers, told Reuters. “We want a loud but peaceful protest,” he said. ECB's Celebration of Its New $1.4 Billion Tower Is Spoiled by Protesters by Angela Cullen and Jeff Black (Bloomberg) -- Anti-austerity protesters seeking to spoil the inauguration of the European Central Bank’s new headquarters in Frankfurt’s east end set vehicles alight, erected barricades and left a trail of destruction across the city. Police deployed water cannons to restore calm and keep the demonstrators at bay in the area surrounding the 1.3 billion-euro ($1.4 billion) tower, after setting up barbed wire and road blocks. . . . Protesters said police deployed tear gas. “We were moving toward the ECB and then tear gas cartridges were fired from the police lines,” said Martin Dolzer, a member of the Left party from Hamburg. The smoke “spread over a broad area; it was a very strong irritant.” Police are equipped with pepper spray and it’s possible they used the substance in defense, said Rogalski. . . . “In the past, we protested against things like the rescue of the banks in Europe,” Werner Renz, a representative of protest group Attac, said on Tuesday. “The focus of our protests this year is on Greece. We need more of Athens in Europe and less of Berlin. There is no way Greece can repay all its debt. The situation can’t be solved by austerity alone.” . . . Dozens of groups, including Syriza followers, are joining in the rally. The demonstrators planned to blockade the area around the ECB in “transnational actions of civil disobedience,” Blockupy said on its website. The ECB issued guidance to staff on dressing to avoid drawing attention. “Expansive monetary policy serves the financial markets and the wealthy first and foremost,” Sahra Wagenknecht, a lawmaker for the Left party in the Bundestag in Berlin who will address the crowds, said in an e-mail. “The money doesn’t reach the real economy as investment.” A rally outside the city hall at the Roemerberg, Frankfurt’s medieval square, is scheduled to run from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., ending with a march through the city to the Alte Oper near Deutsche Bank AG’s headquarters into the evening. Some public transport services will be disrupted or diverted, and traffic will be rerouted. . . . http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-18/ecb-besieged-by-protests-as-draghi-celebrates-1-4-billion-tower ‘Blockupy’ Protests Break Out in Frankfurt as ECB Opens New Building ECB President Mario Draghi defends bank policies by Natalia Drozdiak and Sarah Sloat Wall Street Journal March 18, 2015 FRANKFURT—Violence erupted in parts of Germany’s financial capital Wednesday alongside demonstrations timed to disrupt the inauguration of the European Central Bank’s new headquarters. Thousands of activists descended on Frankfurt to protest against austerity, some of whom set cars alight or shattered glass near the new building. By noon, police had detained about 350 protesters and arrested five, a police spokeswoman said. At least 90 police and firefighters were injured by stones or tear gas. “We’re doing this on the day of the inauguration because there’s nothing to celebrate,” said Hannah Eberle, a spokeswoman for Blockupy, the group behind the protests. “There’s a crisis in Europe, especially southern Europe, and people are being asked to tighten their belts and we don’t accept that.” Blockupy announced plans in advance to gather around the ECB’s new building—which cost more than €1 billion ($1.06 billion) to build, compared with an initial estimate of €850 million—to obstruct streets with sit-ins and blockades. The anti-austerity group planned speeches and music aimed at disrupting the inauguration, where ECB President Mario Draghi spoke. One man held up a sign that read “ECB Monetary Fascism.” Another sign read “Caviar for All.” Police erected barriers near the ECB building in Frankfurt’s Ostend district while city authorities suspended some public transport. Police said it was difficult to estimate how many people attended Wednesday’s demonstrations, but about 10,000 gathered in the Römer square in the afternoon Ahead of the demonstrations, police planned to deploy around 8,000 officers. The activists, joined by representatives from leftist political parties including
[Marxism] From Ilan Pappe on the Israeli elections
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[Marxism] Fwd: What Happened in Homs by Jonathan Littell | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * (This is adapted from the introduction to Litell's Syrian Notebooks. I got a review copy from Verso and will be writing a review for CounterPunch before long.) But transforming a popular, broad-based, proletarian and peasant uprising into a sectarian civil war was not the regime’s only card. From the very beginning, the Damascus propaganda machine had sought to paint the revolutionaries as terrorists and Islamist fanatics. What was missing were the real ones; but the regime would do everything in its power to draw them into the game. As soon as the uprising gained momentum, in the spring of 2011, the mukhabarat, Syria’s feared secret services, released scores of jihadist cadres detained in their jails. And there is much anecdotal evidence that they favored the rise, throughout 2012, of the radical Islamist armed groups that would soon enter into conflict with the more secular FSA. When Da‘esh first began conquering territory in Syria, in January 2013, “they never fought the Damascus regime and only sought to extend their power over the territory freed by our units,” as an FSA fighter, the son of a landowner from the powerful Syrian al-Jabour tribe, explained in September 2014 to a journalist from Le Monde. “Before their arrival, we were bombed each day by the Syrian air force. After they took control of the region, the bombing immediately stopped.” full: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/mar/18/syrian-notebooks-what-happened-in-homs/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] On the film 'Hunger'
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Organic Crisis of Capitalism - Part two
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Those who argue that the crisis was caused by the falling rate of profit need to explain why the recovery in the rate of profit over the past period has not led to a real recovery in investment and a return to sustained growth. “Profits as a share of US gross domestic product have risen from less than 4 per cent in the mid-1980s to a postwar peak of 11 per cent last year, a statistic that would gladen the heart of a 19th-century robber baron”, states John Plender. “The share of wages has fallen consistently since the early 1970s.” (FT, 11/1/14) According to the American-based Bureau of Economic Analysis, US pre-tax profits peaked in the 3rd quarter of 2006 at $1,865bn, a year before the credit crunch. The rate of profit gradually declined throughout 2008, but in the 4th quarter of that year the mass of profits fell to $861bn. This coincided with the slump and the collapse of world trade, as we explained. However, by the first quarter of 2009, pre-tax profits bounced back to $1,130bn, and by the 4th quarter had reached $1,548bn. By the 3rd quarter of 2010, they had almost reached the pre-crisis 2006 high of $1,845bn. That being the case, why is it that capitalism is still in deep crisis, with anaemic growth at best and falling investment, the live-blood of any recovery? With record profits, the theory that capitalist crisis is caused by the tendency of the rate of profit to fall is shown to be wrong. It is a one-sided, mechanical explanation that contradicts the dialectical method of Marx, who viewed capitalist crisis not as a single cause but as a concatenation of contradictions. As he explained, “The law operates therefore simply as a tendency, whose effect is decisive only under certain circumstances and over long periods.” (Marx, Capital, vol.3, p.346) As we explained, the essence of capitalist crisis is the simultaneous overproduction of capital and consumer goods for the purpose of capitalist production, i.e. for the purpose of producing profit. When there are no markets, there are no sales and therefore no profits. Why should the capitalists invest under these conditions of organic crisis? full: http://www.marxist.com/the-organic-crisis-of-capitalism-part-two.htm _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] What's new at Links: SYRIZA Europe; NGOs capitalism; Britain's Green Left; Women and technology; FMLN win; Paul Le Blanc on Tamás Krausz's Lenin
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * What's new at Links: SYRIZA Europe; NGOs capitalism; Britain's Green Left; Women and technology; FMLN win; Paul Le Blanc on Tamás Krausz's Lenin * * * Subscribe free to Links - International Journal of Socialist Renewal - at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373 You can also follow Links on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LinksSocialism or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10865397643 Visit and bookmark http://links.org.au and add it to your RSS feed (http://links.org.au/rss.xml). If you would like us to consider an article, please send it to linkssocial...@gmail.com *Please pass on to anybody you think will be interested in Links. *Comments welcome on all articles *Return daily for new articles * * * Eyewitness Greece: The SYRIZA factor in European politics http://links.org.au/node/4331 *Dick Nichols*By March 12, 2015 – /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ -- What does SYRIZA’s victory means for politics in Europe, at both all-European and national levels? Both are closely intertwined, and since SYRIZA’s January 25, 2015, electoral victory there have been having increasingly rapid feedback effects. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4331 Mining, energy, climate, capitalism: Why don’t NGOs connect the dots? http://links.org.au/node/4336 March 14, 2015 -- Despite making powerful criticisms of multinational mining corporations, an NGO-organised conference in Cape Town ignored essential links with related struggles. In southern Africa, the Zulu and Xhosa word/Indaba/ is used for important gatherings or conferences. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4336 Britain: A short history of Green Left current within the Green Party http://links.org.au/node/4335 By *Mike Shaughnessy* March 12, 2015 -- /London Green Left Blog/, posted at /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ -- The Green Left grouping was formed in 2006 when a small number of members of the Green Party of England and Wales met at spring conference and drafted the Headcorn Declaration http://www.thegreenleft.co.uk/history.html. Later in the year, in June, 37 members met in London to formally adopt the name Green Left (the original prototype grouping was called Green Revolution) and amended and adopted the Headcorn Declaration. I was one of those members. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4335 Women and the technological revolution http://links.org.au/node/4334 By *Reihana Mohideen*http://links.org.au/#_ftn1 March 16, 2015 -- /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ -- We are told that women may soon bid farewell to existing methods of birth control and welcome a new type of contraception in the form of microchip implants. An MIT start-up backed by the Bill Gates Foundation plans to start pre-clinical testing for the birth control chip this year and pave the way for a possible market debut in 2018. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4334 El Salvador: Left wins national elections, right blocks final results http://links.org.au/node/4333 March 9, 2015 -- The left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) has won 86 of the 262 mayorships of El Salvador in March 1 elections, including the capital San Salvador, according to preliminary reports, TeleSUR English said on March 4. The ruling FMLN also announced it won a legislative majority in the National Assembly and the Central American Parliament. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4333 Paul Le Blanc on Tamás Krausz's 'Reconstructing Lenin': Sorting through Lenin’s legacy http://links.org.au/node/4330 */Reconstructing Lenin: An Intellectual Biography/* By Tamás Krausz New York: Monthly Review Books, 2015 564 pages; Review by *Paul Le Blanc* March 10, 2015 – /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ -- This edition of Tamás Krausz’s study of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is compelling and imposing in more than one way. It is not, strictly speaking, an intellectual biography. So much is offered in this remarkable volume, however, that many readers will not complain that they are not actually treated to a chronological narrative tracing the evolution of Lenin’s thought. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/4330 * * * Links seeks to promote the international exchange of information, experience of struggle, theoretical analysis and views of political strategy and tactics within the international left. It is a forum for open and constructive dialogue between active socialists coming from different political traditions. It seeks to bring together those in the
