[Marxism] Ann Coulter not part of new Cold War McCarthyite witch-hunt

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Let’s Make Russia Our Sister Country!
Ann Coulter  | Wednesday Mar 15, 2017 2:55 PM
http://humanevents.com/2017/03/15/lets-make-russia-our-sister-country/ 


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Re: [Marxism] UN Syria Commission clears YPG/J and SDF of ethnic cleansing charges

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The report says there is no evidence of a systematic policy of ethnic 
cleansing. I'm not too sure many people made that claim. The various 
reports, from a variety of sources (eg the anti-ISIS group 'Raqqa is 
Being Slaughtered Silently'), that show the YPG uprooted people, 
destroyed property, prevented return etc, are too many to be false, and 
in any case this report gives plenty of dirt on YPG actions (as it does 
on all players). Nick wants to show that it doesn't show the worst, 
which is true, but it does show that the YPG is not perfect, which 
should be considered by those who have romanticised this current to the 
point that they are the only "true revolutionaries", any allegation 
against them is just Turkish or ISUS slander, whereas every allegation 
against other rebels are undoubtedly true and proof that they are little 
more than a jihadist jungle.


In addition, let's not forget that the report is only for the second 
half of 2016 and early 2017, whereas most of the worst allegations 
against YPG crimes were from 2014 through early 2016.


Nick writes, in relation to Roy Gutman, that "he seems to be a cruise 
missile liberal who's a shill for Erdogan." Not sure that the first and 
second parts of that sentence necessarily connect; I suppose it depends 
on concrete circumstances.  Does he advocate US send its air-force to 
bomb the Kurds on behalf of Erdogan? Not that I am aware of. But, for 
example, do "cruise missile leftists" not advocate things like US 
intervention, use of the US air-force to bomb countries, even killing 
significant numbers of civilians, the sending of hundreds of US special 
forces into countries to back forces they support, the setting up of US 
bases in foreign countries etc etc? Not sure that Gutman advocates all 
that. But is your definition affected by the fact that the US does all 
these things in Syria in support, almost solely, of the YPG/SDF? (and 
when not in support of the YPG/SDF, in support of Assad).


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Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 2:01 PM
To: Michael Karadjis
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ethnic cleansing charges


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Well too bad. I don't much stock at all in instant dismissal of evidence
because of the apparent predilections of the messenger, especially with
regard to Syria, about which it seems to be a particularly widespread
mechanism that allows people to stay in their comfortable bubble and not
even look at anything they know they won't like. It's fair enough that 
some
people's agenda make one suspicious about how objective their evidence 
is,
but it's a pretty weak argument to stop at that. You don't seem to be 
even
starting at that, unless you think of some agenda a particular UN 
official

has in ordering her minions to doctor the evidence about alleged YPG and
SDF war crimes. And that the SNC and SOHR, who've also rebutted the 
"ethnic
cleansing" claims, also have such an agenda. I've criticised Roy Gutman 
and
called his Nation articles rubbish not just because he seems to be a 
cruise
missile liberal who's a shill for Erdogan, but also because at least two 
of

his sources have complained about his distortion of their words, because
this has also happened in his previous work, because he leaves crucial
facts out, because claims made by his anonymous sources are often absurd
and/or completely contradicted by other evidence, etc.


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[Marxism] The noeliberal corruption of the Mexican Constitution

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The Mexican Constitution, this year celebrating its hundredth anniversary,
was once lauded as one of the most progressive in the world. But political
leaders have continued to chip away at its gains.

It is easy to understand scholarly and progressive interest in this
year’s centennial
of the Russian revolution
,
but harder to explain why there is little apparent enthusiasm for an
anniversary that is arguably more important – that of Mexico’s 1917
constitution, signed on February 5, 1917. In fact, Mexico’s constitution
provided the model for the first Soviet constitution. Its failure to
inspire global interest may reside in an uncomfortable question facing the
country: whether it should be celebrating or mourning.

The Constitution has been revered by constitutional scholars for being the
first to enshrine social rights. But relentless revisions by politicians
have culminated in an assault on the last vestiges of its progressive
content by President Enrique Peña Nieto, leaving it all but moribund.

Mexico’s centennial has not been ignored in official circles
, of course, with a
high-powered committee of worthies spearheading a formal program of events
to mark the anniversary*.* But outside the corridors of power, some
commentators have pronounced the constitution as a dying

being,
academics liken it to an elderly recipient of multiple transplants
,
and surveys suggest many Mexicans know little about it or believe that it
no longer responds to their needs

.

http://nacla.org/news/2017/03/08/constitution-corrupted
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Re: [Marxism] UN Syria Commission clears YPG/J and SDF of ethnic cleansing charges

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Well too bad. I don't much stock at all in instant dismissal of evidence
because of the apparent predilections of the messenger, especially with
regard to Syria, about which it seems to be a particularly widespread
mechanism that allows people to stay in their comfortable bubble and not
even look at anything they know they won't like. It's fair enough that some
people's agenda make one suspicious about how objective their evidence is,
but it's a pretty weak argument to stop at that. You don't seem to be even
starting at that, unless you think of some agenda a particular UN official
has in ordering her minions to doctor the evidence about alleged YPG and
SDF war crimes. And that the SNC and SOHR, who've also rebutted the "ethnic
cleansing" claims, also have such an agenda. I've criticised Roy Gutman and
called his Nation articles rubbish not just because he seems to be a cruise
missile liberal who's a shill for Erdogan, but also because at least two of
his sources have complained about his distortion of their words, because
this has also happened in his previous work, because he leaves crucial
facts out, because claims made by his anonymous sources are often absurd
and/or completely contradicted by other evidence, etc.

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Louis Proyect  wrote:

> On 3/15/17 7:18 PM, Nick Fredman wrote:
>
>> rather than something the boss of the agency apparently said 4 years ago
>> about something else.
>>
>
>
> Yeah, well. I just don't trust someone like Carla del Ponte to oversee any
> report about Syria in the same way I wouldn't rely on the word of
> Islamophobe Max Abrahms, whose poll found that Syrian refugees blamed the
> rebels just as much as they blamed Assad (cited by Rania Khalek in an
> Alternet article).
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Dutch election’s big winner proves to be GreenLeft | World news | The Guardian

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On 2017-03-16 01:13, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/15/dutch-elections-greenleft-jesse-klaver


Well this article's a bit misleading in talking about Groenlinks being 
the "big winner". It only seems that way because they did really badly 
in the previous election. Essentially ALL of the parties that were out 
of power increased their vote from the last election, while the parties 
in the current government got trampled. So it was another case of voter 
rebellion, but thankfully Wilders' fascist PVV was not the main 
beneficiary thereof (although his vote increased from the last election, 
he got much less than the 20% that was feared).


But the unquestionable "big loser" was the mainstream social-democratic 
party, connected to the unions, the PvdA (aka "Dutch Labor party") which 
has been sharing power with the establishment right wing. That means the 
left social democrats SP now have more seats than the establishment 
social democrats, again a sign of voter dissatisfaction more than any 
shift to the left. The leading (rightwing) VVD is going to have a lot of 
trouble forming a government among diverse parties to achieve a majority 
in parliament; I suspect it will take at least weeks of negotiations or 
a deadlock.


- Jeff
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Re: [Marxism] Marx on Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation

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Got it; thanks!

T


-Original Message-
>From: Mark Lause via Marxism 
>Sent: Mar 14, 2017 11:12 AM
>To: Thomas F Barton 
>Subject: Re: [Marxism] Marx on Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation
>

>
>It's from Comments on North American Events in October 1862.
>http://www.marxistsfr.org/archive/marx/works/1862/10/12.htm
>
>
>On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 1:54 AM, Ralph Johansen via Marxism <
>marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
>

>>
>> Citation to Collected Works is at bottom of message. Unfortunately, MECW
>> are not online, this version still under copyright by International
>> Publishers or Lawrence and Wishart afaik.
>>
>>
>> On 3/13/2017 10:24 PM, Thomas wrote:
>>
>>> Where can one find the article quoted?  MEC appear to be out of action.
>>>
>>> T
>>>
>>>
>>> -Original Message-
>>>
 From: Ralph Johansen via Marxism 
 Sent: Mar 14, 2017 12:14 AM
 To: Thomas F Barton 
 Subject: [Marxism] Marx on Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation

 I just stumbled on this while looking for something else:

 Lincoln is a /sui generis/ figure in the annals of history. He has no
 initiative, no idealistic impetus, no cothurnis, no historical
 trappings. He gives his most important actions always the most
 commonplace form. Other people claim to be "fighting for an idea," even
 when it is for them a matter of square feet of land. Lincoln, even when
 he is motivated by an idea, talks about "square feet." He sings the
 bravura aria of his part hesitatively, reluctantly and unwillingly, as
 though apologizing for being compelled by circumstances to "act the
 lion." The most redoubtable decrees - which will always remain
 remarkable historical documents - flung by him at the enemy will look
 like, and are intended to look like, routine summonses sent by a lawyer
 to the lawyer of the opposing party, legal chicaneries, involved,
 hide-bound /actiones juris/. His latest proclamation, which is drafted
 in the same style, the manifesto abolishing slavery, is the most
 important document in American history since the establishment of the
 Union, tantamount to the tearing up of the old American Constitution.

 
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[Marxism] Fwd: Hard Lesson: A UVM Econ Prof Fights to Keep His Job | Education | Seven Days | Vermont's Independent Voice

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[Marxism] David Harvey and Evgeny Morozov on Trump, neoliberalism, infrastructure, and "the sharing economy"

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[Marxism] Fwd: Dutch election’s big winner proves to be GreenLeft | World news | The Guardian

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/15/dutch-elections-greenleft-jesse-klaver
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[Marxism] Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Latest Travel Ban Nationwide

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NY Times, Mar. 15 2017
Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Latest Travel Ban Nationwide
By ALEXANDER BURNS

A federal judge in Hawaii issued a nationwide order Wednesday evening 
blocking President Trump’s ban on travel from parts of the Muslim world, 
dealing a political blow to the White House and signaling that 
proponents of the ban face a long and risky legal battle ahead.


The ruling was the second frustrating defeat for Mr. Trump’s travel ban, 
after a federal court in Seattle halted an earlier version of the 
executive order last month. Mr. Trump responded to that setback with 
fury, lashing out at the judiciary before ultimately abandoning the order.


He issued a new and narrower travel ban on March 6, with the aim of 
pre-empting new lawsuits by abandoning some of the most contentious 
elements of the first version.


But Mr. Trump evidently failed in that goal: Democratic states and 
nonprofit groups that work with immigrants and refugees raced into court 
to attack the updated order, alleging that it was a thinly veiled 
version of the ban on Muslim migration that he had pledged to enact last 
year, as a presidential candidate.


Administration lawyers argued in multiple courts on Wednesday that the 
president was merely exercising his national security powers and that no 
element of the executive order, as written, could be construed as a 
religious test for travelers.


But in the lawsuit brought by Hawaii’s attorney general, Doug Chin, 
Judge Derrick K. Watson appeared skeptical of the government’s claim 
that past comments by Mr. Trump and his allies had no bearing on the case.


“Are you saying we close our eyes to the sequence of statements before 
this?” Judge Watson, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, 
asked in a hearing Wednesday before he ruled against the administration.


Mr. Trump’s original ban, released on Jan. 27, unleashed scenes of chaos 
at American airports and spurred mass protests. Issued abruptly on a 
Friday afternoon, it temporarily barred travel from seven 
majority-Muslim nations, making no explicit distinction between citizens 
of those countries who already had green cards or visas and those who 
did not.


It also suggested that Christian refugees from those countries would be 
given preference in the future, opening it up to accusations that it 
unlawfully targeted Muslims for discrimination.


After a federal court in Seattle issued a broad injunction against the 
policy, Mr. Trump removed major provisions and reissued the order. The 
new version exempted key groups, like green card and visa holders, and 
dropped the section that would have given Christians special treatment.


Mr. Trump also removed Iraq from the list of countries covered by the 
ban after the Pentagon expressed worry that it would damage the United 
States’ relationship with the Iraqi government in the fight against the 
Islamic State.


Yet those concessions did not placate critics of the ban, who argue that 
it still imposes a de facto religious test on travelers from big parts 
of the Middle East.


The lawsuits have also claimed that the order disrupts the functions of 
companies, charities, public universities and hospitals that have deep 
relationships overseas. In the Hawaii case, nearly five dozen technology 
companies, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Lyft and TripAdvisor, joined in a 
brief objecting to the travel ban.


The new executive order preserves major components of the original. It 
halts, with few exceptions, the granting of new visas and green cards to 
people from six majority-Muslim countries — Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, 
Syria and Yemen — for at least 90 days. It also stops all refugees from 
entering for 120 days and limits refugee admissions to 50,000 people in 
the current fiscal year. Former President Barack Obama had set in motion 
plans to admit more than twice that number.


Mr. Trump has said the pause is needed to re-evaluate screening 
procedures for immigrants from the six countries before allowing travel 
to resume. “Each of these countries is a state sponsor of terrorism, has 
been significantly compromised by terrorist organizations, or contains 
active conflict zones,” he wrote in the order, signed March 6.


Jeffrey Wall, a lawyer in the United States solicitor general’s office, 
said in the Maryland courtroom Wednesday that the order was based on 
national security concerns raised by the Obama administration in its 
move toward stricter screening of travelers from the six countries.


“What the order does is a step beyond what the previous administration 
did, but it’s on the same basis,” Mr. Wall said.


The judge’s order was 

[Marxism] Carla del Ponte on Assad

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https://www.un.int/syria/news/del-ponte-president-al-assad-only-partner-have-political-solution-syria

Del Ponte: President al-Assad is the only partner to have political 
solution in Syria

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Former Swiss Chief Prosecutor  Carla Del Ponte affirmed that President 
Bashar al-Assad is the only partner to reach a political solution to the 
crisis in Syria and end what is going on here.


“Solution is impossible without President al-Assad,” Del Ponte, also a 
member in the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, told Swiss RTS TV in an 
interview broadcast on Wednesday, pointing out to “the President’s 
popular powerfulness on the ground.”


Del Ponte added that she joins many voices which believe that the sole 
solution to the crisis in Syria will be through dialogue and negotiation 
with the Syrian leadership, affirming “this is possible only in the 
presence of President al-Assad.


“President al-Assad enjoys a great power, without him, negotiation is 
impossible,” Del Ponte said, referring to the improvement 
[improvement? What an obscenity] of the situation in Syria.



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Re: [Marxism] UN Syria Commission clears YPG/J and SDF of ethnic cleansing charges

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On 3/15/17 7:18 PM, Nick Fredman wrote:

rather than something the boss of the agency apparently said 4 years ago
about something else.



Yeah, well. I just don't trust someone like Carla del Ponte to oversee 
any report about Syria in the same way I wouldn't rely on the word of 
Islamophobe Max Abrahms, whose poll found that Syrian refugees blamed 
the rebels just as much as they blamed Assad (cited by Rania Khalek in 
an Alternet article).

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Re: [Marxism] UN Syria Commission clears YPG/J and SDF of ethnic cleansing charges

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Look at the current report. It has plenty of details of bombing of
civilians, and chemical weapon and cluster bomb use by by the regime as
well as abuses by rebels. If you can cast doubts with concrete evidence on
its conclusions regarding the slurs against the YPG and SDF of ethnic
cleansing cast freely about by some leftists, including by people on this
list, that'd have relevance to this thread, rather than something the boss
of the agency apparently said 4 years ago about something else.


On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Louis Proyect  wrote:

> On 3/15/17 6:36 PM, Nick Fredman via Marxism wrote:
>
>> The report, covering the miserable situation accross Syria generally,
>> describes any displacement by YPG/J and SDF as due to military necessity,
>> particularly the mass clearance of IS' indiscriminately laid land mines.
>> It
>> notes some abuses that are very minor in the context of Syria but
>> explicitly rejects ethnic cleansing. By my reckoning these charges have
>> now
>> been rebutted by a Syria National Coalition team, the Syria Observatory
>> for
>> Human Rights and now the UN Commission for Syria. The UN report is
>> available as the latest report
>> http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/IICISyria/Pages/Indepen
>> dentInternationalCommission.aspx
>>
>>
> http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/IICISyria/Pages/CarlaDelPonte.aspx
>
> Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic
>
> Carla Del Ponte (Switzerland)
>
> Ms. Del Ponte is a Swiss and international Prosecutor and diplomat. Within
> the United Nations System, she is a former Chief Prosecutor of two United
> Nations international criminal tribunals.
>
>
> ---
>
> Contrary to subsequent insinuations that she did not know what she was
> talking about, Del Ponte had chosen her words carefully. She had said that
> witness testimony made it appear that “some chemical weapons were used, in
> particular nerve gas.” And it appeared to have been used by the “opponents,
> by the rebels.” There is “no indication at all that the Syria government …
> used chemical weapons.”
>
> --Deepak Tripathi, Counterpunch May 13, 2013
>
> full: https://louisproyect.org/2013/08/31/carla-del-ponte-and-the-
> anti-imperialist-left-an-unprincipled-combination/
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Re: [Marxism] UN Syria Commission clears YPG/J and SDF of ethnic cleansing charges

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On 3/15/17 6:36 PM, Nick Fredman via Marxism wrote:

The report, covering the miserable situation accross Syria generally,
describes any displacement by YPG/J and SDF as due to military necessity,
particularly the mass clearance of IS' indiscriminately laid land mines. It
notes some abuses that are very minor in the context of Syria but
explicitly rejects ethnic cleansing. By my reckoning these charges have now
been rebutted by a Syria National Coalition team, the Syria Observatory for
Human Rights and now the UN Commission for Syria. The UN report is
available as the latest report
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/IICISyria/Pages/IndependentInternationalCommission.aspx



http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/IICISyria/Pages/CarlaDelPonte.aspx

Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic

Carla Del Ponte (Switzerland)

Ms. Del Ponte is a Swiss and international Prosecutor and diplomat. 
Within the United Nations System, she is a former Chief Prosecutor of 
two United Nations international criminal tribunals.



---

Contrary to subsequent insinuations that she did not know what she was 
talking about, Del Ponte had chosen her words carefully. She had said 
that witness testimony made it appear that “some chemical weapons were 
used, in particular nerve gas.” And it appeared to have been used by the 
“opponents, by the rebels.” There is “no indication at all that the 
Syria government … used chemical weapons.”


--Deepak Tripathi, Counterpunch May 13, 2013

full: 
https://louisproyect.org/2013/08/31/carla-del-ponte-and-the-anti-imperialist-left-an-unprincipled-combination/




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[Marxism] UN Syria Commission clears YPG/J and SDF of ethnic cleansing charges

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The report, covering the miserable situation accross Syria generally,
describes any displacement by YPG/J and SDF as due to military necessity,
particularly the mass clearance of IS' indiscriminately laid land mines. It
notes some abuses that are very minor in the context of Syria but
explicitly rejects ethnic cleansing. By my reckoning these charges have now
been rebutted by a Syria National Coalition team, the Syria Observatory for
Human Rights and now the UN Commission for Syria. The UN report is
available as the latest report
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/IICISyria/Pages/IndependentInternationalCommission.aspx

As Kobane-based Kurdish-Australian Hawzhin Azeez activist noted on Facebook:

Hawzhin Azeez added 3 new photos.
March 14 at 7:53pm ·
The UN Commission for Syria has just released an official statement
absolving the YPG and the SDF of systematic and forced displacement and
cleansing of Arab villages and communities in the Rojava region. This
statement unequivocally dispels allegations made by certain "Human Rights"
organisations such as Amnesty International which produced a widely
publicized and disseminated report in 2015 accusing the YPG of ethnic
discrimination, razing, cleansing and displacement of Arab communities. At
the time of the release of the report to date many Leftest organisations
and associations accepted the report as unequivocally correct and the YPG,
a force which has overwhelmingly fought for the protection of all ethnic
and religious groups, particularly ensuring the safety and well being of
Arab communities was marked as another violent, oppressive and
'imperialist/colonizing' force- rather than the revolutionary, inclusive
and democratic body it has always aimed and aspired to be. Amnesty's false
report contributed to ongoing propaganda against Rojava, the Kurds and the
YPG and was deeply damaging, furthering the agendas and interests of
certain groups and parties, particularly Turkey.

If you stand in solidarity with the YPG-YPJ-SDF this report and statement
by the UN needs to be circulated widely. Please spread the statement far
and wide as this is a rare moment when the truth is spoken, a privilege
that we know is not an afforded to us very often.
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[Marxism] Fwd: For Russian TV, Syria isn’t just a foreign country — it’s a parallel universe - The Washington Post

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Re: [Marxism] The importance of using science to solve social problems | Sigrid Schmalzer | Inside Higher Ed

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Notice discussion of Science for the People.
This article is a useful continuation of our discussion re Hessen et al.
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[Marxism] The importance of using science to solve social problems | Sigrid Schmalzer | Inside Higher Ed

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