Re: [Marxism] Fwd: A follow-up on the Enlightenment | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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^^^There's even a section in there laying into Judith Butler,
Counter-Punch, Alison Weir, anti-imperialist leftists, Hezbollah, etc. The
whole gamut of the Left is part of some kind of anti-Semitic stew, I
suppose.

- Amith

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 1:47 AM, A.R. G  wrote:

> Not that it's in relation to any of the rest of your article, but it's
> worth remembering that Ross Wolfe is one of the Zionist apologetics who is
> obsessed with "left anti-Semitism" and rehashed most of the empty
> accusations of anti-Semitism against the Corbynites:
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> https://thecharnelhouse.org/2016/04/30/reflections-on-left-antisemitism/
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>> >Much of Wolfe’s commentary is couched in the sort of language found in
>> >the grad school milieu of the Platypus club that expelled him for some
>> >reason a few years ago: “Even Ideologiekritik ought to be grounded in
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>> My mind tends to wander when I read this sort of thing.
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: A follow-up on the Enlightenment | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Not that it's in relation to any of the rest of your article, but it's
worth remembering that Ross Wolfe is one of the Zionist apologetics who is
obsessed with "left anti-Semitism" and rehashed most of the empty
accusations of anti-Semitism against the Corbynites:

https://thecharnelhouse.org/2016/04/30/reflections-on-left-antisemitism/

- Amith

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> >Much of Wolfe’s commentary is couched in the sort of language found in
> >the grad school milieu of the Platypus club that expelled him for some
> >reason a few years ago: “Even Ideologiekritik ought to be grounded in
> >something more solid than Foucauldean discourse analysis or Derridean
> >textual marginalia.”
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> My mind tends to wander when I read this sort of thing.
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[Marxism] FSA and rebel statements on rules of war in current Damascus offensive

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In the current rebel offensive in Damascus, which has linked two 
rebel-held working class districts across and industrial zone and taken 
them close to Assadist HQ, the Free Syrian Army released the following 
statement:


During this operation, the Free Syrian Army remains fully committed to 
all international laws of war, most importantly:
1.Avoiding civilians of all religions and sects outside of the area 
of conflict
2.Avoiding diplomatic missions and buildings from the aim of direct 
and indirect fire
3.Avoiding all buildings of worship and symbols from the aim of 
direct and indirect fire
4.Commitment to fair treatment of prisoners and bodies of the dead 
without insulting or abusing them
5.Securing and protecting medical personnel, Civil Defence crews, 
humanitarian aid and media groups

https://twitter.com/FSAPlatform/status/844141770694889472/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The main rebel formation leading this offensive, Faylaq al-Rahman 
('Rahman Brigades'), an FSA-soft Islamist coalition, released an almost 
identical statement: http://en.eldorar.com/node/5186


According to EAWorldview:

"The rebel offensive is now being led by the factions Faylaq al-Rahman 
and Ahrar al-Sham, with involvement of other Free Syrian Army units and 
support from Jaish al-Islam in strengthening frontlines. Despite some 
mainstream media reports — accepting pro-Assad propaganda — there are 
few fighters from Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, the group formerly linked to Al 
Qa’eda" 
(http://eaworldview.com/2017/03/rebels-renew-offensive-in-syrias-capital-damascus/).


At the same time as this offensive in Damascus, rebels have also 
launched a new offensive in northern Hama, taking areas very close to 
Hama city 
(http://eaworldview.com/2017/03/rebels-renew-offensive-in-syrias-capital-damascus/). 
The Hama-based FSA brigade, Jaish al-Nasr, is playing a prominent role 
in this offensive.


And all this just after the recent renewal of the offensive in the south 
by the FSA Southern Front, which had been dormant for a while under 
US-Jordanian pressure to fight ISIS and Nusra only. It seems once the 
rebels understood that the deliberate US-Jordanian aim was to hand the 
Jordanian border over to Assad's brigades, the SF finally broke ranks, 
seeing, somewhat late, the existential threat posed.


With new offensives in Damascus, Daraa and Hama, with a prominent FSA 
role in all three, so soon after the crushing of Free Aleppo, once 
again, predictions both that the revolution has ended and/or that the 
FSA is finished and there are only "jihadists" still fighting, have, 
once again, proven to be premature.


I'm reminded, in fact, of the countless times over countless years that 
it was announced that the Arafat PLO/Fatah was either finished, wiped 
out, eclipsed by others or irreversibly sold out, from about 1982 
onwards. 


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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: A follow-up on the Enlightenment | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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The mind tends to wander indeed.  

As in imagining Lenin arriving at Finland Station, announcing "Even 
Ideologiekritik ought to be grounded in something more solid than Foucauldean 
discourse analysis or Derridean textual marginalia."

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>Much of Wolfe’s commentary is couched in the sort of language found in 
>the grad school milieu of the Platypus club that expelled him for some 
>reason a few years ago: “Even Ideologiekritik ought to be grounded in 
>something more solid than Foucauldean discourse analysis or Derridean 
>textual marginalia.” 

My mind tends to wander when I read this sort of thing.
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[Marxism] Gorsuch & Acosta

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"You would have to be a capitalist or Rip Van Winkle to expect anything
positive to come from Trump’s appointments, but that’s not the point.
Looking at his two latest to be “questioned” by the Senate, we can see how
the capitalist class rules, how it controls the government.


*Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch*Consider Neil Grouch, nominee for the
US Supreme Court: Gorsuch was born with a silver spoon in his mouth (as was
Trump) and attended an elite (and conservative) Catholic school. His
mother, Anne Gorsuch, was appointed by Reagan to run the EPA and had to
resign in disgrace due to investigations over what amounted to corruption.
So, well connected from birth. He attended the elite, Harvard law school
and from there went on to clerk for US Supreme Court justices White and
Kennedy.

So we see how, right from birth, Gorsuch was born into and connected to the
upper reaches of the capitalist class.

He parlayed these connections, including those with the Supreme Court, into
a job at the law firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figal.
Through that job, he connected up with the far right billionaire Phillip
Anschutz. Anschutz, in turn, “inherited an oil and gas firm and built it
into an empire that has sprawled into telecommunications, railroads, real
estate, resorts, sports teams, stadiums, movies and conservative
publications like The Weekly Standard and The Washington Examiner,”
according to the New York Times
.
His
net “worth” is close to $13 billion. Meanwhile, Gorsuch, Anschutz and other
billionaires jointly bought a vacation lodge in the Colorado mountains.

And it was Anschutz who is primarily responsible for Gorsuch’s nomination.
Anschutz is a major donor to the right-wing Heritage Fund, and it was
Heritage that provided the list of potential Supreme Court nominees which
Trump adopted. Gorsuch was at the head of that list. So we see how his
connections from birth all the way through adulthood brought Gorsuch to the
brink of being on the Supreme Court

"*Alexander Acosta*

Unlike Gorsuch, Acosta did not have the good sense to be born to the rich,
famous and powerful. Instead, he took a slightly different path: He “chose”
Cuban immigrants – the right-wing “gusanos” – as parents. In Miami, where
he was born and raised, the Cuban immigrant community is a powerful bloc
for the right wing capitalists. Acosta, too, graduated from the elite
Harvard law school and clerked for future Supreme Court Supreme Court judge
Samuel Alito, who was then on the Third Circuit Court. Similar to Gorsuch,
he parlayed that to a position on one of the world’s most elite corporate
law firms, Kirkland & Ellis LLP.


*Federal Attorney and the Epstein Affair*In 2005, Acosta went to serve as
the US Attorney for Southern District of Florida. Three years later, he
proved his reliability to the capitalists in the case of Jeffrey Epstein. A
fabulously (some might say “suspiciously”) successful Wall Street investor,
Epstein retired from that business to a mansion in Florida, where he
started another business: Procurer of young (as young as 13 years old)
girls for the rich and famous. He used his mansion for orgies (also known
as “parties”) to which he transported the young girls for the pleasure of
older and more powerful men. He also had a tricked out airplane, known as
the “Lolita Express” on which he flew his guests to his private island in
the Caribbean. The island was known as “Sex Slave Island.” Among guests on
the Lolita Express were both Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump was also a
close associate of Epstein. (See this article

for
the details. )

In 2008, on the complaint of one of these underage girls, Epstein was
brought up on federal criminal charges. It was here that Acosta proved his
value to his class, as he cut a deal giving Epstein a mere six months in
country jail (rather than prison) for a crime whose usual punishment is ten
years. Not only that, but Epstein was allowed to leave jail during the day
and only return to sleep there at night!"...

https://oaklandsocialist.com/2017/03/22/gorsuch-and-acosta-representing-the-financial-environmental-and-sexual-predators/

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[Marxism] Fwd: A follow-up on the Enlightenment | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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When I check the Wordpress dashboard of my blog each day, I am always 
curious to see who has linked to the Unrepentant Marxist. A couple of 
days ago, I discovered that Ross Wolfe had linked to my blog as part of 
his response to the Jacobin article by Landon Frim and Harrison Fluss 
that made an amalgam between anti-Semitism and anti-Enlightenment 
philosophy, whose exponents ranged from William James to Martin 
Heidegger in scattergun fashion. For Frim and Fluss (what evocative 
Hobbit-like names), Marx was part of the “Enlightenment” tradition and 
once philosophers such as Nietzsche began to criticize that tradition, 
it opened a Pandora’s Box that led to fascism.


Much of Wolfe’s commentary is couched in the sort of language found in 
the grad school milieu of the Platypus club that expelled him for some 
reason a few years ago: “Even Ideologiekritik ought to be grounded in 
something more solid than Foucauldean discourse analysis or Derridean 
textual marginalia.” My mind tends to wander when I read this sort of thing.


full: https://louisproyect.org/2017/03/22/a-follow-up-on-the-enlightenment/
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Re: [Marxism] Will Trump last four years?

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. . . .and no sooner do they announce that his approval rating drop to 37%,
the media and the Democrats have already begun a love fest with the almost
entirely non-responsive Neil Gorsuch--who is apparently a smart, handsome
guy that uses big words.  And Jeh Johnson, Obama's head of Homeland
Security says that Trump could still become a great president.
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Re: [Marxism] [UCE] Brooklyn talk on the Civil War & the Emancipation of Labor

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On 3/22/17 1:20 PM, Mark Lause via Marxism wrote:

Mark Lause author of Free Labor: the Civil War and the Making of an
American Working Class will speak on
"The Emancipation of Labor"
at
The Marxist Education Project
Mon, March 27 @ 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
at Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue

http://marxedproject.org/event/the-emancipation-of-labor/


If you've never had the chance to hear Mark lecture, this is a great 
opportunity. At the Left Elect Conference in Chicago two years ago, Mark 
presented a historical survey of third parties that was tremendous. I 
only wish it had been recorded.


Be there or be square.

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[Marxism] [UCE] Brooklyn talk on the Civil War & the Emancipation of Labor

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Mark Lause author of Free Labor: the Civil War and the Making of an
American Working Class will speak on
"The Emancipation of Labor"
at
The Marxist Education Project
Mon, March 27 @ 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
at Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue

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[Marxism] Murdoch newspaper's scathing denunciation of Trump

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 Wall Street Journal Editorial, Mar. 22 2017
A President's Credibility

If President Trump announces that North Korea launched a missile that 
landed within 100 miles of Hawaii, would most Americans believe him?


If President Trump announces that North Korea launched a missile that 
landed within 100 miles of Hawaii, would most Americans believe him? 
Would the rest of the world? We're not sure, which speaks to the damage 
that Mr. Trump is doing to his Presidency with his seemingly endless 
stream of exaggerations, evidence-free accusations, implausible denials 
and other falsehoods.


The latest example is Mr. Trump's refusal to back off his Saturday 
morning tweet of three weeks ago that he had "found out that [Barack] 
Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory" on 
Election Day. He has offered no evidence for his claim, and a parade of 
intelligence officials, senior Republicans and Democrats have since said 
they have seen no such evidence.


Yet the President clings to his assertion like a drunk to an empty gin 
bottle, rolling out his press spokesman to make more dubious claims. 
Sean Spicer -- who doesn't deserve this treatment -- was dispatched last 
week to repeat an assertion by a Fox News commentator that perhaps the 
Obama Administration had subcontracted the wiretap to British intelligence.


That bungle led to a public denial from the British Government 
Communications Headquarters, and British news reports said the U.S. 
apologized. But then the White House claimed there was no apology. For 
the sake of grasping for any evidence to back up his original tweet, and 
the sin of pride in not admitting error, Mr. Trump had his spokesman 
repeat an unchecked TV claim that insulted an ally.


The wiretap tweet is also costing Mr. Trump politically as he hands his 
opponents a sword. Mr. Trump has a legitimate question about why the 
U.S. was listening to his former National Security Adviser Michael 
Flynn, and who leaked news of his meeting with the Russian ambassador. 
But that question never gets a hearing because the near-daily 
repudiation of his false tweet is a bigger media story.


FBI director James Comey also took revenge on Monday by joining the 
queue of those saying the bureau has no evidence to back up the wiretap 
tweet. Mr. Comey even took the unusual step of confirming that the FBI 
is investigating ties between the Trump election campaign and Russia.


Mr. Comey said he could make such a public admission only in "unusual 
circumstances," but why now? Could the wiretap tweet have made Mr. Comey 
angry because it implied the FBI was involved in illegal surveillance? 
Mr. Trump blundered in keeping Mr. Comey in the job after the election, 
but now the President can't fire the man leading an investigation into 
his campaign even if he wants to.


All of this continues the pattern from the campaign that Mr. Trump is 
his own worst political enemy. He survived his many false claims as a 
candidate because his core supporters treated it as mere hyperbole and 
his opponent was untrustworthy Hillary Clinton. But now he's President, 
and he needs support beyond the Breitbart cheering section that will 
excuse anything. As he is learning with the health-care bill, Mr. Trump 
needs partners in his own party to pass his agenda. He also needs 
friends abroad who are willing to trust him when he asks for support, 
not least in a crisis.


This week should be dominated by the smooth political sailing for Mr. 
Trump's Supreme Court nominee and the progress of health-care reform on 
Capitol Hill. These are historic events, and success will show he can 
deliver on his promises. But instead the week has been dominated by the 
news that he was repudiated by his own FBI director.


Two months into his Presidency, Gallup has Mr. Trump's approval rating 
at 39%. No doubt Mr. Trump considers that fake news, but if he doesn't 
show more respect for the truth most Americans may conclude he's a fake 
President.

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[Marxism] [UCE] Fwd: Faculty Statement on Charles Murray Lecture | The Open University Project | Columbia Law School

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[Marxism] Fwd: Expanding the Slaveocracy | Jacobin

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Q: One of the cottage industries in the historical profession right now 
is studying the relationship between capitalism and American slavery. 
This is an old discussion; it goes way, way back. Karl Marx said things 
about it.


That’s not exactly the subject of your book, but I’m wondering how you 
think your study, which is a study of slaveowners and their vision of 
America as a great power in the world, fits into the ongoing debates 
about slavery and capitalism nowadays?


A: The book joins a whole series of works that explore the slave South 
in a transnational sense. That’s another fashionable aspect: 
reemphasizing the dynamism and brutality of antebellum slavery. A lot of 
previous scholars — for instance, Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman — 
made the argument that slavery was capitalistic because slaves had the 
Protestant work ethic and were well-treated and so on.


The direction of modern scholarship also emphasizes slavery as a 
foundational element in global capitalism and American capitalism, but 
precisely in the opposite direction. Its brutality, for someone like Ed 
Baptist or Walter Johnson, is the source of its dynamism.


I think it’s right to put my book in conversation with those books. In a 
way, though, my arguments are more modest about the place of slavery in 
global capitalism. I’m not so interested in the deep historiographical 
terms — asking “was slavery capitalist?” — but how slaveholders 
understood this institution, and how their understanding shaped the 
political decisions that led to the Civil War, or in some sense shaped 
foreign policy.


To an extent much greater than a lot of scholars have realized, they 
really did see slavery not simply as the kind of paternal, organically 
constructed institution that provided security from the tumult of modern 
life or wage labor society — but also as an incredibly dynamic, 
world-making, productive institution that was very compatible with the 
modern world.


I don’t want to swallow their arguments whole cloth, because I think 
that they were wrong in a lot of important ways. But I think we need to 
take seriously what they believed about the institution.




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[Marxism] Fwd: Sheila Fitzpatrick reviews ‘October’ by China Miéville, ‘The Russian Revolution 1905-1921’ by Mark D. Steinberg, ‘Russia in Revolution’ by S.A. Smith, ‘The Russian Revolution: A New His

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[Marxism] Fwd: The FBI’s investigation into Trump’s Russian connections could pave the way to impeachment | The Independent

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By Kim Sengupta, a fairly reliable journalist.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/fbi-james-comey-donald-trump-russia-connection-impeachment-hillary-clinton-emails-a7640446.html
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[Marxism] Stuart Hall Selected Political Writings--Review

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http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2017/03/sharp-mind-sharp-pen-stuart-hall-in.html

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[Marxism] Fwd: How U.S. Law Inspired the Nazis - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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It started with Mein Kampf. James Q. Whitman, a specialist in 
comparative law at Yale University, was researching a legal-history 
question when he pulled Adolf Hitler’s mid-1920s manifesto from the 
shelf. What jumped out at Whitman was the admiration that Hitler 
expressed for the United States, a nation that the future Führer lauded 
as "the one state" that had made progress toward establishing a healthy 
racial order. Digging deeper, Whitman discovered a neglected story about 
how the Nazis took inspiration from U.S. racial policies during the 
making of Germany’s Nuremberg Laws, the anti-Jewish legislation enacted 
in 1935. That history is the focus of Whitman’s new book, Hitler’s 
American Model (Princeton University Press). The interview that follows 
has been edited and condensed.


full: http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-US-Law-Inspired-the/239494
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[Marxism] Fwd: A critical theory of social-ecological transformation - bookforum.com / omnivore

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Discussion of Jason Moore, et al.

http://www.bookforum.com/blog/17597
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[Marxism] Fwd: LENIN'S TOMB: Smash the Twittering machine

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Good advice from Richard.

http://www.leninology.co.uk/2017/03/smash-twittering-machine.html
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