Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Video That Suggests Trump Is Suffering from Alzheimer's | Alternet
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. * lt is, of course, not Trump's fault if he does indeed have Alzheimer's. Yet it is nevertheless a matter of deep concern to each of us and to the whole world. If true, what is the appropriate political response--from him, from voters, from Congress? On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 6:27 PM, Louis Proyect 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. > * > > > > http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/video-suggests- > trump-suffering-alzheimers > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/gulfmann%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] Beyond Neoliberal Identity Politics
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 2017-05-25 01:25, Gary MacLennan via Marxism wrote: I wrote an article for Monthly Review long years ago on Political Correctness. In all (im)modesty it remains the best thing I have read on the subject. Let's see. If it's the best text on a subject, then isn't it your duty to pass on a link? :-) _ 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] PressTV
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 think I know how I got on to the mailing list for this charlatan and fantasist. But for us the interesting part is that this individual is sometimes interviewed on PressTV (Iran) where he is presented as an "international lawyer." When on PressTV he keeps some of his more bizarre stories to himself. ken h On May 24, 2017, the “Day Christ Consciousness begins to land on Earth”, Author reveals 1973 ET Encounter & Briefing with Jimmy Carter Aboard UFO that led to 1977 Carter White House ET Study ACCESS FULL ARTICLE, LINKS, VIDEO & $0.99 eBOOK https://newsinsideout.com/2017/05/may-24-2017-day-christ-consciousness-begins-land-earth-author-reveals-1973-et-encounter-briefing-jimmy-carter-aboard-ufo-led-1977-carter-white-hous/ EXCERPT: "May 24, 2017 is a date termed the 64th Day of the Ninth Wave of the Mayan Calendar, and functionally the “day Christ Consciousness (‘We are One’) begins to land on Earth.” [1] "On May 24, 2017, coincidentally his birthday, former Stanford Research Institute (SRI) futurist Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd, director of the 1977 Jimmy Carter White House Extraterrestrial Communication Study, reveals that a briefing he and future President Carter had in 1973 aboard a UFO spaceship led to the creation of the 1977 White House ET Study. In an exclusive Open Timelines interview, MY JOURNEY LANDING HEAVEN ON EARTH Author Alfred Lambremont Webre JD, MEd, a former Stanford Research Institute (SRI) futurist who is credited with founding the science of Exopolitics (Relations with ETs), reveals that Extraterrestrials may have coordinated a 1973 “missing time” briefing between himself and former US President Jimmy Carter aboard their UFO spaceship that led directly to the 1977 Jimmy Carter White House Extraterrestrial Communication Study of which Author Webre was director." _ 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] Fwd: The Pope’s Gifts to Trump Send Some Clear Messages - The New York Times
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 are the odds that Trump will read the essay/encyclical? comradely Gary On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Louis Proyect 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. > * > > > But there appeared to be a message in the gifts the pope gave to his > guest. They included a copy of his influential essay on the importance of > saving the environment, a rebuke to the climate change skepticism espoused > by Mr. Trump. Francis also presented him with a medallion engraved with the > image of an olive tree — “a symbol of peace,” he explained. > > https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/world/europe/pope-trump-v > atican-meet.html > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/gary.maclennan1%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
[Marxism] Fwd: The Video That Suggests Trump Is Suffering from Alzheimer's | Alternet
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Re: [Marxism] Beyond Neoliberal Identity Politics
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. * Jeff I wrote an article for Monthly Review long years ago on Political Correctness. In all (im)modesty it remains the best thing I have read on the subject. The point I made was that in all societies there is always restraints on language use i.e. political correctness. Of course the restrictions desired by the marginal are marked or labelled, while the restrictions desired by the powerful are unmarked and labeled normal. they do not even have a name. Exactly the same with identity politics. We are all thrown into an identity when we are born. The question is do we reproduce it or transform it. transformation requires a movement and that disturbs dominant identities - think 2, 4,. 6. 8; Gay is just as good as Straight. Now the question of a neoliberal identity is an interesting one. Foucault's lectures at La College de France (much quoted by Richard Seymour) contain the outline of a neoliberal identity. That is the classic identity of the possessive individual that MacPherson wrote about. So that is the neoliberal identity proper. neoliberalism seeks to create the neoliberal subject or identity. I would distinguish that process from those compensatory identities that neoliberals offer. Marriage equality, abstract rights etc Under the reign of scarcity, which is the principal motif of neoliberalism, compensatory identities cause misrecognition and envy. They divide us and of course that is all to the benefit of the powerful. For me the ideal program would not be to deny the reality of identity politics, but firstly to attack the neoliberal identity and transform the compensatory identities by eliminating scarcity. comradely Gary On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 3:59 AM, Jeff 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 2017-05-24 18:02, Glenn Kissack via Marxism wrote: > >> http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/24/beyond-neoliberal-ide >> ntity-politics/ >> > > > This is a disgusting attack on what is absolutely a straw man. > > Ever since I have heard the term thrown around, I've been looking for what > "identity politics" means in practice. Surely an ideology that is so talked > about must have some actual proponents that will lay it out for us! > > But no. I am finally realizing that "identity politics" is a label similar > to "political correctness." The latter expression has long been used to > decry progressive norms in relation to use of bigoted terms and their > underlying ideas. It was always denounced by the bigoted right wing as a > form of thought control supposedly being imposed by the left, yet never > would they bother (nor could they!) point to an actual ideology called > "political correctness." The charge was vacuous and only revealed the guilt > of those making the charge. > > Now I see that "identity politics" has become a new label of exactly the > same sort. This is clear from the above article attacking it. It makes a > few dozen claims in which the position attributed to "identity politics" is > indirectly quoted. You'd think that if there were any substance to these > supposed quotations then the author might try quoting some actual people > with those views. But no, those views are presented as those of "NIP", the > term coined by the author to mean "neoliberal identity politics" as if it > were real. So it's an attack on no one and on nothing in the real world. > But by attacking it, one achieves the same filthy result as the incessant > attacks on "political correctness" of yesteryear. > > - Jeff > > > > > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/gary.maclennan1%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
[Marxism] Fwd: The Pope’s Gifts to Trump Send Some Clear Messages - The New York Times
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[Marxism] Fwd: Syrians roll back extremism in Idlib without military intervention
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[Marxism] "Get Me Roger Stone"
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. * Roger Stone is a political operative who got his professional start working for Richard Nixon and his "dirty tricks" gang. (His original start was as a school kid when JFK was running against Nixon and his school sponsored a mock election. Because Stone was a Catholic, he favored Kennedy. So he cornered every kid waiting on line at the cafeteria and told them that Nixon had proposed making Saturday a school day. Guess who won that mock election in a landslide.) "Get Me Roger Stone" is a documentary of Stone's career, up to and including his work for Donald Trump. Stone really emerges as kind of an American Goebbels, with all that implies. His rise is indicative of how and why the mainstream of the capitalist class prefers to rule through capitalist democracy, and the degree to which that has broken down in the US. No, not completely, but it's definitely been weakened. And the rise of Roger Stone in a personalized way shows how that's happened. Available on Netflix for those who have it. Well worth watching. John Reimann -- "No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them." Asata Shakur Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com and // www.facebook.com/WorkersIntlNetwork?ref=stream _ 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] Socialism in one Latin American Country?
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 how far can the socialist policy of the working class be applied in the economic conditions of Russia? We can say one thing with certainty--that it will come up against obstacles much sooner than it will stumble over the technical backwardness of the country. Without the direct State support of the European proletariat the working class of Russia cannot remain in power and convert its temporary domination into a lasting socialistic dictatorship." --Leon Trotsky, Results and Prospects "The complete victory of the socialist revolution in one country alone is inconceivable and demands the most active cooperation of at least several advanced countries, which do not include Russia." --V.I. Lenin, "Speech on the International Situation" (delivered to the 1918 Congress of Soviets” --- LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES, Issue 170, Vol. 30 No. 1, January 2010 Where Is Latin America Going? FTAA or “Twenty-first-Century Socialism”? by Nicolas Grinberg The Fourth Summit of the Americas, held in Argentina in 2005, ended with a strong dispute between countries that, under Mexican leadership, tried to put forward a final declaration in support of the U.S.-led Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and countries that, led by Brazil and Venezuela, fiercely opposed that initiative. This antagonism expressed a marked difference in the political leadership of the two groups of countries; a situation that was exacerbated during the electoral year of 2006, when some countries, such as Mexico and Colombia, reaffirmed their right-wing political leaderships while others, such as Ecuador and Bolivia, joined the group of those opposing U.S. initiatives in the region. These differences are so notable that they are observed by both right-wing and left-wing commentators. The former have spent some time signaling the evils of the neopopulist leaders and praising the consolidation of “rational” neoliberal policies implemented by conservative (e.g., in Mexico) or “moderate” (e.g., in Chile) governments (see, e.g., Fraga, 2004). Left-wing observers, in turn, have often declared their support for the turn of the tide in South America, in particular the emergence of the so-called twentieth-first-century socialism in Venezuela (see, e.g., Harnecker, 2004; Lebowitz, 2005). Despite all their many differences regarding the potentialities and limits for economic development assigned to each type of national political economy, the two groups of observers share two characteristics. First, they understand the process of capital accumulation as being essentially a national process. Second, and as a consequence of the first, they regard national economic structures and their pattern of development as being determined by public policies or the institutions that shape them. The problem with these starting points is that, on the contrary, the process of capitalist development is global in its content and national only in its form of realization and the subject of this worldwide process is capital rather than the state. _ 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] Venezuela and ground rent
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. * Spending a lot of time reading Marxist critiques of the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela focused on the problems created by a development model centered on the exploitation of ground rent (i.e., oil). Ironically, they tend to reference a guy named Juan Inigo who was a rather colorful character in the early days of the Marxism list that preceded Marxmail. Inigo was notorious for writing very long messages that contained stilted attempts at sounding like they were written by Marx. This is typical: "At first, Marx does not present any reason for starting the development of the historical specificity of capitalist society from commodities, other than the fact that he places them there, not even as a subject, but as a mere object. But, as soon as the analysis shows that commodities are the unity of use-value and value, the necessity inherent in the latter starts to be followed in its development. Commodities themselves come into the exposition as they develop their specificity as the materialized general social relation among private independent producers, their value-form; that is, the process in which society allocates its total labor-power among the different concrete modalities of labor by representing the socially necessary abstract labor embodied in the products of the concrete labors carried out by the independent private producers, as the capacity of these products for relating among themselves in exchange. In commodity production, material production produces, at the same time, the general social relation." I will be writing something for Counterpunch tomorrow about a lot of this but will for now make the point that expecting Venezuela to depart from this mode of development is a lot easier said than done. Of course it is abc, when you are explaining this to fellow professors in a JSTOR journal. _ 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] Beyond Neoliberal Identity Politics
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 2017-05-24 18:02, Glenn Kissack via Marxism wrote: http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/24/beyond-neoliberal-identity-politics/ This is a disgusting attack on what is absolutely a straw man. Ever since I have heard the term thrown around, I've been looking for what "identity politics" means in practice. Surely an ideology that is so talked about must have some actual proponents that will lay it out for us! But no. I am finally realizing that "identity politics" is a label similar to "political correctness." The latter expression has long been used to decry progressive norms in relation to use of bigoted terms and their underlying ideas. It was always denounced by the bigoted right wing as a form of thought control supposedly being imposed by the left, yet never would they bother (nor could they!) point to an actual ideology called "political correctness." The charge was vacuous and only revealed the guilt of those making the charge. Now I see that "identity politics" has become a new label of exactly the same sort. This is clear from the above article attacking it. It makes a few dozen claims in which the position attributed to "identity politics" is indirectly quoted. You'd think that if there were any substance to these supposed quotations then the author might try quoting some actual people with those views. But no, those views are presented as those of "NIP", the term coined by the author to mean "neoliberal identity politics" as if it were real. So it's an attack on no one and on nothing in the real world. But by attacking it, one achieves the same filthy result as the incessant attacks on "political correctness" of yesteryear. - Jeff _ 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] #FarmingWhileBlack: Black Va. Farmer Says ‘Nervous White Women in Yoga Pants’ More Dangerous Than Blatant White Supremacists
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[Marxism] Black Man Found Not Guilty of Crime, Still Sentenced to 7 Years In Prison
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[Marxism] Fwd: Trump’s budget balls-up | Michael Roberts Blog
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