Re: [Marxism] In praise of Trump pulling out of the Paris climate pact | TheHill

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On 2017/06/01 11:35 PM, Richard Sprout via Marxism wrote:

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-environment/335848-in-praise-of-trump-pulling-out-of-the-paris-climate


Good one. There are all sorts of reasons to generate anti-Trump solidarity:
https://www.pambazuka.org/democracy-governance/taking-down-trumpism-africa-delegitimation-not-collaboration-please

We had a little protest of 500 at the US Consulate in Durban, South 
Africa on May 3.


But climate is now absolutely vital to move forward as a global unifying 
campaign:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/6/1/1668071/-Trump-is-Withdrawing-from-the-Paris-Climate-Agreement-Is-it-Time-to-Boycott-America





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[Marxism] Fwd: The Struggle** Syria Democracy at Left Forum

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[Marxism] Philly Cops’ Habit of Fondling Black Men Sparks Greatest Protest of All Time

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http://www.theroot.com/philly-cops-habit-of-fondling-black-men-sparks-greatest-1795698954?utm_source=theroot_newsletter_medium=email_campaign=2017-06-01


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[Marxism] hope

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I have just had a go at Richard Seymour via twitter.  A mild go, but as a
disciple of his I did not do it lightly.  He posted some stuff about a
pessimistic reading of what is happening in the UK.  I just do not
understand why Richard thinks we need pessimism at this time.  What would
make him think we are in danger from being hopeful, never mind optimistic?

Seriously now there is a shift underway in the UK.  I can feel it from
here.  The conservative campaign has been badly conceived.  Recall how
Hannah Arendt scripted Eichmann in Jerusalem.  She decided  she was not
going to depict him as Lucifer, but as a boring little fart of a clerk -
the banality of evil.  She did not want him to be the Romantic hero from
the Dark Side.

Crosby, who directs the Tory campaign, has miscalculated.  He decided to
depict Corbyn as the Anti-Christ, Lucifer.

Forgetting that that means Corbyn becomes the bearer of negation and
negation is hope in these times when we are without a Utopia on the
horizon. That is why the working class are singing Corbyn's name at rallies.

For the first time in a generation a new element has entered the Lists and
that is Hope.   And it is providing the most intoxicating of spectacles.

The cascade of imitation is in process and it will sweep the Tory Filth out
of office.

comradely

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: We Know for Sure That Bread Is Unhealthy—for the Environment, at Least | Alternet

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Actually nitrogen is a key agricultural question that not only sabotages
the 'green revolution' gloss but challenges all industrial agriculture
precepts. It is the unsustainable 'energy' (like coal) exploited to over
feed the soils of the capitalist world.It destroys soils, and when it runs
off into catchments it kills seas.
A key factor (but not the main one) destroying the Great Barrier Reef is
Nitrogen run off.
The whole N:P:K obsession is also being challenged by a shortage of
Phosphorous. This is why in some countries agricultural scientists are
experimenting with harvesting human urine as whizz has plenty of K.
While Methane and Carbon emanated by agriculture can be greatly reduced by
changing grazing and horticulture protocols to improve the microbial
content of soil, free use of Nitrogen --as in chemical  fertilizers -- has
to stop pro tem. Agriculture needs to be weaned.

For a better take on agriculture check out the Soil Alliance that a gropiup
of socialsits run here in Australia.

http://soilalliance.blogspot.com.au/

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[Marxism] In praise of Trump pulling out of the Paris climate pact | TheHill

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[Marxism] Fwd: Statement on Strategy and Tactics for June 4th Rally · Rose City Antifa

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Portland black bloc types wising up.

http://rosecityantifa.org/articles/statment-on-strategy-and-tactics-for-june-4th-rally/
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Re: [Marxism] Trump and the Political Crisis for the US Capitalist Class

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> On Jun 1, 2017, at 10:34 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
>  wrote:
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> http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=13500 

A useful piece marred by this unhelpful slip: "With the developing anarchy in 
US capitalist politics…” 

What Reimann means is: "With the developing chaos in US capitalist politics…” 

Criticize the anarchists as much as you want, but don’t perpetuate their 
misrepresentation and slander by the forces of reaction.
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[Marxism] How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation

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NY Times, June 1 2017
How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation
by Farhad Manjoo

After last year’s election, Facebook came in for a drubbing for its role 
in propagating misinformation — or “fake news,” as we called it back 
then, before the term became a catchall designation for any news you 
don’t like. The criticism was well placed: Facebook is the world’s most 
popular social network, and millions of people look to it daily for news.


But the focus on Facebook let another social network off the hook. I 
speak of my daily addiction, Twitter.


Though the 140-character network favored by President Trump is far 
smaller than Facebook, it is used heavily by people in media and thus 
exerts perhaps an even greater sway on the news business.


That’s an issue because Twitter is making the news dumber. The service 
is insidery and clubby. It exacerbates groupthink. It prizes 
pundit-ready quips over substantive debate, and it tends to elevate the 
silly over the serious — for several sleepless hours this week it was 
captivated by “covfefe,” which was essentially a brouhaha over a typo.


But the biggest problem with Twitter’s place in the news is its role in 
the production and dissemination of propaganda and misinformation. It 
keeps pushing conspiracy theories — and because lots of people in the 
media, not to mention many news consumers, don’t quite understand how it 
works, the precise mechanism is worth digging into.


We recently saw the mechanism in action when another baseless conspiracy 
theory rose to the top of the news: The idea that the murder last year 
of Seth Rich, a staff member at the Democratic National Committee, was 
linked, somehow, to the leaking of Clinton campaign emails. The Fox News 
host Sean Hannity pushed the theory the loudest, but it was groups on 
Twitter — or, more specifically, bots on Twitter — that were first to 
the story and helped make it huge.


Here’s how.

The guts of the news business.

One way to think of today’s disinformation ecosystem is to picture it as 
a kind of gastrointestinal tract.


At the top end — the mouth, let’s call it — enter the raw materials of 
propaganda: the memes cooked up by anyone who wants to manipulate what 
the media covers, whether political campaigns, terrorist groups, 
state-sponsored trolls or the homegrown provocateurs who hang out at 
extremist online communities.


Then, way down at what we will politely call the “other end,” emerge the 
packaged narratives primed for widespread dissemination to you and 
everyone you know. These are the hot takes that dominate talk radio and 
prime-time cable news, as well as the viral Facebook posts warning you 
about this or that latest outrage committed by Hillary Clinton.


How do the raw materials become the culturewide narratives and 
conspiracy theories? The path is variegated and flexible and often 
stretches across multiple media platforms. Yet in many of the biggest 
misinformation campaigns of the past year, Twitter played a key role.


Specifically, Twitter often acts as the small bowel of digital news. 
It’s where political messaging and disinformation get digested, packaged 
and widely picked up for mass distribution to cable, Facebook and the 
rest of the world.


This role for Twitter has seemed to grow more intense during (and since) 
the 2016 campaign. Twitter now functions as a clubhouse for much of the 
news. It’s where journalists pick up stories, meet sources, promote 
their work, criticize competitors’ work and workshop takes. In a more 
subtle way, Twitter has become a place where many journalists 
unconsciously build and gut-check a worldview — where they develop a 
sense of what’s important and merits coverage, and what doesn’t.


This makes Twitter a prime target for manipulators: If you can get 
something big on Twitter, you’re almost guaranteed coverage everywhere.


“When journalists see a story getting big on Twitter, they consider it a 
kind of responsibility to cover it, even if the story may be an 
alternate frame or a conspiracy theory,” said Alice Marwick, who was 
co-author of a recent report on the mechanics of media manipulation for 
the Data & Society Research Institute. “That’s because if they don’t, 
they may get accused of bias.”


Twitter is clogged with fake people.

For determined media manipulators, getting something big on Twitter 
isn’t all that difficult. Unlike Facebook, which requires people to use 
their real names, Twitter offers users essentially full anonymity, and 
it makes many of its functions accessible to outside programmers, 
allowing people to automate their actions on the service.


As a result, numerous 

[Marxism] British election

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Corbyn is calling for 10,000 more cops on the street, has declared his full
support for every repressive institution of the British imperialist state -
the cops, the armed forces, the 'security' and 'intelligence' forces - he
favours renewing Trident (Britain's 'nuclear deterrent') and he declared
the other night that Labour won't be getting rid of the monarchy and,
indeed, he'd had a 'nice chat' with the queen.

If I was a Brit leftie I would not vote for the guy or his ratbag 'Labour'
party.

The Brit left needs to get some gumption and some serious notions of class
independence.

The petty sectarianism of the various left groups needs to be set aside so
they might mount at least a half-serious challenge to Corbyn and his party,
instead of harmlessly trailing along in his wake.

Phil
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[Marxism] Upcoming NZ election, Sept 2017

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New Zealand's next general election - we have them every three years - is
in September.

I won't be voting.  The Tories are marginally to the left of Labour, but I
don't accept lesser-evil politics so I won't be voting for them.

There's no way I'd vote for the scumbag Labour Party and its racist
anti-Chinese crap and its anti-working class crap.

Anyway, these two para-statal parties are both institutions of the enemy:

https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/06/02/political-donations-and-the-national-labour-siblings/
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: New York subways reach the breaking point | SocialistWorker.org

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NY Times, June 1 2017
‘Money Out of Your Pocket’: New Yorkers Tell of Subway Delay Woes
By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS

It was 8:30 a.m. on a Tuesday during the height of the morning rush on 
the nation’s busiest subway. Suddenly, power went out at one station in 
Brooklyn, but that lone failure triggered a meltdown that crippled 
service across New York City, stranding countless commuters whose plans 
for the day were derailed.


One woman never made it to housing court and now faces eviction. Another 
missed a doctor appointment made months earlier. A graphic designer lost 
$100 in wages. A computer technician paid more than $50 for an Uber car 
to make a meeting. A lawyer was late for a sentencing. A pastry chef who 
needs every hour of work he can scrounge lost an hour and a half of pay. 
A psychoanalyst never made it to her session with a patient. Neither did 
her patient.


These are the very real human costs, financial and otherwise, of a 
single subway disruption — just one painful delay in what has become a 
season of transit misery. On this day, like so many others, New Yorkers 
missed job interviews, medical appointments and other basic 
responsibilities of daily life. They waited endlessly on platforms for 
trains that never came. They crammed into overstuffed buses. They 
emailed apologies to bosses and clients.


For many riders, the subway is failing at its fundamental task — getting 
people where they need to be when they need to be there.


It is difficult to calculate with precision the economic fallout of a 
single awful day on the subway. But these episodes have inarguably cost 
New Yorkers and their employers millions of dollars each year in lost 
productivity, forfeited wages and extra expenses, like unplanned taxi 
rides and extended child care.


The maddening subway delays that Tuesday — May 9 — provide a window into 
the cascading economic consequences of a single incident. A power loss 
that affected the signal system at the DeKalb Avenue station wreaked 
havoc on at least seven lines stretching from Brooklyn to the Bronx.


Hundreds of subway riders ensnared by the disruption responded to a 
request by The New York Times to share their tales of woe. The delays 
were an inconvenience for many, something more serious for others, but 
cumulatively they take a debilitating toll, changing lives in ways big 
and small.


For hourly wage workers like Jonathan Yung, a pastry chef, the chaos 
meant losing badly needed income. It took Mr. Yung three hours to travel 
from Brooklyn to a kitchen in Queens. He missed an hour and a half of 
work, or about $27 in wages.


“If you’re going to lose time based on the train, that’s money out of 
your pocket,” said Mr. Yung, who often struggles to secure 40 hours of 
work each week.


Spencer Viator, a professional opera singer, gave himself two hours to 
travel to an important rehearsal on the Upper West Side. After taking 
four different trains, he arrived 45 minutes late, harried and angry.


“When I got there, I had to take a minute — I was so stressed from this 
entire ordeal,” said Mr. Viator, who lives in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, 
and was preparing for a performance of Mozart’s “Secret Gardener.” “I 
needed a minute to calm down and become a human being again.”


With subway delays surging, Mr. Viator has considered moving, but his 
work as an opera singer keeps him here. “I would love to leave New York 
if I could,” he said.


Others faced more serious repercussions. Alicia Sciascia had a 9:30 a.m. 
hearing in housing court in Downtown Brooklyn. Her landlord had taken 
legal action against her, and she was asking for more time to respond. 
She was turned away from a subway station in Brooklyn. Buses were 
crammed with people. She did not arrive at court until 1 p.m.


“I was completely flustered, but I imagined since it was such a big 
citywide emergency that I would be able to be heard that day 
regardless,” Ms. Sciascia said.


Instead, she was cited for failing to appear in court. Now, she is 
worried that a city marshal will visit her home to start an eviction 
process.


The New York City metropolitan region contributes $1.6 trillion a year 
to the national economy, or nearly 9 percent of the gross domestic 
product in 2015, according to the Partnership for New York City, an 
influential business group. Even a small dent in the city’s economic 
output has ripple effects as conferences are canceled and offices sit 
empty, and the constant upheaval undermines the quality of life, leading 
some to consider moving.


The subway — New York’s lifeblood, carrying nearly six million riders 
each day — has become so unreliable that 

[Marxism] Steady Jobs, With Pay and Hours That Are Anything But

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(When Hillary Clinton made speeches about job growth under Obama, she 
neglected to mention that the jobs were hardly those that would motivate 
people to vote for a continuation of Obama's economic policies. This 
article reveals that as unemployment decreases, insecurity grows because 
employers no longer offer steady work based on a 40 hour week. Since 
this tendency will only increase under Trump, working class discontent 
can be expected to grow. Will the Jacobin left continue to straddle the 
fence on the DP or will it help to build a new part to its left? That is 
the question facing us.)


NY Times, June 1 2017
Steady Jobs, With Pay and Hours That Are Anything But
By PATRICIA COHEN

Mirella Casares has what used to be considered the keystone of economic 
security: a job. But even a reliable paycheck no longer delivers a 
reliable income.


Like Ms. Casares, who works at a Victoria’s Secret store in Ocala, Fla., 
more and more employees across a growing range of industries find the 
number of hours they work is swinging giddily from week to week — 
bringing chaos not only to family scheduling, but also to family finances.


And a new wave of research shows that the main culprit is not the 
so-called gig economy, but shifting pay within the same job.


“Since the 1970s, steady work that pays a predictable and living wage 
has become increasingly difficult to find,” said Jonathan Morduch, a 
director of the U.S. Financial Diaries project, an in-depth study of 235 
low- and moderate-income households. “This shift has left many more 
families vulnerable to income volatility.”


Ever-changing schedules at Victoria’s Secret, for example, make it 
difficult for Ms. Casares, 27, to find care for her 2-year-old and 
6-year-old and to cover the bills. “The lowest hours I’ve gotten is 15 
and the highest I’ve gotten is 39,” said Ms. Casares, who started in 
October, earning $10 an hour. The schedule is usually posted a month in 
advance, she said, but there are frequently last-minute changes.


Stability is worth a lot to workers. On average, employees are willing 
to give up a fifth of their weekly wage to avoid a schedule set by an 
employer on a week’s notice, according to a field experiment where 
workers were offered a range of alternative hours at different pay levels.


“That is totally the story,” said Mr. Morduch, who watched household 
incomes in his study rise and fall. “And that instability and insecurity 
are increasingly a part of middle-class life, too.”


In the course of a year, for example, the monthly income of a California 
family with one child that Mr. Morduch’s team tracked jumped to $5,279 
from as low as $1,175. (Strict ethics protocols prohibit the release of 
participants’ names.) The husband supplemented his steady $400-a-week 
salaried construction job with extra remodeling work that could add from 
$323 to $1,588 a month to his total. His wife picked up from zero to 
$1,824 a month from babysitting, and from selling jewelry, clothing and 
flowers.


Monthly expenses can pendulum as much as income, but the two do not 
necessarily move in tandem. An analysis of 250,000 bank accounts by the 
JPMorgan Chase Institute, a nonprofit research arm of the bank, found 
that roughly 80 percent of households had an insufficient cash buffer to 
manage the mismatch between income and expenses in a given month.


Few people can comfortably ride out the inevitable financial bronco 
ride. “Only households that earn $105,000 or more a year are secure 
against the volatility they are exposed to,” said Diana Farrell, the 
institute’s president and chief executive. “It’s not just about the 
unemployed or the poor.”


Middle-income households, for example, saw their monthly expenses 
deviate by nearly $1,300, the equivalent of a month’s rent or mortgage 
payment. And one uh-oh expense — usually in the form of a medical, tax 
or car repair bill — can wreck a family’s balance sheet for a year or more.


Even a single month’s volatility can have a cascading effect. One month, 
a family copes by using the money earmarked for, say, the utility bill 
to cover the cost of replacing a busted water heater. The next month, 
it’s the telephone company that goes unpaid as the family struggles to 
make up the missed utility bill plus late fees and interest — and so on. 
Emergencies are not the only source of expense spikes. So are bridal 
showers, Christmas gifts and outgrown winter coats.


May turned out to be an expensive month for Tomika Waggoner, 44, a 
nursing home aide in Newport, Ky. Her daughter was graduating from high 
school, and she needed a few hundred dollars to pay for her cap and 

[Marxism] Fwd: Why The World Will End By The Sound Of The Covfefe

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[Marxism] Fwd: Trump and the Political Crisis for the US Capitalist Class

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[Marxism] The Iron Law of Institutions and the Left

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[Marxism] Fwd: Julian Assange considers offer to guest host Sean Hannity radio show | Media | The Guardian

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I would say that this is strange but then again Stephen F. Cohen went on 
the Tucker Carlson show to make the case Trump was right to crack down 
on leakers.


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Re: [Marxism] We Know for Sure That Bread Is Unhealthy—for the Environment, at Least | Alternet

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> On May 31, 2017, at 9:36 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
>  wrote:
> 
> The real takeaway from the article is the impact that nitrogen-based 
> fertilizer has on climate change.

On standard assumptions, NO2 contribution to warming is roughly 6% of total — 
not nothing, but small compared to that of CO2 and CH4:

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data 


CH4 (methane) is the greenhouse gas that urgently needs to be getting much more 
attention than it does, due to the combined impacts of the fracking boom (and 
the inherent impossibility of meaningfully controlling leaks from its sprawling 
supporting infrastructure) and the fact that the timescales conventionally used 
to estimate its contribution to warming are way off, seriously under-estimating 
its near- to mid-term effects:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-011-0061-5 


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[Marxism] Fwd: Princeton professor who criticized Trump cancels events, saying she's received death threats

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[Marxism] Fwd: U.S. Helps Drive 200,000 Syrians From Their Homes

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After U.S. bombing ousts ISIS militants from the villages they’ve 
occupied, the proxies on the ground set up by the U.S.—the Syrian 
Democratic Forces—enter the villages and order the mostly Arab 
population to leave at gunpoint. People say they are stripped of their 
identity cards and herded like livestock to a transit camp.
The SDF, which has Arabs in its ranks but is dominated by Kurds, tells 
these internally displaced persons, or IDPs, as they are called in 
humanitarian jargon, that they can return to their homes if they find a 
local sponsor. Otherwise, their only option is to exit the region. Many 
arrive in Jarablus bearing only travel papers authorizing a one-way trip 
out of the Raqqa area within 24 hours.


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[Marxism] Fwd: How the Frankfurt School diagnosed the ills of Western civilisation | Aeon Essays

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What, then, is the Frankfurt School’s relation to traditional Marxism? 
The political impetus that drives this theory has its roots in Marxism, 
but it is a Marxism retheorised for the era in which the expected 
revolutionary transformation of industrial societies never materialised. 
The revolution had either degenerated into tyranny, as in Russia, or it 
failed altogether where capitalism was at its most advanced, as in 
America. Much critical energy has been expended since the demise of the 
Frankfurt School’s first generation in the late 1960s and early ’70s on 
the question of whether it remained authentically Marxist in the 
classical sense. Even if it has obvious continuities with the work of 
the younger Karl Marx, author of the Economic and Philosophic 
Manuscripts of 1844, it is doubtful whether the fully elaborated 
economics of Capital (1867) retained all its authority for Frankfurt 
critical theory.


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