[Marxism] Fwd: The Immoral Artistry of Kathryn Bigelow’s “Detroit” | The New Yorker
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[Marxism] Fwd: How Stephen Miller Rode White Rage from Duke’s Campus to Trump’s West Wing | Vanity Fair
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Epic Failure of Labor Leadership in the United States, 1980-2017 and Continuing
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[Marxism] Kill All Normies | Against the Fascist Creep | Review by Joan Braune | Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
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[Marxism] Fwd: Icarus | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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. * Opening at the IFC Center in NYC as well as on Netflix VOD, “Icarus” is an oddly compelling tale about the Russian use of performance enhancement drugs (PEDs) in international sporting events that like the hacking reports was used to make the Kremlin look bad. Just as the accusation about Russia interfering in our elections is the height of hypocrisy (the USA is the world’s champion at this), so is the furor over doping. American athletes do the same thing both in amateur and professional sports. The explanation for interfering in elections and gaining unfair advantage in athletic competition is fairly simple. Powerful capitalist nations like the USA and Russia see both as spectacles used to con a depoliticized population. What better way to get peoples’ minds off their economic woes than to get them sitting in front of a TV set watching presidential candidates “debating” or jumping off a diving board? full: https://louisproyect.org/2017/08/04/icarus/ _ 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: Machines | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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. * CounterPunch readers who follow my film reviews probably are aware that I avoid superlatives. That being the case, when I tell you that “Machines”, a documentary that opens on Wednesday August 9th at the Film Forum in New York, is the most powerful Marxist treatment of labor exploitation that I have seen in 25 years of reviewing film, you’d better believe me. This is the first film ever made by Rahul Jain, a 25-year old Delhi-born director who originally considered titling the film “Machines Don’t Go On Strike”. Filmed almost entirely in a vast dungeon of a textile mill in Gujarat, it is hard not to see the workers as being an extension of the machines they operate. Marx described such factory life in Chapter 10 of V. 1 of Capital, titled “The Working Day”: "It usurps the time for growth, development, and healthy maintenance of the body. It steals the time required for the consumption of fresh air and sunlight. It higgles over a meal-time, incorporating it where possible with the process of production itself, so that food is given to the labourer as to a mere means of production, as coal is supplied to the boiler, grease and oil to the machinery." This is exactly what you see in “Machines”, a process in which workers are slaves to the machine. It is what Charlie Chaplin depicted comically in “Modern Times” and Fritz Lang depicted more darkly in “Metropolis”. As long as capitalism exists, this is the fate of the working class. In the USA, many workers wax nostalgic for the $20-40 jobs that prevailed in the 60s but for the Gujarat textile workers, the hope is for an 8-hour day and a wage that enables them to send a bit home to their family, some living thousands of miles away. Most of them appear to be ex-farmers who have been crushed by debt and drought. In the decades before Marx was born, it was the Enclosure Acts that accomplished the same results. Peasants were robbed of their means of self-subsistence and forced into the textile mills of Birmingham and Manchester that William Blake referred to as dark and satanic. full: https://louisproyect.org/2017/08/04/machines/ _ 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 Epic Failure of Labor Leadership in the United States, 1980-2017 and Continuing
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[Marxism] Fwd: Donald Trump’s highly abnormal presidency: a running guide for the week of July 31 – VICE News
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[Marxism] Fwd: Trump given good news as US economy adds 209, 000 jobs in July | Business | The Guardian
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[Marxism] Extract from a novel in progress about Isaac Illyich Rubin
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. * (Posted to FB by Tony McKenna) As some of you know, I have been working on a novel (120 000 words and counting) about the life of Isaac Illyich Rubin, a great Marxist economist who was persecuted and disappeared by the Stalinist regime (120 000 words and counting). As happens with many of the characters I write he sometimes becomes more real to me than people I actually know. For a time Rubin was imprisoned in a small coffin like space called a ‘khartser’ in an effort to get him to inform on his mentor Riazanov. This is an extract from that time: "The feeling of that space was worse than dying. The walls seemed to close in, closer and closer, until you couldn’t see anything but the shadow of the interminable stone. Everywhere, pressing in. The need for sleep was beyond anything he had ever known. Sometimes he passed out, but he flitted back into wakefulness once more because his forehead had rubbed against the hard rock, the skin rubbing away - and the burn of the graze, its throb, pulling him into consciousness once more. Sometimes it took all he had not to call out like a child, for he felt himself infinitesimally small. Sometimes he had no sense of being upright, or being horizontal; no sense of his body in proportion to the larger world. He only had the feeling of being entombed far beneath the earth, in a small sliver of space, which was covered on every side by a never ending expanse of rock; that his tiny failing organism - its weakened, whispered breaths - was so far away from any other form of life that it would eventually ossify and decay, becoming part of the rock itself, a dark desiccated stain spread across a stone which had pervaded the ages. "Sometimes he would hear a voice and he would snap out of a brief, troubled slumber to realise that the voice was his own, that he had been muttering under his breath. In the darkness he would think about Bieta, and his students, and he would remind himself that yes, his life was small, but it still had purpose, it still meant something. He would resist the urge to cry out, he would not be reduced to a child, and though he knew that the confession they so desperately sought to exact from him would free him from this place, nevertheless, he was dimly aware, in the exhausted, fog addled regions of his tormented mind, that to confess, to implicate both himself and Riazanov – to end this here and now – would mean condemning himself to a form of loneliness, isolation and despair which would reach beyond physical depredation, which would sink its roots into his very soul. He chuckled to himself in the oblique darkness, Riazanov would have frowned at the use of the world ‘soul’, with all its religious, metaphysical connotations; he heard the voice of the old man chiding him gruffly but not without humour, as he slipped into the blackness again. Time passed, not like the calm smooth rotation of the hands on a wrist watch, not like a discrete companion whose movement is in tune with your own, but like a violator, a rapist, whose every motion shocked you out of yourself, a hallucinatory never ending nightmare of disjointed violent images inflicted on you from without, jerking you toward an awareness, a consciousness, you can no longer bear." _ 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 tragedy of Venezuela | Michael Roberts Blog
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The tragedy of Venezuela | Michael Roberts Blog
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[Marxism] Syria: Defend Idlib against the Great Powers!
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