Re: [Marxism] What do socialists mean by socialism? | SocialistWorker.org

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On 8/29/18 6:20 PM, Fred Murphy wrote:
FYI, Neal Meyer, cited in this article, is a leading figure in the new 
DSA tendency Socialist Call - the ones who republished the Peter Camejo 
speech Lou posted about elsewhere.


I got faked out by them posting a talk by Peter. I discussed Meyer last 
month as it happens:


If you want some help understanding democratic-socialism, you might want 
to consult Neal Mayer’s “What is Democratic Socialism” in (where else?) 
Jacobin. Mayer is on the DSA’s Citywide Leadership Committee and 
obviously qualified to speak for the spanking New Left.


He proposes a “Democratic Road to Socialism” that is different from the 
one conceived by “our friends on the socialist left”, in other words the 
people Ben Judah describes as being into “commodified ironic Soviet 
kitsch”. Speaking for the DSA (and likely the Jacobin editorial board), 
Mayer writes: “We reject strategies that transplant paths from Russia in 
1917 or Cuba in 1959 to the United States today, as if we could win 
socialism by storming the White House and tossing Donald Trump out on 
the front lawn.”


Oh, I see. Remind me not to write any more articles about winning 
socialism by storming the White House and tossing Donald Trump out on 
the front lawn.” I must have gotten such a silly idea from reading too 
much CLR James. I mean, for fuck’s sake, anybody writing such drivel 
understands about as much as Cuba in 1959 as I do about particle 
physics. Fidel Castro got started as a bourgeois politician just like 
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and only became a guerrilla after realizing 
that electoral politics in Cuba was a con game. Unlike most people 
seeking comfortable careers as professional politicians, Fidel Castro 
cared about the suffering of the Cuban people even if he didn’t live up 
to Sam Farber’s lofty standards.


Like most DSA’ers, Mayer sees work in the Democratic Party as a tactical 
question to be decided pragmatically:


"To begin with, Sanders rose through an established party. Though 
political parties have suffered a profound degree of delegitimation, 
this has not sidelined them; their continuing economic and social impact 
ensure their continuing relevance. That they were nevertheless weakened 
gave individuals like Sanders who were not tainted with being part of 
the party establishment the advantage of operating inside these parties 
while retaining their branding as outsiders (this was also true of 
Corbyn in the Labour Party and Trump re the Republicans).


"Had Sanders run as an independent, without the on-the-ground resources 
of the Democratic machine and the profile of running as a Democrat, it 
was highly unlikely — as he well knew — that his campaign would have had 
anywhere near the impact it did, just as attempts to form a left party 
outside the British Labour Party have generally and quickly faded. For 
all the discrediting of political parties, party politics remains a 
central site for being taken seriously. Starting a new party from 
scratch is something else and presents formidable difficulties."


Obviously, this is just another way of saying what Ben Judah said: 
“Now—even more so since the success of Alexandria 
Ocasio-Cortez—millennial socialist activists are convinced that the 
hollow establishment parties that their forerunners disdained are 
instruments ripe for the taking.”


full: https://louisproyect.org/2018/07/26/bring-back-communism/



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Re: [Marxism] What do socialists mean by socialism? | SocialistWorker.org

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FYI, Neal Meyer, cited in this article, is a leading figure in the new DSA
tendency Socialist Call - the ones who republished the Peter Camejo speech
Lou posted about elsewhere.

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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Socialisms]: Capet on Laursen, 'The Duty to Stand Aside: Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort'

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> Eric Laursen.  The Duty to Stand Aside: Nineteen Eighty-Four and the
> Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort.  Chico  AK Press,
> 2018.  180 pp.  $16.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-84935-318-2.
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> Reviewed by Antoine Capet (University of Rouen)
> Published on H-Socialisms (August, 2018)
> Commissioned by Gary Roth
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> Orwell and Comfort: To Fight Fascism or Not
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> Citation: Antoine Capet. Review of Laursen, Eric, _The Duty to Stand
> Aside: Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell
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[Marxism] On the Labour of Animals - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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[Marxism] From Conservative Patriot to Communist Vanguard: An Interview With H. Bruce Franklin - Pacific Standard

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[Marxism] "Is Syria all that counts?"

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from a FB discussion where someone maintains that if Syrians who are
"thanking" McCain for "opposing" Assad can be forgiven for making an
exception to his right wing and racist politics, then so too can an
"exception" be made for a "progressive" politician like Dennis Kucinich for
not opposing Assad "strongly enough" -

And really, it is only Syrians, and not even all of them, who are
expressing gratitude to McCain, and only for the reasons Dennis mentioned
here. Many of us in the Syrian solidarity movement who are making this
point about WHY many Syrians are mourning McCain, are in the same breath
criticising the remainder of McCain's career - so its a moot point to
suggest a double standard is being applied.

You may be staunchly opposed to fascism and the KKK and its ilk. But if
some terrible violent attack happened against you and your family, and your
KKK-loving neighbour was the only person to come and defend you, you would
still continue to hate the KKK, but you might find yourself making some
humanising exception for the one who saved your family's life when nobody
else would help.

We all do this - we harbour feelings of gratitude for the person or group
that stands up for us when we are being attacked, especially if it is a
matter of life and death, and we don't spend a lot of time delving into the
rest of their lives looking for their faults. This is because survival is a
more basic human instinct that political theory. All we are saying is
people need to cut Syrians who praise McCain some slack - because the
people who should have been there standing with them were standing instead
with the Butcher Assad - this is, and will remain forever in history, a
shocking instance of collaboration with genocide. There is simply no other
way to slice it.
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[Marxism] From the Shire to Charlottesville: How Hobbits Helped Rebuild the Dark Tower for Scientific Racism

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https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/29/from-the-shire-to-charlottesville-how-hobbits-helped-rebuild-the-dark-tower-for-scientific-racism/

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[Marxism] Corey Robin on the “new socialists” | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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You know those double-takes that Stan Laurel used to pull of when, for 
example, he saw Oliver Hardy walking through the front door with a black 
eye his wife had just given him? That’s the expression I wore after 
turning to the Sunday NY Times Review section and saw Corey Robin’s 
article “The New Socialists” splashed across the front page.


The ability of the Jacobin/DSA steamroller to garner such attention, 
starting with a January 20, 2013 Times article about Bhaskar Sunkara 
titled “A Young Publisher Takes Marx Into the Mainstream”, boggles the 
mind. Once upon a time, as fairy tales begin, the group I belonged to 
nearly got spotlighted in the Sunday Times Magazine section. The 
magazine had commissioned Walter and Miriam Schneir, who were best known 
for their book on the Rosenbergs trial, to write such a piece when the 
SWP was making huge gains on the left as a result of our work in the 
antiwar movement. When the Scheirs turned it in, the Times nixed it 
because it was too complimentary. It was one thing to publish puff 
pieces for Jacobin; it was another to publish one for a group that was 
one J. Edgar Hoover’s Cointelpro hit-list. Maybe when Jacobin’s offices 
get burglarized under mysterious circumstances, I’ll take them more 
seriously.


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[Marxism] What Happened to Revolutionary Socialism?

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With "socialism" nearly a household word in the US, what happened to the
socialist movement matters. So how is it that confusion reigns in the
socialist movement? How did it come about that so many socialists support
the counter revolution in Syria? Or support the union bureaucracy at home?
Why is it that there is so little questioning of whether socialists should
support ANY candidates from the corporate-controlled Democratic Party? And
do the old debates within the socialist movement of the 1930s still matter?
(Answer: Yes, more than ever.)

'“Unemployment is low because everyone is working two jobs.” So spoke
probable future US Congresswoman and self-proclaimed democratic socialist
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. This confused statement reflects the general
state of affairs on the socialist left. Unlike in the past, it matters
because “socialism” is almost a household word nowadays.

'How has this developed, why is it important and how can it change?

'*Historical background*
First and foremost is the absence of the US working class as an independent
force in society. This has combined with the role of the Soviet Union’s
bureaucracy in days long passed – in fact now so far in the past that a
whole generation of young socialists aren’t even aware of what those ideas
were nor of its influence.

'On the one side, the role of the bureaucracy of the Soviet Union turned
millions of US workers off to anything that even hinted of socialism. This
weakened the union rank and file because it was always socialists who
played a key role in building the US workers’ movement – the unions – and
it was socialists who best kept alive the fighting traditions of that
movement. The fact that they lost almost any influence helped enable the
union bureaucracy to largely stamp out those fighting traditions.'

*Read more*:
https://oaklandsocialist.com/2018/08/29/what-happened-to-revolutionary-socialism/

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*“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black
Jacobins" by C. L. R. James
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[Marxism] Medicalizing Society | Zola Carr | Jacobin

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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/mental-health-psychiatry-class-struggle


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Re: [Marxism] Meet the ‘Change Agents’ Who Are Enabling Inequality

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I have a feeling that might have cost him his non-gadfly career.

Amith R. Gupta
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[Marxism] [UCE] Syria and the void from the Left

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from a FB friend -

Why was there no left wing McCain is a more important question to ask than
why so many Syrians will say nice things about a right wing and,
often, virulently
reactionary Republican. It’s not their shame. It’s ours.

How did we arrive in a place where not a single major left voice in the
world is associated with the massive struggles for democracy, not a single
major left voice has tried to amplify the voices of those being tortured,
burned, bombed and gassed.

Every single major left voice has either joined in the campaign to blame
the victims or silenced and stifled discussion and debate in the subject. I
mean seriously you think people care what we say now?

The question ‘why was there no left wing McCain’ I borrowed, or, as he
would put it, “stole” from Sam Charles Hamad. I think it’s a profound
question. It is on one level genuinely weird.

The Arab revolutions have been utterly betrayed by those who pretended to
support them. Unsurprising that those looking for solidarity and political
solutions will not therefore look in that direction. Who could be surprised
about this?”
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[Marxism] ZCommunications » Graduate Student Teachers’ Unions, Adjunct Professors, And Tenured Professors

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In the article that Louis posted, the author states, correctly I think, that 
tenure-track professors don't ever take collective action to participate 
actively in the unionization of graduate student teachers. And the same goes 
for adjuncts. These professors have privileged positions, the privileges of 
which are due largely to the labor of grad. student teachers and adjuncts, who 
carry the course loads and are compelled by circumstances to do so cheaply. 
Many tenure-track professors at research universities would do most anything to 
avoid teaching, even paying others themselves, from monies they make consulting 
and the like.


However, these things were not always so. In the early 1970s, we put together a 
union organizing drive at the University of Pittsburgh, under the auspices of 
the American Federation of Teachers. Our local was independent in terms of 
working out our own agenda. One of our key articles was that graduate teaching 
assistants were to be in our bargaining unit, full members with equal rights. 
We were committed to considering them as faculty members on a par with all the 
other teachers. In the end, the state of PA ruled against their inclusion in 
the unit, at which point we petitioned for a separate unit for teaching 
assistants. I don't remember what happened after that.


That time period, the sixties and early seventies are sometimes maligned by 
millennials, especially some around Jacobin magazine. But we were far more 
radical than many DSA members are now. We were cognizant of imperialism and 
took a global view of politics and economics. We were interested in the radical 
transformation of work and much more. We were firmly anti-racist and made 
progress with respect to feminism. We weren't perfect, but on the whole, we 
were radicals and not social democrats.
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[Marxism] Robert Wood, 95, Dies; Urged Christian Acceptance of Gay People

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NY Times, Aug. 29, 2018
Robert Wood, 95, Dies; Urged Christian Acceptance of Gay People
By Richard Sandomir

The Rev. Robert W. Wood, who boldly urged Christian clergymen in a 1960 
book to welcome gay men and women to their churches in a time of 
widespread prejudice against them, and went on to march in early 
gay-rights protests, died on Aug. 19 at his home in Concord, N.H. He was 95.


Rejean Blanchette, a friend who helped care for Mr. Wood in recent 
years, confirmed the death.


Mr. Wood’s book “Christ and the Homosexual” was a rare plea by a gay 
clergyman for equality at a time when local and state laws criminalized 
the sexual acts of gay, lesbian and bisexual people, and churchmen 
condemned homosexuality from their pulpits.


Mr. Wood was a United Church of Christ minister in Spring Valley, N.Y., 
when he decided to write the book. He was reluctant at first, believing 
there were others more qualified. But when no one else wrote such a 
book, he borrowed against his life insurance policy to pay for the 
publication of a few thousand copies by a vanity press.


Blending social science and cultural analysis with his experiences 
ministering to closeted gay men, Mr. Wood made a powerful appeal for the 
full acceptance of gay people by churches and American society.


“The yardstick for Christian behavior is always: What would Jesus Christ 
do in this situation?” he wrote.


Christ’s teachings made the answer obvious to Mr. Wood, who concluded 
that the “saving message of Christ and the freely flowing grace of God 
are as much for the homosexual as the heterosexual,” and that “the 
church must minister equally to both; that the demands of Christ apply 
to both; that both are capable of being moral, as well as immoral and 
amoral.”


Mr. Wood’s book came well before the gay-rights movement gained traction 
with critical moments like the riots at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich 
Village in 1969. But “Christ and the Homosexual” did not make much of a 
ripple outside of largely positive reviews in gay publications and the 
granting of an award of merit to Mr. Wood by the Mattachine Society, an 
early gay-rights organization.


There were several reasons for the book’s lack of impact, according to 
Bernard Schlager, a professor of historical and cultural studies at 
Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, Calif. In a 2015 article for the 
journal Theology & Sexuality, Mr. Schlager said a lack of promotion for 
the book led to a lack of reviews in major publications; gay men and 
women were still largely invisible to mainstream society in the early 
1960s; and Christian denominations were still a decade or so from 
forming advocacy groups that educated church members about homosexuality.


But he suggested a fourth reason: Mr. Wood did not out himself in the 
book. In fact, he would not do so until he retired as a pastor in 1986, 
although he lived openly for many years with his partner, Hugh Coulter, 
a former rodeo cowboy and artist, at parishes in Spring Valley, Newark 
and Maynard, Mass.


“Perhaps had he written as an ‘out’ gay author who spoke openly from his 
own experiences,” Mr. Schlager wrote, “the book may have attracted a 
wider readership.”


Mr. Wood was at ease with his decision to remain quiet about his sexuality.

“We chose not to ‘out’ ourselves but to live our lives as a caring, 
loving couple and let parishioners and everyone else accept us as they 
found us,” he said in an interview in 2007 for a 50th-anniversary book 
published by the United Church.


Mr. Coulter died in 1989. Mr. Wood leaves no survivors.

Robert Watson Wood was born in Youngstown, Ohio, on May 21, 1923, to 
Harold and Edith (Beard) Wood. His father was an electrical engineer, 
his mother a homemaker.


Mr. Wood left the University of Pennsylvania to fight in World War II in 
North Africa and Italy with the 36th Infantry division. He was wounded 
in battle — earning a Bronze Star and other medals — and spent nearly 
two years recovering. After being discharged, he completed his 
bachelor’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania and later graduated 
from the Oberlin School of Theology in Ohio.


He encountered prejudice in school and the military. In an interview in 
2000 for an Oberlin L.G.B.T. history project, he recalled a meeting with 
fellow undergraduates who frightened him by quoting negative Scripture 
verses about homosexuals.


“I realized they were using these texts to bash me and other 
homosexuals,” he said, “so I decided that when I went to seminary, I 
would learn my Bible as well as or more than they did so I could use 
Scripture to confront them.”


He was ordained in 1951 and 

[Marxism] Sterling Stuckey, 86, Dies; Charted African Culture in Slavery

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NY Times, Aug. 29, 2018
Sterling Stuckey, 86, Dies; Charted African Culture in Slavery
By Sam Roberts

Sterling Stuckey, an eminent black historian who challenged his white 
colleagues by documenting how uprooted Africans not only retained their 
culture while they survived slavery but eventually suffused the rest of 
American society with their transplanted folkways, died on Aug. 15 in 
Riverside, Calif. He was 86.


His death was confirmed by his wife, Harriette Stuckey, who said he had 
a stroke nine days earlier in his office. He taught history at the 
University of California, Riverside, from 1989 until he retired in 2004. 
He had recently finished the manuscript of his latest book, “The 
Chambers of the Soul: Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville and the Blues.”


Through meticulous research, Professor Stuckey sought to discredit the 
white academics who had dominated and, in his view, devalued the field 
of African studies.


Early on he was bitterly critical of “numerous white experts on black 
Africa,” as he described them, who “have elaborated a fabric of untruths 
to rationalize continued white control over African studies.”


Beginning with his breakthrough essay, “Through the Prism of Folklore: 
The Black Ethos in Slavery,” published in 1968 by The Massachusetts 
Review, Professor Stuckey maintained that political and cultural studies 
of Africa must encompass people in North America and the West Indies.


He wrote that enslaved workers imported to those places from diverse 
tribes, with slavery as a unifying force, perpetuated and adapted their 
traditional music, dance, poetry and art to resist the efforts of 
slaveowners to destroy or demean that heritage, and that those 
traditions went on to imbue modern American culture.


That overlooked cultural history was evolving, he said, while in 
colleges as well as in the cotton fields “the besmirching of the African 
past” became pivotal to the process not only of enslaving blacks but of 
destroying their spiritual and psychological moorings.


“His article stood out as the harbinger of the new slavery studies that 
would be taken up in the next decade,” Prof. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, 
chairwoman of Harvard’s history department and president of the 
Association for the Study of African American Life and History, said in 
a statement after Professor Stuckey’s death.


In 1970, when “Through the Prism of Folklore” was included in an 
anthology of essays, Julius Lester, an author and professor, wrote in 
The New York Times Book Review that Professor Stuckey had methodically 
made the case that in the long years of slavery the black spiritual — 
among other cultural tools, like the ring shout dance — “was a major 
weapon of resistance to that dehumanizing institution (which others have 
found only ‘peculiar’) and the principal means through which the slaves 
fashioned and maintained an identity separate from that which the 
slaveholders fought to impose upon them.”


Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the Hutchins Center for African 
and African American Research at Harvard, said in an email that 
Professor Stuckey had “helped us to see that the enslaved Africans who 
came to the New World did not sail alone: They brought their various 
cultures and belief systems along with them.”


“And out of these rich resources,” he added, “they, in contact with 
dozens of other African and European cultures for the first time, 
improvised the world’s first truly Pan-African culture, an African 
American culture, as it were, in the New World, similar in form to that 
of its several antecedents, but different, unique. And that is the 
culture to which all Americans are heir today.”


Professor Stuckey’s black nationalist ideology jelled as a student at 
Northwestern University. He met Paul Robeson and W. E. B. Du Bois, 
picketed a Woolworth’s store in Chicago to protest segregation in the 
South, and supported a voter registration project in Tennessee sponsored 
by the interracial Congress of Racial Equality.


He often praised champions of black nationalism. “Each proposed to build 
on this nationalism as a means to end prejudice, though none saw it as 
an ultimate goal,” he wrote, adding the caveat that “one by no means 
must be a separatist to be a black nationalist.”


Eric Foner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning history professor at Columbia 
University, said in an email that Professor Stuckey, along with several 
other historians, “was a pioneer of the study of slave culture and how 
it became the springboard for slave resistance and for later black 
nationalism.”


Professor Stuckey’s books included “Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory 
and 

[Marxism] UN Scientific Paper Suggests Capitalism Has to Die in Order for the Planet to Be Saved

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[Marxism] Why Are Puffins Vanishing? The Hunt for Clues Goes Deep (Into Their Burrows) - The New York Times

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Re: [Marxism] Andrew Gillum wins Democratic nomination for FL governor | Miami Herald

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I guess with the electoral backing of Sanders, he is being labeled a Sander
acolyte. But as Gillum mentioned today during a CNN interview, he was
surprised Sanders had reached out to him since he had been a major HRC
supporter. Nevertheless, an interesting development.

Erik

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[Marxism] Baptist pastors in Wisconsin wanted help with a flat tire. A deputy asked if they had guns or drugs - The Washington Post

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Washington Post, August 29, 2018
Two black pastors wanted help with a flat tire. A sheriff’s deputy asked 
if they had guns or drugs.

By Taylor Telford

They were stuck on the side of a suburban highway, waiting for 
assistance. Instead, what they got was a jarring question from a 
sheriff’s deputy and a background check.


On the way home from a fishing trip in May, Demetrius Williams and John 
Patterson — both pastors at Baptist churches in Milwaukee — got a flat 
tire on their boat trailer. They pulled to the edge of the bustling 
interstate and called an insurance company. As they waited for a tow 
truck to help with a spare tire, a Waukesha County Sheriff’s car pulled 
up behind them, lights flashing.


A deputy, Erik Michalsen, approached the two pastors in the Chevrolet 
Silverado. After the men explained they were awaiting assistance for the 
flat, Michalsen, the men say, asked them if they had any drugs, guns or 
alcohol in the truck.


“Sir, we’re both pastors,” Williams remembers explaining. “We wouldn’t 
have anything like that.”


When the deputy asked for both men’s licenses, Williams felt himself 
growing agitated, confused at why they were being treated like criminals 
when they hadn’t even been pulled over and should have gotten help. Stay 
calm, he thought to himself. There’s no telling what might happen. When 
he asked the deputy why it was necessary see their licenses, the deputy 
said it was standard procedure.


Deputy Michalsen returned the licenses 10 minutes later and smacked an 
orange sticker — used to mark abandoned vehicles — on the side of the 
boat, even though the men had explained they were staying with the boat 
and waiting for service. The pastors were rattled.


“This isn’t right,” Williams said. “We’re sitting here waiting for 
roadside assistance, and this man is treating us like we’re criminals.”


By now, this story probably is not surprising. It is just the latest in 
a series of cautionary tales about doing ordinary things while black in 
America: going to Starbucks, mowing the lawn, eating at Subway, staying 
in an Airbnb, golfing. These stories do not end in death or great 
tragedy, but they are not without consequence. They are evidence of fear 
and tension tangled up in racially-charged encounters that unfold every day.


These incidents stir conversations about 'overpolicing'
The nation is embroiled in a debate about the disparate treatment of 
black people after several incidents of apparent “overpolicing” across 
the U.S. (Taylor Turner /The Washington Post)


That is why Common Ground, a community organization working on social 
issues in southeastern Wisconsin, has pressed the Waukesha County 
Sheriff’s Department about the deputy’s process and is mounting an 
investigation on possible racial profiling by the department. The 
organization wants to see how bias might be shaping policing in its 
community and show there is still a fallout, even in the absence of 
violence.


“These kinds of cases get swept under the rug,” said Keisha Krumm, 
executive director of Common Ground. “This goes way beyond these two 
men. There’s a whole community of people affected by this every day.”


Since May, Common Ground has been trying to get an audience with the 
Waukesha County Sheriff to discuss the incident with the pastors and 
explore policing procedures. After months without success, they 
submitted written questions: Why hadn’t the deputy asked if they needed 
help, why did he ask about weapons and drugs, why did check both 
pastor’s licenses and why did sticker the boat even though they were 
waiting with it.


The department conducted an investigation without speaking to either 
Williams or Patterson. It explained Michalsen asks every driver he 
approaches about weapons and drugs and justified the rest with 
procedures for traffic stops, even though the pastors had not committed 
a moving violation and were not pulled over.


Now Common Ground is requesting records of Michalsen’s past 45 days of 
narratives from traffic stops and disabled vehicle interactions. It is 
also asking the community to share stories of contact with the sheriff’s 
department — both positive and negative.


“We have a suspicion this is a pattern, but we want proof,” Krumm said.

Abundant research of bias in policing has shown people of color are 
often treated differently by law enforcement in routine traffic stops. 
Black and Hispanic drivers are twice as likely to be searched as white 
drivers, according to findings from the Stanford Open Policing Project, 
which analyzed data on more than 100 million traffic stops in 31 states.


In a written statement provided to The 

[Marxism] ZCommunications » Graduate Student Teachers’ Unions, Adjunct Professors, And Tenured Professors

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Article claims that Columbia leftist professors act as individuals 
rather than collectively on behalf of adjuncts and graduate students.


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[Marxism] Andrew Gillum wins Democratic nomination for FL governor | Miami Herald

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I am obviously opposed to supporting any Democrat but this is a 
significant development, a Sandernista African-American Mayor of 
Tallahassee defeats much better funded centrist rivals in DP 
gubernatorial primary.


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Re: [Marxism] Radical professors and the hazards of social media | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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000 for that ENTIRE year - before tax. $3,000 for two courses, each, and R5,000 
for another.


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You are correct of course, Lou but twitter does have its uses. If you
pressed me to specify these I would tend to get a bit vague, but I have
learned an enormous amount from the accounts I follow. It is the immediacy
of twitter that is its strength & I suppose also its weakness.
But thanks to twitter I have come to know of Novara Media - the very
brilliant Bastani, Sarkar, Walker and Butler. & I also have seen something
of the atrocities visited on the Palestinians.

comradely

Gary

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Re: [Marxism] Meet the ‘Change Agents’ Who Are Enabling Inequality

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I think the most intriguing part of this article that Louis posted is the
role of Joe Stiglitz.   He has become quite a progressive voice in a
usually smugly self-satisfied (and downright reactionary) profession
---very interesting!!!



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Re: [Marxism] [pen-l] Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars | US news | The Guardian

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absolutely awful --- Full time faculty, especially those with tenure, MUST
fight for unionization of adjuncts.  Even at private schools covered by the
"Yeshiva" decision, adjuncts cannot possibly be mis-labeled as "management"
and therefore forbidden to unionize ---Inschools with existing union
contracts, full time faculty MUST fight for better pay for adjuncts ---

I wonder if the affordable care act has made life at least a BIT easier for
adjuncts in terms of what their meagre salaries can buy??



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