[Marxism] British workers increasingly less keen on Labour Party

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40 or so years ago workers in Britain were far more likely to vote Labour
than Tory.  Today they're as likely to vote Tory as Labour.

https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/05/18/workers-increasingly-less-keen-about-british-labour-party/



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Re: [Marxism] Academics should write for the public for political, personal and practical reasons (opinion)

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A big part of the problem has always been a lack of outlets that have a
readership . . . .

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> I also write for the public because I see my work as part of a long
> tradition of black activist scholarship that was never fooled by the
> idea that intellectual, practical and political work should be kept
> separate. As an educator with expertise on racial inequality, I see my
> responsibility extending beyond the classroom, even if I don’t yet have
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> neatly encapsulated this view of the necessity of public engagement when
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> Negroes were lynched, murdered and starved.” The racial problems Du Bois
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Re: [Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] [UCE] CUNY Adjuncts Vs. Everybody – Organizing Work

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> Getting sick and tired of U. of Utah's anti-virus software but other than for 
> that, they are an indispensable host.

Does using pointy brackets around the link solve the problem? E.g.:



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[Marxism] The Workers’ and Peasants’ Government | John Riddell

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[Marxism] Academics should write for the public for political, personal and practical reasons (opinion)

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I also write for the public because I see my work as part of a long 
tradition of black activist scholarship that was never fooled by the 
idea that intellectual, practical and political work should be kept 
separate. As an educator with expertise on racial inequality, I see my 
responsibility extending beyond the classroom, even if I don’t yet have 
tenure. W. E. B. Du Bois, perhaps the prototypical public sociologist, 
neatly encapsulated this view of the necessity of public engagement when 
he said, “One could not be a calm, cool and detached scientist while 
Negroes were lynched, murdered and starved.” The racial problems Du Bois 
identified are still with us, and we can help eradicate them by engaging 
in the type of committed public writing that Du Bois modeled.	


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[Marxism] Herman Wouk, Pulitzer Prize-winning master of sweeping historical fiction, dies at 103 - The Washington Post

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Wouk encapsulated middle-class Jewish smugness from a particularly 
conformist angle. Even though "The Caine Mutiny" is a great movie, the 
lesson is that the paranoid captain deserved better than to be 
challenged by junior officers trying to keep him from wrecking his ship. 
No wonder Wouk



https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/herman-wouk-pulitzer-prize-winning-master-of-sweeping-historical-fiction-dies-a-103/2019/05/17/3eefd034-78be-11e9-b3f5-5673edf2d127_story.html

For an appraisal from the left:

The First Neoconservative: Herman Wouk, the Americanization of the 
Holocaust, and the Rise of Neoconservatism


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Re: [Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] [UCE] CUNY Adjuncts Vs. Everybody – Organizing Work

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Use this instead:

http: [slash] [slash] organizing.work

The article is on the home page.

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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] [UCE] CUNY Adjuncts Vs. Everybody – Organizing Work

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Re: [Marxism] Regenerative Agriculture Podcast: A Geological Perspective On Regenerative Agriculture with David Montgomery

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Another excellent contribution on his podcast site is with the N. Dakota
rancher Gabe Brown, mentioned in the David Montgomery podcast. Much of it
focuses on how he integrated and used cattle to restore his soil.

Gabe Brown is a clear, collected, and inspired voice for regenerative
agriculture, having implemented and seen great changes on his family's
ranch in North Dakota over time. In fact, Gabe’s A-Horizon (topsoil) is 27
in, and the soils on surrounding farms only have 4-6 in of topsoil!

Gabe is the author of the recently published and highly-acclaimed book, Dirt
To Soil
,
from Chelsea Green. I highly recommend reading this truly inspiring and
informative book.

see: http://regenerativeagriculturepodcast.com/from-dirt-to-soil



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> think Louis for posting this because it covers the full gambit of what is
> regenerative agriculture and its implications for an amazing array of
> issues, of which climate change is the biggest issue. Take aways from this:
>
> The vegan lifestyle is not one that will help the soil.
> That the use of cattle is intrinsic to increasing the organic
> matter/carbon on the soil.
> Reason that have nothing to do directly with human health of the effects
> of glyopostate/Round Up but with the health of soil.
> The diversity in cover crops and cash crops is extremenly important.
>
> One of the things I like about his talk is that we still don't a lot of
> things about soil, human health and animal health.
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> A truly worthwhile approach that doesn't make the cow the enemy of the
> planet. It's about HOW the cows are raised and used.
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[Marxism] Regenerative Agriculture Podcast: A Geological Perspective On Regenerative Agriculture with David Montgomery

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There are a million things to take away from this fascinating pod cast. I
think Louis for posting this because it covers the full gambit of what is
regenerative agriculture and its implications for an amazing array of
issues, of which climate change is the biggest issue. Take aways from this:

The vegan lifestyle is not one that will help the soil.
That the use of cattle is intrinsic to increasing the organic matter/carbon
on the soil.
Reason that have nothing to do directly with human health of the effects of
glyopostate/Round Up but with the health of soil.
The diversity in cover crops and cash crops is extremenly important.

One of the things I like about his talk is that we still don't a lot of
things about soil, human health and animal health.

A truly worthwhile approach that doesn't make the cow the enemy of the
planet. It's about HOW the cows are raised and used.


David
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[Marxism] Counterpunch fund-drive

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For those of you who appreciate the articles I write for CounterPunch, I 
am appealing to you to donate some money to help keep it going. 
Honestly, if it weren't for Counterpunch, I don't know if there was any 
other publication I would consider.


It is especially timely now since it has shed a number of problematic 
contributors from Mike Whitney to Diana Johnstone. There are obviously 
articles you might object to but on the whole it is the primary 
opposition to the Jacobin/DSA traveling circus, needed more than ever 
now with the dissolution of the ISO.


$25 would represent about $2 per month. Surely, everybody on Marxmail 
can afford that.


Go here to donate: https://store.counterpunch.org/ Or I will punch you 
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[Marxism] Regenerative Agriculture Podcast: A Geological Perspective On Regenerative Agriculture with David Montgomery

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(The metabolic rift continues.)

In this episode, John interviews David Montgomery, Professor of 
Geomorphology at the University of Washington. John and David discuss 
soil regeneration at length, pulling from David’s experience developing 
new topsoil in dead, stony ground and his deep dive into the science 
behind it.


David came to the field of regenerative agriculture from a unique 
position. As a geologist studying erosion, he became curious about 
agricultural impacts on soils.


When David set out to write his first book, Dirt: The Erosion of 
Civilizations, he imagined it would tie the subject of landscape 
formation over millennia to how soil erosion affected ancient 
civilizations. He ended up writing about the history of farming, because 
that's where soil erosion and degradation connects back to human 
societies. Spending more than a decade looking at how agriculture has 
influenced soil loss resulted in an epiphany that led him to see 
regenerative agriculture as the solution to historically degenerative 
agricultural problems.


full: 
http://regenerativeagriculturepodcast.com/a-geological-perspective-on-regenerative-agriculture-with-david-montgomery

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[Marxism] New York Times: Colombia’s Peace Deal Promised a New Era. This Is What It Looks Like.

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By Nicholas Casey
May 17, 2019

When things go wrong, those in power often promise to make it right. But do
they? This is the first in a series in which The Times is going back to the
scene of major news events to see if those promises were kept.

[short answer -- FARC lived up to its commitments ("except for a small
dissident group"); the government didn't. A field day for the
paramilitaries; the rural population got fucked.]

After Colombia’s government signed a peace deal with the country’s main
rebel group, ending decades of war and upheaval, both sides said it
heralded a new era. But two and a half years after the militants agreed to
lay down their arms, many of the promises made are not being honored, and
the prospect of a true, lasting peace now seems far from certain.

This is what we found:

As many as 3,000 militants have resumed fighting, threatening the very
foundation of the accord.

Many of the millions of Colombians who once lived in rebel-held territory
still await the promised arrival of roads, schools and electricity. The
government’s pledge to help rural areas was a big reason the rebels stood
down.

Since the peace deal was signed, at least 500 activists and community
leaders have been killed, and more than 210,000 people displaced from their
homes amid the continuing violence. That undercuts a core selling point of
the deal: that it would bring safety and stability.

Colombia’s new president, Iván Duque, a conservative who took office in
August, has expressed skepticism of the accords and wants to change a
commitment that was fundamental to the rebels agreeing to lay down their
weapons.

The Path to Peace

Colombia’s five-decade civil war took at least 220,000 lives and devastated
large swaths of the countryside. In rebel-held areas, government services
disappeared and the infrastructure crumbled. Many turned to the drug
economy to survive.

All sides were accused of atrocities — kidnappings, rapes and summary
executions — that bred deep-seated animosities across the country and even
within families. In a war so deeply personal, finding a way out posed an
enormous challenge.

So when the government and the largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC, reached a peace agreement in
September 2016 after years of negotiation, much of the world applauded.
Juan Manuel Santos, then Colombia’s president, won the Nobel Peace Prize.

But peace deals of this scope are never easy to implement, and Colombians
knew a long, daunting path was ahead of them.

The deal the two sides reached was ambitious and complex — with 578
separate stipulations — but it can be boiled down to a few core promises.

A primary goal of the FARC insurgency was improving the lives of rural
Colombians. The deal calls for “universal” education in rural areas for
preschool through secondary school; guaranteed access to drinking water;
and heavy subsidies for development programs in former rebel territories.

The rebels, in turn, would cease all hostilities, turn in their weapons to
the United Nations and return to civilian life. The FARC would be allowed
to compete in elections and was guaranteed 10 seats in Congress.

WHAT WE FOUND
Raised Hopes, and Dashed Ones

Much of the war was fought in the countryside.

The peace agreement raised hopes that the rural deprivation that fueled the
conflict might finally ease. But two years after the accord was signed, a
visit to the town of Juan José made clear that little has changed.

The community of 8,000 has not received even the most basic services it was
promised. With no running water, residents are still forced to rely on
untreated wells. No schools have been built in the surrounding villages,
despite government pledges, and many children have never seen the inside of
a classroom.

While the police are now in Juan José, neither they nor the military have
made it to the nearby villages, and new armed groups have moved in to fill
the vacuum left by the FARC.

Emilio Archila, an adviser to the government, said many of the biggest
development promises in the agreement — such as delivering water and
electricity — would take more than a decade to accomplish, given the damage
the countryside suffered from the conflict. “Anyone who thinks we could
solve these issues in two years doesn’t understand the magnitude of the
problem,” he said.

But Adam Isacson, an analyst at the Washington Office on Latin America, a
human rights group, said the government had failed to act. “The government
had a window of opportunity to establish the state in lands the rebels gave
up, but it didn’t take that chance,” he said. “Now there are many groups

Re: [Marxism] Ken Loach: blame 'fake left' politicians like Miliband and Blair for gig economy | Film | The Guardian

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Probably pressure from the idiots who run the place and have been egging on
the witch-hunt (see the atrocious articles from Jonathan Freedland, for
example). Capitalism at it's finest, when the bosses screw up an author's
article about capitalism.

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And the author of the article conveniently proves the case Loach is making 
about smear campaigns by adding a completely irrelevant paragraph on the phony 
antisemitism allegations in an article that otherwise has nothing to do with 
the subject…

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[Marxism] Modi Promised Better Days and Bridges. India’s Voters Are Still Waiting.

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NY Times, May 167, 2019
Modi Promised Better Days and Bridges. India’s Voters Are Still Waiting.
By Peter S. Goodman

LUNSU VILLAGE, India — Across the Kangra Valley, in the hills below the 
snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas, the promise of a modern railway 
reverberated like the beginning of something vital — access to jobs, 
hospitals, universities, and shops.


Many villages were connected to the rest of the country by rutted dirt 
roads and a rickety railway erected by the British a century ago. During 
the monsoon, landslides blocked trains and flooded roads, rendering them 
impassable.


Narendra Modi, then running for prime minister, had come to the region 
in 2014 promising liberation. A new rail line would provide fast and 
reliable train service. But five years later, with Mr. Modi seeking 
re-election, villagers look down the bluff at the old tracks with a mix 
of disgust and resignation.


As India nears the end of the world’s largest election, which began last 
month, Mr. Modi is confronting anger over his failure to deliver on the 
promise that brought him to office — economic revitalization.


The prime minister has drawn praise for paring India’s legendary 
bureaucracy. He has altered perceptions that his country was hostile to 
business. But he has failed to spur significant economic growth, in part 
because of his disappointing record in reviving stalled infrastructure 
projects. The prime minister has championed rail, road and electrical 
links as a means of furthering development across this country of 1.3 
billion people.


Although road-building has proceeded aggressively, infrastructure over 
all has fallen short. During the last three months of 2018, investments 
in new projects slumped to their lowest level during Mr. Modi’s tenure, 
according to the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy, an independent 
research organization in Mumbai.


“The fall after 2016 has been quite severe,” says Mahesh Vyas, the 
center’s managing director. “He thought he could solve all those things 
with a magical wand.”


Slowing growth has reduced government tax revenues, forcing Mr. Modi to 
slash spending on public works. Private toll roads and power plants have 
stalled as banks have withheld financing after losses on previous ventures.


The prime minister inherited a troubling condition that has plagued 
India for decades: What economic growth the country generates does not 
produce enough jobs. He vowed to create 10 million jobs a year.


As a former chief minister of his home state of Gujarat — widely hailed 
as India’s most entrepreneurial — he was celebrated as a leader who 
could harness India’s natural resources, intellectual prowess and 
enormous work force toward industrializing.


But a signature program, Make in India, which aimed to help 
manufacturing, has produced a bumper crop of public pronouncements and 
scant hiring, in part because the nation’s patchy infrastructure has 
discouraged investment. The unemployment rate climbed to a 45-year high 
of 6.1 percent last year, from 2.2 percent in 2011, according to the 
government’s National Sample Survey.


Nonetheless, Mr. Modi has won the ardor of the masses with his appeals 
to Hindu nationalism and his military confrontations with India’s 
nemesis, Pakistan. He is widely expected to claim re-election after 
voting ends on Sunday.


Here in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh, the prime minister 
enjoys special rapport owing to his days overseeing the region for his 
Hindu nationalist political organization, the Bharatiya Janata Party, or 
B.J.P.


From the city of Dharamshala — best known as the headquarters of the 
exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama — to the villages of the 
Kangra Valley, people lament the state of the economy while still 
praising Mr. Modi.


“He is a great man,” says Ajai Singh, managing director of Glenmoor 
Cottages, a collection of private residences in a grove of towering 
cedar trees in Dharamshala. A B.J.P. flag flies from his rooftop.


“He hasn’t achieved anything,” Mr. Singh says later. “He will get 
another term, and then we will see results.”


The economy has expanded by a robust 7.3 percent annually during Mr. 
Modi’s tenure, better than the 6.7 percent rate in the previous five 
years, according to official numbers. But many economists accuse the 
administration of doctoring the data.


“The government was willing to play with numbers to score a point,” says 
Amiya Kumar Bagchi, an economist at the Institute of Development Studies 
Kolkata. The numbers “are wrong and possibly fabricated,” he adds.


Some of India’s problems are beyond the scope of any national 

[Marxism] Ken Loach: blame 'fake left' politicians like Miliband and Blair for gig economy | Film | The Guardian

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[Marxism] Trotsky, Bukharin, and the Eco-Modernists | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Faith merely promises to move mountains; but technology, which takes 
nothing “on faith,” is actually able to cut down mountains and move 
them. Up to now this was done for industrial purposes (mines) or for 
railways (tunnels); in the future this will be done on an immeasurably 
larger scale, according to a general industrial and artistic plan. Man 
will occupy himself with re-registering mountains and rivers, and will 
earnestly and repeatedly make improvements in nature. In the end, he 
will have rebuilt the earth, if not in his own image, at least according 
to his own taste. We have not the slightest fear that this taste will be 
bad.


– Leon Trotsky, “Literature and Revolution” (1924)

For some Trotskyist groups, these words have been interpreted as a green 
light to support all sorts of ecomodernist schemas. For those unfamiliar 
with the term, it simply means using technology, often of dubious value, 
to ward off environmental crisis.


For example, the Socialist Workers Party, when it was still tethered to 
the planet Earth, was a strong supporter of Green values but after 
becoming unmoored it began to publish articles that asserted: “Science 
and technology — which are developed and used by social labor — have 
established the knowledge and the means to lessen the burdens and 
dangers of work, to advance the quality of life, and to conserve and 
improve the earth’s patrimony.”  These abstractions have meant in the 
concrete supporting GMO: “The latest focus of middle-class hysteria in 
face of the progress of science and technology is the campaign against 
foods that have been cultivated from seeds that have undergone a 
transplant of a strand of genetic material, DNA, from a different plant 
species–so-called transgenic organisms, or Genetically Modified 
Organisms (GMOs).”


A split from the SWP, the Spartacist League is just as gung-ho. In a 
diatribe against ecosocialist scholar and Monthly Review editor John 
Bellamy Foster, they position themselves as global warming skeptics: 
“Current climate change may or may not pose a sustained, long-term 
threat to human society.” Their answer is very much in the spirit of the 
Trotsky quote above: “Instead, the proletariat must expropriate 
capitalist industry and put it at the service of society as a whole.” It 
turns out that Indian Point et al would be put at the service of society 
based on an article titled “Greens’ Anti-Nuclear Hysteria Amnesties 
Capitalism”.


Of course, the granddaddy of this kind of crude productivism is the cult 
around Spiked Online that while correctly perceived today as a 
contrarian and libertarian outlet. But its roots are in the Trotskyist 
Revolutionary Communist Party of Great Britain that defended GMO, 
nuclear power, DDT, etc. using Trotsky’s rhetoric. Today, there’s 
nothing to distinguish it from Donald Trump’s Department of Energy.


As it happens, Trotsky’s business about moving mountains through 
technology serves as the epigraph to Jacobin’s special issue on 
environmentalism that is permeated by ecomodernist themes. Among them is 
an article by Leigh Phillips and Michael Rozworski titled “Planning the 
Good Anthropocene” that shares an affection for nuclear energy with the 
nutty sects listed above. They reason: “From a system-wide perspective, 
nuclear power still represents the cheapest option thanks to its mammoth 
energy density. It also boasts the fewest deaths per terawatt-hour and a 
low carbon footprint.” Their techno-optimism rivals that of Steven 
Pinker’s: “We patched our deteriorating ozone layer; we returned wolf 
populations and the forests they inhabit to central Europe; we relegated 
the infamous London fog of Dickens, Holmes, and Hitchcock to fiction, 
though coal particulates still choke Beijing and Shanghai.” As it 
happens, China is reducing coal particulates by displacing them 
geographically. The IEEFA, an energy think-tank, reported that a quarter 
of coal plants in the planning stage or under construction outside China 
are backed by Chinese state-owned financial institutions and corporations.


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[Marxism] Trump And Israel Team Up to Cool Tensions With Iran – VICE News

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Those who believe that Trump has a coherent foreign policy need to have 
their head examined.


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[Marxism] Uncle Sam needs our help again?

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[Marxism] Flynn told Mueller that people tied to Trump and Congress tried to obstruct probe

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[Marxism] Review of Lisa Duggan, 'Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed'

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By Scott McLemee

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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Jacqueline Rose on trauma and justice in South Africa

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LRB, Vol. 41 No. 10 · 23 May 2019
One Long Scream
Jacqueline Rose on trauma and justice in South Africa

On 27 June 2016, Lukhanyo Calata issued a public statement about 
corruption at the South African Broadcasting Corporation, where he had 
worked as a journalist for several years. He knew that it would probably 
result in his dismissal. The corporation had succumbed to what has come 
to be known in South Africa as ‘state capture’: working in the interests 
of Zuma’s government, which had itself been captured by big business. 
Zuma had especially close ties to the notorious Gupta brothers, who now 
face possible extradition from the UAE to answer criminal charges in 
South Africa. Calata spoke out against the ‘despotic rule’ of the SABC’s 
chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng. On the day of his 
disciplinary hearing, Calata joined a picket outside SABC opposing the 
corporation’s decision not to report on a rising wave of violent 
protests across the country. The aim of the protests was to secure 
better housing, job opportunities, municipal governance and social 
services, and to force the ANC government to reverse policies – so 
remote from the vision it had when it came to power – that were 
manifestly failing those citizens, mainly black, who were most socially 
vulnerable. In fact, the writing had been on the wall for Calata since 
February 2014, when, following Zuma’s annual state of the nation 
address, he was grabbed by the scruff of his jacket by SABC’s head of 
news, Jimi Matthews, told not to get Matthews ‘into shit’ and ordered to 
put together soundbites of opposition politicians’ positive reactions to 
Zuma’s speech. He refused (even had he wished to, he could hardly have 
complied as no such soundbites existed). The resonances with the 
apartheid era were chilling. Under the regime of P.W. Botha, the SABC 
had been known as ‘his master’s voice’.


Calata had chosen his moment carefully. The day he spoke out was the 
31st anniversary of the state-ordered murder of the anti-apartheid 
activists from the Eastern Cape known as the Cradock Four: his father, 
Fort Calata, Matthew Goniwe, Sparro Mkonto and Sicelo Mhlauli. The men 
were tortured by blowtorch, and stabbed multiple times. The fingers on 
Fort Calata’s left hand were severed; on one severed finger was his 
wife’s wedding band, which she had removed because her fingers had 
swollen – she was six months pregnant. This wasn’t merely torture, the 
activist Allan Boesak recalled, but a ‘demonstration’. The attackers – 
it is believed – were from the Security Police, specifically the 
notorious ‘Hammer Unit’, whose members used their own personal weapons 
and would drive into the townships ‘dressed as kaffirs, with our faces 
and heads blackened’. Sixty thousand South Africans defied a banning 
order to attend the funeral, along with dignitaries from all over the 
world. In response, Botha called a national state of emergency, granting 
‘complete indemnity against any civil or criminal proceedings’ to the 
state and all its functionaries. Lawyers in London working with the 
anti-apartheid United Democratic Front and the Cradock Residents 
Association issued a statement to alert the international community: the 
South African government’s failure to contain the people’s anger, they 
said, had ‘given rise to a new phase of terror against the people’. 
Today it is generally recognised that Botha’s move was an act of 
desperation that brought about the beginning of the end of apartheid.


Lukhanyo Calata was three at the time of the murders; his older sister, 
Dorothy, was ten; his younger sister, Tumani, was born a few weeks after 
the funeral. Lukhanyo grew up with no conscious memory of his father. At 
the end of My Father Died for This, the remarkable book he has produced 
with his wife, Abigail Calata (they took it in turns to write different 
sections), he can offer only an imaginary reconstruction of the 
murders.[*] He pieces the story together from partial records, from 
conversations with people who had first-hand knowledge of the security 
apparatus, and from the inconclusive legal hearings which have prevented 
both the family and the nation from putting the case behind them. At the 
first judicial inquest in 1989, state involvement in the killings was 
denied, but then in 1992 the New Nation newspaper published a copy of 
the ‘signal’ sent by Colonel Lourens du Plessis ordering the ‘permanent 
removal from society’ of Matthew Goniwe, Fort Calata (two of the Cradock 
Four) and Mbulelo Goniwe (another ANC activist). Du Plessis now says 
that, when he was called to Pretoria after the story broke, he had the 

[Marxism] Even the Rich Aren’t Rich Enough for Jeff Koons

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NY Times Op-Ed, May 17, 2019
Even the Rich Aren’t Rich Enough for Jeff Koons
As billionaires compete for art in an overheated market, the merely 
affluent are giving up.

By Allison Schrager

The art market has a 0.01 percent problem. That much was apparent on 
Wednesday at the contemporary auction at Christie’s in New York, where a 
stainless steel rabbit by Jeff Koons sold for $91 million, setting a 
record price for work by a living artist. If it seems as if these sorts 
of records seem to be set much more often these days, it’s because they 
are — just last fall a David Hockney painting sold for $90.3 million, 
the previous record for a living artist.


Art collecting has always been an exclusive activity, but the world of 
contemporary art, in particular, has become dominated in recent years 
not by the 1 percent — the millionaires — but by the super-wealthy 
billionaires of the 0.01 percent.


This growing inequality threatens to upend how the market works. The 
small and midsize galleries that have long supported and nurtured 
unknown artists are finding it difficult to survive in the 
winner-take-all economy of contemporary art, meaning the next Andy 
Warhol or Donald Judd, who rose through the ranks of the gallery system, 
might never be discovered.


The art market reflects and magnifies trends in the larger economy. 
Recovering even faster than G.D.P., annual sales in the American market 
have more than doubled since the global financial crisis. According to a 
2019 report published by Art Basel and UBS, in 2018 art sales reached 
nearly $30 billion, compared with just over $12 billion in 2009.


But these numbers mask a serious problem: A small number of large 
galleries and artists took in most of those sales. Art that cost more 
than $1 million accounted for 40 percent of the market but just 3 
percent of transactions. The disparity is most severe in the 
contemporary market, where living artists’ work is sold out of art 
galleries. In 2018, sales from the top 20 living artists accounted for 
64 percent of the market. Bigger galleries, the top 5 percent in terms 
of turnover, accounted for more than 50 percent of sales. Sales at 
smaller galleries declined over the past few years.


Clare McAndrew, the author of the Basel/UBS report, explained that the 
affluent but not super-wealthy collectors — the bankers at Goldman Sachs 
but not the partners — who used to patronize the mid- and lower-tier 
galleries stopped buying art after the 2008 crash and did not come back 
after the economy bounced back. They can’t afford top artists, so they 
would typically invest in emerging artists who are about to break 
through or well-established second-tier artists.


These collectors, Dr. McAndrew said, are put off by the sky-high prices 
at top galleries and auction houses. When they see a Hockney painting 
sell for $90 million, they assume the $50,000 work they can afford is 
not worth buying, especially if they can’t flip it for a quick profit at 
auction.


The loss of this middle tier of collectors, along with rising rents and 
tougher standards for loans, means that many smaller galleries are going 
out of business. According to international data from Artfacts.net, in 
2007 four galleries opened for every one that closed. That ratio began 
declining after the recession, and in 2017 more galleries closed than 
opened.


In the art world, small and midsize galleries serve an important 
function. Artists normally start at smaller galleries, where their work 
develops and they become known to collectors. Though galleries’ motives 
are not always pure, they play an important role in creating the 
pipeline of new artists. They mentor their artists, supporting them 
financially, introducing them to collectors and sometimes steering their 
work.


Small and midsize galleries are able to nurture up-and-coming artists 
because their more established artists bring in sales. Relying on these 
few artists for most of their sales has always posed an enormous risk 
for smaller galleries, because the artists who find success often will 
no longer remain exclusive to a small gallery and seek out a bigger one. 
In this high-stakes market, it happens faster and more frequently: An 
emerging artist has an even greater incentive to move on and quickly to 
reap the benefits of the superstar economy. Art news is full of 
sought-after artists leaving their smaller galleries for the likes of 
David Zwirner or Gagosian.


It creates a vicious cycle where small and medium-size galleries get 
squeezed out. Without them, it is unclear where the new artists from 
future generations will come from. In a 

[Marxism] ZCommunications » Yellow Vests Six Months Later

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By Richard Greeman

Since the Yellow Vests have no recognized spokespersons, government 
propaganda, abetted by the media, has had a free hand to dehumanize them 
to justify treating them inhumanly. Macron, from the height of his 
monarchical presidency, at first pretended to ignore their uprising, 
then attempted to buy them off with crumbs (a very few crumbs which were 
rejected) and then denounced them as “a hate-filled mob.” (N.B. In real 
life the Yellow Vests are largely middle-aged low-income folks with 
families from the provinces whose trade-mark is friendliness and 
improvised barbeques.) Yet for Macron and the media they constitute a 
hard-core conspiracy of “40,000 militants of the extreme right and the 
extreme left” often characterized as “anti-Semites,” who threaten the 
Republic.


Small wonder that, subjected to increasing violence and continuous 
slander, the numbers of Yellow Vests willing to go out into the streets 
to protest every week has diminished over 27 weeks.  But they are still 
out there and their favorite chant goes: “Here we are!  Here we are! 
What if Macron doesn’t like it? Here we are!” (On est là! Même si Macron 
ne veut pas, On est là!)


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[Marxism] Stefan Zweig, European Man by Joseph Epstein | Articles | First Things

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[Marxism] Reclaiming the Future | The New Republic

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More PR for the DSA in a magazine that was virulently anti-Communist in 
the 1980s but then again the DSA is not exactly communist.


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Re: [Marxism] US Official: “We Worried that the Assad Regime Might Finally Collapse"

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 Yeh I saw this, once again another of the countless pieces of information
that show the US never wanted "regime change" etc. Note how even in these
kinds of discussions when they're essentially talking to each other, they
still have to embellish facts to make their essential support for Assad
seem a little more palatable: "in which the Islamic State had assumed
control of most of eastern Syria and had begun to also threaten Syria’s
main cities in the West." This of course is simple bullshit, which the
speaker knows even as he says it. Yes ISIS had control of eastern Syria,
but the US was already 9 months into bombing them there by "the summer of
2015", the period being referred to. But ISIS was in no way threatening
"Syria's main cities in the west." Not at all, never in fact, the very idea
was always the purest of fiction, but especially after the Syrian rebels
drove ISIS root and branch from the whole of western Syria in January 2014,
never to return, from the provinces of Idlib, Aleppo, Hama, Homs, Latakia,
Damascus and Daraa (except the odd spot here and there, such as Yarmouk,
which posed zero threat to any city), in fact they even drove ISIS from
Raqqa briefly, but ISIS put all forces into getting it back, and they even
drove ISIS from Deir Ezzor further east, and held it for 6 months until
ISIS, flush with all the US weapons it had seized from Mosul when the
US/Iranian Iraqi army ran away, re-invaded from Iraq and laid siege to Deir
Ezzor for a month, during which time the Assad regime helped ISIS by
joining in bombing the besieged rebels, while the US, which was already
bombing ISIS in Iraq, made no attempt to prevent the fall of Deir Ezzor. In
other words, the "catastrophe" the US was concerned about was not that
Assad would fall to ISIS, but that Assad would fall to the rebels.

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[Marxism] We Accuse | International Call in Support of the Yellow Vests | Verso Books Blog

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