[Marxism] DSA Convention 2019: This is Not What Democracy Looks Like | Left Voice

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[Marxism] Hybrid Wars Are Destroying Democracies, Historian Vijay Prashad Says | Brasil de Fato

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[Marxism] Fwd: [pen-l] Paul Buhle on Sanders and socialism - GreenLeftTV Aug 12, 2019

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 Excuse me, should read Paul Le Blanc on Sanders and socialism


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[Marxism] NPR: Is Grass-Fed Beef Really Better For The Planet? Here's The Science

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For the environmentally minded carnivore, meat poses a culinary conundrum.
Producing it requires a great deal of land and water resources, and
ruminants such as cows and sheep are responsible for half of all greenhouse
gas emissions associated with agriculture, according to the World Resources
Institute.

That's why many researchers are now calling for the world to cut back on
its meat consumption
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But some advocates say there is a way to eat meat that's better for the
planet and better for the animals: grass-fed beef.

But is grass-fed beef really greener than feedlot-finished beef? Let's
parse the science.

*What's the difference between grass-fed and feedlot beef? *

Feedlot calves begin their lives on pasture with the cow that produced
them. They're weaned after six to nine months, then grazed a bit more on
pasture. They're then "finished" for about 120 days on high-energy corn and
other grains in a feedlot, gaining weight fast and creating that
fat-marbled beef that consumers like. At about 14 to 18 months of age, they
are sent to slaughter. (One downside of the feedlot system, as we've
reported
,
is that a diet of corn can lead to liver abscesses in cattle, which is why
animals who eat it receive antibiotics as part of their feed.)

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[Marxism] Paul Buhle on Sanders and socialism - GreenLeftTV Aug 12, 2019

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[Marxism] What the New Deal can teach us about winning a Green New Deal: Part II—Movement Building | Martin Hart-Landsberg | Reports from the Economic Front

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https://economicfront.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/what-the-new-deal-can-teach-us-about-winning-a-green-new-deal-part-ii-movement-building/


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[Marxism] Support Eric Draitser's fundraising for a Hudson Valley classroom

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So we have gotten to the point that things we should be paying for via
municipal and state taxes are instead treated as nonprofit fundraising
projects. It's worth supporting if you have a few bucks


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Re: [Marxism] The rise of the Republic of Texas

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Stephen Pearl Andrews, later a member of the International, was living in
Texas at the time and involved in these negotiations with the Britsh in
hopes of flanking the slaveholding U.S.

He wound up being driven out in the middle of the night.

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> The Texas republic was in financial distress, and the always meddlesome
> British were hovering over it with an aim of establishing an alliance of
> mutual convenience with the strug­gling republic. In exchange for financial
> help and military protec­tion, Britain would be positioned to undermine the
> United States's supremacy over the Gulf of Mexico and to menace its
> dominion over New Orleans, gateway to the strategically crucial Mississippi
> River. Besides, if Britain could dominate this southwestern territory, it
> would have the United States neatly hemmed in between that region and its
> Canadian possessions to the north. Britain's premier New World aim was to
> thwart the American dream of a burgeoning power stretching from sea to sea.
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[Marxism] The rise of the Republic of Texas

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The Texas republic was in financial distress, and the always meddlesome
British were hovering over it with an aim of establishing an alliance of
mutual convenience with the strug­gling republic. In exchange for financial
help and military protec­tion, Britain would be positioned to undermine the
United States's supremacy over the Gulf of Mexico and to menace its
dominion over New Orleans, gateway to the strategically crucial Mississippi
River. Besides, if Britain could dominate this southwestern territory, it
would have the United States neatly hemmed in between that region and its
Canadian possessions to the north. Britain's premier New World aim was to
thwart the American dream of a burgeoning power stretching from sea to sea.

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Re: [Marxism] The Case against Obama

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In December 2008, Bush flew to Baghdad to sign a document that called for
US forces to be out of the country by the end of 2011.

"All US forces are to withdraw from all Iraqi territory, water and airspace
no later than the 31st of December of 2011," reads the Status of Forces
Agreement signed by Bush with the Iraqi government. "The United States
admits to the sovereign right of the Iraqi government to demand the
departure of the US forces from Iraq at anytime." At the time, the US
expected a subsequent agreement would be reached to allow some troops to
stay beyond that deadline. But first Bush, then Obama, failed to convince
Maliki, the Iraqi leader.

The central sticking point was the refusal of the Iraqi government to
give blanket immunity to U.S. troops for crimes committed against the
people of Iraq. In other words, Obama could have continued the U.S. war and
kept US troops there if he had been willing to let the Iraqis prosecute
criminal acts committed by Americans in Iraq.

Maliki wouldn't budge on the issue, and probably couldn't have gotten
parliament to go along anyway. Unwilling to allow *foreigners* to prosecute
U.S. troops accused of murder, rape, and torture, Obama reluctantly settled
for withdrawal of all but the tens of thousands of troops to ‘guard’ the
U.S. embassy in Iraq.


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> " By contrast, he left Iraq in a hurry, which contributed to the rise of
> Isis."
>
> I have heard this claim repeated in many places. I find it difficult to
> take seriously. The Obama Administration pledged billions of dollars to the
> Iraqi regime during and after the removal of ground forces. It supported
> every repressive measure the Iraqi government could put into place. The
> idea that they removed the troops and consequently ISIS appeared seems to
> imply that there is something good and noble about the presence of US
> troops in Iraq, as though this would not have happened if US troops had
> stayed. I find that difficult to believe. Even when US troops were in Iraq
> at their highest numbers they could not control armed groups that opposed
> them and their allies. Even the "troop surge" was primarily aimed at
> disarming Sunnis and leaving them to Shi'a militias rather than actually
> clamping down on their opponents, who essentially won control of Iraq at
> that point.
>
> It seems more reasonable to me to think that that episode -- which happened
> during the surge rather than the pull-out -- combined with the complete
> corruption of the sectarian regime that the U.S. installed plus the opening
> of a new front in Syria were what culminated in the rise of ISIS. If U.S.
> troops had been there, I doubt they would have been able to meaningfully
> affect ISIS' rise any more than they could stop the insurgent bombings in
> 2005-06.
>
>
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: When Native Americans Routed the Ku Klux Klan in the Battle of Hayes Pond

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Pete Seeger memorialized the events with a song "The Battle of Maxton
Field" ---

Oh have you seen the bedsheet boys, the terrors of the night
They rallied here at Maxton, just honing for a fight
Rally round you Klansmen bold, but do not show your face
We'll burn the fiery cross tonight, and save the nordic race

CHORUS:
 
Oh the Klan, Oh the Klan
It calls on every red blood fighting man
If you are free and white and bigot and get your courage from a spigot
They are needing reinforcements now, to fight the In-die-an ...

THERE ARE FOUR OTHER VERSES BUT YOU CAN FIND THEM ON LINE SO I WON'T RETYPE
THEM ...it's a cool song!
  Unfortunately, Greensboro proved the Klan more than just a bunch of
scared idiots as they massacred a group of Communist Workers Party
activists and got away with it (the jury hated "commies" more than Nazis
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Re: [Marxism] The Case against Obama

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" By contrast, he left Iraq in a hurry, which contributed to the rise of
Isis."

I have heard this claim repeated in many places. I find it difficult to
take seriously. The Obama Administration pledged billions of dollars to the
Iraqi regime during and after the removal of ground forces. It supported
every repressive measure the Iraqi government could put into place. The
idea that they removed the troops and consequently ISIS appeared seems to
imply that there is something good and noble about the presence of US
troops in Iraq, as though this would not have happened if US troops had
stayed. I find that difficult to believe. Even when US troops were in Iraq
at their highest numbers they could not control armed groups that opposed
them and their allies. Even the "troop surge" was primarily aimed at
disarming Sunnis and leaving them to Shi'a militias rather than actually
clamping down on their opponents, who essentially won control of Iraq at
that point.

It seems more reasonable to me to think that that episode -- which happened
during the surge rather than the pull-out -- combined with the complete
corruption of the sectarian regime that the U.S. installed plus the opening
of a new front in Syria were what culminated in the rise of ISIS. If U.S.
troops had been there, I doubt they would have been able to meaningfully
affect ISIS' rise any more than they could stop the insurgent bombings in
2005-06.

But some of you know more about it than I do, so I'll let you weigh in.

Amith R. Gupta
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Re: [Marxism] The New Deal State and Segregation

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One thing that was a "side effect" of the New Deal was that the Northern
blacks who had the right to vote and who had been reliably Republican since
Reconstruction became Democratic as a result of the New Deal provision of
jobs, "relief" (= welfare), and other opportunities in the unionizing
sectors of US manufacturing --- This reliably Democratic voting bloc became
and important pressure point on Democrats in Congress to break with the
Southern segregationists and support the legislative agenda of the Civil
Rights movement in the 1960s --- yes, it took over 30 years for the
"fruits" of those New Deal changes to work their way through the polity ---
but I think it is not too much of a stretch to say that the Roosevelt
administration in the effects it had in Northern and Western states led to
the new pro-Civil Rights coalition (which remember, included Everett
Dirksen of the Senate who helped engineer the cloture votes that stopped
Southern filibusters of the 1964 and 65 acts which were the centerpieces of
the "Second Reconstruction.") --

First political "shot" fired in that struggle was arguably Harry Truman's
(mostly symbolic) "desegregation" of the US armed forces --- it was
Eisenhower who actually did it later on 



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Re: [Marxism] Review of Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society

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Compare also to Sven-Eric Liedman, *A World to Win: The Life and Works of
Karl Marx - *also a comprehensive and sympathetic work, especially good on
the writing of *Capital *and generally in relating the life and times to
the economic and political works.
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3001-a-world-to-win

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> >
> > The review doesn't mention that the English translation is now available
> from Monthly Review Press.  Presumably it was written before publication of
> the English edition.
> > "Michael Heinrich has raised the standards of biographical writing with
> Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society. In content and scope, it is an
> unparalleled work of scholarship. It makes Marx relevant to our
> understanding of capitalist society, while cutting down the overgrown myths
> about him. It confronts those sworn enemies of Marx’s thought with the
> weapons of critique. It will challenge the ways avid readers of Marx think
> about the meaning his times, concepts and ideas have for the present."
> >
> https://medium.com/@jamespeter_76017/review-karl-marx-and-the-birth-of-modern-society-6e591bbfda01
>
> I'm 90 pages into this for a CounterPunch review. Heinrich's research is
> impressive, especially in shedding light on Karl Marx's father Heinrich
> who converted to Protestantism mainly to avoid anti-Semitic laws that
> would prevent him from becoming a lawyer. He was also a revolutionary
> democrat who helped organize a banquet where the left-leaning residents
> of Trier sang the "Marseilles" and other revolutionary songs from 1789.
> When I sit down to write my review, it will be interesting to compare
> this book (which is the first in a multi-volume series) to the classics
> like Mehring and newer books by Sperber and Wheen that I only have read
> in part. I won't waste time with this jerk.
>
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[Marxism] The Day Jeffrey Epstein Told Me He Had Dirt on Powerful People

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(The author is a renowned business journalist who covers Wall Street.)

NY Times, Aug. 13, 2019
The Day Jeffrey Epstein Told Me He Had Dirt on Powerful People
By James B. Stewart

Almost exactly a year ago, on Aug. 16, 2018, I visited Jeffrey Epstein 
at his cavernous Manhattan mansion.


The overriding impression I took away from our roughly 90-minute 
conversation was that Mr. Epstein knew an astonishing number of rich, 
famous and powerful people, and had photos to prove it. He also claimed 
to know a great deal about these people, some of it potentially damaging 
or embarrassing, including details about their supposed sexual 
proclivities and recreational drug use.


So one of my first thoughts on hearing of Mr. Epstein’s suicide was that 
many prominent men and at least a few women must be breathing sighs of 
relief that whatever Mr. Epstein knew, he has taken it with him.


During our conversation, Mr. Epstein made no secret of his own 
scandalous past — he’d pleaded guilty to state charges of soliciting 
prostitution from underage girls and was a registered sex offender — and 
acknowledged to me that he was a pariah in polite society. At the same 
time, he seemed unapologetic. His very notoriety, he said, was what made 
so many people willing to confide in him. Everyone, he suggested, has 
secrets and, he added, compared with his own, they seemed innocuous. 
People confided in him without feeling awkward or embarrassed, he claimed.


I’d never met Mr. Epstein before. I had contacted him because my 
colleagues and I had heard a rumor that he was advising Tesla’s 
embattled chief executive, Elon Musk, who was in trouble after 
announcing on Twitter that he had lined up the funding to take Tesla 
private.


The Securities and Exchange Commission began an investigation into Mr. 
Musk’s remarks, which moved markets but didn’t appear to have much basis 
in fact. There were calls for Mr. Musk to relinquish his position as 
Tesla’s chairman and for Tesla to recruit more independent directors. 
I’d heard that Mr. Epstein was compiling a list of candidates at Mr. 
Musk’s behest — and that Mr. Epstein had an email from Mr. Musk 
authorizing the search for a new chairman.


Mr. Musk and Tesla vehemently deny this. “It is incorrect to say that 
Epstein ever advised Elon on anything,” a spokeswoman for Mr. Musk, 
Keely Sulprizio, said Monday.


When I contacted Mr. Epstein, he readily agreed to an interview. The 
caveat was that the conversation would be “on background,” which meant I 
could use the information as long as I didn’t attribute it directly to 
him. (I consider that condition to have lapsed with his death.)


He insisted that I meet him at his house, which I’d seen referred to as 
the largest single-family home in Manhattan. This seems plausible: I 
initially walked past the building, on East 71st Street, because it 
looked more like an embassy or museum than a private home. Next to the 
imposing double doors was a polished brass plaque with the initials 
“J.E.” and a bell. After I rang, the door was opened by a young woman, 
her blond hair pulled back in a chignon, who greeted me with what 
sounded like an Eastern European accent.


I can’t say how old she was, but my guess would be late teens or perhaps 
20. Given Mr. Epstein’s past, this struck me as far too close to the 
line. Why would Mr. Epstein want a reporter’s first impression to be 
that of a young woman opening his door?


The woman led me up a monumental staircase to a room on the second floor 
overlooking the Frick museum across the street. It was quiet, the 
lighting dim, and the air-conditioning was set very low. After a few 
minutes, Mr. Epstein bounded in, dressed casually in jeans and a polo 
shirt, shook my hand and said he was a big fan of my work. He had a big 
smile and warm manner. He was trim and energetic, perhaps from all the 
yoga he said he was practicing. He was undeniably charismatic.


Before we left the room he took me to a wall covered with framed 
photographs. He pointed to a full-length shot of a man in traditional 
Arab dress. “That’s M.B.S.,” he said, referring to Mohammed bin Salman, 
the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. The crown prince had visited him many 
times, and they spoke often, Mr. Epstein said.


He led me to a large room at the rear of the house. There was an 
expansive table with about 20 chairs. Mr. Epstein took a seat at the 
head, and I sat to his left. He had a computer, a small blackboard and a 
phone to his right. He said he was doing some foreign-currency trading.


Behind him was a table covered with more photographs. I noticed one of 
Mr. Epstein with former President Bill 

[Marxism] The divine right of the bourgeoisie | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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My take on Jeffrey Epstein from 2015.

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Re: [Marxism] Review of Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society

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On 8/13/19 9:37 AM, Angelus Novus via Marxism wrote:



The review doesn't mention that the English translation is now available from 
Monthly Review Press.  Presumably it was written before publication of the 
English edition.
"Michael Heinrich has raised the standards of biographical writing with Karl Marx 
and the Birth of Modern Society. In content and scope, it is an unparalleled work of 
scholarship. It makes Marx relevant to our understanding of capitalist society, while 
cutting down the overgrown myths about him. It confronts those sworn enemies of Marx’s 
thought with the weapons of critique. It will challenge the ways avid readers of Marx 
think about the meaning his times, concepts and ideas have for the present."
https://medium.com/@jamespeter_76017/review-karl-marx-and-the-birth-of-modern-society-6e591bbfda01


I'm 90 pages into this for a CounterPunch review. Heinrich's research is 
impressive, especially in shedding light on Karl Marx's father Heinrich 
who converted to Protestantism mainly to avoid anti-Semitic laws that 
would prevent him from becoming a lawyer. He was also a revolutionary 
democrat who helped organize a banquet where the left-leaning residents 
of Trier sang the "Marseilles" and other revolutionary songs from 1789. 
When I sit down to write my review, it will be interesting to compare 
this book (which is the first in a multi-volume series) to the classics 
like Mehring and newer books by Sperber and Wheen that I only have read 
in part. I won't waste time with this jerk. 
https://louisproyect.org/2016/08/15/who-is-gareth-stedman-jones-and-why-is-he-saying-such-stupid-things-about-marx/

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[Marxism] The Case against Obama

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[Marxism] Henry A. Giroux and the Culture of Neoliberal Fascism - Los Angeles Review of Books

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[Marxism] Pop-Up Populism: The Failure of Left-Wing Nationalism in Germany

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[Marxism] How YouTube helped elect Bolsonaro

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NY Times, Aug. 13, 2019
How YouTube Radicalized Brazil
By Max Fisher and Amanda Taub

NITERÓI, Brazil — When Matheus Dominguez was 16, YouTube recommended a 
video that changed his life.


He was in a band in Niterói, a beach-ringed city in Brazil, and 
practiced guitar by watching tutorials online.


YouTube had recently installed a powerful new artificial intelligence 
system that learned from user behavior and paired videos with 
recommendations for others. One day, it directed him to an amateur 
guitar teacher named Nando Moura, who had gained a wide following by 
posting videos about heavy metal, video games and, most of all, politics.


In colorful and paranoid far-right rants, Mr. Moura accused feminists, 
teachers and mainstream politicians of waging vast conspiracies. Mr. 
Dominguez was hooked.


As his time on the site grew, YouTube recommended videos from other 
far-right figures. One was a lawmaker named Jair Bolsonaro, then a 
marginal figure in national politics — but a star in YouTube’s far-right 
community in Brazil, where the platform has become more widely watched 
than all but one TV channel.


Last year, he became President Bolsonaro.

“YouTube became the social media platform of the Brazilian right,” said 
Mr. Dominguez, now a lanky 17-year-old who says he, too, plans to seek 
political office.


[Watch Max Fisher and Amanda Taub report on YouTube’s influence in 
Brazil for The Times’s new TV show, “The Weekly,” on FX and Hulu.]


Members of the nation’s newly empowered far right — from grass-roots 
organizers to federal lawmakers — say their movement would not have 
risen so far, so fast, without YouTube’s recommendation engine.


New research has found they may be correct. YouTube’s search and 
recommendation system appears to have systematically diverted users to 
far-right and conspiracy channels in Brazil.


A New York Times investigation in Brazil found that, time and again, 
videos promoted by the site have upended central elements of daily life.


Teachers describe classrooms made unruly by students who quote from 
YouTube conspiracy videos or who, encouraged by right-wing YouTube 
stars, secretly record their instructors.


Some parents look to “Dr. YouTube” for health advice but get dangerous 
misinformation instead, hampering the nation’s efforts to fight diseases 
like Zika. Viral videos have incited death threats against public health 
advocates.


And in politics, a wave of right-wing YouTube stars ran for office 
alongside Mr. Bolsonaro, some winning by historic margins. Most still 
use the platform, governing the world’s fourth-largest democracy through 
internet-honed trolling and provocation.


YouTube’s recommendation system is engineered to maximize watchtime, 
among other factors, the company says, but not to favor any political 
ideology. The system suggests what to watch next, often playing the 
videos automatically, in a never-ending quest to keep us glued to our 
screens.


But the emotions that draw people in — like fear, doubt and anger — are 
often central features of conspiracy theories, and in particular, 
experts say, of right-wing extremism.


As the system suggests more provocative videos to keep users watching, 
it can direct them toward extreme content they might otherwise never 
find. And it is designed to lead users to new topics to pique new 
interest — a boon for channels like Mr. Moura’s that use pop culture as 
a gateway to far-right ideas.


The system now drives 70 percent of total time on the platform, the 
company says. As viewership skyrockets globally, YouTube is bringing in 
over $1 billion a month, some analysts believe.


Zeynep Tufekci, a social media scholar, has called it “one of the most 
powerful radicalizing instruments of the 21st century.”


Company representatives disputed the studies’ methodology and said that 
the platform’s systems do not privilege any one viewpoint or direct 
users toward extremism. However, company representatives conceded some 
of the findings and promised to make changes.


Farshad Shadloo, a spokesman, said that YouTube has “invested heavily in 
the policies, resources and products” to reduce the spread of harmful 
misinformation, adding, “we’ve seen that authoritative content is 
thriving in Brazil and is some of the most recommended content on the site.”


Danah Boyd, founder of the think tank Data & Society, attributed the 
disruption in Brazil to YouTube’s unrelenting push for viewer 
engagement, and the revenues it generates.


Though corruption scandals and a deep recession had already devastated 
Brazil’s political establishment and left many Brazilians ready for a 
break with 

[Marxism] Review of Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society

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The review doesn't mention that the English translation is now available from 
Monthly Review Press.  Presumably it was written before publication of the 
English edition.
"Michael Heinrich has raised the standards of biographical writing with Karl 
Marx and the Birth of Modern Society. In content and scope, it is an 
unparalleled work of scholarship. It makes Marx relevant to our understanding 
of capitalist society, while cutting down the overgrown myths about him. It 
confronts those sworn enemies of Marx’s thought with the weapons of critique. 
It will challenge the ways avid readers of Marx think about the meaning his 
times, concepts and ideas have for the present."
https://medium.com/@jamespeter_76017/review-karl-marx-and-the-birth-of-modern-society-6e591bbfda01


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[Marxism] Protests Put Hong Kong on Collision Course With China’s Communist Party

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NY Times, Aug. 13, 2019
Protests Put Hong Kong on Collision Course With China’s Communist Party
By Javier C. Hernández and Amy Qin

HONG KONG — As anti-government demonstrations escalate in Hong Kong, 
each side is staking out increasingly polarized positions, making it 
difficult to find a path to compromise between the protesters and 
China’s ruling Communist Party.


The demonstrations, which began as a fight against a bill that would 
have allowed Hong Kong residents to be extradited to the mainland, have 
more broadly morphed into a call for free elections, which largely do 
not exist in China. To Beijing, it would be a direct challenge to the 
leadership, tantamount to losing control of Hong Kong.


The once peaceful demonstrations have now intensified, coming into 
conflict with Hong Kong’s reputation for order and efficiency. 
Protesters on Monday filled the airport, crippling one of the world’s 
busiest transportation hubs. Demonstrators returned again on Tuesday, 
with more flights canceled that day.


China is also projecting more power, raising the possibility of more 
intense and more frequent clashes with the police. An official in 
Beijing on Monday condemned the actions of the protesters last weekend, 
casting it as the first signs of “terrorism.” The Chinese police also 
appeared to conduct large-scale exercises across the border from Hong 
Kong in Shenzhen, a city on the mainland.


“We are at a crossroads,” said Martin Lee, a democracy advocate and 
former lawmaker. “The future of Hong Kong — the future of democracy — 
depends on what’s going to happen in the next few months.”


The unrest is exposing the inherent conflict in the political experiment 
that began when China reclaimed Hong Kong from Britain in 1997, an 
ambitious attempt to marry Beijing’s brand of authoritarianism with a 
bastion of civil liberties.


China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, wants to make Hong Kong more like a 
mainland city, using economic incentives to buy happiness and propaganda 
to win loyalty. The protesters, who represent a wide swath of Hong Kong, 
want a government that looks out for their interests, not just 
Beijing’s, to help resolve problems like astronomical housing prices and 
low wages.


The two sides no longer seem to recognize each other’s concerns.

The protesters recently adopted a slogan with pro-independence roots: 
“Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times.” Many say they use it to 
describe their desire for a political voice. But Beijing has held up the 
slogan as evidence that the protesters support independence.


The differences started to widen when the city’s leader, Carrie Lam, 
pushed ahead with an unpopular extradition bill, despite a massive rally 
in early June that drew one million people. To many protesters, her 
decision drove home the fundamental shortcomings of a leader who is 
accountable to Beijing.


Mrs. Lam later suspended the bill but stopped short of formally 
withdrawing it, infuriating the protesters and drawing them out in 
greater numbers. In the weeks since, she has refused to make further 
concessions, including the call for an independent investigation of the 
police’s handling of the protests.


“They kind of try to rule Hong Kong the way they rule China. That 
doesn’t really work in an open society,” said Michael C. Davis, a global 
fellow at the Wilson Center, a think tank in Washington. “In Hong Kong, 
when you push people, when you repress them, when you ignore them — they 
push back.”


But the protesters’ challenge to Beijing has also backed the party into 
a corner. In recent days, protesters have grown more defiant, lighting 
fires, hurling bricks and gasoline bombs and defacing symbols of Chinese 
rule.


The party is determined to not look weak in the face of the tumult, 
which has quickly become the biggest public resistance to the rule of 
Mr. Xi since he took power in 2012. The Chinese government has made 
veiled threats of military intervention and accused protesters of 
plotting a “color revolution” with help from the United States, 
referring to anti-Communist uprisings it says are orchestrated by the West.


“It is now a ‘life-or-death’ fight for the very future of Hong Kong,” 
Wang Zhimin, the head of the central government’s office in the city, 
warned members of Hong Kong’s establishment last week. “There is no room 
for retreat.”


‘Peaceful Protests Are No Use’

Crystal Yip, a 20-year-old university student, sat peacefully among the 
demonstrators at the airport on Monday, which prompted the cancellation 
of more than 150 flights. She is usually at the front lines of street 
clashes with the police, snuffing out tear 

[Marxism] The New Deal State and Segregation

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The issue is not whether the Roosevelt administration was powerless or 
cowardly in the face of private segregation, but how and why the 
American state — at a moment of unprecedented economic crisis — made the 
choices it did. State actors, in this context, were imprisoned not just 
by the market but by what Ira Katznelson has dubbed “the southern cage.” 
In these confines, what was lost was not just a more progressive 
economic program, but any pretense of universalism or equal protection.


These were not reluctant compromises or corrupt concessions. Racial 
segregation — not just in housing but in social and labor policy as well 
— was elemental to the New Deal. The resulting “architecture of 
protection,” as Jennifer Mittlestadt has argued, “was built in part on 
the backs of those who were denied full economic and social 
citizenship.” Neither Rothstein’s dashed expectations nor Walker’s 
wistful nostalgia should distract us from these facts.


full: 
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/08/new-deal-segregation-richard-rothstein-walker-color-of-law

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[Marxism] Tarantino’s ‘Dead Indians’ and the Roots of American Violence - CounterPunch.org

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[Marxism] Russia Has a Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missile. Yes, You Read That Right. | The National Interest

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And there is a problem: A reactor that powers one of these weapons might 
have created “possibly one of the worst nuclear accidents in the region 
since Chernobyl.”


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[Marxism] Fear vs. Fear

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(Chris Hedges preaches righteously.)

We will save ourselves only by pitting power against power. And since 
our two major political parties slavishly serve corporate power, and 
have few substantial differences on nearly all major issues from 
imperialism to unfettered capitalism, we must start from scratch. The 
political personalities, including those on the left such as Alexandria 
Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar and Elizabeth Warren, are 
distractions. They have no power within the Democratic Party, as Nancy 
Pelosi often reminds us. They serve to reduce politics to personal 
feuds, the currency of the vast reality show perpetrated for profit by 
corporate media. The daily back and forth by these personalities diverts 
our attention from the rapid consolidation of wealth and power by the 
ruling elites, the degradation of the ecosystem into a toxic wasteland 
and the eradication of basic freedoms and rights. The American political 
system is not salvageable. It will be overthrown in a mass uprising—a 
version of which we saw recently in Puerto Rico—or vast swaths of the 
globe will become uninhabitable and the rich will feed like ghouls off 
the mounting human misery. These are the two stark options. And we have 
very little time left.


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[Marxism] Left Socialist Blog Maoism. A Global History. Julia Lovell. A Socialist Review.

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One of the “most significant and complicated political forces of the modern 
world” for Julia Lovell, Maoism is “A potent mix of party-building discipline, 
anti-colonial rebellion and ‘continuous revolution”, grafted onto the secular 
religion of Soviet Marxism”. The legacy of Mao-Zedong “unlocks the contemporary 
history of China”. It is equally a “key influence on global insurgency, 
insubordination and intolerance across the last eighty years.” (Page 7) At the 
conclusion of this wide-ranging synthesis, covering the history of 20th century 
China, and the “significant afterlife” of Maoist inspired uprisings and 
groupuscules, “case studies in radicalisation” across the globe, the author 
asks of the Chairman’s homeland, “How will the PRC weather the contrast between 
the CCP’s Maoist heritage and the hybrid, globalised nature of contemporary 
China?” (Page 465)

https://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/maoism-a-global-history-julia-lovell-a-socialist-review/

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