[Marxism] Captain who rescued migrants at sea refuses medal

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'"Your police [steal] blankets from people that you force to live on the
streets, while you raid protests and criminalize people that are standing
up for rights of migrants and asylum seekers. ... You want to give me a
medal for actions that you fight in your own ramparts," Klemp wrote in the
scathing post.

"It is time we call out hypocrite honorings and fill the void with social
justice," she said.

She went on to say that people don't need medals. "We do not need
authorities deciding about who is a 'hero' and who is 'illegal,' " she
said. "In fact they are in no position to make this call, because we are
all equal."'
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Re: [Marxism] Katyn

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On 8/22/19 7:01 PM, Glenn Kissack wrote:

Okay, but I read his book on Katyn and his meticulous research is very 
impressive.

Glenn


You really need to look at this thing politically. The men killed in 
Katyn were Polish nationalists and completely anti-Communist. While not 
so far to the right as Stephen Bandera, they were possible allies of the 
Germans against the USSR. You also have to examine the Soviet occupation 
of the eastern half of Poland that involved massive repression 
consistent with Stalin's against his own countryman. If he was ready to 
send top Soviet generals to their death for no good reason, why would he 
not want to kill Poland's nationalist elite?

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Re: [Marxism] Katyn

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Okay, but I read his book on Katyn and his meticulous research is very 
impressive.

Glenn


>> A different view on Katyn:
>> https://mltoday.com/book-review-the-mystery-of-the-katyn-massacre/
>> Glenn
> 
> A review of a Grover Furr book? This guy also argued that Trotsky and 
> Bukharin were Nazi spies. That will give you an idea of his credibility.


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Re: [Marxism] Hidden history: The Nazi-Soviet pact which Russia now tries to deny

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On 8/22/19 6:12 PM, DW via Marxism wrote:

Scholars that have
sought to blame the USSR usually, as I understand it, come from very strong
anti-communist backgrounds who seek to sow any trouble in Russian history
at the feet of communists.


Yeah, well, that doesn't sound much like Tamara Deutscher:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/dewar/1966/katyn-massacre.htm


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Re: [Marxism] Katyn

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On 8/22/19 6:11 PM, Glenn Kissack via Marxism wrote:

A different view on Katyn:

https://mltoday.com/book-review-the-mystery-of-the-katyn-massacre/

Glenn


A review of a Grover Furr book? This guy also argued that Trotsky and 
Bukharin were Nazi spies. That will give you an idea of his credibility.

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Re: [Marxism] Katyn

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Ooh, Grover...
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[Marxism] Medium.com: "What I Did in the War" by Michael Balter

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"During the 1960s I was a member of a far-left group. We were so far left,
in fact, that we thought Mao Zedong was a revisionist capitalist roader. We
also believed that revolutionaries should join the military to subvert and
destroy it from within.

"I was an undergraduate student at UCLA when my turn came to carry out this
mission. I mailed my student draft deferment card back to my draft board
along with a letter condemning the war, and was promptly obliged with an
induction notice."
full at
https://medium.com/@michael.balter/what-i-did-in-the-war-e159eaa098ad

This piece was written by a former member of the Progressive Labor Party.
He has a longer memoir in the collection "You Say You Want a Revolution:
SDS, PL, and Adventures in Building a Worker-Student Alliance". Louis
Proyect reviewed the book (mentioning Balter's contribution) in
CounterPunch.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/22/rebuilding-a-revolutionary-left-in-the-usa/

The book is available at
https://www.amazon.com/You-Say-Want-Revolution-Worker-Student/dp/0578406543
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Re: [Marxism] Hidden history: The Nazi-Soviet pact which Russia now tries to deny

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I don't have a dog in this fight but I'm unconvinced by any side in this.
For example the citation in wiki Dayne provided actually is from "Institute
of National Remembrance", the Holocaust denying arm for the
ultra-nationalist Polish state that has been attempting to revise Polish
history to make all Poles look like flaming Unitarian liberals. Note, too,
that the "Beria order" doesn't exist on paper and even this "Institute"
fails to provide a single reference to back this up. Scholars that have
sought to blame the USSR usually, as I understand it, come from very strong
anti-communist backgrounds who seek to sow any trouble in Russian history
at the feet of communists. Not to say they are wrong, of course, but rather
there is real issue with documentation that points to too MANY culprits in
what happened there. So much of this history is blinded by ideological bias
I wouldn't support one side or the other.

David Walters
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[Marxism] Katyn

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A different view on Katyn:

https://mltoday.com/book-review-the-mystery-of-the-katyn-massacre/

Glenn
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Re: [Marxism] Hidden history: The Nazi-Soviet pact which Russia now tries to deny

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On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 12:23 PM Glauber Ataide via Marxism
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> Katyn forest? A supposed soviet crime discovered by...  the nazis?? Do you
> guys really believe this nazi tale?

Katyn Massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
 "The massacre was prompted by NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria's proposal
to execute all captive members of the Polish officer corps, dated 5
March 1940, approved by the Politburo of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union, including its leader, Joseph Stalin. The number of
victims is estimated at about 22,000. The victims were executed in the
Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons, and
elsewhere."
 . . .
 "A number of Russian historians and organizations such as "Memorial"
openly admit the Soviet responsibility, pointing out inconsistencies
in the alternative versions - primarily the fact that another major
mass execution site in Mednoye was never under German occupation and
contained remains of victims originating from the same camps as those
killed in Katyn, killed at the same time, and even though it was only
exhumed in 90's it contained well preserved Polish uniforms,
documents, souvenirs as well as Soviet newspapers dated 1940."
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-War]: Iverson on Stubbs, 'Masters of Violence: The Plantation Overseers of Eighteenth-Century Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia'

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Tristan Stubbs.  Masters of Violence: The Plantation Overseers of
Eighteenth-Century Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia.  Columbia
University of South Carolina Press, 2019.  248 pp.  $44.99 (cloth),
ISBN 978-1-61117-884-5.

Reviewed by Justin Iverson (Northern Illinois University)
Published on H-War (August, 2019)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

Despite the breadth of literature on chattel slavery in early
America, much less is known about plantation overseers or managers
who were charged with making sure the chattel system was profitable
for wealthy patriarchs at the top of the social ladder. Tristan
Stubbs shows in _Masters of Violence_ that on a daily basis overseers
supervised enslaved people while they worked, purchased food and
clothing, distributed supplies, and administered violence to maintain
the system. Why we know so little about them is, as Stubbs notes, in
part because of their absence in the historical record. Thus, by
analyzing the limited written records that overseers produced, and by
reading against the grain of text in colonial newspapers and planter
letters and diaries, Stubbs offers the first book-length project on
overseers in early America. However, as the title _Masters of
Violence_ implies, this is not just a social history of overseers per
se, but also an intellectual history assessing how overseers
influenced the development of enlightened patriarchal ideas in the
eighteenth century. Stubbs argues that stereotypes that planters
developed toward overseers are crucial for understanding the
development of republican masculinity in the South.

Stubbs tracks a shift in how planters viewed overseers over the
course of the eighteenth century in Virginia, South Carolina, and
Georgia. As wage workers for wealthy patriarchs, they held a
dependent status that wealthy Anglo-Saxon colonists abhorred. But in
the early eighteenth century, overseeing was not immutably linked to
dependent status, and Stubbs notes that planters often held positive
feelings toward their managers. Over time negative stereotypes toward
overseers increased, and there were three general denunciations of
overseers during the century. Planters thought that overseers were
bad agriculturalists, that they had little chance of acquiring enough
land to become independent patriarchs, and that they were dishonest
thieves. So why then "by the late eighteenth century, were overseers
stigmatized by figures such as Jefferson as much for their membership
in a dependent 'class,' or 'race' of overseers as for belonging to a
broader class of dependents" (p. 6)?

Stubbs first establishes how overseers managed plantations
differently in each of the three colonies he compares. More
bondpeople were subjected to each overseer in South Carolina and
Georgia than in Virginia, a characteristic he argues occurred
primarily for three reasons. The task system connected to rice and
indigo cultivation in the Deep South required less direct supervision
than the gang system that managers used to cultivate tobacco in
Virginia. Tobacco production was also more labor intensive than rice
production, and excessive costs to drain and ditch fields for rice
inhibited smaller landholders from acquiring land in South Carolina
and Georgia.

As a group, overseers were mostly young white men from lower classes.
Stubbs has found only one example of a woman overseer although
planters hired married overseers for the additional labor that their
spouses produced. They were typically hired during the peak
autumn-winter season, and planters expected them to have basic
literacy and numeracy skills. In addition, they had to be balanced
and sober so that they could rationally manage enslaved people and
not waste plantation resources, which might cut potential profits.
Planters typically hired them for one- or two-year contracts and they
could be fined if they were negligent. Aside from wages, planters
also compensated them with food, crop shares, provisions, and
housing. Importantly, the recruiting process and contract terms were
ways for planters to demonstrate their patriarchal mastery of their
plantations and reinforce their authority. These forms of
compensation reiterated overseers' dependent status, while short
contracts inhibited their ability to challenge a planter's
patriarchal authority.

Overseers' relationships with planters and enslaved people also
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-War]: Hankins on Prorokova and Tal, 'Cultures of War in Graphic Novels: Violence, Trauma, and Memory'

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Tatiana Prorokova, Nimrod Tal, eds.  Cultures of War in Graphic
Novels: Violence, Trauma, and Memory.  New Brunswick  Rutgers
University Press, 2018.  237 pp.  $29.95 (paper), ISBN
978-0-8135-9095-0; $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8135-9096-7.

Reviewed by Mike Hankins (eSchool of Graduate PME, Air University)
Published on H-War (August, 2019)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

The field of comics studies has grown extensively over the past few
decades, and it makes sense that it would start to intersect with
other fields--in this case, military history. For students of comics
studies and the history of art and literature, this book presents
more of the type of analysis typical in those fields, applied to
specific works of sequential art that deal with wars, both historical
and current. For military historians, however, Tatiana Prorokova and
Nimrod Tal's collection of essays offers several new lenses through
which to explore wars in specific and general senses and should be
especially useful to military historians who explore memory and
culture.

Each of the eleven essays in the volume takes a specific work (or
group of related works) of sequential art having to do with war in
one way or another and uses various tools to analyze it. The book is,
therefore, more a product of art history than traditional military
history, but it offers a useful bridge between those fields. A brief
introduction attempts to bring these diverse chapters together,
asserting that "stories about the military are part of the modern
battlefield" and emphasizing that one of the major goals of the
volume is to "de-center" war narratives (p. 1). That means that the
volume aims to both eschew a traditional "center and periphery"
framework and focus on subjects that have garnered less scholarly
attention. Since many famous works of war comics are American and
focus on the Second World War, this book considers no material
related to that war and includes only a small sampling of US-related
subjects.

Outside of this brief introduction, the chapters are centered on
their subjects and left to speak for themselves. Little attempt is
made to convey a broad argument about a relationship between comics
and war or about specific qualities of the comics medium. However,
several of the essays do touch on exactly that point. Joe Lockard's
"Nat Turner, Slave Revolts, and Child-Killing in U.S. Graphic
Novels," Kent Worcester's "Graphic Narrative and the War on Terror,"
and Prorokova's "The Haunting Power of War: Remembering the Rwandan
Genocide in _99 Days_," among others, all emphasize that there is
something unique about the medium of comics that allows it to explore
war narratives in ways that are different from literature, film, or
audio recordings. Like a film, comics unfold in time, yet, like when
reading a book, readers can move back and forth in that narrative at
their will or linger on certain images and text more than others.
Indeed, comics have a "grammar" in how images and text are presented
and juxtaposed in ways that can encourage readers to take certain
approaches in unfolding time in their minds.[1]

Worcester makes this point most clearly when he emphasizes that the
nature of comics allows for dense, layered narratives, that its
sequential panel structure is especially suited for the documentation
of history, and that comics are essentially democratic in that anyone
can make them with few barriers to production and distribution. His
assessment dovetails nicely with Yasmine Nachabe Taan's points in
"Blogging in Times of War: The July 2006 War in Lebanon and Mazen
Kerbaj Imagining the Unimaginable" not only that digital platforms
for distributing comics make the medium more democratic but also that
the comics form is easier to get around government censors in some
countries, and thus comics provide a way to look inside a conflict
that other mediums might not.

Each of the eleven chaptes has something worthy to offer, yet there
are a few standouts that warrant a closer look. One of the most
thought-provoking pieces is Silvia G. Kurlat Ares's "The Malvinas War
in Argentine Memory: Graphic Representations of Defeat and
Nationalism, 1982-2015." Ares shows how every aspect of comics, from
the narratives themselves to the art styles, carries political
weight. Ares asserts that these works are not searching for "truth"
but for "significance." She notes that the comics under 

[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-War]: Canning on Gorrochategui Santos, 'The English Armada: The Greatest Naval Disaster in English History'

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Luis Gorrochategui Santos.  The English Armada: The Greatest Naval
Disaster in English History.  Translated by Peter J. Gold. London
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.  viii + 323 pp.  $36.95 (paper), ISBN
978-1-350-01941-6; $108.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-01697-2.

Reviewed by Ruth A. Canning (Liverpool Hope University)
Published on H-War (August, 2019)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

The year 1588 looms large in English memory. It is regarded as a
moment of national self-definition when a ragtag bunch of English
sailors aboard ill-equipped ships faced the greatest naval power of
the age: Spain. But this was not the momentous victory of popular
imagination; it was an accident, and, as Luis Gorrochategui Santos
points out, the English were not nearly as weak, unprepared, or
unskilled as they are often portrayed. Interpretations of how the
English managed to outmaneuver the Spanish in 1588 warrant revision,
but so too does the English naval response of 1589. Santos's book,
_The English Armada: The Greatest Naval Disaster in English History_,
helps fill a historical void by offering a deep investigation of the
ill-fated and oft-forgotten English Armada of 1589. As the remnants
of the Spanish Armada limped back to Spain, the English decided to
hammer home their victory by sending a fleet to attack what was left
of the Spanish navy. This would firmly establish England's reputation
as a great naval and imperial power, and it would also give England
greater control over the lucrative trade between the Americas and
Europe. The English Armada of 1589 was a massive enterprise, yet
little is known about it, probably because it did not come close to
achieving its aims.

Santos's _The English Armada_ has been translated from its original
Spanish by Peter J. Gold. It is an impressive 323 pages divided into
three parts containing thirty-six chapters and an epilogue. Part 1
begins by placing the Spanish Armada and the Anglo-Spanish rivalry in
the wider European context, giving particular attention to naval
activities during this period. It then provides a synopsis of
military operations before, during, and after the defeat of the
Spanish Armada, detailing the size of ships and crew, navigational
routes, and problems with food and weapon provisions. The day-to-day
operations of these ships are carefully pieced together through
archival records, offering the reader a glimpse into the personal
experiences of captains and crew members. Through his analysis of the
Spanish Armada, Santos challenges the historiographical myth that the
armada was actually defeated. Instead, he argues that "it never shied
away from fighting the English. It continued to rule the waves after
each of the four battles that were fought in the channel. But the
English strategy of avoiding proper confrontation ended up by
exhausting the capacity of the Spanish fleet to remain in the theatre
of operations" (p. 27). Notwithstanding Spanish resolve and English
luck, there is no escaping the fact that the Spanish expedition was
an immense failure.

Part 2 is the longest section in this book, comprising twenty-seven
chapters. It contends that Queen Elizabeth was determined to make the
defeat of the Spanish Armada a reality by launching an offensive on
the surviving ships. She had an additional goal of setting up Dom
António as the puppet king of Portugal, thereby removing it from
Spanish control and making it little better than a vassal state of
England. Santos offers a day-by-day analysis of the English Armada,
from preparations at Plymouth to the tactical decisions made at La
Coruña and Lisbon. The attack and capture of Pescaderia is described
in detail, as is the scramble to make effective defensive
arrangements by Spanish commanders. After two weeks and more than
1,500 casualties, the English were forced to withdraw from La
Coruña, from whence they made their way toward Lisbon.

While the English fleet had been preoccupied in La Coruña, the
Spanish had established strong defenses in Lisbon. The decision to
land English forces at Peniche and march toward Lisbon proved
disastrous as they were harassed by Spanish forces and worn down by
the heat. Upon arriving at Lisbon these English forces were easily
overrun and forced to retreat. Santos continues to trace the
movements of the English fleet, engagements with Spanish forces, and
poor decision-making by English commanders over the following 

Re: [Marxism] Hidden history: The Nazi-Soviet pact which Russia now tries to deny

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On 8/22/19 2:23 PM, Glauber Ataide via Marxism wrote:

Katyn forest? A supposed soviet crime discovered by...  the nazis?? Do you
guys really believe this nazi tale?



Symbolic acknowledgment of culpability over Katyn murders in 1940 
signals Russia's willingness to face up to its past

Tom Parfitt in Moscow

In a symbolic admission of guilt, Russia's parliament has declared that 
Joseph Stalin ordered his secret police to execute 22,000 Polish army 
officers and civilians in 1940, in one of the greatest mass murders of 
the 20th century.


Today's acknowledgment of Stalin's personal culpability over the Katyn 
massacre comes amid a cautious thaw between Moscow and Warsaw, whose 
recent relations have been thorny at best. It was also seen as a sign 
that Russia may finally be ready for muted self-scrutiny over its 
totalitarian past.


Mikhail Gorbachev admitted in 1990 that the NKVD was to blame for the 
massacre, after a half-century of the Soviets blaming it on Nazi troops. 
However, there has never been a formal statement which implicates the 
Soviet leadership in such explicit terms.


full: 
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Katyn forest? A supposed soviet crime discovered by...  the nazis?? Do you
guys really believe this nazi tale?








Am Do., 22. Aug. 2019 um 18:33 Uhr schrieb Michael Meeropol via Marxism <
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[Marxism] Foxnews poll reveals mood in United States

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"Trump isn’t looking so good, but Biden, Warren and Sanders are. Who’s
looking best to most Americans? Barack Obama! That’s the results of a
recent Foxnews opinion poll conducted in mid-August (8/11-13), and it says
something about the general mood in the US today.

"The poll shows approval/disapproval has not changed much. 43% approve
while 56% disapprove. What has changed is the strength of feeling of those
who disapprove. Overall, a year ago, 44% “strongly” disapproved of Trump.
Now 48% “strongly” disapprove. Not only that, but whereas of those who
disapprove of Trump, only 14% “somewhat” disapprove whereas 86% feel
strongly. Compare that to those who approve of Trump, 35% only “somewhat”
approve and 63% feel “strongly”.

"Or put it another way: Only 27% strongly approve of Trump while 48%
strongly disapprove.

This has several implications for next year’s elections. First is that
turnout for the anti-Trump voters is likely to be higher. Second is this:
The 27% who strongly approve of Trump (vs. the 48% who disapprove of him
strongly) are the die-hard Trumpsters. They will support him even if, as he
said, he were to shoot somebody in the middle if Fifth Avenue… or to be
more realistic, if the economy crashes. Many of that remaining 15% who only
“somewhat” approve will melt away like Greenland’s glaciers when the
economy nose dives."

Read more:
https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/08/22/foxnews-reveals-mood-in-the-united-states/

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Re: [Marxism] Hidden history: The Nazi-Soviet pact

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https://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2019/08/22/hidden-history-the-nazi-soviet-pact-which-russia-now-tries-t
 

The author says, “...the Soviet Union was on the same side of the war as 
Hitler.” 
I am not convinced that this was case.  No doubt many instances can be cited of 
Stalin’s co-operation with Hitler, eg. allowing a German vessel to reach the 
Pacific by way of the territorial waters of the USSR.  Also the author cites a 
joint parade.  But to me the common sense meaning of being “on the same side” 
of the war means going into combat together.   I am not aware that that 
happened, although I’d have to admit the the division of Poland might qualify 
as that.


Further on the Nazi-Soviet pact, this account by John Riddell.

https://johnriddell.com/2019/08/14/my-encounter-with-the-trotskyist-movement/#more-5479
 

Soon the conversation turned to the 1939 Stalin-Hitler pact that ushered in 
World War 2. I gave the standard defense: the Soviet Union was forced to accept 
the treaty in order to win time and gain a geographical buffer to fend off a 
likely German attack.

Dowson countered by informing me that, after the pact, the official Communist 
movement abruptly cancelled their campaign in Canada and globally to unite 
progressive forces against fascism. Then he voiced an idea that was totally new 
to me and that I immediately found convincing. What the Soviet Union may have 
gained militarily through the pact, Dowson said, counted for little compared to 
the impact of alienation and disorientation caused among its millions of 
supporters worldwide.


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Re: [Marxism] Hidden history: The Nazi-Soviet pact which Russia now tries to deny

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On 8/22/19 12:14 PM, Michael Meeropol wrote:


But I never thought Stalin was "wrong" --- just that the Soviets took 
advantage of the pact to take over territory they had no business 
annexing --- I guess a reason why Putin wants to justify the pact since 
he just goggled up Crimea 


If it was only taking over territory, it would be one thing but it 
became something else when the cream of Polish society was killed in the 
Katyn forest.


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Re: [Marxism] Hidden history: The Nazi-Soviet pact which Russia now tries to deny

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Whoever wrote this either willfully ignores or REALLY doesn't know about
the failed efforts of the Soviet Union to get the British and French to
ally with them to stop Hitler's attempt to take over Czechoslovakia --- The
Brits and French were anxious for Hitler to go WEST ---

The Nazi- Soviet pact was horrible for the people the Soviets took over but
it did buy Stalin and the Soviets TIME to build up an industrial machine
 when Hitler turned west after conquering Poland ---

What I never could stomach was the WESTERN Communist parties slavishly
following Soviet foreign policy -- even to the extent of, in 1941 before
June 22, attacking FDR for his warlike policies --- a song by the almanac
singers is particularly galling --- I remember a knock down drag out fight
with my father about the pact when I was in my twenties 

But I never thought Stalin was "wrong" --- just that the Soviets took
advantage of the pact to take over territory they had no business annexing
--- I guess a reason why Putin wants to justify the pact since he just
goggled up Crimea 
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Re: [Marxism] Quentin Tarantino, Eileen Jones, and the perils of film school theorizing | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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At NYU there was a Dept. of Cinema Studies and a Dept. of Film & Television
Production. By the mid-70s the theorizing of Screen magazine was taking
center stage, and much of that theorizing was informed by linguistic models
derived from Sassure, psychological interpretations from Lacan,
structuralism, etc, and the jargon was the "suture"," le petit object a",
the "gaze", etc., very different from substituting intellectual montage for
Hollywood montage. I remember the enthusiasm for Noel Burch's article
classifying Hollywood movies according to their formal challenges to the
dominant ideology, where violation of the Hollywood representational codes
constituted a critique. The other big article was Stephen Heath's piece on
Touch of Evil in Screen. My point is that the movies were used as examples
to prove the theoru rather than as investigative tools for understanding
the movie.

Richard Modiano

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 8:11 AM Jeffrey Masko 
wrote:

> Good and bad news here, the bad news is as an academic subject, we do use
> jargon - such as "intellectual montage" instead of "Hollywood montage" -
> comes from theory, so yes jargon can still be used to mystify positions
> taken on interpretation. One the other hand, we are a long way away from
> the 70s; film study in no longer a humanities based project, but more
> fruitfully finds its home in communication studies, especially mass comm,
> among others. One of my mentors, Bill Nichols had read ALL film criticism
> while at UCLA in the early 70s; now one could not read all of the
> literature coming out in any given quarter, so quite a bit more going on
> now than in the 70s. To me this is not a question of using theory, but
> which ones and to what extent and purpose.
>
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[Marxism] Hybrid Wars Are Destroying Democracies: The Thirty-Fourth Newsletter (2019).

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Good and bad news here, the bad news is as an academic subject, we do use
jargon - such as "intellectual montage" instead of "Hollywood montage" -
comes from theory, so yes jargon can still be used to mystify positions
taken on interpretation. One the other hand, we are a long way away from
the 70s; film study in no longer a humanities based project, but more
fruitfully finds its home in communication studies, especially mass comm,
among others. One of my mentors, Bill Nichols had read ALL film criticism
while at UCLA in the early 70s; now one could not read all of the
literature coming out in any given quarter, so quite a bit more going on
now than in the 70s. To me this is not a question of using theory, but
which ones and to what extent and purpose.
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[Marxism] Hidden history: The Nazi-Soviet pact which Russia now tries to deny

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[Marxism] A GI Rebellion: When Soldiers Said No to War - CounterPunch.org

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Re: [Marxism] Taibbi on Trump 2020: Be Very Afraid – Rolling Stone

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OK -- so I read it --- the people attending Trump rallies are a small
proportion of the people who VOTED for Trump --- I think a pair of shoes
will beat Trump this time around so long as the black electorate votes at
close to Obama level turnouts --- especially in Milwaukee, Detroit,
Pittsburgh --- Even Bernie would win (despite very intense red-baiting and
anti-semitism) ---

It is true -- Democratic infighting could ruin everything but this time
around, I really think Trumps fascism and racism will bring out more black
and brown voters than in 2016 ---

and (here I violate the purity standards) it is essential that everyone do
whatever they can to make sure Trump loses --- I really think it is
LITERALLY a matter of humanity's survival -- not that beating him will
change US policy enough to start to turn the corner against carbon
pollution - BUT -- if he wins, the earth is finished!



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It's not, but using theory to inform interpretation to understand film and
study of film is. It needed not be filled with academic jargon, but it does
need to be in dialogue with those perspectives that lead us away from
Marxist theories - or others- that help us better understand about the
connection between politics and ideology as proposed by Gramsci (in my
case), or for someone like Ron Betting, how the political economy of Big
Media functions from a Marxist perspective. You know, basic stuff.
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[Marxism] (23) Primitive Accumulation conference - YouTube

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Keynote addresses.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOinCva4xJeMS64vE5Vy-97YcVsygo_Qd
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[Marxism] Big Tech, a Conservative Provocateur and the Fight Over Disinformation

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(Don't look at Russian interference as an explanation for Trump's 
victory in 2016 and possibly upcoming in 2020. It is sinister AMERICAN 
operations like this acting in combination with "legitimate" news 
outlets like Fox News, combined with Democratic Party ineptitude, that 
accounts for it.)


NY Times, August 22, 2019
Big Tech, a Conservative Provocateur and the Fight Over Disinformation
By Nicholas Confessore and Justin Bank

Each day, in an office outside Phoenix, a team of young writers and 
editors curates reality.


In the America presented on their news and opinion website, 
WesternJournal.com, tradition-minded patriots face ceaseless assault by 
anti-Christian bigots, diseased migrants and race hustlers concocting 
hate crimes. Danger and outrages loom. A Mexican politician threatens 
the “takeover” of several American states. Police officers are kicked 
out of an Arizona Starbucks. Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential 
candidate, proposes a “$100 billion handout” for black families.


The Western Journal is not quite a household name. Until recently, some 
of its most prolific writers used pseudonyms. Though it publishes scores 
of stories each week about national politics, the company has no 
Washington bureau, or any other bureaus. Indeed, it rarely dispatches 
reporters into the world to gather news firsthand.


In the parallel universe of Facebook, though, The Western Journal has 
been among the most popular and influential publications in America, 
shaping the political beliefs of more than 36 million deeply loyal 
readers and followers. In the three years ending in March, according to 
a New York Times analysis, Western Journal’s Facebook posts earned 
three-quarters of a billion shares, likes and comments, almost as many 
as the combined tally of 10 leading American news organizations that 
together employ thousands of reporters and editors.


But in the last year, as Facebook and Google tried to rein in their own 
freewheeling, largely unregulated information ecosystems, The Western 
Journal’s publishers have been thrust into a high-stakes clash between 
the tech industry and Washington.


The Western Journal rose on the forces that have remade — and warped — 
American politics, as activists, publishers and politicians harnessed 
social media’s power and reach to serve fine-tuned ideological content 
to an ever-agitated audience. Founded by the veteran conservative 
provocateur Floyd G. Brown, who began his career with the race-baiting 
“Willie Horton” ad during the 1988 presidential campaign, and run by his 
younger son, Patrick, The Western Journal used misleading headlines and 
sensationalized stories to attract partisans, then profit from their anger.


But Silicon Valley’s efforts to crack down on clickbait and 
disinformation have pummeled traffic to The Western Journal and other 
partisan news sites. Some leading far-right figures have been kicked off 
social media platforms entirely, after violating rules against hate 
speech and incitement. Republican politicians and activists have alleged 
that the tech companies are unfairly censoring the right, threatening 
conservatives’ ability to sway public opinion and win elections.


Those attacks have been led by President Trump. While he and his aides 
once credited his 2016 upset victory to the power of Facebook and 
Twitter, they now routinely accuse the same companies of bias.


In July, Mr. Trump hosted a “social media summit” featuring conservative 
activists who claim to have been censored online. His administration is 
drafting an executive order that would impose federal oversight of the 
platforms’ content-moderation policies, a startling departure from 
decades of deregulatory orthodoxy on the right.


Now The Western Journal — like Mr. Trump — is battling the very 
technology firms that enabled its rise. Its Facebook traffic has 
declined sharply. Google News blacklisted the publication last year for 
what Google ruled were deceptive business practices. Apple News followed 
suit in June, saying one or more Western Journal stories had advocated 
“views overwhelmingly rejected by the scientific community.”


“Facebook has determined to put The Western Journal out of business,” 
Floyd Brown wrote in a June email to many of the site’s 1.6 million 
newsletter subscribers.


The Western Journal’s parent company has hired a Washington lobbyist to 
push back against digital censorship, and the website has published a 
series of stories and in-house studies claiming that Silicon Valley’s 
new rules have discriminated against conservative publishers and 
politicians. The Browns have also sought to join Mr. 

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It is pretty hilarious. How can anyone watch a Trump speech and come away 
saying, "those Democrats are so negative, not like this guy". 

Republicans have been warning about the end of the country for decades. Really 
weird how he basically reproduces the spin from the right...
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If higher ed is going to be the yardstick for what is and isn't Marxism, is
it out of order to suggest seppuku.
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[Marxism] PFAS contamination: Michigan's biggest environmental crisis in decades

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[Marxism] Taibbi on Trump 2020: Be Very Afraid – Rolling Stone

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(Matt Taibbi knows how to write. Too bad he doesn't know how to think.)

The average American likes meat, sports, money, porn, cars, cartoons, 
and shopping. Less popular: socialism, privilege-checking, and the world 
ending in 10 years. Ironically, perhaps because of Trump, Democratic 
Party rhetoric in 2020 is relentlessly negative about the American 
experience. Every speech is a horror story about synagogue massacres or 
people dying without insulin or atrocities at the border. Republicans 
who used to complain about liberals “apologizing for America” were being 
silly, but 2020 Democrats sound like escapees from the Killing Fields.


Ronald Reagan once took working-class voters away from Democrats by 
offering permission to be proud of the flag. Trump offers permission to 
occupy the statistical American mean: out of shape, suffering from gas, 
poorly read, anti-intellectual, treasuring things above meaning, and 
hiding an awful credit history.


full: 
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/taibbi-trump-2020-be-very-afraid-872299/

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[Marxism] Moving Targets: DSA’s 2019 Convention – New Politics

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If you read this carefully, the only conclusion you can draw is that the 
DSA will implode just as SDS did a half-century ago. In its first 
convention since it became the greatest thing since sliced bread, the 
unresolved contradictions stick out like a sore thumb. (Sorry for the 
mixed metaphors.)


https://newpol.org/moving-targets-dsas-2019-convention/
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[Marxism] [UCE] Puerto Rico: The organic crisis and the alternatives - International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

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[Marxism] [UCE] Washington Babylon Episode 19: Catarina Lorenzo and Arely on the Wyatt in Central Falls RI, Ken Interviews Silky Shah and Dr. Peggy Mustelier about ‘The Shock Corridor’ and Krome Deten

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[Marxism] Columbia Had Little Success Placing English Ph.D.s on the Tenure Track.

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Chronicle of Higher Education, AUGUST 21, 2019  PREMIUM
Columbia Had Little Success Placing English Ph.D.s on the Tenure Track. 
‘Alarm’ Followed, and the University Responded.

By Emma Pettit

At Columbia University, a poor job-placement record for Ph.D candidates 
in the English department created some "alarm" in the program, according 
to a letter that circulated there this year.


The news was grim. Columbia University’s English department had failed 
to place a single current Ph.D. candidate into a tenure-track job this 
year. And 19 new doctoral students had accepted admission into the 
program, raising questions about why the cohort is so large when the job 
prospects aren’t plentiful. This had “given rise to some alarm,” 
concerned graduate students wrote in an April 30 letter to department 
leadership.


For anyone who dreams of tenure, the pressure is constant, and the 
chances are slim. It's a truth English departments are having to 
reorient toward.


According to the letter, circulated by the department’s graduate student 
council and obtained by The Chronicle, the lack of tenure-track 
placements exacerbated continuing concerns about the department’s 
structure and culture, namely large student cohorts, uneven mentorship, 
insufficient teaching opportunities, and the deprioritization of 
non-academic work. Graduate students were asking the department to take 
“meaningful, measurable steps” to address these concerns.


“We understand exactly why they were so worried,” said Alan Stewart, 
chair of Columbia’s English and comparative-literature department. (He 
noted that since the letter was sent, one Ph.D. candidate has landed a 
tenure-track job, another landed a permanent, non-tenure-track job in 
academe, and five others got multi-year postdocs.) At the time, there 
was a feeling of great anxiety among the graduate students who were on 
the academic job market, Stewart said, and not without reason. In the 
past decade, the number of jobs in English advertised by the Modern 
Language Association has dropped by 55 percent. Of the jobs that are 
left, a shrinking percentage exist on the tenure track.


For anyone who dreams of tenure, the pressure is constant, and the 
chances are slim. It’s a truth English departments are having to 
reorient toward. Columbia kept its head above water for a while, in 
regard to placing graduate students at academic institutions, said 
Stewart. And it’s always placed people outside of academe. But the 
letter prompted the department to think about how to make alternative 
career paths a part of graduate school “the minute our students get to 
us,” he said.


‘Find Where Else They Might Be Happy’

These issues are broader than just one department, the letter 
acknowledges. But the current agreement with the Graduate School of Arts 
and Sciences regarding cohort size “forces graduate students to compete 
with one another for opportunities that should be guaranteed.” As it 
stands, the department culture is “unacceptably hands-off and 
competitive,” the letter says. (Stewart said there’s nothing unusual 
about accepting 19 doctoral students. And the claim that the department 
is hands-off and competitive “surprised and slightly dismayed” him.) 
Carlos J. Alonso, the Arts and Sciences dean, did not respond to an 
interview request.


The letter, signed by more than 80 people, demanded active mentorship 
from all faculty members. Students must feel comfortable discussing a 
range of employment options with their advisers, it says, and Ph.D. 
candidates should be familiar with things like job-market terminology, 
dossier formats, databases, and job listings well before the placement 
seminar begins. Students also want a policy that bans discrimination 
against Ph.D. candidates who decide not to continue in academe. Among 
other things, they also want the department to publish “transparent and 
accurate” placement information, including the total number of current 
Ph.D. candidates on the market. (Currently it publishes yearly data on 
which students landed academic positions, including at high schools. 
Last year, four candidates landed tenure-track positions at colleges.)


Once the letter was sent in early May, the department acted immediately, 
Stewart said. A faculty meeting was held, then a town-hall meeting with 
the graduate students where they went through all of the concerns, which 
was a useful first step, he said. There’s also been follow-up contact 
with the graduate student council, he said.


The graduate-school operation at Columbia is very hands on, Stewart 
said. What the English graduate students want is for the department to 
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Many take the separation between science and politics for granted, but 
this view of science has its own political history: it was developed, in 
part, as an anti-communist tool of the Cold War.


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descent into fascist barbarism and are related to the inherent 
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*100^th Anniversary of The Birth of Theodore W. Allen*

*His Major Collection of Papers is Now Available at UMass-Amherst 
(alongside those of W.E.B. Du Bois) and an initial Inventory is at 
http://scua.library.umass.edu/umarmot/allen-theodore-w-1919-2005/


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Theodore W. “Ted” Allen (1919-2005) was an anti-white supremacist, 
working class intellectual and activist. He developed his pioneering 
class struggle-based analysis of “white skin privilege” beginning in the 
mid-1960s; authored the seminal two-volume /The Invention of the White 
Race/ in the 1990s; and consistently maintained that the struggle 
against white supremacy was central to efforts at radical social change 
in the United States.  Born on August 23, 1919, in Indianapolis, 
Indiana, he grew up in Paintsville, Kentucky and Huntington, West 
Virginia and, after moving to New York City, lived his last fifty-plus 
years in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.


Allen's two-volume /The Invention of the White Race/ (1994, 1997: Verso 
Books, new expanded edition 2012) with its focus on racial oppression 
and social control is one of the twentieth-century's major contributions 
to historical understanding. It presents a full-scale challenge to what 
he refers to as "The Great White Assumption" -- the unquestioning 
acceptance of the "white race" and "white" identity as skin color-based 
and natural attributes rather than as social and political 
constructions. Its thesis on the origin, nature, and maintenance of the 
"white race" and its understanding that slavery in the Anglo-American 
plantation colonies was capitalist and enslaved Black laborers were 
proletarians, contain the basis of a revolutionary approach to United 
States labor history.


On the back cover of the 1994 edition of Volume 1, subtitled /Racial 
Oppression and Social Control/, Allen boldly asserted "When the first 
Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people 
there; nor, according to the colonial records, would there be for 
another sixty years." That statement, based on 20-plus years of primary 
research in Virginia's colonial records, reflected the fact that Allen 
found no instance of the official use of the word "white" as a token of 
social status prior to its appearance in a Virginia law passed in 1691. 
As he later explained, "Others living in the colony at that time were 
English; they had been English when they left England, and naturally 
they and their Virginia-born children were English, they were not 
'white.' White identity had to be carefully taught, and it would be only 
after the passage of some six crucial decades" that the word "would 
appear as a synonym for European-American."


In this context he offers his major thesis -- that the "white race" was 
invented as a ruling class social control formation in response to labor 
solidarity as manifested in the latter (civil war) stages of Bacon's 
Rebellion (1676-77). To this he adds two important corollaries: 1) the 
ruling elite deliberately instituted a system of racial privileges to 
define and maintain the "white race" and to implement a system of racial 
oppression, and 2) the consequence was not only ruinous to the interest 
of African Americans, it was also disastrous for European-American workers.


     In Volume II, on /The Origin of Racial Oppression in 
Anglo-America/, Allen tells the story of the invention of the “white 
race” and the development of the system of racial oppression in the late 
seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Anglo-American plantation 
colonies. His primary focus is on the pattern-setting Virginia colony, 
and he pays special attention to the reduction of tenants and 
wage-laborers in the majority English labor force to chattel 
bond-servants in the 1620s. In so doing, he emphasizes that this was a 
qualitative break from the condition of laborers in England and from 
long established English labor law, that it was not a feudal carryover, 
that it was imposed under capitalism, and that it was an essential 
precondition of the emergence of the lifetime hereditary chattel 
bond-servitude imposed upon African-American laborers under the system 
of racial slavery. Allen describes how, throughout much of the 
seventeenth century, the status of African-Americans was indeterminate 
(because it was still being fought out) and he details the similarity of 
conditions for African-American and European-American laborers and 
bond-servants. He also documents many significant instances of labor 
solidarity and unrest, especially during the 1660s and 1670s. Of great 
significance is his analysis of the civil war stage of Bacon’s 

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*Syria: The Fall of the Martyr City Khan Sheikhoun*

*/Despite this setback, the struggle against the tyranny of the Assad 
regime continues!/*


/By Michael Pröbsting,//22 August 2019/

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