Re: [Marxism] It’s Time for the Left to Build a Force Outside the Democratic Party | Left Voice
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * We seem to be so far down the rabbit hole of money-centered corporate-consumerist politics. Raising money to open offices and hire canvassers is no alternative to a system based on that circular process. The alternative to running as Democrats is not running LIKE Democrats. A challenge to the structure of electoral politics has to be reflected in our practice, not just in abstract and aspirational terms. What we need are politics based on people. We need something with membership that will maintain some coherence between elections and generate recognizably good advocates that can run for office and--most importantly--plenty of volunteers to take the case to the wider society. Some years back, when the Green party won over 104,000 votes in this state, I put together a plan to organize and field teams that could cover the state, establishing viable little groups where the vote was in double digits and cultivating a statewide network that would circulate speakers and engage in regular public forums and events. The old Socialists and other insurgents established membership bodies that amounted to roughly a tenth of their voting strength. Out of over 104,000 voters, we could have put together an organization of several thousand and, with the right work, been able to get a significantly higher vote total in the next election. But the self-elected "leaders" feared something of which they would not be guaranteed control. And the bulk of them have since slithered off to the Democrats. As I've pointed out repeatedly, there is no reason why various groups couldn't cobble together a united electoral front at the local, state, regional or national that could do something like this. Make it people-focused and have confidence that good politics will always prevail in a fair fight out in the open. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] It’s Time for the Left to Build a Force Outside the Democratic Party | Left Voice
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * But then if such is the case, what is the alternative right now to running candidates as Dems? Like, what should we actually be doing right now, if not knocking on doors for Comrade Sanders? I also think Sanders will not deliver anything that supporters expect given the circumstances. But without a concrete alternative I don't know where else to spend energy. On Wed, Feb 5, 2020, 4:21 PM Louis Proyect wrote: > On 2/5/20 3:57 PM, A.R. G wrote: > > I assume organizers of such an initiative would need to start by raising > > a significant amount of money simply to open offices, recruit > > canvassers, do election research, etc. And after that they would need to > > be able to compete within the corporate media landscape. It is an > > enormous undertaking and many smaller parties have already failed at it. > > How does one build such a party? > > > The folks advocating this are old school Leninists. They are trying to > launch a new party based on the success of their Argentine comrades, > even though I think that objective circumstances and a flawed > methodology militate against it. > > For me, the only slender thread of a new left party emerging in this > period is if by some miracle Howie Hawkins's campaign begins to exploit > the certain disappointment of the Democratic Party in 2020 that has been > foreshadowed by the Iowa debacle. > > Opportunities to build a new party to the left of the Democrats are far > and few between. Favorable conditions existed in the 1960s when a > Democratic president was carrying out one of the most brutal colonial > wars of the 20th century. Formations like the Peace and Freedom Party > had great promise but sectarian groups derailed them. > > Who knows? Perhaps if the failure of the Sandernista movement exceeds > even my own expectations, the 60,000 plus DSA membership might provide > the impetus for something new. There's maybe a chance of 1 in 100 but > that's better than none. > _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] [UCE] Jimmy Dore, Joe Rogan, and the left | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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Re: [Marxism] It’s Time for the Left to Build a Force Outside the Democratic Party | Left Voice
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 2/5/20 3:57 PM, A.R. G wrote: I assume organizers of such an initiative would need to start by raising a significant amount of money simply to open offices, recruit canvassers, do election research, etc. And after that they would need to be able to compete within the corporate media landscape. It is an enormous undertaking and many smaller parties have already failed at it. How does one build such a party? The folks advocating this are old school Leninists. They are trying to launch a new party based on the success of their Argentine comrades, even though I think that objective circumstances and a flawed methodology militate against it. For me, the only slender thread of a new left party emerging in this period is if by some miracle Howie Hawkins's campaign begins to exploit the certain disappointment of the Democratic Party in 2020 that has been foreshadowed by the Iowa debacle. Opportunities to build a new party to the left of the Democrats are far and few between. Favorable conditions existed in the 1960s when a Democratic president was carrying out one of the most brutal colonial wars of the 20th century. Formations like the Peace and Freedom Party had great promise but sectarian groups derailed them. Who knows? Perhaps if the failure of the Sandernista movement exceeds even my own expectations, the 60,000 plus DSA membership might provide the impetus for something new. There's maybe a chance of 1 in 100 but that's better than none. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] It’s Time for the Left to Build a Force Outside the Democratic Party | Left Voice
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I've seen several pieces arguing this and the Iowa debacle really is making me explore the topic more. But what, in practice, does this look like? What does it mean to "build a force outside the Democratic Party"? Like, what is Step 1? I assume organizers of such an initiative would need to start by raising a significant amount of money simply to open offices, recruit canvassers, do election research, etc. And after that they would need to be able to compete within the corporate media landscape. It is an enormous undertaking and many smaller parties have already failed at it. How does one build such a party? Amith R. Gupta On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 7:23 PM Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > POSTING RULES & NOTES > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > * > > > https://www.leftvoice.org/its-time-for-the-left-to-build-a-force-outside-the-democratic-party > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com > _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] For Lebanon’s Shiites, a Dilemma: Stay Loyal to Hezbollah or Keep Protesting?
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[Marxism] Faulty Iowa App Was Part of Push to Restore Democrats’ Digital Edge
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * NY Times, Feb. 5, 2020 Faulty Iowa App Was Part of Push to Restore Democrats’ Digital Edge By Matthew Rosenberg, Nick Corasaniti, Sheera Frenkel and Nicole The faulty smartphone app behind the chaotic aftermath of Iowa’s Democratic caucuses was the work of a little-known company called Shadow Inc. that was founded by veterans of Hillary Clinton’s unsuccessful presidential campaign, and whose previous work was marked by a string of failures, including a near bankruptcy. The app grew out of a broader push by Democrats, backed by tens of millions of dollars in donor money, to match the Republicans’ prowess in digital advertising and organizing after the 2016 election. Much of the energy and investment have gone into enterprises that are intended to both boost the Democrats’ digital game and turn a profit, like Shadow. Yet instead of showcasing how far the Democrats had come since the 2016 defeat, the disarray surrounding the Iowa caucuses raised new questions about how the party hopes to compete in 2020 with the Trump campaign, a digital juggernaut that is churning out ads and raising record sums of money. “It’s the exact opposite of the Trump team approach — bring the engineers in house, figure out exactly what we need, we build it, we test it, we own it,” said David Goldstein, chief executive of Tovo Labs, a progressive digital consulting firm. Given less than two months to build an app for reporting caucus results to the Iowa Democratic Party, Shadow produced technology that proved difficult to download and use and ended up delivering incorrect tallies. Iowa’s Democrats blamed a “coding issue” in the app, and the party said it would resort to a time-consuming manual tally based on information called in by precinct chairs or pictures sent on their smartphones — the same ones on which they could not make the app work. With the wait on results dragging into Tuesday evening, many in the party began dissecting what turned the Democrats’ first contest of the 2020 election into a chaotic display, starting with Shadow, and its main backer, Acronym, a progressive nonprofit that is focused on helping Democrats regain their digital edge. Shadow, in a tweet, said, “We sincerely regret the delay in the reporting of the results of last night’s Iowa caucuses and the uncertainty it has caused.” But the company offered no explanation for what went wrong, though Democratic officials said that data had been incorrectly transmitted from the app to a central database, and that many users had been unable to follow the complicated process for installing the app on their phones. The fallout spread quickly on Tuesday. Nevada, which like Iowa holds caucuses instead of a primary election, said it was abandoning plans to use Shadow’s app. The Biden campaign, which had hired Shadow to help it reach voters, announced that it had cut ties with the company last year. Founded in 2017, Acronym quickly became a darling of the Democratic donor class with its talk of restoring the digital advantage that the party had enjoyed under President Barack Obama, and that it was seen to have lost in Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 campaign. David Plouffe, the well-connected former Obama campaign manager, joined Acronym’s board. Its founder, Tara McGowan, a former journalist, was the subject of glowing profiles, one of which called her “the Democrats’ Most Dangerous Digital Strategist.” For a time, Acronym appeared poised to deliver on its promise. Late last year, it unveiled a plan to spend $75 million on digital advertising to counter President Trump’s early spending advantage in key battleground states. Months earlier, it also quietly invested millions of dollars in a nearly bankrupt company called Groundbase, a tech firm that renamed itself Shadow soon after. The firm had been founded by a pair of Clinton campaign veterans, Gerard Niemira and Krista Davis, with an initial investment from another progressive nonprofit, Higher Ground Labs. But its main technology, a texting platform designed for campaigns, failed to catch on as users complained that it was slow and cumbersome. The failure left the firm perilously underfunded, and it was close to shutting down when Acronym stepped in with an infusion of cash, and a plan to refocus Groundbase specifically on developing mobile technology for campaigns. The new money brought new projects. There was an email app and a program called Lightrail, which was being built to help the Democratic Party centralize its data. There were also new clients. According to the most recent campaign filing reports, Shadow earned
[Marxism] Cuba’s rivers run clean after decades of sustainable farming : Research Highlights
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[Marxism] 2019 Corona Virus: Oppose the Global Wave of Chauvinist Hysteria!
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[Marxism] Here Are The Billionaires Backing Pete Buttigieg’s Presidential Campaign
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[Marxism] Monthly Review | Marx and the Indigenous
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[Marxism] Monthly Review | Messianic Zionism
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * by Moshé Machover The relation between Zionism and Judaism (the Jewish religion) is paradoxical and complex. In its early days, Zionism was apparently a thoroughly secular political movement. Apparently. In reality, while its ego was secular, its id has always been religious. And in recent times, the latter has emerged from its hidden recess and is parading in full view. A form of religious Zionism has gained influence in Israel, which shares with militant Christian evangelism and Islamic jihadism the character of political movement with fundamentalist religious ideology. https://monthlyreview.org/2020/02/01/messianic-zionism/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] M,This U.S. Official Is Leading the Charge Against Anti-Semitism on College Campuses. Here’s What You Should Know About Him.
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Chronicle of Higher Education, FEBRUARY 03, 2020 PREMIUM This U.S. Official Is Leading the Charge Against Anti-Semitism on College Campuses. Here’s What You Should Know About Him. By Danielle McLean When President Trump signed an executive order aimed at stopping anti-Semitism, in December, colleges were suddenly faced with a new burden: Police anti-Jewish rhetoric on campus, or risk being investigated for a civil-rights violation. But what qualifies as anti-Semitism, and when does a college have a duty to intervene? The writings of one U.S. Education Department official may hold the key to an answer. For more than a decade, Kenneth L. Marcus, the assistant secretary for civil rights, has led a crusade to clamp down on anti-Semitism in academe, in a fashion that aligns with the directives in the executive order. Through two books, numerous op-eds, academic studies and talks, Marcus, a lawyer, has argued that the past 20 years have seen a rise in anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protests on American campuses and in the harassment of Jewish students. He has also asserted that many Middle East-studies programs are biased and dismissive of counter views that support the Jewish right to a homeland in the state of Israel, or Zionism. Since his 2018 appointment to the same post he held during the George W. Bush administration, the Education Department office that enforces civil-rights laws has placed a new focus on the matter. The office has reopened an investigation into a 2011 civil-rights case at Rutgers University using the definition of anti-Semitism that appears in the executive order. In August, the department also ordered revisions in the joint Middle East-studies program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University after the program was deemed biased, in part because it did not offer enough positive imagery of Judaism and Christianity. Marcus, through the Department of Education press office, declined to answer questions about enforcement of the executive order, instead issuing a written statement: “The executive order makes clear that Jewish students are covered by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Title VI provides protection to individuals, including Jewish students, who face discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin. Under Secretary DeVos, it is the policy of OCR to pursue vigorously all forms of discrimination prohibited by Title VI,” he said. But Marcus’s influence over the executive order and recent enforcement actions are clear, according to Samuel Bagenstos, a professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor’s law school. “I think it’s fair to say that Ken Marcus is certainly supportive of and behind a lot of this, and very likely very supportive and behind all of it,” said Bagenstos, who was second in command at the U.S. Department of Justice’s civil-rights division in the Obama administration. Among the biggest hints of Marcus’s influence is that the executive order mirrors his writings. They offer a glimpse of what colleges can expect in the coming months. What, exactly, is in the executive order? The executive order, signed by President Trump in December, essentially requires investigators at the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to regard anti-Semitic bias at colleges to be in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which bans discrimination on the basis of a person’s race, color, or national origin. When investigating whether a violation occurred, the order also mandates U.S. Office for Civil Rights investigators to collect evidence of discriminatory intent by using a definition that characterizes anti-Semitism as “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.” The order specifically directs federal investigators not to infringe anyone’s First Amendment rights. But the definition, previously adopted by the State Department for data-collection purposes, also provides examples of anti-Semitism that include the anti-Israel speech common among progressive activists, who often protest on college campuses. Any speech that challenges Israel’s existence, according to the definition cited in the executive order, is also considered anti-Semitic. As is creating a double standard for Israel — holding it to a standard that is not demanded of other democratic nations. What do we know about Kenneth Marcus’s
[Marxism] Libya Is Being Torn Apart by Outsiders - Citizen Truth
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[Marxism] After Iowa, Does Bernie Have What It Takes? - CounterPunch.org
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * As of this writing, a portion of the results have finally been reported by the Iowa Democratic Party, the enormity Sanders’s missed opportunity has become apparent. Bernie won the statewide popular vote in both the first and second rounds of caucusing, yet Buttigieg won thirty more State Delegate Equivalents, and tied Bernie with ten pledged delegates. Why not take the opportunity to claim victory last night, when your campaign should have known it won the popular vote? He could have used it to rally his forces, to excoriate the DNC and embarrass it after four years of loud complaining that Clinton had won the popular vote but lost the presidency, and to deny Buttigieg’s win legitimacy. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/05/after-iowa-does-bernie-have-what-it-takes/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Trump’s trickle dries up | Michael Roberts Blog
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[Marxism] "Taylor's System and Organization" by Nadezhda Krupskaya - COSMONAUT
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * In this piece, Krupskaya looks at Frederick Taylor’s principles of scientific management and shows how they could be applied to the Soviet government. The early “collegiality”-based Soviet State was leading to inefficiencies all around, which produced a stagnant and unresponsive bureaucracy. Krupskaya believed that scientifically-driven organization would alleviate these organizational problems, and at the same time raise everyone’s consciousness of the work they were doing. She provided several prescriptions for the organization of production to achieve these goals, as well as a rationale for them. https://cosmonaut.blog/2020/02/05/taylors-system-and-organization-by-nadezhda-krupskaya/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
