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Thomas writes with fact-heavy authority, in a series of travelogue-style 
reports, about the ecological calamity of the fashion industry. Global 
consumers buy 80 billion articles of clothing each year, but far more is 
produced; up to 20 percent of mass-produced clothing does not sell, even 
after big price knockdowns. These unsold goods end up being buried, 
shredded, burned, or carted off to landfills by the producers. Fashion 
production consumes a staggering 25 percent of all of the chemicals made 
on earth and is responsible for nearly 20 percent of worldwide water 
pollution; almost 90 percent of fresh and seawater samples contain 
microfibers, which have even been found in Antarctica.


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[Marxism] The rancid politics of the Douma false-flag brigades | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist


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Almost a year ago, a group of pro-Assad academics in England organized 
as the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media and led by the 
odious Tim Hayward posted a report on their website written by former 
OPCW (Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) employee Ian 
Henderson that was a highly technical rebuttal to the official report, 
which concluded that dozens of Syrians living in Douma were killed by 
gas released from a weaponized chlorine tank dropped by a regime helicopter.


Delivered as a series of bullet points, Henderson’s report concluded:

	In summary, observations at the scene of the two locations, together 
with subsequent analysis, suggest that there is a higher probability 
that both cylinders were manually placed at those two locations rather 
than being delivered from aircraft.


That “manually placed” could have only meant one thing. Even though 
Henderson stopped short of stating it, it was left to the pro-Assad 
academics to state it for him. This was a “false flag” intended to 
provoke American intervention. Not only did they conclude that jihadis 
planted the chlorine tanks, they also killed dozens of Douma residents 
beforehand to make the false flag plausible: “As we have previously 
noted, if the Douma attack was staged the only plausible explanation for 
the deaths of the victims is that they were murdered as captives by the 
opposition group in control of Douma at the time.”


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[Marxism] New Hampshire primaries: Some tentative thoughts and questions

2020-02-12 Thread John Reimann via Marxism

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"It is still far, far to early to draw any conclusions, but the results of
yesterday’s New Hampshire (NH) primary leave open the question of where
Bernie Sanders really stands in the Democratic Party race, never mind
whether he can defeat Trump.

*Democrats’ liberal vs. conservative wings*Four years ago, Sanders won 60%
of the vote against Hillary Clinton in the NH primary. This time, against
multiple candidates, he got 26% vs. 24% for Buttigieg and 20% for
Klobuchar. He and his supporters are trumpeting this as a great victory,
but is it really? Basically, the Democratic Party falls into two camps –
the “progressives” (i.e. liberals) and the “moderates” (actually,
conservatives), with Sanders and Warren (to an extent) representing the
former. Together, their wing got 35% of the votes. The conservative wing of
Buttigieg, Klobuchar and Biden got 52%. (Other candidates such as Steyer
and Gabbard cannot really be classified as being in either wing.)"
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[Marxism] The Network Trial in Context

2020-02-12 Thread Thomas Campbell via Marxism

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 Former political prisoner Vladimir Akimenkov and anti-war activist Elena
Zaharova argue that the harsh verdict in the Network trial in Penza should
be seen not as exceptional but as consistent with the brutal treatment
meted out by the Putin regime to other "terrorists" and "extremists" in
Russia, including Chechens, Crimean Tatars, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Khimki
Forest defenders, and Hizb ut-Tahrir, and such "incorrect" political
prisoners as the Primorsky Partisans, the NBP, and Boris Stomakhin. Like
the Kremlin's war against Syrians, the vast majority of Russians either
have ignored these other recent or ongoing crackdowns or really know
nothing about them, just as, until literally the other day, they showed no
concern about the tortured antifascists in the Network Case, a case that
began in October 2017.

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Re: [Marxism] 2020 - Sanders Takes Top Spot In Dem Quinnipiac University Connecticut

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 John Reimann  wrote:

>
>
>
> As far as budget deficits: yes, they do matter... in almost all countries.
> The laws of the market dictate that if there is an increased supply of a
> currency and it does not correspond to an increase in production on which
> to spend that currency, then it will require more of that currency to
> exchange for products. Internationally it means that capital will tend to
> leave that currency. In other words, inflation.
>
> The US is in an exceptional position because of the role of the dollar in
> international trade and finance. The fact that to this day the US economy
> is still the strongest and most stable has made the dollar universally more
> desirable. By floating increased amounts of dollar-based debt, what the US
> is doing is making international capitalists pay for their spendthrift ways
> at home. That cannot continue forever, especially as US capitalism is being
> challenged by Chinese capitalism.
>
> Yes, debt does have to be repaid. Or, put another way, the US government
> does have to pay back those loans/bonds and T notes, or at least there has
> to be confidence that it will do so.

If the deficit (and debt) rise in step with production --- (a fairly stable
debt/GDP ratio) then according to John there seems to be no problem.  WHY,
then does he insist that the debt has to be repaid.   T-notes, bonds, etc
can be rolled over.   Dollars borrowed to fight the American Civil War have
been rolled over ever since ---same with the dollars borrowed to finance
WWII or LBJ's escalation of the Vietnam War --

The idea that inflation is an inevitable outcome of surges in deficits (and
therefore the total outstandiing National Debt) --- say between 1981 and
1990 --- is refuted by the experience of the 1970s inflations (very little
deficit spending in the US) and the 1980s conquest of inflation (in the
face of surging deficits).

Or what about the big run-up in deficit spending since 2008?

It is of course true that at some point if the deficit as a percentage of
GDP gets "TOO HIGH" international buyers of the nation's debt will stop
buying --

So what happens in that case -- well in Japan, the Japanese Central Bank
has bought up most of the gigantic national debt that has accumulated there
since the 1990s 

I am not an aficianado of MMT but the basic idea that a national government
that borrows its own currency can do so without damaging any long run
macro-economic processes appears to me to be borne out by history ...
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Re: [Marxism] Slavery and Anglo‐American capitalism revisited - WRIGHT - - The Economic History Review - Wiley Online Library

2020-02-12 Thread Michael Meeropol via Marxism

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I have known Gavin Wright for over 50 years -- I have respected his work
since I first adopted his book THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE COTTON SOUTH
for my American Economic History classes back in 1980 ---

This review article is incredibly detailed and very convincing --- I
recommend it highly

Thank you, Louis for posting it  (I read a text of the lecture last
summer but this version has all the references  )
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> On Feb 12, 2020, at 12:41 PM, John Reimann <1999wild...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Basically, what the advocates of MMT argue is that their policy can overcome 
> the fundamental contradictions of capitalism itself. In other words, 
> reformism.

There’s certainly no reason to read anything when you already “know” what it 
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Re: [Marxism] 2020 - Sanders Takes Top Spot In Dem Quinnipiac University Connecticut

2020-02-12 Thread John Reimann via Marxism

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Basically, what the advocates of MMT argue is that their policy can
overcome the fundamental contradictions of capitalism itself. In other
words, reformism.

John Reimann

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 8:55 AM MM  wrote:

> On Feb 12, 2020, at 11:07 AM, John Reimann via Marxism <
> marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
> Yes, debt does have to be repaid. Or, put another way, the US government
> does have to pay back those loans/bonds and T notes, or at least there has
> to be confidence that it will do so. At some point, as the world becomes
> flooded with dollars, the only way that the US government can maintain that
> confidence will be to increase the interest rate paid on those instruments.
> Does anybody think that won't have an affect?
>
>
> The US only has to issue bonds and T-bills because it’s a discretionary
> legal requirement imposed by Congress; there is no other basis for that
> requirement. I realize you aren’t going to read any of the materials that
> deal with all of this, but I’m not going to waste any more time dealing
> with fundamental misunderstandings like this. They’ve been dealt with at
> length in the MMT literature.
>


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[Marxism] Joint Statement: Down with French Neo-Colonialism in West Africa!

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> On Feb 12, 2020, at 11:07 AM, John Reimann via Marxism 
>  wrote:
> 
> Yes, debt does have to be repaid. Or, put another way, the US government
> does have to pay back those loans/bonds and T notes, or at least there has
> to be confidence that it will do so. At some point, as the world becomes
> flooded with dollars, the only way that the US government can maintain that
> confidence will be to increase the interest rate paid on those instruments.
> Does anybody think that won't have an affect?

The US only has to issue bonds and T-bills because it’s a discretionary legal 
requirement imposed by Congress; there is no other basis for that requirement. 
I realize you aren’t going to read any of the materials that deal with all of 
this, but I’m not going to waste any more time dealing with fundamental 
misunderstandings like this. They’ve been dealt with at length in the MMT 
literature.
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Look at what happened to Mitterand, who was elected on the most ambitious 
reformist program we’ve seen after the post-WW2 ”golden decades”. There’s no 
need to go all conspiracy theory to see the problem of finance markets for 
reformism.

> 
> ”What Daniel is implying is that the financial markets are controlled by the 
> political decisions of the capitalist class.”
> 
> No, I don’t mean to imply that they are CONTROLLED. What I said is they 
> REACT. There’s a very important difference between those words. Financial 
> markets certainly react as they do PARTLY because of conscious decisions in 
> times of conflict (capital flight, destabilization) and partly because people 
> with power over large sums of money tend to become worried about spending on 
> welfare but not so worried by spending on bail outs and arms. 
> 
>> 
>> Daniel Lindvall wrote: "The financial markets (i.e. the ruling class) react
>> one way when spending goes to bailing out businesses (or buying more guns),
>> and in an entirely opposed way when it goes to improving the lives of the
>> working class and the general population."
>> 
> 

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”What Daniel is implying is that the financial markets are controlled by the 
political decisions of the capitalist class.”

No, I don’t mean to imply that they are CONTROLLED. What I said is they REACT. 
There’s a very important difference between those words. Financial markets 
certainly react as they do PARTLY because of conscious decisions in times of 
conflict (capital flight, destabilization) and partly because people with power 
over large sums of money tend to become worried about spending on welfare but 
not so worried by spending on bail outs and arms. 

> 
> Daniel Lindvall wrote: "The financial markets (i.e. the ruling class) react
> one way when spending goes to bailing out businesses (or buying more guns),
> and in an entirely opposed way when it goes to improving the lives of the
> working class and the general population."
> 
> What Daniel is implying is that the financial markets are controlled by the
> political decisions of the capitalist class. Another version of this same
> view is the one that claims that US and European capitalists crashed the
> price of oil for political ends - possibly in order to destabilize a
> then-radical Chavez regime.
> 

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Re: [Marxism] 2020 - Sanders Takes Top Spot In Dem Quinnipiac University Connecticut

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Daniel Lindvall wrote: "The financial markets (i.e. the ruling class) react
one way when spending goes to bailing out businesses (or buying more guns),
and in an entirely opposed way when it goes to improving the lives of the
working class and the general population."

What Daniel is implying is that the financial markets are controlled by the
political decisions of the capitalist class. Another version of this same
view is the one that claims that US and European capitalists crashed the
price of oil for political ends - possibly in order to destabilize a
then-radical Chavez regime.

I disagree. Capitalism has its own laws of motion and not even the most
powerful capitalists can override those laws.

As far as budget deficits: yes, they do matter... in almost all countries.
The laws of the market dictate that if there is an increased supply of a
currency and it does not correspond to an increase in production on which
to spend that currency, then it will require more of that currency to
exchange for products. Internationally it means that capital will tend to
leave that currency. In other words, inflation.

The US is in an exceptional position because of the role of the dollar in
international trade and finance. The fact that to this day the US economy
is still the strongest and most stable has made the dollar universally more
desirable. By floating increased amounts of dollar-based debt, what the US
is doing is making international capitalists pay for their spendthrift ways
at home. That cannot continue forever, especially as US capitalism is being
challenged by Chinese capitalism.

Yes, debt does have to be repaid. Or, put another way, the US government
does have to pay back those loans/bonds and T notes, or at least there has
to be confidence that it will do so. At some point, as the world becomes
flooded with dollars, the only way that the US government can maintain that
confidence will be to increase the interest rate paid on those instruments.
Does anybody think that won't have an affect?

John Reimann

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> On Feb 12, 2020, at 8:37 AM, MM  wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 12, 2020, at 8:27 AM, Daniel Lindvall > > wrote:
>> 
>> The question remains, how can Sanders stand up to the pressure of finance 
>> capital and what forces does he have behind him to make this stand possible?
> 
> Absolutely. It won’t happen without a fight, and the odds are vastly against 
> us.

I should add: The myth of the scarcity of liquidity — the central myth MMT is 
working to debunk, I would say — is a myth perpetuated by the ruling class 
(and, sadly, some Marxists, if unwittingly). The ruling class has understood it 
was false since at least the 1940s, when US war spending eliminated any 
remaining doubts; see Sam Levey’s piece, "Modern Money and the War Treasury” 
for details, including some amazing passages from Walter Lippmann. (Actually, 
ruling elites have understood much of what MMT has tried to clarify and 
systematize for millennia; see Michael Hudson’s book “… and forgive them their 
debts…” for a sweeping historical survey.) Countering and debunking the myth, 
and exposing the damage that has been done under its cover, is part of the 
process of building the movement that can force another path. It doesn’t 
eliminate the need for class struggle; it simply opens up possibilities for 
class struggle that the working class hasn’t generally grasped.
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> On Feb 12, 2020, at 8:27 AM, Daniel Lindvall  
> wrote:
> 
> The question remains, how can Sanders stand up to the pressure of finance 
> capital and what forces does he have behind him to make this stand possible?

Absolutely. It won’t happen without a fight, and the odds are vastly against us.
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I would support every attempt at expanding the public sector (in useful ways, 
obviously not the military, for instance) and every attempt at taking over 
industries, failing or not! And I would have voted Sanders too, had I been 
American. But as long as you have a private finance sector it can wreak massive 
havoc on any such attempts. Mitterand backed down quickly 40 years ago and that 
was a time and a place where objectively this process should have been less 
difficult. The Scandinavian social democracies Sanders seems to admire have 
stood for nothing but neoliberal anti-reformism since the early 80s as well 
(Swedish social democracy has presided over the fastest growing gap between 
labour and capital of any OECD nation). The question remains, how can Sanders 
stand up to the pressure of finance capital and what forces does he have behind 
him to make this stand possible?

>> 
>> 
>> Agreed. But surely the real problem with spending is about ideology and 
>> class struggle. The financial markets (i.e. the ruling class) react one way 
>> when spending goes to bailing out businesses (or buying more guns), and in 
>> an entirely opposed way when it goes to improving the lives of the working 
>> class and the general population. 
> 
> Which is why you use that spending power to expand the public sector. You 
> could even use it to — gasp — take over failing industries, and wind them 
> down if they aren’t usefully productive, transitioning the workforce into 
> things we want done. But it’s easier to think of ways it can’t work than to 
> do it.

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Medway Baker reviews and contextualizes a short documentary on struggles 
of the Wet’suwet’en against the modern Canadian state.


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In 1982 William R. Catton published OVERSHOOT The Ecological Basis of 
Revolutionary Change. In it Cattonl illustrates the trap we humans have 
set for ourselves. Fossil fuels have allowed humans to live from what 
Catton calls “ghost acres,” the land or ocean that would be necessary to 
produce the various goods we make or grow using fossil fuels. We are 
spending the capital of what from this perspective is nature’s bank 
account. This has allowed the population and the way of life for many to 
greatly exceed the carrying capacity of the planet. In so doing we have 
lost the ability to live within our means. We have overshot that ability 
by a wide margin.


https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/12/irrational-exuberance/
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> On Feb 12, 2020, at 3:00 AM, Daniel Lindvall  
> wrote:
> 
> Agreed. But surely the real problem with spending is about ideology and class 
> struggle. The financial markets (i.e. the ruling class) react one way when 
> spending goes to bailing out businesses (or buying more guns), and in an 
> entirely opposed way when it goes to improving the lives of the working class 
> and the general population. 

Which is why you use that spending power to expand the public sector. You could 
even use it to — gasp — take over failing industries, and wind them down if 
they aren’t usefully productive, transitioning the workforce into things we 
want done. But it’s easier to think of ways it can’t work than to do it.
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[Marxism] What are the Lessons of the UK Election? On two underemphasised factors.

2020-02-12 Thread andrew coates via Marxism

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http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article51992

What are the Lessons of the UK Election? On two underemphasised factors.
Rohini Hensman.

"Corbyn’s Brexit policy – crafted not by the party as a whole, not even by the 
shadow cabinet, but by a group of advisors and officials around him – played an 
important role in the Labour defeat. Weaknesses in foreign policy also 
contributed."

"Corbyn’s advisors as well as some Lexiteers, rather than making these points, 
opposed even a confirmatory referendum until the 
‘Brexit-embodies-the-people’s-will’ propaganda was too entrenched to challenge. 
In fact, their position throughout was a weaker version of Johnson’s ‘Get 
Brexit Done’.
A flawed foreign policy.

"The attempt by the Corbyn team to cover up the brutality of Russian airstrikes 
in Syria illustrates what I call their pseudo-anti-imperialism: opposition only 
to Western imperialisms while supporting non-Western imperialisms like Russian 
imperialism and Iranian regional imperialism, which share responsibility with 
brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad for over half a million dead and over half the 
population displaced in Syria.

Andrew Coates
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