[Marxism] More from the brilliant geniuses who run the Carpenters Union

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The latest issue of "the Carpenter" magazine just arrived. The brilliant
geniuses who run the union have an article in it about stress at work.

Take a look at the suggestions these great union leaders propose as far as
what you can do about it:

“Accept it”
“Communicate your feelings to your employer”
“Adapt to it – learn to cope with the situation”
Notice anything missing? Like: “Go to your union rep or steward”Or
“Organize and fight for better contracts”. Or even “If all else fails and
there’s plenty of other work around, tell your boss to take this job and
shove it.” Then, to add insult to injury, they tell you that stress can be
good since in can “improve your performance”. No no no no no. Be a good
little slave, accept your lot in life and make the boss plenty of money.'

https://oaklandsocialist.com/2020/03/01/the-brilliant-geniuses-who-lead-the-carpenters-union/

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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Florida]: Nooe on Watkins III, 'Queering the Redneck Riviera: Sexuality and the Rise of Florida Tourism'

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> From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW 
> Date: February 29, 2020 at 7:37:10 PM EST
> To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org
> Cc: H-Net Staff 
> Subject: H-Net Review [H-Florida]:  Nooe on Watkins III, 'Queering the 
> Redneck Riviera: Sexuality and the Rise of Florida Tourism'
> Reply-To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org
> 
> Jerry T. Watkins III.  Queering the Redneck Riviera: Sexuality and 
> the Rise of Florida Tourism.  Gainesville  University Press of 
> Florida, 2018.  Illustrations. 202 pp.  $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 
> 978-0-8130-5691-3.
> 
> Reviewed by F. Evan Nooe (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
> Published on H-Florida (February, 2020)
> Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
> 
> Queer Networks in Florida's Panhandle Tourist Economy
> 
> Modern Florida and tourism are likely synonymous in the minds of many 
> Americans. For more than a century, state leaders and entrepreneurial 
> boosters have presented the state to potential visitors as an exotic 
> recreational paradise with no need of a passport. South Florida 
> quickly became a destination for the rich bolstered by business 
> tycoons and railways rushing down the Atlantic coast of the state. By 
> the second half of the twentieth century, modernizing forces expanded 
> the accessibility of Florida as a tourist destination for the average 
> American. State and federal governments improved roadways across the 
> nation. Americans had a greater potential to own their own 
> automobile. The rising prosperity of the middle class meant that more 
> families had discretionary income to spend on recreational services 
> and experiences relative to any prior point in the century. While 
> long-established tourist destinations in Florida such as St. 
> Augustine and South Florida benefited from post-World War II 
> affluence, new vacation areas of the state aimed to capitalize on the 
> broadening class of tourist. The Florida Panhandle, while certainly 
> appealing to visitors as early as the late 1890s, experienced a 
> marked surge as a tourist destination during the mid-twentieth 
> century. Middle-class families from predominately southern states 
> traveled by personal automobile across newly built interstate 
> highways to reach such beach towns as Pensacola and Panama City. Due 
> to the region's popularity among white southern tourists and a 
> general association with the area as Florida's backwaters, the 
> Florida Panhandle became colloquially known as "The Redneck Riviera." 
> 
> Author of _Queering the Redneck Riviera: Sexuality and the Rise of 
> Florida Tourism_ Jerry T. Watkins III aims to provide a corrective to 
> current scholarship on tourism in the Florida Panhandle by recovering 
> the concealed and erased past of a queer presence and the importance 
> of queer geographies (both specific places and movement) in the 
> region's touristic pursuits. Watkins argues that gay men, lesbians, 
> and otherwise queer locals and visitors to the Florida Panhandle used 
> the burgeoning tourist economy to their own benefit and ultimately 
> led to the creation of "a very queer Redneck Riviera." Through their 
> leisure spending, Watkins argues, LGBTQ people established their 
> communities and social networks as an essential part of the region, 
> and acknowledging their past and impact offers a more complete 
> account of the region and the area's developing tourist economy. 
> Watkins sums up his point concisely stating that "placing the queer 
> at the center of this story exposes the unique interactions of 
> capitalism, tourism, sexuality, and space" (p. 9). 
> 
> In demonstrating the importance of a queer community to tourism in 
> the Florida Panhandle, Watkins takes a roughly chronological approach 
> focused on the second half of the twentieth century by examining the 
> cities of Panama City, Pensacola, and Tallahassee. Chapter 1 has the 
> broadest conceptual breadth by looking at the crafting of Florida 
> tourism as a commercialized commodity through the branding of the 
> Sunshine State. Watkins builds on the well-known argument that the 
> image of the Sunshine State was deliberately crafted through 
> promotion to outsiders and advice for residents' display of 
> hospitality by adding that there was a "selective enforcement of 
> morality" in the Florida Panhandle by local and state authorities (p. 
> 17). For tourism boosters, a "family-friendly" Sunshine State had no 
> room for openly gay or lesbian residents or visitors and the state 
> actively persecuted 

[Marxism] Nancy's game

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Hi Karen: I agree with a lot of Jim Kavanagh’s article, *Bloomberg’s Game*,
in Counterpunch, but not everything.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/27/bloombergs-game/?fbclid=IwAR1Mg-irFld8oQgaT-F6Re2JSsoUO6TMVPpdKXYNf9O2fXAqCY_BYwmj4SA


In general, I don’t think everything is completely cooked. I think the fact
that Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Bloomberg, Castro, Harris, and Steyer
were all in the race shows that the Democratic Party’s establishment had
not come to any agreement about a candidate prior to the primaries. The
fact that most of these jokers are still in the race reinforces this
conclusion.

This is the mirror-image of the problem the GOP had in 2016 when they ended
up with Trump.

In contrast to Kavanaugh, I think that Bloomberg would love to be
president, and probably thinks he has a shot at it, although his other goal
is to deny Sanders the nomination. However, Warren’s game is exactly as
described by Kavanaugh IMHO.

None of these characters have “objective” world views or functioning
crystal balls. Trump almost certainly thought he was going to lose to
Clinton and was as befuddled by his victory as most of the rest of us.
Bloomberg is as narcissistic as anyone and might easily be thinking that a
lot of the rest of us must love him as much as he loves himself .

However, Bloomberg is also a cunning leader of his own social class who
understands that a lot of us do not love him or his kind, and he does not
want us to escape from the hold of the two-party system’s stability. The
worst nightmare of his social class is the emergence of any sort of mass
socialist movement in the United States. Ipso facto, Bloomberg’s campaign’s
other aim is to prevent Sanders from getting the Democratic Party
nomination as Kavanaugh describes.

The biggest problem I have with Kavanagh’s article lies in his omission of
another possible scenario: a deal with Sanders.

I believe that the leaders of the Democratic Party machinery, people like
Pelosi and Schumer, really do not want Trump to win reelection. In
contrast, the financial backers of the Democrats, including Bloomberg,
Tompkins Buell, Soros, Sussman, Roberts, Steyer and all the rest could
easily survive another four years of Trump and even imagine they could make
even more money if the guy wins again.

Pelosi et al. know that if they steal the nomination from Sanders, even if
they give it to Warren, a substantial number of young voters are very
likely to stay home on election day in November. That means they might not
win the White House or the Senate, and they could easily lose the House.
They need Sanders at the top of the ticket to have a good chance of keeping
the House, let alone winning the Trifecta.

The deal that I could imagine being offered to Sanders is like this. It
happens over lunch with Nancy, Liz, Chuck, Bernie and a few others but
probably not Mike or Joe. The discussion revolves around Bernie accepting
most of Liz’s program as the Democratic Party platform plus negotiations
over the cabinet, future primary challenges, the DNC etc.

Sanders is a practical politician who has worked with Democrats and
Republicans all of his life. Could he make a deal? I think the answer is
that he probably can and maybe will.

I am not predicting anything. Rather I am discussion possibilities. I think
Warren could be the candidate, I also think Sanders could be the candidate.
I even think Hillary Clinton could be the candidate. We will have a clearer
picture next week but probably not the answer.

There is an “exogenous factor”, or rather two related exogenous factors,
worth considering: corona virus and the economy. IMHO the economy has been
at the brink of a major new downturn for a while. Trump’s policies have
desperately tried to fuel more growth until after November and might have
succeeded if it hadn’t been for the pandemic that has just struck.

I say that it has already struck. The three cases here in California of
confirmed diagnoses in people who have not traveled or been in contact with
any known carriers of the disease is strong evidence that there are
multiple carriers of the disease here in California and in Oregon. And if
this is true here, it is probably true in many other places. The incubation
period of the virus is thought to be two weeks.

The airlines are already in deep financial waters because of the Boeing 737
Max and the massive flight cancellations to date have hit them hard again.
US-China commerce has screeched to a crawl, and will slow down much further
once seagoing trade is affected by quarantines.

US stock markets have lost about 12% of their “value” in just over a week.
How far will they fall until they 

[Marxism] Who Are Bernie Sanders Supporters? Some Backers on Wall Street - Bloomberg

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Re: [Marxism] Vivek Chibber for Sanders

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 "[The] American Parties have very little control over who can and cannot
run on their tickets. Anyone is free to enter a primary, and if they can
attract enough votes, it is very hard to stop them. And the Party
leadership’s helplessness is becoming palpable."

Anyone who would write such a thing is either ignoring the experience of
history entirely or deliberately choosing to falsify it.  Ultimately, the
party, though its leadership bodies, exercises the legal authority to
decide how it will structure representation in its convention and their
equivalents at the state level can structure representation in such a way
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[Marxism] An Artist Who Aspires to Be ‘a Bone in Everyone’s Throat’

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NY Times, Feb. 29, 2020

An Artist Who Aspires to Be ‘a Bone in Everyone’s Throat’

Talented but eccentric, Pyotr A. Pavlensky once nailed his scrotum to 
the cobblestones in Red Square. Now, he is wearing out his welcome in 
France.


By Andrew Higgins

PARIS — He has infuriated just about everyone.

The Russian authorities threw him in jail for setting fire to the door 
of the secret police headquarters in Moscow. France, which gave him 
asylum three years ago, also jailed him, also over a fire, and is now 
investigating him in connection with two new criminal cases, one 
relating to a New Year’s Eve brawl in a chic Paris apartment, the other 
over his release of a sex tape of a French politician.


He is on such bad terms with his longtime partner, the mother of his two 
daughters, that they have not spoken in months, despite their having 
come to France together to start a new life.


By his own lights, however, Pyotr A. Pavlensky has never achieved quite 
so much. “The job of the artist is to be a bone in everyone’s throat,” 
the Russian performance artist said in an interview on Monday in Paris. 
On that score, he has certainly triumphed.


Hailed by avant-garde art aficionados as an exceptional, if highly 
eccentric, talent, the 35-year-old Russian artist — who now considers 
himself French “because I live in France” — has never been popular with 
the powers that be.


Prosecutors in Russia and France have painted him as menace to society, 
while others have mocked him as a lunatic, especially since he sat naked 
in Red Square in 2013 and nailed his scrotum into the cobblestones. In 
an earlier “artistic action,” he cut off part of his right ear lobe with 
a chef’s knife while sitting naked on the wall of a notorious Russian 
psychiatric institute.


“My aim has always been to be inconvenient and uncomfortable for 
everyone,” he said.


But Mr. Pavlensky has shocked even himself with his latest “action,” or 
at least the reaction to it.


He said never expected the French authorities to come down on him “so 
hard and so fast” when this month he posted online an explicit video 
featuring Benjamin Griveaux, an ally of President Emmanuel Macron who at 
the time was a candidate in the French capital’s mayoral election.


Mr Griveaux’s supporters suggested the affair could be part of a Russian 
destabilization campaign but there is no evidence of this and Mr. 
Pavlensky ridiculed the idea: “Am I a Russian agent? No, obviously.”


The release of the video, which Mr. Pavlensky described as the first act 
of a new artistic series called “Porno-Politika,” forced the married 
politician to drop out of the race and left the Russian artist facing 
preliminary charges for violation of privacy and publishing sexual 
images without consent.


His home and that of his French girlfriend — who earlier had an affair 
with Mr. Griveaux, and from whom the artist says he stole the video — 
were searched by the police and the couple are now barred from 
communicating.


“They have declared war on our love,” Mr. Pavlensky said, explaining 
that all governments, whether French or Russian, “are instruments of 
repression. The mechanics of power are the same everywhere, only the 
techniques are different.”


This view has made him an unlikely darling of Russia’s state propaganda 
machine, which for years denounced him as a mad vandal, when it deigned 
to mention him at all, but which has now seized on his travails in 
France as proof that Russia is no less free than the West.


On Sunday, state television’s flagship news program, Vesti Nedeli, 
broadcast a long report on Mr. Pavlensky’s current troubles. It showed 
the artist denouncing the “monstrous hypocrisy” of France’s governing 
elite and celebrating his success in “exposing the true face” of Mr. 
Macron’s government.


Speculating that Mr. Pavlensky may have a trove of other sex tapes, 
Dmitri Kiselyov, the bombastic presenter of the show, sneered that “the 
French elite will have to throw such a dangerous man in jail out of 
self-preservation. And then maybe even strip the troublemaker of his 
asylum in France.”


That would certainly delight Moscow, which has long bridled at Western 
criticism of its human rights record and would undoubtedly use the 
expulsion of Mr. Pavlensky from France to show that it is not only 
Russia that limits freedom of speech and expression.


“The French, despite their tolerance and friendliness, have their 
limits, too,” Nataliya Eliseyeva, a political scientist, told the 
evening news last week on Rossiya-24, another state television channel. 
“Pavlensky has crossed the line here.”


Mr. Pavlensky said he could not care 

Re: [Marxism] How Netflix And "Manning Marable" Killed Malcolm X (The Third Time) - CounterPunch.org

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I don’t agree with Baraka’s bashing of the independent Black voices who were 
opposed to Obama from 2004 onwards. He was plain wrong to call the folks at 
Black Agenda Report anarchists and other slurs. He didn’t even advocate for a 
realistic lesser evil argument that acknowledged Obama was a neoliberal, he 
tried claiming that Obama was the harbinger of massive progressive change 
alongside that whole Carl Davidson tendency. That’s imperfect.

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/hiphopnews/amiri-baraka-calls-out-obama-haters-says-do-someth-t728.html

https://blackagendareport.com/content/amiri-baraka-and-barack-obama-%E2%80%93-then-and-now

As far as Stalin and the domestic abuses of the Soviet Union, does that negate 
that Castro and Mao used Stalin’s policy on the National Question as a 
cornerstone of their international solidarity with the national liberation 
struggles? Ironically also you want to uphold Breitman and his solidarity with 
the Black Power movement but conveniently avoid the irony that the Black 
Panthers found much ideological alignment with the Maoist approach to the 
national question, ie Stalin’s policies. Whoops!


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You tempt me to engage with the rest of that paragraph on George Breitman, in 
which you contrast to him what you call “the Marxist-Leninist view,” its main 
protagonist in your view being none other than... “Joseph Stalin.” Tell that to 
the dozens of oppressed nations and nationalities in Stalin’s USSR, from the 
Ukrainians to the Tatars.

But that’s like shooting fish in a barrel, so I won’t bother to go there. Rest 
content with the "imperfect" Amiri Baraka (how patronizing!) and your own 
professed perfection.

Richard
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[Marxism] Fwd: Please forward to others in NYC-- Spanish Fascists are coming!

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From: cpost4 
Date: Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 11:55 AM
Subject: Please forward to others in NYC-- Spanish Fascists are coming!
To: campusantifascism 


The Spanish fascist political party Vox

is touring in NYC. They have chapters in NYC and in a few other American
cities, and their highest ranks have come to the US before to request
funding

and to form alliances with other far-right organizations to expand the
spread of fear, racism, and sexism.



They're having a rally at the Centro Español

in *Astoria, Queens on March 4 at 6:30pm*. We must let them know they can't
spread their racist, sexist, and fascist thought around NYC and the world.
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[Marxism] She Was Once the Biggest Star in Jazz. Here’s Why You’ve Never Heard of Her.

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Hazel Scott, a Harlem radical.

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[Marxism] Fundraiser for Jane Komori by Solidarity Forever : Support Fund for Striking Workers at UCSC!

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Re: [Marxism] How Netflix And "Manning Marable" Killed Malcolm X (The Third Time) - CounterPunch.org

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You tempt me to engage with the rest of that paragraph on George Breitman, in 
which you contrast to him what you call “the Marxist-Leninist view,” its main 
protagonist in your view being none other than... “Joseph Stalin.” Tell that to 
the dozens of oppressed nations and nationalities in Stalin’s USSR, from the 
Ukrainians to the Tatars.

But that’s like shooting fish in a barrel, so I won’t bother to go there. Rest 
content with the "imperfect" Amiri Baraka (how patronizing!) and your own 
professed perfection.

Richard

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How strikingly ironic that in the final lines of your rebuttal you end up 
reinforcing my argument:

“Malcolm did not complete this synthesis before he was
assassinated. It remains for others to complete what he began."

A) That anyone can look at the program that El-Shabazz was articulating at the 
time of his death and say it was somehow lacking is demonstrable of both 
paternalistic condescension and absolute cluelessness about the matter at hand. 
The Organization of Afro-American Unity was building a revolutionary 
internationalist bloc of power that accomplished far more than the tin-pot 
American Trots ever did. El-Shabazz was constructing multinational power across 
the Global South. His revolutionary education in prison was thoroughly soaked 
in Marxian thought, including Fanon and Du Bois. Plain and simple, the white 
American Left had more to learn from El-Shabazz than they had to teach him. His 
synthesis had been completed in prison and it was instead a matter of his 
rhetorical strategy evolving over the course of his ministerial career in order 
to better suit the nuances of his circumstances. The claim that he evolved or 
changed is complete garbage. It is interesting that you don’t include the lines 
from Kamau Franklin, author of the Breitman critique (perhaps you fear 
engagement with the substance of his points?), but oh well...

B) The multicultural religious Left has always accomplished more than the 
secular Left cults. Du Bois elaborated on this in THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK in 
the chapter about the Sorrow Songs. Martin Luther King Jr and El-Shabazz built 
power while the CPUSA and the Socialists and the Trotskyists didn’t. If you go 
back to the Debs era, the socialist periodical with highest subscription rate 
was a religious socialist one that crossed ethnic lines.

Amiri Baraka, imperfect in a few areas, hit the nail on the head here in his 
analysis of the Marable book:

https://blackbirdpressnews.blogspot.com/2011/05/amiri-baraka-on-marables-malcolm-x.html?m=1

You obviously have more to learn from Malcolm X than he would from you or 
Breitman.

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Andrew Stewart writes: 

"[George] Breitman's Eurocentric Trotskyism articulates the claim that Black
nationalism is an ideological delusion that diverts from the revolutionary
cause. This is contrary to the Marxist-Leninist view, one embraced by Cuba and
China during the years El-Shabazz sought to build the bloc supporting the UN
petition, that the national liberation struggles are themselves revolutionary."

This is an outrageous misrepresentation. Anyone who has read George Breitman or
who knew him personally (as I did) would consider the view attributed to him by
Stewart to be beyond reason or belief. Breitman was one of the most far-sighted
Marxist sympathizers of Black nationalism in the United States. He probably did
more than anyone else to publicize Malcolm's revolutionary legacy (the real
legacy ignored by the Netflix series). Consider just this one brief excerpt from
his extensive writings spanning several decades. It is from "In Defense of Black
Power," (October 1966), available with many other works in the Breitman Archive
on Marxists.org.:

"Organizationally, the Black Power tendency is only in the early stages of its
development; the various groups and individuals who have raised the Black Power
banner have not yet defined their relations to each 

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How strikingly ironic that in the final lines of your rebuttal you end up 
reinforcing my argument:

“Malcolm did not complete this synthesis before he was
assassinated. It remains for others to complete what he began."

A) That anyone can look at the program that El-Shabazz was articulating at the 
time of his death and say it was somehow lacking is demonstrable of both 
paternalistic condescension and absolute cluelessness about the matter at hand. 
The Organization of Afro-American Unity was building a revolutionary 
internationalist bloc of power that accomplished far more than the tin-pot 
American Trots ever did. El-Shabazz was constructing multinational power across 
the Global South. His revolutionary education in prison was thoroughly soaked 
in Marxian thought, including Fanon and Du Bois. Plain and simple, the white 
American Left had more to learn from El-Shabazz than they had to teach him. His 
synthesis had been completed in prison and it was instead a matter of his 
rhetorical strategy evolving over the course of his ministerial career in order 
to better suit the nuances of his circumstances. The claim that he evolved or 
changed is complete garbage. It is interesting that you don’t include the lines 
from Kamau Franklin, author of the Breitman critique (perhaps you fear 
engagement with the substance of his points?), but oh well...

B) The multicultural religious Left has always accomplished more than the 
secular Left cults. Du Bois elaborated on this in THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK in 
the chapter about the Sorrow Songs. Martin Luther King Jr and El-Shabazz built 
power while the CPUSA and the Socialists and the Trotskyists didn’t. If you go 
back to the Debs era, the socialist periodical with highest subscription rate 
was a religious socialist one that crossed ethnic lines.

Amiri Baraka, imperfect in a few areas, hit the nail on the head here in his 
analysis of the Marable book:

https://blackbirdpressnews.blogspot.com/2011/05/amiri-baraka-on-marables-malcolm-x.html?m=1

You obviously have more to learn from Malcolm X than he would from you or 
Breitman.

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Andrew Stewart writes: 

"[George] Breitman's Eurocentric Trotskyism articulates the claim that Black
nationalism is an ideological delusion that diverts from the revolutionary
cause. This is contrary to the Marxist-Leninist view, one embraced by Cuba and
China during the years El-Shabazz sought to build the bloc supporting the UN
petition, that the national liberation struggles are themselves revolutionary."

This is an outrageous misrepresentation. Anyone who has read George Breitman or
who knew him personally (as I did) would consider the view attributed to him by
Stewart to be beyond reason or belief. Breitman was one of the most far-sighted
Marxist sympathizers of Black nationalism in the United States. He probably did
more than anyone else to publicize Malcolm's revolutionary legacy (the real
legacy ignored by the Netflix series). Consider just this one brief excerpt from
his extensive writings spanning several decades. It is from "In Defense of Black
Power," (October 1966), available with many other works in the Breitman Archive
on Marxists.org.:

"Organizationally, the Black Power tendency is only in the early stages of its
development; the various groups and individuals who have raised the Black Power
banner have not yet defined their relations to each other or united into a
single movement or federation. But numerically it is already considerably
stronger than the organized adherents of Malcolm's movement. The Student
Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality
(CORE), groups in the new tendency, are national organizations, with thousands
of members or sympathizers. They have an experienced cadre of dedicated leaders
and activists, hardened in battle along many fronts and equipped with a variety
of skills. They represent the best of the new generation of young freedom
fighters who appeared on the scene around 1960, with a consistently more
militant outlook than that of previous generations and an enviable ability to
learn from experience and grow.

"Ideologically and politically, the Black Power tendency is also still in the
process of crystallization. But its direction-to the left-is unmistakably
indicated by the way it has broken away from several of the premises and
shibboleths of the old "civil rights" consensus. Internationalist and
anti-imperialist, it expresses solidarity with the worldwide struggle against
colonialism and neo-colonialism, 

Re: [Marxism] Vivek Chibber for Sanders

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On 2/29/20 9:58 AM, Raju J Das via Marxism wrote:
 
 'The emergence of Bernie Sanders as the frontrunner in the Democratic Party primaries has stunned the world. But it shouldn’t have. The U.S. is merely joining in the wave of electoral insurrections that are upending the political order across the world.'
 
 
 '[The] American Parties have very little control over who can and cannot run on their tickets. Anyone is free to enter a primary, and if they can attract enough votes, it is very hard to stop them. And the Party leadership’s helplessness is becoming palpable. The last weapon they had was their fear mongering, and now that too has become ineffective.'



https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/scripting-an-audacity-of-hope-the-sanders-way/article30945432.ece?homepage=true
 
 
 


It is stunning how people who claim to be Marxists have unalloyed and 
uncritical support for bourgeois politics of workers...We live in interesting 
times.
  
 
 Raju J Das

York University, Toronto


Funny thing about Chibber. After he wrote "Postcolonial Theory and the 
Specter of Capital", he gained the reputation as a rock-ribbed, 
uncompromising, class-based, dragon-slaying Marxist.


Since then, the bloom has faded from the rose. Fellow Brennerite Charles 
Post polemicized against the political drift that would culminate in his 
becoming a Sandernista while Brenner himself disowned his disciple in a 
nasty Catalyst fight.


He probably always had these shitty politics but it has taken time for 
him to be bolder about it. His all-out assault on the Russian Revolution 
in a special Jacobin issue was the first manifestation. I dealt with it 
here: https://louisproyect.org/2018/02/26/vivek-chibbers-apolitical-marxism/

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'The emergence of Bernie Sanders as the frontrunner in the Democratic Party 
primaries has stunned the world. But it shouldn’t have. The U.S. is merely 
joining in the wave of electoral insurrections that are upending the political 
order across the world.'


'[The] American Parties have very little control over who can and cannot 
run on their tickets. Anyone is free to enter a primary, and if they can 
attract enough votes, it is very hard to stop them. And the Party leadership’s 
helplessness is becoming palpable. The last weapon they had was their fear 
mongering, and now that too has become ineffective.'


https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/scripting-an-audacity-of-hope-the-sanders-way/article30945432.ece?homepage=true




It is stunning how people who claim to be Marxists have unalloyed and 
uncritical support for bourgeois politics of workers...We live in interesting 
times.
 

Raju J Das
York University, Toronto
 


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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] The clash between Assad and Erdogan’s militaries | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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A guest post by Omar Sabbour.

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[Marxism] Political Undercurrents in Soviet Economic Debates: A Discussion - COSMONAUT

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Christian and Donald sit down for a discussion on Moshe Lewin’s 1974 
tome Political Undercurrents in Soviet Economic Debates. They discuss 
Bukharin, the Left Opposition, Stalin, Soviet reformers, cybernetic 
planning, and more. Our conclusion: this book has greatly humbled us, 
letting us know how hard actually creating a new society outside of 
capitalism is. Unfortunately, Lewin’s book is out of print but we 
recommend getting your hands on a used copy if possible. If you can’t, 
his book The Soviet Century is still in print from Verso Books. We hope 
to continue this as a reading series on the problems of building socialism.


https://cosmonaut.blog/2020/02/29/political-undercurrents-in-soviet-economic-debates-a-discussion/
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