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Re: [Marxism] Are Humans Going Extinct?

2014-12-02 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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It would be very interesting to get informed comments on this from people on 
the list better qualified than me to judge whether this guy is a crackpot or if 
his theories are worth taking seriously at all!

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2 dec 2014 kl. 14:37 skrev Louis Proyect via Marxism 
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 Guy McPherson is a professor emeritus of natural resources, and ecology and 
 evolutionary biology, with the University of Arizona, who has been studying 
 ACD (anthropogenic climate disruption) for nearly 30 years.
 
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Forget everything you know about nice, liberal Sweden — that country no longer exists - Comment - Voices - The Independent

2014-12-07 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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As a visual accompaniment to this article I recommend this photo reportage from 
the streets of Stockholm. Photographer Roger Turesson took a walk through the 
capital’s upmarket shopping streets on a cold winter night after closing time, 
starting and finishing on the city’s equivalent of Oxford Street. 
http://www.dn.se/sthlm/stockholm-en-forandrad-stad/


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7 dec 2014 kl. 16:25 skrev Louis Proyect via Marxism 
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 http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/forget-everything-you-know-about-nice-liberal-sweden--that-country-no-longer-exists-9903417.html
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Re: [Marxism] Sweden to become a Third World Country by 2030, according to UN

2015-01-04 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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We had a perfectly good country, Ingrid Carlqvist, a journalist said. ”A rich
country, a nice country, and in a few years' time, that country will be gone.

Ingrid Carlqvist is not ”a journalist” but a virulent Islamophobic hack linked
to the far right/neo-fascist Sweden Democrats. This is the completely dishonest
slant given to a report which doesn’t say anything of the sort. (That Sweden
does have problems, I’m the last to deny. For instance a school system
destroyed by neoliberal profit and ”free choice” thinking. Finland, who copied
Sweden’s then centralized, egalitarian system some 20-30 years ago now has the
best school system in the world.)

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4 jan 2015 kl. 17:49 skrev Louis Proyect via Marxism
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Re: [Marxism] 11 dead in shooting at satirical paper in Paris, police say

2015-01-07 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

I think Charlie Hebdo has partly gone down the Christopher Hitchen’s road since
9/11, trading in Islamophobia:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/charlie-hebdo-editor-in-chief-on-muhammad-cartoons-a-856891.html

http://www.as4b.info/bivouac-id/bivouac-id/billets/les-nouvelles-caricatures-de-charlie-hebdo/index.html

Not, of course, that this in any way condones the horrible attack that has
taken place.

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7 jan 2015 kl. 13:04 skrev Charles Faulkner via Marxism
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http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Shots-fired-at-French-satirical-paper-say-5998831.php

i don't know of francois cavanna or the paper charlie hebdo. wikipedia
describes it as left wing.

any shared insight is appreciated.
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Re: [Marxism] Lenin's Tomb on Charlie Hebdo

2015-01-07 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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 Rejection of religious fundamentalism may or may not be a ”left position 
 (depending on what secret definition you have of the meaningless word left) 
 but to call it race baiting is to solidarize with the allahu-akbarist 
 Nazis

Yes, but these caricatures (at least the Mohamed ones) aren’t aimed at 
”religious fundamentalism” but Islam in general. And given the dominance of 
Islam in the Arab world such caricatures can’t really be understood as anything 
else than a more or less blanket condemnation aimed at Arab culture by European 
”ex-colonialists”. (Of course, there is a huge difference between the Mohamed 
caricatures and those of someone like Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.)

 
 
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Swedish model (part 1) | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

2015-05-25 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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As a Swede I can only agree. It’s also worth noting that for about two decades 
now Sweden has lead the first world in terms of rapidly growing economic 
inequality (and neoliberal extremism in other areas such as school 
privatizations). Sweden is as good an example as any of how social democracy 
saved capitalism from itself and disciplined the working class, making it 
almost completely defenseless when the boom ended and neoliberalism was 
launched as the only alternative.

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 Bob Schieffer: Let me just start out by asking you, what is a socialist these 
 days? I mean, I remember when a socialist was somebody who wanted to 
 nationalize the railroads and things like that.
 
 Bernie Sanders: When we talk about Democratic socialism, I think it’s 
 important to realize that there are countries around the world like Denmark, 
 Norway, Sweden, Finland, who’ve had social democratic governments on and off 
 for many, many years. And we can learn a whole lot from some of those 
 countries.
 
 —Face the Nation interview, May 10, 2015
 
 Sweden is a funny country to call socialist. In France or Austria the 
 government owns a much larger share of industry, and I would expect that in a 
 socialist country personal income taxes would be low and company taxes high, 
 whereas in Sweden it is the opposite. It has the world’s highest personal 
 income taxes and it’s a tax haven for companies!
 
 –A statement made in 1976 by Rune Hagelund, a member of the board of the 
 Swedish Employers’ Federation (SAF), a former professor of economics, and 
 president and chairman of the board of two of Sweden’s major corporations.
 
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Swedish model (part 1) | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

2015-05-25 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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 It's also worth noting that when you start low (in terms of e.g. gini
 coefficient after tax and transfers), you can have rapid growth
 (dozens or even hundreds of percentage points) without absolute numbers
 changing that much. Late 2000s Sweden (or Finland) still had more equal
 distribution of income than countries like France, Holland, Canada, UK
 etc. ever had.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality#Gini_coefficient.2C_after_taxes_and_transfer

A fair point, but even so, the consistent trend of Sweden leading the pack in a 
situation where inequality is exploding in all these other first world nations 
is still significant. Furthermore, in areas such as the school system, railways 
and communications, and health care Sweden now has systems that are as or more 
neoliberal than most other nations. This is especially true regarding the 
school system, which is generally considered the most extremely marketized in 
the first world (and a complete disaster in terms of outcome when it comes to 
students’ result - Finland who has a system very similar to what we had 30 
years ago is held up as a shining example these days). The marketization and 
selling off of public housing and the price hikes and housing shortages this 
has led to in major cities is another example.
 
 
 'Welfare state as a capitalist trick' sounds too instrumentalist to be
 credible as a materialist explanation for the rise and dismantling of
 the welfare state. Politically I don't see it as too useful either, as I
 don't welcome the dismantling of the Finnish welfare state, whether it
 originally was a capitalist trick or not.
 
 
 One might argue, well the *objective outcome* of the process, regardless
 of any conscious goal of domesticating the workers etc. is that of
 making the working class almost completely defenseless in the end.
 That's all very well, but I don't see the point in that kind of I told
 you so kind of revolutionary metaphysics. After all, you can throw that
 on the table every time some gain turns out to have fallen short of
 accomplishing socialist revolution.
 
Firstly, surely objective outcome is an important point in this discussion? 
Secondly, though there have been genuine reform socialists in the social 
democratic movement up until the 1980s or so, the idea of the handshake between 
capital and workers and the de-mobilization of the rank and file in favour of 
building a human-faced capitalist society, jointly administered by social 
democratic bureaucrats and representatives of capital, has been the ideology of 
the majority of the leading social democrats. It wasn’t a ”trick” or a 
conspiracy, they have been very open about it. There is no shortage of evidence 
(for instance from the ”employee funds” debate in the 1970s and 80s) that 
leading Swedish social democrats absolutely hate the idea of workers’ control 
of production. Furthermore, this doesn’t mean I am for the dismantling of the 
welfare state or oppose genuinely progressive reforms. The very opposite. But 
we most be aware that reformism always comes up against the limits of 
capitalism sooner or later and the choice then has to be made whether we want 
to save and build on these reforms or save profits. In this situation social 
democrats as good as always choose profits. That’s just an historical fact. And 
a working class dominated by social democratic bureaucracies will be a weak 
force at such times.
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[Marxism] New Swedish Realism

2016-04-30 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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This is a short piece about how a series of first time directors have renewed 
Swedish cinema during the last decade, and come to dominate the ”Swedish 
Oscars” in a rather extraordinary manner, with films that have renewed the 
social realist tradition, while often drawing on the rapidly growing class 
divide in my native country. It might be interesting for anyone wishing to 
catch up with the best of the last decade’s Swedish cinema (which is not, in my 
opinion, the internationally acclaimed films of Roy Andersson or Ruben Östlund, 
that the cineastes among you might be aware of).

http://www.versopolis.com/review/59/new-swedish-realism




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Re: [Marxism] Re Trump is woody allen

2017-07-31 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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I thought just about all banks were money launderers and most successful 
capitalists willing to go to the dark side?

Isn’t this more a difference of image, with Trump cultivating this 
rebelliousness that was precisely what the class needed to get one of their 
elected this time around?

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> 31 juli 2017 kl. 17:31 skrev John Reimann via Marxism 
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> The difference is that he epitomizes a certain narrow mentality
> and lack of concern for social norms, including willingness to move over to
> the "dark side" of their own laws. I am referring to his many years
> functioning as a money laundered for the Russian mafia and probably other
> criminal elements. 

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Re: [Marxism] Re Trump is woody allen

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But isn’t it also a sign of its relative strength that it can find a 3rd, 5th, 
10th candidate and place in office, while ”we” don’t even have a candidate, 
even in such a time of crisis, not for capitalism, but for the working class?

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> 31 juli 2017 kl. 17:31 skrev John Reimann via Marxism 
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> It is a sign of the crisis of US capitalism that they could not
> secure the nomination for candidate they wanted most or the election for
> their perfectsble (to them) second choice.

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Re: [Marxism] Looking for a list of Marxist film critics

2017-08-18 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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At least Christopher Sharrett, Tony Williams and Carl Freedman, among the ones 
we regularly publish in ”my” journal, Film International, consider themselves 
marxists.

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> 18 aug. 2017 kl. 01:34 skrev Jeffrey Masko via Marxism 
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> Thanks for the reply and I don't know all that much about Harry Alan
> Potamkin but love the idea of someone who straddles the divide between a
> film critic doing film criticism and a film reviewer who gives opinions
> without acknowledging academic film theory.
> 
> In that vein, I think Robin Wood was quite insightful and so was Peter
> Biskind, although I don't know if I'd term either Marxist. Doug Kellner and
> Fred Jameson are a couple of the bigger names that I would include as
> explicitly Marxist.
> 
> The whole of the psycho-analytic Marxism of the members of Screen in the
> 70's and 80's such as Jean-Luc Comolli, Jean Paul Narboni, Laura Mulvey,
> and those who work(ed) with apparatus theory would be on my list. So would
> those using suture theory, but that is more academic and not mass market.
> 
> More currently, Bill Nichols, Rick Berg, Steven Ross, Jane Gaines come to
> mind as well as those associated with the Union for Democratic
> Communications such as Steve Macek, Lee Artz, and Dana Cloud. Members of
> the Society for Cinema and Media Studies class caucus are mostly Marxist or
> at least Marxist sympathetic with Pat Keeton, Terri Ginsberg and all using
> Marxist theories to guide their work. None of this are mass market, but
> fairly accessible to those who are interested in film theory.
> 
> I don't really know of any film reviewer who is using Marxist film
> theories in the way Dave Zirin uses Marxist theories to critique sport.
> Although there are those who 
> may have sympathies or allegiance to Marxism, actually using Marxist
> theories from those above or from Marxist literature is rare, to say the
> least. Henry Giroux is probably the closest I can think of right now...
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[Marxism] Call for Marxist Contributions: Film International

2017-09-20 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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Call for Marxist Contributions: Film International

Film International is a quarterly print magazine publishing essays, long-form 
reviews, interviews and more regarding all aspects of moving image culture. Our 
regular contributors include both Marxists and non-Marxists, but generally come 
from the broad left. We encourage writing that is accessible for the general 
reader, rather than specifically aimed at specialists. You do not have to be a 
film scholar or indeed an academic at all to contribute.

As editor-in-chief I now wish to strengthen the explicitly Marxist profile of 
the magazine and thought this might be the place to find suitable new 
contributors. Feel free to drop me a line if you are interested or just curious 
to know more.


Daniel Lindvall

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Re: [Marxism] social/health data

2018-05-15 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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> 15 maj 2018 kl. 15:42 skrev Andrew Pollack via Marxism 
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> The rate of chronic school absenteeism exceeds the national
> average: 29.1%

Does this mean that almost one in three kids have dropped out of school? It 
sounds like an incredibly high figure, so I guess I’ve misunderstood something?
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Re: [Marxism] King Cohen | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Larry Cohen: ”The first thing I wrote that was actually aired was a Kraft 
Playhouse, which was odd, since I used to be a page boy on the Kraft program. 
We page boys used to look forward to Kraft, because we’d get to go into the 
studio and eat all the food that was used in the commercials after the show 
went off the air. In those days, every meal counted.”

For anyone interested in learning more about Larry Cohen, including on the 
making of the Hoover movie, we ran a long interview by Pat McGilligan a few 
years ago: http://filmint.nu/?p=76
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Re: [Marxism] How the Far Right Conquered Sweden

2018-09-07 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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Of course, the real reason for the generalized fears that are now turned in the 
direction of xenophobia and nationalism is the fact that inequality has risen 
faster in Sweden than in any other OECD country in the last 3 decades. A 
virtually complete abandonment of social housing policies with a severe housing 
shortage and skyrocketing prices and rents as a result, the world’s most 
neoliberal, for-profit school system (basically a copy of Pinochet’s system 
that has since been scrapped in Chile) and which foreseeably has led to 
segregation and a drop in results for everyone, zero taxes on inheritance and 
wealth, corporate taxes almost as low as in Ireland, and so on. And all the 
usual neoliberal policies, of course, leading to permanent mass unemployment, 
austerity in the public sector, an ever increasing share of the tax burden 
falling on the working class etc.


> 7 sep. 2018 kl. 18:30 skrev Louis Proyect via Marxism 
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> NY Times Op-Ed, Sept. 7, 2018
> How the Far Right Conquered Sweden
> A bastion of social democracy, the country refused to deal with the realities 
> of mass immigration.
> By Jochen Bittner
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Re: [Marxism] Sweden Elections - no gains for far right

2018-09-09 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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In terms of percentages and seats, the news is that not that much has changed. 
The Sweden Democrats makes gains, but end up on around 5% less than many (me 
included) had feared. The Social Democrats only drop around 3%, still the worst 
result for almost 100 years, but again, the drop is around 5 points smaller 
than expected. The Left Party progresses, but less than we had hoped. However, 
the fall out can still be rather dramatic. With no clear centre-left or 
centre-right majority (they're practically even) and no official agreement 
between the parties of the two blocs like the one they made last time around - 
to allow the biggest bloc to form a governement to keep SD out - it's extremely 
hard to tell what our next government will look like. The tories and social 
democrats are not quite ready to jump into bed with each other yet, German 
fashion. At the same time, some of the smaller centre-right parties are still 
very reluctant to be seen to govern with support of the racists in SD.

My guess is that we will end up with a government based on social democrats, a 
couple of the smaller centre-right parties and the Greens, that just managed to 
stay in parliament. But that's just a guess. If so, in four years the social 
democrats could be reduced to Greek figures and SD would stand to gain even 
more. Either way, our next government will be worse than our present, which 
says a lot. More nasty neoliberalism is coming our way, in the country where 
inequality grows faster even than in the US or UK. Add to that that the next 
capitalist crisis is almost certain to arrive during the coming four years, and 
things look frightening, to say the least.



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[Marxism] STRAYS: "a living graphic novel" on effects of alienation and austerity

2018-07-13 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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STRAYS is an interesting and ambitious first feature film from British director 
Barnaby Miller, made through rotoscoping (animating over live action footage) 
and displaying Brechtian influences:

S|T|R|A|Y|S , described by its makers as “a 
living graphic novel,” portrays a cross section of contemporary Londoners 
dealing with the effects of financial crisis and austerity. The characters are 
at once individuals and social types – banker, minimum wage worker, 
businessman, petit bourgeouis entrepreneur, et cetera. They relate to each 
other through the microcosm of the local pub as well as through a web of 
relations; family ties, old friendships, romantic entanglements, job relations, 
all of which are deeply affected, and often strained beyond breaking point, by 
economic pressures and insecurity.

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[Marxism] Embedded in Reality: A Conversation with Raoul Peck on Young Karl Marx

2018-03-14 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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”If you read the first chapter of The Communist Manifesto (1848), it’s the 
description of today, how capital will invade the whole planet, how capitalism 
has no brakes, that it will devastate everything, even the environment, the 
role of speculation, and even crises like the one of 2008. That’s why I made 
the film. It’s not a film about the past. Just like I Am Not Your Negro, which 
is also a film about today. I’m not interested in making films about the past.”

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Re: [Marxism] Another Stasi film? No thanks | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

2018-04-04 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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”Barbara” is IMO still one of the best films on DDR post-89. Here’s the first 
para of my review of it:

”Barbara (2012), written and directed by Christian Petzold, is a remarkable 
film. It may well be the best so far of all the German films made in recent 
years on the still very much contentious subject of the defunct German 
Democratic Republic (GDR). Generally speaking, such films, at least the ones 
that have reached an international audience, tend to fall into two categories: 
those tinted by nostalgia (in German the term Ostalgie – combining the words 
for ‘east’ and ‘nostalgia’ – is the label used for cultural expressions of 
nostalgia for the GDR) and those who, on the contrary, portray the GDR as a 
place of undiluted evil. Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) and The Lives of Others (2006) 
are probably the best-known examples of the respective category. Barbara treads 
a path beyond these ideological dead-end alleys."

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> Ernie, I haven't seen "Barbara" but I refer to it favorably in this piece. I 
> got a chuckle out of the NY Times article referring to "mustache-twirling 
> villain", the same words I used in my Counterpunch article:
> 
> 
> In a NY Times profile of Christian Petzold, the director of “Barbara”, he 
> states that he did not want Stasi operatives to be “depicted as 
> mustache-twirling villains”. The eponymous lead character is a doctor who has 
> been banished to the countryside for some unspecified offense, where she is 
> snooped on by Stasi operatives. We learn from a review of the film that 
> Petzold was influenced by Alfred Hitchcock, evidence of which is “the 
> prickles of unease that creep into his work, creating a cold climate of 
> paranoia and an oft-justified fear of an imminent threat.” I haven’t seen 
> this film but when it comes to prickles of unease, you can’t help but think 
> of Hitchcock’s “Torn Curtain”, where mustache-twirling villains abound.
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Re: [Marxism] Trans ideology

2018-11-25 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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Furthermore, even biological sex is a lot more complex than the kind of frankly 
vulgar diatribe below allows for. And there is much we don’t yet understand 
even as we learn more all the time. That is the pro-scientific perspective.

”The primary assumption driving most “biological sex” myths is that there are 
two discrete mutually exclusive sexes… While there are a number of sexually 
dimorphic traits — such as chromosomes, gonads, external genitals, other 
reproductive organs, ratio of sex hormones, and secondary sex characteristics — 
many times these traits do not all align (i.e., all male, or all female) within 
the same person, as is the case for intersex and many transgender people.”

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> "We are suppose to believe that trans women are women,
> lesbians can have penises, and biological sex is a social construct. "
> 
> The claim is *gender* is a social construct, not biological sex. Hence the
> term is transgender, not and transexual.
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> On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 at 16:25, Philip Ferguson via Marxism <
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>> **
>> 
>> Science is under attack as universities, workplaces and governments are
>> drawing up policies and laws to codify a fiction that makes creationism
>> look sensible. We are suppose to believe that trans women are women,
>> lesbians can have penises, and biological sex is a social construct. 

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Re: [Marxism] Trans Ideology

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”A transgender woman has spoken of the ”hell on earth" she suffered after being 
raped and abused more than 2,000 times in an all-male prison. The woman, known 
only by her pseudonym, Mary, was imprisoned for four years after stealing a 
car."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/transgender-woman-raped-2000-times-male-prison-a6989366.html?fbclid=IwAR3GcXgjjP-pxcTwioRtDQUhZBFwEY1t6DxunDGL-jmDyCoL6mPLz5gOIUA


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>> Philip F.’s piece is a praiseworthy attempt to reject a false identity 
>> politics substitute for class politics. 
> 
> What in any of this piece is about identity politics?
> 
> And what part explains how there is any relation for the worse to class 
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> This is a disgusting piece that attempts to act like it is science while 
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[Marxism] Swedish election: Intercept

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”In other words, it’s not that the Sweden Democrat voters despise immigrants, 
but when a party scapegoats immigrants, that messaging may be viewed as a 
signal that the party at least recognizes the underlying problem — economic 
stagnation.”

This is a good point. In many ways the choice of discourse has been one between 
the Sweden Democrat’s ”Cultural Crisis” and all other parties’ ”Sweden is doing 
great! The economy is booming! The international business press thinks we’re 
top of the world!” 

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[Marxism] From Coffin Ships to Crowdfunding - Ending The Great Hunger Taboo

2019-04-03 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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A film project on the Irish Famine, that sounds potentially interesting.

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> From Coffin Ships to Crowdfunding - Ending The Great Hunger Taboo
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> [PRESSWIRE] London, United Kingdom – 03 April 2019 -- A crowdfunding project 
> is underway to fund the first feature-length movie to tell the whole story of 
> the Irish Famine, including the role of the English Prime Minister, Lord John 
> Russell and his infamous henchman Trevelyan.
> The Great Hunger Movie - Famine in Times of Plenty
> 
> “ It is a grave injustice that no feature film has ever told the whole story 
> of the greatest humanitarian tragedy of 19th century Europe.  With the help 
> of the worldwide Irish diaspora, we are going to use crowdfunding to break 
> this taboo.  We are going to break through the censorship and make the movie 
> the establishment doesn’t want made ” says Tim Pat Coogan, associate producer 
> for the movie and Ireland’s most famous historian.
> 
> The Great Hunger Movie is an action drama set in Ireland in the 1840s. 
> Powerful, controversial and extremely moving – The Great Hunger is an epic 
> story of famine, love and revolution that will for the first time break 
> through the censorship to tell the full story of the famine and remember the 
> lost generations of Irish.
> 
> With a goal of crowdfunding $2m the team behind the project, including 
> renowned Hollywood script consultant Dr. Linda Seger, writer/producer T.K 
> Hayes and associate producer Kathleen Hayes, are confident that the Irish at 
> home, and the global Irish diaspora, will support the movie. Dr. Linda Seger 
> describes the movie as  “A really big movie” and “A very rich and dimensional 
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> Crowdfunding is set to begin on Indiegogo on April 11th ( 
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> Due to the persisting censorship on the topic of the Irish Famine the team 
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> story of the famine and with The Great Hunger Movie we are going to make the 
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Re: [Marxism] Ken Loach: blame 'fake left' politicians like Miliband and Blair for gig economy | Film | The Guardian

2019-05-17 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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And the author of the article conveniently proves the case Loach is making 
about smear campaigns by adding a completely irrelevant paragraph on the phony 
antisemitism allegations in an article that otherwise has nothing to do with 
the subject…

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[Marxism] Filmmaker Anand Gandhi and Memesys Culture Lab Launch Political Simulation Game SHASN

2019-07-17 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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Sounds like this board game sums up the emptiness of ”politics” in our low 
level ”democracies”. Whether it does so in an illuminating way or not, I have 
no idea. Though I’d definitely enjoy trying it once if given the chance.




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> Filmmaker Anand Gandhi and Memesys Culture Lab Launch Political Simulation 
> Game SHASN
> 
> Memesys Culture Lab 
> ,
>  the studio behind the acclaimed political thriller, An Insignificant Man, 
> has launched SHASN 
> ,
>  a board gaming attempt at fixing our broken political conversations. With 
> decades of experience in cinema, VR and documentary film, SHASN marks 
> Memesys foray into interactive media. The cinematic trailer 
> 
>  of the game launched last week, and the Kickstarter campaign 
> 
>  for SHASN is now live.
> 
> SHASN promises to deliver an immersive, roleplaying experience where every 
> player takes on the mantle of a politician in the midst of a high-stakes 
> election. By condensing the trials and tribulations of a real grassroots 
> campaign, SHASN provides the virtual experience of being a politician on the 
> ground.
> 
> SHASN started as my attempt at fixing my own broken political conversations, 
> and its turned into my strategy for more meaningful engagement with my 
> friends about politics, said creator Zain Memon. Im confident that SHASN 
> will resonate with people who want to fix our broken discourse.
> 
> SHASN is the best thing to come out of American politics in a very long 
> time, said Stephen Gulik, Everything Board Games.
> 
> All of the intrigue, plotting, backstabbing, and strategy of an actual 
> cutthroat election, reduced down to board game size, said Nick Meenachan, 
> Board Game Brawl.
> 
> How it works
> 
> In SHASN, players assume the role of politicians, requiring the player to 
> take stands on various pressing contemporary issues like gun control and 
> foreign policy. Every turn, players have to answer these political and 
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> campaign funds, media attention, street clout, and public trust.
> 
> These resources are used to influence voters and hatch conspiracies as the 
> players build their ideologies and strategically control areas of the map in 
> their quest for political domination. An incisive examination of power, and 
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[Marxism] Louis-Julien Petit: French "political" cinema

2019-09-20 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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I wrote a little something on French director Louis-Julien Petit for the 
editorial of the upcoming issue of Film International, that I thought my be of 
interest to some. I highly recommend his films, if you haven’t already 
discovered them:


Frenchman Louis-Julien Petit (born 1983) is a filmmaker worthy of more 
attention. His third feature as director, Invisibles (Les Invisibles), was 
released generally in France in January of this year and is still making its 
tentative way onto select international screens, opening in Germany in October.

After graduating film school in 2004, Petit started out as assistant director 
(first, second, third, credited, uncredited…) on some 30 films, including the 
romantic anthology movie Paris, je t’aime (2006), Quentin Tarantino’s World War 
Two saga Inglorious Basterds (2009) and Martin Scorsese’s family fairytale Hugo 
Cabret (2011).

But Petit’s own films have little in common with these glamorous fantasies. 
Instead, they straddle two interlinked traditions of French and European 
‘political’ cinema (‘political’ here standing for critical of liberal 
capitalism, while films whose explicit and/or implicit assumptions, regarding 
humans, societies and history, are consistent with liberal ideology are 
generally seen as neutrally ‘unpolitical’): on the one hand, the ‘political 
thriller’ of the 1960s and 70s, exemplified by, say, the work of Claude Chabrol 
or the today wildly underrated Yves Boisset; on the other hand, the later 
social realist cinema made by the likes of Robert Guédiguian and the Belgian 
Dardenne Brothers.

Moving between thriller and social realism, between comedic exuberance and deep 
tragedy, mixing professional actors and amateurs portraying characters close to 
their own life experiences, and focussing on the struggle of the most 
precarious layers of the working class, Petit’s as yet small body of films 
reminds us perhaps most of all of the doyen of contemporary European social 
realist cinema, Ken Loach, while the work of Petit’s compatriot, Laurent 
Cantet, ticks several of these boxes as well.

Petit’s first film, Discount (2014), took years to complete and was partly 
crowdfunded. The premise of the story is similar to that of the Dardennes’ film 
of the same year, Two Days, One Night (Deux jours, une nuit): a company plans 
to downsize and the workers are set to compete against each other to decide who 
gets to keep their jobs. In Petit’s film, a chain of supermarkets, Discount, is 
about to introduce self-checkout to cut labour costs. To find out who are the 
most efficient workers, the security guards are equipped with stop-watches and 
made to double as time study men. Every moment of work is carefully measured 
and upper time limits are set for such things as toilet breaks; 75 seconds for 
men, 95 for women (on account of menstruation).

The response of the workers in Discount, however, is more Loach than Dardennes. 
They can’t afford to strike, but they band together and fight back, opening 
their own discount store in an abandoned barn, where they sell the out-of-date, 
but perfectly fine, goods that it is part of their daily work to destroy. 
Selling cheaply to friends and neighbours, they split the proceeds equally and 
so make sure they get at least a bit of severance pay.

But what sets Discount apart from mainstream social realism is its moments of a 
distinctly modernist aesthetic touch, connecting it to the ‘Brecthian’ 
distanciation and experimental edginess of 1970s political thrillers. At times, 
Petit displays the supermarket – with its ubiquitous surveillance system and 
invisible corporate bosses communicating via instruction films teaching 
middle-management how to fire people ‘responsibly’ – as an totalitarian machine 
that has turned on its human creators, not unlike Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey 
(1968). Some critics – idealist purists, as so many critics are – faulted Petit 
for this aesthetic ‘inconsistency’, but it created a powerful image of the 
conflict between the irrational corporate system’s superficial ‘rationality’ 
and the needs of humanity.

Petit’s second film, Carole Matthieu (2016), was based on a roman noir 
(something of the  literary twin of the political thriller) by Marin Ledun (Les 
Visages écrasés, 2011). In writing the novel, Ledun was inspired by the wave of 
suicides provoked by the horrific working conditions at his former employer, 
France Télécom. In order to downsize, the company fostered a culture of 
harassment to drive employees out, one way or another. As then chief executive 
Didier Lombard put it in a speech to managers in 2007: ‘I will cut these jobs 
one way or

Re: [Marxism] Overworked America | Martin Hart-Landsberg | Reports from the Economic Front

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It is not without interest to note that one country stands out as performing 
even worse, in relative terms, than the US: Sweden, where workers now, 
according to the chart, work some 100 hours more ever year compared to 1980. 
Another indication of the exceptional speed with which inequality has risen in 
Sweden during the last 3 decades. And a warning to those who want to sell 
Swedish style social democracy to the US or rest of world.

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Re: [Marxism] The Real Threat of ‘Joker’ Is Hiding in Plain Sight

2019-10-10 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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Wow, what BS. Racism is obviously a matter of fact. But to imply that the main 
driving force here is Fleck being spoilt by white privilege makes no sense. 
Throughout most of the film he does his shitty, precarious, low pay job and 
asks and expects basically nothing at all. On the contrary, he tries to make 
his mum realize the Waynes of this world don’t give a damn about them, white or 
black. Only when he has reason to believe he actually IS Wayne’s biological son 
he comes to think for a moment that this will make a real difference (a rather 
human reaction, I’d say). This arch-conservative review, posing as anti-racist, 
is just a version of the line that the kind of decent working conditions and 
welfare that the labour movement created are themselves at their very core 
about white privilege and have spoilt white workers who need to get over them 
and accept capitalism (”nature”, ”life”) as it is. It is intended to silence 
and split workers.

Re ”Joker”, I went to see it expecting to hate it, as I hate the Nolan films 
(thinly disguised fascism, here’s my review: http://filmint.nu/?p=5351). It is 
far from perfect and, yes, it could have treated its black characters 
differently. But nevertheless this actually is the complex, intelligent film 
that many claim the wildly overrated Nolan films to be. Class and exploitation 
are at the heart of it, not white privilege. 


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Re: [Marxism] The Real Threat of ‘Joker’ Is Hiding in Plain Sight

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And I have to add: when Fleck is invited to De Niro’s tv show it is to play the 
clown, to entertain and, most of all, to be ridiculed, laughed at, not with. 
Hardly a sign of white privilege, but perhaps more like non-white artists and 
non-white culture were often treated historically.
 
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> Wow, what BS. Racism is obviously a matter of fact. But to imply that the 
> main driving force here is Fleck being spoilt by white privilege makes no 
> sense. Throughout most of the film he does his shitty, precarious, low pay 
> job and asks and expects basically nothing at all. On the contrary, he tries 
> to make his mum realize the Waynes of this world don’t give a damn about 
> them, white or black. Only when he has reason to believe he actually IS 
> Wayne’s biological son he comes to think for a moment that this will make a 
> real difference (a rather human reaction, I’d say). This arch-conservative 
> review, posing as anti-racist, is just a version of the line that the kind of 
> decent working conditions and welfare that the labour movement created are 
> themselves at their very core about white privilege and have spoilt white 
> workers who need to get over them and accept capitalism (”nature”, ”life”) as 
> it is. It is intended to silence and split workers.
> 
> Re ”Joker”, I went to see it expecting to hate it, as I hate the Nolan films 
> (thinly disguised fascism, here’s my review: http://filmint.nu/?p=5351). It 
> is far from perfect and, yes, it could have treated its black characters 
> differently. But nevertheless this actually is the complex, intelligent film 
> that many claim the wildly overrated Nolan films to be. Class and 
> exploitation are at the heart of it, not white privilege. 
> 
> 
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Re: [Marxism] Posie Parker, TERFs Find Audience With White Supremacists

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This makes perfect sense. The language used about trans people in general and 
trans women in particular by many established, left, marxist terfs when they 
think ”no one hears them” (and sometimes openly too, of course) is very similar 
to the 19th century biologism and bigotry of racists and misogynists. 



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> "Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (better known as her pseudonym Posie Parker), who 
> is known in the United Kingdom for her strident anti-trans activism as well 
> as in the United States for harassing the trans rights advocate Sarah 
> McBride, recently appeared on the YouTube channel of French-Canadian 
> far-right nationalist Jean-François Gariépy. Gariépy, for his part, believes 
> in the need for a “white ethno-state” and regularly features the noxious 
> Richard Spencer on his show. And while the two, during the 80-minute 
> interview, debated and disagreed about women’s role in the family and gender 
> disparities in the criminal justice system, their anti-trans bigotry united 
> them."
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Re: [Marxism] 2020 - Sanders Takes Top Spot In Dem Quinnipiac University Connecticut

2020-02-12 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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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. 

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> Holy shit — even American Prospect has figured out that the demand for 
> balanced budgets and “how-do-you-pay-for-its” is a red herring:
> 
> “Buttigieg settles on deficit hawkery as a closing argument in New Hampshire. 
> It’s hard to think of a school of political thought with less credibility and 
> less popularity.
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Re: [Marxism] 2020 - Sanders Takes Top Spot In Dem Quinnipiac University Connecticut

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

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

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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] Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary Theory - CounterPunch.org

2020-02-14 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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It sometimes feels as if people here are determined to make the worst possible 
interpretations of comments. It was a straight question, asked precisely out of 
curiosity, not the lack of it. I’m not dismissing the general importance of 
understanding money, but the text left me wondering what difference it makes to 
someone in an electoral campaign if s/he has to argue that we need to raise 
taxes to avoid inflation rather than to pay for progressive policies as such? 

> 14 feb. 2020 kl. 13:19 skrev MM :
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>> On Feb 14, 2020, at 4:01 AM, Daniel Lindvall > > wrote:
>> 
>> But, if you have to rise taxes, not to fund the spending as such, but to 
>> offset inflation, how much difference does it really make?
>> 
>> Kavanagh: ”…surtaxing the rich does not transfer funds directly to pay for 
>> another activity like healthcare, but it does help configure the money 
>> supply on a macro level to enable more social spending. It averts the 
>> inflation that would occur if both a lot of spending on healthcare andthe 
>> infinite appropriation of money by individuals were tolerated. Taxes don’t 
>> raise funds; they do help control the money supply.”
> 
> If you can read that piece and be left with that question, and without any 
> curiosity to pursue any of the ideas mentioned in it, there’s nothing 
> whatsoever I can do to help you. 

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Re: [Marxism] Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary Theory - CounterPunch.org

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Btw, this all makes the Corbyn debacle doubly sad. If a second wave of social 
democratic/welfare capitalist reforms were thinkable at all, then surely a 
situation where Corbyn led the UK and Sanders the US simultaneously would have 
been that moment of possibility.

> 
> 
> I’m sorry, I must be expressing myself very clumsily, English after all is 
> not my first language. My question was purely about campaign strategy, I get 
> the rest of it. But it’s not like a candidate is going to get around the 
> screams of ”inflation, inflation, inflation”, so how could s/he get around 
> discussing higher taxes as part of what is needed to curb it eventually? I 
> can’t see that question going away until x years later when people see the 
> great new infrastructure. Just as ruling class resistance via financial 
> warfare won’t go away just because many of them understand that their 
> purported theory defending this warfare (”budget balance” etc) is a crappy 
> excuse.
> 
> I hope to be proven wrong and I support any serious attempt at pushing 
> through real reforms, but I can’t see it happen without a mass movement 
> threatening the hell out of the ruling class. The limited (in time and space) 
> successes of social democracy after all came about through an almost perfect 
> storm: a vibrant labour movement, a successful revolution in a major country 
> that threatened to spread, two world wars and a depression within the space 
> of 30 years destroying massive amounts of capital, the war economy and the 
> collective effort needed to win the war, and on top of that took place in 
> countries that benefited from centuries of globally highly uneven 
> industrialization ultimately fed by the spoils of colonialism. 
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Re: [Marxism] Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary Theory - CounterPunch.org

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I’m sorry, I must be expressing myself very clumsily, English after all is not 
my first language. My question was purely about campaign strategy, I get the 
rest of it. But it’s not like a candidate is going to get around the screams of 
”inflation, inflation, inflation”, so how could s/he get around discussing 
higher taxes as part of what is needed to curb it eventually? I can’t see that 
question going away until x years later when people see the great new 
infrastructure. Just as ruling class resistance via financial warfare won’t go 
away just because many of them understand that their purported theory defending 
this warfare (”budget balance” etc) is a crappy excuse.

I hope to be proven wrong and I support any serious attempt at pushing through 
real reforms, but I can’t see it happen without a mass movement threatening the 
hell out of the ruling class. The limited (in time and space) successes of 
social democracy after all came about through an almost perfect storm: a 
vibrant labour movement, a successful revolution in a major country that 
threatened to spread, two world wars and a depression within the space of 30 
years destroying massive amounts of capital, the war economy and the collective 
effort needed to win the war, and on top of that took place in countries that 
benefited from centuries of globally highly uneven industrialization ultimately 
fed by the spoils of colonialism. 

> 
>> On Feb 14, 2020, at 9:26 AM, Daniel Lindvall > > wrote:
>> 
>> It sometimes feels as if people here are determined to make the worst 
>> possible interpretations of comments. It was a straight question, asked 
>> precisely out of curiosity, not the lack of it. I’m not dismissing the 
>> general importance of understanding money, but the text left me wondering 
>> what difference it makes to someone in an electoral campaign if s/he has to 
>> argue that we need to raise taxes to avoid inflation rather than to pay for 
>> progressive policies as such? 
> 
> Yeah, I don’t think that would be a very effective campaign strategy. If 
> you’re a campaign advisor to anyone, I’d suggest not using that approach.
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Re: [Marxism] Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary Theory - CounterPunch.org

2020-02-14 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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But, if you have to rise taxes, not to fund the spending as such, but to offset 
inflation, how much difference does it really make?

Kavanagh: ”…surtaxing the rich does not transfer funds directly to pay for 
another activity like healthcare, but it does help configure the money supply 
on a macro level to enable more social spending. It averts the inflation that 
would occur if both a lot of spending on healthcare andthe infinite 
appropriation of money by individuals were tolerated. Taxes don’t raise funds; 
they do help control the money supply.”



> 
> 
> 
> This is quite a useful piece by Jim Kavanagh on the Counterpunch website from 
> a couple of years ago. It’s lengthy; I’ll post a few key passages but it’s 
> worth reading in full:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/22/behind-the-money-curtain-a-left-take-on-taxes-spending-and-modern-monetary-theory/
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Re: [Marxism] I moved back to Sweden and am appalled by my country’s coronavirus response.

2020-04-30 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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”It has been the Swedish left that has fiercely praised the Swedish COVID-19 
response with overtones of nationalism.”

This is true, as long as by the left we mean neoliberal social democrats and 
their supporters. People whose opinions are close to most of us on this list 
are highly critical. Half my Facebook feed these days consists of criticism of 
Tegnell and the official Swedish line on Covid.

The writer also misses out on one very important reason for the laissez faire 
response: the extreme shift towards neoliberalism that we have seen in Sweden 
over the last 4 decades, that has resulted in the fastest growing inequality 
levels of any OECD nation since the 90s (US and UK included), as well as the 
most profit-driven school system and a health care sector destroyed by 
privatizations and NPM. If Thatcher once claimed that her greatest victory was 
Blair and New Labour, Swedish social democrats today often act as if they were 
literally possessed by her ghost. In the midst of this pandemic they took the 
opportunity to attack one of the few remnants of our once progressive housing 
policies, rent control. A text book shock doctrine move.

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Re: [Marxism] Dipping my toe into Nordic Noir.

2020-05-18 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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The politics of the ten Beck novels by Sjöwall & Wahlöö tend to become more 
obvious as the series progresses. If you don’t feel like reading all ten in 
chronological order, but want to give them one more chance, I suggest you skip 
to ”The Abominable Man” (the 7th book, published in 1971). You could also 
search out the film based on this story, ”The Man on the Roof” (1976, directed 
by Sweden’s greatest director of the second half of the 20th century, Bo 
Widerberg).

However, I do think that there is some exaggeration regarding the progressive 
character of the Beck novels. As is often the case with stories that focus a 
bit too narrowly on alienation, they tend to remain individualistic and can be 
read almost as easily as a conservative critique of modernism and the welfare 
state. 

> 
>  I frankly expected more
> obvious politics. The villain if he could be called that was a near 40 year
> "deviated prevert". And the heroes were all servants of the state
> apparatus. Moreover they didn't appear majorly alienated from that
> apparatus. It worked very efficiently at state and national level to solve
> the crime with one individualist aha moment - use of the photographs and
> film.
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Re: [Marxism] Dipping my toe into Nordic Noir.

2020-05-18 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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If you want to read the very best of contemporary Swedish noir I highly 
recommend the Harry Kvist trilogy by Martin Holmén 
(http://www.martinholmen.se/english.html). Set in the 1930s it is also, very 
deliberately, a comment on our own times.

> 
> The politics of the ten Beck novels by Sjöwall & Wahlöö tend to become more 
> obvious as the series progresses. If you don’t feel like reading all ten in 
> chronological order, but want to give them one more chance, I suggest you 
> skip to ”The Abominable Man” (the 7th book, published in 1971). You could 
> also search out the film based on this story, ”The Man on the Roof” (1976, 
> directed by Sweden’s greatest director of the second half of the 20th 
> century, Bo Widerberg).
> 
> However, I do think that there is some exaggeration regarding the progressive 
> character of the Beck novels. As is often the case with stories that focus a 
> bit too narrowly on alienation, they tend to remain individualistic and can 
> be read almost as easily as a conservative critique of modernism and the 
> welfare state. 
> 
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Re: [Marxism] Re antifa

2020-06-04 Thread Daniel Lindvall via Marxism

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That surprises me. Here in Sweden the antifa milieu is as good as 100 % 
strongly anti-zionist! I’ve never come across anyone associated with antifa who 
was not pro-Palestinian.

> 
> Speaking from personal experience. It is of course impossible to get an
> accurate read of every Antifa-type's personal views given the nature of
> their non-organizatiom, but apologetics for Israel and suspicion of the
> Palestinian cause is fairly normal and I've come across it more than
> occasionally.
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