Re: [Marxism] Moderator's note

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 Lou Wrote: This thread on Corbyn et al is getting repetitious. I suggest
that comrades compose a final statement on it and then we move on.

I hear what you are saying Lou but it was good to see the list expand
beyond Trump and the ME. I had started something last night on the evil of
antisemitism but did not feel that I had much to offer beyond what was
canvassed in the thread.

I was interested in your comments (negative) about Corbyn's advisor Seamus
Milne.  He seems though to have a high reputation among the Novara Media
mob whom I follow.

What did interest me was that in the middle of all the fracas Corbyn pulled
off what was by all accounts his best parliamentary performance at PMQT.
Significantly he chose to attack the Tory Government around their treatment
of the mentally ill.

For me that indicates the central weakness of the Right in the Tory and in
the Labour Party at this juncture.  They have no good news to give.  Ditto
for Australia BTW. Accordingly, they can only offer the politics of
distraction. But the politics of distraction does not "put food on the
family" as George Bush might have said.  I suspect in terms of the UK that
outside the MSM and the Westminster Political caste no one gives much of a
damn about a mural -vile and all as it absolutely was.

If I am correct the local election on May 3rd will prove a watershed when
the Tories suffer a well deserved political thrashing.

What then will the Right of Labour do?  Apparently they call themselves the
"kamikazes".  Not the most hegemonic of nicknames I would have thought.
Will they split from the Party?  If they do so their careers will end in
inglorious ignominy. The SDP split in 1981 took place and was part of the
combative phase of neoliberalism.  While he was at the Treasury in 1970 the
Friedmanites in the Bank of England were already beginning to influence
Jenkins, the SDP leader.

The primary intent of the SDP split was to defeat Bennism and it succeeded
in that. But we are in a different phase now. Neoliberalism is no longer
normative and has instead entered a phase of irrational punitive doubling
down.  If the Blairites split now their fate would even be worse than that
of Roy Jenkins and co.

So the UK remains for me the fulcrum of my hopes for a better world. And
Corbyn seems to be still in the game

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Garyn

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[Marxism] Cricket, lovely cricket was at Newlands when I saw it...

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I have been a fanatical cricket follower since 1957 - a long time and
though recently my fanaticism has waned and weakened somewhat, last night I
sat up to watch the test match between Australia and South Africa into the
early hours of the morning.  While I nodded nearly napping suddenly I
noticed the camera focus on the pocket and crotch of one of the Aussie
teams - young Cameron Bancroft.

In brief he was trying to scratch the ball on one side while keeping the
other side smooth.  This is the recipe for what is called reverse swing -
the balll moves and the batsmen can be beaten. The action is illegal and is
regarded as cheating.

Everything Bancroft did was captured on the big screen.  We all saw him
loosen his belt and put the offending object used to roughen up the ball in
his under pants.  It was as if a naughty school boy was trapped smoking and
put the joint in his undies.

Well I thought to myself as I went to bed 'Will this be a bgi thing or a
trivial thing?'

My last post was about how we in Australia may be drawn into nucear
conflict beause of the looming USA-China conflict. Given the coverage in
the news, one would think that is a minor matter.  But sport is of another
dimension for Australians.  It is the source of Utopian dreams and
compensation for the shitty lives we lead.

Australians take their sporting dreams more seriously than political
reality. Transgressions are not easily forgiven and it looks like we have a
major incident. The Australian Board of Control meets later on today and
they will be forced, I think, to take action against the Captain, Steve
Smith, who sanctioned the cheating.

Money has flooded into cricket and it has destroyed what used to be known
as the spirit of cricket - its ethos or ethics. Australia has led the way
in the persoanal abuse of opponents and it would seem that generally
Australian players are unloved outside of Australia. I keep thinking of
Marx's great lines *'All* that is solid melts into air, *all that is holy
is profaned*, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his
real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.'

My comment on this has always been that we kick against the pricks and
refuse to face with sober senses that our dreams are compensations and that
capitalism ruins everything - even cricket, lovely cricket.

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Re: [Marxism] Australia accused of delaying Chinese students' visas - The World - ABC News

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This goes to the heart of a serious contradiction in Australian politics.
Economically Australia is dependent on China. Militarily it is linked to
Washington. That military link is designed to protect Australia from the
ancient fear of the Yellow Peril (historically China but also Japan in
WW2). But the entry of the UK into then Common Market (later ERU) forced an
economic turn to China that was strongest during the normative phase of
neoliberal globalization (1989-2008). Somehow Australia was able to manage
the contradiction of military loyalty to the USA and ever growing economic
dependence on China.

But we are going now thorugh what Koselleck called a "saddle time" when the
structure and content of the post neoliberal paradigm is being determined.

Fate has deigned to decree that during this period of struggle and
uncertainty the most militarily powerful nation in the world is led by a
dangerous unpredictable moron. It is unclear, to me at least, what the
Trump project actually means. Bannon appeared to want a war with China and
it may be that in Washington the Trump forces may be able to provoke a
conflict with China. The tariffs that Trump is imposing would seem to point
in that direction.

What will Australia do?  Will we follow the flag and join the fake "freedom
of navigation" struggle and send a warship to confront the Chinese?  In
part we are a white colonial settler nation still that has exchanged the
USA as mother country for the UK. And the logic of that relationship is
that we join the drift to war. Certainly Australia has fought in all of the
USA's wars since WW2.

But Chinese money, trade and investment count.  Well let's hope they do and
that the desperadoes who want war will be marginalised. But I have to say
that with the appointment of John Bolton things are not looking good.


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[Marxism] a protest

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I am watching the results come in from the East Coast, currently the
Republicans are ahead in the 60 seats that have been called. I want to run
around and scream in protest against being in a position where I am hoping
for the Democrats to save us. I despise the Democrats with every fiber of
my being. I totally endorse every single word of Richard Seymour's
criticism of them and their overweening arrogance and stupidity.

But here we are- Waiting for Pelosi. Jeezuss and his holy mother help us.

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Re: [Marxism] a protest

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I would tend to go for the Three Stooges myself.  But the truth is probably
that what the Democrats are most concerned with is any attack on the status
quo. They will move heaven and earth to prevent a broad democratic movement
emerging such as Corbynism in the UK. By that reckoning a narrow victory in
the House and "as you were" in the Senate was all they wanted.

I cannot advise US comrades because I am tucked away down under.  The
formula that Trotksyism taught me was that first the Social Democrats have
to fail before Fascism can gain real purchase. Brazil seems a classic
instance of that.  In Australia the Labor Party is about to take over next
year.  Their failure is almost predestined. By that reckoning we should
have a far right wing upsurge from 2022 on wards, when  I will be entering
my 80s. Oh Joy!

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Re: [Marxism] Assad emerges victorious in a shattered nation | Financial Times

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Re: [Marxism] Eric Olin Wright's farewell

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Thanks for posting this Lou. I hope when my turn comes I can exhibit as
much courage and dignity as Eric did

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[Marxism] a thought on fascism

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I read Richard Seymour's piece on Bolsonaro. As always very intelligent. I
like his formulation of pre-fascism. However, I did have one slight
disagreement.  I think that the precondition for fascism is not the
presence of communism. Rather it is failed social democracy.  The presence
of communism does play a role in getting the elites to be afraid and to
hold their noses and back the fascist thugs.  But the mass base of fascism
requires the formula of social-democratic betrayal and that was present in
Prussia in the 30s and as well in Brazil.

But really we have to shed notions based on the constant conjunction of
events such as If A then B will follow.  That should be rewritten as If A
then there is a tendency for B to follow ceteris paribus.

All eyes on the UK next week. When May puts her deal to parliament. I think
it is going to be very close and I am tipping a May win actually.  But we
will see.

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Re: [Marxism] Sanders Statement on Venezuela - Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont

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Agreed- It is helpful for getting Sanders in perspective..
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[Marxism] a thought on Badiou on the Gilets Jaunes

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I am far from an expert on France or French politics and so was very
pleased to see Badiou's thoughts on that movement.  But I cannot say I
agree with his conclusions. I suspect that his characterisation of the
movement is fairly correct when it comes to their reactive nostalgic
nature. But to condemn them for not waving the red flag seems to me to be
highly sectarian. Whatever the nuances of their politics the fact is that
they are being brutalised each weekend by the State and that moves me to
sympathy at least.

Clearly they are a contradictory formation, but surely if one was in France
one would be supporting them at some level?

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Re: [Marxism] You want it darker | Richard Seymour on Patreon

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Jesus Christ and his holy mother help us.  It is Monday morning here in
Brisbane. The new week has begun and if that was not bad enough I open the
List and this.

Jung once said that Joyce was swimming in his neuroses while his daughter
drowned in them. I think of that every time I read one of Richard's
apocalyptic pieces. He is swimming while depressives like me are choking.

Ah well.

A political point though. I do not think it is useful to see Trump or
Bolsonaro as the fulfillment of reactionary desires that have been long
repressed, They are both products of failed liberalism and social
democracy. Trump is the counter identifier of Obama, while Bolsonaro is the
counter identifier of Lula.And the desire is surely relief from the trials
of neoliberalism.

comaradely

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> nihilism, or despairing resignation? Why is it as though the species has
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Re: [Marxism] Social Democracy and Imperialism: The Problem with Kautsky | Left Voice

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This was really worth a read.  It is so good to be reminded of first
principles in the way that this article does.

I have been absolutely devastated by the results of the Australian
election. I do not want to even think about never mind discuss what
happened. So my political gaze is elsewhere - the UK of course where I have
spent a good deal of psychic energy following the Corbyn movement. On the
surface, at least, Corbyn's project seems to me an attempt to save
capitalism from the capitalists. Of course there is much more to discuss
about it, but I am an old leftist and as much as I support Corbyn I am all
too aware of the limitations of a simple revival of Keynesian-ism

I have also been interested in the fact that the settler-colonial project
underway in Palestine is the first time such a project has been so widely
publicised. Every day on my time line images of Israeli brutality are
displayed.  I understand the impatience of those who support the
Palestinians. Of course. But the steady drip feed of images of IDF and
settler brutality has accelerated the decay of Zionism. Someday the 2nd law
of dialectics will kick in in Palestine and the ME and we will all be
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[Marxism] Turning up Trump's in the UK

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Trump continues to be something of a puzzle to me. I cannot quite get my
mind around his awful grossness. He continues to be worse than anything I
ever expected..

I would excuse that focus partly because I  think it is a mistake to
understate the seriousness of when our rulers become uncivilised. I know of
course that all structures of oppression or master-slave ensembles rest on
a layer of dirty business. I have said that often. The torturers,
assassins, liars, felon setters, receivers & initiators of corruption are
essential to the rule of the modern capitalist state. But now to me it
looks like someone has lifted up the rock and the unspeakable is everywhere.

 Indeed I have said that many times and I like to think I am making a moral
point here but it is more probable that I am making an aesthetic judgement.

If so, I readily confess that is a political and moral mistake.  It is
really not the bastard's awfulness, or his hair or his pathological lying
or his sustained imitation of a deplorable that should concern us. It is
his capacity to bully & badger the ruling class that should worry us
deeply. The spectacle of the UK establishment grovelling in fear at the
feet of this bully is something I will take with me to the end.

When Trump declared the UK National Health Service was "on the table", for
me it was as if Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lanksy had come to town or like we
were watching a rerun of the Cuban scenes from *Godfather 2, *or like I was
in the middle of the scene from *Godfather 1 *when the Five Families decide
to permit the trade in heroin. Everything was on the table.

The bright side of it all is that the Labour Party activists seem to have
been able to exploit Trump's slavering over the prospect of getting his
paws on the NHS, and it may have been a factor in the Labour Party victory
in the Peterborough by election.

But Trump carries on. He claims now the Queen had the time of her life. She
is 93! I laughed with scorn at all that. But still the feeling remains that
Trump is capable of doing something terrible and no one in the
establishment will dare to stop him.

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Re: [Marxism] Are they quite sure about this? | Richard Seymour on Patreon

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This is a brilliant little snippet by Richard,. As always. I myself tend
though to think that in backing Johnson there is a clear sign that the
Tories intend to fight. Richard thinks they are not far sighted enough for
that. Maybe. But that is where we will end up even if only by default. The
model I believe is Macron's weekly battering of the gilets jaunes. That is
something that was unthinkable until it actually happened. No far sight was
involved, just Macron's options were to batter or to retreat and he chose
to batter. In itself that is a sign of the times we are in.

Johnson will be elected PM and he will batter. The domestic violence
episode will become the equivalent of Trump's "grab them by the pussies".

I keep thinking of the Heraclitus fragment "The god whose oracle is in
Delphi, neither conceals or reveals but gives a sign.
Comrades we are being given lots of signs by the ruling class.

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Re: [Marxism] Happy anniversary

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totally endorse this.

comradely

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Re: [Marxism] Message from Caracas

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Impossible to say of course from here, but I suspect Guaido is coming under
enormous pressure from the Trump cabal to deliver a coup. That would
explain some of the incompetence. At any time soon, I expect Trump to turn
on Guaido and do the apprentice thing and say to Guaido "You're fired!".

comradely

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Re: [Marxism] What will Boris do? | Richard Seymour on Patreon

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I had posted on Corbyn before I read this piece by Richard Seymour on
Johnson ( I will not use the bastard's first name ever). As always with
Richard I am struck by his brilliance and then am left with a struggle
against depression usually of enormous dimensions. But first a very obvious
point. We are heading into a political crisis in the UK and that might well
tip us into a very deep economic crisis as well.

I keep getting asked what is going to happen and always I have to answer "I
do not know" and neither does anyone else. We have a first rate opportunist
up on the Tiger's back in the UK (ditto in the USA). Richard is correct to
say that if Johnson plays the race card he may well win a GE. But there
will be a terrible price to be paid for such a victory. Will he take the
"No Deal" door out of the EU & provoke an economic and political
catastrophe? Will he win the race election and then betray the Brexiters by
staying in the EU while continuing to negotiate another deal?

Let me try and rework these choices by going back into history. In WW2
Britain was facing defeat after the retreat from France. To get the US into
the war Churchill had to open his Empire to American interests. In other
words he played America against Europe but from a position of weakness.
Still it was a popular and successful move.Johnson too would like to play
America against Europe but Trump is no FDR and nearly (or possibly over)
half of the UK is pro-Europe. So a tilt towards Trump would be very
unpopular in the UK. Very. Besides what would it solve?

For me Johnson represents the last throw of the dice for a section of the
English ruling class. He is the inheritor of the ruling caste based
consciousness. But this consciousness is residual in political terms and
can only present it self in its clownish, eccentric bonhomie mode. The
laird must be full of pretended self mockery to distract the peasants from
noticing he is still in the mansion. Contrast that with Churchill who
presented himself in the heroic mode - We will fight them on the beaches
etc.

But there are lies a plenty clinging to the Churchill myth. He did not go
up North to address miners until after the fall of Stalingrad. & I would
bet all I have that the Communist Party facilitated & policed his visit.
Now the North of England has changed since the 1940s but still the
spectacle of Johnson getting pelted with rubber balls in Manchester will
have given the elite some pause.

So will caste make way at last for class in the UK? I suspect that there is
a good section of the bourgeoisie who are terrified of Johnson. They would
love to do a deal with Labour but the price they demand is the axing of
Corbyn. The Labour parliamentary party would deliver that in a flash but
the party membership would not.

For the moment Captain Johnson is in charge.  Or is he? I have tweeted that
he is like the prankster who has convinced everyone he is a brain surgeon.
Now in the theater the patient is on the table fully prepped and the nurses
and other doctors are looking at the Joker, who they think is brilliant
because he has been to Eton and it is time to operate.

We will see how he goes and very shortly too.

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[Marxism] Is it too late for Corbyn?

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There are only two arenas of politics that I am following closely and they
are the UK and the USA. I am in absolute mourning about Australian politics
and have forbidden all discussion about it from those around me. Otherwise
my reading continues, of course.  I am currently working on Franz
Rosenzweig's *Star of Redemption*. There is enough material there to carry
me into my 90s.

But it is UK that is consuming most of my energies especially via twitter.
Lou in one of his posts remarks that if he were in the UK he would probably
(?) (or was it maybe (?)) be linked in some way to the pro-Corbyn push. He
will comment on this I am sure, if he gets the time.

I will be upfront myself and say that, if I were in the UK at the moment, I
would be in the Labour Party and supporting Corbyn. A year or so ago I
would have been in the Socialist Workers Party until they expelled me over
their inexcusable handling of the rape case.  What I am saying here in the
babble, though, is that there are no easy options for a Leftist in the UK.
But it is the same elsewhere, of course.

So one supports Corbyn, and what does that mean one is supporting?  At
best, it meas that one seeks a return to the Keynesian compromise - some
redistribution and state direction of the economy. In other words a roll
back of the right wing libertarian-ism that gripped the UK from circa 1979
onward. All perfectly moderate and rational and with the clear purpose of
saving capitalism from the capitalists..

But, as always, in politics it is the trajectory stupid. And huge swathes
of the political class will not accept a left wing trajectory, however
mild. I am using "political class" to cover members of parliament, party
apparatchiks (of all parties), the mainstream media and sections of
capital. Still the political class are up against a huge Labour Party
membership, a doggedly committed leader in Corbyn and above all a
deterioration in the hegemonic core of neoliberalism. In the General
Election two years ago that membership fought the political class to a hard
won draw on an anti austerity ie punitive neoliberalism ticket.

Now what?

I have not mentioned the elephant in the living room - BREXIT.  It is
distorting everything. I suspect the Corbynites want it to go away so they
can campaign against austerity. . To be honest, I wish it would go away
too. But it will not go away. Upfront I have no love for the EU. How could
one after what they did to Greece? But on balance faced with the racism
that is the motor engine of Brexit, I am an apologetic remainer with a very
small "r". I would plump for the "soft" Brexit that Corbyn has tried to
deliver - basically remaining as close to the EU as Norway. But the forces
of polarization have pushed a soft Brexit, seemingly, out of the range of
possibilities.

There are so many other factors that I have not mentioned - the notorious
campaign around "antisemitism in the Labour Party" that the Corbynites have
bungled by retreat after retreat, the whole nature of the rise of Johnson
and what that represents in UK and world politics, the climate catastrophe,
the re-emergence of the "Irish Problem", the impact of Trump & Bannonism
etc.

But this post is getting long enough. If it sparks interest I will
participate of course in any thread. But  let  me finish by returning to
the lead question. Can Corbyn ride out the storm and beat the bounce in the
polls that Johnson has secured and win an election that will be fought on
racism with the Tory Party seeking to use the "pauperised rabble" or the
"deplorables" against the progressive middle class?

My answer is a prayerful "yes" with the proviso that he deepen his attack
on the forces that have given us austerity. Corbyn must seek to take
advantage of the hegemonic crisis that has gripped the ruling class by
constructing an anti-capitalist hegemony.  The irony is that, despite all
the gloom, I cling to the belief that such a project has never been more
possible.

as ever

comradely

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Re: [Marxism] Owen Jones 'Beaten Up In Blatant Premeditated Assault' | HuffPost UK

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The beating up of Owen Jones is a significant event. The outlines of a far
right politics is emerging in the UK. It is has many confused and confusing
elements associated with it. The central issue that is giving it momentum
has to be the Brexit from the EU. But of course the underlying impetus has
to do with the general crisis of neoliberalism provoked by the 2008 crash.
We are living through the failure of austerity politics/economics to
restore the rate of profitability and a subsequent generalized organic
crisis.

Corbynism can be thought to represent a way out; the Far Right offer
another. My reading of the rise of fascistic politics is that if feeds on
the failures of social democracy. The socialists are given a go first. They
fail/betray and then in come the fascists. The problem for the Right in the
UK is that they have been in power for nearly 10 years and they have piled
misery upon misery. & now the UK Tory Party has been framed and also
self-defined as the party of leaving the EU with out a deal. As Johnson put
it this is driven by a "Fick business" attitude. As a consequence, we have
the bizarre situation where the pound falls when the Tory Prime Minster
speaks and rises when the socialist leader of the Opposition comes up with
a plan to stop a No Deal exit,

So my best guess is that Corbybn will get a chance. He will be in govt with
a parliamentary party - a majority of whom hate him. I cannot see how he
can launch a social democratic program in such a circumstance.

So what should be done? I think one should push for a Corbyn govt. But my
residual Trotskyism tells me that Corbyn won't be able to achieve even the
mild reforms he has proposed. Nonetheless, the Corbyn team have maneuvered
well the last week. Framing Johnson as an arrogant careless and dangerous
bumbler with links to far right master minds seems to be working. Corbyn is
now increasingly positioned as the man who can save the UK from disaster.
The leaders of the Liberal Democrats and the Greens have both shot
themselves in the foot because they refused to back Corbyn as a temporary
PM to stop the No Deal Brexit.

How all this will end up, no one knows. But again I have a feeling that the
current organic crisis may morph very suddenly into a political if not a
revolutionary one. Things are potentially that dramatic IMHO

comradely

Gary

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Re: [Marxism] The Downside of Jeffrey Epstein’s Suicide: “I was looking to the Epstein case with a lot of hope. Hope for a fair outcome, hope the victims would finally get justice.” | Washington Babyl

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*If you’re surprised Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide, just imagine how
surprised HE was.*

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Re: [Marxism] C.E.O.s Should Fear a Recession. It Could Mean Revolution.

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Ellenah this article from the New York Times is not without interest. It is
fairly rubbishy of course but underneath it all there is a fear that the
way things cannot continue. I think these are all features of a saddle
time. Crisis and critique go hand in hand. The intellectuals comment in
response to the crisis and the crisis deepens. We are in the middle of it
and so it is hard to see an end. But of course all things end.

ae

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> C.E.O.s Should Fear a Recession. It Could Mean Revolution.
> By Farhad Manjoo
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> A recession looms, and the nation’s C.E.O.s are growing fearful.
>
> It isn’t the potential of downturn itself that has them alarmed —
> downturns come and downturns go, but whatever happens, chief executives,
> like cats, tend to land on their comfortably padded feet.
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> Instead, the cause of their fear appears to be something more
> fundamental. As Alan Murray, the C.E.O. of Fortune, writes in a cover
> story chronicling the C-suite anxiety: “More and more C.E.O.s worry that
> public support for the system in which they’ve operated is in danger of
> disappearing.” They’re worried that when the next recession breaks,
> revolution might, too. This could be the hour that the ship comes in:
> The coming recession might finally prompt the masses to sharpen their
> pitchforks and demand a reckoning.
>
> Company executives are right to worry. A downturn will mark the end of a
> record period of uninterrupted economic expansion. The American economy
> has been growing for more than a decade, stock indexes recently hit new
> highs, and the unemployment rate is at a 50-year low.
>
> And yet the vast majority of Americans will not look back on the last
> decade as years of fat and plenty. This was a gilded expansion, a decade
> of creaking wage growth and profoundly unequal outcomes. The number of
> Americans receiving food stamps is 40 percent higher now than in 2008,
> yet we have twice as many billionaires as we did a decade ago.
>
> This was an expansion driven by outsized gains to a handful of
> “superstar” firms in “superstar” cities. Economic devastation reigned in
> rural areas alongside catastrophic success in urban ones — an expansion
> marked by housing crunches and infrastructure nightmares that every
> level of government seems incapable of addressing. Corporate profits
> grew as if there were no tomorrow, but they didn’t trickle down to
> everyone else. Instead, dividends and stock buybacks got bigger while
> C.E.O. pay went through the rose-gold roof. The rest of us got
> smartphones, money-losing conveniences — Uber, WeWork, Netflix and meal
> delivery apps — and mountains of student debt.
>
> And so, when recession comes, we’ll be right to ask: Was that it? Is
> this the best it gets? And if so, isn’t it time to go full Elizabeth
> Warren — to make some fundamental, radical changes to how the American
> economy works, so that we might prevent decades more of growth that
> disproportionally benefits the titans among us?
>
> But the C.E.O.s now have a plan to head off revolution. They want you to
> know: Actually, they really do care about the world. Like, a lot.
>
> This week, in a statement widely feted by well-meaning Davos types, the
> Business Roundtable — an association of chief executives of nearly 200
> companies, including Apple, Amazon, General Motors and Walmart —
> declared that the era of soulless corporatism was over. The Business
> Roundtable once held that a corporation’s “paramount duty” was to its
> shareholders. Now, the Roundtable is singing a new, more inclusive tune.
> A corporation, it says, should balance the interests of its shareholders
> with those of other “stakeholders,” including customers, employees,
> suppliers and local communities.
>
> In other words: no more Mr. Terrible Guy. Corporations are people, my
> friend, and it turns out that they’re really nice people, both
> interesting and interested, and we really must have them over for dinner
> sometime.
>
> I spent a tedious few minutes this week trying to come up with an
> analogy to convey how thoroughly empty I found the Roundtable’s gesture
> to be. I think I got one: Imagine a co-worker has been stealing your
> lunch from the office 

[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Re: Constance Markievicz 1868-1927

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Thank you for this Philip.

I once gave a talk on poetic truth and I used Yeats' poem with a very few
remarks about the sisters

In Memory Of Eva Gore-Booth And Con Markiewicz

William Butler Yeats 


The light of evening, Lissadell,

Great windows open to the south,

Two girls in silk kimonos, both

Beautiful, one a gazelle.

But a raving autumn shears

Blossom from the summer’s wreath;

The older is condemned to death,

Pardoned, drags out lonely years

Conspiring among the ignorant.

I know not what the younger dreams—

Some vague Utopia—and she seems,

When withered old and skeleton-gaunt,

An image of such politics.

Many a time I think to seek

One or the other out and speak

Of that old Georgian mansion, mix

pictures of the mind, recall

That table and the talk of youth,

Two girls in silk kimonos, both

Beautiful, one a gazelle.



Dear shadows, now you know it all,

All the folly of a fight

With a common wrong or right.

The innocent and the beautiful.

Have no enemy but time;



This is a poem about the Irish radicals and sisters, Eva and Constance
Gore-Booth (Countess Markiewicz). The sisters were aristocrats and lived in
a great mansion at Lissadell.  Yeats as a conservative did not like their
politics.  One was an active trade unionist (Eva) and the other an armed
revolutionary (Constance) and a commandant in the Irish Citizens Army, the
world’s first Red Army. She took part in the uprising of Easter 1916.  Both
sisters also agitated for the vote for women.
The central truth claim of the poem – the innocent and the beautiful have
no enemy but time – cannot survive even the most cursory of inspections.
Equally untrue is the claim that Eva’s politics are somehow “withered old
and gaunt”.  Yet these untruths come to us in a rhetorical flow which gives
them real power despite their sheer wrongness. One can almost understand
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> political landscape from daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy to
> bohemian artist in Paris and London to a founding leader of the workers'
> militia known as the Irish Citizen Army in Dublin and the main founder of
> the first republican paramilitary organisation of 20th century Ireland (Na
> Fianna Eireann).  She was second-in-command of the insurrectionary forces
> at Stephen's Green in the centre of Dublin during the 1916 armed Rebellion
> and sentenced to death for her part.  Because she was a woman, her sentence
> (death by firing squad) was commuted to penal servitude to life.
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> friend and attempted to continue the struggle for a worker's republic.
> Markievicz also trained  the first paramilitary group (the Fianna) in how
> to use weapons and blow stuff up.  She herself was often well-armed so that
> Connolly once described her as "looking like a walking advertisement for an
> enterprising small arms manufacturer".
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> In November 1918 she became the first woman elected to the British
> parliament, standing as an Irish republican and socialist.  She became the
> first female cabinet minister in Western Europe, serving as minister of
> labour in the underground Irish parliament.  She opposed the 1921 Treaty
> and fought on the anti-Treaty side in the civil war.  Her speech in the
> Dublin parliament against the Treaty was the only one which drew clear
> class lines.  She died in 1927 of complications arising from peritonitis.
>
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> and which I began sticking up on The Irish Revolution blog when I started
> it in 2011.
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> Starting with the statement issued by James Larkin's Workers Union 

Re: [Marxism] BobFromBrockley: The RCP's long march from anti-imperialist outsiders to the doors of Downing Street

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I have read this with great interest. There is a real "coming in from the
cold" about how these ex-Trots have climbed the heights. I am an old Irish
Catholic and so am full of notions of betrayal and selling out and being a
traitor. That part of me is beyond scandalised by their embrace of Cameron
and now Johnson.

There is a scene in *Man for all Seasons * where More confronts the traitor
who is sending him to the gallows. The traitor had been made Attorney for
Wales



Why Richard, it profits a man nothing

to give his soul for the whole world.

But for Wales.

My lords! I've done.

I feel like saying something equivalent to the Spiked mob. They have
sold out to get the chance to kiss Farage and Johnson's asses. How in
the name of jesus could they?


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> This week it was announced that Munira Mirza would be joining new prime
> minister Boris Johnson's team as head of Number 10’s policy unit. Mirza,
> mis-identifed by the Independent as "an academic at King’s College
> London" (her actual job there is running their "cultural strategy"), was
> Johnson's Deputy Mayor for Culture and Education during his City Hall
> tenure. Last month, the new crop of Brexit Party MEPs taking up their
> well-paid if "stupid" jobs in Brussels included Claire Fox, professional
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> magazine Spiked, and this post draws together some of that material
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Re: [Marxism] James Heartfield was a candidate with Nigel Farage's Brexit Party

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I am sad to read this Lou. I corresponded with him a few times and he was 
always polite. Lou this is what happens when one switches from Marx to 
Nietzsche but almightyjesus  Farage

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Re: [Marxism] Greta Thonburg at UN

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Yes John even the rich and the powerful will choke. I am reminded of these
lines from Brecht's great poem *A worker questions history*

Even in fabled Atlantis, the night that the ocean engulfed it,
The drowning still cried out for their slaves.

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> Note how the very same delegates that she rips into applaud her
> condemnation of them. Clearly, the capitalist politicians want to seduce
> her into  becoming "realistic", but I find it difficult to see how they
> will succeed. For one, this is not a matter of political or social
> analysis; it's a matter of scientific fact, and she clearly knows the
> facts, and the facts are simply too stark. Nature will not allow room for
> some to benefit in this disaster. This means that a new and radical youth
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[Marxism] Lou's post

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Lou wrote:



*Finally, relief came in the form of new societies created in virgin
territories in the British colonies like North America, New Zealand (where
the film was produced) and Australia where the class system did not have
the chance to consolidate, or at least not to the extent of Europe.
Unfortunately, the film does not refer to the fate of the indigenous
peoples but frankly there’s not much attention paid to them in Marx either*.




My comment: I enjoyed as always Lou’s film review. It would be great to see
his reviews published as a book one day.



My only comment is on the above snippet. When I came to Australia in 1975,
I was regularly told that my ideas were wrong, because Australia did not
have a class system. I also had the same discussion with a visiting
American academic who told me the USA did not have a class system.



I simply could not find a way to understand such rubbish never mind argue
against it. Quite a vicious class system was everywhere I looked in
Brisbane.



Soon after I arrived, I went on teaching practice supervision to Coorparoo
High School. I sat in a class room where there were holes in the walls. Up
the hill about a 1000 meters away was Brisbane Grammar an elite school that
had better facilities than at my college. Yet the staff at Coorparoo would
have told me there was no class system.



Not until I read Gregor Tamas’ *The truth about class* did I grasp what was
going on. Australians were saying to me “There is no caste system in
Australia (America)”.



BTW it is the residue of caste consciousness that has meant that 34 of the
UK's Prime Ministers have been from Eton School, where caste consciousness
is alive and flourishing.
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Re: [Marxism] Trump defends abandoning Kurds by saying they didn't help US in WWII - Business Insider

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Your comment was "Totally fucking insane"  I agree and I struggled to
actually believe what I heard. So the Turks weren't at Normandy - the
cowardly bastards. And they weren't in Vietnam either. Hmmm Come to think
of it Our President wasn't there either.

But seriously how did we come to this?  How did the bourgeoisie allow
cretins to take over politically? In my own Northern Ireland the business
sector face certain disaster if there is a NO Deal Brexit and a hard border
emerges, yet they have allowed the Rapturists to dominate the political
scene.

I keep muttering about the End of Days

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[Marxism] a query

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In the photo of Bill Clinton signing his welfare bill in 1996 there are two
black women in the frame. the one on the right is a large woman and to
Clinton's left there is a slimmer black woman in a white dress. Does anyone
who anything about these women?

www.salon.com/2016/08/28/a-failed-policy-based-on-failed-research-the-destructive-legacy-of-bill-clintons-1996-welfare-reform-act


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Re: [Marxism] Australia weather forecast: Temperatures expected to exceed 50C | The Courier-Mail

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I went for my lunch time stroll in the nearby Botanical Gardens but had to
call my walk off. The temperature was probably the hottest I had
experienced and actually I felt it was dangerous to be out in it.

I wish I could say that there was a huge groundswell demanding climate
action.  Instead there is triumphal talk in the Murdoch press of new
Australian coal mines being opened.King Coal now dominates both sides of
the Parliament.

It is obvious now that with humanity things will have to get much worse
before they get better. But the problem with climate change is that a path
back may (will?) not be open to future generations.

I have scrupulously avoided reading any of the fine articles Lou has posted
on the GE in the UK. My grief/depression is just too florid. But I am
working away and may be I will come out of this funk.

Thanks to the lister who sent me the links to Lili Harden's story. For what
it is worth I despise the Clintons and the Democratic Party, probably more
than Trump. The latter at least has never been able to pretend to be
anything other than a piece of shit.

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Re: [Marxism] Can Bernie Sanders Make the Democratic Party a Democratic Party? | The Indypendent

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The short answer is "NO". Just as Corbyn failed to make the British Labour
Party a democratic party Sanders will fail at any attempt to democractise
the Democrats.

That is not to say though that there are not real positives around his
campaign.

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Re: [Marxism] Color Out of Space | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Jesus Christ Lou

I got scared just reading your blog. Never ever going to see this movie.
Would not be able to sleep ever again.

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> yesterday at the IFC Center in Manhattan and the Alamo Drafthouse in
> Brooklyn. It was directed and co-written by Richard Stanley, a relative
> of the man who said, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume.” The film stars
> Nicholas Cage as Nathan Gardner, the head of a household that goes off
> its rocker after a small meteorite lands near their rural home.
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> against little green men with ray guns, the only threat to their
> well-being is the odd clouds of colored light that have begun appearing
> nearby. They have the effect of making food taste weird and inducing
> strange behavior in human beings, such as Mrs. Gardner slicing off her
> fingers while dicing carrots. It also makes their pet dog, plants, and
> mother nature in general go off-kilter as well.
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> scenery-chewing performance as a husband who ignores his children’s
> warnings that things are getting weird. Even as the family starts
> behaving like the Texas chainsaw murderer’s worst nightmare and flowers
> start growing that look like they were painted by Salvador Dali on LSD,
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Re: [Marxism] The Party’s Over: Bernie’s Last Dance With the Dems - CounterPunch.org

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What's wrong with Hindenburg?

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[Marxism] Thoughts on lessons from the UK GE

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I am only just now coming out of the depression occasioned by the UK GE
result. The cruelest blow of all was the phenomenon of the increase in the
working class Tory voter. The "Red Wall" collapsed and we now have working
class Tory MPs demanding to be feted at the Durham Miners festival. The
scabs want to be loved.

I listened to the brilliant minds of James Butler & Richard Seymour in the
Novara Media program *After the Defeat.* Richard speculated that something
like Freud's death wish was at work. How else to account for the akrasia
that seized millions of the victims of capital?

But I have avoided the psycholoigal speculations & begun trying to think
what happened through the master-slave motif, Tamas' great article on *The
Truth about Class* and this line from the Manifesto
"man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of
life, and his relations with his kind."

I am basically working with these three questions-


   - The slave has lost the life and death struggle with the master.  What
   does s/he do?
   - How does the residue of caste consciousness in the UK that Tamas
   refers to play out
   - What does sober man do when he realizes what his real conditions are?


The slave seeks above all to survive. S/he does this by trying to entrap
the master in a web of mutual obligations that will soften the defeat.

Caste has made way for class, but class seeks to re-invent itself as Caste.
The bourgeois wants to be noble. This drive was satirized brilliantly in
Visconti's great film *The Leopard*. But the slave too is active. Serf
consciousness is chosen as a better alternative to working class
consciousness. Here the boss become Padre & Padrone and dispenses favours.
Hence the drive in the working class to act loyal and dependable to the
master in return for patronage.
What about the actions of the sober man? Well again, sobriety brings the
hang over and the temptation is to do everything to avoid the realisation
of what our true relations are. The compulsion is resisted and successfully
so in many cases.

But nothing is for ever. One week the serf is faced down in the mud as the
Master passes. The next moment s/he is shitting in the master's library and
burning the books.

It is just such a cruel ugly rupture that is coming IMHO.

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Re: [Marxism] Boris Johnson Aide Quits After Furor Over Racial Comments

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There is absolutely no room for complacency about events in the UK. But
conditions are not yet ready there for fascism. Despite the social media
rhetoric the fact that Sabisky had to step down shows that there Is more
distance to be traveled before we can declare theUK  government a fascist
one. Imagine the laughter if someone had described Goering as a racist. He
was and wore that badge proudly.
My guess is that it will take another acute recession/depression and a
revival of the Left before the ruling elites consider the fascist fall-back
option.

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> Boris Johnson Aide Quits After Furor Over Racial Comments
> By Stephen Castle
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> LONDON — The warning signs may have been there last month when Dominic
> Cummings, the influential and iconoclastic aide to Prime Minister Boris
> Johnson of Britain, invited “weirdos and misfits” to apply to work at
> Downing Street.
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> On Monday, one new recruit was at the center of a furor over his past
> assertions that blacks have a lower IQ than whites, and that enforced
> contraception could prevent “creating a permanent underclass.”
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> As the opposition Labour Party demanded the dismissal of the adviser,
> Andrew Sabisky, Downing Street declined all comment. It even managed to
> deepen the dispute by refusing to say that Mr. Johnson rejects eugenics,
> the widely dismissed field whose proponents advocate discouraging
> reproduction by people deemed to have undesirable genetic traits.
>
> Then late Monday, Mr. Sabisky himself announced that he was stepping
> down, complaining of “media hysteria.”
>
> The episode has both shone a light on Mr. Johnson’s leadership team and
> illustrated the sway that Mr. Cummings holds in Downing Street, where he
> cuts a distinctive, scruffy figure and has established himself as one of
> the most powerful and polarizing figures in government.
>
> After winning a big parliamentary majority in elections in December, Mr.
> Johnson’s aides appear to feel little obligation to explain themselves,
> especially to a news media they hold in little regard.
>
> The government is at war with the BBC, boycotting some of its flagship
> broadcasts and threatening its future funding. It has also tried to
> divide and rule among political journalists by offering selected
> reporters briefings from top officials.
>
> The decision to hire Mr. Sabisky, may even so prove damaging for Mr.
> Johnson, in part because he has himself used racist language in his
> writing.
>
> Mr. Johnson is already facing questions over who paid for a £15,000
> winter vacation taken by the prime minister and his partner on the
> island of Mustique in December and early January.
>
> It was as he basked there in the Caribbean sunshine that Mr. Cummings,
> one of the architects of the 2016 Brexit campaign, issued his appeal on
> his blog for “super-talented weirdos” to come and work alongside him at
> Downing Street. The idea was to shake up a cadre of top officials, often
> educated at Oxford or Cambridges, that Mr. Cummings considers complacent.
>
> “We need some true wild cards, artists, people who never went to
> university and fought their way out of an appalling hell hole, ” Mr.
> Cummings wrote in a post that prompted applications from, among others,
> Uri Geller, the self-styled magician-psychic famous for bending spoons.
>
> Mr. Geller seems not to have gotten a callback. But Mr. Sabisky, who
> describes himself on Twitter as a “researcher” and “super-forecaster,”
> was hired as an adviser in the prime minister’s office.
>
> Then, over the weekend, reports began to surface about his various
> online postings.
>
> On Mr. Cummings’s blog in 2014, for example, Mr. Sabisky suggested
> forced “universal uptake of long-term contraception at the onset of
> puberty” for what he called the “underclass.”
>
> “Vaccination laws give it a precedent, I would argue,” Mr. Sabisky wrote.
>
> In a Twitter post last May, he wrote that “women’s sport is more
> comparable to the Paralympics than it is to men’s.”
>
> And in a separate blog post, he said that when it came to “intellectual
> disability,” there were greater diagnostic rates for black Americans
> than white ones.
>
> On Monday, Scotland’s first 

Re: [Marxism] ARE WE ON THE BRINK OF A RENEWED WAVE OF RADICALISATION WITHIN BRITAIN UNDER THE SURFACE OF INCREASING REACTION?

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Bless Anthony. Reading him is like stepping into into the Tardus and
whipping off to a vanished era. We are always trembling on the brink of a
revolutionary break through.

If only.

Still who knows. I have noticed that I am slowly transferring my hopes to
Sanders in the USA. I can see the frown on Comrade Proyect's face.

I honestly have no illusions in Sanders or any Democrat. Honestly none. But
the very thought of Trump makes me sick. Only a tad sicker than the thought
of President Biden I hasten to add.

But I am desperate for some hope - any hope.

Happy new year to all comrades on the list.

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[Marxism] On consciousness (political that is)

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On twitter I have been sort of stunned by the reaction of the Left tweeters
to the news that the vicious right winger Ian Duncan Smith is to be
knighted. To be honest I was pleased by the news. It confirms everything I
believe about the residue of the caste system in the UK that is also known
as the honors system. But there is no doubting the outrage at the news IDS
was being honored.

I tweeted about it saying comrades should update their myths. But I think I
was mistaken about this. People come from different positions and what
means nothing to me can mean a lot to someone else & clearly that the
architect of the brutal attacks on the poor was to receive a knighthood
hurt a lot of lefties.

Revolutionary politics takes a lot of patience and as I get older I get
less patient. I can see my own personal time line ending while the
political time line stretches ever into the distance. Yet it is a mistake
to want time to pass so politics can make a turn to the left.

We must endure Trump & Johnson and Bolsonaro & all the rest of the shit.
For they will be rejected at some stage.

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Re: [Marxism] The Week Bernie Sanders Realized He Was Losing The Primary

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What is impressive is how the DNC were able to crack the whip and put an
end to the Sanders revolt. Just like that.
Of course like all victories, dialectically this could and certainly should
have very serious consequences for the Democratic Machine. It',s beyond
time that the Left showed the Democrats that they cannot take a left vote
for granted.

Let them go with their cognitively impaired candidate and let them pay the
price

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> Meanwhile, a small group of senior aides had been pushing Sanders for
> months to go harder on Biden.
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> The problem: Sanders actually liked him. Personally, they got along
> better than he ever did with Hillary Clinton, aides have said. (The
> former vice president falls into an exclusive category for the Vermont
> senator: the people who were nice to Sanders before he mattered, as two
> aides put it recently.) Back in January, it was the candidate’s decision
> to personally apologize to Biden after one of his surrogates, Zephyr
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> David Sirota, the hard-charging senior adviser who has frequently made
> attacks on Biden go viral on Twitter, became so enraged by his
> unwillingness to budge on the matter that he laid out his concerns in a
> starkly worded email to the candidate and senior aides after Super Tuesday.
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Re: [Marxism] By Picking Joe Biden Over Bernie Sanders, Democrats Are Kissing Their Future Goodbye

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Social distancing is not pacifying anyone. True, it prevents mass
mobilization which are crucial for the police of affect. We should not here
that the Tories chose a winter election so Corbyn could not rally thousands
in the summer sun. They did not forget the impact of the mass rallies in
the GE of 2017 and vowed never again.

So social distancing disarms but does not pacify. What we are seeing
gathering is the forces of the storm to come. I have now idea when or where
it will happen  but the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the capitalist
elite and their political running dogs will end one day. That is for
certain.

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Re: [Marxism] Bernie Sanders Ending Presidential Run

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My cup runneth over these days.

Corbyn and Sanders did not get to first base. Yet all they were proposing
was to save capitalism from capitalists.

I really wish they both would quit the corpses they have tried to activate.
But Corbyn will never leave Labour. I do not know enough about Sanders, but
he should defy the Democratic party and run as an third candidate. But of
course he won't.

It reminds me again and again of Soviet Russia after Stalin's death in
1953. Reform was desperately need but all the reformers had been murdered
and the surviving f/wits could not do it. Or like the Roman Catholic
Church. It desperately needs reform as well. But those capable of carrying
out reforms have long been silenced or driven out.

These are grim days but there is a very dark black macabre humor to be
indulged in watching these neoliberal fuckers trying to imitate Keynes in
order to save capitalism from neoliberalism.

It is all like Dr Johnson's dog walking on two legs. Not well done but you
are surprised to see it done at all.

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Re: [Marxism] Bernie Sanders Ending Presidential Run

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Hi Wythe,

I think that both the Corbyn and Sanders camps were banking on the fact
that the crisis of capitalism is so acute that the elite would listen to
their reform.proposals.

Not so it would seem.

Basically the Democrat and Right wing Labour strategy is that of the Second
XI. The First XI fucks up totally and the Second XI gets a chance to go on
the field and display their managerial skills.

But in these days of right wing populism, there is no guarantee that the
Second XI will get a go. These are dark days indeed.
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> Sanders chose to run as a Democrat despite lots of warnings and the
> experience of 2016, and while early in his career he might have broken with
> the Democrats he deliberately chose (I think) to demonstrate to all and
> sundry that his radical platform, resonant with and favorable to most young
> voters and many Americans, would (or would not) be supported by the
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> Church. It desperately needs reform as well. But those capable of carrying
> out reforms have long been silenced or driven out.
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> These are grim days but there is a very dark black macabre humor to be
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> are surprised to see it done at all.
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Re: [Marxism] Sanders backs Biden: Whither the Left? – International Socialism Project

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I don't live in the States of course but like all citizens of the world I
do have an interest in US political outcomes. This is just to say that you
would have to waterboard me to get me to vote for Biden. Somewhere sometime
this game of the "lesser evil" has to stop. The Left are played for suckers
every bloody four years. Cynical bastards like Obama can take them out at
will.

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Re: [Marxism] Why Don’t You Just Die! | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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I watched the first 5 minutes of the Netflix Trotsky film. I was absolutely
stunned. I had got my 9 yr grandson to sit down with me to watch a film
about "a great Russian revolutionary" and sweet Jesus and His Holy Mother
the opening scene in the train was unbelievable. Shagging to the left of
me. Shagging to the right of me! I rushed to try and turn it off over the
protests of the grandson. When I eventually worked out  how to do it, I
think he may have been scarred for life.

Never a dull moment in lock down.

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[Marxism] Rebellion the Netflix series.

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I have just finished watching Season 1 & 2 of Rebellion (Thank you
Lockdown). Concurrently I am reading Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy.

I am not aware of anyone having posted on *Rebellion* on the List. I would
be astonished if Lou had not.

Phil may read this and he is an absolute encyclopedia when  it comes to the
Irish cause, so I will defer to his knowledge of the historical
inaccuracies.

But I mentioned Nietzsche for a reason. He was an evil fucker and I have no
time at all for Left Nietzscheanism. None.

But he did have a point about the Socratic critic who was
essentially hostile to art. So I try not to demand that art  works take the
form of pamphlets. But I think we do have an ethical duty towards some
truths.

In the first series I enjoyed the stress on the role of women. I approved
of the device of weaving the story of the rebellion around three fictional
female characters (3 Little maids from school).

Aside from this fiction the emphasis on women was historically accurate in
a broad sense. Revolutionary feminism was central to the Republican cause
in 1916 and it took the Catholic Church and De Valera many years to wipe it
out from the historical memory.

My favorite female character was the lesbian assassin. She was a
magnificent brooding creation.  Alas she was banished from the second
season.

Perhaps that was because there was no way at all a female assassin could be
fitted into the Boy's Own operation that Collins ran.

So what is the ethical duty that is owed? Both seasons fell down in their
depiction of the historical characters. The writer(s) got De Valera right,
I think, but cheated to do so.

Connolly was a wooden figure who had not one line of substance to indicate
what he believed.

Pearse is of course a very difficult character to get right. He was
depicted as someone who wrote a letter to his mother praising the Kaiser so
he could have all the leaders executed for treason rather than rebellion.
Bullshit.

The difficulty about Pearse, and Phil will correct me here I trust, is that
his brand of left nationalism is the least politically palatable at the
moment. So he has to be framed as believing in the Blood Sacrifice. That
reading we probably owe to Yeats who was a thorough disciple of Nietzsche
btw.

I will comment on the second season if there is any interest

comradely

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[Marxism] Dipping my toe into Nordic Noir.

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Under the influence of Comrade Proyect's post on Maj Sjowall, I have moved
out of fantasy and into Nordic Noir. Least ways I have made a modest
beginning. I started with Roseanna. I read it all at one setting and that
is an increasingly rare feat for me.

Well what did I think? Well it was a very gripping tale and very cleverly
told in a strangely spare minimalist style. 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.

Did I enjoy it? Well that is not easy to say. What matters to me when I am
reading fiction is whether I get involved in the fate of the characters.
They have to walk off the page and become part of my social imaginary.  So
far, Beck and his colleagues have failed to do that for me.

Strangely and this may have been authorial intent at work, the killer came
closest to having an emotional impact. He was such a poor pathetic fucked
up suffering misfit. But mental illness does tend to get under my defense
mechanisms and that disturbed rather than entertained me.

So I will wait a few days to get over the stunned feeling I have before
venturing back into Beck.

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Re: [Marxism] US anti-lockdown protests: ‘If you are paranoid about getting sick, just don’t go out’ | Free to read | Financial Times

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This is such a depressing tale. I get no satisfaction at all from hearing
about people like McDaniel or fundamentalist pastors getting Covid 19 and
dying after defying medical advice.

Our education systems have produced huge reservoirs of ignorance and
stupidity. And clowns like Johnson in the UK and Trump in the USA feed upon
these

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> series of Facebook posts in which he described the coronavirus outbreak
> as a “political ploy” and decried the “madness” of the governor’s
> decision to close the state’s restaurants and bars.
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The word everyone is avoiding is "stupid"

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Re: [Marxism] Trump Won’t Order Vital Coronavirus Supplies Because Corporate CEOs Asked Him Not To | Vanity Fair

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How is all this going to play out. I know that is an impossible if not a
stupid question. But Trump seems about to press the "It's the economy,
stupid" button and let the Health button go to buggery.

Unfortunately, there are no separate buttons. We are dealing with a
totality. I know that is obvious to listers but non-Marxists seem incapable
of joining dots and thinking in terms of a totality. Ignoring health will
destroy the economy DUH!

By the time the full disaster of the Trump presidency unfolds, the
Democrats may have digitally mastered a Biden copy or hologram and we might
actually get some pronouncements from their candidate.

In the mean time my family in the States is suffering from high levels of
anxiety as is everyone who is sane and sensible,.

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Re: [Marxism] Bernie Sanders Should Retool His Campaign to Lead the Charge Against Coronavirus

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My comment on reading this article is that it sounds very sensible. Also I
have a feeling it might happen. There is a total vacuum in terms of
political opposition to Trump. The Democrats appear to think that if they
keep Biden behind locked doors & issue ever shorter soundbites they might
be able to keep the show on the road long enough to sneak a win in
November. But Biden has not got a clue what to do. That is probably also
medically true as well as politically true.

If Trump orders people back to work in the middle of an ever escalating
medical disaster then all bets are off. A health crisis will deepen and so
will the political crisis.

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Lou and I had a spat about this so long ago.  I am less sympathetic now to
riots than I once was. Burning down a building is never near as radical as
occupying it.

Riots don't really challenge private property rights and it is still
private property that is at the heart of capitalism.

Having said that my sympathies, of course, are totally with the people of
the USA in their struggle now against state brutality.

Comradely

Gary
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