[Marxism] Is capitalism too big to fail? | Richard Seymour on Patreon

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Louis asks if David Harvey is correct on the need to keep capitalism afloat? 
The simple answer is No. Richard Seymour is a great writer and analyst. But he 
has a soft spot for Harvey, in imperialism as well, which is completely 
unwarranted. They set up a straw man, the immediate collapse of capitalism, and 
 then say, what would the left do to prevent human catastrophe. How is this an 
argument? Struggle against it. Pressure the state however you can. And build up 
our own capacities, through collective self-help actions, as are happening 
around the world. Yes, let's save a system that is killing us, every damned 
day, in every way imaginable. That makes a lot of sense. Shades of that 
charlatan, Yanis Varoufakis. I have seen John Smith's criticisms of Harvey. are 
these precious, as Seymour says the criticisms of Harvey's recent video are 
now? Precious? Give me a break.
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[Marxism] Adolph Reed Jr. blows his cool

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Well, it was refreshing to see a maniac chime in. Man sure likes to write f**k 
in various forms. Shows he is more than a high-class professor. He is a man of 
the people.
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[Marxism] Vale Jack Mundy, labor leader extraordinaire

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This link is to an essay by John Tully, author of The Devil's Milk. It is a 
wonderfully insightful essay about the recently deceased Australian labor 
leader, Vale Jack Mundey. The union he came to lead, once dominated by 
gangsters and corrupt leaders, did some truly remarkable things. Tully argues 
that there were no other unions in the world quite like this one. Read it and 
see what a radically democratic union can achieve, and why such unions are so 
needed now.

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[Marxism] John Bellamy Foster's New Book

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John Bellamy Foster's new book, The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, 
has just been published by Monthly Review. The product of 20 years of research, 
it is truly a major and monumental work. With chapters on William Morris, 
Christopher Caudwell, Frederick Engels, and every major British, Soviet, and US 
radical ecological scientist, it traces the development of ecology since the 
death of Marx. Foster shows, among many other things, that Engels was 
extraordinarily prescient in terms of the environment, demonstrating that 
Engels was not just Marx's collaborator and patron but an important and 
original thinker is his own right. All in all, this is an impressive book. I 
learned much I didn't know in every chapter.  This book is well-worth reading 
and studying.

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[Marxism] Short Interview

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Here is a short interview I did with Bangladeshi journalist Farooque Chowdhury:

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[Marxism] Clemency letter for David Gilbert/Calling all Academic

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This is addressed to academics, both current and retired, who are on this list, 
whether you are in the US or not. We are trying to get Governor Andrew Cuomo of 
New York to grant clemency to David Gilbert. David was sentenced to life 
imprisonment for participating in the robbery of a Brinks truck in New York in 
1981. At the time, David was a member of a radical Black group and was formerly 
a member of Weather Underground. During his incarceration, he has been a model 
prisoner, mentoring younger men and initiating AIDs education groups. Today, he 
is a much different person than he was then. He is absolutely unlikely to 
commit a crime if he is released. He is in poor health and will likely die if 
he is struck by the Covid-19 virus.

Professor Barbara Ransby at the University of Illinois at Chicago has written 
an eloquent letter on behalf of academics urging Governor Cuomo to grant David 
clemency. I ask that you consider signing on the Barbara's letter, and if you 
do, asking some other like-minded academics to sign also. The link to the 
letter is below.

Thanks and solidarity,

Michael Yates

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[Marxism] Rob Wallace book

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Few know more about viruses and pandemics than biologist Rob Wallace. His book, 
Big Farms Make Big Flu is now offered by Monthly Review Press at a substantial 
discount.

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[Marxism] ‘Politics of Hate’ Takes a Toll in Germany Well Beyond Immigrants

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It is disingenuous for the author of this NYT article to decry the lack of 
understanding among former East Germans about the wonders of democracy. The 
West German state never got rid of its Nazis. Far from it. They regained 
control, if they ever lost it, of their business empires. They were often 
quickly "rehabilitated" and went into politics. They continued to hold sway in 
the German military. This is all not to mention that reunification involved the 
pillage of the E. German economy and the immiseration of most of its people. 
Democracy has little to do with German affairs, just as it has little relevance 
for life here.
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[Marxism] A sad commentary on the Left

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Louis posted a link showing that Sanders is leading in a national poll. He also 
posted a link to a very fine article by Steven Salaita on Sanders and 
Palestinians and the shallowness of electoral politics in the US. There have 
been numerous comments on the first link, but there have been NONE on the 
second. For me, this shows how leftists have become once again infatuated with 
national elections, out of all proportion to their importance in terms of 
building a real radical movement. One that is global in scope and one in which 
Sanders's rather pathetic commentary on Palestinians would simply not be 
tolerated.

The other day, former ISO leader, Todd Chretien said, in a post that appears to 
have been deleted, that what leftists do in the wake of Sanders's New Hampshire 
victory would determine the fate of socialism in the US. And we are either with 
Sanders or we're for Trump. I did a double-take when I read this. First, a 
person shifts his beliefs in a heartbeat, almost 1984 fashion. What he once was 
he no longer is, and perhaps what he once was, he never really was. Second, the 
utter stupidity and lack of understanding of US reality is mind boggling.
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[Marxism] Largest Ever Strike in India Shakes Up Modi Govt

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Last year, on the day my book, Can the Working Class Change the World? 
(translated into Hindi by  Indian Comrades) went on sale at the Delhi book 
fair, a massive general strike began. Now, another, still more massive, general 
strike is in progress. I hope that the consequences of this strike are 
far-reaching. There have been many such strikes over the past 20 years, but the 
results have been only moderately beneficial to workers. Still, it is 
impossible to imagine anything like this in the US. And we never know what 
spark will begin a conflagration. Solidarity to all Indian workers and peasants.

Here is the beginning of chapter 4 of my book:

"In 2016, workers in India organized a massive general strike. Estimates of the 
number of participants went as high as 180 million, which would make it the 
largest such strike in history. All but one of the major Central Trade Union 
Organisations called for and supported the strike. However, most workers in 
India do not belong to labor unions, nor are most covered by the country’s 
weakly enforced labor laws. Unorganized employees, many in informal and 
contracted-out employment, took an active part in the strike. Workers in every 
Indian state, in all sectors—agriculture, mining, transportation, 
manufacturing, services, government—and in nearly every occupation, walked out 
in large numbers. Tens of millions of women struck.

The general strike, one of seventeen that have occurred in India since 1991, 
should be seen in the context of the twenty-seven years of a 
government-capitalist alliance that has wreaked havoc on India’s workers. State 
properties have been sold to private businesses; the needs of capital have 
taken precedence over those of workers and peasants to an unprecedented degree; 
rural lands have been stolen and privatized; unions and left-wing political 
parties have been subjected to great state repression; workers have been 
squeezed to work more intensively, meaning that while productivity rose, 
employment did not; wages have stagnated; food consumption in the countryside, 
home to more than 800 million people, has fallen; the oppression of women 
continues; and ecological crises loom menacingly over the country. Given the 
difficulties of waging struggles in individual workplaces, rage has boiled 
over, providing fertile grounds for short general strikes as the best available 
means of protest.

The main organizers of the strike put forward a list of demands, similar to 
those in the previous general strikes:

Ÿ Contain price rises through a universal public distribution system [see below 
for explanation] and ban speculative trade on the commodity markets.
Ÿ Institute concrete measures for employment generation.
Ÿ Enforce all labor laws and stringently sanction violations.
Ÿ Provide universal social security coverage for all workers.
Ÿ Assure minimum wages not less than Rs 18,000 [about $267] per month.
Ÿ Assure pensions not less than Rs 3,000 [about $44.50] per month for entire 
working population.
Ÿ Stop disinvestment of central and state public sector undertakings.
Ÿ Stop contract work [precarious work] . . . and institute equal wages for same 
work.
Ÿ Require registration of unions within a period of 45 days and immediate 
ratification of ILO [International Labour Organization] conventions C87 and C98 
[these guarantee the rights of people to free association and to organize for 
mutual protection, including bargaining collectively with employers].
Ÿ Stop labor law amendments [restricting workers’ rights].
Ÿ Stop FDI [foreign direct investment] in railways, insurance and defense.

These are worthy demands. They address the conditions of the entire working 
class and not just those of a particular group within it. The first demand is 
especially noteworthy. The Indian government has established a network of Fair 
Price Shops, which sell basic foodstuffs to the poor in publicly-owned shops at 
subsidized prices. This “public distribution system,” which began in 1947, has 
left much to be desired in terms of coverage, corruption, and quality of the 
goods sold. The unions’ request doesn’t address these problems, but it does 
insist on universal coverage. That is, every Indian would have access to the 
shops, something that could help alleviate the country’s food crisis. To keep 
prices low, the demand includes a curb on commodity speculation, which has been 
responsible for spikes in food prices.

The fact that so many Indians embraced the demands and stopped work throughout 
the nation is remarkable, as is the great diversity by class, caste, gender. 
industry, and occupation of the strikers. Nothing remotely 

[Marxism] It's the End of California as We Know It

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After reading Farhad Manjoo's op-ed in the NYT, I wrote this on Facebook:


One of the best op-ed writers in the New York Times and certainly the most 
radical is Farhad Manjoo. In a column today, he writes about the "end of 
California," the state in which he has lived most of his life. He says,

"Now choking under the smoke of a changing climate, California feels stuck. We 
are BlackBerry after the iPhone, Blockbuster after Netflix: We’ve got the wrong 
design, we bet on the wrong technologies, we’ve got the wrong incentives, and 
we’re saddled with the wrong culture. The founding idea of this place is 
infinitude — mile after endless mile of cute houses connected by freeways and 
uninsulated power lines stretching out far into the forested hills. Our whole 
way of life is built on a series of myths — the myth of endless space, endless 
fuel, endless water, endless optimism, endless outward reach and endless free 
parking.

One by one, those myths are bursting into flame. We are running out of land, 
housing, water, road space and now electricity. Fixing all this requires 
systemic change, but we aren’t up to the task. We are hemmed in by a resentful 
national government and an uncaring national media, and we have never been able 
to prize sustainability and equality over quick-fix hacks and outsized prizes 
to the rich."

The question is, how will these multiple problems be dealt with. Should we go 
on a building spree: hundreds of thousands of windmills and millions of solar 
panels, with millions of high-paying jobs, so that growth can continue? Should 
we invest a trillion dollars or so to try to suck carbon dioxide out of the 
atmosphere? Or should we demand that production be communalized; that obscene 
financial wealth be confiscated; that agriculture be revolutionized (California 
is the country's most important agricultural state) through decentralization 
combined with agroecology and control by those who now do the actual farm 
labor; that unnecessary production and consumption be drastically curtailed; 
that the great desert cities like Los Angeles be wound down, so to speak; that 
air travel, cruises, shipping, and the like be greatly reduced; that we begin 
to convert those endless suburban tracts into livable and sustainable spaces; 
and so on and so forth. Let's take the best of any Green New Deal and push it 
as far left as possible. What, really, in this day and age, with the 
environment collapsing around us, do we have to lose?

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[Marxism] Corruption in the United Auto Workers union

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This is an essay by retired autoworker, Tom Adams. It is a detailed account of 
corruption in the United Auto Worker union. Please share it.

The Reds who built and led the union; those who organized the sit-down strikes, 
especially the women whose actions outside the plants made the occupation 
successful; the black autoworkers who fought both companies and the UAW in the 
Revolutionary Union Movement that swept Detroit in the late 1960s; the young 
workers who sabotaged the assembly line at the Lordstown plant in Ohio in the 
1970s; the modern-day union dissidents like the late Jerry Tucker who were 
persecuted by the UAW leadership; Gregg Shotwell, who kept the fires of 
rank-and-file democracy burning for so many yearsall of these and more 
should not have sacrificed so much just to see their union wallowing in 
criminality and dictatorial rule.

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[Marxism] Can the Working Class Change the World?

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A friend of Monthly Review Press purchased 500 copies of my book, Can the 
Working Class Change the World?, to be given to social change groups. So far, 
we have donated 449 copies of the book to groups around the US and a few 
outside the US. I post this in the hopes that there are Marxmail subscribers 
who are in or know of groups that might be interested in copies. Please email 
me at mikedjya...@msn.com if you are interested. The book has been used already 
as part of study and discussion groups.
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[Marxism] Michael Heinrich Marx bio, volume 1

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I think that this will be the definitive Marx bio. It is a remarkable work of 
intensive and comprehensive scholarship.

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[Marxism] Monthly Review needs your help

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foundation money or financial support from any political entity. We have very 
few employees, all of whom work hard to put out an excellent independent 
radical magazine and a wide array of left-wing books. The magazine has been in 
continuous operation since May 1949 (this is our 70th anniversary!), and the 
Press has been publishing books since 1952. Both the magazine and the Press 
have been uncompromisingly radical from the beginning. We are eco-socialist, 
anti-imperialist, and egalitarian in the fullest sense of that word.

I began working for MR in 2001, first as Associate Editor and then Director of 
the Press. I have been a friend and supporter of MR since the early 1970s. Join 
me and give what you can to the best radical magazine and Press in the United 
States and perhaps the world.

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[Marxism] MR Press book sale

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Click on the link for some remarkable savings on MR Press books.

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[Marxism] Happy anniversary

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Let's raise a glass to Louis on this May Day. Through thick and thin, he has 
kept this list going. Congratulations and Happy Birthday! And solidarity to all!
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[Marxism] Monthly Review | Scholarship on the Rise of the Right, Louis Proyect via Marxism

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This Monthly Review article Louis linked was written by a fine historian, one 
not teaching in the higher reaches or academe and one who is ardently a 
left-winger--Chad Pearson. Among the liberal historians he criticizes for their 
lukewarm or hostile view of left historians and their ideological commitment to 
the New Deal, the labor movement (excluding the Reds), and the Democratic Party 
is Nancy MacLean, whose book, Democracy in Chains, has been praised to the 
skies. It is curious that no one except Chad, has, to my knowledge, pointed out 
Maclean's high praise for Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes, despite their 
rather checkered past and often ardent support for labor's enemies. The entire 
article by Chad is worth a read. MacLean seems to believe that the neoliberal 
project, which she associates with economist, James Buchanan, and the Koch 
Brothers, ignoring the long, long history of often violently anti-labor 
scoundrels on the far right and the complicity of people like Brandeis and 
Holmes. Yet to hear MacLean's champions, you would think she is a 
died-in-the-wool Marxist. Hasn't democracy always been in chains here? Often 
literally, for that matter.
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[Marxism] Michael Roberto's book on US fascism

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Is it that comrades cannot afford to buy Michael Roberto's book? As director of 
Monthly Review Press, let me offer this: If you can't afford the book, send me 
an email at mikedjya...@msn.com, and I will purchase it for you. Then, maybe 
later, make a small contribution to Monthly Review. We try to keep prices as 
low as possible, at least for paperbacks. We routinely give publishing  rights 
without charge to Presses in the Global South, mainly in India, so that friends 
there can translate our books into Hindi, Bengali, or maybe one or two other 
languages spoken by large numbers of people. These books are then sold for very 
low price. This is happening now with my book, Can  the Working Class Change 
the World?
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[Marxism] New book on US fascism by Michael Roberto

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This book, published by Monthly Review Press, analyzes the largely unknown 
history of fascism in the United States: The Coming of the American Behemoth: 
The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920–1940 by Michael Joseph 
Roberto.

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[Marxism] Nothing to Lose but Their Chains

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Here is a link to an article I wrote for Monthly Review, based upon a chapter 
from my new book, Can the Working Class Change the World? The book is now 
available from Monthly Review Press.



Essay Link: 
https://monthlyreview.org/2018/10/01/nothing-to-lose-but-their-chains/



Book Link: 
https://monthlyreview.org/product/can-the-working-class-change-the-world/



Reviews of the book, comments on Amazon, and shout-outs on social media will be 
very much appreciated.

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[Marxism] ZCommunications » Graduate Student Teachers’ Unions, Adjunct Professors, And Tenured Professors

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In the article that Louis posted, the author states, correctly I think, that 
tenure-track professors don't ever take collective action to participate 
actively in the unionization of graduate student teachers. And the same goes 
for adjuncts. These professors have privileged positions, the privileges of 
which are due largely to the labor of grad. student teachers and adjuncts, who 
carry the course loads and are compelled by circumstances to do so cheaply. 
Many tenure-track professors at research universities would do most anything to 
avoid teaching, even paying others themselves, from monies they make consulting 
and the like.


However, these things were not always so. In the early 1970s, we put together a 
union organizing drive at the University of Pittsburgh, under the auspices of 
the American Federation of Teachers. Our local was independent in terms of 
working out our own agenda. One of our key articles was that graduate teaching 
assistants were to be in our bargaining unit, full members with equal rights. 
We were committed to considering them as faculty members on a par with all the 
other teachers. In the end, the state of PA ruled against their inclusion in 
the unit, at which point we petitioned for a separate unit for teaching 
assistants. I don't remember what happened after that.


That time period, the sixties and early seventies are sometimes maligned by 
millennials, especially some around Jacobin magazine. But we were far more 
radical than many DSA members are now. We were cognizant of imperialism and 
took a global view of politics and economics. We were interested in the radical 
transformation of work and much more. We were firmly anti-racist and made 
progress with respect to feminism. We weren't perfect, but on the whole, we 
were radicals and not social democrats.
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[Marxism] Mike Davis on Catalyst shake-up

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These old Marxists are making fools of themselves. Some are still on Sunkara's 
Facebook page (or maybe its Twitter) sucking up to his stupidities. Mike Davis, 
come on now. Wake up. Same with Brenner and Suzi Weissman. You get in bed with 
a shithead like that cheap hustler and you wonder why the room is beginning to 
stink? Ha, Louis, you must be pleased to see that that fool, Chibber, worked 
with the great left impresario, Bhaskar Sunkara, to get rid of Brenner, another 
of your favorite scholars!!! It is hard to believe that established scholars, 
with large bodies of work, would cozy up to Sunkara, a real know-nothing. I 
guess they must be desperate to be relevant among the young movers and shakers 
of the left. What a pathetic aspiration, if that is what it is.
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[Marxism] Young hoist red flag but know nothing of Mao and less of Lenin

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Somehow, not learning  and perhaps not caring either, about history doesn't 
seem that hopeful. Perhaps someone can explain this to me. Socialism? Hey, that 
sounds good. I'll go for that. I can't read the article because it appears that 
I would have to subscribe. Maybe Louis can paste it in. I may be missing 
something.


I mean, why did you Louis or any of us bother to learn about the past, the 
good, the bad, and the ugly? Seems we just wasted our time.
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[Marxism] Family separation and the churches

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I was raised Catholic, but my father's family were strict Baptists. Somehow, I 
remember the song Ken mentions: "red and yellow, black and white, they are 
precious in his sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world." it's a 
nice sentiment. my father never went to church, but i am pretty sure this is 
one thing he believed. he loved little kids.
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[Marxism] book sale at MR Press

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We're have a big book sale at Monthly Review Press. Here is the link.


https://monthlyreview.org/press/warehouse-clearance-sale/?utm_source=MR+Email+List_campaign=73421c8886-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_14_09_32_medium=email_term=0_4f879628ac-73421c8886-241884553_cid=73421c8886_eid=7c9269ff30

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[Marxism] https://www.alternet.org/meet-economist-behind-one-percents-stealth-takeover-america

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Duke historian Nancy MacLean is featured in the link Louis posted.  She claimed 
that the Koch brothers were behind an attempt to smear her and her book about 
the economist behind the 1%, etc., Democracy in Chains. She urged her friends 
to write reviews of her book on Amazon as a way to challenge the Koch Brothers' 
acolytes. A better PR ploy is hard to imagine.  Now she knows precious little 
about economics and is a typical left liberal of the Bernie Sanders variety. 
Others have pointed out the shallowness of her arguments. But her book has done 
remarkably well, precisely because it is the kind of liberal critique that is 
loved and acceptable to the mainstream. Radical historian, Chad Pearson, has a 
forthcoming essay in Monthly Review that sharply criticizes the new left 
liberal historians who argue that there was once a good country, from FDR til 
the 1970s, when unions were strong and Keynesian economics was in the drivers' 
seat in terms of federal economic policy. Then the bad guys took over and 
everything went to shit. Maclean greatly admires Oliver Wendell Holmes and 
Louis Brandeis. Pearson points out the sordid backgrounds of Holmes and 
Brandeis, both of whom did plenty of dirty work for employers. It's just 
typical liberal crap, and it is hostile to the left. Maclean's book's subtitle 
is The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America. Deep, get 
it? Like the deep state. She's shallow but those dastardly economists at George 
Mason U., well they're deep. As if Buchanan's ideas haven't been well-known for 
more than 40 years. And the right has been right out in the open since at least 
the 1890s. See Pearson's book, Reform Or Repression: Organizing America's 
Anti-Union Movement. It's not as if neoliberalism doesn't have a long pedigree, 
as Pearson shows. It's no deeper than capitalism itself. What Maclean and 
company don't seem to able to do is examine what is new in the world 
historically and as part of a whole.
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Re: [Marxism] About the movie The young Karl Marx | Michael Heinrich

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Heinrich wrote the review in English. The MR Online editor should have edited 
it to make it read better. It would have been easy to do. About 30-60 minutes 
of work.
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[Marxism] They Eat Money’: How Mandela’s Political Heirs Grow Rich Off Corruption - The New York Times

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One of the most disgusting things the ANC, including Nelson Mandela, did was 
their treatment of Winnie Mandela. She fought tooth and nail to get her husband 
out of prison. And she never abandoned her commitment to a radical 
transformation of South Africa. She was bold, outspoken, and unafraid. Yet 
Nelson Mandela was hardly out of his prison clothes than he threw her under the 
bus. He move steadily to the right, and he had to know of the grotesque 
corruption of the ANC. How could he not have known? Winnie was accused of 
myriad crimes, including murder. Only the people knew she was true to the 
cause. She is the true hero in that marriage. I suppose that some will say, as 
they said about Syriza, well, that is the best that could have been done. To 
which I say, bullshit. Like Zapata, said, better to die on your feet than live 
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[Marxism] Thinking Clearly about the White Working Class | Michael D. Yates | Monthly Review

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Thanks for posting this, Louis. I welcome comments.
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[Marxism] Fwd: How Dollar General Became Rural America's Store of Choice

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We began to see this in our travels across the US quite a few years ago. Dollar 
General stores have been proliferating in small towns everywhere. You know when 
you see one that people in the area are close to the margin economically. And 
you see too the relentless capital accumulation that drives the system.
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[Marxism] Marx's Ecosocialism

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Monthly Review Press is pleased to announce the publication of Kohei Saito's 
book, Karl Marx's Ecosocialism. Saito hopefully buries once and for all the 
notion that Marx was a Promethean champion of the endless technological 
subjugation of nature.



http://mailchi.mp/monthlyreview/new-karl-marxs-ecosocialism?e=7c9269ff30
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[Marxism] Istvan Meszaros

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Monthly Review's comrade and friend,István Mészáros, died two days ago. He was 
one of the world's greatest philosophers, and a generous and warmhearted man. 
Hugo Chavez called him the "pathfinder" of 21st century socialism. He won the 
Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1970 for his book, Marx's Theory of Alienation. 
Part of the lecture he delivered in 1971 when he accepted the prize has been 
posted by Ian Angus. Take the time to read it. His insights into our 
environmental catastrophe, written 46 years ago, are even more relevant today. 
He was indeed a "pathfinder."

http://climateandcapitalism.com/2017/10/02/istvan-meszaros-capitalism-and-ecological-destruction/
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[Marxism] O tempora O mores

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Thanks for the post, Gary. It is hard to maintain hope in the face of growing 
insanity. But somehow we must.
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[Marxism] Ian Angus skewers Jacobin magazine issue on the environment

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Ian Angus, author of the fine book, Facing the Anthropocene, rakes Jacobin's 
environment issue over the coals. Here he focuses on the truly preposterous 
essay by Christian Parenti. Jacobin has disgraced itself with this issue. It 
claims to be a magazine of the left. Nothing could be further from the truth.


http://climateandcapitalism.com/2017/09/25/memo-to-jacobin-ecomodernism-is-not-ecosocialism/

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Re: [Marxism] Imperialism: a critique of David Harvey

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I would be surprised if those discussion China as imperialist have read John 
Smith's book.
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[Marxism] The truth about Syria

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This Facebook post is stated with remarkable clarity. Geopolitics are 
important, but they can only take us so far. Many on the left give lip service 
to democracy and popular uprisings, but they don't really believe what they 
say. I remember arguing with colleagues at college about postwar Vietnam. They 
were going on and on about the plight of the boat people. They didn't seem to 
grasp that when a nation's people are slaughtered, even under the best of 
circumstances (the Vietnamese liberation was, after all, due to the North 
Vietnamese communists and their allies in the NLF), radical democracy is 
unlikely to flourish and those who had aided the enemy unlikely to be treated 
with compassion. What government could do this and survive? Matters will be 
much worse when the government, such as it is, is run by a fascist murderer 
like Assad. And given the circumstances, isn't it likely that fanatics would 
have soon enough emerged, irrespective of any US efforts to crush them. Extreme 
misery n
 ever brings out the best in people. Of course, the US has never cared, and 
still doesn't, if Assad stays in power. It surely has never wanted a real 
democracy to flourish anywhere in the world.
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[Marxism] John Smith's critique of David Harvey's analysis of imperialism

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This is a sharp criticism by John Smith, author of the seminal Imperialism in 
the Twenty-First Century, of what David Harvey says about imperialism. If you 
have substantive comments, I am happy to send them on to John Smith.



https://mronline.org/2017/08/26/a-critique-of-david-harveys-analysis-of-imperialism/

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[Marxism] Fwd: The Epic Failure of Labor Leadership in the United States, 1980-2017 and Continuing

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Kim Scipes certainly has a high opinion of himself, given the number of 
self-references in this overly long essay in which he belabors the obvious. 
You'd think a person would be embarrassed to refer to himself so often, but no 
such luck here.
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[Marxism] Defend Nancy MacLean! | LBO News from Doug Henwood

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I haven't read McLean's book. And I don't know much about her. But her book is 
doing quite well. When I checked yesterday on Amazon, as she asked people to 
do, she had 96 Amazon reviews, with an average rating of four stars. From 
Amazon, I learned that the book is published by a top trade press, so she is no 
doubt getting good publicity help from them. Many top liberal scholars have 
heaped praise on it, and one review is from Oprah's magazine. She is a chaired 
professor at Duke, a school with a great deal of academic prestige. Given all 
of this, I don't see how the libertarians and the Koch Brothers' minions can 
destroy her reputation.  John Bellamy Foster has and is facing much worse at 
the University of Oregon. Hell, in my teaching career, I faced harassment, 
red-baiting, threatening phone calls, etc.  At Monthly Review, I have met 
comrades whose careers were destroyed, who had to leave the country to find 
work, who were tormented by all levels of government.  We've published books
  by comrades who have put their lives on the line in radical struggles around 
the world. So at least at this point, I can't get too exercised about professor 
Maclean's plight. I will continue to follow this, and as I learn more, perhaps 
I will temper my perspective.
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[Marxism] Fwd: In Towns Already Hit by Steel Mill Closings, a New Casualty: Retail Jobs - The New York Times

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Louis linked a NYT article that discusses the loss of retail jobs, with a focus 
on Johnstown, PA, where as Louis notes, I worked and lived for many years. This 
town, which went overwhelmingly for Trump, is in desperate straights. Murders 
and drug overdoses have become commonplace, and the town keeps losing people as 
it deteriorates. The poor fellow the town hired to help revitalize the place, 
one Donald Bonk, whose family owned a corner grocery store there for 40 years, 
is truly delusional, thinking that there is any hope for the place. And one of 
Trump's top advisers, a jackass name Stephen Miller, seems to believe that the 
city's best days are ahead of it. His grandparents founded what was once a 
prosperous department store, Glossers, as well as a chain called Gee Bee. All 
gone now. Pretty much everything is gone. First the steel mills, then the pork 
barrel enterprises the late local congressman John Murtha schemed to get to 
come the area (Pelosi is a Murtha protege, not a mark in 
 her favor). Now retail is going.  When I moved there, in 1969 there were 
almost as many steelworkers as there are people now. How the college where I 
taught is still in business is a mystery. No doubt by taking anybody who ca 
breathe!
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Re: [Marxism] How a Campus Fight Drove 2 Left-Leaning Professors to Fox News

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Amith gives a good account, I think, of the context for the professor's 
appearance on the odious Tucker Carlson's show. Sheldon Ranz has nothing 
whatever to offer us. I taught for more than forty years and faced many hostile 
students. And many, more dangerous people in bars, bowling alleys, and on the 
streets of Johnstown, PA. That's part of being a radical. Nothing, and I mean 
nothing, can justify going on that wretched pig's show, and especially to cry 
crocodile tears over how you have been treated by students who were fighting 
for social justice.
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Re: [Marxism] How a Campus Fight Drove 2 Left-Leaning Professors to Fox News

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Sheldon Ranz, would you go on Tucker Carlson's show under any circumstance? If 
you ever did, I'd call you a jackass too. Like Olaf says in the ee cumming 
poem, there is some shit i will not eat. Of course, Olaf was speaking to some 
serious business, vicious persecution by those who would love Carlson today, 
not a tenured professor having to face hostile students. Frankly, from what I 
have read, I don't see why the professors were so upset in the first place. And 
now it seems that the fascists out there are threatening to beat and kill all 
those they hate, which includes, no doubt, all the black, gay, transgender, and 
radical students and faculty on campus. Given what has been happening, in 
Portland and around the country, there is good reason to take such threats 
seriously.
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[Marxism] How a Campus Fight Drove 2 Left-Leaning Professors to Fox News

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These two profs at Evergreen State marked themselves as real jackasses by 
appearing on that consummate pig Tucker Carlson's Fox program. And then they 
say that they don't view Fox the way they used to. A couple more liberals dying 
to move to the right. Well, now they are there, right where they belong. These 
profs need some more experience dealing with hostile audiences. Instead, they 
took their case to Tucker Carlson. Some real courage there.
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[Marxism] Jeffery Webber and the "pink tide"

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If it is true that Webber accuses Marta Harnecker of aiding and abetting a 
neoliberal con job in Latin America, then he has committed an unbelievable 
libel against a revolutionary writer and activist. We may disagree with Marta 
in one way or another. But, if true, this is beyond the pale.
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Re: [Marxism] Marx was not a Greeny

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These comments are amusing. Foster is a great scholar and compared to these 
carping comments here, his work speaks for itself. We have a new book coming 
out in August, by Kohei Saito, the leading expert on what Marx wrote, in his 
published works and in a few thousand pages of his notebooks (which these 
critics know nothing about). The book is titled Karl Marx's Ecosocialism. It 
will put the lie to those still claiming that Marx was  a Promethean. Of 
course, nothing will satisfy the diehards. They stick to their beliefs, wearing 
their blinders.
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[Marxism] In ‘Janesville,’ When the G.M. Plant Closed, Havoc Followed,

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The review of the book about what happened in Janesville, Wisconsin after the 
GM plant closed is interesting. When I quit teaching and took to the road, 
Janesville was where we spent our first night, on the way to work at 
Yellowstone National Park.

We knew about what the author of the book describes a long time ago, during the 
1980s in Johnstown, PA and other factory towns in the Rust Belt. Studies then, 
one of which I helped with, showed that retraining of laid off workers was a 
dead end. I used to teach a good many of them. And the social consequences of 
plant closings were readily apparent. During the 1990s I taught auto workers at 
a GM plant near Pittsburgh. Some were far from home, like some men in 
Janesville, working at other GM plants, as their contract gave them the right 
to do. I heard some awful stories. Suicides, illness, family troubles, not to 
mention that some were working 7-day weeks and 12 hour days, to earn enough 
money to get through the next disaster. Some had suffered multiple plant 
closings.


When economic catastrophes occur, lives and communities are shattered. Bad 
things happen, and they get worse for the next generation. Drugs, crime, you 
name it. Then the economy improves and the media, capitalists, and public 
officials sing the praises of the resilience of the free market economy. But 
underneath the surface, hidden from most of us, is extreme human misery. We act 
as if what happened didn't happen. Oh well, we say, life goes on.
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A great promotion, from March 5 to March 10. Lots of good books.

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[Marxism] What's Wrong with Econ. 101

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I also taught economics to workers for more than 30 years as well. Here is an 
essay I wrote that people might find interesting.


http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/22439-education-in-the-name-of-social-transformation-teaching-workers

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[Marxism] What's Wrong With Econ. 101

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I have sent my essay, All the Economics You Need to Know in One Lesson, to 
those who asked. I should have noted that the file I sent was written before 
the final edit. So please excuse typos, a few missing words, etc.
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[Marxism] What's Wrong with Econ. 101

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I taught Intro to Economics for more than 30 years and have written about it 
quite a bit. One essay, which is in my book, The Great Inequality, is titled 
"All the Economics You Need to Know in One Lesson." Be happy to send a file of 
the essay to anyone interested. Send to mikedjya...@msn.com.
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Re: [Marxism] Is Globalization to Blame?

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The idea that there are choices is the argument all of those (Robert Reich 
for example) use to argue that the US should take the "high road" policy of 
high wages, etc. This misses the basic dynamics of capitalism, one of which 
is that the global expansion of capital is capitalism's default position. 
Only when there is a powerful labor movement is there any chance of 
stalling the push of this default position. And even then, it has proven 
impossible to stop it. Sweden is a case in point. What this really means is 
that if there is no radical left, the kind Naiman stupidly derides, then 
there is little hope of ending capitalism, which today is our only real 
hope. Piecemeal changes, just a little good now, does not ever, and I mean 
ever, make for long-term radical change. Sadly the US labor movement is 
dead, led by a bloated fool who gets his while workers get the shaft.

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> http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/12/is-globalization-to-blame/ 
>
> I find Dean Baker's arguments somewhat specious. He says: 
>
> "Among the many myths about globalization, the worst is that the loss of 
> large numbers of manufacturing jobs in the United States (and Europe) 
> was inevitable. Because the developing world is full of low-paid 
> workers, this argument goes, it was impossible for Americans to compete." 
>
> But he does not explain how there might have been an alternative. 
> Instead he is preoccupied with the overly high wages of doctors: 
>
> "Policymakers could have exposed more highly paid workers such as 
> doctors and lawyers to this same competition, but a bipartisan 
> congressional consensus, and presidents of both parties, instead chose 
> to keep them largely protected." 
>
> Huh? 
>
> What does this have to do with GM building cars in Mexico? 
>
>
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[Marxism] Fwd: Shackles and Dollars - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Louis posted an essay, Shackles and Dollars, that is well worth reading. It is 
about the controversy between neoclassical economists and historians over 
slavery, with a focus on criticisms of Edward E. Baptist's The Half That never 
Was, a  most remarkable book. I wrote this on Louis's Facebook page:


"This is a very interesting essay. Quite frankly, the economists as almost 
always have a very narrow view of life. They think the world, no matter the 
issue, can be modeled mathematically. And variables isolated as if the world 
were a mechanism devoid of any and all social relationships, So in the end, 
there is really no point debating them. That the enormous increase in labor 
productivity within the slave cotton economy was due to new seeds, with no 
consideration of the relations of production Baptist so eloquently examines 
would be funny if it weren't so disgusting. And for the black economist Trevon 
Logan to argue that Baptist was mainly using slaves to satisfy his own need to 
tell us something new . . ." is truly preposterous. Though it does show that 
the neoclassical poison can be imbibed by anyone."
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Vietnam: the War That Won’t Go Away

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Gary MacLennan wrote: "This is a wonderful article." Thanks, Gary, for the kind 
words. Michael Uhl's book is well-worth a read. Michael


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Re: [Marxism] Deepening Contradictions: Identity Politics and Steelworkers

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This is an excellent essay. It is hard to believe that anyone familiar with 
the Steelworkers Union, its origins and history, could argue that it was in 
any way a paragon of racial justice. Or that race didn't play a crucial 
role in it, in the plants, and in the steel towns. This is a "whitewash" of 
history that is astounding. For example, in its collective bargaining 
agreements with the steel corporations, until a consent decree basically 
forced an end to the practice in the 1970s, seniority in the mills was 
department- rather than plant-based. Black workers were typically confined 
to the most dangerous and dirty departments, such as foundry and coke plant 
(in Johnstown, PA there was a bar in a black neighborhood called ironically 
The Coke Plant). If a black worker managed to transfer into to better 
department, his department seniority would be zero, no matter what his 
plant seniority was. So now if there was a cutback in the new department he 
would be first laid off. He could have 20 years in the plant and a white 
worker with say two years of plant seniority would keep his department job 
over the black worker if the latter had less than two years seniority. Thus 
did the INSTITUTION of collective bargaining keep black workers on the 
bottom, irrespective if whether or not white members were racist (not a few 
were racist, however, but you have to wonder how strong racism would have 
been if the union had indeed confronted race directly and not 
institutionalized racism in its contracts). Here is a brief description of 
the EEOC consent decree:

"EEOC, the Department of Labor and the Department of Justice file suit 
against the nation's nine largest steel producers for discriminatory 
hiring, promotion, assignment and wage policies directed against women and 
minorities. These nine companies employ a total of 350,000 workers and 
produce 73 percent of the country's steel. The government's suit also names 
the major steelworkers' union, the United Steelworkers of America, as a 
defendant. After five and a half months of negotiations, the government and 
the defendants resolve the dispute through a consent decree providing for 
approximately $31 million in back pay to be distributed to about 40,000 
minority and women employees. The companies and the union also agree to a 
set of goals which include hiring women and minority persons for half the 
openings in trade and craft jobs and for 25 percent of the vacancies in 
supervisory jobs. The decree also provides that seniority will now be 
determined on the basis of plant (rather than departmental) seniority 
permitting women and minority access to the better paying and more 
desirable jobs."

On all of this, see the fine filmmaker Tony Buba's excellent documentary 
Struggles in Steel. I could say a lot more about this, but this gives you 
the gist of it. Contra Stein, Jacobin, et. al. race is central to all of US 
history. It has to be confronted head-on if we are to have any chance to 
build a radical movement here. http://www.newsreel.org/guides/struggles.htm 

STRUGGLES IN STEEL - Facilitator Guide 

Aliquippa Update–A Pittsburgh Milltown Struggles to Comeback, 1984-86 and 
Trouble in Electric Valley, Local Leaders Assess the Difficult Future of 
Their Communities
NEWSREEL.ORG

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> Although the question of identity politics has been simmering for years 
> in academic journals and the left press, it came to a full boil in the 
> 2016 elections when Hillary Clinton became its symbol. Often referred to 
> as multiculturalism, neither term was adopted by Trump in his racist and 
> sexist attacks on the Democrats. He preferred “political correctness”, 
> an epithet intended to stigmatize his opponents as giving preferential 
> treatment to gays, women, and minorities. In the aftermath of Trump’s 
> victory, supporters of the Democratic Party have been nursing their 
> wounds and trying to figure out where to go next, with an emerging 
> tendency around the fizzled Sanders campaign arguing that abandoning 
> identity politics will help it win future elections. Sanders put it this 
> way: 
>
> It goes without saying, that as we fight to end all forms of 
> discrimination, as we fight to bring more and 

[Marxism] Robin DG Kelley - an excellent anti-Trump agenda

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Dennis Brasky posted a reference to Robin D G Kelley's essay on the 
presidential election in the Boston Review. It i , indeed an excellent essay. 
Here is something I wrote after reading it and the essay by Janice Fine that 
followed Kelley's piece. Comments welcome:


In my hometown county, Armstrong, in Pennsylvania, Trump won over Clinton 74% 
to 22%. In Cambria County, also in Pennsylvania, where I worked for 32 years, 
Trump won 67% to 30%.Robin Kelley focuses much of his essay on race. I can say 
from long personal experience in both counties that racism is palpable and 
common, though there weren't many black people in either place.. tt would be 
difficult to enumerate the racist comments I heard. On several occasions, I was 
seriously threatened with violence when I objected to these. You could not go 
into a bar frequented by white patrons in Johnstown, the largest town in 
Cambria County without hearing a racist remark. Same in my hometown, Ford City. 
Racial discrimination in every aspect of life was omnipresent.


Janice Fine who has a comment after Kelley's article focuses on the demise of 
unions as a reason for white support for Trump. Both Ford City and Johnstown 
had extremely high union densities and workers enjoyed decent wages and 
benefits until roughly the 1980s. I have no doubt that the unions moderated 
racial discrimination at least a little, and as Fine says, served a strong 
educative function for workers, Unions can and often have provided spaces in 
which members can challenge racism, and they can and have helped them see that 
someone like Trump is their class enemy. Unfortunately, both towns are economic 
basket cases now, with greatly reduced populations, high poverty, rampant 
opiate and amphetamine use, criminal activity, long-term joblessness, low 
wages, religious fundamentalism, and no unions.


So without any organization to promote their economic well-being and teach 
them, and with total social and economic dislocation, what has been somewhat 
latent racism, has burst into the open. Open racism is back in both places, in 
public and on social media. Trump skilfully promoted both economic populism and 
racism, a heady brew no doubt for voters in the two counties.


The conclusion I reach is that class and race can never be isolated. They are 
joined at the hip, and unless we attack racism head-on in every place and in 
every institution, and at the same time put forward a class analysis and 
politics, we have no chance of ever transforming this nation.


These are just rough thoughts, so I haven't thought through all of this in a 
systematic way.

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[Marxism] Leonard Cohen Dead at 82

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Here is a Leonard Cohen song I like a lot. Everybody Knows. "Everybody knows 
that the dice are loaded." Except, I suppose those faux leftists who continue 
to trod the lesser-evil path. One Ethan Young, who has been berating me for 
many months over my principled critiques of the Sanders' campaign, is now 
urging everyone to sign a petition urging the appointment of someone or other 
to head the Democratic National Committee. All that cultural capital he came 
into the world with, and he wastes his time doing this. Just pathetic.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lin-a2lTelg

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[Marxism] A Blue Collar Town in Decline and in Despair Turns to Trump

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The high school I attended used to play basketball against Ambridge High 
School. I taught union workers in a nearby town. Bleak, miserable places now. 
If the fact that Ambridge (no doubt like my own hometown, in which nearly every 
man was a union member when I was a boy) went solidly for Trump is not a sign 
of the utter, total, and complete failure of the labor movement in the US, I 
don't know what is. Yes, there are bigots and religious nuts aplenty in the 
places now. But their labor leaders abandoned them, the political elites did 
the same, and the left intellectuals in our cities never took the time to visit 
these places, which are scattered all across the nation, to learn about the 
people who lived and worked away their lives in the factories, to engage them, 
to teach them. It's really too late now. But proof positive that inequality, 
economic hardship, and the like can, in the absence of an alternative radical 
politics, drives the working class to the left is a foolish myth. As 
 I have been arguing for at least 40 years.
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Re: [Marxism] Should the left try to take over the Democratic Party?/Why are People Still Living in East Aleppo?/Absolutely Final Thoughts

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Ralph Johansen wrote:



"On this sodden election day here in the US, I'm reminded of this, which pretty 
much puts it in a nutshell. If we look beyond the dismal punditry out there 
about causes, consequences and the possibilities for change, I see this as one 
of the more profound, explicit statements of the problem and solution by John 
Smith in the final chapter of his fine book Imperialism in the 21st Century 
published by your invaluable MR Press, Michael."



Thanks for the kind words, Ralph. John Smith's book is path-breaking I think. I 
kept after him for several years to make sure the book got done. John is a 
truly gracious and humble man, and a fine and rigorous scholar. It was an honor 
to work with him. He has another book in the works, which I am confident that 
we will publish.


Solidarity, Michael
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[Marxism] Should the left try to take over the Democratic Party?/Why are People Still Living in East Aleppo?/Absolutely Final Thoughts

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Louis's article in North Star is excellent. When I read the rubbish Ben Kunkel 
and Bhaskar Sunkara have written, making arguments that have been made for 
decades, and are even more foolish now than they were then, I want to just give 
up. What hope is there for radical change in the United States. Not much. 
Jacobin just posted an essay wondering what we can do to make sure that the 
choices we face in the 2036 election won't be as bleak as the ones we face 
today. By 2036, most of the Brooklyn intellectuals around Jacobin will have 
long since moved to the right, so the question will be be moot.



Louis also posted an article from the BBC, asking why people are still living 
in East Aleppo. All of the Assad supporters (some open, some de facto) seem 
absolutely callous to the death and misery rained down on Syrians by Assad and 
Putin. It really does make you sick to contemplate this.



Gary has written a fine screed on the stupidity of the lesser evil argument. We 
are either radicals or we are not. And as ee cummings had olaf say in his poem, 
there is some shit i will not eat.
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[Marxism] Measuring global inequality

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This link is to an essay in this month's Monthly Review. It is based upon a 
chapter in my book, The Growing Inequality.



http://monthlyreview.org/2016/11/01/measuring-global-inequality/.



"To speak in the most universal terms: we all want democracy. We are all 
exploited by our country's and the world's economic masters. We all want this 
to end, so that we might enjoy the fruits of our labor and happier, healthier 
lives. We all want healthcare, pensions, vacations, holidays, quality 
education, control over our labor, work that uses our full human capacities, 
societies in which children can grow up safe and healthy, livable environments, 
an end to war and other violence, and much more. There are still plenty of 
things to unite us."

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Why the State Matters | Jacobin

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This comment by the editors of Monthly Review criticizes Parenti's view of the 
state in the context of his reformist proposal on climate change. Parenti and 
others like Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch appear a bit naive on the nature of the 
modern capitalist state and the prospects for social democratic politics. 
http://monthlyreview.org/2014/04/01/reply-parenti/  

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Re: [Marxism] Bernie Sanders and the Rainbow Coalition | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Good post, Louis. Maybe Sanders is too old to go after, nonstop, as much 
insider attention as he can drum up, as did Jackson. Be nice to think so. 
I'm not optimistic.

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> https://louisproyect.org/2016/08/23/bernie-sanders-and-the-rainbow-coalition/ 
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[Marxism] John Marciano's new book on Vietnam

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Monthly Review Press is pleased to announce John Marciano's fine new book, The 
American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration. John is a longtime friend and 
a great comrade. Recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn about the 
Crime of this murderous war against the Vietnamese people. A must read for 
millennials moving to the left. 
http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=36ce609ae68971b4f060ad9c7=bb8de69d11=7c9269ff30
 
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[Marxism] new book on inequality

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Thanks, Andrew, for linking to this review of my book. It's always heartening 
to read a positive review!! 
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Re: [Marxism] When We Loved Mussolini

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Thomas makes an excellent point. "We" in the article Louis linked refers to the 
US government and US business, but the title implies that we all loved 
Mussolini. My grandfather, Dante Benigni, was a socialist and obviously no 
supporter of Mussolini. Nor I would bet were his brother and the miners and 
factory workers who lived nearby. My relatives in the mining town in which I 
was born were not radicals but they weren't fascists either. On the other hand, 
I lived in downtown Johnstown, PA in 1970 in a house owned by 2 Sicilians. I 
doubt they were Mussolini supporters either. But to be able to drink in a bar 
on Sunday, I joined the Italian Club across the alley from their house, and the 
positive things said about Mussolini drove me out of there pretty quickly!  

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Re: [Marxism] [UCE] Re: [pen-l] Fwd: Debates within ecosocialism: John Bellamy Foster, Jason Moore and CNS | Louis Proyect: The Unrepenta

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Ian Angus has written a reply to Fred Murphy's critique of Jason Moore. I think 
it is pretty devastating. And it is based upon a thorough reading of nearly 
everything Moore has written. 
http://climateandcapitalism.com/2016/06/23/two-views-on-marxist-ecology-and-jason-w-moore/
Angus, by the way, has written a fine book, Facing the Anthropocene, which 
combines a thorough examination of the science of climate change and a Marxist 
analysis of both the science and the social science of the rapid destruction of 
nature we are now experiencing. Available from Monthly Review Press. The people 
who have endorsed Ian's book are a pretty remarkable group. 

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[Marxism] Great articles over at nonsite.org: Against Ultraleftism

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I didn't care for the nonsite articles. Adolph Reed gets more strident in his 
class-only analysis as he gets older and more irrelevant. He specializes along 
with his acolytes in branding those who disagree as ultraleftists. He actually 
redbaited those of us who said the the labor bureaucracy sold out the workers, 
including U of Wisconsin grad students who spearheaded the labor revolt in 
Wisconsin a few years ago. You seldom find an article attacking the "ultra 
leftists" (basically anyone not all in for Sanders and anyone who grasps that 
racism has a life at least partially independent of class) who does not kiss 
Reed's ass. The article at nonsite by Peter Dorman attacking Naomi Klein is 
truly dreadful, a shitty piece of that misses the forest for the trees. When 
Reed or Dorman or any or the other anti-"ultra leftists" writes something on a 
par with Klein or many others like her or for that matter any number of "ultra 
leftists," I'll pay homage. Bur for now, no thanks to their superfi
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[Marxism] Happy May Day

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Happy May Day to all. Solidarity. And congratulations to Louis and Marxmail. 
Remarkable to keep a list like this going for so long!  
 
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Re: [Marxism] Jacobin editor urges voting for Clinton in swing states

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Louis Proyect says, "I probably should have mentioned that I learned about this 
on John Halle's timeline, who endorsed it. Halle was at one time very strong on 
the "lesser evil" question. I imagine that there is a lot of social pressure to 
adapt to the Democrats this year. If you printed out all the articles 
ventilating about Trump, they'd probably reach the planet Mars."
Halle has turned into one of the biggest jackasses on the internet, accusing 
anyone, in the most slanderous terms, of being ultra leftists and elitists if 
they are not all-in for Bernie Sanders. He so much wants the approval of the 
Brooklyn "intellectuals" close to Jacobin that he seems not to be able to help 
himself. His saving grace is that his prose is dreadful, and no halfway 
intelligent person could bear to read it. 
  
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[Marxism] Jacobin editor urges voting for Clintony in swing states

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This isn't surprising. What is surprising is why anyone would take Sankara's 
political pronouncements seriously. His resume is incredibly thin.  A 
self-admitted hustler, successful in building Jacobin's subscriptions, which is 
to be applauded, given that the magazine publishes some decent pieces. But 
hustlers are always short on principles, and he is no exception. Who could 
actually pull that lever for Clinton? Under any circumstances. 
  
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[Marxism] Larry Summers channeling Sweezy?

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Jim Farmelant wonders if Summers is aware of the Monthly Review school of 
thought on secular stagnation. I think he is. He is from a family of 
economists, and is nephew to Paul Samuelson and Kenneth Arrow. Samuelson 
devoted much effort to a refutation of Marx, and surely Summers is aware of 
this work and much more. Sweezy was, according to Georgescu-Roegen, the best of 
the young Harvard economists in the 1930s. So it is unimaginable that Summers 
doesn't know about MR's economics. That he wouldn't cite them is not 
surprising. The MR school has radical implications, which Summers, Krugman, et. 
al. don't want to dwell on. Similarly, MR's summer 2014 issue was titled 
"Surveillance Capitalism," and contains many interesting articles on the 
surveillance society in which we find ourselves today. Now Shoshana Zuboff, 
emeritus professor at Harvard, has taken to writing about surveillance 
capitalism as if she coined the phrase. Really disgusting but par for the 
course. Zuboff's work is natural
 ly also devoid of radical conclusions. 
What is most disturbing, however, is when radicals think that because 
mainstream thinkers begin to dabble in radical theory that this means anything 
good. It does not. See my essay, "Occupy Wall Street and the Celebrity 
Economists." Harry Magdoff called Paul Krugman a "prizefighter for capitalism." 
So is Summers, and so is Zuboff. As the old labor song says, Which Side Are You 
On? These people know what side they are on, and it isn't ours. 
  
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[Marxism] Adventures in the Trump Twittersphere

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What the author says rings true. I have long known of the alternative universe 
of which he speaks, where facts don't matter and a crazy mix of beliefs exist 
in the same mind. Over the past fifteen years, we have seen a lot more of this 
and some of what we have seen I wrote about in my book, Cheap Motels and a 
Hotplate: An Economist's Travelogue. I am not sure about his friends in Austin 
saying that he didn't know the code when people with whom he was talking would 
be saying something sensible and then would toss in a racist remark. I think 
that a good many white people assume that you are a racist if you are white, 
and would be genuinely shocked if you disagreed with what they said, much less 
saying angrily that they were racists. There is a Facebook page dedicated to 
those of us who grew up in the 1950s and 60s, and the ignorant racism expressed 
there is hard to believe sometimes. Every time I have called people on this, 
they react with incomprehension, and more racism, suggesting t
 hat I am some sort of insane person. Most deny that racism ever existed in our 
town, which to any objective observer would sound really loony. See my essay, 
"Minstrel Show." One of my classmates, after reading it, said that it was a 
shame I was such an unhappy person, who only wanted to criticize. My guess is 
that there are a lot of Trump supporters in Ford City, PA.  
  
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[Marxism] New Blog Post: Bernie Sanders' "Political Revolution"

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Some say that those of us who do not actively support the Sanders's campaign 
are "ultra-leftists." I disagree. 
http://cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2016/02/29/bernie-sanders-political-revolution/

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[Marxism] New book on Cuba from Monthly Review Press

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We are pleased and proud to publish Steve Cushion's "A Hidden History of the 
Cuban RevolutionHow the Working Class Shaped the Guerrillas’ Victory." This is 
a masterful account, based on original archival research and oral history done 
in Cuba, of the virtually unknown role of the Cuban working class in securing 
the victory of the rebels led by Fidel Castro that marked the beginning of the 
Cuban Revolution. The author, before he earned a PhD and became a university 
lecturer, was for 20 years a London bus driver. He has been an active socialist 
and trade unionist his entire adult life. An organic intellectual, in the best 
sense of those words.
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[Marxism] Mike Alewitz on Bernie Sanders

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>From the fine artist, Mike Alewitz's Facebook page:
UNDERSTANDING THE SANDERS REVOLUTION
Let me see if I get this correctly:
Bernie Sanders went on demonstrations in the early 1960s, but then took a 
50-year break until 2014.So he skipped the anti-Vietnam War movement, the 
women’s movement and the other critical social movements of his generation.Now 
he supports working people, but thinks its ok to bomb them in other 
countries.And he’s for democracy, but he supports monarchies and Israeli 
apartheid.He’s for government transparency, but wants Snowden to stand 
trial.He’s independent, but has always supported the corporate Democratic Party 
candidates.He’s against police violence, but thinks the police are a socialist 
institution.He voted against the Iraq War, but then voted to fund it.He’s 
battling the Washington establishment, but he’s a lifelong professional 
politician.He’s against Hillary Clinton, but has pledged to support her after 
she wins the primary.He’s a democratic socialist, but assures us he will not 
threaten capitalism.And he has proclaimed that his vote in Iowa was the 
beginning of a Political Revolution...So - he’s getting movement activists off 
the streets and signing them up to strengthen the Democratic Party, a party 
that destroys progressive movements, so he can lead the revolution that will 
end Democratic Party politics, in order to move to a kind of socialism that 
preserves capitalism?
Makes total sense.___
What a complete waste of time by left-liberals devoting their energies to 
tweeting and facebooking every ten seconds during Sanders-Clinton debates, 
going on and on about a Sanders' revolution. Meanwhile, death and destruction 
are rained down upon people all over the world, ignored by both candidates, who 
would do nothing to end it. And the environment gets more unlivable by the 
month, and again neither candidate gives a shit about it and has no plan to 
change things. Just as those who support, directly or indirectly, butchers like 
Assad and Putin should be shunned, so too should those who more or less demand 
that leftists support Sanders be, scorned and shunned. They are enemies of the 
left and make no mistake about it.


  
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[Marxism] Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century/new book by John Smith

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Here is a link to John Smith's Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century. It is 
the first Baran-Sweezy Memorial Prize winner. I think that this is a seminal 
work in Marxist political economy and a tour de force of radical scholarship. 
It blows apart every economic theory that argues that there is no such thing as 
imperialism or that imperialism is a thing of the past. A must read. 
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[Marxism] The War for the West Rages On

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I have spent a great deal of time in Utah over the past ten years or so. And in 
may other Western states as well. There is a great deal of federal (public) 
land in the West, especially in Utah. The Bundys and others of their ilk, many 
of them Mormons, have no real concept of land belonging to all of the people. 
And it seems that some here can't conceive of this either. We should all take 
the view that this is, as Woody Guthrie sang, our land. It must be protected by 
all of us, and we must demand that wildlife be protected on such land and that 
it must not be logged, mined, and ranched, creating a situation where those who 
lease such land and who pay very little for this privilege come to believe that 
this land is theirs. The Mormons who run Utah lock, stock, and barrel, lust to 
control federal lands in the state. And I can guarantee you that if they did 
gain control over it, they would soon enough sell or lease it to private 
corporations who would mine, frack, and ranch it to its dea
 th. Already the once clean air in southern Utah, home to five splendid and 
amazing national parks and several national monuments, is almost always hazy 
and polluted. If the state gets the land, the air, water, and soil quality will 
diminish beyond recognition and good luck to the animals, other than cattle. 
Edward Abbey, who has been mocked by certain "left liberals" who neither know 
nor care about these matters but who waste their days bashing Hillary Clinton 
and praising Bernie Sanders (neither of whom give a shit about the environment 
either) was always willing to stand up to the cattle interests and the state 
and federal policies that have subsidized them for so long. We should emulate 
Abbey and stand up to all of the crackpots and capitalists whose very essence 
wreaks havoc on Mother Nature and demand that these lands belong to all of us 
and must be preserved, expanded, and cared for for all time. The Bundys and all 
like them belong in prison. The sooner the better.  
  
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[Marxism] Marxism] Fwd: How one Russian became an object lesson for all would-be protesters - CSMonitor.com

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Fred Weir's article is interesting. How anyone can believe that Putin is an 
anti-imperialist is astonishing. He is just another vicious criminal, helping 
loot the Russian economy and repress the people. In Weir's piece a former Putin 
spokesperson suggests that the arrests and long imprisonment of innocent people 
is justified because of reasonable government concern about past anti-state 
actions that caused the collapse of the government. The first one he refers to 
is obviously the Bolshevik revolution! Amazing. 
 
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[Marxism] [Pen-l] Fwd: Reform Is Not Enough to Stem the Rising Tide of Inequality Worldwide

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Louis Proyect wrote:  A critique of Piketty type reformism from the always 
interesting William I. Robinson. 
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34224-reform-is-not-enough-to-stem-the-rising-tide-of-inequality-worldwide
John Foster and I wrote an extended review and critique of Piketty that 
criticizes his reformist proposals to reduce inequality, while praising his 
work on the extent of inequality, its proximate causes, and likely trajectory: 
http://monthlyreview.org/2014/11/01/piketty-and-the-crisis-of-neoclassical-economics/.
On January 29, my new book on inequality will be published by Routledge. It is 
titled "The Great Inequality" and consists of a set of essays that detail the 
nature of inequality, the causes of it, its multiple consequences, and the 
political movements necessary to end it. There is a chapter on global 
inequality that is a good companion piece to the Robinson essay Louis 
references.   
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[Marxism] FDR cared more about Polish horses than Polish Jews

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In the book Human Smoke, Nicholson Baker details how the US would not even take 
in orphaned Jewish children because they might grow up to be Bolsheviks. I have 
no doubt that the current crop of politicians and governors who are railing 
against Syrian refugees would have said the same thing in the 1930s. Just as 
many of them would have been sympathetic to Hitler. 
 
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[Marxism] Peace prize for Putin

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In Counterpunch today, Barry Lando makes a case for giving the Nobel Peace 
Prize to Vladimir Putin. Well, he asks, would this be any more absurd than 
awarding it to Obama? And he forgot to mention Kissinger. Jesus, who would 
write an article like this? What is the point of it? Peace through bombs, 
murder, death in large numbers. One disgusting dictator supporting another. 
Maybe Assad could agree to resign, and then he could share in the prize.
   
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[Marxism] New film about the "Chicago Boys" in Chile

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Here is a link to a good article by Greg Grandin about a new Chilean 
documentary about the role of Chilean economists trained by Milton Friedman and 
Arnold Harberger in the murderous regime of Pinochet. Almost everywhere in the 
world, neoliberal economics holds sway. And beneath the fancy theorizing that 
claims to show the beneficence of unregulated markets is the reality of 
authoritarian, police-state, and fascistic state power, necessary for the 
"successful" implementation of market supremacy. The future will surely be one 
of fierce class struggle, often occluded by ethnic strife and religious 
extremism, as well as the endless wars generated by the imperial powers and 
their stooges in poor nations. All in a context of rapid and life-threatening 
environmental catastrophes. Barbarism is just getting started. We can only hope 
and work for a resurgence of socialism, which surely is our only hope. 

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[Marxism] Tamás Krausz's Reconstructing Lenin wins Deutscher Memorial Prize

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The Monthly Review Press book, Reconstructing Lenin: An Intellectual Biography, 
by Tamás Krausz  has won the Deutscher Memorial Prize. This is work of 
monumental scholarship and well-worth reading by anyone interested in Lenin, 
the Bolshevik Revolution, and Lenin's relevance today. We are offering a 35% 
discount now on the book. See the link below.

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[Marxism] Ultima Ratio Regum

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Given the police murder of a six-year old boy in a car with his father in New 
Orleans this past week, I found this line in Spencer's poem heartbreaking: "He 
was a better target for a kiss." 
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[Marxism] [Pen-l] Fwd: Why “Trumbo” is One of the Most Important Films Ever Made,

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Good review, Louis. I hope I get to see the film. Dalton Trumbo wrote a 
fantastic antiwar novel, Johnny Got His Gun. A great book to give to anyone 
thinking of joining the military. The Hollywood Ten set an example for all of 
us. Principle, courage, defiance of those in power. They suffered a good deal 
for it. Paul Buhle has written some good stuff about left-wing Hollywood, 
including about those blacklisted.  
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[Marxism] Fwd: Who’s to Blame for Mass Incarceration? | Boston Review

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The book reviewed here 
(http://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/donna-murch-michael-javen-fortner-black-silent-majority).
 sounds absolutely dreadful, arguing that mass black incarceration resulted in 
large part from the anti-crime activism of a black silent majority. The author 
might soon have a lucrative career on Fox News. 
   
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[Marxism] Marxism] Fwd: Strident Calls to Reject Syrian Refugees Fueled by Wealthy California Donor

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It is remarkable the extent that some will go to blame those who suffer for 
their own suffering. Or defend a butcher like Assad. Or believe that Putin is 
anything but a criminal killer. We can debate the ultimate causes of what 
happens in the world, but death is death and murderers can't be defended.   
  
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[Marxism] Recommendations for recent books on Cuba

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All from Monthly Review Press, on my watch so to speak, published since 2008:


Race in Cuba

One Day in December: Celia Sanchez and the Cuban Revolution

The Economic War Against Cuba

A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution: How the Working Class Shaped
the Guerillas’ Victory

Cuba, the Media, and the Challenge of Impartiality

Revolutionary Doctors
There are numerous essays in Monthly Review magazine as well

  
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[Marxism] Leftist orientation guide to new NYU students

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Maybe the best thing these students could have done was to enroll at another 
school in the first place!   
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[Marxism] Wall Street's Think Tank

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Larry Shoup's new book, Wall Street's Think Tank, is now out from Monthly 
Review Press. It is an in-depth study of the Council on Foreign Relations, 
1976-2014. It is an outstanding work, with great detail throughout. Among many 
other things, it is an implicit criticism of those who seem to believe that 
that the US ruling class has become somehow decadent, unable to conceptualize 
anymore its interests and seek vigorously to achieve them. Shoup also has an 
essay in September's Monthly Review that explores the CFR's recent work on US 
efforts to contain China's global ambitions. 
http://monthlyreview.org/books/cl5519/  
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Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] Fwd: Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace - The New York Times

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What this article shows is that what I call managerial control mechanisms can 
be applied to just about any kind of work. These go back a long way, to the 
centralization of workers in factories, the detailed division of labor, 
mechanization, Frederick Taylor's systematic analysis of these three elements 
of control and the formulation of scientific management, personnel management 
with its Theories X, Y, and Z, lean production (the Japanese-led refinements 
and extensions of Taylorism), etc. Amazon is applying managerial control to 
relatively highly paid, educated, and skilled white collar workers. What is 
interesting is that many people aspire to work for Jeff Bezos, and not a few of 
the people interviewed either relished the insane competitiveness and long 
hours or said that they learned so much about themselves and what they could 
accomplish under Bezos's psychopathic leadership, even as they left the 
company. Note that other companies are following suit, and former Amazon employ
 ees are highly sought after by these businesses. Think how powerful is the 
ethos of modern capitalism that workers were willing to sacrifice spouses, 
kids, parents, vacations, and every other thing that makes us human beings to 
help invent more efficient ways to sell things to consumers. And they say life 
in the Soviet Union was harsh!
I don't think academe is quite like Amazon. In colleges, well-educated white 
collar workers no longer can get full-time employment. There are not tens of 
thousands of openings for one thing. The weeding out process occurs much more 
impersonally too. Performance is increasingly measured, though, and that is a 
similarity. I suppose too that you might consider Amazons' white collar workers 
like adjuncts in that they are very unlikely to make it to the top of the job 
hierarchy and will be kicked to the curb not long after they are hired. 
However, adjuncts are not sought after much when this happens. They just try 
for another shitty teaching gig. Also, it is harder, for me at least, to muster 
nearly as much sympathy for Amazon's white-collar laborers as for adjunct 
teachers. The Amazonians chose to work under Bezos's rules and surely went in 
with the knowledge of what they might be in for. It's not as if they were part 
of some reserve army of labor, desperately seeking employment.
Whatever we make of this article, one thing is certain. Work in capitalism 
denies us our humanity, period. There is really nothing that can change the 
long trajectory toward alienating labor except the overthrow of capitalism, 
root and branch. As radicals we ignore the absolute necessity to transform work 
radically, and to eradicate the mindless consumption that now defines the 
limits of what human beings can expect from life and labor. 
 
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[Marxism] Fwd: Emerging Forms of Leftism in the Millennial Generation

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While this essay in North Star is not without interest, it would have been nice 
if the author had buttressed his arguments a bit more  with some data. For 
example, on race, this piece from the Washington Post suggests that millennials 
are just slightly less likely than previous generations to see blacks as in 
certain ways inferior to whites. The most revolutionary generation was my own, 
the much-maligned baby boomers, who initiated the biggest change ever in the US 
in terms of racial equality. Also, using an old poll about how millennials are 
more favorable toward socialism than capitalism begs a lot of questions. What 
do people think socialism is, etc.? Finally, I am skeptical of the power of 
social media to break down differences.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/white-millennials-are-only-a-little-bit-less-racist-than-their-parents-which-is-still-pretty-racist

Of course, the author is trying to discern trends in the present, not an easy 
thing to do. Time will tell.
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Re: [Marxism] Moderator's note

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I thought that Michael K replied to Jim C with well-argued points and without 
rancor. Jim C answered in the same way. These are complex issues, and passions 
run deep. So perhaps Louis should reconsider giving Jim C the boot. Jim's 
position would surely not be one alien to Greek radicals, and some would surely 
agree with him. I might argue that his definition of class position is too pat 
and somewhat formulaic. But on the other hand, as Michael Lebowitz argues in 
his new book, The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now, and he has 
consistently argued for years, as we participate in production, we produce not 
only goods and services but ourselves as well. So, and especially because the 
class position we are in has a great deal to do with that of our parents, it 
seems self-evident that whatever their intentions and character, those who come 
from highly educated professional families with high incomes are likely to 
follow in their parents' footsteps. They may be sympathetic to working p
 eople and radical in their writing and thinking, but this doesn't always 
translate into knowing what it is like to be a working person without such 
advantages, to really feel it. They also may well have an entire set of 
unexamined notions and emotions that buttress modes of being that take for 
granted what they have materially and make it seem crazy that they should ever 
have to give these things up. All of this can condition politics, even behind 
the back, so to speak, of such persons.

Anyway, I often go off the deep end berating people, at least in my head, for 
not seeing that their life circumstances, including parental income, education, 
and employment, as well as their own income, education, and employment, shape 
what they believe and the political actions they are willing to take. But there 
is I think always some truth in what I say or think about this. 
  
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[Marxism] Marxism] Varoufakis clause by clause critique

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Andrew Pollack notes that Varoufakis's analysis of the agreement Tsipras struck 
with the troika is excellent. It is, and it shows that Yannis has kept his 
principles intact. Another piece I read suggests that he thinks of himself as a 
modern-day Keynes, who opposed the Treaty of Versailles and predicted dire 
consequences for Germany that could lead to a second world war. There may be 
truth to this. It will be interesting to see what he does now. His 
outspokenness and considerable intelligence could prove useful to the Greek 
working class, especially if his politics move further to the left. 

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Re: [Marxism] [SocialistProject] Bullet: Requiem at an Empty Grave? Syriza's Momentous Day

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The agreement reached between the troika and Tsipras puts the absolute lie to 
the nonsense offered by Leo Panitch. 

A journalist friend (and former student) asked me for comments on the situation 
in Greece. He asked specifically about Varoufakis. Here is what I said:

With respect to Greece, the deal cut hours ago between
Tsipras and the troika represents a total capitulation to the latter. Greece
has agreed to austerity measures worse than those recently rejected by Greek
voters, and especially by the broad working class. The problem for Syriza is
that it did not have what negotiators call a “best alternative to a negotiated
agreement,” which would have been, in my view, exit from the Euro and the EU.
To have such an alternative would have required planning and a mass education
campaign to prepare people for such an alternative. This Syriza failed to do.
It failed to even try to deepen democracy and to empower those who voted for
it. It behaved just like any other modern political party. The consequence now
is an admission that there is no defying the neoliberal market gods, namely the
rich nations and their richest citizens. Capital rules and as Thatcher said, 
“there
is no alternative.” For the Greek working class, poor, unemployed, pensioners,
the results will be more suffering and more death. Greece is in worse shape
than the US in 1933, and things will get worse. What growth might occur will be
tilted overwhelmingly toward the rich. Greece is now formally a colony of
Germany and the other rich EU nations. The troika has taught the Greeks a
lesson in power and sent a message to any that would defy them.



As for Varoufakis, he was in way over his head, believing
that his grasp of game theory would win the day, vastly underestimating what he
was up against, a bit too taken with his dashing persona. He didn’t even show
up to vote when Tsipras demanded allegiance to his upcoming capitulation. 
Instead
he retired to his summer home. He may now have political ambitions, to the left
of Tsipras, but to the right of the left that has rejected austerity all along.
We shall see.

Louis has said that his interest in Syriza lies only in what lessons it can 
teach those in the US trying to build a radical party. What I would say is that 
what is needed is a radical re-conception of democracy, one that takes 
seriously the development, through both education and action, of the people's 
capacities to govern themselves. Meszaros and Michael Lebowitz have much to 
teach us about this.  


  
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[Marxism] last words on Greece

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Hear! Hear! Gary. I am afraid that Leo and Sam seem to be getting wronger on so 
many issues the older they get. Whatever happened to their mantra about 
building people's capacities, or at least trying to do so? Also, there is  lot 
of what we might call historical amnesia. Too many people say that all left 
projects have failed because they were doomed to fail. And this is because 
their adversaries were just too powerful. This is surely an incorrect method of 
analysis. Why were the Bolsheviks doomed to fail? Why was the restoration of 
capitalism in China inevitable? Why was Greece doomed to make the most awful 
capitulations to the troika? It seems that critics of what one man called the 
ultra-left, meaning not sectarians but all to the left of Syriza, look at 
everything after the fact, and say, well, no wonder they failed. Not because 
they failed to make a detailed and sophisticated of the forces at play and plan 
to find the best was to combat their enemy's power, but because, well, 
 their adversaries were just too damned powerful. As this same guy said, The 
fucking Germans, man. Best to give in and wait for a better day. Of course, 
the better day usually never comes, and we find ourselves facing the grave. But 
let one of us say that they failed to do what needed to be done, and we are 
accused of looking at things through technicolor glasses. Or told that we 
didn't read the polls taken to see what people thought at some point in time, 
never realizing that life is lived in a dynamic and ever-changing context, one 
in which politicls always comes into play.  

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Re: [Marxism] Greek Deal Prospects Slim as Crisis Talks Resume, Louis Proyect via Marxism,

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Louis, you say that the turn toward the market in Vietnam in the mid-1980s 
embraced an economic program similar to that of the Thieu-Ky government in 
power in the South at the end of the war. This seems pretty hyperbolic to me. 
What was the program of the last government in South Vietnam? Development 
through theft, corruption, and murder? Military Keynesianism? Growth through 
enforced urbanization? 
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Re: [Marxism] FW: [SocialistProject] Bullet: Requiem at an Empty Grave? Syriza's Momentous Day

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This piece by Leo Panitch offers some awfully convoluted reasoning to explain 
why what looks like a capitulation is really brilliant strategy. Perhaps Leo 
has had one too many years in academe, writing long and sometimes long-winded 
articles. No doubt I am biased, but can anything be more boring and 
brain-numbing than the writings of an academic political scientist. Well, maybe 
those of an academic economist. Too clever by half, as they say. Richard 
Seymour's piece on Lenin's Tomb is just a whole lot better, with 
straightforward arguments, clearly written. And let me add that there are 
plenty of Greek commentators, including pretty good economists, who would agree 
with Seymour's arguments. It isn't just the sectarian left saying these things. 
And as Marv Gandall argued, if there is no alternative, why ever do anything at 
all. Why have optimism of the will, why write anything, why care. Just live for 
yourself, today and every day. Yesterday, I read something that really floored 
me. So
 meone said, after wondering what Syriza's critics could have expected it to do 
in the face of such powerful adversaries: the fucking Germans, man. 
Unbelievable. What is the difference between this and saying, those fucking 
slaveowners, man. those fucking Nazis, man. that fucking Henry Ford, man. 
I don't have many years left, so what follows should be taken with that in 
mind. But if I were a Greek pensioner, trying to live and support others on a 
miserably low (and soon to be lower if Tsipras has his way) retirement income, 
I would be inclined to try to live by the words of Emiliano Zapata, Better to 
die on your feet than to live on your knees. 
It is remarkable, when one gets invested in something, how easy it is to make 
excuses, to turn shit into honey, to make apologies for anything, to even 
forget what one said just the week before.  
  
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[Marxism] What it's like to work at the Huffington Post

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This article isn't surprising. Huffington is a pig, and her enterprise runs 
like one overseen by a pig. Yet, people keep writing for her. OneRobert Naiman, 
who runs a liberal advocacy organization and is always posting some stupid 
thing or another explaining how, if we support progressive Democrats, utopia 
will sooner or later descend upon us, writes regularly. When writers a few 
years ago were urging a boycott, Naiman said labor stalwarts like Robert Reich 
weren't honoring the boycott, so this must have meant that the boycott efforts 
really were not legitimate and refusing to honor them was not the same as 
crossing a picket line.
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