[Marxism] The Markles versus the British Tabloids
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On this felicitous occasion we should not be tarnishing the Royal image by implying they can get by on a miserly purse of £ 100 k a month. Currently they rake in just over £ 3 million a month, tax free, levied as direct taxation from working people. Fortunately this breadline existence is topped up by a healthy £ 321 million p.a. income from the "Crown Estate" (assets that 'go with the job' e.g. farm rents, harbor moorings and fishery licences). That amount is rising rapidly. Profits are expected to rise to as much as £450 million by 2020. Lucrative new sources of money include offshore wind farm developers, who must pay the Crown Estate for the rights to the seabed around Britain's shoreline out to a distance of 12 miles. There are already 436 turbines around the 7,700-mile coastline and the number is expected to exceed 6,000 within a decade. The 'Royals' are smiling politely and waving condescendingly all the way to the bank. Where do you think the accounting term* royalties *came from? Richard Modiano _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] It Really Comes Down to Empowering the Working Class
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * In the whole history of electoral party socialism -- AKA "democratic socialism" -- this "eventually" (eventually ending private property) never happens. Universal rent control, though a worthwhile reform, historically reduces the value of the buildings but does not prevent the landlord from making a profit -- partly because they have political clout to limit the rent control. "A democratic socialist recognizes the capitalist system as being inherently oppressive, and is actively working to dismantle it and to empower the working class and the marginalized in our society. Socialists recognize that under capitalism, rich people are able — through private control of industry and of what should be public goods — to accumulate wealth by exploiting the working class and the underclass. Functionally, this perpetuates and exacerbates inequality. "A progressive will stop short at proposing reforms that help people but don’t necessarily transform the system. For example a progressive might advocate for forcing landlords to do necessary repairs on buildings. But unless you advocate for universal rent control and frankly, eventually, the abolition of private property — though that’s not my campaign platform because it’s not very realistic — what you’re actually doing is just kicking the can down the road." https://jacobinmag.com/2018/07/julia-salazar-interview-socialist-new-york-senate _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Set the Night on Fire Los Angeles in the 60s Review
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Much of this history is part of my memories. I started high school the year of the Watts Rebellion, and by 1968, although I was too young to vote, I was campaigning for local Peace & Freedom Party candidates. I highly recommend this book. Mike Davis and Jon Wiener's chronicle of Los Angeles in the 1960s, Set the Night on Fire, isn't just a stunning portrait of a city in upheaval half a century ago. It's a history of uprisings for civil rights, against poverty, and for a better world that speaks directly to our current moment of mass protest. https://jacobinmag.com/2020/06/set-night-on-fire-los-angeles-mike-davis-jon-wiener-lapd _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The Cosmonaut team inaugurates the ecology series by discussing John Bellamy Foster’s seminal book *Marx’s Ecology* on its twentieth anniversary. Join Niko, Ian, Matthew, and Remi as they discuss the context of this work, and how it started a rediscovery of Marx’s ecological politics. They discuss how ecology informed Marx’s understanding of the world since his doctoral thesis, the relationship between Marx, Darwin, and Malthus and the concept of metabolic rift. https://cosmonaut.blog/2020/07/08/marxs-ecology-materialism-and-nature/ Richard Modiano _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The Naked Mask of Anarchy
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Mike Leigh has made a film about the incident that inspired Shelley's great poem. Let's hope that it's as good as THE YOUNG KARL MARX and LOU ANDREAS -SALOME, the other historical films about radical politics that were released this year. http://www.vulture.com/2018/07/peterloo-trailer-mike-leigh-recreates-the-1819-massacre.html Richard Modiano _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Mega-DNC Funder Goes to War With Wobbly Canvassers
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[Marxism] Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * " When women enjoy their own sources of income, and the state guarantees social security in old age, illness, and disability, women have no economic reason to stay in abusive, unfulfilling, or otherwise unhealthy relationships. In countries such as Poland, Hungary Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and East Germany, women’s economic independence translated into a culture in which personal relationships could be freed from market influences. Women didn’t have to marry for money" https://portside.org/2018-12-01/no-scrubs?fbclid=IwAR3pwtoQVp0XKR2wNG_MF2t89bcRuS1OjUpaOSMHSk-t6Nufu4_ys1S-MOE _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Russia: the nature of the Putin regime
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * What Putin sees today as a tool to suppress a potential movement of the working class is not the [far right] National Liberation Movement (NLM), but the National Guard (Rosguard) [an internal military force that reports directly to the President due to his powers as Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Security Council]. His regime is more similar to that of von Schleicher than a fascist one. The mass movement of the working class has not yet raised the issue of power, and Putin can still fully rely on the machinery of the bourgeois state. https://www.marxist.com/russia-the-nature-of-the-putin-regime.htm _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Capitalism Has Its Limits
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Judith Butler: The failure of some states or regions to prepare in advance (the US is now perhaps the most notorious member of that club), the bolstering of national policies and the closing of borders (often accompanied by panicked xenophobia), and the arrival of entrepreneurs eager to capitalize on global suffering, all testify to the rapidity with which radical inequality, which includes nationalism, white supremacy, violence against women, queer, and trans people, and capitalist exploitation find ways to reproduce and strengthen their powers within the pandemic zones. https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4603-capitalism-has-its-limits Richard Modiano _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Trump, neo-fascism, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * -- We are still in the early stages of the pandemic. Yet, what we are seeing in the United States is a class-based phenomenon of “social murder,” as Frederick Engels called it in *The Condition of the Working Class in England*, where the deaths of what are now called “essential workers” are seen as necessary for the further promotion of the economy. The body count will pile up. -- https://mronline.org/2020/04/11/trump-neo-fascism-and-the-covid-19-pandemic/ Richard Modiano _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of Covid-19
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The economic effects are now spiraling out of control both within China and beyond. The disruptions working through the value chains of corporations and in certain sectors turnd out to be more systemic and substantial than was originally thought. The long-term effect may be to shorten or diversify the supply chains while moving towards less labour intensive forms of production (with enormous implications for employment) and greater reliance on artificial intelligent production systems. The disruption of production chains entails laying off or furloughing workers, which diminishes final demand, while the demand for raw materials diminishes productive consumption. These impacts on the demand side would in their own right have produced at least a mild recession. ~ David Harvey https://www.democracyatwork.info/anti_capitalist_politics_in_the_time_of_covid_19_essay_by_dh _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The Democrats Are Worthless Howie Hawkins
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I think the problem in this country is that since 1936 the Popular Front, when the Communists went into a coalition with the liberal bourgeoisie against the fascists, has been the dominant policy on the Left. However, since 1848 the traditional principle of socialist politics was class independence from the capitalists. The so-called “socialists” in this country have forgotten that. They don’t know that they’re continuing the Popular Front because they don’t study history. And when you’re in a Popular Front with the Democrats, you are the junior partner: they set the agenda, and you go out and knock on doors or make phone calls. You’re not a Left anymore; you’re just grunt workers for the corporate liberals and neoliberals. Howie Hawkins https://platypus1917.org/2020/05/01/the-democrats-are-worthless-an-interview-with-howie-hawkins/ Richard Modiano _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The American Working Class on Unfamiliar and Dangerous Terrain
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The working class in the United States faces tremendous difficulties, but there are some hopeful signs of movement in workplaces and unions, in communities, and on the left. As this article was being edited, the national uprising against the police murder of George Floyd spread across the country, complicating in ways that remain uncertain both the coronavirus and the planned reopening of the country intended to end the depression. Clearly, however, all of these events taken together suggest that we are entering a new era in the struggle for democracy and socialism. https://newpol.org/the-american-working-class-on-unfamiliar-and-dangerous-terrain-a-fightback-begins/ Richard Modiano _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Antifa
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Based on my experiences here in Los Angeles, the people who identify themselves as antifa are largely under 30, mostly Latinx, and are not organized along any lines that I can see. Their sentiments are anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist and anti-cop. I have the impression that many people who are part of Cop Watch join antifa groups at demonstrations. It seems that antifa in the US is is hard to grasp as of now, so I personally would not hazard any generalizations. Richard Modiano _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Gone With the Wind
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * "[GWTW] like statues and monuments klan outfittings and speeches--belongs with those brethren in a museum. And alongside these mementos explanations and criticisms giving these their proper contexts. In this case that museum's name is TCM. " I concur comrade. Putting the movie in context is entirely reasonable and in no way is a form of censorship. At the time of the movie's release in 1939 a minority of critics took it to task for its historical fallacies and its generic racism, but mainstream critics and movie goers overlooked those historical distortions, something that is no longer possible today. Richard Modiano _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Is a Revolutionary Rupture With Capitalism Possible?
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * This piece is another reply to Vivek Chibber's "Our Road to Power" and to the line advanced by Bread & Roses caucus in DSA. https://newpol.org/issue_post/is-a-revolutionary-rupture-with-capitalism-possible/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Polish Parliament Votes to Criminalize Communist Ideas
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The Polish Lower House of Parliament (Sejm) passed the bill updating the Penal Code, changing the wording of Article 256 – which now includes a prohibition on propagandizing communist ideas. This is now punishable by prison. https://www.marxist.com/polish-parliament-votes-to-criminalise-communist-ideas-defend-democratic-rights.htm _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Quentin Tarantino, Eileen Jones, and the perils of film school theorizing | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * >From my experience this is an accurate take. I went to graduate school at NYU in the 1970s working on an M.A. in Cinema Studies. What I experienced was the actual movies being used as grist for the theoretical mills. The kind of political film criticism that was clear, jargon free and useful to me were pieces like Brecht's review of "Gunga Din" (1939) (reprinted in Brecht on Theater.) Richard Modiano _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Quentin Tarantino, Eileen Jones, and the perils of film school theorizing | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * At NYU there was a Dept. of Cinema Studies and a Dept. of Film & Television Production. By the mid-70s the theorizing of Screen magazine was taking center stage, and much of that theorizing was informed by linguistic models derived from Sassure, psychological interpretations from Lacan, structuralism, etc, and the jargon was the "suture"," le petit object a", the "gaze", etc., very different from substituting intellectual montage for Hollywood montage. I remember the enthusiasm for Noel Burch's article classifying Hollywood movies according to their formal challenges to the dominant ideology, where violation of the Hollywood representational codes constituted a critique. The other big article was Stephen Heath's piece on Touch of Evil in Screen. My point is that the movies were used as examples to prove the theoru rather than as investigative tools for understanding the movie. Richard Modiano On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 8:11 AM Jeffrey Masko wrote: > Good and bad news here, the bad news is as an academic subject, we do use > jargon - such as "intellectual montage" instead of "Hollywood montage" - > comes from theory, so yes jargon can still be used to mystify positions > taken on interpretation. One the other hand, we are a long way away from > the 70s; film study in no longer a humanities based project, but more > fruitfully finds its home in communication studies, especially mass comm, > among others. One of my mentors, Bill Nichols had read ALL film criticism > while at UCLA in the early 70s; now one could not read all of the > literature coming out in any given quarter, so quite a bit more going on > now than in the 70s. To me this is not a question of using theory, but > which ones and to what extent and purpose. > > > _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] European Parliament’s anti-communist resolution draws widespread criticism
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * A number of communist parties, as well as progressive sections in Europe, have condemned a controversial resolution passed by the European Parliament on September 19. The resolution was tabled by the center-right European People’s Party group (EPP Group). While emphasizing the importance of “remembrance” for the future of Europe, the resolution goes so far as to equate communism with Nazism. It also calls for the erasure all memorials of “totalitarianism” across Europe, including memorials dedicated to the Red Army. https://mronline.org/2019/09/30/european-parliaments-anti-communist-resolution-draws-widespread-criticism/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] IWW Istanbul Statement on the Turkish Invasion
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * We call on all workers — workers who are exploited under this system, workers who have become increasingly impoverished and who are being sent to die — not to join this war, but to unite against it. At a time when war is taking place in Syria, war which has no purpose other than death, destruction, and poverty, the AKP government launched a mission of occupation that will only further increase chaos. Like the previous occupation of Afrin, this operation shows that neither Russia, the US, nor other imperialist powers care about the Kurdish people. https://industrialworker.iww.org/?p=808 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Jairus Banaji on Artur Rimbaud
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Rimbaud was indeed in Paris at the time of the Commune and was also a participant. The defeat of the Commune was part of the reason he stopped writing poetry. Richard Modiano _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] It’s Their Ballot Line: Socialism and Elections
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * What do “Class Struggle Elections” look like? Can they be carried out inside the Democratic Party? Or do they require independence from all parties of the bourgeoisie? https://www.leftvoice.org/its-their-ballot-line-socialism-and-elections Richard Modiano _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Flirting With Liberals
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * "Social democrats throughout history have, as a result of similar class politics, been quick to collaborate with the bourgeoisie on programs destructive to the lowest productive class, the proletariat. Harold Wilson deployed troops to Northern Ireland; Mitterrand took up an 'austerity turn;' SYRIZA immediately capitulated to the central bankers; Ebert and the SPD helped the Freikorps kill Luxemburg and Liebknecht. The examples could, tragically, go for days. Communists like those in DSA Refoundation or the DSA Communist Caucus - who may be consolidating at some point - should not ignore this history. DSA entry advocates should instead explain whether they believe DSA has a proletarian class character, and if so where the break with historical social democracy has occurred, particularly in light of their commitment to the Democratic Party. If they accept that it is not proletarian, they should answer how they expect to overturn its class basis without destroying the organization altogether." www.hamptoninstitution.org/critical-examination-of-dsa.html? _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Ecosocialism & Just Transition
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Climate change requires major societal change. But how do we ensure this transformation is done in a fair and just manner? John Bellamy Foster—a renowned environmental sociologist and editor of Monthly Review—takes a look at the idea of the Just Transition, arguing that any strategy to save the planet must go beyond the strictures of capitalism. http://www.rebelnews.ie/2019/06/21/3287/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] (no subject)
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * M.E. O'Brien on insurgent queer and trans communism: "Recent years have also seen a blossoming in the smaller worlds of queer communist and socialist politics. Though the scale of US gay rights organizing has atrophied since the victory of the gay marriage campaign, efforts to organize trans and queer people explicitly against capitalism, to think queer freedom alongside communism, are at their most vibrant since the gay liberation era of the early 1970s. Communism has inspired growing numbers of young working-class trans people raised on vicious austerity and chronic underemployment, on the one hand, and Tumblr social justice and meme politics, on the other. New forthcoming journals seek to engage queer communist theory: Invert in the UK, Pinko in the US." https://communemag.com/fifty-years-of-queer-insurgency/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Supporting dictators is not anti-imperialism
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * “The peaceful democratic revolution of 2011 sparked off by the Arab uprisings later became militarised in response to the brutal repression carried out by the state. Syria typifies the moral and political degeneration of pseudo-anti-imperialists who support, or fail to oppose, the genocidal crushing of a democratic uprising by a totalitarian state allied with Iranian and Russian imperialism.” https://roarmag.org/essays/supporting-dictators-is-not-anti-imperialism/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Grand Hotel Abyss.
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I was I high school student when Marcuse came under attack from California's ultra reactionary Superintendent of Education Max Rafferty. Rafferty wanted him fired from the faculty of UC San Diego, and since Rafferty was anathema in my house Marcuse was probably one of the good guys. Richard Modiano _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com