[Marxism] Europe blunders towards new recession

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For 48 hours, it looked as if Thursday, October 16, 2014 might join similar
October Thursdays in 1907, 1929 and 1979 as another dramatic moment when
sharemarket panic triggered economic downturn.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57620

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[Marxism] Britain: Left Unity leader on creating a new party for the left

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Left Unity is a new political group in Britain created out of a call last
year by filmmaker Ken Loach for a new party to the left of Labour, which
has moved rightwards in recent years and supports anti-worker austerity
measures. The call was supported by thousands of people and Left Unity held
its founding conference in November last year.

*Green Left Weekly*'s *Denis Rogatyuk* spoke with Left Unity's national
secretary *Kate Hudson*, a veteran campaigner who is also general secretary
of the campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57619

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[Marxism] Japanese government refusing to face up to the crime of "comfort women" in WW 2

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[Marxism] Bolivia: Morales’ win shows depth of change

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Predictions by pollsters and commentators that Evo Morales would easily win
Bolivia’s October 12 presidential elections were confirmed when he obtained
more than 60% of the vote.

Most, however, differ over why, after almost a decade in power, Morales’
Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) continues to command such a huge level of
support.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Vote Working Families Party to Pressure Andrew Cuomo | The Nation

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If I hadn't cancelled my subscription to this rancid magazine 15 years 
ago, this would have made me do so now.


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[Marxism] Venezuela: Thousands of youth march against right-wing terror

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Thousands of Venezuelan youth and supporters of the United Socialist Party
of Venezuela (PSUV) government took part in a march on October 18 against
terrorism and for peace.

The youth march was organised in response to the assassination of Robert
Serra, a 27-year-old PSUV parliamentarian and Chavista. Serra was murdered
along with his partner Maria Herrera in their home on October 1.
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[Marxism] Hold the applause for Canadian journalism's supposedly "sober" coverage of last week's events

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Andrew Mitrovica lays bare the sentimental patriotic claptrap served up by 
Canada’s politicians and mainstream media in the wake of the two isolated 
“terrorist” incidents last week.

http://www.ipolitics.ca/2014/10/26/never-let-the-facts-get-in-the-way-of-a-good-cronkite-moment/


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[Marxism] Glenn Greenwald on Canada: War and occupation makes violence more likely

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A deranged gunman, Michael Zehab-Bibeau, shot dead a soldier at the
Canadian war memorial in Ottawa before being shot dead while trying to
storm parliament on October 22. The motive for the actions, if there was a
clear one, remains unknown.

The attack came two days after two Canadian soldiers were hit by a car in
Quebec. The car was driven by Martin Couture-Rouleau, a 25-year-old
Canadian who had recently converted to Islam. One of the soldiers died, as
did Couture-Rouleau when he was shot by police upon apprehension after
allegedly brandishing a large knife.
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[Marxism] Roughly 25 students, community members protest NYU forum featuring NYPD’s Ray Kelly, fmr AG Michael Mukasey, screening Zero Dark Thirty

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Roughly 25 students, community members protest NYU forum featuring NYPD’s
Ray Kelly, fmr AG Michael Mukasey, screening Zero Dark Thirty
http://antifolcs.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/roughly-25-students-community-members-protest-nyu-forum-featuring-nypds-ray-kelly-fmr-ag-michael-mukasey-screening-zero-dark-thirty/

Roughly 25 students and community members assembled outside NYU Law to
demonstrate against NYU Law’s affiliation with the Forum on Law, Culture,
and Society, as it invited former NYPD police commissioner Ray Kelly and
former attorney General Michael Mukasey to screen CIA-vetted

 film* Zero Dark Thirty*, widely interpreted as promoting torture

.

Holding signs and chanting, the group demonstrated against NYU Law’s
affiliation with the forum. Two demonstrators donned orange jumpsuits
simulating the garb worn by prisoners and torture victims at Guantanamo Bay
while holding a sign emblazoned “NYU Students Stand against Torture”.

[image: IMG_6775]


The group passed out informational flyers to guests to the forum event.
Community journalists were present to document the rally.

Ray Kelly spent several years engaging in
warrantless spying of Muslim students

and
communities around the East Coast — including Muslim students at NYU. Kelly
is also responsible for the “Stop & Frisk”
 program,
rife with racial discrimination and widely condemned as means of harassing
people of color in New York. Despite Kelly’s history of mistreating NYU
community members, NYU Law is nonetheless placing its stamp of approval on
his visit through its affiliation with the Forum.

The Forum will also brought former US attorney general Michael Mukasey, who
defended Bush administration officials from being held accountable
for potential war crimes , namely
torture .

*Zero Dark Thirty*, produced in close consultation with the CIA
,
presents the audience with a stream of demeaning caricatures of Muslims
while alleging — falsely

—
that torture was necessary and justified to capture Osama Bin Laden. It is
difficult to see how having individuals complicit in torture and
warrantless spying that reached NYU itself deserve such a warm welcome as
they screen thinly-veiled government propaganda.

[image: IMG_6777]
The Forum was
enthusiastically embraced

by
NYU Law Dean Trevor Morrison this summer. Its director and host of
Wednesday’s event, Thane Rosenbaum, opined during Israel’s indiscriminate
bombardment of Gaza last summer that virtually all Palestinian civilians
forfeited their “right[s] to be called civilians” due to how some voted in
a 2006 election. As a slew of critics noted, Mr. Rosenbaum’s commentary
mimicked terrorist propaganda

designed
to justify massacring innocent people — including Americans and Israelis.

The Forum also separately hosted anti-Muslim bigot Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who has
called Islam a “nihilistic cult of death” and has called for the US
constitution to be amended to exclude Muslims from legal rights.

A coalition of student and community groups called for this protest as part
of a growing campaign to get NYU Law to reassess its relationship with the
Forum. The coalition has also called on all individuals and
organizations concerned to sign their open letter

.

*Coverage from Press TV:**
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/10/26/383674/nyu-students-protest-antiislamic-forum/
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https://www.facebook.com/events/555481251251132/

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[Marxism] Fwd: Stanford historian aims to dispel Western misconceptions about The Arab Spring | Stanford Humanities

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[Marxism] An Introduction to the Asian Development Model for Accountants, Lawyers and other ne'er do wells.

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The aim of this paper is to give readers examining emerging economies 
from an accounting, marketing, finance, legal or similar background an 
introduction to the Asian Development Model.


John Passant, An Introduction to the Asian Development Model for 
Accountants, Lawyers and Other Ne'er Do Wells (October 26, 2014). 
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Fuck Jared Diamond | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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“@LouisProyect1: Fuck Jared Diamond wp.me/pvb5-2Zv”. MUST READ. I 
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Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] Concerning Luxemburg

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Danke Hinrich!

And a Berlin conference in March that stressed the relationship of 
capitalist to non-capitalist zones as the lynchpin in her sense of 
imperialist accumulation is here:  http://kapacc.blog.rosalux.de/ (see 
especially keynoter Nancy Fraser on the inside/outside dynamic)
(and with a view from South Africa: 
http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/default.asp?11,65,3,3143 )


Tschuess,
Patrick
On 2014/10/26 12:11 AM, Hinrich Kuhls wrote:
Some recent articles that might help answer your questions: 


Michael R. Kraetke: The Luxemburg Debate - The Beginnings of Marxian 
Macro-Economics 
http://kapacc.blog.rosalux.de/files/2014/03/Luxemburg-debate.pdf Ingo 
Schmidt discusses the relevance of Rosa Luxemburg's Accumulation of 
Capital http://www.socialistsolidarity.ca/luxemburg.html Ingo Schmidt 
Rosa Luxemburg’s Accumulation of Capital New Perspectives on 
Capitalist Development and American Hegemony 
http://www.socialiststudies.com/index.php/sss/article/viewFile/148/143 
id. Updating Rosa Luxemburg: Capital Accumulation and the 20th Century 
Detour of Statist Socialism 
http://kapacc.blog.rosalux.de/files/2014/02/1475750937.0.not.pdf id. 
Rosa Luxemburg’s Accumulation of Capital - A Centennial Update with 
Additions from Long Wave Theory and Karl Polanyi's Great 
Transformation 
http://www.linkezeitung.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16536:rosa-luxemburgs-accumulation-of-capital-a-centennial-update-with-additions-from-long-wave-theory-and-karl-polanyis-great-transformation&catid=105&Itemid=130 
id. Rosa Luxemburg: Economics for a New Socialist Project 
http://newpol.org/content/rosa-luxemburg-economics-%E2%80%A8for-new-socialist-project 
Schmidt, Ingo (Ed.) (2013): Rosa Luxemburgs "Akkumulation des 
Kapitals". Die Aktualität von ökonomischer Theorie, 
Imperialismuserklärung und Klassenanalyse. Introduction: 
http://www.vsa-verlag.de/uploads/media/www.vsa-verlag.de-Schmidt-Luxemburgs-Akkumulation-des-Kapitals.pdf 
Riccardo Bellofiore "Like a candle burning at both ends": Rosa 
Luxemburg and the critique of political economy - 
http://libcom.org/library/candle-burning-both-ends-rosa-luxemburg-critique-political-economy 
Riccardo Bellofiore and Marco Passarella Finance and the realization 
problem in Rosa Luxemburg: a ‘circuitist’ reappraisal - 
http://libcom.org/library/finance-realization-problem-rosa-luxemburg-%E2%80%98circuitist%E2%80%99-reappraisal-riccardo-bellfiore-m 
Rosa Luxemburg and the Critique of Political Economy Edited by 
Riccardo Bellofiore (2009) Contents: 
http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/518657876.pdf 
http://books.google.de/books?id=wrh8AgAAQBAJ&dq=Riccardo+Bellofiore+luxemburg+accumulation 
Paul Le Blanc Rosa Luxemburg and the Global Violence of Capitalism 
http://www.socialiststudies.com/index.php/sss/article/viewFile/165/145 
Paul Le Blanc Lenin and Luxemburg through each other’s eyes 
http://links.org.au/node/3174 Michael Löwy Western Imperialism Against 
Primitive Communism A new reading of Rosa Luxemburg’s economic 
writings 
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.internationale-rosa-luxemburg-gesellschaft.de/Downloads/Lowy%2520Rosalux%2520Imperialism%2520%28Moscow%25202011%29.doc 
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Bolshevik Who Thinks 'The Nation' Is Too Left Wing - The Daily Beast

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At 13:12 26-10-14 -0500, Tristan Sloughter via Marxism wrote:
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>Maybe I can't read... but where does he say The Nation is too left wing?

No, he doesn't at all. He (correctly) decries the tendency of leftists and
the Nation magazine to lend support to Putin, even though "he is a reader
of The Nation and often agrees with its articles." It was the editor of the
Daily Beast who ignorantly labelled that position as "left wing." And of
course Louis is also right by saying that he's not quite a "bolshevik"
either (nor does he claim to be). But I guess you can give him credit as an
ex-CP'er who still has some left wing views and doesn't translate those
into supporting Russian nationalism. Being a minority of one in the Duma, I
imagine you can probably count his chance of turning anything around in
Russia (if he can even get back there) as just about zero.

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Re: [Marxism] Hard-boiled dectives: Dashiell Hammet

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On Oct 26, 2014, at 1:57 PM, Anthony Boynton via Marxism wrote:


​The early hard-boled deteective fiction of the 1920's...  Tony  
Hillerman...


By what stretch can anyone come up with a resemblance between Joe  
Leaphorn and the semi-criminal White detectives of the Hammets and  
Chandlers?




Shane Mage

"L'après-vie, c'est une auberge espagnole. L'on n'y trouve que ce  
qu'on a apporté."


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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Bolshevik Who Thinks 'The Nation' Is Too Left Wing - The Daily Beast

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Maybe I can't read... but where does he say The Nation is too left wing?


More likely that the Daily Beast editors can't write.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Fuck Jared Diamond | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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The title of this article is the unexpurgated version of one that 
appeared in a recent issue of “Capitalism, Nature and Socialism”: “F**K 
Jared Diamond”. I only hope that the author of the article, who is 
referenced in the same Guardian article as me, is a tenured professor 
since even the expurgated version of the title certainly risked 
violating the new “civility” code spreading across academia like a 
metastasized tumor and might lead to his Salaitazation.


Titled “Jared Diamond: ‘150,000 years ago, humans wouldn’t figure on a 
list of the five most interesting species on Earth’”, it at least has 
the merit of confronting the UCLA celebrity professor with some of the 
criticisms that have been mounted against his work, including mine. The 
subtitle makes that clear: “The bestselling biogeographer talks to 
Oliver Burkeman about dealing with the critics who condemn him as a 
cultural imperialist.”


full: http://louisproyect.org/2014/10/26/fuck-jared-diamond/
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Maybe I can't read... but where does he say The Nation is too left wing?
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[Marxism] Hard-boiled dectives: Dashiell Hammet

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​The early hard-boled deteective fiction of the 1920's had a strong left
lean to epitomized by the work of Dashiell Hammet. Raymond Chandler edged
the genre to the right where it mostly stayed until writers like Chester
Himes, Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky, and Tony Hillerman pushed it back a
little int he other direction. The genre contains all kinds of political
perspectives now. It seems to reflect the direction of class struggle as it
was a decade before the writers publish. Anthony
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Bolshevik Who Thinks 'The Nation' Is Too Left Wing - The Daily Beast

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Not really a Bolshevik, but whatever...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/26/the-bolshevik-who-thinks-the-nation-is-too-left-wing.html?via=desktop&source=facebook
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Re: [Marxism] The ideological struggle underlying aid to Kobani

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I have access too. Does Toronto's Globe and Mail somehow only put 
Canadians, or Canadians like Richard who are in their subscriber area 
behind their paywall? "CSIS classification" -  the Canadian Security 
Intelligence Service has an interesting background, involving 
malfeasance by the RCMP, and what appear to be window dressing attempts 
to make it credible and accountable. I gather that by now it has the 
same function as the US NSA, and CIA. Or soon will, more formally, 
although originally ostensibly only applicable to foreign "terrorists." 
All interesting to me because of the recent attack on the parliament 
building by a domestic "terrorist" and the soul-searching about 
reassessing security, the "balance between security and openness," the 
talk about "doing this the Canadian way," and the likely application of 
the shock doctrine.


Marv Gandall wrote

On Oct 26, 2014, at 11:20 AM, Richard Fidler  wrote:

> Marv, this article is behind a paywall. Could you supply the text?

That's strange. I don't have a sub either, but it came up for me. You 
must have a higher-rated CSIS classification.


Turkey's real Kurdish problem
By Adnan Khan
The Globe and Mail
October 22 2014

Adnan Khan is a writer and photographer who lives in Istanbul and Islamabad.

There was little joy among Turkey's Kurds when U.S. warplanes started 
dropping bombs on the Islamic State in Syria. Their reaction was 
surprising to say the least: For weeks, Kurds had been protesting in 
Istanbul and in Turkey's predominantly Kurdish southeast against the 
lack of support their fellow Kurds were receiving in Kobani, the 
besieged city just across the border in Syria.


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Re: [Marxism] The ideological struggle underlying aid to Kobani

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it worked for me; are you sure you're using the whole  
URL?http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/turkeys-real-kurdish-problem/article21199739/

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Marv, this article is behind a paywall. Could you supply the text?

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Ideological differences are the foremost reason why Turkey, Barzani's
Kurdish Regional Government, and the US favour the dispatch of "vetted"
Iraqi Kurdish and Free Syrian Army forces to relieve the siege of Kobani,
rather than simply opening the border to allow neighbouring PKK fighters
from the Kurdish region in Turkey to reinforce their leftist compatriots on
the Syrian side.  

"According to the prevailing narrative, the Kurdish desire for ethnic and
cultural self-determination has been reawakened by events in Syria. But this
is oversimplification. The escalating conflict has more to do with political
ideology - a radical socialism at odds with Turkey's burgeoning capitalist
project and the Islamist-rooted government leading it."

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[Marxism] Globalization

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Carrol asked some serious questions about historical changes in capitalist
accumulation and whether Luxemburg's book on accumulation is still worth reading
as a starting point for analysing current developments in global capitalism.

As far as Luxemburg is concerned, I've posted some links to articles that
highlight some aspects of this topic.

As far as globalization and changes in accumulation are concerned, it's indeed a
very debatable point, whether there are major changes in accumulation and if
yes, what has caused these changes. To argue capitalism has become "more global"
doesn't help - you still have to explain the new quality of globalization.

Anthony's sketch of the problem could be extended as follows:

"The comparison of the patterns of international investment in two eras of
financial globalization has yielded more differences than similarities. In both
periods, capital was highly mobile and little formal barriers impeded its global
allocation. Yet, the overall patterns of global investment differed markedly.
Several conclusions can be drawn.

First, a secular increase in international financial integration has taken place
in the course of the 20th century. Relative to world output, cross-border
investments are considerably larger today than ever before. Yet, this increase
has not been transmitted to developing countries. A long-term historical
perspective on global investment patterns shows a relative disintegration of
developing economies. So far, only mutual investments between rich countries
have increased dramatically, rich–poor capital flows remain far below historical
levels. In 1913, British investors had placed less of their foreign investments
in France and Germany combined than in a country like Uruguay. Today, British
investments in France are larger than all British emerging markets investments
together.

Second, already a hundred years ago, investors found it more attractive to
invest in rich economies than in poor countries. Nonetheless, different forces
seem to be at work in both eras: back then, the wealth level of an economy was a
much weaker predictor for the amount of capital inflows than today.

Third, global financial liberalization in the 1990s has not triggered
large-scale net capital transfers from rich to poor. Current account balances
have remained more or less flat. If we decide to trust the historical investment
and balance of payments data, the core advanced nations had built up enormous
one-way positions in their investment books before WW1. This could be one key
reason why recent research has found evidence of a positive impact of
international financial integration on economic growth before 1914 (Schularick
and Steger, 2006). Such large bets on the development of the poorer half of the
world are absent from rich countries’ investment books today.

Financial globalization is back, but with a very different face. The patterns of
international investment in both ‘globalizations’ suggest that (looking at the
hopes that were associated with the integration of poor countries into the
global capital market} the glass is half-empty rather than half-full. The
historical lesson that emerges from the comparison is that financial
globalization can be and has been a benign force for development. However, the
contemporary world economy has a long way to go to capture the potential
benefits of international financial integration. These findings call for a
better understanding of the circumstances under which large-scale development
finance became possible in the first era of financial globalization. Financial
history might have more important lessons to teach." (p. 351)

Schularick, Moritz (2006): A tale of two ‘globalizations’: capital flows from
rich to poor in two eras of global finance. In: Int. J. Fin. Econ. 11 (4), S.
339–354. DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.302
http://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/faculty/economics/persons/schularick/schularick_tale_of_two.pdf

The new quality of the second globalization process is also subject of a 
recently
published study on "Finance Driven Capitalism":

"The new quality of financial markets, which was formed within the
liberalization of capital movements in the 1970s, is central to the second
globalization process.

When the financial and monetary regime of the post-war period had finally been
destroyed, political actors did not agree on a new regulatory model, but started
a political process of deregulating and unleashing the capitalist accumulation
and reproduction regime. 'These changes dismantled the historically unique
reform constellation that had been established after World War Two due to the
pressure by the compe

Re: [Marxism] The ideological struggle underlying aid to Kobani

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On Oct 26, 2014, at 11:20 AM, Richard Fidler  wrote:

> Marv, this article is behind a paywall. Could you supply the text?


That’s strange. I don’t have a sub either, but it came up for me. You must have 
a higher-rated CSIS classification.



Turkey’s real Kurdish problem
By Adnan Khan
The Globe and Mail
October 22 2014

Adnan Khan is a writer and photographer who lives in Istanbul and Islamabad.

There was little joy among Turkey’s Kurds when U.S. warplanes started dropping 
bombs on the Islamic State in Syria. Their reaction was surprising to say the 
least: For weeks, Kurds had been protesting in Istanbul and in Turkey’s 
predominantly Kurdish southeast against the lack of support their fellow Kurds 
were receiving in Kobani, the besieged city just across the border in Syria.

Kobani was surrounded on three sides, with the only safe route in or out being 
north to Turkey. But the Turkish army had sealed the border. The city’s 
defenders, a local Syrian Kurdish militia, the armed wing of the Democratic 
Union Party, begged for international assistance. When U.S. bombings and supply 
drops finally helped push back the Islamic State’s advance, the Kurds were 
saved from a likely massacre.

The intervention should have sparked celebration, but the protests continued, 
with Kurds lashing out at the Islamic State and condemning Turkey’s actions. 
More significantly, the protesters railed against the United States and its 
allies, including Canada, denouncing Western imperialism and capitalism.

The protesters were largely socialists, a virulent strain of whom remain 
widespread among Turkey’s Kurds. Their anger did not stem from ethnic 
nationalism but political ideology. A revolution is under way in Kobani, they 
say, and everyone – the West, the Islamic State, Arab countries, the Turkish 
government – is trying to suppress it.

Their version of events is worrying. Turkey experienced years of political 
violence after a peace process with its Kurdish minority collapsed in 1993. 
Radical leftists, mostly Kurds sympathetic to the banned Kurdistan Workers’ 
Party (the PKK), battled ultranationalist Turks and Islamists calling 
themselves the Turkish Hezbollah. The government of the day, heavily influenced 
by the military, was suspected of manipulating the Islamists and nationalists 
in an attempt to crush the PKK-led insurgency.

Those were dark days. Thousands of Kurds died and hundreds of thousands were 
displaced after the military razed as many as 3,000 southeastern villages 
suspected of supporting the PKK. “It was like a mob war,” says Tolga Baysal, an 
Istanbul filmmaker who lived through those times. “Hezbollah was kidnapping and 
assassinating suspected PKK members; the PKK was doing the same to Hezbollah.”

Now, history appears to be repeating itself. Another Kurdish peace process is 
on the verge of collapse. The Turkish Hezbollah is back, reinvigorated by what 
they view as an Islamic revival in Syria and Iraq, as well as the conservative 
proclivities of the current Turkish government. Kobani has re-energized 
Turkey’s radical left, inspired by the Democratic Union Party, which announced 
last September that it would be setting up the perfect socialist society in 
Kobani. Once again, the government is reaching out to ultra-nationalists to 
counter them.

According to the prevailing narrative, the Kurdish desire for ethnic and 
cultural self-determination has been reawakened by events in Syria. But this is 
oversimplification. The escalating conflict has more to do with political 
ideology – a radical socialism at odds with Turkey’s burgeoning capitalist 
project and the Islamist-rooted government leading it.

Indeed, Turkey’s governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) has made 
significant progress over the past decade in granting cultural rights to Kurds. 
A great deal of work remains to be done, but it’s no longer illegal to call 
oneself a Kurd or to refer to a space called Kurdistan. A limited number of 
Kurdish-language TV stations have been issued broadcasting licences and 
large-scale development projects in the southeast have improved Kurds’ economic 
lot.

But the Democratic Union Party and the PKK have a much wider agenda, which 
militants explained to me in 2006, when I visited their base in the Qandil 
mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan.

“The revolution begins with the people,” I was told. “This is what 
distinguishes our socialism from any other socialist movement: individual 
action. The people must take responsibility for their lives. Try to imagine it: 
Power emanating from the bottom up, from the people to the government 
administration in a way that reduces the po

Re: [Marxism] The ideological struggle underlying aid to Kobani

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Ideological differences are the foremost reason why Turkey, Barzani's
Kurdish Regional Government, and the US favour the dispatch of "vetted"
Iraqi Kurdish and Free Syrian Army forces to relieve the siege of Kobani,
rather than simply opening the border to allow neighbouring PKK fighters
from the Kurdish region in Turkey to reinforce their leftist compatriots on
the Syrian side.  

"According to the prevailing narrative, the Kurdish desire for ethnic and
cultural self-determination has been reawakened by events in Syria. But this
is oversimplification. The escalating conflict has more to do with political
ideology - a radical socialism at odds with Turkey's burgeoning capitalist
project and the Islamist-rooted government leading it."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/turkeys-real-kurdish-problem/art
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Ideological differences are the foremost reason why Turkey, Barzani’s Kurdish 
Regional Government, and the US favour the dispatch of “vetted” Iraqi Kurdish 
and Free Syrian Army forces to relieve the siege of Kobani, rather than simply 
opening the border to allow neighbouring PKK fighters from the Kurdish region 
in Turkey to reinforce their leftist compatriots on the Syrian side.  

"According to the prevailing narrative, the Kurdish desire for ethnic and 
cultural self-determination has been reawakened by events in Syria. But this is 
oversimplification. The escalating conflict has more to do with political 
ideology – a radical socialism at odds with Turkey’s burgeoning capitalist 
project and the Islamist-rooted government leading it.”

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