Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Addicting Info – Ferguson Prosecutor Discovered With Connection To Darren Wilson’s Defence Fundraiser

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BackStoppers has roundly denied any involvement in this, inadvertent or
otherwise:

http://on.fb.me/1ASHcXB

And the Addicting Info article seems rather dishonest. It's true that it's
"an organization used to fundraise for the men and women in uniform in both
Missouri and Illinois," but only dead ones, a rather crucial distinction in
this context.

And "within hours of a traumatic experience"? Yeah, as long as it's a death.

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism <
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:

In addition to his duties as the county prosecutor, Robert McCulloch is
> also the president of The Backstoppers, Inc., an organization used to
> fundraise for the men and women in uniform in both Missouri and Illinois.
> And, in August, his organization was affiliated with a t-shirt drive
> featuring a picture of Missouri and the statement “I SUPPORT OFFICER D.
> WILSON” which was set up to raise money for the Darren Wilson Defense Fund
> as well as The Backstoppers.
>
> full: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/11/25/prosecutor-
> fundraising-wilson/


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[Marxism] Fwd: Addicting Info – Ferguson Prosecutor Discovered With Connection To Darren Wilson’s Defence Fundraiser

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In addition to his duties as the county prosecutor, Robert McCulloch is 
also the president of The Backstoppers, Inc., an organization used to 
fundraise for the men and women in uniform in both Missouri and 
Illinois. And, in August, his organization was affiliated with a t-shirt 
drive featuring a picture of Missouri and the statement “I SUPPORT 
OFFICER D. WILSON” which was set up to raise money for the Darren Wilson 
Defense Fund as well as The Backstoppers.


full: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/11/25/prosecutor-fundraising-wilson/
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[Marxism] What's new at Links: NUMSA, COSATU & South Africa; Reds must be green; Rojava; Ebola; climate activism; GDR; Ukraine

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November 21, 2014 -- COSATU, posted at /Links International Journal of 
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[Marxism] Inside Hebron's heart of darkness

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: A prominent legal expert eviscerates the Darren Wilson prosecution, in 8 tweets - Vox

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cross-examination at a grand jury hearing? is that what she's saying? i'm no 
expert but isn't that part of the problem? that there is no cross-examination 
at a grand jury hearing? that because of the conflict of interest of the 
prosecutor a grand jury panel will never get a vigorous recommendation for 
indictment? what prosecutor will go after a policeman when he has to rely on 
the police every fucking day? 

but it seems to me there is a solution. that in all instances when indictment 
of a policeman is at issue there will be appointment of a special prosecutor, 
perhaps chosen by the community, who is outside the criminal justice system in 
the venue of jurisdiction. 

then we may see someone motivated to seek indictment. 

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[Marxism] Film Screening: On the Side of the Road | 12/3 6:30PM

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Date/Time: *Wednesday December 3, 2014 at 6:30 pm*
Location: *Kimmel Center Rosenthal Pavilion (10th Floor), 60 Washington
Square South New York, NY 10012*

When the government tries to silence a history, a light is shed on the
nation's biggest taboo. This is the story of those who fought to erase
Palestine and created an Israeli landscape of denial.

Join us on December 3rd at 6:30 pm for a screening of the acclaimed
documentary "*On the Side of the Road.*" The screening will be followed by
a discussion with the director, *Lia Tarachansky*. Refreshments provided!

*FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC WITH PHOTO ID. *

"On the Side of the Road" examines Israelis' collective amnesia about the
1948 *nakba *(catastrophe) when over 700,000 Palestinians were expelled
from their homes. Through interviews with Israeli war veterans and
descendants of Palestinian refugees of 1948, former West Bank settler Lia
Tarachansky unravels the ideology of denial perpetuated in Israel today.

Watch the Official Trailer here: http://vimeo.com/65278501

Lia Tarachansky is a USSR-born Israeli-Russian journalist and filmmaker
living in Canada. She is the Correspondent for the Real News Network in
Israel and Palestine, and her reporting has appeared in *Al Jazeera*, *USA
Today*, and *972 Magazine*. She is currently completing work on her second
feature documentary on African refugees in Israel.

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Co-Sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace - NY

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[Marxism] BDS: US, Israel, and the Struggle for Palestinian Rights | 12/1 8PM

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BDS: The US, Israel and the Struggle for Palestinian Rights

Sponsored by:
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Students for Justice in Palestine,
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the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies

Israel’s brutal attack on Gaza this summer, made possible with generous
U.S. military, political and diplomatic support, raises important questions
for American taxpayers.

Omar Barghouti, J. Kehaulani Kauanui and Corey Robin will discuss the
rising success of the Palestinian led Boycott Divestment and
Sanctions movement in the United States and in the American academy.


*Monday December 1st, 8 PMVanderbilt Hall 210 *
*(40 Washington Square South)*
*NYC*

Omar Barghouti, Palestinian human rights activist and co-founder of the BDS
movement.

J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Professor of American Studies at Wesleyan University
and Advisory Board Member of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural
Boycott of Israel.

Corey Robin, Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and the
CUNY Graduate Center.

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[Marxism] Way forward in New Zealand; part of a discussion

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On Tuesday, November 25, The Freedom Shop, an anarchist centre in
Wellington, held a meeting about the way forward for the activist left.  A
number of speakers were invited to give ten-minute presentations; below is
the presentation given by *Don Franks*

Kia ora kou tou.

Thanks for inviting me here this evening.

I appreciate the chance to participate in this discussion of how the
activist left might make progress. Discussion of political ideas is
something the New Zealand left hasn’t done very well.

We’ve spent more time discussing other things. Such as how we can get this
or that “good” person elected to some position. Or how we might
achieve mainstream media coverage of a political stunt.

We kiwi leftists are practical down to earth people, aren’t we? We like to
get on with the job, do something real, get something going now, not
later.  We care, we want to stop the drilling, feed the kids, not wank off
over an economic textbook.

So, political study for long-term strategising is something we do, if at
all, after completing our other supposedly more relevant duties.
That’s how it’s mostly been in the sections of the socialist. . .

full at:
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[Marxism] Fwd: A prominent legal expert eviscerates the Darren Wilson prosecution, in 8 tweets - Vox

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[Marxism] Fwd: CNN's Don Lemon Blames ‘Bloggers’ for Causing Commotion in Ferguson | Mediaite

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Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] NYRB review of Naomi Klein

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On Nov 25, 2014, at 3:12 AM, Joseph Green  wrote:

> Some capitalists already produce corn ethanol or palm oil as biofuels. Far 
> from denying this, I have pointed it out repeatedly in this discussion and in 
> articles. And this is an example of capitalists moving to a fuel which is not 
> directly a fossil fuel. Yet it ended up having a destructive effect. 
> 
> I have also discussed Kyoto and why it failed, and Kyoto is an example of 
> bourgeois enviornmentalism.
> 
> Capitalist firms may be required to produce in environmentally-safe ways. 
> This will involve a constant conflict between the logic of market forces and 
> the regulations imposed on them. If things are left to market forces, then 
> progress will be too slow to prevent disaster, and will be constantly 
> interrupted by fiascos such as the repeated fiascos with biofuels.
> 
> Capitalist economies have changed from one form of energy to another. But the 
> changes in the past have never brought in the type overall environmental 
> planning that is now needed to avoid environmental catastrophe. And to 
> describe the change from one form of energy to another as a change to a 
> "superior" form, begs the question of what type of "superiority" one is 
> referring to. 

I agree that efficient energy is not necessarily cleaner energy. But in this 
case, solar, wind, and tidal power are also cleaner. It seems to me the issue 
is whether these new forms of energy become more cost-effective (taking into 
account also the cost of increasingly disruptive climate events on production) 
so as to lead to their widespread adoption by capitalists in sufficient time to 
avoid “environmental catastrophe”. I would say this is at least as likely (or 
unlikely) as the overturn of the existing social system. There’s always been a 
fear on the far left that to acknowledge the possible self-reform of the system 
- which has surprised Marxists and other anticapitalists predicting 
capitalism’s imminent demise many times in the past - is to promote illusions 
that things will take care of themselves and that mass pressure is unnecessary. 
One doesn’t follow from the other, however. 

>> […]
> 
> You raise that it's possible that the capitalists may implement a superior 
> form of energy. But if this possibility is to become a reality, they need to  
> forced to do this via regulations, regulations based on overall environmental 
> planning. And only the working masses have the class interest to provide this 
> pressure against them.

On a practical level - about the need for mass pressure and the environmentally 
safe regulation of the economy - we agree. On a theoretical level - that it is 
only the working masses which have a class interest in avoiding natural 
catastrophes, we don’t - but it is more important to agree on practical than on 
theoretical questions.

>> "Concretely, is there much difference in the demands favoured by the
>> established environmental organizations and the left-wing of the
>> environmental moon vement?
> 
> This is an important question. It seems to me that the militant wing of the 
> environmental movement has undertaken many important actions. And we see, as 
> pointed out in Klein's book, that if it weren't for the militant wing of the 
> movement, the establishment environmentalists would give up on outright 
> opposition to anti-fracking, as shown in Klein’s book.

I completely agree. Pressure from the militant wing has always been necessary 
to drive movements forward..

> Part of the militant section has denounced some of the market measures. And 
> so on.
> 
> But the problem is that the militant wing has not separated decisively from 
> bourgeois environmentalism. This is seen in that even that section of the 
> movement which says it opposes market measures, doesn't realize that the 
> carbon tax is a market measure. It is also seen in the reluctance to put 
> forward the need for overall planning.
> 
> […]
> 
> One of the key issues is whether it is possible to achieve the needed reforms 
> in cooperation with Bloomberg and the corporations, or whether one needs to 
> oppose the corporations and market fundamentalism. It concerns whether one 
> demands, not just regulations and planning, but the end to the privatization 
> of the government. Without a change in the way government agencies are now 
> run, regulation and planning would be jokes. It concerns whether there is a 
> demand that planning take into account mass livelihood as a goal alongside 
> environmental goals, or imagines that green jobs in itself will solve the 
> social issues. It concerns whether planning is done financially, or material 

[Marxism] Fwd: LENIN'S TOMB: Getting away with murder

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[Marxism] Fwd: Why We Won’t Wait » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

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By Robin D.G. Kelley

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[Marxism] Fwd: The “accidental” killing of Akai Gurley was no accident | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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As the grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri was calculating how to avoid 
bringing killer cop Darren Wilson to trial, another ignominious homicide 
took place in the Louis H. Pink Housing Project in Brooklyn, NY. The New 
York Times reported on how a rookie cop named Peter Liang killed a young 
Black man named Akai Gurley:


	Two police officers prepared to enter the pitch-black eighth-floor 
stairwell of a building in a Brooklyn housing project, one of them with 
his sidearm drawn. At the same time, a man and his girlfriend, 
frustrated by a long wait for an elevator, entered the seventh-floor 
stairwell, 14 steps below. In the darkness, a shot rang out from the 
officer’s gun, and the 28-year-old man below was struck in the chest 
and, soon after, fell dead.


	The shooting, at 11:15 p.m. on Thursday, invited immediate comparison 
to the fatal shooting of an unarmed man in Ferguson, Mo. But 12 hours 
later, just after noon on Friday, the New York police commissioner, 
William J. Bratton, announced that the shooting was accidental and that 
the victim, Akai Gurley, had done nothing to provoke a confrontation 
with the officers.


A follow-up article detailed how such an “accident” might have taken place:

	From different corners of Brooklyn, the lives of Mr. Gurley and Officer 
Liang, two young men separated in age by a single year, collided amid 
the faint shadows of the stairwell inside 2724 Linden Blvd., one of the 
buildings in the vast the Louis H. Pink housing project.


	For Mr. Gurley, the stairs, even in their sorry state, offered the best 
alternative to chronically malfunctioning project elevators. For Officer 
Liang, their darkness presented a threat.


Often the department’s least experienced officers are sent.

	“This is a result of poor in-street field training; you literally had 
the blind leading the blind out there,” said another high-ranking police 
official.


	Both police officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because the 
shooting investigation is still unfolding.


Most of the reporting centers on the cop’s inexperience as if a way to 
ward off interpretations that he was acting out of a KKK mentality so 
prevalent in the St. Louis police department. Since Chinese-Americans 
don’t tend to be seen as vicious racists, it is more difficult to mount 
Ferguson type protests over the killing. But in a very real sense, 
Brooklyn = Ferguson. It was the poverty and neglect of East New York 
that created the conditions for just such an accident.


Furthermore, a look at housing projects in general and the Louis H. Pink 
project in particular will demonstrate that we are dealing with 
institutions just barely distinguishable from South African shantytowns, 
even though they were at one time a staple of New Deal reform.


Louis Heaton Pink was an advocate of public housing in the 1930s who 
became the director of the New York Housing Authority, the city agency 
responsible for projects all across the city now in various states of 
disrepair. He was first appointed to a state housing agency by Al Smith, 
the governor of New York who despite having a solid record as a reformer 
got on FDR’s wrong side after running against him in the 1932 
presidential primary.


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[Marxism] interesting new journal

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Below you will find some information on an interesting new journal and a call 
for papers.

George 
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International Critical Thought (ICT), an English-language quarterly, hosted by 
the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and published by Routledge in UK since 
March 2011, is now calling for submissions.

 

The journal has arisen as a response to recent developments that have called 
into question the international capitalist order and have led many in the world 
to call for fundamental change. It aims to serve the Marxist and other leftist 
scholars in their reflections upon the past and their inquiries into the 
future, with an emphasis laid on the coalescence of social concern with 
academic rigor, and the bettering of the reality through a better understanding 
of it. As a 21-century forum, ICT strongly supports cultural diversity and 
intellectual openness, and is most willing to facilitate dialogues not just 
within the left community but also between the left and other currents of 
social thought. As a journal based in China, it also lends an extra attentive 
ear to the developing world's experience, for instance, on China's rise and 
what this means to the world in general and the world socialism in particular.

 

As a publication outlet for Left scholarship across the world, ICT welcomes 
studies in various academic disciplines employing different research tools. We 
also welcome contributions in forms other than original article, such as 
interview, book review, and the review of a conference, organization, 
periodical, and event that can be generally categorized as leftist.

 

To submit a manuscript, please go to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rict and 
create your ScholarOne account for online submission. The length of 
contributions may vary between 2,000 (for a book review for example) and a 
maximum of 8,000 words (for original articles). Submissions should follow the 
Chicago Manual of Style in writing and citation. To have a better idea about 
the journal, you may check the sample issue on line at 
http://www.tandfonline.com/rICT, which also contains the journal information 
such as aims and scope, editorial board, and guidelines for contributors. For 
further information, please contact us via email at i...@cass.org.cn.

 

We look forward to hearing from you.

 

Sincerely yours,

 

Cheng, Enfu (Chief Editor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

Schweickart, David (Chief Editor, Loyola University Chicago)

Andreani, Tony (Chief Editor, Paris 8 University)

 

 
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[Marxism] JUSTICE FOR MIKE BROWN: Today, Union Square, 7PM

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http://fergusonresponse.tumblr.com/post/102120486143/new-york-city-day-after-the-announcement-union

Today, 11/25, Union Square, 7PM

https://www.facebook.com/events/450074491800495/

Other events today:

http://changethenypd.org/ferguson-solidarity-actions-nyc

Other planned demonstrations in other cities:

http://fergusonresponse.tumblr.com/

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[Marxism] [UCE] Re: Request

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Got it. Thanks! (Sorry for the double posting earlier ...)



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Re: [Marxism] Request

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> I'm trying to get hold of Anwar Sheikh's 'The First Great Depression of the 
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Re: [Marxism] Request

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On 11/25/14 10:35 AM, Ed George via Marxism wrote


I'm trying to get hold of Anwar Sheikh's 'The First Great Depression of
the 21st Century', Socialist Register 2011, pp. 44-63, but I can't seem
to find it other than behind a pay wall. If there's anyone kind enough
to oblige I'd be eternally grateful ...


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I just sent Ed a copy of the article.

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[Marxism] The Masters Make the Rules

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http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/11/the-masters-make-the-rules/
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[Marxism] Request

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I'm trying to get hold of Anwar Sheikh's 'The First Great Depression of 
the 21st Century', Socialist Register 2011, pp. 44-63, but I can't seem 
to find it other than behind a pay wall. If there's anyone kind enough 
to oblige I'd be eternally grateful ...



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[Marxism] Request

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I'm trying to get hold of Anwar Sheikh's 'The First Great Depression of 
the 21st Century', Socialist Register 2011, pp. 44-63, but I can't seem 
to find it other than behind a pay wall. If there's anyone kind enough 
to oblige I'd be eternally grateful ...



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[Marxism] Fwd: Robert Reich: College gets you nowhere - Salon.com

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According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 46 percent of recent 
college graduates are now working in jobs that don’t require college 
degrees. (The same is true for more than a third of college graduates 
overall.)


full: 
http://www.salon.com/2014/11/25/robert_reich_college_gets_you_nowhere_partner/

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[Marxism] Fwd: Michael Brown Shooting Witness Admitted Racism In Journal Entry

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One of the witnesses to the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager 
Michael Brown admitted to holding racist views about African-Americans 
in a journal entry written on the same day of the shooting, according to 
documents released by St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch's 
office Monday.


On Aug. 9, the day Brown was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren 
Wilson, the witness wrote in his or her journal: "Well I'm gonna take my 
random drive to Florissant. Need to understand the Black race better so 
I stop calling Blacks Niggers and Start calling them People."


full: 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/25/michael-brown-witness_n_6216366.html

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[Marxism] Fwd: Ferguson Prosecutor Robert P. McCulloch's Long History of Siding With the Police

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Guess what. McCulloch is a Democrat.

http://www.newsweek.com/ferguson-prosecutor-robert-p-mccullochs-long-history-siding-police-267357
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[Marxism] Fwd: Why It’s Impossible to Indict a Cop | The Nation

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[Marxism] Fwd: israel: rise of judeo-fascism Tikun-Olam Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם

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http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2014/11/25/israel-and-the-rise-of-judeo-fascism/
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Embargo Against Rojava | Ecology or Catastrophe

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At first glance, the fact that South Kurdistan supports the embargo may 
seem strange. The head of state Barzani has repeatedly proclaimed that 
South Kurdistan is independent, but the region long ago became a 
quasi-colony. The South Kurdish government is financed by petrodollars, 
which it receives from the Iraqi central government and distributes 
among its minions. Yet South Kurdistan itself produces almost nothing—no 
agricultural products—even chickens are brought in from Brazil. So it is 
actually extremely dependent on other countries. Most of the 
manufactured goods and investment capital found there come from Turkey. 
The government is politically quite dependent on Ankara, and in relation 
to Rojava, it follows the policy that Ankara desires.


It would be sugarcoating, however, to present the Kurdish regional 
government as the sole actor in this respect. The KDP (Kurdistan 
Democratic Party) actually would like very much to control Rojava, 
especially the oil wells in Rimelan. But the Democratic Autonomy system, 
built by the Kurdish freedom movement, is an obstacle—so it must be 
destroyed by any means. Since the embargo alone doesn’t seem to be dong 
the job, militias of the KDP’s offshoot party in Syria, ENKS, have 
joined in on attacks mounted by Islamic gangs, like the massacres of Til 
Hasil and Til Haran in the summer of 2013.


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[Marxism] Henryk Grossman on the struggle for Marxism, 1883-1932

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Rick Kuhn and Einde O'Callaghan have performed a great service in
translating work by Grossman on the struggle for Marxism during this
period, and Rick has written a helpful introduction.

Tom O'Lincoln has reviewed it for Redline, and you can read Tom's review
and hopefully go buy the book via the Red Flag site.  Anyway, the review is
at:
http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/henryk-grossman-on-the-struggle-for-marxism-1883-1932/

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Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] NYRB review of Naomi Klein

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Marv Gandall wrote:

> Sorry, I donTMt think it can be completely ruled out, except by dogmatists,
> that oeif solar and other alternative energy prices continue to fall in
> line with advanced technology and more widespread adoption, and become
> more cost-effective and safer than environmentally destructive forms of
> energy, thereTMs no reason to suppose todayTMs capitalists would not do what
> previous generations of capitalists have done and move to superior forms
> of energy. Which, as I noted, is not to say such a development is
> inevitable or even likely.

Some capitalists already produce corn ethanol or palm oil as biofuels. Far 
from denying this, I have pointed it out repeatedly in this discussion and in 
articles. And this is an example of capitalists moving to a fuel which is not 
directly a fossil fuel. Yet it ended up having a destructive effect. 

I have also discussed Kyoto and why it failed, and Kyoto is an example of 
bourgeois enviornmentalism.

Capitalist firms may be required to produce in environmentally-safe ways. 
This will involve a constant conflict between the logic of market forces and 
the regulations imposed on them. If things are left to market forces, then 
progress will be too slow to prevent disaster, and will be constantly 
interrupted by fiascos such as the repeated fiascos with biofuels.

Capitalist economies have changed from one form of energy to another. But the 
changes in the past have never brought in the type overall environmental 
planning that is now needed to avoid environmental catastrophe. And to 
describe the change from one form of energy to another as a change to a 
"superior" form, begs the question of what type of "superiority" one is 
referring to. 

> My comment had nothing to do with the demands being raised by the
> mainstream environmental organizations,

We were discussing whether the presence of former Mayor Bloombeg in climate 
marches was a matter of concern. In this regard, you said 

> that not all capitalists outside
> the coal, gas and oil industries are wedded to fossil fuels and
> unconcerned about their disruptive and potentially catastrophic effects.
> Bloomberg is a prominent spokesperson of this growing wing of the
> bourgeoisie. 

So the issue is what we can expect from Bloomberg and "this growing wing of 
the bourgeoisie" that is concerned about the "potentially catastrophic 
effects" of fossil fuels. What I have advocated is that various bourgeois 
environmentalists, such as Al Gore, have done a service in raising the 
dangers ahead, but have advocated measures that lead to ruin. This is true 
even of the UN's IPCC. It is necessary therefore that the militant wing of 
the environmental movement take up opposition to the bourgeois program, such 
as market methods, and promote a better environmental program.

You raise that it's possible that the capitalists may implement a superior 
form of energy. But if this possibility is to become a reality, they need to  
forced to do this via regulations, regulations based on overall environmental 
planning. And only the working masses have the class interest to provide this 
pressure against them.

> although I did earlier pose the
> question on this thread, which remains as yet unanswered:
> 
> "Concretely, is there much difference in the demands favoured by the
> established environmental organizations and the left-wing of the
> environmental moon vement?

This is an important question. It seems to me that the militant wing of the 
environmental movement has undertaken many important actions. And we see, as 
pointed out in Klein's book, that if it weren't for the militant wing of the 
movement, the establishment environmentalists would give up on outright 
opposition to anti-fracking, as shown in Klein's book. Part of the militant 
section has denounced some of the market measures. And so on.

But the problem is that the militant wing has not separated decisively from 
bourgeois environmentalism. This is seen in that even that section of the 
movement which says it opposes market measures, doesn't realize that the 
carbon tax is a market measure. It is also seen in the reluctance to put 
forward the need for overall planning.

The environmentalist and naturalist Timothy Flannery, in his book "The 
Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on 
Earth", realized that comprehensive environmental planning would lead to a 
great deal of overall economic planning. He remarked that this planning would 
lead from one field of the economy to another.  He was scared of this, and 
called it a "carbon dictatorship".  But this meant that he was unwilling