Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Is Russia imperialist? A reply to Roger Annis and Sam Williams | 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. * Comments on this article (http://louisproyect.org/2014/06/22/is-russia-imperialist-a-reply-to-roger-annis-and-sam-williams/) by my good friend and comrade Reza F. 1) Those who argue that the BRICS should be supported believe that the economic and political development of BRICS nations will ultimately undermine the U.S., and as a result will undermine imperialism. This is completely erroneous. Did the displacement of the British imperialism by that of the U.S. undermine imperialism? Not at all. The leading imperialist nation-state can change without that change in the least bit undermining imperialism as a world system. In fact, historians can probably make a much stronger case that with each succession, imperialism as a system evolved to a higher stage. By contrast, during his lifetime, Lenin *never* proposed that, for example, the U.S. should be supported so as to undermine the British imperialism. He supported fighting against ALL imperialists. Including Russia, which Lenin (again, during his lifetime) designated as imperialist; also this is why Lenin explicitly supported the right of self-determination for Ukraine (from Russian domination). 2) How is it that Lenin, even *after* writing the ‘Imperialism as the Highest Stage of Capitalism’ pamphlet, considered Russia an imperialist country a hundred years ago, and some Marxists are arguing Russia is not an imperialist country now?!! 3) Just for one example of imperialist behavior toward less powerful nations: Russia, starting in early 1800s, tried and subjected Iran, formalizing her dominant relation with Iran in successive wars and treaties that followed: Treaty of Gulistan (1813), Treaty of Turkmenchay (1828) and Treaty of Akhal (1881). These treaties included exclusively economic/trade provisions that forced Iran into agreeing to not interfere with any Russian businessman who chose to set up shop in any part of Iran. Meaning, through the use of military force, Russia was able to gain asymmetrical economic benefits it otherwise would not have had. *That* is imperialism’s core characteristic, not finance capital alone. 4) Finance capital alone cannot guarantee imperialist gains. In order to achieve its goals imperialism frequently has to employ ‘extra-economic’ means (for example, unfair trade agreements gained through political and diplomatic means, or through military means). Case in point, Iraq. Iraq was brought to its knees not by financial instruments, but by brute force of a military attack, after which economic benefits were secured. Marxists who think that purely ‘economic’ features are the key determinants of imperialism forget that for Marx capital accumulation was a POLITICAL-economic reality, not just purely economic. Such Marxists also ignore the importance placed on ‘extra-economic’ means by which ‘primitive accumulation’ was achieved during the transition from feudalism to capitalism (see Part Eight of Capital, Vol. 1). 5) Marxists who believe economic criteria alone, and not a relationship of dominance, determine the imperialist nature of a state formation claim that imperialism requires the imperialist country to have excess capital that it needs to export. Well Russia does that to Iran. Russia has huge investments in Iran, the most famous of which is the nuclear reactor they have built and the nuclear reactors they have been contracted to build in the future. Getting the contract to build nuclear reactors is akin to having the sole ticket to the lone entry allowed to an absolute monopoly market. Also, Russia is a great beneficiary in the nuclear deal in other ways. They will now have a semi-monopoly over a good portion of the enrichment of the uranium to be shipped to Iran under the terms of the current deal on the table. In short, Russia has been extorting the Iranian regime in different ways for a good while. The real problem is that when I raise these points, Russia’s western Marxist supporters (who consider Russia as their rescuer) think Iran’s political and economic deals with Russia amount to just bilateral deals between two countries as two equals. They dismiss as irrelevant the 200-year-old relationship of one-sided dominance between them (except maybe during the Soviet period, some could argue). This is a huge departure from historical materialism. Imperialist countries stick it to whomever they can, and not to everybody equally, and definitely not able to stick it to everybody all at once and at all times. Not even the US gets its way all the time; unless, of course, you live in the world of Global Research. There is always agency
[Marxism] Fwd: Al-Qaeda group’s gains in Syria undermine U.S. strategy - The Washington Post
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[Marxism] [UCE] Podemos: A Monolithic, Vertical, and Hierarchical Party?
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. * Monolithic, a Vertical (Top-Down), and Hierarchical Party? The Podemos ‘convention process’ (consolidating the new party’s structures) which began on September the 15th, ended on Saturday, November the 15th with the election of Pablo Iglesias as General Secretary. He won 88.7% of the votes cast (96.9% valid). His list won the 62 posts for the ‘Citizens’ Council’ and 10 for the Safeguards Commission. The level of abstention, was however, also significant: 57% of those registered, larger than the percentage – 45% who abstained during the vote on the overall party documents (policy, programme and organisation). The proportion of blank (or null) ballots was also important: 8.5% of votes cast for the General Secretariat; 5.1% for the Citizen Council and 13% for the ‘guarantees’ Commission. Reports Ensemble. (Podemos : un parti monolithique, vertical et hiérarchique ? 22 November). Checked with original Original: Proceso congresual y mutación organizativa. More here: http://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/podemos-a-monolithic-vertical-and-hierarchical-party/ Andrew Coates _ 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] Fwd: ‘Life on Earth is in peril. We have no future if we don’t go into space’ | Science | The Guardian
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Re: [Marxism] [UCE] Podemos: A Monolithic, Vertical, and Hierarchical Party?
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 12/7/14 6:37 AM, andrew coates via Marxism wrote More here: http://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/podemos-a-monolithic-vertical-and-hierarchical-party/ From the article above: Note the following: 28th November. Spain’s poll-topping Podemos tones down radical plans in manifesto (Reuters) – Spain’s newest political party Podemos, riding high in opinion polls just 10 months after its launch, released an economic manifesto on Friday that rowed back on earlier pledges to cut the retirement age and default on the national debt. Andrew quotes the Reuters article on the Podemos economic policy white paper written by Vicente Navarro and Juan Torres Lopez but has he read it? I have. If this program is meant to be acceptable to the Spanish ruling class, then we are in strange times indeed. Vicente Navarro has been writing for CounterPunch longer than me. His books have been published by Monthly Review. Some of the left critics of the policy paper dismiss it as left-Keynesian as if that term did not apply to Paul Sweezy and Harry Magdoff as well. What's particularly strange is that Andrew has the good sense to give his stamp of approval to Syriza, which compared to Podemos is a lot more acceptable to the bourgeoisie based on the reception that Alex Tsipras got on his visit to the USA where he was deemed by ultraleftists to be in cahoots with George Soros et al. http://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/syriza-is-the-expression-of-a-new-left-radicalism-says-gauche-anticapitaliste/ _ 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
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Is Russia imperialist? A reply to Roger Annis and Sam Williams
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 it was absolutely wrong to support the Euro-Maidan movement or to consider supporting the current reactionary regime in Kiev. Equally socialists in the US and EU should oppose sanctions against Russia. (Trotsky was even sharply opposed to the Western imperialist sanctions against fascist Italy during the latters colonial war in Ethiopia in the mid-1930s.) This however must not lead Marxists do deny the imperialist character of Russia today! I tried to demonstrate the nature of Russian imperialism in two essays/booklets published in the last 8 months. I think they proof this both empirically as well as in complete accordance with Lenin's theory of imperialism: See: Russia as a Great Imperialist Power, http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/imperialist-russia/ Lenin’s Theory of Imperialism and the Rise of Russia as a Great Power, http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/imperialism-theory-and-russia/ See also: The Uprising in East Ukraine and Russian Imperialism, http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/ukraine-and-russian-imperialism/ Russia and China as Great Imperialist Powers, http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/imperialist-china-and-russia/ Michael Pröbsting Am 07.12.2014 um 12:25 schrieb Louis Proyect via Marxism: Comments on this article (http://louisproyect.org/2014/06/22/is-russia-imperialist-a-reply-to-roger-annis-and-sam-williams/) by my good friend and comrade Reza F. 1) Those who argue that the BRICS should be supported believe that the economic and political development of BRICS nations will ultimately undermine the U.S., and as a result will undermine imperialism. This is completely erroneous. Did the displacement of the British imperialism by that of the U.S. undermine imperialism? Not at all. The leading imperialist nation-state can change without that change in the least bit undermining imperialism as a world system. In fact, historians can probably make a much stronger case that with each succession, imperialism as a system evolved to a higher stage. By contrast, during his lifetime, Lenin *never* proposed that, for example, the U.S. should be supported so as to undermine the British imperialism. He supported fighting against ALL imperialists. Including Russia, which Lenin (again, during his lifetime) designated as imperialist; also this is why Lenin explicitly supported the right of self-determination for Ukraine (from Russian domination). 2) How is it that Lenin, even *after* writing the ‘Imperialism as the Highest Stage of Capitalism’ pamphlet, considered Russia an imperialist country a hundred years ago, and some Marxists are arguing Russia is not an imperialist country now?!! 3) Just for one example of imperialist behavior toward less powerful nations: Russia, starting in early 1800s, tried and subjected Iran, formalizing her dominant relation with Iran in successive wars and treaties that followed: Treaty of Gulistan (1813), Treaty of Turkmenchay (1828) and Treaty of Akhal (1881). These treaties included exclusively economic/trade provisions that forced Iran into agreeing to not interfere with any Russian businessman who chose to set up shop in any part of Iran. Meaning, through the use of military force, Russia was able to gain asymmetrical economic benefits it otherwise would not have had. *That* is imperialism’s core characteristic, not finance capital alone. 4) Finance capital alone cannot guarantee imperialist gains. In order to achieve its goals imperialism frequently has to employ ‘extra-economic’ means (for example, unfair trade agreements gained through political and diplomatic means, or through military means). Case in point, Iraq. Iraq was brought to its knees not by financial instruments, but by brute force of a military attack, after which economic benefits were secured. Marxists who think that purely ‘economic’ features are the key determinants of imperialism forget that for Marx capital accumulation was a POLITICAL-economic reality, not just purely economic. Such Marxists also ignore the importance placed on ‘extra-economic’ means by which ‘primitive accumulation’ was achieved during the transition from feudalism to capitalism (see Part Eight of Capital, Vol. 1). 5) Marxists who believe economic criteria alone, and not a relationship of dominance, determine the imperialist nature of a state formation claim that imperialism requires the imperialist country to have excess capital that it needs to export. Well Russia does that to Iran. Russia has huge investments in Iran, the most famous of which is the nuclear reactor they have built and the nuclear reactors they have been
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Is Russia imperialist? A reply to Roger Annis and Sam Williams
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 12/7/14 7:24 AM, RKOB via Marxism wrote: I think it was absolutely wrong to support the Euro-Maidan movement or to consider supporting the current reactionary regime in Kiev. That's because you see politics in terms of taking positions. You really need to get past your Coyoacan complex. The notion of issuing communiques defining the correct position that nobody reads except those in the know (in other words, Left Trainspotting subscribers) has anything to do with building a vanguard party is ludicrous. Ukrainians took to the streets in late 2013 because they were sick and tired of corruption, police brutality, economic misery and being under Russia's thumb. It was an important opening for the Ukrainian left just as the Hong Kong protests were for the Chinese left. Mass movements do not come fully developed like Athena, who emerged full-grown from Zeus's forehead. They are often filled with illusions on one thing or another, including the possibility that the EU was the way forward. Our responsibility as revolutionaries is to participate in these movements and help determine a favorable outcome not give them a thumbs up or thumbs down like a critic reviewing a movie. _ 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
Re: [Marxism] [UCE] Podemos: A Monolithic, Vertical, and Hierarchical Party?
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 12/7/14 7:37 AM, andrew coates wrote: I was reminded of an old comment in the 1930s by Alain (Émile-Auguste Chartier) to the effect that when somebody says that they neither left-wing nor right wing there is only one thing that's clear: they are not left wing. You need to spend more time reading Podemos's documents like the Navarro-Lopez statement rather than what Left Unity writes. You also need to listen to Pablo Iglesias's youtube clips, especially those with subtitles if you don't speak Spanish. This was Iglesias speaking to the European Parliament. If you don't know whether he is on the left or on the right, you really need to rethink what these terms mean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4ntFgMGgmI _ 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
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Is Russia imperialist? A reply to Roger Annis and Sam Williams
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 12/7/14 8:18 AM, RKOB wrote: There is an unfortunate phenomenon in personal life of many people. When they split with someone they can't refrain from speaking only bad and derogative of their former partner. This phenomenon also exists in political life. Louis Proyect is unfortunately one of these numerous Ex’s who – burned by his sad experience in the Barnesite SWP – hates everything associated with the Leninist conception of party-building. It is like a Pavlov-Reflex. You have no idea what Leninism means. If you did, you wouldn't festoon your website with a Red Star, a hammer and sickle, and pictures of Lenin and Trotsky. This kind of in-group iconography is of no use to anybody except those with delusions of grandeur. This bad attitude is unfortunately combined with – how shall I formulate it in a civilized manner – a certain lack of modesty. Louis Proyect believes that just because he lives in the academic world and has some academic friends there who take him seriously, he is an important man. He looks with contempt to other people – who either don’t share his view or, worse, are part of a Leninist organization – and believes, or at least suggests to others, that they are not important. You are not part of a Leninist organization. You are a member of a tiny sect. You are capable of writing intelligent analysis but you should drop the pretensions. You allude to your national sections of the RCIT on your website, as if your Fifth International is the answer for the crisis of leadership that Trotsky wrote about in the Transitional Program. I doubt that all of you put together have more members than there are Marxmail subscribers. But, dear Louis Proyect, can you imagine that writings of others (including myself) are read, translated and discussed by a number of people (outside of the Left Trainspotting world)? Of course I can. Everybody knows about Michael Probsting, our age's Leon Trotsky. You like to belittle Leninist organizations as sects. But in fact you are a one-man-sect! Wrong. My wife is a member of the Sixth International I founded last year but have been keeping a secret until I am ready to announce it to the world. So it is a one-man/one-woman sect, if you don't mind. She has been trained in jiu-jitsu and small arms fire just to protect me from any Ramon Mercaders lurking in the shadows. Finally on the Euro-Maidan movement. It is important to differentiate between progressive and reactionary mass movements. Yes, there are various sectarians who often have a wrong sectarian attitude to mass movements which are led by politically backward forces. Yes, they should have come to demonstrations with hammers and sickles and portraits of Lenin and Trotsky. That would have made them pass muster with you presumably. Have you seen the movie Morgan: a Suitable Case for Treatment by the way? You would really appreciate it. _ 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] Collapse of the Second International
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[Marxism] Fwd: Forget everything you know about nice, liberal Sweden — that country no longer exists - Comment - Voices - The Independent
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[Marxism] Fwd: Review: Saturday Night Live: “James Franco/Nicki Minaj” · TV Club · The A.V. Club
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[Marxism] Martin Litton, Fighter for Environment, Dies at 97
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. * NY Times, Dec. 7 2014 Martin Litton, Fighter for Environment, Dies at 97 By PAUL VITELLO Martin Litton, an environmentalist, river pilot, writer and unrelenting forward scout in the battle to preserve what was left of the wilderness in the American West, most notably the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River, died on Nov. 30 at his home in Portola Valley, Calif. He was 97. His death was announced by the Sierra Club, which he had served as a director. During his 70 years on the front lines of the American environmental movement, Mr. Litton was less known than other figures. His open disdain for the compromise and consensus-building paths that were often taken by the movement’s leaders (disastrously, in his view) seemed to relegate him to a different role. He was the movement’s Jeremiah — the crier in the wilderness who spotted the threats, condemned the desecraters and rallied the leadership to the defining preservation conflicts of the early 1950s through the ’80s. David Brower, who as the Sierra Club’s seminal leader in the last half of the 20th century was compelled to make some of the compromises Mr. Litton fought, was known to call him “our conscience.” Mr. Litton’s intransigence was often the first line of defense not only against timber and mining interests, for example, but against a broad postwar public perception that all massive public works projects — roads, bridges and dams — were, by definition, good. He tried to change that view early on as a photojournalist. In the early 1950s he rallied environmentalists, including Mr. Brower, to fight a planned highway through the Sequoia and Inyo National Forests in California’s Sierra Nevada. At one point he flew Mr. Brower and a newspaper photographer over the site in his small plane to publicize the potential harm the road posed to some of the world’s oldest and tallest trees. He wrote a series of articles for The Los Angeles Times later in the decade that raised the first wide-scale alarm about government plans to build a dam that would flood parts of the Dinosaur National Monument, at the border of Colorado and Utah, for a hydroelectric plant. And when the Interior Department announced plans in 1963 to bookend the Grand Canyon with a pair of dams across the Colorado River — a federal official claimed that by filling a part the canyon with water, more people than ever would see its walls from boats — Mr. Litton wrote a trenchant but truculent essay for the Sierra Club Bulletin that set off one of the most important wilderness fights in the history of the national parks. “Shall we fail to go into battle because it is hard to win?” he wrote. “Could not 22,000 Sierra Club members, without strain, turn out 22,000 letters a day for a week?” He continued, “There has never been a Congress, a president, a secretary of interior, a governor or a newspaper editor who would not sit up and take notice of that.” The essay was accompanied by a list of the names and addresses of every officeholder it mentioned, prompting the Internal Revenue Service to suspend the Sierra Club’s tax-exempt status for breaking rules against political lobbying. But the fight for the Grand Canyon galvanized activists and won wide public support. Taking a cue from Mr. Litton, who joined the board in 1964, the Sierra Club attacked the government plan with full-page ads in The New York Times and The Washington Post. One was headlined: “Should We Also Flood the Sistine Chapel So Tourists Can Get Nearer the Ceiling?” The government scrapped the plan in 1968. By then, Sierra Club membership had grown to 78,000. Mr. Litton left its board in 1972. “People always tell me not to be extreme,” he said in a 2010 documentary about his life, “The Good Fight.” “ ‘Be reasonable!’ they say. But I never felt it did any good to be reasonable about anything in conservation, because what you give away will never come back — ever. When it comes to saving wilderness, we can’t be extreme enough. To compromise is to lose.” Clyde Martin Litton was born on Feb. 13, 1917, in Los Angeles, the son of Clyde and Elsie Litton. His father was a veterinarian, and his mother worked in the home raising their four children. Mr. Litton earned a bachelor’s degree in English at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1939. During World War II, he flew glider planes in the Army Air Force, transporting troops and equipment behind enemy lines during the European invasion. He became a freelance writer and photographer after the war and was drawn increasingly to environmental subjects. Mr. Litton is survived by his wife of 72
[Marxism] Fwd: Richard Greener talks about James Brown | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Forget everything you know about nice, liberal Sweden — that country no longer exists - Comment - Voices - The Independent
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. * As a visual accompaniment to this article I recommend this photo reportage from the streets of Stockholm. Photographer Roger Turesson took a walk through the capital’s upmarket shopping streets on a cold winter night after closing time, starting and finishing on the city’s equivalent of Oxford Street. http://www.dn.se/sthlm/stockholm-en-forandrad-stad/ Website: http://filmint.nu/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FilmInt Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/FilmInt 7 dec 2014 kl. 16:25 skrev Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu: 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. * http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/forget-everything-you-know-about-nice-liberal-sweden--that-country-no-longer-exists-9903417.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/daniel.lindvall%40filmint.nu _ 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] By Glenn Greenwald on Ashton Carter, Rumsfeld's 'excellent nominee'
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[Marxism] Can Banksters grab depositors funds in order to avoid a bank failure?
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[Marxism] The Ghosts of Jeju Island
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