[Marxism] Fwd: Moscow embraces 'hipster Stalinism' | Cities | The Guardian
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[Marxism] House Narrowly Passes Bill to Avoid Shutdown; $1.1 Trillion in Spending
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. * (White House and Republicans unite to overcome liberal opposition to budget that attacks pensions and weakens Dodd-Frank.) NY Times, Dec. 12 2014 House Narrowly Passes Bill to Avoid Shutdown; $1.1 Trillion in Spending By ASHLEY PARKER and ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON — The House narrowly passed a $1.1 trillion spending package on Thursday that would fund most government operations for the fiscal year after a rancorous debate that reflected the new power held by Republicans and the disarray among Democrats in the aftermath of the midterm elections. The accord was reached just hours before the midnight deadline, in a 219-206 vote, amid the last-minute brinkmanship and bickering that has come to mark one of Congress’s most polarized — and least productive — eras. The legislation now heads to the Senate, which is expected to pass it in the coming days. The split in the Democratic Party dramatically burst into view when Representative Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader and one of President Obama’s most loyal supporters, broke with the administration over a provision in the bill that would roll back regulation of the Dodd-Frank Act, which Ms. Pelosi said was a giveaway to big banks whose practices helped fuel the Great Recession. She spoke on the House floor in the early afternoon, expressing her strong opposition to the bill. Mr. Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. were pressed to make a furious round of phone calls to try to persuade wavering Democrats, while House Speaker John A. Boehner worked to get more Republican votes. The public support of the sweeping spending bill by the White House — which came just as Ms. Pelosi was making her speech on the House floor opposing it — was a rare public break with the minority leader and infuriated many of her loyalists. In a more than three-hour, closed-door meeting of House Democrats on Thursday night, many of the party’s more liberal members tried to rally support against the bill. The moment, they said, was one of conscience, and a chance for Democrats to demonstrate their allegiance with the middle class. “We’ve got to stand up for principle at some point, or they’re going to kick us even more next year when they have a bigger majority,” said Representative Peter A. DeFazio, Democrat of Oregon. “They know we will stand our ground on principle in the future and not roll us so easily again.” In an emergency gathering, Democrats also expressed anger at Denis R. McDonough, the White House chief of staff, at what they saw as the president’s undercutting of Ms. Pelosi and other progressives by coming out in support of the deal so early in the day. But Ms. Pelosi ultimately gave her members the freedom to vote how they wanted. “I’m giving you the leverage to do what you have to do,” she said. “We have enough votes to show them never to do this again.” The final vote was a blow to Ms. Pelosi, the liberal wing of the party and Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, who led the charge against the Dodd-Frank rollback. Mr. Boehner built a coalition of 162 Republicans and 57 Democrats, a rare achievement for a Congress that has often operated along strict party lines. Congress also passed a two-day funding measure to give the Senate time to pass the legislation. With an opportunity to return to a more conventional legislative process — funding the government for a fiscal year rather than for months at a time — Republican leaders had thought they had sufficient bipartisan support to pass the bill. The adopted measure funds the government through Sept. 30, 2015. But an early sign of the headwinds facing the legislation came around noon, when the deal barely cleared a procedural hurdle to allow a vote. In several tense minutes on the House floor, support to move forward on the package seesawed, with Democrats shouting “Call the vote” and Republicans holding it open until they were able to persuade two lawmakers to switch their votes. House Democrats — who were already trying to strike a delicate balance — found their calculation complicated by the White House, which released a pre-emptive signal that Mr. Obama would sign the bipartisan legislation if it made it out of Congress. Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, said the administration agreed with congressional Democrats who were angry about several provisions that affect financial regulations and others that would allow larger political contributions to parties during federal campaigns. But he called the funding bill “a compromise” and said passage of the legislation would be good for the economy and
[Marxism] Fwd: Funding Bill Passes; Wall Street Wins; Kind of Compromise Obama Loves | Common Dreams | Breaking News Views for the Progressive Community
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[Marxism] Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World
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 Review of Books, Dec. 18 2014 issue What’s the Matter with Economics? by Alan S. Blinder Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World by Jeff Madrick Knopf, 254 pp., $26.95 The Queen of England famously asked British economists why nobody saw the financial crisis coming. Lots of nonroyal people also have a feeling that there’s something wrong with economics. Jeff Madrick, an economics journalist of some accomplishment and considerable intelligence, shares his views on what’s wrong with economics in this engaging book. But methinks the gentleman doth protest too much. Madrick really is a gentleman—and something of a scholar, too. Unless you are already steeped in economics, you will learn much from reading Seven Bad Ideas, including a lucid exposition of the so-called efficient markets theory and a nice essay on the shortcomings of economics as a science. You will also encounter a few delightful bons mots along the way, such as: “A beautiful idea can be described as one that explains a lot with a little.” Madrick knows how to wield a pen. He is also an important and eloquent voice for what’s left of the American left—at least in economic matters. Given the notable rightward shift of the US political spectrum, I’m glad we have Jeff Madrick around. I wish he could clone himself. But parts of Seven Bad Ideas constitute serial exaggeration. The book’s main thesis is stated with stark clarity in the very first sentence: “Economists’ most fundamental ideas contributed centrally to the financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession that followed.” Centrally? I don’t think so. A more accurate sentence would start, “Some ideas of conservative economists contributed a bit…,” but that wouldn’t attract attention. Alas, the truth is duller than fiction. When I hear or read dramatic portrayals of economists’ enormous influence on policy, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. On the one hand, it is flattering to be thought so influential. On the other hand, I can’t help remembering economist George Stigler’s contrary verdict, delivered in 1976: “Economists exert a minor and scarcely detectable influence on the societies in which they live.”1 Here’s a little test. As a general matter, which statement do you think comes closer to the truth? (a) The dominant academic thinking, research, and writing on economic policy issues exert a profound, if not dispositive, influence on decisions made by politicians. (b) Politicians use “research findings the way a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not for illumination.” (The quotation is from economist Jared Bernstein, as cited by Madrick on page 200.) I suspect you answered (b). If so, you got it right. Madrick’s answer seems closer to (a). My main quarrels with Seven Bad Ideas are three, which I’ll take up in turn. First, as just mentioned, academic thinking and research don’t have nearly as much influence on economic policy as Madrick imagines. Second, his characterization of what constitutes mainstream economics is heavily skewed to the right; it’s more about conservative economics. Third, most of what he calls “bad ideas” are either good ideas, straw men, discarded doctrines, or limited to quite conservative economists—the people who build “lampposts” for the political right. The Influence of Economists In a book published in 1987, I coined (and provided examples of) what I called Murphy’s Law of Economic Policy: Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.2 It was true then, and it is true now. Just last year, two economists comparing the disparate answers to survey questions from forty-one prominent academic economists versus a representative sample of Americans reached the same conclusion as I did.3 Which group do you think holds more sway with elected politicians: average Americans or economic experts? (Hint: Which has more votes?) Not convinced? Then think about how often Congress has enacted or raised a carbon tax. Or reduced the tax advantage for homeownership. Or how many cities charge congestion fees (high tolls in peak hours) on their bridges and tunnels. In each of these cases and many more, a huge majority of economists—Democrats, Republicans, and independents alike—not only favors the indicated policy but thinks it axiomatic. Arthur Okun, who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under President Lyndon Johnson, wrote forty-four years ago that “on a number of issues, a bipartisan majority of the
[Marxism] Fwd: How ISIS Rules by Sarah Birke | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
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. * During the initial phase of ISIS rule, locals told me they disliked the excesses of the Islamic State, but some were pleased that the corruption and chaos of rebel rule had ended. One businessman from Raqqa who now lives in Turkey told me that, though he hated the group, it was easier to ship goods through ISIS territory because the checkpoints did not take bribes like other rebel groups. The group was also pragmatic in running municipal services in Raqqa, keeping expert employees in position, including in government-run services such as the phone network, but making clear they now work for the Islamic State. Schoolteachers are allowed to continue to teach, but with an altered curriculum that has had subjects such as chemistry and French removed and Islamic studies added. A junior doctor in her twenties, who went into exile in September, told me how the department heads in her hospital in Raqqa had been replaced by Islamic State men—complete with titles such as Emir of General Medicine. Female doctors were now only allowed to treat female patients, and in full niqab. “How am I meant to operate in black gloves and with barely my eyes showing?” the doctor asked me. But it quickly became clear that ISIS’s ability to maintain power depended overwhelmingly on outright repression. Although the beheadings of two American journalists and one aid worker, and two British aid workers have caught headlines, far more Syrians and Iraqis have been murdered by the group and scores have been tortured. Abu Hamza, a Syrian defector from ISIS’s intelligence services, told me that the will of the state is primarily imposed by security services, just as it was under the Baathist regime in Iraq and continues to be in Assad’s Syria. ISIS’s security forces, he said, are a mix of nationalities but include enough Syrians who know others’ pasts. “They look at all the threats to Islamic State, from Bashar al-Assad to America and the other rebels—but their number one enemy is the [mainstream] rebels,” he said. full: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/dec/09/how-isis-rules/ _ 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] The Guantanamo Wound That Will Stay Open.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Moscow embraces 'hipster Stalinism' | Cities | The Guardian
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[Marxism] Socially engaged graphic art in Russia
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[Marxism] Love Letter From Paris: Alain Mabanckou’s 'letter to jimmy'
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Re: [Marxism] Why We Must Support Syriza
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. * Proyect wrote: What a mind-boggling amalgam: Mitterand and Ortega. That convinces me more than ever that Creegan has not evolved much past his days in the Spartacist League. *** There are big and important differences between these two politicians and the movements they led. The differences do not, however, erase a major similarity: they both attempted to introduce a series of reforms objectionable to capital, without even thinking about laying government hands on the major levers of capitalist power. They tweaked the toes of a colossus, and got stomped. The Spartacists weren't wrong about everything. Jim Creegan _ 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] Why We Must Support Syriza
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 12/12/14 8:47 AM, James Creegan via Marxism wrote: There are big and important differences between these two politicians and the movements they led. The differences do not, however, erase a major similarity: they both attempted to introduce a series of reforms objectionable to capital, without even thinking about laying government hands on the major levers of capitalist power. They tweaked the toes of a colossus, and got stomped. Creegan, don't you know what evidence means? Everything you post here is bereft of historical or economic data. My guess is that you simply don't know enough about Nicaragua in the 80s to contribute something substantial to the debate. I was the president of a technical aid project to Nicaragua and was forced by circumstance to understand the nation's difficulties. I and other Tecnica board members used to meet regularly with Paul Oquist, Daniel Ortega's chief economic adviser. Your understanding of Nicaragua is lifted out of the Spartacist League newspaper. Laying government hands sounds like something out of a Jimmy Swaggart sermon, not an analysis from someone grounded in historical materialism. My analysis of the rise and fall of the Sandinista revolution is here: http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/state_and_revolution/nicaragua.htm I invite Creegan to write his own analysis but doubt that he is capable of writing anything except glittering generalities. _ 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: 'The Chechen wars murdered Russian democracy in its cradle' | World news | The Guardian
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[Marxism] Fwd: Why Michel Foucault is the libertarian’s best friend - The Washington Post
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[Marxism] Ruling Lets Work Email Be Used to Organize Unions
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[Marxism] As Assad and US play two-step bombing Raqqa, Assad calls for more efficient US bombing
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Why Michel Foucault is the libertarian#65533; s bes t friend - The Washington Post
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 famous critic of psychiatry, Thomas Szasz, was both a staunch libertarian, and a great admirer of Foucault. I think Szasz picked up on the libertarian side of Foucault before anyone else did, including Foucault himself. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: [Marxism] Fwd: Why Michel Foucault is the libertarian#65533;s best friend - The Washington Post Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:36:00 -0500 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.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/11/why-michel-foucault-is-the-libertarians-best-friend/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/farmelantj%40juno.com Apple#39;s Crazy New Gizmo Forget the iPhone 6. Next hit Apple product leaked. #40;see picture#41; http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/548b3e7089d2e3e705261st02vuc _ 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] Redline top 30
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’ve just stuck up on Redline the list of our top 30 articles in terms of hits. They are an interesting range – the top two are on the 1981 anti-Springbok tour protests and have nearly 20,000 hits (not bad for a wee Marxist blog inn a wee country at the arse-end of the world). Others range from How capitalist ideology works through to an interview with an eyewitness at the 1970 Kent State killing of students by the Ohio National Guard (Mike Alewitz; reblogged from Sherry Wolf) to the women workers’ fight for equal pay at Ford Dagenham in 1968 to critiques of Gandhi to material on NZ workers’ conditions today to the 2014 elections to the 1986 homosexual law reform movement to the 1951 waterfront dispute. The list, with links to each individual article, is at: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/our-top-30-of-all-time/ Phil _ 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] We Should All Support SYRIZA
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. * Proyect wrote: Creegan, don't you know what evidence means? Everything you post here is bereft of historical or economic data. My guess is that you simply don't know enough about Nicaragua in the 80s to contribute something substantial to the debate. I was the president of a technical aid project to Nicaragua and was forced by circumstance to understand the nation's difficulties. I and other Tecnica board members used to meet regularly with Paul Oquist, Daniel Ortega's chief economic adviser. Your understanding of Nicaragua is lifted out of the Spartacist League newspaper. Laying government hands sounds like something out of a Jimmy Swaggart sermon, not an analysis from someone grounded in historical materialism. My analysis of the rise and fall of the Sandinista revolution is here: http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/state_and_revolution/nicaragua.htm I invite Creegan to write his own analysis but doubt that he is capable of writing anything except glittering generalities. ** I think my articles in the Weekly Worker testify to my ability to write more than glittering generalities. But it is your method of arguing that I take issue with above all. You undoubtedly know more than I do about certain subjects. However, it is hardly reasonable to upload a lengthy analysis you wrote some years ago, and invite me to respond with a tome of my own, at least in a medium of this kind, where brief comments are the norm. But if you have so much in-depth knowledge that I lack, why don't you try sifting through it and pulling out a few discrete facts or observations that tend to contradict what I'm saying, and allow me to respond (if I am. . able) with a few select facts and/or observations of my own. That's how a structured discussion could proceed. Instead, you accuse me of being an ignorant Spartacist slogan monger, and try to smother me with an old article on the Nicaraguan revolution that is perhaps of general relevance to what I am arguing, but not specifically responsive to what I have written here. In other words, you accuse me of being factually ignorant IN GENERAL--in itself an overly general way of arguing. Creegan _ 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] We Should All Support SYRIZA
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 12/12/14 5:06 PM, James Creegan via Marxism wrote: But if you have so much in-depth knowledge that I lack, why don't you try sifting through it and pulling out a few discrete facts or observations that tend to contradict what I'm saying, and allow me to respond (if I am. . able) with a few select facts and/or observations of my own. I am not here to educate you about Nicaragua. You make a foolish comparison between Mitterand and Daniel Ortega without taking into account that France was a powerful imperialist nation with a long history as a colonizer while Nicaragua was a country with a population the size of Brooklyn and a GNP less than what Americans spend on blue jeans in a year. And with one elevator in the entire country, with an economy already devastated by earthquake. And you think that the FSLN's problem was that it did not lay hands on the capitalists? How am I supposed to respond to that? It is such a cockeyed notion that it is not worth responding to. I posted a link to my article not for your benefit because you have been irreparably damaged by sectarianism. It is for young people who may have been born after the FSLN took power. I invited you to write something fully expecting you to weasel your way out of actually reading something about Nicaragua. In fact I don't think that mailing lists gain much from 4 or 5 sentence stupid comparisons between France and Nicaragua. If you were a bit more modest, you'd realize that you were wasting bandwidth with such empty bombast. You are not the first person mistrained in Spartacist League sectarianism that we have encountered in this neck of the woods, but the first since Marxmail was born. We had a slew of FSLN critics long ago, like Bob Malecki. It seems like a century ago, thank goodness. _ 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: Why Michel Foucault is the libertarian#65533; s bes t friend - The Washington Post
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. * Don't trust the Washington Post. For a better reading of Foucault's complicated politics, see this article on Jacobin: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/12/beyond-the-welfare-state/ Rad Luv! Charley - Reply message - From: Jim Farmelant via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu To: Charley Earp charle...@mailworks.org Subject: [Marxism] Fwd: Why Michel Foucault is the libertarianamp;#65533; s bes t friend - The Washington Post Date: Fri, Dec 12, 2014 1:12 PM 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 famous critic of psychiatry, Thomas Szasz, was both a staunch libertarian, and a great admirer of Foucault. I think Szasz picked up on the libertarian side of Foucault before anyone else did, including Foucault himself. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: [Marxism] Fwd: Why Michel Foucault is the libertarian#65533;s best friend - The Washington Post Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:36:00 -0500 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.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/11/why-michel-foucault-is-the-libertarians-best-friend/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/farmelantj%40juno.com Apple#39;s Crazy New Gizmo Forget the iPhone 6. Next hit Apple product leaked. #40;see picture#41; http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/548b3e7089d2e3e705261st02vuc _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/charley63%40mailworks.org _ 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: Why Michel Foucault is the libertarian#65533; s be s t friend - The Washington Post
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 is what I wrote about Foucault's politics a decade ago. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/31919 Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: charle...@mailworks.org via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu To: Jim Farmelant farmela...@juno.com Subject: Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Why Michel Foucault is the libertarian#65533; s bes t friend - The Washington Post Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:20:26 -0600 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. * Don't trust the Washington Post. For a better reading of Foucault's complicated politics, see this article on Jacobin: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/12/beyond-the-welfare-state/ Rad Luv! Charley --- Fast, Secure, NetZero 4G Mobile Broadband. Try it. http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=NZINTISP0512T4GOUT2 _ 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: Why Michel Foucault is the libertarian#65533; s be s t friend - The Washington Post
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 the article I linked by Peter Frase: Foucault analyzed... a system that could not simply continue on in static equilibrium; it had to be either transcended in a socialist direction, or, as happened, dismantled in a project of capitalist retrenchment. From this perspective, the importance of figures like Foucault is not just as misleaders or budding reactionaries, but as indicators of social democracy’s limits, and of the inability of the mainstream left at the time to reckon withthe crisis that its own victories had produced. By the same token, neoliberalism can be seen not just as a tool to smash the institutions of the working class, but also as a mystified and dishonest representation of the workers’ own frustrated desires for freedom and autonomy. The welfare state was never a transition to a socialist economy. It was precisely created to prevent socialism. Charley On 12/12/2014 8:17 PM, Jim Farmelant via Marxism wrote: 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 is what I wrote about Foucault's politics a decade ago. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/31919 Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: charle...@mailworks.org via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu To: Jim Farmelant farmela...@juno.com Subject: Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Why Michel Foucault is the libertarian#65533; s bes t friend - The Washington Post Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:20:26 -0600 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. * Don't trust the Washington Post. For a better reading of Foucault's complicated politics, see this article on Jacobin: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/12/beyond-the-welfare-state/ Rad Luv! Charley --- Fast, Secure, NetZero 4G Mobile Broadband. Try it. http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=NZINTISP0512T4GOUT2 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/charley63%40mailworks.org _ 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] Nicaragua Protesters Vow to Fight Giant Canal 'With Their Lives'
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