Re: [Marxism] The Russian army is beginning to engage in Syria
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. * -Original Message- From: Jeff via Marxism Russia ... has just created a Russo-Syrian Commission, has begun supplying weapons, sharing intelligence, and sending advisors. None of that sounds new at all. Or am I missing something? Not the slightest bit new, and so rather uninteresting. On the other hand, the next line - All of this is more or less coordinated with the White House - rings entirely true to me, despite Meyssan being a noted conspiracist. In fact, Russian and US overall strategy in Syria is now more closely aligned than ever it seems. _ 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] inquiry
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. * Can anyone tell me the names of Marxist journals that review novels? Please write to me offline. George Snedeker _ 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 RUSSIAN AND CHINESE WORKERS' STATES THREATEN WORLD CAPITALISM DESPITE STALINISM!
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. * Yes, I agree that the article's commentary is absurd. The fact that this writer does not see the obvious does not, in fact, make it less obvious. It just says something about the writer. It has never ceased to amaze me how much people in the West can detach themselves from the lived reality of upwards of billions of people, whether they be sweatshop laborers in China, the toiling masses in the Soviet Union (when it was around), the peoples of the so-called Third World, etc. But I don't think the answer is to engage in reductionism. The answer is to point out that regardless of its similarities or differences with the United States or Russia, China has enabled the exploitation of hundreds of millions of people at the hands of MNCs. - Amith _ 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 left gains in Argentina's elections
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Full Socialist Worker's article: http://socialistworker.org/2015/08/25/the-left-gains-in-argentinas-elections THE LEFT and Workers Front (FIT by its Spanish initials) made impressive gains in national primary elections held in Argentina earlier this month. The FIT won over 726,000 votes for around 3.3 percent of the total, assuring Nicolás del Caño and his running mate Myriam Bregman one of six spots on the presidential ballot on October 25. While still modest in national terms, these results will situate the FIT's far-left constituent elements squarely in the middle of international discussions of the relationship between parliamentary campaigns and grassroots social and class struggles, a dynamic expressed most forcefully in Greece. However, any simple comparison with Greece is misleading, or at least premature. Argentine politics has a flavor all its own that must be appreciated in order to make sense of the conjuncture. _ 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: Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked - The Awl
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[Marxism] Tax cuts for the rich in Australia? Seriously Treasurer?
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[Marxism] WHY RUSSIAN AND CHINESE WORKERS' STATES THREATEN WORLD CAPITALISM DESPITE STALINISM!
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[Marxism] In Gaza...
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. * NYT finds ruin (and, predictably does not find Israel at fault for that): http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/world/middleeast/one-year-after-war-people-of-gaza-still-sit-among-the-ruins.html?referrer=_r=0 ...whereas WaPo finds a charmingly Western middle class: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/gaza-middle-class-discovers-spin-classes-fine-dining-private-beaches/2015/08/23/7e23843c-45d5-11e5-9f53-d1e3ddfd0cda_story.html _ 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] NYT: In a Twist, Europe May Find Itself Relying on Success of Alexis Tsipras of Greece
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[Marxism] NYT: From Venezuela to Iraq to Russia, Oil Price Drops Raise Fears of Unrest
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Re: [Marxism] The Russian army is beginning to engage in Syria
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * At 12:56 24-08-15 -0700, Clay Claiborne via Marxism wrote: http://www.voltairenet.org/article188522.html The author of the piece Thierry Meyssan is associated with conspiracy theories, so I would be somewhat skeptical of the article's contents. Is there any independent evidence for his claims? On the other hand, the actual claim corresponding to the headline is: Russia ... has just created a Russo-Syrian Commission, has begun supplying weapons, sharing intelligence, and sending advisors. None of that sounds new at all. Or am I missing something? - Jeff _ 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] Fw: Is Iran trying to create another Israel in Syria?
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. * clip: The internecine war in Syria, as far as the Iranian regime and Hizbullah are concerned, is a sectarian war by excellence whose central goal is to create an Alawite entity in the so-called Damascus-Hums-Lathakia Triangle. And the way to expedite this goal is to depopulate entire towns and districts, either by way of exterminating the Sunni population or by way of driving the wrong people out of their homes. In fact, one would exaggerate very little by comparing the ethnic cleansing of Palestine at the hands of the Zionist gangs in 1948 with what is happening in Syria today at the hands of the Iranians who have come to control the capital of the Umayyads. Is Iran trying to create another Israel in Syria? http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=73098 Khalid Amayreh By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied Palestine I know the title of this article might raise some eyebrows in some quarters. However, in light of the internecine war in Syria, especially the shameless Iranian efforts to depopulate some Sunni towns and villages in order to resettle them with Shiite settlers, one can't just pretend that the Iranians are just behaving within the normal order of things and that they are only pursuing legitimate political goals just like other global and regional powers do. This is simply not the case. Iran, which is trying to assert itself as the main regional power in the Middle East (besides Israel) is simply trying to revive the ancient Persian empire at the expense of Arabs and Muslims. Needless to say, a key part of this grand anti-Arab scheme is to create an Alawite Shiite entity along the Syrian cost preferably, one with territorial contiguity and demographic continuity with Shiite areas in Lebanon. The recent efforts by Iran to ethnically cleanse the Sunni population of the city of Zabadani is very telling and cast serious doubts on Iranian intentions. The Iranian scheme would probably be culminated with the long-sought mass conversion of the esoteric Alawite sect into the Jaafari Ithnaashari twelvers sect with which most Shiites in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon are affiliated. Many Shiite leaders are now convinced that time is appropriate and ripe for such conversion, given the unprecedented clout which Iran and its allies now have on the Syrian regime. Another Nazi-like massacre The hair-raising massacre at Duma near Damascus on Sunday 16 August was an additional evidence underscoring the Nazi credentials of the Syrian Alawite regime and its supporters. What else can be said of a murderous sectarian gang that knowingly, deliberately and so brazenly slaughters innocent civilians in order to stay in power a few more months or years? According to news reports, the regime's warplanes fired several missiles on three marketplaces in the city of Duma near Damascus. The marketplaces were bustling with people, especially young children selling petty items, in order to support their starving families. The result was a huge inferno, with as many as 120 people getting killed and hundreds others injured, many with life-threatening wounds. Needless to say, there can be no justifications under the sun that could make such a horrendous crime less outrageous than it seems. The latest atrocity by the Assad gang, which is funded, armed and sustained by the Tehran regime, is not an isolated act of brutality. Quite the contrary, it represents the modus operandi of a Hitlerian regime that seems hell-bent on annihilating the Syrian people in order to stay in power. It is also an added proof that the Alawite gang cannot be rehabilitated and that it must be crushed at any price. The Iranian regime and its allies, including the Lebanese Shiite militia Hizbullah, who shamelessly side with the murderous gang in Damascus, can have no moral ground justifying their evil embrace of the Assad gang. Indeed, both Iran and the hateful Lebanese gang ignored the Duma atrocity and continued their ranting about the grievances of the people of Bahrain. It is just pure sectarian hatred; that is if we want to call the spade a spade. I know Iran and its numerous mouthpieces would try to outsmart themselves in an effort to portray a different image for their brutal ugliness. But things are crystal clear and no attempt at deception or misrepresentation of the truth would succeed. Real Holocaust It would be dishonest to deny that what is happening in Syria is a holocaust. After all, we are talking about hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians being murdered and maimed. Millions expelled from their homes and entire towns leveled to the ground. None the less, we see that that the big powers are
[Marxism] Right-wing extremists plotting violent attacks on US Muslims, FBI says
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. * Right-wing extremists plotting violent attacks on US Muslims, FBI warns Militia extremists are expanding their target sets to include Muslims and Islamic religious institutions in the United States,” the FBI bulletin warns. “This has resulted in increased violent rhetoric and plotting and has the potential to lead, over the long term, to additional harassment of or violence against Muslims by domestic extremists.” Among the disturbing examples the FBI cites, the most shocking occurred in Mississippi last September, where extremists “discussed kidnapping and beheading a Muslim and posting video of the attack to the Internet.” The group disbanded before acting on their plans. Ironically, the FBI concludes that the targeting of Muslims by militias “is a product of ideology that views Muslims collectively with suspicion” – precisely the same ideology underpinning the FBI’s surveillance https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/09/under-surveillance/ and entrapment http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment-fake-terror-plots programs aimed at Muslims. “It’s very clear that American religious right organizations are increasingly on the attack with respect to Islam,” Potok said. He cited groups like the American Family Association that have specialized in anti-LGBT rhetoric. “Those organizations over the last year or so have moved heavily into propaganda against Muslims.” Yet the US government has done shockingly little https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/expert-obama-ignored-surge-rightwing-extremism-inspired-charleston-killer to counter right-wing extremism, instead devoting its resources almost exclusively to Islamic extremism. As right-wing militias train their sights at Muslim communities with little government resistance, concern is rising that it is only a matter of time before someone pulls the trigger. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/right-wing-extremists-plotting-violent-attacks-us-muslims-fbi-warns?utm_source=EI+readersutm_campaign=f11eada589-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGNutm_medium=emailutm_term=0_e802a7602d-f11eada589-290662377 _ 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 RUSSIAN AND CHINESE WORKERS' STATES THREATEN WORLD CAPITALISM DESPITE STALINISM!
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. * Russia is run by a corrupt pack of super rich capitalists, called oligarchs, who intend to oppress and exploit every piece of the earth they can get their hands on for their Empire, and don’t give a shit about freedom, democracy, the right of nations to self-determination, or anything else besides heaping up their money. The United States is run by a corrupt pack of super rich capitalists, called oligarchs, who intend to oppress and exploit every piece of the earth they can get their hands on for their Empire, and don’t give a shit about freedom, democracy, the right of nations to self-determination, or anything else besides heaping up their money. China is run by a corrupt pack of super rich capitalists, called oligarchs, who intend to oppress and exploit every piece of the earth they can get their hands on for their Empire, and don’t give a shit about freedom, democracy, the right of nations to self-determination, or anything else besides heaping up their money. Please excuse restatement of the obvious. T -Original Message- From: Anthony Brain via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sent: Aug 25, 2015 8:20 PM To: Thomas F Barton thomasfbar...@earthlink.net Subject: [Marxism] WHY RUSSIAN AND CHINESE WORKERS' STATES THREATEN WORLD CAPITALISM DESPITE STALINISM! 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. * https://defendtrotskyism.wordpress.com/2015/08/26/the-world-wide-revolutionary-socialst-implications-of-the-chinese-workers-state-growing-at-the-detriment-to-world-capitalist-market-by-anthony-brain/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/thomasfbarton%40earthlink.net _ 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 RUSSIAN AND CHINESE WORKERS' STATES THREATEN WORLD CAPITALISM DESPITE STALINISM!
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. * Without jumping on the tanky I-love-Putin bandwagon, I have to add that I don't think this kind of reductionism makes sense. There are huge differences between the ruling elites in different countries just as there are differences among them. Saying that they are all crooks, outside of being a statement of the obvious, does not contribute to discussion. For one thing I think it is important when local elites form a sort of counterweight to elites elsewhere. But I don't think that is actually what the BRICS countries are doing, and to the extent that they are doing it it does not seem to have much pay off in the long run. - Amith On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Thomas via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu 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. * Russia is run by a corrupt pack of super rich capitalists, called oligarchs, who intend to oppress and exploit every piece of the earth they can get their hands on for their Empire, and don’t give a shit about freedom, democracy, the right of nations to self-determination, or anything else besides heaping up their money. The United States is run by a corrupt pack of super rich capitalists, called oligarchs, who intend to oppress and exploit every piece of the earth they can get their hands on for their Empire, and don’t give a shit about freedom, democracy, the right of nations to self-determination, or anything else besides heaping up their money. China is run by a corrupt pack of super rich capitalists, called oligarchs, who intend to oppress and exploit every piece of the earth they can get their hands on for their Empire, and don’t give a shit about freedom, democracy, the right of nations to self-determination, or anything else besides heaping up their money. Please excuse restatement of the obvious. T -Original Message- From: Anthony Brain via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sent: Aug 25, 2015 8:20 PM To: Thomas F Barton thomasfbar...@earthlink.net Subject: [Marxism] WHY RUSSIAN AND CHINESE WORKERS' STATES THREATEN WORLD CAPITALISM DESPITE STALINISM! 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. * https://defendtrotskyism.wordpress.com/2015/08/26/the-world-wide-revolutionary-socialst-implications-of-the-chinese-workers-state-growing-at-the-detriment-to-world-capitalist-market-by-anthony-brain/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/thomasfbarton%40earthlink.net _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com _ 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
