[Marxism] Are 71 Syrian refugees found dead in Austria part of Assad's holocaust?
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. * New from Linux Beach: Are 71 Syrian refugees found dead in Austria part of Assad's holocaust? http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/08/are-71-syrian-refugees-found-dead-in.html We now know that the 71 dead bodies found in the back of a truck on a road in Austria were refugees from Syria. They left Syria, not for economic reasons, as with so many migrants from Africa and the Middle East; they fled Syria as refugees because for four years now *Syrian President Bashat al-Assad* has responded to the popular demand that he step down my making war on civilians http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2013/07/assads-new-strategy-nothing-makes.html. I think these deaths, like a growing number, are the result of what I am beginning to call Assad's holocaust. *UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon* must be feeling the much same. He said http://www.un.org/press/en/2015/sgsm17039.doc.htm the Syrian war had /“just been manifested on a roadside in the heart of Europe.”/ *More...* http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/08/are-71-syrian-refugees-found-dead-in.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] Turkey: Growing 'Peace bloc' resists regime's war drive
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 Peace Bloc formed soon after the June 7 elections when the Turkish military started to build up on the Syrian border. It involves about 90 political parties, NGOs, unions, and groups organised around environmental and LGBTI issues. It includes 18 MPs from the main opposition party, the social democratic Republican People's Party (CHP). More people and groups join the Bloc every day. Now big cities and towns are forming their own local Peace Blocs, organising local people. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/59917 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker _ 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] MRZine features tweets of Jacobin pro-Assad propagandist Patrick Higgins
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 Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: I did not quote Max. I *characterized* him, just as I would characterize you In other words, you made up yet another false claim with no basis. It's an odd habit, and certainly not one likely to win you much respect, but I guess it's harmless as we're all aware of it. -- Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað. _ 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] MRZine features tweets of Jacobin pro-Assad propagandist Patrick Higgins
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 Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: Max Ajl, a pro-Palestinian activist like Patrick Higgins who somehow has talked himself into believing that Bashar al-Assad is a friend of the Palestinian struggle When did he say that? -- Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað. _ 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] MRZine features tweets of Jacobin pro-Assad propagandist Patrick Higgins
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 8/29/15 9:37 AM, Joseph Catron wrote: On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com mailto:l...@panix.com wrote: I did not quote Max. I *characterized* him, just as I would characterize you In other words, you made up yet another false claim with no basis. It's an odd habit, and certainly not one likely to win you much respect, but I guess it's harmless as we're all aware of it. This from someone who has written for Friends of Syria, a website that proclaims: Revealing the Truth Half the World, Support Bashar Al Assad. And when 108 people were killed, including 34 women and 49 children, were slaughtered at Houla in Syria in 2012, he had the audacity to lecture Marxmail that silence was preferable to statements against Baathist murder. What else would you expect? _ 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: Robots and AI: utopia or dystopia? – part two | Michael Roberts Blog
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[Marxism] MRZine features tweets of Jacobin pro-Assad propagandist Patrick Higgins
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. * Donny Diggins is the twitter tag of Patrick Higgins who has a long pro-Assad article on the Jacobin website. Fascinating that two such seemingly disparate voices on the left can share such a deep affinity for a dictator that is now suspected of dropping thermobaric bombs on apartment buildings (https://news.vice.com/article/a-new-kind-of-bomb-is-being-used-in-syria-and-its-a-humanitarian-nightmare). Can you think of two people more unalike than Yoshie Furuhashi and Bhaskar Sunkara? I can't. It should be added, of courses, that Bhaskar probably hasn't given too much thought to what is going on in Syria and relies on the input of editorial board member Max Ajl, a pro-Palestinian activist like Patrick Higgins who somehow has talked himself into believing that Bashar al-Assad is a friend of the Palestinian struggle despite having tortured 168 Palestinians to death in his dungeons. _ 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] Marxmailer, a character in a movie
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. * Last night I told Gibney in the QA that Rod was a comrade and that DESPITE all the crap that Jobs did, depicted in full detail in the film, Rod had the highest regard for him. On 8/29/15 1:54 AM, Lüko Willms wrote: *Last night I told Gibney in the QA that Rod was a comrade and that all the crap that Jobs did, depicted in full detail in the film, Rod had the highest regard for him.* _ 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] MRZine features tweets of Jacobin pro-Assad propagandist Patrick Higgins
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 8/29/15 8:25 AM, Joseph Catron wrote: On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu mailto:marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: Max Ajl, a pro-Palestinian activist like Patrick Higgins who somehow has talked himself into believing that Bashar al-Assad is a friend of the Palestinian struggle When did he say that? I did not quote Max. I *characterized* him, just as I would characterize you as being prone to the same sort of bad faith apologetics for Assad that you have circulated on and off since 2011. The technique is not to fawn over the Assads, as Yoshie has, but to demonize the FSA as the Cornell SJP did in a statement almost certainly written by Ajl: Nor do we forget that it was the Free Syrian Army, the brand-name for the “milder” of the Western-armed gangs which have rampaged across Syria, along with Jabhat al-Nusra and other reactionary militias, which went into Yarmouk a year ago. It was their decision to enter the camp in late 2012 which led to the subsequent violence and its emptying out, with its people now in global scatter, some literally drowning in the Mediterranean. (I can dismantle this filthy piece of Baathist propaganda but my energy will be better spent on replying to the jackass Patrick Higgins.) _ 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] Marxmailer, a character in a movie [re. Steve Jobs]
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. * Remarks on Steve Jobs as a Phenomenon [The producers of the first Jobs movie, Jobs kindly loaned a preprint to the Roxie Theater in San Francisco so that my old friends and Apple co-workers could have a party—which we did, wall to wall. After the showing that Thursday afternoon, here and there, I offered my opinion on the movie and its social meaning. That raised a few eyebrows and more questions. I have since been asked to explain myself, a reasonable request. Since my outlook differs a lot from that of many of us, I thought it proper to clarify what I meant when I talked about Steve as being intrinsically anti-capitalist. By that I meant that Steve was opposed to the “alienation of labor”, while the alienation of labor is intrinsic to capitalist production. The term “alienation of labor” is a technical term, and like many in philosophy and economics, doesn’t quite mean what one would think. The shortest explanation of the concept is found in Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx's_theory_of_alienation Of course, the concept is not the property of Marx but has been part of the thinking of many thinkers since the rise of capitalism. In the Wikipedia article, there is a quotation where Marx imagines production with non-alienated labor: “… In your enjoyment, or use, of my product I would have the direct enjoyment both of being conscious of having satisfied a human need by my work, that is, of having objectified man’s essential nature, and of having thus created an object corresponding to the need of another man’s essential nature. . . . Our products would be so many mirrors in which we saw reflected our essential nature. Steve Jobs wanted his products enjoyed as expressing his essential nature, and therefore in the general sense, he was an artist with the development team and its laboratories as his studio. In the capitalist system, products are produced by workers paid in money and with tools owned by the capitalist. The sole purpose of the product is to be sold to realize a profit. This process eliminates the artist altogether. Wikipedia sums this up: In a capitalist society, the worker’s alienation from his and her humanity occurs because the worker can only express labour — a fundamental social aspect of personal individuality — through a privately-owned system of industrial production in which each worker is an instrument, a thing, not a person. So the product of labor under capitalism, the commodity, is not what Steve Jobs intended to sell. He was selling something better, something more. As far as he was concerned, profit was just fine, but not at the expense of that “something more.” I wrote the few paragraphs below without a discussion of the alienation of labor, which is an unusual social-philosophical concept. As a result of this omission, there were some misunderstandings. For example, the alienation of labor does not mean the alienation of workers. The fact that Steve was driven by his vision of beautiful products, “insanely great” as he would say, didn’t prevent us from glorying in our own contribution of non-alienated labor. I do not believe Steve grasped the notion of alienated labor in and of itself. It is impossible to imagine the tens of thousands of Chinese laborers getting any whiff of the intoxicating perfume in the air we enjoyed in the early years at Apple. = Let me take on the task of explaining my view of Steve and the First Five Years of Apple Computer. Over the years, I've listened to lots of people with theories of how Apple succeeded, what was the magic ingredient, and whether the life of Steve Jobs verified the Great Man theory of history or not. I believe that the overwhelming majority of commentators miss the point completely. This is not surprising not only because they weren't there, but also because what actually went on at Apple completely contradicts some central myths of Modern Capitalism. I will state my thesis here as briefly as I can. I will not be writing a book proving every jot and tittle on the way to a grand conclusion. However, I feel competent to defend the thesis against any opponent. The first few years of Apple Computer were remarkable because labor was not alienated labor in the Marxist sense. We were not producing commodities for the sake of profit. In many respects, even as the company grew beyond all expectations, inertia carried this extraordinary characteristic forward until the Scully era. The first three years at Apple were marked by a strong bond between all the participants, and between all of us and the product. We were building a product for
Re: [Marxism] Are 71 Syrian refugees found dead in Austria part of Assad's holocaust?
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. * 3,500 Afghans Fight In Syria As Iran Use Refugees To Bolster Assad: “Many Afghan Shiite Fighters Have Suffered The Fate Of Being Used As Cannon Fodder” Aug 26 2015 By Mirwais Adeel, Khaama Press The latest estimates suggest at least 3,500 Afghans are fighting in Syria in support of Bashar al-Assad, shedding light on growing recruitment of Afghans in the conflict which was around 500 less as compared to estimates three months back. Relatives of a number of those killed while fighting for the Syrian regime have said the Afghan nationals are lured by the month salary of $700 and Iranian residency permit. Phillip Smyth, an expert on Shiite militant groups, told AFP an estimated 2,000 to 3,500 Afghans are currently fighting in Syria. He said “In terms of how they are recruited, deployed, and utilized in Syria, many Afghan Shiite fighters have suffered the fate of being used as cannon fodder.” Smyth further added “Some are coerced to fight; others promised residency papers for their family, and a small salary. It demonstrates Iran’s exploitation of Afghan Shiite refugees.” This comes as a video emerged from Syria three months ago which purportedly showed the capture of four Afghan nationals by the Syrian rebels. Two teenage boys are also seen among those captured during the clashes apparently by the rebels belonging to the Free Syrian Army. The group was reportedly deployed to Syria to take part in the ongoing conflict by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. The men appearing in the video introduces them while speaking in Dari language and describes unemployment as the main reason behind their decision to fight in Syria. Dozens of Afghan nationals were reportedly killed late in December last year while fighting in support of the Syrian regime led by Bashar al-Assad. According to the estimates back in April, some 3,000 Afghan nationals have been deployed to take part in the ongoing Syria conflict. The Afghan militants are fighting on both sides of the Syrian war, in support of the Syria Bashar al-Assad and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants. Informed sources in the Afghan government have also confirmed that the number includes Iranian-backed Shiites fighting a proxy war in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and against Islamic State and other rebel groups. The participation of Afghan militants in Syria war has sparked concerns among the Afghan officials some will return to fight in Afghanistan under Islamic State’s banner. -Original Message- From: Clay Claiborne via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sent: Aug 29, 2015 2:38 AM To: Thomas F Barton thomasfbar...@earthlink.net Subject: [Marxism] Are 71 Syrian refugees found dead in Austria part of Assad's holocaust? New from Linux Beach: Are 71 Syrian refugees found dead in Austria part of Assad's holocaust? http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/08/are-71-syrian-refugees-found-dead-in.html We now know that the 71 dead bodies found in the back of a truck on a road in Austria were refugees from Syria. They left Syria, not for economic reasons, as with so many migrants from Africa and the Middle East; they fled Syria as refugees because for four years now *Syrian President Bashat al-Assad* has responded to the popular demand that he step down my making war on civilians http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2013/07/assads-new-strategy-nothing-makes.html. I think these deaths, like a growing number, are the result of what I am beginning to call Assad's holocaust. *UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon* must be feeling the much same. He said http://www.un.org/press/en/2015/sgsm17039.doc.htm the Syrian war had /“just been manifested on a roadside in the heart of Europe.”/ *More...* http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/08/are-71-syrian-refugees-found-dead-in.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] Fwd: Patrick Higgins’s war on the truth | 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. * Perhaps the oddest thing about the Baathist propaganda piece by Patrick Higgins is that it appeared at all. Titled “The War on Syria”, it is the sort of item that appeared with great frequency in 2012 and that came to a climax in late 2013 when what appeared to be thousands of articles flooded across the leftwing of the Internet warning about Obama’s readiness to invade Syria over “red lines” being crossed in East Ghouta. Careful examination of the military and political record, however, would reveal that no such thing was in the offing as I pointed out in a CounterPunch article titled “Why Obama Did Not Make War on Syria”. Indeed, just when so much of the left was running around like Chicken Little, it was exactly when Obama was on the phone with Iran exploring rapprochement—the country that supposedly he was bent on destroying. full: http://louisproyect.org/2015/08/29/patrick-higginss-war-on-the-truth/ _ 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: Between the Power and the Dream | Solidarity
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Re: [Marxism] [Critical-Syria] Russian military buildup 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. * That's a much more creditable source than this story I posted to the list earlier: The Russian army is beginning to engage in Syria http://www.voltairenet.org/article188522.html So it is staring to sound like something is brewing. On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Terry Burke - Andy Berman terryand...@gmail.com wrote: https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/565807-russia-ramps-up-syria-military-involvement-pro-assad-paper _ 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: Russia ramps up Syria military involvement: pro-Assad paper
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Russia ramps up Syria military involvement: pro-Assad paper
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. * Too little, too late: “Much Of Syria Slips Out Of The Control Of President Bashar Al-Assad” “You Know How On The Titanic, As It Is Sinking, You Have The Band Playing The Last Few Songs? It Is Sort Of Like That.” “It Is Almost Manic In The Sense Of They’re Going Over The Top To Pretend That Everything Is Fine” Aug. 26, 2015 By Raja Abdulrahim, Wall Street Journal [Excerpts] On the day in May when Islamic State militants raised their black flag above the ancient city of Palmyra, the Damascus Opera House featured a singer in a rumpled black suit belting out traditional Arabic ballads. Members of the audience were herded together so the half-empty auditorium appeared full on state television, and the crowd whistled, clapped and danced in the aisles for the benefit of the cameras. This week, as the extremist militants blew up a 2,000-year-old temple in Palmyra, the opera house in the capital 150 miles to the west prepared to open an art exhibit. “It is great that we still have these activities despite the war,” a man in his 50s was overheard telling his wife during the performance in May. “Syria is always strong.” As much of Syria slips out of the control of President Bashar al-Assad, his ability to persuade his people that the country will remain normal as long as he is in power has become indispensable to his regime’s survival. The government now only controls one-sixth of Syria’s territory, the IHS Conflict Monitor said in a report issued last week, and maintaining a semblance of ordinary life in that area has become more necessary than ever. In Damascus, Tuesday is now ladies night at Z-Bar, featuring DJ Tareq. The government continues to host events such as a conference in May to mark World Migratory Bird Day, even though half the country’s human population, or some 11.5 million people, have been forced from their homes. Weekend pool parties, a summer ritual, go on as usual despite a water crisis plaguing much of the country. “We’re hearing of these over-the-top parties. It is almost manic in the sense of they’re going over the top to pretend that everything is fine,” said Amr al-Azm, a professor of Middle East history and anthropology at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio. “You know how on the Titanic, as it is sinking, you have the band playing the last few songs? It is sort of like that.” On Mr. Assad’s Instagram account, the Syrian leader is pictured meeting with soldiers and clerics while his wife Asma greets top students, mothers and members of the country’s Special Olympics team. Although few foreign tourists now dare visit Syria, state media gave daily coverage to a weeklong visit in April by a delegation of French tourists. Photos of crowded clubs and art exhibits in regime-controlled areas posted on social media contrast with images from the rest of Syria: limp bodies being pulled from rubble, barefoot children in tent cities and corpses of Islamic State victims hung from crosses. “Showing Damascus as still living a normal life was one of its goals from the beginning,” a resident of the capital said of the regime. It is “focused on activities and parties and other things that are far from our reality.” Hotel rooms and chalets in the coastal cities of Latakia and Tartous had to be booked a month in advance this summer, as vacationers from Damascus and Homs flooded to the Mediterranean coast beaches to swim and sunbathe as in years past. In the city of Aleppo, some residents still take to the sidewalks at night to picnic and barbecue, a city tradition that survives despite the perils of rocket and artillery fire from rebel groups. After an attack in June that state media said killed 23 and wounded dozens of people, Aleppo’s governor said life was normal in the city’s markets. “The government has to maintain this facade of everything is OK. Otherwise, these people don’t feel safe,” Mr. Azm said. “Already the credibility of the regime has been questioned repeatedly every time the regime loses an important battle.” Nowhere is the regime’s portrait of life in Syria more skewed than on social media, especially the Twitter feed for SANA, Syria’s state news agency. Between tweets about government forces killing terrorists—the catchall term for all government opponents—are posts about disco and salsa parties. But a Twitter campaign by SANA in June that urged followers to “snap us your moments of summer in #Syria using the hashtag #SummerInSyria” was used by opposition groups and activists to tweet photos showing child victims of government airstrikes, burning buildings and destroyed markets. Yet the Assad
[Marxism] Fwd: The cleansing of Zabadani | Leila's blog
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. * In January 2012, Zabadani was liberated by the Free Army. As the state retreated the town’s people came together to keep their community functioning and to try alternatives to decades-long dictatorship. Martyred anarchist Omar Aziz was involved in setting up the local council. Its members were elected with wide popular participation including by Christian residents of the Sunni-majority town. Young revolutionaries produced a weekly magazine, ‘Oxygen’, dedicated to peaceful resistance and providing analysis of the revolution. A photography collective called Lens Young Zabadani was set up to document daily life. full: https://leilashrooms.wordpress.com/2015/08/29/the-cleansing-of-zabadani/ _ 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
