[Marxism] Geoff Pilling, British Marxist, 1940-1997

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Geoff Pilling was a very fine British Marxist writer on political economy.

A couple of his works are now up on the Marxist Internet Archive, including
his fine book Marx's 'Capital': philosophy and political economy.

Below is a review of the book when it first came out in 1981.  The review
is by my friend Tony Norfield, one of my favourite Marxist writers on
politics and economics.

https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/pillings-marxs-capital-philosophy-dialectics-political-economy/

Both Pilling and Tony deserve a wide readership.

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Bernie Sanders is no socialist: Socialism is his brand, but he?s a Democrat in every way but name - Salon.com

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...which tells us nothing about how he will do for the rest of the
campaign. He's slated to lose everywhere else, unless he can use victories
in Iowa and New Hampshire to generate momentum. There is no guarantee that
that will happen.

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> "I'm more concerned that Bernie, who is slated to lose the primary unless
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> Has Amith been asleep for the past couple weeks? Sanders is up in both
> Iowa and New Hampshire, with all the wind (and Killer Mike) at his back.
> Even the mainstream pundits now say he has a serious chance of winning the
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Re: [Marxism] Charlie Hebdo’s refugee cartoon

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Bernie Sanders is no socialist: Socialism is his brand, but he’s a Democrat in every way but name - Salon.com

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Thanks, Ralph. 

Those were the ideas and sentiments I would have liked to have articulated, but 
I clearly lack your gift of exposition. 

Louis,

Until Sanders came along and proved he could mobilize millions on behalf of 
these issues, I have always worked on the campaigns of and voted for 
third-party independents/Green candidates. I have always eschewed voting for or 
even paying any attention to DP candidates and primaries. I have engaged in 
endless (and usually fruitless) debates with left-leaning friends, colleagues, 
and comrades over the need to break with the DP. I only mention this so as to 
assure you I have zero illusions about the two party system. That said, I have 
come to the conclusion that the only way for us to even open up an avenue into 
the electoral system is to stop trying to create new and improved third parties 
and to instead work on forging a united front to institute an instant runoff 
voting system everywhere we can. You need to break down people's psychological 
barriers to voting third party first. That's really the only way you can do 
it...

> On Jan 17, 2016, at 2:10 AM, Ralph Johansen via Marxism 
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> Louis Proyect wrote
> 
> ...
> 
> “If he were running as an independent, I'd certainly support him. The problem 
> is that he is a Democrat. The key to class politics is creating a pole of 
> attraction to the left of the Democrats that can challenge wage slavery...”
> 
> 
> No one argues with your analysis of who and where Bernie is. What I disagree 
> with is that Bernie would be more effective for the cause that we espouse, 
> socialism, if he were running as an independent. Can you imagine what 
> response he would be getting as an independent, without access to the bully 
> pulpit furnished by the debates?
> 
> Given our experience here in the US, where there is appreciably no left in 
> existence, we might recall that Marx said “Hic rhodos, hic salta.” Here is 
> where we are. Here is where we dance. While not entirely apposite, it’s close 
> enough. It was a saying originating in Aesop that came to Marx through Hegel. 
> It is about a man who boasts of his exploits in Rhodes. The respondent tells 
> him to show us right here, where we are. This is where it will count.
> 
> Bernie has about as good a track record as a left advocate as anyone in the 
> three branches of government, even if within the Democratic Party which we 
> despise. The issue for me is, does he advocate changes which are consistent 
> with the move toward a better life for all, which therefore are consistent 
> with advance toward socialism. I say that he does, even if his rhetoric is 
> reformist and he’s very weak on foreign policy, and he may well endorse 
> Hillary if she becomes the Democratic candidate, without seeking to impose on 
> her platform in the general election the program that he calls for and that 
> brought him all this mass support. The point is for us to prevent her 
> nomination from happening, if we can, and he is all we have. He is not, as 
> Obama and Hillary and all the others repeatedly do, making the case for the 
> glories of capitalism, and he is therefore anathema to the media and the 
> establishment. His speeches resonate with millions, particularly young and 
> insecure people who have no quarrel with socialism, whatever they may think 
> it is. and who recognize their plight in what he describes. What he would do 
> once in office would, as always, depend very much on us. As an old retired 
> stiff with limited funds, I’m sending another $25 and will volunteer. I’m 
> prepared to be disillusioned, again and yet, but not sit out the only game 
> going.
> 
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Bernie Sanders is no socialist: Socialism is his brand, but he?s a Democrat in every way but name - Salon.com

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"I'm more concerned that Bernie, who is slated to lose the primary unless 
dramatic changes take place within the next month or so..."

Has Amith been asleep for the past couple weeks? Sanders is up in both Iowa and 
New Hampshire, with all the wind (and Killer Mike) at his back. Even the 
mainstream pundits now say he has a serious chance of winning the nomination.   
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[Marxism] Fwd: Carol | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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This year publicists sent out three film screeners about the lives of 
LGBT people for consideration by NYFCO in our December 2015 awards 
meeting. One was “Tangerine”, a film that was distinguished technically 
for having been made with IPhones but I could not even watch to 
conclusion since it was undistinguished in every other way. It starred 
transgender actress Kitani Kiki Rodriguez as a transgender prostitute 
who is trying to track down her pimp in Los Angeles and take revenge for 
him cheating on her. I found it amateurish, cartoonish and exploitative 
despite the 96 percent Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Moving right 
along, there’s “The Danish Girl”, a biopic based on transgender artist 
Lili Elbe who was the first man to ever undergo sexual reassignment 
surgery. It was a high-minded affair that smacked of Merchant-Ivory and 
hardly worth the 71 percent fresh rating it received on Rotten Tomatoes.


And then there is “Carol”, a film for the ages based on a Patricia 
Highsmith novel about the love affair of two lesbians. A number of her 
novels have been made into films, including the Hitchcock masterpiece 
“Strangers on a Train”. “Carol” was based on her 1952 novel titled “The 
Price of Salt” that appeared under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. Unlike 
many films and novels about homosexuals or lesbians such as “Brokeback 
Mountain”, Highsmith defied convention and gave her tale a happy ending. 
Perhaps this was related to the fact that she was a lesbian herself but 
just as easily could have been a function of her affection for outlaws 
in her novels, most especially Tom Ripley, the shifty and resourceful 
working class criminal of a number of her novels who aspires to join the 
bourgeoisie and succeeds on its own terms.


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[Marxism] Guardian: Dark Money review: Nazi oil, the Koch brothers and a rightwing revolution

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Re: [Marxism] WaPo: This number proves Bernie Sanders can win Iowa

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On 1/17/16 6:52 PM, Shalva Eliava via Marxism wrote:


"A little-noticed data point in the new Selzer & Co. Iowa poll, in
fact, shows that 43 percent of likely voters in the Feb. 1 caucuses
say they would use the word "socialist" to describe themselves."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/17/this-number-proves-bernie-sanders-can-win-iowa/


They mean it the same way that Sanders means it, a Scandinavian type 
society--one that has zero chance being built in the USA today, not to 
speak of places like Sweden.

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[Marxism] Guardian: At-risk students improve when they take a race and ethnicity class – study

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[Marxism] WaPo: This number proves Bernie Sanders can win Iowa

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"A little-noticed data point in the new Selzer & Co. Iowa poll, in fact, shows 
that 43 percent of likely voters in the Feb. 1 caucuses say they would use the 
word "socialist" to describe themselves."

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Re: [Marxism] WaPo: This number proves Bernie Sanders can win Iowa

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Can I ask some of the people with greater familiarity of electoral politics
-- what could/would this mean for Bernie in the rest of the country? My
understanding is that he is still lagging quite far behind. Would this help
him in other states down the line? Will he be able to take other Democratic
strongholds?

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[Marxism] Wide-ranging interview with FSA adviser: IS cannot be eliminated without us

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FSA adviser: IS cannot be eliminated without us
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/01/free-syrian-army-leader-regime-russia.html#

The Free Syrian Army emerged in late July 2011 after a number of 
officers defected from the Syrian army in protest against President 
Bashar al-Assad’s use of military force to suppress peaceful protests 
that had erupted March 18 that year in Daraa to demand his ouster and 
shortly thereafter spread across the country. Numerous formations and 
armed factions in northern and southern Syria now operate under FSA's 
umbrella, which espouses a national rhetoric and first raised the 
revolutionary flag with three stars. The FSA is currently fighting on 
two major fronts: against Assad and his allies, and against the Islamic 
State. On Jan. 10 via Skype, Al-Monitor interviewed Osama Abu Zeid, the 
FSA's legal adviser, who discussed the army's current situation, 
relations with the United States and Russia and views on Syria's future.


Summary⎙ Print In an Al-Monitor interview, Osama Abu Zeid, legal adviser 
for the Free Syrian Army, discusses the FSA's return to the forefront in 
light of Russia’s military intervention in the Syrian war.


Author Mohammed al-Khatieb Posted January 15, 2016
The text of the interview follows:

Al-Monitor:  Who comprises the FSA? In which areas does it operate? 
Which factions does it include?


Abu Zeid:  The FSA is deployed from Syria’s south to its north. It is 
mostly present in Daraa and Quneitra, represented by the Southern Front, 
and in the capital, Damascus, the FSA is positioned in the Jobar 
neighborhood, one of the most contested areas. Al-Rahman Corps and the 
Shuhada al-Islam Brigade [Martyrs of Islam Brigade], which are also part 
of the FSA, are stationed in western and eastern Ghouta. In northern 
Syria, the FSA is significantly present in Aleppo, represented by Thuwar 
al-Sham, al-Sham Front and Sultan Murad Brigade. [The FSA-affiliated] 
Jaish al-Nasr [Victory Army], the Glory Army and the Central Division 
are stationed in Hama’s countryside, while the largest number of FSA 
fighters deployed on the coast is represented by the 1st and 2nd Coastal 
Squads and the 10th Brigade.
The FSA consists of many factions, which are all participating in the 
tireless efforts to establish a military council, alongside moderate 
Islamic factions led by Jaish al-Islam, which recently started to issue 
joint statements with the FSA under the banner of the revolution. I 
would like to note that the absence of a unified FSA leadership is not 
due to any internal reason. Rather, it is due to supporters’ policies, 
which exploit our need for weapons.


Al-Monitor:  The FSA has recently returned to the forefront. Its role 
re-emerged in the battles in Latakia, Hama and Aleppo. How do you 
explain the timing of the resurgence?


Abu Zeid:  The true face of the Syrian revolution is the one that 
returned to the fore after the Russian aggression. Russia is known to be 
in disputes with the European Union and the United States. Thus when 
Russia enters any region, the media is bound to focus on it. When the 
focus is on Syria, it is only normal for the public to take notice when 
revolutionaries are fighting a global force, like Iran and Russia, and 
the thousands of foreign fighters in addition standing their ground 
against IS.


The FSA has not changed since the outbreak of the revolution, and we 
will fight anyone who stands in the way of Syrian demands, whether in 
the name of religion, such as IS, or under a secular banner, such as 
Russia, both of which have come to destroy the Syrian revolution under 
false slogans.


Al-Monitor:  Turkey announced its desire in September 2014 to create a 
safe zone in northern Syria. What is hindering the establishment of this 
zone? Would it stop the flow of refugees leaving Syria?


Abu Zeid:  The one hindering the establishment of this safe zone is none 
other than the US. This is not just an allegation. Rather, repeated 
statements were issued in this respect, [including] by Pentagon 
spokesman John Kirby, who said on July 1, 2015, that at that moment, the 
US did not see a need for the establishment of a safe zone in Syria.
Meanwhile, the regime’s air force dropped dozens of barrel bombs on 
Aleppo and Darayya, and the killing of civilians led to daily waves of 
displacement. Indeed, if a safe zone were established, more than 70% of 
the people heading to Europe by sea would change their minds. Syrians 
are not thrilled about the suicide journey to Europe, but they are in 
search of a safe haven. If such a zone is established, many Syrians will 
return to this region. We are people 

[Marxism] U.S. Wars, Police Violence and Incarcerations

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U.S. Wars, Police Violence and Incarcerations
By Bonnie Weinstein

Socialist Viewpoint

January/February 2015
http://www.socialistviewpoint.org/ 

The whole world is in turmoil suffering the capitalist descent into barbarism. 
Working people are just beginning to realize that we are all in the same 
sinking boat.

Across the globe, we are facing the economic reality of austerity for us, and 
untold accumulation of wealth for the ruling elite. Democratic rights are being 
decimated. Police brutality and murder are rampant. And while the military, 
police and the corporations can kill, mutilate and rob with impunity; the poor 
are locked up for the crime of being impoverished.

We are reaching a tipping point both in our climate crisis of capitalist 
pollution and environmental destruction and our overwhelming social crisis of 
unending war, poverty and criminalization of the poor. What workers do not yet 
realize is that we have the power to change all of this.

Workers have the power

There is a great divide between those with well-paying jobs, such as those 
working in the abundantly-funded military industrial complex, building bombs, 
etc., and the vast majority of the rest of us.

Not that the divide can’t be closed. But there needs to be a huge rise in 
consciousness. Workers need to realize that by working together democratically 
and in our own common interests, we can make the world a better place and, in 
fact, we are the only hope to make that happen!

The purpose of oppression

The huge U.S. military and incarceration complexes are indelibly linked. Their 
intent is to make capitalism appear all-powerful and make workers think, not 
only that we are weak and defenseless, but that workers of different races, 
religions, and sexual orientations—even occupations—are somehow our natural 
enemies. They want us to fight amongst ourselves for crumbs.

U.S. capitalism’s war for profits on the workers of nations across the 
globe—which is what U.S. wars are all about—is the very same war of police 
murder, brutality and mass incarceration of workers at home. The warlords are 
one in the same.

Capitalism’s wars and police violence are designed to inhibit workers’ 
solidarity—especially here in “the belly of the beast.”

The capitalists will do anything and everything in their power to blur the 
connection between capitalist, imperialist wars and the enforced poverty of the 
masses through austerity measures, police violence and incarceration here at 
home.

In effect, capitalism is forcing workers to pay for our own military 
bombardment and incarceration. And, we are being forced to supply the hard 
labor to build the weapons used to murder and oppress us, and to pave the road 
to their murderous descent into barbarism.

The capitalist class knows full well that the only force that can take this 
despotic power from them and change the world for the better is the unified 
force of the working class.

We can stop building weapons of violence, mass destruction and oppression and 
build the things we need for life, instead.

This will happen only when we come to the fundamental, conscious, realization 
that we can only reach our fullest potential as a humane society through peace, 
love, equality and cooperation. The current capitalist alternative—war, bigotry 
and competition—only leads to barbarism.

That’s why we have to oppose war and police violence as one and the same 
thing—capitalism’s method of getting us to blame and fight each other instead 
of them.

The chaos and descent into barbarism can sometimes be blinding; yet the 
solution is simple—end capitalism and build a socialist democracy worldwide 
under the control of the working class and in defense of all life on Earth!

The only solution is world socialist revolution! 

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[Marxism] Unemployment & Revolution in Libya

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Its obvious that high unemployment can be a critical driving force for a
revolution. However, it should also be clear that the immediate impact of a
revolution will most likely be even greater unemployment. During the war
period "unemployment" doesn't come into the picture as the masses take off
from work to overthrow the state. After that task is completed, everybody
doesn't just go back to their old jobs, for reasons that are beyond the
scope... Counter-revolutionaries of all stripes can always use the fact
that cures often come with their own pains to attack any revolution.
According to this paper, unemployment in Libya stood at ~13% in 2010 and is
~19% today.
I haven't read the 103p World Bank report yet, but I think it looks
interesting enough to pass on the links:
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/06/24650277/labor-market-dynamics-libya-reintegration-recovery
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[Marxism] Republican ideas

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(Was Charlie Hebdo’s refugee cartoon)
Saman Sepehr said (in part) 
 They have become (and have been for a while) racist Islamophobic apologists 
for France's supposed superior Republican ideas under the guise of being 
against "religion".

Ken Hiebert replies:
I don't have a problem with republican ideas.  Do they include separation of 
church and state, abolition of the monarchy and aristocracy?  I think those 
ideas are superior to what came before.
The editors may believe that they are fighting for such ideas.  But ridiculing 
the beliefs of the most oppressed in France, along with revolting cartoons 
mocking the death of a three year old refugee, can only have the effect of 
strengthening religious identification among Muslim immigrants.



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