[Marxism] Have you revieved this in Marxmail?
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. * ANSWER THE SWEDISH FASCIST THREATS AGAINST REFUGEES WITH MASS ACTION OF MILLIONS OF WORKRS AND OPPRESSED! BY ANTHONY BRAIN | | | | | | | | | | | ANSWER THE SWEDISH FASCIST THREATS AGAINS...When I was going through Twitter tonight looking for information that the Swedish government has capitulated to racist hysteria by announcing they are deporting 80,... | | | | View on defendtrotskyism.wor... | Preview by Yahoo | | | | | _ 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] My answer to Swedish Fascist threats to refugees!
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[Marxism] Ergon workers defy Qld ALP’s Debt Action Plan
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 the 20th January workers at Ergon Bundaberg Depot walked off their jobs in protest at proposed plans to cut positions and increase outsourcing. This followed a similar action in Atherton the previous Friday. Whilst this industrial action has received little news coverage it is of incredible importance. It is the articulation of a group of workers’ collective self-interest in a way that actually points to the deep flaws in the ALP state government’s attempt to manage the challenge of funding social reproduction and honouring the state’s debts (in the context of the end of the mining boom which is a symptom of the Global Recession). What this struggle shows us is that under the layers of mystification debt is ultimately about class struggles: debt hinges on the struggle between the ability of capital to secure the future of its profits via the imposition of work and discipline today and our collective ability to refuse it and assert our dignity and desires." https://thewordfromstrugglestreet.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/ergon-workers-defy-qld-alps-debt-action-plan/ _ 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] World Perspectives 2016
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Oregon Militia Spokesman Has Been Killed and Its Leaders Detained After FBI Confrontation | VICE News
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 American SWP is a whackjob Zionist organization. But like with the Waco Siege, Ruby Ridge, etc, I don't think it is right to side with federal agents when they shoot someone during a standoff of this nature. - Amith On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:31 PM, Wayne M. Collins 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. > * > > > That the SWP endorsed an occupation by right wing nuts is trivial. But > that the law killed someone is not. Not knowing the details so far, it > still could be lawless enforcement again - as it was at Waco. > > > -Original Message- > From: Louis Proyect via Marxism > To: Wayne M. Collins > Sent: Wed, Jan 27, 2016 4:28 am > Subject: [Marxism] Fwd: The Oregon Militia Spokesman Has Been Killed and > Its Leaders Detained After FBI Confrontation | VICE News > > 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 hate to bring up trivia on Marxmail but I must mention that the > American SWP found reasons to back the occupation. > > > https://news.vice.com/article/ammon-bundy-militia-leader-in-oregon-taken-into-custody-after-reported-firefight > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/shacht%40aol.com > > _ > 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
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Oregon Militia Spokesman Has Been Killed and Its Leaders Detained After FBI Confrontation | VICE News
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 local and state governments seemed to be getting really upset with the Feds lack of action. This seemed to be an attempt to take some action without having to storm the building. Mark McConnell, who was there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP-b6_X4M4k _ 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: The Oregon Militia Spokesman Has Been Killed and Its Leaders Detained After FBI Confrontation | VICE News
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 the SWP endorsed an occupation by right wing nuts is trivial. But that the law killed someone is not. Not knowing the details so far, it still could be lawless enforcement again - as it was at Waco. -Original Message- From: Louis Proyect via Marxism To: Wayne M. Collins Sent: Wed, Jan 27, 2016 4:28 am Subject: [Marxism] Fwd: The Oregon Militia Spokesman Has Been Killed and Its Leaders Detained After FBI Confrontation | VICE News 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 hate to bring up trivia on Marxmail but I must mention that the American SWP found reasons to back the occupation. https://news.vice.com/article/ammon-bundy-militia-leader-in-oregon-taken-into-custody-after-reported-firefight _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/shacht%40aol.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
[Marxism] Fwd: 10, 000-Year-Old Massacre Does Not Bolster Claim That War Is Innate - Scientific American Blog Network
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[Marxism] Bloody Sunday
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. * January 30 marks the 44th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when the British Parachute regiment opened fire on peaceful civil rights marchers in Derry city in Ireland. A few years ago I wrote about Bloody Sunday, but more looking at how the response of the southern state at the time showed the movement had them on the back foot. Indeed, the cops in Dublin largely stood by while a mass protest took place outside the British embassy, with left-republicans burning the building down. The southern state desperately needed to get back on the offensive and re-establish their control of society. They managed to succeed in doing this, so that when tens of thousands of people next marched on the British embassy - during the 1981 hunger strikes - they were beaten off the streets and mass protests in Dublin were even halted for a while. https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/the-burning-of-the-british-embassy-40-years-on/ _ 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: Understanding Syria’s Revolution: A Response to Mairead Maguire’s Article on Syria | By Joseph Daher - peacenews.org
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[Marxism] Socialist Alliance (Australia)'s new programmatic document
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. * Socialist Alliance's 'Towards a Socialist Australia' has morphed into a programmatic document after extensive discussion. It strikes a pretty good balance I reckon for a small revolutionary socialist organisation in a country like Australia between a coherent and comprehensive guide to work, and laying down chapter and verse on theory and history. All the discussion that led up to is is publicly available at http://www.socialist-alliance.org/alliance-voices *"*The fundamental aim of the Socialist Alliance is to contribute to the construction of a mass socialist party that can educate, organise and mobilise the Australian working class and other oppressed groups to replace the power of the capitalists with popular power. "To advance this aim we need to build a socialist organisation now and deepen its connection to and authority among working people. "We are open to uniting with all those prepared to join us in this aim, and to be part of any political formation than can advance towards this aim. "We recognise that any form socialist organisation takes today is just one step in a much bigger and still unfolding process of building a party capable of leading such a struggle. "A party capable of leading real revolutionary struggle will have to unite the real socialist leadership that develops in the course of the class struggle". Full http://www.socialist-alliance.org/towards-socialist-australia _ 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] Dukhtar
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. * It turns out that this Pakistani film about a mother and her 14 year daughter fleeing a warlord who intends to take her as his bride can be seen online: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x333msn It takes place mostly inside a truck, just like "Mad Max: Fury Road" but is ten times better. On second thought, make that 100 times better. _ 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: First-string socialist | SocialistWorker.org
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[Marxism] Fwd: Town and Tawney | 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. * As a follow-up to my articles on formal/real subsumption, I decided to reread Maurice Dobb’s “Studies in the Development of Capitalism”, an economic history of England that I remembered as a useful review of class relations both in the city and countryside. Despite the tendency to associate Robert Brenner with Dobb because both were involved with debates with Paul Sweezy, there is little doubt that Dobb was a lot closer to Sweezy. Indeed, Brenner wrote an article in 1978 titled “Dobb on the transition from feudalism to capitalism” that faulted him for giving too much credit to the towns. For Brenner, Marxists—including Sweezy and Dobb—have overemphasized trade, particularly between England and other nations. Naturally such trade was what drove the growth of town and city, especially London, since the import of spices, silk, precious metals etc. were key to the handicrafts that emerged under feudalism and became the foundation for formal subsumption. If such goods could be purchased cheaply and through monopoly power, an accumulation of mercantile capital was the logical outcome—that, at least, was the argument. full: http://louisproyect.org/2016/01/27/town-and-tawney/ _ 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: What is happening in Haiti is a genuine anti-imperialist popular rebellion (By Carlos Aznárez) – The Dawn
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[Marxism] Fwd: How Two-Party Political Systems Bolster Capitalism
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. * For the reproduction of capitalism, the two-major-party structure dominating politics has proven very effective in most nations for some time now. While party names vary, their common relationship to reproducing capitalism does not. Examples include the Republicans and Democrats in the United States, Conservatives and Labour in the United Kingdom, Christian Democrats and Socialists in Germany, and so on. All those parties implicitly endorse and support the reproduction of capitalism, and most do so explicitly as well. The first in each pair differs from the second only on which variant of capitalism they prefer. Usually, one party tilts toward a more inclusive and less unequal variant. It advocates government intervention to secure that variant. The other party tilts more toward markets and existing distributions of private property functioning with strictly limited government economic interventions. The winning party adjusts government economic interventions accordingly to alter the social mix of private and state enterprises, redistribute income and wealth toward more or less economic and social inequality, and so on. No matter which party prevails, factories, offices and stores - whether private or state enterprises, whether more or less taxed and regulated - continue to display the same basic employer-employee organization. The avoidance of any explicit discussion, debate or focus on alternative enterprise organizations serves to hide how both parties support the capitalist mode of enterprise organization. In the laws they pass; the administrative rules they enforce; the cultural meanings they constantly presume, endorse and reinforce for mass media, schools etc., both parties cement the social dominance of the employer-employee relationship that structures capitalist enterprises. They function as if that relationship were the best humanly possible, agreed universally to be such and thus beyond debate full: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34555-how-two-party-political-systems-bolster-capitalism _ 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 novel is dead (this time it's for real) | Books | The Guardian
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. * If you'll forgive a metaphoric ouroboros: it shouldn't surprise us that this is the convulsive form taken by the literary novel during its senescence; some of the same factors implicated in its extinction are also responsible for the rise of the creative writing programme; specifically a wider culture whose political economy prizes exchange value over use value, and which valorises group consciousness at the expense of the individual mind. Whenever tyro novelists ask me for career advice I always say the same thing to them: think hard about whether you wish to spend anything up to 20 or 30 years of your adult life in solitary confinement; if you don't like the sound of that silence, abandon the idea right away. But nowadays many people who sign up for creative-writing programmes have only the dimmest understanding of what's actually involved in the writing life; the programme offers them comity and sympathetic readers for their fledgling efforts – it acts, it essence, as a therapy group for the creatively misunderstood. What these people are aware of – although again, usually only hazily – is that some writers have indeed had it all; if by this is meant that they are able to create as they see fit, and make a living from what they produce. In a society where almost everyone is subject to the appropriation of their time, and a vast majority of that time is spent undertaking work that has little human or spiritual value, the ideal form of the writing life appears gilded with a sort of wonderment. The savage irony is that even as these aspirants sign up for the promise of such a golden career, so the possibility of their actually pursuing it steadily diminishes; a still more savage irony is that the very form their instruction takes militates against the culture of the texts they desire to produce. WB Yeats attributed to his father the remark that "Poetry is the social act of the solitary man"; with the creative-writing programmes and the Facebook links embedded in digitised texts encouraging readers to "share" their insights, writing and reading have become the solitary acts of social beings. And we all know how social beings tend to regard solitary acts – as perversities, if not outright perversions. As I said at the outset: I believe the serious novel will continue to be written and read, but it will be an art form on a par with easel painting or classical music: confined to a defined social and demographic group, requiring a degree of subsidy, a subject for historical scholarship rather than public discourse. The current resistance of a lot of the literate public to difficulty in the form is only a subconscious response to having a moribund message pushed at them. As a practising novelist, do I feel depressed about this? No, not particularly, except on those occasions when I breathe in too deeply and choke on my own decadence. I've no intention of writing fictions in the form of tweets or text messages – nor do I see my future in computer-games design. My apprenticeship as a novelist has lasted a long time now, and I still cherish hopes of eventually qualifying. Besides, as the possessor of a Gutenberg mind, it is quite impossible for me to foretell what the new dominant narrative art form will be – if, that is, there is to be one at all. full: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/02/will-self-novel-dead-literary-fiction _ 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] Has US cinema taken a turn to the left?
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. * FT, January 27, 2016 Has US cinema taken a turn to the left? The blacklist-era movie ‘Trumbo’ comes at a time when filmmakers are rediscovering radicalism by Danny Leigh Early in Trumbo, the new biopic of the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, the subject’s young daughter asks her father if she, like him, is a communist. As played by Bryan Cranston, he asks in turn whether, if a schoolfriend had no lunch, she would lend them food to be repaid with interest. No, she says, she would share. “Well then,” Trumbo twinkles, “you’re a communist.” Feel free to take a moment to digest that. In fact, the film’s politics are largely cosmetic: its dapper hero spends more time mixing martinis than among the workers. But Trumbo is still a jolt, a big, broad comedy-drama about a grim chapter in Hollywood’s own past, the point in the 1940s where hundreds of leftwing movie professionals were hounded out of the business. It’s not a story American films often tell, at least not with an actual Marxist front and centre. Trumbo has seen Cranston nominated for an Oscar. And yet for all the affection surrounding him — a journeyman actor made famous in middle age by TV’s Breaking Bad — this is still tricky ground. The film wasn’t made by a studio, but independently produced and distributed. While its tone is jaunty, there have been unhappy rumblings, accusations of airbrushing a fondness for the Soviet Union, or Hollywood’s own eagerness for the blacklist. Because eager it was. Almost 70 years later, the blacklist is usually folded into the wider narrative of McCarthyism. In fact, by the time Joseph McCarthy bulldozed into public life in 1950 with a supposed list of communists secreted in the US State Department, the studios had been hunting Reds for three years. That process began with the proddings of gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (played on screen by a fanged Helen Mirren), and Trumbo and nine other leftist writers and directors refusing to give evidence to the House Un-American Activities Committee. All 10 were jailed. They were also publicly barred from future employment by a phalanx of studio heads. More inquests followed, and more blacklists. Several active communists were exposed, and many more garden variety leftwingers who had briefly flirted with the cause back in the idealistic 1930s. Livelihoods vanished. Directors went into exile. A few writers worked for pin money under assumed names: we see Cranston’s Trumbo furtively churning out B-movies. For actors, anonymity wasn’t an option. John Garfield was a gifted leading man from the tenements of New York’s Lower East Side. Having refused to name names, he suffered a fatal heart attack at 39, often put down to the stress of the inquisition. (Others efficiently turned in their colleagues, among them director Elia Kazan. In 1999, his Oscar for Lifetime Achievement saw the requisite standing ovation dotted with folded arms. Steven Spielberg stayed in his seat.) Now, we find ourselves in one of those cyclical moments when American cinema returns to the grand creative wellspring of the 1950s. Trumbo will be kept company at the Oscars by Carol , Brooklyn and Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies , all set in the same era. Communist scriptwriters crop up too in the new film from the Coen brothers, Hail, Caesar! (The brothers have been here before, their Hollywood black comedy Barton Fink loosely based on the left-wing writer Clifford Odets). But maybe there is more going on here. Might all this also be a bubbling up from the psyche of a newly radical America, the same something-in-the-air that has seen Bernie Sanders bring talk of socialism to a US election year? Certainly, ever since the financial crisis of 2008, a number of American movies have tapped into a caustic anti-capitalism. Among them is one of the best films of last year, 99 Homes . A tale of fiscal skulduggery set in post-crash Florida, it concerns a demonic real estate broker getting rich flipping foreclosed houses. The tone is set in its opening scene. A homeowner shoots himself in the midst of his eviction; the broker, played by Michael Shannon, tuts at the mess and delay. The hero is a laid-off construction worker whose house the broker repossesses, and who then despairingly agrees to join his team. He is played by the British actor Andrew Garfield, the echo of the name made all the stranger by this being exactly the kind of part John Garfield played, a blue-collar bad conscience. Indeed, that central Faustian pact could have come straight from the engine room of “Red Hollywood”, a core of displaced New Yorkers t
[Marxism] Fwd: The Oregon Militia Spokesman Has Been Killed and Its Leaders Detained After FBI Confrontation | VICE News
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 hate to bring up trivia on Marxmail but I must mention that the American SWP found reasons to back the occupation. https://news.vice.com/article/ammon-bundy-militia-leader-in-oregon-taken-into-custody-after-reported-firefight _ 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: The Mine Wars . American Experience . WGBH | PBS
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 1/26/16 10:37 PM, Mark Lause wrote: This is unbelievably good--and I'm generally very skeptical about how these things get addressed on TV. This really is an amazing documentary. Frankly, I was surprised to see it aired on PBS. One interesting element was the use of air power against the miners. Billy Mitchell, a general associated with aerial bombing, was called in to administer the possible use of 3 bombers as the war with the miners escalated. Keep in mind that the Italians court-martialed their Billy Mitchell for advocating aerial bombing. Mitchell's bombers were never used but one of the coal bosses decided to hire his own pilot to drop an improvised bomb on the miners, a pipe filled with bolts, etc. In other words, an early version of the barrel bomb that Assad uses. _ 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 Canberra Times whitewashes Invasion Day
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 Canberra Times whitewashes Invasion Day Up to 500 people attended the Invasion Day Protest in Garema Place in Canberra on 26 January to highlight the genocide then and now against Aboriginal people. There was not one mention, not one photo of the protest in The Canberra Times. http://enpassant.com.au/2016/01/27/the-canberra-times-whitewashes-invasion-day/ _ 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] Kadyrov Is Not Chechnya
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. * Posted at: https://therussianreader.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/kadyrov-is-not-chechnya/ Kadyrov Is Not Chechnya Grigory Tumanov Snob.ru January 26, 2015 Kommersant newspaper correspondent Grigory Tumanov has returned from a trip to Grozny and reports everything you hear about modern Chechnya and its bloodlust is a myth invented by Ramzan Kadyrov If you said the pro-Ramzan Kadyrov rally, held last Friday in Grozny, was a kind of vote for Kadyrov, you would have to admit it was a failure. It has long been argued the event was meant to hide some of the Chechen leader’s deeper problems, and he had begun to haggle with Moscow not by offering stability in exchange for a free hand, but by offering the explosive situation in the region. But on the ground it turned out all the stories about how, as soon as Kadyrov resigns and loosens his grip, the entire republic would secede from Russia, immediately impose sharia law, and establish a free Ichkeria are a myth. I remember January 19, 2015, in Grozny: the rally for the Prophet, which had also been organized not without the involvement of the local authorities, to put it mildly. The vast majority of the people at the rally had, of course, never seen any Charlie Hebdo cartoons on the web, the cartoons that sparked the brutal murders of the magazine’s journalists. Despite this, however, from early morning there was a huge traffic jam even on Chechnya’s border with the neighboring republics of Ingushetia and Dagestan. Yes, there were state employees. Yes, ralliers were bussed into Grozny. Yes, there were quotas and roll calls, and prototype placards imposed by the higher-ups, and campaigning in dean’s offices. It is odd, of course, to try and assess the degree to which those people went involuntarily to the Heart of Chechnya Mosque that day, but it should be said they stayed on the square both at twelve o’clock to perform the midday prayer and afterwards. Several days later, every other car was still sporting a “We Support the Prophet!” placard. It made sense. How, in a Muslim region, would you say no to the question, “Are you going to the rally for the Prophet?” You wouldn’t say it, of course. “I have not seen the cartoons, but I am a Muslim, so I have no choice but to come out. Rally or no rally, how could I not come out? For some reason you all say we should not be offended by cartoons about something that matters to us. But why should you decide for us? You don’t believe in it!” one rally attendee told me. It was a conclusive victory for Kadyrov. People really did come out for the rally, driven not only by official lobbying but also by their own indignation. So it was a great way for Kadyrov to announce his candidacy for the post of chief defender of Muslims in Russia. Contrary to the official Instagrams posted by Chechen officials and Kadyrov himself, it turned out that the personal pull exerted by the head of the republic was still not comparable to that of Muhammad. The Chechen Interior Ministry reported that over a million people gathered on the squares of Grozny last Friday. This is not true. I stood on the roof of the judicial department of the republic’s Supreme Court and saw with my own eyes that there were hardly 100,000 people in attendance. And as soon as the officials moderating the rally announced it was over, all those one hundred thousand people literally evaporated from the square. It was impressive. I was especially touched by the way that people who were not employed in the state sector proudly said they would not be going to the rally. “Oh no, I am going to stock up on potato chips and sunflower seeds and plop down on the sofa. If it is a day off, then let it be a day off. No one is going to force me to come out for the tsar,” a private entrepreneur in Grozny told me. “Maybe we will not be allowed to work on this day, but we are not going anywhere, so if you suddenly feel like some tea, stop by,” the proprietors of a kebab place near the hotel where I stayed told me on the eve of the rally. While it was true there was no smoke coming from their grills the next morning, all the place’s employees were in fact at work, watching with curiosity as state-sector workers carrying placards shuffled by them on their way to the Heart of Chechnya Mosque. Yes, everyone with whom I spoke in the crowd on the square spouted off rote phrases about how Kadyrov had raised the republic from ruins, and that he needed support, since Ilya Yashin had launched a real vilification campaign against him. But it was no less impressive to see how people squinted and smiled ironically as they said this, to see placards embossed with slogans about Kadyro
