[Marxism] Syrian and Russian forces have deliberately targeted hospitals near Aleppo

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[Marxism] Assadists for Trump

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I guess this was inevitable and I expect we'll see a lot more of them,
depraved as that may seem,

My first indication was when long time black Assadist twitter troll  ‏
@Oswald524 , who could always find time to
respond to my tweets with nonsense like:

@*clayclai*  shame on you people Putin did
> not creat the Syrian problem. People like and the US did. Now that you guys
> are losing
>

and

Assad is doing his part for peace in his country. All rebel should put down
> their weapon and come to the table for peace.
>

Started tweeting for Trump:

Please people the USA don't be fooled by these charges of KKK and all the
> nonsense about *Trump*. The people running this country are afraid
>
and


The rich republicans are jealous and afraid of *Trump*. Most of the wish
> they can match his style. But you have to be born with it. *Trump* wins
>

Now I have just received this email from long time  VFP Putin/Assad
supporter Chuck Searcy introducing a piece by David Stockman:

Wow is right.  In his inimitable style, David Stockman lasers in once more
> with a scathing analysis of the misdeeds and pending collapse of the
> Republican Party.  Concisely and coherently, framing recent history in a
> way that even the most confused Americans can understand, Stockman explains
> why he thinks the likely presidency of Donald Trump may not be the disaster
> that some fear, but a major course correction for America.  -- CS
>


And from Stockman's piece:

http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-trumpster-sends-the-gopneocon-establishment-to-the-dumpster/
The Trumpster Sends The GOP/Neocon Establishment To The Dumpster
by David Stockman

So even as The Donald’s election would bring on a thundering financial
> crash on Wall Street and political upheaval in Washington—–the truth is
> that’s going to happen anyway. Look at the hideous mess that US policy has
> created in Syria or the incendiary corner into which the Fed has backed
> itself or the fiscal projections that show we will be back into trillion
> dollar annual deficits as the recession already underway reaches full
> force. The jig is well and truly up.
>
> But a nation tumbling into financial and fiscal crisis will welcome the
> War Party purge that Trump would surely undertake. He didn’t allow the
> self-serving busy-bodies and fools who inhabit the Council on Foreign
> Relations to dupe him into believing that Putin is a horrible threat; or
> that the real estate on the eastern edge of the non-state of the Ukraine,
> which has always been either a de jure or de facto part of Russia, was any
> of our business. Likewise, he has gotten it totally right with respect to
> the sectarian and tribal wars of Syria and Iraq and Hillary’s feckless
> destruction of a stable regime in Libya.
>
>
Yeah, I guest this is inevitable. They've been supporting foreign fascists
for years and when fascist comes to the United States they will raise its
banner high here too.


Clay Claiborne, Director
Vietnam: American Holocaust 
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: After Tuesday: The Ugly Truth by Elizabeth Drew | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

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On 3/2/16 11:26 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:


Very interesting if not groundbreaking.

http://www.nybooks.com.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/daily/2016/03/02/after-super-tuesday-taking-on-trump/



Sorry, use this url instead:

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/03/02/after-super-tuesday-taking-on-trump/
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[Marxism] Fwd: After Tuesday: The Ugly Truth by Elizabeth Drew | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

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Very interesting if not groundbreaking.

http://www.nybooks.com.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/daily/2016/03/02/after-super-tuesday-taking-on-trump/
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[Marxism] The Fierce Courage of Nina Simone

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Re: [Marxism] Did Hillary just lose the Likudnik vote?

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Maybe, but this email lost the link.

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>Subject: [Marxism] Did Hillary just lose the Likudnik vote?
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>http://m.jpost.com/Opinion/NO-HOLDS-BARRED-Hillary-Clintons-treatment-of-Michael-Oren-as-ambassador-446153#article=6022NDlGNDQ3QjlGQUU1NjQ2MDEyMTAyQ0M2OTdGRkY3ODY=
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[Marxism] Australian SP national committee statement

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Here's the response of the SP national committee to the resignations a week
ago:

http://www.socialistpartyaustralia.org/archives/8113
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[Marxism] Did Hillary just lose the Likudnik vote?

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Too comical:

http://m.jpost.com/Opinion/NO-HOLDS-BARRED-Hillary-Clintons-treatment-of-Michael-Oren-as-ambassador-446153#article=6022NDlGNDQ3QjlGQUU1NjQ2MDEyMTAyQ0M2OTdGRkY3ODY=


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[Marxism] Workers' rights on Redline

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Hi folks,

something slightly different this week.  There's a little list of recent
stuff on workers' rights, but also links to some important articles about
the deterioration of workers' pay, conditions and overall living standards
in recent years and some examinations of the relative lack of resistance.

*Minimum wage nudged up: *
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/minimum-wage-nudged-up/

*A better start or a detour *(looking at National's 'Better Start'
programme:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/02/28/a-better-start-or-a-detour/

*Auckland bus drivers fight: *
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/02/21/auckland-bus-drivers-fight-is-for-basic-rights/

*Talleys workers' fight*:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/meatworkers-battle-with-talleys-important-for-all-workers/

*A couple of pieces on firefighter issues have had thousands of views
recently, especially*:
A small win for firefighters:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/small-win-for-firefighters/
Christchurch firefighters angry that five years on not a single fire
station rebuilt:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/christchurch-firefighters-angry-that-five-years-on-not-a-single-fire-station-rebuilt/


*From 2012:*
*Low pay, longer hours and less social mobility: welcome to 21st century NZ*
:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/meatworkers-battle-with-talleys-important-for-all-workers/

*Pay and income gaps continue to widen - where's the resistance?*:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/3215/

*More job losses, but where's the fightback?: *
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/more-job-losses-but-wheres-the-fightback/

*More:*
*Can 'we' afford a living wage?:*
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/can-we-afford-a-living-wage/

*Information technology and the rise of NZ's modern servant class:*
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/information-technology-and-the-rise-of-new-zealands-modern-servant-class/

*Bending over backwards: NZ's temp *economy:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/bending-over-backwards-new-zealands-temp-economy-and-the-growing-need-for-flexible-labour/

*A strange paradox: can NZ workers really be happy with this crap?:*
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/12/20/a-strange-paradox-how-can-nz-workers-be-happy-with-this-crap/

*Unions and the fight against redundancies: *
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/unions-and-the-fight-against-redundancies/

*NZ Post, Air New Zealand and Fletchers - how to fight redundancies:*
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/11/04/nz-post-air-new-zealand-fletchers-how-to-fight-redundancies/

*Redundancies, unemployment and fighting back:*
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/11/04/nz-post-air-new-zealand-fletchers-how-to-fight-redundancies/

Phil F
for the Redline Blog Collective
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[Marxism] Southern Irish election result

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Thanks Einde for your generous comments.

I can imagine what the reservations might be too.  I think I might have
overstated the point about the Trotskyists not really managing to combine
parliamentary and extra-parliamentary work particularly well.  Several
people have commented that this is somewhat unfair.  I think it's a
reasonable criticism of what I wrote.

I probably should have explained more what I was getting at.

I'm thinking of the way Seamus Costello used his council positions which,
to me, is more radical and I'm also thinking of his comments that a few TDs
who knew what they were doing and led a mass movement could disrupt the
workings of Leinster House.  I also wonder what is to stop the Trotskyists
combining on a piece of legislation and then 'taking it to the streets' -
something that would outflank Labour and the trade union bureaucrats.
Maybe reducing the retirement age (which the previous regime put up) or a
big increase in the minimum wage, or even the abolition of Irish Water - or
the right of women to abortion.

At present it just seems to me that the Trotskyist TDs are militant
individuals on the streets around the water tax and then operate within
Leinster House in a different way altogether.

But I'm glad there is now a solid block of people in parliament well to the
left of the utterly despicable Labour Party.

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Re: [Marxism] William H. Schaap, Radical Lawyer, Author and Publisher, Dies at 75

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Requiescat in pace.

> On Mar 2, 2016, at 6:42 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
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> (Phil Schaap, the gabby but informed jazz show host on WKCR, is Bill Schaap's 
> cousin. My guess is that their fathers were CP'ers.)
> 
> NY Times, Mar. 2 2016
> William H. Schaap, Radical Lawyer, Author and Publisher, Dies at 75
> By SAM ROBERT
> 
> William H. Schaap, a radical lawyer, author and publisher who fought against 
> investigative abuses by government agencies at home and abroad, died on Feb. 
> 25 in Manhattan. He was 75.
> 
> The cause was pulmonary disease, his niece Rosie Schaap said.
> 
> Mr. Schaap began his activism in law school, counseling students arrested in 
> Chicago for protesting segregated housing.
> 
> As a lawyer, he defended Columbia University students arrested in 1968 for 
> occupying campus buildings to protest the war in Vietnam. In the late 1960s, 
> he left a Wall Street law firm where he was an associate and moved to Japan 
> and Germany with his wife, Ellen Ray, to counsel resisters to the war in 
> Vietnam.
> 
> In 1976, they formed what became CovertAction, a publication that reported on 
> illegal Central Intelligence Agency activities. It also identified C.I.A. 
> agents by name, from unclassified sources, a practice outlawed by Congress in 
> 1982. Mr. Schaap also represented C.I.A. whistle-blowers, like Philip Agee.
> 
> In 1980, in a letter to The New York Times, Mr. Schaap, Ms. Ray and Louis 
> Wolf, the editors of what was then called The Covert Action Information 
> Bulletin, wrote, “We do not object to intelligence gathering; we object to 
> the covert interference in the affairs of other nations, the refusal to let 
> the people of those nations decide for themselves upon their leaders, their 
> systems of government and the forms of institutions they desire.”
> 
> Mr. Schaap and Ms. Ray often singled out The Times for criticism through 
> their Institute for Media Analysis and later a monthly news-media watchdog 
> magazine, Lies of Our Times. They criticized, among other articles, what they 
> called favorable coverage of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and of F. 
> W. de Klerk, the president of South Africa during apartheid, in The Times and 
> other mainstream publications.
> 
> They also founded Sheridan Square Press, which published the New Orleans 
> prosecutor Jim Garrison’s “On the Trail of the Assassins: My Investigation 
> and Prosecution of the Murder of President Kennedy,” which was a source for 
> Oliver Stone in making the 1991 film “JFK.”
> 
> After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Mr. Schaap lived part time in New Orleans, 
> representing displaced homeowners.
> 
> William Herman Schaap was born in Brooklyn on March 1, 1940, to Maurice 
> Schaap, a salesman, and the former Leah Lerner, a French teacher. He received 
> a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in 1961 and graduated from the 
> University of Chicago Law School.
> 
> Mr. Schaap’s older brother was the sports broadcaster Dick Schaap, who died 
> in 2001, and who once wrote: “I write, mostly to entertain, to make people 
> smile, perhaps even laugh. My brother writes, mostly, to incite, to make 
> people angry, perhaps even to act.”
> 
> Ms. Ray died in 2015. Mr. Schaap is survived by a sister, Nancy Silvio.
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Re: [Marxism] Greens get relating to Sanders right (when so many Marxists look away)

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That seems right to me. I’ll vote for Bernie in the primary & Stein in the 
general election  (assuming Trump-Clinton).


> On Mar 2, 2016, at 4:24 PM, A.R. G via Marxism  
> wrote:
> 
> So I'm curious, what's wrong with voting for Bernie in the primaries, and
> then, if he loses as half of the Marxist critics are suggesting, voting for
> a Green during the general election? It seems like the only way the issue
> will come up is if Bernie wins the primary. If that happens I still think
> it makes sense to vote for Bernie while separately organizing real
> opposition outside of the electoral system altogether in order to downplay
> the effects of the grassroots opposition deflating in the rare event that
> he takes the White House.
> 
> - Amith
> 
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Ratbag Media via Marxism <
> marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Physician Jill Stein, who is seeking the Green Party’s nomination for
>> president in 2016, has called Bernie Sanders’ 2016 Democratic presidential
>> campaign “*wonderful*” and stated that the Green Party “*will not attack
>> that campaign.*”
>> 
>> Jill Sten: “*But unfortunately he is in a party that has a track record for
>> basically sabotaging its rebels. It has done a good job of doing that in
>> the past from Dennis Kucinich to Jesse Jackson to Howard Dean, whether they
>> use a PR campaign like the ‘Dean’s scream’ to bring down the Dean
>> candidacy. Also Jesse Jackson was sabotaged by a PR by the DNC. The
>> Democratic Party has its ways of reigning people in if they try to rebel.
>> The bottom line is that we are in political system in the U.S., which is
>> funded by predatory banks and fossil fueled giants and war profiteers. So,
>> we really need to reject that system, we say to reject the lesser evil so
>> we can stand up and really fight for the greater good.*”
>> 
>> In a Monday interview on New England Public Radio, Stein said
>> <
>> http://nepr.net/news/2016/02/29/america-is-in-revolt-according-to-green-party-candidate-jill-stein/
>>> ,
>> “*What’s been happening in the Democratic Party is you’ll have a good
>> candidate who will run, but then the candidate gets reabsorbed and the
>> campaign becomes reabsorbed back into the Democratic Party. So it’s kind of
>> a fake left while the party becomes more corporatist, more militarist, and
>> continues to march to the right.*”
>> 
>> She called the grassroots movement that Sanders has tapped into a “
>> *rebellion*” that “*can’t simply be passed on to Hillary Clinton.*”


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[Marxism] The Country Without A Post Office | Friday, 3/4, 5:30 PM, 41 Cooper Square

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https://www.facebook.com/events/487894341404206/

On February 9th, students at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi tried
organising an event discussing and dissenting the hanging of Afzal Guru in
connection with his involvement with a terrorist attack on the Indian
parliament.

The idea of the event was to discuss the larger context of the conflict
over the ownership/sovereignty of Kashmir, the Northern Indian state. This
is an issue every Indian government has been inept at handling or solving.

The students were arrested, beaten and have been jailed on grounds of
sedition, following a colonial law that allows the State to jail anyone who
speaks against it. We organise this event in solidarity, using our relative
privilege of security, to begin the dialogue that has been violently cut
short.

Join us for a screening of Sanjay Kak's Jashn-e-Azaadi/ How We Celebrate
Freedom (2007, 2h 18 min, India), followed by a conversation with the
filmmaker moderated by Mohamad Junaid, Dept of Cultural Anthropology, CUNY.
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[Marxism] William H. Schaap, Radical Lawyer, Author and Publisher, Dies at 75

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(Phil Schaap, the gabby but informed jazz show host on WKCR, is Bill 
Schaap's cousin. My guess is that their fathers were CP'ers.)


NY Times, Mar. 2 2016
William H. Schaap, Radical Lawyer, Author and Publisher, Dies at 75
By SAM ROBERT

William H. Schaap, a radical lawyer, author and publisher who fought 
against investigative abuses by government agencies at home and abroad, 
died on Feb. 25 in Manhattan. He was 75.


The cause was pulmonary disease, his niece Rosie Schaap said.

Mr. Schaap began his activism in law school, counseling students 
arrested in Chicago for protesting segregated housing.


As a lawyer, he defended Columbia University students arrested in 1968 
for occupying campus buildings to protest the war in Vietnam. In the 
late 1960s, he left a Wall Street law firm where he was an associate and 
moved to Japan and Germany with his wife, Ellen Ray, to counsel 
resisters to the war in Vietnam.


In 1976, they formed what became CovertAction, a publication that 
reported on illegal Central Intelligence Agency activities. It also 
identified C.I.A. agents by name, from unclassified sources, a practice 
outlawed by Congress in 1982. Mr. Schaap also represented C.I.A. 
whistle-blowers, like Philip Agee.


In 1980, in a letter to The New York Times, Mr. Schaap, Ms. Ray and 
Louis Wolf, the editors of what was then called The Covert Action 
Information Bulletin, wrote, “We do not object to intelligence 
gathering; we object to the covert interference in the affairs of other 
nations, the refusal to let the people of those nations decide for 
themselves upon their leaders, their systems of government and the forms 
of institutions they desire.”


Mr. Schaap and Ms. Ray often singled out The Times for criticism through 
their Institute for Media Analysis and later a monthly news-media 
watchdog magazine, Lies of Our Times. They criticized, among other 
articles, what they called favorable coverage of the Chilean dictator 
Augusto Pinochet and of F. W. de Klerk, the president of South Africa 
during apartheid, in The Times and other mainstream publications.


They also founded Sheridan Square Press, which published the New Orleans 
prosecutor Jim Garrison’s “On the Trail of the Assassins: My 
Investigation and Prosecution of the Murder of President Kennedy,” which 
was a source for Oliver Stone in making the 1991 film “JFK.”


After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Mr. Schaap lived part time in New 
Orleans, representing displaced homeowners.


William Herman Schaap was born in Brooklyn on March 1, 1940, to Maurice 
Schaap, a salesman, and the former Leah Lerner, a French teacher. He 
received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in 1961 and 
graduated from the University of Chicago Law School.


Mr. Schaap’s older brother was the sports broadcaster Dick Schaap, who 
died in 2001, and who once wrote: “I write, mostly to entertain, to make 
people smile, perhaps even laugh. My brother writes, mostly, to incite, 
to make people angry, perhaps even to act.”


Ms. Ray died in 2015. Mr. Schaap is survived by a sister, Nancy Silvio.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Hillary’s Corporate Democrats Taking Down Bernie Sanders | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

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Ralph Nader raps it down:

Before announcing for President in the Democratic Primaries, Bernie 
Sanders told the people he would not run as an Independent and be like 
Nader—invoking the politically-bigoted words “being a spoiler.” Well, 
the spoiled corporate Democrats in Congress and their consultants are 
mounting a “stop Bernie campaign.” They believe he’ll “spoil” their 
election prospects.


Sorry Bernie, because anybody who challenges the positions of the 
corporatist, militaristic, Wall Street-funded Democrats, led by Hillary 
Clinton, in the House and Senate—is by their twisted definition, a 
“spoiler.” It doesn’t matter how many of Bernie’s positions are 
representative of what a majority of the American people want for their 
country.


What comes around goes around. Despite running a clean campaign, funded 
by small donors averaging $27, with no scandals in his past and with 
consistency throughout his decades of standing up for the working and 
unemployed people of this country, Sanders is about to be Hillaried. Her 
Capitol Hill cronies  have dispatched Congressional teams to Iowa.


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Re: [Marxism] Greens get relating to Sanders right (when so many Marxists look away)

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Because people like Jill Stein, Howie Hawkins, Joel Kovel, Peter Camejo 
et al reach tens of thousands of people with a class struggle 
perspective even if they don't get elected. We are trying to change 
minds through the elections as well as winning office like Kshama Sawant 
did.


On 3/2/16 5:48 PM, A.R. G wrote:

Okay, but couldn't the same criticisms that apply to the DP's corruption
also apply to the electoral system as a whole? I feel like that sounds
more like an argument against voting altogether. What is the difference
between voting for a renegade Democrat who gets crushed by reactionaries
in his party vs voting for a Green who doesn't even factor into the
election at all?


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A comrade has just emailed me about a Danish comrade of his who is needs 
help warding off hackers. Please contact me privately is you have those 
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Okay, but couldn't the same criticisms that apply to the DP's corruption
also apply to the electoral system as a whole? I feel like that sounds more
like an argument against voting altogether. What is the difference between
voting for a renegade Democrat who gets crushed by reactionaries in his
party vs voting for a Green who doesn't even factor into the election at
all?

- Amith

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Louis Proyect  wrote:

> On 3/2/16 5:24 PM, A.R. G via Marxism wrote:
>
>> So I'm curious, what's wrong with voting for Bernie in the primaries, and
>> then, if he loses as half of the Marxist critics are suggesting, voting
>> for
>> a Green during the general election? It seems like the only way the issue
>> will come up is if Bernie wins the primary. If that happens I still think
>> it makes sense to vote for Bernie while separately organizing real
>> opposition outside of the electoral system altogether in order to downplay
>> the effects of the grassroots opposition deflating in the rare event that
>> he takes the White House.
>>
>>
> The issue is whether it is crossing class lines to vote for a Democrat. Up
> until the Popular Front of 1935, socialists and Communists always voted on
> a class basis. With the Popular Front, that came to an end. To show you how
> committed the left was to that position, Upton Sinclair's son nearly broke
> with him in 1934 when he ran as a Democrat.
>
> Most of our problems today, especially in the USA, is how this line is
> blurred. With the DP having any kind of credibility, it makes it much
> harder for environmental movement, labor movement, et al to avoid
> cooptation.
>
>
>
> https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm
>
> Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers
> must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge
> their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party
> standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty
> phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates
> will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance
> of victory. All such talk means, in the final analysis, that the
> proletariat is to be swindled. The progress which the proletarian party
> will make by operating independently in this way is infinitely more
> important than the disadvantages resulting from the presence of a few
> reactionaries in the representative body. If the forces of democracy take
> decisive, terroristic action against the reaction from the very beginning,
> the reactionary influence in the election will already have been destroyed.
>
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On 3/2/16 5:24 PM, A.R. G via Marxism wrote:

So I'm curious, what's wrong with voting for Bernie in the primaries, and
then, if he loses as half of the Marxist critics are suggesting, voting for
a Green during the general election? It seems like the only way the issue
will come up is if Bernie wins the primary. If that happens I still think
it makes sense to vote for Bernie while separately organizing real
opposition outside of the electoral system altogether in order to downplay
the effects of the grassroots opposition deflating in the rare event that
he takes the White House.



The issue is whether it is crossing class lines to vote for a Democrat. 
Up until the Popular Front of 1935, socialists and Communists always 
voted on a class basis. With the Popular Front, that came to an end. To 
show you how committed the left was to that position, Upton Sinclair's 
son nearly broke with him in 1934 when he ran as a Democrat.


Most of our problems today, especially in the USA, is how this line is 
blurred. With the DP having any kind of credibility, it makes it much 
harder for environmental movement, labor movement, et al to avoid 
cooptation.



https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm

Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers 
must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to 
gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and 
party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the 
empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ 
candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of 
reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final 
analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled. The progress which the 
proletarian party will make by operating independently in this way is 
infinitely more important than the disadvantages resulting from the 
presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body. If the 
forces of democracy take decisive, terroristic action against the 
reaction from the very beginning, the reactionary influence in the 
election will already have been destroyed.

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So I'm curious, what's wrong with voting for Bernie in the primaries, and
then, if he loses as half of the Marxist critics are suggesting, voting for
a Green during the general election? It seems like the only way the issue
will come up is if Bernie wins the primary. If that happens I still think
it makes sense to vote for Bernie while separately organizing real
opposition outside of the electoral system altogether in order to downplay
the effects of the grassroots opposition deflating in the rare event that
he takes the White House.

- Amith

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> Physician Jill Stein, who is seeking the Green Party’s nomination for
> president in 2016, has called Bernie Sanders’ 2016 Democratic presidential
> campaign “*wonderful*” and stated that the Green Party “*will not attack
> that campaign.*”
>
> Jill Sten: “*But unfortunately he is in a party that has a track record for
> basically sabotaging its rebels. It has done a good job of doing that in
> the past from Dennis Kucinich to Jesse Jackson to Howard Dean, whether they
> use a PR campaign like the ‘Dean’s scream’ to bring down the Dean
> candidacy. Also Jesse Jackson was sabotaged by a PR by the DNC. The
> Democratic Party has its ways of reigning people in if they try to rebel.
> The bottom line is that we are in political system in the U.S., which is
> funded by predatory banks and fossil fueled giants and war profiteers. So,
> we really need to reject that system, we say to reject the lesser evil so
> we can stand up and really fight for the greater good.*”
>
> In a Monday interview on New England Public Radio, Stein said
> <
> http://nepr.net/news/2016/02/29/america-is-in-revolt-according-to-green-party-candidate-jill-stein/
> >,
> “*What’s been happening in the Democratic Party is you’ll have a good
> candidate who will run, but then the candidate gets reabsorbed and the
> campaign becomes reabsorbed back into the Democratic Party. So it’s kind of
> a fake left while the party becomes more corporatist, more militarist, and
> continues to march to the right.*”
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> She called the grassroots movement that Sanders has tapped into a “
> *rebellion*” that “*can’t simply be passed on to Hillary Clinton.*”
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Physician Jill Stein, who is seeking the Green Party’s nomination for
president in 2016, has called Bernie Sanders’ 2016 Democratic presidential
campaign “*wonderful*” and stated that the Green Party “*will not attack
that campaign.*”

Jill Sten: “*But unfortunately he is in a party that has a track record for
basically sabotaging its rebels. It has done a good job of doing that in
the past from Dennis Kucinich to Jesse Jackson to Howard Dean, whether they
use a PR campaign like the ‘Dean’s scream’ to bring down the Dean
candidacy. Also Jesse Jackson was sabotaged by a PR by the DNC. The
Democratic Party has its ways of reigning people in if they try to rebel.
The bottom line is that we are in political system in the U.S., which is
funded by predatory banks and fossil fueled giants and war profiteers. So,
we really need to reject that system, we say to reject the lesser evil so
we can stand up and really fight for the greater good.*”

In a Monday interview on New England Public Radio, Stein said
,
“*What’s been happening in the Democratic Party is you’ll have a good
candidate who will run, but then the candidate gets reabsorbed and the
campaign becomes reabsorbed back into the Democratic Party. So it’s kind of
a fake left while the party becomes more corporatist, more militarist, and
continues to march to the right.*”

She called the grassroots movement that Sanders has tapped into a “
*rebellion*” that “*can’t simply be passed on to Hillary Clinton.*”
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Dr. Duke's not the only one who "kind of sort of endorsed" Trump. Read Professor Stephen Cohen's words! - David Duke.com | David Duke.com

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I guess this should be no surprise then:

http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11142048/dugin-russia-trump-endorse

.Aleksandr Dugin, a far-right Russian academic and spinner of 
bizarre ideological treatises, has endorsed Donald Trump.



- Jeff


On 2016-03-02 20:31, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:


http://davidduke.com/dr-dukes-not-one-kind-sort-endorsed-trump-read-professor-stephen-cohens-words/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Dr. Duke's not the only one who "kind of sort of endorsed" Trump. Read Professor Stephen Cohen's words! - David Duke.com | David Duke.com

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[Marxism] Fwd: Tulsi Gabbard: a real piece of work | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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I had never come across the name Tulsi Gabbard until October 30, 2015 
when Mike Whitney, the go-to guy for Baathist talking points, advised 
CounterPunch readers that “Everything You Needed to Know About Syria in 
8 Minutes” could be found in a video interview with the House member 
from Hawaii for which he furnished a transcript, bless his crooked heart.


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[Marxism] The Elections in the USA seen from Afar

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*The 2016 Elections from Afar*

The Republican debates remind me of food fights in the cafeteria of my
junior high school, but, entertainment aside, this year’s elections have
all the earmarks of an unprecedented political crisis in the United States.

The results of the civil rights movement and the upheaval of the 1960’s are
coming home to roost in a way that nobody anticipated. When John Kennedy
cynically calculated that he could put his presidential bid over the top
with black votes, he was right. But he must not have expected that he would
be assassinated not so long after, or that the southern democratic Party
would split, and end up in the Republican Party after a brief fling as an
independent party.

From the long view of history, the Republican party has been in terminal
decline ever since the close of the western frontier of the United States
in 1890. It was the party of the North that won the civil war: to be more
accurate the party of the northern capitalists, small businessmen and
farmers that won the civil war. Its electoral base was always the northern
farmers and petty bourgeoisie. That base began to shrink as a percentage of
the electorate as the great wave of immigrant workers that built the
railroads and factories in the United States after the civil war. That base
begin to shrink absolutely when the number of small farms began to decrease
with the close of the frontier and the inevitable series of shake-outs and
agricultural crisis that eventually created modern agro-business.

On the other hand, the hybrid monster of the Democratic Party began to grow
as soon as the immigrants became citizens and began to vote  (and they
began to vote even sooner in some places!) The new voters were not exactly
fresh off the boat or fresh off the farm, but they were divided into dozens
of nationalities and language groups. Against all odds they began to
organize themselves, but by the First World War were still divided, mostly
not organized into unions, and mostly dominated by the Democratic party’s
big city political machines. Those machines tied the immigrant working
class to the Jim Crow Democratic Party and the Ku Klux Klan of the south.

The decline was masked temporarily by two events: the passage of the 19th
Amendment to the constitution of the USA which gave women the right to
vote, and the cold war. The first improbably helped the Republicans recover
their electoral power when they opportunistically stole the platform of the
temperance movement and advocated the insane social experiment of
prohibition. Women’s enthusiasm for the Republicans wore off in a dozen
years or so, no doubt because prohibition was such as disasters, but also
because the Republicans were such a disaster in other ways and ended up
being universally blamed for causing the great depression. FDR’s landslide
victory in the 1932 elections showed the real shape of the American
electorate.

Whether or not the failure of the New Deal to overcome the agony of the
great depression might have led to the demise of the northern Democratic
Party and the formation of a mass working class party will never be known.
Certainly the support Roosevelt received from the Communist Party and the
Socialist Party helped prevent such a development. But what really saved
the northern Democrats was the Second World War. When Japan attacked Pearl
Harbor, Roosevelt was ready to become the great patriotic savoir of the
United States.

Cold War anticommunism allowed the Republicans to once again portray
themselves as patriots, even as the best patriots. The flirtation of the
whole party with Nazism in the 1930’s, and the open relations of important
parts of US business with the Nazi and Fascist regimes had badly damaged
the GOP’s patriotic credentials during World War II. When they were able to
nominate Dwight Eisenhower, the general who people credited with winning
the war in Europe, as their presidential candidate in 1952, the Republicans
were back in business.

In 1960 the cold war still dominated the thinking and the politics of the
United States. Kennedy’s cynical pragmatism fit right in.

Eight years later, it led to the Southern strategy of Richard Nixon. By the
time Nixon fell from power, the Southern Democrats had shifted almost
entirely into the Republican Party.

Still, this only bought the Republicans time because of the great change
created in the social consciousness of the United States by the 1960’s
cultural revolution. Racism was mortally wounded and beginning to die.

The invention of the Moral Majority, an offshoot of the Southern Strategy
by some Republican geniuses, was a sign that, at least in terms of
practical 

[Marxism] Fwd: Investing in land in Ethiopia

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(Don't think this is behind a paywall but I might be wrong.)

In 2009, Saudi Star took a lease on 10,000 hectares in Gambella for 50 
years. Later it added 4,000 more hectares when it bought an adjacent 
state farm. But the project struggled at first. The site is remote, the 
roads mostly unpaved and the locals are sceptical, even hostile.


Saudi Star’s was one of the most high-profile projects of an investment 
drive in which Ethiopia’s government leased 2.5m hectares, an area 
slightly smaller than Belgium. More than the same again is on offer. The 
government’s goal was to bring in modern farming technology to generate 
exports that would help a serious balance-of-trade problem and, some 
say, cement the ruling elite’s control over the fertile lowlands.


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[Marxism] Fwd: Osama bin Laden warned against almost every aspect of Islamic State playbook - The Washington Post

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This article should help make clear why it is a mistake to lump al-Nusra 
and ISIL together as Patrick Cockburn et al does, not that al-Nusra is 
in any sense a positive force in Syria.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-secret-will-bin-laden-wanted-his-fortune-to-keep-funding-war-on-west/2016/03/01/b3a03d6c-dfa4-11e5-846c-10191d1fc4ec_story.html
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[Marxism] Fwd: Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Donald Trump and the Remaking of America | TomDispatch

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There is a form of genius at work here. To an extent unmatched by any 
other figure in American public life, Trump understands that previous 
distinctions between the ostensibly serious and the self-evidently 
frivolous have collapsed. Back in 1968, then running for president, 
Richard Nixon, of all people, got things rolling when he appeared on 
Laugh-In and uttered the immortal words, “Sock it to me?” But no one has 
come close to Trump in grasping the implications of all this: in 
contemporary America, celebrity confers authority. Mere credentials or 
qualifications have become an afterthought. How else to explain the host 
of a "reality" TV show instantly qualifying as a serious contender for 
high office?


For further evidence of Trump’s genius, consider the skill with which he 
plays the media, especially celebrity journalists who themselves 
specialize in smirking cynicism. Rather than pretending to take them 
seriously, he unmasks their preening narcissism, which mirrors his own. 
He refuses to acknowledge their self-assigned role as gatekeepers 
empowered to police the boundaries of permissible discourse. As the 
embodiment of “breaking news,” he continues to stretch those boundaries 
beyond recognition.


In that regard, the spectacle of televised “debates” has offered Trump 
an ideal platform for promoting his cult of personality. Once a solemn, 
almost soporific forum for civic education -- remember Kennedy and Nixon 
in 1960? -- presidential debates now provide occasions for trading 
insults, provoking gaffes, engaging in verbal food fights, and marketing 
magical solutions to problems ranging from war to border security that 
are immune to magic. For all of that we have Trump chiefly to thank.


Trump’s success as a campaigner schools his opponents, of course. In a 
shrinking Republican field, survival requires mimicking his antics. In 
that regard, Ted Cruz rates as Trump’s star pupil. Cruz is to Trump what 
Lady Gaga was to Amy Winehouse -- a less freewheeling, more scripted, 
and arguably more calculating version of the original.


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[Marxism] Irish Election Again

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Hi Einde

Please let me respond to a recent posting of yours to the Marxism List.

 Political instability or even crisis is not, in itself, evidence that an 
anti-capitalist force is growing. Simply because the two traditional bourgeois 
parties have the support of less than 50% of the electorate is of no 
significance. The electoral support won by the Sinn Fein party has made up for 
it. SF is a bourgeois party. SF, incidentally, is a party that bombed itself to 
the negotiating table.Then there are  other independent bourgeois 
parliamentarians. Apart from, perhaps, the SP and the SWP other elements are 
little different from what the Irish Labour Party has been in the past. There 
is no evidence that deputies Wallace and Daly are radically left wing. At most 
they are populist. Neither do I see how you can justify your claim that the 
radical left took ten parliamentary seats in GE16 –was it not six? Please feel 
free to correct me if I am wrong.

What you call a mass movement is a cross class alliance. Water charges affect 
all classes. Furthermore what you label “a mass movement” was on a smaller 
scale than previous such demos. If anything there has been a ongoing 
diminishing attendance at these demos.

FF lost electoral support but much of it went to other right wing parties. It 
was not a zero sum game. The world financial crisis, capitalism, moderately 
changed the politics in Ireland –not the “Left.” Even if the Fianna Fáil party 
had lost more support, given the state of politics in Ireland, this electoral 
support would have remained in the camp of the bourgeoisie. Indeed it is 
extraordinary, by even bourgeois standards, that this party has, more or less, 
held onto such electoral and political support for so long –since the the 
1930s. 

Questions need to be raised too concerning the  character of the SP and the 
SWP. These parties have been showing increasing opportunism. It is questionable 
as to how to the Left they are. Just look at the political trajectory of Syriza 
in Greece!




Take Care
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[Marxism] Reading Marx blog

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Along with volumes one and two, and the the first four parts of volume 
three, my reading notes for part five of Capital volume three 
(interest-bearing capital and the credit system) are now up on the blog.


https://readingmarx.wordpress.com/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Three different takes on ISIS | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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The truth is that Cockburn can barely conceal his contempt for Iraq’s 
Arab Sunnis, whom he often lumps together in a homogeneous category ‘the 
Sunni’, facing a no less homogeneous ‘the Shia’. Thus, he tells us that 
‘the Sunni’ are ‘unlikely to be satisfied’ with regional autonomy and a 
larger share of jobs and oil revenues, and would not be content with 
less than a ‘full counterrevolution that aims to take back power over 
all of Iraq’. One is left wondering how an informed author like Cockburn 
could attribute the fantasy of an excited fringe of Iraqi Arab Sunnis to 
a whole community. The fact is, however, that he seems to have taken 
that fantasy for a fait accompli since he asserts that, after ISIS’s 
offensive in Iraq, the Shia leaders have ‘not grasped that their 
domination over the Iraqi state… was finished’ and that ‘only a Shia rump 
was left’—an astonishing overstatement indeed.


Patrick Cockburn’s pro-Assad bias is also blatant in the double standard 
with which he judges ‘conspiracy theories’ depending on which side they 
emanate from. Thus, says he, ‘a conspiracy theory much favoured by the 
rest of the Syrian opposition and by Western diplomats, that ISIS and 
Assad are in league, was shown to be false as ISIS won victories on the 
battlefield’. But Cockburn does not tell the reader by which logic ISIS’s 
victories on the Syrian battlefield were in and by themselves a 
refutation of the claim by the Syrian opposition and Western diplomats 
that the Assad regime had favoured ISIS’s establishment and expansion in 
Syria in order to weaken and discredit the Syrian insurgency.


full: https://louisproyect.org/2016/03/01/three-different-takes-on-isis/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Zochrot Film Festival on the Nakba and the Right of Return & Ilan Pappé

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*From NYU-SJP:*

We are pleased to announce that from *March 2-7, 2016* Zochrot and a number
of US-based Palestine solidarity groups will present the 4th annual Zochrot
Film Festival on the Nakba and the Right of Return. Zochrot is an NGO
working since 2002 to promote acknowledgement and accountability for the
ongoing injustices of the Nakba of 1948 that began with more than 700,000
Palestinians expelled from their homeland and 601 localities destroyed.
Zochrot promotes the reconceptualization of the Return of refugees as the
imperative redress and a chance for a better life for all the country's
inhabitants.

Events at NYU:
*Thurs, March 3, 7-9pm*
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Vanderbilt Hall 200
Zochrot Shorts and talk with Professor Ilan Pappe

*Fri, March 4, 6:30pm & 8:30pm*
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Hagop Kevorkian Center

--6:30 PM "ISMAIL" (28 min)
Dir.: Nora Alsharif
Followed by a discussion with Amin Hussain about the Nakba
in Palestinian visual art

--8:30 PM "ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD" (60 min)
Dir.: Lia Tarachansky
Followed by conversation with the director Lia Tarachansky via skype.

*Sat, March 5, 3pm & 5pm*
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Hagop Kevorkian Center

--3pm "THE WANTED 18" (75 min)
Dir.: Amer Shomali, Paul Cowan
Followed by conversation with the director Amer Shomali via skype.

--5pm "A WORLD NOT OURS" (93 min)
Dir.: Mahdi Fleifel

Cosponsors of 1948mm: Zochrot; Students for Justice in Palestine at
Columbia, Brooklyn College, NYU and NYU Law; Jewish Voice for Peace NYC,
Columbia/Barnard, and Brown University; Jews for Palestinian Right of
Return; Jews Say No!; Facing the Nakba; Awda NY: The Palestine Right to
Return Coalition; Middle East Crisis Response; Tree of Life Educational
Fund; NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study and NYU Hagop Kevorkian
Center.



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