Re: [Marxism] Syriza versus Palestinian liberation
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. * Even the fascists in Greece claim to defend Palestine, if only in name (IIRC their minister did not mind weapons deals with Israel even when Tspiras was opposed). Europe is truly a sick place. - Amith On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Philip Ferguson 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. > * > > https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/14497/ > _ > 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
[Marxism] Syriza versus Palestinian liberation
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[Marxism] Latin America remembers Hugo Chavez's revolutionary legacy
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. * Peace, unity and prosperity was the message on March 5, which marked the third anniversary of the death of Venezuela's late socialist president Hugo Chavez. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61264 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] November 8th 1939 letter by Cannon to Trotsky give useful arguments aganst revisionist book by John Roberts whch echos James Burnham revisionist theory of the Chinese Bureaucracy that rules
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 Struggle for a Proletarian Party | | | | | | | | | The Struggle for a Proletarian PartyThe Struggle for a Proletarian Party By James P. Cannon Part IV 12. The ‘Clique’ and the ‘Leader Cult’ | | | | View on www.marxists.org | Preview by Yahoo | | | | | I have published this part of the Struggle for a Proletarian Party because it gives a good definition of dual nature of Stalinist bureaucratic castes that rule the workers' states. The Chinese bureaucracy does not want world dominance because the end of Capitalism, would signify their downfall, as it would lead to Political Revolution! It is Imperialism which threatens the workers' states military. Cannon in this letter explains how these castes utilise the anti-war movement within the Imperialist countries as a bargainship to stop the workers' states they rule being attacked. _ 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] Here''s the actual Witness programme on Marhall Plan I revired!
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[Marxism] How big is the danger of the revial of Stalinsim, with 3rd Camplers playing into their hands of Stalinsim? by Anthony Brain
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Revolution continues chant the Syrian revolutionaries | Syria Freedom Forever – سوريا الحرية للأبد
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 Friday March 4, 2016 massive popular demonstrations throughout the liberated areas of Syria occurred under the slogan “The revolution continues”. More than 100 protests were recorded on this day, according to various opposition figures. In the demonstrations, protesters were chanting the original songs of the revolution: “The people are one and united”, “Death rather than humiliation”, “The People want the downfall of the regime”, “The Syrian people want freedom”, “Revolution for dignity and Freedom”, etc…. The spirit of the beginning of the revolution could be felt with democratic and non-sectarian slogans, and as a protester wrote on his placard: “the doors of the peaceful revolution reopen”. The Syrian revolutionary flag was seen everywhere. It is interesting to note that salafist djihadist military forces and their symbols were absent from these popular demonstrations, while Jabhat Al-Nusra soldiers organised a small demonstration against the massive popular demonstration in in the city Ma’aret al-Naaman, Idlib, and chanted slogans against democracy and secularism, and for an Islamic state. They also told the demonstrators on the squares to wear the full niqab as real men go to fight on the military front. During the past week, protests against the Assad regime were also organised in Aleppo, Damascus countryside (Daraya and Dhumeir), Da’el and the countryside of Quneytra. As a protester said in the besieged town of Daraya, “Of course we’re going to seize this opportunity (to protest) because the rest of the time there were constant barrel bombs and shelling”. In the free neighborhood of Aleppo, mass demonstration erupted the second day of the truce, chanting: “The people want the downfall of the regime”. Another protest occurred in Aleppo countryside, Al-Atareb, on February 27, demanding for opposition military factions to unite under the Free Syrian Army banner, and express their solidarity with the villages that are being bombed amid the truce, while calling on the Jabhat Al Nusra to exit their city. Civilians and activists in Al-Atareb declared during the preparation of the Friday protest their will to revive the peaceful Syrian revolution, which demanded freedom and justice and dignity according to them. Many protesters across the country express a similar will to encourage peaceful demonstrations as a way to come back to the spirit of the revolution. full: https://syriafreedomforever.wordpress.com/2016/03/06/the-revolution-continues-chant-the-syrian-revolutionaries/ _ 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: 5 Years In, Syrian Conflict Keeps Adding Layers, With No End In Sight | KGOU
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[Marxism] Fwd: Who is the Italian pol Trump most resembles? (Hint–it is not Mussolini) | 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. * Although it is tempting to compare Trump to Mussolini given the similarity of their facial mugging, shoulder-shrugging, and histrionic hand gestures—not to speak of the obscurantist and deeply reactionary ideology—I find it much more useful to see him as aspiring version of Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi. Like Berlusconi, Trump is another master of televised demagogy. And also like Berlusconi, he exploits the backwardness of the average boob tube addict who tends to think in the sort of crude terms we associate with reality TV programs like Trump’s “The Apprentice”. Finally, despite the toxic quality of Trump’s speeches and off the cuff comments, there is about as much of a threat to bourgeois democracy as there was in Italy in the nearly ten years of Berlusconi’s misrule for the simple reason that the ruling classes of both countries would much prefer to rule through the illusion of freedom rather than the risky use of truncheons and dictatorship. The connection between Trump and Berlusconi has been made by others but not always with complete understanding. For example, Robert Kuttner saw Trump as another Berlusconi but also another Hitler in Huffington Post. He accurately notes that both Trump and Berlusconi tried to leapfrog over traditional political parties in their bid to appeal directly to the “people” using their own considerable fortunes but sees Trump’s business about making America great again as a page torn from Mein Kampf In actuality, every president since Reagan has used this kind of demagogy in the face of a declining economic situation even though Trump tends to do it without bothering to explain how. When he says “we will take their oil” or “we will send the Mexicans back”, these are more in line with empty threats we associate with shows like “Housewives of New Jersey” rather than Heritage Foundation White Papers. full: https://louisproyect.org/2016/03/06/who-is-the-italian-pol-trump-most-resembles-hint-it-is-not-mussolini/ _ 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] Greek Stalinists "explain" homosexuality
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. * Homosexual orientation or alternating between homosexual and heterosexual orientation is presented by sections of intellectuals and artists, especially to the youth as an unconventional, dissident, and radical form of behaviour, as a "way" to overcome outdated perceptions of women's position in society, about sexuality, as a "form of conflict with authority, based on the male-dominated society." It projects the concept that "sexual identity is something fluid", socially and linguistically constructed. This is the philosophical current of postmodernism and postmodernity that ultimately denies the objectivity of biological sex which is the basis for a predominantly heterosexual sexual orientation. It argues that "gender is not what we are, but what we do." It ignores or conceals the class factors that led to the different positions of the two sexes and the ruling classes in the evolution of society, from the primitive community household in the first class society onwards. In the passage from one socioeconomic formation to another, surplus products appear, produced to meet community needs. Some products were produced in excess due to the development of the means of production and work implements, the cultivation of land, herds, which came under the ownership of men who appropriated the surplus, the surplus product. The owner of the surplus began to distance himself from the need to work for survival, exploiting the work of prisoners of war, slaves. The woman could not overcome the inherent biological differences she had with her husband that render her more vulnerable in nature. To protect the need for the reproduction of the species, she could not stray far from the community household that lost its social character with the onset of the first class division of society, with the exploitation of man by man. Moreover, the need for wealth to be inherited by the "legitimate" offspring of the man was established. In this way, the domination of the man over the woman was institutionalized at both an individual and social level. By bypassing the social causes which imposed overwhelmingly different social behaviours between the sexes, these theories lead to the denial of the biological differences between men and women, ultimately denying the objectivity of biological gender identity. On this basis, the idea that every person belongs, in a natural and inevitable way to one gender is considered to be an error. These theories render absolute the very real impact society has on a series of perceptions about gender (which often act in the direction of legitimizing inequality and discrimination against women). full: http://inter.kke.gr/en/articles/On-The-Cohabitation-Agreement/ _ 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: 242, 000 Americans got a job last month. Here's why they're not celebrating | Michael Paarlberg | Opinion | 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. * Reagan, like Obama, won reelection handily with unemployment above 7%, but with that rate falling, aggregate income rising, and the general perception that things are getting better. But there’s still the question “better for whom?” Friday’s jobs report is a mixed bag, with enough positive indicators for the White House to brag about, which it has. Job growth continues, with 242,000 new jobs created in February. The unemployment rate, holding steady at 4.9%, is undoubtedly healthier than this time four years ago, when it was 8.3%. Nonparticipation in the labor force, ie people who aren’t counted because they’ve been out of work so long they stop looking, can mask higher real unemployment, so it’s promising that the labor force participation rate rose as well. At the same time, wages fell, by 0.1%. There’s some evidence that this is a fluke, the result of the survey period ending before the 15 February payday. Over the entire year, wages have risen, by a modest 2.4%, but this is still well below pre-recession rates. So too is the employment-to-population ratio. Job growth is concentrated in the service sector – health care, retail, and restaurants – and especially in part-time employment, which grew by 489,000 compared to 65,000 new full time jobs. Manufacturing jobs, much touted by the White House as a hallmark of the recovery, are down. Some market analysts take a dim view of unemployment as an indicator: “It is apparent that the UE rate is meaningless, as body count is a worthless metric during a prolonged period of low-quality jobs creation”, Longford Associates’ Joan McCullough told the Wall Street Journal. full: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/04/242000-americans-job-last-month-heres-why-not-celebrating _ 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] Venezuela: Remembering the Caracazo rebellion against neoliberalism
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. * Thousands of Venezuelans took the streets in February 1989 in a wave of protests that highlighted the right-wing misrule in the South American country. The protests came to be known as the *Caracazo* — an uprising that began in the capital Caracas — and ultimately shaped the country's future. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61253 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Honduras: Do feminists support coups?
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. * United States Democratic Party presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has built her campaign around her self-proclaimed dedication to fighting for women’s rights, as well as her superior experience in the realm of foreign policy. Many feminists have disputed her claims, and the women on the receiving end of her foreign policy, particularly in Latin America, are even less likely to see the former Secretary of State as a champion of their rights. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61258 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
