Re: [Marxism] Stopping Trump
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 Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Sean Noonan via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > Clay then claims that the threshold of success for > the protesters at UIC had to be to completely “shut Donald Trump up” > I never said that and you have failed to produce a quote of me saying that. The other distortions I don't have time to deal with. _ 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 Late Great Planet Earth
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[Marxism] video - Rashid Khalidi - The Hundred Year War in Palestine - 103 minutes
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[Marxism] Some interesting NZ events commemorating the 1916 Rebellon in Ireland
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[Marxism] The BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique
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Re: [Marxism] [New post] How did the universe begin? How will it end?
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. * Cosmology and the relationship of cosmology to materialism are fascinating subjects. I would just like to add some elaboration on two points in the long posting on "How did the university begin?" Louis Proyect wrote: > On the In Defense of Marxism website, you can find a three part article > ( http://www.marxist.com/science-and-technology/ ) by Adam Booth on > "The Crisis in Cosmology". In part one Booth wants to make it clear that > Marxists have no truck with any theory that the Pope could embrace, > even mistakenly. The "big bang" and some related theories are just too > close for comfort as a kind of creation myth: Earlier this year Pete Brown commented on Adam Booth's views on cosmology in an article entitled "Marxism and Science". This is a brief excerpt from the introduction: "...Booth's series of articles on cosmology appeared on the IMT website beginning on November, 17, 2014. Entitled "The Crisis of Cosmology", this series is a broadside attack on present-day cosmology and an attempt to substitute Marxist-sounding rhetoric for science. This is a completely mistaken approach to how Marxists should approach science and scientific debates. "Marx and Engels were materialists who enthusiastically but critically accepted the core of the natural science of their day. They embraced the latest scientific achievements and promoted the advances made by Darwin and Morgan among others. Booth tries to put himself in the Marxist tradition by criticizing contemporary cosmology and doing so with the help of quotations from Engels. But in the process he puts himself at odds with the scientific attitude of Marx and Engels. If contemporary cosmology were a pseudo-science and its practitioners nothing but charlatans, Booth would have a point. It's all very well to criticize some wild speculation, but today's cosmologists have actually discovered new, important facts about the universe, facts ignored by Booth. " Subheads are: * [Booth's demagogy on] Creationists and Beginningists * Booth in the Dark * Ignoring Facts... * ...While Spouting "Infinity" The full text is at http://www.communistvoice.org/DWV-150221.html > The other two articles in Booth´s series mostly amount to arguing against > the wisdom of synthesizing quantum mechanics and Einstein´s theory of > relativity. Plus some quotes from Lenin´s polemic against > Empirio-Criticism, a work that is mostly of interest to the archivists > among us. The problem is Booth not Lenin. Lenin's "Materialism and Empirio-Criticism" is an exceptionally good work, and it has an approach towards science that is diametrically opposed to that put forward by Booth. In this work, Lenin did not stand in the way of the new discoveries taking place in physics and nitpick at them , but instead saw them as part of the progress of materialism, and as showing the necessity of dialectical rather than mechanical materialism..Thus he backed Engels saying that each epoch-making discovery in science requires materialism "to change its form". That's materialist philosophy changing in order to adapt to scientific discoveries, not science being held back by dogmatic generalities. This goes against the Trotskyist Booth, who embraces the old form of materialism as tightly as he can; against the adventures of Stalinism in theoretical physics; and against the mechanical materialism that still has a lot of influence in various circles. -- Joseph Green _ 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 Brothers Grimsby’ Trots Out a Demeaning Racial Trope - The New York Times
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[Marxism] Fwd: How did the universe begin? How will it end? | 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. * The last entry in the latest Harper’s Magazine Index, a compendium of interesting factoids featured each month, reminded me that I wanted to say a few words about cosmology: Percentage of Americans who feel a deep sense of wonder about the universe at least once a week: 46 I am one of those Americans who had such feelings, often twice a day. It has always been with me to some extent but much more so after seeing the documentary on the Hadron Collider titled “Particle Fever” that I reviewed just two years ago. The film can be seen on Amazon streaming, as a DVD from Netflix or for $2.99 on Youtube. https://louisproyect.org/2016/03/21/how-did-the-universe-begin-how-will-it-end/ _ 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 forthcoming Australian election and the ongoing attacks on unions and workers
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 forthcoming Australian election and the ongoing attacks on unions and workers With growing inequality and austerity has come growing anger, inchoate in Australia but finding a left wing political expression in places like the UK and US in the form of Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders. Workers in struggle are the short term solution to the problems of capitalism. Workers in struggle are the long term solution to the problem that is capitalism. http://enpassant.com.au/2016/03/22/the-forthcoming-australian-election-and-the-ongoing-attacks-on-unions-and-workers/ _ 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] Stopping Trump
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 March 15th Clay Claiborne writes: “I said that the protesters rode into an ambush but I will reserve my verdict on the effectiveness of their "riding into an ambush" until the outcome of the immediate battle - the vote in IL today. I never said I was withholding my verdict as to whether it was an ambush until the outcome of the vote.” On March 16th Clay Claiborne writes: "There seems to me to be a big disconnect where a section of the Left lives in an alternate reality in which they don't even have to consider whether this on that militant tactic might actually help Donald Trump get elected president and in which they can brag about having "shut Down Trump up" while for 3 days before the election the mainstream media was saturated with Donald Trump and his minions, and the subject that assured he would continue to be the focus of attention in this critical period was precisely that protest. "Shutting Donald Trump Up" can now join "Stopping Obama from bombing Syria" as another of the great victories of the Left's imagination." __ Clay has claimed that the UIC event was a Trump ambush. If it was an ambush it didn’t work. Clay then claims that the threshold of success for the protesters at UIC had to be to completely “shut Donald Trump up” and since Trump has not been completely shut up, the UIC Pavillion protest was ill considered and driven by an “alternate reality” and the “left’s imagination.” So first off, I reject the charge of bullshit. Clay's meaning is clear. Second, the elections result and subsequent survey data is in. Trump did not substantially increase his support by his putative ambush. Majorities and pluralities across all demographic groups blamed Trump for the violence at his events and his numbers didn’t get a post-protest victim of protester bump. Shutting Down Trump at UIC always meant at only UIC Pavillion on that one day – not completely and forever. It was nothing like “Stopping Obama from bombing Syria.” Clay goes from treating Trump like a strategic genius setting up ambush events so as to capture a bump of blowback anti-protester support to disparaging those protesters for not meeting a goal that he unilaterally imposes on them in order for their tactic to be measured a success. Clay follows Rachel Maddow, President Obama, Nate Silver, Trevor Noah and other establishment liberals in aiming his fire more at the protesters doing their first street politics than at Donald Trump. Sean Noonan _ 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] Stopping Trump
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[Marxism] Fwd: Inside Jacobin: how a socialist magazine is winning the left's war of ideas - Vox
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[Marxism] Fwd: With Syria Solidarity UK – P U L S E
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[Marxism] Opening for Business, A former Marielito positions himself as an entrepreneur in the new Cuba.
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. * (Despite having written a fairly good bio of Che Guevara that turns rotten after Batista is overthrown, Jon Lee Anderson has morphed into a true reactionary as befits those who write for the New Yorker. Having said that, I suppose this article is worth evaluating.) One night not long ago, in a new restaurant in Havana called VIPs, the owner, a white-haired Catalan named Jordi, was speculating about what life might be like in Cuba after a reconciliation with the United States. “Come, let me show you,” he said confidingly, leading the way to a large outdoor space between the neighboring building and his own, an eighteenth-century villa built for a Spanish marqués. Gesturing with his hands, Jordi indicated where he was building an open-air bar and eatery, a wine cellar, a “chill-out area.” “It will be a club for friends,” Jordi said. “Friends with money.” Inside, Hugo Cancio, one of Jordi’s friends in the new transnational élite, sat at a corner table. A Cuban-American businessman, Cancio lives in Miami but shuttles to Havana so often that the VIPs menu has named his favorite dish for him: the Don Hugo Paella. Cancio is fifty-one, tall, with an athlete’s shoulders and a limber gait. He was accompanied by his daughter Christy, who had recently finished college in the U.S. Their table looked out on a square bar, a dozen tables full of smartly dressed people, and a huge screen, with Chaplin’s “Modern Times” on a continuous loop. On his iPhone 6, Cancio showed me a selfie that he and Christy had taken earlier that day with Conan O’Brien, who was in Havana taping his show. O’Brien had invited them to join him at El Aljibe, an open-air restaurant that is popular with diplomats and Cuba’s senior nomenclatura. “What do you think?” Cancio asked me, smiling. “Cuba’s changing, man.” full: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/opening-for-business _ 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: Is Prostitution Just Another Job? -- The Cut
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[Marxism] Fwd: Why Israel Loves Donald Trump - POLITICO Magazine
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[Marxism] Fwd: The uneven and combined development of world capitalism | International Socialist Review
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. * An odd review of "How the West Came to Rule:The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism" by Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu. It praise the work (deservedly so) but devotes an inordinate amount of space to defending Vivek Chibber whom the authors spend far less time analyzing compared to Brenner, Wood and Post. In my view, Chibber's reputation is sinking rapidly and I would advise against being his attorney. Eventually I hope to deal with his book but there are far more pressing issues. The other criticism Ashley Smith has is over the author's ideas about the need for a new type of revolutionary organization, one in fact has much more in common with the original concept of Marx and Engels--a world party that can reflect the same kind of internationalism that their book expresses as opposed to the provincial Anglocentrism of the Political Marxists. Finally, Smith does have a point about their use of academic language. I would strongly advise any budding scholars hoping to get published by HM, Pluto, Verso et al to refrain from using the word "ontological", especially when writing about society. If you want to write about the nature of existence, you have my permission. http://isreview.org/issue/100/uneven-and-combined-development-world-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] Proletarian Ethics
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. * Hi A rudimentary moral sense has been hard wired into humanity by the evolutionary process. This moral sense is a legacy from our Stone Age ancestors. But because of its rudimentary nature it is not sufficiently developed to cope adequately with modern civilisation. Consequently this modern morality has developed as a result of socio-historic developments. This helps explain how it complements the ethics of the modern working class. Stone Age people would have existed in small bands in which there was an absence of stratification and hierarchy. Because of each band’s communal character this morality would have tended to be communal in character as opposed to being Hobbesian. The Stone Age “individual” lived within a totality and was largely defined by that totality or community. The fundamental source of communist ethics under capitalism is the valorisation process. The class struggle is lodged within this process. The class struggle, together with its development, is the form by which proletarian consciousness emerges. The valorisation processes forces the working class to labour under alienated conditions. Workers, then, are forced to work in a way that is oppressive. Conditions of work subjectively entail pain and suffering for the worker. These alienating conditions within the production process drive the working class into class struggle. These subjective conditions are the source of proletarian ethics and the class struggle itself. Consequently working class ethics is born within the heart of the exploitation of labour power. Class struggle is a form of collective struggle. Within the struggle itself ethics is transformed from its bourgeois to its communist form. This is achieved through the communal interaction and relations of solidarity that build up within the struggle of the producers. Through the struggle against alienation and exploitation the system that appeared as unchangeably objective is increasingly experienced as the creation of the labouring activity of the working class. The workers increasingly realise that since they, in a sense, created the reified social system it can now be freed from its estranged character. Under these conditions the ethics of the working class develops. These struggles expose the limitations on freedom in capitalist society while simultaneously engendering class solidarity that point beyond the limits of liberal conceptions of morality.This experience furthers class solidarity and proletarian ethics. The eventual overthrow of the system involves the final transformation of proletarian ethics. We see then that ethics bears a directly political character. Ethics is concerned with the nature of political community and its economic foundation. Ethics and politics, a la Aristotle, are directly tied together. It is clear, then, that working class ethics and the communist consciousness linked to it is not a mere matter of mechanically instilling communist ethics into the working class from the outside as Lenin effectively claimed. It is collective action grounded in the labour process that generates the conditions for the emergence of proletarian ethics. The labour process is the dialectical dynamic that drives ethics. One cannot exist without the other. Struggle generates ethics. Within the class struggle the experience of the working class changes. This class experience inspires and stimulates discussion and the exchange of opinions. It is a practical melting pot by which workers generate their communist intellectualisation. The process stimulates the emergence of a variety of revolutionary organisational expressions of the class struggle. During the conflict the capitalist class increasingly reveals its class opposition to the proletariat. This growing experience forms part of the growing class awakening of workers. The “spontaneity” of the working class is inseparably connected with class consciousness. Within this process revolutionary communist parties emerge. The struggle can take off in a fragmented even opportunist way. Through experience together with the way in which events unfold the struggle can become more unified and class conscious. However general economic and political conditions are a factor in the process. The outbreak of economic crisis can significantly influence the character of the process. This can impact on conditions in such a way as to lead to communist consciousness. Since the 1905 Russian Revolution workers’ councils emerged spontaneously in periods of heightened class struggle. Workers’ councils are the organizational form by which the working
[Marxism] Fwd: Story of cities #6: how silver turned Potosí into 'the first city of capitalism' | Cities | The Guardian
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[Marxism] Fwd: Nostalgia for the Saddam era is thwarting a truly united Iraq | The National
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Re: [Marxism] Stop Trump
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. * This is another of those "Trump = Hitler" (or Mussolini) articles in today's Counterpunch: I too am guilty of these comparisons, as a young radical critiquing the George W. Bush presidency, for the far-right, nationalistic militarism seemed to fit in nicely with a wider critique of fascism. As I studied, learned, and grew intellectually, however, I came to see these easy comparisons as dishonest and stifling to the formations of deep understanding of particular regimes and how their power might be resisted. Yet, despite my aversion to what I (and others) refer to jokingly as reductio ad Hitlerium, we seem to have arrived at a Weimer moment in United States’ American politics. We are quite evidently witnessing a figure running for the highest elected office in the U.S. who is by every measure modeling himself, his movement, and his rise to power on the populist far-right rhetoric of European fascism in the mid-20th century. This person is, of course, Donald J. Trump. full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/21/the-rise-of-fascism-in-the-united-states/ It is funny to hear a PhD student describing himself as "a young radical critiquing the George W. Bush presidency" as if being 35 is old. He is: "Andrew J. Wood is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Politics Department with a Designated Emphasis in History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz". I have a feeling that there's not much history being taught in his department since he compares out situation today to the Weimar Republic. In 1930 the combined SP/CP vote in Germany was THIRTY SEVEN percent. Parties of both the left and right had paramilitaries that engaged in street fighting. We had a comrade in the Houston branch of the SWP who had fought the Nazis just as my professor Heinrich Blucher, who was married to Hannah Arendt, had. What is the state of the American working class? The largest vote for a radical party, speaking liberally, was in 2000 when Ralph Nader got 2.74 percent of the vote. And you can bet that most of the votes came from social workers, computer programmers, nurses, etc. rather than factory workers. _ 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] Stop Trump
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. * Why Trump, indeed. Unfortunately, many of those "veterans from the 1960s" are busily engaged in reminding us why, in the end, our generation of radicals have accomplished as little as we have. We are slow learners, perhaps. I was astonished when I saw how easily the Democrats channeled Occupy into harmless channels that went nowhere . . . while so many of my contemporaries seemed oblivious to the need to act in defense of the movement's independence. The Democrats liked Occupy as a bit of window dressing for the news critical of the Republicans, who had the lobbyist-driven little tea party piffels that got so much attention. For as long as I've been watching politics, the Democrats have built their victories primarily on fears of this or that "lesser evil," the threat of imminent fascism, etc. I went to high school with people who have said this every four years since 1964 . . . like they are permanently leaning on the reset button of their mental computers. In terms of my movement contemporaries, I have been further astonished since the Obama campaign in 2008 by the eagerness with which those "veterans from the 1960s" have been willing to ignore their responsibilities to talk about their own experience and, instead, arguing the case for supporting inexperienced neophytes getting sucker-punched by the Democrats, as it following such reformist politics would be a magic elixir for our own lost youth. The absolutely uncritical drumbeat for the Sanders campaign has rather capped this--and the insanely dogmatic denunciations of those unwilling to partake of the kool-aid--rather persuades me that most of them will wind up denouncing those of us who won't go for Clinton as closet reactionaries . . . as many of them did over Obama. I would just add, parenthetically, that this is why, in the U.S,, "Stalnism" has become a misnomer for the pervasive and toxic lesser-evil politics endemic to the political system here. Just my two cents. Cheers, Mark L. _ 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
