[Marxism] Chanel Stages Fashion Show In Cuba

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No comment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85_TUf2hjdk

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This is the comment I posted on the Havana Times site. havanatimes.org.
ken h

No doubt it is galling for Cubans to be confronted with the easy life of 
tourists from rich countries. All the more so when it is wealth that is beyond 
most people even in the rich countries.
Against this the Cuban government must ask itself what economic benefits come 
with these events. If it can be shown that the money from these events can ease 
the hardships of the Cuban people, then a responsible government should allow 
them.
And it might be argued that events like this make Cuba seem less forbidding and 
alien to people in other countries.
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[Marxism] Fwd: True Confession: I’ve Lost that Bernie Feeling | New Politics

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So with Sanders doing more to promote socialism and solidarity than any 
American figure since Eugene Debs, what’s my beef with Bernie? It comes 
after Sanders couldn’t deliver the substantive coup de grace to Clinton 
at any of the debates watched by millions of voters. Battle fatigue on 
his part? More like poor generalship, if we are honest, as Bernie stoked 
a fire under millions of Americans but couldn’t muster campaign 2.0 
beyond a fund-raising bonanza (no small thing) and promises of a 
confection of free stuff courtesy of the state, yet with too little 
attention to Hillary’s and Bill Clinton’s role as abettors of the very 
corporate oligarchy he so despises and has otherwise sketched so well. 
It’s that he muffed the ample nationally televised debate opportunities 
he had to demolish HRC as someone who could deliver nothing but misery, 
when his programs properly advocated and elaborated were not only 
desirable but defensible and necessary.


On the stump, campaigning against class-based injustices, Sanders was 
nonpareil. Not in the debates, though. In boxing lingo, facing what by 
elementary logic and evidence was his social and political enemy, he 
never laid a glove on his party primary opponent. Poor debating style? 
Poor staff preparation? Fear of overstepping? Of charges of sexism? 
Concern with aiding and abetting the GOP come November? Whatever: 
Sanders stumbled in front of millions of viewers nationwide against a 
deeply reactionary and properly maligned neoliberal. We lost, too.


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[Marxism] Fwd: [New post] Karl Marx, born May 5, 1818

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rationally regulating their interchange with Nature, bringing it under their 
common control, instead of being ruled by it as by the blind force of Nature, 
and achieving this with the least expenditure of energy and under conditions 
most favorable to, and worthy of, their human nature..." Karl Marx, Capital, 
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[Marxism] Interesting new interview with veteran Israeli Marxist Moshe Machover on Zionism and anti-Zionism today

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Re: [Marxism] Background on Kwame Sombrau!

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Recent photos of Kwame here in Albany, NY.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10208482139906956.1073742204.01=1=850ff18163

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[Marxism] Fwd: Looks Like a Duck, Quacks Like Reality TV - The Baffler

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So why doesn’t the reality genre traffic more directly in the economic 
reality of its subjects’ lives? And why does it set up a weirdly 
artificial distance between its middle-class viewers and its 
middle-class protagonists? To be sure, some reality shows sidestep 
Middle America altogether in favor of the workaday travails of the 
wealthy: the Kardashians, the Real Housewives, the Rich Kids of Beverly 
Hills. But at least as many entries in the genre—especially those on the 
numerous cable networks that rely on reality fare to round out their 
broadcast schedules—feature Americans who are either clinging 
desperately to whatever remains of the middle class or sinking toward 
its forgotten lower reaches. And somehow these figures almost always 
come across as terminally marginal misfits. Never mind that they’re 
struggling just like viewers at home. Wouldn’t it be fun to laugh at them?


Whether it’s the Here Comes Honey Boo Boo family (generically wacky 
proles of the heartland), the American Hoggers (a clan of Texans running 
down wild boars), or the unlikely entrepreneurs stepping forward to ask 
the 1 percent for their table scraps on Shark Tank, reality shows seem 
determined to keep the viewer at home distanced from the characters on 
screen. Getting viewers to laugh at the follies of the rich, as Real 
Housewives often does, is no real trick; American storytelling has a 
long tradition of turning the foibles and oddities of the upper class 
into satire and sitcoms. But keeping the reassuring appearance of an 
impassible socioeconomic distance between viewers at home and people 
onscreen who might be just like them is another trick altogether, and 
increasingly it’s wearing thin.


In reality television’s reverse social (antisocial?) contract, we can 
see some of the founding principles of the genre at work. The first 
reality show is generally agreed to be PBS’s seventies opus An American 
Family, but the genre as we now know it is rooted far more directly in 
MTV’s landmark nineties show The Real World and in CBS’s early aughts 
wilderness contest Survivor. Both were giant hits. Both defined 
generations of TV viewers and made their influence felt far and wide. 
And both, more importantly, were incredibly cheap to produce compared to 
just about anything else TV had to offer.


The appeal of such programming for fledgling cable channels was soon 
plain enough: no matter what any network has to pay to keep a reality 
show going, it’s far less than the cost of any equivalently scripted 
half hour of dramatic or sitcom programming. Scripted comedies and 
dramas require actors and writers—and the hefty, union-mandated fees 
that guild members in Hollywood command. But reality shows don’t run up 
such costs, and occasionally can be made without any union-represented 
personnel whatsoever. The savings over a scripted show are substantial, 
and the ratings breakout potential remains huge.


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Re: [Marxism] Paul Jay's interview with Dem insider Bill Curry

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On 5/4/2016 3:26 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:

  On 5/4/16 6:16 PM, Ralph Johansen via Marxism wrote: 

And I would argue b, that the Tea Party model is the model; not their 
politics, not their tone, not their extremism, not all their 
astroturf stuff. But you have to make a choice between the Green 
Party model of an independent race, or the model of the tea party, 
where you retain your independence and you start going after these 
people. The Tea Party in the Republican primaries chased forty to 
sixty Republicans out of office. In four years they took over the 
United States House of Representatives and became the loudest voice 
in the United States Senate. Progressives would give their eye teeth 
to have half that track record. 


  There can be no leftwing version of the Tea Party for the simple reason that 
the left must grow through a democratic process. The small d is essential since 
the large D is by its very nature undemocratic. There is nothing remotely 
resembling the grass roots collective decision-making process at work in the 
Occupy movement, with all its flaws. 

  The other thing to keep in mind is that there has been a sort of leftist Tea 
Party for fifty years at least. It is made up of all the reform Democratic 
clubs around the country with the one on the Upper West Side being typical. I 
had a friend who was in Avakian's group in the 60s who spent about 10 years in 
the club and finally joined the Greens because the club was so calcified. 

  All this business about young people carrying out a political revolution in 
the DP is nonsense. After the convention, the Sanders machine will fold up its 
tent and he will go back to being a Senator doing spots on the Rachel Maddow 
show. It is not as if he is a "traitor". He long ago gave up any pretenses at 
being committed to radical change in the USA. That is up to us, I'm afraid. 

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Lou, I have no knowledge about how the Tea Party model operates in practice. I 
don't get what in the Tea Party model, as model, is necessarily undemocratic or 
prevents it from growing through a democratic process.

I also don't know what was Tea Party-like about the reform Democratic clubs or 
how they actually functioned. I may remember hearing of them but nothing 
positive - and I don't know how their make-up relates to that of the movement 
around Sanders, in composition and objectives, in changed times, and tactics, 
seemingly fluid at present; and is "calcified" inevitable if the Tea Party 
framework is used? As Curry says, after removing "their politics, their tone, 
their [right] extremism, all their astroturf stuff"?

And what got to me about this interview and this counter-proposal is its 
persuasiveness in terms of outcome, if you take what he says about the 
difficulties in trying to introduce a radical left third party in an electoral 
process so hostile to the genre and so innately constructed to block its entry 
and outcome (despite Socialist Alternative's success in a local setting, where 
it is ultimately constrained by the design of the national political process – 
and the Green Party is currently only eligible in 26 states)), and the 
impracticability of attempting to function outside of the legislative and 
administrative process (which has been called “the legislative arm” as opposed 
to the “industrial arm” of labor) entirely, when that is where the basic 
decisions that affect both process and material outcomes are nailed down. 
Doesn’t the struggle have to be waged in both and if so, how?

I don’t want to take a necessarily apostate position; I see another possibility 
presented which appears to have merit, I can’t reject it out of hand, and I’d 
like to be clearer about it.

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[Marxism] Why Saudi Arabia Is Suddenly in Serious Trouble

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Dear Friends,

My latest in a series on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: 
http://web.alternet.org/world/why-saudi-arabia-suddenly-serious-trouble.

The takeaway, I think, is in the last paragraph on China's finance and Saudi 
Arabia's troubles.

Earlier reports:

(1) February 25, 
http://web.alternet.org/world/there-appears-be-truce-after-years-hostilities-between-worlds-great-oil-producers.
(2) March 3, 
http://web.alternet.org/world/saudi-arabias-oversupply-oil-has-little-do-economics-and-everything-do-politics.
(3) March 10, 
http://web.alternet.org/world/we-are-witnessing-decline-saudi-arabia-major-power.
(4) April 20, 
http://web.alternet.org/world/why-us-and-saudi-arabia-are-suddenly-involved-tense-geopolitical-drama.

Vijay.

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Re: [Marxism] This is what I wrote in November 2007, about some background how my politics evolved!

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For those who may not have seen this, below is the link to a 
video presentation of Kwame's autobiographical account of 
his many life experiences.
 
He will be Greatly missed.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FliVUa2vUiw 

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Re: [Marxism] Background on Kwame Sombrau!

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I am so saddened by the loss of comrade Kwame. He was a dear friend to me and 
my family for many years and a devoted distributor of Socialist Viewpoint until 
he became too ill to continue. He had an amazing memory for history—all of 
which he learned on his own by reading everything he could get his hands on. 

He was in his best form speaking extemporaneously—debating and street-corner 
speaking, for which he was arrested many times in New York. But one of the best 
things he did, in fact, one of the very best things I have ever seen on the 
great wasteland of TV, was the debate he and Fred Halstead had with William F. 
Buckley on his show, Firing Line, in 1968.*  Fred Halstead was the presidential 
candidate and Paul Boutelle was the Vice Presidential candidate for the 
Socialist Workers Party. (At that time, and until 1979, Kwame went by his given 
name, Paul Boutelle.) Kwame ruled the show! I truly believe this was one of the 
best moments on TV of all time. Be sure to watch it till the very end:

http://amodernmanifesto.tumblr.com/post/49309511725/william-f-buckley-conservative-douchebag-and

I will miss him very much. His contribution to the revolutionary, socialist 
workers movement was incalculable!

—Bonnie Weinstein

*In those days, when a TV show interviewed a major party candidate, they were 
also obligated to interview “minority candidates.” That’s how they got on the 
show. Buckley thought this would be a “piece of cake” interview for him. You 
can see it in his condescendingly smug demeanor at the beginning of the 
interview. It didn’t last long as you will see when you watch the interview. 
It’s the best comeuppance I’ve ever seen! You can hear that the audience went 
wild with applause!

> On May 5, 2016, at 5:40 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
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> On 5/5/16 6:58 AM, Anthony Brain via Marxism wrote:
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>> Kwame Somburu 1934-2016
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> Anthony is having email problems. He asked me to forward this:
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> met Kwame when I was 16 when Pat Brain (my Father) organised a big meeting of 
> 100 people discussing the dialectical inter-relationship between Black 
> Nationalism and the struggle for Socialism! Kwame remarked when he met me at 
> 16 that I knew a lot about American Trotskyist history. He thought even then 
> I was one of the more promising potential cadres of my generation!
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[Marxism] Fwd: Kwame Somburu, ¡Presente! | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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[Marxism] Labour Struggles in Palestine & International Solidarity - Toronto event

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http://www.caiaweb.org/

Trade unions and federations of labour in Canada are heeding the call for 
solidarity made by 170 Palestinian organizations for a Boycott Divestment and 
Sanctions (BDS) campaign. Let’s discuss how we can continue to build this 
solidarity.

Endorsed by:
Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA)
CUPE Ontario International Solidarity Committee
Faculty for Palestine (F4P)
International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran (IASWI-Canada)
Take Back Labour
Ottawa CUPE District Council
and more…
(CUPE - Canadian Union of Public Employees)
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Re: [Marxism] Background on Kwame Sombrau!

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On 5/5/16 6:58 AM, Anthony Brain via Marxism wrote:



 Kwame Somburu 1934-2016


Anthony is having email problems. He asked me to forward this:

met Kwame when I was 16 when Pat Brain (my Father) organised a big 
meeting of 100 people discussing the dialectical inter-relationship 
between Black Nationalism and the struggle for Socialism! Kwame remarked 
when he met me at 16 that I knew a lot about American Trotskyist 
history. He thought even then I was one of the more promising potential 
cadres of my generation!



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[Marxism] Background on Kwame Sombrau!

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