Re: [Marxism] Fwd: A Note from Mike Davis about the Second Amendment - Los Angeles Review of Books

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On 14.06.2016 20:24, DW via Marxism wrote:

he had me until the last sentence...as if Jefferson's 'dream' was really a
serious proposal for his slave holding America. What nonsense. And what is
this shit about "Natural Law" WTF is that supposed to mean?

David Walters

I felt that the reference to natural law was related to the alternative 
tradition that saw the Declaration of Independence as "the nation's ... 
natural law" and not the affirmation that something like Natural Law 
exists.

Einde O'Callaghan

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[Marxism] The NYC labor movement in 1863

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Louis, I was part of that large fraction at the Navy Yard. I think we had
about 17 members at its height and had many adventures, from 15 of us being
fired because the US Navy objected to our presence there (even set up a
machine gun on the entry way to ship to "protect" it) to totally abstaining
from our early winter strike. We recruited navy sailors into the YSA and
generally acted, as workers there told me after I quit, as very nice and
smart Jehovah's Witnesses. Workers politeness was take as a sign of being a
potential contact. A huh...

It was never a question of workers moving as in the example during the
Civil War (the Navy Yard predates the Revolution, and it was where they
built the first iron clad ship, the Monitor) but rather just living *as*
working going through the experience, sinking roots, and above all else,
earning respect. None of these three things we did and that is why the SWP
did so poorly. It was based on this bad experience there that I quit the
SWP.

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[Marxism] Roger Plumb, 1937 - 2016

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Roger Plumb, once a member of the Spartacist League, though not for many years, 
and earlier, I believe, a member of the Young Socialist League, passed away 
early on the morning of June 8th. A member of the National Maritime Union, 
Roger sailed in earlier years, devoting himself ashore to politics, then to the 
art of craft printing, working at Berkeley Free Press back in the ancient days, 
and using the hand press at St. Hieronymus Press where he printed classical 
poetry in the original Italian, distributing the finished product to his 
friends.  As a socialist he was no stranger to poverty, living on the margins 
of the economy - and old age is no friend to those not well-fixed with cash. He 
spent his declining years reading on linguistics and physics and studying 
languages, living on Social Security. At the beginning of the year he was able 
to get into Strawberry Creek Lodge, elder housing in Berkeley. He fell during a 
power blackout a few months ago, was hospitalized and never recover
 ed his strength.

He was a man of good humor and dry wit, and without a sectarian cell in his 
body. Comrade, friend and companion.

Farewell.

A memorial for Roger will be held at St. Hieronymus Press, 1703 Martin Luther 
King Jr. Way, Berkeley, California, on Roger's birthday, July 27th at 3:PM.

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[Marxism] Fwd: Now Peter Thiel’s Lawyer Wants to Silence Reporting on Trump’s Hair [Updated]

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Orlando Mass Shooting Not Deadliest in American History - Washington Wire - WSJ

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Lest one forget the massacres of native Americans in the 19th century.  But, oh 
those weren't "Americans", were they?  At least not the "real" Americans the 
media is concerned about here...
 

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The massacre at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando was a horrific tragedy. 
But it was not unprecedented – and it was not the “deadliest mass 
shooting in American history,” as many have called it.

To call it that is to forget the last hundred years of U.S. history of 
mass violence fueled by racial hatred and homophobia. Although precise 
numbers of deaths are impossible to specify, at least 100 African 
Americans were killed in East S​t.​ Louis, Ill., in one bloody night in 
July 1917; anywhere from 55 to 300 blacks were massacred in Tulsa​, 
Okla.,​ in 16 hours in June 1921; and dozens more were killed in 
Rosewood, Fla., in January 1923. And of course, more recently, 32 died 
in the 1973 bombing of the UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans.

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Orlando Mass Shooting Not Deadliest in American History - Washington Wire - WSJ

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237 Black sharecroppers killed in Arkansas

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[Marxism] Fwd: Orlando Mass Shooting Not Deadliest in American History - Washington Wire - WSJ

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The massacre at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando was a horrific tragedy. 
But it was not unprecedented – and it was not the “deadliest mass 
shooting in American history,” as many have called it.


To call it that is to forget the last hundred years of U.S. history of 
mass violence fueled by racial hatred and homophobia. Although precise 
numbers of deaths are impossible to specify, at least 100 African 
Americans were killed in East S​t.​ Louis, Ill., in one bloody night in 
July 1917; anywhere from 55 to 300 blacks were massacred in Tulsa​, 
Okla.,​ in 16 hours in June 1921; and dozens more were killed in 
Rosewood, Fla., in January 1923. And of course, more recently, 32 died 
in the 1973 bombing of the UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans.


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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] They must have read the Transitional Program

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(From Wikipedia)

Kellogg's was founded as the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company on 
February 19, 1906, by Will Keith Kellogg as an outgrowth of his work 
with his brother John Harvey Kellogg at the Battle Creek Sanitarium 
following practices based on the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The 
company produced and marketed the hugely successful Kellogg's Toasted 
Corn Flakes and was renamed the Kellogg Company in 1922.


In 1930, the Kellogg Company announced that most of its factories would 
shift towards 30-hour work weeks, from the usual 40. W.K. Kellogg stated 
that he did this so that an additional shift of workers would be 
employed in an effort to support people through the depression era. This 
practice remained until World War II, and continued briefly after the 
war, although some departments and factories remained locked into 
30-hour work weeks until 1980.

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Re: [Marxism] The NYC labor movement in 1863

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On 6/14/16 6:59 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:

At the same time, the use of convict drew the molders and other trade
unionists into politics, urging a bill to such innovations.


That should read: "At the same time, the use of convict labor drew the 
molders and other trade unionists into politics, urging a bill to such 
innovations."

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[Marxism] The NYC labor movement in 1863

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Every few pages in Mark Lause's "Free Labor" I find myself doing a 
double-take. Mark writes in a very understated way and lets the facts 
speak for themselves. In the early years of the SWP turn, there was a 
fraction in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Like everything else the sect did, 
it came to naught mostly because the labor movement was quiescent and 
because the SWP probably struck most workers as zombies. Check out what 
was happening during the Civil War when the labor movement was taking 
giant steps toward confronting the ruling class, including the 
Republican Party that became as frightened of labor radicalization as 
the Democrats were of emancipation.


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Political conditions differed in New York. The same sort of veteran 
radicals active in Boston battled to participate in the wartime Unionist 
coalition in New York. Ultimately, they established their own 
organizations that included the German Union League and representatives 
of trade unions. By November and December 1863, other Fourierists such 
as Charles Sears, with land reformers Joshua K. Ingalls and Henry Beeny, 
helped to raise volunteers for the army.


There, too, a vicious dispute in the Navy Yard among radicalized workers 
was raised. One of their leaders, Moses Platt, "made an extravagant 
speech about capital and labor," calling on workers to throw off their 
yoke. At a meeting of a Brooklyn trade union meeting, one of the members 
rose to discuss working-class political action, adding that "the nearest 
approach to success was made in France during the last revolution, when 
the combination of labor became so strong that capitalists in all 
countries became alarmed and combined to put it down, and - did so 
through Napoleon.


Employers reacted coherently when workers beyond the Navy Yard showed of 
militancy: stonecutters, blacksmiths, carpenters and laborers went on as 
did painters and hatters, while piano makers faced a lockout, and 
glass-molders,jewelers, machinists, and musicians organized for a pay 
increase. A "Farmers' Protective Union of the counties of Kings, Queens, 
Suffolk, Westchester, Richmond and Rockland formed". At the same time, 
the use of convict drew the molders and other trade unionists into 
politics, urging a bill to such innovations.

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[Marxism] Fwd: The Split | New Republic

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Throughout most of the 2016 presidential primaries, the media focused on 
the noisy and reactionary rift among Republicans. Until the battle 
between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders turned acrimonious in the 
home stretch, far less attention was paid to the equally momentous 
divisions within the Democratic Party. The Clinton-Sanders race wasn’t 
just about two candidates; instead, it underscored a series of deep and 
growing fissures among Democrats, along a wide range of complex fault 
lines—from age and race to gender and ideology. And these disagreements 
won’t fade with a gracious bow-out from Sanders, or a victory in 
November over Donald Trump. For all the talk of the Democrats’ need for 
“unity,” it would be a serious mistake to paper over the differences 
that came to the fore in this year’s primaries. More than ten million 
Democrats turned out in force this year to reject the party 
establishment’s cautious centrism and cozy relationship with Wall 
Street. Unless Democrats heed that message, they will miss a historic 
opportunity to forge a broad-based and lasting liberal majority.


To help make sense of what’s causing the split, and where it’s headed, 
we turned to 23 leading historians, political scientists, pollsters, 
artists, and activists. Taken together, their insights reinforce the 
need for a truly inclusive and vigorous debate over the party’s future. 
“There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion,” 
observed William Jennings Bryan, the original Democratic populist 
insurgent. “And people will not discuss a cause until their attention is 
drawn to it.”


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[Marxism] Fwd: KURDISTAN: Kurdistan democratic confederalists | Tahrir-ICN

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[Marxism] Fwd: A year’s worth of discussion and debate about the Sanders campaign on North Star

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[Marxism] Fwd: A Note from Mike Davis about the Second Amendment - Los Angeles Review of Books

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he had me until the last sentence...as if Jefferson's 'dream' was really a
serious proposal for his slave holding America. What nonsense. And what is
this shit about "Natural Law" WTF is that supposed to mean?

David Walters
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Re: [Marxism] Omar Barghouti on BDS strategy and tactics

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I think this is notable:

But the traditional Palestinian political discourse of the 1960s, 1970s,
and 1980s is largely gone. In South Africa, the national liberation
movement remained active until the very last minute, but we have,
unfortunately, lost much of what made up the Palestinian national
liberation movement largely due to the Oslo agreements. The Palestinian
leadership, with the explicit or implicit endorsement of most Palestinian
political parties, has surrendered basic Palestinian rights and accepted
dictates by the United States and European Union to adapt to most of
Israel’s regime of colonial oppression.

The Palestinian people is now in a state of loss and disarray. There is no
longer a Palestinian “national consensus,” if ever there was one. Even the
Palestinian political parties, right and left, Islamist and secular, with
almost no exception,* talk of “independence” and not national liberation,*
often forgetting the refugees and always omitting Palestinian citizens of
Israel from the very definition of the Palestinian people.

It is up to the entire Palestinian people to determine its future and the
solution to this colonial conflict. In the meantime, every Palestinian
individual, group or coalition must strive to weaken the Israeli regime of
oppression, as a prerequisite to attain Palestinian rights under
international law. We in the BDS movement have opted for developing one,
time-honored form of Palestinian resistance and* the most effective form of
grassroots international solidarity with it, based on rights, not political
solutions*.

BDS of course recognizes that there are other strategies and approaches; *we’re
just saying that we chose to focus on the rights, not the solutions*,
because for any political solution – determined by the majority of
Palestinians everywhere – to be just, comprehensive and sustainable it must
accommodate our rights under international law. Moreover, to be effective
you need to have something close to a Palestinian consensus, and to achieve
that we had to stick to the most principled and strategic lowest common
denominator, to the most significant and least controversial goals of the
Palestinian people that hardly anyone can object to: Ending the 1967
occupation, ending the system of apartheid, and fulfilling the right of
return of Palestinian refugees to their homes and properties from which
they were ethnically cleansed during and since the Nakba. And we adhere to
these rights strictly.

...

We know the inherent flaws of international law as well as anyone. But we
also know that it is *either that or the law of the jungle, and the latter
does not work for us*, on principle and practically, *given that we are by
far the physically weaker party*.

Barghouti is absolutely correct about the situation -- there is no longer a
functional national liberation movement, as the weaker party has been
crushed. However, his proposed answer is really not an answer at all. It
just returns you to square 1. His answer is to focus on "rights" rather
than "solutions". Reminds me of Arendt's comments in Origins of
Totalitarianism wherein the problem with "human rights" and the like was
that historically, the Rights of Man had always been pinned to national
emancipation. Without a polity to protect one's rights, the rhetoric about
Rights of Man (or, with BDS, "human rights") exists only in a void:

"Even worse was that all societies formed for the protection of the Rights
of Man, all attempts to arrive at a new bill of human rights were sponsored
by marginal figures by *a few international jurists without political
experi- ence or professional philanthropists* supported by the uncertain
sentiments of professional idealists. The groups they formed, the
declarations they is- sued, showed an* uncanny similarity in language and
composition to that of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals*"
(Arendt, OOT 292)


Ultimately, rights must be tied to some sort of collective polity, and here
he appears to be tying it to the BDS movement; but the BDS movement is just
a group of people outside of Palestine for the most part who separately
advocate for international law, which in turn is largely deferential to
existing states to enforce and uphold "human rights" (which is why human
rights are never enforced anywhere, whether it is the international
conventions used to protect refugees or the various frameworks for
protecting "individual minority rights," etc).

Indeed, the transition from "solutions" (AKA national liberation or at the
very least, some sort of national framework) to "rights" is not really a
transition at all. Even the national liberation 

[Marxism] Omar Barghouti on BDS strategy and tactics

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Omar Mateen's interest in gay men makes this no ordinary act of terrorism | David Shariatmadari | Opinion | The Guardian

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Should be pretty obvious to all by now that this was what is defined as a
"rage killing" and has all the hallmarks: bullied, not overly popular, poor
work and academic record, closeted gay man in a culture that hates gays
(Florida!). Yet the U.S. wants to blame anything but itself for the
creation of another angry, frustrated individual who feels that violent
aggression is the only solution to his anxiety and fear. Not to minimize
the violence, but it's pretty mundane other than the number of victims as
the back story is drearily the same as most other "rage killers."

One should ask themselves if they can remember a rage killing in the states
where the killer is successful and popular member of the community. Or in
the case of workplace rage killings, ask yourself the last time you heard
about a CEO or other member of management "going crazy" and shooting their
employees?

As long as we have a toxic culture that ignores the consequences of
treating humans like they don't exist and ignoring the isolation and
self-loathing capitalism promotes, we will continue to have "rage
killings."
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[Marxism] Tankies?

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If, like me, you've used the term in discussions around Syria and been
asked by youth what it means, send them along to this:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/norman/hungary/index.htm

... which is the HTML version of Hugo Dewar and Daniel Norman, "Revolution
and Counter-Revolution in Hungary," prepared by our friend Paul Flewers.

I mention this today because MIA has just posted e-pub versions of that and
other Hugo Dewar works:

https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/index.htm

p.s. Not only does Dewar do a great job of skewering Stalinist policies and
actions, but it's full of classic tankie rationalizations, apologias,
self-justifications, etc., all of which should sound very familiar from
today's debates with the campists.

And of course on this topic don't miss Paul's own book on the phenomenon,
"The New Civilization?"
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[Marxism] A geezer called Sokolnikov

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John, this is not exactly my area of expertise but I am forwarding this 
to Marxmail to see if it gets a response.


On 6/6/16 6:39 PM, John Plant wrote:

Hi Louis

This is impertinent, so blast me off if you feel so and I won't be
offended. Its because I think you know your way about US academe.

I am interested in a geezer called Sokolnikov. Old Bolshevik, Left Opp
and Later Right Opp, then 1929-33 Sov ambassador to London, just at the
time opposition was emerging in the CP here. Broue has written about how
Stalin sent some of his opponents overseas on diplomatic jobs (eg
Kollontai) where they secretly contacted oppositionists and shared
information. The British secret service kept files on S and his wife,
but w3hat has been made public is exceptionally well gutted. The only CP
contact logged is William Ewer (very interesting bloke who ran the CP
counter-spy operation and helped trigger a police strike but later went
very conservative). That can't be all there was.

A bloke called Samuel A. Oppenheim wrote about him in the 70s
see http://members.optushome.com.au/spainter/Sokolnikov.html#Oppen84 .
The book in progress he mentioned then does not seem to have ever
appeared, and was obviously written before the Sov archives were opened
anyway - still I'd like to find out if I can read what he did produce s
nobody seems to have researched Sokolnikov since. There's apparently
more than one US academic recently active by that name and I'd like to
find out who is the right one to contact, or even if he is still alive.
Are you able conveniently to access any data sources that might narrow
down his current or recent tenure? If so, I would buy you several beers
next time you are in London.

Very best wishes as ever

JP


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[Marxism] Fwd: A Note from Mike Davis about the Second Amendment - Los Angeles Review of Books

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FIVE WEEKS BEFORE the final ratification of the Bill of Rights in 
December 1791, the regular Army of the United States of America, under 
the command of Revolutionary War hero Arthur St. Clair, was utterly 
destroyed at the Battle of the Wabash by an alliance of Western Indians 
led by the great war chiefs Little Turtle and Blue Jacket. It was a 
worse disaster than the Little Big Horn. Only 45 members of St. Clair’s 
1300-person expedition which included regulars, militia, and camp 
followers survived the ambush unscathed.


This is the real historical context in which the meaning of the Second 
Amendment must be interpreted: the national army had been annihilated, 
the First Nations had reclaimed the Ohio Valley, and the British were 
emboldened to retain the Western forts (Michilmakinac and Detroit) that 
they had agreed to surrender in the treaty of 1787. A “well-regulated 
militia” of armed people was the only thing standing between George 
Washington and the return of King George III. Or, between white people 
and successful rebellions of slaves and Native Americans.


Odd, to say the least, that the left-liberal media has so neglected this 
background, particularly since it speaks to “original intent,” that 
fetish of Scalia and much of his party. More importantly, why haven’t we 
taken advantage of the GOP’s Salafist interpretation of the Constitution 
to revive the classical (Charles) Beardsian critique of this 
slaveowners’ relic? The alternative tradition in American history, 
embraced by Jefferson, Lincoln, and Wilson, has always asserted the 
priority of the Declaration of Independence as the nation’s foundational 
document and natural law.


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[Marxism] disappearing leaders of striking teachers' union in Mexico

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[Marxism] Fwd: Omar Mateen's interest in gay men makes this no ordinary act of terrorism | David Shariatmadari | Opinion | The Guardian

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[Marxism] Fwd: No Welcome Mat for Monsanto: Vietnam Must Draw the Line

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Monsanto -- the US biotech company that manufactured the devastating 
Agent Orange chemical used against civilians during the Vietnam War -- 
has been quietly welcomed back into Vietnam to cultivate genetically 
modified animal feed, even as it has continued to refuse to compensate 
its Vietnamese victims.


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[Marxism] Sharing: Capitalism and Gay Identity

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