[Marxism] In Venezuela's hard times, the grassroots are getting stronger
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. * It's been three years now of food shortages, inflation, and queues in Venezuela, and the millions of people involved in community and movement organizing have been the most affected. But they've also defied right-wing and general expectations, and even perhaps the expectations of the Maduro government, and have become stronger and better organized as a result of the hardships. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/62249 _ 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] Britain: Brexit hardliners take control
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[Marxism] how trees talk to each other - 18 minute TED talk
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Hillary Clinton Statement on the Resignation of Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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[Marxism] Palestinians use Pokemon Go to highlight daily oppression
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[Marxism] Chilcott Report shows Blair is a war criminal - but what about imperialism?
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[Marxism] Fwd: Hillary Clinton Statement on the Resignation of Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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. * I heard Jeff Weaver, Sanders's campaign manager, on CNN earlier. He was positively submissive to the Clinton campaign. I assume he will also be okay with this latest slap in the face. https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/statements/2016/07/24/hillary-clinton-statement-on-the-resignation-of-democratic-national-committee-chair-debbie-wasserman-schultz/ _ 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] re YOU SHOULD BE TERRIFIED THAT PEOPLE WHO LIKE “HAMILTON” RUN OUR COUNTRY
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[Marxism] Lenin's Imperialism and imperialism today
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. * A short report on the first hook-up of the Imperialism study group initiated by Redline is up on the blog. For the first session, there was a set of notes supplied by Tony Norfield, some questions raised by Walter Daum, and there is a recording of the session. The session covered the first six parts of *Imperialism*, although the discussion was quite wide-ranging as it was basically devoted to the economic aspects of Lenin's pamphlet and how they played out both then and since. You can read the short report here: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/07/24/imperialism-study-group-first-session/ Tony's introductory notes are here: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/07/20/imperialism-study-group-notes-for-discussion-1-the-economics-of-lenins-imperialism/ Despite time zones ranging from Alberta to New York to Ireland & London to Australia and NZ, we managed to get most people on-line. I'd certainly recommend zoom. I recall in 2010 we tried to use skype for Workers Party steering committee meetings, and this was just people in the main centres in NZ. It continually cut out, you couldn't get visuals and it was generally a nightmare. But zoom worked perfectly, although it was a bit frustrating that the way zoom is organised allows only for 40 minutes at a time. So we did have to have two parts to it, although the transition is relatively seamless. After 40 minutes the screen goes blank and someone just has to send out a new invite and everyone is back on very quickly for another 40 minutes. Phil _ 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] [UCE] Fwd: Bill Blum channels Donald Trump | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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[Marxism] YOU SHOULD BE TERRIFIED THAT PEOPLE WHO LIKE “HAMILTON” RUN OUR COUNTRY
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. * There’s something revealing in the disjunction between Hamilton’s popularity in the world of online media and Hamilton’s popularity in the world of actual human persons. After all, here we have a cultural product whose appeal essentially consists of a broad coalition of the worst people in America: New York Times writers, 15-year-olds who aspire to answer the phone in Chuck Schumer’s office, people who want to get into steampunk but have a copper sensitivity, and “wonks.” Yet because a large fraction of these people are elite taste-makers, Hamilton becomes a topic of disproportionate interest, discussed at unendurable length in The New Yorker and Slate and The New York Times Magazine, yet totally inaccessible to anyone besides the writers and members of their close social networks. When The New Yorker writes about a book that nobody in America wants to read, at least they could theoretically go out and purchase it. But Hamilton theatergoing is solely the provenance of Hamilton thinkpiece-writers. The endless swirl of online Hamilton-buzz shows the comical extreme of cultural insularity in the New York and D.C. media. The “cultural event of our time” is totally unknown to nearly all who actually live in our time. To judge from the reviews, most of the appeal seems to rest with the forced diversity of its cast and the novelty concept of a “hip-hop musical.” Those who write about Hamilton often dwell primarily on its “groundbreaking” use of rap and its “bold” choice to cast an assemblage of black, Asian, and Latino actors as the Founding Fathers. Indeed, Hamilton exists more as a corporate HR department’s wet dream than as a biographical work. The most obvious historical aberration is the portrayal of Washington and Jefferson as black men, a somewhat audacious choice given that both men are strongly associated with owning, and in the case of the latter, raping and impregnating slaves. Changing the races allows these men to appear far more sympathetic than they would otherwise be. Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda says he did this intentionally, to make the cast “look like America today,” and that having black actors play the roles “allow[s] you to leave whatever cultural baggage you have about the founding fathers at the door.” (“Cultural baggage” is an odd way of describing “feeling discomfort at warm portrayals of slaveowners.”) Thus Hamilton’s superficial diversity lets its almost entirely white audience feel good about watching it: no guilt for seeing dead white men in a positive light required. Now, The New York Times can delight in the novel incongruousness of “a Thomas Jefferson who swaggers like the Time’s Morris Day, sings like Cab Calloway and drawls like a Dirty South trap-rapper.” Indeed, it does take some getting used to, because the actual Thomas Jefferson raped slaves. full: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/07/you-should-be-terrified-that-people-who-like-hamilton-run-our-country _ 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: Ernest Tate and Phil Hearse, part 1 of "Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s and 1960s" - YouTube
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[Marxism] Amilcar Cabral film
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[Marxism] Fwd: Time for an Independent Party | Solidarity
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[Marxism] Alex Jones
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[Marxism] Fwd: Donald Trump and the “Amazing” Alex Jones - The New Yorker
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