Re: [Marxism] Ajamu Baraka contributed to a False Flag Charlie Hebdo/San Bernadino Truther book

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My guess is that the individual contributors likely did not express the
same views as the author, given that some of them are actually quite
reputable and don't have a history of engaging in these kinds of conspiracy
theories.

In either case, I've always found these kinds of theories to be outlandish,
rather than outright reactionary. Not a big deal IMO.


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[Marxism] Ajamu Baraka contributed to a False Flag Charlie Hebdo/San Bernadino Truther book

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I mean, I guess I'm still voting Green but what the hell...

http://anotherfrenchfalseflag.blogspot.com/

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[Marxism] Fwd: Newest Don Winslow article "Horse of the Apocalypse" about the secret history of the heroin crisis

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Subject: 	Newest Don Winslow article "Horse of the Apocalypse" about the 
secret history of the heroin crisis

Date:   Tue, 9 Aug 2016 18:37:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Elizabeth Kushel 
Reply-To:   elizabeth.kus...@strategypr.net
To: l...@panix.com

I have something interesting in the new September issue of Esquire -- a 
piece by Don Winslow (preeminent authority on the Mexican drug cartels 
and author of The Cartel, Savages, and more) called "Horse of the 
Apocalypse about the secret history of the heroin crisis. Winslow states 
that the heroin epidemic was caused by the legalization of marijuana.


It's a fascinating examination of drug economics and cartel politics. In 
this political climate - especially when there's talk of building a wall 
between Mexico and the US - the article would make great fodder for an 
interview.


Winslow makes the case that America is in the grips of a heroin epidemic 
that kills 200 people a week because the legalization of pot destroyed 
the profits of the Mexican cartels. How did they respond to a major loss 
in revenue? Like any company, they created an irresistible new product 
and flooded the market. The scariest part: This might not have happened 
with El Chapo in charge.


It's a really great read. Link to article here:
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a46918/heroin-mexico-el-chapo-cartels-don-winslow/ 



The September issue is officially out today.

All the best,
Elizabeth


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[Marxism] Fwd: Preview: Johnny Appleseed by Paul Buhle & Noah Van Sciver | Study Group Comic Books

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Sanders campaign is officially over. Now his supporters wonder: What’s next? - The Washington Post

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Louis Proyectwrote

So Jill Stein comes along and challenges this system. But this is not 
acceptable because of her positions on vaccines and Syria. If overnight 
she changed her mind on vaccines and Syria, the Hillary Clinton 
traveling circus of Lesser Evil Politics will dig into every single 
speech she ever made and find some other reason to crucify her.



I assume that this bit on vaccines is all irony, Lou, but for those who 
don't know:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/29/jill-stein-on-vaccines-people-have-real-questions/

When she sat with The Washington Post's Sarah Parnass and Alice Li, 
Stein explained her stance on something that had flared up during a 
Reddit AMA. Did she think vaccines were harmful?


"I think there’s no question that vaccines have been absolutely critical 
in ridding us of the scourge of many diseases — smallpox, polio, etc. So 
vaccines are an invaluable medication," Stein said. "Like any 
medication, they also should be — what shall we say? -- approved by a 
regulatory board that people can trust. And I think right now, that is 
the problem. That people do not trust a Food and Drug Administration, or 
even the CDC for that matter, where corporate influence and the 
pharmaceutical industry has a lot of influence."


[The origins of Donald Trump’s autism/vaccine theory and how it was 
completely debunked eons ago]


Stein's warning about corporate influence in the vaccine approval 
process is often voiced by "anti-vaxxers." In reality, most members of 
the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee work at 
academic or medical institutions, not drug companies. But for Stein, the 
fact that people saw corporate and lobbying influence running rampant 
meant that some skepticism was warranted.


"Monsanto lobbyists help run the day in those agencies and are in charge 
of approving what food isn’t safe," said Stein, whose platform calls for 
a moratorium on genetically modified organisms (GMOs). "There is rampant 
distrust of our institutions of government right now. The trust level 
for the presidency is somewhere around 15 percent. The strong confidence 
in Congress is somewhere around 4 percent, and the same is true of our 
regulatory agencies."


Stein went on to explain that she'd studied the value of vaccines and 
come out with questions.


"As a medical doctor, there was a time where I looked very closely at 
those issues, and not all those issues were completely resolved," Stein 
said. "There were concerns among physicians about what the vaccination 
schedule meant, the toxic substances like mercury which used to be 
rampant in vaccines. There were real questions that needed to be 
addressed. I think some of them at least have been addressed. I don’t 
know if all of them have been addressed."


[As Green Party’s Stein woos Sanders backers, some see unhappy 
flashbacks to 2000]


The point, she said, was that the voters who doubted that government 
could be trusted to make clear decisions, without meddling by lobbyists, 
needed to be heard. Even when it came to vaccines.


"We have a real compelling need for vaccinations," Stein said. "It 
requires an agency that we can trust to sort through all of those 
concerns. To assure the American public, whether it’s vaccinations, 
whether it’s administering estrogen to, you know, treat symptoms of 
menopause, or at one point it was the solution to prevent Alzheimer's 
and then it was discovered — oh, my goodness — it may actually 
contribute to Alzheimer's — it's really important that the American 
public have confidence in our regulatory boards so that all of our 
medical treatments and medications actually are approved by people who 
do not have a vested interest in their promotion. In my experience, this 
is not a radical idea. This is basic common sense."




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Re: [Marxism] [UCE] Re: The Greens are now socialist?

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"Immediate import" as in if we don't democratically plan and fund wind
farms, mass transit, etc., and if we can't build a mass movement to seize
the resources to do so, we and the planet are fucked.
So let's talk to Greens, BLMers, to everyone about the urgent need to hit
the streets.

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> I have to say that I favored the resolution, but I placed little importance
> on it.  I would have rather seen a serious set of resolutions passed and
> acted upon to actually organize a membership-based party.  Talk is always
> cheap.   My concern is to see action in terms of real organizing, coupled
> to activism that implicitly raises issues of power.  In a very immediate
> sense, I would like to see membership-based Green parties throw themselves
> into something like Black Lives Matter . . . which, other than an idea,
> seems to be sputtering in most places, despite the continued police
> shootings, etc.
>
> That said, I am astonished at how anyone is reading the passing of an
> anticapitalist plank as counterposting national wind farms to "mass
> immediate transition to mass transit . . . nationwide free, universal,
> worker/community controlled childcare,healthcare, eldercare."  I'm also a
> bit baffled what it means to consider these "questions of immediate
> import."
>
> Do you mean of immediate import to those of us affected by their absence?
> Or do you mean immediate import in the sense that you think we're about to
> have a mass movement around these things?
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Re: [Marxism] [UCE] Re: The Greens are now socialist?

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I have to say that I favored the resolution, but I placed little importance
on it.  I would have rather seen a serious set of resolutions passed and
acted upon to actually organize a membership-based party.  Talk is always
cheap.   My concern is to see action in terms of real organizing, coupled
to activism that implicitly raises issues of power.  In a very immediate
sense, I would like to see membership-based Green parties throw themselves
into something like Black Lives Matter . . . which, other than an idea,
seems to be sputtering in most places, despite the continued police
shootings, etc.

That said, I am astonished at how anyone is reading the passing of an
anticapitalist plank as counterposting national wind farms to "mass
immediate transition to mass transit . . . nationwide free, universal,
worker/community controlled childcare,healthcare, eldercare."  I'm also a
bit baffled what it means to consider these "questions of immediate
import."

Do you mean of immediate import to those of us affected by their absence?
Or do you mean immediate import in the sense that you think we're about to
have a mass movement around these things?
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[Marxism] Fwd: Homage to Abbas Kiarostami, part one | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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	Jean-Luc Godard has said: “Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with 
Abbas Kiarostami.” According to Martin Scorsese, “Kiarostami represents 
the highest level of artistry in the cinema.” When these words are 
quoted at Kiarostami, he winces most charmingly. “This admiration is 
perhaps more appropriate after I am dead,” he says.


That’s from the April 16, 2005 Guardian. Since Kiarostami died on the 
fourth of July this year, it seems appropriate to now state one’s 
admiration—not that I would put myself in the same league as Jean-Luc 
Godard or Martin Scorsese.


For reasons I can’t quite pin down, my discovery of Kiarostami came 
fairly late in life. I have been a cinephile since 1961 and began 
writing film reviews as a member of New York Film Critics Online about 
20 years ago but saw my first film by the Iranian director and 
screenwriter only two years ago when I reviewed “The Wind Will Carry Us” 
for CounterPunch. Jeff St. Clair titled the review “Is Abbas Kiarostami 
the World’s Most Talented Film-maker?” and the answer to that rhetorical 
question was answered positively in my article.


full: 
https://louisproyect.org/2016/08/09/homage-to-abbas-kiarostami-part-one/

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Lou wrote:
"Interesting to see that Gloria is the campaign chair. I heard her speak at
the conference in Chicago on building an independent party of the left that
never went anywhere after the Sanders campaign kicked off. She is ex-ISO
and really quite astute."

Actually she is ex-Socialist Alternative. She was in it when SAlt was very
active in the now defunct Labor Party leaving SAlt shortly after that in
the early 2000s, I think. She's been with the GP ever since and was a
candidate for them a few times.

David
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: We did it! $249,000 in ONE DAY!

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On 8/9/16 12:25 PM, Ralph Johansen via Marxism wrote:

Gloria Mattera
Campaign Chair


Interesting to see that Gloria is the campaign chair. I heard her speak 
at the conference in Chicago on building an independent party of the 
left that never went anywhere after the Sanders campaign kicked off. She 
is ex-ISO and really quite astute. For me, as long as people like her, 
Howie Hawkins, Jim Brash, Mark Lause and Brandy Baker are involved with 
the Greens, that's good enough for me.

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[Marxism] [UCE] Re: The Greens are now socialist?

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I'm sorry, but I find this somewhat opaque. What current parties are you speaking of? And what is 
the reason they are "preposterous"?


-- On 8/9/16 11:23 AM, Mike Sola wrote:

"any group that is now positioned in such a fashion is in a fairly
preposterous position."

how and why "preposterous"?




The explanation is here:

http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/organization/lenin_in_context.htm



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[Marxism] Kremlin attacks me for criticizing Jill Stein’s unfortunate Moscow trip

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http://americablog.com/2016/08/kremlin-attacks-criticizing-jill-steins-unfortunate-moscow-trip.html

Congratulations comrades! We all just ticked off the Kremlin. Again.
>
> It appears that I’m the subject of a blistering article in the Russian
> state propaganda organ
> ,
> Sputnik, over my recent criticism of Green party presidential candidate Jill
> Stein’s visit to Moscow last winter
> 
> .
>
> Stein went to Russia to attend a “gala” celebrating the 10th anniversary
> of another Russian state propaganda organ, RT (formerly known as Russia
> Today, until they realized they needed to nix the word “Russia” in their
> name if they were going to be successful in getting audiences to buy the
> Kremlin’s propaganda).
>
> *At the gala’s dinner, Stein sat at a table with Russian leader Vladimir
> Putin and with a key foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump,
> retired General Michael Flynn*.
>
After the event, Stein filmed a video on Red Square in which she talks
> about what she did while in Moscow. The video talks about how Stein spent
> her time in Russia criticizing the US, on human rights among other things,
> but the video doesn’t say a word about the abhorrent human rights abuses of
> the country Stein was visiting, Russia.
>
> Russia, as you know, has a horrific record of LGBT rights abuses
> ,
> including the government enabling neo-Nazis gangs
> 
> to kidnap, torture
> 
> and extort money from gay
> 
> and trans people
> 
> in that country. The neo-Nazis claim to have kidnapped over 1,500 LGBT
> people
> 
> .
>
> The Russian government did nothing about the gangs, an
>
> We even saw an influx of Russian sock puppet trolls on AMERICAblog on
> Saturday when the piece about Stein in Moscow was published. The trolls all
> wrote in fluent, but not-quite-right, English that had a decided slavic
> accent to it. (Leaving off “the,” having difficulties with prepositions,
> etc.) (For a really scary read about how sophisticated Russian sock
> puppets
> 
> now are, and how they’re rooting for Trump, read this Daily Beast piece.)
>
> In the end, it appears the criticism hit too close to home for the
> Russians. They were already caught red-handed stealing the DNC emails
> ,
> And now we’ve been successful in undercutting their useful-idiot
> surrogates, like Trump and now Stein. And we caught some of their sock
> puppets too.
>
> Oh, and we’re still waiting to hear if Jill Stein said anything about
> Russian human rights abuses against the LGBT community, journalists
> 
> (Putin has enabled their murders as well), political opponents (who Putin
> puts in jail,  and kills
> ), or any
> others.
>
> Hope springs eternal.
>
> PS And for anyone pulling the old “you don’t criticize your host” card, 
> Hillary
> did when she went to Beijing in 1995
> .
> She was happy to hold the Chinese government accountable for their human
> rights abuses. That was over 20 years ago. So don’t tell me it’s not done.
> It’s only not done by those who lack courage.
>
> d even denied their existence. Mind you, it wasn’t rocket science — the
> kidnappers filmed the kidnappings and torture sessions, and didn’t even
> hide their faces. We knew several of their names and the cities they lived
> in. The Russian government refused to act, because Putin was happy to let
> the neo-Nazis do his dirty work. It wasn’t until 

[Marxism] Fwd: The Ho-Hum Squad | The Baffler

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As it happens, the avatar of this perverse dialectic is the executive 
producer of Suicide Squad, Steven Mnuchin, a former investment banker 
who now captains Trump’s fundraising efforts. Mnuchin, scion of a 
Goldman Sachs fortune, has an impressive resume as a financial-industry 
bottom feeder, pocketing the proceeds of his mother’s account with 
Bernie Madoff’s notorious Ponzi fund just prior to its collapse, and 
exploiting the 2008 financial crisis to transform the teetering 
California mortgage lender OneWest into a foreclosure mill—victimizing 
predominately nonwhite owners of distressed homes and clearing a cool $3 
billion in federally subsidized profits between 2009 and 2014. He also, 
naturally enough, was a donor to Hillary Clinton’s senate campaigns—as 
was Trump himself. Who better, in other words, to market a cinematic 
fable about the virtual equivalency of evil, and to make the market’s 
own species of social violence seem blandly alluring?


full: http://thebaffler.com/blog/kriss-ho-hum-squad
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[Marxism] Fwd: Think Tank Scholar or Corporate Consultant? It Depends on the Day - The New York Times

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Over the many months that officials in Washington debated sweeping new 
regulations for internet providers, Jeffrey A. Eisenach, a scholar at 
the conservative American Enterprise Institute, was hard to miss.


Think Tanks Inc.
Articles in this series examine how research institutions have become 
part of the corporate influence machine in Washington.


Researchers or Corporate Allies? Think Tanks Blur the LineAUG. 8, 2016
He wrote op-ed articles, including for The New York Times, that were 
critical of the rules. He filed formal comments with the Federal 
Communications Commission, where he also met privately with senior 
lawyers. He appeared before Congress and issued reports detailing how 
destructive the new rules would be.


“Net neutrality would not improve consumer welfare or protect the public 
interest,” Mr. Eisenach testified in September 2014 before the Senate 
Judiciary Committee.


Intense advocacy by a think tank scholar is not notable in itself, but 
Mr. Eisenach, 58, a former aide at the Federal Trade Commission, has 
held another job: as a paid consultant for Verizon and its trade 
association.


And he has plenty of company.

An examination of 75 think tanks found an array of researchers who had 
simultaneously worked as registered lobbyists, members of corporate 
boards or outside consultants in litigation and regulatory disputes, 
with only intermittent disclosure of their dual roles.


With their expertise and authority, think tank scholars offer themselves 
as independent arbiters, playing a vital role in Washington’s political 
economy. Their imprimatur helps shape government decisions that can be 
lucrative to corporations.


But the examination identified dozens of examples of scholars conducting 
research at think tanks while corporations were paying them to help 
shape government policy. Many think tanks also readily confer 
“nonresident scholar” status on lobbyists, former government officials 
and others who earn their primary living working for private clients, 
with few restrictions on such outside work.


full: 
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/us/politics/think-tank-scholars-corporate-consultants.html

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[Marxism] Book review Markets Not Capitalism

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Worthwhile reading material, please LIKE and SHARE via social networks:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/09/markets-not-capitalism-the-book-to-define-a-new-united-front/

-- 
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Re: [Marxism] The Greens are now socialist?

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On 8/9/16 9:27 AM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote:

This total silence on the need for democratic national and international
socialist democracy would be a diversion under most circumstances, but in a
climate-changing world requiring quick and thorough restructuring of all
industries and living spaces, this self-limiting revolution is an
invitation to the end of the planet and all its species.


This would only be of consequence if you believed that the GP could ever 
become a vanguard party. It's main virtue is creating the possibility 
for the left to become better organized through the structure of a 
national organization. In the best of all possible worlds, the GP could 
become a coordinating center for protests around a wide range of issues, 
including killer cops, fracking, transgender rights, immigration, etc. 
None of these are directly involved with the struggle for a socialist 
revolution but then again any group that is now positioned in such a 
fashion is in a fairly preposterous position. Just consider the evidence 
of Socialist Action. The best of all these groups--the ISO and Socialist 
Alternative--are playing a positive role but are constrained by their 
"Leninist" illusions. Ideally, a massively and rapidly expanding GP 
could become a common framework for such groups as well as independent 
Marxists who probably number in the tens of thousands. That, anyway, is 
why I am encouraged by the attention that Jill Stein's campaign is getting.

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[Marxism] The Greens are now socialist?

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I believe I have previously on this list critiqued the Greens' new
"socialist" platform plank. It's certainly, as the authors of this new SW
article say, an advance over their former muddled, "stakeholder capitalism"
plank:
https://socialistworker.org/2016/08/09/a-new-road-ahead-for-the-greens

However, the new plank is a historically dishonest rejection of what they
call "state socialism" - without differentiating any of the previous
examples of that overly broad category (i.e. early or late Soviet Union,
Yugoslavia, Cuba, China, Vietnam, etc. etc.).

Instead the new plank calls solely for local worker/community controlled
democracy, following the line of its advisors, Gar Alperovitz and Richard
Wolff:
http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=835

This total silence on the need for democratic national and international
socialist democracy would be a diversion under most circumstances, but in a
climate-changing world requiring quick and thorough restructuring of all
industries and living spaces, this self-limiting revolution is an
invitation to the end of the planet and all its species.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Syria Analysis: The Dangerous Misunderstanding of “Al Qa’eda” | EA WorldView

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This makes it plain just how arbitrary the West’s categorisations are. 
For now, whatever label the US and analysts put on Nusra, the rebels 
need it as a battlefield ally, and any distinction between “moderate” 
and “extremist” is a political imposition. The US could belatedly 
recognise the folly of its artificial labels and establish lines of 
co-operation with the groups inside Syria, or it can continue to obsess 
over “al-Qaeda in Syria” without considering the situation on the ground.


If it chooses the latter, it will implicitly give way to the 
Russian-Assad-Iran-Hezbollah alliance’s attempt to bomb, besiege, and 
starve the opposition and rebels into submission – all in the name of 
counter-terrorism.


And as the recent events in and near Aleppo have shown, in doing so it 
accepts the risk of being shoved aside. Giving up on any support from 
the US, the opposition and rebels will work with Nusra not only to 
survive, but continue their challenge to the Assad regime.


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http://eaworldview.com/2016/08/syria-analysis-us-policy-dangerous-misunderstanding-al-qaeda/

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[Marxism] Fwd: A 70-year-old mystery: Yemeni Jews say young relatives were stolen in Israel - The Washington Post

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Arab Jews were considered more Arab than Jews by the Ashkenazi elite in 
Israel, so much so that babies were taken from their mothers and given 
to "good" families.


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[Marxism] Fwd: Environmental Racism Is Poisoning Houston | Alternet

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[Marxism] Fwd: Apartheid Israel's war on water | SocialistWorker.org

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Sumaya Awad explains how Israel uses access to the essential resource of 
water to impose horrific conditions on life for Palestinians in the West 
Bank.


https://socialistworker.org/2016/07/28/apartheid-israels-war-on-water
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Literary Battle for Nat Turner’s Legacy | Vanity Fair

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Murray was a gentleman critic of the old school. Others were less 
polite. Styron came under attack at public panels and events. Dissenting 
reviews and commentaries were collected in a book, William Styron’s Nat 
Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond. The contributors had tallied up the 
many liberties he had taken. Nat Turner’s sermons rang false to scholars 
who had studied church rhetoric from the era. The doubts and indecision 
Styron imputes to Turner had no factual basis. And why would Turner lust 
after a young white woman when there was evidence he was married? Styron 
himself, despite the support he would receive from important writers and 
academics, would later summarize the verdict against him. He’d written 
“one long hysterical polemic from beginning to end: I’m a racist, a 
distorter of history, a defamer of black people, a traducer of the 
heroic image of ‘our’ Nat Turner.”


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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Sanders campaign is officially over. Now his supporters wonder: What’s next? - The Washington Post

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On 8/9/16 1:46 AM, Clay Claiborne via Marxism wrote:

BAR is wrong to think the so-called "Black Political class" has a lot of
influence on how black people vote, just as it is wrong to think BAR
represents a political leadership that black people should follow. You
think the black masses are being duped?


Of course they are being duped, just like the white factory workers are 
being duped who plan to vote for Trump because they are tired of seeing 
runaway shops. When Trump made a big deal about Carrier air conditioner 
picking up and going to Mexico, that became the lead story on all the TV 
networks. This was the first time any politician aggressively took on a 
major grievance that both the Democrats and Republicans were associated 
with. Did it make any difference to a factory worker that Trump was full 
of shit? Nope.


So Clinton is "better" for Blacks. Well, she says so. Does it matter 
that her husband put an end to Aid to Families with Dependent Children 
that according to researchers 
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25521891) reduced the average life 
span of a mother by a half a year? Probably not since the Black church, 
the Black political class, Black celebrities, every white liberal and 
most Black radicals are in agreement that she is "better" than Trump. 
Who notices the loss of six months of a life except the person who is 
losing it, after all?


Well, of course, she is better. The system would fall apart overnight if 
Hillary Clinton was retweeting white supremacist crap. This is a system 
that has been finely tuned for 84 years now, with the election of FDR. 
The Democrats were the good cops and the Republicans the bad cops. 
Workers and Blacks were told by the good cop that they'd better accept 
NAFTA and an end to AFDC or else the bad cop would come in and beat the 
shit out of them.


So Jill Stein comes along and challenges this system. But this is not 
acceptable because of her positions on vaccines and Syria. If overnight 
she changed her mind on vaccines and Syria, the Hillary Clinton 
traveling circus of Lesser Evil Politics will dig into every single 
speech she ever made and find some other reason to crucify her.


In 1964 I voted for a Democratic candidate for president for the first 
and last time. They told me that Barry Goldwater was going to blow up 
the world. Every night for 3 months leading up to the November election, 
you could see commercials superimposing Goldwater's face over an H-Bomb. 
It scared the pee out of me but not half as much as facing the draft 
after LBJ escalated the war in Vietnam.


I ain't scared anymore.




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