[Marxism] Fwd: Russia Could Replace US as Israel’s Primary Ally in Middle East
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[Marxism] Green candidate in Oregon
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[Marxism] Are animals part of the working class?
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. * Labor History, Vol. 44, No. 4, 2003 “Animals Are Part of the Working Class”: A Challenge to Labor History JASON HRIBAL By the beginning of the 19th century, the majority of the English commons had been enclosed and privatized. The land itself had become a scene of “sheds,” “pens,” “styes,” and “inclosures and walls.” Therein, the cattle, cows, geese, horses, and pigs were fenced into, not out of, specific areas. They were now far more dependent upon others for their feeding and care, as their customary rights of pasture and pannage had since been removed, and they were no longer able to live “without labour, or at least as little as possible.” Rather, these animals had become commodities. It was, in fact, during the 1700s that the term “farm,” which originally meant to lease out something (like a bull or plow) for profit, came to signify an actual site of production. Likewise, the word “live stock”—defined as any creature kept or dealt for profit—also originated from this era. Yet, this definition of “living stock” is misleading. For one, it is often written and spoken of in the passive voice. Animals do not “naturally” become private property, no more than humans “naturally” come to sell their labor. Rather, there is an active history here—one of expropriation, exploitation, and resistance. Second, the term “living stock” is only from the human point of view. In other words, when we consider this situation from the sheep’s, cow’s, horse’s, or pig’s perspective, they are not living commodities or “the means of production.” These creatures are treated as chattel slaves to be bought and sold at will. But one has to be wary here, as this category has tended to ignore that this type of unwaged labor is, just as it has been for past exploitative economic systems, essential for accumulation. Since the 17th century, a great many animals have been put to work, they have produced large monetary profits, and they have received little to no compensation or recognition for their efforts. The farms, factories, roads, forests, and mines have been their sites of production. Here, they have manufactured hair, milk, flesh, and power for the farm, factory, and mine owners. And here, they are unwaged. Indeed, we can think of others who operate under similar circumstances: human slaves, children, homeworkers, sex-workers, to name a few. The basic fact is that horses, cows, or chickens have labored, and continue to labor, under the same capitalist system as humans.1 full: http://www.jasonhribal.com/#!essays _ 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: Russia, Trump and the New ‘McCarthyism in Reverse’ | Free Charles Davis
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[Marxism] Lunch with the FT: Edward Snowden, the world’s most famous whistleblower
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. * FT, September 9, 2016 Lunch with the FT: Edward Snowden, the world’s most famous whistleblower by Alan Rusbridger Edward Snowden has room service with Alan Rusbridger in a Moscow hotel to talk about the ‘surveillance free-for-all’ — and the possible role of a Rubik’s Cube in his spiriting away of the NSA files James Ferguson's illustration of Edward Snowden©James Ferguson Edward Snowden has rounded on his hosts, attacking the Kremlin’s human rights record and implicating Russia in two of the US government’s latest major security hacks. In a Lunch with the FT — carried below — he complained Moscow had “gone very far, in ways that are completely unnecessary, costly and corrosive to individual and collective rights” and added that his greatest loyalty was still to the US. He described the leak last month of NSA espionage tools, potentially by Russia as an “implicit threat” to the US government. Efforts by hackers called the Shadow Brokers to auction off NSA computer code used to break into foreign networks were an attempt to show Washington how vulnerable it was, he added. Snowden insisted that all dealings with Russian officials were conducted by his lawyer. “I don’t have a lot of ties to Russia and that’s by design because, as crazy as it sounds, I still plan to leave.” . . . Edward Snowden is not the easiest lunch date. The former National Security Agency operative doesn’t fancy talking in a Moscow restaurant so — via an intermediary — we settle on meeting in my hotel and risk the room service. He will present himself at the agreed time. That’s all I need to know. In the end he’s 20 minutes late, dressed casually in black jeans and black V-neck, buttoned-up T-shirt carrying a pair of unbranded dark glasses. He eyes up the small, dimly lit room 203 of the Golden Apple “boutique” hotel — half an hour’s gentle stroll from the Kremlin — with the look of a man who has spent too much time in such places. How does it compare with room 1014 of the Mira Hotel in Hong Kong, where in June 2013 — having shared many of the NSA’s most closely guarded secrets with a few handpicked journalists — Snowden spent a week as the most wanted man in the world? “A bit smaller, but not dissimilar,” he says. “The Hong Kong room had a glass bathroom wall here,” he adds, pointing to a bland wall featuring an obligatory hotel watercolour. The interior of the Mira hotel room is about to become much better known with the US release next week of Oliver Stone’s biopic about Snowden, which stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the whistleblower’s role. Much of the tensest, most claustrophobic action is filmed in a reconstruction of room 1014 built inside a hangar-like studio in Munich. During that intense week three years ago, Snowden and two Guardian reporters worked on those first stories disclosing the full capabilities that intelligence agencies can now deploy against populations. When he revealed himself as the source, he was acclaimed as a hero by some — others recommended the electric chair. I had never met him and was entirely reliant on the judgment of our veteran reporter, Ewen MacAskill, who rang to report (in pre-arranged code owing something to Hollywood) that “the Guinness is good”. I first saw his face about an hour before the rest of the world, when MacAskill filed his video interview to New York. Like everyone else there I was struck by his stubbled youth and impressed by his thoughtful articulacy. Today, at 33, there’s a touch less stubble, and the hair is a smidgen longer. He says he moves freely around Moscow, seldom recognised, which is surprising since he has changed little since that first picture of him etched itself on our consciousness. Reading the laminated room-service menu card, complete with English translations, he is tempted by the spicy chicken curry with rice and chilli sauce. I go for the risotto with white mushrooms and a “vinaigrette” salad with herring. Snowden — skinny thin — decides he can’t resist the crab cakes, too. We telephone the order for the food, with mineral water. He has been unwillingly marooned in Moscow since 2013 when — the subject of a giant manhunt — he was forced to leave Hong Kong. How’s his Russian coming on? He confirms it’s up to ordering in a restaurant, but is reluctant to elaborate. “All my work’s in English. Everybody I talk to I speak to in English,” he says. “I sleep in Russia but I live all around the world. I don’t have a lot of ties to Russia. That’s by design because, as crazy as it sounds, I still plan to leave.” He lives “mainly” on Eastern Standard Time and spends most of his waking
Re: [Marxism] Bolivia's government sides with workers in conflict with bosses in mining cooperatives
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. * Thanks Richard. It is now online at Links here http://links.org.au/cooperative-miners-bolivia-morales-workers-bosses-alfredo-rada Abrazos On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 5:45 AM, Richard Fidler wrote: > The articles below describe and analyze a major > confrontation in Bolivia in recent months that ended > tragically in several deaths and blew up an uneasy alliance > between the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) government > headed by Evo Morales and an incipient bourgeoisie in the > mining industry. The government responded to the crisis by > strengthening its alliance with the proletarian forces in > the mining industry and taking further steps to regain state > control over the industry. If, as Pablo Solón maintains, > Bolivia’s process of change of the last ten years has “lost > its way,” the conflict with the bosses in the mining > cooperatives indicates that when push comes to shove the MAS > government is still capable of taking decisive action in > defense of the national and class interests of the vast > majority of Bolivians. > > The first article, an informed account of the events, was > published by the Bolivia Information Forum based in Britain. > The second article, by Alfredo Rada Vélez, vice-minister of > coordination with the social movements, has been translated > by me from the web site of the Escuela Nacional de Formación > Política [National political cadre school]. > > Full: http://tinyurl.com/gvllwzw > > > _ 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: Amazon tribeswomen escape back to forest after rejecting civilization - The Washington Post
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Congress For Cultural Freedom’s Ultimate Failure | New Republic
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. * Iber begins in Mexico, where the post-revolutionary government put cultural workers in an important political role, most famously sponsoring leftist muralists such as Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Then, in the 1930s, President Lázaro Cárdenas made Mexico a haven for radical émigrés. The most famous, Leon Trotsky, was not only leader of socialist opposition to the USSR but also the author of Literature and Revolution and an associate of André Breton. One famous socialist muralist (Rivera) helped bring Trotsky to Mexico, while another (Siqueiros) personally tried to assassinate him. Trotsky succumbed to another assassination attempt in 1940. His surviving associates weathered World War II, during which Communists in Mexico and the United States joined up with their governments in the name of Allied victory. The end of the war, and the onset of the diplomatic Cold War, brought a startling change of fortune for dissident leftists, some of whom followed their bitter anti-Stalinism into the arms of the U.S. government. These “anti-Communist entrepreneurs,” as Iber calls them, responded to the activities of the Soviet-backed World Peace Congress movement by offering to take up the franchise of the Congress for Cultural Freedom in Latin America. Iber’s decision to start his chronology early makes it easy to see things from the point of view of CCF collaborators like Julián Gorkin; a revolutionary socialist, he escaped the radical fratricide of the Spanish Civil War only to suffer permanent physical scarring from an assault by Stalinists in Mexico City, and then became a major CIA collaborator in the Latin American CCF. Besides showing the reasons for collaboration, the meaning of collaboration is itself complicated. Consider that Leon Trotsky actively tried to testify before HUAC, the congressional anti-Communist panel that would come into its own under McCarthy. But Trotsky planned to use his address to denounce Stalinism and also to incite the workers of the United States to revolution. In the event, the committee, far from seducing him, refused him even the ability to enter the U.S. to testify. full: https://newrepublic.com/article/136622/congress-cultural-freedoms-ultimate-failure _ 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
