[Marxism] on Republican meltdown

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I thought I had said my piece on the Presidential election. But Anthony's
post and re-post were very interesting. In this the age of vampires and
zombies, I tend not to believe something or someone is over and dead until
volleys of silver bullets, cascades of stakes through hearts and the
chopping off  of heads have gone into action.

So I was skeptical of claims that Trump had self-destructed.  But this
morning I awoke to news that the Prime Minister of Australia had attacked
Trump.  Furthermore, we have been assured that the Leader of the Labour
Party opposition is poised to say that Trump is not fit to led the Free
World.

"Holy Olfactory" as Robin was wont to say to Batman.

When the likes of Shorten and Turnbull are kicking you, it is a guarantee
that you are lying flat, in a coma and hemorrhaging from all your orifices.

I waste no tears, of course, for scum like Trump.  Nor do I rejoice in any
way at the prospect of a Clinton victory.  I can't though clutch at the
straw Anthony offers us - namely the collapse of lesser evil-ism.  He
writes "Well, what will it [the Democratic Party] do once its excuse is
gone?"

I can only say, "they will think of something".  The struggle to break free
from the Republican-Democratic duopoly will still be necessary.  But let's
hope that Anthony is right and that the collapse of Trump and the
Republicans will at least expose the Democrats to greater scrutiny.

comradely

Gary
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[Marxism] Fwd: Review: Class war and the Confederacy in "Free State of Jones" — Scalawag

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Re: [Marxism] White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

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I only leafed through the Isenberg book so far, but I don't think she fits
in much white working class anti-racism, which is understandable in that
isn't her focus. "Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power:
Community Organizing in Radical Times" by James Tracy is a book that is
often overlooked when talking about whiteness and resistance or lack of it.

http://www.mhpbooks.com/books/hillbilly-nationalists-urban-race-rebels-and-black-power/
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[Marxism] White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

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BOOKFORUM
JUNE/JULY/AUG 2016

An Underclass of Their Own
Nancy Isenberg's cultural history of America's poor southern whites

BY CHRIS LEHMANN

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
BY NANCY ISENBERG
VIKING

It’s no great exaggeration, these days, to say that the state of the 
white American working class is driving the American commentariat crazy. 
The non-college-educated white voter is notoriously the bedrock 
demographic aligned behind likely GOP presidential nominee Donald 
Trump—and leaders of the conservative movement, which has long pivoted 
on elaborate bait-and-switch appeals to its aggrieved, antigovernment, 
downwardly mobile base, are appalled to see that base swallowing whole 
the nativist, protectionist, and belligerently class-baiting nostrums 
bursting forth from the GOP’s unlikely orange-hued tribune of populist 
resentment. National Review writer Kevin D. Williamson recently sized up 
Trump’s ardent working-class supporters and came away with a litany of 
toxic failings of morality, character, and family discipline. “Even the 
economic changes of the past few decades do very little to explain the 
dysfunction and negligence—and the incomprehensible malice—of poor white 
America,” Williamson marveled. Poor white communities “deserve to die,” 
he wrote: “Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are 
indefensible. . . .The white American underclass is in thrall to a 
vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin 
needles.”


In reality, Williamson’s plaint—which now echoes far and wide in the 
leadership circles of the GOP—is but the latest installment in a 
founding catechism of American class contempt, as Nancy Isenberg 
chronicles in her richly detailed, indispensable study White Trash. 
Isenberg, a historian at Louisiana State University, takes pointed 
exception to the social mythology of American exceptionalism—which holds 
that the unique conditions of mobility and economic opportunity issuing 
from the frontier settlement of the New World effectively quarantined 
the American experiment from the punishing crucibles of European class 
conflict. Instead, she shows that the settlement of America was steeped 
in precisely the sort of ugly marginalization of the non-propertied 
white poor that Williamson uses to excuse the many moral and economic 
failures of the modern GOP.


To take just one notable example, the Fundamental Constitutions of 
Carolina, promulgated in 1669 and composed in large part by the revered 
British philosopher of social-contract constitutionalism John Locke, is 
a revealingly brutal by-product of a system of feudal privilege. 
Carolina was emphatically conceived, under the direction of Locke’s 
benefactor the Earl of Shaftesbury, as a slave colony—a proviso that 
also greatly benefited Locke himself, who was the third-largest 
shareholder in the Royal African Company, the concern that held the 
monopoly charter of the English slave trade. But Locke—the well-known 
theorist of individual political liberty—also used the Fundamental 
Constitutions in a thankfully theoretical effort to create both an 
inherited noble caste among Carolina colonists and a hereditary white 
servant class, known as Leet-men. Like feudal serfs, these workers would 
be the property of nobles, inherited across generations. Their 
offspring, likewise, would become part of their masters’ estates—and so 
they would be encouraged to breed robustly. The harsh provisions of the 
Fundamental Constitutions were “really a declaration of war against poor 
settlers,” Isenberg writes, setting North Carolina on the trajectory to 
be “the first white trash colony” (emphasis in original).


As the colonies recombined into the American republic, the nation’s 
animus toward the white landless class became a fixed organizing 
principle. Even nominal social democrats like Thomas Jefferson frankly 
avowed the proto-eugenic imperative to breed out the reprobate common 
workers and promote a “natural aristocracy” founded on a “fortuitous 
concourse of breeders.” In his Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson 
asked, rhetorically, “The circumstance of superior beauty is thought 
worthy of attention in the propagation of our horses, dogs, and other 
domestic animals; why not in that of man?”


Indeed, powerful Americans seeking to pathologize poor whites followed, 
to a remarkably consistent degree, the early agrarian republic’s 
rhetoric of livestock husbandry, supplemented by land-bound metaphors of 
social stagnation, as they anathematized their social inferiors on 
grounds of moral and biological unfitness. Under this logic, 

[Marxism] Fwd: Max Blumenthal and the Rhizomes | Magpie68

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Jason Moore’s “Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital” | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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The development of civilization and of industry in general has ever shown 
itself so active in the destruction of forests, that everything done by it for 
their preservation, compared to its destructive effect, appears infinitesimal.
-- Karl Marx; Capital: A Critique Of Political Economy; Volume II; The Process 
Of The Circulation Of Capital

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>To: Thomas F Barton 
>Subject: [Marxism] Fwd: Jason Moore’s “Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology 
>and the Accumulation of Capital” | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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>
>Earlier this year I was startled to discover that a debate had broken 
>out between supporters of John Bellamy Foster on one side and Jason 
>Moore on the other over how to properly theorize ecology from a Marxist 
>standpoint. Since Moore’s scholarship was influenced by Immanuel 
>Wallerstein, I wondered what the problem could be. Weren’t they all on 
>the same wave-length with Monthly Review having provided a platform for 
>the dependency theory/World Systems schools that included Wallerstein, 
>Andre Gunder Frank, Samir Amin and others?
>
>As it happens, ecology is a topic that lends itself to debate since 
>except for Marx’s relatively brief discussion of soil fertility and 
>Engels’s observations on the despoliation of the Alps, there was very 
>little analysis until the Green movement took off in the early 1960s. 

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[Marxism] Republican meltdown

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*There Is a Republican Meltdown on the agenda*


In march I sent this list a long note asking the question, "Is a Republican
Meltdown on the Agenda?"


You can read it below if you want. At the time it went mostly unnoticed.


Now, the Republican meltdown is becoming a fact. Trump is not the cause, he
is just a catalyst in what was already a toxic cocktail waiting to explode.


The Democrats are likely to win the White House and the Senate, and go on
to appoint a historic Supreme Court majority. They may even win the House
of Representatives.


This will be a disaster for the lesser-evil left who have always argued
that we must support the Democrats because the Republicans are so much
worse. What will they argue if the Democrats win the whole show?


Lesser-evilism is pragmatic, and it has worked to a certain extent. You get
a road fixed and a school built here or there, you might even get more
democratic access to voting, at the price of wars, war machines, permanent
union busting...


But lesser evilism has gotten us into the fix we are in now. In the 1960's
the Black Panther Party began as the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.
Huey Newton and Boby Seale and their comrades read the law, got some guns,
and rode around following white cops in Oakland to prevent them from
murdering young black people on the streets of the city.


And, now the Black Lives Matter movement is still conducting the same fight.


What happened. What did the lesser evil Democrats do? We had Lyndon
Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.


You could look at our wars...Viet Nam, Central America, Yugoslavia, Iraq,
Iraq, Afghanistan...


Who led them? Republicans and Democrats arm in arm together.


We should be voting for the Green Party and/or any socialist candidates on
the ballot this year. And we should be looking forward to great
opportunities in the next four years because lesser-evilism may be in for
its biggest defeat in decades.


Here is what I posted in March.



"Although my crystal ball stopped working years ago, it looks to me like
the electoral system in the United States is entering a major crisis.


"The center of the crisis right now is the Republican Party. What a circus!
What low-life clowns! How could any sane human being vote for any of them?


"But this is the party of Lincoln. This is the Grand Old Party that won the
civil war and rebuilt the United States. This is the party of business;
this is the main party of the American capitalist class. And it is
self-destructing.


"Food for thought.


"Since the 1960’s the GOP has rebuilt itself into a new party. Clearly a
party of business owners and farmers in the 20th century United States was
doomed to be a minority party in elections. Even if every small business
owner voted for it, it would lose every election if the working class and
poor all voted for some other party. The party of business needed to
acquire voters from among the ignorant masses.


"It found them after World War II by being more anti-communist than even
the Democratic Party. But, cold-war anti-communism was a card that had worn
thin by 1960.


"John F. Kennedy’s razor thin election victory paradoxically gave the
Republicans the key to getting a lot more voters. Kennedy’s cynical ploy of
supporting black voting rights had helped him win the elections, but it
insulted and betrayed the southern Jim Crow base of his party. When
Kennedy’s southern born and bred Vice president, Lyndon Baines Johnson,
took over, he only made matters worse for his southern Democratic brothers
in arms by pushing through the Civil Rights Act.


"The revolt followed when Alabama Governor George Wallace led the southern
Democrats out of the Democratic Party and temporarily into a short-lived
new party called the American Independent Party. The GOP saw the
opportunity to grab the very base of the old Democratic Party. Nixon’s
southern strategy swallowed the AIP whole, and took the Texas Democratic
Party along with it. By 1972 what had been the solid Democratic South had
been transformed into the solid Republican south.


"Unfortunately for the GOP political strategists around Nixon, racism had
been dealt a powerful blow by the great uprising of youth and black people
of the 1960’s. Racism had not been killed, but it was mortally wounded and
has never recovered. The fact that Barack Obama was elected president is
very strong evidence of this. The fact that two of the most important
clowns in the Republican primaries this year, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have
Spanish last names, and the facts that one of the GOP candidates was black
and another was a woman are additional evidence.


"The 

[Marxism] new study of Hezbollah out soon

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Get your reviewers lined up!

By Joseph Daher
Hezbollah
The Political Economy of Lebanon's Party of God

Details at:
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[Marxism] Fwd: Jason Moore’s “Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital” | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Earlier this year I was startled to discover that a debate had broken 
out between supporters of John Bellamy Foster on one side and Jason 
Moore on the other over how to properly theorize ecology from a Marxist 
standpoint. Since Moore’s scholarship was influenced by Immanuel 
Wallerstein, I wondered what the problem could be. Weren’t they all on 
the same wave-length with Monthly Review having provided a platform for 
the dependency theory/World Systems schools that included Wallerstein, 
Andre Gunder Frank, Samir Amin and others?


As it happens, ecology is a topic that lends itself to debate since 
except for Marx’s relatively brief discussion of soil fertility and 
Engels’s observations on the despoliation of the Alps, there was very 
little analysis until the Green movement took off in the early 1960s. 
Rachel Carson’s article on DDT helped to create an awareness that 
pollution was not just an annoyance but a threat to human existence. 
This led to Marxist scholars trying to anchor the new movement 
theoretically even if they spoke in a hundred different voices. Unlike 
analyzing imperialism, there was no theoretical continuity to build 
upon. Basically ecosocialism had to be created from scratch.


For me it meant dumping some of the baggage I picked up in the 
Trotskyist movement. After all, Trotsky embraced nuclear power in “If 
America Should Go Communist” and Joe Hansen, who was Trotsky’s bodyguard 
in Coyoacan, lauded the Green Revolution (the term for chemical-based 
farming rather than ecology) in a 1960 pamphlet titled “Too Many 
Babies?: The Myth of the Population Explosion”.


When I began reading and writing about Marxism and ecology nearly 25 
years ago, I soon became aware that it was a highly contested field with 
almost as much acrimony as you could find in the Leninist left over how 
to build a revolutionary party. Although almost everybody except Frank 
Furedi could agree that fracking and industrial farming were threats to 
the environment, there were disagreements over how to theorize the 
nature/society nexus.


full: 
https://louisproyect.org/2016/10/10/jason-moores-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life-ecology-and-the-accumulation-of-capital/

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[Marxism] the idea of colonizing Black Americans in Mexico

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[Marxism] new book worth reviewing

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This may be a dupe but it's worth it!
A great new study looking at interactions of rank-and-file worker
organizing, bureaucratic unions and feminist NGOs, in the context of
class/national/gender structures, of production and reproduction, and much
more! The author is an activist on all those fronts.

Think about reviewing it for your publication or website.

Organizing the Unorganized Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon, by Farah
Kobaissy

https://www.academia.edu/28933306/Organizing_the_Unorganized_Migrant_Domestic_Workers_in_Lebanon
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Seizing Freedom: DAVID ROEDIGER with Peter St. Clair | The Brooklyn Rail

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The contemporaneously relevant theological dimensions of the concept of
Jubilee were explored by the erudite Mennonite theologian John Howard
Yoder. Much of his work was influenced by discussions with  Oscar Cullmann
, Jean Lasserre, Andre Trocme, Hendrik Berkhof, and others, at the
University of Basel. Lasserre was a colleague of Deitrich Bonheoffer. This
is all thoroughly explored by Weaver in his book "John Howard Yoder:
Radical Theologian".
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[Marxism] Andrzej Wajda, Towering Auteur of Polish Cinema, Dies at 90

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NY Times, Oct. 10 2016
Andrzej Wajda, Towering Auteur of Polish Cinema, Dies at 90
By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN

Andrzej Wajda, who mined Polish history to create films that established 
him as one of the world’s great directors and won him an Academy Award 
for his life’s work, died on Sunday. He was 90.


The Associated Press reported his death without specifying where he 
died, saying only that a colleague, the film director Jacek Bromski, 
said Mr. Wajda had recently been hospitalized.


From his trilogy of Poland’s wartime resistance (“A Generation,” 
”Kanal” and “Ashes and Diamonds”) to his twin portraits of workers under 
Communism (“Man of Marble” and “Man of Iron”) to his final film, 
“Afterimage,” released this year, Mr. Wajda unceasingly drew on Polish 
reality, sensibility and memory, stressing elements that were at times 
mystifying to foreign viewers.


His absorption in Polish sensibilities, and in quintessentially Polish 
subjects, like the romantic appeal of lost causes, extended beyond plot 
and subtext to the iconography with which he filled his movies, a 
tendency he lamented but could not escape. “I would gladly trade in this 
clutch of national symbols — sabers, white horses, red poppies — for a 
handful of sexual symbols from a Freudian textbook,” he once said. “The 
trouble is that I just wasn’t brought up on Freud.”


He was also aware that the tensions of the Cold War sometimes estranged 
Western audiences from his subjects and his style. “Films made in 
Eastern Europe seem of little or no interest to people in the West,” he 
wrote in “Double Vision: My Life in Film” (1989). Western audiences, he 
said, “find them as antediluvian as the battle for workers’ rights in 
England in the time of Marx.”


But the biggest problems he faced were the practical ones of government 
disapproval, and sometimes outright censorship, before Poland rid itself 
of Communist control. That he succeeded in overcoming so much to produce 
towering works of art earned him the enduring regard of his countrymen.


And as opaque as his allusions may have seemed outside Poland, his 
international reputation grew steadily. Western film historians 
eventually mentioned him alongside Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini and 
Akira Kurosawa. He was given the Japanese Imperial Prize for his 
contribution to film in 1996 and an honorary Academy Award in 2000. Mr. 
Wajda also received lifetime achievement awards from the film festivals 
in Venice in 1998 and Berlin in 2006.


The images and textures that shaped the imaginative landscape of Mr. 
Wajda’s films were drawn from a life that reflected Poland’s tragic 
modern history, beginning with the outbreak of World War II, when the 
Nazis invaded and obliterated Poland in partnership with the Russians. 
The agony continued through nearly six years of German occupation, when 
the Nazis used Polish soil to establish the ghettos and killing fields 
of the Holocaust. Then, with liberation, came more decades of 
totalitarian oppression as successive regimes in Moscow sought to impose 
Soviet-style Communism on a devoutly Roman Catholic country, an effort 
that even Stalin once conceded was like “putting a saddle on a bull.”


Andrzej Wajda (pronounced ON-jay VIE-dah) was born on March 6, 1926, in 
Suwalki, a garrison town near Poland’s border with Lithuania. His father 
was a cavalry officer, and as young Andrzej moved with his parents from 
camp to camp, he and his brother would playfully choreograph their own 
battles while all around them real troops carried out training maneuvers.


When he was 12, the German Army invaded. Two weeks later, the Russians 
joined in the dismemberment of Poland. The country was quickly overrun 
by Nazi and Communist forces carrying out the collusion of the 
Hitler-Stalin pact.


As it did for many Poles, history turned personal for Mr. Wajda. His 
father was taken prisoner, one of the 4,300 Polish officers the Russians 
killed and secretly buried in the Katyn Forest in Ukraine.


Though most Poles eventually came to understand who was responsible for 
what was known simply as Katyn, during the years of Communist rule the 
official version of events insisted that the Polish officers were killed 
by the Germans. Only in 1991 could Mr. Wajda, by then an elected senator 
in post-Communist Poland, make a documentary called “The Katyn Forest” 
in homage to his father and those murdered with him.


His 2007 dramatization of the same story, called simply “Katyn,” was an 
Oscar nominee for best foreign-language film. A. O. Scott, in The New 
York Times, praised it as “a powerful corrective to decades of 
distortion and forgetting.”


After 

[Marxism] Fwd: Seizing Freedom: DAVID ROEDIGER with Peter St. Clair | The Brooklyn Rail

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[Marxism] Signed copies of my book of poetry Songs for the Band Unformed available

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Signed copies of my first book of poetry, Songs for the Band Unformed, 
are available now. To find out purchase details personal message me 
onFacebook so the whole world 
doesn’t see our details. Alternatively email me at 
en.pass...@bigpond.com for details.


You can also buy copies fromGinninderra Press here 
.


The link to the Kindle version – on sale for $4.06 (US I assume) when I 
looked on 2 October – ishere 
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[Marxism] Clinton on a no-fly zone

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This came to my attention from a Max Blumenthal tweet that he 
interpreted as a call for a no-fly zone:


Speech to Goldman Sachs, 6/4/13:

“So we’re not as good as we used to be, but we still—we can still 
deliver, and we should have in my view been trying to do that so we 
would have better insight. But the idea that we would have like a no fly 
zone—Syria, of course, did have when it started the fourth biggest Army 
in the world. It had very sophisticated air defense systems. They’re 
getting more sophisticated thanks to Russian imports. To have a no fly 
zone you have to take out all of the air defense, many of which are 
located in populated areas. So our missiles, even if they are standoff 
missiles so we’re not putting our pilots at risk—you’re going to kill a 
lot of Syrians. So all of a sudden this intervention that people talk 
about so glibly becomes an American and NATO involvement where you take 
a lot of civilians.”


Does this sound like a call for a no-fly zone to you? I'd say it is 
exactly the opposite. In fact if she had come out and said specifically 
that "glib" calls for a no-fly zone that would kill a lot of Syrians was 
and constitute a risk to American pilots was against American interests, 
the amen corner would have said it meant the opposite. You also have to 
wonder why Assange did not supply the full passage. As a loyal Putinite, 
he was interested in spinning it as a pro-no fly zone speech when it was 
likely not.

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[Marxism] Who 'won' the debate is the wrong question

[John Passant via Marxism]

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Electing Hillary Clinton won’t challenge let alone change the system of 
oppression or the positions of power that give some powerful men what 
they think is (and because of their positions of power often is) sexual 
power over women. Indeed, like Obama before her, as President Hillary 
Clinton will reinforce the oppressions of capitalism, the oppressions of 
gender and race on which capitalism has been and is built and reinforced.


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