[Marxism] Media omits key information to demonise Venezuela as recall referendum suspended

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The announcement from Venezuela's electoral authority on October 20 that it
would head a court ruling and not proceed with a recall referendum

has
unleashed yet another wave of critical articles and opinion pieces
throughout the English-speaking media, labeling Venezuela government as
“authoritarian” or even a “dictatorship.”

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/media-omits-key-information-demonise-venezuela-recall-referendum-suspended
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[Marxism] more on the Dylan thread

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I am really pleased that Greg took the trouble to reply and give a critique
of a number of Dylan songs.  I will follow up all the suggested titles.

There were two things that I would like to make a respectful comment on.
Firstly the hanging round as Pete Seeger's junior partner in the CPUSA. I
have to ask is that a fair characterization of the choice that was offered
Dylan? I am unconvinced, but honestly I do not know the American scene
sufficiently to judge here.

Secondly, Greg says Dylan got fed up with "the whole circus".  I have a
burning need to ask, "What circus".. the students getting battered to shit
outside the Democratic Party conference in Chicago? The students in Kent
Uni getting murdered in cold blood?  I could go on, but the point is made I
think. One could avoid circuses while still being committed to decency.
Finally I agree totally with this line from Greg's last post

I don't think Dylan ever thought for one minute that by writing and singing
songs he could help make the world a better place.

But the point is that one can make the world a better place by writing and
singing songs. Dylan just could not see that.

comradely

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Re: [Marxism] following the link on Dylan

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Something else comes to mind. I don't think Dylan ever thought for one
minute that by writing and singing songs he could help make the world a
better place.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Hillary´s hour – Communist Party USA

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Cuban CP endorses Hillary Clinton.

http://www.cpusa.org/article/hillarys-hour/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Anonymous distances itself from WikiLeaks | Technology | The Guardian

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Re: [Marxism] following the link on Dylan

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I don't think Marqusee, or any other writer grappling with Dylan's oeuvre,
has argued that Dylan remained part of the movement. That much is patently
obvious. Dylan himself has stated he never felt comfortable as a topical
folk song artist. I think we should take him at his word. After all, he was
VERY straightforward about that with his Tom Paine award fuck you speech. I
don't think he was really interested in sticking around as Pete Seeger's
junior partner in the CPUSA. Would you?

He was obviously more interested at the time in developing a new mode of
artistic self-expression, combining elements of symbolist poetry with rock
music. Whether he was successful or not is in the ear of the beholder. A
lot of people like Dylan's music, a lot of people don't. I think much of
his topical work sounds dated, while some of his later work, especially
since "Oh Mercy",  I can still listen to and it doesn't bore the shit out
of me. I still enjoy  the records he cut with The Band, as well as the
original Highway 61, which is very punk IMO, especially with Mike
Bloomfield ripping it up. "Blonde on Blonde" is quite special, "Blood on
the Tracks" is great if you're going through a divorce. "John Wesley
Harding" and "Nashville Skyline" are very enjoyable with a cup of coffee in
the morning, but I've always been a big Johnny Cash fan.

After Dylan broke his neck in a motorcycle accident and retreated from
public view for three years, he seemed to relish being out of the
spotlight. He avoided Woodstock, choosing the Isle of Wight instead. Much
to the consternation of people who kept looking to him for answers and
guidance, he refused to come out publicly against the Vietnam war. i think
he was just fed up with the whole circus. Anyway, that's my own assessment.
Much of his music from 1989 on seems to be an attempt to further refine his
take on the great american songbook. In that sense it was prescient.
Americana is now part of the musical lexicon.

Marqusee's book was originally titled "Chimes of Freedom". It looks at the
topical stuff and offers a political interpretation. "Wicked Messenger" is
an updated edition taking into consideration some of Dylan's later work.

Greg
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[Marxism] following the link on Dylan

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There is much lingering beneath the surface of this thread.  There is for
example the vexed question of the relationship between the artist and the
movement. But I will leave that for another day, perhaps.

I followed Greg's link to Marqusee's book and picked out this from the
blurb.  But first let me say that Glosser's assessment of Dylan was
serious. Very. The difference is that Marqusee's evaluation of Dylan is
more generous and I think more self-serving.

The excerpt reads:



*Dylan's anguished, self-obsessed, prickly artistic evolution, Marqusee
asserts, was a deeply creative response to a deeply disturbing situation.
"He can no longer tell the story straight," Marqusee concludes, "because
any story told straight is a false one."*
The rhetoric here is enticing but we should resist it.  It is simply untrue
that any story told straight is false. What we are offered is a flashy
display of fast thinking that serves to hide the truths of a great
abandonment of the quest for a better world.

Now, comrades, that is a very straight narrative and it is very, very true.

comradely

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Tom Hayden (1939-2016): a political assessment | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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"Long ago" is putting it mildly.

I attended the SDS conference where he supported the slogan, "Part Of The Way 
With LBJ" [vs. Goldwater.]

T

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>
>An interesting summary, Lou. The bell is certainly tolling for our
>generation.  But this is one particular toll that, while I do not celebrate
>it in any way, I certainly do not mourn. You make it crystal clear that as
>a leftist he died long, long ago.
>
>comradely
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>Gary

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Re: [Marxism] Tom Hayden and Bob Dylan

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Anyone interested in a more serious appraisal of Dylan's work should check
out "Wicked Messenger" by Mike Marqusee.

https://www.sevenstories.com/books/3858-wicked-messenger
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[Marxism] Tom Hayden and Bob Dylan

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Pete Glosser comment on my article about Hayden:


Hayden's trajectory illustrates the futility of believing there can be 
radicalism with no grounding in socialist class analysis. This was an 
important legacy of the antiwar movement of the sixties and is an 
important source for the weird Manichean self-righteousness of the 
Putin- and Assad-loving "anti-imperialists" who are lurking behind every 
bush not thoroughly peed upon by the Democratic Party.


We should not forget that the Emerson-and-Thoreau blind individualism 
and moralism rampant in the antiwar movement in which Hayden figured so 
prominently, was the key to popularizing a highly moralistic (and 
self-serving) anti-imperialism, even though it made use of themes 
offered by Stalinist left-wing formations; e.g., the so-called Maoists.


One of the obscene consequences of this fusion has been the awarding of 
a Nobel Prize to Bob Dylan, whose major achievement was to appropriate 
the great socialist legacy of the folk music movement--e.g. Woody 
Guthrie--and to substitute for it a sort of Gaussian blur whereby the 
listener was invited to project his own image against a bokeh of 
unfocused word salad with radical and mystical connotations and no real 
substance. This theft made BD an immensely wealthy man (which seems to 
be all he every really cared about).


The resulting mix had great appeal to young male college students who 
wanted encouragement to use drugs and get laid. Being in demonstrations 
was a useful path to achieving both goals.


Most of these dabblers were both harmless and useful, and many took 
courageous action. But to call their favorite song lyrics great 
literature is to glorify the midddle-class adolescent white male 
narcissism and selfishness which ultimately is the main theme of Bob 
Dylan's alleged art.


Bob Dylan, cynical prick that he is, has written a lot of catchy (if 
meaningless) songs, and Tom Hayden, who worked tirelessly all his life 
for what he thought was right, did a lot of great organizing before he 
repented and joined the neoliberal throng.


In any case, it's important to debunk any tendency toward idolizing 
these useful opportunists. Both figures, in different ways, illustrate 
how shallow and fragmentary the radical synthesis of the Sixties really 
was, and how important it is to reach beyond the Eurocentricty of 
American radical culture, with its obsessive nostalgia for the recent 
past, to achieve a truly world-historical perspective on the changes 
that must come if we are to avoid the rapidly closing jaws of barbarism 
in the Nobel-wielding "advanced" countries of the West and in the world 
at large.

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Re: [Marxism] Muftah.org and Verso Books present: "Syria and the Left"

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Agreed. I don't see what possible purpose him being invited could serve.

I also just realized from this that I follow you on twitter, not having
realized you were the Andrew Pollack from Marxmail :)

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Re: [Marxism] Muftah.org and Verso Books present: "Syria and the Left"

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On 10/25/16 2:09 PM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote:

I believe this event is a huge mistake:
1) It's characterization of Blumenthal as "Left" is mistaken:


I wish that was true. Unfortunately, we are dealing with a situation not 
unlike the 1930s when the CP had hegemony. It was a party that justified 
the Moscow Trials. It was also a party that fought against Jim Crow. 
Blumenthal's "Goliath" was an important book and I am quite sure he is 
capable of writing other useful take-downs of the Zionist entity. You 
need to approach these questions dialectically.

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Re: [Marxism] Muftah.org and Verso Books present: "Syria and the Left"

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Some of you have seen my rant about this event on Facebook and Twitter. For
those who haven't:
I believe this event is a huge mistake:
1) It's characterization of Blumenthal as "Left" is mistaken:  there's a
difference between left/right categorizations based on membership or
participation in the workers' and/or allied movements of oppressed groups,
as opposed to Blumenthal's bogus "left" status based on some good things he
as a free-floating intellectual has written against Zionism - none of which
make up for his openly reactionary articles and tweets supporting Assad's
genocide.
2) Giving panel space to an Assadist like Blumenthal is spitting on the
graves of the countless martyrs whom he calls terrorists, such as the White
Helmets, and those dying, and the many more soon to be murdered, in Aleppo
and elsewhere.
3) Many people have responded to the points above by saying "it's a chance
to debate, to educate!" To which I reply: Bullshit. Muftah presented us
with a fait accompli, and they could have - AND STILL COULD - give
Blumenthal's spot to a supporter of the Revolution. Folks at
Barnard/Columbia had a forum last Thursday and another this Thursday with a
dozen such supporters and never felt compelled to soil their banner with
the filth Blumenthal spews.
IMO folks should let Muftah know they don't think Blumenthal deserves a
platform; let him yell on a street corner, it's a (relatively) free
country. If they don't relent, we certainly want to attend and give him a
piece of our mind.

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Tristan Sloughter via Marxism <
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:

>
> https://www.facebook.com/events/348999418788457/
>
> This Nov 1 event from Muftah and Verso has an interesting selection for
> the panel "Panelists will include Murtaza Hussain, Loubna Mrie,
> Professor Zein El-Amine, and Max Blumenthal."
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[Marxism] Muftah.org and Verso Books present: "Syria and the Left"

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https://www.facebook.com/events/348999418788457/

This Nov 1 event from Muftah and Verso has an interesting selection for
the panel "Panelists will include Murtaza Hussain, Loubna Mrie,
Professor Zein El-Amine, and Max Blumenthal."

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Has this physicist found the key to reality?

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I get the impression that the reviewer is more inclined to place his bets on 
string theory than on quantum loop theory, which is favored by Rovelli. But as 
the reviewer admits, string theory is not empirically falsifiable. I don't 
think that one has to be a fan of Karl Popper to find that to be troubling. I 
think that most scientists since the dawn of modern science in the 17th century 
have at least tacitly assumed that scientific theories, to be regarded as such, 
must be empirically testable, and in some sense, falsifiable, even if we don't 
necessarily embrace Popper's conception of falsifiabilility. Hardcore 
proponents of string theory have responded by arguing that scientific theories 
to be scientific theories need not be falsifiable. In regards to this 
situation, I think it's too bad that the professional philosophers have not 
taken too much interest in what Popper called the "demarcation problem" for the 
past forty or fifty years. In other words not since the days of Karl Popper and 
Imre Lakatos. Given the cul de sac that physics seems to be in right now, this 
might be an area where the philosopher could do the scientists some good.


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Has this physicist found the key to reality?
Whenever we have ventured into new experimental territory, we’ve 
discovered that our previous “knowledge” was woefully incomplete. So 
what to make of Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli?

Reality Is Not What It Seems: the Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo 
Rovelli. Translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre is published by 
Allen Lane (255pp, £16.99)

Albert Einstein knew the truth. “As far as the laws of mathematics refer 
to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they 
do not refer to reality.” However good we are at maths – or theoretical 
physics – our efforts to apply it to the real world are always going to 
mislead. So perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that reality is not what 
it seems – even when, like the Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli, you’ve 
done the maths.

It is a lesson we could certainly learn from the history of science. 
Whenever we have ventured into new experimental territory, we’ve 
discovered that our previous “knowledge” was woefully incomplete. With 
the invention of the telescope, for instance, we found new structures in 
space; Jupiter’s moons and sunspots were just the beginning. The 
microscope took us the other way and showed us the fine structure of the 
biological world – creatures that looked uninteresting to the naked eye 
turned out to be intricate and delicate, with scales and hooks and other 
minute features. We also once thought that the atom lacked structure; 
today’s technology, such as the particle colliders at the Cern research 
centre in Geneva and Fermilab in the United States, have allowed us to 
prove just how wrong that idea was. At every technological turn, we have 
redefined the nature of reality.

full: 
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[Marxism] Fwd: For Ex-Firebrand Tom Hayden, Days of Rage Are Ones for the Book

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For Ex-Firebrand Tom Hayden, Days of Rage Are Ones for the Book
BY ANDREA CHAMBERS AND JACQUELINE SAVAIANO

POSTED ON AUGUST 8, 1988 AT 12:00PM EDT

At the end of a long, 14-hour day, a middle-aged man carrying a slight 
paunch pulls his Volvo into the driveway of his two-story Santa Monica 
home. The wife and kids are away for a few days, so he changes into 
jeans, settles down on a pastel floral sofa and flips on the big-screen 
TV. During a commercial, he pads out to the porch to feed the family 
rabbits, Bullwinkle and Whiskers. “I don’t mean to sound clichéd,” he 
says, “but I’m home almost every night. If I’m away a day or something, 
I start to lose my mind.”


The happy homebody is Tom Hayden, 48, the former student radical whose 
commitment to social revolution in the ’60s and ’70s led him into 
Southern jails, North Vietnamese villages, a Chicago courtroom and a 
Berkeley collective. He is also the husband of actress Jane Fonda, 50, 
whom he met at an antiwar rally in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1971. At the 
time, Hayden was speaking about Vietnam, and Fonda was touring the 
country supporting Black Panthers, feminists, American Indians and 
student radicals. That was then. This is now.


Tom, Jane and the kids—Troy, 15, and Jane’s daughter, Vanessa Vadim, 
19—have recently returned from a family holiday in New York, where they 
shopped, went to plays and enjoyed themselves like any other tourists. 
Not only is Hayden a family man these days, but he has become a 
respected Democratic Assemblyman from California’s 44th district, 
predominantly moneyed turf that includes Malibu, the Pacific Palisades 
and Santa Monica.


Given the sharp contrast between his past and present, he has for years 
pondered his transformation and yearned to write about it. The result, a 
539-page autobiography, Reunion: A Memoir, was published in May. 
Completing the book “may have something to do with the difference 
between youth and middle age,” he says. “As long as I thought of myself 
as a young person and ’60s activist, I couldn’t let go of my 
experiences, look at them, say what I felt then, what I feel now, and 
let the chips fall where they may, which is what a real writer has to do.”


The death of Hayden’s parents (his father in 1982, his mother four years 
later) “broke the dam,” he says. In emotional, sometimes rueful prose, 
Hayden deals with his own splintered upbringing, his fascination with 
radical politics and, finally, his rusted idealism. Reviewers have been 
generally enthusiastic, praising his evenhandedness and honesty. Hayden, 
concluded the New York Times critic, was perhaps “the single greatest 
figure of the 1960s student movement.”


Not everyone agrees. One of his most vocal critics has been Abbie 
Hoffman, 51, a co-defendant with Hayden in the celebrated Chicago Seven 
trial of 1969-70. Hayden regarded the trial as an inconvenience, says 
Hoffman, and “he slept through most of it. We called him Mr. Warmth. He 
was hard-edged and cold-blooded, and we considered him the Stalinist of 
the group.” Hoffman is outraged that Hayden’s book is getting good 
reviews and says that he won’t even read it. It is, he says, simply an 
example of Hayden’s opportunism: “You’re getting a view of the ’60s put 
through a filter. ‘Let’s make it so I look noble and respectable so I’m 
electable to office today by the Archie Bunkers.’ ”


Raised in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, Mich., Hayden was schooled 
from the start in the values of Middle America. When he was 10, his 
parents divorced. His father, John, an accountant, moved to Detroit, 
while Tom and his mother, Genevieve, a film librarian, stayed in Royal 
Oak. Hayden visited his father often, accompanying him on fishing trips 
and to baseball, football and hockey games. In high school he planned a 
career as a foreign correspondent, but when he became editor of the 
University of Michigan student newspaper in 1960, his political vision 
began crystallizing. As a member of the Students for a Democratic 
Society one year later, he was arrested with other freedom riders in 
Albany, Ga., while trying to desegregate a railway station. He was 
thrown into a roach-infested jail cell with a puddle of urine on the 
floor and four drunks for company; the experience, he suggests, was 
enriching. “As the catacombs were to the early Christians, the jails 
were the places where a new faith was fortified,” Hayden writes.


Soon after the incident, he began working on what came to be known as 
the Port Huron Statement, the manifesto of SDS radicals. Then in 

[Marxism] Fwd: Resettling China’s ‘Ecological Migrants’ - The New York Times

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[Marxism] Fwd: Has this physicist found the key to reality?

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Has this physicist found the key to reality?
Whenever we have ventured into new experimental territory, we’ve 
discovered that our previous “knowledge” was woefully incomplete. So 
what to make of Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli?


Reality Is Not What It Seems: the Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo 
Rovelli. Translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre is published by 
Allen Lane (255pp, £16.99)


Albert Einstein knew the truth. “As far as the laws of mathematics refer 
to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they 
do not refer to reality.” However good we are at maths – or theoretical 
physics – our efforts to apply it to the real world are always going to 
mislead. So perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that reality is not what 
it seems – even when, like the Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli, you’ve 
done the maths.


It is a lesson we could certainly learn from the history of science. 
Whenever we have ventured into new experimental territory, we’ve 
discovered that our previous “knowledge” was woefully incomplete. With 
the invention of the telescope, for instance, we found new structures in 
space; Jupiter’s moons and sunspots were just the beginning. The 
microscope took us the other way and showed us the fine structure of the 
biological world – creatures that looked uninteresting to the naked eye 
turned out to be intricate and delicate, with scales and hooks and other 
minute features. We also once thought that the atom lacked structure; 
today’s technology, such as the particle colliders at the Cern research 
centre in Geneva and Fermilab in the United States, have allowed us to 
prove just how wrong that idea was. At every technological turn, we have 
redefined the nature of reality.


full: 
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2016/10/has-physicist-found-key-reality

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[Marxism] Fwd: In health and well-being, youth in America rank below those in Iraq and Bangladesh

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