Re: [Marxism] last thoughts on the American election

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I've been suggesting that either Clinton or Trump will face an
uncooperative Congress.

What's become increasingly evident is that each of them also has a deeply
personal drive for validation through this process and a record of rather
several intimidation when dealing with anyone who gets in their way.  This
might cause troubles with Congress, but it's more likely that either of
them might find employing the new presidential authorities to silence
critics irresistibly tempting.

We'll know over the next year or so.  Should be interesting, but I share
Gary's sentiment in wishing us all well.

ML
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[Marxism] My BIRTH OF A NATION review

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https://rimediacoop.org/2016/11/06/andrew-stewart-birth-of-a-nation-a-flawed-film-you-must-see/

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Left Is under No Obligation to Vote for Hillary Clinton

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A Comment From 1905 On Opportunist Lefties Who Whine For Clinton Victory

From: 1905, by Leon Trotsky; CHAPTER 25 Our Differences.  

This article was published in the Polish journal Przeglad social-demokratyczny 
in the period of blackest reaction in Russia, almost a total standstill in the 
working-class movement, and the Mensheviks’ renegade disavowal of the 
revolution and its methods.



“You are perfectly right in saying,” Lassalle wrote to Marx in 1854, at a time 
of extreme world reaction, “that the present apathy cannot be overcome by 
theoretical means. I would go so far in extrapolating this thought as to say 
that apathy has never been overcome by purely theoretical means, that is, the 
theoretical overcoming of political apathy produced disciples, sects or 
unsuccessful practical movements, but has never yet produced either a real 
world movement or a universal mass movement of minds. 

“The masses are drawn into the current of a movement, not only practically but 
also intellectually, by the dynamic force of real events alone.”

Opportunism cannot understand this. 

It may seem paradoxical to say that the principal psychological feature of 
opportunism is its inability to wait.  But that is undoubtedly true. 

In periods when friendly and hostile social forces, by virtue of their 
antagonism and their interaction, create a total political standstill; when the 
molecular process of economic growth, by intensifying the contradictions, not 
only fails to disturb the political balance but actually strengthens it and, as 
it were, makes it permanent – in such periods opportunism, devoured by 
impatience, looks around for “new” ways and means of putting into effect what 
history is not yet ready for in practice. 

Tired of its own inadequacy and unreliability, it goes in search of “allies.” 

It hurls itself avidly upon the dung-heap of liberalism. 

It implores it, it appeals to it, it invents special formulae for how it could 
act. 

In reply, liberalism merely contaminates it with its own political 
putrefaction. 

Opportunism then begins to pick out isolated pearls of democracy from the 
dung-heap.  It needs allies.  It rushes from place to place, grabbing possible 
allies by their coattails. 

It harangues its own adherents, admonishing them to be considerate towards all 
potential allies.  “Tact, more tact, still more tact!” It is gripped by a 
special disease, the mania of caution in respect to liberalism, the sickness of 
tact; and, driven berserk by its sickness, it attacks and wounds its own party.

Opportunism does not know how to wait.  And that is precisely why great events 
always catch it unawares. 

They knock it off its feet, whiz it around like a chip of wood in a whirlpool 
and sweep it forward, knocking its head now against one bank, now against the 
other. It tries to resist, but in vain. 

Then it submits to its fate, pretends to be happy, waves its arms to show that 
it is swimming, and shouts louder than anyone else.  And when the hurricane has 
passed, it creeps ashore, shakes itself, complains of headache and painful 
limbs and, in the wretched hangover following its euphoria, spares no harsh 
words for revolutionary “dreamers.”



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>Clinton
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>DSA members staying strong.
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>http://inthesetimes.com/features/dsa_clinton_left_support.html
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[Marxism] last thoughts on the American election

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The ABC political program *The Insiders* was remarkable this morning for
its lack of enthusiasm at the prospect of a Clinton victory. It seemed a
case of the unspeakable versus the uneatable, or something like that.

What the commentators refused to address was the meaning of the election,
other than a superficial nod to the standard paradigm of Cosmopolitanism
versus  Natavism. I can recall watching the 1961 documentary on the
comedian Will Rogers that was narrated by Bob Hope.  I recall Hope quoting
Rogers as apologizing for being a Democrat but saying that God always
seemed to ensure that "we" had two candidates for President.

Well God must be off on furlough for no one, but no one, thinks either
candidate is any good.

But no one in the political class here is taking the next step and
wondering aloud about the deeper meaning of being tied into an alliance led
by either Trump or Clinton.  The phrase "leader of the Free World" is still
bandied about here. Well the leader could well be an ex-reality TV Star who
wants to fire us all, or a quite crazy war monger who has talked about
"obliterating" a nation.

I wish us all well in these circumstances.  We are going to need it.

comradely

Gary
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[Marxism] The Centennial of a Communist Poet, Thomas McGrath

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https://ndquarterly.org/2016/11/01/thomas-mcgrath-at-100-where-speech-becomes-song/

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[Marxism] Trump & Putin

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I haven't had a chance to read this yet.  May be of interest.
ken h

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/follow-the-money-to-see-why-putin-is-rooting-for-a-trump-victory/article32690746/
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Re: [Marxism] Give The People What They Want: DSA Members on 2016 and Beyond

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This is great.  What's the plan of action?
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[Marxism] Debates on the Left in the UK

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Michael Roberts latest blog on the 2016 CLASS Conference *Britain at a
Crossroads*  [http://classonline.org.uk/conference2016] is particularly
interesting. [For Roberts' piece go to
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/158358a2d65b1079].  As List members
would know, Roberts is a traditional Marxist in that he argues that there
is a Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall.

(I myself am inclined to suspect that Roberts believes this is a "law" in
the Popper-Hempel sense, and that he does not give due weight to the word
"tendency", nor understand it sufficiently in a Bhaskarian ontological
depth sense.)

So, generally, he is very critical of the Keynesian approach which sees the
economic problem in terms of falling demand caused by decades of supply
side economics rather than by a fall in profitability caused by investment
in fixed capital.

I am not an economist and still "tend" to believe the last piece I have
read.  But leaving that aside, I was very struck by the tone of the
conference as reflected in Roberts' article. In the UK, as in Australia,
the fools are in charge. The  UK Left has a clear understanding of the
depth of the crisis but Prime Minister May remains massively ahead in the
opinion polls. It seems to me, from afar,  that, as the crisis bites, caste
is re-emerging as a political force and the fast-thinking response of "The
Laird/Boss knows best" is very much a part of the consciousness of the
English. It would appear that all one needs is a posh accent to garner
massive public support. How else can one explain an idiot like Boris
Johnson being a political force?

But it is very clear that the Laird/Boss does not have a clue and that we
are staggering towards another massive slump.  Corbyn and his team remain
our best hope of a sane and sensible attempt to solve the crisis. One has
only to read what the Blairite David Milliband has put out to grasp that
Corbyn's critics within the Labour Party are clueless about the depth of
the crisis. [Go to
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/09/new-times-david-miliband-why-left-needs-move-forward-not-back].
The anti-Corbyn forces are fighting the battles of the 80s while an
economic tsunami is building up.

But despair is beginning to grip sections of Corbyn's support, if the
twitter traffic around the Leftist and public intellectual Owen Jones is
any indication [Go to .
https://twitter.com/OwenJones84?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
]

Everywhere, there is a refusal to acknowledge the depth of the crises we
face.  I use the plural to indicate my awareness that we are heading for
ecological disaster and possibly a period of accelerated wars. Nonetheless,
my primary focus remains on the economy and how it seems almost impossible
to get even a moderate, sane Keynesian approach on the public's agenda.

Sadly, the truth would appear to be that things will have to get worse,
before they get better.

comradely

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Re: [Marxism] Haymarket Books

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Thanks Louis!

On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Louis Proyect  wrote:

> On 11/5/16 2:25 PM, Andrew Stewart via Marxism wrote:
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>> I'm not madly in love with any of the publishing outfits these days but
>> Haymarket is having a sale this weekend. Does anyone know anything about
>> this book?
>>
>> https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/284-marxism-and-ecological-economics
>>
>>
> http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/ecology/burkett.htm
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Re: [Marxism] Haymarket Books

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On 11/5/16 2:25 PM, Andrew Stewart via Marxism wrote:

I'm not madly in love with any of the publishing outfits these days but
Haymarket is having a sale this weekend. Does anyone know anything about
this book?

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/284-marxism-and-ecological-economics



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[Marxism] Haymarket Books

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I'm not madly in love with any of the publishing outfits these days but
Haymarket is having a sale this weekend. Does anyone know anything about
this book?

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/284-marxism-and-ecological-economics

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[Marxism] Gene La Rocque, Decorated Veteran Who Condemned Waste of War, Dies at 98

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NY Times, Nov. 5 2016
Gene La Rocque, Decorated Veteran Who Condemned Waste of War, Dies at 98
By ANITA GATES

Gene La Rocque, pictured in 1982, when he was a retired rear admiral, 
spoke out on military issues well into his 90s. Credit Baltimore Sun
Rear Adm. Gene La Rocque, a decorated Navy veteran who spoke out against 
the wastes of war, was labeled a traitor by some and went on to found 
the Center for Defense Information, a private think tank that was 
described as both pro-peace and pro-military, died on Monday in 
Washington. He was 98.


His death was confirmed by his son John.

Admiral La Rocque attracted particular attention when he gave an 
interview to Studs Terkel for his 1984 book, “The Good War: An Oral 
History of World War Two.”


“I hate it when they say, ‘He gave his life for his country,’ ” Admiral 
La Rocque told Mr. Terkel. “Nobody gives their life for anything. We 
steal the lives of these kids. We take it away from them.


“They don’t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.”

In the same conversation, Admiral La Rocque described the State 
Department as having become “the lackey of the Pentagon” and lamented 
the loss of civilian control.


After retiring from the Navy in the early 1970s, he founded the Center 
for Defense Information with Rear Adm. Eugene Carroll (who died in 
2003). The new organization, positioned as an informed second opinion to 
the Pentagon, began with three primary goals: to avert a nuclear war 
with the Soviet Union, to end the Vietnam War and to monitor the 
influence of the military-industrial complex.


As the center’s director, Admiral La Rocque continued his battle long 
after the first two goals had been achieved. In 1990 he was calling for 
the nation’s military budget to be reduced by one-third, to $200 
billion, and troop strength to be reduced from three million to two 
million. And he was working to take the profit out of weapons 
manufacture, although he doubted that the military would ever produce 
its own weapons again.


Lawrence J. Korb, an assistant secretary of defense under President 
Ronald Reagan, met Admiral La Rocque when Mr. Korb was asked to brief 
him for a debate in 1972. Admiral La Rocque and his new organization 
“understood what the issues were,” Mr. Korb, now a senior fellow at the 
Center for American Progress in Washington, said in an interview Friday. 
“You need this submarine, and not this one. He presented reasonable 
alternatives that people would consider.”


“This was a career military officer, which made him stand out,” Mr. Korb 
added.


Eugene Robert La Rocque was born on June 29, 1918, in Kankakee, Ill., 
the third of five children of Edward La Rocque, who ran and lived above 
a furniture store during the Depression, and the former Lucille Eddy.


One of Gene’s first jobs, at the age of 12 or so, was delivering 
newspapers. But he was fired, his daughter, Annette La Rocque 
Fitzsimmons, said on Friday, when the publisher, a Republican, learned 
that the boy’s father was a local Democratic committeeman.


As Admiral La Rocque recounted the story, that day his mother told him 
he could marry anyone he liked when he grew up, as long as she wasn’t a 
Republican.


Gene enlisted in the Navy in 1940. “In the summer of ’41, I asked to be 
sent to Pearl Harbor,” he told Mr. Terkel. “The Pacific fleet was there, 
and it sounded romantic.”


The request was granted, and the young sailor escaped harm in the 
Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941. He and the rest of the crew of the 
destroyer Macdonough were sent in pursuit of the Japanese fleet.


He spent four years in the Pacific, participated in more than a dozen 
battles, was awarded the Bronze Star and was the first man ashore in the 
landing at Roi-Namur in the Battle of Kwajalein (1944), part of the 
Marshall Islands campaign.


Admiral La Rocque was widowed twice. He met Sarah Madeline Fox (not a 
Republican) during the war, when she was a stewardess on a flight from 
Seattle to Anchorage. They married in April 1945 and had three children. 
She died in 1978. The following year, he married Lillian Danchik. They 
were together until her death in 1994.


In addition to his son John and his daughter, his survivors include 
another son, James; two stepsons, Howard Danchik and Roger Danchik; six 
grandchildren; and one great-grandson.


In 2012 the C.D.I. merged with the Project on Government Oversight, 
which continues to publish The Defense Monitor, the organization’s 
quarterly newsletter. Recent headlines have included “The Fight to Save 
the A-10 Warthog,” “F-35 May Never Be Ready for Combat” and “Pentagon’s 
2017 Budget Was Mardi Gras 

[Marxism] Indians, Slaves, and Mass Murder: The Hidden History

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NY Review of Books
Indians, Slaves, and Mass Murder: The Hidden History
Peter Nabokov NOVEMBER 24, 2016 ISSUE

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
by Andrés Reséndez
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 431 pp., $30.00

An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian 
Catastrophe, 1846–1873

by Benjamin Madley
Yale University Press, 692 pp., $38.00

1.

The European market in African slaves, which opened with a cargo of 
Mauritian blacks unloaded in Portugal in 1441, and the explorer 
Christopher Columbus, born in Genoa ten years later, were closely 
linked. The ensuing Age of Discovery, with its expansions of empires and 
exploitations of New World natural resources, was accompanied by the 
seizure and forced labor of human beings, starting with Native Americans.


Appraising that commercial opportunity came naturally to an entrepreneur 
like Columbus, as did his sponsors’ pressure on him to find precious 
metals and his religion’s contradictory concerns both to protect and 
convert heathens. On the day after Columbus landed in 1492 on an island 
in the present-day Bahamas and saw its Taíno islanders, he wrote that 
“with fifty men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one 
wished.” Soon the African trade was changing life in Spain; within 
another hundred years most urban families owned one or more black 
servants, over 7 percent of Seville was black, and a new social grouping 
of mixed-race mulattos joined the lower rungs of a color-coded social 
ladder.


Columbus liked the “affectionate and without malice” Arawakan-speaking 
Taíno natives. He found the men tall, handsome, and good farmers, the 
women comely, near naked, and apparently available. In exchange for 
glass beads, brass hawk bells, and silly red caps, the seamen received 
cotton thread, parrots, and food from native gardens. Fresh fish and 
fruits were abundant. Glints in the ornaments worn by natives promised 
gold, and they presumably knew where to find more. Aside from one 
flare-up, there were no serious hostilities. Columbus returned to 
Barcelona with six Taíno natives who were paraded as curiosities, not 
chattel, before King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.


The following year, Columbus led seventeen ships that dropped 1,500 
prospective settlers on Caribbean beaches. As they stayed on, relations 
with local Indians degenerated. What was soon imposed was “the other 
slavery” that the University of California, Davis, historian Andrés 
Reséndez discusses in his synthesis of the last half-century of 
scholarship on American Indian enslavement. First came the demand for 
miners to dig for gold. The easy-going Taínos were transformed into 
gold-panners working under Spanish overseers.


The Spaniards also exploited the forms of human bondage that already 
existed on the islands. The Caribs of the Lesser Antilles, a more 
aggressive tribe, regularly raided the Taínos, allegedly eating the men 
but keeping the women and children as retainers. A similar 
discrimination based on age and gender would prevail throughout the next 
four centuries of Indian-on-Indian servitude. As Bonnie Martin and James 
Brooks put it in their anthology, Linking the Histories of Slavery: 
North America and Its Borderlands:


North America was a vast, pulsing map of trading, raiding, and 
resettling. Whether the systems were pre- or postcontact indigenous, 
European colonial, or US national, they grew into complex cultural 
matrices in which the economic wealth and social power created using 
slavery proved indivisible. Indigenous and Euro-American slave systems 
evolved and innovated in response to each other.*


Taínos who resisted the Spanish were set upon by dogs, disemboweled by 
swords, burned at stakes, trampled by horses—atrocities “to which no 
chronicle could ever do justice,” wrote Friar Bartolomé de las Casas, a 
crusader for Indian rights, in 1542. Against the Caribs the Spaniards 
had a tougher time, fighting pitched battles but capturing hundreds of 
slaves as well. Columbus sailed home from his second voyage with over a 
thousand captives bound for slave auctions in Cádiz (many died en route, 
their bodies tossed overboard). He envisioned a future market for New 
World gold, spices, cotton, and “as many slaves as Their Majesties order 
to make, from among those who are idolators,” whose sales might 
underwrite subsequent expeditions.


Thus did the discoverer of the New World become its first transatlantic 
human trafficker—a sideline pursued by most New World conquistadors 
until, in the mid-seventeenth century, Spain officially opposed slavery. 
And Columbus’s vision of a 

[Marxism] Fwd: Observations On The Reactions To Max Blumenthal | Ikhras اخرس

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This is an attack on Max Blumenthal for not being sufficiently pro-Assad 
from a hard-core Assadist blogger who makes Tim Anderson look fair and 
balanced by comparison. It was tweeted by the ineffable Yoshie Furuhashi 
on MRZine.


http://ikhras.com/observations-on-the-reactions-to-max-blumenthal/
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Re: [Marxism] US election campaign reveals mass alienation from two-party system

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On 11/5/16 10:17 AM, Jeremy via Marxism wrote:

Note today's November 5th Detroit conference:

Socialism vs. Capitalism and War: The SEP and IYSSE schedule November 5 antiwar 
conference in Detroit

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/09/15/pers-s15.html

From: Jeremy Wells
(California write-in voter for President Jerry White and Vice President Niles 
Niemuth, qualitfied and counted Socialist Equality Party (SEP) candidates)



This is a total joke.

Organizing a conference that will only be attended by SEP members, all 
50 of them, and their supporters, another 25 or so, is hailed as if it 
were the Zimmerwald Conference.


None of these ultralefts who bang on about WWIII have ever carried out 
an economic analysis of the contending hegemonic or aspiring hegemonic 
powers.


WSWS: "Twenty-five years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and 
15 years after the beginning of the 'war on terror,' the unending 
conflicts launched by the United States in the Middle East and Central 
Asia are metastasizing into a global confrontation with the larger 
competitors of American imperialism, particularly Russia and China, both 
armed with nuclear weapons."


In fact the USA and Russia are united in bombing ISIS and al-Nusra. They 
differ verbally on Assad but prefer him to the rebels who are in the 
process of being Grozny-ized while Obama stands with his arms folded.


Chicken little indeed.


Exxon now has more exploration holdings in Russia than in the U.S., 
despite sanctions 
(http://fuelfix.com/blog/2015/03/03/exxon-now-has-more-exploration-holdings-in-russia-than-in-the-u-s-despite-sanctions/)


A struggle began for the “division of the world”, as, in fact, it is 
called in economic literature. On the one hand, the Rockefeller “oil 
trust” wanted to lay its hands on everything; it formed a “daughter 
company” right in Holland, and bought up oilfields in the Dutch Indies, 
in order to strike at its principal enemy, the Anglo-Dutch Shell trust. 
On the other hand, the Deutsche Bank and the other German banks aimed at 
“retaining” Rumania “for themselves” and at uniting her with Russia 
against Rockefeller. The latter possessed far more capital and an 
excellent system of oil transportation and distribution. The struggle 
had to end, and did end in 1907, with the utter defeat of the Deutsche 
Bank, which was confronted with the alternative: either to liquidate its 
“oil interests” and lose millions, or submit. It chose to submit, and 
concluded a very disadvantageous agreement with the “oil trust”. The 
Deutsche Bank agreed “not to attempt anything which might injure 
American interests”. Provision was made, however, for the annulment of 
the agreement in the event of Germany establishing a state oil monopoly.


V.I. Lenin, "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism"

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[Marxism] US election campaign reveals mass alienation from two-party system

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An excellent WSWS Perspective commentary on the looming political crisis: 
 
US election campaign reveals mass alienation from two-party system
 
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/11/05/pers-n05.html
 
 
Note today's November 5th Detroit conference:
 
Socialism vs. Capitalism and War: The SEP and IYSSE schedule November 5 antiwar 
conference in Detroit
 
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/09/15/pers-s15.html
 
From: Jeremy Wells
(California write-in voter for President Jerry White and Vice President Niles 
Niemuth, qualitfied and counted Socialist Equality Party (SEP) candidates)
 
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[Marxism] Fwd: 'We are all Thomas More’s children’ – 500 years of Utopia | Books | The Guardian

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By China Mieville.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/04/thomas-more-utopia-500-years-china-mieville-ursula-le-guin
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