[Marxism] Robert Burke

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On page 105 of Ahmed White's book on the 1937 Little Steel Strike, he 
mentions an organizer named Robert Burke. The name rang a bell. Sure 
enough, I wrote about him in 2007 as the Columbia student who was 
expelled for organizing a protest against a top Nazi official getting 
red carpet treatment there. Not long after I wrote my article, I heard 
from Burke's son who was gratified to see his father commemorated on my 
blog.


https://louisproyect.org/2007/09/25/columbia-university-and-evil-dictators/
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[Marxism] Redline articles - with proper links

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For some reason the links went very awry.  Here is corrected:


Labour's 'Ready to Work' plans:https://rdln.wordpress.
com/2016/11/07/a-comment-on-labours-ready-to-work/

Our collection of articles on the mining disaster at Pike River is
here: *https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/11/14/pike-river-tragedy-without-end/
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France: mobilisations continue against new labour law:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/france-mobilisations-continue-
against-proposed-new-labour-law/

Prisoners go on strike in United States:
*https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/11/20/prisoners-go-on-strike-in-united-states/
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US: good results for Working Class Party in Michigan:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/11/19/working-class-party-good-results-in-
michigan/

Stuck in a Groove - Susil Gupta responds on the working class in the Third
World and imperialist world:
*https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/stuck-in-the-groove-a-reply-to-russell-ginker/
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Democracy US style - a whole government that no-one has elected:
*https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/democracy-us-style-an-entire-government-that-has-not-been-popularly-elected/
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Current state of the class struggle in NZ:
*https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/11/11/the-class-struggle-in-new-zealand-two-interesting-sets-of-figures-and-what-they-mean/
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In solidarity,
Phil
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Re: [Marxism] New at Redline

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All links no good; lead to request to get statistics for web site.

T


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>Prisoners go on strike in United States:
>https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343
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>US: good results for Working Class Party in Michigan:
>https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343
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>Stuck in a Groove - Susil Gupta responds on the working class in the Third
>World and imperialist world:  https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343
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>Democracy US style - a whole government that no-one has elected:
>https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343
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>France: mobilisations continue against new labour law:
>https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343
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[Marxism] The Irish Revolutionary Period of the Early 1900s

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These pieces were written in 1995 and early 1996, but have held up well I
think:

Nationalisms and anti-nationalisms in Irish historiography:
https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/nationalisms-and-anti-nationalisms-in-irish-historiography/

Politics and the rise of Irish historical revisionism:
https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/politics-and-the-rise-of-revisionism/

Rekindling the sparks of revolt: the cultural revival, labour, women's and
republican movements, 1908-1913:
https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/rekindling-the-sparks-of-revolt-the-cultural-revival-labour-women%E2%80%99s-and-republican-movements-1908-13/

>From sparks to flames, 1913-1916:
https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/from-sparks-to-flames-1913-1916/

The Home Rule crisis:
https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/chapter-4-the-home-rule-crisis/

The labour and women's movements on the eve of World War I:
https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/chapt-5-the-labour-and-womens-movements/

Connolly, Markievicz, the republicans and the debate over 1916:
https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/connolly-markievicz-the-republicans-and-the-debate-over-1916/

In sight of freedom, 1916-1921 - introduction:
https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/in-sight-of-freedom-1916-1921-introduction/

Republicanism and the national independence struggle:
https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/republicanism-and-the-national-independence-struggle-1916-21/

The working class and the national struggle, 1916-1921:
https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/the-working-class-and-the-national-struggle-1916-1921/

Women's rights and the national struggle, 1916-1922:
https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/women%E2%80%99s-rights-and-the-national-struggle-1916-1922/

>From Truce to treaty - the pan-nationalist front divides:
https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/from-truce-to-treaty-the-pan-nationalist-front-divides/

Civil war, counter-revolution and the consolidation of the Free State:
https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/civil-war-counter-revolution-and-the-consolidation-of-the-free-state/

Winners and Losers in an Unfree State:
https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/chapt-12-winners-and-losers-in-an-unfree-state/

Conclusion:
https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/conclusion-to-the-failure-of-irish-republicanism-1908-1927/

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Reading the fine print in Seth Ackerman’s blueprint for a new party | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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It was just pointed out to me that the pic of Seth is wrong. This is him
http://www.commondreams.org/author/seth-ackerman

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[Marxism] A blast from the Past - Blair returns

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So Tony is taking time out from his consultancies for tyrants and fellow
war criminals to rescue the Centre in UK and world politics.

Pause to puke.

What the Smarm does not grasp is the Centre which he  cavorted his way
through to great personal wealth and luxury was defined by neoliberalism.
With the crisis in the neoliberal paradigm that particular centre no longer
exists.  It is over.   To try and occupy it is to condemn one to political
irrelevance.

Having said that, I have full confidence in Blair's ability to make a buck
out of his latest scheme. But Blairism belongs to the high point of
neoliberalism and that is long over now.  He can of course make mischief
for the Corbyn team and certainly he will endeavor to do that, but there is
no going back the the so-called Third Way.


Final pause for another puke and a chance to think about Brecht's great
lyric as an apt description of Blair's smirk.


Und der Haifisch, der hat Zähne
Und die trägt er im Gesicht...

comradely

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[Marxism] New at Redline

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Prisoners go on strike in United States:
https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343

US: good results for Working Class Party in Michigan:
https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343

Stuck in a Groove - Susil Gupta responds on the working class in the Third
World and imperialist world:  https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343

Democracy US style - a whole government that no-one has elected:
https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343

France: mobilisations continue against new labour law:
https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343

Current state of the class struggle in NZ:
https://wordpress.com/stats/day/20101343
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[Marxism] New Activist Newsletter

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New Activist Newsletter

WHAT HATH TRUMP WROUGHT?

http://activistnewsletter.blogspot.com
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[Marxism] The American Revolution placed the government at the forefront of industrializa­tion in the United States.

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 Before the Revolutionary War, America was the simple, agrarian society
that Thomas Jefferson so revered. It was the Revolutionary War itself that
transformed America into a manufacturing powerhouse that within a few short
decades would overtake and surpass the manufacturing prowess of Europe's
greatest countries. It was the American government itself that led this
effort, organizing and teaching the small craftsmen of the country how to
become large scale producers, and providing them with the necessary cash,
raw materials, and transportation resources. The short-term result was the
effective arming of the nation, but the long-term implica­tions involved
placing the government at the forefront of industrializa­tion in the United
States:

"When the American Revolution began, the ... colonies in rebellion were not
prepared for war and were slow to understand how to support themselves
productively. As *Amphitrite's* tale displays, it was also unlike­ly that
Americans could rely on foreign supplies. So the US government embarked on
a program to harness the resources of the nation's manu­facturing sector
and direct the production of equipment for the Continental Army. ...



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[Marxism] Jeff Sessions’ Other Civil Rights Problem

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NY Times Op-Ed, Nov. 21 2016
Jeff Sessions’ Other Civil Rights Problem
By THOMAS J. SUGRUE

In 1986, the Republican-dominated Senate Judiciary Committee torpedoed 
Ronald Reagan’s nomination of Jeff Sessions to the federal bench. As 
sworn testimony there revealed, Mr. Sessions, then the United States 
attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, had referred to the 
N.A.A.C.P. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (founded by 
the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) as “un-American” and “Communist 
inspired.” He had joked that he thought the Ku Klux Klan was “O.K.” 
until he discovered some of its members smoked pot, and had accused a 
white attorney who supported voting rights of being a race traitor.


The details revealed in this hearing, troublesome enough to sink his 
nomination, are surfacing again, now that President-elect Donald J. 
Trump has selected him to be his attorney general. But it’s worth 
looking beyond those notorious hearings to Mr. Sessions’s more recent 
actions as well.


Eight years after his failed nomination, Mr. Sessions was elected 
Alabama’s attorney general. While he held the position for only two 
years — using it as a steppingstone for his campaign for the Senate — he 
left an indelible mark. He used the power of his office to fight to 
preserve Alabama’s long history of separate and unequal education.


Mr. Sessions became attorney general four decades after the Supreme 
Court struck down segregated schools in its landmark Brown v. Board of 
Education decision. In the intervening years, racial segregation 
diminished somewhat, but separate and unequal continued in another form. 
In 1956, as a way to sidestep Brown, Alabama voters amended the state 
Constitution to deprive students of a right to public education. Public 
support for school funding collapsed in its aftermath.


As a result, by the early 1990s, huge disparities in funding separated 
Alabama’s haves and have-nots. Alabama’s wealthiest school district (and 
also one of its whitest), Mountain Brook, in suburban Birmingham, spent 
nearly twice as much per student as the state’s poorest, Roanoke, in a 
declining manufacturing town about two hours southeast. Poor schools 
often lacked even rudimentary facilities, including science labs. They 
struggled to pay teachers, even to repair dilapidated school buses. Half 
of Alabama’s school buildings lacked air conditioning. Underfunded 
schools had a particularly hard time meeting the needs of disabled 
students, whom they were required to support under federal law.


Nearly 30 of Alabama’s poorest school districts, with support from 
disability rights groups, civil rights organizations and the American 
Civil Liberties Union, filed suit against the state. The most vocal 
critics of school reform, including the far-right activist Phyllis 
Schlafly’s Eagle Forum, warned that it would bring “socialism” to Alabama.


After nearly three years of litigation, Judge Eugene W. Reese of the 
Alabama Circuit Court found the inequitable funding unconstitutional and 
ordered the state to come up with a system to remedy the inequity.


Attorney General Sessions led the battle against the decision. He argued 
that Judge Reese had overreached. It was a familiar war cry on the 
segregationist right: An activist court was usurping the power of the 
state’s duly elected officials to solve the problem on their own. For 
the next two years, Mr. Sessions sought to discredit Judge Reese and 
overturn his ruling. In one of the twists of austerity budgeting in the 
mid-1990s, Mr. Sessions had laid off 70 lawyers in the attorney 
general’s office, and had to find outside counsel to handle the case. 
Lawyers working on contract for the office were to be paid no more than 
$85 per hour, but for the challenge to the equity case, the fee cap was 
lifted.


Mr. Sessions was lauded by fellow Republicans for his efforts. They saw 
funding inequities as part of the natural order of things, not as a 
problem to be remedied. And any remedy would entail either the 
redistribution of funds from wealthier to poorer districts or an 
increase in taxes. Both positions ran against the small-government, 
privatization dogma that Mr. Sessions promoted.


Advocates of school equity cried foul. “They’re asking for the last 50 
years to disappear, as far as improving public education,” complained C. 
C. the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and the lawyer 
for the poor districts, about Mr. Sessions and his allies. 
Special-education and disability organizations were especially outraged: 
the poorest districts could not provide even basic services to students 
in need. If 

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Also, isn't Ackerman attempting to deal with the problem you mention
with the Green's: "My problem is with the inability of the Greens to
cohere as a membership organization"?

So while it wouldn't be a new party ballot line it would be
democratically run  member organization.
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[Marxism] Many in Milwaukee Neighborhood Didn’t Vote — and Don’t Regret It

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(Actually, a more accurate title for the article would be "Many Blacks 
in Milwaukee Neighborhood Didn’t Vote — and Don’t Regret It".)


NY Times, Nov. 21 2016
Many in Milwaukee Neighborhood Didn’t Vote — and Don’t Regret It
By SABRINA TAVERNISE

MILWAUKEE — Four barbers and a firefighter were pondering their future 
under a Trump presidency at the Upper Cutz barbershop last week.


“We got to figure this out,” said Cedric Fleming, one of the barbers. 
“We got a gangster in the chair now,” he said, referring to 
President-elect Donald J. Trump.


They admitted that they could not complain too much: Only two of them 
had voted. But there were no regrets.


“I don’t feel bad,” Mr. Fleming said, trimming a mustache. “Milwaukee is 
tired. Both of them were terrible. They never do anything for us anyway.”


As Democrats pick through the wreckage of the campaign, one lesson is 
clear: The election was notable as much for the people who did not show 
up, as for those who did. Nationally, about half of registered voters 
did not cast ballots.


Wisconsin, a state that Hillary Clinton had assumed she would win, 
historically boasts one of the nation’s highest rates of voter 
participation; this year’s 68.3 percent turnout was the fifth best among 
the 50 states. But by local standards, it was a disappointment, the 
lowest turnout in 16 years. And those no-shows were important. Mr. Trump 
won the state by just 27,000 voters.


Milwaukee’s lowest-income neighborhoods offer one explanation for the 
turnout figures. Of the city’s 15 council districts, the decline in 
turnout from 2012 to 2016 in the five poorest was consistently much 
greater than the drop seen in more prosperous areas — accounting for 
half of the overall decline in turnout citywide.


The biggest drop was here in District 15, a stretch of fading wooden 
homes, sandwich shops and fast-food restaurants that is 84 percent 
black. In this district, voter turnout declined by 19.5 percent from 
2012 figures, according to Neil Albrecht, executive director of the City 
of Milwaukee Election Commission. It is home to some of Milwaukee’s 
poorest residents and, according to a 2016 documentary, “Milwaukee 
53206,” has one of the nation’s highest per-capita incarceration rates.


At Upper Cutz, a bustling barbershop in a green-trimmed wooden house, 
talk of politics inevitably comes back to one man: Barack Obama. Mr. 
Obama’s elections infused many here with a feeling of connection to 
national politics they had never before experienced. But their lives 
have not gotten appreciably better, and sourness has set in.


“We went to the beach,” said Maanaan Sabir, 38, owner of the Juice 
Kitchen, a brightly painted shop a few blocks down West North Avenue, 
using a metaphor to describe the emotion after Mr. Obama’s election. 
“And then eight years happened.”


All four barbers had voted for Mr. Obama. But only two could muster the 
enthusiasm to vote this time. And even then, it was a sort of protest. 
One wrote in Mrs. Clinton’s Democratic opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders 
of Vermont. The other wrote in himself.


“I’m so numb,” said Jahn Toney, 45, who had written in Mr. Sanders. He 
said no president in his lifetime had done anything to improve the lives 
of black people, including Mr. Obama, whom he voted for twice. “It’s 
like I should have known this would happen. We’re worse off than before.”


But Mr. Obama did do something important: “He did give black people 
something to aspire to. That’s a lot. I’m happy my son was able to see a 
black president.”


Mr. Fleming, 47, who has been trimming hair, beards and mustaches for 30 
years, had hoped his small business would get easier to run. But it hasn’t.


“Give us loans, or a 401(k),” he said, trimming the mustache of Steve 
Stricklin, a firefighter from the neighborhood. His biggest issue was 
health insurance. Mr. Fleming lost his coverage after his divorce three 
years ago and has struggled to find a policy he could afford. He finally 
found one, which starts Monday but costs too much at $300 a month.


“Ain’t none of this been working,” he said. He did not vote.

Mr. Albrecht, of the election commission, said other factors contributed 
to the decline in turnout. This was the first general election under new 
state laws that required voters to produce an approved photo ID card, 
and that stiffened the requirements for new voters to prove their 
residence. This was particularly onerous for the poor, who move often.


Mr. Albrecht said he believed this change had cost several thousand 
people in the city their vote.


“To me that’s very significant,” he said. “It takes away from the 
fairness 

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> perfectly the fence-straddling politics of DSA today, especially the 
> youth wing that has made Jacobin its semi-official voice.

As a member of the youth wing of the DSA I would like to put emphasis on
the *semi* :). Many of us have a very different view of how to move
forward.

I was at an ISO event in San Diego on Saturday and brought up why I
thought the time was now to bring the different orgs together (like
those groups who participated in the People's Summit) to build a new
party. The response was as expected, that this wouldn't help those who
will be targeted by Trump and his supporters and that that is where
focus needs to be.

I was planning a response to their section that included Rania Khalek on
anti-imperalism to note that "internationalism" was not mentioned and
that any new party must clearly stand in solidarity with all people's
struggle against oppression. But maybe I should think of something more
to say... Though I need to finish the issue before knowing what wasn't
covered and to plan discussion topics for our "reading club" here :) 

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Bravo! The lack of mention, despite Ackerman's subtitle, of any structured
labor participation in this alleged new party (and how or under what
conditions it would overcome the barriers Tony et al. faced) was enough to
turn me off. But Louis has also done a great job of pinpointing the
parallel problem of its inside-outside ambiguity.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Reading the fine print in Seth Ackerman’s blueprint for a new party | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Issue #23 of Jacobin, which I received today, is devoted to an 
examination of “The Party We Need”. Since I have been advocating a new 
left party for the past 35 years both on and off the Internet, I was 
curious to see what the DSA supporters on the editorial board had to say 
on this topic. I probably will be evaluating other articles in the issue 
but want to start off with Seth Ackerman’s “A Blueprint for a New Party” 
that was available at least a month before it came out. It made sense 
that Ackerman’s article would be highlighted since it encapsulates 
perfectly the fence-straddling politics of DSA today, especially the 
youth wing that has made Jacobin its semi-official voice.


To start with, I was wary about Ackerman’s title since the word 
blueprint is antithetical to Karl Marx’s approach. Keep in mind that he 
once wrote in defense of the “critical analysis of actual facts instead 
of writing recipes for the cook-shops of the future”. Of course, when 
Marx wrote this he was referring to the sort of grand designs for 
classless societies found typically in Albert-Hahnel’s Parecon and not 
how to build parties. That being said, Ackerman has displayed a 
susceptibility to recipe-writing in the past as we can see from his 
Jacobin article “The Red and the Black”:


	Why, then, are radicals so hesitant to talk about what a different 
system might look like? One of the oldest and most influential 
objections to such talk comes from Marx, with his oft-quoted scorn 
toward utopian “recipes” for the “cookshops of the future.”


Ackerman felt that Marx violated his own rules in “Critique of the Gotha 
Programme”, where he supposedly wrote “his own little cookshop recipe” 
that “involved labor tokens, storehouses of goods, and an accounting 
system to determine how much workers would get paid.”


One imagines that Ackerman was referring to Marx’s reference to a worker 
receiving a certificate based on the amount of labor he has contributed 
and that could be used in turn to purchase goods equal to the amount of 
labor embodied in the certificate. That is not only the sole reference 
to certificates in “Critique of the Gotha Programme” but in Karl Marx’s 
entire body of work.


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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Radical Internationalism of Stefan Zweig

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 This aspect of his sad exile life and death is fully covered in that book by 
Leo Spitzer in Chapter 6, which is entitled, " 'I belong nowhere, and 
everywhere am a stranger': The Predicament of André Reboucas, Cornelius May, 
and Stefan Zweig." The suicide of him and his spouse, Elizabeth Charlotte 
Altmann Zweig, is detailed... 
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, 
give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln 

On Monday, November 21, 2016 5:27 PM, Fred Murphy  
wrote:
 

 Zweig could be seen as part of a loose triumvirate with Victor Serge and 
Walter Benjamin - stellar European intellectuals of the interwar period who 
died in exile in more or less desperate straits - Zweig and Benjamin by 
suicide, Serge ground down by prison and persecution. 
Haven't read this yet, but also looks good - George Prochnik, The Impossible 
Exilehttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/books/review/george-prochniks-impossible-exile-about-stefan-zweig.html
 

Poorly served by Wes Anderson in the “The Grand Budapest Hotel” as a
comic-opera figure in line with the director’s overripe pastel-colored
sense of whimsy, Stefan Zweig now reappears​...


   
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Radical Internationalism of Stefan Zweig

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On 11/21/16 11:27 AM, Fred Murphy via Marxism wrote:


Haven't read this yet, but also looks good - George Prochnik, *The
Impossible Exile*
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/books/review/george-prochniks-impossible-exile-about-stefan-zweig.html


I took that out as background for my article. It is excellent.
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[Marxism] Nov 19: The Day Socialists Filled A Soccer Stadium in Argentina

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http://www.leftvoice.org/Nov-19-The-Day-Socialists-Filled-A-Soccer-Stadium

Saturday November 19 was a historic day for the Argentine left. It marks
the day of the largest left rally in the past 30 years. Called by the Left
and Workers Front (Frente Izquierda de los Trabajadores-FIT in Spanish),
the mobilization brought together more than 20,000 people including factory
workers, university students, teachers, nurses and families.

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Radical Internationalism of Stefan Zweig

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Zweig could be seen as part of a loose triumvirate with Victor Serge and
Walter Benjamin - stellar European intellectuals of the interwar period who
died in exile in more or less desperate straits - Zweig and Benjamin by
suicide, Serge ground down by prison and persecution.

Haven't read this yet, but also looks good - George Prochnik, *The
Impossible Exile*
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/books/review/george-prochniks-impossible-exile-about-stefan-zweig.html


Poorly served by Wes Anderson in the “The Grand Budapest Hotel” as a
> comic-opera figure in line with the director’s overripe pastel-colored
> sense of whimsy, Stefan Zweig now reappears
> ​...
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[Marxism] Fwd: Donald Trump meets Bernie Sanders supporter Tulsi Gabbard | McClatchy DC

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(Always got a laugh out of how some of Sanders's "radical" supporters 
viewed Gabbard's alignment with his "political revolution" uncritically.)


Stephen Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist, reportedly likes Gabbard 
because of her stance on guns, refugees and Islamic extremism along with 
her ability to invoke strong anti-establishment populist sentiment on 
the left.


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Re: [Marxism] More from the Council for the National Interest

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Compare:
http://mondoweiss.net/2016/11/worried-about-semitism/

On Monday, November 21, 2016, Ken Hiebert via Marxism <
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>  Philip Giraldi rejects charges of anti-semitism against Trump
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> http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/new/?p=4250#.WDMCSyMrJ44
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> Let’s face it, Milbank and Dreazen are pro-Establishment guys who have
> hated Trump from the beginning because he does not fit into their
> progressive world view and who delight in being able to make the kind of
> twisted arguments that enable them to label him an anti-Semite as well as a
> misogynist, racist, bigot and homophobe. Have I left anything out? They are
> attacking him not for what he has actually clearly stated or done but over
> what he might be thinking. For them it is always convenient to be able to
> recall Munich in 1938 or to conjure up Cossacks at the front door to win an
> argument, but someone should tell them that calling someone an anti-Semite
> is fortunately a slur that is losing its effectiveness through overuse and
> lack of credibility. Joe Sobran put it very well when he observed that
> anti-Semite used to be an expression applied to people who hate Jews but
> now it is more often used to describe people that Jews hate.
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[Marxism] More from the Council for the National Interest

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 Philip Giraldi rejects charges of anti-semitism against Trump
ken h

http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/new/?p=4250#.WDMCSyMrJ44

Let’s face it, Milbank and Dreazen are pro-Establishment guys who have hated 
Trump from the beginning because he does not fit into their progressive world 
view and who delight in being able to make the kind of twisted arguments that 
enable them to label him an anti-Semite as well as a misogynist, racist, bigot 
and homophobe. Have I left anything out? They are attacking him not for what he 
has actually clearly stated or done but over what he might be thinking. For 
them it is always convenient to be able to recall Munich in 1938 or to conjure 
up Cossacks at the front door to win an argument, but someone should tell them 
that calling someone an anti-Semite is fortunately a slur that is losing its 
effectiveness through overuse and lack of credibility. Joe Sobran put it very 
well when he observed that anti-Semite used to be an expression applied to 
people who hate Jews but now it is more often used to describe people that Jews 
hate.
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[Marxism] Aleppo

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(Years ago Peter Camejo told me that the American left has to stop 
splitting over international questions, referring to for example how the 
Maoists treated which guerrillas to back in Angola as a test of their 
revolutionary credentials. I still think this makes sense even if I 
truly wonder how anybody who was radicalized by the war in Vietnam can 
read an article like this and continue to serve as spin-doctors for 
Putin and Assad.)


NY Times, November 21 2016
Aleppo Bombs Leave Quarter Million ‘Living in Hell’ and Without Hospital 
Care

By ALISSA J. RUBIN and HWAIDA SAAD

BEIRUT, Lebanon — The remaining hospitals on the rebel-held side of 
Aleppo, Syria, have been badly damaged and forced to stop providing care 
amid an intensifying bombardment, according to the World Health 
Organization.


Bombs launched by the Syrian government over the past three days 
seriously damaged two general hospitals that were providing trauma care 
in the war zone and hit the only children’s hospital, according to 
doctors, nurses and residents.


The destruction left more than a quarter-million people in eastern 
Aleppo without hospital care, the W.H.O. said. It is unclear if the 
hospitals will be able to reopen.


“Although some health services are still available through small 
clinics, residents no longer have access to trauma care, major 
surgeries, and other consultations for serious health conditions,” the 
health organization said in a statement issued Sunday.


Dr. Omar, the last neurosurgeon in eastern Aleppo, who declined to 
provide his full name out of fear for his safety, sounded desperate when 
reached at the height of the bombing on Friday.


“We no longer have hospitals to operate in,” he said. “You can’t imagine 
what it’s like living in Aleppo right now. It feels like we are living 
in hell. Our neighborhoods are in flames, and bombs are raining down 
from the sky. We urgently call on the international community to send help.”


Humanitarian agencies have described the attacks on health care 
facilities as deliberate.


The rebel-held area of the city is surrounded by government forces and 
has already run out of most food rations, medicines, bandages and fuel. 
It has little water.


“The regime is trying to cut off the city,” said Abu Roma, who uses a 
nom de guerre and is a rebel commander with the Zinki group, which 
opposes President Bashar al-Assad of Syria.


“I would say the worst scenario is that we will be martyrs,” he said, 
referring to all those remaining in the rebel-held area.


Aleppo, the country’s largest city, has been divided since 2012, but the 
situation became markedly worse over the summer. In recent weeks, there 
had been a rare respite from airstrikes on rebel-held districts, but 
that ended last week.


Now it appears to both fighters and civilians that the Syrian government 
has resolved to press forward regardless of the humanitarian cost, and 
to gamble that Western countries, particularly the United States, will 
not stop them. President Obama has never been keen on military action in 
Syria, and the incoming American president, Donald J. Trump, is more 
sympathetic to Russia, which has allied with the Syrian government.


“Aleppo is the pivot,” said Joost Hiltermann, the Middle East and North 
Africa program director for the International Crisis Group.


Although the government might like to reclaim all of the areas where it 
has lost control, Russia and Iran, another ally, are less interested, 
Mr. Hiltermann said.


“But they all agree on Aleppo,” he said. “It is too big to let go, and 
the interregnum in the United States is a good chance to press their 
advantage,” he said.


As always in the long-running Syria conflict, the sheer numbers of the 
dead and wounded and the scale of misery and destruction fast eclipses 
what is imaginable, and each individual story recedes. But the snapshots 
from the past few days in rebel-held Aleppo have been deeply disturbing.


A video circulating on social media, which was taken by Al Jazeera 
during the bombing at the children’s hospital, showed children being 
treated with oxygen masks after an alleged chlorine gas attack elsewhere 
in the city.


Al Jazeera captured footage of nurses taking premature infants, whom 
they could balance in one hand, out of incubators as clouds of dust from 
the bombing rose around them. One nurse hugged another as they held tiny 
infants in their arms. The babies were carried to a basement shelter and 
placed together under a blanket.


In one shot, a father cried out for his small son. “I’ve lost 
everything, oh, Ahmad,” he said. “I’ve lost everything, you are my life.”


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[Marxism] Fwd: Rutgers places adjunct on leave for tweets he says were based on rhetoric of President-elect Trump

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[Marxism] Fwd: Zionist Gala Toasts Donald Trump’s ‘Divine’ Election Victory - The Daily Beast

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[Marxism] Philippines: Thousands protest state burial of dictator

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