[Marxism] National Women's March politics
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The shitstorm over the platform of the National Women's March escalates. Mainstream and liberal media are resurrecting the "identity politics" debate (i.e. "Hillary should have told those minorities to piss off," and "why don't you talk about white workers?") Fact of the matter is that the NWM DOES talk class. See: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/584086c7be6594762f5ec56e/t/5877e24a29687f9613e546ff/1484251725855/WMW+Guiding+Vision+%26+Definition+of+Principles.pdf Of course as with every issue it's mostly talked about in "progressive" abstractions. But it's there. P.S. In discussing this controversy with a friend, she pointed me to a great article by Sara Salem counterposing Marxist-feminist intersectionality to neoliberal diversity politics: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1350506816643999 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: “The Death Ship:” An Allegory for Today’s World
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * A great B. Traven novel http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/20/the-death-ship-an-allegory-for-todays-world/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] origins of the criminal Assad dynasty
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Great article. In some ways, it reminds me of Mexico's former ruling party, the PRI. (Even the name - Institutional Revolutionary Party - evokes similar thoughts.) As Syria is a "frontline" state, bordering on Israel, until the collapse of the Soviet Union Mexico was the only underdeveloped country with a major border on an advanced capitalist country. As with Assad, Lazaro Cardenas - the founder of the PRI - came to power at a time of enormous struggle and crisis (principally the oil workers strike). Forced to make concessions to these striking workers, he also represented a rightward movement in Mexican politics. As with the Assad dynasty, the PRI instituted vast nationalization and state economic intervention. (I remember when my former wife, 6 month old daughter and I went to Mexico in the early '70s and our daughter got sick in a small, out-of-the-way village. We took her to a state run clinic and her treatment was totally free. No such services any longer!) Also, as with Assad, the PRI played the nationalist card, first and foremost by (verbally) supporting the Castro regime. The article points out that the Assad approach was not limited to Syria, that it was part of the approach of regimes throughout the region and in Africa also. So was it in Mexico and other Latin American countries. John Reimann -- "No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them." Asata Shakur Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com and // www.facebook.com/WorkersIntlNetwork?ref=stream _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Review of the first Biography of André Gorz.
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * André Gorz. Une Vie. Willy Gianinazzi. Review. https://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/andre-gorz-une-vie-willy-gianinazzi-review/ "Over the last few weeks Socialist Party contender for the Presidential 'primaries', Benoît Hamon, has raised the idea of a "revenu universal d'existence' (Basic Income) paid to all. Hearing this many people would have remembered the name of André Gorz. The Vienna born but France based journalist, social theorist, and green socialist activist, whose influence extended far beyond the francophone world, promoted this idea from the 1990s onwards. That is, "a guarantee of sufficient income, independent of the duration of labour (which can only decrease), and perhaps independent of work itself". Andrew Coates _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Andrew Stewart: Counter Trump’s White Nationalism With Left Nationalism | Rhode Island Media Cooperative
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * https://rimediacoop.org/2017/01/20/andrew-stewart-counter-trumps-white-nationalism-with-left-nationalism/ Best regards, Andrew Stewart _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
