[Marxism] 350 Arab teachers prepare for the new school year in Efrîn Canton

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350 Arab teachers prepare for the new school year in Efrîn canton:



https://anfenglish.com/rojava/350-arab-teachers-prepare-for-the-new-school-year-in-efrin-canton-21657



"350 teachers from the Arab community in Efrîn Canton are taking exams prepared 
by Democratic Society Education Committee on the new teaching material in 
Arabic language".


The Efrin canton, part of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, has a 
predominantly Kurdish population, but provides Arabic language education for 
its Arab minority.


The Arab population includes people who have fled to Efrin from 
Turkish-occupied areas of northern Syria.


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[Marxism] "People's" Party or Workers Party?

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Seattle city council member Kshama Sawant, left academic Dr. Cornel West
and Nick Brana, founder of “Draft Bernie” will be hosting a “town hall”
meeting in Washington DC on Sept. 9 to inaugurate  a new political party,
the “People’s Party”. Their plans seem to be getting some press coverage

.


Nick Brana, Cornell West and Kshama Sawant.
The shadow of Bernie Sanders hovers over their “People’s Party”.

Key to understanding the US political situation is the relatively low level
of class consciousness in the US. It is this relatively low level that
allowed millions of disgruntled US workers to vote for the reactionary
racist bigot, Donald Trump. This confusion, this low level of class
consciousness, is defined by the absence of a mass working class party.


*All Political Parties Have Class Basis*All parties are based on one class
or another. The Democratic and Republican Parties are based on the class
that lives off of its ownership of capital – the capitalist class –
although they play somewhat different roles. The Republicans are used to
more aggressively drive forward the attacks on the working class, people of
color, etc. While the Democrats also carry out such attacks (to a lesser
degree), their main role is to blunt any serious working class opposition
to these attacks. They do that by enticing the opposition into their party,
where it dies a slow death. In carrying out this role, the “progressive
(liberal) wing” of the Democrats performs yeoman service. The party as a
whole could not play that role without the “progressive” wing.

The alternative to these two parties is a party of, by and for the working
class.
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[Marxism] Jerry Lewis

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(Written by a classmate of mine from Bard College who is regarded as a 
Marxist although with a strong postmodernist bent in my view.)


Cineaste. Spring 2010, Vol. 35 Issue 2, p78-79. 2p.
By Jonathan Rosenbaum

Jerry Lewis
by Chris Fujiwara. Urbana/Chicago:
University of Illinois Press, 2009. 162 pp., illus.
Hardcover: $60.00 and Paperback: $19.95.

I hope I can be forgiven for repeating an anecdote I recounted in these 
pages in 2004, while writing about Charlie Chaplin's films on DVD. In a 
Swiss documentary about Chaplin in Switzerland, Charlie Chaplin: The 
Forgotten Years, his daughter Geraldine noted that when he discovered 
that his invitation to accept an honorary Oscar in the United States in 
1972 came with a visa that allowed him to remain in the country for only 
two weeks, he was more delighted than indignant: "They're still afraid 
of me!," he said with pride--or words to that effect.


The curious process by which unreasoning love for Chaplin in the U.S. 
was transformed into unreasoning hatred is clearly matched by a 
comparable metamorphosis in the American psyche regarding Jerry Lewis. 
For me, the enduring mystery about Lewis isn't any alleged love of "the 
French" for his films--a factoid whose former (and always limited) 
relevance has by now been out of date for decades, ever since Woody 
Allen became far more revered in France than Lewis--but American denial 
about its own former Lewis infatuation, which was much larger than any 
French craze for the man could ever have been, and is even what made his 
French profile possible. (Just for starters, Martin and Lewis's 1954 
Living It Up made more money than Singin' in the Rain, On the 
Waterfront, or The African Queen, and three years earlier, their third 
feature and biggest hit, Sailor Beware, was seen by an estimated eighty 
million people.) So Americans' refusal to deal with Lewis having once 
been even bigger here than Elvis is the phenomenon that cries out for 
sociological inquiry, not the understandable respect and affection he 
continues to receive anywhere else in the world.


An interesting study could be written about why and how certain kinds of 
physical comedy can unleash such fear and loathing as well as 
infatuation, but this isn't the sort of project Chris Fujiwara has in 
mind. Nevertheless, it's hardly an exaggeration to say that his book, 
the twenty-first title to be published in James Naremore's Contemporary 
Film Directors series, is the first extended critical treatment of Lewis 
in English that Lewis deserves --including a thoughtful, sympathetic, 
and lucid (yet in no way sycophantic) thirty-two page interview that is 
conceivably the best one anyone has ever had with him. And considering 
that Lewis himself has already ordered a hundred copies of the book, it 
seems safe to assume that he probably agrees with me.


Why it's taken so long for a filmmaker of Lewis's stature to receive 
such treatment is a matter of some interest. But it's arguably one of 
the virtues of Fujiwara's compact study, rightly concluding that the 
important analytical work can begin only after the pseudo-controversy 
about Lewis's importance is "settled," to waste little of his space and 
time addressing this issue with any defensive polemics. Focusing on 
Lewis mainly as a director while retaining, as he puts it in his opening 
paragraph, "a sense of continuity in Lewis's work in all its stages," he 
never stoops to any form of defensiveness or special pleading while 
describing the unity and coherence of Lewis's vision with the same 
confidence and scholarly thoroughness that he brought to Jacques 
Tourneur in his first book a little over a decade ago.


His pithy handling of what might be termed The Opposition occurs early 
on, after he notes in passing that Lewis's films (as director and actor) 
in the early Sixties "were reviewed more or less indistinguishably by 
American film critics (except that since [the 1965] Boeing Boeing, the 
only insignificant film among them, is a straight farce rather than 
slapstick comedy, Lewis, cast in a supporting role behind Tony Curtis, 
received praise for his restraint)." Fujiwara then briefly notes the 
more respectful French criticism published during the same period (his 
other comments in this book suggest that he has been especially 
attentive to Robert Benayoun), before adding, "The enthusiasm of French 
intellectuals (shared by the general public) for Lewis has given rise, 
in the United States, to countless lazy and patronizing jokes at his 
expense and at that of France from unthinking, conformist 
pundits---gibes whose ideological nature has become unmistakable and 

[Marxism] What Is Trump Country? | Tristan Hughes | Jacobin

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[Marxism] Fwd: Julian Assange, a Man Without a Country | The New Yorker

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[Marxism] Fwd: When the Harlem Renaissance Went to Communist Moscow - NYTimes.com

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[Marxism] Fwd: AUB Limited – Mondoweiss

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Steve Salaita about working for the American University in Beirut.

http://mondoweiss.net/2017/08/aub-limited/
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Re: [Marxism] Boston and Vancouver, models for the anti-fascist struggle

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Now we're talking about some real wisdom! I'm down here in Providence
walking on eggshells because everyone is extremely antsy for what amounts
to nothing more of less than Nazi Wrestle-Mania. The problem is a lack of
understanding of history. I pointed out how the Left has a repeated habit
of collaboration with the state in dress rehearsals of what later end up
being the means to take them out, case and point being the CPUSA support
for the Smith Act trials of SWP. Even if the black bloc/antifa crowd (and
we need to recognize those two things as tactics rather than organizations)
have a moral point, they don't have a pragmatic one. Their entire modus
operandi actually does have a dependence on the state and is not suggesting
a black hole of nothingness to replace the current state of affairs they
oppose. In fact what they do is argue that the state should and could be
implementing restrictions to hinder devices and actions that are currently
protected by the state. In the final analysis, it comes down to the fact
that the current anarchist scene (with the exception of autonomists who
follow CLR James and his thought) is missing the ideas Marx put forward in
his critique of the Gotha program, particularly the line “Freedom consists
in converting the state from an organ superimposed upon society into one
completely subordinate to it." Peter Huddis has said that the whole
Marx-Bakunin thing is a huge mess that sows unnecessary discord.



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[Marxism] Fwd: The US and Latin American Fascism: Old and New | The Dawn News

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[Marxism] Fwd: Mama Africa | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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If “Mama Africa”, the fine new documentary about Mariam Makeba, was 
nothing more than a compilation of her performances going back to the 
songs she sang in Lionel Rogosin’s groundbreaking anti-apartheid film 
“Come Back, Africa” in 1959, it would be well worth seeing. But it is 
more than that. It is a portrait of a leading Pan-African activist who 
deserves to be ranked alongside Paul Robeson as a tireless fighter for 
human rights for all people.


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Re: [Marxism] North Korea

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Thank you, Gary, for your comments. But I'm not entirely convinced that N
Korea is simply really a proxy for China. If that were the case, then it
seems to me that the Chinese government would be sounding far more
bellicose than they are on this issue, rather than actually conceding to
the major capitalist powers. For example, I read that for the first time
ever they have actually cut off N Korean exports to China in line with the
recent UN resolution. Or, to take another example, consider what they are
saying in this regard vs. what they say concerning the S. China Sea
territorial dispute, including their man-made islands there.

Other comments?

John

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 3:44 AM, Gary MacLennan 
wrote:

> Hi John
>
> I belong to the proxy threat to China school of thought (Oops).
> Admittedly, we do not have all the information we need.  I think that China
> warned Trump that they would not tolerate a nuclear attack on North Korea.
> That they would have done secretly. Publicly, they threatened North Korea
> with Chinese neutrality if North Korea attacked first.
>
> So a stand off has resumed.
>
> I do not put much store in one quote from Bannon.  The point is that the
> American state is fragmented and it contains sections that want a contest
> of strength with China.  Here in Australia when the "Defence lobby" appear
> on tv they are blood thirsty "all the way with the USA" types.  Yet China
> is our number one trading partner and we sold the port of Darwin to the
> Chinese!
>
> Now North Korea has directly threatened Australia because our weak PM said
> we would join any war on Korea/
>
> My own guess is that the corrupt cabal that runs China would like to ditch
> North Korea but they cannot. A nuclear attack on the North would be seen by
> most Chinese as the Korean War Act 2. We all know that Act 1 was aimed at
> China.
>
> comradely
>
> Gary
>
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 7:57 PM, John Reimann via Marxism <
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>> "Not since 2002, as the United States built a case for war in Iraq, has
>> there been so much debate inside the White House about the merits — and
>> the
>> enormous risks — of pre-emptive military action against an adversary
>> nation. Like its predecessors, the Trump administration is trying to
>> pressure North Korea through sanctions to dismantle its nuclear program.
>> But both President Trump and his national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R.
>> McMaster, have talked openly about a last-resort option if diplomacy fails
>> and the nuclear threat mounts: what General McMaster describes as
>> “preventive war.”"
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/world/asia/north-korea-
>> war-trump.html?hp=click=Homepage=story-heading&
>> module=first-column-region=top-news=top-news
>>
>> I am curious what comrades think as to the cause of this build-up. Some
>> say
>> that it's simply a proxy for a "war" with China, but I'm not convinced.
>> For
>> one thing, the recently departed Steve Bannon, who is a real hawk as far
>> as
>> China, opposed a military attack on N. Korea. I know others who claim it
>> is
>> simply a matter of opposition to one of the remaining non-capitalist
>> countries in the world. But present N. Korean economic policy is similar
>> to
>> the economic policies of Gorbachev in the waning years of the Soviet
>> Union.
>>
>> I do think there is the concern of N. Korea spreading nuclear weapon
>> technology to a whole host of other secondary powers, including Iran.
>>
>> John Reimann
>>
>>
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[Marxism] Fwd: A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M. - The New York Times

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Like many in the housing-starved San Francisco
region, Sheila James has moved far inland, gaining
affordable space at the price of a brutal commute.


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[Marxism] Confederate Statues and ‘Our’ History

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NY Times Op-Ed, August 21 2017
Confederate Statues and ‘Our’ History
By ERIC FONER

President Trump’s Thursday morning tweet lamenting that the removal of 
Confederate statues tears apart “the history and culture of our great 
country” raises numerous questions, among them: Who is encompassed in 
that “our”?


Mr. Trump may not know it, but he has entered a debate that goes back to 
the founding of the republic. Should American nationality be based on 
shared values, regardless of race, ethnicity and national origin, or 
should it rest on “blood and soil,” to quote the neo-Nazis in 
Charlottesville, Va., whom Trump has at least partly embraced?


Neither Mr. Trump nor the Charlottesville marchers invented the idea 
that the United States is essentially a country for white persons. The 
very first naturalization law, enacted in 1790 to establish guidelines 
for how immigrants could become American citizens, limited the process 
to “white” persons.


What about nonwhites born in this country? Before the Civil War, 
citizenship was largely defined by individual states. Some recognized 
blacks born within their boundaries as citizens, but many did not. As 
far as national law was concerned, the question was resolved by the 
Supreme Court in the infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857. Blacks, wrote 
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney (a statue of whom was removed from public 
display in Baltimore this week), were and would always be aliens in America.


This was the law of the land when the Civil War broke out in 1861. This 
is the tradition that the Southern Confederacy embodied and sought to 
preserve and that Mr. Trump, inadvertently or not, identifies with by 
equating the Confederacy with “our history and culture.”


Many Americans, of course, rejected this racial definition of American 
nationality. Foremost among them were abolitionists, male and female, 
black and white, who put forward an alternative definition, known today 
as birthright citizenship. Anybody born in the United States, they 
insisted, was a citizen, and all citizens should enjoy equality before 
the law. Abolitionists advocated not only the end of slavery, but also 
the incorporation of the freed people as equal members of American society.


In the period of Reconstruction that followed the war, this egalitarian 
vision was, for the first time, written into our laws and Constitution. 
But the advent of multiracial democracy in the Southern states inspired 
a wave of terrorist opposition by the Ku Klux Klan and kindred groups, 
antecedents of the Klansmen and neo-Nazis who marched in 
Charlottesville. One by one the Reconstruction governments were 
overthrown, and in the next generation white supremacy again took hold 
in the South.


When Mr. Trump identifies statues commemorating Confederate leaders as 
essential parts of “our” history and culture, he is honoring that dark 
period. Like all monuments, these statues say a lot more about the time 
they were erected than the historical era they evoke. The great waves of 
Confederate monument building took place in the 1890s, as the 
Confederacy was coming to be idealized as the so-called Lost Cause and 
the Jim Crow system was being fastened upon the South, and in the 1920s, 
the height of black disenfranchisement, segregation and lynching. The 
statues were part of the legitimation of this racist regime and of an 
exclusionary definition of America.


The historian Carl Becker wrote that history is what the present chooses 
to remember about the past. Historical monuments are, among other 
things, an expression of power — an indication of who has the power to 
choose how history is remembered in public places.


If the issue were simply heritage, why are there no statues of Lt. Gen. 
James Longstreet, one of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s key lieutenants? Not 
because of poor generalship; indeed, Longstreet warned Lee against 
undertaking Pickett’s Charge, which ended the battle of Gettysburg. 
Longstreet’s crime came after the Civil War: He endorsed black male 
suffrage and commanded the Metropolitan Police of New Orleans, which in 
1874 engaged in armed combat with white supremacists seeking to seize 
control of the state government. Longstreet is not a symbol of white 
supremacy; therefore he was largely ineligible for commemoration by 
those who long controlled public memory in the South.


As all historians know, forgetting is as essential to public 
understandings of history as remembering. Confederate statues do not 
simply commemorate “our” history, as the president declared. They honor 
one part of our past. Where are the statues in the former slave states 
honoring the very 

[Marxism] French farmer suicide epidemic

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Three years ago to the day, I wrote an article for Counterpunch 
(https://www.counterpunch.org/…/22/gunning-for-vandana-shiva/) answering 
a filthy attack on Vandana Shiva in the New Yorker Magazine by a guy 
named Michael Specter that included this:


	Once again resorting to dodgy ratios, Specter tries to turn the peasant 
suicide epidemic in India into an urban legend by assuring readers that 
it is “comparable” to those in France. If your image of the French 
countryside is that of a plump, prosperous and happy petite-bourgeoisie 
smiling at overflowing cornucopias of sunflower seeds and artichokes, 
then maybe this makes sense. But the truth is that France is suffering 
as well. Between 2007 and 2009, male farmers were 20 percent more likely 
to commit suicide than in other professions. Indeed, a farmer killed 
himself every two days, in nearly all instances because of economic 
ruin—the same problem that is driving Indian farmers to kill themselves.


Today, the NY Times confirms what I wrote:
https://www.nytimes.com/…/w…/europe/france-farm-suicide.html
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[Marxism] Fwd: Counter-protesters swarm rally against illegal immigration in Laguna Beach - LA Times

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Another good example of how to fight fascism.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-illegal-immigration-rally-20170818-story.html
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Book that Explains Charlottesville | Boston Review

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[Marxism] Fwd: Counter-protesters block neo-Nazi march in Berlin | World news | The Guardian

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Another positive alternative to antifa stupidity.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/20/counter-protesters-block-neo-nazi-march-in-berlin
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Re: [Marxism] Ellen Ullman�s New Book Tackles Tech�s Woman Problem

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We should keep in mind that computer programming in its early days was a much 
more women-friendly field than it is nowadays.

I was reminded of this by the passing of Jean Sammet in June. (See her NY Times 
obit at: 
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/technology/obituary-jean-sammet-software-designer-cobol.html)


That  obit was a reminder to me that in the early days of computing, the 
programming world was very much a woman’s world. Most of the early programmers 
were women, like Sammet and Admiral Grace Hopper, under whom Sammet had worked 
when developing COBOL. That was because during the Second World War, defense 
labs around the country hired young women who were either math or science 
graduates to work as computers. In those days, a computer was a human being 
whose job it was to crank out complex calculations for things like artillery 
tables. That sort of work required people who were proficient in math and who 
could put up with the tedium of doing complex and laborious calculations. Since 
most of the male math or science graduates were in the service at that time, 
young women were hired to do this work. When the first electronic digital 
computers were built, some of these young women were redeployed to write 
programs for the newfangled machines. So most of the early programmers were 
women.

Back in the early days of computer programming, it was common for scientists 
and engineers to look down upon the field as glorified clerical work. The 
profession back then was not very prestigious and the pay was not terribly 
high. By the late 1960's, there was a push to re-conceptualize programming as 
an engineering discipline - software engineering, and to redesignate 
programmers as "software engineers." Margaret Hamilton, who had headed the 
software development group for Project Apollo (her group wrote the software 
that enabled men to land on the moon), was one of the leaders of that effort. 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(scientist))

I have at home a volume of the papers from the  NATO Software Engineering 
Conferences of 1968 and 1969. Those two conferences helped to gain general 
acceptance for use of the term software engineering. Curiously enough, I have 
not been able to find any mention of Margaret Hamilton in those papers. Then 
again, most of those papers were written by male academics.

One consequence of the reconceptualization of programming as an engineering 
discipline was an increase in its prestige and status, thus making a field that 
was seen as eminently suitable for men, who now flocked into the field. By the 
late 1970's/early 1980's, most universities now had computer science 
departments and were now offering degree programs in computer science. Most of 
the computer science students were men. Despite efforts to encourage female 
students to study computer science, female enrollments for computer science 
degrees have been stagnant for many years.

Jim Farmelant
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From: "Louis N. Proyect via Marxism" 
Subject: [Marxism] Ellen Ullman’s New Book Tackles Tech’s Woman Problem
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 12:27:17 -0400


(Ellen Ullman's 1997 book "Close to the Machine" was really good. She
started out as a Cobol programmer just like me back when a college
degree was all you needed. I should have written something like this
long ago but it would take time away from film reviews, critique of
the Brenner thesis and a hundred other topics.)

NY Times Sunday Book Review, August 20 2017
Ellen Ullman’s New Book Tackles Tech’s Woman Problem
By J. D. BIERSDORFER

LIFE IN CODE
A Personal History of Technology
By Ellen Ullman
Illustrated. 306 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $27


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Re: [Marxism] North Korea

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Hi John

I belong to the proxy threat to China school of thought (Oops). Admittedly,
we do not have all the information we need.  I think that China warned
Trump that they would not tolerate a nuclear attack on North Korea.  That
they would have done secretly. Publicly, they threatened North Korea with
Chinese neutrality if North Korea attacked first.

So a stand off has resumed.

I do not put much store in one quote from Bannon.  The point is that the
American state is fragmented and it contains sections that want a contest
of strength with China.  Here in Australia when the "Defence lobby" appear
on tv they are blood thirsty "all the way with the USA" types.  Yet China
is our number one trading partner and we sold the port of Darwin to the
Chinese!

Now North Korea has directly threatened Australia because our weak PM said
we would join any war on Korea/

My own guess is that the corrupt cabal that runs China would like to ditch
North Korea but they cannot. A nuclear attack on the North would be seen by
most Chinese as the Korean War Act 2. We all know that Act 1 was aimed at
China.

comradely

Gary

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> "Not since 2002, as the United States built a case for war in Iraq, has
> there been so much debate inside the White House about the merits — and the
> enormous risks — of pre-emptive military action against an adversary
> nation. Like its predecessors, the Trump administration is trying to
> pressure North Korea through sanctions to dismantle its nuclear program.
> But both President Trump and his national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R.
> McMaster, have talked openly about a last-resort option if diplomacy fails
> and the nuclear threat mounts: what General McMaster describes as
> “preventive war.”"
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/world/asia/north-korea-
> war-trump.html?hp=click=Homepage=story-heading&
> module=first-column-region=top-news=top-news
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> I am curious what comrades think as to the cause of this build-up. Some say
> that it's simply a proxy for a "war" with China, but I'm not convinced. For
> one thing, the recently departed Steve Bannon, who is a real hawk as far as
> China, opposed a military attack on N. Korea. I know others who claim it is
> simply a matter of opposition to one of the remaining non-capitalist
> countries in the world. But present N. Korean economic policy is similar to
> the economic policies of Gorbachev in the waning years of the Soviet Union.
>
> I do think there is the concern of N. Korea spreading nuclear weapon
> technology to a whole host of other secondary powers, including Iran.
>
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[Marxism] North Korea

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"Not since 2002, as the United States built a case for war in Iraq, has
there been so much debate inside the White House about the merits — and the
enormous risks — of pre-emptive military action against an adversary
nation. Like its predecessors, the Trump administration is trying to
pressure North Korea through sanctions to dismantle its nuclear program.
But both President Trump and his national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R.
McMaster, have talked openly about a last-resort option if diplomacy fails
and the nuclear threat mounts: what General McMaster describes as
“preventive war.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/world/asia/north-korea-
war-trump.html?hp=click=Homepage=story-heading&
module=first-column-region=top-news=top-news

I am curious what comrades think as to the cause of this build-up. Some say
that it's simply a proxy for a "war" with China, but I'm not convinced. For
one thing, the recently departed Steve Bannon, who is a real hawk as far as
China, opposed a military attack on N. Korea. I know others who claim it is
simply a matter of opposition to one of the remaining non-capitalist
countries in the world. But present N. Korean economic policy is similar to
the economic policies of Gorbachev in the waning years of the Soviet Union.

I do think there is the concern of N. Korea spreading nuclear weapon
technology to a whole host of other secondary powers, including Iran.

John Reimann


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Re: [Marxism] The China-India Conflict: Its Causes and Consequences (Pamphlet)

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Thanks to Patrick Bond for his comments. As the author of numerous 
interesting and well-argued books and articles about the exploitation of 
Africa (as well as other regions), his thoughts are certainly welcomed 
in such a debate.


However, I think Patrick Bond is mistaken about the theoretical concept 
of "sub-imperialism". It is certainly true that there are states with 
monopolies which extract more surplus and those which extract less (to 
take his example of the different figures for repatriated profits). For 
those interested I would like to refer to my book on the 
super-exploitation of South which contains many statistics and analysis 
of this issue (The Great Robbery of the South. Continuity and Changes in 
the Super-Exploitation of the Semi-Colonial World by Monopoly Capital 
Consequences for the Marxist Theory of Imperialism, 2013, 
http://www.great-robbery-of-the-south.net/. As the book has been sold 
out it can be downloaded for free at this website.)


However, I think it is wrong to create a new category 
("/sub-imperialism/") in addition to the two central categories which 
were developed by the leading Marxist theoreticians when the epoch of 
imperialism unfolded ("/imperialist/" respectively "/(semi-)colonial 
countries/"). To give an analogy: there are many different layers inside 
the bourgeoisie – starting from the monopolist faction, the middle 
bourgeoisie, the small bourgeoisie (not to be confused with the 
petty-bourgeoisie!), etc.). However, all these different factions are 
part of the bourgeoisie and neither represents a new class category (let 
us say a "sub-bourgeoisie").


In my opinion, the problem with the introduction of the category 
"sub-imperialism" becomes apparent in Bonds brief reply to my pamphlet. 
He characterizes "all the BRICS" as "sub-imperialist" which for him 
(referring to Marini) means that they are "/powers that act as deputy 
sheriffs/". This raises the question: whose "/deputy sheriffs/" are 
China and Russia? In my opinion, these two states are emerging 
imperialist powers (for a list of literature which argues this case see 
below). If Bond believes that they are "/deputy sheriffs/" one wonders 
in which service they are. In the service of Washington, Brussels or 
Tokyo? Certainly not, as the accelerating rivalry including sanctions, 
military threats etc. between these two sides demonstrate.


In summary, I believe that the category of "sub-imperialism" is wrong 
when checked by reality and theoretically confusing.


Here are some of my writings on China as an emerging imperialist power:

China‘s transformation into an imperialist power. A study of the 
economic, political and military aspects of China as a Great Power, 
http://www.thecommunists.net/publications/revcom-number-4


The China Question and the Marxist Theory of Imperialism, December 2014, 
https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/reply-to-csr-pco-on-china/


China’s Emergence as an Imperialist Power, in: “New Politics” (Vol:XV-1, 
Whole #: 57), 
http://newpol.org/content/china%E2%80%99s-emergence-%E2%80%A8imperialist-power 



And here are some of my writings on Russia as an emerging imperialist power:

Russia as a Great Imperialist Power. The formation of Russian Monopoly 
Capital and its Empire – A Reply to our Critics, 
http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/imperialist-russia/


Lenin’s Theory of Imperialism and the Rise of Russia as a Great Power. 
On the Understanding and Misunderstanding of Today’s Inter-Imperialist 
Rivalry in the Light of Lenin’s Theory of Imperialism, August 2014, 
http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/imperialism-theory-and-russia/


See also:

Is Lenin’s Theory of Imperialism Incompatible with the Concept of 
Permanent Revolution? 
https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/imperialism-theory-and-permanent-revolution/


Russia and China as Great Imperialist Powers. A Summary of the RCIT’s 
Analysis, 28 March 2014, in: /Revolutionary Communism/ No. 22, 
http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/imperialist-china-and-russia/



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