[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Empire]: Jones on Rogan, 'The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East'

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From: H-Net Staff 
Date: Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 10:20 PM
Subject: H-Net Review [H-Empire]: Jones on Rogan, 'The Fall of the
Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East'
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Eugene Rogan.  The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle
East.  New York  Basic Books, 2015.  512 pp.  $32.00 (cloth), ISBN
978-0-465-02307-3.

Reviewed by Kevin Jones (University of Georgia)
Published on H-Empire (September, 2017)
Commissioned by Charles V. Reed

In _The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East_,
Eugene Rogan offers a sweeping overview of the Middle Eastern theater
of World War I. Drawing upon published and unpublished documents in
Turkish, Arabic, English, and French, Rogan constructs a historical
narrative of the war that promises to "restore the Ottoman front to
its rightful place in the history of both the Great War and the
modern Middle East" (p. xvii). To accomplish this objective, Rogan
devotes considerable attention to documenting the lived experience of
war from the vantage point of ordinary soldiers fighting both for and
against the Ottoman Empire. This commitment to documenting and
analyzing the war from below is supplemented by the author's careful
attention to the political motivations of all relevant actors in the
conflict, a project made possible only by the author's impressive
command of multiple languages and exhaustive analysis of historical
archives and memoirs. _The Fall of the Ottomans_ is a rare example of
historical scholarship that successfully delivers on its promise to
simultaneously provide a more informative and more readable narrative
of a popular historical event that is relatively accessible to a mass
audience and to advance the historical knowledge of specialists by
drawing upon new historical sources and archival evidence.

Rogan's historical project in _The Fall of the Ottomans _is driven by
three overarching and interlinked thematic inquiries. First, the
historical scope of Rogan's narrative emphasizes the necessity of
understanding particular episodes of the Middle Eastern theater of
war in broader historical context. Second, Rogan's pervasive
attention to the exaggerated significance accorded to the Ottoman
call to jihad by virtually all interested parties--Turkish, German,
British, and French--underscores the extent to which the political
alliances forged during World War I were shaped by the global
dynamics of empire and imperial uncertainty about the nature of
religious, national, and imperial identities thrown into flux by the
onset of modernity in the Middle East. Third, the consistent emphasis
of Ottoman military tenacity and the gravity of Ottoman victories at
Gallipoli and Kut highlight the historical relevance of the military
conflict in the Middle East. Somewhat contrary to popular perception,
the Ottoman Empire did not suffer total defeat in the war, and the
Middle Eastern theater of war was not a marginal sideshow to the
conflict in Europe. Taken collectively, Rogan's approach to the
conflict enables him to construct an historical narrative that offers
the reader a more comprehensive and sophisticated understanding of
the war than more specialized accounts of particular aspects of the
war in the Middle East.

The strength of Rogan's historical approach to the Ottoman experience
of World War I is evident in his account of the Armenian Genocide.
While his account of the massacres adds little to the robust
historical literature on the subject, Rogan's telling of the story
provides substantive evidence of his narrative abilities as well as
his ability to successfully traverse the delicate ground of
explaining historical controversy from multiple angles without
falling into the trap of moral equivalence. Rogan carefully and
sympathetically documents the Young Turk regime's efforts to reach a
political agreement with its Armenian subjects (p. 105), notes the
widespread approval of "population exchanges" as "ethnic cleansing
with an international seal of approval" (p. 163), and acknowledges
the gravity of Armenian nationalist collaboration with foreign
enemies at an historical moment when the Ottoman Empire faced a
three-pronged invasion of its territory (pp. 164-165), but he does
not allow such contextual considerations to transform an explanation
of the Young Turks' annihilation of the Ottoman Armenian population
into a justification of these "crimes against humanity" (p. 184).
Rogan's emotional documentation of the Armenian massacres--recounted
largely through the memoirs of the Armenian priest Grigoris
Balakian--simultaneously underscores the 

[Marxism] NZ Labour Party and immigration

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The general election in NZ has given National a significantly larger share
of the seats and votes than the opposition Labour Party.  One of the
distinguishing features of Labour is that it is the more anti-immgration of
the two major capitalist parties.

In fact, in recent years the most significant utterings of Labour
politicians have been a racist campaign against people with
"Chinese-sounding surnames".

Yet, chunks of the left, including most of the minuscule far left, favour
Labour.

An indication of the delightfulness of the NZ Labour Party:

Labour's racist roots:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/labours-racist-roots-2/

First Labour government wanted 'Aryan' immigrants not Jewish refugees from
the Nazis:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/first-labour-government-wanted-aryan-immigrants-not-jewish-refugees-from-the-nazis/

A stain that won't wash off: Labour's racist campaign against those with
"Chinese surnames":
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/first-labour-government-wanted-aryan-immigrants-not-jewish-refugees-from-the-nazis/

More Labour anti-Chinese racism - and the left tags along behind them
still:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/more-labour-anti-chinese-racism-and-the-left-tags-along-behind-them-still/

Immigration and citizenship - Labour versus workers:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/from-the-vaults-immigration-and-citizenship-labour-versus-workers/

When Labour began the dawn raids and then tried to rewrite history:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/from-the-vaults-when-labour-began-the-dawn-raids-and-then-tried-to-rewrite-history/

Depriving Samoans of immigration and citizenship rights:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/depriving-samoans-of-immigration-and-citizenship-rights/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Saudi Arabia Agrees to Let Women Drive - The New York Times

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-women-drive.html
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[Marxism] Fwd: McConnell Says Republicans Are Giving Up on Health Bill - The New York Times

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So this was an embryonic fascist dictatorship?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/us/politics/mcconnell-obamacare-repeal-graham-cassidy-trump.html
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[Marxism] Russian Revolution: A Contested Legacy

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International Print Center New York presents
Russian Revolution: A Contested Legacy
October 12–December 16, 2017
Reception: Thursday, October 12 at 6PM. Press and Members' Preview at 5PM

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[Marxism] in addition to killer cops, why Black athletes are protesting

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https://www.juancole.com/2017/09/athletes-protesting-inequality.html
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Health Bill Appears Dead as Pivotal G.O.P. Senator Declares Opposition - The New York Times

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My opinion: The Republicans have been playing the same game as the
Democrats.

For the latter, when they actually had a chance to introduce single payer
(in 2009) they punted. At the state level, we saw that game they played in
California where the majority in the state senate voted for a state wide
single payer and then arranged for the bill to die in committee in the
House. Now, when there is absolutely zero chance of single payer passing,
they introduce it in Washington DC.

And the Republicans?

Basing themselves on the inadequacies of Obamacare, plus the right wing
propaganda against any state intervention, for years they've been
campaigning to repeal Obamacare. This strikes a chord with their base, many
of whom are so blinded that they won't consider how a repeal will affect
them, personally. But if it were repealed, all of a sudden a whole swath of
their supporters would be hit and would switch sides.

So what do the Republicans do? Why, continue the campaign, and arrange to
get just enough "no" votes to sink their repeal. This way, they get the
best of both worlds.

What a sham is US politics!

John Reimann

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"No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them."
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[Marxism] David Walters - Permission to repost Marxmail comment

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Dear David:

Thanks for your Marxmail comments on my article about Jacobin. I don't
agree, of course, but you make some good points.

May I repost your message as a post on Climate & Capitalism?

Thanks again

Ian Angus
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Slavery]: Turner on Harper, 'The End of Days: African American Religion and Politics in the Age of Emancipation'

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Best regards,
Andrew Stewart 

Begin forwarded message:

> From: H-Net Staff 
> Date: September 26, 2017 at 11:03:56 AM EDT
> To: h-rev...@h-net.msu.edu
> Subject: H-Net Review [H-Slavery]:  Turner on Harper, 'The End of Days: 
> African American Religion and Politics in the Age of Emancipation'
> Reply-To: H-Net Staff 
> 
> Matthew Harper.  The End of Days: African American Religion and
> Politics in the Age of Emancipation.  Chapel Hill  University of
> North Carolina Press, 2016.  224 pp.  $29.95 (cloth), ISBN
> 978-1-4696-2936-0.
> 
> Reviewed by Nicole M. Turner (Virginia Commonwealth University)
> Published on H-Slavery (September, 2017)
> Commissioned by David M. Prior
> 
> Matthew Harper's _End of Days_ offers an insightful account of how
> African American Protestants' religious beliefs and narratives shaped
> their political action in postemancipation North Carolina. Organized
> into five thematic and chronological chapters and covering the
> changing political landscape of North Carolina from emancipation to
> the advent of Jim Crow segregation and disfranchisement, the book
> describes how black theology allowed black Protestants to remain
> hopeful in the face of political disappointments and violence.
> Central to their theology was an eschatology of hope that was not
> based on a systematic theology "of carefully arranged, internally
> consistent propositional statements," but rather a narrative theology
> of "seeking knowledge of God through a community's familiarity and
> identification with biblical stories" (p. 100). These biblical
> stories helped black Protestants to orient their understanding of the
> ultimate things--their eschatology--around two themes: an end to race
> prejudice and a sense of purpose for the race. With this idea of
> eschatology organizing his inquiry, Harper examines various political
> moments and issues, among them: the meaning of emancipation, the
> formation of independent black churches, the demise of
> Reconstruction, as well as land, emigration, temperance, and
> disfranchisement. Using religious newspapers, government records, and
> church convention minutes and reports, Harper's text provides a
> useful examination of what he argues is an overlooked aspect of black
> religious politics--the religious ideas. He asserts, "as they
> struggled through a violent political environment, they returned to a
> hopeful, prophetic eschatology to direct their own political
> strategies" (p. 16).
> 
> Black eschatological hope was rooted in a theology of emancipation
> that emerged at the end of the Civil War. This theology of
> emancipation centered God's intervention in the lives of enslaved
> people and manifested itself in their mass liberation. Rather than
> get bogged down in the debates about black church membership after
> emancipation touched off by Daniel Fountain's claims of a
> postemancipation increase in Christian church membership of former
> slaves, Harper focuses on emancipation as the fulfillment of prophecy
> that touched off a great revival, and became a touchstone for framing
> black theology. This exceptional moment reframed black people's
> interpretation of their experience, leading some to interpret black
> church independence and "[anticipate] their departure [from white
> churches] as an important eschatological event," signifying "a new
> divinely appointed era, one foretold in the scriptures and
> inaugurated by emancipation" (pp. 28, 31). Black narrative theology,
> using biblical stories to frame and interpret current events, shaped
> black politics. Emancipation was the central moment for black people
> to analyze their lives in relation to and marked the beginning of an
> age, one in which separate black churches were formed and debates
> about demanding immediate rights or exercising patience emerged.
> These debates drew on narrative theology of emancipation as evidence
> that God was on their side. These views of emancipation also led
> black politicians in the 1865 North Carolina Freedmen's Convention to
> debate strategies. For some delegates, "the certainty of victory
> released them from a sense of urgency and commended a slower more
> deferential path of reforms. For others, the dramatic intervention of
> God in emancipation had begun a new era where moderation and
> gradualism were no longer necessary" (p. 40). Whatever position black
> Protestants took, they were sure that God was on their side.
> 
> Harper advances from this point to expand the methodology of
> interpreting black theology to include the use of narrative. In this
> narrative theology, 

Re: [Marxism] Lenin: Ukraine is Russia's Ireland

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Thanks Louis and Sebastian.
Just a reminder to the list that most times a quote can be found using
MIA's Search field.
I just tried it for this particular quote: I chose Lenin from the drop-down
list, and then typed Ukraine Ireland in the field below; this brought up
the one Sebastian found plus several similar documents.
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Re: [Marxism] Kap, Cops and Confederate Statues: a Better World Without Double Standards

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> On Sep 25, 2017, at 8:46 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
>  wrote:
> 
> I don't know that much about Fotente but was struck by Serpico's praise of 
> the Black officer that asked him to speak at a rally for Kaepernick. What 
> would a left group do if a younger version of Serpico applied for membership? 
> Or this Black officer?


"CHICAGO — Two Chicago Police officers who kneeled while in uniform after being 
asked about President Donald Trump's blistering criticism of football players' 
decision to kneel during the National Anthem before games will be reprimanded, 
a department spokesman said Monday.”

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170925/englewood/police-officer-kneeling-protest-national-anthem
 


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[Marxism] Lenin: Ukraine is Russia's Ireland

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A while back, someone asked me for documentation of Lenin's claim that 
Ukraine was Russia's Ireland. Thanks to Sebastien Budgen, I finally 
found the origin:


https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/jun/01b.htm
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Final Conquest

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Andreas Malm on Puerto Rico.

https://jacobinmag.com/2017/09/hurricane-maria-dominica-climate-change
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[Marxism] Fwd: Thoughts on Ken Burns’s Vietnam documentary | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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https://louisproyect.org/2017/09/26/thoughts-on-ken-burnss-vietnam-documentary/
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[Marxism] Fwd: “‘Capital’ is not a Bible nor a cookbook”, says José Paulo Netto | The Dawn News

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http://www.thedawn-news.org/2017/09/21/capital-is-not-a-bible-nor-a-cookbook-says-jose-paulo-netto/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Harvard Shames Itself by Staging a Koch-Sponsored Betsy DeVos Lovefest | Alternet

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http://www.alternet.org/education/harvard-stages-koch-bros-love-fest
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[Marxism] Fwd: Will New York’s cable strike revitalize the labor movement — or kill it? - Salon.com

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The NYC left has paid scant attention to this strike in which cable TV 
installers are now facing eviction or foreclosure.


https://www.salon.com/2017/09/26/will-new-yorks-cable-strike-revitalize-the-labor-movement-or-kill-it/
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[Marxism] [UCE] Fwd: The NFL Has Always Been Political | HuffPost

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nfl-football-political_us_59c91815e4b06ddf45f9b002
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[Marxism] Fwd: Trump judicial nominee said transgender children are part of 'Satan's plan', defended 'conversion therapy' - CNNPolitics

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/20/politics/kfile-jeff-mateer-lgbt-remarks/index.html
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[Marxism] Fwd: Is the Crisis in Puerto Rico Becoming Trump’s Katrina? | Vanity Fair

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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/donald-trump-hurricane-maria-puerto-rico
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[Marxism] Mexico City Was Built on an Ancient Lake Bed. That Makes Earthquakes Much Worse.

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/22/world/americas/mexico-city-earthquake-lake-bed-geology.html
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