Re: [Marxism] shooting in Las Vegas

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> not joining the reactionary funded liberal "gun control groups"

Also funny that you say that after a rant that sounds like many a
liberal rant about people deserving no sympathy for being shot or losing
health insurance, while removing the human face of such tragedies
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Re: [Marxism] shooting in Las Vegas

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On 10/2/17 9:06 PM, John Obrien via Marxism wrote:

The Mandalay Hotel shooting reminds me of the U. S. helicopters
shooting down below on the Vietnamese villagers.  Those villagers had
less resources than the mainly Trump supporters in Vegas who paid
for their tickets to hear Country Western singers reflecting mainly
Jesus Land - and when they want" to get naughty" in Las Vegas.



Your brain is scrambled. You need to think about what you are writing 
before inflicting it on the rest of us. Doesn't it occur to before 
writing this kind of stupid rant that it makes no sense at all? 
Reflecting mainly Jesus Land? Getting naughty? The next time you write 
bullshit like this, I am removing you from the list.


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Re: [Marxism] shooting in Las Vegas

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> disarm the populace but not the government repressive forces.  

Why not both?
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Re: [Marxism] shooting in Las Vegas

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Marxists advocate that the U. S. and other capitalist states:

disarm their militaries and police.


As for stated concerns about " how human life has been cheapened

in U. S. society".  Really???  Are we talking about the nation that

committed genocide against the Native People and continue with

harmful policies?  Or the long history of slavery and Jim Crow and

the racist policies and practices that continue?  The government

and private vigilantes who murdered union strikers wanting to have

basic living needs, or killing radicals, the prison and injustice system,

the awful housing conditions, the lack of quality education and health

care and food.  The large number of elderly having to choose between

shelter, medicine and food - but can not have all three of.


The U. S. government with the blood of countless numbers of people

in many nations, for to benefit a capitalist quest for profits and power.


The same U. S. government and society that harms millions of poor

people who reside in the horrors and challenges in that U. S. Society

they endure?   From the prisons, to the convalescent homes, from

environmental harmed localities to the lack of hope and destroying

the lives of poor youth in both the cities and rural communities. The

violence of racism, sexism, homophobia have been long a part of the

U. S. - and accepted by many.   I know of no working class leftist who

does not understand and is affected by the ongoing violence of this

society and nation.


The Mandalay Hotel shooting reminds me of the U. S. helicopters

shooting down below on the Vietnamese villagers.  Those villagers had

less resources than the mainly Trump supporters in Vegas who paid

for their tickets to hear Country Western singers reflecting mainly

Jesus Land - and when they want" to get naughty" in Las Vegas.


What happens in Vegas - does not always just stay there.  But the

Vegas lifestyle reflects also the "U. S. Society of respect for life"

of the haves and have nots.  Consumerism, greed and I detect

some brainwashing religion and not class politics, raised as

"our nation and society's values".


What should we expect from capitalism - with "losers and winners"

Alienation - what a shock?  Violence - who would have thought it

would happen?  Fucking priviliged liberals.   Promote the disarming

of police and ending their militarization, not joining the reactionary

funded liberal "gun control groups", who want to disarm the populace

but not the government repressive forces.   Are wars, poverty, injustice

"respecting life"?






Well, the legality of assault rifles certainly didn't help. And if they
legalize silencers, just imagine how many more would have been killed,
since it would have taken that much longer to figure out where the shots
were coming from.

But in the end, it's not a matter of gun control legislation. It's a matter
of how human life has been cheapened in US society, how violence is
legitimatized, and most important the extreme level of unfocused anger and
frustration.

By the way, imagine what Trump would have been saying if it had been a
black person accused of this crime. Or a Latino immigrant. Then we would
not be hearing all the hypocrisy about "coming together"; we'd be hearing
blanket denunciation of the entire black community or of all Latino
immigrants. And if it had been a person with a Muslim last name? Oh my god!

John.

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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-FedHist]: Schorman on Cecil, 'Branding Hoover's FBI: How the Boss's PR Men Sold the Bureau to America'

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Date: Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 8:09 PM
Subject: H-Net Review [H-FedHist]: Schorman on Cecil, 'Branding Hoover's
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Matthew Cecil.  Branding Hoover's FBI: How the Boss's PR Men Sold the
Bureau to America.  Lawrence  University Press of Kansas, 2016.  344
pp.  $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2305-1.

Reviewed by Rob Schorman (Miami University of Ohio Regionals)
Published on H-FedHist (October, 2017)
Commissioned by Caryn E. Neumann

Matthew Cecil, in Branding Hoover's FBI: How the Boss's PR Men Sold
the Bureau to America, lays out a case that the prestige and public
trust enjoyed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) during
most of J. Edgar Hoover's tenure resulted not so much from the
agency's investigative prowess as from a finely tuned public
relations apparatus that began operation only a few years after the
term "public relations" was coined. As Cecil puts it: "The bureau
practiced, at an early stage in the development of the field,
sophisticated public relations techniques on a nationwide scale" (p.
15). Cecil sees the success of this effort as the achievement of
specific, talented individuals. He suggests that had they not been on
the scene, the agency would have fared much differently in the public
estimation from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s, and that had they not
departed, the agency might have avoided its precipitous fall from
grace in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

In-depth coverage is given to the careers of both Louis Nichols and
Cartha "Deke" DeLoach, the two most prominent overseers of the
agency's PR efforts, the former from 1935 to 1957 and the latter from
1959 to 1970. Nichols established the template for agency policies,
and the book details the manner in which he led efforts to control
its image in popular radio shows, fought to head off critical
findings from a presidential commission, strategically leaked
information on alleged Communist sympathizers to force them from
public office, and recruited liberal "moles" to offer intelligence
about such organizations as the American Civil Liberties Union.
DeLoach followed the template but with a different style. Whereas
Nichols was a sometimes subtle manipulator of a vast network of media
contacts--both friend and foe--DeLoach focused his attention on
"managing upward" and influencing decision makers in the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA), Justice Department, and White House (p.
263).

Nichols and DeLoach are well-known figures, although their methods
have never been examined with such care. Perhaps even more valuable,
the book provides an equally detailed appraisal of the contributions
of agency staff members who are never more than bit players in
standard FBI histories. These include Milton Jones, who for almost
thirty years was personally responsible for maintaining the content
standards for thousands of letters, memos, speeches, articles, and
reports the agency produced, and Fern Stukenbroeker, who among other
things was the chief ghostwriter for publications that appeared under
Hoover's name, ranging from law journal articles to the best-selling
book _Masters of Deceit: The Story of Communism in America and How to
Fight It_ (1958), which sold more than two million copies. The book
includes readable character sketches of these people and many others
with whom they interacted, along with analysis of their activities.

Cecil's work has an impressive research base, most notably an
extensive review of the FBI's own files of correspondence, memos, and
handwritten notes. At its peak, the FBI department responsible for
public relations employed almost two hundred people and in a single
year responded to about seven thousand letters a month, placed dozens
of articles in national magazines, wrote hundreds of speeches and
official statements for bureau employees, and performed thousands of
"name checks" for the White House. For the network television series
_The FBI_ (1965-74), it rewrote scripts, vetted cast and crew members
(blackballing "subversives"), and had two agents permanently assigned
to the set while filming occurred. Censure, probation, demotion, and
reassignment were penalties imposed on agency personnel for offenses
as small as a typographical error on a letter that went out on the
agency's letterhead.

The book also covers the tsunami of criticism that led to a decline
in the FBI's reputation at the end of Hoover's tenure. By that time,
the health and vigor of Hoover and his top aide, Clyde Tolson, were
in decline, and Nichols and DeLoach had moved on. Cecil states: "It
seem

Re: [Marxism] shooting in Las Vegas

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Well, the legality of assault rifles certainly didn't help. And if they
legalize silencers, just imagine how many more would have been killed,
since it would have taken that much longer to figure out where the shots
were coming from.

But in the end, it's not a matter of gun control legislation. It's a matter
of how human life has been cheapened in US society, how violence is
legitimatized, and most important the extreme level of unfocused anger and
frustration.

By the way, imagine what Trump would have been saying if it had been a
black person accused of this crime. Or a Latino immigrant. Then we would
not be hearing all the hypocrisy about "coming together"; we'd be hearing
blanket denunciation of the entire black community or of all Latino
immigrants. And if it had been a person with a Muslim last name? Oh my god!

John.

On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Carl G. Estabrook 
wrote:

> What sort of gun legislation would have prevented the Las Vegas shooting?
> Or e.g. the Sandy Hook massacre?
>
> I can’t think of any, short of prohibiting the private ownership of guns.
>
> Isn’t that what Australia did, after the shootings in Tasmania?
>
>
> > On Oct 2, 2017, at 5:13 PM, John Reimann via Marxism <
> marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
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> > "On Monday, Aug. 25, a gunman opened fire on clients in a library in
> > Clovis, New Mexico, killing two and wounding four others. That marked
> the 244th
> > mass shooting of 2017
> >  shootings-days-2017-656681>,
> > and that was before the horror in Las Vegas in which, as of this writing,
> > 58 people have been confirmed dead and over 500 wounded. This and many
> > other such acts have caused uncountable heart ache, just as similar
> actions
> > have all around the world. Whether it be the grieving families of those
> > lost in Las Vegas, or of the Rohingya in Myanmar or the survivors of the
> > 500,000 killed in Syria, suffering is suffering, and the country in which
> > it occurs makes no difference. But in the case of the Las Vegas shooter,
> > there are particular political ramifications, and if the “senseless”
> deaths
> > are to mean anything, we must consider these politics.
> >
> > Just days before the Las Vegas terrorist act, Republicans introduced a
> bill
> > in Congress legalizing gun silencers. The bill would also mean that a
> > resident in a state where concealed carry is legal for (nearly) anybody
> > could carry a concealed weapon into another state where it is illegal.
> This
> > bill is in some ways the equivalent of the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott
> > decision of 1857. In that case, the Supreme Court determined that a slave
> > owner could bring his or her slaves into a state where slavery was
> outlawed
> > and those slaves would remain in that status.
> >
> >
> > *Hypocrisy*So where were all the hypocritical cries of “states’ rights”
> > when that bill was introduced?
> >
> > Speaking of hypocrisy: On Monday, Trump went onto TV to “address the
> > nation” on the massacre in Las Vegas. He used the massacre to reinforce
> his
> > political agenda, first of all appealing to his religious base with is
> talk
> > about “ask(ing) got to help see you through this very dark period.” This
> is
> > a man who has never shown the slightest religious inclination until now,
> > but that is completely ignored by all the hypocritical religious fanatics
> > who are happy to rely on him to enforce their political agenda. Trump
> also
> > used this massacre to prop up support for the police, but most
> hypocritical
> > of all was such comments as “our (national) unity cannot be shattered by
> > evil. Our bonds cannot be broken by violence…. it is our love that
> defines
> > us today — and always will, forever.”
> >
> > Read more:
> > https://oaklandsocialist.com/2017/10/02/las-vegas-massacre-
> some-thoughts-on-random-shootings-in-the-us/
> >
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Re: [Marxism] shooting in Las Vegas

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What sort of gun legislation would have prevented the Las Vegas shooting? Or 
e.g. the Sandy Hook massacre?

I can’t think of any, short of prohibiting the private ownership of guns.

Isn’t that what Australia did, after the shootings in Tasmania?


> On Oct 2, 2017, at 5:13 PM, John Reimann via Marxism 
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> "On Monday, Aug. 25, a gunman opened fire on clients in a library in
> Clovis, New Mexico, killing two and wounding four others. That marked the 
> 244th
> mass shooting of 2017
> ,
> and that was before the horror in Las Vegas in which, as of this writing,
> 58 people have been confirmed dead and over 500 wounded. This and many
> other such acts have caused uncountable heart ache, just as similar actions
> have all around the world. Whether it be the grieving families of those
> lost in Las Vegas, or of the Rohingya in Myanmar or the survivors of the
> 500,000 killed in Syria, suffering is suffering, and the country in which
> it occurs makes no difference. But in the case of the Las Vegas shooter,
> there are particular political ramifications, and if the “senseless” deaths
> are to mean anything, we must consider these politics.
> 
> Just days before the Las Vegas terrorist act, Republicans introduced a bill
> in Congress legalizing gun silencers. The bill would also mean that a
> resident in a state where concealed carry is legal for (nearly) anybody
> could carry a concealed weapon into another state where it is illegal. This
> bill is in some ways the equivalent of the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott
> decision of 1857. In that case, the Supreme Court determined that a slave
> owner could bring his or her slaves into a state where slavery was outlawed
> and those slaves would remain in that status.
> 
> 
> *Hypocrisy*So where were all the hypocritical cries of “states’ rights”
> when that bill was introduced?
> 
> Speaking of hypocrisy: On Monday, Trump went onto TV to “address the
> nation” on the massacre in Las Vegas. He used the massacre to reinforce his
> political agenda, first of all appealing to his religious base with is talk
> about “ask(ing) got to help see you through this very dark period.” This is
> a man who has never shown the slightest religious inclination until now,
> but that is completely ignored by all the hypocritical religious fanatics
> who are happy to rely on him to enforce their political agenda. Trump also
> used this massacre to prop up support for the police, but most hypocritical
> of all was such comments as “our (national) unity cannot be shattered by
> evil. Our bonds cannot be broken by violence…. it is our love that defines
> us today — and always will, forever.”
> 
> Read more:
> https://oaklandsocialist.com/2017/10/02/las-vegas-massacre-some-thoughts-on-random-shootings-in-the-us/
> 
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Re: [Marxism] The Cuban Contrast

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I really hope comrades will circulate this article. It's a thorough,
detailed yet succinct explanation of the top-to-bottom methods used in
disaster preparedness and recovery:

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/hurricane-harvey-cuba-disaster-plan

Typing "Cuba disaster prepardness" in google brings up many other useful
articles.

The media is now focused on the idiotic lying claim of FEMA's head that
"logistical difficulties" are hampering its efforts - which has resulted in
angry, mocking references to far greater logistical challenges on D-Day,
moon landings, etc.

http://time.com/4964574/hurricane-maria-fema-brock-long-puerto-rico-logistics/

We want to reach those friends who've unholstered their bullshit-detectors
to take the next step and look at how socialism deals with these tragedies.
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[Marxism] shooting in Las Vegas

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"On Monday, Aug. 25, a gunman opened fire on clients in a library in
Clovis, New Mexico, killing two and wounding four others. That marked the 244th
mass shooting of 2017
,
and that was before the horror in Las Vegas in which, as of this writing,
58 people have been confirmed dead and over 500 wounded. This and many
other such acts have caused uncountable heart ache, just as similar actions
have all around the world. Whether it be the grieving families of those
lost in Las Vegas, or of the Rohingya in Myanmar or the survivors of the
500,000 killed in Syria, suffering is suffering, and the country in which
it occurs makes no difference. But in the case of the Las Vegas shooter,
there are particular political ramifications, and if the “senseless” deaths
are to mean anything, we must consider these politics.

Just days before the Las Vegas terrorist act, Republicans introduced a bill
in Congress legalizing gun silencers. The bill would also mean that a
resident in a state where concealed carry is legal for (nearly) anybody
could carry a concealed weapon into another state where it is illegal. This
bill is in some ways the equivalent of the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott
decision of 1857. In that case, the Supreme Court determined that a slave
owner could bring his or her slaves into a state where slavery was outlawed
and those slaves would remain in that status.


*Hypocrisy*So where were all the hypocritical cries of “states’ rights”
when that bill was introduced?

Speaking of hypocrisy: On Monday, Trump went onto TV to “address the
nation” on the massacre in Las Vegas. He used the massacre to reinforce his
political agenda, first of all appealing to his religious base with is talk
about “ask(ing) got to help see you through this very dark period.” This is
a man who has never shown the slightest religious inclination until now,
but that is completely ignored by all the hypocritical religious fanatics
who are happy to rely on him to enforce their political agenda. Trump also
used this massacre to prop up support for the police, but most hypocritical
of all was such comments as “our (national) unity cannot be shattered by
evil. Our bonds cannot be broken by violence…. it is our love that defines
us today — and always will, forever.”

Read more:
https://oaklandsocialist.com/2017/10/02/las-vegas-massacre-some-thoughts-on-random-shootings-in-the-us/

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[Marxism] FW: Catalonia: After YES victory unions, social movements call general strike

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In face of massive police repression, majority vote to found an independent
republic

Despite brutal attacks from police of Madrid’s Guardia Civil, millions of
Catalans defied a ban by Spain’s central government and its courts and made
their way to polling stations — many improvised in schools, arenas, hospitals
and other public facilities — to vote in the October 1 independence referendum.
Some 90% of the 2.2 million who managed to circumvent police barriers answered
“yes” to the question “Do you want Catalonia to become an independent state in
the form of a republic?” Only 7.87% voted No, while blank and null votes
accounted for the remainder.

It was an impressive result in the circumstances. Although only 43% of the total
electorate of 5.2 million were able or willing to vote, another 777,000 voters
were blocked by police from casting ballots; about 400 polling stations out of
2300 had been shut down. It thus appears that a clear majority, on a clear
question, voted or wanted to vote for independence.

Announcing the result, Catalan government president Carles Puigdemont pledged to
declare an independent republic within 48 hours after the official vote count is
released, later this week, in accordance with the referendum law adopted
September 6 by Catalonia’s national assembly.

Meanwhile, a broad coalition of trade unions and political and social movements
has called a “general and social strike” for Tuesday, October 3, against
repression and in defense of freedom.[1] Their statement denounces “the
repression and infringement of rights and civil, sexual and political freedoms,
both individual and collective, that is being generated in Catalonia in the form
of a veiled state of exception.” It goes on to denounce “the pressures and
threats that the whole of the working and popular classes have suffered in these
recent weeks as well as the constant attacks on freedom of speech and the
continuous attempts to frighten the whole of the Catalan population.

“We want to make clear that in the face of the austerity policies that have
destabilized our lives in recent years and have dismantled the public sector
with a bank rescue plan, there is a need for us to organize and to advocate a
charter of social rights that incorporates all of the experiences, practices and
knowledges accumulated by the different social movements during all those years,
from the social and solidarity economy to the movement for food sovereignty,
from the defense of the territory to the feminist struggles and in opposition to
male violence against women, from the movements for peace to the recognition of
the rights of migrants.”

Full:
http://lifeonleft.blogspot.ca/2017/10/catalonia-after-yes-victory-unions.html





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[Marxism] O tempora O mores

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Thanks for the post, Gary. It is hard to maintain hope in the face of growing 
insanity. But somehow we must.
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Re: [Marxism] Jagmeet Singh's victory

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A couple of notes on this.
The more left wing candidate in the race was NikI Ashton.
She is much better than Singh on Palestine.

Singh did show cool when he was assailed any a right wing nut case.  She 
accused him of supporting Sharia law.
He kept cool and used this to promote tolerance and inclusiveness.

Gurpreet Singh is the editor of Radical Desi.  I don’t know if it true today, 
but Kimball Cariou of the Communist Party paper People’s Voice was an editor of 
Radical Desi.

http://www.gurpreetsingh.ca/ 

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[Marxism] Alexis de Tocqueville on Indian Removal

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At the end of the year 1831, whilst I was on the left bank of the 
Mississippi at a place named by Europeans, Memphis, there arrived a 
numerous band of Choctaws (or Chactas, as they are called by the French 
in Louisiana). These savages had left their country, and were 
endeavoring to gain the right bank of the Mississippi, where they hoped 
to find an asylum which had been promised them by the American 
government. It was then the middle of winter, and the cold was unusually 
severe; the snow had frozen hard upon the ground, and the river was 
drifting huge masses of ice. The Indians had their families with them; 
and they brought in their train the wounded and sick, with children 
newly born, and old men upon the verge of death. They possessed neither 
tents nor wagons, but only their arms and some provisions. I saw them 
embark to pass the mighty river, and never will that solemn spectacle 
fade from my remembrance. No cry, no sob was heard amongst the assembled 
crowd; all were silent. Their calamities were of ancient date, and they 
knew them to be irremediable. The Indians had all stepped into the bark 
which was to carry them across, but their dogs remained upon the bank. 
As soon as these animals perceived that their masters were finally 
leaving the shore, they set up a dismal howl, and, plunging all together 
into the icy waters of the Mississippi, they swam after the boat.


The ejectment of the Indians very often takes place at the present day, 
in a regular, and, as it were, a legal manner. When the European 
population begins to approach the limit of the desert inhabited by a 
savage tribe, the government of the United States usually dispatches 
envoys to them, who assemble the Indians in a large plain, and having 
first eaten and drunk with them, accost them in the following manner: 
"What have you to do in the land of your fathers? Before long, you must 
dig up their bones in order to live. In what respect is the country you 
inhabit better than another? Are there no woods, marshes, or prairies, 
except where you dwell? And can you live nowhere but under your own sun? 
Beyond those mountains which you see at the horizon, beyond the lake 
which bounds your territory on the west, there lie vast countries where 
beasts of chase are found in great abundance; sell your lands to us, and 
go to live happily in those solitudes." After holding this language, 
they spread before the eyes of the Indians firearms, woollen garments, 
kegs of brandy, glass necklaces, bracelets of tinsel, earrings, and 
looking-glasses. *g If, when they have beheld all these riches, they 
still hesitate, it is insinuated that they have not the means of 
refusing their required consent, and that the government itself will not 
long have the power of protecting them in their rights. What are they to 
do? Half convinced, and half compelled, they go to inhabit new deserts, 
where the importunate whites will not let them remain ten years in 
tranquillity. In this manner do the Americans obtain, at a very low 
price, whole provinces, which the richest sovereigns of Europe could not 
purchase.


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[Marxism] The essential American soul

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“Democracy in America was never the same as Liberty in Europe. In Europe 
Liberty was a great life-throb. But in America Democracy was always 
something anti-life. The greatest democrats, like Abraham Lincoln, had 
always a sacrificial, self-murdering note in their voices. American 
Democracy was a form of self-murder, always. Or of murdering somebody 
else... The love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of 
by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a 
killer. It has never yet melted.”



― D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature
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[Marxism] Fwd: Nationalism as the ideology of the firm – Cold and dark stars

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The Left has many examples where their governments collapsed due to 
reduced profitability of the nation-state as a firm.   Venezuela’s PSUV, 
Brazil’s Worker’s Party, and Greece’s Syriza, are some of the more 
recent examples where ostensibly “socialist” and “anti-capitalist” 
governments collapsed due to attrition of the national firm’s returns. 
Unemployment,  scarcity of basic goods, and collapse of the national 
currency’s value where not merely willful conspiracies enacted by the 
capitalists against leftist governments, but a real effect rooted in the 
reduced competitiveness of the national firm.This is if anything, 
evidence of the materiality of nationalism – that it isn’t merely a 
“mystification”, but the rational expression of a global  economy 
mediated by nation-states in competition. Indeed. Modlbug, the 
neoreactionary intellectual, in a moment of clarity where he understood 
his position as the spokesperson of purified capitalism, argued that the 
nation-state should be managed literally as a corporation, with 
shareholders deciding the board of directors, where he called his model 
neo-cameralist. Yet, he failed to notice, that liberal democracy, the 
system he loathes, already asymptotically approaches his fevered dream.


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[Marxism] Fwd: Gurpreet Singh: Jagmeet Singh's victory represents defeat of political right in Canada and India | Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly

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[Marxism] Fwd: Tasteless publishing magnate S.I. Newhouse Jr. dead at 89 | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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[Marxism] Fwd: The century of revolution, by Serge Halimi (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, October 2017)

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The fact remains: despite its failures, even in its most perverted forms 
the system that governed a third of the planet, the most important 
political movement of the past century, almost always brought the 
abolition of capitalist property, the development of education, free 
health care, the emancipation of women, and diplomatic, military, 
financial and technical support for the majority of anti-colonial 
struggles, and for the independent states they created. Not forgetting 
‘an unprecedented enterprise of political promotion of the working 
classes,’ which propelled ‘workers and peasants into institutions of 
power previously reserved solely for representatives of the bourgeoisie’ 
(5).



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[Marxism] Fwd: Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC. - The New York Times

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Obesity Was Rising as
Ghana Embraced Fast
Food. Then Came KFC.

The growing popularity of fried chicken and
pizza in parts of Africa underscores how fast
food is changing habits and expanding waistlines.

By DIONNE SEARCEY and MATT RICHTEL

ACCRA, Ghana — After finishing high school a decade ago, Daniel Awaitey 
enrolled in computer courses, dropped out to work in a hotel, then 
settled into a well-paying job in the booming oil sector here.


He has an apartment, a car, a smartphone and a long-distance girlfriend 
he met on a dating website. So he had reasons and the means to celebrate 
his 27th birthday in late July. His boss and co-workers joined him for 
an evening of laughter and selfies, lingering over dinner at his 
favorite restaurant: KFC.


Mr. Awaitey first learned about the fried chicken chain on Facebook. The 
“finger lickin’ good” slogan caught his attention and it has lived up to 
expectations. “The food is just ——” he said, raising his fingertips to 
his mouth and smacking his lips. “When you taste it you feel good.”


Ghana, a coastal African country of more than 28 million still etched 
with pockets of extreme poverty, has enjoyed unprecedented national 
prosperity in the last decade, buoyed by offshore oil. Though the 
economy slowed abruptly not long ago, it is rebounding and the signs of 
new fortune are evident: millions moving to cities for jobs, shopping 
malls popping up and fast food roaring in to greet people hungry for a 
contemporary lifestyle.


Chief among the corporate players is KFC, and its parent company, YUM!, 
which have muscled northward from South Africa — where KFC has about 850 
outlets and a powerful brand name — throughout sub-Saharan Africa: to 
Angola, Tanzania, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Ghana and beyond. The company 
brings the flavors that have made it popular in the West, seasoned with 
an intangible: the symbolic association of fast food with rich nations.


But KFC’s expansion here comes as obesity and related health problems 
have been surging. Public health officials see fried chicken, french 
fries and pizza as spurring and intensifying a global obesity epidemic 
that has hit hard in Ghana — one of 73 countries where obesity has at 
least doubled since 1980. In that period, Ghana’s obesity rates have 
surged more than 650 percent, from less than 2 percent of the population 
to 13.6 percent, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and 
Evaluation, an independent research center at the University of Washington.


The causes of obesity are widely acknowledged as complex — involving 
changing lifestyles, genetics, and, in particular, consumption of 
processed foods high in salt, sugar and fat.


KFC’s presence in Ghana so far is relatively modest but rapidly growing, 
and it underscores the way fast food can shape palates, habits and 
waistlines.


Research shows that people who eat more fast food are more likely to 
gain weight and become obese, and nutrition experts here express deep 
concern at the prospect of an increasingly heavy and diabetic 
population, without the medical resources to address a looming health 
crisis that some say could rival AIDS.


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[Marxism] Fwd: The Ecosocialism of Joel Kovel

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[Marxism] Fwd: There Is No Free Speech Crisis On Campus

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Having lost the battle of persuasion, and largely swept from the campus 
environment, right wing speakers have to be foisted onto universities 
from the outside. When characters like Ann Coulter, Milo Yiannopoulos, 
and Charles Murray appear on campus, their appearances are funded by 
extremist donors and their events are orchestrated by outside groups. 
Finding students among the organizers, attendees, protestors, or 
counter-protestors is a challenge. This is theater and the university is 
a prop.


There is virtually no support for, or interest in these events at the 
schools being targeted. At universities with tens of thousands of 
students, campus Republican organizations can seldom recruit more than a 
few dozen participants. For people too young to have ever sipped the 
cool, sweet waters of the whites’-only fountain, much of modern 
conservatism feels morally equivalent to Fascism or Communism – a 
repugnant, cultural cancer than can’t be eradicated quickly enough. 
Conservatives aren’t sending Ann Coulter to Berkeley as a missionary. 
They are sending her to get B-reel footage they can play in fundraising 
pitches to aging Alabamans. She is there to incite violence. If no one 
sets anything on fire, then they’ve failed.


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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Fascism: What It Isn’t and How Not To Fight It | Jewish Currents

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Thanks Louis for posting this.
For those who don't know the author, Mitchell Abidor, he's the French
translator for MIA and extraordinarily well-read in all periods of French
politics (and much more). So his writing is always serious and
well-informed.

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[Marxism] Fwd: Fascism: What It Isn’t and How Not To Fight It | Jewish Currents

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MARK BRAY’S Antifa can perhaps be considered the definitive statement of 
the movement that leapt to the front page after the events in 
Charlottesville. Widely though not deeply researched, Bray’s book 
clearly lays out the historical antecedents of today’s antifa, its 
current activities in the U.S. and Europe, and a theoretical explanation 
and justification for its activities. Bray and the movement he speaks 
for are not an outgrowth the Marxist Old Left, so his description of 
what fascism is doesn’t rely on the formulas of George Dimitrov and 
Palmiro Togliatti — rather, he is free to rely on the great historian 
Robert O. Paxton and his 2004 Anatomy of Fascism.


Anyone interested in understanding antifa would do well to read Bray as 
a perfect expression of the movement.


Bray is perfect also in his arrogance, his smug self-satisfaction, his 
contempt for free speech, his inconsistencies and hypocrisies, his bad 
faith, his bloated sense of his movement’s worth, his 
self-congratulation, and his specious reasoning. Antifa is sad proof of 
the nullity of this all-too-visible portion of the left, and, frankly, 
of the danger it presents to the broader left, which already faces an 
uphill battle. Antifa proves that antifa discredits us all and must be 
criticized and, when necessary, condemned.


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[Marxism] Putin v. Philby

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"His idea was that he was not serving Stalin but the people...

"Mr. Philby, Mr. Galeotti said, was indeed a lifelong enemy of fascism but
'would be spinning in his grave' over his portrayal in Moscow as a defender
of narrow Russian national interests. 'This was a man motivated by Marxism,
not by love of Russia,' he said. 'Presenting him as a great Russian patriot
is far from the truth.'”

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[Marxism] O tempora O mores

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The horrific scene in Las Vegas and the brutality of the Spanish state in
Barcelona  and the devastation in Puerto Rico are of course not related
politically but they add to the general feeling that things are falling
apart.

The Las Vegas slaughter has nothing of course to do with the insane gun
laws of the USA. It was a white man who carried out the slaughter, so it is
business as usual.

The thuggery of the Guardia Civil has been described as "serene" by the
Spanish Prime Minister. Meanwhile people my age are tottering around with
bloodied heads.

The absolute greatest fuckwit of our time, Donald Trump, parades around a
Golf course and insults the mayor in Puerto Rico who is trying to help her
people.  But she lives on an island and that is surrounded by water so
there is nothing Trump can do to help.  Of course if there was a Communist
takeover in the island then that would be another matter, but people dying?
starving?  Where's the problem?

Where to from here?  We so desperately need a break through to a rational
decent alternative to what the Capitalist class has to offer. There is hope
though.  as I write this thousands of brave young people are marching
through Barcelona for decency.

comradely

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[Marxism] Catalonia after the Referendum: Forward to Independence!

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