Re: [Marxism] American public opinion polling on first strike with nuclear weapons

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May god help us. At times I think we are not going to make it. And when
Trump farts out his mouth that tendency to despair becomes very strong. But
it has to be resisted.

ae

Gary

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> "The data reveal that around one in five Americans have just about always
> been in favor of at least the idea of using nuclear weapons as something
> other than retaliation for having them used against us, and at the height
> of the Cold War these numbers went as high as four in ten."
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Who was Lee Harvey Oswald? | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Here's a very recent BBC account.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41741216
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[Marxism] American public opinion polling on first strike with nuclear weapons

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"The data reveal that around one in five Americans have just about always
been in favor of at least the idea of using nuclear weapons as something
other than retaliation for having them used against us, and at the height
of the Cold War these numbers went as high as four in ten."

https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/public-opinion-using-nuclear-weapons/
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[Marxism] US secret military missions in Africa

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U.S. troops are now conducting 3,500 exercises, programs, and engagements
per year, an average of nearly 10 missions per day, on the African
continent, according to the U.S. military’s top commander for Africa,
General Thomas Waldhauser. The latest numbers, which the Pentagon confirmed
to VICE News, represent a dramatic increase in U.S. military activity
throughout Africa in the past decade, and the latest signal of America’s
deepening and complicated ties on the continent.


Today’s figure of 3,500 marks an astounding 1,900 percent increase since
the command was activated less than a decade ago, and suggests a major
expansion of U.S. military activities on the African continent.


https://news.vice.com/story/us-military-secret-missions-africa
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[Marxism] State Capitalist State

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mkaradjis wrote

that China is "...a kind of state-directed capitalism, like Keynesianism,
like fascism, like Nasserism/Peronism, like NICism etc. But a
"state capitalist state" as some kind of new social formation? A
tad unscientific I would think.

"Really, what is the big resistance still to recognising China as
a capitalist state?"

Personally, I think it is a capitalist state, but it is not the same kind
of capitalist state that Russia is, not the kind of capitalist state that
the United States is, not the kind of a capitalist state that France is...

China is a special kind of capitalist state very close to what Mexico was
during the long reign of the PRI. Social revolutions in both countries,
based on the peasantry and not the urban working class, led to transitional
revolutionary dictatorships. The PRI dictatorship always saw itself as
leading the capitalist development of Mexico, albeit it had a social
democratic view of its capitalism. The Chinese Communist Party believed
that it was leading a socialist country, but then pragmatically - and
self-consciously - decided to follow the capitalist road.

It has done so in a planned, thought out way led by the state and the
Communist Party.

This is almost the opposite of the collapse of planning that occurred when
the Soviet Union collapsed.

There is nothing unscientific about delineating different varieties of pigs
and cows. Why would it be unscientific to delineate different varieties of
capitalist political regimes?

Chinese capitalism shows the absolute limits of capitalist development on
this planet. Capitalism can no longer develop without being directed by the
state. This is only a stop gap because China is not exempt from the laws of
the world market and is likely to be at the center of the next great
crisis.

Anthony
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[Marxism] Alvaro Uribe - the most dangerous man in Colombian

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Dennis Brasky posted an article titled "Alvaro Uribe - the most dangerous
man in Colombian" which is generally correct about Uribe's evil record, but
behind the times about Uribe's plans for the 2018 elections. As of this
moment he is negotiating a deal to support Gérman Vargas Lleras's candidacy
rather than running one of his own puppets. Vargas Lleras was Juan Manuel
Santos's Vice President, and was in charge of controlling the pork barrel
for Santos. Lleras always kept a public distance from the peace process and
was considered to be Santos's back door to the Uribistas. Here is the
Wikipedia version of the man...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ%C3%A1n_Vargas_Lleras

It is way too early to tell what will happen in next year's elections, but
Vargas Lleras is clearly the candidate of the most important ruling class
factions as of this moment.

Anthony
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[Marxism] Fwd: CVS Aetna: CEO Bertolini's Past Thoughts on Capitalism

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“Here’s the way I think about it,” he told me at the end of August. 
“CEOs are required to paint a stark reality of what the world looks like 
in five to 10 years. So it’s not what it is today versus other 
alternatives today. It’s about what should we be versus what it’s going 
to look like in five to 10 years from now. And doing nothing, in the 
current model around capitalism, will destroy capitalism. When 65% of 
people under the age of 35 believe that socialism is a better model, we 
have a problem. We have a problem. So unless we change it, it will 
change—and maybe not in a good way.”


Bertolini continued: “My call to other CEOs is: ‘If we don’t step up to 
change it, as captains of capitalism, somebody else will—and it will not 
be pretty when that happens.’”


full: http://fortune.com/2017/10/27/cvs-aetna-mark-bertolini-capitalism/
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: 'White Lives Matter' Rally Canceled After Meeting Heavy Resistance In Tennessee | HuffPost

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On 10/28/17 8:26 PM, Jeffrey Masko wrote:
They missed the part about armed leftists, like Redneck Revolt, the John 
Brown Gun Club, and The SRA, who showed up  for community defense and 
who were also instrumental in keeping 3peaters and American Pit Vipers 
from showing up to this and other rallies armed.


What is this? Something you read on "It's Going Down"? If you are going 
to spread ultraleft propaganda, at least provide a source.

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[Marxism] Four Dead in Niger. Anybody Know Why?

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http://thiscantbehappening.net/print/3680
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Re: [Marxism] The Revelations of a U.S. General on Washington’s Allies in Syria

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I don't think we should read too much into the term "partner".  It just means 
that the Syrian Democratic Forces and the United States have a common enemy 
(ISIS) and are cooperating to fight against it.

Michael Karadjis says that the SDF is fighting what he calls "the US 'war on 
terror' against ISIS and HTS".  Michael Probsting calls the YPG "foot soldiers 
of US imperialism."

The SDF fights against ISIS, HTS and other reactionary forces for its own 
reasons, not because it is subservient to the US.  These reasons include the 
facts that:

1. These reactionary groups oppress the people in the areas they control, 
especially women and religious minorities;

2. They have attacked areas controlled by the SDF (and its precursors such as 
the YPG/YPJ);

3. They are proxies (or perhaps we could call them "partners" or "foot 
soldiers") of Turkish intervention in Syria.  This intervention is both an 
extension of Turkey's domestic anti-Kurdish policy and an expression of 
Turkey's imperialist aspirations.

Turkey and its proxies are currently the main threat to the Democratic 
Federation of Northern Syria.  

The SDF has tried to avoid armed conflict with Assad regime forces, though 
quite a few clashes have occurred over the years, including recently at Deir 
Ezzor.  In general, the SDF's approach is one of self defence rather than 
trying to win a military victory over the regime.  

The downfall of the regime can only occur if there is a revival of democratic 
struggles in Assad-controlled areas.  The SDF can't substitute for that.

Chris Slee




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Terrific find Michael.

Michael Probsting quotes US General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: “At one point [he refers to the year
2015, Ed.] I think we had identified about 175 partners in Syria that
we had trained and some hundreds that were available to fight - now we
now have 50,000 partners on the ground.”

Michael rightly notes that this confirms what those of us who have
actually been following the Syrian revolution closely have said all
along, that "the Syrian liberation fighters who started to fight
against the terrorist Assad dictatorship in March 2011 have never been
“agents of US imperialism”, since 175 "partners" in 2015 is a
"miniscule minority among the mass of 150-200.000 liberation fighters
which existed at that time." Dunford is also correct that the US now
has some 50,000 allies on the ground, meaning overwhelmingly the
PKK-allied PYD/YPG and its slightly expanded version, the Syrian
Democratic Forces (SDF), along with a small handful of ex-FSA groups
who have agreed to accept US conditions that they end the fight
against Assad in order to fight the US "war on terror" against ISIS
and HTS only.

This is perhaps one of clearest statements by a leading representative
of US imperialism to date.

What is also interesting is the extent to which this time frame
corresponds almost exactly to revelations of big Pentagon arms
movements to Syria from eastern European stocks:

The Pentagon’s $2.2 Billion Soviet Arms Pipeline Flooding Syria

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/the-pentagon-s-2-2-billion-soviet-arms-pipeline-flooding-syria-09-12-2017


"The Pentagon is on a spending spree as it scrabbles to amass vast
quantities of Soviet-style weapons and ammunition. But it’s running
into problems sourcing them, and is using misleading legal documents
to disguise their final destination: Syria.

The defeat of Islamic State in Syria is reliant on a questionable
supply-line, funnelling unprecedented quantities of weapons and
ammunition from Eastern Europe to some 30,000 anti-ISIS rebel
fighters.

Armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades fresh from state-owned
production lines and stockpiles of the Balkans, Central Europe and
increasingly the former Soviet Union, these US-backed troops are
spearheading the battle to reclaim Raqqa, the capital of the so-called
caliphate, and liberate other areas of Syria held by ISIS.

A trainee with the Pentagon-backed Syrian Democratic Forces learns how
to use 

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: 'White Lives Matter' Rally Canceled After Meeting Heavy Resistance In Tennessee | HuffPost

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They missed the part about armed leftists, like Redneck Revolt, the John
Brown Gun Club, and The SRA, who showed up  for community defense and who
were also instrumental in keeping 3peaters and American Pit Vipers from
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Re: [Marxism] On China and Michael Roberts

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Evidently you haven't read Michael Robert's blog. There is a lot of
resistance obviously. I think there is capitalism in China but it doesn't
seem to be like the kind of capitalism that responds simply to market
pressures, stock dividends, or profitability. I find it odd that investment
there is not geared to solely toward profitability based on, what all
capitalism is today, speculation and moving paper around. But I would
challenge you Michael to show how this is simply warmed over Nasserism or
Peronism. It seems very different than that. If you think there is an
effective finance capitalist *class* I'd like to see it. China represents a
very strange bird though it's obviosuly a form of "capitalism" dusting off
a worn appellation like 'bonarpartism' (which is what you are doing) simply
isn't very helpful.

David

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 9:21 PM, mkaradjis .  wrote:

> "The capitalist class remains atomized socially and
> politically but are allowed to function well within the rules of capitalist
> accumulation all subordinated and "planned" by the state."
>
> With all due respect David, I have no idea how you wrote that, since
> you have often described your own visit to China some years back. If
> you didn't see copious and proud and boastful displays of unbridled
> wealth more or less everywhere, then I'd have to assume you were
> mistaken about which country you were visiting. Socially, the
> capitalist place is the opposite of atomised. Socially,they are all
> powerful, and this is celebrated in the state-owned media, and in the
> top rungs of the Chinese "Communist" Party. Politically, since the CCP
> opened its doors to the capitalist class around 2001, they've flooded
> into the party,and party members, leaders, governors etc have
> hurriedly and massively embraced this new directive to become leaders
> of the "advanced productive forces". Anthony's post just now about the
> numbers of billionnaires at the top of the party and state tell us
> just how politically non-atomised they are.
>
> Yes, a kind of state-directed capitalism, like Keynesianism, like
> fascism, like Nasserism/Peronism, like NICism etc. But a "state
> capitalist state" as some kind of new social formation? A tad
> unscientific I would think.
>
> Really, what is the big resistance still to recognising China as a
> capitalist state?
>
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> > Anthony Boynton wrote:
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> > "Yes, there is some way that the state in China can be described other
> than
> > as a "capitalist state" or "deformed workers state": it is a "state
> > capitalist state"."
> >
> > Indeed...this my position as well. it is the only form of political
> economy
> > that makes any sense. The capitalist class remains atomized socially and
> > politically but are allowed to function well within the rules of
> capitalist
> > accumulation all subordinated and "planned" by the state. It's State
> > Capitalism come to life.
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[Marxism] Fwd: 'White Lives Matter' Rally Canceled After Meeting Heavy Resistance In Tennessee | HuffPost

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Another example of how to protest the alt-right.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-supremacist-rallies-tennessee_us_59f48222e4b07fdc5fbe7286
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[Marxism] Fwd: bellingcat - What the OPCW-UN JIM's Leaked Report on Khan Sheikhoun Tells Us About Russia's Denials and Syria's Sarin - bellingcat

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https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2017/10/27/opcw-un-jims-leaked-report-khan-sheikhoun-tells-us-russias-denials-syrias-sarin/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Maybe Index Funds Will Destroy Capitalism

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https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/view/articles/2017-10-26/maybe-index-funds-will-destroy-capitalism
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[Marxism] Fwd: Robert Blakeley, Whose Fallout Shelter Sign Symbolized the Cold War, Dies at 95 - The New York Times

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/obituaries/robert-blakeley-whose-fallout-shelter-sign-symbolized-the-cold-war-dies-at-95.html
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Re: [Marxism] Suggestions for reads on Portugal??

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A friend told me this was good:

https://www.amazon.com/Building-Popular-Power-Neighborhood-Portuguese/dp/0853457417/ref=sr_1_4?s=books=UTF8=1509213173=1-4=portugal
 


> Looking for suggestions for historical readings on Portugal  - the Salazar 
> regime, the resistance to it, the anti-colonial and national liberation 
> struggles, and the revolution of 1974.
> ( Was just in the country for the first time and realized, especially after 
> visiting the remarkable “Museum of the Resistance” in Lisbon, that I really 
> don’t much at all about the history, but came away wit the sense that there 
> are some important lessons there.) 

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[Marxism] Fwd: Who was Lee Harvey Oswald? | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Vis-a-vis the opening of the files.

https://louisproyect.org/2013/11/22/who-was-lee-harvey-oswald/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Russian Revolution Turns 100!

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http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=13720
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Re: [Marxism] Suggestions for reads on Portugal??

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Typing Portugal in the Marxists.org search field brings up many articles by
Cliff, Harman, Birchall et al. from the Cliffite perspective.



Detailed analysis by a revolutionary-led solidarity committee:

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/img/img-pamphlets/portugal-our-struggle.pdf



A polemical intervention on the character of the revolution and its forces
from the US SWP perspective is at:

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/portugal/port01.htm

It argues against Moreno; the latter’s originals should be at MIA.



A list of some important documents which should be at the MIA documents
pages:

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/fi/1963-1985/usfi/ltt-lft/internal-letters/01-05-1977.pdf



Type Portugal in the Keyword field at the Intercontinental Press archive:

http://66.114.139.138/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=IP_Index_Public&-loadframes

I’d start with Gerry Foley’s articles.



There were also a couple books on self-management in the revolution.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Houston Texans Owner Bob McNair Shells Out Major Bucks To GOP Candidates

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Excellent reporting on the racist bastard who likened Black football 
players to prisoners.


https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/houston-texans-owner-bob-mcnair-shells-out-major-bucks-to-gop-candidates/
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[Marxism] Protesters in Ukraine Camp Out Over an Old Issue: Corruption

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(For many on the left, especially those who follow RT.com's talking 
points, there was an attempt to make an amalgam between Euromaidan and 
the Ukrainian oligarchs who exploited it for their own opportunist 
motives, starting with the current president Poroshenko. This reflected 
an inability to understand the underlying dynamics at play that required 
some understanding of Ukraine's history and a more dialectical 
appreciation of the Marxist method.)


NY Times, Oct. 28 2017
Protesters in Ukraine Camp Out Over an Old Issue: Corruption
By ANDREW E. KRAMER

KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainians stomped and chanted on the icy cobblestones. 
They unfurled a gigantic banner with the words “Remember Us, We Are Fed 
Up!” And when a government collapsed, they thought they had won.


That was nearly four years ago. Since then, frustration has again 
bubbled up, mostly over the slow pace of anticorruption measures by the 
new government. Corruption was a crucial issue in 2014, as well.


This fall, yet again, a tent protest camp has popped up in Kiev, the 
Ukrainian capital. Though far smaller than the Independence Square 
rallies of 2014, the new campaign has become the first sustained street 
movement since then.


For a country already plagued by economic collapse, a war with 
Russian-backed separatists and, over the past year or so, a string of 
assassinations and attempted assassinations in the capital, the several 
hundred protesters and their tents add another unpredictable element to 
Ukrainian politics.


“Corruption is flourishing and nothing has changed,” said Vladimir V. 
Makarichev, a war veteran who said he was upset with his shoddy 
treatment after being demobilized in May.


Ukraine is not headed toward a new revolution, political analysts say. 
The post-revolution government has had some successes: It overhauled the 
army into an effective force, tempered by combat; reformed the 
notoriously corrupt police; and persuaded the European Union to allow 
visa-free travel for Ukrainians.


But frustration with foot-dragging on anticorruption measures by 
President Petro O. Poroshenko, who came to power after the 2014 
uprising, goes beyond the new camp.


At home, Mr. Poroshenko broke with early allies over worries about 
cronyism in his government. And patience is running thin with foreign 
donors, as well. The International Monetary Fund has linked aid 
disbursements to establishing an independent anticorruption court.


It is this issue that brought out the protesters. They are demanding 
that Parliament pass a law to establish the independent court for 
high-level corruption cases and two other measures related to fighting 
corruption and making election campaigns more transparent.


The movement drew its largest crowd of about 5,000 people on Oct. 17, in 
a park near the Parliament building. At their peak, the 2014 
demonstrations attracted crowds estimated at about 250,000 people.


Despite drawing far smaller crowds, the organizers have mimicked the 
earlier protests on Independence Square. The field kitchens doling out 
buckwheat stew and the tents warmed by wooden stoves, emblems of the 
previous rallies, today embody the accusation of unfulfilled promises.


All this has unnerved the government. Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Yuri 
Lutsenko, has warned of a looming coup organized, he said, by a former 
president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, a onetime ally of Mr. 
Poroshenko who is now a main backer of the tent camp.


A prominent critic of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, Mr. 
Saakashvili supported the protests that overthrew Ukraine’s pro-Putin 
government and later advised Mr. Poroshenko.


The government has revoked the Ukrainian citizenship it granted him in 
better days of his relationship with Mr. Poroshenko, and has recently 
taken to threatening to deport the now-stateless statesman. One night 
earlier this week, Mr. Saakashvili slept in a sleeping bag in one of the 
tents pitched on the street.


“Saakashvili challenged the state, and law enforcement will answer him,” 
Mr. Lutsenko, the prosecutor, said earlier this week. “The right for 
peaceful protest does not mean preparations for a forceful coup, started 
by a small group.”


Mr. Poroshenko derided the camp as a movement that serves Russia’s 
interests, the ultimate insult in Ukrainian politics. On Tuesday, 
speaking at a conference on economic development, he said that Russia 
wanted to destabilize Ukraine and “finds good-for-nothing politicians 
who not only support this, but agree to organize it.” He added that 
“they will achieve nothing.”


On a recent day, Kiev residents strolled by the tent camp to evaluate 

[Marxism] Fwd: Snoozing Through Fascism: A slow-motion academic protest of fascism emerges after conference - Baltimore City Paper

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More on the Bard College AfD controversy.

http://www.citypaper.com/blogs/the-news-hole/bcpnews-snoozing-through-fascism-a-slow-motion-academic-protest-of-fascism-emerges-after-conference-20171027-story.html
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[Marxism] Suggestions for reads on Portugal??

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Looking for suggestions for historical readings on Portugal  - the Salazar 
regime, the resistance to it, the anti-colonial and national liberation 
struggles, and the revolution of 1974.
( Was just in the country for the first time and realized, especially after 
visiting the remarkable “Museum of the Resistance” in Lisbon, that I really 
don’t much at all about the history, but came away wit the sense that there are 
some important lessons there.) 
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[Marxism] Fwd: A film from yesterday and an audience from today | MR Online

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With its theme a little-known event of over a century ago, the film was 
ancient in cinema terms, its rather unsuccessful premiere was way back 
in 1926 and the performance Monday evening marked an event even earlier 
than that, one which is rarely discussed and even less celebrated. Yet 
the theatre was sold out and the final ovation lasted many, many 
minutes, with some loudly cheering and many standing.


The film was Potemkin, its showing was almost exactly 100 years after 
the Russian Revolution in October or November 1917 (the month depending 
on which calendar is used). The place was the Babylon in downtown 
Berlin, near its eastern center, Alexanderplatz.


https://mronline.org/2017/10/26/a-film-from-yesterday-and-an-audience-from-today/

See the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TgWoSHUn8c
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[Marxism] Fwd: Socialism is surging on college campuses this fall – VICE News

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[Marxism] Fwd: Why Are Socialists Always Talking About the Working Class?

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(Talking out of the left side of his mouth.)

BHASKAR SUNKARA
Only Workers Can Smash the Machine
An emancipatory political vision must center of the people who make the 
system run.


http://inthesetimes.com/features/debate_socialism_organizing_working_class.html#ufd1
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[Marxism] Stand with Independent Catalunya against the Imperialist Spanish State!

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