Re: [Marxism] a little-known history of German resistance to the Nazis

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https://libcom.org/history/1939-1945-the-edelweiss-pirates 


I would add that I recall reading decades ago something similar by Günter 
Grass, maybe in The Tin Drum.  He wrote of a gang of children (teenagers?) in a 
port city.  At some point they make contact with workers in a (shipbuilding?) 
factory, who propose some action to them.
But they choose a nihilistic approach and refuse politics.

If I did not get the right author, perhaps someone can correct me.

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[Marxism] thoughts on Australian politics

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I have been remiss in that I have not spent much time posting about events in 
Oz.  There is a state election in Queensland, happening in two weeks and it is 
hard to pick it.  

The conservative Liberal National Party (LNP) are in opposition and governing 
in a minority government is the Labor Party.  It is best described as cautious 
and tending to cling to the vanishing neoliberal centre.  The Premier Anastasia 
Palaszczuk is, or deserves to be, famous for her “I won’t be rushed” mantra.

The Murdoch press (Curses be on it) is concentrating on the activities of 
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party.  Hanson is not running.  She is a federal 
Senator.  But the media hangs upon her every word. Her party could be described 
as right wing populist.  She is racist and angry and stupid. But she definitely 
has some disadvantages as well.

For instance, there is a total absence of discipline in her “party”.  This 
could be best described as a flocking together of the “deplorables”  - all 
drawn like flies to the excremental that is Hansonism.  But Hanson  lacks a 
Steve Bannon, who could articulate a Strasserism, that would move her into 
serious disidentification territory rather than the terrain of 
counter-identification that the One Nation Party & their supporters now occupy. 
(Reference to Michel Pecheux’s work there, comrades).

As well, Hanson herself is a Tory wannabe.  She just wants to be accepted by 
her betters. Thus, she votes with the Federal conservative government to cut 
penalty rates. She supports the use of cheap overseas labour on Australian 
boats. She raves against the unions and never conceives of the possibility of 
winning the membership over. When the government is in trouble, she moves to 
prop them up.

So this is the kind of right wing populism you have when you don’t have a real 
right wing populism.   I hesitate to say this, but Hansonism is not fascism. 
Having said that, it could mutate, and I am not at inferring that the One 
Nation Party and the cult of Hanson are something we should not worry about.

So what will happen in the State election? For me the overwhelming factor is 
that the main Conservative Party, the LNP, is a spent force in ideological 
terms. The steady collapse of the neoliberal centre, the return of Keynesian 
thinking, have all deprived the LNP of a clear focus.  They do not have any 
solution to the myriad of problems that have sprung up in the 21st century 
since the GFC of 2008. When the LNP were in government (2012-2015), they 
indulged in an orgy of late unset Thatcherism, sacking thousands of public 
servants and plunging the state into a shortfall in  demand that led the state 
into a recession. 

Like the Conservatives in England conservative parties in Australia are one 
trick ponies.  They cling to the tenets of austerity and if that does not work, 
they are bereft.  
Whether they would admit, or even know it, or not, the State and Federal 
Liberals are basically waiting for the  Labor Party to come up with a solution 
which they will then attempt to own.

Whether the Labor Party which gave Australia neoliberalism under Paul Keating, 
can now construct a Keynesian type Centre is what is bubbling under the 
political surface here.

Comradely

Gary


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[Marxism] Fwd: Louis C.K., Harvey Weinstein, and the Art of the Brotest - The Atlantic

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How some male feminism "supporters" turn out to be the worst kind of pigs.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/11/he-doth-brotest-too-much/545672/
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[Marxism] Catalonia struggle live blog

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(for those following Dick Nichol's live blog, not this is a new blog/url
due to technical difficulties with the old one)

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/live-blog-catalonias-independence-struggle-continues

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[Marxism] 60,000 nazis march in Poland

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http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/46820-6-people-march-in-massive-nazi-rally-in-poland
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[Marxism] Fwd: Two views of the past 50 years on campuses and off (essay)

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https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2017/11/13/two-views-past-50-years-campuses-and-essay
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[Marxism] Fwd: Frank Rich: What Comes After Trump Could Be More Dangerous

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To appreciate the tenacity and enduring political constancy of Trumpism, 
George Wallace’s story is the essential text. Soon after Trump started 
running in 2015, commentators started to clock the uncanny parallels 
with his southern predecessor. As Trump’s path into presidential 
politics was greased by birtherism, so Wallace commandeered the national 
spotlight by playing the race card, showboating before television 
cameras to try to block black students from attending class at the 
University of Alabama in 1963. As Trump’s followers came for the racism 
but stayed for the nationalism and populism, so had Wallace’s. His 
presidential campaign slogan was “Stand Up for America.” He inveighed 
against “pointy-headed professors,” the “filthy rich in Wall Street,” 
and Washington’s “briefcase-totin’ bureaucrats” while supporting 
big-government programs like Social Security and Medicare that benefited 
his base. Wallace, again anticipating Trump, decried the two parties as 
interchangeable while refusing to offer anything beyond anger and 
complaints as an alternative. Wallace was “interested in exploiting 
issues, not solving problems,” as the Times put it in 1972. He “has no 
real policies, plans, or platforms,” observed the contemporaneous 
journalist Kirkpatrick Sale, perceptively adding that “no one expects 
them from him.” That he lost all his crusades against the federal 
government, including his signature battle against desegregation, didn’t 
faze his followers either. “What matters is that he fought and continues 
to fight,” wrote the early Wallace biographer Marshall Frady.


full: 
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/frank-rich-trumpism-after-trump.html

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[Marxism] The New York Panthers-A Legacy

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A look at the PM Press reprint of Look for Me in the Whirlwind

http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2017/11/new-york-panthers-legacy.html

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[Marxism] Fwd: Value, class and Capital | Michael Roberts Blog

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Report on London HM Conference sessions about economics.

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2017/11/12/value-class-and-capital/
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: I Love You, Daddy | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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The item forwarded by Dennis Brasky , 
http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/louis-ck-is-done.html 

Includes the sentence,
"A well-crafted, intelligent story about the impact of rape, domestic
violence, pederasty, and so forth is already tough to watch.”

What is the understanding of people on this list?  Does pederasty imply an 
unequal relationship in which consent cannot be easily given or withheld?
If it does not have that implication, I am surprised to see it listed with rape 
and domestic violence.

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