[Marxism] Fwd: An “Idiot” and a “Dope”: McMaster Reportedly Unloads on Trump During a Private Dinner | Vanity Fair
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[Marxism] Fwd: Trump-GOP Tax Plan: The Biggest Wealth Grab in Modern History | Fortune
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[Marxism] ‘I Can’t Breathe’: Eric Garner’s Life and Death
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * NY Times Sunday Book Review, Nov. 19 2017 ‘I Can’t Breathe’: Eric Garner’s Life and Death By JAMIL SMITH I CAN’T BREATHE A Killing on Bay Street By Matt Taibbi 322 pp. Spiegel & Grau. $28. “Homicide” is too simple a word for what happened to Eric Garner on that Staten Island sidewalk three years ago. Many of us would personally testify to the term’s technical accuracy, having watched, ad infinitum, the horrifying video of the 43-year-old grandfather and loose-cigarette dealer gasping for air as a New York City police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, uses a chokehold and wrestles Garner down to the pavement. Saying that the chokehold killed Garner feels incomplete. Politics, race and money play roles in nudging us all to our fates, and Garner’s demise on July 17, 2014, involved all three. Assessing his end solely based on what happened that day is tempting, given the video evidence. However, a more thorough understanding is required. Matt Taibbi, the author and Rolling Stone contributing editor, has published a new book that properly depicts the Garner killing as a consequence of our society’s ills. Its title, “I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street,” seems to imply a narrow focus on the Garner killing, belying the book’s prismatic approach to both the people and policies involved in Garner’s life and death. Taibbi has recently come under renewed scrutiny for a 2000 book he co-wrote with Mark Ames, with whom he edited an English-language newspaper in 1990s Russia, in which they describe sexually harassing and assaulting their female employees. Taibbi has since posted two apologies on Facebook, saying that such passages in the book were intended as satire. Satire or not, the criticisms will no doubt be disqualifying to some readers. But one should not mistake a review of this book on Garner with an endorsement of the author or his previous work. This time, as Taibbi wrote in one of his Facebook posts, he found a story that “had to be told without my voice, without linguistic cartwheels or jokes or any of the other circus tricks I learned to use.” Indeed, “I Can’t Breathe” is a work of deep reporting, as chapter by chapter, Taibbi introduces us to individual players — from Garner’s fellow street hustlers in the beleaguered Tompkinsville section of Staten Island to activists who protested the grand jury’s refusal to indict Pantaleo (a man whom we also get to know much better, as Taibbi unearths what he can of his past). The story of the Garners’ tumultuous and often combative family life is told by people who were there, including Garner’s daughter Erica, an activist. In this book, humanization does not equal lionization, and sympathy is never confused for pity. This applies to everyone, in particular the book’s principal subject. Though he aims to flesh out and contextualize what happened to Garner, this may be the most critical look at the man himself. Every fault, compulsion and bad choice is presented in full relief. Still, as Taibbi writes early on, “Eric Garner may have created a lot of his own problems, but he was also the victim of bad luck and atrocious timing.” It is impossible to understand how society’s pressures and inequities wore Garner down without examining an obsession with providing for his family that went so deep that he ignored his own needs. But Taibbi’s reportorial voice, often blunt and forceful, is most compassionate when he is integrating political realities with facts about Garner and the incidents depicted. Taibbi describes in full the horrors of institutionalized poverty in neighborhoods like Tompkinsville, from the real-estate scams that created them to the overseer mentality of the police patrolling them. Crooked landlords and legal quagmires all shaped Garner’s world. Taibbi is smart to depict the structurally racist system of law enforcement in this country as a character in and of itself. The misguided and destructive “broken windows” policing tactic is portrayed here as Frankenstein’s monster, built with good intentions without thought to tragic consequences. “Right or wrong, the threat of being stopped went from an annoyance to a thing that took over his life,” Taibbi writes. Like the Moirai of Greek mythology, other people made political choices that directed the course of Garner’s life and accelerated its end. The first half of the book, as it progresses, feels increasingly like a train without brakes that is rolling downhill. If readers are unfamiliar with the fatalism and frustration that racial discrimination, poverty and poor policing engender in men like Eric Garner, Taibbi provides
[Marxism] In ‘Nomadland,’ the Golden Years Are the Wander Years
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[Marxism] A Novelist Revisits a Deadly Textile Union Strike From 1929
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * NY Times Sunday Book Review, Nov. 19 2017 A Novelist Revisits a Deadly Textile Union Strike From 1929 By AMY ROWLAND THE LAST BALLAD By Wiley Cash 378 pp. William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers. $26.99. In 1929, the National Textile Workers Union tried to gain a Southern stronghold, beginning with the Loray Mill in Gastonia, N.C. Many workers, pushed to near impossible production while fearing loss of pay or, worse, “an arm or a hand or a finger or three,” joined the union. The mill owners refused to negotiate and most of the 1,800 strikers reluctantly returned to work. When armed citizen deputies and police officers entered the tent village of the holdouts, shots were fired. Gastonia’s police chief was killed. The events of this summer of struggle are recovered in Wiley Cash’s vigorous third novel, “The Last Ballad.” The book begins with a newspaper ad, calling on every citizen to “do his duty” against the strike, which has been organized by “Communists” and “Bolshevists” who “do not believe in our God, our Constitution or our government” and are ready to “kill, kill, kill.” Ella May Wiggins is trying to keep four children alive on $9 a week. As Cash portrays her, “with lint hung up in her throat and lungs like tar,” Ella is a tough 28, a skilled spinner at American Mill No. 2, owned by the Goldberg brothers, who are considered “white but not American” and are tolerated by locals as long as their workers are treated as poorly as those at other mills. The employees at No. 2 may even make a little less, since it is the rare mill with an integrated work force. Housing remains segregated, though Ella heads the one white family living in Stumptown, the black residential neighborhood. Cash’s Ella is based on the union organizer and balladeer of the same name, though her story certainly wasn’t taught in any North Carolina schools this reviewer attended. She was a known folk hero to some: Alan Lomax published her ballads and Pete Seeger recorded them. Now Wiley Cash has given her a powerful book that speaks to contemporary concerns through historical injustice. Caught between caring for a sick child (one has already died of whooping cough) and missing mandatory 12-hour shifts, Ella decides to attend a rally, and causes a sensation when she sings one of her own songs, “The Mill Mother’s Lament.” She becomes an organizer, seeking to bring both white and black workers into the union, which doesn’t go over well with many people, including some labor leaders. After a Gastonia rally, Ella’s truck is run off the road, and things turn just as violent as you might expect. Though Ella is the central figure, the story is told from alternating perspectives, including that of a black train porter, a mill owner and a mill owner’s wife, who has a slightly far-fetched awakening of sympathy for working women. In the only contemporary and first-person passages, Ella’s now elderly daughter fills in her nephew, and the novel’s readers, on the tragic details of her mother’s life. It is in fashion to rely on factual evidence or autobiographical detail to bolster fiction, which is now considered even by some novelists to be “artificial” or “embarrassing.” Leaning on the “real” can yield a mesmerizing verisimilitude, but it can also limit imagination. In the retelling of the Loray Mill strike and the courageous role of Ella May Wiggins, Cash vividly blends the archival with the imaginative. As the historian Perry Anderson has noted, good historical fiction has the ability “to waken us to history, in a time when any real sense of it has gone dead.” When the willingness to suspend disbelief has taken on a new and sinister meaning, we not only need the novel of well-known history, we need the lost-to-history novel. Cash, with care and steadiness, has pulled from the wreckage of the past a lost moment of Southern progressivism. Perhaps fiction can help us bear the burden of Southern history, which is pressing down hard on us today. Amy Rowland is the author of a novel, “The Transcriptionist,” and a lecturer at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Essential Books on Marxism and Ecology (REVISED)
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: New York Today: How Did the Subways Get So Bad? - The New York Times
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 11/20/17 10:45 AM, Ernest Leif wrote: I especially loath the never ending use of the term "generous" when mentioning worker benefits, as though wages and fringe were willingly handed over by The City's ruling elites. I just emailed the author from my Columbia University account: I thought your article was exemplary but the inclusion of MTA workers as part of the problem is a concession to the investment bankers, corporate lawyers, and ruling class politicians who unfortunately meld with the POV of the NYT editorial board. I have an old friend from my Trotskyist youth who was a token booth clerk for many years in Washington Heights. If you told him that his compensation was $170,000 including benefits, he'd tell you that you were psychotic. Frankly, despite your meticulous reporting, this figure was not analyzed, which clearly was either your intention or--giving you the benefit of the doubt--your editor's. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: New York Today: How Did the Subways Get So Bad? - The New York Times
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[Marxism] Fwd: New York Today: How Did the Subways Get So Bad? - The New York Times
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: ZCommunications » Economic meltdown looms in Zimbabwe
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[Marxism] Fwd: ZCommunications » Economic meltdown looms in Zimbabwe
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[Marxism] The Climate Crisis? It’s Capitalism, Stupid
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * (We are in a new period when an op-ed piece like this can appear in the NYT.) NY Times Op-Ed, Nov. 20 2017 The Climate Crisis? It’s Capitalism, Stupid By BENJAMIN Y. FONG Even casual readers of the news know that the earth is probably going to look very different in 2100, and not in a good way. A recent Times opinion piece included this quotation from the paleoclimatologist Lee Kump: “The rate at which we’re injecting CO2 into the atmosphere today, according to our best estimates, is 10 times faster than it was during the End-Permian.” The End-Permian is a pre-dinosaurs era of mass extinction that killed 90 percent of the life in the ocean and 75 percent of it on land. It is also called the Great Dying. Although those who write about environmental change like to add notes of false personalization around this point — “My children will be x years old when catastrophe y happens” — there is really no good way of acclimating the mind to facts of this magnitude. However, the cause of the disaster that, by all indications, we are already living through should be clearer. It is not the result of the failure of individuals to adopt the moralizing strictures of “green” consciousness, and it is a sign of just how far we have to go that some still believe reusable shopping bags and composting (perfectly fine in their own right) are ways out of this mess. It is also not the deceit of specific immoral companies that is to blame: We like to pick out Volkswagen’s diesel scandal, but it is only one of many carmakers that “deliberately exploit lax emissions tests.” Nor does the onus fall on the foundering of Social Democratic reforms and international cooperation: Even before the United States backed out of the Paris Accord, we were well on our way to a 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit temperature rise by 2100, “a temperature that at times in the past has meant no ice at either pole.” The real culprit of the climate crisis is not any particular form of consumption, production or regulation but rather the very way in which we globally produce, which is for profit rather than for sustainability. So long as this order is in place, the crisis will continue and, given its progressive nature, worsen. This is a hard fact to confront. But averting our eyes from a seemingly intractable problem does not make it any less a problem. It should be stated plainly: It’s capitalism that is at fault. As an increasing number of environmental groups are emphasizing, it’s systemic change or bust. From a political standpoint, something interesting has occurred here: Climate change has made anticapitalist struggle, for the first time in history, a non-class-based issue. There are many reasons we do not typically talk about climate change in this way. The wealthy are holding fast to theirs. Bought politicians and state violence are on their side. Eco-apartheid is not yet seen as full-on apartheid. Everyday people have plenty to keep up with, and they don’t want to devote their precious time off work to often tedious political meetings. The inertia, it is sad to say, makes enough sense. Perhaps the most common belief about this problem is that it is caused by widespread ignorance — even outright “stupidity” — and that its solution lies in its opposite, intelligence. This belief is neatly expressed in progressive opposition to Donald Trump and his administration. Trump voters are often criticized for being unintelligent, for voting against their objective interests. Trump himself is regularly portrayed as unintelligent. The basic idea is that if voters were intelligent, they would vote for an intelligent person who listened to intelligent people and all would be well. It is a staple of the liberal imaginary. Reflected here is the obtuse belief that the populist tide is simply mistaken, that it has gotten something wrong, which has the effect of veiling the real and justified dissatisfaction with the past 40 years of neoliberalism. Also reflected is the common view, which is not confined to one end of the political spectrum, that our biggest problems are essentially technical ones, and that the solution to them lies in the empowerment of intelligent people. The aura around Elon Musk is an extreme example of this kind of thinking. The problem with the general view that intelligence will save us is that it involves pinning the failures of capitalist society on supposedly dumb people (them), who, so the logic goes, need to be replaced with supposedly smart ones (us). This is a spectacular delusion. When a company makes a decision that is destructive to the
[Marxism] Fwd: Thousands March On National Mall To Demand Puerto Rico Disaster Relief | HuffPost
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: District Attorney: No Role For a Socialist
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * My (limited) understanding of this career path (that I never pursued) is that given prosecutorial discretion a DA could also just decline to bring charges against most small-time offenders. - Amith On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Nick Fredman via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > POSTING RULES & NOTES > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > * > > Here he comes across as a decent guy determined to prosecute the rich and > powerful who deserve it and cut back on the punitive force of the justice > system used against the oppressed: > > https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/marc-fliedner-for-da- > the-write-in-candidate-who-would-have-charged-harvey-weinstein > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < > marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > > > POSTING RULES & NOTES > > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > > * > > > > I am not sure I agree with this. I can understand objecting to a DSA > > member running for sheriff but is a DA in the same category? A leftist DA > > would have the power to instruct a jury to return a not guilty verdict. I > > have personal experience with a DA (not a leftist) who did exactly that. > > Furthermore, a DA might decide to go after Wall St. banksters with more > > zeal than is currently the case. Anyhow, it is not that simple. Or maybe > I > > am just a Menshevik. > > > > http://leftvoice.org/District-Attorney-No-Role-For-a-Socialist > > _ > > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > > ions/marxism/nick.j.fredman%40gmail.com > > > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ > options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com > _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] (no subject)
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: District Attorney: No Role For a Socialist
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Here he comes across as a decent guy determined to prosecute the rich and powerful who deserve it and cut back on the punitive force of the justice system used against the oppressed: https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/marc-fliedner-for-da-the-write-in-candidate-who-would-have-charged-harvey-weinstein On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > POSTING RULES & NOTES > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > * > > I am not sure I agree with this. I can understand objecting to a DSA > member running for sheriff but is a DA in the same category? A leftist DA > would have the power to instruct a jury to return a not guilty verdict. I > have personal experience with a DA (not a leftist) who did exactly that. > Furthermore, a DA might decide to go after Wall St. banksters with more > zeal than is currently the case. Anyhow, it is not that simple. Or maybe I > am just a Menshevik. > > http://leftvoice.org/District-Attorney-No-Role-For-a-Socialist > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/nick.j.fredman%40gmail.com > _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Ahmad Sa'adat book on Palestinian prison struggle
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