[Marxism] Juggalo makeup prevents facial recognition

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https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/worried-facial-recognition-technology-juggalo-makeup-prevents-involuntary-surveillance-232354372.html


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[Marxism] Ocasio-Cortez interview

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Explain to me how this is different from a left liberal:
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/ocasio-cortez-socialism-is-part-of-what-i-am-not-all-of-what-i-am-1267955267646

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[Marxism] Here's To The Mice!

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Here's To The Mice!
by Vachel Lindsay

(Written with the hope that the socialists might yet dethrone Kaiser and 
Czar.)


Here's to the mice that scare the lions,
Creeping into their cages.
Here's to the fairy mice that bite
The elephants fat and wise:
Hidden in the hay-pile while the elephant thunder rages.
Here's to the scurrying, timid mice
Through whom the proud cause dies.

Here's to the seeming accident
When all is planned and working,
All the flywheels turning,
Not a vassal shirking.
Here's to the hidden tunneling thing
That brings the mountain's groans.
Here's to the midnight scamps that gnaw,
Gnawing away the thrones.
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[Marxism] Leon Trotsky on the lesser evil

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Is Bruening the “Lesser Evil”?

The social democracy supports Bruening, votes for him, assumes the 
responsibility for him before the masses – on the basis that the 
Bruening Government is the “lesser evil”. The Rote Fahne attempts to 
ascribe the same view to me – on the basis that I expressed myself 
against the stupid and shameful participation of the Communists in the 
Hitler referendum. But have the German Left Opposition and myself in 
particular demanded that the Communists vote for and support Bruening? 
We Marxists regard Bruening and Hitler, together with Braun, as 
component parts of one and the same system. The question, which one of 
them is the “lesser evil”, has no sense, for the system against which we 
are fighting needs all these elements. But these elements are 
momentarily involved in conflicts with one another and the party of the 
proletariat must take advantage of these conflicts in the interest of 
the revolution.


There are seven keys in the musical scale. The question which of these 
keys is “better”: Do, Re or Sol is a senseless question. But the 
musician must know when to strike and what keys to strike. The abstract 
question as to who is the lesser evil: Bruening or Hitler – is just as 
senseless. It is necessary to know which of these keys to strike. Is 
that clear? For the weak-minded let us cite another example. When one of 
my enemies sets before me small daily portions of poison and the second, 
on the other hand, is about to shoot straight at me, then I will first 
knock the revolver out of the hand of my second enemy, for this gives me 
an opportunity to get rid of my first enemy. But that does not at all 
mean that the poison is a “lesser evil” in comparison to the revolver.


full: https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1931/12/danger.htm
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Re: [Marxism] DSA member Ocasio-Cortez elected

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You didn't read my previous posts, Dennis Brasky? I made clear who I think
does have that power and how they could use it. If you disagree, then what
do you propose? And what do others propose? Or will this discussion remain
on the general or historical level?

On Tue, Jul 3, 2018, 5:07 PM Dennis Brasky  wrote:

> How can anyone be "concrete" about a process that is far beyond the powers
> of anyone on this list to influence? Were there such discussions here about
> how to create a movement of resistance to killer cops "here and now" or did
> we have to react to BLM? Ditto Me#Too.
>
> The far left in the US is in no position to create anything of substance.
> All we can hope to do is react in a sane way to positive developments.
>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 6:27 PM, John Reimann via Marxism
>
>>
>> What has been in short supply is a concrete discussion
>> on exactly how, through what concrete steps, the building of a mass
>> working
>> class party can be started here and now.
>>
>>
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Re: [Marxism] DSA member Ocasio-Cortez elected

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How can anyone be "concrete" about a process that is far beyond the powers
of anyone on this list to influence? Were there such discussions here about
how to create a movement of resistance to killer cops "here and now" or did
we have to react to BLM? Ditto Me#Too.

The far left in the US is in no position to create anything of substance.
All we can hope to do is react in a sane way to positive developments.

On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 6:27 PM, John Reimann via Marxism

>
> What has been in short supply is a concrete discussion
> on exactly how, through what concrete steps, the building of a mass working
> class party can be started here and now.
>
>
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[Marxism] Rudy Cheeks on Moira Walsh and RI Politics

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Speaking of changing the Democratic Party...



<
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/the-rhode-island-democratic-party-may-have-endorsed-a-trump-supporter.html
>

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Re: [Marxism] DSA member Ocasio-Cortez elected

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So, far we have had on this discussion comments ranging from what Lenin
said about the British Labour Party to the role of Al Shanker and Irving
Howe during the 1968 NYC teachers strike (which I also remember well,
having been involved in the high school student movement that came about
partly as a result). What has been in short supply is a concrete discussion
on exactly how, through what concrete steps, the building of a mass working
class party can be started here and now. (I'm assuming that none of the
commentators disagrees with that longer term goal.) Nor, based on that,
whether supporting some Democrats is compatible with that.

I have put forward my views on that, but with a lack of response,
especially from those who think socialists should support Ocasio-Cortez. If
they agree that a mass working class party is needed in the US, then they
should explain what they think are the steps towards that goal and how
those steps are compatible with supporting Ocasio-Cortez and, by extension,
other representatives of the "progressive" wing of the Democratic Party.

John Reimann
PS. I went to a few Green Party meetings here in the East Bay area shortly
after the presidential elections. My experience led me to conclude that, at
least here in this area, they are totally hopeless.
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[Marxism] Recommended Reading | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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An excerpt from “Capitalism vs. Freedom: the Toll Road to Serfdom“:

Labor’s Loves Lost

Having reviewed the strong concentration of capital ownership, both in 
household fortunes as well as market consolidation, what about labor? 
The Right’s take on the freedom of the labor market is that it leaves us 
free to choose among multiple uses for our labor, protecting you from 
power plays by a tyrannical boss, as when Milton Friedman wrote:


The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided 
by the existence of many employers…The employers who protect a worker 
are those who would like to hire him. Their demand for his services 
makes it in the self-interest of his own employer to pay him the full 
value of his work. If his own employer doesn’t, someone else may be 
ready to do so. Competition for his services—that is the worker’s real 
protection.


The first serious problem with these rosy reviews of the market is that 
after the previous section, it must be admitted that the “many 
employers” the Friedmans are expecting may never arrive to the job fair. 
And they do quietly concede that “Two classes or workers are not 
protected by anyone: workers who have only one possible employer, and 
workers who have no possible employer,” which makes consolidation and 
outsourcing very relevant for freedom.


The second great problem is that, fundamentally, people are in fact not 
commodities. A seller of non-perishable goods can store them until 
market conditions are favorable. This patience is unavailable for owners 
of mere labor power, who stubbornly require food and water at regular 
intervals. The kid can’t skip eating this quarter and eat more next 
quarter instead. Treating labor as an asset priced by supply and demand, 
like toasters or toothbrushes, is a gross insult to the human spirit and 
indeed, is responsible for some of the gravest crimes committed against 
humanity in our history.


A further problem is that this traditional claim that the labor market 
is “free” is based on another assumption, that if you don’t find an 
employer you want to work for, you can just produce goods on your own. 
Friedman: “Since the household always has the alternative of producing 
directly for itself, it need not enter into any exchange unless it 
benefits from it. Hence, no exchange will take place unless both parties 
do benefit from it.” This would indeed grant a good deal of freedom to 
the man on the street, but “producing for itself” implies access to 
productive resources, including what we call “capital,” which as we’ve 
seen is so highly concentrated that a very large part of global society 
has essentially none. This means that since we have no “positive 
freedom” to use or decide on how to use the capital stock, the typical 
working person is also left with diminished “negative freedom,” since 
employers who own the concentrated capital have dramatic power over 
employees in the market.


Order book here

full: https://louisproyect.org/2018/07/03/recommended-reading/
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[Marxism] navigating between the Scylla of sectarian abstentionism and the Charybdis of opportunism

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>
> The activists supporting Sanders/Ocasio-Cortez/PSA are the mass left
> movement of tomorrow. The question is how to reach them without either
> abstaining from their movement in true US left sectarian fashion, or
> staying silent about the history of destroyed left movements seeking to
> “push to the left” or even “take over” the Dems, in true US left
> opportunist fashion.
>
> “Supporters of Ocasio-Cortez will quickly and repeatedly run up against
> the limitations of a Democratic Party that is an institutional pillar of
> U.S. capitalism. Yet between rising hopes fueled by her victory and
> frustrated attempts to work through the “proper channels,” these same
> supporters will draw many lessons. Which way these lessons break will
> determine whether eager new socialists become co-opted, burn out and fall
> away, or emerge hardened by the experience, with a clearer understanding of
> what it will ultimately take to realize a new world.”
>
> https://socialistworker.org/2018/07/03/what-can-we-do-with-the-democrats
>
>
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[Marxism] On Rohini Hensman’s ‘Indefensible’ – Hummus For Thought

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https://hummusforthought.com/2018/07/03/indefensible/
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[Marxism] The Robbery of Nature | John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review

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https://monthlyreview.org/2018/07/01/the-robbery-of-nature/
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[Marxism] Syria’s Assad has become Israel’s ally - Syria - Haaretz.com

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https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-syria-s-assad-has-become-israel-s-ally-1.6240499
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[Marxism] Ecology: The Keystone Science

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A missing piece from most critiques of modern capitalism revolves around 
the misunderstanding of ecology. To put it bluntly, there will be no 
squaring the circle of mass industrial civilization and an inhabitable 
Earth. There is no way for energy and resource use, along with all the 
strife, warfare, and poverty that comes along with it, to continue under 
the business as usual model that contemporary Western nations operate under.


https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/03/ecology-the-keystone-science/
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