Re: [Marxism] The-Opportunity-Costs-of-Socialism.pdf [not sent]
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. * MM wrote "“The Trump chart doesn’t say what the White House seems to think it says,” Kliff concludes. “It isn’t telling us that single-payer healthcare has long wait times. If anything, it says that it is possible to build a single-payer system with short wait times—and our Medicare program has already done it.”” https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/10/buried-hilariously-stupid-white-house-attack-socialism-accidentally-strong-argument-medicare.html Thoughts on single payer which, no less than Medicare, is at best a way station to what everyone deserves as birthright: adequate preventive and curative health assistance, at commensurate costs which do not obscenely enrich a few. In other words, it's an arrangement which if implemented still masks serious shortcomings. Present single payer schemes from what I see would not at all disturb the over all regime of the pharmaceutical/medical complex in this country. We might come to the point where we are universally protecting each others' health, as best we think we can, through an insurance scheme into which everyone pays who is able, similar to any practical solution to a common problem like auto and accident or unemployment insurance. But at what hidden taxed costs, increased social rot and ill-health, profit-taking and related gross inefficiencies? What do about systematic inflated charges, over billing, the many overpaid (possibly many overburdened) doctors in a system of guild restrictions on entry (now mitigated to the limited extent that substantial returns on investment allow by a less-trained phalanx of physicians' assistants and nurse practitioners)? What about over-reliance on allopathic, chemical-based medicine to the virtual exclusion of serious peer-reviewed research on and evaluation of naturopathic, herb-based and other possibly more effective types of medicine, and the need for much greater emphasis on nutrition, preventive care, and on the ways in which the toxics in our food and environment combine to undermine health - - not to mention the undermining effects of social inequality? What do about the bloated and rapidly increasing profits of clinics, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, government-funded or subsidized institutional and university research labs, all the others who benefit from the profit-making subsidized, proprietary and other rights built into medical, biological, and other health-related research and marketing? All of which are hidden beneath any current health scheme. This may be one reason that the medical-industrial complex might ultimately accede inasmuch as profit-taking will still be there, on stilts, protected with all necessary caution in back-filling increments which protect their flanks, as they have to an extent elsewhere. How has that worked for the Scandinavian countries, or UK, France, Canada? Another factor that is important where I live: care supply. What of the fact that, in small rural communities such as mine, hundreds and thousands of people cannot find a doctor to care for them? Doctors typically seek out remunerative regions in which to plant their practice, those large urban complexes with attractive returns on their investment in education, more comfortable amenities and better prospects for their children. Among patchwork remedies might be that medical schools require as a condition of scholarships or lightening the debt load for an education in medicine, or the federal government requires as a condition of license to practice, that on some equitable basis doctors do a far more extended period of service than mandated so far, or mandate total career commitment, to under-served communities. That includes most especially under-served, more populous communities in urban areas. Without some better equalizing arrangement we in poorer, less well-educated, isolated communities have neither the local means nor infrastructure to bring in competent medical staff and facilities in sufficient quantity and quality to maintain our health. (And by the way, is it possible that any adequate solution to our social and polluting environmental problems will mean extensive dispersal to underpopulated areas, exacerbating this problem as well?) The result of course is that rural health and that of poor urban regions lags far behind. Looking for solutions brings up Cuba. Although I have little information from what I see they are gradually being forced into the capitalist, profit-oriented medical system, particularly as it applies to r and pharma trade and and
[Marxism] Carpenters union backstabs other trades, cuts its own members pay
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. * A hugely contentious issue has been roiling the building trades unions in New York City for quite some time. That is the Hudson Yards construction project, which I understand is the largest construction project in the country. As I understand it, the first phase was completed union, but now the plans are to go non-union with the second phase. All the building trades had gotten together to try to fight it, but the carpenters union leadership had gone behind the backs of the other unions and signed an agreement. This is happening while there has been a marked increase in non-union construction throughout the city, traditionally one of the strongholds of the building trades. Under the terms of the agreement, carpenters will take about a 10% pay cut. The head of the district council of carpenters commented, “The New York City construction market is evolving, the District Council will continue to innovate to ensure our members meet the needs of the market.” In other words, this will be repeated throughout the city. This is the inevitable consequence of the entire policy of the carpenters (and the building trades in general and, truth be told, the entire labor movement) to help "their" contractors compete with the non union contractors. In reality, this means union carpenters competing with non-union carpenters for who can make a greater profit for the employer. In that case, what's the point of having a union at all? The policy has been a devastating failure as witness this disaster at Hudson Yards. If the Carpenters can't reverse the flow of non-union construction during a massive building boom, what will happen in the next downturn? https://therealdeal.com/2018/10/23/carpenters-finalize-controversial-deal-with-related-for-50-hudson-yards/?fbclid=IwAR0HI6gDG_8yT7D5wNULOiFhbzfBRiApBukUqBNa9QyXtFJIGCIOG5wt_eg John Reimann -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _ 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] Life and Nothing More | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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. * Opening at the Film Forum today, “Life and Nothing More” shares the title of Abbas Kiarostami’s 1992 narrative film about the aftermath of the 1990 earthquake in Iran that cost the lives of 30,000 citizens. Antonio Méndez Esparaza’s film, while likely not an homage to Kiarostami’s masterpiece, shares its compassion for its victims but on another fault line, that of the racial and class divisions in contemporary Florida. Using neo-realist conventions heightened by a very gifted non-professional cast, the story is defined by the constraints imposed by capitalist society on a single mother working as a waitress, her troubled 14-year old son and three year old daughter. Fifty years ago, when I was working as a welfare worker in Harlem, I sat by the side of a 28-year old mother of four in her hospital bed trying to convince her stay in bed. Her doctors warned that if she checked herself out, another heart attack could cost her life. Through her sobs, she kept asking what she had to suffer so much. Unlike Job, her suffering and the suffering of the single mom in Esparaza’s powerful film is not a trial of their faith by God but by the vicissitudes of wage slavery magnified by racism. full: https://louisproyect.org/2018/10/24/life-and-nothing-more/ _ 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] Has America Become a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy?
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. * Hi Louis I don't think we're disagreeing as much as you think we are. Trump/Brexit is the natural culmination of neoliberalism, in my opinion, rather than an antithesis to it. It's actually disaster capitalism writ large. Trump rarely says anything that hasn't been said by Republican politicians for years. I don't think this new wave of reactionaries taking power is a response to neoliberalism. Among its supporters it may be a nihilistic response to neoliberalism's effects; but mostly it's just a natural extension of the neoliberal project. That being said, the racialism of Trump's movement, while hardly new in the US right, is troubling, considering that it's the central mobilising point of a mass movement. On Wed, 24 Oct 2018, 7:44 p.m. Louis Proyect, wrote: > On 10/24/18 12:10 PM, Tim Nelson wrote: > > > > The Trump "regime" isn't a dictatorship, but it is an ultra-reactionary > > government which has race at the centre of its agenda. Is this a new > > phenomenon in a Western democracy? No. But that's precisely the point. > > In case you hadn't noticed, such governments are sweeping across the > planet. It is all a reaction to the neo-liberal onslaught that began in > the early 70s and culminated in the Thatcher and Reagan regimes. When > voted out, it continued under the Blair and Clinton regimes. This shit > has been going on now for almost a half-century, which constitutes an > epoch of world history. > > The only way to get rid of Trump, Orban, Modi, Putin, Duterte, et al is > to wage revolutionary struggles led by the kind of party that took power > in 1917. But what people are ready to get behind is the DSA, Corbyn's > Labour, Podemos, neo-Keynesian formations in Latin America that have > passed their shelf-life and every other kind of half-measure. > > It will be up to the next generation to produce a solution, I'm afraid. > But there will be a solution or else we will die because of nuclear war > or climate catastrophe. I just finished reading an article in the April > 2018 Harpers about an anthrax epidemic in northern Russia near the > Arctic Circle that mostly affected reindeer but also some of the > indigenous people who herded them. The cause? Climate change had warmed > up the earth to such an extent that anthrax germs lodged in the dead > bodies of reindeer from decades and centuries ago had risen through the > soil. > > Oh well. I did everything I could to make the case for non-sectarian > revolutionary parties over the past 37 years. I probably should have > gone into business like Bhaskar Sunkara instead. On second thought, I'd > rather have sold real estate. > _ 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] Has America Become a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy?
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Re: [Marxism] Has America Become a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy?
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. * Hi Louis While I'm not convinced that the designation of Trumpism as fascist is necessarily helpful to understanding it, I do think that there's an important point to be addressed here. Most fascist regimes are a throwback to a previous age in many respects. The reason fascist regimes in Eastern and Central Europe relied upon anti-Semitism is exactly because it was a traditional reactionary position in that region. Similarly, we can expect British and American fascism to use anti-Black racism, as these were the mainstays of colonialism and slavery. Similarly, we can expect American fascism to use racism against Latin Americans. The Trump "regime" isn't a dictatorship, but it is an ultra-reactionary government which has race at the centre of its agenda. Is this a new phenomenon in a Western democracy? No. But that's precisely the point. On Wed, 24 Oct 2018, 2:49 p.m. 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. > * > > Clearly, we are now ruled by an oligarchic elite of governmental and > corporate interests. > > > https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/24/has-america-become-a-dictatorship-disguised-as-a-democracy/ > > --- > > Almost every day I see an article along these lines. Have the people > writing them ever studied American history? Or better yet, read Howard > Zinn? In the 19th century and much of the 20th century, Chinese-American > workers were prevented by law from becoming American citizens while the > KKK was involved in a reign of terror throughout the South. > Meanwhile,that bastion of liberal thought, the Nation Magazine, > editorialized against passing legislation reining in the KKK. Workers > were brutalized for simply trying to organize as this IWW website > indicates in great detail: > http://depts.washington.edu/iww/persecution.shtml > > As for the newspapers, the only source of information prior to radio, > yellow journalism made Fox News look scrupulous by comparison. > > Donald Trump is a throwback to the 19th century and nothing more. > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/nelsontim86%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
Re: [Marxism] Has America Become a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy?
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 10/24/18 12:10 PM, Tim Nelson wrote: The Trump "regime" isn't a dictatorship, but it is an ultra-reactionary government which has race at the centre of its agenda. Is this a new phenomenon in a Western democracy? No. But that's precisely the point. In case you hadn't noticed, such governments are sweeping across the planet. It is all a reaction to the neo-liberal onslaught that began in the early 70s and culminated in the Thatcher and Reagan regimes. When voted out, it continued under the Blair and Clinton regimes. This shit has been going on now for almost a half-century, which constitutes an epoch of world history. The only way to get rid of Trump, Orban, Modi, Putin, Duterte, et al is to wage revolutionary struggles led by the kind of party that took power in 1917. But what people are ready to get behind is the DSA, Corbyn's Labour, Podemos, neo-Keynesian formations in Latin America that have passed their shelf-life and every other kind of half-measure. It will be up to the next generation to produce a solution, I'm afraid. But there will be a solution or else we will die because of nuclear war or climate catastrophe. I just finished reading an article in the April 2018 Harpers about an anthrax epidemic in northern Russia near the Arctic Circle that mostly affected reindeer but also some of the indigenous people who herded them. The cause? Climate change had warmed up the earth to such an extent that anthrax germs lodged in the dead bodies of reindeer from decades and centuries ago had risen through the soil. Oh well. I did everything I could to make the case for non-sectarian revolutionary parties over the past 37 years. I probably should have gone into business like Bhaskar Sunkara instead. On second thought, I'd rather have sold real estate. _ 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] Has America Become a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy?
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. * Well, the trouble is that this rhetorical appeal for a return to "the good ol' days" is hardly peculiar to Trump or the Right or the Republicans. The never-Trumpers in the GOP, the moderate (ie value-free and value-less) Democrats, and the liberals are all whinging on about the good old days before Trump and the idiots came out of nowhere and spoiled that wonderful idyllic political utopia they imagine the United States to have been. Cheers, Mark L. _ 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: Announcement: HOAC symposium on 100 Years of CPUSA | Nov 10 2018 @ Williams
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. * One Hundred Years of Communism in the USA: The CPUSA at Home and Abroad since 1919 All day Saturday, November 10, 2018, Historians of American Communism (HOAC) is holding a 100th anniversary symposium on the CPUSA at Williams College's Griffin Hall, Room 3. (Main campus address is 880 Main Street, Williamstown MA 01267.) There are 20 speakers over a 12-hour program (names appear in order of program): James Ryan, Edward Johanningsmeier, Beth Slutsky, Bob Cherney, Lori Clune, Denise Lynn, John Sbardellati, Veronica Wilson, Vernon Pedersen, Bill Pratt, Eric McDuffie, Victor Devinatz, Katherine A.S. Sibley, Saint Joseph’s University, Steve Usdin, R. Bruce Craig, Ellen Schrecker, Harvey Klehr, Maurice Isserman, Glenn Gebhard Further details online at: https://networks.h-net.org/node/6077/discussions/2817656/one-hundred-years-communism-usa-cpusa-home-and-abroad-1919 https://events.williams.edu/event/one-hundred-years-of-communism-in-the-usa-the-cpusa-at-home-and-abroad-since-1919/ https://leadership-studies.williams.edu/about-2/news-events/ Regards – David David Chambers, HOAC member, david.chamb...@usa.net _ 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] Robert Faurisson, Holocaust Denier Prosecuted by French, Dies at 89
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, Oct. 24, 2018 Robert Faurisson, Holocaust Denier Prosecuted by French, Dies at 89 By Adam Nossiter PARIS — Robert Faurisson, a former literature professor turned anti-Semitic propagandist whose denial of the Holocaust earned him multiple prosecutions, died on Sunday at his home in Vichy, France. He was 89. His death was confirmed by his publisher, Akribeia, which is known for its far-right leanings. Mr. Faurisson was regarded as a father figure by contemporary French exponents of Holocaust denial, the extremist fringe in a country with a long tradition of anti-Semitism. Contemporary far-right figures like the propagandist Alain Soral and Dieudonné, who calls himself a humorist, have followed in his footsteps, but none have had the long-range tenacity of Mr. Faurisson. French writers on the political margins began denying the Holocaust not long after the war ended. But Mr. Faurisson distinguished himself by making a rare breakthrough into the country’s mainstream media, publishing a notorious opinion article in France’s most respected newspaper, Le Monde, in 1978. Titled “The Problem of the Gas Chambers, or the Rumor of Auschwitz,” the article was an immediate embarrassment for the newspaper, but it launched the public career of Mr. Faurisson, who until then was an obscure professor of French literature at the University of Lyon. His notoriety only grew through an endless cycle of articles in the far-right press denying that gas chambers had been used to kill Jews, as well as through interviews and the French justice system’s condemnations of him under its hate-speech laws. In 1990 he became the first person in France to be convicted under a law that criminalized the denial of crimes against humanity as they were defined in 1946 by the Nuremberg Tribunal. Mr. Faurisson’s assertions drew attention in the French press in the 1980s and ′90s for their outrageousness, prompting scholars and activists to respond. But he faded from view over the last decade, reappearing only occasionally to traffic his views on the radio and elsewhere. The most recent judgment against him came in November 2016, when a court fined him 10,000 euros for propounding “negationism” in interviews published on the internet. Mr. Faurisson’s expertise in 19th-century French poetry gave him a veneer of respectability, as did a petition defending his free-speech rights signed by Noam Chomsky, the politically outspoken American linguistics expert. Mr. Chomsky wrote several pages defending Mr. Faurisson’s right to express himself, and Mr. Faurisson later used that writing in a self-justifying memoir in 1980. “He was a professional propagandist who didn’t work scientifically,” said Valerie Igounet, a French historian who wrote a biography of Mr. Faurisson. “It was all dictated by an ideology. He was a falsifier of history.” That ideology was anti-Semitism. His study in Vichy, the wartime capital of collaborationist France, was crammed with books and periodicals denying the Holocaust. There were photocopied checks made out to the French treasury — the record of his fines. In an interview with this reporter in 1998, Mr. Faurisson, a slight, bespectacled figure with a high voice, asked me at one point, as if to clinch his argument, “Have you ever seen a gas chamber?” At another point he said: “Excuse me, but you are definitely a Jew! And the Jew, we have the right to typecast him. How on earth do you imagine that one would not be irritated by them?” In 1989, Mr. Faurisson was beaten by a group calling itself Sons of Jewish Memory in a park near his home. Mr. Faurisson was born on Jan. 25, 1929, in Surrey, England, to a Scottish mother, Jessica Hay Aitken, and a French father, Robert Faurisson, who worked for a French shipping company. He studied at the Lycée Henri IV in Paris, one of France’s most prestigious secondary schools, and the Sorbonne. Execrated at home, Mr. Faurisson was lauded in Iran, receiving a prize from its president at the time, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — who was well known for his fulminations against Israel and Jews — for “courage, resistance, and combativeness.” Mr. Faurisson is survived by his wife, Anne-Marie, two sons and a daughter. _ 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] What a Murder by Mussolini Teaches Us About Khashoggi and M.B.S.
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 Op-Ed, Oct. 24, 2018 What a Murder by Mussolini Teaches Us About Khashoggi and M.B.S. The murder of Jamal Khashoggi by the Saudis has striking parallels with the murder of the Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti by Fascist thugs. By Alexander Stille (Mr. Stille teaches journalism at Columbia University.) In the weeks after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents in Istanbul, a question has been repeatedly asked: How could the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, be so reckless as to sanction this horrifying murder carried out in such a clumsy and shameless fashion? The answer, I think, is that dictatorships are inherently obtuse. Dictators live in their own self-created bubble of adulation and impunity, which leads them to huge misjudgments when they are forced to act outside of the bubble. The premeditated and coldblooded murder of Mr. Khashoggi by the Saudis has striking parallels with the premeditated and coldblooded murder of the Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti by Fascist thugs operating on the orders of Benito Mussolini. On the afternoon of June 10, 1924, Mr. Matteotti was walking in Rome when a group of Fascists grabbed him and stuffed him into a waiting car. Two months later, his decomposed body was found about 12 miles away. Several days before his abduction, Mr. Matteotti had delivered an impassioned speech denouncing widespread fraud and violence committed by the Fascists during national elections two months earlier. He was scheduled to give another speech when Parliament reopened the day after his disappearance. The murder of a prominent critic of Fascism shocked Italy and the world. Before Mr. Matteotti’s disappearance and murder, Italy’s democratic allies had been prepared to believe that despite Mussolini’s violent rise to power, he intended to respect the rules and freedoms of parliamentary democracy. For some months, while an official investigation took place, Mussolini’s political survival as the prime minister seemed to hang in the balance, as evidence accumulated that Mr. Matteotti’s killers were part of a hit squad operating under the control and acting on the orders of the prime minister’s office. Mussolini survived the crisis because of the weakness and division of his political opposition, because Victor Emmanuel III, Italy’s king, who had invited Mussolini to form a government, was reluctant to risk a “leap in the dark” by demanding his resignation. Mussolini was also saved by the complicity of foreign allies and international public opinion to accept the implausible explanation that Mr. Matteotti’s killers were Fascist hotheads who had acted on the spur of the moment, to “teach him a lesson,” and killed him accidentally. Then, as now, there were even powerful oil interests in the affair — possible payments to Mussolini’s brother Arnaldo Mussolini, the Jared Kushner figure of the situation — that contributed to the consensus to “get over” the brutal killing. Then too, the reaction of near-universal horror to the Matteotti killing was surprising since violence had been a consistent feature of Fascism. The thugs who killed Mr. Matteotti had already used violence, intimidation and fraud during the 1924 elections that gave Mussolini a majority in Parliament. The world — and most middle-class Italians — credited Mussolini with preventing a Bolshevik-style revolution in Italy and was prepared to overlook what it took to be a little residual violence that it assumed would fade away after Mussolini started wearing the bowler hat and spats of a respectable politician. Italy was still a half-functioning democracy, and that helped expose the murder and the lies deployed during the attempts at a cover-up. Eyewitness had seen Mr. Matteotti being forced into a car. An elderly couple had seen the killers’ Lancia automobile as they staked out Mr. Matteotti’s house in the days before the kidnapping and wrote down the license plate. The police found the car’s upholstery covered in Mr. Matteotti’s blood. He had been stabbed repeatedly and his body mutilated. A comparatively independent initial investigation linked the killers to Mussolini’s office, where one of his top aides, Cesare Rossi, directed his press office and ran Ceka Fascista, the private hit squad named after Cheka, the Bolshevik predecessor of the K.G.B. Mr. Matteotti was killed before his parliamentary speech because he had been gathering evidence and planning to expose corruption in the assigning of a major oil concession by Mussolini’s highly personalized government to an American company, Sinclair
[Marxism] What Could Kill Booming U.S. Economy? ‘Socialists,’ White House Warns - The New York Times
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Re: [Marxism] The-Opportunity-Costs-of-Socialism.pdf
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 Oct 23, 2018, at 6:13 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism > wrote: > > Weird. "But a look beyond the CEA’s hysterical rants against socialism’s supposedly totalitarian nature reveals that the White House accidentally makes a strong case for Medicare for All, which the paper describes as the “headline American socialist proposal.” "After attempting to discredit single-payer healthcare programs—which multiple polls now show most Republicanvoters support—as “similar in spirit to Lenin and Mao,” the CEA produced a chart showing short wait times for seniors under the current U.S. healthcare system compared to those under the Canadian and Nordic systems. "As Vox‘s Sarah Kliff notes, the CEA conveniently omits the fact that “America’s seniors are essentially in a single-payer system”: it’s called Medicare. "“The Trump chart doesn’t say what the White House seems to think it says,” Kliff concludes. “It isn’t telling us that single-payer healthcare has long wait times. If anything, it says that it is possible to build a single-payer system with short wait times—and our Medicare program has already done it.”” https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/10/buried-hilariously-stupid-white-house-attack-socialism-accidentally-strong-argument-medicare.html _ 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] Mike Davis on the Crimes of Socialism and Capitalism
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[Marxism] The socialists are coming! White House sounds alarm at rise of the left | US news | The Guardian
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[Marxism] Has America Become a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy?
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. * Clearly, we are now ruled by an oligarchic elite of governmental and corporate interests. https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/24/has-america-become-a-dictatorship-disguised-as-a-democracy/ --- Almost every day I see an article along these lines. Have the people writing them ever studied American history? Or better yet, read Howard Zinn? In the 19th century and much of the 20th century, Chinese-American workers were prevented by law from becoming American citizens while the KKK was involved in a reign of terror throughout the South. Meanwhile,that bastion of liberal thought, the Nation Magazine, editorialized against passing legislation reining in the KKK. Workers were brutalized for simply trying to organize as this IWW website indicates in great detail: http://depts.washington.edu/iww/persecution.shtml As for the newspapers, the only source of information prior to radio, yellow journalism made Fox News look scrupulous by comparison. Donald Trump is a throwback to the 19th century and nothing more. _ 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] Encounters with Marx - bookforum.com / omnivore
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Re: [Marxism] The-Opportunity-Costs-of-Socialism.pdf
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. * Fascinating... I will keep chiseling away at the edifice Dr Ismail LagardienVisiting ProfessorWits University School of Governance Nihil humani a me alienum puto On Wednesday, 24 October 2018, 05:10:07 GMT+2, RKOB via Marxism 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. * Yes weird, but very interesting that our enemies feel the need to polemicize against the idea of "socialism". Also the Guardian article reflects that the idea of "socialism" ins more and more on the table. Yes, all this is still confused, unclear, not organized. These are clear (and positive) indications of ideological shifts among sectors of the masses. Am 24.10.2018 um 00:13 schrieb Louis Proyect via Marxism: > 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. > * > > Weird. > > https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/The-Opportunity-Costs-of-Socialism.pdf > > > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/aktiv%40rkob.net > -- Revolutionär-Kommunistische Organisation BEFREIUNG (Österreichische Sektion der RCIT, www.thecommunists.net) www.rkob.net ak...@rkob.net Tel./SMS/WhatsApp/Telegram: +43-650-4068314 --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/ilagardien%40yahoo.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
