[Marxism] Covington Catholic students: what America is missing - Vox

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[Marxism] Coup en Venezuela?

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It is not clear what is happening in Venezuela, but the President of the
National Assembly (a Cisneros family stooge) has just declared himself to
be the "acting President".

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[Marxism] Reflections on organising from veteran shopfloor militant an marxist

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"Some things don’t change much over the years. A thousand union hours
lobbying MPs is still worth less than five minutes organising on a job.

"The reason for unions existing at all is to advance workers’ interests and
at their own workplace is where workers are best able to do this.  I feel
fortunate to have done my union apprenticeship at a time of relatively high
workplace union activity.  When ordinary people routinely did extraordinary
things. . ."

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Re: [Marxism] NEW BOOK: Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Great Power Rivalry (2)

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RKOB says:

(I mention, in
passing, that GLW published an article yesterday which argues that
Russia, contrary to the view outlined in my book, is not an imperialist
power.)

I think he is referring to the following article in Links (not Green Left 
Weekly):

http://links.org.au/is-russia-imperialist

Links aims to promote discussion on the left, and publishes articles with 
diverse views.  Here is an article I wrote a few years ago:

Are Russia and China imperialist powers?


http://links.org.au/node/3795

Chris Slee




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To: Chris Slee
Subject: [Marxism] NEW BOOK: Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Great Power Rivalry 
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I hope comrades will apologize that I use this place to briefly
advertise a new book (“/Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Great Power
Rivalry/”) which I have written. (See the email before)

I will not outline the content here as you can find a detailed content
at the link which was provided in the previous email
(https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/anti-imperialism-in-the-age-of-great-power-rivalry/).
Likewise it is not necessary to explain why the subject of the book -
the rivalry between the Great Powers - is important.

I just want to draw your attention to a few specific issues which, in my
opinion, make the book interesting even for those who do not agree with
my point of view.

First, the book provides a number of statistics and arguments (as well
as historical analogies) which are crucial for the debate of the
question if China and Russia are imperialist powers. (I mention, in
passing, that GLW published an article yesterday which argues that
Russia, contrary to the view outlined in my book, is not an imperialist
power.)

Secondly, the book critically discusses in detail the analysis and
perspectives by a number of left-wing parties and groups in West and
East (left social democrats, Stalinists, Trotskyists and others).

This analysis covers extensively, among others, forces which are usually
not or only little known in the West (for example the Japanese
Communists Party as well as a number of Russian Stalinist and
non-Stalinist forces).

Thirdly, the book has profited from the help of a Russian comrade who
translated material which exists only in Russian language and which has
been used extensively in this book. This translation work helped in a
critical analysis of the social-imperialist policy of the KPRF, the
RKPR, the OKP, Boris Kagarlitsky, Alexander Buzgalin, Ruslan Dzarasov
and others.

Of course, critical readers are welcome to send their comments or to
write a review.

I hope you enjoy reading the book!

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From: Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists 
Sent: Thursday, 24 January 2019 6:22 AM


Hello ,

We have published new blog in our website. Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and 
Suburbs Bus Company calls for an urgent action: Iranian National TV’s show 
“Burnt Plot” is a pretext to crush workers’ demands and protests
On Saturday, January 19, 2019, the news section of national TV “Voice and 
Vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran” called “20:30” broadcasted a shameful 
show titled “Tarahi Soukhteh” (a burnt plot) through which it aimed to connect 
the legitimate struggles of Haft Tapeh Sugarcane workers and other workers in …
You may view the latest post at 
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Re: [Marxism] From Exile to Dirtbag: Edgelord geopolitics and the rise of “National Bolshevism” in the U.S.

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> On Jan 23, 2019, at 4:42 PM, A.R. G  wrote:
> 
> I can't believe you made me re-read it. :(

I think the fundamental misunderstanding is that Amith (and maybe others) 
thinks ARR is trying to show that Ames and Taibbi (and maybe CTH) are somehow 
deliberate agents of a neofascist / red-brown convergence, as opposed to being 
inexcusably negligent useful idiots who have taken actions that have helped 
enable it. I don’t think the latter can seriously be doubted.
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I don't want to further rehash the debate about Unz because I think we've
already gone full-circle. But ARR's article is not about Unz. He is taking
aim at Chapo Trap House, Ames, and Taibbi. Even assuming the Unz business
is part of a National Bolshevik revival that doesn't give ARR the carte
blanche to write whatever stupid shit he wants.

Re: the parts of the article that MM has posted:

1) The NPR piece by Taibbi that is supposedly a defense/promotion starts by
referring to Liminov as a "neo-fascist" and focuses on his bizarre personal
exploits and failures. Perhaps that's not he same as calling for him to be
punched in the face, but for ARR to dig it up like it is proof of an
endorsement of Liminov's politics, let alone five years after the fact, is
totally dishonest.

2) Look at the weasel words: "The eXile’s editors helped frame West-East
conflict in ways that deflected criticism of Putin back to the US and
reflected Russia’s propaganda line, *which brought left and right together
in a geopolitical struggle with National Bolshevik overtones*." This is
classic bullshittery from ARR. He doesn't focus on whatever actual ties
there might have been. Taking the same position as an organization that he
admits fuses left-wing positions with right-wing ones is enough for him to
find Nazism.

3) Based on a closer reading of his article (something I was hesitant to do
given how bad it is), the line appears to go: Chapo Trap House having Matt
Taibbi as a guest; Matt Taibbi working at the eXile, apparently a bizarre
punk zine for English-speaking expats, with Mark Ames; Mark Ames recruiting
Liminov to write a column in their edgy magazine; Liminov adopting National
Bolshevism and the ideas of Aleksandr Dugin; Dugin and the National
Bolsheviks channeling the Russian ultranationalists and embracing US Nazis
like Richard Spencer. Richard Spencer also likes the sarcasm of Chapo Trap
House because his community is also sarcastic.

There is literally nothing of significance implicating Chapo Trap House in
any of this business. The mere fact that he would even include them in the
article for having Taibbi speak on their podcast is discrediting enough,
but ARR had to do it because he is trying to go after internet trolling and
the "dirtbag left". So, he just concocted this bullshit. It's also worth
noting that whatever edgelordiness that the eXile might have had, all of
Taibbi's US-directed work has been serious journalism published in The
Rolling Stone. There is no reason to think of him as a troll.

4) Taibbi and Ames' fascination with Liminov doesn't seem to be any
different from the general media fascination (and confusion) with him over
his personal exploits and political prospects as potential challenger to
Putin:

a)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/12/eduard-limonov-interview-putin-nightmare
b)
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/05/21/weird-and-instructive-story-eduard-limonov/

Liminov is obviously a bizarre figure with bad politics. But he was/is also
a prominent one in Russian politics. ARR went back nearly eleven years to a
catch-all publication that mixed satire and anger with pranks and tried to
indict two reporters -- and a wholly unrelated podcast -- because Liminov
The NazBol once wrote a column there and because of the foreign policy
positions they took. There is no indication that Dugin or the far right had
any involvement, and judging by the article by Ames that ARR cites, it
sounds like Ames had no personal connection to Dugin, having to ask others
what he allegedly thought and so forth. There is also no indication that
Taibbi or Ames ever agreed with Liminov's approach of coordinating with
ultranationalists (or even understood what it was), and despite how long
this article was, the closest thing ARR could drum up was that they
defended Russian foreign policy.

I can't believe you made me re-read it. :(

Amith R. Gupta


On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 3:12 PM MM  wrote:

> On Jan 23, 2019, at 2:43 PM, A.R. G via Marxism <
> marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
> ARR's article, which isn't about any of these people, takes the association
> game to a new extreme.
>
>
> I’m starting to think ARR didn’t actually read the article, at least not
> very closely. I’m going to paste a few paragraphs and then a couple of
> links:
>
> With the fall of the Soviet Union, Limonov joined fellow National
> Bolshevik, Aleksandr Dugin, to promote that dream of a Eurasian “large
> space” premised on fascist geopolitics and based in the Kremlin. Committed
> to the total destruction of what they perceive as the liberal and weak
> West, the National Bolsheviks asserted the spiritual greatness of
> 

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> I’m starting to think ARR didn’t actually read the article, at least not very 
> closely. 

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> wrote:
> 
> ARR's article, which isn't about any of these people, takes the association
> game to a new extreme.


I’m starting to think ARR didn’t actually read the article, at least not very 
closely. I’m going to paste a few paragraphs and then a couple of links:

With the fall of the Soviet Union, Limonov joined fellow National Bolshevik, 
Aleksandr Dugin, to promote that dream of a Eurasian “large space” premised on 
fascist geopolitics and based in the Kremlin. Committed to the total 
destruction of what they perceive as the liberal and weak West, the National 
Bolsheviks asserted the spiritual greatness of Traditionalism found in the 
“Heartland” of the Asian continent.

While Dugin became the philosopher of this fascist ideology, influencing 
everyone from the Communist Party to the so-called Liberal Democratic Party of 
Russia to the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Limonov developed his 
role as a leading propagandist of the Russian far right. According to professor 
Markus Meili 
,
 Limonov “decisively influenced the emergence and growth of the Russian 
skinhead movement in the mid-1990s.” Despite this, firing on Sarajevo with war 
criminal Radovan Karadžić 
,
 and calling for a “Serbian solution” to challenges against Russia, he was 
indulged as a misunderstood performance artist.

… 
Politically, The eXile came to follow now-familiar rules: criticize Putin, but 
reserve the most obscene tirades for Western media hypocrisy. They would level 
criticisms against Putin on tough issues, such as his stony response 
 to the murder of journalist Anna 
Politkovskaya, but turn those articles back against the US. Ames seemed to 
oppose Putin and the oligarchs, but downplay the threat of fascists like Dugin, 
while publishing his comrade-in-arms, Limonov. For this reason, scholar and 
author of Russian Fascism 
,
 Stephen Shenfield, argued that “ways should be found to put the eXile out of 
business” (according to Ames’s account 
).

…
Limonov rejoined Putin’s side after years on the opposition, enraptured by the 
convergence of ultranationalism and Soviet nostalgia. Limonov’s former close 
comrade, Dugin, exhorted pro-Russian forces in Ukraine to “Kill! Kill! Kill 
Ukrainians! 
”
 and his close associates  took 
leading roles in the Kremlin-supported “civil war.” Limonov and Dugin 

 appeared on Russian TV together, a symbol of the power of the invasion of 
Ukraine to reunite old comrades.


ARR subsequently links to:

This 2013 tweet from Ames: http://archive.li/Cc9ca

This 2014 white-washing piece for NPR by Taibbi: 
https://www.npr.org/2014/10/21/356988666/who-is-limonov-not-even-his-biographer-really-knows

What Ames and Taibbi are doing here is pretty far from simply failing to 
disassociate themselves from an odious figure.

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On 1/23/19 2:43 PM, A.R. G wrote:


I'm disagreeing that the blame lies on leftists for his publishing 
decisions, as though they have control over what he says or does, and 
separately disagreeing that it is an important matter because Unz 
himself (like LaRouche) is unimportant.


Amith, I am getting frustrated with trying to get my point across. I am 
not "blaming leftists" for what Unz publishes. I am telling leftists to 
take their name down as columnists. They can't do much about him 
aggregating their work but they are within their rights to demand that 
their names being taken down as columnists. I wrote to every leftist 
columnist whose email address I could track down asking them why they 
allow their names to be so listed.


Michael Hudson wrote back saying he'd think about it. He's still there. 
Tom Engelhardt never responded even after 3 queries. C.J. Hopkins never 
responded but got into a tiff with Jeff St. Clair and Joshua Frank after 
he was mentioned by Tony DiMaggio as a Putin apologist. This led to him 
getting the boot. It was only Finkelstein who insisted on his right to 
be listed there, telling me that it was no worse than having your byline 
in the NY Times. That he can't tell the difference between a scary, 
Hitlerite website and the NY Times tells me that he has lost it.


Here's what I have written about UNZ Review in the past:

https://louisproyect.org/2017/09/23/the-one-degree-of-separation-between-valerie-plame-and-white-supremacy/

https://louisproyect.org/2018/09/04/meet-the-leftwing-columnists-writing-for-a-neo-nazi-website/
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"I don't understand why you don't understand.  Leftists should not
be associated with neo-Nazi websites in any capacity."

I'm not disagreeing with that. Unz is politically poisonous.

I'm disagreeing that the blame lies on leftists for his publishing
decisions, as though they have control over what he says or does, and
separately disagreeing that it is an important matter because Unz himself
(like LaRouche) is unimportant.

I still recall the attempt by David Duke to "endorse" Charles Barron's
Senate run. It caught Barron blind-sided and suddenly Barron had to
explain, bizarrely, that he is not, in fact, a friend of Nazis. One would
think that would be clear given that Barron is black and a militant
leftist, and one might also wonder why the news cameras were paying any
attention to David Duke in the first place given his complete and utter
insignificance, but lo and behold, the Barron campaign was torched using
David Duke's kiss of death.

That Finkelstein's works get published by Unz is gross, but hardly grosser
than the fact that Finkelstein's work (and Chomsky's before him) also had
regular play on less prominent Nazi websites including Holocaust Denial
publications. What you are saying makes it seem like it's their burden to
somehow go out of their way and trawl through the shadiest corners of the
internet to get those writings removed because right-wing extremists choose
to appropriate them for their own purposes, as though they ever sent in
their endorsement in the first place. I don't agree with that.

ARR's article, which isn't about any of these people, takes the association
game to a new extreme.
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On 1/23/19 2:22 PM, A.R. G wrote:


You keep calling them "columnists". The implication of this is that he 
is actually collaborating with Unz, like a staffer.


I don't understand why you don't understand. Leftists should not be 
associated with neo-Nazi websites in any capacity. I don't care if he 
doesn't write anything for them. The names Norman Finkelstein and 
Michael Hudson give Unz left cover. This is an utter disgrace. One of 
these days, the people Unz is trying to crystallize into a fascist 
movement will be a mortal danger just like Golden Dawn or AfD. We don't 
need to give him a head-start.

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"I strongly object to excusing Norman Finkelstein in this fashion. By
allowing his name to be listed as a columnist, he legitimizes a neo-Nazi
website."

You keep calling them "columnists". The implication of this is that he is
actually collaborating with Unz, like a staffer. If what Finkelstein told
me is true, then that is not the case and would imply that it is likely not
the case for the others. Unz is unilaterally deciding what he wants to
republish. If they aren't actively collaborating with him then it isn't
even clear that Unz would remove their names or materials if asked. My own
writings have appeared in random corners of the internet, including places
I don't want them. I have no control over that. And it doesn't make me a
"columnist". I'd point out -- so have Marx's, Chomsky's, Lenin's, etc.

It is an issue that right wing groups are trying to sanitize their messages
by mixing them with left rhetoric, but it is not nearly as big of an issue
as you're implying for the primary reason that these groups and individuals
are mostly irrelevant. LaRouche and his weirdos have been around for
decades. They are an insignificant cult and I would pay them the same
attention I pay to the Hare Krishnas and Scientology. On the other hand,
falsely implying the existence of Nazi collaboration among left groups over
trivial points of contact -- none of which appear to involve actually
endorsing or defending fascist ideology, with the possible exception of
Johnstone -- sounds like a serious error of judgment. And when ARR does it,
it is straightforwardly done in bad faith.

Amith R. Gupta
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Re: [Marxism] From Exile to Dirtbag: Edgelord geopolitics and the rise of “National Bolshevism” in the U.S.

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On 1/23/19 1:15 PM, A.R. G wrote:


I spoke to Finkelstein about Unz after the last time it came up. He does 
not publish for Unz; Unz reblogs things he has written elsewhere, 
including on his own website. 


I strongly object to excusing Norman Finkelstein in this fashion. By 
allowing his name to be listed as a columnist, he legitimizes a neo-Nazi 
website.


UNZ Review is basically an upscale version of the Daily Stormer with one 
article after another denying that Hitler was guilty of genocide, 
arguing that Blacks are genetically inferior, and other neo-Nazi trash.


This is from Ron Unz, the editor and a Jew himself:

	After Hitler had been named Chancellor in 1933, outraged Jews worldwide 
had quickly launched an economic boycott, hoping to bring Germany to its 
knees, with London’s Daily Express famously running the banner headline 
“Judea Declares War on Germany.”


http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-jews-and-nazis/

It is not just him. Michael Hudson is one of the best known economists 
on the left who apparently does not mind lending his name to a neo-Nazi 
website as a columnist.


Amith, you really need to think this stuff through. There is 
considerable overlap between fascists and the part of the left totally 
committed to supporting "the axis of resistance". Ray McGovern, the 
ex-CIA agent who converted to the anti-imperialist cause, is an 
occasional guest on Larouche TV programs. So is Nomi Prins, the 
well-known and respected former Goldman-Sachs economist who became a 
critic of Wall Street.


One of the occasional contributors to Consortium News is a former member 
of the Larouche organization who writes articles there that are 
indistinguishable from those that appear in the Larouche press.


As I pointed out in a series of articles on Larouche, this group is 
consciously trying to build ties with the left and became a worrisome 
presence in Occupy Wall Street. It might not have the kind of following 
it once had but it is taken very seriously in Russia. Recently, I 
reviewed Anton Shekhovtsov's book on Russia and the far right for 
Counterpunch. On his blog, he has an article about the ties between this 
fascist cult and Russia:


	The relations between LaRouche and Glazyev continued in the 2000s, the 
Putin era. In particular, LaRouche and Helga Zepp-LaRouche took part in 
the Duma hearing “On measures to ensure the development of the Russian 
economy under conditions of a destabilisation of the world financial 
system” held in June 2001 at the initiative of Glazyev who was then 
chairman of the Duma Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship.


http://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.com/2015/06/sergey-glazyev-and-american-fascist-cult.html

Meanwhile, Diana Johnstone advised CounterPunch readers that Marine Le 
Pen is on the left while Boris Kagarlitsky writes a piece there 
endorsing Donald Trump. For such people, Russia plays the same role that 
it played for the Communist Party in the 1930s, a beacon of hope. You 
might excuse the CP back then for not having the full picture of life 
inside the USSR but who isn't aware of the kind of mafia state Russia is 
today? Only those who are drunk on anti-imperialist rhetoric.


Probably the advance guard of this National Bolshevism revival is RT.com 
itself that paid Max Blumenthal's expenses for its bash in Moscow and 
likely continues to pay him under the table for his efforts. It provided 
air time to Richard Spencer before his reputation became established as 
a neo-Nazi.


All of this is developing within the context of Russia gaining the 
reputation of being a vanguard fighter against imperialism. In terms of 
popular culture, Oliver Stone's fawning documentary about Putin was seen 
on Showtime. In one unforgettable segment, Stone got a big kick out of 
Putin stating that he would punch out any gay sailor who came on to him 
in a submarine shower room. On top of that you get Stephen F. Cohen 
giving weekly interviews saluting Putin on WABC radio, which along with 
Fox News is pulling American society to the far right.










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[Marxism] Erik Olin Wright, R.I.P.

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>From FB.


Masoud Movahed


The light has gone out. My beloved adviser, Erik Olin Wright, is no 
more. Perhaps, I am wrong to say that. Nevertheless, we will never see him 
again as we have seen him in the past. We will not run to him for advice and 
seek solace from him, and that is a terrible tragedy, not to me only, but to 
many who Erik touched their lives forever.

The light has gone out, I said, and yet I was wrong. For the light that he 
shone in this world--and in the sociological tradition-- was no ordinary light; 
the light that will illuminate the world for many years. Erik spent a lifetime 
studying social justice; from developing a nuanced and sophisticated version of 
Marxian class analysis and placing it at the very core of contemporary social 
theory, to the Real Utopias Project that encouraged pursuing what Karl Marx 
himself so strenuously abjured:drawing up designs—blueprints—of the 
institutions necessary for a just social order.

It is sad day for anyone who even remotely knew Erik. And all this has happened 
when there was so much more for him to do. We could never think that he was 
unnecessary and or that he had done his task. He is now gone but his exquisite 
intellectual legacy, his dedication to equality (or equal access to opportunity 
as he insisted), and above all, his moral commitment, will live forever.

Goodbye, beloved Erik! Your beautiful smile will be dearly missed...

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Re: [Marxism] From Exile to Dirtbag: Edgelord geopolitics and the rise of “National Bolshevism” in the U.S.

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Added bonus, now this "anarchist" freakshow is re-blogging propaganda from
the Anti-Defamation League, the Zionist organization that organizes Israeli
government trainings for US cops and leads the pack to dehumanize
Palestinians: https://twitter.com/areidross/status/1088114649164201984 .

The map he finds so fascinating doesn't appear to have any explicitly
anti-Palestine materials but the mere fact that he is signal boosting them
as though they are a legitimate civil rights organization (particularly
given his own conspiratorial "everyone-is-in-cahoots-burn-everything"
attitude under which he is willing to tar people for much less) should
indicate that he is a fraud. It's also a map that indicates almost the
exact opposite of what it proclaims to document, namely some sort of rise
in anti-Semitism. Most of the "incidents" listed are teenagers making Jew
jokes and idiots from hate groups putting up flyers on bulletin boards.
Hardly a reason to beef up security at the beer hall.

As far as Richard Spencer goes, honestly, who cares? RS praised Chapo Trap
House for being into internet trolling culture. There is no political
similarity. Even if he were to say something like "I like Chapo Trap House
and agree with everything they say," that would be an obvious
unidirectional endorsement and has the significance of David Duke endorsing
Occupy Wall Street. Those people have their own political agenda and
Leftists do not have any control over it. Neither Chapo Trap House nor the
Chapo community has anything but scorn for the right-wing. They are almost
entirely behind Bernie Sanders and the DSA.

I spoke to Finkelstein about Unz after the last time it came up. He does
not publish for Unz; Unz reblogs things he has written elsewhere, including
on his own website. Unz is also apparently a zillionaire while Finkelstein
was fired from his job for defending Palestine. If the $$$ payment rumor is
true, I think it is obvious why Finkelstein might have taken the money and
it again hardly shows any sort of political likemindedness. The rest of
these people have gone on various programs or endorsed stupid ideas. That
is the normal course of the Left and hardly indicates what ARR is implying,
namely some sort of fascist tendency.

Amith R. Gupta
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[Marxism] The myth of Saint FDR continues to bite the dust - didn't help German Jews trying to escape Nazis

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  and let's not forget imprisoning 120,000 Japanese-Americans during WW
2 but not German or Italian-Americans!

>
>> clip - In reality, there were many avenues for U.S. action that would not
>> have interfered with the war effort. For example, refugees could have been
>> transported to the United States on Liberty troop-supply ships that were
>> returning empty from Europe. The escapees could have been granted temporary
>> haven to in U.S. territories such as the Virgin Islands.
>>
>>
>>
>> Alternatively, many refugees could have been admitted to the U.S. within
>> the existing immigration laws. Some 190,000 quota places from Germany and
>> Axis- occupied countries sat unused during the Holocaust years, because the
>> Roosevelt administration deliberately suppressed immigration below the
>> levels permitted by law. The strategy for suppression was simple: “postpone
>> and postpone and postpone the granting of the visas,” as Assistant
>> Secretary of State Breckinridge Long explained to his colleagues.
>>
>>
>>
>> In short, the problem was not that rescue was impossible. The real
>> problem was the attitude that prevailed in FDR’s White House and State
>> Department. If there had been a will to rescue, ways could have been found.
>>
>> full article - https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170942
>>
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[Marxism] 3167. Income Inequality: Why Social Class Matters

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However, the key question for the working people is this: What is the 
source of income inequality in capitalist societies? Neither of these 
notable economists nor the “left-wing” politicians who popularize their 
views such as Bernie Sanders or Ocasio-Cortez takes up this question. 
The answer is capitalism itself.  As long as the social means of 
production are the private property of a small section of society, the 
capitalist class, and the vast majority of the population has to sell 
our labor power for a wage or salary, national income would be 
distributed unequally between the “haves” and “have nots,” between those 
whose income comes from wages and those whose income comes from profit 
(and financial capitalists who collect interest and capitalist landlords 
who collect rent).  Income inequality is built into the capitalist mode 
of production, just as unemployment and poverty and other ecosocial ills 
are built into it.  The reformers of capitalism, those who work to 
ensure it is maintained and efficiently run as a system, constantly work 
to address alleviate these systemic problems.


https://forhumanliberation.blogspot.com/2019/01/3167-income-inequality-why-social-class.html
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[Marxism] The Young Left’s Anti-Capitalist Manifesto | FiveThirtyEight

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Article on the young, hipster, Brooklynite, Sandernista, DSA left.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-young-lefts-anti-capitalist-manifesto/
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[Marxism] How to misread Mike Davis | SocialistWorker.org

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[Marxism] Poll: Shutdown, Russia drive Trump to all-time high disapproval - POLITICO

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[Marxism] NYTimes.com: Putin’s Dream of Godliness: Holy Russia

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From The New York Times:

Putin’s Dream of Godliness: Holy Russia

When the Ukrainian Orthodox Church broke from Russia’s, it dealt a blow to 
President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to portray his country as one people with a 
single identity.
A Russian Orthodox priest sprinkles holy water on a Sukhoi Su-25SM attack plane 
of the Russian Eastern Military District’s Air and Air Defense Force aviation 
regiment at Chernigovka military airfield in 2018.
Credit
Yuri Smityuk\TASS, via Getty Images


ImageThe Kremlin has relied on the Orthodox Church as the main unifying force 
in the country and provides it with generous financial support. In return, the 
church has been the key promoter of a “Russian world” concept that casts the 
Kremlin as a defender of Russians outside Russia. Patriarch Kirill, the head of 
the Russian Orthodox Church, has gone so far as to call the Putin era “a 
miracle of God.”
One of the best examples today of how the church and Kremlin work hand in hand 
to advance Russian nationalist projects is an exhibition: “Russia — My History” 
— organized by the government with the Russian Orthodox Church. On display 
throughout the Russian Federation, it glorifies Russian autocrats, including 
Ivan the Terrible and Stalin, as great leaders, while vilifying as Western 
agents the Decembrists, a group of young Russian officers who sought to 
introduce reforms and a constitution in 1825. Portraits of President Putin and 
Alexander Pushkin, the founder of modern Russian literature, hang together. 
Similarly, Dostoyevsky is paired with a Russian fascist philosopher, Ivan 
Ilyin, whose little-known works have been revived under Mr. Putin.

The exhibition’s explicit message is that Russia’s size and geopolitical 
ambitions demand a strong, even if repressive, leader to solidify the country 
and defy its enemies in the West. This timeworn argument, often used to justify 
autocracy, is now being fused with a religious doctrine earlier propounded by 
Ilyin: Russia is a unique and separate Christian civilization whose 
responsibilities are only to God.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/opinion/putin-russia-orthodox-church.html
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Re: [Marxism] LA teachers

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Here is an article that contains more on the terms of the settlement of the
strike.
https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/01/23/la-teachers-reach-tentative-agreement/

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[Marxism] NEW BOOK: Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Great Power Rivalry (2)

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I hope comrades will apologize that I use this place to briefly 
advertise a new book (“/Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Great Power 
Rivalry/”) which I have written. (See the email before)


I will not outline the content here as you can find a detailed content 
at the link which was provided in the previous email 
(https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/anti-imperialism-in-the-age-of-great-power-rivalry/). 
Likewise it is not necessary to explain why the subject of the book - 
the rivalry between the Great Powers - is important.


I just want to draw your attention to a few specific issues which, in my 
opinion, make the book interesting even for those who do not agree with 
my point of view.


First, the book provides a number of statistics and arguments (as well 
as historical analogies) which are crucial for the debate of the 
question if China and Russia are imperialist powers. (I mention, in 
passing, that GLW published an article yesterday which argues that 
Russia, contrary to the view outlined in my book, is not an imperialist 
power.)


Secondly, the book critically discusses in detail the analysis and 
perspectives by a number of left-wing parties and groups in West and 
East (left social democrats, Stalinists, Trotskyists and others).


This analysis covers extensively, among others, forces which are usually 
not or only little known in the West (for example the Japanese 
Communists Party as well as a number of Russian Stalinist and 
non-Stalinist forces).


Thirdly, the book has profited from the help of a Russian comrade who 
translated material which exists only in Russian language and which has 
been used extensively in this book. This translation work helped in a 
critical analysis of the social-imperialist policy of the KPRF, the 
RKPR, the OKP, Boris Kagarlitsky, Alexander Buzgalin, Ruslan Dzarasov 
and others.


Of course, critical readers are welcome to send their comments or to 
write a review.


I hope you enjoy reading the book!

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[Marxism] NEW BOOK: Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Great Power Rivalry (1)

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*NEW BOOK: Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Great Power Rivalry*

*The Factors behind the Accelerating Rivalry between the U.S., China, 
Russia, EU and Japan

A Critique of the Left’s Analysis and an Outline of the Marxist Perspective*

By Michael Pröbsting, January 2019

The book contains 29 chapters on 412 pages, 61 Tables and Figures and an 
extensive bibliography.


The book can be read online or downloaded as a pdf for free at the link 
below.


Read more at 
https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/anti-imperialism-in-the-age-of-great-power-rivalry/


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