[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Diplo]: Quince on Blatt, 'Race and the Making of American Political Science'

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> From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW 
> Date: February 9, 2019 at 7:41:57 AM EST
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> Subject: H-Net Review [H-Diplo]:  Quince on Blatt, 'Race and the Making of 
> American Political Science'
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> Jessica Blatt.  Race and the Making of American Political Science.  
> American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law Series. 
> Philadelphia  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.  205 pp.  
> $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-5004-6.
> 
> Reviewed by Vanessa E. Quince (University of Washington)
> Published on H-Diplo (February, 2019)
> Commissioned by Seth Offenbach
> 
> In Race and the Making of American Political Science, Jessica Blatt 
> demonstrates how race was crucial in the formation and development of 
> American political science. Rather than suggesting that race lay 
> outside of mainstream political science, Blatt argues that race was 
> at its core. Starting from John W. Burgess in the early nineteenth 
> century to Charles Merriam in the early twentieth century, Blatt 
> shows how ideas and conceptions concerning racial difference shaped 
> the expansion of political science as a field of study in the academy 
> to the articulation of different methodologies within the field. One 
> of the most compelling aspects of this text is Blatt's discussion of 
> the role of racial difference both within and outside of the United 
> States. That is, for academics to understand the significance of race 
> domestically, we have to understand how race was also important 
> internationally, as scholars and practitioners alike were seeking to 
> find solutions and policies for US imperialism abroad. 
> 
> Blatt's text is particularly timely given the prominence of identity 
> politics in the academy. Her text forces us to question the ways in 
> which political scientists have used race as an explanatory variable 
> to understand political phenomena. One of the most pressing questions 
> that political scientists have tried to address since the field's 
> founding in the nineteenth century to today is: why do ethnic 
> minorities have different political behavior from their white 
> counterparts, all else equal_? _The answers have both theoretical and 
> empirical implications. For example, we need to go beyond race as 
> significance stars in a regression table and spend more time 
> disentangling possible explanations underlying the patterns we see. 
> 
> In part 1 of the book (chapters 1 through 4), Blatt demonstrates how 
> race was central to the development of the field. From Reconstruction 
> to imperialism in the Philippines, the management of nonwhite 
> populations at home and abroad were on the minds of the 
> first-starters of the field. Part 2 (chapters 5 and 6) moves away 
> from the establishment of the field to the actual development of 
> political science, in terms of different methodologies and 
> theoretical paradigms. Blatt carefully traces and discusses 
> conversations, texts, studies, literature, and memos from political 
> scientists to show how their thoughts concerning race and racial 
> difference helped to shape (and still influence) how we study 
> political science today. 
> 
> From the onset and throughout many parts of the book, Blatt centers 
> the role of Burgess in making political science a field of social 
> inquiry. She gives special attention to his theory of Teutonism, 
> where the state was the natural unit of analysis and the racial 
> homogeneity of the state was crucial to its development. For Burgess, 
> the implications of this ideology were that the Aryan race was highly 
> political while Asia and Africa were composed of unpolitical nations. 
> Burgess's understanding of political science was to argue that there 
> was a natural order of things and according to Blatt, he made these 
> arguments to justify how and why political science was a field 
> uniquely different from those who philosophized about an ideal world. 
> While Blatt presents these ideologies in juxtaposition with one 
> another, it seems like the political implications for racial 
> minorities amounted to the same. In the _Racial Contract _(1997), 
> Charles Mills argues that ancient philosophers were not concerned 
> with the rights of nonwhite people. Therefore, whether or not rights 
> are natural or ideal, for Burgess as the leading political scientist 
> of the time, or the philosophers he references, nonwhite people were 
> not presumed capable. Furthermore, as Blatt notes, while some of the 
> founders of political science were not 

Re: [Marxism] Renewed Labour | Issue 33 | n+1

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Bolivian vice-president Alvaro García Linera is to Evo Morales as McDonnell
is to Corbyn.
https://www.viewpointmag.com/2015/02/25/burdens-of-a-state-manager/

On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 1:52 PM Louis Proyect via Marxism <
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:

>
***
> McDonnell has broken a pre-2008 taboo by naming the system and calling
> it a problem, but transforming capitalism doesn’t sound the same as
> overthrowing it. ...
>
> full: https://nplusonemag.com/issue-33/politics/renewed-labour/
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[Marxism] A Green New Deal Is the First Step Toward an Eco-Revolution

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John Bellamy Foster interview.

https://truthout.org/articles/a-green-new-deal-is-the-first-step-toward-an-eco-revolution/
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[Marxism] Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492 - ScienceDirect

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Human impacts prior to the Industrial Revolution are not well 
constrained. We investigate whether the decline in global atmospheric 
CO2 concentration by 7–10 ppm in the late 1500s and early 1600s which 
globally lowered surface air temperatures by 0.15∘C, were generated by 
natural forcing or were a result of the large-scale depopulation of the 
Americas after European arrival, subsequent land use change and 
secondary succession. We quantitatively review the evidence for (i) the 
pre-Columbian population size, (ii) their per capita land use, (iii) the 
post-1492 population loss, (iv) the resulting carbon uptake of the 
abandoned anthropogenic landscapes, and then compare these to potential 
natural drivers of global carbon declines of 7–10 ppm. From 119 
published regional population estimates we calculate a pre-1492 CE 
population of 60.5 million (interquartile range, IQR 44.8–78.2 million), 
utilizing 1.04 ha land per capita (IQR 0.98–1.11). European epidemics 
removed 90% (IQR 87–92%) of the indigenous population over the next 
century. This resulted in secondary succession of 55.8 Mha (IQR 
39.0–78.4 Mha) of abandoned land, sequestering 7.4 Pg C (IQR 
4.9–10.8 Pg C), equivalent to a decline in atmospheric CO2 of 3.5 ppm 
(IQR 2.3–5.1 ppm CO2). Accounting for carbon cycle feedbacks plus LUC 
outside the Americas gives a total 5 ppm CO2 additional uptake into the 
land surface in the 1500s compared to the 1400s, 47–67% of the 
atmospheric CO2 decline. Furthermore, we show that the global carbon 
budget of the 1500s cannot be balanced until large-scale vegetation 
regeneration in the Americas is included. The Great Dying of the 
Indigenous Peoples of the Americas resulted in a human-driven global 
impact on the Earth System in the two centuries prior to the Industrial 
Revolution.


https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379118307261
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[Marxism] Big Bang Created Mirror Universe Where Time Runs Backwards | NOVA | PBS | NOVA | PBS

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I wish I can get there to be able to drop out of the SWP after one month 
rather than eleven years.


https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/big-bang-may-created-mirror-universe-time-runs-backwards/
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[Marxism] Socialism and exploitation | David Ruccio | MR Online

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https://mronline.org/2019/02/09/socialism-and-exploitation/


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[Marxism] Syria’s Torture Photos: Witness to Atrocity | by Susie Linfield | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

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https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/02/09/syrias-torture-photos-witness-to-atrocity/
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Re: [Marxism] It's leftism or Zionism - you can't have both - Opinion - Israel News | Haaretz.com

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> On Feb 9, 2019, at 12:11 PM, A.R. G  wrote:
> 
> The JVP statement has gotten too much fanfare if anything:
> 
> https://mondoweiss.net/2019/01/rejection-imperialism-criticism/ 
> 

Offered as a sign of how the politics are evolving, not for endorsement.

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[Marxism] Nehanda Abiodun, 68, Black Revolutionary Who Fled to Cuba, Dies

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NY Times, Feb. 9, 2019
Nehanda Abiodun, 68, Black Revolutionary Who Fled to Cuba, Dies
By Daniel E. Slotnik

Nehanda Abiodun, a radical black nationalist who was charged in the 
deadly botched robbery of a Brink’s armored truck in 1981 and then spent 
decades as a fugitive in Cuba, a hero to would-be revolutionaries and a 
criminal to many others, died on Jan. 30 at her home in Havana. She was 68.


Her death was confirmed by Henry Louis Taylor Jr., a historian who has 
interviewed Ms. Abiodun for a biography of her he is writing with Linda 
McGlynn, a social worker and senior research fellow at the University at 
Buffalo, where Professor Taylor also teaches urban planning.


Self-described revolutionaries belonging to the Weather Underground and 
the Black Liberation Army committed a rash of domestic bombings and 
hijackings in the 1960s and ’70s in what they called resistance to the 
United States government. Ms. Abiodun (pronounced ah-BEE-oh-dun) was 
suspected of conspiring with members of both groups.


The radicals were charged with attacks against government targets and 
with helping another revolutionary, Assata Shakur (who was known as 
Joanne Chesimard before choosing an African name), escape in 1979 from 
an upstate New York prison. Ms. Shakur had been convicted in the killing 
of a New Jersey state trooper in a shootout in 1973. The groups 
supported their activities with armed robberies.


On Oct. 21, 1981, a group of radicals tried to steal $1.6 million from a 
Brink’s armored truck in Nanuet, N.Y., a little less than 30 miles 
northwest of Manhattan. Several gunmen ambushed three Brink’s guards 
while they carried money out to the truck, killing one of them, Peter 
Paige. During their escape the gunmen got into a firefight with police 
officers at a roadblock in nearby Nyack, N.Y., and killed two, Edward 
O’Grady and Waverly Brown.


Some of the conspirators stole cars and fled, and some were captured 
right away; one of those seized was Kathy Boudin, who was driving a 
getaway car and had been on the run for about a decade. Others, like 
Mutulu Shakur (not related to Assata), who was said to have been the 
heist’s ringleader, were not apprehended for years.


Ms. Abiodun was indicted in 1982 on conspiracy, racketeering and other 
charges in the robbery, though the authorities released few specifics 
about what they believed was her specific role. She went underground 
before she was indicted and was never captured.


Ms. Abiodun never admitted to taking part in the crimes, but she did 
defend the perpetrators. She told the black power website The Talking 
Drum that she had little sympathy for the police officers killed in the 
robbery.


“They were upholding the genocidal and oppressive policies of the United 
States,” she said. “They were soldiers who were at war with us.”


Ms. Abiodun hid out during most of the 1980s and had moved to Cuba by 
1990, having received political asylum. There she joined dozens of 
American fugitives, including Ms. Shakur.


Many Americans viewed Ms. Abiodun and her comrades as unrepentant 
terrorists. Family members of the slain police officers and an officer 
wounded in the robbery expressed outrage when people who took part in 
the heist came up for parole or were granted it. At her death, the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation’s website listed Ms. Abiodun as a wanted 
domestic terrorist and offered $100,000 for information leading to her 
arrest.


Though Ms. Abiodun feared extradition to the United States, she made a 
point of speaking to activists and journalists.


“I have a commitment to those who have sacrificed their lives for us,” 
she told Ebony magazine in 2014. “I’m talking about from the time of 
slavery, the first Africans who were brought here, that gave their lives 
for us to be free.”


Ms. Abiodun was born Laverne Cheri Dalton in Harlem on June 29, 1950, to 
Wesley and Marge Dalton. Her mother worked for United Airlines, and her 
father was a bodyguard for Malcolm X for a time. Laverne grew up 
immersed in the black power movement.


After graduating from high school, she studied journalism at Columbia 
University. But she left before completing her degree to work in a 
methadone clinic in Harlem in the early 1970s, when an epidemic of 
heroin addiction was ravaging minority communities in New York.


She left the clinic to join an experimental rehabilitation facility in 
the South Bronx, the Lincoln Detox Center. The center, which was 
connected to activist groups like the Black Panthers and the Young 
Lords, a Puerto Rican-American organization, treated addicts with 
acupuncture and coupled their treatment with political 

[Marxism] Debs project...back in the saddle. Volume 1 due out on Feb 22.

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[Volume 1, *Building Solidarity on the Tracks, 1877-1892, *is due out in 10
days, Feb. 19 from Haymarket. Volume 2, The Selected Works of Eugene V.
Debs Volume, t*he Rise and Fall of the ARU, (1892-1896*) will be out in
August or September of this year and Volume 3, *Path to a Socialist Party,
1897-1904*) we think will be out by January of next year.--DW]

This marks the beginning of the third year of the Debs project.

By now I have the preparation cycle pretty well figured out, kicking off
research the first week of February and getting into final compilation and
writing mode around the first of August.

As I write this I am in a weird place with the project — Volume 1 (*Building
Solidarity on the Tracks, 1877-1892*) is still at the printer; Volume 2 (*The
Rise and Fall of the ARU, 1892-1896*) is heading for indexing; Volume 3 (*Path
to a Socialist Party, 1897-1904*) has an introduction that is still being
futzed with… Now here I am simultaneously ready to kick off research and
article transcription for the fourth volume, tentatively titled *Red Union,
Red Paper, Red Train, 1905-1910.*

It seems a little bit scattered having four 750-page books happening at
once, eh?



*Gene Debs the Subject of New Documentary Film: *Other aspects of the
political story [in the film] are overdrawn or wrong, including an
over-association of Debs with the Industrial Workers of the World (to the
extent of ignoring his endorsement of the anti-syndicalist reaction in the
Socialist Party in 1913), a complete failure to mention or explain his 1916
Congressional run, as well as howling errors such as calling defrocked
Socialist Congressman Victor L. Berger a pro-WWI “jingoist,” pronouncing
the name of Debs’ French-Alsatian father Jean as “JEEN,” and misspelling
and mispronouncing the name of Attorney General Harry Daugherty as
“Daughtery.” Such errors should not happen in a documentary of this scale.

Full: https://debsproject.org/2019/02/09/back-in-the-harness-19-01/
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[Marxism] A visit to Venezuela 14 years ago

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I visited Venezuela in 2005. (It was actually while Hurricane Katrina was
tearing up New Orleans.) I visited a major factory and attended various
workers' meetings as well as just talked with people in the streets. The
entire situation then was very, very different from now, but I do believe
that situation contained the seeds of the present crisis. Here are the
reports I sent back at that time.
https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/02/09/a-visit-to-venezuela-14-years-ago/

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[Marxism] Greg Grandin · What’s at Stake in Venezuela? · LRB 8 February 2019

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https://www.lrb.co.uk/2019/02/08/greg-grandin/whats-at-stake-in-venezuela
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[Marxism] Tony Wood · The Battle for Venezuela · LRB 21 February 2019

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By Tony Wood

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n04/tony-wood/the-battle-for-venezuela
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[Marxism] Larry Krasner Responds to Progressive Critics

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Last week, the organizers of the Rebellious Lawyering Conference at Yale 
Law School disinvited Krasner as their keynote speaker, citing the 
Abu-Jamal case.


Despite the emotional and political potency of the Abu-Jamal appeal — he 
was convicted in 1982 of killing a police officer, and his case, which 
his supporters say was a frame up by police, has generated controversy 
in Philadelphia and around the country for decades — Krasner told The 
Intercept, the process must play out.


https://theintercept.com/2019/02/09/larry-krasner-mumia-abu-jamal/
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