[Marxism] NZ mosque attacks
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I have felt that I should write something about the events of March 15th here in Christchurch, but I've struggled to think what to write that actually adds anything that people don't already know. I can make a couple of comments on things a few politicians have said. Mayor Lianne Dalziel came out saying that in her years in politics in Christchurch (a Labour member of Parliament for working class Christchurch East for 23 years, Cabinet Minister from 2002-2008, followed by mayor since 2013), she had never been aware of far right political activity in Christchurch. Anyone who has the slightest political awareness in Christchurch knows that this city has been a key centre of organising for the far right in New Zealand. This is not to suggest that the far right is strong, it hasn't been and the perpetrator has turned out to be from Australia, but the dishonesty of claiming Christchurch to have been free of white supremacist politics was quite brazen. Jacinda Ardern, current Prime Minister at the head of a Labour-led coalition government, has said all the right things - that "we" aren't intolerant, blah blah". But she hasn't pointed out that New Zealand has had troops continuously deployed in the Middle East since 1954. There have been NZ combat troops in Afghanistan since 2001 and she's re-extended the deployment. They were recently found to have committed an atrocity against a group of villagers, but oh, the "inquiry" found that it was one rogue soldier who's since left the military. When our army are fighting Muslims (jihadis, insurgents, terrorists), 'protecting' Israel from Muslims, doing reconstruction work for Muslims who are seen as incapable of helping themselves, it's hardly surprising that Islamophobia, the acceptable racism for our time, has taken root in New Zealand. The vast bulk of New Zealanders have, I believe, been genuine in their shock and their goodwill. But it's no thanks to Ardern or Dalziel, and Muslims here, both refugee and New Zealand born, have reported harassment in the time they've lived here. Even when it was very clear that this was an Islamophobic attack on a mosque, some of my students (15 year olds) thought this was an Islamist attack - it just fitted their paradigm. John Edmundson -- The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] On the now-dissolved [DSA] Spring Caucus: Latinos, the DSA and intersectionality
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. * The (IMHO) workerist, economist and class-reductionist Spring Caucus of the DSA (the current formerly known as Momentum which maintains the socialistcall.com website has dissolved due to "significant and unresolvable disagreements over how to relate to other DSA tendencies, how best to relate to anti-oppression mobilizations and demands, and the nature and role of our caucus in DSA." Full is here: https://socialistcall.com/2019/03/17/setbacks-and-new-beginnings/ I wrote a rather extensive critique of their politics on the national question in the United States as it related to Latinos and undocumented immigrants. * * * This post was written looking forward to the DSA convention. Although finished, I had not made it public, unsure as to whether it would further complicate an unfortunate situation where some caucuses had been formed prematurely, leading others to also form caucuses in response. Now with the just-announced dissolution of the Spring Caucus, the situation has changed. I joined one of the counter-caucuses to Spring, the Socialist Majority caucus. And a related reason for not posting this article is that Socialist Majority had decided that, as a group, it would limit itself to presenting our own vision for the DSA as a multi-tendency organization, and not a critique of other viewpoints. "The Call" announces the dissolution of the Spring Caucus So it had not discussed a lot of the ideas presented in this article, and, frankly, I would have been against the caucus or the DSA adopting them as such; at this stage of its development, the DSA should remain open and inclusive of many currents, including those of comrades who disagree with me, such as the authors of the two documents I criticize below. * * * the full post is here: On the now-dissolved Spring Caucus: Latinos, the DSA and intersectionality: http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-now-dissolved-spring-caucus-latinos.html. Joaquín _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Climate Politics after the Yellow Vests | Colin Kinniburgh | Dissent Magazine
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 strange article because nowhere in the article does it actually discuss the carbon foot print of France! If you look at the electricitymap.com site and click on France, you will see it has a carbon footprint about 8 times lower than that of renewable energy heavy Germany. It is among the lowest 3 in Europe (hydro heavy Norway and hydro/nuclear heavy Sweden). They could de better by phasing out natural gas, which is about 10% of their grid at various times. But that would piss off the Green Party as they are heavily invested politically in gas as the back up for the increased renewables the gov't has committed to increases, against France's massive nuclear grid (and the basis for their low GHG footprint). The best thing immediatly would be for an incentive program to deploy more electric vehicles at this point. David _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] When America’s Love of the Open Frontier Hit a Wall
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. * (Good review that would have been better without the gratuitous swipe at Howard Zinn.) NY Times Sunday Book Review, March 17, 2019 When America’s Love of the Open Frontier Hit a Wall By Edward Dolnick THE END OF THE MYTH From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America By Greg Grandin 369 pp. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company. $30. In a speech in 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt reminded a San Francisco audience of what had always distinguished the United States from other nations since its earliest days. “At the very worst,” Roosevelt declared, “there was always the possibility of climbing into a covered wagon and moving west where the untilled prairies afforded a haven for men to whom the East did not provide a place.” Well, yes and no. It is the mission of this fine, elegantly written history to explore the ever-shifting role of the frontier in the American story. Just who was welcome in that west-facing “haven,” Greg Grandin explains, was never as simple as Americans liked to proclaim. But “The End of the Myth” has a shadow theme. How is it, Grandin wants to know, that the symbol of America was once a boundless, beckoning frontier and today is a dark and forbidding wall? The first person to articulate the frontier thesis was a University of Wisconsin historian who was little regarded at the time, Frederick Jackson Turner. In 1893, he read a paper on “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” to a sleepy audience. No one asked a question. The world quickly woke up. Turner’s idea was that the United States had been blessed by geographic good fortune. The seemingly infinite West would solve the problems that arose whenever too many people were jammed into too small a space. The frontier, in Grandin’s summary, “would reduce racism to a remnant and leave it behind as residue. It would dilute other social problems as well, including poverty, inequality and extremism, teaching diverse people how to live together in peace.” It was a pretty picture and a profoundly optimistic one. The frontier, Turner declared, was “a magic fountain of youth in which America continually bathed and was rejuvenated.” Grandin deepens and enriches that picture. Though Turner depicted the frontier as “a place where individualism sprouted from the land like prairie weeds,” in Grandin’s summary, that got the story backward. The reality, Grandin argues, was that “the state preceded the frontier.” Before the settlers arrived, the government had bought the land and surveyed it and built roads across it. Above all, the United States Army removed Native Americans and Mexicans from the settlers’ way, in brutal and deadly fashion. But this is a measured, careful work, not a “People’s History” polemic. Grandin is a fine explainer with a knack for pithy summary. Turner’s frontier was a restrained place, “more James Stewart than John Wayne.” America was “a nation founded on unparalleled freedom and unmatched unfreedom.” The appeal of the frontier myth was that it took problems in the “here and now” and shifted them to the “there and then.” Grandin keeps his cool — he prefers the stiletto to the club — but he grows angrier as his history reaches the present day. “The frontier was, ultimately, a mirage,” he writes, because it promised “a limitless world” where “all could benefit; all could rise and share in the earth’s riches.” The wall, on the other hand, is “a monument to disenchantment,” a deafening shout that “there’s not enough to go around.” The wall stands as our new emblem, Grandin writes, and “it is a symbol of a nation that used to believe that it had escaped history, or at least strode atop history, but now finds itself trapped by history.” Disenchanted and bewildered, we have become, so Grandin contends, “a country that increasingly defines itself by what it hates.” Edward Dolnick has written books on the American West and many other subjects. He is currently working on a book about the Rosetta Stone. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] [UCE] Analysis of some of the top Democratic candidates
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. * *Kirsten Gillibrand* has just formally announced her candidacy for president. My first thought on looking at her picture in the WSJ is that she doesn't stand a chance because of her hair. Men need a full head of hair like Beto. Women need longer, flowing hair like Kamala. A hairdo like Kirsten's makes a woman candidate look not feminine enough, which is usually too threatening to too many male (and probably female) voters. (It was one of the major handicaps of Hillary Clinton. Likewise for Nancy Pelosi today.) But maybe it's more complicated than that in this case. Kirsten has the blond hair and blue eyes and the general features of a slightly aging movie star. The hard hairdo gives her a slightly more serious look, so maybe in her case this works. this understanding makes another candidacy a good bet. That is the candidacy of one who's tall and slender, good looking and energetic, with his impossible-to-define political positions he's got a youthful following, and most important of all, he's got a good smile and good hair. He's the living proof that reincarnation is true. He's *Beto "Barack" O'Rourke*! As for the coming announcement of *Joe Biden*, his hair makes him look too much like a retread tire that doesn't have much tread life left. Nope. Won't do. He might possibly make it through the qualifying race because he's the Michelin of the Democrats - the best know and trusted brand. but if the car running on these tires wins the Grand Prix, it's only because the tires of the competitor suffered a blow out. In general, I think we have to be aware of this: There are some general rules for correct physical appearance for a successful car salesperson. Each type of appearance must also be matched with a particular sales method. The same goes for a sales person of the ideas of the capitalist class. 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: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib speak out in support of Syrian uprising
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. * Ilhan: The people of Syria revolted against Assad's repressive dictatorship 8 years ago today, demanding a more just and free government. Peace loving people around the world stand in solidarity with them in this struggle! https://twitter.com/Ilhan/status/1106729645003685888 Rashida: The anniversary of the uprising against the oppression in Syria was yesterday. We must recognize the struggle of those who organized and stood up against injustice. It is my hope that we can see a Syria that is truly free one day. https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/110706555403520 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Climate Politics after the Yellow Vests | Colin Kinniburgh | Dissent Magazine
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[Marxism] Opinion: We Confronted Chelsea Clinton At The Christchurch Vigil. Here's Why.
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[Marxism] Wall Street Journal: Beto O’Rourke’s Past GOP Ties Could Complicate Primary Run
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. * Before becoming a rising star in the Democratic Party, Beto O’Rourke relied on a core group of business-minded Republicans in his Texas hometown to launch and sustain his political career. To win their backing, Mr. O’Rourke opposed Obamacare, voted against Nancy Pelosi as the House Democratic leader and called for a raise in the Social Security eligibility age. https://www.wsj.com/articles/beto-orourkes-past-gop-ties-could-complicate-primary-run-11552621743 If you do not subscribe to the WSJ, you should be able to access the article: 1. go to https://outline.com/ 2. enter article URL _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] How a yellow cylinder became a propaganda weapon in Syria | al-bab.com
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[Marxism] Unemployed Negativity: The Devil is in the Details: Twilight Zone's Demonology of Capital
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[Marxism] Brexit and Irish Unity
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[Marxism] The Terrorist Attack on New Zealand Mosques and Imperialist Hypocrisy
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