Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: despite the crisis, Chavez's legacy endures (Green Left Weekly)

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The author should have said "relatively cheaply in US dollar terms".

The following sentence makes it clear that most things are "far from cheap for 
the majority".

Chris Slee

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Subject: Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: despite the crisis, Chavez's legacy endures 
(Green Left Weekly)

The apologists for Maduro can believe anything, no matter how 
self-contradictory.

The article in "Green Left Weekly" cited by Chris Slee boasts that basic goods 
are very cheap in Caracas--cheaper than anywhere else in the world!!!--and 
easily available!!!. Except... oops ... that hyperinflation is so bad that 
workers' wages can't afford them. It is supposed to be easy to find goods at 
these very cheap prices, it's just that these very cheap prices are fabulously 
expensive in Venezuelan money, and more expensive by the day! If this seems 
contradictory,  well, we are told that "The Economist" said so! Would any 
serious, committed socialist doubt something that is supposed to come from an 
unnamed article in "The Economist"?

As GLW puts it:

"Today, it is again easy to find most of these goods — and relatively cheaply, 
as The Economist recently noted, ranking Caracas the cheapest city in the world.

"But hyperinflation has meant workers’ wages have plummeted, making most things 
far from cheap for the majority.

"Venezuela’s current minimum wage — the lowest in the region — stands at less 
than US$6 a month, or enough to buy one egg per day."

On 22 Mar 2019 at 10:22, Chris Slee via Marxism wrote:


> https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/venezuela-despite-crisis-chavez
> %E2%80%99s-legacy-endures
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[Marxism] Israeli-occupied Golan: Another Provocation by Trump!

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[Marxism] Syrian opposition condemns Trump's recognition of Israel's annexation of the Golan

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http://www.anews.com.tr/world/2019/03/22/trumps-tweet-on-golan-defies-will-of-syrian-people?utm_source=twitter_medium=social_campaign=twitter=iwar1kjw_rmnmxfanwm8tlreaw3bkwojwq40t_mx_q-ms_egwbthcmjboefqa



Published March 22,2019

The Syrian opposition has condemned U.S. President Donald Trump's recent
statements on the occupied Golan Heights in which he said it was "time for
the U.S. to fully recognize Israel's sovereignty" over the territory.

In a Friday statement, the opposition's High Negotiations Committee
described Trump's assertion as "contrary [UN] Security Council resolutions,
which regard the Golan Heights as [Israeli-] occupied Syrian territory".

The U.S. president's claim, the statement added, "directly challenges the
will of the Syrian people, who retain the right to liberate occupied
territories by all means guaranteed under international law".

What's more, the statement continued, Trump's declaration "further
complicates the regional situation and undermines prospects for stability
and peace".
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Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: despite the crisis, Chavez's legacy endures (Green Left Weekly)

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The apologists for Maduro can believe anything, no matter how 
self-contradictory.

The article in "Green Left Weekly" cited by Chris Slee boasts that basic goods 
are 
very cheap in Caracas--cheaper than anywhere else in the world!!!--and easily 
available!!!. Except... oops ... that hyperinflation is so bad that workers' 
wages 
can't afford them. It is supposed to be easy to find goods at these very cheap 
prices, it's just that these very cheap prices are fabulously expensive in 
Venezuelan money, and more expensive by the day! If this seems contradictory,  
well, we are told that "The Economist" said so! Would any serious, committed 
socialist doubt something that is supposed to come from an unnamed article in 
"The Economist"? 

As GLW puts it:

"Today, it is again easy to find most of these goods - and relatively cheaply, 
as 
The Economist recently noted, ranking Caracas the cheapest city in the world.

"But hyperinflation has meant workers´ wages have plummeted, making most 
things far from cheap for the majority.

"Venezuela´s current minimum wage - the lowest in the region - stands at less 
than US$6 a month, or enough to buy one egg per day."

On 22 Mar 2019 at 10:22, Chris Slee via Marxism wrote:

 
> https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/venezuela-despite-crisis-chavez
> %E2%80%99s-legacy-endures
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Re: [Marxism] Yes, a Planned Economy Can Actually Work

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On 3/22/19 10:27 PM, DW via Marxism wrote:

These articles are congruent with and are strongly supported by the book
the review article [*Yes, a Planned Economy Can Actually] *in *Jacobin*  by
Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworski, wrote about:  *The People’s Republic of
Walmart**: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation
for Socialism. *For those actually interested in pondering the issues of
actual socialist organization of the economy, both the review article and
the book are worth the read. Right-on to editors of *Jacobin *for ignoring
the peanut gallery cat-calls and drunken responses found here far too
often. Again, prior to the 1960s the "Left" broadly speaking was quite
pro-science and wrote and discussed it. Now? We got Louis and Jill Stein.


In the interests of transparency for new subscribers, it must be pointed 
out that David is a huge fan of nuclear power, even bigger a fan than I 
am of movies by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

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Re: [Marxism] Yes, a Planned Economy Can Actually Work

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Louis descends into his crotchety old deflection mode here. The issue
of *planning
*and the almost universally failed attempts under "real existing socialism"
to make it work is essential to analyze or you shouldn't call yourself a
socialist. The totally misused term of *productivism* is further nonsense
since Marx was that, quite so in fact, despite all the protestations from
the editors and writers at Monthly Review. And *expansion* of the
productive forces can really only mean one thing, now matter how much green
spray paint you put on it. A "missreading" my ass. What sophism! No matter,
this is the the *rift *created between science and the Left since the days
of the Vietnam War. I have no doubt that Louis will be defending
anti-vaxxers next...at least that would consistent. [Oddly, Trotsky's
infatuation will all things science based was a good thing, not a bad
thing, and this was no less true for science in the first 10 years of the
Russian Revolution. Louis might want to look around because the ENTIRE left
was pro-nuclear energy until this rift occurred into the 1970s. But that is
another story...]

If one has followed Andy Pollack's writings on this subject (and this book
he reviewed has yet to review himself!) is about the tools that can be used
for central planning a communist society based on the *metaphor* of what
has already been shown to occur with extremely large, essentially
logistics-to-retail industry created by the working class and owned and
driven by Imperialism. In case you were wondering it has nothing to do with
Louis' deflection over one of the author's views toward..."geoengineering"
(seriously?) or "productivism". Andy has written *extensively* on this
question here on this list years ago when he brought to our attention the
technological transition that allowed, say, a Toyota plant in Oakland to
maintain almost zero inventory with parts being manufactured globally "just
on time" via the advent of "business-to-business" software aka, "B2B".
This dovetails neatly with Joe Allen's own articles on Logistics and why
socialists should organize inside this industry (trains, trucks, airlines,
shipping) as the key "choke point" of modern day Imperialism. Joe, who was
an ISOer and retired Teamster activist when he wrote this, is now a member
of DSA. The article is here:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/02/logistics-industry-organizing-labor/
probably the best article I've read in the last 15 years written from a
truly Marxist perspective. Another excellent article is by Kim Moody and
two other writers "Seizing the Choke Points":
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/10/choke-points-logistics-industry-organizing-unions
.

These articles are congruent with and are strongly supported by the book
the review article [*Yes, a Planned Economy Can Actually] *in *Jacobin* by
Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworski, wrote about:  *The People’s Republic of
Walmart**: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation
for Socialism. *For those actually interested in pondering the issues of
actual socialist organization of the economy, both the review article and
the book are worth the read. Right-on to editors of *Jacobin *for ignoring
the peanut gallery cat-calls and drunken responses found here far too
often. Again, prior to the 1960s the "Left" broadly speaking was quite
pro-science and wrote and discussed it. Now? We got Louis and Jill Stein.

David Walters
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[Marxism] Gas wars part one: let’s be honest about Germany’s growing dependence on fossil gas

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With the ink barely dry on Germany’s Coal Commission report recommending a
phase out by 2038, the oil and gas industry is breaking out the champagne.
While environmentalists criticize the plan’s particulars, the other side is
celebrating the slaying of their strongest competitor. And they’re
translating that joy into furious lobbying aimed at ensuring that
renewables don’t fill the majority of the void as coal plants are shuttered.

*Gas infrastructure set to expand in all directions*


With the environmental community and media otherwise focused on the
Commission’s report, in late January Chancellor Angel Merkel (CDU)
addressed the 49th Annual World Economic Meeting and let the cat out of the
proverbial bag: “if we phase out coal and nuclear energy, then we have to
be honest and tell people that we’ll need more natural gas.”


Calling the growing tug-of-war over where that future gas supply comes from
“a bit over the top,” she reassured the gathered industry executives and
politicians that gas will “play a greater role for another few decades.
We’re thus expanding infrastructure in all directions.”


Merkel’s candor and bluntness might be rather shocking for those more
accustomed to her usual opaque pronouncements. But the fact that coal’s
demise was really just a smokescreen for a gas play shouldn’t be a surprise
for anyone who has followed the US’ rapid transition from
billion-ton-a-year-coal-burner to the world’s largest oil and gas producer.
As new technologies came into play, beginning in 2005, fracking companies there
covertly funded the nascent

“Beyond Coal” movement, directly or indirectly, while ensuring the media
labeled fossil gas as a natural bridge fuel to renewables.

FULL:
https://energytransition.org/2019/03/gas-wars-part-one-lets-be-honest-about-germanys-growing-dependence-on-fossil-gas/?fbclid=IwAR04RqdNFvp-cYl8mn9QIqpP_X-LsDRDG0QhaDcK_xRjB5txzOEY9Wzi7po
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[Marxism] The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center | The New Yorker

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In Harper’s, Ken Silverstein had revealed that the center had 
accumulated an endowment topping a hundred and twenty million dollars 
while paying lavish salaries to its highest-ranking staffers and 
spending far less than most nonprofit groups on the work that it claimed 
to do. The great Southern journalist John Egerton, writing for The 
Progressive, had painted a damning portrait of Dees, the center’s 
longtime mastermind, as a “super-salesman and master fundraiser” who 
viewed civil-rights work mainly as a marketing tool for bilking gullible 
Northern liberals. “We just run our business like a business,” Dees told 
Egerton. “Whether you’re selling cakes or causes, it’s all the same.”


full: 
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-reckoning-of-morris-dees-and-the-southern-poverty-law-center

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[Marxism] Serial TV, Digital Accumulation, and Distracted Working-Class Audiences | Dennis Broe | Culture Matters

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https://www.culturematters.org.uk/index.php/culture/tv/item/3017-serial-tv-digital-accumulation-and-distracted-audiences


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Re: [Marxism] Yes, a Planned Economy Can Actually Work

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I have posted this here before:

A few years back, I co-authored an article on Friedrich Hayek. This article 
includes an appendix on the socialist calculation debates, including both the 
well known between Hayek and Oskar Lange, as well as the less well known 
between Hayek and Otto Neurath. BTW the socialist calculation debates were 
triggered in the first place when Hayek's mentor, Ludwig von Mises, wrote his 
1920 essay, "Economic calculation in the socialist commonwealth" in response to 
Neurath's writings in defense of socialist economic planning.

Here is a a link to the article by Mark Lindley and myself:
https://www.academia.edu/3291616/The_Strange_Case_of_Dr._Hayek_and_Mr._Hayek

And here is a link to Mises's 1920 essay:
https://mises.org/library/economic-calculation-socialist-commonwealth/html

And a link to Hayek's 1945 article, The Use of Knowledge in Society, where he 
summarized his views on socialist calculation.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw1.html


I also have a review of David Laibman's book, Deep history: a study in social 
evolution and human potential. Although that book was mostly about Laibman's 
ideas concerning the materialist conception of history, Laibman also discussed 
socialist calculation issues as well. So I addressed that as well.
https://www.academia.edu/205061/Review_of_David_Laibmans_book_Deep_history_a_study_in_social_evolution_and_human_potential


"I think it is appropriate to point out that there is no reason to be smug 
about economic calculation under capitalism. "

An issue which Lange addressed in his writings (and which was reiterated by 
Maurice Dobb too). Lange, citing A. C. Pigou's analysis of externalities argued 
that market failures were, in fact, rather ubiquitous under capitalism, so that 
we cannot expect capitalist markets to produce rational allocations of 
resources. Hence, the need for socialist economic planning to provide a 
corrective. 

A few other things to add:

One point that I would make is that the young Ronald Coase made his own 
contribution to the socialist calculation debate with his famous concept of 
transaction costs, which he introduced in his 1937 paper, "The Nature of the 
Firm."
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~lebelp/CoaseNatFirmEc1937.pdf

In that paper,  Coase pointed out, that firms internally DO NOT work like 
markets and Coase made the argument why that should be rational behavior on 
their part, and more importantly, why firms should exist in the first place 
within a market economy.

Back when he wrote that, Coase was a socialist (he would later become a 
conservative). He was a close friend of Abba Lerner, and like Lerner, was at 
that time very much interested in the "socialist calculation" debate.

One of his concerns at that time was to show how to reconcile the apparent 
economic success of the Soviet Union with the neoclassical economics that he 
was committed to. His paper, "The Nature of the Firm" sketched out the kind of 
economic reasoning which could reconcile support for socialist economic 
planning with a commitment to neoclassical economic theory. For Coase, the key 
concept here was that of "transaction costs", which denoted the costs incurred 
by relying on the market and price system for organizing economic activity. 
It's precisely because transaction costs are often of significant size that 
people turn away from direct reliance upon the market and price system. Coase 
also used the concept of transaction costs in his famous 1960 paper, "The 
Problem of Social Cost", where he presented what has come to be known as 
"Coase's Theorem."   
http://bev.berkeley.edu/ipe/readings/The%20Problem%20of%20Social%20Cost.pdf

Coase's Theorem has often been taken as constituting some sort of refutation of 
Pigou's analysis of externalities. But Coase himself insisted that in most 
cases involving environmental pollution, and probably for most other kinds of 
externalities, the relevant transaction costs are of significant size, in which 
case, Pigou comes back into his own again. It is interesting to note that both 
Oskar Lange and Maurice Dobb used Pigou's analysis of externalities to make 
their cases for socialist economic planning. And the young Ronald Coase himself 
had been supportive of socialist economic planning precisely because he 
believed in the existence of high transaction costs.

And in his Nobel Lecture, Coase admitted as much concerning his own history:

"The view of the pricing system as a co-ordinating mechanism was clearly right 
but there were aspects of the argument which troubled me. Plant was opposed to 
all schemes, then very fashionable during the Great 

Re: [Marxism] Yes, a Planned Economy Can Actually Work

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I read the book in less than a day, eagerly anticipating each new argument
in this wide-ranging defense of democratic socialist planning.
Please read and promote it!
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2822-the-people-s-republic-of-walmart


On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 6:45 PM Andrew Pollack  wrote:

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> https://jacobinmag.com/2019/03/economic-planning-walmart-democracy-socialism
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[Marxism] Trump vs. McCain: an American Horror Story

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H. Bruce Franklin on how Trump exploits the POW/MIA mythology.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/22/trump-vs-mccain-an-american-horror-story/
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[Marxism] Tigerland | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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As the title suggests, “Tigerland” is a documentary about the efforts in 
both Far Eastern Russia and Bengal, India to prevent tigers from going 
extinct. It opens today at the Monica Center in Los Angeles and at the 
Cinema Village in N.Y. next Friday. It will also be available as VOD on 
the Discovery cable network tomorrow. As a genre, it resembles what you 
would see on channels like Discovery, Smithsonian and National 
Geographic. However you decide to see this beautiful but worrisome film, 
it is worth your time because it gets to the heart of the species 
extinction that confronts humanity today. As a symbol of wilderness, 
probably nothing can top the tiger, a creature that inspired William 
Blake to write:


Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?


full: https://louisproyect.org/2019/03/22/tigerland/
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[Marxism] Fwd: PETITION: NO TO GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF THE ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT

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Rochester, New York needs your help.

The rich and their political and media representatives are at it again,
pushing for mayoral control of the Rochester City School District.

Please consider signing this petition and circulating it broadly. We have
collected about 108 signatures in about three weeks and need to collect
many more. Let's keep the momentum going.

PETITION: NO TO GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF THE ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/no-to-government-takeover-of-the-rochester-city-school-district


Thank you.

Regards,

Shawgi Tell, PhD

School of Education

Nazareth College

Rochester, New York 14618
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[Marxism] Trump Nominates Famous Idiot Stephen Moore to Fed Board

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http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/stephen-moore-federal-reserve-trump.html
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[Marxism] Letter from New Zealand • Commune

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https://communemag.com/letter-from-new-zealand/
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-AmIndian]: Amerman on Emery, 'Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press'

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Best regards,
Andrew Stewart 

Begin forwarded message:

> From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW 
> Date: March 22, 2019 at 11:46:46 AM EDT
> To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org
> Cc: H-Net Staff 
> Subject: H-Net Review [H-AmIndian]:  Amerman on Emery, 'Recovering Native 
> American Writings in the Boarding School Press'
> Reply-To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org
> 
> Jacqueline Emery.  Recovering Native American Writings in the 
> Boarding School Press.  Lincoln  University of Nebraska Press, 2017.  
> 336 pp.  $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8032-7675-8.
> 
> Reviewed by Steve Amerman (Southern Connecticut State University)
> Published on H-AmIndian (March, 2019)
> Commissioned by F. Evan Nooe
> 
> Toward a Native Point of View
> 
> How does one reconstruct the history of a people who have left no 
> written records of their experiences? I suspect that I am not the 
> only one in the field of American Indian history to have heard some 
> version of this question from students, the general public, and more 
> than a few fellow historians. Setting aside the fact that written 
> records are but one among many ways to learn the stories of the 
> past--and setting aside the fact that written sources provide us with 
> neither an infallible nor a complete picture of that past--scholars 
> of Indian history have had to frequently point out that, contrary to 
> popular presumptions, many Native people did indeed leave behind 
> written accounts of their lives. By collecting a large, diverse, and 
> revealing set of writings by American Indian people in this book, 
> Jacqueline Emery has thus helped join the important and ongoing 
> effort to correct that basic misperception. 
> 
> More specifically, Emery--a professor of English--has gathered 
> together Native-authored texts that appeared in turn-of-the-century 
> boarding school newspapers, part of a "vast newspaper archive that 
> remains largely understudied" (p. 2) but much of which is also 
> "inaccessible to scholars and students" (p. 32). By tapping into 
> these underused and hard-to-get sources, she has collected a sizable 
> number of publications, which she has grouped into two parts. Part 1, 
> entitled "Writings by Boarding School Students," has sections for 
> letters, editorials, essays, and "short stories and retold tales," 
> while part 2, entitled "Writings by Late Nineteenth- and Early 
> Twentieth-Century Native American Public Intellectuals," includes the 
> work of such notables as Charles Eastman, Gertrude Bonnin (also known 
> as Zitkala-Ša), Carlos Montezuma, and Henry Roe Cloud (all of whom 
> also happened to be tied into the Society of American Indians at the 
> time). In all, there are thirty-five Indian writers in this 
> collection. To her credit, Emery takes the time to supply readers 
> with background information on each of them, revealing an impressive 
> diversity in terms of gender, tribal affiliation, and schools 
> attended. The writings are pulled from about fifteen boarding school 
> newspapers--from Carlisle, Hampton, Chilocco, Santee, and Seneca 
> schools--and Emery indicates that she performed only light editing on 
> the texts she ultimately selected for inclusion. 
> 
> In her helpful introduction, Emery readily acknowledges that, as is 
> the case with any set of sources, these writings must be handled 
> carefully. In general, white boarding school administrators 
> maintained considerable control over what was published and, 
> accordingly, one has to view these texts with that in mind. However, 
> in keeping with broad developments in this historiography, Emery 
> energetically asserts that it would be wrong to dismiss these sources 
> as merely assimilationist propaganda. "Boarding school newspapers, 
> much like the schools themselves, were complex sites of negotiation," 
> she writes. "Native Americans developed multiple strategies to 
> negotiate the different and sometimes competing demands and 
> expectations of Native and non-Native audiences in order to gain 
> visibility and the authority to speak" (p. 2). 
> 
> And yet, the language of assimilation in these writings--while it 
> should not necessarily be surprising--remains quite striking in its 
> pervasiveness. "If there were many big schools like this ... we think 
> the Indians would get along very nicely," one student wrote in 1881. 
> "When all the Indians become educated there would be no more wild 
> Indians but all civilized and educated people" (p. 60). Indeed, words 
> like "civilized," "advancement" (p. 158), and "progress" (p. 215) 
> appear repeatedly throughout the book, as do "savage" (p. 158), 
> "barbaric" (p. 181), "primitive" (p. 191), 

[Marxism] Misanthropocene | Richard Seymour on Patreon

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To live in the 'anthropocene', or 'misanthropocene' as we might call it 
after Grimes, is to inhabit an era of fraying, of physical exhaustion 
and deterioration of life, and of the means for life-building.


Cruel optimism, as Lauren Berlant defines it, is an attachment to an 
object, a fantasy, that actively impedes the aim that brought you to it. 
One invests an object, a commitment, a relationship, with promises that 
it never fulfils. But the relation is optimistic, despite all the 
anxiety and depression it generates, because you still hope that the it 
can be repaired, that it can give you what you want.


We are at an impasse, Berlant says. A situation in which there is much 
frantic movement but little progress. In which, for millions of people 
who were previously relatively protected from the worst of capitalist 
precarity, life seems both "intensely present and enigmatic". It is 
impossible to know how to orient oneself in it, because one doesn't know 
exactly what it is. It is clear that the old attachments are in crisis. 
That life-building is becoming more precarious and difficult. That ideas 
of the 'good life' that were once consensual across broad populations no 
longer look like laudable promises.


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[Marxism] A Minister, a General, & the Militias: Libya’s Shifting Balance of Power

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[Marxism] Lawrence Ferlinghetti Celebrates His 100th Birthday With a Novel

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NY Times, March 22, 2019
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Celebrates His 100th Birthday With a Novel
By Robert Pinsky

LITTLE BOY
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
179 pp. Doubleday. $24.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti celebrates his 100th birthday on March 24 with the 
publication of “Little Boy,” his life story told in flashes and arias. 
No one’s biography has more completely or ardently embodied the visions 
and contradictions, the achievements and calamities, the social mobility 
and social animosities, of that life span.


Poet, retail entrepreneur, social critic, publisher, combat veteran, 
pacifist, poor boy, privileged boy, outspoken socialist and successful 
capitalist, with roots in the East Coast and the West Coast (as well as 
Paris), Ferlinghetti has not just survived for a century: He epitomizes 
the American culture of that century.


Specifically, he has been a unique protagonist in a national drama: the 
American struggle to imagine a democratic culture. How does the ideal of 
social mobility affect notions of high and low, Europe and the New 
World, tradition and progress? That struggle of imagination underlies 
the art of Walt Whitman and Duke Ellington, Emily Dickinson and Buster 
Keaton. It also underlies a range of American issues, from the 
segregation of public schools to the reality of human-caused climate 
change. Those political issues involve our interbreeding of the highbrow 
and the vulgarian in a supercharged process whose complexities defy 
simplifying terms like “culture wars.”


As to social mobility, the opening pages of “Little Boy” range from a 
Chappaqua orphanage to prep school at Mount Hermon; from malnutrition to 
luxury. He lived with his Tante Emilie on the Upper West Side and in 
Strasbourg (French was the little boy’s first language) and then in a 
Bronxville mansion where Emilie for a spell became the governess. After 
his graduation from the University of North Carolina, Ferlinghetti 
commanded a submarine chaser in the Normandy landings, then “went to the 
Pacific as a navigator … and saw Nagasaki seven weeks after the second 
bomb was dropped and saw the landscape of hell and became an instant 
pacifist.”


Is Ferlinghetti’s career as an influential, best-selling poet a story of 
high culture or of popular culture? Is his City Lights, as bookstore and 
publisher, a San Francisco tourist trap? Or is City Lights a literary, 
moral and legal shrine that not only published Frank O’Hara’s “Lunch 
Poems” and Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl and Other Poems” but in a 1957 court 
case established First Amendment principles that transformed American 
life? The store’s North Beach location has been designated an “official” 
San Francisco landmark. Is that a funny contradiction in terms? Or a 
triumph? The answer to all these questions is, emphatically, yes — all 
of the above.


The cover of “Little Boy” bears the label “A Novel” — not a matter of 
literary form so much as an assertion of the autobiographer’s right to 
invent, embellish and creatively misremember. The book begins with a few 
dozen pages of engaging narrative of a conventional kind: ancestry 
(including a strand of Sephardic immigrants to the Virgin Islands and 
other lines that are Danish and French, thus Tante Emilie) and childhood 
anecdote. That linear setup gradually sublimates into long, lyrical 
sentences of freewheeling associations: the verbal riffs of a good 
talker. Readers hoping for reminiscences of Beat figures like Ginsberg 
(“Ginzy”) and Jack Kerouac (“Ti-Jean”) may be disappointed. Ferlinghetti 
approaches writers and writing in a more sweeping, lofty way, as in his 
vision of Ginsberg “arm in arm” with “the other great writers and poets 
and great articulators of consciousness,” a procession that includes 
Shakespeare, Tolstoy, “sexy tragi-romantic Vincent Millay and Dylan 
Thomas sweet singer.”


Above all, Ferlinghetti is literary in the American way of his 
generation, with the appealing old-fashioned enthusiasm of an autodidact 
(despite his M.A. from Columbia). As a child, he thrilled to “Horatius 
at the Bridge” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” He even calls 
Shakespeare “the bard of Avon” and notes that the Cantos of “Old Ez” 
Pound “couldn’t possibly be sung.” He also admires and mocks “old Tea 
Ass Eliot.” The mingled derision and awe, doubt and aspiration come from 
that underlying cultural duality of high and low.


Ferlinghetti’s vastly influential first book of poems, “A Coney Island 
of the Mind,” echoes that doubleness in its very title: In this corner, 
the Mind with a capital M; and in the other corner, Brooklyn’s 
thrilling, low-class amusement park. The book’s first poem, which 

[Marxism] From Dresden on the 50th Anniversary of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’

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NY Times, March 21, 2019
From Dresden on the 50th Anniversary of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’
By Malcolm Jack

DRESDEN, Germany — Last month, 74 years to the day since the bombers 
came, the late winter sky was gray as German tour guide Danilo Hommel 
called a halt before a short, dark green door in a large 
terracotta-roofed building that today forms part of an events and 
conference complex. One among several structures like it are laid out in 
neat rows in a bend of Germany’s River Elbe, two miles from Dresden’s 
historically reconstructed center.


Anonymous except for a plaque by its side reading “Schlachthof 5,” and 
underneath, in English, “Slaughterhouse Five,” it was an exit-way 
through which the tall, lean 22-year-old prisoner of war Kurt Vonnegut 
Jr. may have had to stoop to emerge into a scene that would cast a 
shadow over the rest of his life. In February 1945, after sheltering in 
a deep underground meat locker in the abattoir-turned-P.O.W. camp, he 
and other American soldiers captured at the Battle of the Bulge, before 
being shipped eastward by train, were confronted by a smoldering 
hellscape where the Saxon capital had stood, its baroque architecture 
until now pristinely untouched by the wrecking hand of war.


Claiming around 25,000 lives late in World War II, the Allied 
firebombing raids on Dresden whipped up an inferno so fierce it sucked 
the oxygen from all but the most subterranean of shelters and destroyed 
practically everything that would burn. Vonnegut would later compare the 
sound of bombs stomping across the earth overhead to the footsteps of 
giants. Put to work by his German captors disinterring corpses from the 
rubble, he would one day write with characteristic black comedy that the 
hideous task resembled “a terribly elaborate Easter egg hunt.”


After his liberation by the Russians and eventual return to the United 
States, the newspaper reporter, teacher and struggling novelist spent 
more than two decades privately processing and grappling with his 
Dresden memories, scrapping countless drafts as he attempted to knit his 
experiences into a story. It was only after summoning the outlandish 
sci-fi contrivance of making his protagonist Billy Pilgrim become 
“unstuck in time” — ricocheting through the past, present and future 
simultaneously and traveling into outer space in pursuit of perspective 
— that Vonnegut felt satisfied to turn in an almost implausibly slim 
manuscript for “Slaughterhouse-Five.”


Published 50 years ago this month, the book became his first best-seller 
and made 47-year-old Vonnegut a star. Weird, wise, moral, profane and 
profoundly human, it remains a countercultural classic and one of the 
most enduring antiwar novels of all time. Not to mention a salvational 
act of self-therapy by a man who likely suffered from what would today 
be recognized as post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.


For a book about surviving a massacre, “Slaughterhouse-Five” makes you 
laugh an unreasonable amount. Not least through the repetition of three 
short words that have inspired a thousand bad tattoos: “So it goes.”


Those words are “one of his clues to us that he had PTSD,” said Julia 
Whitehead, the founder and head of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, 
over the phone from Vonnegut’s native city, Indianapolis. “He’s trying 
to figure out, ‘O.K., did something really horrible just happen? How am 
I going to deal with that?’”


From a bottle of champagne that’s lost its fizz to entire “corpse 
mines” in the lunar landscape of flattened Dresden and a fellow prisoner 
shot for scavenging a teapot, “Slaughterhouse-Five” is a book steeped in 
expiry, such that the author can only seem to summon a cry-laughing 
refrain every time another endpoint is reached. “So it goes” tolls 
bright and solemn 106 times throughout the book, cunningly conveying 
fatalism, stoicism, acceptance and stubborn continuity each time. “It 
was his way of coping,” Whitehead said. “And it’s kind of teaching us to 
keep going, when these things happen in our lives … to stop and say, 
‘This is what it is, and I will keep going.’”


Vonnegut has said he based the novel’s protagonist, Pilgrim — the sweet 
but hapless Army chaplain’s assistant and future millionaire optometrist 
— on his comrade, Edward R. Crone Jr., who died on April 11, 1945, soon 
before the war’s end.


In 1969, when the novel was published, PTSD was a concept as alien as 
the four-dimensional beings who kidnap Pilgrim to the planet 
Tralfamadore. While the condition is widely known today, the term only 
entered medical doctrine after 1980. Whether he knew it or not, Vonnegut 
was improvising a 

[Marxism] You Say You Want a Revolution: SDS, PL, and Adventures in Building a Worker-Student Alliance | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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On a number of different levels, John Levin and Earl Silbar’s “You Say 
You Want a Revolution: SDS, PL, and Adventures in Building a 
Worker-Student Alliance” is a must-read book. To start with, it 
represents an important piece of the jigsaw puzzle known as SDS. For 
many, SDS meant either the New Left of the Port Huron Statement or the 
organization that imploded in 1970, leaving behind the wreckage strewn 
behind it, including the Weathermen and the various Maoist sects such as 
Bob Avakian’s Revolutionary Communist Party that came out of RYM and 
RYM2. Missing until now from this puzzle was arguably SDS’s most 
disciplined and serious component, the Worker-Student Alliance (WSA) 
that was well-represented in the landmark student strikes at San 
Francisco State and Harvard University.


In addition, it is a close look at the Progressive Labor Party (PLP), a 
group that was the backbone of the WSA as well as the group that had the 
official blessing of Beijing in the 1960s until the party leadership 
broke with China over its “revisionism”.


While being essential for professional historians and those simply 
trying to understand what was happening on the left 50 years ago, it is 
also a breathtakingly dramatic story of how people from my generation 
burned their bridges in order to become revolutionaries. As someone who 
has read and written about a number of Trotskyist memoirs, none of them 
comes close to the story-telling power of the 23 people included in this 
362-page collection that you will find impossible to put down.


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[Marxism] The Fight to Tame a Swelling River With Dams That May Be Outmatched by Climate Change - The New York Times

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Best seen on NYT website for graphics.

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[Marxism] We End Up with the Disaster • Commune

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Down the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, from the Dakotas to the 
petrochemical swamps of Louisiana, new solidarities and new tactics flow.


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[Marxism] Scott McLemee discusses two books on our networked society (opinion)

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[Marxism] Greedy Boeing’s Avoidable Design and Software Time Bombs

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By Ralph Nader (he should know).

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[Marxism] Is It Really So Shocking?

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The first time Code Pink went on a tour of Iranian state ministries, as 
well as shopping in Tehran’s magnificent bazaar, I got all outraged and 
ended up writing up my rage. A website published it.


Medea Benjamin emailed me with her phone number for me to call. To 
straighten things up, I guess. I was in Vietnam at the time, and an 
international phone call would take some logistical work; but quite 
frankly I simply didn’t want to talk to somebody who had just been led 
around various Iranian government ministries by a guy who had written a 
hatchet job on me, published by some western websites. Additionally, I 
was paranoid-sure her phone would be hacked by the Iranian state. Better 
paranoid and safe. You can never be too paranoid when you’re Iranian. 
So, I made up excuses and never called.


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[Marxism] New York’s Hudson Yards: The Revanchist City Lives On

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[Marxism] Nothing can be changed until it is faced | SocialistWorker.org

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In the weeks after the 2019 convention of the International Socialist 
Organization (ISO), and in the days after the revelation that members of 
the 2013 Steering Committee had interfered with, overturned and silenced 
an independent committee’s finding that an ISO member had committed 
rape, survivors in and around the ISO organized in solidarity with one 
another and to point a way forward for the left.


As survivors committed to the project of socialism from below, they have 
stepped in to fill vacancies in the ISO’s leadership and begin to 
theorize what it will take for their justice. Moreover, they say to 
their abusers, to rape apologists and to those who refuse to acknowledge 
their existence: We exist in defiance of you, and in love with ourselves.


The following statement was written by Maryam A and Nikki W of the 
Interim Coordinating Committee of the ISO Survivors’ Caucus.


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[Marxism] The period, the party and the next left | SocialistWorker.org

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In this essay, socialist author David McNally contributes to the 
discussion about forms of socialist organization in the 21st century. 
During these weeks of reflection on the crisis of the ISO, we hope to 
publish articles that take up questions of organizational models.


---

In early 2009, I wrote a lengthy letter to the international organizer 
for the International Socialist Organization (ISO) in the U.S. The 
letter, which I hoped would be circulated to the membership, urged a 
sharp break with the sectarian practices associated with “micro-party” 
politics. In light of recent debates in the ISO and on the wider left, I 
have chosen to publish it now (more than 10 years after it was written). 
I have edited out a bit of extraneous material that discussed the 
British Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and the New Anti-Capitalist Party 
(NPA) in France, but all the core points remain intact. (The acronym IST 
refers to the International Socialist Tendency associated with the SWP.) 
It is my hope that these reflections might be of service today in 
helping to orient the building of a new radical left.


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[Marxism] The fantasy world of the Long Depression | Michael Roberts Blog

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So now the Fed is stopping its rate hiking and also ending its monetary 
tightening policy of running down its huge holdings of government bonds 
that it had built up as part of the ‘quantitative easing’ programme, 
launched in the Great Recession to save the banks and provide cheap 
money for investment.


What is happening?  Well, it always was a risk that hiking interest 
rates when economic growth and investment were weak would cause a stock 
market collapse and a new economic slump.  Now with US economic growth 
in the current quarter to the end of March likely to be no more than at 
a 1.5% annual rate and the Eurozone, the UK and Japan slipping back 
towards outright recession, the Fed has taken fright and put its 
normalisation policy into cold storage. So the Long Depression is not 
over after all.


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[Marxism] Venezuela: despite the crisis, Chavez's legacy endures (Green Left Weekly)

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Venezuela: despite the crisis, Chavez's legacy endures:

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/venezuela-despite-crisis-chavez%E2%80%99s-legacy-endures


Venezuelans: we want to solve our problems by ourselves:

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/venezuelans-we-want-resolve-our-problems-ourselves




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Re: [Marxism] Erdogan uses Christchurch attack to demonise Peoples Democratic Party

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The desperation in Erdogan's actions are there for all to see. Not a single
Turk was killed or wounded as far as I know.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/world/asia/new-zealand-shooting-victims-names.html

He has backtracked slightly since but I doubt it has been widely reported
to his domestic audience. Of course around about now is when a lot of young
NZ and Australian travelers go to Turkey to commemorate the Gallipoli
landings of April 25th 1915. Of course this is actually an antipodean
contribution to British imperialist ambitions but it's still presented here
in NZ as the forging of our nation.

Christchurch, and NZ as a whole, has been being defined by the outpouring
of love and support that has occurred. And there has been that. But of
course that hasn't been the whole picture. Being a week now since the
massacre, a lot of women decided to wear hijab in solidarity. A colleague
of mine did her 15 minute duty slot on the school gate this morning wearing
the hijab. In that 15 minutes, she was told to "fuck off" on at least six
occasions by passing drivers; this has never happened to her before. The
school we work at is only 1km from the Linwood Mosque and the cars were
either coming from or driving to the intersection where the cordon still
stands. That suggests the outpouring of love for our Muslim community is
far from unanimous. There have been other moments though that do show that
positive side. Today as I pulled up at that intersection, a woman was
leaving the vigil that has stood outside the mosque every day since last
Friday. She was wearing the hijab. As she walked in front of the car she
stopped, turned and pointed to her skirt. She had written "Christchurch"
across the front. She then turned round and she had written "We stand
together" on the back.

No city is completely free of white supremacists. There's been an
insulation contractor whose vans have been driving around Christchurch with
a Sonnenrad logo and a claim that their pricing starts at $14.88/m2 (14 for
"the 14 words" and 88 for "Heil Hitler"). He's been gaoled for forwarding
the shooter's live streamed video but he's been flaunting his politics like
that for years. One good thing to have come out of this is a heightened
awareness of the discrimination Muslims and other minorities face, which
white New Zealanders have been largely oblivious to, or convinced
themselves was an aberration.

Cheers,
John

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[Marxism] Venezuela: Despite the crisis, Chavez’s legacy endures

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> "These issues were raised by activists, many of whom continue to identify
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