[Marxism] The climate crisis calls for a planetary politics – Briarpatch Magazine

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By that, I mean: a world democratic socialist republic

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[Marxism] Climate policy implications of nonlinear decline of Arctic land permafrost and other cryosphere elements

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09863-x

Arctic feedbacks accelerate climate change through carbon releases from
thawing permafrost and higher solar absorption from reductions in the
surface albedo, following loss of sea ice and land snow. Here, we include
dynamic emulators of complex physical models in the integrated assessment
model PAGE-ICE to explore nonlinear transitions in the Arctic feedbacks and
their subsequent impacts on the global climate and economy under the Paris
Agreement scenarios. The permafrost feedback is increasingly positive in
warmer climates, while the albedo feedback weakens as the ice and snow
melt. Combined, these two factors lead to significant increases in the mean
discounted economic effect of climate change: +4.0% ($24.8 trillion) under
the 1.5 °C scenario, +5.5% ($33.8 trillion) under the 2 °C scenario, and
+4.8% ($66.9 trillion) under mitigation levels consistent with the current
national pledges. Considering the nonlinear Arctic feedbacks makes the 1.5
°C target marginally more economically attractive than the 2 °C target,
although both are statistically equivalent.
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[Marxism] Nitrogen glut: Too much of a good thing is deadly for the biosphere

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https://climateandcapitalism.com/2019/04/29/nitrogen-glut-too-much-of-a-good-thing-is-deadly-for-the-biosphere/
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[Marxism] Left Strategy for the 2020 Elections and Beyond: a critique | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Commentary on Bill Fletcher Jr./Carl Davidson's "inside-outside" article.

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[Marxism] Are there too many people? | The Marx Memorial Library | The Morning Star

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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Italy]: Kinder on Ricatti, 'Italians in Australia: History, Memory, Identity'

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Subject: H-Net Review [H-Italy]: Kinder on Ricatti, 'Italians in Australia:
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Francesco Ricatti.  Italians in Australia: History, Memory, Identity.
 Palgrave Studies in Migration History. London  Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
 147 pp.  $54.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-319-78872-2.

Reviewed by John J. Kinder (University of Western Australia)
Published on H-Italy (April, 2019)
Commissioned by Matteo Pretelli

Italian Australians

Francesco Ricatti's slim volume on _Italians in Australia _is a
groundbreaking study that will shape the future directions of
research into Italians and Italian language and culture in Australia
for the next generation of scholars. The originality of the volume
derives not from original archival discoveries but from the
theoretical approaches Ricatti brings to his subject and from the
conceptual and historical context in which the Italian presence in
Australia is located.

A decade ago, studies of Italian migration to Australia began to take
seriously the new paradigms emerging from migration studies in Europe
and North America. Earlier histories of Italians in Australia often
followed a trend evident in the earliest Italian newspapers published
in Australia, in amassing evidence to justify the presence of
Italians in this member state of the British Empire/Commonwealth and
to celebrate their achievements in resisting discrimination to make
an important contribution to building the "new Australia."

Loretta Baldassar's review of Gianfranco Cresciani's revised _The
Italians in Australia _(2003) had suggested a generational change in
progress.[1] Then reviews of the field by Susanna Iuliano and
Baldassar and Matteo Pretelli marked a clear break in the
historiography and hinted at new directions.[2] In 2015 Matteo
Sanfilippo set the new paradigms with an Italian perspective.[3] Now
Ricatti has comprehensively mapped out new ways of approaching the
presence of Italians in Australia since 1788. Earlier scholarship is
not denied or contradicted so much as reconceptualized with fresh
horizons of thought and new paradigms of understanding.

Curiously, the book opens with a challenge to begin our thinking
about "Italians in Australia" by reassessing what migration means,
first, for the country of origin: "Italian migration history is a
core aspect of Italy's national history and is essential to
understanding Italy's lack of a strong national identity, its complex
presence in the wider world, and many key features [the text says
"futures" but I read this as one of an unfortunate number of typos;
"social rapture" (p. 10) is surely "social rupture"!] of its fragile
and contradictory relationship with modernity" (p. 1). This is the
first virtue of the book: to problematize Italy's own understanding
of migration in its history. No longer can Italian historiography
account for migration simply by "facing up" to the reality of mass
emigration, say after Unification, and to the conditions that
produced it, or by embracing the new immigrations. The economic,
cultural, and linguistic contradictions that emerged in the various
destinations of Italian emigration were already present in the home
country. This emerges clearly in the discussion of racism and racial
ambiguity in chapter 4 that moves nimbly back and forwards between
the ambiguities of Italy's own internal racial categories and the
ambiguities of the new settler nation in Australia.

The theoretical framework, "Mapping Complexity: A Transcultural
Approach," is constructed in chapter 1 from a wide range of
approaches. Six theoretical frames are identified: intersectionality,
decoloniality, the intensity of migrant lives, orientation (which
connects embodiment and emotional emplacement), the uncanny (or
unhomely), and transcultural memory. These lenses converge in an axis
centered on the prefixes "inter-" and "trans-," especially
"transnational" and "transcultural." The transcultural dimension is
the fundamental step in the book's gaze on individuals, groups,
cultures, and nations. The monolithic and static objects that defined
the coordinates of early migration history dissolve in front of a
gaze on reality that acknowledges and embraces the complexities and
changing dimensions of each individual life as it is lived in
networks of relationships with others, both in response to external
events and forces and through the agency of response, engagement, and
adaptation to changing circumstances.

Chapter 2 provides a "Historical Outline" of Italian migration to
Australia. In just eight pages 

[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-LatAm]: Gibson on Martínez-Fernández, 'Key to the New World: A History of Early Colonial Cuba'

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Subject: H-Net Review [H-LatAm]: Gibson on Martínez-Fernández, 'Key to
the New World: A History of Early Colonial Cuba'
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Luis Martínez-Fernández.  Key to the New World: A History of
Early Colonial Cuba.  Gainesville  University of Florida Press, 2018.
 236 pp.  $74.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-68340-032-5.

Reviewed by Carrie Gibson (Independent Scholar)
Published on H-LatAm (April, 2019)
Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz

A large part of Cuban history gravitates toward two periods: sugar
and slavery in the nineteenth century and the revolution of the
twentieth. Luis Martínez-Fernández, a historian at the University
of Central Florida, admits in the introduction to his admirable _Key
to the New World _that most of his own work falls into these two
camps, making him all the more eager to "get out of my
historiographical comfort zones" (p. 1). His aim in this book is to
provide a wide-ranging overview that includes major developments, key
themes, and a discussion of the historiography of this
often-overlooked period of Cuba's history, and he manages this with
great success. This work provides a concise narrative that covers a
great deal of ground concerning precolonial and early colonial Cuba.
Martínez-Fernández also makes a point of shifting the reader's gaze
away from the ever-present Havana to the equally important Santiago
de Cuba, offering a more balanced picture of the island's history.

_Key to the New World _unfolds across eight succinct chapters.
Drawing from the Annales school's idea of a "total history," the
first chapter is devoted to the physical structure of Cuba. While
geography may not necessarily be destiny, the island's position
between the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic, as
well as its location at the crossroads of North, Central, and South
America was fortuitous. Martínez-Fernández begins, however, with a
time when Cuba had periods of not being an island at all. During the
Miocene epoch, some 23 to 5.3 million years ago, Cuba was connected
by land to the Bahamas and the southeastern United States. Although
today the island is surrounded by rising sea levels, this period of
connection is a poetic starting point for its history, especially as
later Cuba's insularity "strongly influenced the course of its
history and culture" (p. 13).

The next three chapters examine arrival and settlement of humans,
with the earliest people coming around 5000-4500 BCE, possibly from
Central America, and later with the Arawak-speaking people, in at
least five distinct waves. Chapter 2 moves through these early years,
discussing what is known about the earliest people and the lives of
their ancestors, the Tainos, who would encounter the Spanish. Chapter
3 turns to the Columbian exchange. Much of this chapter is devoted to
a summary of the world of Christopher Columbus and the social and
scientific developments that led to his voyage. Martínez-Fernández
also draws from the work of Edmundo O'Gorman in reflecting on the
question of the invention--rather than "discovery"--of America. From
there, chapter 4 moves into Spanish ideas about "conquest," with
Martínez-Fernández explaining the _reconquista _and the
implementation of the _encomienda_. He also engages with the ideas of
Ángel Rama, who has argued that the conquerors were only able to
perceive of the Americas as a sort of _tabula rasa_. As with the
previous chapter, this one also gives a helpful explanation of the
foundations and mechanism of Spain's nascent empire, while weaving in
and out of Cuba's history.

Chapter 5 discusses the development of creole society, or, in this
case, societies, with one orbiting Havana and the other around
Santiago. Alongside this, two economies developed. The cattle
ranching and tobacco farming around Havana was augmented by serving
the Spanish fleet by the 1540s. Santiago, meanwhile, turned to
smuggling, taking advantage of its proximity to Saint-Domingue and
Jamaica, which also brought French, Dutch, and British contrabandists
in contact with the island. These traders came into contact--and at
times joined--a diverse society, with the surviving indigenous
people, free and enslaved black people, and Spaniards from many
regions of Spain, including the Canary Islands. The resulting mix is
what Martínez-Fernández calls in chapter 6 the Cuban _ajiaco_,
borrowing the metaphor first coined by Cuban anthropologist Fernando
Ortiz. The _ajiaco _is both a traditional stew and a way of
describing the long-simmering blend of indigenous, African, and
European peoples in Cuba. 

[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-LatAm]: Sharnak on Brennan, 'Argentina's Missing Bones: Revisiting the History of the Dirty War'

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Bones: Revisiting the History of the Dirty War'
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James P. Brennan.  Argentina's Missing Bones: Revisiting the History
of the Dirty War.  Berkeley  University of California Press, 2018.
xi + 195 pp.  $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-29791-3; $34.95 (paper),
ISBN 978-0-520-29793-7.

Reviewed by Debbie Sharnak (Harvard University)
Published on H-LatAm (April, 2019)
Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz

When Luciano Benjamín Menéndez died in February 2018, he was ninety
years old and serving fourteen prison terms--twelve of them life
sentences. A fifteenth trial and possible prison term was pending.
During Argentina's so-called Dirty War, which officially lasted from
1976 to 1983, General Menéndez served as head of the Third Army
Corps in Córdoba, the second-largest city in the country. The
_Washington Post_ has called him "one of the most bloodthirsty
leaders of a violent dictatorship" and indeed, the characterization
rings true.[1] While exact numbers of _desaparecidos_ are difficult
to ascertain, it was under his watch that the death camp La Perla
operated. The most conservative estimates place the number of
disappeared there at around five hundred.[2] La Perla was known for
its sadistic torture sessions, and those who entered the structure
were rarely seen alive again. Menéndez eventually led a failed coup
against the military junta leader Jorge Rafael Videla, arguing that
the commander of the army, General Roberto Viola, had been too soft
on "subversives" due to an attempted easing of the repression.
Menéndez remains one of the only people who ever accused Viola of
being too soft--Viola was a leader of the dictatorship at a national
level who oversaw some of the worst years of the repression. For
this, Viola was also eventually tried and convicted of human rights
violations in the aftermath of the military rule.[3]

Studying Menéndez, and the extent of his zealous and violent
convictions in the pathos of the Dirty War, provides a window into
exploring how the Argentine dictatorship played out in Córdoba.
Córdoba was indeed one of the most violent areas of the country
during the military rule. In _Argentina's Missing Bones: Revisiting
the History of the Dirty War_, James P. Brennan studies the history
of the repression and its aftermath in this city, offering an
accounting of the period preceding the military dictatorship, the
years of the most intense repression, and the subsequent struggles
over justice and memory. In this work, Brennan examines how national
narratives about Argentina's military regime, refracted through
particularities of Córdoba, challenge some of the historiographical
assumptions about the violence. This study indeed does a wonderful
job with this project. By surveying the vast literature on
Argentina's dictatorship and spending time in archives in the United
States, Argentina, and Córdoba, Brennan makes three main
interventions. First, he shows how the violence in the region started
before the onset of the actual military takeover in 1976, challenging
1976 as the beginning of the military rule and the repression.
Second, he examines the multicontinental influences on how the
military carried out its campaign, looking beyond the United States
and instead locating both national trends and the perverse
inspiration of French counterrevolutionary warfare. In noting these
more varied influences, Brennan seeks to overturn the assumption that
the Dirty War in Argentina was merely a product of Washington's Cold
War project. Third, he takes seriously not only victim narratives but
also the military and police culture to examine how readers can
understand the intensity of the violence that ravaged the area and
sought to erase "an entire sociocultural milieu" (p. 5). In this way,
Brennan succeeds in complicating historians' periodization of the
conflict, illuminating the various global influences, and
demonstrating how to further understand violent periods by studying
not only victims but also perpetrators.

In making these claims, Brennan offers a roughly chronological
structure to the book. He starts by examining what made Córdoba
different from the rest of the country, mainly by identifying the
highly politicized youth culture, socially activist Catholic Church,
and militant trade union movement that all worked in solidarity to
"increase the radical tendencies within each" (p. 18). In this sense,
Brennan explains that the military, police, union thugs, and
paramilitary organizations 

[Marxism] From Jim Crow Kentucky to Red Square - RAI with Stephen Cohen (4/5)

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Includes a side-conversation about his great uncle being one of the Old
Bolsheviks

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[Marxism] May Day statement

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For those interested in such stuff, here is a joint May Day statement 
issued in 10 languages:


/English: https://www.thecommunists.net/rcit/may-day-2019-statement/ /

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https://www.thecommunists.net/home/espa%C3%B1ol/primero-de-mayo-2019-manifiesto/ 
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Re: [Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Re: fwd: Ecosocialism: Dystopian and Scientific

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Many more essays by Kallis are collected in an eBook, *In Defense of
Degrowth*, available for $0 or a contribution at
https://indefenseofdegrowth.com/.

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> > Degrowth is utopian, and that’s a good thing ...and it’s scientific, too
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> > By Giorgios Kallis *UnevenEarth* 4/26/19
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> Btw, Kallis is the co-author of this very important article that is
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[Marxism] Syrian Refugees Toil on Turkey’s Hazelnut Farms With Little to Show for It

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NY Times, April 29, 2019
Syrian Refugees Toil on Turkey’s Hazelnut Farms With Little to Show for It
By David Segal

AKCAKALE, Turkey — Like thousands of other Syrian refugees, Shakar 
Rudani worked last summer in Turkey’s Black Sea region, home to the 
largest concentration of hazelnut farms in the world. He arrived in 
August, expecting that he and his six sons, ages 18 to 24, would earn 
the equivalent of a few thousand dollars. He left in late September with 
little more than a firm resolution: to never return again.


The work was arduous and risky. Because the terrain is filled with steep 
inclines, his sons spent much of their time attached by ropes to rocks, 
a precaution against a potentially fatal fall. Worse, the pay was $10 a 
day, half the rate promised by the middleman who had pitched him the job.


“We made just enough to cover the cost of getting there and getting 
back,” said Mr. Rudani, a sun-baked 57-year-old who lives in a Turkish 
village on the Syrian border. “Plus our living expenses. We returned 
with nothing.”


About 70 percent of all hazelnuts come from Turkey, a bounty produced by 
some 600,000 tiny farms scattered throughout the verdant landscape that 
stretches along the country’s northern coast.


Much of the harvest winds up in beloved confections, like Nutella spread 
made by Ferrero, candy bars made by Nestlé and Godiva chocolates made by 
a Turkish company, Yildiz. Few consumers know that behind each of these 
treats is a crop that has long been notorious for its hazards and 
hardships, as well as the prevalence of child labor, a scourge the 
government has been trying to combat for years.


Now, a growing number of seasonal hazelnut workers are Syrian refugees, 
a cohort with a unique set of vulnerabilities. Few have work permits, 
meaning they lack legal protections.


Turkey’s Labor Code does not apply to agricultural businesses with fewer 
than 50 employees, so much of the policing of this crop falls to 
confectionery companies. Ferrero says it oversees a multipronged effort 
to prohibit child labor and set wage and safety standards. The privately 
held company — headed by Giovanni Ferrero, whose personal fortune has 
been reported by Forbes at $22.3 billion — is an empire built on 
hazelnuts. The company buys one third of Turkey’s hazelnuts. It has 
struggled, along with competitors, to ensure there isn’t a shadow over 
the crop.


But comprehensive monitoring of Turkey’s hazelnut farms is an 
exceptionally elusive goal because they are vast in number and 
independent. Plus, the minimum wage, which nearly every farmer offers, 
won’t keep a family above the country’s poverty line. And that is before 
pay is whittled down by middlemen, who connect workers to farms and 
often pocket more than the standard 10 percent cut of wages.


For chocolate companies, all of this presents a conundrum. While other 
countries have tried to bolster their hazelnut production, Turkey 
remains the mother lode, and it is impossible to satisfy international 
demand without buying heavily here. But buying hazelnuts in Turkey means 
supporting a crop with glaring humanitarian flaws.


“In six years of monitoring, we have never found a single hazelnut farm 
in Turkey in which all decent work principle standards are met,” said 
Richa Mittal, the director of innovation and research for the Fair Labor 
Association, which has done fieldwork on Turkey’s hazelnut crop. “Across 
the board. Not one.”


‘They’d Never Find You’
Turkey became the planet’s hazelnut capital through luck and government 
intervention. The Black Sea region has the ideal mix of loamy soil, 
sunshine and rain. Starting in the late 1930s, the Republican People’s 
Party encouraged local farmers to plant hazelnut trees, both to lift the 
local economy and to reduce landslides.


Today, hazelnuts are just one of the crops that make agriculture 6 
percent of Turkey’s economy. (Others include oranges, tea, cotton and 
tobacco.) About one-fifth of the country’s work force is in agriculture, 
including seasonal laborers who travel to different regions as various 
harvests begin. Roughly 200,000 are Syrian refugees.


Mr. Rudani and his sons are now part of this group. He was a farmer in 
his native country, growing wheat and cotton on a 37-acre plot. In 
January 2014, he fled his home with his family of 12 as Islamic State 
fighters approached. The black flag of the Islamic State would fly in 
his village for the next three years. A Kurdish militia group is now in 
control.


Akcakale, where they settled, abuts the Syrian border. “You see the 
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Re: [Marxism] Huffington Post: New York Times Apologizes For Anti-Semitic Cartoon In International Edition

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Not going to bother with John's response line-by-line but his statement
about the meaning of the symbol is totally incorrect, again suggesting that
symbols have inherent meaning regardless of where/how they are used and
depicted, and his suggestion that we should accept that something is
offensive based on how it is perceived and how people "feel" (including NYT
staffers) is a gateway to chauvinism and war propaganda, including people
who "feel" as though it is anti-Semitic when we make legitimate
condemnations of Zionism. As I pointed out in my first response, the line
of argument from HuffPost has nothing to do with the skullcap (which they
skipped over), but simply some sort of vague rhetorical similarity between
opposition to Israel/Zionism generally and "anti-Semitic tropes" (read:
"Nazis said X about Jews, and so leftists/activists saying something
similar to X about the Israeli state is a throwback to Nazism"). It is the
same line of reasoning used to smear Ilhan Omar. That line of reasoning is
total garbage.

Also it is spelled "yarmulke".

Best,

Amith R. Gupta


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> The Star of David is a symbol that represents Jewry, it was long before
> the present State of Israel.
> Netanyahua is Jewish - but does not represent ALL Jews presently, or
> through the ages.
> The image on that dog, was not the State of Israel flag, it was a symbol
> traced to 1,600 years ago and used to symbolize those identified as
> religious faith Jews.
>
> Do I sense anti-Jew themes and messages in that sketch and tragically in
> much else being oozed out - Yes I do!
> Am I sensitive about bigotry and hate - yes and as should we all.
>
> Anti-Semitism against Jews and Arabs, is on the rise.  I see it on the
> internet and I hear it from those who think that I would be receptive to
> hate.
>
> What do you mean when you write in denial response: "I'll admit the Trump
> skullcap is sketch but" - the wording is not clear -
> do you mean this was indeed anti-Jewish?  (It clearly was) and you now
> recognize that .   If so, is that not enough and the "but" is not needed to
> dilute this?
>
> The religious head piece is called a Yamika.   Trump is not blind - or
> being tricked/deceived by "clever Jews".  Trump is not even Jewish to my
> knowledge.
> One of his daughters is - so he therefore is under "suspicion".
>
> The drawing was offensive to many - accept that - and perhaps learn more
> WHY this sketch is viewed that way - due to a history of oppression.
> The NY Tmes did not first apologize and only changed when staff quit and
> negative blowback.  Do you start to get why this cartoon is wrong and
> hate?
> --
> *.*
> I'll admit the Trump skullcap is sketch but the other elements really
> aren't. It sounds like the AJC and the Times (and fellow comrades) are
> splitting hairs so as to read in anti-Semitic themes in what is plainly a
> cartoon about Netanyahu leading an idiot President. I do not see anything
> anti-Jewish about depicting Netanyahu or Israel as America's attack-dog.
>
> That Nazis and others use such imagery for their own nefarious reasons
> should not be a reason to read it in to anti-Zionist art, which was the
> thrust of the concern voiced in HuffPost.
>
>
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> > is so strongly supportive of Israel.
> > I usually agree with Amith on these issues, but I think here the cartoon
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The Star of David is a symbol that represents Jewry, it was long before the 
present State of Israel.
Netanyahua is Jewish - but does not represent ALL Jews presently, or through 
the ages.
The image on that dog, was not the State of Israel flag, it was a symbol traced 
to 1,600 years ago and used to symbolize those identified as religious faith 
Jews.

Do I sense anti-Jew themes and messages in that sketch and tragically in much 
else being oozed out - Yes I do!
Am I sensitive about bigotry and hate - yes and as should we all.

Anti-Semitism against Jews and Arabs, is on the rise.  I see it on the internet 
and I hear it from those who think that I would be receptive to hate.

What do you mean when you write in denial response: "I'll admit the Trump 
skullcap is sketch but" - the wording is not clear -
do you mean this was indeed anti-Jewish?  (It clearly was) and you now 
recognize that .   If so, is that not enough and the "but" is not needed to 
dilute this?

The religious head piece is called a Yamika.   Trump is not blind - or being 
tricked/deceived by "clever Jews".  Trump is not even Jewish to my knowledge.
One of his daughters is - so he therefore is under "suspicion".

The drawing was offensive to many - accept that - and perhaps learn more WHY 
this sketch is viewed that way - due to a history of oppression.
The NY Tmes did not first apologize and only changed when staff quit and 
negative blowback.  Do you start to get why this cartoon is wrong and hate?

.
I'll admit the Trump skullcap is sketch but the other elements really
aren't. It sounds like the AJC and the Times (and fellow comrades) are
splitting hairs so as to read in anti-Semitic themes in what is plainly a
cartoon about Netanyahu leading an idiot President. I do not see anything
anti-Jewish about depicting Netanyahu or Israel as America's attack-dog.

That Nazis and others use such imagery for their own nefarious reasons
should not be a reason to read it in to anti-Zionist art, which was the
thrust of the concern voiced in HuffPost.



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Degrowth is utopian, and that’s a good thing ...and it’s scientific, too

By Giorgios Kallis *UnevenEarth* 4/26/19



Btw, Kallis is the co-author of this very important article that is 
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Degrowth is utopian, and that’s a good thing ...and it’s scientific, too

By Giorgios Kallis *UnevenEarth* 4/26/19

*Excerpts from a rather long essay at*
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What we dream about the future affects how we act today. If utopias express
our desires, dystopias distill our fears. Utopias and dystopias are images
we invoke to think and act in the present, producing futures that often
look very different from either our dreams or our nightmares.

An oft-repeated criticism against the green movement is that it is
dystopian and catastrophist (some call this ‘Malthusian’) when it comes to
its diagnosis, and utopian when it comes to its prognosis. On the one hand,
greens warn of a scary future of planetary disaster, and on the other,
offer a peaceful dreamland where people bike to their artisanal work and
live in picturesque houses with well manicured food gardens and small
windmills. Nowhere to see is a realistic political plan on how we could
ever escape from the current capitalist nightmare, and move to something
remotely close to an egalitarian and ecological future.

I won’t deny that some green writings, especially in the 1970s and 80s (but
also still today) merit this critique. But in the meantime, there has been
a lot of new thought, under the labels of ecosocialism, degrowth, or
environmental justice that cannot be caricatured and packaged in this
simplistic mold. And yet this is what geographer Matt Huber does in a
recent article published at the Socialist Forum, entitled Ecosocialism:
Dystopian and Scientific. Huber argues that there are two types of green
socialism, one that is utopian and unscientific, and one that is realistic
and scientific, his….

What I want to argue is that, first, being utopian is not a problem as
Huber makes it seem it is, and second, we [utopians] are scientific, at
least as scientific as Huber can claim his position is….

A scientific socialism, Huber tells us, is one ‘grounded in analysis of
what kind of socialist society is possible given historical and material
conditions’. So far so good. Only one problem: who is to judge what is
really ‘possible’?

Huber, for example, seems to think that something close to the energy or
material consumption of an average American, secured for everyone in the
world, is possible (Huber is against wasteful capitalism, and implies that
unnecessary production and consumption could be curtailed, but is not clear
what he classifies as waste –and in any case, insists on the point of
‘abundant energy’, which one can only think means at least as much energy
as it is currently consumed, if not more). Energy should come from
renewable energy, or why not 80% renewable and 20% nuclear, which is fine,
Huber claims – and food from robotic agriculture. Moreover, we will do all
this without exploiting anyone, taking everyone’s concerns democratically
into account, somehow minimizing damage, or at least making those on the
receiving side of such damage concede to it ‘democratically’….

Huber also has a second take on the meaning of ‘scientific’. He writes that
‘let’s get real, or ‘scientific’ … we are not going to win the masses of
workers with a socialist program based on … ‘drudgery for all’. Science
here seems to refer to realism about how can ‘we’ (sic) win the masses of
workers. There are problems with this formulation too.

First, even if Huber were right and there were a mass of workers that
wouldn’t be mobilized to anything that sounds like ‘less’, that still
wouldn’t make it materially possible to have ever more stuff. Huber argues
that given that the workers will never buy into a degrowth utopia then ‘the
key to an ecosocialist future is finding some way to replicate the
labor-saving aspects of the fossil economy with clean energy’.

This actually seems to me a very unscientific, and utopian in the bad sense
– having to ‘find some way’ to make something possible, independently of
whether it is materially possible or not. Rather than consider integrating
your political strategy to what is materially possible, the call here is to
bend material possibility, one way or the other, to what you came to think
as the only possible political strategy.

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On 4/29/19 10:56 AM, DW via Marxism wrote:


Since this was the topic it seems of the last two posts attempting to
counter the Huber article, here is the article.

David

Ecosocialism: Dystopian and Scientific

An effective ecosocialist politics can't just focus on dire threats to
scare us into action. It must also convince people that a better future is
possible.
*by* Matt Huber - Winter 2019


Climate change is bleak – coastal sea level rise, millions of climate
refugees and whole sections of the planet too hot for human life. Thus, for
good reason, ecosocialist politics often emphasizes a “dystopian” vision of
a future if capitalism is not replaced. The main mode of critique is laying
out what the science is telling us about current ecological collapse and
the projected worsening of planetary conditions (not just climate but mass
extinction, nitrogen dead zones etc.). However, part of socialist strategy
is also about convincing the mass of workers that a *better* future is
possible. Ecosocialist politics usually projects a dystopian future we must
avoid, rather than an emancipatory future worth fighting for.


This article is focused exclusively on energy and mechanization. It does 
not address the larger issues posed by Jason Hickel of resource 
utilization.


I got into a fracas with British SWPers over these sorts of questions on 
FB. Here's the initial post from Martin Empson:


While we were doing a SWP stall about climate change today a Nazi tried 
to provoke a fight with me... one of the things he repeatedly shouted 
was that "overpopulation" was the problem and fixing it would mean 
"starting" with the people on the stall. Interesting to see the 
over-population ecological narrative merge so clearly with fascist 
genocidal dreams and anti-socialist strategy.


---

When I pointed out that population reduction is necessary *but only 
after capitalism is abolished*, these SWPers simply kept repeating 
arguments I've heard a million times from people like Matt Huber and Joe 
Hansen long ago.


They predict a population of 11 billion by 2100. Socialism is good at 
dividing up the pie equally but it runs into problems by seeking to grow 
the pie without taking into consideration ECOLOGICAL LIMITS.


This was my last comment on the FB thread:

Ian Angus's book is a polemic against population control UNDER 
CAPITALISM. How many times do i have to tell you that this is an issue 
for socialist society, not something to address under capitalism. Maybe 
you think that there is a socialist technique for generating groundwater 
like the Ogalalla aquifer. There is only science, not "socialist 
science". Groundwater is disappearing across the planet. There is no 
such thing as socialist science or capitalist science. Unless you are an 
alchemist, this is something that is directly related to population 
dynamics.


https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/groundwater/
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> Symbols mean different things depending on how/where/when they are
> depicted.

Exactly. And the presence of the yarmulke is part of the context for everything 
else in the cartoon, and affects to some extent the meaning of each element, 
and of the cartoon as a whole. It’s a stretch to argue that its presence 
doesn’t signal to the viewer that the whole cartoon is to be read, at least in 
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Since this was the topic it seems of the last two posts attempting to
counter the Huber article, here is the article.

David

Ecosocialism: Dystopian and Scientific

An effective ecosocialist politics can't just focus on dire threats to
scare us into action. It must also convince people that a better future is
possible.
*by* Matt Huber - Winter 2019


Climate change is bleak – coastal sea level rise, millions of climate
refugees and whole sections of the planet too hot for human life. Thus, for
good reason, ecosocialist politics often emphasizes a “dystopian” vision of
a future if capitalism is not replaced. The main mode of critique is laying
out what the science is telling us about current ecological collapse and
the projected worsening of planetary conditions (not just climate but mass
extinction, nitrogen dead zones etc.). However, part of socialist strategy
is also about convincing the mass of workers that a *better* future is
possible. Ecosocialist politics usually projects a dystopian future we must
avoid, rather than an emancipatory future worth fighting for.

Recently my local socialist reading group happened to be reading Friedrich
Engels’s classic *Socialism: Utopian and Scientific*
. For
Engels, a “scientific” socialism must be grounded in an analysis of what
kind of socialist society is possible given historical and material
conditions. Engels emphasized utopian socialists imagine an ideal society
“invented out of one’s brain”, but failed to articulate how socialism could
be realistically built out of the present. I make a similar claim in this
essay. The dystopian vision of the future among much of the green left
prevents it from explaining how socialism can be built out of the material
conditions that confront us. Ecosocialists often make impressive use of
natural science to project a dystopian future, but this is not the
“science” Engels called for (his “science” is better described as *historical
materialism*).

FULL:
https://socialistforum.dsausa.org/issues/winter-2019/ecosocialism-dystopian-and-scientific/
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"If you want to indicate Israel, why not use the flag? "

Putting aside whatever other issues might exist with this particular
painting, I find this logic problematic. Israel itself does not always use
the "two bars" (e.g. on its airplanes which carry the bombs that destroy
Gaza) and it's a wonder what might happen to our ability to depict Zionist
oppression through art if Israel were to simply remove the bars themselves.
In most cases, we judge the meaning of a symbol by its context. We rarely
assume that a symbol -- any symbol -- has some sort of intrinsic meaning. A
swastika at a Buddhist temple does not mean the same thing as as a swastika
on someone's armband at a white supremacist rally. A Christian cross around
the neck of a Christian peace activist does not mean the same thing as a
cross that is on fire that appears on a black family's lawn. An Islamic
statement of faith scrawled on the wall of a mosque does not mean the same
thing as when it is put on a black flag that accompanies a video of a gay
man being thrown off a roof in Iraq. Similarly, a Jewish star on a
synagogue, around the neck of an observant Jew, or likewise does not mean
the same thing as a Jewish star on the flags, machinery, uniforms -- or
politicians -- associated with the brute forced displacement of non-Jews.

Symbols mean different things depending on how/where/when they are
depicted. Here there is such a symbol on a caricature of Netanyahu, who is
depicted as a cartoon dog leading around Trump, who is blind. The lengths
one has to go to assume there is some sort of anti-Semitic aspect to that
imagery (that it is like the dehumanizing pictures that Julius Streicher
used or something) is a blatant reach.

Artist could have avoided giving Trump a yarmulke, though. Not sure why
that was necessary and I concede that that single motif does unnecessarily
add a discriminatory dimension to the picture and undermines what I
maintain is a pretty straightforward and reasonable line of argument about
Israel and Trump.

Amith R. Gupta


On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 8:41 AM A.R. G  wrote:

> I'll admit the Trump skullcap is sketch but the other elements really
> aren't. It sounds like the AJC and the Times (and fellow comrades) are
> splitting hairs so as to read in anti-Semitic themes in what is plainly a
> cartoon about Netanyahu leading an idiot President. I do not see anything
> anti-Jewish about depicting Netanyahu or Israel as America's attack-dog.
>
> That Nazis and others use such imagery for their own nefarious reasons
> should not be a reason to read it in to anti-Zionist art, which was the
> thrust of the concern voiced in HuffPost.
>
>
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>> is so strongly supportive of Israel.
>> I usually agree with Amith on these issues, but I think here the cartoon
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>> itself
>> > it might indicate Israel or it might simply indicate someone or
>> something
>> > Jewish.
>> > If you want to indicate Israel, why not use the flag?
>> >
>> > And the yarmulke on Trump’s head, what point does that make?  How does
>> > that help anyone to understand the relationship between the US and
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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Degrowth is utopian, and that’s a good thing – Uneven Earth

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[Marxism] White nationalists disrupt professor's talk

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[Marxism] Criminal Charges Against Arizona Students Were Dropped. But the Controversy Endures.

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Chronicle of Higher Education, APRIL 25, 2019  PREMIUM
Criminal Charges Against Arizona Students Were Dropped. But the 
Controversy Endures.

By Katherine Mangan

One by one, students stood up to describe the fear and anxiety they felt 
whenever they encountered an armed, uniformed agent from the U.S. Border 
Patrol. The University of Arizona’s Tucson campus, just 70 miles from 
the Mexican border, is one place, they said, where they shouldn’t have 
to worry about friends or relatives being rounded up and deported.


This week’s “campus conversation” was the first public forum since three 
student protesters were arrested this month for interrupting a class 
presentation by two such agents. At least one of the students called 
them “murder patrol” and “an extension of the KKK,” filming the taunts 
through the open door of a classroom and then following the agents, 
along with other students, to their car.


The Pima County Attorney’s Office dropped the charges against the 
students, but they are still being investigated for possible violations 
of the student-conduct code. Emotions remain raw at this 
Hispanic-serving university in a deep-red state with some of the 
nation’s toughest immigration laws.


“It just sounds ridiculous that two fully armed, uniformed agents would 
be intimidated or harassed by a student who's 5-5 and only carries a phone.”


The university’s president, Robert C. Robbins, began by assuring 
students that he recognized both their First Amendment right to protest 
and the very real fears of both documented and undocumented students.


“We have to make sure we provide support and safety for those who don’t 
feel safe and who have fear,” he said. “But at the same time, there are 
rules, and we will obey the law.”


He went on to say that he “absolutely” supports free speech and the 
right to protest. “Without question, it’s the bedrock of our democracy,” 
he said.


Students who were angry about the university’s decision to arrest the 
students demanded an apology from the president and an assurance that 
future protests would be allowed, and that Border Patrol visits would not.


While Robbins conceded that unspecified mistakes had been made, he 
offered no apology and could give no assurance that the Border Patrol 
wouldn’t show up again. The agents had been invited by a student club — 
the Criminal Justice Association — to talk about careers in criminal law 
enforcement.


The students’ protest, some students at the forum argued, was an 
overreaction that only stoked fear and misunderstanding.


The president of the campus’s College Republicans chapter, Matthew 
Minor, accused some activists of “relentless fear-mongering” and 
spreading “the misconception” that immigration and Border Patrol agents 
“can just come here and abduct you.” Minor added that “the men in 
uniform should not be banished just because someone disagrees with them.”


Three students, Denisse Moreno Melchor, Mariel Alexandra Bustamante, and 
Marianna Ariel Coles-Curtis, were issued misdemeanor citations by the 
university police this month for interfering with the peaceful conduct 
of an educational institution. Moreno, 20, was also cited for threats 
and intimidation.


“It just sounds ridiculous that two fully armed, uniformed agents would 
be intimidated or harassed by a student who’s 5-5 and only carries a 
phone,” Moreno said in an interview on Thursday. “No one was in any 
danger. I didn’t even enter the classroom.”


After students in the classroom called the campus police, they responded 
but didn’t take down her name or indicate they planned to press charges, 
Moreno said. Charges were filed more than a week later, after Customs 
and Border Protection officials complained to the university, she said.


The county attorney’s office said prosecutors later asked that the 
misdemeanor charges against the three students be dismissed because the 
university is conducting its own investigation.


Robbins has denied succumbing to pressure from customs officials and 
said the charges had been filed only after the university had completed 
its initial investigation.


“At the core of these inquiries is the University of Arizona’s 
commitment to free speech,” Robbins wrote in a statement last month. 
“The student club and the CBP officers invited by the students should 
have been able to hold their meeting without disruption. Student protest 
is protected by our support for free speech, but disruption is not.”


Border agents aren’t the only ones who have been pressuring the 
university to crack down on activists. Four Republican state lawmakers 
released a statement on Tuesday criticizing the 

Re: [Marxism] Huffington Post: New York Times Apologizes For Anti-Semitic Cartoon In International Edition

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I'll admit the Trump skullcap is sketch but the other elements really
aren't. It sounds like the AJC and the Times (and fellow comrades) are
splitting hairs so as to read in anti-Semitic themes in what is plainly a
cartoon about Netanyahu leading an idiot President. I do not see anything
anti-Jewish about depicting Netanyahu or Israel as America's attack-dog.

That Nazis and others use such imagery for their own nefarious reasons
should not be a reason to read it in to anti-Zionist art, which was the
thrust of the concern voiced in HuffPost.



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> "And the yarmulke on Trump’s head, what point does that make?"
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> I think it suggests that America is being run by a Jew, and that's why it
> is so strongly supportive of Israel.
> I usually agree with Amith on these issues, but I think here the cartoon is
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> > I don’t know what the cartoonist intended, but the cartoon has problems.
> > There is a distinction to be made if you want to indicate Israel with a
> > Star of David.  On the Israeli flag it appears between two bars.  By
> itself
> > it might indicate Israel or it might simply indicate someone or something
> > Jewish.
> > If you want to indicate Israel, why not use the flag?
> >
> > And the yarmulke on Trump’s head, what point does that make?  How does
> > that help anyone to understand the relationship between the US and
> Israel?
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[Marxism] Duke Ellington's melodies carried his message of social justice

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[Marxism] The Last Battle

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By Chris Hedges

The Cree have been under relentless assault since the arrival of the 
European colonialists in the 1500s. Now the 500 inhabitants of the Cree 
reserve, where many live in small, boxy prefabricated houses, are 
victims of a new iteration of colonial exploitation, one centered on the 
extraction of oil from the vast Alberta tar sands. This atrocity 
presages the destruction of the ecosystem on which they depend for life. 
If the Cree do not stop the exploiters this time, they, along the 
exploiters, will die.


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[Marxism] The gamification of fascism | Richard Seymour on Patreon

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Yet another 8chan-embedded fascist killer with a manifesto. As before, 
it is extremely referential, drenched in memetic content, Easter eggs, 
lulz-craving deep cuts designed to get the '/b/tards' cackling, and the 
performative 'high score'-seeking detachment of the first player 
shooter. This shooting, an antisemitic assault, was intended to be 
bloodier, and it was intended to be livestreamed. To that extent it was 
'inspired' by the Islamophobic Christchurch massacre. As the author of 
that massacre sought. As one fascist anon put it at the time, that 
massacre was "possibly the most powerful meme we have ever had: the 
shooting video".


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[Marxism] A New Socialist Movement Must Oppose Both Capitalism and Imperialism

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By Ashley Smith (I guess the post-ISO period has begun.)

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[Marxism] Poland mass teachers’ strike: “We were afraid parents would be angry; I am pleasantly surprised” | Lefteast

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[Marxism] Welcome to the New Algerian Revolution: an Interview with Hamza Hamouchene

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[Marxism] Charles Kingsley's Chartist novel

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Charles Kingsley is best-known for 'The Water Babies', but his first novel,
'Alton Locke', is much more interesting. It is written in the form of a
young worker and Chartist activist's autobiogaphy.
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/04/28/combination-among-ourselves-is-the-only-chance/

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