Re: [Marxism] different views on veganism and meat eating (Green Left Weekly)

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The GLW headline for the interview ("'Our target is the system, not
farmers') isn't  what  was actually said.

Tactically, and how this argument pans out in rural Australia,  rhetoric
doesn't cut it.

The actual full quote from the interview from Kristin Leigh is this:
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/vegan-rising-our-target-system-not-farmers

"It is not the farmers who are the target.

"Places where animals are bred, harmed and killed for food are where the
highest numbers of exploited animals are, so that makes farms the target.

"It is irrelevant whether or not there is a home or farmer on the property;
activists are going to where the animals are to show their suffering and
help people make the connection between them and the food on their plates.

"No one is going to the front doors and living rooms of the farmers. We
have no interest in targeting those individuals. We are targeting the
system itself. "
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[Marxism] different views on veganism and meat eating (Green Left Weekly)

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Two recent articles with different views:

  1.
Vegan Rising: 'Our target is the system, not farmers'

Kristin Leigh, interviewed by Mary Merkenich:
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/vegan-rising-our-target-system-not-farmers

2. On guardianship of the biosphere
by Elena Garcia:

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/guardianship-biosphere

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[Marxism] Why Socialism? With Bhaskar Sunkara

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Oh joy!
https://youtu.be/f_PEF1Mexhg


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[Marxism] The Chavista military

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Simon Rodriguez explains the real, actual, concrete role of the military in
Venezuela. I think this article shows in actual, concrete facts, why the
military can never be a revolutionary substitute for the working class.
Yes, that's general theory, but theory is just distilled history. This
article is a little slice of that history.
https://venezuelanvoices.org/2019/05/15/the-chavista-armed-forces-neither-socialist-nor-anti-imperialist/?fbclid=IwAR3jAiK_Ans7sB_wAkBFr-Sxs8RjYaxoqrjnMN-6YxrgOQ5K7e8rUIDrHac

John Reimann

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[Marxism] Forum

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For those in the NYC area,  a joint book launch for Marxist Literary Criticism 
Today by Barbara Foley and Red International and Black Caribbean: Communists in 
New York City, Mexico and the West Indies, 1913-1939 by Margaret Stevens

https://peoplesforum.org/event/joint-book-launch-with-barbara-foley-and-margaret-stevens/
 



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[Marxism] The Second Drone Age

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https://theintercept.com/2019/05/14/turkey-second-drone-age/
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Re: [Marxism] How Carbon Farming Can Help Stop Climate Change in Its Tracks | The Nation

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Thanks for posting this. It's exactly what I've been writing about for the
last 2 years. It is truly an *excellent* survey of the problems and goes
back to something I agree with: it's all about the soil. And, the author
doesn't make the enemy out to be the cow, but rather how cows are raised. I
urge people to take this to heart. What IS interesting is that thousands
and even 10s of thousands of farmers and ranchers are investing in these
holistic methods which includes, above all else, the *intensive* use of
animal husbandry.

One of the less known but very important aspects of this also is addressed
by pointing out the problem of "plowing" or tilling, which leaves the soil
bare and exposed to the elements, most notably sunlight which kills the
soil. This is why more and more farmers are adopting the holistic approach
of cover cropping and no-till planting. Prevents run-offs and preserves the
soil. Nature has already done the R on this: it likes to "armor" its soil
and always attempts to cover it up. We need to expand mimicking nature in
this way.

The story doesn't, unfortunately, include a lot of details of the methods
of regenerative agriculture though they begin to touch on. Laying out the
opponents of this toward the end of the article was clearly stated: the
fossil fuel industry and agricultural-industrial complex or "Big Ag".

'nuff said. Read the article.

David Walters
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[Marxism] We Are the Shadow-Ghosts, Creeping Back as the Camp Fires Burn Low:

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The rate of global species extinction is tens of hundreds of times 
faster now than it was over the last ten million years. It is an 
impossible report to read, planeticide is almost guaranteed: 75% of the 
terrestrial environment ‘severely altered’, 680 vertebrate species 
driven to extinction since the 16th century, more than 40% of amphibian 
species, almost 33% of reef-forming corals and more than a third of 
marine mammals are on the edge of extinction.


https://www.thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/we-are-the-shadow-ghosts-creeping-back-as-the-camp-fires-burn-low-the-twentieth-newsletter-2019/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Eric Draitser posted "Elizabeth Warren Was Smart to Tell FOX to Go to Hell"

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/Disclaimer: I am NOT endorsing or supporting Elizabeth Warren, Bernie 
Sanders, or any Democrat. This is purely analysis./


Elizabeth Warren's decision to turn down an invitation from FOX News to 
appear on a town hall event has become something of a controversy on the 
left. It seems odd but there seem to be a not insignificant number of 
people who believe that Warren, and anyone really, should simply jump at 
the opportunity to go on FOX and, I don't know, convert the right wing 
audience to a more humane politics? Perhaps it's to establish some 
baseline of sanity within the discourse on the right? Simple strategy to 
challenge right wing talking points on every platform possible?


While it's probably all of the above and then some, there is something 
rather revealing in these reactions, something that often goes 
unacknowledged in the incestuous and insular world of online punditry on 
the left: That many of these people literally do not understand the 
basic facts of the situation that inform Warren's decision, and instead 
simply denounce it based on mostly nothing.


But let me explain further...

The argument goes something like:

/"Warren is making Hillary's Deplorables mistake all over again."/

/"Warren is not serious as a candidate because she turned down this 
offer from FOX"/


/"Warren is acting as if MSNBC and CNN are somehow better than FOX when 
they're not."


/These claims are nonsense. I'm going to explain some of the reasons why 
Warren's decision makes a lot of sense strategically.


*Look at the Numbers*

It's easy to argue that appearing on FOX is critical when you consider 
the fact that FOX remains the highest-rated of the cable news channels 
, 
averaging 1.3 million viewers. But let's dig a little deeper to explore 
whether this simple assumption that FOX appearances are critical for a 
Democrat is actually true.


While it is a fact that FOX remains the most watched cable news channel, 
it is increasingly unpopular with the demographics most critical to a 
progressive Democrat like Warren. In fact, the most recent April 2019 
data 
 
shows that FOX is way down (-19%) in the critical 25-54 demographic as 
compared to April 2018. That's a huge decline of nearly 1/5th of the 
total audience in that demographic, with the largest decline coming in 
primetime viewership.


Put another way, younger people are abandoning FOX in droves (a 20% 
decline year-on-year is massive, regardless of the industry), leaving 
the cable channel ever more reliant on Baby Boomers to sustain it. 
Couple that with the fact that the 2018 midterm elections provide ample 
evidence about where young people are politically - voters under 30 
preferred Democrats by a +31-percentage point margin 
 
- and it seems clear where the energy for a progressive should be focused.


To add a bit more data to back this up, Pew Research 
 
(one of the most reliable polling agencies) found some very interesting 
demographic information going into 2020. They note:

[Marxism] Human wellbeing threatened by ‘unprecedented’ rate of biodiversity loss | China Dialogue

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https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/11237-Human-wellbeing-threatened-by-unprecedented-rate-of-biodiversity-loss
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[Marxism] The Socialist Network | The New Republic

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(This should have read "An old, old Socialist Workers friend")

An old Socialist Workers friend who’d been a computer programmer was 
instructed to get a job at a steel fabrication plant; he didn’t last 
past lunch on his first day and went back to coding.


full: 
https://newrepublic.com/article/153768/inside-democratic-socialists-america-struggle-political-mainstream

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[Marxism] Anti-Roma Riots in the Heart of Bulgaria: Racists against Inequality? | Lefteast

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http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/gabrovo-riots/
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[Marxism] How Carbon Farming Can Help Stop Climate Change in Its Tracks | The Nation

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https://www.thenation.com/article/agriculture-carbon-farming-ranching-soil/
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