[Marxism] Sudan: The Deal with the Military Council is a Sell-Out of the Revolution!
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Re: [Marxism] In Defense of Ecological Marxism: John Bellamy Foster responds to a critic
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 7/8/19 7:14 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: I think this animosity directed toward Jason Moore is not warranted. I've been following debates among ecosocialists for 20 years now and I have never understood the attempt to trash people. I saw this first with James O'Connor's assault on John Bellamy Foster in CNS and it has continued over the years. I see Foster and Moore writing about the same phenomena but from different angles. I have some criticisms of Moore's work, especially the harping on Descartes that I don't think adds much in terms of theory. With Foster, I think there is too much of a temptation on his part to recycle things he has written. Even though the article are always worth reading, I'd like to see him explore new areas, particularly the degrowth question. Anyhow, I probably shouldn't offering my two cents on this because there's no bigger skunk than me. https://climateandcapitalism.com/2016/06/06/in-defense-of-ecological-marxism-john-bellamy-foster-responds-to-a-critic/ Never mind. This was from 3 years ago. I can't stand when stuff is posted to FB without any indication of when it was written. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] In Defense of Ecological Marxism: John Bellamy Foster responds to a critic
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I think this animosity directed toward Jason Moore is not warranted. I've been following debates among ecosocialists for 20 years now and I have never understood the attempt to trash people. I saw this first with James O'Connor's assault on John Bellamy Foster in CNS and it has continued over the years. I see Foster and Moore writing about the same phenomena but from different angles. I have some criticisms of Moore's work, especially the harping on Descartes that I don't think adds much in terms of theory. With Foster, I think there is too much of a temptation on his part to recycle things he has written. Even though the article are always worth reading, I'd like to see him explore new areas, particularly the degrowth question. Anyhow, I probably shouldn't offering my two cents on this because there's no bigger skunk than me. https://climateandcapitalism.com/2016/06/06/in-defense-of-ecological-marxism-john-bellamy-foster-responds-to-a-critic/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] SocConf Reportback (Andrew) - Google Docs
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Re: [Marxism] Ramapough Lenape Nation and Township of Mahwah Settle All Cases, All Fines Dismissed | Center for Constitutional Rights
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * This is good to hear. The Ramapough Lenape were one of the communities that supported the Nakba Tour and hosted a wonderful event: https://mondoweiss.net/2017/09/american-palestinian-connections/ It was very difficult, however, to grow that into a stronger organizing relationship because of the litigation that took up almost all of the Tribe's time and resources. I did not realize Rachel Meeropol was Michael's niece, she is a very talented and intelligent attorney. Amith R. Gupta On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 9:52 AM Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > POSTING RULES & NOTES > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > * > > The Indian's lawyer was Michael Meeropol's niece. > > > https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/ramapough-lenape-nation-and-township-mahwah-settle-all-cases-all > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com > _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Is a Revolutionary Rupture With Capitalism Possible?
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[Marxism] Ramapough Lenape Nation and Township of Mahwah Settle All Cases, All Fines Dismissed | Center for Constitutional Rights
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[Marxism] On Marx and Ecosocialism
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[Marxism] The Twenty-First Century Left will be Anti-Capitalist
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Enzo Traverso interview. https://solidarity-us.org/the-twenty-first-century-left-will-be-anti-capitalist/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] A Historian's View of Post-Fascism
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[Marxism] Our Guide to the Underworld
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * NY Review of Books, JULY 18, 2019 ISSUE Our Guide to the Underworld by Colin Thubron Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane Norton, 488 pp., $27.95 There is an old mistrust, even a primeval fear, of what lies underground. The preference for height over depth, light over darkness, is embedded in our language. Rising is preferable to falling, high spirits to low, enlightenment to depression. Robert Macfarlane’s remarkable Underland: A Deep Time Journey celebrates an ambivalent love affair with the subterranean. The underland, he writes, holds what we wish to extract or protect, as well as what we would conceal or lay to rest. He approaches it with both excitement and misgiving. At the nerve center of his book is our relationship to the subterranean Earth in “deep time.” Grounded in lightly worn scientific knowledge, it is imbued with the intensity of personal experience. Underland ranges from exacting journeys through subterranean landscapes of rock and stream to reflections on the buried life of trees, the ice floes of Greenland, and the Paris catacombs, and to what humankind is bequeathing to posterity. In one striking passage, Macfarlane wonders how future generations, many millennia hence, may be warned away from opening the tombs of radioactive waste left underground by our primitive age. The US Environmental Protection Agency has been charged with resolving this. But uranium-235, currently used for nuclear power plants, has a half-life of over four billion years. What systems of language or signs or architecture will the Earth’s inhabitants (if there are any) by that time understand? Committees of geologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, graphic artists, astronomers, linguists, ethicists, and others have been put to work, but no convincing solution has emerged. Such long-term perspectives pervade a book that largely revels in the phenomena of the natural world. What signature, it asks, will be left by our Anthropocene age, the age of Earth’s transformation by humans? A stratum of plastic? A radioactive trap? The fossil trace of murdered species? In the rallying cry of the immunologist Jonas Salk: “Are we being good ancestors?” The question arises naturally from the “deep time” of the book’s subtitle, to which Macfarlane constantly returns. The concept, to him, implies an imaginative consciousness of the vast stretches of time not only before, but after, our own: time exemplified not simply in rock strata and compacted ice, but in a future imagined up to the era—five billion years hence—when the sun will burn itself out. He writes: But to think ahead in deep time runs against the mind’s grain…. Beyond a hundred years even generating a basic scenario for individual life or society becomes difficult, let alone extending compassion across much greater reaches of time towards the unborn inhabitants of worlds-to-be…. The Anthropocene requires us to undertake a retrospective reading of the current moment, however—a “palaeontology of the present” in which we ourselves have become sediments, strata and ghosts. It asks that we imagine a single figure: a hypothetical post-human geologist who—millions of years into the future, long after the extinction of our species—will examine the underland for what it reveals of the epoch of anthropos. Macfarlane has been hailed as the foremost British “nature writer” of his time, although the term suggests something too precious to encompass his robust and often hazardous journeys. But the lyrical intensity of his writing places him in a long British tradition, from the naturalist priest Gilbert White and the near-mystic Richard Jefferies to the poet Edward Thomas and on to Roger Deakin and J.A. Baker, whose The Peregrine has become something of a stylistic touchstone for a later generation. Yet Macfarlane falls as easily into the American lineage of Thoreau and John Muir, along with Peter Matthiessen, John McPhee, and the Arctic writings of Barry Lopez, whose work, he writes elsewhere, “changed the course of my life.” He has absorbed those influences into a rich vernacular of his own. In passages of euphoria or stress (there are many), his sentences break into verbless fragments, like splashes of color. Only rarely is the intensity of his description such that the words call attention chiefly to themselves. Macfarlane has already written four major books (while holding a teaching post at Cambridge University)—books that foreshadow many of Underland’s preoccupations. The Old Ways and The Wild Places explore wilderness and ancient paths, mainly in Britain, and
[Marxism] How Trump Won, Part 57 - Los Angeles Review of Books
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * THE MYSTERY OF Donald Trump’s election lacks a single explanation, but this doesn’t stop the new book Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America from trying. Co-authors John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck sift the statistical ashes of the 2016 presidential election, sourcing from a wide range of research and surveying to argue it was the embedded racial and identity ties among white voters. While Hillary Clinton’s victory appeared a stroll as late as 7:00 p.m. on election night, Identity Crisis persuades readers otherwise: that Donald Trump’s unforeseeable course toward the presidency was always in the cards. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-trump-won-part-57/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] What If Life Did Not Originate on Earth? | The New Yorker
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[Marxism] When Gekko Collects Art | The Smart Set
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[Marxism] Imperialism and profitability at Lille | Michael Roberts Blog
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The word Financialisation once again dominated many sessions. Readers of this blog will know that I am very sceptical about whether this concept adds much to our understanding of modern capitalist trends; indeed it may even confuse on many issues. Does it simply mean that the financial sector has grown in importance quantitatively in the structure of capitalism in the 21st century; or does it mean much more; that capitalism has entered a fundamentally new stage in the capitalist mode of production? Those who push financialisation seem to be in the latter camp: finance is where we must look for the key faultlines in capital and not in capital overall. If so, I disagree. But whatever it is, ‘financialisation’ seems to dominate the research of many radical scholars. https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/07/07/imperialism-and-profitability-at-lille/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Faulty by Design: the UN Report on Human Rights in Venezuela
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