[Marxism] [UCE] Re: Who is Bertolt Brecht? and Why We Should Care in our Dark Times | Anthony Squiers | Culture Matters
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. * Anyone interested, should read this study: Peter Brooker, "Bertolt Brecht: Dialectics, Poetry, Politics" https://is.gd/aRYouz Truly the best I've read on Brecht in way of grasping the engineered relationship between cultural production and consciousness. In Brooker's sense -- not that he argued it -- Brecht's approach is closer to 'The Pedagogy of the Oppressed' (Paulo Freire) than simple didacticism. dave riley _ 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] Who is Bertolt Brecht? and Why We Should Care in our Dark Times | Anthony Squiers | Culture Matters
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[Marxism] He should rot in hell
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 Times, July 18, 2019 Dr. John Tanton, Quiet Catalyst in Anti-Immigration Drive, Dies at 85 By Nicholas Kulish Dr. John Tanton, a small-town ophthalmologist who founded or fostered the nation’s leading anti-immigration groups, which have helped shape President Trump’s hard-line immigration policies, died on Tuesday in Petoskey, Mich. He was 85. His death was announced by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, which he started four decades ago with the aim of reducing the number of immigrants to the United States. The cause was not given, but a funeral home obituary in Michigan said he had struggled with Parkinson’s disease for 16 years. Other groups that Dr. Tanton either directly founded or provided with seed money and logistical support include the Center for Immigration Studies and the Immigration Reform Law Institute, both in Washington, and NumbersUSA, in Arlington, Va. He also started groups dedicated to making English the official language of the United States and a publishing arm that put out the journal The Social Contract, as well as books by leading opponents of immigration. Over the years the groups have chipped away at the nation’s pro-immigrant consensus, lobbying on Capitol Hill for greater enforcement at the southwestern border, a reduction in legal immigration and sanctions against employers who hire unauthorized immigrants. They have also nurtured tough state bills and local ordinances to check illegal immigration. Many of Dr. Tanton’s ideas on immigration found a champion in President Trump, who has made securing the border with Mexico arguably the signature issue of his presidency. Though Dr. Tanton had withdrawn from public view in recent years, his nonprofit U.S. Inc., based in Petoskey, on the North Shore of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, helped fund the Remembrance Project. The organization sought out grieving family members whose loved ones had been killed by unauthorized immigrants and repeatedly put them onstage with President Trump during his 2016 campaign for the White House. Senior personnel from the Tanton-linked groups moved into key positions in the administration dealing with immigration after Mr. Trump’s inauguration. FAIR initially aimed at the political center, appealing to unions over wage competition from newly arrived immigrants, and at environmentalists over the added sprawl and pollution that came with a quicker-growing population. But the group’s proposals took hold largely in the Republican Party. At the same time, Dr. Tanton’s legacy was tarnished by his connections to white nationalists and by a leaked memo he wrote warning of a “Latin onslaught.” Opponents and supporters alike have long agreed that Dr. Tanton had an outsize influence on national policy for an eye doctor living nearly 800 miles from Washington in a resort town on Lake Michigan. “He is the most influential unknown man in America,” Linda Chavez, a former aide to President Ronald Reagan who once led a Tanton group that promoted English-only laws, told The New York Times in 2011. FAIR’s president, Dan Stein, said in a statement on the group’s website that Dr. Tanton was “a person with extraordinary persistence in promoting ideas based on a careful analysis of how today’s decisions affect the future.” Though Dr. Tanton became best known for advocating reduced immigration, his father was himself an immigrant from Canada. John Hamilton Tanton was born on Feb. 23, 1934, in Detroit to John Fitzgerald Tanton (who was known as Jack) and Hannah (Koch) Tanton. He spent his early childhood in Detroit before the family moved to his mother’s family farm in Eastern Michigan in 1945. There he learned farming from his father and grandfather. After graduating from high school in Sebewaing, Mich., on Saginaw Bay, he attended Michigan State University in East Lansing, where he met Mary Lou Brown. They married in 1958. He is survived by his wife, as well as the couple’s two daughters, Laura de Olazarra and Jane Thomson; two grandchildren; and a sister, Liz Faupel. Dr. Tanton graduated from medical school at the University of Michigan and went into private practice as an eye doctor in Petoskey. After working at a birth-control clinic during his internship at Denver General Hospital, he and his wife became involved in Planned Parenthood, founding the group’s first clinic in Northern Michigan. Friends and colleagues described Dr. Tanton as a Renaissance man and a voracious autodidact. He began a “great books” discussion group and taught himself German. He was also a beekeeper. As an
[Marxism] The Worst Environmentalists in the World
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[Marxism] Great Power Rivalry in the Early Twenty-first Century – New Politics
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[Marxism] Anarchists of Connecticut – New Politics
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[Marxism] Trump, Syria, and Counter-Revolution – New Politics
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[Marxism] All seemed possible when the Sandinistas took power 40 years ago « Systemic Disorder
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Re: [Marxism] Agriculture: The Worst Mistake Humans Ever Made
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 7/18/19 6:53 PM, Ken Hiebert via Marxism wrote: Whatever the merit of a hunter-gatherer society, it is my understanding that they were in general closer to famine. At least in the Far North this is a recollection of the people there. And even with our present agriculture we are only somewhat better provided for. I read once that there is a 72 day supply of food stored at any one time. ken h The Original Affluent Society by Marshall Sahlins Hunter-gatherers consume less energy per capita per year than any other group of human beings. Yet when you come to examine it the original affluent society was none other than the hunter's - in which all the people's material wants were easily satisfied. To accept that hunters are affluent is therefore to recognise that the present human condition of man slaving to bridge the gap between his unlimited wants and his insufficient means is a tragedy of modern times. full: http://www.primitivism.com/original-affluent.htm _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Agriculture: The Worst Mistake Humans Ever Made
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Re: [Marxism] Agriculture: The Worst Mistake Humans Ever Made
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 smarter agriculture, as in the Guardian article Louis posted, reporting from Portugal, is a much more useful contribution than Diamond's adulation of the past. If the idea is that we return to a human population of a few hundred thousand then Diamond's idea might have merit. John On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 2:15 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. > * > > Arguments for hunting and gathering are ahistorical but are worth > considering. Essentially, rice, potatoes, and wheat are of dubious value > nutritionally even though they are the staples of class society. > > > https://returntonow.net/2016/05/29/agriculture-worst-mistake-humans-ever-made/ > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/johnedmundson4%40gmail.com > -- The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Imperialism in a coffee cup | openDemocracy
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. * What is ‘a rounded Marxist-feminist-ecological-race-conscious critique”? Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad On Thursday, July 18, 2019, 6:10 PM, Patrick Bond via Marxism 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. * Yes, but... On 2019/07/18 3:00 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: > https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/imperialism-coffee-cup/ Great stuff, here, regarding unequal exchange based on super-exploitative labor relations. (For those interested, one of the originators of this thesis, Samir Amin, died on 12 August 2018 and will be commemorated here in Johannesburg, at Wits University, a year later - as we tend to do in these parts - as well with allies in Dakar where he worked these arguments into all sorts of fascinating applied critiques of imperialism.) One of the most critical aspects of our own Southern African migrant labor super-exploitation, is how gendered it is, with women ensuring the rates of pay can often dip below social reproduction costs, since those are borne by women in far-away rural areas with only sporadic remittances. Child-care, healthcare and elder care are massively subsidised by women and girls. The role of patriarchy amplifying such capitalist power relations would surely be feasible for Smith to add? (The literature here is rich, dating in some respects to Rosa Luxemburg's 1913 Accumulation of Capital, and more explicitly since, 40 years ago, Annette Kuhn and Ann-Marie Wolpe wrote Feminism and Materialism: Women and modes of production.) And there's a parallel socio-ecological process, unequal ecological exchange, in which the non-renewable resources looted from most South locations (e.g. 88% of African countries) are too rarely calculated, much less incorporated into critiques of imperialism. So what Smith scathingly points out about the North's failure to properly count Southern labor - "Evidence of the persistence and indeed pervasiveness of imperialism is all around us, yet liberals, social democrats and even many who consider themselves revolutionary socialists are blind to this" - also goes for his own failure to properly count the natural wealth of the South that's looted when extractive industries don't provide meaningful compensation for non-renewable resources, i.e., wealth 'that doesn't grow back' once lifted by TNCs (unlike his case of coffee beans, which do). I've tried to point this out in debate with Smith (and David Harvey - who I feel is also inadvertently guilty here), i.e. that study of imperialism - and any forms of uneven and combined development associated with resource-intensive countries of the South - must be more cognizant of the way 'free gifts of nature' are simply removed, without shareholder profits recirculated or capital reinvested (unlike in Canada, Norway, Australia, the U.S. and other resource-rich countries whose TNCs return the fruits of the plunder to their own countries' shareholders or fiscus): http://roape.net/2018/04/18/towards-a-broader-theory-of-imperialism/ and https://hugeog.com/east-west-north-south-or-imperial-subimperial-the-brics-global-governance-and-capital-accumulation/ And here are some other (2018) sites where you can determine if this argument adds to the anti-imperialist repertoire, as I think it should: New evidence of Africa’s systematic looting, provided by an increasingly schizophrenic World Bank https://www.pambazuka.org/economics/new-evidence-africa%E2%80%99s-systematic-looting-provided-increasingly-schizophrenic-world-bank Corporate Looting: Sub-Saharan Africa Loses $100B A Year https://therealnews.com/stories/corporate-looting-sub-saharan-africa-loses-100b-a-year Ecological-Economic Narratives for Resisting Extractive Industries in Africa https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S0161-72302018033004/full/html?fullSc=1 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/ilagardien%40yahoo.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] Washington Babylon podcast Episode 16: Heather Roberson Gaston | Washington Babylon
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Re: [Marxism] Imperialism in a coffee cup | openDemocracy
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. * Yes, but... On 2019/07/18 3:00 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/imperialism-coffee-cup/ Great stuff, here, regarding unequal exchange based on super-exploitative labor relations. (For those interested, one of the originators of this thesis, Samir Amin, died on 12 August 2018 and will be commemorated here in Johannesburg, at Wits University, a year later - as we tend to do in these parts - as well with allies in Dakar where he worked these arguments into all sorts of fascinating applied critiques of imperialism.) One of the most critical aspects of our own Southern African migrant labor super-exploitation, is how gendered it is, with women ensuring the rates of pay can often dip below social reproduction costs, since those are borne by women in far-away rural areas with only sporadic remittances. Child-care, healthcare and elder care are massively subsidised by women and girls. The role of patriarchy amplifying such capitalist power relations would surely be feasible for Smith to add? (The literature here is rich, dating in some respects to Rosa Luxemburg's 1913 Accumulation of Capital, and more explicitly since, 40 years ago, Annette Kuhn and Ann-Marie Wolpe wrote Feminism and Materialism: Women and modes of production.) And there's a parallel socio-ecological process, unequal ecological exchange, in which the non-renewable resources looted from most South locations (e.g. 88% of African countries) are too rarely calculated, much less incorporated into critiques of imperialism. So what Smith scathingly points out about the North's failure to properly count Southern labor - "Evidence of the persistence and indeed pervasiveness of imperialism is all around us, yet liberals, social democrats and even many who consider themselves revolutionary socialists are blind to this" - also goes for his own failure to properly count the natural wealth of the South that's looted when extractive industries don't provide meaningful compensation for non-renewable resources, i.e., wealth 'that doesn't grow back' once lifted by TNCs (unlike his case of coffee beans, which do). I've tried to point this out in debate with Smith (and David Harvey - who I feel is also inadvertently guilty here), i.e. that study of imperialism - and any forms of uneven and combined development associated with resource-intensive countries of the South - must be more cognizant of the way 'free gifts of nature' are simply removed, without shareholder profits recirculated or capital reinvested (unlike in Canada, Norway, Australia, the U.S. and other resource-rich countries whose TNCs return the fruits of the plunder to their own countries' shareholders or fiscus): http://roape.net/2018/04/18/towards-a-broader-theory-of-imperialism/ and https://hugeog.com/east-west-north-south-or-imperial-subimperial-the-brics-global-governance-and-capital-accumulation/ And here are some other (2018) sites where you can determine if this argument adds to the anti-imperialist repertoire, as I think it should: New evidence of Africa’s systematic looting, provided by an increasingly schizophrenic World Bank https://www.pambazuka.org/economics/new-evidence-africa%E2%80%99s-systematic-looting-provided-increasingly-schizophrenic-world-bank Corporate Looting: Sub-Saharan Africa Loses $100B A Year https://therealnews.com/stories/corporate-looting-sub-saharan-africa-loses-100b-a-year Ecological-Economic Narratives for Resisting Extractive Industries in Africa https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S0161-72302018033004/full/html?fullSc=1 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Agriculture: The Worst Mistake Humans Ever Made
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. * What utter nonsense. What's clear to me is not only does this dilettante's glorification of the misery of hunter-gather societies representing a total falsification of the anthropological evidence he simply is ignorant of what agriculture is and how it was practiced and what the *actual* problems were with early agriculture (and practiced to this day). There ARE problems with agriculture from the very beginning but Diamond misses the entire point. Yuck. David Walters _ 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] Johnny Clegg, South African Singer Who Battled Apartheid With Music, Is Dead at 66
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 Times, July 17, 2019 Johnny Clegg, South African Singer Who Battled Apartheid With Music, Is Dead at 66 By Alan Cowell Johnny Clegg, a British-born South African singer, songwriter and guitarist whose fusion of Western and African influences found an international audience and stood as an emblem of resistance to the apartheid authorities in his adopted land, died on Tuesday in Johannesburg. He was 66. His manager, Roddy Quin, announced the death. Mr. Clegg learned in 2015 that he had pancreatic cancer. From his teenage years onward, Mr. Clegg ventured with ever greater boldness across racial lines. He spent time in the gritty, violence-prone hostels reserved for migrant black mineworkers that were formally off limits to most of his fellow white South Africans. His music crossed racial lines as well. In the bands Juluka (“Sweat” in the isiZulu language) and Savuka (“We have risen”) and as a solo artist, Mr. Clegg became known for songs and performances that resonated through South Africa’s long struggle against racial separation. “We have a mission,” he told The New York Times in 1990, “which is to bring a whole collection of songs that are about the South African experience to the world.” His song “Impi” (“Regiment”), from Juluka’s album “African Litany” (1981), celebrated the victory of Zulu forces over British colonial invaders at Isandhlwana in 1879. In “African Sky Blue,” on the same album, Mr. Clegg and the Zulu guitarist Sipho Mchunu, transposed those warriors to South Africa’s modern gold mines. “The warrior’s now a worker, and his war is underground,” Mr. Clegg sang. “With cordite in the darkness he milks the bleeding veins of gold.” “Scatterlings of Africa,” reflecting the myriad dislocations of South African society, became a breakthrough commercial success in Britain and elsewhere in 1984, enabling Mr. Clegg to abandon an academic career in Johannesburg as an anthropologist and devote himself full time to his music. The cover of the album by Mr. Clegg’s band Juluka that became a breakthrough commercial success in Britain and elsewhere in 1984. The haunting lyrics of his 1987 song “Asimbonanga” (“We have not seen him”), about the imprisoned Nelson Mandela, were so evocative of the era that in 1999, Mandela, by then a free man, joined a surprised Mr. Clegg onstage at a concert in Frankfurt during a performance of the song. The moment had a particular poignancy: When “Asimbonanga” was written, Mandela was incarcerated and all but invisible beyond the prison walls under apartheid laws that prevented his image and utterances from being published. With his spectacular onstage enactment of high-kicking Zulu war dances and stick fighting, Mr. Clegg was often referred to as “the White Zulu.” It was a nickname he said he loathed, but it nonetheless reflected the racial contortions and obsessions of South Africa both before and after the elections in 1994, which brought Mandela to power as the country’s first black president after his release from prison in 1990. The South African government said in a statement on Tuesday that Mr. Clegg’s music “had the ability to unite people across the races,” and that he had “made an indelible mark in the music industry and the hearts of the people.” Throughout the apartheid era, Mr. Clegg and his bands were harassed by the authorities and occasionally detained. Their performances were often disrupted, wherever they were held. Under apartheid legislation known as the Group Areas Act, white people were not permitted to enter segregated black townships without official permits, which were often withheld, while black people were kept out of whites-only areas by nighttime curfews and a web of zoning restrictions. Other apartheid proscriptions kept Mr. Clegg’s music off state-run radio shows. (He said he was first arrested at the age of 15.) At the same time, he was censured by the Musicians’ Union of Britain precisely because he performed in South Africa, in contravention of an embargo that was supposed to reinforce the isolation of the apartheid regime. Despite that sanction, Mr. Clegg toured widely, securing an international following. He was particularly popular in France, where he was made a Chevalier of Arts and Letters in 1991. Britain named him an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2015. In South Africa, he received the country’s highest civilian medal, the presidential Ikhamanga Award, in 2012. Mr. Clegg received his cancer diagnosis in 2015. Two years later, when the disease was said to be in remission after chemotherapy, he embarked on what was
[Marxism] Agriculture: The Worst Mistake Humans Ever Made
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[Marxism] How Capitalism Changed American Literature | Public Books
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[Marxism] Revolutions Are Not the Train Ride, but the Human Race Grabbing for the Emergency Brake
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[Marxism] What role for the Black American Left on Sudan?
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. * In the wake of former Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir’s fall from power in April 2019, the Black Agenda Report (BAR)—one of the oldest and most respected Left black online publications (including a podcast) in the United States—published its first analysis of the uprisings that had been growing in Sudan since December 2018. The BAR published an article entitled “Saudi Arabia, Israel, US all Sought Bashir’s Ouster: So how Real was the Sudan Revolution?,” by a Chile-based journalist, Whitney Webb, who suggested that the uprising had merely been manufactured by Saudi Arabia, the US, and Israel. As a a BAR listener and a Pan-Africanist, I was disappointed both by the fact that BAR took so long to offer analysis on the events in Sudan, and by the simplicity of the analysis itself. https://africasacountry.com/2019/07/what-role-for-the-black-american-left-on-sudan/ _ 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] These are some of the leaked chat messages at the center of Puerto Rico's political crisis - CNN
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[Marxism] Imperialism in a coffee cup | openDemocracy
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[Marxism] The Class Politics of the Civil War | The Nation
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[Marxism] Golden State Warriors Coach Steve Kerr Delivers A Blunt Assessment Of The GOP Soul | HuffPost
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[Marxism] House Republican Response to President Trump's Racist Tweets Reflects Party Values
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[Marxism] How Capital Heats the Planet: Introducing Fordulat Journal’s Latest Issue on “Climate Change and Capitalism” | Lefteast
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