[Marxism] Paul Krassner Dead: Yippies Founder Was 87 – Variety

2019-07-21 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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[Marxism] Does a "left" Democrat stand the best chance of defeating Trump?

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"Does a “left” Democrat – Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren – stand the
best chance of defeating Trump next year? They and their supporters argue
that such a candidate would enthuse a whole layer of people who normally
don’t vote, thereby winning the election. The mainstream Democrats say that
the swing voters – mainly middle class whites who often vote Republican but
swung to the Democrats in the 2018 election – would be turned off by such
calls as Medicare for all and would, therefore, tend to support Trump.

"What is the evidence for these two arguments? A lot can change between now
and the elections, but a recent NY Times article seems to shed some light
on the issue as of now."

How can a the working class start to exert its influence in society? These
and related issues are dealt with in this article.

https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/07/21/does-a-left-democrat-stand-the-best-chance-of-defeating-trump/

John Reimann

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Re: [Marxism] Agriculture: The Worst Mistake Humans Ever Made

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I'd be very wary about ruling that 'agriculture' is/was an advance on
hunter gathering. Aside from the fact that both systems so often
co-exist in the same region (such as Central America during the time
of the Maya culture), in places like New Guinea agriculture was
embraced initially 7,000 – 10,000 years ago.
http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p53311/pdf/history.pdf
But it used to be argued that across the Torres Strait --despite the
example --  Australian aborigines chose not to farm, when in fact they
were the first farmers on the planet.
Indeed, when you look at the phenomenon of agriculture it all depends
on what is at hand in way of plants...and access to water.
And how you manage it.
Across the Mediterranean, it's tempting to rule that the agricultural
protocols that grew out of the Fertile Crescent were an ecological
disaster.  A feature that even Frederick Engels noted.This was the
price paid for successive civilisations.
Was it the wheat and olives or was it the plough?
Similarly, you cannot separate the supposed difference between the
agricultural and 'hunter gatherer'  lifestyle without reference to
changes in climate.Nor can you infer that the 'hunter gatherer' didn't
know what their patch of existence was capable of.
In that sense 'agriculture' isn't so much an 'invention' but an extension.
A different approach to stewardship.
The real question, I guess, isn't so much the invention of
agriculture, but the invention of surplus.
In my region -- in Gubi Gubi country -- it is very clear that the land
was bountiful and the culture rich. That there was no reason to
ratchet up the demands made of the landscape.
Disaster struck, of course, and I can stand on the beach here and look
out to where that tragedy began -- where the Brits first arrived to
this place then invaded.
But let's get this clear: aside from the gun, what savaged the Gubi
Gubi economy was disease. Then the dispossession.
What's happening now -- across Australia --  is an attempt to embrace
Aboriginal landcare practices. This may be as a small movement at the
moment but  with fire management, for instance, there is a major
deference. There is also a major debate growing around the traditional
practice of indigenous management of river systems.
You can't  live in a land for 60,000+ years without knowing what's what.
Indeed, there is no future -- no future -- for Australian agriculture
without learning  -- and applying --from the Aboriginal tradition of
what was supposedly 'hunter gathering'.

dave riley





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[Marxism] Director Oliver Stone tells Putin that Russia’s anti-gay law is “sensible” / LGBTQ Nation

2019-07-21 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/07/director-oliver-stone-tells-putin-russias-anti-gay-law-sensible/
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Re: [Marxism] Agriculture: The Worst Mistake Humans Ever Made

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I'm not referring to the violent onslaught against the native peoples but
"the Great Dying."  The arrival of European (and African) diseases cut
through native populations years ahead of the advancing line of white
settlement.

Entire sections of the Ohio valley that had supported an extensive
population before imploded to a fraction of what they had been.  Whites
generally encountered no resident native populations in much of West
Virginia and Kentucky, though there's plenty of archaeological evidence
that there had been earlier. This population collapse was even more
dramatic in the Deep South.  The expedition of Hernando de Soto (ca.
1540-41) recorded the presence of dozens of stable, well-populated towns.
Only a few were recorded when La Salle came through the region (around
1680) came through the same area.

My point was that the game and the fish populations bounced back and then
some.  Buffalo turned up in parts of the country east of the Mississippi
where it apparently hadn't been for many generations, if ever.  The first
whites in this part of the river talked about fish so thick in the river
that you couldn't paddle a canoe without hitting them.

For a concise overview of this, see Roger Kennedy's _Hidden Cities_,
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t_sp=SearchF-_-home-_-Results=Kennedy=%22hidden+cities%22==

But new material on this has been coming out for years, the latest I
encountered being
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379118307261

Cheers,
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[Marxism] Reflections on the Samuel Farber/Todd Chretien exchange | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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https://louisproyect.org/2019/07/21/reflections-on-the-samuel-farber-todd-chretien-exchange/
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Re: [Marxism] Which Way to Socialism?

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On 7/21/19 4:12 PM, Andrew Stewart wrote:

Is there a corresponding video for this one?



I don't think so.
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Diplo]: Bryan Jr. on Strang, 'Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850'

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From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW 
Date: Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 8:09 AM
Subject: H-Net Review [H-Diplo]: Bryan Jr. on Strang, 'Frontiers of
Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands,
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Cameron B. Strang.  Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural
Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850.  Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Press, 2018.  376 pp.  (cloth), ISBN
978-1-4696-4047-1.

Reviewed by Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. (Lamar University)
Published on H-Diplo (July, 2019)
Commissioned by Seth Offenbach

The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge and Empire in the Gulf South

Philosophers and scholars as early as Francis Bacon (attributed,
1597) have understood that _scientia potestas est--_knowledge is
power. As James Delbourgo and Nicholas Dew reveal in the introduction
to their anthology, _Science and Empire in the Atlantic World
_(2008), Bacon had early recognized the convergence of the
acquisition of knowledge with the pursuit of empire. Later
generations of historians may have forgotten this maxim, presenting
the age of New World exploration as either romanticized quests to
chart new geographies or as unfortunate enterprises that happily
facilitated the advancement of science. In recent years, however, a
cadre of Atlantic world scholars have recovered Bacon's insight.
Along with Delbourgo and Dew, Londa Schielbinger, Jorge
Cañizares-Esquerra, Arndt Brendecke, and others argue that knowledge
was an exploitable resource that fueled European empires in Africa
and the Americas. They further illustrate that "natural knowledge"
was a commodity generated, contested, and bartered locally by native
peoples and colonial agents within the fringes of imperial
influence.[1]

With _Frontiers of Science_, Cameron B. Strang applies these lessons
to the region of North America that would become the US Gulf South.
He ranges geographically from Florida to Texas and temporally from
the sixteenth-century Spanish _entradas_ to the 1830s Second Seminole
War. Strang's work is expansive and rooted in thorough research in
Spanish, French, British, and US archives. He distinguishes between
"natural knowledge"--the wisdom of nature--and science, which
represents a learned, systematic method of acquiring and
understanding information, including natural knowledge. He also
emphasizes "local knowledge" employed by indigenes, slaves, and
colonial settlers.

The author convincingly demonstrates that the Gulf South, like other
parts of the Atlantic world, witnessed the collisions of imperial and
local agents in a contest that centered around the acquisition and
exploitation of natural knowledge. Strang shows how the dissemination
of ideas, the cataloging of data, and the innovation of new skills
occurred within a "polycentric web" (p. 23) that bound metropolis to
borderland. European and US regimes used natural knowledge to expand
into and seek control of the Gulf South, while Native Americans,
African American slaves, creoles, and colonial settlers used it to
subvert imperial forces. This pursuit of knowledge was not an
altruistic endeavor. It was not the fortuitous byproduct of empire.
Along with violence, Strang confirms, natural knowledge was the
essential instrument of empire. "If there is a unifying thread that
runs through the history of natural knowledge in America," Strang
concludes, "it is not the influence of liberty but the persistence of
imperialism" (p. 344).

To illustrate these findings, Strang employs the case-study approach,
selecting examples from across a three-hundred-year span. Spanish
_adelantados_ and Franciscan missionaries in Florida relied upon the
patronage and cartographic knowledge of indigenous groups. Spaniards
and natives both invested prestige into rare items that led to a
"shared ambition" that generated a "web of exchange that blurred
Indian and Atlantic networks of knowledge and power" (p. 73). The
experiences of Antonio de Ulloa, the Spanish naturalist and governor
of Louisiana, along with slaves Carlos and Cipion confirmed that "no
group, including the Spanish Empire, was powerful enough to access,
share, verify, and apply power-promoting knowledge in isolation" (p.
127). The examples of William Dunbar and Thomas Power revealed that
shifting loyalties and shifting boundaries not only created
environments of innovation but also of rampant self-interest.

As the United States entered the Gulf South in the early nineteenth
century, its agents perpetuated the same processes of their imperial
forebears, but they placed a greater emphasis on racial hierarchies.
They used science as a crucial 

Re: [Marxism] Which Way to Socialism?

2019-07-21 Thread Andrew Stewart via Marxism
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Is there a corresponding video for this one?

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Eric Blanc vs Charles Post, from the HM Conference in NYC this year.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/07/socialism-revolution-electoral-politics-mass-action
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Re: [Marxism] Agriculture: The Worst Mistake Humans Ever Made

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On 7/21/19 3:58 PM, Mark Lause wrote:
The problem with any American examples is that Lewis and Clark or others 
of the first whites recording their impressions of an area new to them 
were actually looking at the result of several generations of collapsing 
human populations.  This isn't to dismiss the anecdotal evidence, but to 
put it into context.


Mark, if you're referring to genocide against the Indians, I am not sure 
this was the case in 1804. Except for the Northeast, Indians were still 
pretty strong socially especially the major groups like the Comanches, 
the Blackfoot and the Lakota. Can you say a bit more?

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Re: [Marxism] Agriculture: The Worst Mistake Humans Ever Made

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The problem with any American examples is that Lewis and Clark or others of
the first whites recording their impressions of an area new to them were
actually looking at the result of several generations of collapsing human
populations.  This isn't to dismiss the anecdotal evidence, but to put it
into context.

On the other hand, even the earliest agriculture--and what came with
it--had a serious impact on the environment.  George Perkins Marsh compiled
a lot of information on the deforestation of the Levant for his _Man and
Nature_ (1864).  Recent work also indicates large populations and
agriculture in central Asia contributed to its desertification.

Not that we have any choice at this stage.

Cheers,
Mark L.
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[Marxism] ‘The Antithesis of Bolsonaro’: A Gay Couple Roils Brazil’s Far Right

2019-07-21 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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(I have big problems with Glenn Greenwald but I am glad to see his stand 
against Brazil's Donald Trump.)


NY Times, July 21, 2019
‘The Antithesis of Bolsonaro’: A Gay Couple Roils Brazil’s Far Right
By Ernesto Londoño

RIO DE JANEIRO — The votes had been tallied, and the skies of Rio de 
Janeiro crackled with fireworks as supporters celebrated the decisive 
election of a far-right populist, Jair Bolsonaro, as Brazil’s president.


But not everyone was jubilant. David Miranda, a socialist Rio de Janeiro 
council member who had campaigned for Congress, reached for a bottle 
that October night to mourn his electoral loss. His husband, Glenn 
Greenwald, a spitfire American journalist, popped a Xanax. The political 
era that dawned felt like a gut punch for the gay, biracial couple.


“We are the antithesis of Bolsonaro,” Mr. Miranda said in an interview. 
“We’re everything they hate.”


Since then, the two men find themselves on the front lines of the 
country’s increasingly bitter political divide. In June, Mr. Greenwald’s 
news organization published reports suggesting that Mr. Bolsonaro’s main 
opponent in the race was improperly jailed just six months before the 
election, raising serious questions about the legitimacy of Mr. 
Bolsonaro’s victory and testing the mettle of Brazil’s democratic 
institutions.


Now, Mr. Greenwald and Mr. Miranda — who ultimately took a seat in 
Congress — are under attack by Mr. Bolsonaro and his allies. They have 
faced death threats and, according to a conservative Brazilian website, 
the federal police are investigating Mr. Greenwald’s finances. 
Government officials have neither confirmed nor denied the report, but 
the suggestion that Mr. Greenwald is being targeted by the state for his 
news reports has ignited an outcry over press freedom in Brazil.


Mr. Greenwald — one of the two journalists who obtained and disseminated 
the trove of secret intelligence documents leaked by the National 
Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden in 2013 — said he had 
doubted he would ever break a more consequential story. The Snowden 
revelations set off a global debate about government surveillance and 
privacy.


But the stakes of the exposé in Brazil seem higher in some ways, he said.

The information published by The Intercept Brasil, a news organization 
co-founded by Mr. Greenwald, challenged the integrity of a wide-ranging 
corruption investigation that ensnared some of the most powerful figures 
in Brazil’s political and business establishment over the past five 
years, landing many of them in prison.


Among them was the leftist former president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 
who was jailed and prevented from taking part in a presidential race in 
which he had a large lead over Mr. Bolsonaro.


The man presiding over that investigation, the federal judge Sérgio 
Moro, became a folk hero of sorts for many Brazilians fed up with graft 
and violence. Later nominated by Mr. Bolsonaro to be justice minister, 
Mr. Moro became one of the most popular members of his cabinet, lending 
legitimacy to the president’s promise to tackle rampant crime and crack 
down on corruption.


But a massive archive of private chats between members of the judiciary 
involved in the sprawling corruption investigation, obtained by The 
Intercept Brasil from a source it did not reveal, contains exchanges in 
which Mr. Moro appears to cross ethical and legal lines in his handling 
of Mr. da Silva’s case.


The exchanges show that Mr. Moro provided strategic advice to 
prosecutors and passed along an investigative lead. Judges must be 
impartial arbiters under Brazilian law. Mr. Moro has denied wrongdoing.


“I’m a big defender of the free press, but this campaign against Carwash 
and in favor of corruption is bordering on ridiculous,” Mr. Moro said in 
a statement, referring to the name of the corruption scandal.


The Intercept Brasil’s steady stream of articles has led to calls for 
Mr. Moro’s resignation, and made Mr. Greenwald, 52, the chief target of 
praise and fury for those on opposite ends of Brazil’s political divide.


The scandal has also become the first test of the resilience of Brazil’s 
democratic institutions under the leadership of a president who has 
spent much of his political career railing against democracy and lauding 
the 21-year period of repressive military rule in Brazil that ended in 
1985, Mr. Greenwald said.


“There is a huge question about what kind of country Brazil is going to 
be,” Mr. Greenwald said during a recent interview at his heavily guarded 
home in Rio de Janeiro. “Will it be a country with functioning 
democratic institutions, or is it 

Re: [Marxism] Agriculture: The Worst Mistake Humans Ever Made

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On 7/21/19 11:54 AM, DW via Marxism wrote:

[I should point out here that Marshal Sahlins has been thoroughly diced and
taken down by many anthropologists.


I doubt that any of them have debunked the idea that when game and 
plants were plentiful, there was plenty of leisure time. All you need to 
do is read Lewis and Clark to get an idea of what a Garden of Eden this 
continent was. I think that dwelling on the ǃKung is not useful.


---
Sunday 1st Sept. 1805.We set out early in a fine morning, and 
travelled on nearly a west course. We found here the greatest quantity 
and best service berries, I had ever seen before; and abundance of 
choak-cherries. There is also a small bush grows in this part of the 
country, about 6 inches high, which bears a bunch of small purple 
berries. Some call it mountain holly; [4] the fruit is of an acid taste. 
We are much better supplied with water than I expected; and cross 
several fine springs among the mountains through which we pass. At noon 
some rain fell, and the day continued cloudy. About the middle of the 
day Capt. Clarke's blackman's feet became so sore that he had to ride on 
horseback. At 3 o'clock we came to a creek, [5] where there was fine 
grass and we halted to let our horses eat. There are a great number of 
fish in this creek. After we halted the weather became cloudy, and a 
considerable quantity of rain fell. We therefore concluded to remain 
where we were all night, having come this day 18 miles. Our hunters 
killed a deer, and we caught 5 fish.

---

As I pointed out in my original post on these matters, the article I 
referred to was ahistorical. Hunting and gathering did not lend itself 
to intensive agriculture. A society that could produce an agricultural 
surplus was capable of overpowering one that was based on it. That is 
the story of the empires of the Western hemisphere that gained hegemony: 
the Aztecs, the Incas and the Mayans.


You can get a sense of the resentment some anthropologists feel toward 
these rudimentary empires from reading Thomas Patterson's "Inventing 
Western Civilization". Patterson is unstinting in his portrayal of the 
Inca ruling elite. The quest for power consumes them. They are either 
fighting with each other in wars of succession as characters in a 
Shakespeare play do, or with outlying tribes who resist assimilation. 
This unflattering portrait is a reaction, one must suppose, to the 
tendency of "indigenists" to view Inca civilization as enlightened and 
humane. It is one thing for an archaeologist to admire their artifacts, 
but Patterson's sympathies are with the people who were under the thumb. 
The odd thing about civilization is that it takes societies with 
strictly defined divisions of labor to produce museum quality artifacts. 
As Freud said, the purpose of civilization is repression. Such divisions 
are inevitably the result of having somebody pointing a gun or spear at 
you, either implicitly or explicitly.



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Re: [Marxism] Agriculture: The Worst Mistake Humans Ever Made

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Thanks to Dave Riley (a comrade from the FB group "Soil Alliance") for
setting or beginning to set the record straight. His point *"Soil
disturbance through the invention and use of the plough has to be seen as a
key mistake"* hit's the nail on the head and the fact that this is only
really noted by agro-anthropologists (anthropologists and historians with a
strong understanding of agricultural techniques). Agriculture was a *great
and wonderful* advancement over hunter-gathering.

[I should point out here that Marshal Sahlins has been thoroughly diced and
taken down by many anthropologists. There *is* a debate on Shalin's
anthropological projections. He by no means represents any sort of
consensus].

When talking to agronomists who look back at ancient societies of all sorts
(including the most prevalent for thousands of years in the New World,
those that engaged in both hunting and gathering AND agriculture) it is
indeed *how* early agricultural societies farmed, not that they farmed at
all. Most of the agronomists who study this do indeed point out that the
plow was the key instrument that causes all sorts of problems primarily
being that of soil infertility and soil runoff. By exposing soils to the
sun, one kills off the bacteria and fungi that completes the symbiotic
relationship between the sun, soil, plants as cover crops, domesticated
animals, and humans. Many would argue that this is the single biggest
blight on humanity when it started farming.

David Walters
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Re: [Marxism] Opinion | The Joy of Hatred - The New York Times

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VERY (very!) small consolation.   As the cameras panned the crowd at the
Greenville rally while the chant "send her back" was going on, I saw PLENTY
of individuals with their mouths shut --- some even evincing some
discomfort at what they were hearing --

To have even a small percentage (but I would guess it might have been 40
percent) embarassed enough to stay silent while others were vocalizing
hatred speaks with some hope that not all Trump voters are "irredeemable"
--- some good campaigning emphasizing the embarassment of former Trump
voters might induce SOME of them to stay home (most won't switch) --- which
would be a good thing.

(I freely admit that this MAY be (probably is?) grasping at straws but I
REALLY DID SEE non-moving lips from some as the camera panned the crowd.)
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[Marxism] Which Way to Socialism?

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Eric Blanc vs Charles Post, from the HM Conference in NYC this year.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/07/socialism-revolution-electoral-politics-mass-action
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[Marxism] Moderator's note follow-up

2019-07-21 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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Just out of curiosity, I clicked that "suspicious message" link that 
comes up from time to time and that cropped up more frequently than 
usual in the last day or two. What happens is that you are directed to 
the Cisco website (Cisco is the vendor of the security software) and 
allowed to go to the website if you click "yes". Since everything that 
is posted here is trustworthy (like an article on economist.com), I 
encourage comrades to simply go through this exercise when you see a 
"suspicious message" warning.

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[Marxism] Climate Crisis: Central banks and the "macroprudential greening" of finance – ADAM TOOZE

2019-07-21 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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https://adamtooze.com/2019/07/20/climate-crisis-central-banks-and-the-macroprudential-greening-of-finance/
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[Marxism] Keep America Great (Don’t Count on It!) – LobeLog

2019-07-21 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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By Dilip Hiro

https://lobelog.com/keep-america-great-dont-count-on-it/
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