[Marxism] FBI Tracking of Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo Foreshadowed Future Abuses | Aaron J. Leonard | Truthout

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Re: [Marxism] 44 percent of workers in Brandenburg voted AfD yesterday

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The following information might be of interest for readers as it 
concerns a wide-spread mistake which can lead to a certain confusion (or 
at least lack of precise data):


In German language (and I am sure statistical data concerning an 
election in Germany rely on German sources) the word "worker" means 
"Arbeiter". This is however not identical with the Marxist category of 
the working class.


"Arbeiter" usually means blue-collar or manual worker. Other sectors of 
the working class are a large part of the "Angestellte" (which basically 
means white-collar worker in the private sector) and "Beamte" or 
"Öffentlich Bedienstete" (which means workers in the public sector).


It is a wide-spread phenomena that some sectors of the blue-collar 
worker who suffer strongly from de-industrialization and who have been 
"forgotten" by the reformist parties (which themselves become more and 
more dominated by middle class people) follow the reactionary racists on 
an electoral level.


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Interesting breakdown by social class:
https://twitter.com/formelfriedrich/status/1168402855880994816
In confronting the rise of authoritarian far-right populism, Marxists should really 
re-think the old Trotskyist shibboleths about fascism being a primarily petit-bourgeois 
or "Bonapartist" phenomenon.  It's pretty clear that the new far-right has a 
substantial proletarian base.






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[Marxism] Labor Day in Oakland vs. 21st century capitalist realities

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"On the day that labor holds its traditional marches, rallies and picnics,
the name and a little background of the latest mass shooter was revealed.
This was the shooter in Odessa Texas, who took at least six lives and
wounded 22 others. Seth Ator had just been fired from his trucking job. It
doesn’t require being an creative genius to imagine what happened: Ator,
who was reportedly already spiraling down mentally, got no mental help
because such help is not readily available in our for-profit health care
system. He drove off with his guns in his truck, because that’s what you
carry in that part of Texas. Enraged, desperate and feeling all alone, he
took whatever lives he could because deadly violence is acceptable and life
is cheap in West Texas Trump country.

"Why didn’t Ator look to the unions for community, solidarity, and to win
his job back?

"Then, at the very moment that the unions were holding their rallies,
Hurricane Dorian was rampaging through the Bahamas, leaving death and
destruction in its path. The reason this hurricane is so powerful is the
warming sea water, and the reason for that is… Well, it doesn’t take a
science ph.d. to know… And meanwhile, the fires are burning out of control
in the Amazon. These fires were set by cattle ranchers, some of them from
the US, to open up more land for agriculture. This destruction of the
Amazon will bring more drought and desertification throughout the world.

*Labor Day *"What was said on Labor Day about this looming disaster?"

https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/09/03/labor-day-2019-in-oakland-ca-vs-21st-century-capitalist-realities/https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/09/03/labor-day-2019-in-oakland-ca-vs-21st-century-capitalist-realities/

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Re: [Marxism] 44 percent of workers in Brandenburg voted AfD yesterday

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I agree with the substantive point that working class support for the far
right is real and a big concern, and also that for Marxists class is a
socio-political process rather than a static sociological category. On the
latter however, if we’re going to take any notice of voting (or voter or
social attitude survey) data at all, as at least surface-level empirical
indicators of underlying class processes, we might as well try to have the
best possible indicators.

There’s a lot of confusion in leftist commentary on voting and attitudes
around the fact that mainstream commentary often uses an
occupational/educational definitions of class rather than a Marxist
definition, notwithstanding the limitations of any fixed categories for
Marxist analysis. Self-employed or even employing tradespeople are often
categorized as “working class”, while non-managerial white-collar workers
who have zero autonomy at work and are union members can be categorized as
“middle class”.

The categories in the tweet in question seem to be, if google is
translating accurately for me, respectively “manual workers”, “white collar
employees”, “self-employed” and pensioners”, and the employer/employee
relationship at least doesn’t seem mixed up. Knowing the “class”
composition of each party (rather than as here the voting composition of
each “class”), and any change over time, would both be good to know.

With aggregate data like this we’re stuck with the categories given, and
should be particularly wary of reifying them as indicating class as such.
But if we’re able to get person-level survey data we might have some
control over categorising respondents in a more Marxist framework. In my
view the best way to do that within the limitations of most social
attitudes or voter surveys is use categories of non-managerial workers (of
whatever collar-colour), salaried managers, and business owners.

For those interested in these issues I published an article in Capitalism,
Nature, Socialism in 2012 relaying this class categorisation to attitudes
and voting in the Australian Election Study, as part of an analysis of the
Australian Greens (non-paywall and extended version here
http://links.org.au/node/3180).

More recently I’ve been noodling with the openly available 2016 Australian
Election Study and have posted some notes and plots on the class
composition of voting blocs here
https://m.facebook.com/story/graphql_permalink/?graphql_id=UzpfSTU5NDQyMzM3NDoxMDE1Njc0MDY3OTMyODM3NQ%3D%3D
and scored on an attitude to immigration scale by party vote here
https://m.facebook.com/story/graphql_permalink/?graphql_id=UzpfSTU5NDQyMzM3NDoxMDE1Njc2NDE3NzQ0MzM3NQ%3D%3D

The latter are steps towards regression modeling of the probability of
voting for different parties, in which I expect class to have an effects on
voting that’s partly direct, and partly indirect, mediated by attitudes to
unions, business and immigrants (and maybe activity as participation in
strikes and protests are asked about in this survey).


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> > https://twitter.com/formelfriedrich/status/1168402855880994816
> > In confronting the rise of authoritarian far-right populism, Marxists
> should really re-think the old Trotskyist shibboleths about fascism being a
> primarily petit-bourgeois or "Bonapartist" phenomenon.  It's pretty clear
> that the new far-right has a substantial proletarian base.
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> >
> >Well, I think fascism is a movement not a "authoritarian far-right
> populist" party and certainly not just some pieces of paper in a ballot
> box in Brandenburg.
> Marxian social class is not a sociological category:  "the proletariat"
> is not just 'the workers" who as individuals are not immune to fascism,
> let alone to "authoritarian far-right populism".
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[Marxism] John Crawford Remembrance | Janet Zandy | Working-Class Studies Association

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[Marxism] Reflections on the Start of World War II, Sep 1 1939

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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/09/01/re-reflections-start-world-war-ii

Auden's remarkable poem on the occasion

https://poets.org/poem/september-1-1939


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Re: [Marxism] 44 percent of workers in Brandenburg voted AfD yesterday

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Interesting breakdown by social class:
https://twitter.com/formelfriedrich/status/1168402855880994816
In confronting the rise of authoritarian far-right populism, Marxists should really 
re-think the old Trotskyist shibboleths about fascism being a primarily petit-bourgeois 
or "Bonapartist" phenomenon.  It's pretty clear that the new far-right has a 
substantial proletarian base.


Well, I think fascism is a movement not a "authoritarian far-right 
populist" party and certainly not just some pieces of paper in a ballot 
box in Brandenburg.
Marxian social class is not a sociological category:  "the proletariat" 
is not just 'the workers" who as individuals are not immune to fascism, 
let alone to "authoritarian far-right populism".


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[Marxism] What happened to America’s labor movement?

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New Yorker, August 26, 2019 Issue
What happened to America’s labor movement?
By Caleb Crain

Since the fifties, the proportion of union members in the labor force 
has declined by nearly twenty-five percentage points.Illustration by 
Rose Wong


Do you have rights at work? Franklin Delano Roosevelt thought you did. 
In 1936, while trying to haul America’s economy out of the bog that the 
free market had driven it into, Roosevelt argued that workers needed to 
have a say, declaring it unjust that


a small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete 
control over other people’s property, other people’s money, other 
people’s labor—other people’s lives. For too many of us throughout the 
land, life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no 
longer follow the pursuit of happiness.


For Roosevelt, a system in which bosses could unilaterally decide “the 
hours men and women worked, the wages they received, the conditions of 
their labor” amounted to “dictatorship.” He hoped that the New Deal 
would bring workers and managers together in a new form of workplace 
governance.


New Dealers drew on an idea known as industrial democracy, developed, in 
the late nineteenth century, by English socialist thinkers who saw 
workplace rights as analogous to civil rights such as due process and 
the freedoms of speech and assembly. Senator Robert Wagner, who wrote 
the National Labor Relations Act of 1935—also known as the Wagner 
Act—made the point explicitly: “Democracy in industry means fair 
participation by those who work in the decisions vitally affecting their 
lives and livelihood.” In their efforts to civilize the workplace, 
however, Roosevelt and his allies didn’t set up a new institution for 
workers to speak through. They relied on an existing one: the union.


Whenever the rate of unionization in America has risen in the past 
hundred years, the top one per cent’s portion of the national income has 
tended to shrink. After Roosevelt signed the Wagner Act and other 
pro-union legislation, a generation of workers shared deeply in the 
nation’s prosperity. Real wages doubled in the two decades following the 
Second World War, and, by 1959, Vice-President Richard Nixon was able to 
boast to Nikita Khrushchev that “the United States comes closest to the 
ideal of prosperity for all in a classless society.”


America’s unions and workers haven’t been faring quite as well lately. 
Where labor is concerned, recent decades strongly resemble the run-up to 
the Great Depression. Both periods were marked by extreme concentrations 
of personal wealth and corporate power. In both, the value created by 
workers decoupled from the pay they received: during the 
nineteen-twenties, productivity grew forty-three per cent while wages 
stagnated; between 1973 and 2016, productivity grew six times faster 
than compensation. And unions were in decline: between 1920 and 1930, 
the proportion of union members in the labor force dropped from 12.2 per 
cent to 7.5 per cent, and, between 1954 and 2018, it fell from 
thirty-five per cent to 10.5 per cent. In “Beaten Down, Worked Up” 
(Knopf), a compact, pointed new account of unions in America, Steven 
Greenhouse, a longtime labor reporter for the Times, writes that “the 
share of national income going to business profits has climbed to its 
highest level since World War II, while workers’ share of income 
(employee compensation, including benefits) has slid to its lowest level 
since the 1940s.”


“Beaten Down” updates Greenhouse’s book “The Big Squeeze” (2008), in 
which he portrayed a “broad decline in the status and treatment of 
American workers,” with such details as fingers chopped off in a 
yogurt-container factory, stockers locked inside a Sam’s Club overnight, 
and a Walmart cashier who “menstruated on herself,” as a colleague put 
it, after being denied bathroom breaks. (The colleague was disciplined 
for buying the woman sanitary napkins and a washcloth on company time.) 
“Beaten Down” adds new outrages to the list, including the shuttering of 
the Web sites Gothamist and DNAinfo by their owner after staff writers 
unionized, but Greenhouse’s emphasis this time is on remedy rather than 
indictment. A General Motors employee recalls the union legacy she 
inherited from her great-grandfather, who participated in a strike at 
the company in 1936 and 1937 that helped launch the golden age of 
American labor. “Nobody realizes that all that we have is because of 
what was done before,” she says. The book is a kind of primer for the 
woman’s peers, explaining how “the eight-hour workday, employer-backed 
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Angelus Novus wrote

Interesting breakdown by social class:
https://twitter.com/formelfriedrich/status/1168402855880994816
In confronting the rise of authoritarian far-right populism, Marxists 
should really re-think the old Trotskyist shibboleths about fascism 
being a primarily petit-bourgeois or "Bonapartist" phenomenon.  It's 
pretty clear that the new far-right has a substantial proletarian base.


Oh wow. So many questions. How far do we have to reach to understand a 
trend such as this, which becomes general and undeniable in the west, no 
matter how you parse class, it seems. Why is the left so weak? Are we in 
abject denial about that? There is nothing in the recent history of the 
left, as presently perceived, to give the working class any real hope in 
a socialist direction. Social democracy, top-down authoritarianism in 
left history and experience, euro-communism and the communism of the 
USSR and eastern Europe, the experience of Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, 
Chile, Portugal, and failed left-Bonapartism in Venezuela, the general 
failure of socialism in one country, now approaching in Cuba, as in 
North Korea in the face of China's trajectory, China's turn toward 
capitalist authoritarian government, and its success for some and for 
how long, as AI proceeds and resource wars and chaos kick in. The 
absence of a viable vision for the working class among Marxists. And the 
effects of nationalism-chauvinism-racism-immigrant-bashing-patriarchy in 
a fractured capitalist society and culture. Where the existing shallow 
version of capitalist governance is no longer serving the interests of 
the majority of workers and supporting their hopes for their life 
chances, as that burgeoning, dynamic system has in the recent past, and 
the vaguest promise on the right is the only alternative left to so many 
- for now. We know we're in deep doodoo, and we can see only faint, 
flickering embers in movements of protest around the world right now. We 
aren't really reaching effectively for underlying conditions producing 
that turn to the authoritarian right. And what we can do once we 
understand that. Where there is no vision the people perish., and yet 
never more needed, in a time of powerful waning-systemic centrifugal 
forces moving us closer to annihilation, and the irreversible effects of 
the past 200 years of capitalist surge on climate.


The surprise remaining may be due to the shallow nature of working class 
support for capitalism and its very evident lack of direction or 
program, and the coming economic (and environmental) collapse, which on 
the basis of past periodic recurrence of panic is overdue. Can we 
somehow come through the gathering storm without nuclear holocaust? Have 
contradictions in the system reached the point of impasse? Can 
capitalism find its way through, overcome yet another set of barriers 
and find its legs again? If not, socialism has an opening - if theory, 
from the working class itself, informs practice with a credible program 
and an awakened leadership. The working class appears to have come a 
long way on that path so far, in many vital respects, and has much 
experience to build on and lessons to be
well-learned from. As communication, coordination and combination have 
become global for capitalist production, that is also true, potentially, 
for its adversary as well, renewing hope for solidarity. The challenge 
and the trend in the wrong direction seem insuperable, if we lose sight 
of our already amply demonstrated, potential collective genius and 
power, and build on it.

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Re: [Marxism] 44 percent of workers in Brandenburg voted AfD yesterday

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This doesn't tell us anything about how they're defining the category?  Or
what was going on in other places?

I rethink things continually, but haven't had much reason to reconsider my
sense that these terms have little practical meaning the way most people
use them.


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[Marxism] Immanuel Wallerstein (1930-2019): an appreciation | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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I wonder if the very concept of the "petit bourgeois" is valuable --- the
"labor aristocracy" seems to be very prone to racism, xenophobic
nationalism, and support for authoritarianism --- Since so many small
businesses fail on a regular basis, how "permanent" is membership in the
petit bourgeoisie under late capitalism?



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Interesting breakdown by social class:
https://twitter.com/formelfriedrich/status/1168402855880994816
In confronting the rise of authoritarian far-right populism, Marxists should 
really re-think the old Trotskyist shibboleths about fascism being a primarily 
petit-bourgeois or "Bonapartist" phenomenon.  It's pretty clear that the new 
far-right has a substantial proletarian base.






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Re: [Marxism] Robert Crumb and friends flush Donald Trump down the toilet, 1989 | Dangerous Minds

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The (outdated) link given to buy the comics is to some third party Amazon 
seller, but the ethical thing to do is order them directly from the Crumb 
family.  My local comic shop had these reprints; they're indistinguishable from 
the Last Gasp printings except they have a "Crumb Comix" logo:
https://www.crumbproducts.com/pages/books_comics.html




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[Marxism] Robert Crumb and friends flush Donald Trump down the toilet, 1989 | Dangerous Minds

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[Marxism] Fwd: (Fwd) Lula's BRICS fantasy - and Wallerstein's realism

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From Patrick Bond.


(Great to have Lula on record!

     To me, with my broken-record biases, these bullets below, in 
*bold, *are what might be the most important woulda-coulda-shoulda 
takeaway revelations. They deserve a great deal more introspection than 
leading Third Worldist strategist Pepe Escobar had time for below... but 
hopefully he follows up soon:


  * /"A huge pact giving the Chinese part of what they wanted, which was
Brazil’s capacity to produce food and energy and also the capacity
to have access to technological knowledge. Brazil needed a lot of
infrastructure. We needed high-speed rail, many things. //*But in
the end that did not happen.”*/

  * Lula defined his top priorities as he supported the creation of
BRICS: *economic autonomy,* and uniting a group of nations capable
of *helping what the Washington consensus describes as LDCs – least
developed countries*. He emphasized: /“BRICS was not created to be
an instrument of defense, but to be an instrument of attack. So we
could //*create our own currency*//to become independent from the US
dollar in our trade relations; to create a development bank, which
we did – but //*it is still too timid*//– to create something strong
capable of helping the development of the poorest parts of the
world.” /Lula made an explicit reference to the United States’ fears
about a new currency: /*“This was the logic behind BRICS, to do
something different*//and not copy anybody. The US was very much
afraid when I discussed a new currency and Obama called me, telling
me, ‘Are you trying to create a new currency, a new euro?’ I said,
‘No, //*I’m just trying to get rid of the US dollar. I’m just trying
not to be dependent.’”*/

  * the leadership of the Workers’ Party was caught totally unprepared
by a conjunction of sophisticated hybrid-war techniques. One of the
largest economies in the world was *taken over by hardcore
neoliberals, practically without any struggle.* Lula confirmed it in
the interview, saying: /“We should look at where we got it wrong.”/

  * Lula also hit a note of personal disappointment. *He expected much
more from BRICS. /“I imagined a more aggressive BRICS, more
proactive and more creative./*/‘The Soviet empire has already
fallen; let’s create a democratic empire.’ I think we made some
advances, but we advanced slowly. BRICS should be much stronger by
now.”/

  * /“I want the Chinese at the negotiating table, //*not outside.*//Is
there any discord? Put them //*inside the WTO, let’s legalize
everything.’*//I know that [Chinese President] Hu Jintao was much
pleased."/

  * on climate change, at Copenhagen,/"who is going to//*pay for the
historical pollution you perpetrated before China polluted? *//Where
is the history commission to analyze English industrialization? ...
they are going to blame Brazil, China, India, Russia. We need to
find a solution. Then I proposed that Celso call the Chinese and set
up a parallel meeting. That was between Brazil, China, India and
perhaps South Africa. Russia, I think, was not there... in this
meeting we amassed a great deal of credibility, because we refused
to blame the Chinese...”/

Ah, but from that appalling moment in December 2009 - the devil's deal 
with Obama, Hillary Clinton and Todd Stern, a deal that is still, via 
Durban in 2011 and Paris in 2015, amplifying the climate catastrophe - 
it all went downhill very fast indeed... for discussion next time.


     But what an excellent opportunity Escobar offers us all, to review 
the three big pre-Trump analytical frameworks and strategic choices of 
the last decade: 1) those advocating a "/centripetal"/ world economy 
based on win-win globalisation, as articulated repeatedly from Beijing; 
2) "/multipolar/" promoters like Lula and Escobar, seeking to break 
dependency on the West - but with gradualism and cooperation; and 3) 
those arguing that the "/centrifugal 
/" 
reality of crisis-prone neoliberal globalisation now means the centre 
cannot hold, and everything starts spinning/apart/. The late Immanuel 
Wallerstein offered that kind of analysis, way below, worth recalling, 
as is so much of his work.)

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