Re: [Marxism] Colin Leys on Brexit

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The prescient conclusion to his article:

But the obstacles in the way of success were so great, and the team 
around Corbyn was so small, that it was hard to be confident that *they 
could win an election*, form a convincing government, and set in motion 
significant steps towards socialism. In addition to the opposition of 
global capital and the steadily rising costs of adapting the country’s 
infrastructure to global warming, changed economic conditions resulting 
from Brexit could derail the most carefully planned advance towards 
social democracy, let alone towards socialism.


Yet the circumstances were so volatile that it was not possible even to 
be pessimistic with any degree of confidence. The quality and commitment 
of many of those most actively involved in the Corbyn project was 
impressive. The Conservatives might prove unable to change course and 
respond convincingly to the public’s disenchantment with neoliberalism, 
and Labour MPs might finally stop wishing they could elect another 
people (as Brecht famously put it) and start trying to relate to the one 
that actually existed.53 The party might manage to resolve its policy 
dilemmas, mobilize a wider cadre of socialists (or at least social 
democrats), win an election, and take some decisive first steps into the 
post-neoliberal era. Or 2017 could prove to have been the project’s high 
point: not the beginning of a transition to socialism but rather an 
early moment – if a historic one – in what is, after all, likely to be a 
much more protracted transition than most of Corbyn’s supporters 
ardently hope for.

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Re: [Marxism] Colin Leys on Brexit

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More from his article:

One crucial element in the [Corbynite] socialist project that was also 
largely missing from the manifesto was any significant move towards 
democratizing the state. There was a promise to establish a 
Constitutional Convention ‘to examine and advise on reforming the way 
Britain works at a fundamental level’, and a commitment to an elected 
upper house of Parliament and to reducing the voting age to 16, but 
nothing more concrete. There was no suggestion that there should be a 
written constitution, to make the electoral system more democratic, or 
to end the exercise of unaccountable executive power through the ‘royal 
prerogative’ and other archaic institutions. There was nothing on ending 
the corporate capture of the state – the downsizing of the civil 
service, the rampant influence of unregulated corporate lobbying,32 the 
‘revolving door’ between the senior civil service and private 
corporations, or the corporate-style ‘executive boards’ that had been 
set up for each government department, largely filled with private 
sector personnel.33 There was no proposal to end government reliance on 
management consultancies whose main clients are corporations, or on the 
undemocratic nature of the BBC, nominally a politically neutral public 
service but in practice a key component of the capitalist state system. 
34 There was no suggestion of ending subsidies to private schools 
through which the rich constantly renew their dominant positions in the 
state and corporate elites.

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[Marxism] CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: What Happens After Bernie Sanders Wins? | Washington Babylon

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https://washingtonbabylon.com/after-bernie-wins/


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[Marxism] Colin Leys on Brexit

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From Socialist Register and behind a paywall:

By March 2019, when Britain is due to exit the EU, it seemed 
increasingly possible that no agreement would be reached, and that the 
UK would lose its existing access to the EU single market and customs 
union, with endlessly complex consequences for trade, production, jobs, 
labour markets, legal rights and more. During the referendum these 
implications had not seriously figured in the debates, but by 2018 they 
were all too clearly in view. The realization gradually dawned that 
almost every aspect of life in Britain had become intricately 
intertwined with the EU: the practical effects of leaving were going to 
prove so far-reaching and costly that little else could be seriously 
attended to for years to come after 2019, whichever party was in government.


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I don't think that England will have as much of a problem of pulling off 
a Brexit that was also beyond Greece's version called Grexit but don't 
be surprised if this turns out to be deeply painful not only to the 
working class but to the bourgeoisie.

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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] [UCE] The wages of Brexit – International Socialism

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Don't have much use for Alex Callinicos but this is worth reading.

http://secure-web.cisco.com/1bNZPFLF3RaMHcAHEylbL2SH1ljEYFMG_4DmJa_sOrFhrSkNEc0pOj7djoBSElguaOS-eZsmioTlL1X8x_XwViP3_ysigNLKOzxuI2Ux1jVjKpNMlltXBYKsqZwBkXLkOvgwpQq1zBmza3wu2sSjL-Cn101M2TgQkmLgGfRZ4_osmRDcH-CRf-3XrUVscMqKs35htbli4AE0BM_yvTkm3MHw3nVE3Sp0-FbjjXF1YYIdRWr1wnw-XRURcvBPMxNTsnDNLAiv1cT37R1-eFAtWyUrBHgwAW36OUaiyAq5fk1GJqFE2zTGFL1t8v7CRxVuvdNfr6blyTRE7momfnMJYJC5sd3eGOvUJaakcVzyDBmdmUtRbPUeJ1Qkz69b0nGRy/http%3A%2F%2Fisj.org.uk%2Fthe-wages-of-brexit%2F

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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Marxist Left Review | Daniel Bensaïd and “the last generation of October”

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Focused on Bensaid but also a useful survey of the French Mandelistas.

https://secure-web.cisco.com/1x2TLpIiI3NAEGVlpk2Fc8qBBIzAGeb992Lgcz5RfIIv6WpjZI13gaeutTNg7PGUm2VJ3C7Fn31yYsVTp7UpM_UQJ48zTd28ht48qJnB1B_E4mQyJhHBw3s14-dXzhQ0f5AsFl2YVHUy-zbt2hDQ62mX2BcpP0z7gDvEoGsEmRX7rqYiT8vTYw4qAIwbXvJqLpprX9OcUlT8aUCzpcpCCArBv0dcMAjYl48Weps1ShL0WZv2Wj-zKqHqIOKJmsFXVUg2NzUAa-pcRdz2XrExmSHH58JS99nhp9IoZ_HZf_zIT2t2K8izEKeV477chjXk2Ar4O_t-8DwgXmyy7IBVGj9zIWwCRFOAO8WzBuXbRfbs-7IztDBGl1xa1-5i7JCDc/https%3A%2F%2Fmarxistleftreview.org%2Farticles%2Fdaniel-bensaid-and-the-last-generation-of-october%2F


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Re: [Marxism] Daniel Finn, Crosscurrents, NLR 118, July–August 2019

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On 12/16/19 4:09 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:


(Very much worth reading and not behind a paywall.)

https://newleftreview.org/issues/II118/articles/daniel-finn-crosscurrents


I should add the article is about Corbyn and Brexit.
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[Marxism] Daniel Finn, Crosscurrents, NLR 118, July–August 2019

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(Very much worth reading and not behind a paywall.)

https://newleftreview.org/issues/II118/articles/daniel-finn-crosscurrents
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[Marxism] Slave Self-Activity and the Bourgeois Revolution in the US

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Please share link: 

Brian Kelly, ‘Slave Self-Acitivty and the Bourgeois Revolution in the United 
States: Jubilee and the Boundaries of Black Freedom,” Historical Materialism 
27.3 (2019): 31-76.

available here: https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/27/3/article-p31_2.xml 


"What is needed urgently...is a frame- work that can move beyond the 
juxtaposition between high politics and slave self-activity and map, with some 
precision, the convergences and antagonisms between the bourgeois revolution 
and ground-level slave initiative. The point is not to find a middle ground 
between high politics and black agency, but to offer a framework that can 
explain their essential, dynamic interaction in the most important 
revolutionary upheaval in US history and offer a coher- ent explanation for 
Washington’s ultimate failure to deliver on the promise of black freedom. 
Potentially, such an interpretation offers a key not only to un derstanding the 
dynamics of wartime emancipation, but to the whole of the period analysed by Du 
Bois (1860–80) – tumultuous years encompassing war, the attempt to construct 
bi-racial democracy in the liberated South, and the decisive defeat of that 
project in Reconstruction’s violent overthrow." 

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[Marxism] Free EBook: Antisemitism and the Labour Party

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I am thumbing through this free ebook slowly and I cannot emphasize enough
how impressive and elucidating it is about the kinds of propaganda that
were spread against the Labour Party. We could likely just change some of
the names and it would be an accurate picture of U.S. Left/Liberals in
their smears against Ilhan Omar, Bernie Sanders, etc.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3215-antisemitism-and-the-labour-party

Amith R. Gupta
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[Marxism] The Six Ways Football Groomed Us for President Trump - CounterPunch.org

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https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/16/the-six-ways-football-groomed-us-for-president-trump/
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[Marxism] Iran 2019: the struggle between two 'Mustazafin' by Shiva Tabari December 2019

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https://www.ethicalpolitics.org/iran/mustazafin.htm
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