Re: [Marxism] the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy

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Charles Chesnutt's historical novel THE MARROW OF TRADITION is a
fictionalization of the Wilmington Massacre --- it is a pretty good read



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[Marxism] the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy

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One of the most cataclysmic and little known or understood events in the
rise of white supremacy in the late 1800s—and perhaps the final nail in the
coffin of Reconstruction, two decades after the removal of federal troops
from the South—occurred in Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898,
when white supremacists engineered a military coup to overthrow the city’s
elected government.

In a single day white militias burned a black newspaper office to the
ground, attacked the black population *en masse* with a staggering
arsenal—including a rapid-fire Gatling gun—and drove the remnants of the
Wilmington’s Fusionist (a racially integrated Republican-Populist party)
government from the city, quickly installing coup leaders in its place.

In *Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White
Supremacy*, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Zucchino cuts through a
century of propaganda, myth, and big white lies to unmask the stunning
history of the Wilmington coup, its origins in the political climate of the
era, and its far-reaching implications for North Carolina and the rest of
the resurgent Confederacy in the decades that followed.
https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/wilmingtons-lie
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[Marxism] Making sense of the global rebellion

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The first article from the new edition of the Marxist Left Review is now
online. Check it out, and subscribe to support this important publication!

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"The causes of the rebellion have been widely discussed by a press corps
disturbed by their insurrectionary verve. The New York Times has suddenly
rediscovered the existence of workers and the poor, describing the protests
as “a louder-than-usual howl against elites in countries where democracy is
a source of disappointment, corruption is seen as brazen, and a tiny
political class lives large while the younger generation struggles to get
by”.

The revival of revolt should come as no surprise. The post-GFC era has seen
the intensification of class war through low pay, high rates of youth
unemployment, unaffordable housing and education and an ostentatiously wide
gap between rich and poor. These factors combine to produce a generation
pessimistic about their future and angry about their present.

The mass strikes that shook France at the end of 2019 are typical. Emmanuel
Macron was elected as a centrist saviour – neither left nor right but
modern. In reality his presidency sought to reboot the French economy
through savage attacks on workers and their organisations, most recently
with proposed cuts to pensions. Under pressure from the rank and file,
unions have called a number of major general strikes, which have been
strengthened by more localised but ongoing actions by railway workers,
petrol workers, teachers and others. Actions continued throughout Christmas
holidays, as activists refused to give Macron the present of social peace.
At the time of writing, the strikes had been running for 29 days straight,
the longest period of continuous strike action since 1968. The
determination of the Yellow Vest protesters prepared the ground for this
breakthrough, normalising widespread and militant opposition to Macron.
These crucial events are a reminder that the West will not remain immune to
the social eruptions being seen in Santiago, Baghdad and Hong Kong. By
bringing the global revolt to the imperial centre, French strikers have
made it possible to imagine the defeat of neoliberalism at the core of the
capitalist system."
https://marxistleftreview.org/articles/resisting-barbarism-the-contours-of-a-global-rebellion/

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[Marxism] bellingcat - The OPCW Douma Leaks Part 1: We Need To Talk About “Alex” - bellingcat

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Re: [Marxism] British elections: "The Center Blows itself up"

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'The "dead skunk" in the middle of the road is a Waylon Jennings song (???)’

No, it is Loudon Wainwright III.

ken h

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Re: [Marxism] British elections: "The Center Blows itself up"

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The "dead skunk" in the middle of the road is a Waylon Jennings song (???)
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[Marxism] A Sanders presidency according to Jacobin

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The left critics of Bernie Sanders completely miss the point when they
(justifiably) criticize him for being pro-Israel or not anti-war enough.
Those are secondary issues. The main issue is really demonstrated in this
puff piece for Sanders - an article which is composed of praise for
Sanders' programs coupled with baseless assertions.

The main point is that a President Sanders would be unable to get any of
his plans through congress. His own party would see to that. The article
claims "Sanders understands that change at this scale will require mass
movements to pressure Congress and every level of government — and to
change their composition Sanders’s record of connecting to mass
mobilizations and dramatically reshaping public debates sets him apart."
What record? Where? When? The most visible example of his record was his
response to the 2018 government shutdown. The sum total of his activity was
to send around an online petition aimed at Mitch McConnell. At least the
president of the flight attendants union called for a national general
strike. But Sanders ignored that call.


https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/bernie-sanders-presidency-political-revolution-election?fbclid=IwAR0OYI_RzmIa4aUH2EumlnVU9HNgg_3PNVVy3aX_POMhznzHe-BSimN9N54


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Re: [Marxism] British elections: "The Center Blows itself up"

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friendly corrections: yellow stripe... armadillo (they move SO slowly)

that would be Jim Hightower, former Texas Secretary of Agriculture?

On 1/15/2020 5:01 PM, John Reimann via Marxism wrote:

I'm reminded of the saying that the only two things in the middle of the
road are a yellow strike and a dead skunk.

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[Marxism] British elections: "The Center Blows itself up"

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A very worthwhile article. Among other things, it relates changes in the
class composition to the recent elections and to Brexit itself. This is not
only in relation to the decline of the industrial working class but also in
relation to the conflict between service workers such as health care
workers and the administrators above them and how that conflict over
bureaucratic demands shapes the world view of this sector of the working
class.

I'm reminded of the saying that the only two things in the middle of the
road are a yellow strike and a dead skunk. In this case, almost all the
remainers I know of took a middle-of-the-road position. More or less "keep
things as they are". True, leaving the EU will make things dramatically
worse, but for a large chunk of the working class that is not an argument.
It's like a young apprentice I worked with at the time Reagan ran against
Jimmy Carter. This guy was planning on voting for Reagan. I told him all
the terrible things Reagan was going to do, and he replied: "I don't know
what Reagan will do. I only know what Carter has done and I don't like it."

In the case of the EU, I think the only way out of that trap would have
been to organize an EU wide (and beyond) campaign for a real living minimum
wage and minimum social services - that all workers receive. Within that,
it could be explained that leaving the EU would cut across such a campaign
and that it is impossible for British workers to keep what little they now
have, and to improve on it, alone. But that is exactly where Corbyn was a
"centrist", because any such campaign would have really, really violated
the political norms, beyond which even Corbyn was willing to go.

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/13/the-center-blows-itself-up-care-and-spite-in-the-brexit-election/?fbclid=IwAR0AJb2Jr2-Muy6V5XtC8BaJtyIIqqOtcub08KxmDQnF2OcyV7Nx0UXtzA8

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[Marxism] How College Became a Commodity

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Chronicle of Higher Education, January 14, 2020
How College Became a Commodity
Market-based thinking is at the heart of how academe thinks of itself.
That’s a travesty.

By DAVID SESSIONS

This past summer, Alaska’s Republican governor, Mike Dunleavy, announced 
a draconian plan to slash appropriations for the university system by 41 
percent. Defending the decision, he repeated a phrase that increasingly 
accompanies budget cuts: that the university couldn’t continue being 
“all things for all people.” Dunleavy, who insisted that the state’s 
deficit be closed without raising taxes, argued that Alaska must “turn 
the university into a smaller, leaner, but still very positive, 
productive university in the Northern Hemisphere.”


Pete Buttigieg has made a similar notion the center of his opposition to 
universal free college in the 2020 Democratic primary. “Americans who 
have a college degree earn more than Americans who don’t,” Buttigieg 
said. “As a progressive, I have a hard time getting my head around the 
idea of a majority who earn less because they didn’t go to college 
subsidizing a minority who earn more because they did.” Buttigieg has 
continued to hammer the point that universality equals upward 
redistribution. Lis Smith, a senior adviser for his campaign, tweeted, 
“If you think that a worker who didn’t go to college should pay for 
college for a CEO’s kid, then @PeteButtigieg isn’t your candidate.”


These statements capture a bipartisan sea change in the way Americans 
thinkabout higher education. Universities can’t be “all things to all 
people,” hence they should focus on what politicians determine to be 
their most “productive” activities. Governments not only cannot but 
should not provide higher education to everyone: People who can afford 
to invest in their own future should pay for themselves, and only those 
who really need it should receive help. We shouldn’t force “poor” 
Americans to pay for “rich” college students — even though broader-based 
funding of public higher education overwhelmingly and disproportionately 
helps the poor.


This line of argument has been dominant for decades, but it is not how 
politicians — especially progressive ones — always thought about higher 
education. The story of how the language of scarcity and individual 
investment became bipartisan orthodoxy begins with the marginal ideas of 
neoliberal economists in the years after World War II. Those ideas 
received a shot of polemical adrenaline and political influence from the 
student-protest movement of the late 1960s.


The campus upheavals of the 1960s brought a wave of responses from the 
professoriate, but one in particular stood out. Written by two 
economists, James M. Buchanan and Nicos E. Devletoglou, Academia in 
Anarchy (Basic Books, 1970) opened with a law-and-order quote from 
Richard Nixon and was dedicated to “the taxpayer.” The authors explained 
that they wrote with “indignation” after observing the bombing of the 
UCLA economics department, where Buchanan taught, and the “groveling of 
the UCLA administrative authorities” to a “handful of revolutionary 
terrorists.”


Buchanan and Devletoglou suggested an overhaul of higher education aimed 
at bringing the student movement to heel. At the time, California had 
proposed a master plan of universal free higher education across its 
system. But the authors of Academia in Anarchy argued that the proposal 
suffered from a lack of basic economics — meaning not simply economic 
calculation, but Buchanan’s conception of economics as an 
all-encompassing moral and behavioral philosophy. “Almost alone among 
social scientists,” they wrote, “the economist brings with him a model 
of human behavior which allows predictions about human action.”


Their recommendations cut sharply against the spirit of the times. To 
Buchanan and Devletoglou, the students’ bad behavior was the grim result 
of the overabundance of education. Treating education as a “free good” 
meant that those who received it had no incentive to value it, and thus 
spent their years at university behaving as “man-children” playing a 
“psychedelic game.” Buchanan and Devletoglou recommended a student-loan 
system. “The scarcity value of a university education would at least be 
brought home to the student,” they wrote. Students would be forced to 
take a harder look at what they studied and how, avoid protest, and 
develop an appreciation for “property rights” as paying consumers of 
education.


In a twist that would become characteristic of later libertarian 
arguments, with softer echoes among technocratic liberals like 
Buttigieg, economically disciplining 

[Marxism] MR Online | Misrepresenting Marx’s Ecology: A response to Daniel Tanuro’s “was Marx an ecosocialist?

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[Marxism] » France at the Crossroads

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[Marxism] Fragment on War, National Questions and Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg - COSMONAUT

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