[Marxism] 2020 - Sanders Takes Top Spot In Dem | Quinnipiac University Connecticut
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. * DW writes that Bernie Sanders, a declared socialist - being in a national poll - in first place as a candidate for president of the United States - "is no big deal". Well, it is a BIG hopeful deal to myself and many others who have never seen such in our lifetimes. It concretely shows a radicalizing and class awareness by a growing part of the U.S. national working class - particularly youth that compose both the largest sector of voters and are also supporters of Bernie. I could lie and state that I am sorry, the very isolated and ineffective sectarian left may not get their pronouncements and wishes met - and Bernie Sanders actually does succeed in winning. However, I would prefer Bernie over Trump - and that obviously "small detail" to some of the sectarian leftists, of Bernie taking on the fosil fuel industry destruction of a sustainable environment. >From my obviously naive view that I hold - of without breatheable air and livable temperature - one can organize nothing. There are no movements, no organizations, no protests - nothing. So while some seem to join with the corporate folks unhappy with Bernie gaining support for the views he expresses of his tame social democracy, while those as myself who hold views to the left, will be happy if Bernie takes the state elections tomorrow in New Hampshire and the many U. S. states to yet happen over the next four months. I have heard in a positive way the word socialism being spoken and millions in the U. S. starting to become more aware of - due to the Bernie Sanders for President Campaigns. Not the isolated ineffective sectarian leftists, that seem more jealous than supportive of this. Abstaining and sitting and complaining - a fine example of sectarian minded that use to be the Sparts and the Healyites - but when one stands still - and the world changes, one finds themselves isolated and irrelevant. The reformist Bernie Sanders of older age, is doing more each day to promote class awareness and why I am proudly supporting and volunteering for. I truly look forward to picketing U. S. president Sanders in the White House on many issues. But I am confidant that Bernie will take on the fossil fuel industry and decrease nuclear weapons. That is far more than the ineffective and isolated sectarians ever will. If I am wrong, only my time and hopes are wasted, but if I am correct, it seems the results would be worth that hope and chance. The sectarian left has nothing to offer - but their egos needing to be most perfectly aware. Those not "retired" from activism and trying to be effective, can join the many of us who determined there is no other game or choice to both raise needed awareness of the radicalizing young workers and an eventual mass party of and by working people for our needs while the isolated petit bourgeois academics condemn everything happening that they are not leading. Should the corporate dems reveal "even more clearly" to many working people their refusal to support even a mild social democrat. That they are loyal servant politicians to the greedy wealthy destryers of our environment and all life on it, this can well be a "BIG DEAl", and I am hoping will lead to a viable organized mass working class and political party that further events might lead to. Abstention changes nothing and will have no positive effect. When there is someone on the ballot who does represent (even if weakly) a socialist (social democrat) platform - then what is there really to lose in supporting? Keeping one's religious pure views of perfection, or getting involved with the working class that might have important segments in motion and open to more awareness and activism? I will only support Bernie for U. S. president and not any corporate dem. Why not work and support that? I've already noticed Sander's supporters going crazy on this. It's one poll folks. What is the big deal? It is so early in this party primary campaign season that nothing significant can really be derived from any of these polls so early on. The Quinnipiac poll has Sanders leading nationally. But no poll shows him with more than 27%. That means among Democratic Party votes, 73% vote, literally, for someone else. The polls in the last 30 days show Biden still winning the nomination. The NBC poll last week by "5pts". The Morning Consult poll from the week before has Biden winning by "4pts." It really is a muchado about nothing. DW _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at:
Re: [Marxism] 2020 - Sanders Takes Top Spot In Dem | Quinnipiac University Connecticut
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Asia]: Dunscomb on Harney, 'Empire of Infields: Baseball in Taiwan and Cultural Identity, 1895-1968'
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> Date: February 10, 2020 at 2:44:40 PM EST
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> Subject: H-Net Review [H-Asia]: Dunscomb on Harney, 'Empire of Infields:
> Baseball in Taiwan and Cultural Identity, 1895-1968'
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> John J. Harney. Empire of Infields: Baseball in Taiwan and Cultural
> Identity, 1895-1968. Lincoln Univeristy of Nebraska Press, 2019.
> 240 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8032-8682-5.
>
> Reviewed by Paul Dunscomb (University of Alaska Anchorage)
> Published on H-Asia (February, 2020)
> Commissioned by Bradley C. Davis
>
> What makes sports better than fiction is the quality of the stories.
> On the field, the court, the track, powerful narratives are
> constructed and played out, and even if the result is a loss or a tie
> the test of character can produce a satisfying result. Part of the
> appeal of sports stories is that on fields with established ground
> rules under universally applied regulations, they offer the
> opportunity to turn the tables. Asymmetries of power can be
> transcended and the oppressed can assert themselves against their
> oppressors.
>
> Sport also involves more than just the players, of course. Local
> teams enlist their fans in tribal fellowship, while in international
> competition athletes can become national avatars. So, India can
> defeat Britain on the cricket pitch, and Czechoslovakia's Martina
> Navratilova can crush her Soviet opponent on the tennis court while
> the Soviets crush the "Prague spring" in 1968 ("you'd need a tank to
> beat me!" she said as they met at the net). And even if the contest
> may seem to pit unequal parties, the possibility of the upset always
> remains, and even in defeat, striving for a seemingly impossible goal
> brings its own dignity ("Why go to the moon?" John F. Kennedy asked,
> "Why does Rice play Texas?").
>
> We love sports movies for much the same reason. Yet as John J.
> Harney, professor of history at Centre College, Kentucky, notes in
> the introduction of _Empire of Infields: Baseball and National
> Identity in Taiwan, 1895-1968_, the popular 2014 Taiwanese film
> _Kanō_, which describes the 1931 appearance of the team from the
> Jiayi Agricultural and Forestry Institute (Kanō in Japanese
> pronunciation), was beloved not because the plucky team portrayed won
> the 1931 Japanese high school baseball tournament (they lost the
> championship game) but because the team, a collection of indigenous,
> Chinese, and Japanese students, is recalled as a Taiwanese team,
> therefore positing a Taiwanese identity that is increasingly sought
> after by present-day residents of that island.
>
> This is the key to Harney's project, to unpack the significance of
> baseball as the "national sport" of a land that is denied national
> identity. Baseball came to Taiwan with the colonizing Japanese after
> it was incorporated into the empire in 1895. It remained after the
> Japanese were expelled and replaced by new "outside" overlords in the
> form of the defeated mainland remnants of Chiang Kai-shek's
> Nationalist Party (KMT). It survived more in spite of than because of
> the KMT's pretense to be the government of the Chinese mainland. It
> gained acceptance as an assertion of nationhood at a time when that
> proposition was coming increasingly under siege. So, Taiwan's
> relation to baseball, past and present, is a far more fraught one
> than the usual subaltern study of appropriation and mastery. While
> many on Taiwan love the game, what the game gives them, both at the
> time and retrospectively, is subject to constant renegotiation.
>
> Harney notes that baseball entered Taiwan not on the heels of Japan's
> imperial army but through the enthusiasm of white-collar office
> workers and educators in schools for the Japanese. This is what the
> Japanese today call _shakai yakyū_ or "social baseball." This takes
> the form not of extended league play resulting in a post-season
> championship but of periodic tournaments between amateur (or at most
> semiprofessional) players. This initial injection of baseball into
> the island was strictly for Japanese consumption. It did not have the
> opportunity to spread beyond this enclave until the 1922 decision to
> integrate the education system around a Japanese mandated curriculum.
>
> Even as this was happening Taiwan was made a solid portion of Japan's
> infield
[Marxism] Late capitalism — Quartz Daily Obsession — Quartz
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[Marxism] National (US) Poll - February 10, 2020 - Sanders Takes Top Spot In Dem | Quinnipiac University Connecticut
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[Marxism] Parasite movie review : Parasite: worth seeing if only for after-screen debate
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[Marxism] Syria: Don’t Let Idlib Die!
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[Marxism] Letters: Marx-Engels Correspondence 1865
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'm working on an article about Karl Marx and Project 1619 that will put this into context.) Engels to Marx, July 15, 1865 Mr Johnson’s policy is less and less to my liking, too. Nigger[1]-hatred is coming out more and more violently, and he is relinquishing all his power vis-à-vis the old lords in the South. If this should continue, all the old secessionist scoundrels will be in Congress in Washington in 6 months time. Without coloured suffrage nothing can be done, and Johnson is leaving it up to the defeated, the ex-slaveowners, to decide on that. It is absurd. Nevertheless, one must still reckon on things turning out differently from what these barons imagined. After all, the majority of them have been completely ruined and will be glad to sell land to immigrants and speculators from the North. The latter will arrive soon enough and make a good number of changes. I think the mean whites will gradually die out. Nothing more will become of this race; those who are left after 2 generations will merge with the immigrants to make a completely different race. The niggers will probably turn into small squatters as in Jamaica. Thus ultimately the oligarchy will go to pot after all, but the process could be accomplished immediately at one fell swoop, whereas it is now being drawn out. https://marxists.catbull.com/archive/marx/works/1865/letters/65_07_15.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
[Marxism] FANG Collective on Resisting State Repression
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[Marxism] America's Twofold Original Sin - The Atlantic
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[Marxism] How Bernie Sanders Became a Fighter for Palestine - Steve Salaita
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[Marxism] With Cameras Monitoring His Grave, Karl Marx Still Can’t Escape Surveillance
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, Feb. 10, 2020 With Cameras Monitoring His Grave, Karl Marx Still Can’t Escape Surveillance By Elian Peltier LONDON — Karl Marx may be resting in peace, but he now does so under 24/7 video surveillance. After his grave at Highgate Cemetery in North London was vandalized twice last year, the Marx Grave Trust, which owns the monument, decided to monitor it with video cameras installed in December on nearby trees, hoping to deter vandals from attacking a famous monument that has been desecrated several times over its decades-long existence. While some tombs of illustrious individuals are monitored — a webcam feed of Andy Warhol’s grave in Pennsylvania is available online — cameras remain rare in cemeteries, especially around specific graves. Marx’s is the first one to be monitored at Highgate, London’s most-visited burial ground, in a city where video surveillance is almost everywhere. But it seems as if Marx — who in the 19th century complained about being followed by Prussian spies when he lived in London, or by British informers who closely watched his door with “more than a doubtful look” — cannot escape monitoring. On a recent rainy afternoon, the few visitors who noticed the discrete closed-circuit cameras watching the grave viewed Marx’s fate with a mix of bitterness and sour humor. Paul Baynton, a 39-year-old Londoner who paid a visit to the site as part of his Sunday walk, said it was a shame that because of “ignorance and stupid acts,” the tomb had to be monitored constantly. Among the 170,000 people buried at Highgate in 53,000 graves, Marx is probably the most famous, and his tomb is a major attraction. “He’s the star here,” said Ian Dungavell, the head of Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust. Over 100,000 visitors walk through the eerie, gothic, 19th-century graveyard every year, and many of them come to see Marx’s grave, he said. Red candles, red marguerite daisies and antifascist stickers lay at the foot of the 12-foot-tall monument to Marx, the author of “The Communist Manifesto,” recently. A Lebanese 1,000-pound bank note, worth about 66 cents, was tucked into a crevice in the granite. In January 2019, the marble plaque that displayed the names of Marx and his family members was smashed up, and two weeks later, the words “Doctrine of HATE” and “Architect of Genocide,” among others, were daubed in red paint on the gravestone, and the plaque was damaged further. The Marx Grave Trust, which owns the monument, decided to install cameras after the vandalism, in agreement with the Friends of Highgate Cemetery and Historic England, a public body that works to preserve historical sites. “For some, Marx is a great source of inspiration, and for others he is responsible for all sorts of terrible things,” Mr. Dungavell said. “But he’s dead, he rests underneath, and it’s sad that some won’t respect those who are dead to the point of smashing their graves.” Although Marx is hailed as one of history’s most influential thinkers, his legacy is complicated, and many hold him responsible for brutality committed in the name of his ideas. Marx was born in Germany in 1818, but he spent most of his adult life in London after moving there in 1849. He did much of the research and writing for perhaps his most important work, “Capital,” at the British Museum, and he was intimately connected to British thinkers of his time, as he followed the evolution of the socialist movement. When Marx died in 1883, he was buried under a plain, flat slab on a small side path at Highgate, with only a dozen people attending his funeral. The grave was neglected for decades, increasingly hidden under overgrown weeds, until Marx’s remains were moved in 1954 to a more visible location in the cemetery, and the monument was added. He is buried there along with his wife, one of his daughters, two grandchildren and the family’s housekeeper. The massive granite gravestone, topped by a bronze bust of Marx, is a listed monument, a British designation for structures of special historical importance. Etched into the stone are two of the best-known lines from his writings: “Workers of all lands unite,” and “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point however is to change it.” Along the alleys of the cemetery’s eastern end, Marx’s is one of the last remarkable graves before visitors find themselves in a beguiling maze of smaller, crumbling tombs covered with weeds, or cracked by the roots of trees that have reclaimed some territory. Marx’s grave has long been a pilgrimage site, with representatives of
[Marxism] My NYFCO ballot for 2019 | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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[Marxism] Laurie Garrett: World Can’t Let Racist Attitudes Impact Handling of Coronavirus Outbreak | Democracy Now!
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[Marxism] The Dark Side of the Trump Economy: Dems Must Stand up for Workers facing Gig Economy, Forced Overtime, Denial of Unionization
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