[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Disability]: Beveridge on Wall, 'The British Anti-Psychiatrists: From Institutional Psychiatry to the Counter-Culture, 1960-1971'
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. * Best regards, Andrew Stewart - - - Subscribe to the Washington Babylon newsletter via https://washingtonbabylon.com/newsletter/ Begin forwarded message: > From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW > Date: February 15, 2020 at 4:05:52 PM EST > To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > Cc: H-Net Staff > Subject: H-Net Review [H-Disability]: Beveridge on Wall, 'The British > Anti-Psychiatrists: From Institutional Psychiatry to the Counter-Culture, > 1960-1971' > Reply-To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > > Oisín Wall. The British Anti-Psychiatrists: From Institutional > Psychiatry to the Counter-Culture, 1960-1971. Routledge Studies in > Cultural History Series. New York Routledge, 2017. xiv + 212 pp. > $155.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-138-04856-0. > > Reviewed by Allan Beveridge (University of Edinburgh) > Published on H-Disability (February, 2020) > Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison > > Over the decades, the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s has > attracted a lot of attention. Its story has been recounted in > memoirs, biographies, and oral histories; has received scholarly > scrutiny; has been examined in newspaper articles and documentaries; > has been portrayed in films, novels, and plays; and has been the > subject of a great deal of mythologizing. Its legacy has been > fiercely contested. For some, it represents a period when orthodox > psychiatry was finally exposed as an authoritarian and repressive > tool of the state: further, by confronting mainstream psychiatry, the > anti-psychiatrists, in this view, were also revealing the hypocrisies > and iniquities of Western society. For others, the anti-psychiatrist > movement was a short-lived and ineffectual protest, and very much of > its time. Its advocates espoused a highly romanticized view of > madness, which, from this opposing viewpoint, left the mentally ill > untreated, a stance both morally and clinically indefensible. In > recent years, scholars have sought to provide a more balanced picture > that takes account of both the idealism of the movement and its > shortcomings. The era, however, is still a difficult one to portray: > does one focus on key individuals or on wider social trends? Does one > concentrate on particular geographical locations or does one > encompass the main global theaters where anti-psychiatry was enacted: > the United States, the Netherlands, Italy, and the United Kingdom? > Does the anti-psychiatric movement represent a radical rupture in the > approach to the mentally ill, or are there continuities with the > past? And, indeed, what does the term "anti-psychiatry" mean, and did > all the leading players associated with the movement accept the > label? > > Into this field comes Oisín Wall whose new book is based on his PhD > thesis. He chooses to focus on a particular geographical location, > the United Kingdom, or more specifically, London, and on a particular > period, 1960 to 1971. He also chooses to take in wider social and > cultural developments, rather than just focusing exclusively on > individual practitioners, although he does spend time examining the > careers of R. D. Laing and David Cooper in particular. > > Wall begins his book by examining the state of psychiatry before the > advent of anti-psychiatry in the 1960s. He points out, as Nick > Crossley, Catherine Fussinger, Mathew Thomson, and others have before > him, that many of the so-called radical ideas of the > anti-psychiatrists had their roots in the mainstream psychiatry of > the mid-twentieth century, most notably the notion of the > "therapeutic community."[1] He looks at the therapeutic community > projects at Mill Hill in London run by Maxwell Jones and Northfield > Hospital in Birmingham run by psychoanalysts, including Wilfred Bion > and Sigmund Foulkes. These ventures introduced a degree of democratic > decision-making, looser staff-patient distinctions, educational > programs, and a focus on the interactions of the group as a way of > forging a therapeutic community. Wall observes that these same > practices became guiding principles in the anti-psychiatric > communities. > > Wall then considers Cooper's attempt to run a therapeutic community > at Villa 21 at Shenley Hospital in Hertfordshire. Cooper went further > than the earlier proponents of the therapeutic community: in Villa > 21, the staff did not wear uniforms and they ate from the same plates > as the patients. Wall has been resourceful, and indeed fortunate, in > tracing two former residents of Villa 21 whom he calls "Adam" and > "Ben." Their testimony helps to bring alive the day-to-day reality of > Villa 21.
Re: [Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Trump, Barr and Julius Caesar
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. * > On Feb 14, 2020, at 10:18 PM, John Reimann <1999wild...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As far as organize to do what: I've spelled that out many times in many of > the articles of Oaklandsocialist. I don't think it's necessary to do so every > single time. There’s a lot of stuff on the Oaklandsocialist website that doesn’t seem to address this question, so maybe you could suggest some specific links — ideally where you explain how you propose to pay for the things that you're calling on people to do, or at least that you think they will call upon themselves to do under the conditions you envisage. Will those payments be made in US dollars? If you think these are not very good questions, please propose better ones. _ 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] Four narrative films of note | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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. * After wasting my time watching a bunch of crappy Hollywood movies to fulfil my obligation as a NYFCO member expected to judge front-runners like “Joker” or “1917” for our awards meeting in early December, I am finally returning to my kinds of films. These are generally featured in art houses like the Film Forum in New York and the Laemmle in Los Angeles. The four under review here are worth seeing if you spot them playing in your home town. There’s a good shot that they will eventually end up on Amazon, the only real contribution Jeff Bezos has made to humanity. full: https://louisproyect.org/2020/02/15/four-narrative-films-of-note/ _ 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
Re: [Marxism] [pen-l] Marx, Lincoln and Project 1619 | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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Re: [Marxism] [pen-l] Marx, Lincoln and Project 1619 | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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. * On 2/15/20 3:29 PM, Joseph Green via Marxism wrote: Sorge and Marx aside, there are some serious issues concerning Woodhull's party. According to Wikipedia, "In 1872, Douglass became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States, as Victoria Woodhull's running mate on the Equal Rights Party ticket. He was nominated without his knowledge. Douglass neither campaigned for the ticket nor acknowledged that he had been nominated." There's hardly any mention of Douglass in Messer-Kruse's book except that he was nominated. I ordered a copy of Barbara Goldsmith's highly regarded bio of Woodhull and will report back on what it says. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if what Wiki said is true. _ 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
Re: [Marxism] [pen-l] Marx, Lincoln and Project 1619 | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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. * On 14 Feb 2020 at 14:24, Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist wrote: >It did not seem to matter to Sorge or Marx that Woodhull´s running-mate was >none other than Frederick Douglass. His willingness to join her had a lot to do with the respect that her section in N.Y. had earned. > Sorge and Marx aside, there are some serious issues concerning Woodhull's party. According to Wikipedia, "In 1872, Douglass became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States, as Victoria Woodhull's running mate on the Equal Rights Party ticket. He was nominated without his knowledge. Douglass neither campaigned for the ticket nor acknowledged that he had been nominated." It also says that, however, "he would serve as a presidential elector in the United States Electoral College for the State of New York". I suspect Wikipedia is right about this, because if Frederick Douglass had campaigned against the Republican Party in 1872, there would probably be a number of notable speeches by him on this subject, including answers to the objections of a number of other African American leaders of the time. And there's a serious issue about whether it shows respect for a movement to claim one of the most prominent activists of that movement as one of one's leaders without that activist's permission. And it's not as if he had been unavailable for consultation. Meanwhile the party may have had as many names, if not more, than years of active existence. I don't think it ever ran another presidential ticket. And Wikipedia claims it was called such things as the Equal Rights Party, the People's Party (but it was *not* the famous later People's Party), the Cosmo-Political Party, and the National Radical Reformers. But maybe someone can fill us in as to what happened during its 1872 campaign. _ 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] BlackRock Becomes a Symbol for Anticapitalist Fervor in France
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. 15, 2020 BlackRock Becomes a Symbol for Anticapitalist Fervor in France By Liz Alderman PARIS — The video shows footprints in blood-red paint tracked by militant protesters across BlackRock’s French headquarters. Documents litter the floors. On the walls, black spray-painted graffiti denounces the company as “criminal.” Just a few months ago, BlackRock, the U.S. money-management giant, was barely known to the general public in France. But as President Emmanuel Macron presses ahead with a controversial campaign to overhaul the French economy, the company has become a favorite target for growing anticapitalist sentiment. Protesters claim BlackRock has tried to influence — and stands to profit from — Mr. Macron’s overhaul of the nation’s pension system. They point to cordial meetings between Mr. Macron and Laurence D. Fink, the founder and chief executive of BlackRock. And they fear the huge Wall Street firm — its $7 trillion under management is more than twice France’s economic output — is working behind the scenes to pick apart the country’s system of social protections. The protests escalated with the action on Monday morning, when environmental activists who allege French workers’ pensions could be directed by BlackRock stormed the company’s offices. Last month, trade unions and members of the Yellow Vest movement led a raucous crowd to the historic Le Centorial building, where BlackRock has its offices, lighting flares and denouncing what they said was an effort to impose American-style free-market rules on France. There is no evidence that BlackRock influenced Mr. Macron to push retirement savings to it or any other financial giant, although financial firms could get some business from part of the pension overhaul that encourages high earners to invest in stocks. And BlackRock strenuously denies the claims. “We deplore the fact that our company continues to be caught up in an unfounded controversy driven by political objectives,” it said in a statement. “We reiterate that BlackRock has never been involved in the current pension reform project and does not intend to be.” Yet BlackRock’s role as an adviser to governments and central banks and as a major shareholder in some of the world’s biggest companies has quickly made it a symbol in a country that has long been deeply skeptical of capitalism and the stock market. The social climate here has grown more tense after recent nationwide strikes to protest the pension overhaul. BlackRock has tried to portray itself as an industry leader in responsible investing. The protesters on Monday cited BlackRock investments in the French oil giant Total and the construction company Vinci as running counter to that. In an influential annual letter to leaders of the world’s largest companies, Mr. Fink said last month that his firm would make investment decisions with environmental sustainability as a core goal. On Wednesday, BlackRock said one of its fast-growing green-oriented funds would stop investing in companies that got revenue from the Alberta oil sands. Such actions have done little to placate the company’s growing cadre of critics in France, where it manages 27 billion euros in assets for local clients and invests over €185 billion, or $200 billion, in French equities and corporate and government bonds. Parliament will start debating next week the bill that aims to overhaul the nation’s convoluted pension system. Although the system has been criticized for being too generous, the incidence of poverty among older people in France is one of the lowest in the world — and far lower than in the United States. The measure seems likely to pass because Mr. Macron’s party commands an absolute majority, despite attempts by opponents to obstruct the bill with more than 22,000 amendments. It is expected to move to the Senate in April. In the meantime, more demonstrations have been called, including new strikes and protests on Thursday. BlackRock is likely to remain a ripe target for frustration. The controversy broke open in December when Mr. Macron unveiled details of his proposal to standardize France’s 42 public and private pension schemes into one state-managed plan. Critics had already accused the president, a former investment banker, of favoring the rich with an earlier measure to reduce taxes on high earners, a step that resonated in a country where wealth is increasingly associated with injustice. Opponents seized on a public BlackRock analyst note describing pension investment options in France — a sign, they said, that Wall Street’s biggest
[Marxism] Lessons of the French General Strike
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[Marxism] He Observed a Protest. Now He Faces a Possible Life Sentence.
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. 15, 2020 He Observed a Protest. Now He Faces a Possible Life Sentence. By Carlotta Gall ISTANBUL — When the police banged on his door and took him away for questioning one dawn in November 2018, Yigit Aksakoglu assumed he would be home in time to catch his afternoon swim. But after a 10-hour interrogation, he was hauled off to court and thrown into jail in solitary confinement for seven months on a charge that is among Turkey’s most heinous crimes, violently attempting to overthrow the government. The Turkish representative for a Dutch charitable foundation specializing in programs for the social development of young children, Mr. Aksakoglu, 43, never expected to run into trouble with the law. Even when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey began mass arrests after a failed coup in 2016, sweeping up many innocent academics, journalists and human rights activists, he never thought he would be caught up in it, too. “I was picked accidentally,” Mr. Aksakoglu said in an interview at his office in central Istanbul. “And now they are unable to unpick me.” A verdict in his trial is expected on Tuesday and he, along with 15 co-defendants, faces a possible sentence of life without parole. “Just like a lottery I will probably spend a long time in prison,” he said. The prosecutor has called for the harsh sentence despite Mr. Aksakoglu’s insistence that the charges are baseless and the evidence flimsy. Fears are mounting that under Mr. Erdogan’s increasingly autocratic rule, he and his co-defendants will be punished in order to send a chill through Turkey‘s dwindling community of independent organizations and activists. “The 18th of February will be the funeral of civil society in Turkey,” Mr. Aksakoglu said. “No one will be willing to raise even a tiny voice.” The case stems from the Taksim Square protests of 2013, when students, artists and environmentalists opposed the construction of a shopping mall in one of Istanbul’s central parks. The trial is being watched closely by Western diplomats who want to see an improvement in Mr. Erdogan’s record on human rights and the rule of law. One of Mr. Aksakoglu’s co-defendants is Osman Kavala, a well known philanthropist — often called Turkey’s George Soros — who has been in jail for over two years. Another is the architect Mucella Yapici who has long been a vocal opponent of much of Mr. Erdogan’s extensive urban development in Istanbul. All are accused of trying to overthrow the government by supporting the protests. But Mr. Aksakoglu’s fate is indicative of just how twisted Turkey’s justice system has become: Someone who pulled himself up thanks to a state education is seeing his career crushed by his own government. He was born in a small village, Aydin, in western Turkey, and together with his sister was raised single-handedly by his mother, a pharmacist in a state hospital, after his father died in a car accident when he was 11. He gained a scholarship to the French-Turkish high school in the city of Izmir and another to study civil engineering at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul. It was there that he became involved in activities for European integration, youth participation and good governance under a program sponsored by the European Union. He went on to earn a master’s degree — on a British scholarship — at the London School of Economics and a second master’s at the University of Barcelona in advocacy and nongovernmental organizations. Back in Turkey he began to work at Bilgi University, lecturing and publishing books on advocacy, management training and how to influence policy. It was the early 2000s, a time when Mr. Erdogan was riding high in Western opinion. He was energetically pursuing Turkey’s accession to the European Union and his government was making substantial institutional and human rights reforms to meet European standards. But after a decade at the helm of government, Mr. Erdogan’s early zeal for reform waned as corruption and cronyism grew. When protesters gathered to block the construction project in Taksim Square park, Mr. Erdogan saw it as a direct challenge to his rule and crushed the protests with riot police and tear gas. Mr. Aksakoglu lived nearby and said he watched the protests with the keenness of an academic watching a real-life experiment. “I studied social movements,” he said. “This was the first time I saw a social movement so of course I was there, as a peaceful observer.” By then he was working for a Dutch organization, the Bernard van Leer Foundation, which was designing programs to improve child development
[Marxism] There Have Been 10 Black Senators Since Emancipation, Elected 150 years ago, Hiram Revels was the first.
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 Op-Ed, Feb. 15, 2020 There Have Been 10 Black Senators Since Emancipation Elected 150 years ago, Hiram Revels was the first. By Eric Foner (Mr. Foner is the author of “The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.”) A few days ago, 300 people gathered in the Old State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the election of Hiram Revels as the nation’s first African-American member of Congress. As nearly everyone knows, in the nation’s more than two centuries of existence Barack Obama is our only black president. Less familiar is the fact that of the nearly 2,000 men and women who have served in the Senate only 10 have been black. Of these, Revels and Blanche K. Bruce were elected from Mississippi during Reconstruction. These numbers offer a stark reminder of the almost insurmountable barriers that have kept African-Americans from the highest offices in government and of how remarkable a moment Reconstruction was in the history of American democracy. Before the Civil War only a handful of black officials existed anywhere in the country — just a few justices of the peace in Northern abolitionist communities. But during Reconstruction some 2,000 African-Americans occupied positions ranging from members of Congress to state legislators, sheriffs, city councilmen and others. This unprecedented experiment in biracial democracy aroused intense opposition from adherents of white supremacy, at that time concentrated in the Democratic Party, who sought to undermine Reconstruction through outright violence and a campaign of vilification that portrayed black officials as ignorant, corrupt and unfit for public service. The New York World, the nation’s leading Democratic newspaper, described Revels as “a lineal descendant of an orangutan.” This partisan propaganda was long accorded scholarly legitimacy by American historians. As late as 1947, E. Merton Coulter of the University of Georgia, a former president of the Southern Historical Association, described black officeholding during Reconstruction as “the most spectacular and exotic development in government in the history of white civilization,” which was “the longest to be remembered, shuddered at, and execrated.” Hiram Revels is worth remembering as both a pioneer of black political power and a refutation of racist stereotypes. Born free in Fayetteville, N.C., in 1827, he studied at religious seminaries in Indiana and Ohio and at Knox College in Illinois. Ordained as a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1845, he traveled the Midwest as an itinerant missionary and courageously ventured into the upper South to bring religious instruction to slaves. When the Civil War broke out, Revels was working in Baltimore as an A.M.E. minister and the principal of a high school for black students. He came to Union-occupied Mississippi in 1864 and threw himself into educating the former slaves. Revels’s political career began in 1868, when Union general Adelbert Ames, the state’s provisional governor, appointed him as an alderman in Natchez. He was soon elected to the State Senate. Mississippi’s lawmakers, who included almost three dozen African-Americans, chose Ames for one vacant United States Senate term and Revels for the year that remained of another. In an anticipation of recent efforts to deny the citizenship of Mr. Obama, the Senate’s small contingent of Democrats challenged Revels’s right to take his seat. The Constitution requires a senator to have been a citizen for at least nine years. But black citizenship, Democrats insisted, had only been established by the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868. Some even claimed that the prewar Dred Scott decision, which limited citizenship to whites, remained the law of the land. But by a vote of 48 to 8 the Senate chose to seat Revels. During his year in office, Revels later wrote, “I did all I could for the benefit of my needy and much imposed-upon people.” He spoke vigorously for the reinstatement of black legislators who had been illegally expelled from Georgia’s General Assembly. He persuaded Secretary of War William W. Belknap to arrange for black mechanics to be hired for the first time at the Baltimore Navy Yard. When a bill to establish a free public education system in the nation’s capital came before the Senate, Revels strenuously opposed an amendment to allow racial segregation in school admissions. But the amendment passed, and the District of Columbia’s school system was not integrated until the mid-1950s.
[Marxism] Mike Bloomberg for years has battled women’s allegations of profane, sexist comments
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. * (My own encounter with Bloomberg: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/06/michael-bloomberg-and-me/) The Washington Post, Feb. 15, 2020 Mike Bloomberg for years has battled women’s allegations of profane, sexist comments By Michael Kranish NEW YORK — As Mike Bloomberg celebrated his 48th birthday in 1990, a top aide at the company he founded presented him with a booklet of profane, sexist quotes she attributed to him. A good salesperson is like a man who tries to pick up women at a bar by saying, “Do you want to f---? He gets turned down a lot — but he gets f- a lot, too!” Bloomberg was quoted in the booklet as saying. Bloomberg also allegedly said that his company’s financial information computers “will do everything, including give you [oral sex]. I guess that puts a lot of you girls out of business.” At the time, some Bloomberg staffers said, they laughed off the comments in the 32-page booklet, “The Wit and Wisdom of Michael Bloomberg,” as a macho side of one of the nerdiest men on Wall Street. But others viewed them more darkly, seeing them as blunt examples of what they considered to be a hostile environment, artifacts of a workplace employees said was saturated with degrading comments. Several lawsuits have been filed over the years alleging that women were discriminated against at Bloomberg’s business-information company, including a case brought by a federal agency and one filed by a former employee, who blamed Bloomberg for creating a culture of sexual harassment and degradation. The most high-profile case was from a former saleswoman. She sued Bloomberg personally as well as his company, alleging workplace discrimination. She alleged Bloomberg told her to “kill it” when he learned she was pregnant. Bloomberg has denied her allegation under oath, and he reached a confidential settlement with the saleswoman. The Washington Post interviewed a former Bloomberg employee, David Zielenziger, who said he witnessed the conversation with the saleswoman. Zielenziger, who said he had not previously spoken publicly about the matter, said Bloomberg’s behavior toward the woman was “outrageous. I understood why she took offense.” Garrison complaint: 89. On April 11, 1995 at approximately 11:20 a.m., Bloomberg was having a photograph taken with two female Company salespeople and a group of N.Y.U. Business School students, in the company snack area. When Bloomberg noticed Garrison standing nearby, he asked, “Why didn’t they ask you to be in the picture? I guess they saw your face.” Continuing his penchant for ridiculing recently married women in his employ, Bloomberg asked plaintiff, “How’s married life? You married?” Plaintiff responded that her marriage was great and was going to get better in a few months: that she was pregnant, and the baby was due the following September. He responded to her “Kill it!” Plaintiff asked Bloomberg to repeat himself, and again he said, “Kill it!” and muttered, “Great! Number 16!” suggesting to plaintiff his unhappiness that sixteen women in the Company had maternity-related status. Then he walked away. While allegations about Bloomberg’s comments and treatment of women have received notice over the years, a review by The Post of thousands of pages of court documents, depositions obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and interviews with witnesses underscores how Bloomberg and his company, Bloomberg LP, have fought the claims. A number of the cases have either been settled, dismissed in Bloomberg’s favor or closed because of a failure of the plaintiff to meet filing deadlines. The cases do not involve accusations of inappropriate sexual conduct; the allegations have centered around what Bloomberg has said and about the workplace culture he fostered. Now, as Bloomberg is increasingly viewed as a viable Democratic candidate for president and the #MeToo era has raised the profile of workplace harassment, he is finding that his efforts to prevent disclosure are clashing against demands that he release former employees and complainants from their nondisclosure agreements. The allegations that he tolerated a hostile office culture could undercut his ability to criticize President Trump’s alleged sexual misconduct and efforts to keep such claims private. Other Democratic candidates have dealt with related issues. Sen. Bernie Sanders last year apologized to female staff members of his 2016 campaign who said they were sexually harassed by co-workers, saying it was “unacceptable behavior.” Former vice president Joe Biden, facing allegations that he had touched or kissed women
[Marxism] In interview, Klobuchar, Steyer can't name Mexican president
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[Marxism] Rob Lucas, The Surveillance Business, NLR 121, January–February 2020
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[Marxism] Susan Watkins, Britain’s Decade of Crisis, NLR 121, January–February 2020
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. * The world dominance of the City of London served to divert investment away from the northern industrial regions: higher returns were to be found overseas. The upshot was the asymmetry of class and region described in Hobson’s Imperialism: a nation polarized into a smaller, industrialized north and a larger, consumption-oriented south, living off the proceeds of empire, whose ‘well-to-do classes mould the external character of the civilization and determine the habits, feelings and opinions of the people’, while labour is ‘closely and even consciously directed by the will and the demands of the moneyed class’.footnote3 The Labour Party, Nairn argued, accommodated itself to the hegemony of the metropolitan heartlands, seeking only a compromise formula of better wages and welfare provision, under a continuing ‘outward-looking over-balance’ of uk capitalism that deprived small manufacturing firms—the German Mittelstand—of adequate investment and technical support. full: https://newleftreview.org/issues/II121/articles/susan-watkins-britain-s-decade-of-crisis _ 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] China's Economy Is Powerful, But Deeply Vulnerable - FPIF
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[Marxism] Federal Judge Lashes White House 'Banana Republic' Influence In Andrew McCabe Case | HuffPost
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[Marxism] Dogfight among Social-Imperialists (Japanese vs. Chinese Communist Party)
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. * Dogfight among Social-Imperialists A telling attack on the Chinese regime by the Japanese Communist Party by Michael Pröbsting, 14 February 2020 https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/asia/dogfight-among-social-imperialists-japanese-vs-chinese-communist-party/ -- Revolutionär-Kommunistische Organisation BEFREIUNG (Österreichische Sektion der RCIT, www.thecommunists.net) www.rkob.net ak...@rkob.net Tel./SMS/WhatsApp/Telegram: +43-650-4068314 _ 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
