Re: [Marxism] Request for Source assistance

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Whoops..!
Yes - Many thanks Michael. (I must proof-check more... and wake up!).
Thanks sincerely, Hari

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 3:00 PM Michael Meeropol  wrote:

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> Dear Friends & Member so of List:
>>
>> I have had a lot of trouble getting out two particular articles, and
>> I wonder if anyone has an easy access to them? Indeed, I would be very
>> grateful if possible - for these two. Thank you for considering. They are:
>>   1) Christopher Hill as being: "State and Revolution in
>> Tudor and Stuart England," in Communist Review, July 1948, p. 212
>>
>> 2) Rodney H. Hilton Mode Quarterly 1947; Vol 2 No 3 pp 267-8 in especial,
>> but I think his article must be longer than just those 2 pages I found the
>> reference for.
>>
>> Cheers Hari Kumar
>>
>
> That's MODERN QUARTERLY right Hari?
>
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Re: [Marxism] Request for Source assistance

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> Dear Friends & Member so of List:
>
> I have had a lot of trouble getting out two particular articles, and
> I wonder if anyone has an easy access to them? Indeed, I would be very
> grateful if possible - for these two. Thank you for considering. They are:
>   1) Christopher Hill as being: "State and Revolution in
> Tudor and Stuart England," in Communist Review, July 1948, p. 212
>
> 2) Rodney H. Hilton Mode Quarterly 1947; Vol 2 No 3 pp 267-8 in especial,
> but I think his article must be longer than just those 2 pages I found the
> reference for.
>
> Cheers Hari Kumar
>

That's MODERN QUARTERLY right Hari?
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[Marxism] Request for Source assistance

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Dear Friends & Member so of List:

I have had a lot of trouble getting out two particular articles, and
I wonder if anyone has an easy access to them? Indeed, I would be very
grateful if possible - for these two. Thank you for considering. They are:
  1) Christopher Hill as being: "State and Revolution in
Tudor and Stuart England," in Communist Review, July 1948, p. 212

2) Rodney H. Hilton Mode Quarterly 1947; Vol 2 No 3 pp 267-8 in especial,
but I think his article must be longer than just those 2 pages I found the
reference for.

Cheers Hari Kumar
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[Marxism] Playing for Change

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While you are stuck run your homes, may I suggest the music of Playing for 
Change.  No doubt there are reasonable criticisms that could be made of Playing 
for Change.  But it does have the merit of bringing income to struggling 
musicians.  And, the the case of Cuba, breaking the embargo in a very small way.
ken h

Chan-chan
https://portside.org/video/2020-04-17/chan-chan-playing-change 


Gauntanamera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blUSVALW_Z4 


La Bamba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5dkwQY-_tk 


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[Marxism] Trump Suggested ‘Injecting’ Disinfectant to Cure Coronavirus? We’re Not Surprised

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NY Times Op-Ed, April 26, 2020
Trump Suggested ‘Injecting’ Disinfectant to Cure Coronavirus? We’re Not 
Surprised

By Melissa Eaton, Anne Borden King, Emma Dalmayne and Amanda Seigler

(The authors are mothers of autistic children who have been working to 
prevent medical misinformation)


President Trump at the White House coronavirus briefing on Thursday.
President Trump at the White House coronavirus briefing on 
Thursday.Credit...Al Drago for The New York Times
At a news conference on Thursday, President Trump surprised nearly 
everyone when he suggested using powerful cleaning agents, through an 
injection, as a possible Covid-19 cure.


As advocates against pseudoscience, we weren’t surprised at all. While 
Mr. Trump now claims his comment about injecting disinfectants was “very 
satirical,” there has been speculation that he was influenced by the 
leader of a group peddling such cures, even as the Food and Drug 
Administration moved to block the group from distributing its product.


In the social media groups we monitor, President Trump’s words were 
taken as a beacon of hope. As one promoter wrote: “Mr. President Donald 
Trump I totally agree with you. Chlorine Dioxide is a very noble product 
that has been used for many years throughout the world to cure people.”


For the past five years, as concerned parents of autistic kids, we’ve 
been documenting, following and reporting the “bleach cures” movement. 
The Genesis II Church and Kerri Rivera, among others, have been selling 
products like chlorine dioxide, marketed as “Miracle Mineral Solution,” 
or M.M.S., stating that the substances will cure autism, acne, cancer, 
diabetes, Covid-19 and so much more. This is a crucial red flag for 
pseudoscience: When a product claims it can cure anything, it’s a fake.


It has taken a pandemic to expose this movement and the ways that 
pseudoscience scammers use social media and fear to sell their products. 
It’s crucial, now more than ever, to look at the consequences of 
misinformation and why we need a more responsible approach to content 
management from big tech companies such as Facebook and our regulating 
authorities.


We have been infiltrating pseudoscience groups on social media in order 
to report these companies to regulators, with mixed results. We’ve 
gotten a close look at the psychology that draws people toward such 
products — and in our view, it is akin to the psychology that drives 
some of the Trumpist worldview. It is a siege mentality, rooted in the 
ideology of the anti-vaccine movement, based on anecdotes, conspiracy 
theories and a fear-mongering distrust of so-called Big Government.


From monitoring these groups, we’ve watched as the marketing of the 
“biomedical cure” industry has become increasingly linked with a 
distrust of social institutions in general. Much of it is based around 
the autism-vaccine myth, first made popular by Andrew Wakefield and 
later perpetuated by Jenny McCarthy, Robert Kennedy Jr. and others.


President Trump himself has lent support to the autism-vaccine myth, 
tweeting in March 2014:


Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump
Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of 
many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases!


23.4K
8:35 AM - Mar 28, 2014

The belief that there is a link between vaccines and autism has been 
disproved by many studies, but some parents still decline to vaccinate 
their children. As a result of lower vaccination rates, communities 
around the world have experienced outbreaks of measles, mumps, rubella 
and other serious illnesses.


What do the “cures” being touted look like? Unfortunately, parents of 
autistic children have been advised by M.M.S. sellers to feed their 
children a protocol of 16 doses of bleach orally, in addition to a 
bleach enema to “cure” their condition. In the last five years, poison 
control centers have managed more than 16,000 chlorine dioxide cases, 
including a 6-year-old autistic girl hospitalized with liver failure.


Thousands of parents have been swayed into the dark world of autism 
“biomedicine” and their children have become 24-hour test subjects for 
dangerous protocols such as M.M.S., chelation and other products that 
have no evidence of benefit and clear evidence of harm. We think of the 
case of Abubakar Tariq Nadama, who died following a “chelation for 
autism” treatment.


One reason it is so difficult to combat M.M.S. is that it’s more than 
just a product: It’s a belief system. With Genesis II, for example, 
bleach products are made by an organization calling itself a “church” 
and touting its products as “sacraments.” We h

[Marxism] NY Times: Closed Hospitals Leave Rural Patients ‘Stranded’ as Coronavirus Spreads

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[I think NYTimes articles re COVID-19 are not behind a paywall.]

A for-profit company bought three struggling hospitals in West Virginia and
Ohio. Doctors were fired, supplies ran low and many in need of care had to
journey elsewhere. Then the doors shut for good.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/us/hospital-closures-west-virginia-ohio.html
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[Marxism] Reopening the Economy Will Send Us to Hell | Labor Notes

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By Mike Davis.

https://labornotes.org/2020/04/reopening-economy-will-send-us-hell

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[Marxism] Irish Times: Now the world pities the US

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Irish Times

April 25, 2020

By Fintan O’Toole

THE WORLD HAS LOVED, HATED AND ENVIED THE U.S. NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME. WE
PITY IT

Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide
range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope,
envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never
been directed towards the US until now: pity.

However bad things are for most other rich democracies, it is hard not to
feel sorry for Americans. Most of them did not vote for Donald Trump in
2016. Yet they are locked down with a malignant narcissist who, instead of
protecting his people from Covid-19, has amplified its lethality. The
country Trump promised to make great again has never in its history seemed
so pitiful.

Will American prestige ever recover from this shameful episode? The US went
into the coronavirus crisis with immense advantages: precious weeks of
warning about what was coming, the world’s best concentration of medical
and scientific expertise, effectively limitless financial resources, a
military complex with stunning logistical capacity and most of the world’s
leading technology corporations. Yet it managed to make itself the global
epicentre of the pandemic.

As the American writer George Packer puts it in the current edition of the
Atlantic, “The United States reacted ... like Pakistan or Belarus – like a
country with shoddy infrastructure and a dysfunctional government whose
leaders were too corrupt or stupid to head off mass suffering.”

It is one thing to be powerless in the face of a natural disaster, quite
another to watch vast power being squandered in real time – wilfully,
malevolently, vindictively. It is one thing for governments to fail (as, in
one degree or another, most governments did), quite another to watch a
ruler and his supporters actively spread a deadly virus. Trump, his party
and Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News became vectors of the pestilence.

The grotesque spectacle of the president openly inciting people (some of
them armed) to take to the streets to oppose the restrictions that save
lives is the manifestation of a political death wish. What are supposed to
be daily briefings on the crisis, demonstrative of national unity in the
face of a shared challenge, have been used by Trump merely to sow confusion
and division. They provide a recurring horror show in which all the
neuroses that haunt the American subconscious dance naked on live TV.

If the plague is a test, its ruling political nexus ensured that the US
would fail it at a terrible cost in human lives. In the process, the idea
of the US as the world’s leading nation – an idea that has shaped the past
century – has all but evaporated.

Other than the Trump impersonator Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, who is now
looking to the US as the exemplar of anything other than what not to do?
How many people in Düsseldorf or Dublin are wishing they lived in Detroit
or Dallas?

It is hard to remember now but, even in 2017, when Trump took office, the
conventional wisdom in the US was that the Republican Party and the broader
framework of US political institutions would prevent him from doing too
much damage. This was always a delusion, but the pandemic has exposed it in
the most savage ways.

Abject surrender

What used to be called mainstream conservatism has not absorbed Trump – he
has absorbed it. Almost the entire right-wing half of American politics has
surrendered abjectly to him. It has sacrificed on the altar of wanton
stupidity the most basic ideas of responsibility, care and even safety.

Thus, even at the very end of March, 15 Republican governors had failed to
order people to stay at home or to close non-essential businesses. In
Alabama, for example, it was not until April 3rd that governor Kay Ivey
finally issued a stay-at-home order.

In Florida, the state with the highest concentration of elderly people with
underlying conditions, governor Ron DeSantis, a Trump mini-me, kept the
beach resorts open to students travelling from all over the US for spring
break parties. Even on April 1st, when he issued restrictions, DeSantis
exempted religious services and “recreational activities”.

Georgia governor Brian Kemp, when he finally issued a stay-at-home order on
April 1st, explained: “We didn’t know that [the virus can be spread by
people without symptoms] until the last 24 hours.”

This is not mere ignorance – it is deliberate and homicidal stupidity.
There is, as the demonstrations this week in US cities have shown, plenty
of political mileage in denying the reality of the pandemic. It is fuelled
by Fox News and far-right internet sites, and it reaps for 

[Marxism] The Greek tragedy: Act Three | Michael Roberts Blog

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https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2020/04/25/the-greek-tragedy-act-three/

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