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Subject: H-Net Review [H-Africa]: Hoppe on Webel, 'The Politics of Disease
Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890-1920'
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Mari K. Webel.  The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in
Eastern Africa, 1890-1920.  Athens  Ohio University Press, 2019.  272
pp.  $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8214-2399-8.

Reviewed by Kirk A. Hoppe (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Published on H-Africa (June, 2020)
Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut

Reading Mari Webel's history of sleeping sickness control in German
colonial East Africa in a time of global pandemic feels disturbingly
relevant. _The Politics of Disease Control_ is part of a larger body
of work that has emerged over the last two decades seeking to center
local people in our analysis of the impact and meanings of disease
and disease control. This author's objective is to locate African
responses to the East African epidemic in the context of local
peoples' histories with previous sicknesses, their broader and
ongoing biomedical experiences, and local and regional African
economic, political and environmental contexts of disease and disease
control. In the early twentieth century, this came to include limited
German colonial biomedical interventions. The meanings, shapes, and
impacts of German sleeping sickness research, treatment, and control
in particular African Great Lakes sites, beginning in 1906, were
delimited by these African historical contexts.

The monograph is divided into three case studies, each of an
interesting, relatively remote, location in East Africa. The first
primary case study is the Ssese Island group in northwestern Lake
Victoria in the political orbit of the Buganda empire. These islands
became part of British Uganda in 1900, but the renowned German
epidemiologist Robert Koch worked there from 1906 to 1907. The second
case study focuses on the Kiziba coast of western Lake Victoria, in
what became German East Africa just south of its border with Uganda.
The third and shorter case study is of what the author calls the
Southern Imbo--the northeastern coast of Lake Tanganyika in what is
now Burundi. This is not a comparative study. Webel uses each
location to explore different historical articulations of her central
theoretical argument.

Robert Koch's Bugalla camp in the Ssese Islands initially witnessed a
rush of (hundreds of) African people from the northern lake region
voluntarily seeking treatment. Webel argues that the short-lived
success of the camp was a result of German medical practices as they
dovetailed with extant local understandings of disease and treatment
in this particular site. The Ssese Islands were a precolonial
spiritual and religious center for healing. People already went to
these precolonial islands for therapeutic reasons. Furthermore, local
people's experiences with and understandings of disease treatments,
most recently probably for nineteenth-century combinations of plague,
cholera, and smallpox, meant they recognized German puncture
practices, oral medicines, and regular temperature taking as
legitimate treatment types. These actions fit within local
therapeutic experiential worldviews. Patients tolerated Koch's more
experimental, and toxic, regimes of atoxyl injections, but not
without reservations. At Bugalla camp, Koch and German medical staff
unknowingly happened upon overlapping fortuitous circumstances. And
as a last added advantage, the medical hospital was located near a
White Father's mission that had been offering sick people food and
shelter for years before Koch's arrival.

Likewise, local people willingly sought treatment at the medical camp
at Kigarama in the Kiziba Kingdom based on a combination of
political, economic, and spiritual opportunities that the location
presented to sick people and their families. Royal authority supplied
the Germans with clearing and building labor, with medical
auxiliaries, and with patients. But Mukama (a term somewhat similar
to "king") Mutahangarwa supported the camp, "on terms he could claim
to set and on grounds he defined" (p. 145). Again, local people
accepted German examinations, treatments, and labor demands within
their own biomedical, political, and cultural parameters. They
rejected German requests for bodies to autopsy during a plague
outbreak in 1897, for example, as this was outside the bounds of
local practices and understandings of death and burial. Once again,
Webel makes the point here that German staff did not understand
issues of political power, land, resource use, and labor swirling

[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Glasgow Anti-Racists defiant against Far-Right attacks

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The previous Wednesday a group of supporters of refugee rights had gathered in 
the square to protest about the impact of the lockdown on the denial of rights 
of refugees and asylum seekers living in the city.  This peaceful demonstration 
was attacked by supporters of a far right group, the “National Defence League” 
ostensibly on the grounds that they were “defending statues” in the Square 
following huge protests across Britain, including a massive rally on nearby 
Glasgow Green of over 5,000 people in support of the Black Lives Matter 
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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/29/gree-m29.html

Strange assed nonsense 

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First of all, in reply to Andrew Stewart: I challenged the idea that the
South was under a fascist regime in any period of US history. In doing so,
I did not refer to the Populist Party. I referred to the union organizing
drives in the South, including public meetings. No such meetings would have
been possible under a fascist regime.

Secondly, there seems to be a failure to distinguish fascist from
bonapartism. Mexico, for example, was under a bonapartist dictatorship for
the 70 years of the PRI rule. It was similar under Batista in Cuba. I think
there are some fundamental differences between the situation in those
countries and fascism.

I have repeatedly written about Trump's drive towards one-man authoritarian
rule. By that I mean bonapartism. If Trump manages to suppress the vote and
use other means to get a second term, I think he'll go a lot further down
that road. We couldn't even discount the possibility of his becoming an
outright bonapartist ruler - or possibly his son would upon succeeding him.
But I don't think actual fascism is really in the cards. Under fascism, the
ruler needs to have his or her own mass private army of thugs, such as
Hitler's SS. While the militias aspire to such a role, they aren't even
close, nor do I think it's likely that they will get close. Under fascism,
the working class organizations - the unions in this country - aren't
merely put under state control, they are smashed entirely and the working
class is completely atomised. I don't think that is at all likely, even if
Trump succeeds himself.

John Reimann

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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Environment]: Klee on Salinas, 'Managed Migrations: Growers, Farmworkers, and Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century'

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Subject: H-Net Review [H-Environment]: Klee on Salinas, 'Managed
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Cristina Salinas.  Managed Migrations: Growers, Farmworkers, and
Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century.  Historia USA Series.
Austin  University of Texas Press, 2018.  xii + 272 pp.  $45.00
(cloth), ISBN 978-1-4773-1614-6.

Reviewed by Samuel Klee (Saint Louis University)
Published on H-Environment (June, 2020)
Commissioned by Daniella McCahey

Cristina Salinas's Managed Migrations: Growers, Farmworkers, and
Border Enforcement in the Twentieth Century is a splendid analysis of
farmworker mobility in the US-Mexico borderlands, focused largely on
Texas during the decades between 1920 and 1960. Salinas combines
booster literature, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and
Border Patrol records, diplomatic documents, and oral histories to
tell a lively narrative of movement and restriction. As lucid,
interdisciplinary work, Managed Migrations should be prized by
scholars of migrations, environments, and the carceral state.

Environmental historians will read three familiar threads through
Salinas's work. First, by showing that agriculture directed the
timing of labor migrations and growers' demands for laborers with
cyclical planting and off seasons, this book consistently features
nature as a character with agency. Sociopolitical relationships
between planters and growers only make sense through their mutual
ties to soil and plant timetables, and so Salinas echoes
environmental historians' call "to listen to people listening to
nature."[1] Second, Salinas engages environmental historians' concern
for textually and visually represented nature by foregrounding
depictions of landscapes and laborers in booster literature, grower
memoirs, and legal proceedings. Growers and borderland authorities
animalized Mexican migrants, controlled their movements, and
dominated their bodies through nature discourses and imagery. Third,
Salinas's attention to the multivalence of material structures
facilitates her argument that farmworkers reoriented infrastructure,
created for their suppression, to support their own financial and
community goals. Farmers used deliberately poor housing to remove
migrants at the ends of seasons, but migrants repurposed these
buildings, as well as American transportation infrastructure, to
achieve their own vision of mobility. _Managed Migrations_ thus
masterfully centers nature within the vast "web of labor controls"
encircling twentieth-century Mexican migrants (David Montejano,
quoted on p. 119).

Salinas's book is divided into six chapters, with an introduction and
epilogue. After outlining her argument and intervention in the
introduction, chapter 1 analyzes boosterism in the US-Mexico
borderlands. This chapter thrives on portrayals of nature. Salinas
demonstrates that, in the 1920s, land boosters positioned laborers as
part of the nature of the place, whose bodies and movements could be
purchased, manipulated, and cultivated with the landscape. Salinas's
vivid description of prospective land buyers' curated train journeys
is most fascinating. There, boosters manipulated passengers'
socio-material experience both in transit and on-site in the
borderlands, representing nonwhite bodies as commodities specific to
the borderlands in order to achieve buy-in. Ultimately, Salinas
argues that this discursive act about landscapes helped push plants
past livestock as the border region's primary export.

Chapter 2 moves from portrayals created for outsiders to
interpersonal borderland relationships between growers and laborers.
Here, Salinas demonstrates that growers and farmworkers used paternal
kinship language to negotiate mobility; both parties claimed growers'
protective and providential roles to achieve their respective
expectations and goals. Key for environmental historians, however,
Salinas foregrounds the built environment and its role in managing
worker mobility. Barracks, tents, and the lack thereof reflected and
enforced growers' relationship with farmworkers; growers sustained
their workers in season and pushed workers to leave afterward by only
providing farmworkers with bare structural necessities.

Chapter 3 then integrates the role of law, the Border Patrol, and the
INS into farmworker mobility. This chapter covers familiar ground in
immigration historiography--landmark federal acts like those of 1917
and 1924 receive treatment akin to Torrie Hester's _Deportation: The
Origins of US

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I'll say from the outset that admittedly this conversation can rather
quickly devolve into a kind of 'gotcha' game of Leftist posturing and
holier-than-thou virtue signalling (or at least that is how it leads me to
behave sometimes). So even if we disagree here I don't intend this to be
some kind of oppositional or insulting project. Healthy debate is certainly
merited here.

I'll state my case plainly:

a-There's been a few really great monographs in the past decade about the
connection between Nazism and America. Basically the scholarship now shows
that Nazi legal theorists studied in America and did a lot of deep reading
of the so-called Indian Laws (particularly the one-drop rule) as well as
Jim Crow. They took that scholarship back to the German drawing boards as
they drafted the Nuremberg race laws (cf. James Whitman, HITLER'S AMERICAN
MODEL). Gerald Horne has been likewise writing a subtle polemic in his
recent books about colonial American history about how all historiography,
including radicals and progressives like Zinn and Foner, just dropped the
ball ingloriously by placing so much positive emphasis on the "bourgeois
democratic revolutions" of the 17th-20th centuries. In one interview he
flat-out said to me the following <
https://washingtonbabylon.com/six-questions-dr-gerald-horne-p1/>:

"I think it is well past time for progressive people, particularly those
who consider themselves to be radical, to take a critical eye to the tragic
events that unfolded when the European invasion commenced post-1492 and the
genocide that befell the indigenous population and the mass enslavement
that ensnared the Africans. I think that failure to look more critically at
that process and seeking to rationalize it, saying ‘Well, at the end of the
day, post-1776 this republic emerged which was a great leap forward for
humanity’, in some ways serves to rationalize and justify genocide and
mass-enslavement... it seems to me that you can call these events a
‘bourgeois democratic revolution’ as long as you have a major caveat, which
is that, if this was a ‘bourgeois democratic revolution’, let’s not have
any more! Let that be the last one! If you are going to use that term then
critique that term. And I would say that is particularly true in the United
States, which is the seed bed of critiques of revolutions that have
happened worldwide since 1776. There’s an entire industry with people
making good livings criticizing every revolution since 1776, sometimes in a
one-sided manner, be it the French revolution, the Cuban revolution, the
Russian revolution, etc. That shows me folks in the United States are
capable of doing a multi-sided critique of revolutions except 1776, where
they come to this absurd conclusion that ‘Oh, it went well, except, you
know, the genocide and mass enslavement.’ It reminds me of the MOVE bombing
in Philadelphia when the mayor said afterwards “Well, everything went fine
except we destroyed the neighborhood.” What kind of thinking is that?...
Now obviously it doesn’t speak well for those that did have access to the
archives that they could not come to this conclusion because, as I’ve been
saying for some years, this is not a difficult case to make. This was not
rocket science coming to these conclusions! What was created was an
apartheid state... Basically that’s what has happened in North America, the
ability of the 1776 regime to take land from Native Americans and
redistribute it to European migrants and lift them out of poverty..."

b-John Reimann, you justifiably point to the Populist Party at the end of
the 19th century. A few matters that go into the weeds but merit
consideration herein. First, as is the case with today and the way the
bourgeoisie has produced state-sanctioned "socialists" aligned with the
Democrats in response to the popular upsurges around the anti-globalization
movement, the Greens, Occupy, and Black Lives Matter in the past 20 years,
so was the case 130 years ago with how bipartisan Progressivism (Teddy
Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryant, Woodrow Wilson, et al) emerged in
response to first Populism and then the Debs-era Socialists. Progressivism
in the form of this bipartisan response was a blatantly racialized and
cis-hetero-patriarchal matrix of ideology. Many former Populists (Tom
Watson being the most notable) allowed themselves to be absorbed into the
Progressive project and became shameless white nationalists, instituting
the hardest elements of the Jim Crow regime in this period. Wilson, as just
one example, was a shameless proponent of the pro-Confederate Lost Cause
narrative in his history books, endorsed the rebirth of the Klan by
screening

[Marxism] Seattle socialist councillor - 'Our fight is for systemic change' (Green Left)

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[Marxism] US: High stakes in Trump's attacks on Black Lives Matter protests (Green Left)

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https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/united-states-high-stakes-trump%25E2%2580%2599s-attacks-black-lives-matter-protests


"Republicans are ramping up attempts to curtail African Americans' right to 
vote..."





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ANDREW:   Considering that Robert Paxton points to the Klan as a fascist
organization decades before Mussolini came to power I have to agree with
that point

ME:

But I do think the difference, even between the Jim Crow South and true
fascism, is that even in the 1920s and 30s the "trappings" of bourgeois
democracy were still there.   In Frederickson's book WHITE SUPREMACY (a
wonderfully synthesized comparative history of the US and South AFrica) he
makes the point that even in the era of JIM CROW, the 14th Amendment to the
US Constitution made the Southern US qualitatively different from South
Africa ---

I think the only thing that could have beaten the true fascism of Italy and
Germany was defeat in a war --- whereas even in South Africa, there was a
way out of Apartheid short of whole-sale Civil War --- and in the US, all
that was necessary was the Federal Government's willingness to enforce the
14th Amendment.

In this circumstance, I do think we have a lot to fear of a fascist
(creeping fascist??) transformation of the current US version of bourgeois
democracy --- IF Trump gets and second term and Barr is able to continue
with his centralization of power in the Presidency and voter suppression
and a totally remade Judiciary, then within another 4 years we may have
passed the point of no return ---

(In fact, the only thing that will stand between Trump-Barr-etc. and true
fascism may be the professional military in the US ... although the German
military was bribed into cooperating with Hitler )

Sorry to bring this up again (on a Marxist discussion list!!!) but that's
why even a right-wing Dem like Biden is qualitatively "so much better" than
Trump --- (okay, okay, I'm shutting up again!!!)

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Yes, I thought about it more and I actually sent the following letter to
the editor. I doubt they'll publish it, but I sent it anyway:

Regarding "American Fascism; it has happened here". Sarah Churchwell
outlines a truly horrific history of racist terrorism, especially in the
South. However, I think it is questionable whether it was truly fascism
that held sway. Under fascism, the working class is atomized; working class
organizations are crushed completely and no working class organizing is
possible. Not only that but the main form of repression is the state forces
themself. That was not the case in the South.

Consider this history, as outlined in Philip Foner's "Organized Labor and
the Black Worker, 1619-1981":

In the 1880s and early 1890s, there was a series of strikes of black and
white workers together throughout the South. This included sugar plantation
workers in Louisiana and the New Orleans general strike of 1892. In that
instance, the workers consciously established a negotiating committee that
was half white workers and half black workers. The employers sought to
divide them by offering to negotiate with the whites only. The whites
refused and the strike was ultimately successful. That period reflected a
general tendency of the working class to come together across racial lines.
That general tendency was reversed by the Panic of 1893. This crisis threw
workers into competition with each other for jobs and, in the absence of
any alternative, racial divisions were given a renewed life, including in
the AFL.

That body, which had previously threatened to expel the Machinists union
due to their racist color bar, then reversed course and by 1914 Gompers was
in effect blaming black people for their own oppressed conditions. Despite
this, even in that time the United Mine Workers were a largely integrated
union throughout the coal mining regions. While rare, there were a few
instances of united worker struggles even in those years. That included the
1907 strike of levee workers in New Orleans. In that instance, the workers
elected an arbitration committee composed of 2 black and 2 white workers.

The most outstanding example was that of the IWW during those years. One
example was the Brotherhood of Timber Workers, which organized in Texas,
Louisiana and Arkansas. They held their founding convention in Alexandria,
Louisiana in 1914. Due to the Jim Crow laws, the black and the white
workers at first met separately. However, at the urging of Big Bill
Haywood, they agreed to defy the law and meet together. They then elected
black and white delegates to the subsequent IWW convention to be held in
Chicago.

It is true that most of these efforts in the South in those years were
crushed, but the same was true in the North. I hardly think that one can
make an argument that the entire United States was fascist during that
entire period. Under fascism, no such organizing is possible. And it is not
only the extra-state mobs that crush such attempts; it is the forces of the
state itself. Therefore, while I think that Churchwell makes a real
contribution in her article, horrific as the situation was in the South, I
don't think it's accurate to call it "fascism" during those years.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:15 PM Andrew Stewart 
wrote:

> Considering that Robert Paxton points to the Klan as a fascist
> organization decades before Mussolini came to power I have to agree with
> that point
>
> Best regards,
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> Subject: [Marxism] fascism in the US?
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> Here is an article that argues that the US was ruled by fascism in the
> South for an extended period of time. It also argues that fascism in the US
> has had a greater influence at the national level that we often recognize.
> I think their argument is quite serious.
>
>
> https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/06/22/american-fascism-it-has-happened-here/?fbclid=IwAR3QiVgCGTORPziQv04LceN9VI-iQ9hjlgBNVf3txsaMGgU3qOVWXiQzefM
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The handwriting is on the wall. The Sandernista/Jacobin/DSA project is 
now exhausted. While the USA is poised on the edge of cataclysmic 
economic decline against the backdrop of the most dangerous plague in a 
hundred years and powerful protests against killer-cops, the Sandernista 
left is mired in electoral routinism.


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Considering that Robert Paxton points to the Klan as a fascist organization 
decades before Mussolini came to power I have to agree with that point 

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Here is an article that argues that the US was ruled by fascism in the
South for an extended period of time. It also argues that fascism in the US
has had a greater influence at the national level that we often recognize.
I think their argument is quite serious.

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/06/22/american-fascism-it-has-happened-here/?fbclid=IwAR3QiVgCGTORPziQv04LceN9VI-iQ9hjlgBNVf3txsaMGgU3qOVWXiQzefM

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[Marxism] Review: ‘American Daredevil: Comics, Communism and the Battles of Lev Gleason’ by Brett Dakin


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Review by Paul Buhle

American Daredevil: Comics, Communism and the Battles of Lev Gleason. By 
Brett Dakin. Toronto: Chapterhouse, 2020. 242pp, $24.99.


https://comicsgrinder.com/2020/06/22/review-american-daredevil-comics-communism-and-the-battles-of-lev-gleason-by-brett-dakin/

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Re: [Marxism] fascism in the US?


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On 6/22/20 1:04 PM, John Reimann via Marxism wrote:

Here is an article that argues that the US was ruled by fascism in the
South for an extended period of time. It also argues that fascism in the US
has had a greater influence at the national level that we often recognize.
I think their argument is quite serious.


I posted a link to the article earlier. It is a very good article but it 
is wrong in stating that it "happened here". The USA was a bourgeois 
democracy in the 1920s and 30s. It has always been one, going back to 
George Washington. Like apartheid South Africa and Israel, it is a state 
based on colonialism and caste formations. Because of the cruelty of 
such states, it is tempting to describe them as "fascist" but the term 
is only useful insofar as it applies to absolutist states such as Nazi 
Germany. That being said, the article is very well-researched and a must 
read.




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[Marxism] fascism in the US?

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Here is an article that argues that the US was ruled by fascism in the
South for an extended period of time. It also argues that fascism in the US
has had a greater influence at the national level that we often recognize.
I think their argument is quite serious.

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/06/22/american-fascism-it-has-happened-here/?fbclid=IwAR3QiVgCGTORPziQv04LceN9VI-iQ9hjlgBNVf3txsaMGgU3qOVWXiQzefM

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[Marxism] The Network Case (Please Repost and Share Widely)

2020-06-22 Thread Thomas Campbell via Marxism

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#NetworkCase

Earlier today in Petersburg, the final two defendants in the notorious
frame-up known, hilariously, as the Network Case, were sentenced to seven
and five and a half years in prison, respectively, for “involvement in a
terrorist community.”

In reality, anxious to show their paranoid fascist president that he was
right to surround himself with one of the largest security and bureaucratic
apparatuses in history, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) abducted
and tortured a dozen absolutely harmless young men in Penza and Petersburg,
and then cooked up a fascist fairy tale about how these young men (many of
whom most of us would be happy to have as neighbors) were actually a secret
“terrorist community,” code-named “the Network,” who were planning to cause
mayhem on the eve of Putin’s triumphant re-election and the soccer World
Cup in 2018.

There wasn’t any “Network,” and it had no plans of doing anything of the
sort. But it is now over two and a half years since the FSB kicked off its
little adventure in Penza (in October 2017). Over the last year, the ten
defendants in the case have been sentenced to a total of 110 years in
prison due to the FSB’s sick fantasy.

https://therussianreader.com/2020/06/22/network-case-4/
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Re: [Marxism] American Fascism: It Has Happened Here | by Sarah Churchwell | The New York Review of Books

2020-06-22 Thread Michael Meeropol via Marxism

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I am a fan of the CHRIS HEDGES book AMERICAN FASCISTS --- It was published
a bunch of years ago and makes the connections between the "dominionists"
among Christian fundamentalists and fascism  I found it convincing.



> I don't agree that fascism happened here in the 1930s but this is still
> a powerful article.
>
>
> https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/06/22/american-fascism-it-has-happened-here/
>
> AND yes, Louis, it is a good and powerful article --- though it should
have referenced the Hedges book and the "evangelical" connection
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[Marxism] Trump deflating?

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"Hold up! What is that sound we’re hearing? Is it the sound of the air
being let out of the Trump balloon?

Trump’s moves to consolidate his grip on the various branches of the US
government did prevent further dissension within those branches, as long as
he appeared invincible. But the movement in the streets severely weakened
that image. He tried to move to outright military repression, but that was
a step too far for even the Wall St. Journal editors, never mind the
military brass. (See Trump in Trouble.)

Unable to repress the movement in the streets and stymied at least
temporarily in his drive towards one-man rule, the defeats are mounting and
the cracks in his regime have started to widen."
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[Marxism] American Fascism: It Has Happened Here | by Sarah Churchwell | The New York Review of Books


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I don't agree that fascism happened here in the 1930s but this is still 
a powerful article.


https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/06/22/american-fascism-it-has-happened-here/

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[Marxism] A Technology of Manifest Destiny: Sam Colt’s Revolver - Los Angeles Review of Books


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[Marxism] Green Party nominee says Sanders, progressives have failed to pull Democrats to the left | TheHill


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[Marxism] Chatting with “the Spoiler”: The Green Party’s Howie Hawkins - YouTube


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Sunkara interviews Howie Hawkins at 6pm today.

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[Marxism] can capitalism sink any lower? Clearing out old and disabled residents and dumping them to homeless shelters and rundown motels to make room for more $$ from Covid patients!

2020-06-22 Thread Dennis Brasky via Marxism

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*‘They Just Dumped Him Like Trash’: Nursing Homes Evict Vulnerable
Residents*

Nursing homes across the country are kicking out old and disabled residents
and sending them to homeless shelters and rundown motels.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/business/nursing-homes-evictions-discharges-coronavirus.html

On a chilly afternoon in April, Los Angeles police found an old,
disoriented man crumpled on a Koreatown sidewalk.

Several days earlier, RC Kendrick, an 88-year-old with dementia, was living
at Lakeview Terrace, a nursing home with a history of regulatory problems.
His family had placed him there to make sure he got round-the-clock care
after his condition deteriorated and he began disappearing for days at a
time.

But on April 6, the nursing home deposited Mr. Kendrick at an unregulated
boardinghouse — without bothering to inform his family. Less than 24 hours
later, Mr. Kendrick was wandering the city alone.

According to three Lakeview employees, Mr. Kendrick’s ouster came as the
nursing home was telling staff members to try to clear out less-profitable
residents to make room for a new class of customers who would generate more
revenue: patients with Covid-19.

More than any other institution in America, nursing homes have come to
symbolize the deadly destruction of the coronavirus crisis. More than
51,000 residents and employees of nursing homes and long-term care
facilities have died, representing more than 40 percent of the total death
toll in the United States.

But even as they have been ravaged, nursing homes have also been enlisted
in the response to the outbreak. They are taking on coronavirus-stricken
patients to ease the burden on overwhelmed hospitals — and, at times, to
bolster their bottom lines.

A Lakeview official said the company’s evictions were appropriate and
weren’t an attempt to free space for Covid-19 patients. But similar scenes
are playing out at nursing homes nationwide. They are kicking out old and
disabled residents — among the people most susceptible to the coronavirus —
and shunting them into homeless shelters, rundown motels and other unsafe
facilities, according to 22 watchdogs in 16 states, as well as dozens of
elder-care lawyers, social workers and former nursing home executives.

Many of the evictions, known as involuntary discharges, appear to violate
federal rules that require nursing homes to place residents in safe
locations and to provide them with at least 30 days’ notice before forcing
them to leave.

While the popular conception of nursing homes is of places where elderly
people live, much of their business is caring for patients of all ages and
income levels who are recovering from surgery or acute illnesses like
strokes. Medicare often pays for short-term rehabilitation stints; Medicaid
covers longer-term stays for poor people.

Nursing homes have long had a financial incentive to evict Medicaid
patients in favor of those who pay through private insurance or Medicare,
which reimburses nursing homes at a much higher rate than Medicaid. More
than 10,000 residents and their families complained to watchdogs about
being discharged in 2018, the most recent year for which data are available.

The pandemic has intensified the situation.

With nursing homes not allowing visitors, there is less outside scrutiny of
their practices. Fifteen state-funded ombudsmen said in interviews that
some homes appear to be taking advantage of that void to evict vulnerable
residents.

Many nursing homes are struggling in part because one of their most
profitable businesses — post-surgery rehab — has withered as states
restricted hospitals from performing nonessential services.

Treating Covid-19 patients quickly became a popular way to fill that
financial void.

Last fall, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid changed the formula for
reimbursing nursing homes, making it more profitable to take in sicker
patients for a short period of time. Covid-19 patients can bring in at
least $600 more a day in Medicare dollars than people with relatively mild
health issues, according to nursing home executives and state officials.

“They could be big money for nursing homes,” said David Grabowski, a
professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School.

It is not always about the money. Several states, including New York, New
Jersey and California, urged nursing homes to accept Covid-19 patients to
help relieve pressure on hospitals. Some nursing home employees worried
that would endanger their vulnerable residents.

There is no

[Marxism] The struggle has moved far "Beyond Bernie" | International Socialism Project


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By Paul D'Amato

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[Marxism] Trading One Uniform for Another: Can Police Be “De-Militarized” When So Many Cops Are Military Veterans? - CounterPunch.org


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[Marxism] 6 Teens Organized a Protest. 10,000 People Showed Up.