[Marxism] NY TIMES: Climate Change Tied to Pregnancy Risks, Affecting Black Mothers Most
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[Marxism] On that Birth of a Nation thread: Eugene V. Debs denounces it in no uncertain terms...
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Re: [Marxism] Solidarity needed amid ongoing Turkish aggression against Kurds (Green Left)
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 PYD and SDF have for some time been calling on all Kurds in Syria, as well as people of other ethnicities, to unite against the Turkish invasion. In Iraq, the PKK has made similar calls for Kurdish unity against the Turkish invasion. The US has supported discussions aimed at improving relations between the PYD and the KNC in the case of Syria. But in the case of Iraq the US does not support any discussions involving the PKK. The US remains hostile to the PKK, and has never (as far as I am aware) made any criticism of Turkish bombing and ground invasions of northern Iraq. I don't claim to fully understand US policy. But I think it results from trying to pursue several different objectives at once. US motives include opposition to the PKK, worry about the revival of ISIS, rivalry with Russia, and hostility to Iran. When ISIS captured large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014, the US was worried. It needed local allies. In northern Iraq it had the Kurdistan Regional Government, a long-term ally with fairly strong military forces. But in Syria there was no equivalent, so it decided to cooperate with the YPG, and later the SDF. After ISIS had lost most of its territory in Syria, Trump started to withdraw US troops. This enabled Turkey to invade north-eastern Syria in October 2019. The Autonomous Administration asked for Russian help in deterring further Turkish advances. The US, perhaps worried at the prospect of expanding Russian influence in north-eastern Syria, decided not to withdraw completely. Now the US is supporting talks between the PYD and the KNC. But I would not over-emphasise the US role in these talks. The Kurdish people want unity against the Turkish invasion. Chris Slee From: Marxism on behalf of mkaradjis . via Marxism Sent: Thursday, 2 July 2020 9:43 PM To: Chris Slee Cc: mkaradjis . Subject: Re: [Marxism] Solidarity needed amid ongoing Turkish aggression against Kurds (Green Left) 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. * Hi Chris, I wonder what you and others think is going on with the US push to get the PYD/SDF together with Kurdish National Council? On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 2:04 PM Chris Slee via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > 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. > * > > > https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/solidarity-needed-amid-ongoing-turkish-aggression-against-kurds > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mkaradjis%40gmail.com > _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/chris_w_slee%40hotmail.com _ 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] The World Socialist Web Site and the toppled Washington and Jefferson statues | 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. * Louis -- I think I am building a reputation here as a "tired old reactionary" whose revolutionary bona fides are non-existent -- My response on Jefferson and Washington is that everything you said about their behavior is right -- especially as concerns the First Nations of British North America --- but I would not spend a penny nor lift a finger to support actions to get rid of anything celebrating them --- My reason --- dont' go looking for battles that you cannot win, nor enemies that you want as allies --- The communists picked and chose from among the "heroes" of American history with which to hitch their wagons --- political opportunism or genuine mining of tradition, take your pick --- and identified the progress they wanted to make with the progress that had been made in the past. They were clueless about native peoples --- I mean my own father wrote a line celebrating ANDREW JACKSON in The House I Live In (Paul Robeson sang those words in one of his recordings -- but replaced Jackson with Douglass in a different one!) --- What does "our side" gain by taking a unifying struggle -- getting rid of Confederate monuments (which are monuments to white resistance to black progress in the late 1890s and the 1960s!) -- and dividing it by saying -- OH, and while we're at it, in addition to getting rid of monuments to Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and other traitors, let's go after Washington and Jefferson ... (and Lincoln and Grant??) Nope -- let's keep our eyes on the prize as we join in the battle for the THIRD RECONSTRUCTION ... (would Lenin call me a renegade like Kautsky??) [Mike Meeropol] _ 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] Feds reveal Ghislaine Maxwell's wealth, transient lifestyle
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[Marxism] The World Socialist Web Site and the toppled Washington and Jefferson statues | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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Re: [Marxism] Manning Marable Was a Pioneering Black Marxist. His Work Speaks Directly to Our Moment | Paul Heideman | Jacobin
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[Marxism] Query
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. * Can anyone put me in touch with this article, please: "A Note on Max Weber's politics", Meyer Schapiro, Politics, 2(2), 44-8, 1945. Thanks in advance. Steve Heeren -- It is startling to find FREEDOM OF THE PRESS subsumed under FREEDOM OF DOING BUSINESS. The first freedom of the press consists in its not being a business. K. Marx -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _ 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] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Environment]: Nuspl on Martini, 'Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases'
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: July 2, 2020 at 2:31:25 PM EDT > To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > Cc: H-Net Staff > Subject: H-Net Review [H-Environment]: Nuspl on Martini, 'Proving Grounds: > Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. > Bases' > Reply-To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > > Edwin A. Martini, ed. Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, > Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases. Donald > R. Ellegood International Publications Series. Seattle University of > Washington Press, 2015. 320 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN > 978-0-295-99465-9. > > Reviewed by Tony Nuspl (Rogers State University, Tulsa Peace > Fellowship) > Published on H-Environment (July, 2020) > Commissioned by Daniella McCahey > > "The Mess That War Left Behind" > > To be fair, "the demilitarization of landscapes" is a large topic, > and the nine essays within Edwin A. Martini's edited collection > Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the > Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases provide a slice (introduction, by > Martini, p. 13). But the book is not a compelling read. Part of the > problem is the editor's preference for what he calls "the detached > perspective," which makes for some bloodless writing, in the policy > vein, as opposed to the "resistance school," writings that do not shy > away from value judgments about US militarism and imperialism (pp. 5, > 4-6). As a result, the latter is sorely underrepresented and instead, > overall, this collection seems to strive for what might be called a > veneer of objectivity, an academic tone of detachment that tends to > reinforce the status quo. Perhaps this even bleeds into providing > apologia for past US military mistakes, or the current refusal to own > up to environmental disasters caused, both at home and abroad, by US > military forces and/or "militarized landscapes" incidental to US > bases. Yet the introduction promises discussion of "charges of > ecocide" made against the US military (p. 14). Instead we get a > tendentious argument that the US military is capable of acknowledging > "nature's integral role" (p. 8). > > Aren't we better off just sticking to the term "landscapes of > contamination" rather than debating "the refuge effect" for the fauna > that happen to be guests of military-controlled lands (pp. 9, 249)? > Chapter 2, by Neil Oatsvall, opines that the military is capable of a > "deep sensitivity to the natural world" because of a nod in the > direction of protecting charismatic species --in this case, the sea > otter; also see chapter 8 on the red-cockaded woodpecker, the brown > pelican, the Hawaiian stilt, the manatee, the leatherback turtle, > etc. (introduction, p. 8). Chapter 3, by Leisl Carr Childers, > attempts to reconstruct people's reactions to nuclear testing and > their consciousness (or lack thereof) that bombs going off upwind > means that they--and their livestock--are in turn downwinders "under > the shadow of the fallout cloud" (p. 84; "downwind" pp. 81, 90). The > essay discusses the popular epidemiology used by non-experts outside > the military proper to understand the degree of risk from nuclear > bomb tests to which they or their livestock might be exposed. Using > inductive reasoning, the average citizen was capable of concluding > that "contact with radioactive fallout seemed the most likely > explanation" for some of the health problems being experienced (p. > 103). But in keeping with the detached perspective, it is impossible > to say what the author's views are about low-level radiation (LLR) > exposure from the testing regime that occurred in the continental US. > > Meanwhile, chapters 4 and 5 are concerned with how the biological and > chemical weapons used by the US military for aerial defoliation can > be the subject of "spin." Chapter 4, by Martini, argues that the > more-or-less responsible destruction of Agent Orange stocks in the > 1970s constitutes sufficient evidence for a wonted "military > environmentalism"--even if this involved using the Johnston Atoll in > the Pacific as a dumping ground (p. 113). But as the author explains, > if it was a responsible way to destroy the environmental hazard, also > known as "the mess that war left behind," the US military only did so > because it "was compelled to deal" with an increasingly complex set > of environmental laws and regulations (pp. 121, 113). The academic
[Marxism] The Neoliberal Looting of America through Private Equity
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, July 2, 2020 The Neoliberal Looting of America The private equity industry, which has led to more than 1.3 million job losses in the last decade, reveals the truth about free markets. By Mehrsa Baradaran “It’s hard to separate what’s good for the United States and what’s good for Bank of America,” said its former chief executive, Ken Lewis, in 2009. That was hardly true at the time, but the current crisis has revealed that the health of the finance industry and stock market are completely disconnected from the actual financial health of the American people. As inequality, unemployment and evictions climb, the Dow Jones surges right alongside them — one line compounding suffering, the other compounding returns for investors. One reason is that an ideological coup quietly transformed our society over the last 50 years, raising the fortunes of the financial economy — and its agents like private equity firms — at the expense of the real economy experienced by most Americans. The roots of this intellectual takeover can be traced to a backlash against socialism in Cold War Europe. Austrian School economist Friedrich A. Hayek was perhaps the most influential leader of that movement, decrying governments who chased “the mirage of social justice.” Only free markets can allocate resources fairly and reward individuals based on what they deserve, reasoned Hayek. The ideology — known as neoliberalism — was especially potent because it disguised itself as a neutral statement of economics rather than just another theory. Only unfettered markets, the theory argued, could ensure justice and freedom because only the profit motive could dispassionately pick winners and losers based on their contribution to the economy. Neoliberalism leapt from economics departments into American politics in the 1960s, where it fused with conservative anti-communist ideas and then quickly spread throughout universities, law schools, legislatures and courts. By the 1980s, neoliberalism was triumphant in policy, leading to tax cuts, deregulation and privatization of public functions including schools, pensions and infrastructure. The governing logic held that corporations could do just about everything better than the government could. The result, as President Ronald Reagan said, was to unleash “the magic of the marketplace.” The magic of the market did in fact turn everything into gold — for wealthy investors. Neoliberalism led to deregulation in every sector, a winner-take-all, debt-fueled market and a growing cultural acceptance of purely profit-driven corporate managers. These conditions were a perfect breeding ground for the private equity industry, then known as “leveraged buyout” firms. Such firms took advantage of the new market for high-yield debt (better known as junk bonds) to buy and break up American conglomerates, capturing unprecedented wealth in fewer hands. The private equity industry embodies the neoliberal movement’s values, while exposing its inherent logic. Private equity firms use money provided by institutional investors like pension funds and university endowments to take over and restructure companies or industries. Private equity touches practically every sector, from housing to health care to retail. In pursuit of maximum returns, such firms have squeezed businesses for every last drop of profit, cutting jobs, pensions and salaries where possible. The debt-laden buyouts privatize gains when they work, and socialize losses when they don’t, driving previously healthy firms to bankruptcy and leaving many others permanently hobbled. The list of private equity’s victims has grown even longer in the past year, adding J.Crew, Toys ‘R’ Us, Hertz and more. In the last decade, private equity management has led to approximately 1.3 million job losses due to retail bankruptcies and liquidation. Beyond the companies directly controlled by private equity, the threat of being the next takeover target has most likely led other companies to pre-emptively cut wages and jobs to avoid being the weakest prey. Amid the outbreak of street protests in June, a satirical headline in The Onion put it best: “Protesters Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First.” Yet the private equity takeover is not technically looting because it has been made perfectly legal, and even encouraged, by policymakers. According to industry experts, 2019 was one of the most successful years for private equity to date, with $919 billion in funds raised. The private equity executives themselves can also garner tremendous
[Marxism] The making of a socialist 'saint' | Green Left
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. * Krupskaya, Lenin's widow, wrote that Lenin should be honoured not by embalming, monuments, celebrations and the like, all of which had meant nothing to him, but by building day-care centres, kindergartens, homes and schools. Krupskaya continued her private protest by never visiting the mausoleum. The revolutionary poet, Mayakovsky, denounced the "rituals, mausoleums and processions" and the trafficking in Lenin kitsch. With the political defeat of Trotsky in 1926, however, the cult was fully established and regulated. https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/making-socialist-saint _ 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] We Are in Palestine, Habibi, and Palestine Is Heaven: The Twenty-Seventh Newsletter (2020).
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Re: [Marxism] Solidarity needed amid ongoing Turkish aggression against Kurds (Green Left)
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. * Hi Chris, I wonder what you and others think is going on with the US push to get the PYD/SDF together with Kurdish National Council? On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 2:04 PM Chris Slee via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > 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. > * > > > https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/solidarity-needed-amid-ongoing-turkish-aggression-against-kurds > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mkaradjis%40gmail.com > _ 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
