[Marxism] The Gadfly: An Irishwoman’s novel about revolutionaries | Jenny Farrell | Culture Matters

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https://www.culturematters.org.uk/index.php/arts/fiction/item/3431-the-gadfly-an-irishwoman-s-novel-about-revolutionaries


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[Marxism] Bounties, WMD's and big game hunters

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"When a big game hunter goes after a large and dangerous beast, he had
better understand how that beast functions, or else the hunter can become
the hunted. The same is true for those who wish to bring an end to the
dangerous beast known as capitalism. However, all too many show an
unfortunate tendency towards complete misunderstanding of this particular
beast. The story of the Russian government offering a bounty to the Taliban
for any US soldier they kill in Afghanistan is an example.

"Many on the left denounce that story as just another example of war
mongering. They use the case of the Bush claim of Saddam Hussein’s weapons
of mass destruction. They rely on the likes of the pro Assad Chris Hedges
as an example. Hedges, who is an Assad defender , claims that it’s the
military industrial complex that is likely inventing this story because
Trump is pushing us “to the brink of peace”. Another example is the group
“Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting” (FAIR.org) which also has a similar
approach as far as supporting Assad. They also refer back to the WMD claims.

Let’s review what actually happened in the US build-up to its invasion of
Iraq:"

Read more:
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[Marxism] Gore Vidal on Nixon

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In this year of our vainglorious buffoonish Lord Trump, it seems a quip
from the old girl about another old bastard might be apt

"In a book called Leaders, Nixon praises de Gaulle, from whom he learned
two lessons. First, power accrues to the ruler whose actions are
unpredictable. Although this tactic might work at a local level for the
leader of a minor country, such a system of unexpectedness on the part of
the emperor of the West could send what is known euphemistically as the
Wrong Signal to the emperor of the East, in which case there would never be
enough shovels to protect us from the subsequent nuclear rain... The
second—more practical—lesson was in de Gaulle’s view that nations are
nations, and while political systems come and go, national interests
continue for millennia. Like every good and bad American, Nixon knows
almost no history of any kind. But he was quick to pick up on the fact that
the Russians and the Chinese each have a world view that has nothing at all
to do with communism, or whatever happens to be the current official name
for Heaven’s Mandate... Nixon proceeded to do the unexpected. He buried the
hatchet with the Son of Heaven, Mao, by going to see him—as is proper for
the Barbarian from beyond the Four Seas if he wishes to enjoy the patronage
of the Lord of the Middle Kingdom. Then, from this position of strength,
Nixon paid a call on the Czar of all the Russians, whose mouth, to say the
least, was somewhat ajar at what Nixon had done in China."


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[Marxism] Concert for Cuba

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SUNDAY JULY 19 AT 7PM CST
https://hothouse.net/ 

REGISTER HERE

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/concert-for-cuba-tickets-111083545876 

Cultural organizers from the US and Canada have come together with the 
Instituto Cubano de la Musica (ICM) in Cuba to host a special virtual tribute 
recognizing the distinct contributions to the world during the Covid-19 
pandemic. The concert will salute Cuba’s heroic and outsized contributions to 
health care around the world as doctors have volunteered this year to serve in 
more than 26 countries. These contributions have been in spite of severe 
depredations imposed by US sanctions under Trump and the ongoing blockade. For 
these sacrifices and more, many around the world are calling for the 2020 Nobel 
Prize to be bestowed upon Cuba.
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[Marxism] Stop using phony science to justify transphobia

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https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/stop-using-phony-science-to-justify-transphobia


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[Marxism] Walter Benn Michaels: the Elvis superstar of class-reductionism | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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https://louisproyect.org/2020/07/06/walter-benn-michaels-the-elvis-superstar-of-class-reductionism/

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[Marxism] Migrant workers in Lebanon - appeal for funds

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Received today.
ken h

As most of you already know, the situation in Lebanon is dire and it's getting 
worse by the day. This is especially true for migrant workers in the country 
who have seen their wages obliterated by the free fall of the local currency 
and the dollar shortages. 

Alongside supporting migrant workers organize against the Kafala system and 
launching many protests/propaganda campaigns to garner momentum that call for 
the dismantling of the Kafala system, we have also launched this crowdfunding 
initiative in order to support migrant workers in their fight against Kafala. 

I really hope I can count on you to donate and disseminate this crowdfunding 
campaign (even 100$ can make a difference since our currency is extremely 
volatile).

Here's a link to the campaign: 
https://www.gofundme.com/f/Emergency-Funds-for-Migrant-Domestic-Workers?utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link-tip
 


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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Africa]: Burgess on Cynn, 'Prevention: Gender, Sexuality, HIV, and the Media in Côte d'Ivoire'

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> From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW 
> Date: July 6, 2020 at 2:11:58 PM EDT
> To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org
> Cc: H-Net Staff 
> Subject: H-Net Review [H-Africa]:  Burgess on Cynn,  'Prevention: Gender,  
> Sexuality, HIV, and the Media in Côte d'Ivoire'
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> 
> Christine Cynn.  Prevention: Gender, Sexuality, HIV, and the Media in 
> Côte d'Ivoire.  Abnormalities: Queer/Gender/Embodiment Series. 
> Columbus  Ohio State University Press, 2018.  xi + 240 pp.  $29.95 
> (paper), ISBN 978-0-8142-5498-1; $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 
> 978-0-8142-1381-0.
> 
> Reviewed by Sarah S. Burgess (Camber Collective)
> Published on H-Africa (July, 2020)
> Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut
> 
> In Prevention: Gender, Sexuality, HIV and the Media in Côte 
> d'Ivoire, Christine Cynn argues that HIV prevention media in Côte 
> d'Ivoire has historically upheld ideals around neoliberalism, 
> national identity, hegemonic gender norms, and heterosexism. In deep, 
> insightful close readings, Cynn dissects various HIV/AIDS visual 
> media, including satirical newspaper columns, comedic television 
> sketches, and melodramas produced by nongovernmental organizations 
> (NGOs). Broadly speaking, these media are generally said to have one 
> key objective: promoting social and behavioral change to prevent 
> HIV/AIDS. Cynn's analysis argues that they also work to uphold 
> multiple (and at times, contradictory) social, economic, and 
> political agendas. 
> 
> In the introduction, Cynn provides background on her positionality 
> and methods, laying out how her work benefited from her own long-term 
> engagement in HIV prevention. She is also up-front about the 
> limitations of her research and analytical framework. Prior to 
> writing the book, Cynn worked as a community organizer and later as a 
> Fulbright researcher in Abidjan, the capital of Côte d'Ivoire, where 
> she worked closely with women living with HIV in Abidjan. Through 
> this experience, Cynn observed a "chasm" between the representation 
> of HIV prevention in the media and "the lived experiences of those 
> exposed to HIV prevention messages." While this observation is the 
> "point of departure" for this book, Cynn is up-front about the fact 
> that she does not attempt to, and does not, address this chasm (p. 
> 13). Nor does Cynn rely on the methods of social science or include 
> ethnographic data from the community of Ivorians with whom she worked 
> so closely. Rather, Cynn approaches HIV prevention media as a scholar 
> of literature and film, relying on close readings and asserting that 
> "humanities can make vital contributions to discussions that have 
> generally been limited to the purview of the sciences, and to a 
> lesser extent, the social sciences" (p. 12). The boundaries of Cynn's 
> lens lead to a unique, striking analysis but also suggest limits to 
> the extent to which a purely humanities lens can generate the 
> insights that Cynn calls for in her conclusion. 
> 
> Each chapter of _Prevention _looks at a different form of HIV 
> messaging. Cynn generally starts by examining the historical and 
> political context in which the media was produced and proceeds with a 
> close analytical reading of text, dialogue, and visual imagery, 
> dissecting how they work to produce multiple, often contradictory 
> meanings. Cynn examines a satirical column that pokes fun at, and 
> upholds, the single party state's response to the epidemic, and later 
> on dissects television programs from the 1980s and 1990s that 
> delivered HIV prevention messages through humor, while also 
> reproducing patriarchal gender norms. 
> 
> The most dynamic and original analysis appears in chapter 3, 
> "Regulating Female Reproductive Potential: Abortion and Family as HIV 
> Prevention." This is where the depth of Cynn's understanding of 
> historical Ivorian politics, the depth of her archival research, and 
> her analytical attention to detail shine most. Cynn begins this 
> chapter by looking at French colonial attempts to establish control 
> by promoting nuclear families. The chapter then draws on Jeane M. 
> Toungara's analysis, which posits that the state continued to promote 
> the nuclear family so as to encourage "capitalist economic 
> development" and maintenance of "a labor force" (p. 98). Then, Cynn 
> builds on this analysis and closely examines messaging and media at 
> the intersection of HIV/AIDS, reproduction, and abortion, following 
> how different narratives

[Marxism] Virtual event: interview of author of new bio of Klaus Fuchs

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Thursday, August 6
6PM

Nancy Thorndike Greenspan, author of Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus
Fuchs, interviewed by Kai Bird

Presented by Leon Levy Center for Biography

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[Marxism] coming wave of evictions, especially in black community

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Here is an article on the coming wave of evictions in the black and Latino
communities. This makes it all the more important to organize protests
against the ending of the $600/week unemployment benefit. I have tried to
be pretty diplomatic about it up until now, but I received no reply, so I'm
going to be more blunt: It is very disappointing that those RSN members in
the Oakland area have completely ignored my proposals for RSN to organize a
protest around this. It really leads me to question what is happening and
it should lead others to do the same.

"A backlog of eviction cases is beginning to move through the court system
as millions of Americans who had counted on federal aid and eviction
moratoriums to stay in their homes now fear being thrown out.

A crisis among renters is expected to deepen this month as the enhanced
unemployment benefits that have kept many afloat run out at the end of the
July, and the $1,200 per adult stimulus payment that had supported
households earlier in the crisis becomes a distant memory.

"Meanwhile, enforcement of federal moratoriums on some types of evictions
is uneven, with experts warning that judges’ efforts to limit access to
courtrooms or hold hearings online because of covid-19 could increasingly
leave elderly or poor renters at a disadvantage.

"Of the 110 million Americans

living
in rental households, 20 percent are at risk of eviction by Sept. 30,
according to an analysis by the Covid-19 Eviction Defense Project
, a Colorado-based community group. African
American and Hispanic renters are expected to be hardest hit."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/06/eviction-moratoriums-starwood/

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[Marxism] Overlooked No More: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Pioneering Gay Activist

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http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/sex_gender/engels_homophobia.htm)


NY Times, July 6, 2020
Overlooked No More: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Pioneering Gay Activist
By Liam Stack

Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose 
deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.


By the time the lawyer and writer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs took the podium 
at a meeting of the Association of German Jurists in 1867, rumors about 
his same-sex love affairs — and the subsequent threat of arrest and 
prosecution — had already cost him his legal career and forced him to 
flee his homeland.


Standing in Munich before more than 500 lawyers, officials and academics 
— many of whom jeered as he spoke — Ulrichs argued for the repeal of 
sodomy laws that criminalized sex between men in several of the 
German-speaking kingdoms and duchies that existed in the years before 
the creation of a unified German state.


“Gentlemen, my proposal is directed toward a revision of the current 
penal law,” he said, according to the historian Robert Beachy in the 
2014 book “Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity.”


Ulrichs described a “class of persons” who faced persecution simply 
because “nature has planted in them a sexual nature that is opposite of 
that which is usual."


Same-sex attraction was a deeply taboo topic at the time; the word 
“homosexuality” would not even exist for another two years, when it was 
coined by the Austro-Hungarian writer Karl-Maria Kertbeny. So the ideas 
in Ulrichs’s speech — that such attraction was innate, and that those 
who experienced it should be treated the same as anyone else — were 
revolutionary.


His remarks preceded by more than 100 years the Stonewall riots in New 
York in 1969, which are widely seen as the start of the modern 
L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement.


They helped inspire the rise of the world’s first gay rights movement, 
30 years later in Berlin.


They foreshadowed the imposition of a sodomy law across the German 
Empire that would later be used by the Nazis to target gay men, 
thousands of whom were killed in concentration camps.


And they made history: Ulrichs is believed to have been the first person 
to publicly “come out,” in the modern sense of the term.


“I think it is reasonable to describe him as the first gay person to 
publicly out himself,” Robert Beachy said in an interview. “There is 
nothing comparable in the historical record. There is just nothing else 
like this out there.”


His speech was also deeply unwelcome at the 1867 meeting, where the 
audience erupted in shouts of “Stop!” and “Crucify!” that ultimately 
forced Ulrichs off the stage.


For much of Ulrichs’s life, same-sex relations were widely seen as a 
pathology or as a sin to which any person could succumb if seized by 
wickedness. These views still exist in some parts of the world.


Ulrichs helped forge the concepts of gay people as a distinct group and 
of sexual identity as an innate human characteristic in a series of 
pamphlets he wrote from 1864 to 1879 — at first under a pseudonym, but 
under his own name after he gave his speech at the 1867 conference.


“By publishing these writings I have initiated a scientific discussion 
based on facts,” he wrote in a letter published in 1864 in Deutsche 
Allgemeine, a pan-German newspaper.


“Until now the treatment of the subject has been biased, not to mention 
contemptuous,” he added. “My writings are the voice of a socially 
oppressed minority that now claims its rights to be heard.”


His work was widely read by sex researchers. One of them, Richard von 
Krafft-Ebing, cited the pamphlets in his pioneering 1886 text, 
“Psychopathia Sexualis,” which described homosexuality as a mental illness.


In later editions, Krafft-Ebing published letters from men who had read 
about Ulrichs in his book. The letters showed that not only did 
Ulrichs’s pamphlets explore theories about sexuality, but they also 
helped foster a sense of community.


“I cannot describe what a salvation it was for me,” one of the men 
wrote, “to learn that there are many other men who are sexually 
constituted the way I am, and that my sexual feeling was not an 
aberration but rather a sexual orientation determined by nature.”


Karl Heinrich Ulrichs was born on Aug. 28, 1825, in Aurich, in the 
kingdom of Hanover in northwestern Germany, to an upper-middle-class 
family that included several Lutheran pastors. He studied Latin and 
Greek before beginning his legal studies at the University of Göttingen.


He secured prestigious positions in the Hanoverian Civil Service, but 
rumors about his s

[Marxism] Unexposed patients found with T-Cells that react to SARS-CoV 19

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A recent study seemed to show that SARS-CoV-19 antibodies disappear in a
person over a fairly short period of time. That is important because it
might mean that an effective long term vaccine against the disease is not
possible. "Seem" and "might" are the operative words. Here is a study that
seems to show the opposite. In this study, researchers found a T-cell in
people who had been uninfected (as far as they knew) that reacted to the
virus. The researchers concluded that it's possible (note: "possible") that
these people had been exposed to another virus in the coronavirus family
and had manufactured a T-cell that reacted to that virus and was also
reactive to SARS-CoV-19. In that case, it could mean that some antibodies
remain for a longer period of time.

One thing I've learned from following the science in this disease is how
very complex scientific research is and why it's important to hesitate to
draw definitive conclusions. But we as workers definitely need to keep
abreast of the research.


https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/sars-cov-2-reactive-t-cells-found-in-patients-with-severe-covid-19-67695?fbclid=IwAR0cFpctF11F8fOpXC8Cqx6FlLpB74oIKtcQ630OPUx1mGFxu_ed3W68gQI#.XwM7Vw2aknU.facebook

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[Marxism] Decolonizing ecology – Briarpatch Magazine

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[Marxism] Forrest Hylton | The Paranoid Style in Bolivian Politics · LRB 3 July 2020

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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] State and Capital in the Era of Primitive Accumulation | Historical Materialism

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By Jairus Banaji

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[Marxism] On Disposability and Rebellion: Insights From a Rank-and-File Insurgency - CounterPunch.org

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Unfolding in the pages of Mike Stout’s new political memoir, Homestead 
Steel Mill: The Final Ten Years, is the radical history of a people too 
commonly believed to have none. It is a history largely absent from 
popular records of the political tumult of the 1960s and ’70s, though 
its energy, militance and imagination grew out of that era and extended, 
like so many fierce but near-forgotten political projects, into the 
1980s. It is a story of class struggle in a society whose official 
scribes are mostly stupid about class when they aren’t willfully 
deceptive. It is a story of the built world – of some of the men and 
women who made it, and who, in one extraordinary moment in time, strove 
not just to halt their own unmaking but to dream something different and 
beautiful.



https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/06/on-disposability-and-rebellion-insights-from-a-rank-and-file-insurgency/

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[Marxism] » David Harvey’s New Thesis “Capitalism is too Big to Fail”: Is it?

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By Steve Ellner

https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/david-harveys-new-thesis-capitalism-is-too-big-to-fail-is-it/

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[Marxism] Losing Willie McGee | Denise Lynn | AAIHS

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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Sweatshops and monopsony power – a review | Michael Roberts Blog

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Leicester is a medium-sized city in the centre of England.  It has come 
into the limelight in the last few weeks because of an outbreak of 
COVID-19 in the city, forcing a local lockdown, while the rest of 
England starts to ‘come out’.  Leicester has a relatively high British 
Asian community and many are concentrated for work in the garment 
industry.  And it is here that the COVID outbreak seems to have emerged.


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[Marxism] Alston Poverty Report FINAL

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This report is submitted by Philip Alston. The world is at an existential 
crossroads
involving a pandemic, a deep economic recession, devastating climate change, 
extreme
inequality, and an uprising against racist policies. Running through all of 
these challenges
is the longstanding neglect of extreme poverty by many governments, economists, 
and
human rights advocates.
By single-mindedly focusing on the World Bank’s flawed international poverty 
line, the
international community mistakenly gauges progress in eliminating poverty by 
reference to
a standard of miserable subsistence rather than an even minimally adequate 
standard of
living. This in turn facilitates greatly exaggerated claims about the impending 
eradication
of extreme poverty and downplays the parlous state of impoverishment in which 
billions of
people still subsist.
While the Sustainable Development Goals have achieved a great deal, they are 
failing in
relation to key goals such as poverty eradication, economic equality, gender 
equality, and
climate change. They need to be recalibrated in response to COVID-19, the 
ensuing
recession, and accelerating global warming.
Poverty is a political choice and its elimination requires: (i) reconceiving 
the relationship
between growth and poverty elimination; (ii) tackling inequality and embracing
redistribution; (iii) promoting tax justice; (iv) implementing universal social 
protection; (v)
centering the role of government; (vi) embracing participatory governance; and 
(vii)
adapting international poverty measurement.


https://chrgj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Alston-Poverty-Report-FINAL.pdf

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