Re: [Marxism] Happy anniversary

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I salute Louis on this May Day. A fine man, a searing writer, and a
terrific radical.

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Re: [Marxism] [pen-l] The Ritchie Boys | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Thank you for this Louis,  I just viewed 5 minutes and it looks great. Your
description makes it irresistible.  I will watch it tonight with my family,
before it's taken down.

Best,
Brian

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> Not too long ago I discovered that Werner Angress, the historian from
> whose “Stillborn Revolution: The Communist Bid for Power in Germany,
> 1921–23” I have been posting excerpts, was a Ritchie boy. After he died in
> 2010, The American Historical Association commemorated his life, including
> information on Ritchie:
>
> Drafted into the army in 1941, he was trained as an interrogator
> at Camp Ritchie (he is featured in the film, The Ritchie Boys, about this
> remarkable institution), and parachuted (his first jump) into France with
> the 82nd Airborne on D-Day. Despite his extraordinarily youthful appearance
> and rather small stature, Angress was a tough and resourceful soldier who
> was eventually promoted to Master Sergeant and awarded the Bronze Star and
> the Purple Heart.
>
> In going through a backlog of DVDs received from publicists about a decade
> ago, I discovered that I had one for “The Ritchie Boys”. In extracting it
> from the package, it accidentally was damaged. Not willing to be deterred
> from seeing the film, I got a copy through the Columbia Library and was
> richly rewarded by a documentary that might be regarded as the ultimate
> alternative to Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds”.
>
> Although Werner Angress and all the other German and German-speaking
> Jewish immigrants had every reason to want to kill every Nazi they got
> their hands on, the allied cause was better served by them functioning as
> “soft cops” to get information that could save the lives of fellow soldiers
> as well as civilians. Additionally, the Ritchie boys discover that many if
> not most of the German soldiers were ordinary workers forced to kill or be
> killed as deserters. The same thing was true of the German civilians they
> came in contact with.
>
> Every Ritchie boy interviewed in the film was as ethically and politically
> informed as Angress, with some demonstrating the leftist politics they
> probably absorbed growing up in Weimar Germany. Among the most interesting
> is Si Lewin, a Polish Jew who was born in 1918 and died two years ago at
> the age of 97. Like all the other Ritchie boys, including Angress whose
> parachute got caught in a tree in Germany not long after D-Day, he has an
> amazing story to tell.
>
> He was assigned to convince German soldiers to surrender by speaking to
> them through high-powered speakers wired to a batteries in a jeep.
> Routinely, German artillery honed in on Lewin and his comrades by
> geolocating the sound of the speakers until they figured out how to
> position them far from the jeep.
>
> I had to make a tough decision in writing an article about “The Ritchie
> Boys” since it was neither available as VOD or even as a DVD with the
> standard pricing. The director Christian Bauer, a German, died in 2009 and
> the distribution company he founded died along with him. The only way to
> see the film is to buy a DVD on Amazon that is now going for $70 when it
> was available.
>
> I saw no alternative except to put it up on Youtube, which took a bit of
> time and money to accomplish. Since the DVD is copy-protected, I had to pay
> $100 to have someone bypass the copy protection and make it uploadable. I
> doubt that Youtube will be hearing from anybody about copyright protection
> but just in case I wouldn’t waste any time watching this film since it is
> absolutely terrific.
>
>
> full: https://louisproyect.org/2018/08/16/the-ritchie-boys-2/
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Re: [Marxism] [pen-l] How we lost America to greed and envy | Financial Times

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Lou,

Here it is (w/o the charts).

https://www.businessdayonline.com/opinion/analysis/article/lost-america-greed-envy/?utm_source=dlvr.it_medium=twitter

Best,
Brian

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> paywall but it is worth trying since it has some interesting charts on how
> shitty the status of American workers is.
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Re: [Marxism] Source for Trump's specious claim of 63, 000 immigrant killings? A congressman's blog - Chicago Tribune

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Henry Giroux interviewed on his new book, "American Nightmare: Facing the
Challenge of Fascism." (2018) on the Project Censored Show.
http://projectcensored.org/henry-giroux-2/

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Re: [Marxism] "Reality 101" and Marx

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Thank you for this Hans.  Hope you are well.

Best,
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> Perhaps Nate Hagens is familiar to many of you, but I just
> discovered him by watching this:
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> http://www.postcarbon.org/energy-money-and-technology-
> from-the-lens-of-the-superorganism/
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> This 1-hour lecture with 20 minutes Q shows the big picture
> humanity is facing regarding the economy and natural resources.
> It is a summary of his one-semester course "Reality 101" at the
> University of Minnesota.  It is realistic without exuding
> disaster-porn.  It has better advice than most books or
> lectures about this subject regarding what to do about
> it (starting at minute 51:50).  It is the kind of class I tried
> to teach in my last semesters before retirement, but much better
> in terms of putting the info together with slides.  I think it is
> the best one can expect from a non-Marxist.
>
> It has many implicitly Marxist ideas.  He calls human society a
> superorganism, echoing Marx's insight that the forces driving
> capitalism are forces emanating from our social structure rather
> than individual choices.
>
> He has a theory of surplus-value based on the fact the the price
> of energy is much lower than the value created by energy, just as
> Marx says that the price of labor-power exceeds than the value
> created by it.  Where Marx talks about rate of exploitation he
> talks about the ratio of energy retrieved versus energy expended.
>
> He even shares Marx's assessment that mainstream economics
> has an ideological function, when he says that the economic
> analyses in the IPCC reports are unreliable.
>
> The circumstance of this lecture is amazing and exciting: it was
> given at a univesity in Saudi-Arabia!  And in the Q, one of the
> Saudi Students posed the most profound critical question:
>
> "Do you think capitalism and its focus on growth, profit, and moving
> all human activity to the market is responsible for the kind of
> super-organism we are today, and that we could have had a different
> reality if we had a different social system?"
>
> The lecturer's reaction shows that the student has hit a raw
> nerve.  Hagens is trying to reverse the causality: in
> contrast to Marx's thesis that capitalism forces humans to
> act as if they were greedy, Hagens says that humans created
> capitalism because they are greedy.
>
> With such a strong basis of capitalism in human nature,
> revolution of of course an unrealistic dream.  The thought that
> our social relations are beyond our control but imposed on us by
> our psychology is in Marx's eyes a form of commodity fetishism.
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[Marxism] Needed - Interview subjects for a book on Radical Anthropology

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Greetings,

I am Brian McKenna, a journalist, Marxist and anthropologist (focusing on
health and the environment) who is currently writing a book on how to do
anthropology under authoritarian regimes, particularly the U.S.  I am
looking for interview subjects for this book.  I have a semi-structured
interview instrument and am a good listener!  I prefer to conduct the
interview face-to-face or on the phone. However, if that's not possible, I
can conduct it over email. The interview should last about 30 minutes.

I am writing the book as a journalist.  You can choose to be anonymous or
named in the book. For more information about my journalism, see, for
example:

On Dow Chemical
https://www.counterpunch.org/2008/11/20/how-dow-chemical-
defies-homeland-security-and-risks-another-9-11/
On Digital Education
https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/03/the-predatory-
pedagogy-of-on-line-education/
On Medicine
https://www.counterpunch.org/2011/08/30/medicines-
complicity-in-the-cruelties-of-capitalism/
On Cancer
https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/15/cancer-is-capitalist-violence/
On Marx
https://www.counterpunch.org/2012/11/16/if-marxs-math-is-
fundamental-why-do-so-few-teach-it/

I look forward to hearing from you (off list). Thank you for your help in
this important project.

Best,
Brian

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[Marxism] Fwd: NSSR Announces $1 Million Gift to Economics Department and Heilbroner Center

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http://blogs.newschool.edu/news/2017/08/nssr-announces-1-
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[Marxism] Bourgeois Knowledge

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See:
http://allegralaboratory.net/bourgeois-knowledge/

*Snip>*Most professors in the social sciences that I have met have
grandparents (or even grand-grand parents) who were university graduates
and professionals – doctors, professors, art collectors, architects, and so
forth. Both my grandmothers were illiterate; my father went to work at the
age of 12 and my mother started to combine schooling and empoyment when she
was 13 and had full-time job at the age of 15 (although studying was what
she really wanted to do). I was born in 1979 and my cousins and I are the
first generation of the family not only to have received a university
education (a few of us also hold a Ph.D.), but to have attended high school
at all. Perhaps this explains the feeling of unease that I have experienced
throughout my entire academic path, my sense of being suspended between
two social worlds (bourgeois academia and my own working-class
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[Marxism] Political Economy of Opioid Drugs - tonight on 60 Minutes

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Another dimension to the crisis. See teaser:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-the-dea-efforts-to-crack-down-on-the-opioid-epidemic-were-derailed/

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: America's amnesia - Mekong Review

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All they need to show is De Antonio's In the Year of the Pig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz8H_oi1ck0

Even Hearts and Minds would do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGbC3gUlqz0

America is just a Vietnam Groundhog Day.

Brian


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> Everything wrong with the new ten-part PBS documentary on the Vietnam War
> is apparent in the first five minutes. A voice from nowhere intones about a
> war “begun in good faith” that somehow ran off the rails and killed
> millions of people. We see a firefight and a dead soldier in a body bag
> being winched into a helicopter, as the rotor goes thump, thump, thump,
> like a scene from Apocalypse Now. Then we cut to a funeral on Main Street
> and a coffin covered in Stars and Stripes, which multiply, as the camera
> zooms out, into dozens and then hundreds of flags, waving like a hex
> against warmongers who might be inclined to think that this film is
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[Marxism] [UCE] Brian McKenna has shared a document on Google Docs with you

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[Marxism] Zygmunt Bauman Obituary

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"His best-known book, Modernity and the Holocaust
 (1989),
provided a stark warning of the genocidal potential latent within every
modern bureaucratic society to privilege process, order and efficiency over
morals, responsibility and care for the other. It was shaped by the memoir
Winter in the Morning (1986) by his wife, Janina (nee Lewinson), later
revised as Beyond These Walls: Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto – A Young Girl’s
Story (2006), and his own experience of 20th-century horrors."

full:
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Re: [Marxism] Paul Farmer on Cuba

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Here's a Marxist critique of Farmer.  Anyone who wants the full piece,
please email me.

http://coa.sagepub.com/content/33/4/447.abstract

Here is a snippet:

*A Rigorous Detour through Marx is Essential*

Dr. Farmer has vigorously renounced Marxist approaches for diagnosing and
transforming the world. In a text from the bestselling *New York Times*
book, *Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who
Would Cure the World*,” Kidder writes of Dr. Farmer, “He had studied the
world’s ideologies. . . . .But years ago he’d concluded that Marxism
wouldn’t answer the questions posed by the suffering he encountered in
Haiti. And he had quarrels with the Marxists he’d read: ‘What I don’t like
about Marxist literature is what I don’t like about academic pursuits–and
isn’t that what Marxism is, now? In general, the arrogance, the petty
infighting, the dishonesty, the desire for self-promotion, the orthodoxy: I
can’t stand the orthodoxy, and I’ll bet that’s one reason that science did
not flourish in the former Soviet Union.’”

Like Kim, Farmer’s assertions distort Freire’s essential message. In
Freire’s final publication, a posthumous collection of letters titled,
*“Pedagogy
of Indignation*, published in 2004, Freire’s colleague Donaldo Macedo puts
the issue succinctly,

“. . . . one cannot understand Freire’s theories without taking a rigorous
detour through a Marxist analysis, and [any] offhand dismissal of Marx is
nothing more than a vain attempt to remove the sociohistorical context that
grounds *Pedagogy of the Oppressed*” (Freire 2004:xiv-xv). Macedo
underscores that “the misunderstanding, even by those who claim to be
Freirean, is not innocent. It allows many liberal educators to appropriate
selective aspects of Freire’s theory and practice it as a badge of
progressiveness while conveniently dismissing or ignoring the ‘Marxist
perspectives’ that would question their complicity with the very structures
that created human misery in the first place” (Freire 2004:xvi).

*Naming the Pathologies of Power*

For some time Farmer himself has been reluctant to critique capitalism per
se, instead tending to cite “structural violence” as the source of the
problems of many of the world’s poor. Still, in his recent book *Haiti
After the Earthquake* he does acknowledge that “growing inequality, both
within countries and between them, is the linchpin of modern servitude”
(Farmer 2011:117).

PIH is becoming more and more closely tied to corporate capital. In 2011
PIH generated revenues of $88 million. There were more than 15,000 new
donors the last fiscal year. Among its corporate and foundation donors are
Abbot Laboratories, Aetna Foundation, Inc. American Express, the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation, General Electric, Co, Goldman, Sachs Co., Google,
Home Depot, HSBC Philanthropic Programs, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.,
Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Novartis, Pfizer, UPS, U.S.  Bancorp, Wells
Fargo and Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation (PIH Annual Report  2011).

In a February 23, 2013 article by Henry Giroux titled *The Politics of
Disimagination and the Pathologies of Power*, Giroux charged that “American
Society is awash in a culture of civic illiteracy, cruelty andcorruption.
For example, major banks such as Barclays and HSBC swindle billions from
clients and increase their profit margins by laundering money for terrorist
organizations, and no one goes to jail” (Giroux 2013). Dr. Farmer, who
receives support from HSBC, among other financial institutions, has chosen
not to make these kinds of linkages in his public pedagogy.

Drs. Farmer and Kim work closely with Presidents Obama and former President
Clinton. When he was president, Clinton forced Haiti to drop tariffs on
imported subsidized U.S. rice. This neoliberal policy destroyed Haitian
rice farming and seriously undercut Haiti’s ability to become a
self-sufficient country. It is widely viewed as contributing to Haiti’s
forced urbanization, an event that increased the earthquake toll. Clinton,
of course, also passed NAFTA which significantly hurt the US working class.
He destroyed welfare and in 1999 was responsible for tearing down the
firewalls between investment and commercial banking which opened the
banking system to speculators and contributed to much human misery
associated with the 2008 financial meltdown. Obama raised more than $600
million for his 2008 election and over $715 million for the 2012 election,
most from corporations, and has served those same corporations as well as
his Republican predecessor. He has stood by while those same corporations
looted the treasury and has done little to help the millions of Americans
who 

[Marxism] Mode of Production Theory according to Wikipedia

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_of_production

Nothing much on Russia and Chine as being State Capitalist. . .nothing on
the Germanic Mode. .

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[Marxism] Massive open-access database on human cultures created

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PUBLIC RELEASE: 8-JUL-2016
Massive open-access database on human cultures created

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

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IMAGE: NORMS OF DOMESTIC ORGANIZATION VARY SUBSTANTIALLY AMONG THE WORLD'S
CULTURAL GROUPS. FOR THE GLOBAL SAMPLE OF SOCIETIES IN D-PLACE, A NEARLY
EQUAL NUMBER TEND TOWARDS SINGLE-GENERATION AS MULTI-GENERATION (EXTENDED
FAMILY)... view more  

CREDIT: COURTESY OF KATHRYN KIRBY/UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

TORONTO, ON - An international team of researchers has developed a website
at d-place.org to help answer long-standing questions about the forces that
shaped human cultural diversity.

D-PLACE - the Database of Places, Language, Culture and Environment - is an
expandable, open access database that brings together a dispersed body of
information on the language, geography, culture and environment of more
than 1,400 human societies. It comprises information mainly on
pre-industrial societies that were described by ethnographers in the 19th
and early 20th centuries.

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[Marxism] Muckraking Anthropology - writing book - are you interested in being interviewed?

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Class Struggle is the Name of the Game at Universities. It’s the Ethical
Elephant in the Room

Posted on June 28th, 2016 by Blog Administrator

Brian McKenna

Picture this. You have a Ph.D. in anthropology and are hired, as an
adjunct, to teach an anthropology course on “colonialism, economic crisis,
peasant struggles, nationalism, indigenous rights, independence movements,
and struggles over development and underdevelopment.” That’s an actual job
posting. The salary for the position is $3,413.

A tenured faculty member may receive about $10,000 to teach the same course.

Now answer this. How can you NOT talk about your own struggles when the
subjects you are hired to teach on – oppression and struggle – apply to
you? You are a flesh and blood native of Nacirema (“America” spelt
backwards) standing before the students. You can provide insider testimony,
as a key informant, about “the other.” And you are “the other.” You are a
Ph.D. anthropologist who is actually working in the field.

Many adjunct professors are afraid to speak about the elephant in the
classroom. They are being monitored. They are under constant surveillance
from customers (student smartphones and course evaluations), middle
managers (teaching observations by Chairs), technicians (email monitoring
by IT), executive officers (annual reviews read by Deans), and CEOs
(Provosts and Presidents). They must be careful. They need that paycheck
for food, housing, health care, even burial. At one university where I
worked I was informed that, before I arrived, the department had to take up
a collection for the funds to bury an adjunct professor after he died from
a massive heart attack in his office.


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[Marxism] Silencing America as it Prepares for Another War

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Counterpunch, May 27, 2016

Silencing America as it Prepares for Another War

John Pilger

Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the
silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I
was with Robert Kennedy when he was shot and I saw his assassin, preparing
to kill him. It was a baptism in the American way, along with the
salivating violence of the Chicago police at the Democratic Party’s rigged
convention.  The great counter revolution had begun. . . . .

Clinton, the “women’s candidate”, leaves a trail of bloody coups: in
Honduras, in Libya (plus the murder of the Libyan president) and Ukraine.
The latter is now a CIA theme park swarming with Nazis and the frontline of
a beckoning war with Russia. It was through Ukraine – literally, borderland
— that Hitler’s Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, which lost 27 million
people. This epic catastrophe remains a presence in Russia. Clinton’s
presidential campaign has received money from all but one of the world’s
ten biggest arms companies. No other candidate comes close.

Sanders, the hope of many young Americans, is not very different from
Clinton in his proprietorial view of the world beyond the United States. He
backed Bill Clinton’s illegal bombing of Serbia. He supports Obama’s
terrorism by drone, the provocation of Russia and the return of special
forces (death squads) to Iraq. He has nothing to say on the drumbeat of
threats to China and the accelerating risk of nuclear war. He agrees that
Edward Snowden should stand trial and he calls Hugo Chavez – like him, a
social democrat – “a dead communist dictator”. He promises to support
Clinton if she is nominated.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/27/silencing-america-as-it-prepares-for-war/

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Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] Fwd: The Myth of Leftist Academia | Opinion | teleSUR English

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They are also using "faculty misconduct" charges against tenured professors
who profess too much.  They can get around "academic freedom" nostrums by a
documenting overly emotional talk, or charging the misbehaving faculty
member with micro-aggressions that elicit outrage - from either students or
FELLOW FACULTY.  The university is now a PSYCHIC PRISON for real leftists.
It has gotten much worse in the past 5 years.

Brian

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Re: [Marxism] New book on 1916 Rebellion and its after-effects

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Than You Philip.  I will order this book.

We can learn much from the Easter Rising. My grandfather, Edward McKenna,
fought the British during these years, was shot and had a price on his head
before his exile to America. US progressives can learn much by reading the
works of the Uprising's leader, James Connolly. See JC's Selected Political
Writings 1973 (eds. Owen Dudley Edwards & Bernard Ransom), London: Jonathan
Cape.

I remember visiting Ireland in 1990 and exiting the car at the site of
"Bloody Sunday" in Derry.  My great Aunt screamed bloody murder for me to
get back in the car, as the British soldiers quickly descended on me, guns
drawn and pointed at my face.  One was just a foot away with his weapon.
 "On the ground!"  I explained I was an American, and after some time was
released.  All I wanted to do was investigate the memorial.  My great Aunt
(a Republican through and through) was livid when I got back in the car,
"You could have been killed."

I have studied Irish history extensively, especially the strategies and
tactics of the 1916 fight.  I stand with James Connolly.

Thanks for this book.

In Solidarity,
Brian McKenna
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Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] Fwd: Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace - The New York Times

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I was blown away by this article yesterday.  The more I thought about it
the more Amazon sounded like where academia is going.

Brian

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 Molly Jay, an early member of the Kindle team, said she received high
 ratings for years. But when she began traveling to care for her father,
 who was suffering from cancer, and cut back working on nights and
 weekends, her status changed. She was blocked from transferring to a
 less pressure-filled job, she said, and her boss told her she was “a
 problem.” As her father was dying, she took unpaid leave to care for him
 and never returned to Amazon.

 “When you’re not able to give your absolute all, 80 hours a week, they
 see it as a major weakness,” she said.

 A woman who had thyroid cancer was given a low performance rating after
 she returned from treatment. She says her manager explained that while
 she was out, her peers were accomplishing a great deal. Another employee
 who miscarried twins left for a business trip the day after she had
 surgery. “I’m sorry, the work is still going to need to get done,” she
 said her boss told her. “From where you are in life, trying to start a
 family, I don’t know if this is the right place for you.”

 A woman who had breast cancer was told that she was put on a
 “performance improvement plan” — Amazon code for “you’re in danger of
 being fired” — because “difficulties” in her “personal life” had
 interfered with fulfilling her work goals. Their accounts echoed others
 from workers who had suffered health crises and felt they had also been
 judged harshly instead of being given time to recover.

 A former human resources executive said she was required to put a woman
 who had recently returned after undergoing serious surgery, and another
 who had just had a stillborn child, on performance improvement plans,
 accounts that were corroborated by a co-worker still at Amazon. “What
 kind of company do we want to be?” the executive recalled asking her
 bosses.

 The mother of the stillborn child soon left Amazon. “I had just
 experienced the most devastating event in my life,” the woman recalled
 via email, only to be told her performance would be monitored “to make
 sure my focus stayed on my job.”


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[Marxism] Orwell, Huxley and America’s Plunge into Authoritarianism

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Weekend Edition June 19-21, 2015

*Legitimizing State Violence*
*Orwell, Huxley and America’s Plunge into Authoritarianism*

by HENRY A. GIROUX

 In spite of their differing perceptions of the architecture of the
totalitarian superstate and how it exercised power and control over its
residents, George Orwell and Aldus Huxley shared a fundamental conviction.
They both argued that the established democracies of the West were moving
quickly toward an historical moment when they would willingly relinquish
the noble promises and ideals of liberal democracy and enter that menacing
space where totalitarianism perverts the modern ideals of justice, freedom,
and political emancipation. Both believed that Western democracies were
devolving into pathological states in which politics was recognized in the
interest of death over life and justice. Both were unequivocal in the
shared understanding that the future of civilization was on the verge of
total domination or what Hannah Arendt called “dark times.”

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Re: [Marxism] Marxmail anniversary

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I want to add my appreciation to Louis (so generous a leader), Hans (who
once helped me write an important piece) and all my fellow Marxists for
educating and inspiring me so much. This is the best list on the planet.
Happy 17th!

In Solidarity,
Brian McKenna

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 The list is now 17 years old and moving toward its 20th in 2018, inshallah.

 Best wishes to the veterans of this fecund swamp, the comrades who were
 here from the beginning: David Walters, Einde O'Callaghan, Phil Ferguson,
 Les Schaffer, Jon Flanders, and anybody else I might have forgotten.

 And most of all to Hans Ehrbar, without whom we would have been homeless
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