[Marxism] Los Angeles teachers on reopening schools

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United Teachers of Los Angeles on reopening schools
https://www.utla.net/sites/default/files/samestormdiffboats_final.pdf

"The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States underscores the deep
equity and justice challenges arising from our profoundly racist,
intensely unequal society. Unlike other countries that recognize
protecting lives is the key to protecting livelihoods, the United
States has chosen to prioritize profits over people. The Trump
administration’s attempt to force people to return to work on a large
scale depends on restarting physical schools so parents have
childcare..."

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[Marxism] The Fiscal Deficit, Modern Monetary Theory and Progressive Economic Policy

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The Fiscal Deficit, Modern Monetary Theory and Progressive Economic Policy
by Andrew Jackson
The Bullet, Socialist Project, July 14
https://socialistproject.ca/2020/07/fiscal-deficit-mmt-progressive-economic-policy/

 . . . "MMT rightly challenges the orthodox idea that government
budgets should be balanced and that deficits should be incurred only
to fight deep depressions when low interest rates no longer work. As
argued by Keynes in the 1930s, deficits will not crowd out savings and
private investment if the economy is operating below capacity. Indeed,
public investment financed by deficits can “crowd in” private
investment. And public investments financed through deficits and debt
can create a more robust economy and infrastructure, leaving future
generations with greater wealth and opportunities. Keynes, unlike the
“bastard Keynesian” wing of mainstream economics, looked forward to
the day when the economy would be driven by productive public
investment with no need for the state to borrow from the rentiers
living off interest income.

"In short, the key ideas of MMT are not so much modern as a return to
the radical Keynes and the left Keynesian tradition. Both hold that
conventional policy results in economies running well below capacity
much of the time, and both reject the mainstream view that the
macro-economy should be primarily managed through monetary rather than
fiscal policy.
 . . .
"In short, MMT, based on the theoretical legacy of left Keynesian
economics, offers us a way forward, but it does not free us from the
very real constraints of capitalism."

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Re: [Marxism] Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's President, tests positive for the coronavirus - CNN

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belated thanks, Ioannis

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> > who is that with Brezhnev, Ioannis?
> >
>   DDR's Erich Honecker (East Germamy)
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Re: [Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Racism, Capitalism and Rebellion – Red Madison

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Substantive conclusion of this article is quote from section "Our
Standpoint" section of C.L.R. James' presentation of the draft
resolution on "the Negro Question" to the 1948 convention of the
Socialist Workers Party "The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem
in US."  CLR James is credited of course but not the SWP, of course.


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Re: [Marxism] responding to query re photo of Brezhnev kissing

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thanks Alan

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> Brezhnev and Erich Honecker kiss on the 30th anniversary of the DDR.
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Re: [Marxism] Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's President, tests positive for the coronavirus - CNN

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who is that with Brezhnev, Ioannis?

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> > Now can he visit Trump and cough repeatedly in his face???
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> Well, as for style and efficacy, this method is much better:
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[Marxism] Plunder and Pandemic

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"Plunder and Pandemic, part I: Escalating Plunder"
by Robert Brenner, New Left Review #123, May-June 2020
https://newleftreview.org/issues/II123/articles/robert-brenner-escalating-plunder

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[Marxism] Capitalist Catastrophism...what is to be done?

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Capitalist Catastrophism
https://roarmag.org/magazine/capitalist-catastrophism/
by Kai Heron
ROAR magazine, Issue #10, June 17, 2020

"First, we need to return to the problem of transition. If horizontalism
failed with the Arab Spring and Occupy Movements and infiltrating bourgeois
parties and municipalities failed between 2015 and 2020, then our
collective task under capitalist catastrophism is to use our new found
powers of imagination to support the difficult and patient work of building
organizational and political forms, theories and movements to propel our
struggles forward.

"Though it is impossible to go into detail on the subject here, I am
convinced that this requires the return of the revolutionary party. For all
their flaws the movements around Syriza, Podemos, Corbyn and Sanders made a
great advance on the so-called movements of the squares
 by
demonstrating that the party-form is uniquely capable of cohering and
furthering the interests of the working class. It was the party — albeit of
a bourgeois kind — that opened the space for an affirmative, rather than a
strictly negative, critique of capitalism to develop — the most notable
example of which is perhaps the Green New Deal.

"Yet as we now know these movements ran into trouble because they tried to
do the impossible: to turn a bourgeois party machine into a party of the
working class. Our task today, then, is to strip the party *form *of its
reformist *content*, to build autonomous, *revolutionary*, working class
parties. Such parties would refuse to participate in bourgeois electoral
politics and would instead focus on building the kinds of movements,
institutions, cultures and practices that can make a real difference to our
lives within capitalism while pointing the way beyond it.

"By unifying the left, by serving to bolster and consolidate the gains of
the kinds of spontaneous uprisings that we have seen across the world in
response to George Floyd’s murder, this kind of party can serve as an agent
of revolutionary transition.

"Second, we must forge what Samir Amin calls “the possible, but difficult,
conjunction of the struggles of the people in the south with those in the
north.” Today’s crises are planetary in scale and demand a planetary
response... "
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Re: [Marxism] Karl Marx Fought for Freedom | Kevin B. Anderson | Jacobin

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...Slavery, he wrote in a draft for Capital, reaches “its most hateful
form … in a situation of capitalist production,” where “exchange value
becomes the determining element of production.” This leads to the
extension of the workday beyond all limit, literally working enslaved
people to death.

Whether in South America, the Caribbean, or the plantations of the
southern United States, slavery was not a peripheral but a central
part of modern capitalism. As the young Marx theorized this
relationship in 1846 in The Poverty of Philosophy, two years before
the Communist Manifesto:

Direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present-day
industrialism turns, as are machinery, credit, etc. Without slavery
there would be no cotton, without cotton there would be no modern
industry. It is slavery that has given value to the colonies, it is
the colonies that have created world trade, and world trade is the
necessary condition for large-scale machine industry. Slavery is
therefore an economic category of paramount importance.

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Re: [Marxism] Lenin and 'Sacred Texts'

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A heritage of Stalin's m.o.: deify Lenin, redo history to appear to be
Lenin's 'closest comrade,' use Lenin's writings as scriptures to
validate your policies, call your contrived doctrine
"Marxism-Leninism," ignore Lenin's wishes and mummify his body for
display and worship in a public mausoleum.


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> Read notes that Lenin was very uneasy about having his texts republished for 
> fear they would be treated like sacred scripture. Only reluctantly did he 
> agree to the project. Our present-day 'Leninist' sects clearly aren't aware 
> of this, since they do precisely what Lenin feared - treat his texts like 
> sacred scriptures torn from all context.

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[Marxism] Black Lives Matter in U.S. professional sports

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NFL players release video calling on the league to condemn racism and
support black players
https://www.facebook.com/NFL/videos/267230344632135/https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1269034074552721408

We, the NFL, condemn racism and the systematic oppression of Black
People. We, the NFL, admit we were wrong for not listening to NFL
players earlier and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest.
We, the NFL, believe Black Lives Matter.
https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1269034074552721408

Broncos players, coach Vic Fangio help lead protest march through Denver
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29275533/broncos-players-coach-vic-fangio-help-lead-protest-march-denver

NBA coach Popovich issues emotional statement on death of George Floyd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUq8qFngxkY

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[Marxism] ‘Incredibly Powerful’: Eleventh Day of George Floyd Protests Is the Biggest Yet

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These Images Show Just How Massive the Floyd Protests Were on Saturday
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/images-show-massive-floyd-protests-saturday.html
by Daniel Politi, Slate, June 6

‘Incredibly Powerful’: Eleventh Day of George Floyd Protests Is the Biggest Yet
https://www.thedailybeast.com/thousands-swarm-major-cities-in-largest-george-floyd-protests-to-date
Daily Beast, June 6

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Re: [Marxism] [UCE] Marxism and Rioting

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I don't think the "West End Riots" in London of 1886 (apparently
initiated by the early Social Democratic Federation/Hyndman, see
Comments on an "Anti-Capitalist" Riot by Friedrich Engels
http://www.whatnextjournal.org.uk/Pages/Back/Wnext19/Engels.html ) are
comparable to the recent grass-roots protests around the U.S. against
police brutality, violence and murders.  I think Engels would
solidarize with the recent U.S. riots.

a pertinent comment on current riots:
"Riots are communities defining what counts as police brutality and to
set the limits of authority. It is here, not in the courts, that our
rights are established."

RIGHTS, RIOTS AND POLICE BRUTALITY
by Kristian Williams, ROAR, May 30
https://roarmag.org/essays/rights-riots-and-police-brutality/

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Re: [Marxism] Trotskyist Mythology on Germany 1923

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Notes on the Conversations Between Trotsky and Walcher, 17–20 August 1933
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol5/no2/walcher.html#n15
 . . .
"On Point 3: Comrade Trotsky vigorously opposed the proposal to invite
the KPO(D), that is, its representatives, Brandler and Thalheimer, to
join the workers’ International. In his opinion, we should consider
the KPO(D) as a group ‘equivalent’ to the Stalinists; in reality, they
were Stalinist agents, whose sole activity consisted above all in
slandering the International Opposition and in defending Stalinism."
 . . .
"On the subject of 1923, Comrade Trotsky continued to affirm that at
that time, as a result of a bad policy, great objective possibilities
for revolutionary struggle had been botched up. But he did not in the
slightest think that the decisive fault had been committed in October
at the time of the Chemnitz Conference. [38] He recalled that from
1924 onwards he had compared the situation in 1923 to a rider who had
held his horse on too tight a rein in front of a high hurdle, and to
whom, consequently, there remained only two options: either to draw
back from the hurdle, or to try the leap anyway, which could only be
achieved after a great run up, and break his neck as a result. The
KPD, on account of the false policy of its Central Committee, and
doubtless also of the Executive Committee of the Communist
International, had been exactly in the position of this rider. He
stated with satisfaction that complete agreement could be recorded
between his point of view and that which had been developed by
Schwab." [Schwab = Walcher]
 . . .
"38. None of Trotsky’s criticism on this question had in fact ever
been directed against the decision to retreat in October 1923, but
rather against the previous policy of the KPD, which made this policy
necessary."

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[Marxism] Vietnam: 45 Years After the War Finally Ended

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by Howie Hawkins, April 30
https://howiehawkins.us/vietnam-45-years-after-the-war-finally-ended/

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Re: [Marxism] How Greenwich Republicans Learned to Love Trump | The New Yorker

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interesting study on contemporary U.S. capitalist class consciousness,
detailed focus on Greenwich CT

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Re: [Marxism] COVID-19 debt crisis: Is Modern Monetary Theory a solution? (GLW)

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Thanks Richard, reading the full Green Left article led me to a long
Doug Henwood article from February 2019:
Modern Monetary Theory Isn’t Helping
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/02/modern-monetary-theory-isnt-helping

which includes this pungent paragraph:
"And if we had a political movement strong enough to force
full-employment policies on the state, then why stop with a mere JG
[jobs guarantee]? What about democratizing the workplace, reorganizing
production to be ecologically sustainable, socializing property via
taxation and public spending, and eventually expropriating the
capitalist class? If you’re going to challenge ruling-class power, as
a JG would do, why stop there?"

Although readers of just the brief excerpt Richard quoted wouldn't
realize it, the Green Left author Neville Spencer is basically
defending Modern Monetary THEORY.  I agree with Spencer's concluding
sentence "When the COVID-19 crisis is over and we are told we can no
longer afford the increased unemployment payments, and that someone
now has to pay for the all debt that has accumulated, MMT provides
valuable arguments to draw on."



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> "While MMT proposes a solution to the problem of unemployment, it is often put
> forward without sufficient cognisance of the fact that, for capitalism,
> unemployment is not necessarily a problem to be solved, but rather a valuable
> tool to maintain profits.
>
> Having a pool of workers who are poor and unemployed keeps up competition for
> jobs, which helps keep wages down. Economists even tend to define full
> employment as being when 4-5% of people are unemployed. Anything lower than 
> that
> is viewed as undesirable, because it strengthens workers' bargaining power.
>
> This doesn't mean that MMT should not be used to try to eliminate 
> unemployment.
> But, as long as capitalism exists, measures to eliminate unemployment will be
> met with a war and not a thank you.
>
> All the money and power of capital and its media and politicians will be 
> brought
> to fight against measures that would have all workers benefiting from decent
> standards of living.
>
> There are likewise problems if MMT were to be used as a solution to the
> environmental crisis, if the capitalist sector left to its own devices. If an
> army of job guarantee workers were enlisted to help save the planet while a
> capitalist sector is left to destroy it, the climate catastrophe would merely 
> be
> postponed.
>
> Also, on the environmental front, while MMT provides a means to solve
> unemployment by using the economy to capacity, the environmental crisis means
> that we may not want to use the economy to capacity."
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[Marxism] Emergency Workers Organizing Committee

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DSA and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
(UE) have formed the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC)
to help workers organize for workplace closures, safety protocols,
just compensation, and a union during the coronavirus crisis. Want to
start a union to protect yourself and your coworkers but don’t know
how? Fill out this form, and an organizer will get in touch.
Fight Covid-19; Organize at Work
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“It’s Time to Engage in as Much Class Struggle as We Can”
Meagan Day interviews Mark Meinster, an International Representative for UE
Jacobin magazine, April 16
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/04/united-electrical-workers-dsa-workplace-organizng-coronavirus
 . . .
MD: You don’t often see socialist organizations and unions
collaborating this closely on projects of this magnitude. Does it bode
well for future of the working-class movement?

MM: I think it’s absolutely necessary for the future of the working class...

Our union was founded by people who had a critique of capitalism, and
who were fundamentally opposed to the idea that the interests of the
boss and the interests of the workers are the same. Our whole outlook
flows from that belief that there is clear, sharp class struggle
happening in the world, and that this economic system is not working
for workers.

But this has often set UE apart. Talking critically about capitalism
in the labor movement wasn’t that possible before ten years ago or so.
Now we’re seeing changes happen politically, and we’re seeing new
openings for unions and left organizations to work together. And we’re
seeing, hopefully, the resurgence of the Left and labor working
together to try to rebuild working-class power.


We Need the Labor Movement To Organize Worker Fightback in the Face of
the COVID-19 Crisis
by Carl Rosen, Andrew Dinkelaker and Gene Elk
In These Times, April 10
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/22459/workers-strike-walk-out-covid-19-coronavirus-labor

"Life-and-death circumstances are being imposed on U.S. workplaces and
workers are increasingly responding by standing up, fighting back and
walking out, but frequently without the support of organized labor.
Unions have a choice right now: Hunker down and try to ride out the
COVID-19 storm or put our shoulders to the task of assisting workers
in their fight to either improve conditions on the job or shut their
workplaces down..."
 . . .
"Our union, the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of
America (UE), has called on all workers, both our members and nonunion
workers, to stand up and fight. We have created online resources to
help nonunion workers take action to win safe workplaces. We have
published a special issue of UE Steward on how to organize members
around COVID-19 issues in the workplace. Alongside the Democratic
Socialists of America we are launching a joint effort called the
Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, which will provide
organizing and logistical support to workers who are ready to take on
their boss. Our members, both in organized shops and in workplaces
where we have organizing campaigns, are winning concessions from their
employers through militant and creative tactics."


Bernie’s Army Redeploys to Support Covid-19’s Frontline Workers
by Steven Greenhouse
In These Times, April 29
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/22491/frontline-workers-organize-with-DSA-UE-EWOC-Bernie-campaign-organizers

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Re: [Marxism] workers struggles and class consciousness

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some good columns (!); i lost track that you had posted Bouie's column on
Tuesday afternoon (w/ text, as i should have)

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>
> On 4/30/20 5:49 AM, Dayne Goodwin via Marxism wrote:
> > Another Way the 2020s Might Be Like the 1930s
> > by Jamelle Bouie, NYTimes columnist
> >
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/opinion/coronavirus-amazon-wildcat-strikes.html
>
> For another leftist op-ed piece in the NYT along these lines, here's one
> from Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, ex-ISOer and current-day Sandernista. At
> least she doesn't talk about taking over the DP.
>
> Are We at the Start of a New Protest Movement?
> The immediate immiseration of millions of people highlights our mutual
> bond.
> By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
> Contributing Opinion Writer
> April 13, 2020
>   . . .
>

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/opinion/protest-social-distancing-covid.html
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Another Way the 2020s Might Be Like the 1930s
by Jamelle Bouie, NYTimes columnist
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/opinion/coronavirus-amazon-wildcat-strikes.html
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[Marxism] May Day!

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A Call to Action: Towards a General Strike to End the COVID-19 Crisis
and Create a New World
by Cooperation Jackson
General Strike! No Work, No Shopping Friday, May 1st
https://cooperationjackson.org/announcementsblog/towardsageneralstrike

Workers Gear Up for Major May Day Strike in Pushback Against Unsafe
Conditions Amid Pandemic
by Andrea Germanos
Common Dreams, April 29
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/29/workers-gear-major-may-day-strike-pushback-against-unsafe-conditions-amid-pandemic

from DemocracyNow! democracynow.org headlines, April 29:

Workers Plan May Day “People’s Strike” to Demand Safer Workplaces
Workers at some of the biggest corporations in the United States are
planning an unprecedented wave of strikes on May 1, International Workers’
Day. Employees of Amazon, Whole Foods, Walmart, FedEx, Target and Instacart
will walk off the job demanding compensation for unpaid time off work,
hazard pay, sick leave, personal protective equipment and cleaning supplies
at workplaces. Many of the workers are part of a growing coalition that
will join a May 1 People’s Strike launched by worker cooperatives in
Mississippi. This is Kali Akuno, co-director of Cooperation Jackson.

Kali Akuno: “We’re asking everybody to start with these basics: no work, no
shopping, no rent, no mortgage, no school, no borders, no prisons. Right?
Let us all take joint action together.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Lends Support to May 1st Rent Strike
Tenants around the U.S. are organizing rent strikes, as rent comes due on
May Day for millions of newly unemployed workers. And some homeowners are
planning to withhold mortgage payments. New York Congressmember Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez is calling on state and federal officials to cancel housing
payments nationwide during the pandemic.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “People can’t pay. You cannot coerce someone
into doing something that they cannot do. There is no money in the bank.
People need to feed their kids. We cannot be evicting. We need to be making
sure that we are passing policy that allows people to stay in their homes.”
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Re: [Marxism] Anti-Capitalist Politics in the time of Covid-19: An Essay by David Harvey

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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 4:18 PM Ralph Johansen via Marxism
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> I don't think this has been posted here yet.
> https://www.democracyatwork.info/anti_capitalist_politics_in_the_time_of_covid_19_essay_by_dh

concluding sentences:
...On the economic front responses have been conditioned by the manner
of exodus from the crash of 2007-8. This entailed an ultra loose
monetary policy coupled with bailing out the banks supplemented by a
dramatic increase in productive consumption by a massive expansion of
infrastructural investment in China. The latter cannot be repeated on
the scale required. The bail-out packages set up in 2008 focused on
the banks but also entailed the de facto nationalization of General
Motors. It is perhaps significant that in the face of worker
discontents and collapsing market demand, the three big Detroit
auto-companies are closing down at least temporarily. If China cannot
repeat its 2007-8 role, then the burden of exiting from the current
economic crisis now shifts to the United States and here is the
ultimate irony: the only policies that will work, both economically
and politically, are far more socialistic than anything that Bernie
Sanders might propose and these rescue programs will have to be
initiated under the aegis of Donald Trump, presumably under the mask
of Making America Great Again. All those Repubicans who so viscerally
opposed the 2008 bail-out will have to eat crow or defy Donald Trump.
The latter, if he is wise, will cancel the elections on an emergency
basis and declare the origin of an Imperial presidency to save capital
and the world from riot and revolution.

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Re: [Marxism] Bernie’s Campaign Strategy Wasn’t the Problem

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Heideman has joined the Seth Ackerman - Eric Blanc Lovin' Spoonful
camarilla "Do You Believe in Magic?"

In this article there's hagiography of Bernie Sanders:
Heideman: "...the 'concessions' that Bernie’s campaign has already
won, by mobilizing millions of young, working-class, oppressed people
into political activity, and shifting wholesale the national
discussion. Previously fringe social-democratic policies, like
Medicare for All and free public college education, now have majority
support."

Is Heideman actually ignorant of the fact that there was majority
support for national single-payer healthcare when the Clintons took
office?  And ever since.

Refusal to face reality:  "Now after the dust has settled, we need to
face the fact that Sanders was more decisively defeated this time than
in 2016.  Sanders never won more than 30 percent of the Democratic
primary voters. His victories came because the establishment vote was
split. He consistently failed to win over older Black voters, or turn
out new, young voters."
"Facing Reality: The Socialist Left, the Sanders Campaign and Our Future"
by Charles Post, Ashley Smith, April 14, 2020
https://newpol.org/facing-reality-the-socialist-left-the-sanders-campaign-and-our-future/



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>
> So funny. Paul Heideman and some other idiot answer Sanders's critics
> but ignore criticisms from the Marxist left who make the same points he
> made in 2016 before his Road to Damascus Conversion.
>
> https://jacobinmag.com/2020/04/bernie-sanders-campaign-strategy-democratic-party-biden-trump
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Re: [Marxism] MMT in practice

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 Your quibble about a secondary theoretical issue is interesting.   It
would be useful to learn about your expectations for practice of MMT by an
actually-existing capitalist state.

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 7:30 PM MM  wrote:

> On Apr 21, 2020, at 8:16 PM, Dayne Goodwin via Marxism <
> marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
> … MMT's apparent claim
> that there is no relationship between the value of a currency and the labor
> theory of value is valid.
>
>
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 6:16 PM Dayne Goodwin 
wrote:

> From the recent discussion here it seems to me that MMT is a view of the
> relationship between a state and fiat currency and a theory of how a state
> could use fiat currency and economic planning to implement full
> employment.
>
> Actually existing states are instruments of the ruling class in class
> societies.  Has MMT ever been put in practice by a state?  Would a
> capitalist state commit to full employment?
>
> Maybe MMT could be used by a workers state after a socialist revolution
> has removed the capitalist class from state power.  If MMT was ever
> practiced by a state it might be possible to examine whether MMT's apparent
> claim that there is no relationship between the value of a currency and the
> labor theory of value is valid.
>


 On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 7:30 PM MM  wrote:

> I don’t think any of the main MMT proponents holds that view. Here are the
> concluding paragraphs of Randy Wray’s paper, “Theories of Value and the
> Monetary Theory of Production,” in which he embraces and defends the labor
> theory of value:
>
> "It is frequently argued that the LTV is "metaphysical" (an argument also
> adopted by Robinson 1967, p. xi), or that one could just as well argue that
> capital produces all value, or that petrol does, and so on.31 This involves
> a fundamental misunderstanding of a monetary production economy. In an
> economy that is able to produce, and in which most production occurs on the
> basis of hiring labor at a money wage, wages are simultaneously the major
> cost of production and the source of the revenues that validate production.
> Labor simultaneously produces the physical output–but, more importantly, it
> sets in motion the monetary flows that are the purpose of
> production. Because the majority of worker income will be used to purchase
> the necessities of life, the wage bill returns as capitalist receipts,
> while the link between capitalist income and spending is different because
> the goal of capitalist activity is money and not necessities. In Kalecki's
> terminology, workers spend what they get and capitalists get what they
> spend; Marx's equivalent expression is "the part of the variable capital
> that A advances at any one time to his workers constantly flows back to him
> from the circulation sphere". (Marx Vol 2, p. 406).
>
> "There are other reasons why adoption of some other "factor" of production
> as the source of value would be mistaken. First, of course, there is the
> problem of adoption of a measure of value that is not itself a value.
> The separation of labor (not a value) from labor power (a commodity with
> value) provides the external measure of value. The problem with trying to
> use capital as the source of value is that it is itself a value, a value
> that depends on other values (for example, prospective profits); further,
> the heterogeneity problems with capital are surely much greater than those
> encountered in the case of labor. (Dobb 1945) Second, the focus on labor
> is consistent with the observation that it is obvious that man as a tool
> using animal manufactures instruments to increase control over nature.
> Third, the focus on labor and relations of production is consistent with
> the view of capitalist production as the product of relations of men with
> men. Value is not an attribute of things, but is a social relation between
> men. (Dobb 1945, p. 59) It should be noted, however, that no claim is made
> that other "factors of production" are not "productive" in a technical
> sense; even Marx argued that capital produces wealth. Nor is there any
> claim that embodied labor is the only thing commodities have in common. It
> is merely claimed that labor fulfills the requirements of a theory of value
> while other "factors" do not, and that the LTV is consistent with Keynes's
> analysis.
>
> "Similarly, the choice

[Marxism] MMT in practice

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>From the recent discussion here it seems to me that MMT is a view of the
relationship between a state and fiat currency and a theory of how a state
could use fiat currency and economic planning to implement full
employment.

Actually existing states are instruments of the ruling class in class
societies.  Has MMT ever been put in practice by a state?  Would a
capitalist state commit to full employment?

Maybe MMT could be used by a workers state after a socialist revolution has
removed the capitalist class from state power.  If MMT was ever practiced
by a state it might be possible to examine whether MMT's apparent claim
that there is no relationship between the value of a currency and the labor
theory of value is valid.
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Re: [Marxism] [pen-l] Some may have to die to save the economy?

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On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 5:17 PM Michael Meeropol via Marxism
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 . . .
> Thus -- the only way the capitalists remain on top is with fascist type 
> governments.
> Q.E.D.
> (so what do we do about it?)


This is good (Louis put it on list April 15):

A Party of Our Own
Adam Turl and Saman Sepehri
Red Wedge, April 14, 2020
http://www.redwedgemagazine.com/online-issue/party-4-ur-right-2-fight

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Re: [Marxism] All the way with JB!

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VERSION 2.0

PART OF THE WAY WITH JB

SDS was known in 1964 for rationalizing their call to vote for LBJ using
the slogan "Part of the Way with LBJ", a play on the Lyndon Baines Johnson
campaign slogan "All the Way with LBJ."  Today's 'old new left' SDS
letter-signers have come together to say "Part of the Way with JB", Joe
Biden.

I respected the letter signers (those i knew of) in the 1960s but i
wouldn't ask them for political advice today.  Some of them have been
consistently giving bad political advice since the sixties, i.e. Todd
Gitlin and Carl Davidson.

Dayne


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> SDS was known in 1964 for countering LBJ's campaign slogan "All the Way
> with LBJ" with "Part of the Way with LBJ."   I wouldn't ask for political
> advice from any of these letter signers; some are truly execrable, i.e.
> Todd Gitlin and Carl Davidson.
>
> https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/letter-new-left-biden/
>
>
>
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[Marxism] ‘This Many Strikes Says That Something Fundamentally Is Changing in the Country’

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interview with Mike Elk on frontline labor action
Janine Jackson, FAIR, April 16
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[Marxism] Cuba: From AIDS, Dengue, and Ebola to COVID-19

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Cuba: From AIDS, Dengue, and Ebola to COVID-19
by Don Fitz, Green Social Thought, April 15
http://greensocialthought.org/content/cuba-aids-dengue-and-ebola-covid-19
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[Marxism] All the way with JB!

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SDS was known in 1964 for countering LBJ's campaign slogan "All the Way
with LBJ" with "Part of the Way with LBJ."   I wouldn't ask for political
advice from any of these letter signers; some are truly execrable, i.e.
Todd Gitlin and Carl Davidson.

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/letter-new-left-biden/

An Open Letter to the New New Left From the Old New Left

Student takeover of Columbia University in 1968, organized by the Students
for a Democratic Society. (Bev Grant / Getty Images) “THESE are the times
that try men’s souls. The summer soldier ...
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[Marxism] LINKS publishes pro-Assad tankie

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LINKS international journal of socialist renewal http://links.org.au/
has published a book review of Keith Bolender’s "Manufacturing the
Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba: A case study of corporate media
disinformation"  published last year by Pluto Press.
http://links.org.au/keith-bolender-manufacturing-the-enemy-the-media-war-against-cuba

The reviewer is Stansfield Smith, an active pro-Assad tankie in the
U.S.  In order to spread his views from this platform, Smith disagrees
with the author under review:
"We should never underestimate the shrewdness of US disinformation,
with has affected Bolender to a degree. For example, Bolender
describes USAID’s Zunzuneo project as analogous to Russian social
media operations in 2016 (p.188). In reality, this entire Russiagate
story itself was a disinformation campaign. Bolender again falls for
corporate media disinformation by calling the US-NATO war on Syria a
“civil war” (p.6). We can be quite knowledgeable about some
disinformation campaigns, but even the most astute among us can be
taken in by others."

Smith recommends Bolender's exposure of numerous U.S. government and
media lies but apparently is disappointed that Bolender does not help
him spread Assadist propaganda.

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Re: [Marxism] From Prominent Turkish Philanthropist to Political Prisoner

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The Coronavirus Meets Authoritarianism in Turkey
by Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, April 3, 2020
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-coronavirus-meets-authoritarianism-in-turkey


On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 9:18 AM Louis Proyect via Marxism
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>
> NY Times, April 11, 2020
>  From Prominent Turkish Philanthropist to Political Prisoner
> By Carlotta Gall
>
> ISTANBUL — During a tumultuous day in court in February, the Turkish
> businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala was unexpectedly acquitted
> of trying to overthrow the government and then rearrested before he
> could walk free.
>  .  .  .

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Re: [Marxism] FW: How the coronavirus pandemic is making strongmen stronger, from Hungary to Serbia to the Philippines

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Impact of COVID-19 containment measures on human rights and civil
liberties in the MENA region
Global Voices, April 8
https://globalvoices.org/2020/04/08/impact-of-covid-19-containment-measures-on-human-rights-and-civil-liberties-in-the-middle-east/

Tracking the Global Response to COVID-19
https://privacyinternational.org/examples/tracking-global-response-covid-19


On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 12:18 PM Richard Fidler via Marxism
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>
> With governments around the world adopting extraordinary measures amid the
> pandemic, ostensibly to protect their citizens - but often in directions that
> have little or nothing to do with public health - one of the most potent
> legacies of this era may prove to be a global erosion of democratic freedoms.
>
> The power grabs have been dubbed "coronavirus coups" in some countries, and
> three months into the crisis, with no end in sight, there are concerns that
> leaders such as Hungary's Viktor Orban are capitalizing on COVID-19 to seize
> powers they may never relinquish.
>
> https://tinyurl.com/rqrpmeh
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[Marxism] Keystone XL pipeline back

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Big Oil is using the coronavirus pandemic to push through the Keystone
XL pipeline
by Bill McKibben
Guardian, April 5
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/05/climate-crisis-villains-oil-industry-big-banks-pipelines

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[Marxism] pandemics & repression

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Peter Linebaugh on the Long History of Pandemics
KPFA interview "Against the Grain" April 8
againstthegrain.org
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kpfa-against-the-grain/id78900506?mt=2
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Re: [Marxism] Bernie Sanders Ending Presidential Run

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I agree that there was no way Sanders was going to get the 2020
Democrat presidential nomination.  imo (as i started telling friends
last summer) the most progressive possible 2020 U.S. presidential
election outcome would be the election of Elizabeth Warren. Just
because Sanders had called himself a 'democratic socialist' when under
pressure in 2015/16 didn't mean that for us working people there was
qualitatively substantial reason to prefer Sanders' program over
Warren's.

Some of my Sanders-supporting friends were aghast at my support for "a
capitalist."  Some of them who couldn't understand that Sanders was
just as much a "capitalist" as Warren, were at least given pause when
i argued that either Sanders supported Warren or he would end up
supporting Biden.

If the election was really "not about me" as Sanders claimed he should
have endorsed and supported Warren and created a progressive force
that would have been a much more serious challenge to the Democrat
Party establishment than Sanders alone.  Instead the Sanders campaign
broke their truce and attacked Warren early this year.  Michelle
Goldberg commented on it in her Jan. 13 NYTimes column titled
"Elizabeth Warren is the Democrats' unity candidate":

"Over the weekend, a minor conflict broke out between the presidential
campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, longtime friends who
have, until now, seemed to operate under an unspoken nonaggression
pact.

"It started when Politico reported on a script that Sanders volunteers
had been given to persuade voters leaning toward other candidates.
Warren backers, the script said, are “highly educated, more affluent
people who are going to show up and vote Democratic no matter what”
and that she’s “bringing no new bases into the Democratic Party.”

This attack escalated into the more visible conflict over whether
Sanders had opined to Warren before the campaign got underway that he
'didn't think a woman could beat Trump.'  I think Warren was telling
the truth.  I noticed that the brunt of the Sanders' campaign defense
was reference to historically previous Sanders' statements in the
abstract that he 'did think a woman could become president.'  imo when
everyone paying attention learned that Warren held Sanders responsible
for calling her a liar on national television both their campaigns
took a heavy blow.

Given, as Mark says, "the very blatant way in which the 'liberal
media' covered this campaign" the two progressive candidates did not
recover from the damage the Sanders campaign had caused trying to get
"me" ahead by cutting down Warren.


On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 9:17 PM Mark Lause via Marxism
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>  I don't think Sanders ever had a snowball's chance of getting near the
> nomination . . . and arguing that the DNC couldn't have prevented it misses
> the newest player in all this.  Historically, the DNC had been essential in
> tipping the nomination where it wanted to go, especially when tied to a
> seated president.  However, I'd argue that no such intervention was needed
> in 2020 thanks to the very blatant way in which the "liberal media" covered
> this campaign.
>
> They sought to head off Sanders initially by boosting Warren, and, as soon
> as her campaign looked as though she could more to fore, they froze her out
> (and then wallowed in its faux outrage at how sexism kept her back and not
> their own pathetic lying about how a national health care system was simply
> unaffordable).,  CNN and MSNBC reported the view she and Sanders
> expressed--that health care should be a human right--as an attempt to take
> health care away from people. o(It was truly a Democratic version or the
> Republican BS about "death panels.")
>
> In the end, they pulled out all the stops to assert (contrary to the
> evidence) that Biden was the Democratic contender most likely to defeat
> Trump.  And that's what's settled the matter indirectly without any need
> for direct action by the Democratic hierarchy.

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[Marxism] General Strike to End the COVID-19 Crisis and Create a New World

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A Call to Action: Towards a General Strike to End the COVID-19 Crisis
and Create a New World
by Cooperation Jackson
General Strike! No Work, No Shopping Friday, May 1st
https://cooperationjackson.org/announcementsblog/towardsageneralstrike

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Re: [Marxism] U.S. Plant Workplaces Emerge as Coronavirus Battlegrounds - WSJ

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The Coronavirus Strikes and their Significance, So Far
by Dan La Botz
New Politics, March 31, 2020
https://newpol.org/the-coronavirus-strikes-and-their-significance-so-far/


On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 7:49 PM MM via Marxism 
wrote:

>
> Tensions are breaking out between employers and workers across the U.S. as
> some companies push to keep producing during the coronavirus pandemic and
> some employees push back over health concerns and other issues.
>
> In recent days, plant workers have walked off the job at companies ranging
> from poultry producer Perdue Farms Inc. to soda maker Refresco B.V. At
> Tyson Foods Inc., workers petitioned for more paid sick leave. Some want
> more protective equipment. Others have complained to regulators about
> unsafe conditions.
>   . . .
>
>
> https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-plant-workplaces-emerge-as-coronavirus-battlegrounds-11585775230
>
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[Marxism] coronavirus pandemic and systemic capitalist economic crisis

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Did you read this excellent article?  Louis put it on list yesterday.

From: Louis Proyect via Marxism 
Date: Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 4:47 PM
Subject: [Marxism] Why coronavirus could spark a capitalist supernova |
openDemocracy


By John Smith, the author of "Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century:
Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis"

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/why-coronavirus-could-spark-capitalist-supernova/
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Re: [Marxism] Corporations Are Broke. It’s Time to Cut Up Their Credit Cards By Christian Parenti and Dante Dallavalle

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Bailouts for the Rich, the Virus for the Rest of Us
by Rob Urie, Counterpunch, March 27
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/27/bailouts-for-the-rich-the-virus-for-the-rest-of-us/

On Market Solutions to the Covid-19 Crisis
by jackrasmus, March 31
https://jackrasmus.com/2020/03/31/on-market-solutions-to-the-covid-19-crisis/

The Coronavirus and the Crisis of Global Capitalism
William I. Robinson, Mutiny, March 26
https://www.timetomutiny.org/post/the-coronavirus-and-the-crisis-of-global-capitalism



On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 9:17 PM Ralph Johansen via Marxism
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>
> https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/corporate-debt-crisis-coronavirus-financial-covid-19
>
> Given present uncertainties, this is well-documented, thoughtfully
> argued and seems prescient. The thesis has obviously been gestating with
> these authors well before this crisis broke.
>
> Not factored in are the effects on the world economy of environmental
> collapse, plus the likely turbulent global and geopolitical
> ramifications of the financial disaster that they portray so convincingly.

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Re: [Marxism] Relief Package is neither stimulus nor workers' lifeline, it’s again massive bailout to tottering corporations By Mike Whitney

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AOC blasts 'shameful' $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill for bailing out
corporations
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/coronavirus-stimulus-bill-aoc-ocasio-cortez-corporate-bailout-airlines-cruise-industry-a9430771.html

As Congress Pushes a $2 Trillion Stimulus Package, the “How Will You Pay
For It?” Question Is Tossed in the Trash
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/27/coronavirus-stimulus-package-spending/



On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 8:16 PM Dayne Goodwin 
wrote:

> “Total System Failure”: Congress Pushes $2 Trillion Pandemic Bill. Will
> Dems Allow “Corporate Coup”?
> https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/27/coronavirus_relief_bill_matt_stoller
>
> The Rich Eat First - A guide to the stimulus package from DSA's COVID-19
> Response Team
> https://www.dsausa.org/news/dsa-covid-19-bulletin-5/
>
> The stimulus bill includes a tax break for the 1%
>
> https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/28/opinions/stimulus-bill-tax-break-for-1-mccaffery/index.html
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 1:47 PM Ralph Johansen via Marxism <
> marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
>> The Senate’s Coronavirus Relief Package Must be Stopped!
>> By Mike Whitney
>> Global Research, March 27, 2020
>> Region: USA Theme: Global Economy, Law and Justice, Science and Medicine
>>
>   . . .
>
> https://www.globalresearch.ca/senate-coronavirus-relief-package-must-stopped/5707727
>
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Re: [Marxism] Relief Package is neither stimulus nor workers' lifeline, it’s again massive bailout to tottering corporations By Mike Whitney

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“Total System Failure”: Congress Pushes $2 Trillion Pandemic Bill. Will
Dems Allow “Corporate Coup”?
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/27/coronavirus_relief_bill_matt_stoller

The Rich Eat First - A guide to the stimulus package from DSA's COVID-19
Response Team
https://www.dsausa.org/news/dsa-covid-19-bulletin-5/

The stimulus bill includes a tax break for the 1%
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/28/opinions/stimulus-bill-tax-break-for-1-mccaffery/index.html


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> The Senate’s Coronavirus Relief Package Must be Stopped!
> By Mike Whitney
> Global Research, March 27, 2020
> Region: USA Theme: Global Economy, Law and Justice, Science and Medicine
>
  . . .
https://www.globalresearch.ca/senate-coronavirus-relief-package-must-stopped/5707727
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Re: [Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Re: [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Re: There is a god

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Harsh is the damage and destruction to working people, humanity and nature
caused by the rationally indefensible perpetuation of the capitalist system
for the last century.

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 9:17 PM John Edmundson via Marxism <
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:

> Should sneeze, or am I being too harsh?
>
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[Marxism] Cuban doctors head to Italy to battle coronavirus

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Re: [Marxism] The White, Male Deaths of Despair | by Helen Epstein | The New York Review of Books

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Why Americans Are Dying from Despair
by Atul Gawande
New Yorker, March 16, 2020
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/why-americans-are-dying-from-despair


On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 11:02 AM Louis Proyect via Marxism <
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:

>
> Reviews of:
>
> Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
> by Anne Case and Angus Deaton
> Princeton University Press, 312 pp., $27.95
>
> We’re Still Here: Pain and Politics in the Heart of America
> by Jennifer M. Silva
> Oxford University Press, 206 pp., $24.95
>
>
> https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/03/26/left-behind-life-expectancy-crisis/
>
>
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[Marxism] Coronavirus Capitalism

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Coronavirus Capitalism
Naomi Klein
The Intercept, March 16
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/coronavirus-capitalism/

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Re: [Marxism] Chicago labor coalition demands 15 days paid sick leave

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Lack of paid leave will leave millions of US workers vulnerable to coronavirus
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/09/lack-paid-sick-leave-will-leave-millions-us-workers-vulnerable-coronavirus

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 7:47 PM Andrew Pollack via Marxism
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> https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2020/3/11/21175105/coronavirus-unions-sick-leave-debt-forgiveness-mortgage-payments-shut-offs-evictions?fbclid=IwAR2CIlIpi80lcqpw4cZi_s0Pr3Sh-r7Zty0V0eGoXjjuYBsIALBuqsdNXaI
> Emulate this initiative - and empower unions' members to raise
> workplace-specific demands and actions.

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Re: [Marxism] "moderate" Dems and health care

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The backbone of our Utah Coalition for National Healthcare Reform of the
early 1990s was the several Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers locals in the
Salt Lake area (many of us UCNHR activists were also participating in the
OCAW-led Labor Party Advocates movement).  In those days there was no
question that we were working for a single-payer universal health care
system and an end to private profit health insurance (which is a
mafia-style protection racket; they don't provide any healthcare they are
just the goons at the door 'providing access' for those who have paid
them).

The Clintons privately worked out an oligopoly end state "reform" deal with
the major health insurance corporations (Metropolitan, Prudential, Aetna,
Cigna and Travelers at the time, MPACT) which was shot down in Congress by
the power of the 600 remaining smaller, regional and local insurance
companies still members of the Health Insurance Association of America
after the elite MPACT group left to set up their new "Alliance for Managed
Competition" lobby.  I should say the power of HIAA in alliance with the
more powerful major 'small business' lobby, the National Federation of
Independent Business.

The healthcare reform movement was in relative hiatus until Obama was
elected and hopeful expectations picked up again.  Unfortunately neither
OCAW nor Tony Mazzochi were still around.  Worse, the Obama administration
ruled out _a priori_ any consideration of single-payer, even in Congress.
We who had picked up the single-payer baton again found the going much
rougher than in the 1990s.  The public discourse about 'Obamacare' marked
the corporate triumph of defining healthcare reform as providing 'access'
to private profit health insurance for more people.

I think it is unfortunate that Bernie Sanders has been so polite to the
private profit health insurance corporations during this renewed campaign
for single-payer, Medicare for All.  My impression is that Sanders has been
reluctant to graphically expose how the private profit health insurance
corporations are ripping us off - and to explicitly call for an end to this
racketeering.  The result is that the corporate media has largely gotten
away with confusing the public about 'how could we possibly pay for?'
Medicare for All.
Dayne

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 6:21 AM Andrew Pollack via Marxism <
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:

>
> re the anecdote Dayne passed along (snipped quote below): Tony Mazzocchi
> often used that story as evidence of the need for a Labor Party. And health
> care was always at the center of the Party's activities.
> IMO the corona virus catastrophe could put independent political action
> back on the agenda, as unions and allies fight to make the bosses pay for
> the crisis.
> Dayne wrote:
> "It was evident Hillary is thinking a lot about politics.  Can you
> realistically tell me, she asked, that there are any big powers that
> support single-payer and that can take on the insurance industry’s lobbying
> and advertising budget?  “I said, ‘About 70 percent of the U.S. people
> favor something like a single-payer system,’” Himmelstein recalls.  “‘With
> presidential leadership that can be an overwhelming force.’  She said,
> ‘David, tell me something interesting.’”
>
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 9:12 PM Dayne Goodwin 
wrote:

> Jesse Jackson called the DLC "Defenders of the Leisure Class."  Bill
> Clinton resigned as DLC chair to run for president in 1992.  The Clinton
> administration promptly betrayed the wide-open opportunity to enact
> single-payer healthcare:
> David Corn reporting in The Nation magazine, April 26, 1993:
> "Health Care Reform - Round 1 BIG PLAYERS VS. SINGLE PAYER"
>  . . .
> "Several national advocates of a single-payer system, including Dr. David
> Himmelstein of Physicians for a National Health Program, sat down with
> Hillary Clinton in February.  She listened attentively, asked smart
> questions - how would such a system encourage more health providers to
> perform primary care rather than specialize? - but she gave no indication
> their presentations would make a dent in her plan, some form of managed
> competition in which the health care delivery system is organized into
> large purchasing cooperatives likely to be dominated by insurance companies.
>
> "It was evident Hillary is thinking a lot about politics.  Can you
> realistically tell me, she asked, that there are any big powers that
> support single-payer and that can take on the insurance industry’s
> lobbying and advertising budget?  “I said, ‘About 70 percent of the U.S.
> people favor something like a single-payer system,’” Himmelstein recalls.
> “‘With presidential 

Re: [Marxism] Jesse Jackson’s Political Revolution

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Jesse Jackson called the DLC "Defenders of the Leisure Class."  Bill
Clinton resigned as DLC chair to run for president in 1992.  The Clinton
administration promptly betrayed the wide-open opportunity to enact
single-payer healthcare:
David Corn reporting in The Nation magazine, April 26, 1993:
"Health Care Reform - Round 1 BIG PLAYERS VS. SINGLE PAYER"
 . . .
"Several national advocates of a single-payer system, including Dr. David
Himmelstein of Physicians for a National Health Program, sat down with
Hillary Clinton in February.  She listened attentively, asked smart
questions - how would such a system encourage more health providers to
perform primary care rather than specialize? - but she gave no indication
their presentations would make a dent in her plan, some form of managed
competition in which the health care delivery system is organized into
large purchasing cooperatives likely to be dominated by insurance companies.

"It was evident Hillary is thinking a lot about politics.  Can you
realistically tell me, she asked, that there are any big powers that
support single-payer and that can take on the insurance industry’s lobbying
and advertising budget?  “I said, ‘About 70 percent of the U.S. people
favor something like a single-payer system,’” Himmelstein recalls.  “‘With
presidential leadership that can be an overwhelming force.’  She said,
‘David, tell me something interesting.’”


On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 8:21 AM Louis Proyect via Marxism <
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:

>
> Useful recounting of Jesse Jackson's earlier attempt to return the DP to
> its New Deal roots but in keeping with Jacobin's dead-end politics
> refuses to conclude that this is an exercise in futility.
>
> https://jacobinmag.com/2020/02/jesse-jacksons-political-revolution
>
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Re: [Marxism] Could Sanders win? | Red Flag

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I don't know why people think that Bernie Sanders would be a revolutionary
president.  Has he been a revolutionary senator for the last fourteen
years? a revolutionary congressman for the sixteen years before that?

I have loosely followed Bernie's political activities since the 1970s; they
have become totally electoral and appropriately circumspect.  Bernie has
focused on becoming a successful career politician of now nearly forty
years.  He now has a well developed careful populist rhetoric - not the
systemic socialist criticism of the capitalist system that i first heard
from him.

Is supporting Bernie's election campaign an endorsement of electoral
politics as the most effective way to work for fundamental social change?
What if for the last four years Senator Bernie Sanders had made his
priority putting time, energy and resources into building a mass movement
for single-payer healthcare?  What could Senator Sander's first-order
commitment have done for Healthcare-Now! (healthcare-now.org), the Labor
Campaign for Single-Payer (laborforsinglepayer.org), Physicians for a
National Health Program (pnhp.org) and Health Over Profit for Everyone (
healthoverprofit.org)?   Will movement building or Bernie Sander's personal
electoral success turn out to be more decisive in ever achieving a
single-payer healthcare system?


On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 9:57 PM MM via Marxism 
wrote:

> The sad history of the left is littered with this kind of
> misrepresentation and false dichotomy. I didn’t for a moment espouse the
> DSA / Jacobin line; not in the least. But maybe Lou needs a cheap foil to
> vent against.
>
> Anyone who thinks a second Trump term affords a better opportunity to
> “draw clear class lines” than would a Sanders presidency is a delusional
> and dangerous accellerationist. The serious tactical question is how to
> take advantage of the space a Sanders presidency would afford, under either
> of the scenarios I mentioned, to draw those “clear class lines” and build
> the forces necessary for more radical change. That requires political
> education, among other things, and political education that doesn’t connect
> with people’s concrete struggles is sectarian cultism.
>
> You want people to fight against the system? Give them healthcare and get
> the debt burden that’s giving them anxiety attacks off their fucking backs.
> Then tell them there’s more where that came from, including a future for
> their children, but only if they’re willing to fight like hell for it. And
> tell them to hold onto each other for dear life because it’s going to be
> harder than anything they’ve ever done — harder than anything they’ve ever
> imagined. And there’s homework — lots of homework. But hell, we got Bernie
> elected despite everything they threw at us, so maybe we can win the rest
> of it after all. Let’s give it our best shot, and if nothing else let’s go
> out swinging.
>
> That’s what you tell them, or something like that, if you’re interested in
> “resolving the crisis of revolutionary leadership.” Leadership doesn’t just
> have an opinion or an analysis; it has a voice. Find that voice. Be that
> voice.
>
>
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Re: [Marxism] Could Sanders win? | Red Flag

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Of course even with Sanders taking office as president the "few positive
steps", i.e. single-payer healthcare, he talks about would not necessarily
be implemented.

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 3:41 PM Michael Meeropol via Marxism <
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> I read the article --- I agree it is a very good analysis ---
>
> The question is --- would the "few positive steps" of a Sanders presidency
> be a STRUCTURAL REFORM of US capitalism or not?
> I think it would be --- and therefore worth wholeheartedly supporting 
>
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Re: [Marxism] Jesse Jackson on 'democratic socialism'

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The Difference Between Democratic Socialism And Socialism
Stephanie Ruhle, NBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37WPYpmEGlc
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Re: [Marxism] How Netflix And "Manning Marable" Killed Malcolm X (The Third Time) - CounterPunch.org

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Important!  Thanks for setting the record straight, Richard.
Unbelievable misrepresentation from Andrew Stewart.  Shocking despite
already learning that it is a waste of my time to open messages from
Andrew Stewart and "Washington Babylon."
Dayne

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 12:00 PM Richard Fidler via Marxism
 wrote:
>> Andrew Stewart writes:
>> "[George] Breitman's Eurocentric Trotskyism articulates the claim that Black
>> nationalism is an ideological delusion that diverts from the revolutionary
>> cause. This is contrary to the Marxist-Leninist view, one embraced by Cuba 
>> and
>> China during the years El-Shabazz sought to build the bloc supporting the UN
>> petition, that the national liberation struggles are themselves 
>> revolutionary."
>
>
> This is an outrageous misrepresentation. Anyone who has read George Breitman 
> or
> who knew him personally (as I did) would consider the view attributed to him 
> by
> Stewart to be beyond reason or belief. Breitman was one of the most 
> far-sighted
> Marxist sympathizers of Black nationalism in the United States. He probably 
> did
> more than anyone else to publicize Malcolm's revolutionary legacy (the real
> legacy ignored by the Netflix series)...
> . . .
> Unfortunately, the book cited by Stewart (The Last Year of Malcolm X: The
> Evolution of a Revolutionary) is not on-line, although it can be purchased 
> from
> several sources. But anyone with a copy can see countless statements in it 
> that
> refute Stewart's libellous allegation. In particular, I recommend what 
> Breitman
> writes on pp. 55-56 and 66-69. As he states in the final paragraph of those
> pages:
>
> "[Malcolm's] uncertainty about the name to call himself arose from the fact 
> that
> he was doing something new in the United States -- he was on the way to a
> synthesis of black nationalism and socialism that would be fitting for the
> American scene and acceptable to the masses in the black ghetto. (An example 
> of
> the tendency of revolutionary nationalism to grow over into and become merged
> with socialism can be seen in Cuba, where Castro and his movement began as
> nationalist.) Malcolm did not complete this synthesis before he was
> assassinated. It remains for others to complete what he began."
>
> -- Richard


On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 12:00 PM Richard Fidler via Marxism
 wrote:
>
> Andrew Stewart writes:
>
> "[George] Breitman's Eurocentric Trotskyism articulates the claim that Black
> nationalism is an ideological delusion that diverts from the revolutionary
> cause. This is contrary to the Marxist-Leninist view, one embraced by Cuba and
> China during the years El-Shabazz sought to build the bloc supporting the UN
> petition, that the national liberation struggles are themselves 
> revolutionary."
>
> This is an outrageous misrepresentation. Anyone who has read George Breitman 
> or
> who knew him personally (as I did) would consider the view attributed to him 
> by
> Stewart to be beyond reason or belief. Breitman was one of the most 
> far-sighted
> Marxist sympathizers of Black nationalism in the United States. He probably 
> did
> more than anyone else to publicize Malcolm's revolutionary legacy (the real
> legacy ignored by the Netflix series). Consider just this one brief excerpt 
> from
> his extensive writings spanning several decades. It is from "In Defense of 
> Black
> Power," (October 1966), available with many other works in the Breitman 
> Archive
> on Marxists.org.:
>
> "Organizationally, the Black Power tendency is only in the early stages of its
> development; the various groups and individuals who have raised the Black 
> Power
> banner have not yet defined their relations to each other or united into a
> single movement or federation. But numerically it is already considerably
> stronger than the organized adherents of Malcolm's movement. The Student
> Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality
> (CORE), groups in the new tendency, are national organizations, with thousands
> of members or sympathizers. They have an experienced cadre of dedicated 
> leaders
> and activists, hardened in battle along many fronts and equipped with a 
> variety
> of skills. They represent the best of the new generation of young freedom
> fighters who appeared on the scene around 1960, with a consistently more
> militant outlook than that of previous generations and an enviable ability to
> learn from experience and grow.
>
> "Ideologically and politically, the Black Power tendency is also still in the
> process of crystallization. But its direction-to the left-is unmistakably
> indicated by the way it has broken away from 

[Marxism] Jesse Jackson on 'democratic socialism'

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The important word in ‘democratic socialism’ is ‘democratic’
by Jesse Jackson
Chicago Sun-Times, Feb. 24
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2020/2/24/21151126/democratic-socialism-bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-presidential-primary-jesse-jackson

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Re: [Marxism] Sanders's "turnout" strategy not working

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On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 11:53 AM STEVEN ROBINSON via Marxism <
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:

>  . . . It may well turn out to be the biggest opening the Greens have had
> since Nader left the GP in 2004. SR
>

In case you or a reader don't know, Steven, Nader was never a member of the
Green Party; Nader let the Green Party run him as a candidate.  After
Nader's relative success in the 2000 presidential election, the Democrat
Party establishment successfully pressured Green Party leadership not to
run Nader again (Nader was willing to be the Green Party presidential
candidate again in 2004).

In regard to the Green Party now, note Mark's cautionary comment:
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 1:08 PM Mark Lause via Marxism <
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:

Can something be done through the Greens?  Perhaps, if Howie is nominated.
> But don't expect the structure of the party to do it. Don't just cast your
> consumer preference.  It will take hundreds of committed radicals to get
> involved and build some sort of an organization or network of thousands.
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[Marxism] "only the billionaires can save us"

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Capitalist politics has become a caricature of itself.  "Mike
Bloomberg 2020" campaign advertising received via U.S. mail says: "Get
special interest influence out of politics. Mike never has and never
will take a dime from them."  This is point three on a four-point
platform.

When Ralph Nader ended his relatively brief venture into electoral
politics he wrote a fictional book "Only the Billionaires Can Save Us"
(2010; 2011 title "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us") which i took as
his experienced judgment on the state of U.S. politics.

Working people are constantly dunned for donations by politicians
(typically low-income millionaires) who need our help so they can
compete with the billionaires and billionaire-funded.  If we don't
contribute again and again, it will be our fault that the billionaires
are in control (spoiler alert, they already are).
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[Marxism] Cuba found to be the most sustainably developed country in the world

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by Matt Trinder, Green Left Weekly, January 10, 2020
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/cuba-found-be-most-sustainably-developed-country-world
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Re: [Marxism] An Open Letter to the Green Party About 2020 Election Strategy

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Howie Hawkins has a working class political perspective unlike the signers
of the 'open letter.'  Hawkins is vying for the presidential nomination of
the Green Party of the U.S. which, as John Reimann says, is historically a
petit-bourgeois political formation.  IMO this was proven in 2003/4 when
the Green Party rejected the candidacy of Ralph Nader (individually a
middle-class reformer but allied with the fledgling Labor Party organizing
effort, who had opened up a significant challenge to the capitalists'
two-party political system in the 2000 election**) in order to support the
Democrat presidential candidate, using the same capitalist-centric
rationale manifest in today's 'open letter.'

Open letter signers, like other defenders of the capitalists' two-party
political monopoly, argue from a narrow-minded 'zero-sum game' framework.
I think that the participation of strong independent working class
candidates in capitalist state elections increases the progressive vote
generally, including for the mainstream capitalist parties (Democrats in
U.S.) which posture as fighting for the working class.  In the case of the
protest vote for the weak middle-class Green Party in the 2016 presidential
election, i don't think the voting result would have been significantly
different if the Green Party hadn't existed, electoral results would have
remained the same.

IMO there has not been a significant potential national working class
presence in the U.S. political system since the mid-2000s crumbling of the
Labor Party effort that had been led by Tony Mazzochi (d. 2002, btw
longtime Nader ally).  If Howie Hawkins is able to win the Green Party
presidential nomination it might be an indication that the Green Party is
beginning to develop into a working class party.

Obviously i think the political outlook for working people is pretty
dismal.  Touche' Mark: "We don't have a lot of alternatives.  Everybody in
a socialist group that hasn't done anything to create such an
alternative--and going through the motions hasn't sufficed--bears some
responsibility for this. You don't like the Greens, but haven't done diddly
to forge something better."

And as Mark says: "The path to Trump was paved by Democrats [as] much as
Republicans.  That's the nature of the system both serve."  The open letter
signers are mistaken to think that voting Democrat will make a qualitative
difference in implementing 'real solutions' for the growing crises of the
capitalist system.

**The myth that Nader cost Gore the 2000 presidential election, now 'common
knowledge' in the mainstream media and also apparently with the 'open
letter' signers, was created by defenders of the capitalist two-party
political system to attack Nader and pressure the Green Party's leadership
not to run Nader again in 2004. The reality is that half of Florida's
registered Democrats didn't bother to vote in 2000 and 12% of them - over
200,000 - voted for Bush.  In addition to Nader/Greens, each of the other
seven third party presidential candidates on the Florida ballot in 2000 got
more than the 543 votes that supposedly made the difference, see <
http://www.cagreens.org/alameda/city/0803myth/myth.html>.  In addition to
voter suppression and related Republican dirty tricks, Gore (longtime
fixture of the capitalist system) didn't even put up a fight for a full
Florida recount.



On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 3:12 PM Louis Proyect via Marxism <
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:

>
> On 1/24/20 12:06 PM, John Reimann via Marxism wrote:
> > The Greens are not a working class party; they are a petit bourgeois
> party.
> > They did not develop out of a movement of the working class and have no
> > base in any part of the working class movement.
>
>
> Yeah, petit bourgeois. That about sums up this kind of politics that
> refuses to get behind a candidate like Howie Hawkins, who was a
> warehouse worker for decades and a Teamster union member. If this was
> 1934, we'd all be pushing for a labor party because there was a class
> dynamic that made it possible. We are not in 1934, comrades. Time to
> wake up and smell the coffee.
>
>
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Noel Ignatiev: Storming the Bastille in Syria

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On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 6:10 AM Andrew Pollack via Marxism <
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> old but worth re-reading
 . . .
Noel Ignatiev: Storming the Bastille in Syria
 . . .

Yes! you can read it here:
https://www.pmpress.org/blog/2019/09/02/storming-the-bastille-in-syria/
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Re: [Marxism] ARE WE ON THE BRINK OF A RENEWED WAVE OF RADICALISATION WITHIN BRITAIN UNDER THE SURFACE OF INCREASING REACTION?

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On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 7:55 AM Mark Lause via Marxism <
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>   . . .
> Electoral politics will open only after we get and sustain those mass
> mobilizations.   I'm hopeful, because there's plenty of sentiment for
> radical change.  However, there's no strategic understanding of independent
> movements and virtually zero understanding of how to go about the work of
> building them.
>

Right on, Mark.
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Re: [Marxism] Behind the attack on New York Times Project 1619 | Louis Proyect

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also
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of
the United States of America
by Gerald Horne (NYU Press, 2014)

On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 11:56 AM Louis Proyect via Marxism
 wrote:
>   . . .
> As for the British and slavery, this article is worth reading:
> https://www.counterpunch.org/2011/05/23/was-the-american-revolution-fought-to-save-slavery/
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: French General Strike

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French Unions and Yellow Vests Converge, Launch General Strike
by Richard Greeman
Montpellier, France, December 4
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/04/french-unions-and-yellow-vests-converge-launch-general-strike/

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 10:07 AM Fred Murphy via Marxism
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>
> - Forwarded message -
> From: Richard Greeman
> Date: Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 9:54 AM
> Subject: French General Strike

>
> *French Unions and Yellow Vests Converge;*
> *Launch General Strike for Dec. 5 *
> by Richard Greeman
>
>  . . .
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Re: [Marxism] Bolivia’s Tragic Turmoil | NACLA

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No Evidence That Bolivian Election Results Were Affected by
Irregularities or Fraud, Statistical Analysis Shows
Center for Economic and Policy Research, November 8
http://cepr.net/press-center/press-releases/no-evidence-that-bolivian-election-results-were-affected-by-irregularities-or-fraud-statistical-analysis-shows


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> https://nacla.org/news/2019/11/15/Bolivia-Morales-Camacho
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Re: [Marxism] Some conversations here in Chile

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On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 8:35 AM Andrew Pollack via Marxism
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> Interesting quotes on privatization.
> And loved the distinction between reforming health insurance versus the
> healthcare system as a whole (remember that our focus in the US is almost
> exclusively about insurance).

In the U.S. there has been a notable change from talking about
universal healthcare to expanding insurance coverage during the last
thirty years.  During our push for a single-payer healthcare system
during the 1992 U.S. presidential election cycle and in the first year
or two of the Clinton administration (before everyone learned that the
Clintons had sold-out that prospect in an agreement with the giant
private profit health insurance corporations) the public discussion
was about how to get universal "healthcare".  Obama administration
refused to even pretend to consider single-payer and confined the
public discussion to expanding private profit health insurance
coverage.
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Re: [Marxism] Paying for Medicare for All

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Warren's Plan to Pay for Medicare For All
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11=VYsC93Od2Gs

On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 9:41 PM MM  wrote:

> On Nov 2, 2019, at 10:02 PM, Dayne Goodwin via Marxism <
> marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
> Paying for Medicare for All
> by Elizabeth Warren, Medium, November 1
>
> https://medium.com/@teamwarren/ending-the-stranglehold-of-health-care-costs-on-american-families-bf8286b13086
>
>
> Warren has fallen into the fatal trap that “scarcity-of-money”
> propagandists have been constantly setting and baiting for decades.
> State-funded public services don’t “cost” a country anything; they are
> injections of liquidity that improve the lives of those who are served, and
> unleash the spending power of the people who are employed to provide them;
> they also lend themselves to growth in union membership and power. This is
> why public services have been gutted under neoliberalism, and why
> blank-check deficit spending has been anathemized for anything but the
> military.
>
> As Sanders advisory Stephanie Kelton succinctly puts it, money doesn’t
> grow on rich people. Government spending isn’t dependant on taxes (although
> taxation plays a role in keeping inflation in check, and in shaping the
> broad outcomes of an economy, even in class terms — i.e., which class has
> how much spending power). This is the main lie of neoliberalism (and its
> post-WWII precursors) that folks writing under the flag of “modern monetary
> theory” have been at pains to expose and debunk. Here’s a good piece on it:
>
> "Modern monetary theorists believe that confusion around money has
> distracted economists from the real things that affect the economic health
> of society ― natural resources, technology, available labor. Money is a
> tool governments use to manage these variables and solve social problems.
> It is not a scarce resource that governments have to track down in order to
> pay for projects.
>
> …
>
> “‘The basic idea is that the government can’t run out of money,' Kelton
> said. 'It creates money just by spending.’
>
> “When people talk about government profligacy bankrupting their
> grandchildren or triggering a cataclysmic debt crisis, Kelton argues,
> they’re conflating the experience of a typical family, which has to get
> money from somewhere outside the household to meet expenses, with that of
> a sovereign government, which creates money as part of its basic operation.”
>
> Link:
> https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/stephanie-kelton-economy-washington_us_5afee5eae4b0463cdba15121
>
> Warren’s perpetuation-by-silence of the lie that we “can’t have nice
> things” unless we squeeze money out of the rich is just further proof of
> her radical establishmentarianism.
>
>
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[Marxism] Paying for Medicare for All

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Paying for Medicare for All
by Elizabeth Warren, Medium, November 1
https://medium.com/@teamwarren/ending-the-stranglehold-of-health-care-costs-on-american-families-bf8286b13086
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Re: [Marxism] A Green New Deal Between Whom and For What? - Viewpoint Magazine

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On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 3:42 PM Louis Proyect via Marxism
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> https://www.viewpointmag.com/2019/10/24/green-new-deal-for-what/

This valuable and long article includes a link at the end to this
shorter excellent article which obviously i want to call to your
attention (if it hasn't already been separately posted to this
discussion list):
Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/01/05/degrowth-call-radical-abundance
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[Marxism] DSA rank-and-file strategy

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On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 4:02 PM Tristan Sloughter via Marxism <
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>   . . .
> Thanks for the pointer to Dan's book, I'll definitely be reading that and
> reaching out to him to see if he's involved with the DSA's current
> rank-and-file work.
>


of interest?

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism <
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>
> From Dan La Botz on FB:
> Yesterday NYC DSA Labor Branch held a Labor Day School that was attended
> by about 100 DSA members, most of them union activists. I spoke on a
> panel on the left and labor: Stephanie Luce talked about Why the Working
> Class, Chris Maisano talked about the Communist Party and the Trade Union
> Education League in the 1920s, I spoke about the Communist Party,
> Trotskyists and Socialists in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s.
> About 50 people attended that session, though I think 75 to 100 attended
> one or another session throughout the day. While I couldn't stay for the
> entire day school, I heard good things about all of the panels and
> discussions.


 . . .
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 3:46 PM, Dayne Goodwin 
wrote:
  . . .
P.S. As part of the organizational process of the DSA's last national
convention (held early August 2017) Dan LaBotz ran for a position on the DSA's
16 member national leadership body the National Political Committee.  To
have been a successful candidate for the NPC LaBotz would have needed to
receive at least 2,947 votes; LaBotz received 2,631 votes.

Here is the candidate 'platform'/bio on which LaBotz ran for a position on
the NPC:
*I have been a socialist activist since 1969 when I joined the
International Socialists

(IS), which in 1986 became part of Solidarity
. I served on the national leadership
bodies of both of those organizations. After attending the last DSA
Convention two years ago as an observer for Solidarity
, I joined DSA about a year and a half
ago.* *In the 1970s I became involved in unions. I was a founding member of
Teamsters for a Democratic Union
 in 1976 and
subsequently worked for various unions and community groups as well as with
immigrant rights groups. I was a Socialist Party USA
 candidate for the U.S. Senate
in Ohio in 2010, built an organization, campaigned throughout the state,
and won 25,000 votes. I am co-editor of the independent socialist journal
New Politics  and a writer for Jacobin
, Labor Notes
, Against the Current
 and other publications. I was
for 20 years editor of the Mexican-U.S. union publication Mexican Labor
News and Analysis
.*

*I teach labor studies, principally about Latin American labor, at the
Murphy Institute, the labor school of the City University of New York. I am
the author of several books on labor and politics in the United States,
Mexico, Nicaragua, and Indonesia.* *I believe the central political issue
facing DSA is its relationship to the Democratic Party
 and especially to progressive
organizations such as MoveOn.org , Our
Revolution , and Indivisible
. While we should work in coalition
with those groups, I want to work to make sure that DSA charts an
independent and socialist course. We should harbor no illusions about
reforming or capturing the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is not
our party; we should not become involved in its internal life.* *We should
support socialist candidates and progressive candidates in the Democratic
Party, but we should not–if and when those candidates lose–back the
corporate Democrats. The central political challenge is to avoid being
swept up into the progressive organizations, which in the end usually
support the Democrats corporate candidates.* *So while joining coalitions
where appropriate, we should be wary of the Democratic Party and especially
of its progressive wing, which will be most enticing to our members and
friends. We do not want DSA to become simply a small group at the left
margin of the Democratic Party. We want through coalition work to build a
powerful social movement, a resistance with its own political 

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On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 4:02 PM Tristan Sloughter via Marxism <
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:

>   . . .
> Thanks for the pointer to Dan's book, I'll definitely be reading that and
> reaching out to him to see if he's involved with the DSA's current
> rank-and-file work.
>


of interest?

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism <
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>
> From Dan La Botz on FB:
> Yesterday NYC DSA Labor Branch held a Labor Day School that was attended
> by about 100 DSA members, most of them union activists. I spoke on a
> panel on the left and labor: Stephanie Luce talked about Why the Working
> Class, Chris Maisano talked about the Communist Party and the Trade Union
> Education League in the 1920s, I spoke about the Communist Party,
> Trotskyists and Socialists in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s.
> About 50 people attended that session, though I think 75 to 100 attended
> one or another session throughout the day. While I couldn't stay for the
> entire day school, I heard good things about all of the panels and
> discussions.


 . . .
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 3:46 PM, Dayne Goodwin 
wrote:
  . . .
P.S. As part of the organizational process of the DSA's last national
convention (held early August 2017) Dan LaBotz ran for a position on the DSA's
16 member national leadership body the National Political Committee.  To
have been a successful candidate for the NPC LaBotz would have needed to
receive at least 2,947 votes; LaBotz received 2,631 votes.

Here is the candidate 'platform'/bio on which LaBotz ran for a position on
the NPC:
*I have been a socialist activist since 1969 when I joined the
International Socialists

(IS), which in 1986 became part of Solidarity
. I served on the national leadership
bodies of both of those organizations. After attending the last DSA
Convention two years ago as an observer for Solidarity
, I joined DSA about a year and a half
ago.* *In the 1970s I became involved in unions. I was a founding member of
Teamsters for a Democratic Union
 in 1976 and
subsequently worked for various unions and community groups as well as with
immigrant rights groups. I was a Socialist Party USA
 candidate for the U.S. Senate
in Ohio in 2010, built an organization, campaigned throughout the state,
and won 25,000 votes. I am co-editor of the independent socialist journal
New Politics  and a writer for Jacobin
, Labor Notes
, Against the Current
 and other publications. I was
for 20 years editor of the Mexican-U.S. union publication Mexican Labor
News and Analysis
.*

*I teach labor studies, principally about Latin American labor, at the
Murphy Institute, the labor school of the City University of New York. I am
the author of several books on labor and politics in the United States,
Mexico, Nicaragua, and Indonesia.* *I believe the central political issue
facing DSA is its relationship to the Democratic Party
 and especially to progressive
organizations such as MoveOn.org , Our
Revolution , and Indivisible
. While we should work in coalition
with those groups, I want to work to make sure that DSA charts an
independent and socialist course. We should harbor no illusions about
reforming or capturing the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is not
our party; we should not become involved in its internal life.* *We should
support socialist candidates and progressive candidates in the Democratic
Party, but we should not–if and when those candidates lose–back the
corporate Democrats. The central political challenge is to avoid being
swept up into the progressive organizations, which in the end usually
support the Democrats corporate candidates.* *So while joining coalitions
where appropriate, we should be wary of the Democratic Party and especially
of its progressive wing, which will be most enticing to our members and
friends. We do not want DSA to become simply a small group at the left
margin of the Democratic Party. We want through coalition work to build a
powerful social movement, a resistance with its own political 

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Anti-Government Protests Sweep the Globe
DemocracyNow! headlines, Oct. 21
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/10/21/headlines

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> In preparation for my 2020 Workers Hella Revolutionary calendar, I've been
> keeping track of events of revolution and counter revolution so far this
> year. I noticed that in the start of this year, most (but not all) events
> were part of the process of counter revolution. In the last few months this
> has reversed. Here's what I have for October:
> 10/2: Protests begin in Ecuador against neoliberal reforms
> 10/4 popular protests start in Iraq
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Protest moments explode around the world
https://www.pri.org/programs/the-world

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> In preparation for my 2020 Workers Hella Revolutionary calendar, I've been
> keeping track of events of revolution and counter revolution so far this
> year. I noticed that in the start of this year, most (but not all) events
> were part of the process of counter revolution. In the last few months this
> has reversed. Here's what I have for October:
> 10/2: Protests begin in Ecuador against neoliberal reforms
> 10/4 popular protests start in Iraq
> 10/6: US troops ordered to withdraw from NE Syria
> 10/7 school student protests in Chile against transit fare hikes
> 10/9: Turkey begins invasion of NE Syria
> 10/12: Biggest storm in decades, Typhoon Hagibis, hits Japan; over 7
> million urged to evacuate.
> 10/8: Ecuador government flees capital of Quito moves to Guayaquil
> 10/16: Hundreds of thousands of government workers stay at home in
> Zimbabwe; hundreds of thousands of Lebanese across party and sectarian
> lines protest against government; 25,000 teachers and other education
> workers in Chicago go on strike
> 1018: Chile government forced to call state of emergency due to widespread
> protests
>
> And the month isn't close to over yet.
>
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[Marxism] Muhammad Idrees Ahmad on Blumenthal & Assad, "junket journalism"

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I don't think this has been shared on marxmail.

Junket journalism in the shadow of genocide
What a visit of a group of journalists and activists to Damascus can
tell us about 'laundering' genocidal regimes.
by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad
Al Jazeera, 15 Sept 2019
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/junket-journalism-shadow-genocide-190914121639788.html
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Re: [Marxism] Hidden history: The Nazi-Soviet pact which Russia now tries to deny

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On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 12:23 PM Glauber Ataide via Marxism
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> Katyn forest? A supposed soviet crime discovered by...  the nazis?? Do you
> guys really believe this nazi tale?

Katyn Massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
 "The massacre was prompted by NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria's proposal
to execute all captive members of the Polish officer corps, dated 5
March 1940, approved by the Politburo of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union, including its leader, Joseph Stalin. The number of
victims is estimated at about 22,000. The victims were executed in the
Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons, and
elsewhere."
 . . .
 "A number of Russian historians and organizations such as "Memorial"
openly admit the Soviet responsibility, pointing out inconsistencies
in the alternative versions - primarily the fact that another major
mass execution site in Mednoye was never under German occupation and
contained remains of victims originating from the same camps as those
killed in Katyn, killed at the same time, and even though it was only
exhumed in 90's it contained well preserved Polish uniforms,
documents, souvenirs as well as Soviet newspapers dated 1940."
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[Marxism] Trump studied Hitler's methods

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Leading Civil Rights Lawyer Shows 20 Ways Trump Is Copying Hitler’s
Early Rhetoric and Policies
Common Dreams, August 9
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/08/09/leading-civil-rights-lawyer-shows-20-ways-trump-copying-hitlers-early-rhetoric-and
" . . . A younger Trump, according to his first wife’s divorce
filings, kept and studied a book translating and annotating Adolf
Hitler’s pre-World War II speeches in a locked bedside cabinet,
Neuborne noted. The English edition of My New Order, published in
1941, also had analyses of the speeches’ impact on his era’s press and
politics. “Ugly and appalling as they are, those speeches are
masterpieces of demagogic manipulation,” Neuborne says. . ."

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Re: [Marxism] DSA/Jacobin/Haymarket-sponsored 'Socialism' conference features US gov-funded regime-change activists | The Grayzone

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On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 12:41 PM Louis Proyect via Marxism <
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:

> This is the kind of article I'd expect to read in WSWS.org. These guys
> are wacko.
>
> https://thegrayzone.com/2019/07/06/dsa-jacobin-iso-socialism-conference-us-funded-regime-change/


They are wacko middle class moralists.  They don't approach world politics
on a marxist, materialist workers class struggle basis but on an abstract
moral perspective of taking a stance against evil (U.S. imperialist
government) on the side of good (governments in conflict with U.S.
government).  The capitalist regime oppressing workers in Russia is on the
"anti-imperialist" good side in their book.

The modus operandi of these wackos is not based on working class struggle
but instead on bourgeois moral purity.  They search to find some connection
- however insignificant, distant, accidental (or predictable, given
politics in a capitalist world) - that their target has with some
capitalist entity, government or non-governmental.  See! we have proven
that our enemies are not pure, now we can reveal that they are part of a
conscious and secret imperialist plot.

This is the simplistic moralist methodology of Russian
counter-revolutionaries who accused Lenin and the Bolsheviks of being
traitors and German agents: the Bolsheviks took money and assistance from
the German government!
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[Marxism] Query: Che bio?

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Would appreciate recommendations, suggestions, comments, advice on
choosing a biography of Che for a leftist reading group.
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Re: [Marxism] The Dictatorship of the Present | The Point Magazine

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The author may or may not be presenting a fair view of the Momentum caucus
w/in DSA; i 'hear' varying evaluations.

i skimmed this long article, noticed this paragraph towards the end (after
the paragraphs Louis chose to emphasize):
"I have no doubt DSA contains the germ of a better society. But in my heart
I know that it has other possible futures. In a way these are even more
likely, to judge from history. Every socialist with a moral backbone knows
exactly what I’m talking about. You know the sort of people the movement
can attract in spite of its noble aims: the ones who see others not as
human beings but as resources to be managed, who have no compunctions about
means so long as the ends are justified, whose sense of their great
personal destiny comes from their conviction that the winds of history are
at their back. Today they’re an annoyance. Tomorrow…"
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Re: [Marxism] Barnes cult and Trotsky conference in Cuba

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Susan Weissman
Faculty Profile, St. Mary's College
https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/node/142756

Suzi Weissman on KPFK radio
https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/suzi-weissman/

Suzi Weissman
#LEFTFORUM2019 June 28th to 30th!
https://www.leftforum.org/people/suzi-weissman

Articles by: Suzi Weissman @ Jacobin
https://www.jacobinmag.com/author/suzi-weissman




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> On 5/26/19 9:01 PM, Philip Ferguson via Marxism wrote:
> > Is Suzi Weissman right that the Barnes cult wrote to Havana to try to get
> > the Trotsky conference banned?
>
> An old friend and veteran of the Trotskyist movement characterized her
> report as:
>
> "I think her report is pretty shitty – all kinds of statements with no
> references whatsoever.  When someone makes a serious accusation such as
> that, they should back it up. Who is her source?  It seems more like
> gossip to me, and disgusting."
>
> And his view of Jack Barnes is about the same as mine.

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[Marxism] Suzi Weissman on Trotsky conference, Cuba

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"Neither Kings Nor Bureaucrats"
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On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 3:00 AM John Reimann <1999wild...@gmail.com> wrote:

> . . . Dayne seems to use bonapartism and fascism interchangeably. . .
>

No, didn't mean to give the impression i use bonapartism and fascism
interchangeably.  I think of Trump as a fascist - at least proto-fascist -
not as a Bonapartist.  In particular i was responding to your frequent
comments on how much of the capitalist class dislikes Trump.


On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 3:00 AM John Reimann <1999wild...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you, Dayne Goodwin, for actually commenting on the essence of the
> article.
>
> Let's look at it from the other point of view - that of bourgeois
> democracy. Under that form of rule, the bulk of the capitalist class must
> be able to maintain a widespread base of support in the working class and
> the petit bourgeois. Not just general support for capitalism, but also for
> the policies it deems as necessary. As the example of the Chamber of
> Commerce shows, I think that that support has largely slipped away. Take
> some other issues: The TPP, "free" trade in general, the Paris Climate
> Accord, the accord with Iran... And, most important, whom it wants elected
> as president. Its first choice was Jeb Bush. Then came Hillary Clinton. The
> overwhelming bulk of the capitalist class did not favor Trump.
>
> I think that bonepartism arises when the capitalist class can no longer
> rule in the old way and the working class cannot take power - usually
> nowadays because of the role of its leadership. In that sort of situation,
> a strong man or woman arises, partly out of control of the ruling class
> itself. Not all bonapartist regimes are identical. Not by a long shot. On
> the one hand, we have the examples of the PRI in Mexico, which ruled for 70
> years. It was the old Lazaro Cardenas who brought it to power, exactly out
> of the sort of situation I described. Once in power, he and the PRI leaned
> on the working class, at times ruling in its favor, and along the way
> looting the capitalist class. Then there is the old Batista dictatorship in
> Cuba. Interestingly, he originally came to power as a "leftist" and he
> ruled with the support of the Cuban Communist Party. I think it was similar
> with Peron in Argentina. Then there is Putin, who I would argue is also a
> bonapartist dictator.
>
> Note that in all these cases, bourgeois democratic freedoms are not
> completely eliminated.
>
> Dayne seems to use bonapartism and fascism interchangeably. I look at it
> differently. I think fascists have a crazed mass base and their own private
> army of thugs. Hitler's SS are the classic example. That's what allows
> fascism to go a lot further. (I used to think there was a hard and fast
> difference between bonapartism and fascism, but I'm not so sure anymore.
> Look at Pinochet in Chile. He went nearly as far as some fascists did. Or
> Papa Doc Duvalier in Haiti, who had his private army of thugs, the Ton Ton
> Macoute.)
>
> In neither case is the mainstream of the capitalist class "thrilled" with
> its ruler. In Mexico. the capitalists large and small constantly grumbled
> about how the PRI dictatorship ripped them off. (Read Traven's "The State"
> for a description.) While a wing of the capitalist class is happy with
> Trump's policies that lead to improved quarterly results, there is also a
> major wing that is deeply unhappy. For a hint at what is coming, look at
> the proposed merger of AT and Time Warner that Trump's (in)Justice
> Department fought. Why did they fight it? As retribution for Timer Warner's
> editorial policies against Trump. I think this is clear from reading the
> opinion pieces in the NY Times and the Washington Post, vs. the Wall St.
> Journal the deep, deep divisions in the US capitalist class. And even his
> supporters are very critical of some of his important policies, especially
> his trade policies.
>
> Finally, as far as the Putin-Trump relationship: Sure, Trump gets
> something out of it. He gets the silence of Putin as far as his (Trump's)
> past. He also gets the electoral help. And while the extreme weakness of
> the Democrats' candidate was by far and away the main reason that Trump
> won, I don't think we can dismiss the effect of that support. According to
> Craig Unger ("House of Trump, House of Putin") studies by UC Berkeley and
> Swansea University in Wales concluded that Russian intervention swung 3.23%
> of the vote for Trump. That was overall, but because of the electoral
> college system, what matters is state-by-state. Trump won Wisconsin 47.2%
> to 45.5%. He won Pennsylvania 48.2% to 47.5%. Etc. So, if Russian
> intervention just tipped the 

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some thoughts -
doesn't 'Bonapartism' develop in a situation of relative stalemate in the
class struggle?  Is that the situation in the U.S. today?

Does past historical experience indicate that the bulk of the capitalist
class is typically thrilled to adjust to relying more and more on a fascist
dictator?

Is the Putin-Trump relationship one-sided or do they both find some
advantages in it?  Maybe Trump's 'friendly' relationship with Putin is an
ancillary asset as Trump jockeys for power in the U.S. capitalist state?
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[Marxism] Academic Freedom at Risk After Decades of Right-Wing Attacks and Cuts to Education

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https://jacobinmag.com/2019/04/democratic-socialists-america-chicago-rossana-rodriguez-carlos-rosa-chicago-teachers-union

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> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/03/americas-socialist-surge-chicago
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Balhorn presents a simplistic and exaggerated caricature of Bolshevik
political perspectives in order to dismiss revolutionary socialism in
favor of Sunkara's 'more realistic' reformism.  Balhorn should study
Lenin's "Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Discorder" published in
June 1920 based on the developments in the international class
struggle and Lenin's thinking just about one year after the founding
of the Communist International.  IMO if there had been a Bolshevik
party in Germany during WWI there would have been a socialist
revolution in Germany soon after the German government had been
defeated.

Balhorn also ignores the actual history of class struggles around the
world for the last century.  Reading Balhorn will mislead you about
the real opportunities for socialist revolution in China in the 1920s
(or what happened after WWII), in Spain and France in the 1930s, all
over southern Europe as WWII ended, in France, Italy and Portugal in
the latter 1960s/1970s. According to Balhorn nothing significant
happened in Cuba or Chile in the last century - or anywhere else in
Asia, Africa or 'Latin America.'  Except for also being blind to the
class struggle in Europe, Balhorn might justifiably be accused of
Eurocentrism...


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>
> (Nothing disgusts me more than young Marxist scholars grouped around
> Jacobin like Eric Blanc and this Die Linke member trying to promote work
> in the Democratic Party through obscure historical references. This
> article is a reasonably astute presentation of the problems of the
> Comintern making points that I have made myself but ends up with this
> glob of reformist pablum toward the end.)
> . . .
> full:
> https://jacobinmag.com/2019/03/comintern-lenin-german-revolution-ussr-revolution
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Re: [Marxism] open letter to Pinker (and Gates) on global poverty

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How Britain stole $45 trillion from India
And lied about it.
by Jason Hickel
Al Jazeera, 19 Dec 2018
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/britain-stole-45-trillion-india-181206124830851.html


On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 6:10 PM Dayne Goodwin 
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> A letter to Steven Pinker (and Bill Gates, for that matter) about global
> poverty
> by Jason Hickel, February 4, 2019
> https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-poverty
> https://thisishell.com/interviews/1042-jason-hickel
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[Marxism] open letter to Pinker (and Gates) on global poverty

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A letter to Steven Pinker (and Bill Gates, for that matter) about global
poverty
by Jason Hickel, February 4, 2019
https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-poverty
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Re: [Marxism] Hunterbear, R.I.P.

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John Hunter Gray, Of Mississippi Lunch Counter Sit-In, Dies At 84
National Public Radio, "All Things Considered," January 11
by Karen Grigsby Bates
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/684610222/john-hunter-gray-of-mississippi-lunch-counter-sit-in-dies-at-84


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>
> A couple of obits that I have seen:
>
> https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/4555114-civil-rights-activist-and-former-und-professor-john-salter-jr-dies
>
> https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-john-hunter-gray-lunch-counter-protest-photo-dead-20190110-story.html

>
> From his son, Peter Salter on Facebook:
> ---
>
> The strongest man I ever knew died today, in his home, and in the care and 
> companionship of the family he helped create.
>
> John R. Salter Jr., later known as John Gray, left a permanent mark on this 
> world as a labor organizer, Civil Rights leader, author, college professor, 
> father, grandfather, great-grandfather. He liked to say he was an agitator, 
> but he was really a helper and a solver. He could not stomach injustice, and 
> the bigger the wrong, the fiercer the foe, the better.
> Our father held on longer than anyone expected, but that was within in his 
> character. Like everything else in his life, he was going to do this on his 
> own terms.
>
> He is already missed and mourned, but we know he will always be near, and his 
> legacy will live on."
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[Marxism] Seasons Greetings from France’s Yellow Vests: “We are not tired”

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Seasons Greetings from France’s Yellow Vests: “We are not tired”
by Richard Greeman
ZCommunications, December 30, 2018
https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/seasons-greetings-from-frances-yellow-vests-we-are-not-tired/

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Re: [Marxism] I Listened to All Six Trump Rallies in October. You Should, Too | The New Yorker

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concluding two paragraphs:
"Much of the coverage of these events tends to be theatre criticism, or
news stories about a single inflammatory line or two, rating Trump’s
performance or puzzling over the appeal to his followers. But what the
President of the United States is actually saying is extraordinary,
regardless of whether the television cameras are carrying it live. It’s not
just the whoppers or the particular outrage riffs that do get covered,
either. It’s the hate, and the sense of actual menace that the President is
trying to convey to his supporters. Democrats aren’t just wrong in the
manner of traditional partisan differences; they are scary, bad, evil,
radical, dangerous. Trump and Trump alone stands between his audiences and
disaster.

"I listen because I think we are making a mistake by dismissing him, by
pretending the words of the most powerful man in the world are meaningless.
They do have consequences. They are many, and they are worrisome. In what
he says to the world, the President is, as Ed Luce wrote in the *Financial
Times* this week, “creating the space to do things which were recently
unthinkable.” It’s not a reality show; it’s real."


Trump warns of 'left-wing violence' if Democrats win mid-term elections
BBC, August 29 2018
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45340275
 . . .
An audio recording of Mr Trump's closed-door meeting with Evangelical
leaders at the White House was leaked to US media.

During the meeting, Mr Trump said the mid-term elections were not just
a referendum on him but also "on your religion, it's a referendum on
free speech and the First Amendment [guaranteeing basic freedoms]".

"It's not a question of like or dislike, it's a question that they
will overturn everything that we've done and they will do it quickly
and violently. And violently. There is violence. When you look at
Antifa - these are violent people," he said. . .

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> The biggest difference between Trump and any other American President,
> however, is not the bragging. It’s the cult of personality he has built
> around himself and which he insists upon at his rallies. Political
> leaders are called onstage to praise the President in terms that would
> make a feudal courtier blush, and they’re not empty words. These are the
> kinds of tributes I have heard in places like Uzbekistan, but never
> before in America. “Is he not the best President we have ever had?” the
> Mississippi senator Cindy Hyde-Smith enthused. (Trump then praised her
> for voting “with me one hundred per cent of the time.”) In Erie on
> Wednesday, a Republican congressman, Michael Kelly, gave the most
> sycophantic speech of the ones I listened to this month. Trump, he
> yelled to the crowd, is “the strongest President we have seen in our
> lifetime.” Addressing Trump, he said, “You are the best! You are the
> best!” Trump did not need to leave his “luxurious” life behind for the
> indignities of political combat, but he did. “I am so grateful,” Kelly
> concluded, “that an American citizen came out of nowhere to take the
> reins and reform and retake this nation.”
>
> full:
>
> https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/i-listened-to-all-six-trump-rallies-in-october-you-should-too
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Re: [Marxism] Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, superstar -- and what Engels would have said about her

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My impression is that the 250 who have joined DSA in the Salt Lake City
area over the last two years are almost entirely 18 to just-over-30 years
old.  They seem to be a fairly representative proportional sample of
some-college workers, college graduate workers, those doing some college
and working, undergraduate and graduate students, graduate degree workers
and teachers.  Proportional representation hold ups well on gender, less
well for 'people-of-color' and  no-college workers.

btw, i think it was the SWP's first conference held at Oberlin College in
summer 1970 that should be called "the New Radicalization one" (i was
there).  I've often called the 1971 convention of the SWP 'the FAPO
convention' (FAPO = "For a Proletarian Orientation").


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> On 8/26/18 2:46 PM, Joaquin Bustelo via Marxism wrote:
> > And my observation in Atlanta is that people joining DSA (here, almost
> > 200 so far this year) are millennials with a college degree and a
> > low-level clerical or service industry job.
>
> Millennials with a college degree. I'm sure that's exactly who is
> joining the DSA. Back in 1971 I was at the SWP conference at Oberlin
> (the New Radicalization one)...
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Re: [Marxism] What's behind the explosive growth of the DSA?

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Another possible historical analogy: DSA today is comparable to SDS of
the 1960s.

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> Wouldn't the CIO and its associated unions have been the comparable 
> phenomenon in the 30s?
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Re: [Marxism] Sergio Cesaratto and Stavros Mavroudeas – Revelli, SYRIZA and giving to Caesar what it is due to him… – BRAVE NEW EUROPE

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excellent, thank you

>
> Dear friends
> The following article by Sergio Cesarrato and me, published in BRAVE NEW 
> EUROPE 
> (https://braveneweurope.com/sergio-cesaratto-and-stavros-mavroudeas-revelli-syriza-and-giving-to-caesar-what-it-is-due-to-him
>  ), might be of interest to you.
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[Marxism] LaBotz: Why I Voted Against Endorsing Cynthia Nixon

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http://newpol.org/content/why-i-voted-against-endorsing-cynthia-nixon


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> I think it's accurate to say that the DSA is much like the old SDS in its
> relation to the Democratic Party.  It is both inside the Democratic Party
> and outside of it.
>
> The best way to think about this is probably not what radicals shouldn't be
> doing in terms of electoral politics, but what they SHOULD be doing.  If
> anyone can show me one single example of radicals going into the Democratic
> party and building something useful to them (and not just useful to the
> Democrats), I'd be quite willing to sit down and take a look at it.
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Re: [Marxism] DSA member Ocasio-Cortez elected

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says that "It's time we acknowledge that not all
Democrats are the same."

She says this at 1:20 into her 2 minute basic campaign video "The Courage
to Change:"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq3QXIVR0bs

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> On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 at 9:34 am, Louis Proyect via Marxism <
> marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
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> >
> > The key difference between a reformist Labor Party and the Democratic
> > Party is based on class. For example, socialists have had a tactical
> > orientation to the NDP in Canada for decades now but none have oriented
> > to the Liberal Party. Unless we can distinguish between a bourgeois
> > party and a reformist social democratic or labor party, we are missing
> > the class criterion.
>
>
> But it seems to me that it’s the exactly the absence of an NDP or Labor
> Party that has meant the US Democrats have absorbed the functions that such
> parties play in other capitalist countries. In UK terms it’s like the right
> and centre of Labour fused with the Lib Dems (a not inconceivable lineup).
> That the majority of workers especially organised workers and activists
> orient to the US Democrats in a very similar way to the way such layers
> orient to the ALP (and some extent to the Greens who have captured a big
> chunk of white collar section of the working class), people you presumably
> want to get a hearing among, is the reason campaigns such as Ocasio-Cortez
> are a consideration st all.
>
> The concrete difference it seems to me is that in the US the structure and
> function of the Democrats makes it possible for such campaigns to put
> forward a clear pro-working class and activist platform, clearly opposed to
> the leadership. Which is currently inconceivable via the ALP and very
> limited via the Australian Greens (including by their explicit proscription
> of organised socialists). The concrete national-historical difference
> between UK Labour and the ALP is that in the former it’s been possible for
> a class struggle current to seize the leadership and some of the
> structures, win near majority support and involve new layers in activity:
> this is even more inconceivable via the ALP. Reciting abstract categories
> isn’t much help without looking at the actual dynamics in each different
> national arena of the class struggle.
>
>
>
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Re: [Marxism] Period Piece of the Present - Los Angeles Review of Books

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Re: [Marxism] Period Piece of the Present - Los Angeles Review of Books

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from Roberts' review:
"...(Jenny has one of the film’s best lines: listening to Marx and
Engels go on about their disagreements with the Young Hegelians, she
suggests, gently sardonic, that their joint essay might be titled
“Critique of Critical Criticism.” The men laugh, but it’s not clear
they’ve understood..."

Roberts apparently does not understand that the full title of "The
Holy Family" is: The Holy Family or Critique of Critical Criticism.

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> Bruce Robbins's fussy review.
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Re: [Marxism] Something's in the air

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On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism <
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>
> From Dan La Botz on FB:
> Yesterday NYC DSA Labor Branch held a Labor Day School that was attended
> by about 100 DSA members, most of them union activists. I spoke on a panel
> on the left and labor: Stephanie Luce talked about Why the Working Class,
> Chris Maisano talked about the Communist Party and the Trade Union
> Education League in the 1920s, I spoke about the Communist Party,
> Trotskyists and Socialists in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s.
> About 50 people attended that session, though I think 75 to 100 attended
> one or another session throughout the day. While I couldn't stay for the
> entire day school, I heard good things about all of the panels and
> discussions.



On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 3:33 PM, John Reimann via Marxism <
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>
> Louis reports on some discussion on labor in the NYC DSA.
>
> Was there any discussion on the issue of building a working class party and
> the relationship between this and supporting Democrats - either all
> Democrats or even just some of them?
>
> It seems to me that this is really the issue of the hour.



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> Seems to me that when there is finally a tiny but noticeable socialist
> organization in the U.S. (now about 1/100th of one percent of the U.S.
> population) our primary emphasis should be on generally encouraging
> the growth of the DSA.



P.S. As part of the organizational process of the DSA's last national
convention (held early August 2017) Dan LaBotz ran for a position on the
DSA's 16 member national leadership body the National Political Committee.
To have been a successful candidate for the NPC LaBotz would have needed to
receive at least 2,947 votes; LaBotz received 2,631 votes.

Here is the candidate 'platform'/bio on which LaBotz ran for a position on
the NPC:
*I have been a socialist activist since 1969 when I joined the
International Socialists

(IS), which in 1986 became part of Solidarity
. I served on the national leadership
bodies of both of those organizations. After attending the last DSA
Convention two years ago as an observer for Solidarity
, I joined DSA about a year and a half
ago.* *In the 1970s I became involved in unions. I was a founding member of
Teamsters for a Democratic Union
 in 1976 and
subsequently worked for various unions and community groups as well as with
immigrant rights groups. I was a Socialist Party USA
 candidate for the U.S. Senate
in Ohio in 2010, built an organization, campaigned throughout the state,
and won 25,000 votes. I am co-editor of the independent socialist journal
New Politics  and a writer for Jacobin
, Labor Notes
, Against the Current
 and other publications. I was
for 20 years editor of the Mexican-U.S. union publication Mexican Labor
News and Analysis
.*

*I teach labor studies, principally about Latin American labor, at the
Murphy Institute, the labor school of the City University of New York. I am
the author of several books on labor and politics in the United States,
Mexico, Nicaragua, and Indonesia.* *I believe the central political issue
facing DSA is its relationship to the Democratic Party
 and especially to progressive
organizations such as MoveOn.org , Our
Revolution , and Indivisible
. While we should work in coalition
with those groups, I want to work to make sure that DSA charts an
independent and socialist course. We should harbor no illusions about
reforming or capturing the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party is not
our party; we should not become involved in its internal life.* *We should
support socialist candidates and progressive candidates in the Democratic
Party, but we should not–if and when those candidates lose–back the
corporate Democrats. The central political challenge is to avoid being
swept up into the progressive organizations, which in the end usually
support the Democrats corporate candidates.* *So while joining 

Re: [Marxism] Something's in the air

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Seems to me that when there is finally a tiny but noticeable socialist
organization in the U.S. (now about 1/100th of one percent of the U.S.
population) our primary emphasis should be on generally encouraging
the growth of the DSA.

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> Louis reports on some discussion on labor in the NYC DSA.
>
> Was there any discussion on the issue of building a working class party and
> the relationship between this and supporting Democrats - either all
> Democrats or even just some of them?
>
> It seems to me that this is really the issue of the hour.
>
> John Reimann
>
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[Marxism] after 1/4 of Syriza MPs reject new austerity deal, what next for Syriza gov't, Syriza left?

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38 Syriza MPs reject the agreement
by Stathis Kouvelakis
International Viewpoint, July 16
http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article4129

38 Syriza MPs reject the agreement. Overall result: 229 yes, 64 no, 6
abstain/present, one absence. Today is a tragic day for Greece and for
its Left.

More than two thirds of Syriza MPs voted jointly with the
pro-austerity parties (New Democracy, Pasok, Potami) and the junior
coalition partner Anel the prerequisite bill for the toughest by far
austerity package ever accepted by any kind of left (including
social-democracy) government in Europe, the only possible comparison
being the 1st Memorandum passed by Pasok in 2010.

But it’s even more serious in a way than draconian austerity in a
country already devastated by five years of ’shock therapy’: it’s the
total destruction of democracy, of popular sovereignty, the
perpetuation and aggravation of the sharpest form of subjection.

But 38 Syriza MPs (out of a total of 149) saved the honour: 32 voted
no, six voted present (there was also one absence)

It appears that all Left Platform MPs, + KOE (maoists) + Zoe
Kostantopoulou + former ministers Varoufakis and Nandia Valavani and a
couple of others voted No while six MPs of the 53 current (left wing
of the former majority bloc) voted present.

In any case, the government has lost control of its own majority: of
the 162 MPs of the Syriza-ANel coalition, only 123 supported it, far
less than the required by constitutional practice parliamentary
majority of 151 MPs coming from the ranks of the government.

In principle Tsipras should resign, he blackmailed this afternoon the
Syriza MPs saying that if he hadn’t the support of all them he would
do so. But of course he won’t, he was just trying to manipulate his
troops. However it seems clear that it is only a matter of time for
this new de facto pro-austerity majority to translate in a proper
political coalition of some sort.

The 38 [Syriza MP’s who voted NO or abstained ] saved the day . So
there remains the possibility of a future. The left to be transformed
through the struggles of workers and the people.


Defiance against the parliament's surrender
by Lee Sustar
Socialist Worker, U.S., July 16
http://socialistworker.org/2015/07/16/defiance-against-parliaments-surrender

Greece's parliament listens to a speech by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras

AMID A public-sector workers' general strike and large demonstrations
in Athens and other cities, Greece's parliament voted to accept the
European authorities' demands for drastic new austerity measures, with
members of traditional parties helping Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
to survive a rebellion of left-wing representatives from the radical
left party SYRIZA.

The final vote in the Greek parliament was 229 to 64, with six
abstentions, on measures that will cut pensions, raise the regressive
value-added sales tax, put Greek assets in hock and repeal progressive
measures that the SYRIZA government passed since winning election on
January 25.

The vote has accelerated an internal struggle within SYRIZA--a party
rooted in the social movements and working class struggles of the past
15 years, and especially the recent crisis years. A total of 32 SYRIZA
members of parliament voted no and six abstained to show their
opposition to what they call a third Memorandum--the term used for
the agreement to impose harsh austerity in return for a bailout of the
Greek financial system by European and international financial
institutions.

Among the prominent no votes in the early morning hours of Thursday,
July 16, was Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, the leading voice
of SYRIZA's Left Platform; Speaker of Parliament Zoe Konstantopoulou;
and even former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, who himself offered
huge concessions to the European authorities when he was in office.

The 13 members of ANEL, the right-wing party that is part of the
governing coalition with SYRIZA, voted yes. But Tsipras needed the
support from the two main parties of the Greek political system for
the past half century, the conservative New Democracy and the
center-left PASOK. The prime minister railed against New Democracy and
PASOK in the run-up to the January 25 election for having negotiated
the previous austerity Memorandums. Now, he needed their support to
pass his own Memorandum.
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THE PARLIAMENT'S surrender came just 10 days after a referendum in
which 61.3 percent of voters rejected a proposal that was basically
the same as the deal that Tsipras is now trying to sell.

Tsipras had called for a no vote--but only, he insisted, as a way to
strengthen Greece's 

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On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote:
 . . .  But all this talk about Tsipras should have come up with a
 plan B while he was in these intense negotiations with the eurozone bigs
 is nuts...

As far as i know, Louis, you are the only one talking like this.  What
the talk is about is whether Tsipras as the national leader of Syriza
for several years before Syriza won the January 2015 elections and he
became Prime Minister should have delegated work on preparing a plan
B within the party and since January also within the government.
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