[Marxism] How Woodrow Wilson declared war on civil liberties to fight World War 1

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Re: [Marxism] Bari Weiss Is Leaving the New York Times

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One down, one to go - Bret Stephens must be next!

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>
> She's obviously looking for a big payout from the NY Times. But more
> importantly, it says something when at what is probably the leading
> newspaper in the US, that someone with her views is no longer acceptable
> there. I think that is a pretty good indication of which way the political
> winds are now blowing. When a ruling class organ like the NY Times feels
> the need to clean house and get rid of people like her then that is good
> news for us. All the news fit to print, indeed.
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[Marxism] Today - the anniversary of the murder of Jean-Paul Marat

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On this day in 1793, French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat, who had gone
from being a physician for aristocrats to calling for the end of the
monarchy, was assassinated. Marat was stabbed to death in his bathtub by
Charlotte Corday, a 24-year-old member of a rival political faction called
the Girondins. Corday was guillotined for the crime and Marat became a
martyr for the radical revolutionary cause.
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[Marxism] Drivers Are Hitting Protesters as Memes of Car Attacks Spread

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In recent days, one person was killed in Seattle and two people were
injured in Bloomington, Ind. Dozens of similar incidents have occurred
across the United States.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/us/bloomington-car-attack-protesters.html

By Neil MacFarquhar 

July 7, 2020

The driver of a red Toyota first stopped, then unexpectedly accelerated
into a crowd of dispersing demonstrators in Bloomington, Ind., on Monday
night, injuring two of them in the latest of a disturbing rash of vehicular
attacks targeting protesters.

The demonstration, inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, had sent
several hundred people marching through the college town, demanding the
arrest of a small group of men who had threatened a Black civil rights
activist.

Dramatic video footage of the attack showed a woman clinging to the car’s
hood and a man clutching the driver’s door handle as the vehicle zoomed
forward. The police were still searching for the hit-and-run driver on
Tuesday.

“It was terrifying,” said Rachel Glago, 28, whose friend, she said, had
jumped onto the hood to avoid being run over. “I wanted to stop the car, I
wanted to help her, I was screaming, I could hear other people screaming.”

Dozens of similar incidents have occurred across the United States in
recent weeks, although it is difficult to assess which attacks are
premeditated and which are prompted by rage when drivers find their route
blocked by crowds. The tactic has previously been mostly used by extremist
jihadist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda, as well as Palestinian militants.

“It is not just an extremist thing here, but there are social media circles
online where people are sharing these and joking about them because they
disagree with the protests and their methods,” said Ari E. Weil, the deputy
research director at the Chicago Project on Security and Threats of the
University of Chicago. “Sharing memes and joking about running over people
can lead to real danger.”

There have been at least 66 car attacks nationwide since George Floyd was
killed by the Minneapolis police on May 25, Mr. Weil said.

Seven of them have been by law enforcement officers, he said. That included
two in New York which Dermot Shea, the police commissioner, defended as an
appropriate use of force because he said the police vehicles were under
attack.

Prosecutors have brought charges in about 24 of the cases so far, Mr. Weil
said, including hate crimes, and have dismissed four as accidental.

Perhaps the most high-profile example of a car attack in the United States
is from the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, when
James Alex Fields Jr. killed Heather Heyer, a counterprotester.

Mr. Fields was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in
prison. Evidence at the trial included the fact that he had shared images
online of cars ramming into people before participating in the far-right
rally.

Some of the crashes at recent protests have also been fatal. Summer Taylor,
24, who worked at a veterinary clinic, died on Saturday after a man drove a
car through a march
 on a
Seattle highway. Another protester died after being hit in Bakersfield,
Calif., in June.

The driver in Seattle, Dawit Kelete, has not been charged but is being held
on $1.2 million bail, and the State Patrol announced it would ban
demonstrations from Interstate 5.

Supporters of far-right organizations — as well as the occasional
government official or law enforcement officer — have been circulating
memes and slogans online encouraging such attacks.

In Richmond, Va., a driver sought to intimidate protesters with his truck
and hit one demonstrator’s bicycle in early June, prosecutors said. The
driver, who was charged with assault, told the police he was a high-ranking
Ku Klux Klan official, court documents said.

In Seattle, the King County Sheriff’s Office announced that one officer had
been placed on administrative leave after posting a picture of a vehicle
hitting someone under the commonly shared phrase “All Lives Splatter” and
another line about moving off the road.

The officer, Mike Brown, is Gov. Jay Inslee’s cousin, and the governor said
in an interview that he was deeply disappointed by his cousin’s post. “It’s
never acceptable, but particularly now when we’re trying to heal the
divisions in our community between police and citizens,” he said.

Vehicular attacks have proliferated in recent weeks. Experts believe it is
because of the combination of widespread protests across the country and
the circulation of dangerous memes 

[Marxism] White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots in U.S. Christianity

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[Marxism] National Review is Trying to Rewrite its Own Racist History

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 National Review invested extraordinary amounts of time and resources into
building an intellectual edifice for segregation that could be bandied
about in polite society.

Clip - It was clear that the South couldn’t win the fight alone, and for
that, needed conservative allies in the North. The problem was that the
rest of the country, Northern Republican conservatives included, wanted
nothing to do with the explicit, raw racism on display in the South,
preferring the more subtle kind that is more familiar today.

But those Republicans did want something else: an end to the New Deal. In
order to forge the alliance between the racist Democrats in the South,
then, and the business wing of the Republicans in the North, they had to
fuse two, unlinked political movements — the drive for segregation and the
rollback of the New Deal. That required the South to go along with
attacking programs that were extremely popular with the people of the
South, and for Northern Republicans to get behind segregation and the
preservation of the white Southern way of life.

Getting each to accept the other was not inevitable, nor was it easy.
That’s where the National Review comes in.

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[Marxism] 'Hamilton' and the historical record: frequently asked questions - part 1 of 2

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The Disney+ filmed version has fans wondering what’s accurate. Historians
are fans, too, and they have answers, along with caveats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/movies/hamilton-musical-history-facts.html

When “Hamilton” premiered onstage in 2015, the musical attracted a big
following among historians, who were delighted by Lin-Manuel Miranda’s
unabashedly nerdy attention to primary documents and the scholarly
literature.

But historians being historians, they also offered plenty of footnotes,
criticisms and correctives
,
which weren’t always appreciated by the show’s ardent fans, who saw a bunch
of humorless, literal-minded scolds out to kill their buzz.

Now, with the filmed version

streaming
on Disney+, the critical questions about Alexander Hamilton and the show’s
depiction of him are back, and they aren’t just coming from the ivory tower.

On Friday, the director Ava DuVernay tweeted
 her appreciation for
Miranda’s artistry, along with a blast at the real-life A.Ham, who was not
the progressive paragon of multicultural democracy some who watch the show
may assume.


“Believed in manumission, not abolition,” she wrote. “Wrote violent filth
about Native people. Believed in only elites holding political power and no
term limits. And the banking innovation has troubled roots.”

Historians, many of whom took part in a Twitter watch party under the
hashtag #HATM (Historians at the Movies
), took a generally milder
tone, even as they reiterated some of their earlier caveats. Here’s what
some of them have been saying about “Hamilton” — and Hamilton — since
Miranda’s take on the “ten-dollar founding father” took America by storm.

*Hamilton wasn’t an abolitionist? I’m confused.*

Early in the show, Hamilton calls himself and his friends “revolutionary
manumission abolitionists,” a line that raised a lot of eyebrows among
scholars.

Hamilton was genuinely antislavery, even if some scholars say the intensity
of his opposition has been overstated. He was a founding member of the New
York Manumission Society
,
created in 1785, which among other things, pushed for a gradual
emancipation law in New York State. (Such a law was passed in 1799.)

Manumission involved voluntary release by enslavers. Abolition was a more
radical proposition, and Hamilton did not advocate it
. And while
he publicly criticized Thomas Jefferson’s views on the biological
inferiority of Black people, the Harvard historian Annette Gordon-Reed has
noted 
that
his record and his writings from the 1790s until his death in 1804 include
little to nothing against slavery.


As the show indicates, Hamilton did support John Laurens’s 1779 plan to
allow Black soldiers to fight in the Revolution (and many eventually did).
But that’s as far as he went.

“OK, Hamilton did not write pamphlets against slavery with Laurens,”
Gordon-Reed
tweeted  during
the #HATM watch party, adding: “I hate to be that historian.”
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[Marxism] How a Lincoln-Douglass Debate Led to Historic Discovery

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[Marxism] 'Hamilton' and the historical record - part 2

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*So which characters in the show owned slaves?*

Most of them, actually. In one of the Cabinet rap battles, Jefferson extols
the South’s agrarian economy, and Hamilton slaps back. “Yeah, keep ranting.
We know who’s really doing the planting,” he sneers, dismissing Jefferson’s
argument as “a civics lesson from a slaver.”

But slavery was hardly just a Southern affair. In 1790, about 40 percent of
households immediately around New York City included enslaved people. Most
of Hamilton’s associates who toast freedom early in the show were
slaveowners, including Aaron Burr and Hercules Mulligan (whose enslaved
servant Cato

worked
alongside him in an anti-British spy ring).

The Schuylers, the prominent family Hamilton marries into, were major
slaveholders. In fact, the mayor of Albany announced last month that the
city would remove a statue of Philip Schuyler
,
Hamilton’s father-in-law, who at various points owned as many as 27 slaves.


Angelica Schuyler and her husband also owned slaves, and Hamilton, who was
a lawyer, helped them with their slavery-related transactions, including
the $225 purchase of a mother and child.

*Wait. Did Hamilton himself own slaves?*

Possibly. When his mother died in 1768, she left Hamilton and his brother
an enslaved boy but they were not able to inherit since they had been born
out of wedlock.

And there is some documentation suggesting that Hamilton may have owned
slaves later, after his marriage to Elizabeth Schuyler. The historian
Michelle DuRoss, in a 2010 paper, noted that Hamilton’s grandson had said
Hamilton owned slaves
,
citing references in family ledgers.

But the evidence is ambiguous. Ankeet Ball, in a paper for the Columbia &
Slavery research project

, noted an 1804 letter

from
Angelica Schuyler regretting that Elizabeth and Alexander did not have any
enslaved servants to help them with a party.

Ball, echoing many other scholars, pointed out that Hamilton, however much
he may have hated slavery, acquiesced to it. “Hamilton ultimately accepted
protecting slavery in the Constitution to solidify the union of the North
and the South, which was crucial to the financial growth that Hamilton
envisioned,” Ball wrote.


*Was Hamilton pro-immigrant?*

“Immigrants, we get the job done,” sung by Hamilton (who was born in Nevis)
and the Marquis de Lafayette during the Battle of Yorktown, quickly emerged
as one of the biggest applause lines

in
the show. And while Hamilton, as a subject of the British crown moving from
one British colony to another, was not an immigrant in the contemporary
sense, he did see himself (and was sometimes seen by others) as an outsider.

As far as I know neither Jefferson nor Madison ever held Hamilton's status
as an immigrant against him. Hamilton, however, was part of what became a
pretty virulently anti-immigrant coalition of Federalists. #HATM


— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) July 4, 2020


But his views of immigrants and how they fit into America were complicated.
As the historian Joanne Freeman has pointed out
,
he wanted immigrant workers to fuel the manufacturing economy he
envisioned, but he worried about their impact on the nation.

In 1798, in the middle of naval hostilities with revolutionary France,
Hamilton and other Federalists supported the Alien and Sedition Acts
,
which extended the length of time immigrants had to wait to apply for
citizenship and allowed the president to deport immigrants deemed “enemies.”

Backlash against the laws, which were designed to weaken Jefferson’s
Democratic-Republican Party, contributed to Jefferson’s victory in 1800.
After the election, when Jefferson proposed 

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

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Now can he visit Trump and cough repeatedly in his face???

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Re: [Marxism] so I opened the SUnday NY Times today and ....

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/02/opinion/politics/us-economic-social-inequality.html

“Why has this happened? There are multiple causes. But one big one is a
lack of political power among the bulk of the population.”

"Government policy and economic forces have combined to make corporations
and the wealthy more powerful, and most workers and their families less
powerful.

Those lives are generally shorter

and
more likely to be affected by pollution and chronic health problems.

The decline in unionization is one reason that the share of total national
income flowing to corporate profits has risen — and the share going to
worker pay has declined. The trend is starker in the U.S. than in Europe.

Higher corporate profits/lower minimum wage

More expensive health care system

High incarceration rates

Sharp fall in corporate tax rates"



and it's all the fault of the Big Bad Republicans right? or did the “lesser
evil” Democrats play any role in this??? If there is "a lack of political
power among the bulk of the population”, then maybe the answer is to build
the type of working class party that European countries have, even if it is
not doing anything more than fighting for some reforms and a defense of
past gains. Nah - we'll always have to throw all of our energy into
opposing what the ruling class of this country never seems to run out of -
"greater" evils such as Nixon, Goldwater, Reagan, the Bushes, Trump and
whoever is next.

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> I started reading the SUNDAY REVIEW section of the Sunday Times (not the
> Book Review --- what used to be labelled the NEWS OF THE WEEK IN REVIEW)
> --- and was shocked that it seems like it's ALL full of stuff that could
> have been (and HAS been) written by a radical (dare I say Marxist)
> economist --
>
> Check out this line from the introductory article written by the entire
> editorial board:''Wages are substantially determined by a tug of war
> between workers and employers "
>
> That's class struggle economics not the "micro-economics" we were taught in
> college (that I had to hold my nose and teach my first few years in the
> classroom!!!) --- in the traditional approach, wages are determined by the
> "productivity" of the workers in a "competitive" economy --- there is
> virtually no room for the exercise of power in the markets (unless labor
> unions or minimum wages "distort" the market!!).
>
> Guess our side has been successfully "brainwashing" journalists for years
> without even knowing it!!
>
> WHo knew??
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[Marxism] The role of the “Spanish flu” in foiling a German offensive at the end of WW1

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[Marxism] When France Extorted Haiti - The Greatest Heist in History

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clip -

I’m a specialist on colonialism and slavery
, and what France did
to the Haitian people after the Haitian Revolution is a particularly
notorious examples of colonial theft. France instituted slavery on the
island in the 17th century, but, in the late 18th century, the enslaved
population rebelled and eventually declared independence. Yet, somehow, in
the 19th century, the thinking went that the former enslavers of the
Haitian people needed to be compensated, rather than the other way around.

Just as the legacy of slavery in the United States has created a gross economic
disparity between Black and white Americans
,
the tax on its freedom that France forced Haiti to pay – referred to as an
“indemnity” at the time – severely damaged the newly independent country’s
ability to prosper.

Moreover, researchers have found

that
the independence debt and the resulting drain on the Haitian treasury were
directly responsible not only for the underfunding of education in
20th-century Haiti, but also lack of health care and the country’s
inability to develop public infrastructure.

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[Marxism] The Downwardly Mobile:How Some People Lose Class Privilege

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We have two narratives about class in this country. Perhaps the most
prominent is the American Dream – the idea that hard work and moral
fortitude can lead people from rages to riches. The second is that of the
rigged class system, one designed to ensure that the privileged remain
privileged while the poor remain poor.

There are several problems with these narratives, but I want to focus on
one: they both miss a large group of people, the downwardly mobile. In
fact, one in two kids born into the upper-middle-class – one in two kids
born to a college-educated professional parent – fall out of this class as
adults.

I wanted to learn how kids raised with so much could lose the privileges
they had. So I poured over interviews researchers conducted with over 100
upper-middle-class Americans who they followed from age 13 to age 28. I
found out that my idea that they have so many resources was wrong.

https://workingclassstudies.wordpress.com/2020/06/29/the-downwardly-mobile-how-some-people-lose-class-privilege/
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[Marxism] Nixon, Patton, Vietnam and the 1970 invasion of Cambodia

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[Marxism] Spike Lee's awful new film on the Vietnam War - Da 5 Bloods

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Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods: How Bad is It?

by Jerry Lembcke



*Jerry Lembcke is emeritus professor of sociology at Holy Cross College in
Worcester, MA. He is the author of 8 books including* The Spitting Image:
Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam, CNN’s Tailwind Tale: Inside
Vietnam’s Last Great Myth*,* and Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, and Fantasies of
Betrayal. *In 1969 he was a Chaplain’s Assistant assigned to the
41**st** Artillery
Group in Vietnam. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of
American Historians. *

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and how could I forget the CIA-run torture chambers aka "tiger cages"!



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>
>
>
> *Jerry Lembcke is emeritus professor of sociology at Holy Cross College in
> Worcester, MA. He is the author of 8 books including* The Spitting Image:
> Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam, CNN’s Tailwind Tale: Inside
> Vietnam’s Last Great Myth*,* and Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, and Fantasies of
> Betrayal. *In 1969 he was a Chaplain’s Assistant assigned to the 41**st** 
> Artillery
> Group in Vietnam. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of
> American Historians. *
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[Marxism] The demand for reparation from US banks for a long racist tradition

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clip - Banks have been underwriters of American racism — no industry has
played a bigger or more enduring role in black oppression, exploitation and
exclusion. Banks financed the slave trade and in some cases “repossessed”
humans in bondage.

White-owned banks refused to serve black people who left the South escaping
brutality and seeking opportunity during the Great Migration of the early
and mid-20th century. Bank policies and practices contributed to
segregating every major city and denying black families the two most
important toeholds to the middle class — ownership of homes and of
businesses.

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[Marxism] NYTimes.com: How Richard Pryor Changed the Way Comedy Sees Police Brutality

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>> His best-selling albums reflected a lived-in experience that comedy,
>> going back to silent films, had often taken up and just as often dismissed.
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[Marxism] Opinion: Want to tear down insidious monuments to racism and segregation? Bulldoze L.A. freeways

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The aftermath of George Floyd’s death while in police custody has created a
moment for radical truth-telling. So here’s some ugly truth about the city
of Los Angeles: Our freeway system is one of the most noxious monuments to
racism and segregation in the country.

Most Angelenos don’t think about it as we spew carbon monoxide across the
city on our way from Point A to Point B, but our toxic exhaust fumes feed
into a pot of racism that’s been stewing for nearly a century. To
understand exactly how that works, you have to know what things were like
here before freeways came to dominate L.A.’s landscape.

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[Marxism] Spying on Americans: Infamous 1970s White House Plan for Protest Surveillance Released

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Nixon-era "Huston Plan" was too far-reaching even for J. Edgar Hoover
Government
sought more infiltration of Black political movements than FBI was already
doing 50 years later, censors still hiding "sources and methods" for
tracking Soviet-Chinese roles (and lack thereof) in antiwar movement
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[Marxism] To Avoid Integration, Americans Built Barricades in Urban Space - Urban inequality didn’t happen by accident

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 George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer at the corner of
38th Street and Chicago Avenue. The location is significant. It lies in a
part of the city wedged between two freeways and not far from an unofficial
boundary separating neighborhoods with large populations of black and
Latino residents from the mostly white neighborhoods to the south. For
decades, this boundary was legally enforced through covenants limiting who
could live where. America’s brand of urban inequality relies on such
barricades to ensure that all kinds of problems—of which aggressive
policing is just one—are concentrated in particular places. Floyd’s death
has created a national uproar over police violence against black Americans,
but changing police tactics is not enough. The barricades have to come
down, too.
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[Marxism] The Great Upheaval of 1877 Sheds Light on Today’s Protests

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[Marxism] AFL-CIO "Leader" Richard Trumka Defends Police Unions by Comparing Them to Employers

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

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

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

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


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

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

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



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

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

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

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

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



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

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

The pandemic has intensified the situation.

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



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

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

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

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



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

There is no 

[Marxism] Iraqi hospitals become nexus of infection as virus cases rise among doctors

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The number of doctors with reported infections has jumped 56 percent since
last week, raising the tally to 506 since the outbreak began in Iraq in
March, according to the Iraqi Medical Association.

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Re: [Marxism] Black Lives Matter is about both race and class

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Taking on Adolph Reed - take 2 -


We cannot address the magnitude of racial injustice without simultaneously
addressing economic injustice, and to achieve economic justice we’re going
to need the kind of interracial solidarity that’s been marching in our
streets these past few weeks.

https://workingclassstudies.wordpress.com/2020/06/15/racism-and-the-working-class/

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> (Too bad Adolph Reed Jr. doesn't get this.)
>
> FT Op-Ed, June 14, 2020
> Black Lives Matter is about both race and class
> by Rana Foroohar YESTERDAY
>
> The death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter marches that have
> followed have made headlines the world over. But the longer-term
> political impact from these events could be more wide-ranging than
> anticipated — these protests over racial justice also have the potential
> to seed a new labour movement in the US.
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[Marxism] a bank collapse next year?

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For the moment, the financial system seems relatively stable. Banks can
still pay their debts and pass their regulatory capital tests. But recall
that the previous crash took more than a year to unfold. The present is
analogous not to the fall of 2008, when the U.S. was in full-blown crisis,
but to the summer of 2007, when some securities were going underwater but
no one yet knew what the upshot would be.

What I’m about to describe is necessarily speculative, but it is rooted in
the experience of the previous crash and in what we know about current bank
holdings. The purpose of laying out this worst-case scenario isn’t to say
that it will necessarily come to pass. The purpose is to show that it
*could*. That alone should scare us all—and inform the way we think about
the next year and beyond.

…And then, sometime in the next year, we will all stare into the financial
abyss. At that point, we will be well beyond the scope of the previous
recession, and we will have either exhausted the remedies that spared the
system last time or found that they won’t work this time around. What *then*
?

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[Marxism] why Minneapolis was the breaking point

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Martin luther king iii and other activists I’ve spoken with in recent days
share a unanimous belief that this time is different. Years into the
movement, the potential for true progress may finally be at hand, in no
small part because the same cycle of unabated violence that has infuriated
black activists is finally, due to the unrelenting stream of video
evidence, forcing many white Americans to wake up.



For decades, police violence and impunity had been problems that, polling
suggests
,
only black people could see. The street uprisings of recent years—in
Ferguson and Baltimore, Baton Rouge and Chicago—were propelled by black
rage; although they had allies, those who flooded the streets in response
to those incidents of police violence were primarily black men, women, and
children. Now white eyes have been opened too.



A Monmouth University poll

taken
a few days after Floyd’s death found that 71 percent of white respondents
deemed racism and discrimination “a big problem” in the United States—up 26
points from 2015. Nearly 80 percent of Americans—and 75 percent of white
Americans—told pollsters that the protesters’ anger was either “fully” or
“partially” justified. Forty-nine percent of white respondents said police
are more likely to use excessive force against a black culprit than a white
one, nearly double the 25 percent who acknowledged that fact in 2016.



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Re: [Marxism] The Intent Was Genocide

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> Settler colonialism of the Australian and American kind.." why leave out
> what the Zionists did in Palestine?



> "As if impatient with wordy exegeses, Ostler defers here to the historian
> Lorenzo Veracini’s definition of the term: in classic
> seventeenth-century colonialism, explains Veracini in his Settler
> Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (2010), “the colonizer says to the
> colonized, ‘You, work for me.’ By contrast, in settler colonialism [of
> the Australian and American kind], the colonizer says, *‘You go away.’” *
> Rather than being conscripted by colonizers to exploit local
> resources—precious metals, fur-bearing animals, timber-rich forests,
> grazing or agricultural acreage—
> *the resident natives are removed to make room for another workforce*,
> whether imported slaves or incoming
> settlers."
>
> In the words of historian Patrick Wolfe, settler societies are
premised on
the *“elimination of the native.” *

>
> NY Review of Books, JULY 2, 2020 ISSUE
> The Intent Was Genocide
> by Peter Nabokov
>
> Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the
> American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
> by Jeffrey Ostler
> Yale University Press, 533 pp., $37.50
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Re: [Marxism] Philadelphia pulls 72 cops after watchdog uncovers thousands of officers’ violent, racist social media posts.

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Anti racist activists should conduct the same operation in all US cities!

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[Marxism] an international movement against capitalist racism!

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Black Lives Matter protesters in Belgium want statues of colonialist King
Léopold II to come down



https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/black-lives-matter-protests-king-leopold-statues/2020/06/09/042039f6-a9c5-11ea-9063-e69bd6520940_story.html


Activists around the world use protests to highlight their own countries’
police killings


From Toronto to London to Sydney, here are some of the cases they’re
invoking.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/george-floyd-protests-duggan-dungay-oury-jalloh-regis-korchinski-paquet-adama-traoe-giovanni-lopez/2020/06/08/fe53628e-a9a4-11ea-a9d9-a81c1a491c52_story.html

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[Marxism] Trump's Praise for China over Tiananmen Square Years ago was a Preview

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  Old saying - "Show me who your friends are, and I'll know who you are."

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[Marxism] Group linked to far-right ‘boogaloo’ movement plotted terror attacks against protesters: prosecutors

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[Marxism] The first proto city

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"Welcome to one of the mothers of all cities, Çatalhöyük, a community on
the Anatolian plane that is now part of Turkey. ... [Nine thousand] years
ago ... Çatalhöyük consisted of attached dwellings covering 33 acres. ...
The city was so new back then, they hadn't invented the street yet -- or
the window. So the only way you could get into your apartment was to walk
over your neighbors' rooftops. A ladder was propped against the skylight
opening of your apartment.

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[Marxism] The next Amy Cooper - NYC socialite falsely calls cops on Black woman in public park

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According to The *Daily Mail
,*
Flom
co-owns Madison Vivienne, a French restaurant with locations in Southampton
and the Upper East Side.  New Yorkers should publicize this story and
organize a boycott of her restaurants.

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[Marxism] people know who the real looters are

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[Marxism] ‘Brutal and unacceptable’: Calls for arrest of NYPD cop who put woman in the ER during protests

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>  We'll see how much guts the "progressive" sheep deBlasio has when it
> comes to taking on the Blue Klux Klan of the NYPD!
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[Marxism] The Commercial Real-Estate Market's Impending Crash

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Gurnee Mills is a sprawling, 1.93 million-square-foot outlet mall in
Gurnee, Illinois, about 45 miles north of Chicago. In better times, it was
a bustling shopper’s mecca. It underwent a $6 million renovation in 2018,
and managed, in recent years, to replace its departed anchor stores, like
TJ Maxx. But in 2019, citing a rise in mall vacancies and a decline in cash
flow, the credit rating agency Fitch Ratings downgraded its outlook to
“negative,” meaning the agency believed Gurnee Mills would be unlikely to
repay its $260.3 million loan.

That loan was packaged into a commercial mortgage-backed security, or CMBS.
In the process, the loan itself was divided into pieces (called *tranches*
, French for “slices”)
and sold to banks like Wells Fargo and Credit Suisse. Securities like that
one are at the center of concerns about the roughly $1 trillion in debt
tied to shopping malls. Gurnee Mills is an example of a nationwide
phenomenon: many malls are at risk of defaulting on loans, which could pose
a serious problem for the financial sector.

https://daily.jstor.org/the-commercial-real-estate-markets-impending-crash/

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[Marxism] Trump and the huge virus outbreak among workers

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Two days later, an April 28 executive order

by
the Trump administration — by way of Trump invoking the Defense Production
Act (DPA) — encouraged meat plants to reopen. Nearly a month later, and
more than half of the 30 meat processing plants that were closed have
reopened. Yet all has not gone well: according to a Washington Post analysis
,
the
number of coronaviruses cases among Tyson workers has gone from under 1,600
a month ago to more than 7,000.

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[Marxism] WalterRodney, Guerrilla Intellectual

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Walter Rodney’s radical thought and activism led to his eventual killing by
a bomb in Guyana, in 1980.


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[Marxism] forget Covid-19 -Trump's gutting of environmental rules will lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths

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[Marxism] Chiang and Mao

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*Today's selection -- from **Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister** by
Jung Chang. **In* the late 1940s, Chiang Kai-shek's forces were engaged in
a war with Mao Zedong's communist forces to establish who would rule China.
Chiang had the decided advantage, but lost that advantage in a series of
mistakes:

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[Marxism] Opinion | Why the Coronavirus Is Killing African Americans - The New York Times

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It's typical of the intellectual/moral bankruptcy of so many American
academics that they were confused by her viewpoint.


Why African-Americans are disproportionately dying of the Covid-19 virus –
It’s not obesity, it’s slavery

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/opinion/coronavirus-race-obesity.html

By Sabrina Strings

Dr. Strings is an associate professor of sociology at the University of
California at Irvine

· May 25, 2020



About five years ago, I was invited to sit in on a meeting about health in
the African-American community. Several important figures in the fields of
public health and economics were present. A freshly minted Ph.D., I felt
strangely like an interloper. I was also the only black person in the room.



One of the facilitators introduced me to the other participants and said
something to the effect of “Sabrina, what do you think? Why are black
people sick?”



It was a question asked in earnest. Some of the experts had devoted their
entire careers to addressing questions surrounding racial health
inequities. Years of research, and in some instances failed interventions,
had left them baffled. *Why are black people so sick?*



My answer was swift and unequivocal.

“Slavery.”



My colleagues looked befuddled as they tried to come to terms with my reply.

I meant what I said: The era of slavery was when white Americans determined
that black Americans needed only the bare necessities, not enough to keep
them optimally safe and healthy. It set in motion black people’s diminished
access to healthy foods, safe working conditions, medical treatment and a
host of other social inequities that negatively impact health.



This message is particularly important in a moment when African-Americans
have experienced the highest rates of severe complications and death from
the coronavirus and “obesity” has surfaced as an explanation. The cultural
narrative that black people’s weight is a harbinger of disease and death
has long served as a dangerous distraction from the real sources of
inequality, and it’s happening again.



Reliable data are hard to come by, but available analyses show that on
average, the rate of black fatalities is 2.4 times that of whites with
Covid-19. In states including Michigan, Kansas and Wisconsin and in
Washington, D.C., that ratio jumps
 to five to seven
black people dying of Covid-19 complications for every one white death.

Despite the lack of clarity surrounding these findings, one interpretation
of these disparities that has gained traction is the idea that black people
are unduly obese
(currently
defined as a body mass index greater than 30) which is seen as a driver of
other chronic illnesses and is believed to put black people at high risk
for serious complications from Covid-19.



These claims have received intense media attention, despite the fact that
scientists haven’t been able to sufficiently explain the link between
obesity and Covid-19. According to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 42.2  percent of
white Americans and 49.6 percent of African-Americans are obese.
Researchers have yet to clarify how a 7 percentage-point disparity in
obesity prevalence translates to a 240 percent-700 percent disparity in
fatalities .



Experts have raised questions about the rush to implicate obesity, and
especially “severe obesity” (B.M.I. greater than 40), as a factor in
coronavirus complications. An article in the medical journal The Lancet

evaluated
Britain’s inclusion of obesity as a risk factor for coronavirus
complications and retorted, “To date, no available data show adverse
Covid-19 outcomes specifically in people with a BMI of 40 kg/m2.” The
authors concluded, “The scarcity of information regarding the increased
risk of illness for people with a BMI higher than 40 kg/m2 has led to
ambiguity and might increase anxiety, given that these individuals have now
been categorised as vulnerable to severe illness if they contract Covid-19.”



Promoting strained associations between race, body size, and complications
from this little-understood disease has served to reinforce an image of
black people as wholly swept up in sensuous pleasures like eating and
drinking, which supposedly makes our unruly bodies repositories of
preventable weight-related illnesses. The attitudes 

[Marxism] Opinion | Why the Coronavirus Is Killing African Americans - The New York Times

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> It's typical of the intellectual/moral bankruptcy of so many American
> academics that they were confused by her viewpoint.
>
>
> Why African-Americans are disproportionately dying of the Covid-19 virus –
> It’s not obesity, it’s slavery
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/opinion/coronavirus-race-obesity.html
>
> By Sabrina Strings
>
> Dr. Strings is an associate professor of sociology at the University of
> California at Irvine
>
> · May 25, 2020
>
>
>
> About five years ago, I was invited to sit in on a meeting about health in
> the African-American community. Several important figures in the fields of
> public health and economics were present. A freshly minted Ph.D., I felt
> strangely like an interloper. I was also the only black person in the room.
>
>
>
> One of the facilitators introduced me to the other participants and said
> something to the effect of “Sabrina, what do you think? Why are black
> people sick?”
>
>
>
> It was a question asked in earnest. Some of the experts had devoted their
> entire careers to addressing questions surrounding racial health
> inequities. Years of research, and in some instances failed interventions,
> had left them baffled. *Why are black people so sick?*
>
>
>
> My answer was swift and unequivocal.
>
> “Slavery.”
>
>
>
> My colleagues looked befuddled as they tried to come to terms with my
> reply.
>
> I meant what I said: The era of slavery was when white Americans
> determined that black Americans needed only the bare necessities, not
> enough to keep them optimally safe and healthy. It set in motion black
> people’s diminished access to healthy foods, safe working conditions,
> medical treatment and a host of other social inequities that negatively
> impact health.
>
>
>
> This message is particularly important in a moment when African-Americans
> have experienced the highest rates of severe complications and death from
> the coronavirus and “obesity” has surfaced as an explanation. The cultural
> narrative that black people’s weight is a harbinger of disease and death
> has long served as a dangerous distraction from the real sources of
> inequality, and it’s happening again.
>
>
>
> Reliable data are hard to come by, but available analyses show that on
> average, the rate of black fatalities is 2.4 times that of whites with
> Covid-19. In states including Michigan, Kansas and Wisconsin and in
> Washington, D.C., that ratio jumps
>  to five to seven
> black people dying of Covid-19 complications for every one white death.
>
> Despite the lack of clarity surrounding these findings, one interpretation
> of these disparities that has gained traction is the idea that black
> people are unduly obese
> (currently
> defined as a body mass index greater than 30) which is seen as a driver of
> other chronic illnesses and is believed to put black people at high risk
> for serious complications from Covid-19.
>
>
>
> These claims have received intense media attention, despite the fact that
> scientists haven’t been able to sufficiently explain the link between
> obesity and Covid-19. According to the Centers for Disease Control and
> Prevention, 42.2  percent of
> white Americans and 49.6 percent of African-Americans are obese.
> Researchers have yet to clarify how a 7 percentage-point disparity in
> obesity prevalence translates to a 240 percent-700 percent disparity in
> fatalities .
>
>
>
> Experts have raised questions about the rush to implicate obesity, and
> especially “severe obesity” (B.M.I. greater than 40), as a factor in
> coronavirus complications. An article in the medical journal The Lancet
> 
>  evaluated
> Britain’s inclusion of obesity as a risk factor for coronavirus
> complications and retorted, “To date, no available data show adverse
> Covid-19 outcomes specifically in people with a BMI of 40 kg/m2.” The
> authors concluded, “The scarcity of information regarding the increased
> risk of illness for people with a BMI higher than 40 kg/m2 has led to
> ambiguity and might increase anxiety, given that these individuals have now
> been categorised as vulnerable to severe illness if they contract Covid-19.”
>
>
>
> Promoting strained associations between race, body size, and complications
> from this little-understood disease has served to reinforce an image of
> 

[Marxism] The gender gap in the Black community over Trump

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[Marxism] [UCE] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] How ‘Jakarta’ Became the Codeword for US-Backed Mass Killing

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 Unless you are Indonesian, or a specialist on the topic, most people know
very little about Indonesia, and almost nothing about what happened in
1965–1966 in that archipelago nation. The truth of the violence remained
hidden for decades. The dictatorship established in its wake told the world
a lie, and survivors were imprisoned or too terrified to speak out. It is
only as a result of the efforts of heroic Indonesian activists and
dedicated scholars around the world that we can now tell the story.
Documents recently declassified in Washington, D.C., have been a huge help,
though some of what happened still remains shrouded in mystery. This story
of inexplicable, vaguely tribal violence—so easy for American readers to
digest—was entirely false. This was organized state violence with a clear
purpose. The main obstacles to a complete military takeover were eliminated
by a coordinated program of extermination—the intentional mass murder of
innocent civilians. The generals were able to take power after state terror
sufficiently weakened their political opponents, who had no weapons, only
public sympathy. They didn’t resist their own annihilation because they had
no idea what was coming.   In total, it is estimated that between five
hundred thousand and one million people were slaughtered, and one million
more were herded into concentration camps. Millions more people were
indirect victims of the massacres, but no one came around to inquire how
many loved ones they had lost.   The prime responsibility for the massacres
and concentration camps lies with the Indonesian military. We still do not
know if the method employed— disappearance and mass extermination—was
planned well before October 1965, perhaps inspired by other cases around
the world, or planned under foreign direction, or if it emerged as a
solution as events unfolded. But Washington shares guilt for every death.
The United States was part and parcel of the operation at every stage,
starting well before the killing started, until the last body dropped and
the last political prisoner emerged from jail, decades later, tortured,
scarred, and bewildered. At several points that we know of—and perhaps some
we don’t—Washington was the prime mover and provided crucial pressure for
the operation to move forward or expand.
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[Marxism] The Twilight of the Iranian Revolution - For decades, Ayatollah Khamenei has professed enmity with America. Now his regime is threatened from within the country

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clip - One night last December, the chief resident physician at a hospital
in the Iranian city of Gorgan was asked to consult on a baffling case: a
patient was racked with a mysterious virus, which was advancing rapidly
through his body. The doctor, who asked to be identified only as Azad, for
fear of retribution by authorities, performed a CT scan and a series of
chest X-rays, but the virus overwhelmed the patient before he could decide
on a treatment. After reading reports from China, Azad determined that the
cause of death was the coronavirus. “I’d never seen anything like it
before,” he told me.



More patients started coming in, first a few at a time, then in droves,
many of them dying. When Azad and his colleagues alerted hospital officials
that they were treating cases of the coronavirus, they were told to keep
quiet. “We were given special instructions not to release any statistics on
infection and death rates,” a second doctor told me. The medical staff was
ordered not to wear masks or protective clothing. “The aim was to prevent
fear in the society, even if it meant high casualties among the medical
staff,” Azad said.

As the weeks went on, and the epidemic exploded in China, the Iranian media
remained nearly silent. Two reporters who work at a news outlet in Tehran
told me that they could see accounts of the virus on social media, but
their editors made it clear they should not pursue them; nationwide
parliamentary elections were scheduled for February 21st, and news about
the virus could discourage voters. “Everyone knows what stories can get you
in trouble,” one reporter told me. “It was understood that anything that
helped to lower turnout would be helping the counter-revolutionaries, and
no one wanted to be accused of supporting foreign-based opposition groups.”

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[Marxism] The Richest Neighborhoods Emptied Out Most as Coronavirus Hit New York City

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>
> so much for “we’re all in this together”!!
>
> The neighborhoods driving the city’s exodus do not resemble the city as a
> whole.
>
> The residents from these places are mostly white in a city that’s mostly
> not . Residents
> from these places are more than twice as likely to have a college degree.
> These places have higher rents and lower poverty rates. People who live
> there are more likely to be able to walk or bike to work, or to work from
> home.
>
> And the incomes of residents there are considerably higher: More than half
> of these neighborhoods’ residents have household incomes of more than
> $100,000; nearly one in three earn more than $200,000.
>
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/15/upshot/who-left-new-york-coronavirus.html
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[Marxism] a digital tale of the Naqba

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This week the advocacy group Visualizing Palestine launched Today,
Palestine, a digital storytelling platform with an interactive map designed
by Palestine Open Maps, the first open-source and searchable and detailed
map of the British Mandate of Palestine

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[Marxism] Igor Levit is like no other pianist

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> Other pianists of Levit’s generation may have achieved wider mass-market
> fame—Lang Lang and Yuja Wang come first to mind—but none have comparable
> stature as a cultural or even a political figure. In German-speaking
> countries, Levit is a familiar face not only to classical-music fans but
> also to a broader population that shares his leftist, internationalist
> world view. He has appeared on mainstream German TV shows; participated in
> political panel discussions; and attended the annual gathering of the Green
> Party, playing Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” the anthem of the European Union.
> It was no surprise that Levit’s inaugural live stream attracted attention,
> though I was taken aback when the number of viewers climbed into the tens
> of thousands.
>
>
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> 
>
> *Beethoven 32 Piano Sonatas* – Igor Levitt -
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NaGFZDeNZo=PLwZcmtVIy8GhYFh09kc5wHBycWi-qvugc
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[Marxism] Coronavirus and the difference between public and private schools

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A close look at these two very different first-grade classes in two of
America’s largest cities shows how the coronavirus pandemic
 has done nothing to level
the playing field of American education, and instead has widened the gaps
that have always existed.

But what the pandemic has made clear is that remote education, especially
of the youngest students, requires a rare mix of enthusiastic school
leadership, teacher expertise and homes equipped with everything children
need to learn effectively.

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[Marxism] ‘Extremely Disappointing’: Ilhan Omar Signs AIPAC Letter to Prolong Iran Sanctions

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[Marxism] An Amazon Vice President Quit Over Firings of Employees Who Protested

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Tim Bray, an engineer who had been a vice president of Amazon’s cloud
computing arm, said the firings were “evidence of a vein of toxicity
running through the company culture.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/business/amazon-tim-bray-resigns.html



A prominent engineer and vice president of Amazon’s cloud computing arm
said on Monday that he had quit “in dismay” over the recent firings of
workers who had raised questions about workplace safety during the
coronavirus pandemic.



Tim Bray, an engineer who had been a vice president of Amazon Web
Services, wrote
in a blog post
 that
his last day at the company was on Friday. He criticized a number of recent
firings by Amazon, including that of an employee in a Staten Island
warehouse, Christian Smalls, who had led a protest in March calling for the
company to provide workers with more protections.

Mr. Smalls’s firing has drawn the scrutiny of New York State’s attorney
general

.

Mr. Bray also criticized the firing last month

of
two Amazon employees, Maren Costa and Emily Cunningham, who circulated a
petition in March on

internal
email lists that called on Amazon to expand sick leave, hazard pay and
child care for warehouse workers. They had also helped organize a virtual
event for warehouse employees to speak to tech workers at the company about
its workplace conditions and coronavirus response.



Mr. Bray, who had worked for the company for more than five years, called
the fired workers whistle-blowers, and said that firing them was “evidence
of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture.”



“I choose neither to serve nor drink that poison,” he wrote.

Amazon declined to comment on Monday. The company had previously said it
fired Mr. Smalls because he had violated its policies by leaving a
quarantine — he had previously been exposed to a sick worker — to attend
the protest at the site.



Amazon told Ms. Costa and Ms. Cunningham that they had violated a policy
that forbids Amazon workers from asking their co-workers to donate to
causes or sign petitions.


Mr. Bray had previously worked at Google and Sun Microsystems and is one of
the architects of XML, a markup language developed more than 20 years ago

that
has been used extensively to code web pages.



He said in an email that he did not have any specific goals in mind when he
wrote the blog post and that he did not expect it to receive much attention.



“I’m a blogger and I share the story of my life when I think it might
interest or help others,” he said.



Mr. Bray’s resignation came as Amazon has drawn scrutiny over the safety of
hundreds of thousands of its workers who are helping pack and ship products
to millions of homebound Americans
.

Employees have protested at several Amazon facilities, saying they feel
unsafe and fear warehouses have been contaminated with the coronavirus.
Other employees are demanding better pay or more sick leave.



Last month, Amazon came under fire after leaked notes, published by Vice
News
,
showed Amazon’s top lawyer saying that Mr. Smalls could be portrayed as
inarticulate and discussing strategy for making him out to be the face of
the worker movement.


Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker,
both of New Jersey, have written to Amazon’s chief executive, Jeff Bezos,
to express concern about warehouse safety.



The company has rolled out various safety measures at its warehouses across
the country, such as temperature checks and mandatory masks.



Mr. Bray acknowledged in his blog post that Amazon was prioritizing
warehouse safety. But he said he also believed the workers.



“At the end of the day, the big problem isn’t the specifics of Covid-19
response,” he wrote. “It’s that Amazon treats the humans in the warehouses
as fungible units of pick-and-pack potential. Only that’s not just Amazon,
it’s how 21st-century capitalism is done.”



Amazon Web Services, the division in which Mr. Bray worked, is one of the
world’s leading cloud 

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[Marxism] Large, Troubled Companies Got Bailout Money in Small-Business Loan Program - The New York Times

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[Marxism] Coronavirus can survive prolonged exposure to high temperatures - study

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 The researchers concluded that using chemicals rather than heat to
disinfect would be the best way to go



The novel COVID-19
,
despite previous suspicions, is capable of surviving prolonged exposure to
high temperatures, according to a study by the University of Aix-Marseille
in France, led by Professor Remi Charrel and Boris Pastorino.


In the experiment, scientists found that typically hot temperatures of
60°Celsius (140° Fahrenheit) used to disinfect research labs are
ineffective against the coronavirus. Instead, the pathogen may only be
killed in a maintained temperature of 92 °C for 15 minutes.

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[Marxism] Covid-19 is a perfect storm for women workers

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America's women workers have been living in a straw house perched high on a
cliff, and COVID-19 is the perfect storm.  Though research reveals that men
are more likely to succumb to the virus, women will be disproportionately
devastated by its economic impacts, and that's especially true for women of
color.  Women have long held the most precarious jobs, made less money, and
done the most paid and unpaid caregiving. The coronavirus exacerbates these
inequalities, making female workers particularly vulnerable to economic
disaster in the months and years to come.

Less visible, however, are the legions of women who have lost their jobs in
recent weeks. The last downturn in 2008 and 2009 knocked the male-dominated
construction and manufacturing the hardest, but this time, women made up a
full 60%

of
the first wave of layoffs, which hit the service, leisure, and retail
industries particularly hard. Many worked for low wages, often for tips, as
hotel housekeepers, waitresses, salon staff, child care workers, home
health care aides, and in other service and caring jobs.  These were not
family-supporting, stable jobs, even before the current crisis.  Will these
businesses close for good, leaving many women workers out of a job
permanently?

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[Marxism] “Prisons Are Microcosms of the Broader Society”

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As COVID-19 rips through American prisons, incarcerated people have braved
violent repression to demand a humane response to their suffering. In an
interview with Jacobin, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Heather Ann
Thompson explains the current wave of prisoner protest — and what it could
signal about the future of American politics.

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[Marxism] Greater Idaho and the ugly history of Northwest secession movements

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[Marxism] The Pathology of American Racism is Making the Pathology of the Coronavirus Worse

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Black people are at the mercy of everything that is flawed and
dysfunctional about America’s health-care system, which has long been
shaped by racism.

Decades of research

show
the ways that racism produces a rigged system that drives disparities in
health outcomes across lifetimes and generations. Higher levels of
discrimination and bias are associated with elevated risk of a broad range
of diseases, from higher levels of stress hormones, to blood pressure, to
obesity and early death. All of those underlying conditions put people at
higher risk for bad outcomes from covid-19.



It doesn’t take “a very stable genius
”
to connect black people’s higher rates of unemployment, mass incarceration,
chronic preexisting medical issues, poor housing, homelessness and less
reliable access to quality health care to see why they’re more vulnerable
to increased viral transmission, infection and death during a pandemic.
Black people are also less likely to work in the kinds of jobs that will
continue to pay you if you don’t physically show up in the office. As New
York Times columnist Charles Blow

pointed
out this week, the ability to work from home, to practice social distancing
and to wear a mask without fear of being arrested or shot while black are
all forms of privilege.

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[Marxism] Spreading the Virus of Occupation: Spitting as a Weapon in the Hand of Colonial Israel

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Spitting at someone is a universal insult. In Israel, however, spitting at
Palestinians is an entirely different story.



Now that we know that the deadly coronavirus can be transmitted through
saliva droplets, Israeli soldiers and illegal Jewish settlers are working
extra hard to spit

at
as many Palestinians, their cars, doorknobs, and so on, as possible.



If this sounds to you too surreal and repugnant, then you might not be as
familiar with the particular breed of Israeli colonialism as you may think
you are.



In all fairness, Israelis have been spitting at Palestinians well before
the World Health Organization (WHO) lectured

us
on the elusive nature of the COVID-19 disease and on the critical need to
apply ‘social distancing’.



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[Marxism] Pulitzer prize-winning author Laurie Garrett’s recent article “Grim Reapers”

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This is why the 2020 pandemic is, at its root, the story of two deeply
flawed leaders, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, who for too long minimized the
coronavirus threat—and who, because of the enormous, largely unaccountable
power they wield, must share responsibility for its global scale. At key
moments when their mutual transparency and collaboration might have spared
the world a catastrophic pandemic, the world’s two most powerful men fought
a war of words over trade policies, and charged each other with
responsibility for the spread of the disease. When scientists worldwide
could have benefited from details of China’s new disease, perhaps thereby
preventing thousands of hospitalizations and deaths, the Chinese Communist
Party’s instincts were to arrest conveyors of information, shut down social
media, and prohibit visiting teams of World Health Organization and foreign
disease-control experts.



For its part, the United States was uniquely positioned, thanks to the
chronology of the outbreak, to learn from China’s initial mistakes, and
heed the example of the Xi regime’s belated epidemic control efforts. The
order of the day, as all sorts of public health experts and officials from
past administrations had stressed at the time, was to kick on-the-ground
prevention and containment efforts into high gear. To begin with, Trump
officials should have been preparing lab tests, hospital infection control
plans, supply chains of vital equipment, and implementing a
chain-of-command reordering of governance on an emergency footing. They
should also have been securing budget proposals for emergency funds, and
overseeing fuller coordination with state and local health departments
across American states and territories.



Instead, the main message of the Trump White House was stunningly oblivious
to the real emergency the country was facing. Addressing a press
conference at the World Economic Forum on January 22, President Trump
insisted that when it came to the coronavirus threat, “We have it totally
under control,” despite the Washington state case. “It’s one person coming
in from China. We have it under control. It’s going to be just fine,” he
said. For good measure, he added that he had a “great relationship” with
Xi, who assured him China’s epidemic was also controlled.



… But that February 7 message bore almost no substantive relation to the
Trump administration’s own coronavirus response. Trump and his senior
advisers remained confident that border closures and airplane shutdowns
would keep Covid-19 out of America—and so the White House took almost no
interest in the potential of a pandemic sweeping America. In 2018, Trump
had eliminated most of the Obama-era pandemic response capacities inside
federal agencies, especially the National Security Council and Department
of Homeland Security—which meant that Trump was dangerously insulated from
critical sources of information about America’s acute vulnerability to
emerging viral threats. The Trump administration had no coordination of
information and analysis in the National Security Council, no command
operation inside the Department of Homeland Security, a diminished set of
global health and epidemic programs at the CDC, lapsed funding for training
grassroots medical personnel in infection control, and a weakened capacity
to rush diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines through FDA safety checks and
approval.



Despite warnings

from
his own national intelligence community that Covid-19 displayed “pandemic
potential,” the President insisted the Chinese outbreak posed no threat to
America. Some critics have labeled this call “the worst intelligence
failure in U.S. history,” comparing it to past American leaders’ neglect of
crucial reports of hostile activity prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor
and the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.

It is tragic and perverse that animosities between two egotistical leaders
and their sycophantic circles of advisers have placed the entire world in
grave peril. Trade disputes between Washington and Beijing were already
producing widespread global fallout before the emergence of Covid-19.

True, conventional diplomatic initiatives can control some of this damage
but it’s also the case that no reasonable dialogue between the United
States and China can transpire unless both sides are willing to start the
conversation based on valid science. Neither Beijing nor Washington seems
remotely inclined to take on this humbling challenge to the actual legacies
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[Marxism] He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus An examination reveals the president was warned about the potential for a pandemic but that internal divisions, lack o

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Throughout January, as Mr. Trump repeatedly played down the seriousness of
the virus and focused on other issues, an array of figures inside his
government — from top White House advisers to experts deep in the cabinet
departments and intelligence agencies — identified the threat, sounded
alarms and made clear the need for aggressive action.

The president, though, was slow to absorb the scale of the risk and to act
accordingly, focusing instead on controlling the message, protecting gains
in the economy and batting away warnings from senior officials. It was a
problem, he said, that had come out of nowhere and could not have been
foreseen.

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[Marxism] Declassified Documents Explore Little-Known Political Coup in Latin America

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*The Overthrow of Cheddi Jagan in British Guiana*



Cold War concerns about another Communist Cuba in Latin America drove
President John F. Kennedy to approve a covert CIA political campaign to rig
national elections in British Guiana, then a British colony but soon to be
independent, according to declassified documents posted today by the
National Security Archive.

U.S. intelligence concluded that Prime Minister Cheddi Jagan, one of the
main presidential candidates in the upcoming 1964 elections, was a
communist, although not necessarily under the sway of Moscow.
Nevertheless, Kennedy decided Jagan would have to go and urged London to
cooperate in the effort.  As early as mid-1962, JFK informed the British
prime minister that the notion of an independent state led by Jagan
“disturbs us seriously,” adding: “We must be entirely frank in saying that
we simply cannot afford to see another Castro-type regime established in
this Hemisphere. It follows that we should set as our objective an
independent British Guiana under some other leader.”

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Re: [Marxism] Brazil's super-rich and the exclusive club at the heart of a coronavirus hotspot

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[Marxism] With all due respect to Governor Cuomo, this virus is not 'the great equalizer' - Upworthy

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> clip - At a recent press conference, after his brother Chris was diagnosed
> with COVID-19, New York governor Andrew Cuomo kept reiterating two
> sentiments: "We're all in this together," and "This virus is the great
> equalizer."
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> But Cuomo was wrong on the second point. The fact that this is an equal
> opportunity virus doesn't make it "the great equalizer." The coronavirus
> pandemic doesn't equalize anything. In fact, it merely highlights and
> magnifies our existing inequalities.
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> It's true that wealthy people aren't immune from the virus, and some will
> die. But they still have an advantage from the start. Wealthy folks have
> access to the best medical care and the ability to afford it. For goodness
> knows what reason, the wealthy appear to be able to get tested for the
> virus even without showing symptoms, while the average American has a hard
> time getting a test unless they are ICU-level ill.
>
> Poor people are starting at a disadvantage, as they are a) more likely to
> have underlying health conditions, b) less likely to seek medical help
> early over fears of not being able to afford it, and c) more likely to work
> in the vital-but-low-paying service industries we are now relying on to
> feed us, keep our grocery stores and hospitals clean, and transport our
> food and garbage, putting them at higher risk of exposure.
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[Marxism] US Sanctions on Iran Devastate the Health Sector

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[Marxism] ‘For common benefit of all,’ Ireland nationalizes hospitals for duration of coronavirus crisis, sparking demand for US to follow suit

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[Marxism] 68 cultural/historical collections you can explore online

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[Marxism] the virus can be stopped only with harsh steps, say the experts

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Terrifying though the coronavirus may be, it can be turned back. China,
South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan have demonstrated that, with furious
efforts, the contagion can be brought to heel.



But doing so takes intelligent, rapidly adaptive work by health officials,
and near-total cooperation from the populace. Containment becomes realistic
only when Americans realize that working together is the only way to
protect themselves and their loved ones.



Americans must be persuaded to stay home, they said, and a system put in
place to isolate the infected and care for them outside the home. Travel
restrictions should be extended, they said; productions of masks and
ventilators must be accelerated, and testing problems must be resolved.

But tactics like forced isolation, school closings and pervasive GPS
tracking of patients brought more divided reactions.



What follows are the recommendations offered by the experts interviewed by
The Times.

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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Trump Is Inciting a Coronavirus Culture War to Save Himself

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The president’s attempt to racialize the pandemic is a cover-up of the fact
that he trusted false reassurances from Beijing.

Administration officials directly warned Trump of the danger posed by the
virus, but “Trump’s insistence on the contrary seemed to rest in his
relationship with China’s President Xi Jingping, whom Trump believed was
providing him with reliable information about how the virus was spreading
in China,” *The Washington Post* reported
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“despite reports from intelligence agencies that Chinese officials were not
being candid about the true scale of the crisis.”

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Re: [Marxism] In Light of the Global Pandemic, Focus Attention on the People.

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This is the tenth post from Louis in two and a half hours, after he
reminded us a few days ago that comrades are limited to six per day. My
suggestion is that since most of us are stuck at home away from work and
other normal activities, the limit of six be put on hold for if and when we
recover. We all have plenty of time to read.

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[Marxism] During the Mexican-American War, Irish-Americans Fought for Mexico in the ‘Saint Patrick’s Battalion’

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Anti-Catholic sentiment in the States gave men like John Riley little
reason to continue to pay allegiance to the stars and stripes

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[Marxism] free opera streaming starting tonight

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Each night, the institution will post an encore showing of an opera from
its “Met Live in HD” series

Tonight - La Boheme



Wednesday – Il Trovatore



Thursday – La Traviata



Each streaming session will begin at 7:30 p.m. EST and remain available on
the homepage of metopera.org for 20 hours.



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[Marxism] Brazilian Police Are on a Rampage

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Security forces have always been unaccountable for their actions in the
favelas. But under Bolsonaro, things have gotten even worse.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/opinion/police-violence-favelas.html


SÃO PAULO, Brazil — It was around 5 a.m. on an average Tuesday. I was
sitting on the sofa eating toast when I received a Facebook notification

saying
that a police raid had just begun. “Please don’t leave your homes,” I read.
“If you are outside, take shelter!”

Classes were canceled that morning. Armored tanks rolled through the streets
,
shooting seemingly at random. By 8 a.m., according to reports, police
officers broke into homes and tortured residents. Others headed to the
roofs to set up sniper hideouts. The operation lasted all day. It was
entirely typical.

Of course it didn’t happen where I live — a middle-class neighborhood in
São Paulo, where such acts of state terror would be nearly inconceivable.
No, the operation took place last month in Complexo da Maré
, a complex of 16 favela communities in Rio
de Janeiro where approximately 140,000 people live.

I recently started following the Facebook page “Maré Vive” (Maré Lives)
months ago, in a vague effort to grasp what it would feel like living in a
Rio favela. To keep residents safe, the page shares information and live
updates on police raids in the community. Almost every morning, around 5
a.m., I receive their daily forecast. Will everything be calm in the favela
today? Or are the tanks already rolling in? It’s almost like a weather
forecast — if only you could trade raincoats for bulletproof vests.



And yet I can shut down the computer and forget all about it right away, if
I want to. Residents can’t. In 2019, according to a report
 by the nonprofit
group Redes da Maré, there were 39 police operations in the complex — one
every 9.4 days — that lasted almost 300 hours and left 34 people dead. (None
of them were white
.)
Twenty-four school days have been lost. (School is canceled when there’s a
police raid.)

The raids are part of a disastrous policy to combat drug trafficking in Rio
de Janeiro. The state’s security forces have always been violent and
unaccountable for their actions in the favelas, but things have gotten even
worse under the country’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, and his
ally, Rio de Janeiro’s governor Wilson Witzel.

Mr. Witzel has promised to “slaughter
”
criminals in the communities, saying that

military
police should “aim at their little heads
.”
This is at the core of his public security policy, which consists of
tough-on-crime rhetoric, giving carte blanche to the police and nothing
else. Last year, he claimed he should have the right to send a missile

into
a favela in order to “blow up these people.
”
He encourages incessant and deadly police invasions into poor communities
in pursuit of drug gangs, failing to recognize that most of the residents
are law-abiding, working citizens.

As a result, police killings in the state of Rio de Janeiro reached a 20-year
high

last
year, with 1,810 people murdered by security forces — almost five deaths
per day. (Twenty-two police officers were killed in the same period.)
Police forces are now responsible for 43 percent of all the violent deaths
 in the state, an
astonishingly high number even by Brazilian standards.

While the authorities claim that most of the victims are gang members who
engaged in confrontations with the police, many cases show signs of being
extrajudicial killings. Other times, victims are innocent 

[Marxism] Opposing Paid Sick Leave Risks Lives

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As the coronavirus spreads, the public interest requires employers to
abandon their longstanding resistance to paid sick leave.

Most American restaurants do not offer paid sick leave. Workers who fall
sick face a simple choice: Work and get paid or stay home and get stiffed.
Not surprisingly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported
in 2014 that fully 20 percent of food service workers had come to work at
least once in the previous year “while sick with vomiting or diarrhea
.”

As the new coronavirus spreads across the United States, the time has come
for restaurants, retailers and other industries that rely on low-wage labor
to abandon their parsimonious resistance to paid sick leave. Companies that
do not pay sick workers to stay home are endangering their workers, their
customers and the health of the broader public. Studies show
 that
paying for sick employees to stay home significantly reduces the spread of
the seasonal flu. There’s every reason to think it would help to check the
new coronavirus, too.

What happens when the next pandemic arrives?

The only adequate remedy is to permanently require paid sick leave for all
workers.

And Americans looking for a place to eat or shop can protect their health,
and encourage executives to do the right thing, by shunning businesses that
refuse to provide paid leave.

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[Marxism] There’s a Giant Hole in Pelosi’s Coronavirus Bill

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi early Saturday celebrated passage of legislation
 she
described as providing paid sick leave to American workers affected by the
coronavirus.

She neglected to mention the fine print.

In fact, the bill guarantees sick leave only to about 20 percent of
workers. Big employers like McDonald’s and Amazon are not required to
provide any paid sick leave, while companies with fewer than 50 employees
can seek hardship exemptions from the Trump administration.

“If you are sick, stay home,” Vice President Mike Pence said at a news
conference on Saturday afternoon. “You’re not going to miss a pay check.”

But that’s simply not true. Sick workers should stay home, but there is no
guarantee in the emergency legislation that most of them will get paid.



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[Marxism] 50 years of the Supreme Court making US society unequal in every way

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> What I do in this book is I argue that the Supreme Court actually has had
> a central role in the last 50 years of making our country more unequal in
> every way, particularly economically unequal. And there are a number of
> ways in which they’ve done that. But one thing I point to is there’s
> something called the World Inequality Report 2018, put out by leading
> economists around the world, including Thomas Piketty. They looked at
> American inequality and tried to figure out what was driving it. They
> pointed to two things: our immense educational inequality and our lack of a
> progressive tax system. Both of those forces are directly attributable to
> rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court.
>
>
> https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/6/adam_cohen_supreme_inequality_supreme_court
>
> https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/6/adam_cohen_part_2
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[Marxism] [UCE] A Punishment with No End:The Journey of a Working-Class Criminal into Academia

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As a criminal man from a working-class background, I am a walking
manifestation of the entanglement of welfare, crime, class, and society.
The problem may be societal, but it casts a stain on my character and my
being. The othering that I experienced in my youth because of my class
background is replicated in adulthood as a working-class
ex-prisoner/offender.

What I cannot help but feel is the ‘violence of class’. The othering that
has dogged my entire life due to my class has acted as the catalyst for
both the good but more profoundly the bad that I have perpetrated and
experienced in my life. Class has underpinned my criminality and its
injurious nature complicates my progression from that identity in the
present day. Justice was served when I was sentenced to imprisonment, yet
injustice punctuates my life since my release.

https://workingclassstudies.wordpress.com/2020/03/09/a-punishment-with-no-end-the-journey-of-a-working-class-criminal-into-academia/
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[Marxism] The global practice of genital mutilation

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>
>
> "As feminist reformers ramped up critiques against such practices, genital
> cutting was terminated in the early twentieth century in some places,
> especially Europe and North America. In other regions, especially where the
> practice was connected to much older grassroots traditions about gender
> roles, female genital mutilation continued without much change in attitude
> of the primarily female practitioners for much of the twentieth century. In
> some colonial African states, the practice became a form of gendered
> resistance to European occupation. Young women even took the step to
> self-circumcise as a way to mark their authentic local roots against
> evangelical missionaries' attempts to stamp out such 'god­less' practices.
>
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Re: [Marxism] How Netflix And "Manning Marable" Killed Malcolm X (The Third Time) - CounterPunch.org

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My thoughts exactly Dayne - for quite some time!

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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
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[Marxism] Daniel J. Berrigan, Defiant Priest Who Preached Pacifism, Dies at 94

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[Marxism] Precarity goes to the movies

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[Marxism] Iran's Deputy Health Minister Diagnosed With Coronavirus Just Day After Sweating Profusely On Live TV

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[Marxism] Excellent reply from Dave Lindorff answering the Cuba-baiting of Sanders

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I'll defend Castro. He fought a revolution that ousted the Mob-run Batista
dictator, closed down the mob run casinos, and kicked out the Western
owners of the sugar plantations, elevated the peasant class, gave them a
world-class health care system and made the largely illiterate country into
the most literate nation in Latin America. Okay, because the US, imposing a
tight embargo on Cuba after the expropriation on US corporate assets there,
drove Castro and his government into the arms of the Stalinist Soviet
Union, he ended up adopting a lot of Soviet economic ideas and governing
methods, and became enamored of his own indispensability to the
revolution's success. That part wasn't so good, but I'll agree with Bernie
that Castro did a lot for the Cuban people. I'll also say that had the US
not been so rabidly anti-Communist, and more willing to adopt friendly
relations with a Marxist, as it did with Tito in Yugoslavia, Cuba might
have evolved into a much gentler socialist society, especially if the
embargo had not existed.
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Re: [Marxism] Sanders's "turnout" strategy not working

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> Michael - While I respect you for much of the political work you have
> done, I must say that your cheerleading for the Democratic Party is a bit
> nauseating on a MARXIST list!
>
> "Whoever the Dems choose"??? When did you become such a toady to this
> worthless party? And what if it isn't Sanders but some moderate,
> pro-corporate slug - fill in the blank, the Dems have many of them. In the
> name of a short-sighted Anyone but Trump hysteria, what would we get if one
> of them defeats Trump in November?
>
> We'd get a "savior" who is unwilling to address any of the changes that
> tens of millions of Americans now demand;
> continued exorbitant medical bills/insurance/Big Pharma ripoffs,
> college tuition that takes decades for young people to pay back,
> more bowing to the demands of banks,
> the rise of more billionaires who don't have to pay as much in taxes as
> much of the working class,
>
> Wouldn’t that disappointment four years later produce another Trump, as it
> did in 2016 when 5 million who voted for Obama in 2012 STAYED HOME,
> frustrated and demoralized that the Dems are an all-talk/do-nothing party??
>

If Bernie is cheated out of the nomination as was the case in 2016 and
declares his independence from the Dems and runs a third party campaign,  I
would do whatever I could to support it. If he repeats his surrender of
four years ago, we need to get behind the candidacy of Howie Hawkins of the
Green Party.

>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 11:26 AM Michael Meeropol via Marxism
>
>>
>> THEREFORE, it is most appropriate that everybody vote for the person they
>> like the best  and then work like Hell for WHOEVER the Dems choose ...
>>
>>
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Re: [Marxism] Sanders's "turnout" strategy not working

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Michael - While I respect you for much of the political work you have done,
I must say that your cheerleading for the Democratic Party is a bit
nauseating on a MARXIST list!

"Whoever the Dems choose"??? When did you become such a toady to this
worthless party? And what if it isn't Sanders but some moderate,
pro-corporate slug - fill in the blank, the Dems have many of them. In the
name of a short-sighted Anyone but Trump hysteria, what would we get if one
of them defeats Trump in November?

We'd get a "savior" who is unwilling to address any of the changes that
tens of millions of Americans now demand;
continued exorbitant medical bills/insurance/Big Pharma ripoffs,
college tuition that takes decades for young people to pay back,
more bowing to the demands of banks,
the rise of more billionaires who don't have to pay as much in taxes as
much of the working class,

Wouldn’t that disappointment four years later produce another Trump, as it
did in 2016 when 5 million who voted for Obama in 2012 STAYED HOME,
frustrated and demoralized that the Dems are an all-talk/do-nothing party??

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 11:26 AM Michael Meeropol via Marxism

>
> THEREFORE, it is most appropriate that everybody vote for the person they
> like the best  and then work like Hell for WHOEVER the Dems choose ...
>
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[Marxism] Frederick Douglass meets Abraham Lincoln

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https://delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?p=4041
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[Marxism] Putin is actually terrified of a Bernie Sanders Presidency: The Green New Deal

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How do I know that Russia would actually hate, abhor and despise a Sanders
presidency? Because Sanders’s Green New Deal
 would bankrupt Russia.

The rise of green energy and electric vehicles has the potential to make
Russia plummet on down to a level of GDP below that of Mexico and more like
the Netherlands, which only has a tenth of its population. I.e., if you
took away the 40 percent of GDP that is oil and natural gas, Russia’s gross
domestic product would fall to less than $1 trillion annually.

https://www.juancole.com/2020/02/actually-terrified-presidency.html
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[Marxism] Iraqi women protest in defiance of Al-Sadr's demands

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Hundreds of women defended their right to participate in Iraq’s protests
after controversial cleric Moqtada Al Sadr called for gender segregation at
sit-ins

https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/iraqi-women-protest-in-defiance-of-cleric-s-demands-1.978783

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[Marxism] How Margaret Mead became a hate figure for conservatives

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In 1978, after 50 years at the pinnacle of American opinion, the
anthropologist Margaret Mead died with a secure reputation and a lustrous
legacy. Her ascent seemed to mirror the societal ascent of American women.
In some two dozen books and countless articles, she gave a forceful voice
to a sturdy if cautious liberalism: resolutely antiracist, pro-choice; open
to ‘new ways of thinking’ yet wary of premarital sex and hesitant about the
Pill. The tensions in public opinion were hers, too. In her obituary,
*The* *New
York* *Times* called her ‘a national oracle’.

But posthumous reputation is a brittle thing. It’s difficult to defend
oneself after death, and the years wear away a name, eventually reducing it
to dust or mere ‘influence’. Issues change, standards shift, new thinkers
rise: few names last forever. Within anthropology, Mead is still revered,
but mostly as a way to understand the discipline’s origins. In the popular
mind, Mead’s name has all but vanished, her reputation whittled down to an
apocryphal quote found on coffee mugs and dorm-room posters: ‘Never doubt
that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world;
indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.’

What’s more, Mead has become a target of vitriolic dislike for a particular
kind of cultural conservatism. In 1999, the Intercollegiate Studies
Institute, a group that promotes conservatism in colleges, ranked
Mead’s *Coming
of Age in Samoa* (1928) as the single worst nonfiction book of the 20th
century. In his *Letters to a Young Conservative* (2002), the splenetic
pseudo-thinker Dinesh D’Souza accused Mead, as many others have done, of
wounding ‘Western culture’ by introducing some kind of noxious,
destabilising relativism. And in *The Closing of the American Mind* (1987),
the philosopher Allan Bloom trashed Mead as a ‘sexual adventurer’.

What happened? More than the passage of time dispatching her name into the
history books, Mead had an enemy who attacked with uncommon hatred: Derek
Freeman, a New Zealand anthropologist who made it his life’s work to
expunge Mead after her death. His criticisms have stuck. Like a parasite,
his own name has lived on as ‘Mead’s critic’ (he died in 2001), leading to
a strange alchemy: to the extent that Mead is remembered now, it is most
often as one who was proven wrong. Freeman gave her opponents a readymade
cudgel to bludgeon not only her anthropological work but everything she
represented beyond that. And what, indeed, was that?

full article -
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Re: [Marxism] Idrees Ahmad takes down NYT reporter Robert Worth's filthy attack on two Syrian documentaries

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Of course I admire Ahmad's strong stand on Syria but he has been hostile
and demagogic on FB as to building some type of left alternative to the
Dems, going so far as to slander even Sanders supporters as Trump allies. I
asked him about his call to "support anyone against Trump" and he repeated
it - proudly.

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[Marxism] 1,056 Feet: Why I Needed the 1619 Project Growing Up

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Their real reasons for opposing the 1619 Project are, well, quite black and
white. If the Project seeks to correct the established narrative of
American history, which has for so long sidelined slavery, racism, Jim
Crow, the Civil Rights movement, mass incarceration, and a host of other
things in the prefix of *African *American History, these scholars seek to
maintain the status quo. For these scholars, the 1619 Project gets the
“facts” wrong, and instead interprets history in a way which, in their
words, foregrounds “identity politics.”

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[Marxism] BBC Whitewashes U.S. Refusal to Bomb Auschwitz

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No “diversion” of airplanes would have been needed—because U.S. bombers
were already striking German oil factories in the Auschwitz industrial
zone, just a few miles from the gas chambers. The real reason for the
rejections was the Roosevelt administration’s policy of refraining from
using even the most minimal resources for humanitarian objectives, such as
interrupting genocide.

Instead, the “diversion” argument is presented as a legitimate objection—as
if bombing Auschwitz really would have undermined the war effort. The
entire fictional “debate” is presented to the viewer as a clash between
U.S. officials who were waging the war, and semi-hysterical Jewish leaders
who wanted to divert from the war effort for the sake of their narrow
Jewish interests.

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174136
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[Marxism] William Barr - Trump’s sword and shield - read or listen to 108 minute podcast

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[Marxism] NY Times demonizes pro – Palestinians as anti - Jewish

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/opinion/antisemitism-college.html




my response, of course not printed!



The Palestinians were "forced to flee by their Arab brethren"? Growing up
as a supporter of Israel, I was taught repeatedly that the evidence for
that claim were the alleged radio broadcasts instructing Palestinians to
flee so that Arab armies from outside Palestine could invade, wipe out the
Jews and "drive them into the sea", thus cleansing it for the Palestinians.
But Zionist propagandists never provided dates of these broadcasts or radio
station identification. This was available because the BBC had monitored
all broadcasts in the area throughout 1947 and 1948. Erskine B. Childers,
an Irish journalist went through the BBC files and found examples of Arabs
begging the Palestinians to stay put!


Plan Dalet was organized Zionist policy to drive out as many Palestinians
(they were about 68% of the population) in order to make a Jewish state
feasible (where they were only about 31% of the population). This was
established in part by pro-Israeli historians (Benny Morris) going through
the archives of the Jewish state itself, released in the late 1980s/early
1990s. The original sin of Zionism was the slogan "a land without people
for a people without land" but there WERE people, they just were not
Jewish! Stating these facts and opposing the racist results are as
"anti-Jewish" as opposition to apartheid South Africa in the 1970s and '80s
was anti Dutch settlers! The question is over ethnic cleansing and massive
land theft and won't go away with falsification of history!
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[Marxism] the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy

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One of the most cataclysmic and little known or understood events in the
rise of white supremacy in the late 1800s—and perhaps the final nail in the
coffin of Reconstruction, two decades after the removal of federal troops
from the South—occurred in Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898,
when white supremacists engineered a military coup to overthrow the city’s
elected government.

In a single day white militias burned a black newspaper office to the
ground, attacked the black population *en masse* with a staggering
arsenal—including a rapid-fire Gatling gun—and drove the remnants of the
Wilmington’s Fusionist (a racially integrated Republican-Populist party)
government from the city, quickly installing coup leaders in its place.

In *Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White
Supremacy*, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Zucchino cuts through a
century of propaganda, myth, and big white lies to unmask the stunning
history of the Wilmington coup, its origins in the political climate of the
era, and its far-reaching implications for North Carolina and the rest of
the resurgent Confederacy in the decades that followed.
https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/wilmingtons-lie
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[Marxism] Chiang Kai Shek and Sun Yatsen

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[Marxism] The ruthlessness of American Robber Baron Jay Gould - the Jeff Bezos of his time!

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Jay Gould (1836-1892) was one of the most ruthless of the so-called robber
barons of America's Gilded Age. He gained his wealth through railroad stock
manipulation, but it was his acquisition and control of Western Union,
which had a near-monopoly on communications in that era, that caused
Americans to tremble and view him as a threat to democracy itself:



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