Re: [Marxism] Kevin Rafferty, ‘Atomic Cafe’ Co-Director, Dies at 73

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Two youtube videos of possible interest. One is an interview with two of
the producers. The other is the full film.

https://youtu.be/WFCyWdu71kw
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Re: [Marxism] The Best Films of 2020 (So Far), and They’re All Streaming - The New York Times

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Behind a capitalist paywall. Which films are they? Asking for us
proletariats. 😎

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Re: [Marxism] The Struggle Continues: From the ISO to Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists | Left Voice

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Very interesting article, but this made smirk:

"Meanwhile, at the base of the organization, two additional tendencies
formed. The first, the Socialist Tide Revolutionary Current, was comprised
of a layer of rightward-moving cadre, predominately in New York City, who
wanted to scrap the ISO’s categorical opposition to the Democratic Party. "

The idea of calling one's current revolutionary but at the same time
lending support to the DP.  Dios mio!

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Re: [Marxism] Regeneration Magazine

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The group is called Marxist Center. It's an interesting development.

Here is a recent article summarizing their gathering last year:

https://theforgenews.org/2018/12/14/report-on-the-marxist-center-conference/

This group reminds me of Solidarity so I hope it does have the potential of
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Re: [Marxism] Democrats More Positive About Socialism Than Capitalism

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The poll is from August 2018. Would be interesting to find out if there has
been a continued shift in 2019.

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Re: [Marxism] Andrew Gillum wins Democratic nomination for FL governor | Miami Herald

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I guess with the electoral backing of Sanders, he is being labeled a Sander
acolyte. But as Gillum mentioned today during a CNN interview, he was
surprised Sanders had reached out to him since he had been a major HRC
supporter. Nevertheless, an interesting development.

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

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Nope. Worked for me. Erik

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Re: [Marxism] How Did AMLO Become the Frontrunner in Mexico’s Elections?

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Good Morning:
The only update to the article:

" Calderón’s wife is now an independent candidate for president. The
candidate of the PAN-PRD coalition this year is Ricardo Anaya, a young real
estate speculator and party official."

Margarita Zavala, Calderon's wife, has left the race. She wasn't making
headway in the polls and with the possibility of her dragging away votes
from PAN-PRD, she probably made a deal to end her run.

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Re: [Marxism] The DSA and the Democratic Party | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Some short thoughts that may be off tangent.

As someone who has been a long time member of the Socialist Party USA
(since 1989), was a member of DSA back in 1988, and returned to DSA in 2016
(I am a member of a local DSA as well campus advisor for a YSDA group)I
think DSA has reached a point on the question of DP and 3rd parties.

>From my personal experience working with young DSA members (late teens to
20 somes), many are new to socialism and don't really feel attached to the
DP or have not really studied the issue closely. I bet that a good # of
folks who have joined DSA fall in this category. This is where the old DSA
guard faces the task of channeling (or sheepherding?) this large bulk of
the membership into becoming loyal DP members. Opposed to this strategy are
folks like Refoundation DSA (https://dsarefoundation.org) and others who
are working toward an independent strategy.


por el socialismo,
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Re: [Marxism] ‘Yes, I’m Running as a Socialist.’ Why Candidates Are Embracing the Label in 2018

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Actually, there is a current within DSA that has proposed such thing. Erik

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Re: [Marxism] Lou Andreas-Salome biopic

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This is the trailer for the film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e722D0mnxnw

Thanks for sharing!

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Oklahoma comes closer to joining West Virginia in a major teacher strike

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It's along time a-coming. From Vice News (Oct 2016):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq1B5cZWPIc

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Third Parties, Your Time Is Now

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And a comrade and  member of the Socialist Party USA.

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Internationalism Gone Local: The Ginger Jentzen Campaign Shows How Socialism Grows from the Bottom-Up I Bryant William Sculos

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Actually. DSA is backing this election. Both the national and locals.

https://chicagodsa.org/event/chicago-for-ginger-jentzen-fundraiser/

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Five Absorbing Documentaries From Bullfrog Films | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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In Search of... is available via YouTube and Amazon Video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgYPJT0mRaw

Awake is available for $15 download at
https://awakeadreamfromstandingrock1.vhx.tv

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Becoming a Steelworker Liberated Her. Then Her Job Moved to Mexico. - The New York Times

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The article mentions my area of residence:

"Shannon and her co-workers had gotten the news back in October: The
factory was closing. [..]Roller bearings would go to McAllen, Tex. About
300 workers would lose their jobs."

My assumption that the owners moved it to my city is that Texas is a Right
of Work State, South Texas has lower paying jobs, and it is two hours away
from Monterrey, Mexico.

McAllen has a high poverty rate which is on par with the region. But there
is not much in the way of manufacturing industry around here. Tourism,
import/export, agriculture (rapidly dwindling), service, and health
industries are our mainstays.

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[Marxism] Bio on Mao

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Quick question. Which biography of Mao is worth getting?

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Steven Soderbergh’s “Che” | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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I am not sure if it's foolhardy to say that film is best accompanied by The
Motorcycle Diaries (2004) starring Gael Garcia Bernal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAlp8VT9eoI

Erik

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Kap, Cops and Confederate Statues: a Better World Without Double Standards

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Danny Fentone wasn’t officially outsted. DSA’s NPC came o the conclusion
that there wasn’t a proper mechanism for recall of Fentone. NPC called for
a dialogue with Fentone to remedy the impasse. Fentone then decided to
leave DSA because he felt DSA has gone too Left and new DSA members were
not like the old DSA members.

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Re: [Marxism] In a Mexico ‘Tired of Violence,’ Zapatista Rebels Venture Into Politics

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I think the impact of the EZLN has been decreasing as the years go by. Most
of the political attention they have gotten is outside of Mexico.

Erik

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> In a Mexico ‘Tired of Violence,’ Zapatista Rebels Venture Into Politics
> By PAULINA VILLEGAS
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> The Zapatistas, the most powerful political rebels in Mexico in nearly
> 100 years, are renouncing armed revolution, after decades of opposing
> the government, for a simple reason: Mexico is so riddled with violence,
> they say, that the country cannot handle any more of it.
>
> The decision is a searing commentary on the state of Mexico today,
> analysts say. The rebels have not reached a peace deal with the
> government, nor won their longstanding push for indigenous rights. But
> killings in Mexico are rising so quickly that even a movement rooted in
> armed struggle feels compelled to back away from violence.
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> “This shows the extent to which Mexicans are tired of violence,” said
> Jesús Silva-Herzog, a political-science professor at the School of
> Government at Tecnológico de Monterrey. “Political radicalism today has
> to be pacifist because the public, social and economic life in Mexico
> has been stained with blood for far too long.”
>
> Subcommander Marcos, the rebel leader who became a global phenomenon in
> 1994 when the Zapatistas stormed into towns in the state of Chiapas,
> stood on stage for a brief moment a few months ago, hidden behind a
> throng of fighters, youngsters with piercings and indigenous followers
> in hand-stitched blouses.
>
> But now, the Zapatistas say, more violence, no matter the cause, is the
> last thing Mexico needs.
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> Instead, they have decided to work within the system they once revolted
> against, backing a candidate to run for president in next year’s elections.
>
> “We arrived at a breaking point,” said Carlos González, a spokesman for
> the National Indigenous Congress, an organization that represents
> indigenous groups in Mexico, who was speaking for the Zapatistas as well.
>
> “Taking up arms was out of the question,” he said. “It was just too
> bloody of an option,” though he did not rule out taking up arms again at
> some point in the future.
>
> Violence has long plagued Mexico, where more than 100,000 people have
> been killed and more than 30,000 have disappeared in the decade-long
> drug war.
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> But this year, deaths have hit new heights: May and June set consecutive
> 20-year records for the number of homicide scenes across the country.
>
> Letting go of the revolutionary identity that once defined them, the
> Zapatistas, whose full name is the Zapatista Army of National
> Liberation, are venturing into electoral politics. They have endorsed
> María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, a healer from the indigenous Nahua
> people, in next year’s presidential elections.
>
> “In Mexico, being an indigenous person means being treated as half a
> person, and if you are a woman, even less so,” said Mrs. Patricio, 57,
> who is not a Zapatista herself.
>
> The Zapatista goal, they say, is not to win, but rather to use the 2018
> election as a platform to voice the issues most pressing to Mexico’s
> indigenous communities.
>
> “We couldn’t care less about the presidency; all we want to do is crash
> the election party and ruin it,” said Mr. González, the spokesman.
>
> The Mexican government says that it welcomes “all political and social
> expressions,” including the Zapatista-backed candidate, arguing that it
> contributes to a stronger democracy.
>
> Not everyone, however, buys the Zapatista narrative. Some of their
> opponents see them as an opportunistic guerrilla group that could
> further fracture the vote on the left.
>
> One of their main critics is the leading left-wing populist presidential
> candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a front-runner in early polls
> who has called the Zapatista-backed candidacy a “political stunt.”
>
> When they first appeared in 1994, the threat of violence was part of the
> Zapatista program. A transfixed nation watched as an army of indigenous
> peasants, wearing ski masks and toting assault weapons, stormed several
> towns in the southern state of Chiapas and declared war against the
> Mexican state.
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> The rebel

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Trump approval rebounds to 45%, surges among Hispanics, union homes, men

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Hispanic is a big category. I wonder which subgroup of Hispanics has
surged.

Erik

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> position of the Washington Times, the old Moonie Reaganite paper.  The poll
> is from Zogby Analytics, which "provides custom research and insight to
> leaders of businesses and communities, as well as to individuals."
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> rating may have experienced a modest bounce among those who voted for him
> and have since tended to become disaffected.  This is mostly because of his
> verbal pissing contest with Kim Jong un.
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: DSA National Convention 2017

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I think at issue is that it seems DSA was still using an election process
best fit for a small number of delegates. I watched most of the live feeds
with the large crowds and they covered a lot of resolutions and amendments
for such a short time. Taking into account that NPC was voted within a
short window of time. DSA just needs to move away from their old system
when everyone knew each other because of the size of the group. A better
system would have given a chance a for the candidates to include Q and A or
debate.
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: DSA National Convention 2017

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I'm not sure what you mean with vetted? He is active in DP politics in
Austin via DSA, involved in different issues, was a CWA organizer, etc. He
has been organizing DSA in Texas and seems to have managed to assist in
organizing a good number of chapters. AFAIK, DSA doesn't vet members. It
was probably more having to do with the voting process and a long weekend.

Erik
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> Here's the guy Arnie was referring to. There's nothing about his work in
> the police union in his statement. The real question is how he got
> vetted by the Austin local that surely should have been aware of this.
> The other thing I wonder is how people get elected to the national
> committee of the DSA. If it boils down to voting on the basis of a
> statement posted on the Internet, it doesn't sound quite like what
> Eugene V. Debs and his comrades were up to.
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Re: [Marxism] A good reason to question the judgment of Left Forum steering committee

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Chair/First Facilitator/Speaker Affiliation:
Intergalactic Workers' League.

Beam me up!!!

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Re: [Marxism] Trump

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Which  means we get Herr Pence. Another doozy!

Erik

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> highly placed former military officer now involved with intelligence
> gathering for Republican politicians. He told my friend that a bloc is
> forming between Republicans and Democrats to remove Trump because he is
> viewed as incompetent and mentally unstable. Interesting times we're living
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[Marxism] Fwd: Donald Trump Preaches Angry Nationalism, While Practicing Goldman Sachs Capitalism

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Subject: Donald Trump Preaches Angry Nationalism, While Practicing Goldman
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Re: [Marxism] Before Bernie Sanders, There Was Zeidler, a Religious Socialist

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And was a long time member and organizer for the Socialist Party USA.

Erik Carlos Torén

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> NY Times, Apr. 2 2016
> Before Bernie Sanders, There Was Zeidler, a Religious Socialist
> On Religion
> By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN
>
> MILWAUKEE — One night in April 1948, when Bernie Sanders was a
> 6-year-old boy in Brooklyn, Frank Zeidler was elected mayor of Milwaukee
> on the Socialist Party line. He would hold the office for a dozen years.
> Until Mr. Sanders undertook his presidential campaign, Mr. Zeidler had
> been the last prominent and successful Socialist politician in America.
>
> While Mr. Sanders is a secular Jew, though, Mayor Zeidler was a devoted
> Christian, who remained active in the Redeemer Lutheran Church here
> until his death in 2006 at age 93. As Mr. Sanders brings his quest for a
> “political revolution” into the Wisconsin primary on Tuesday, Mr.
> Zeidler’s legacy, both religious and ideological, lives on in a series
> of public conversations held by his lifelong church.
>
> Perhaps it did not qualify as revolutionary, but on a balmy evening last
> month, the line of attendees for a discussion on the topic “Interrupting
> Racism” stretched out the back door of the Redeemer church. Hobbling on
> canes, hoisting backpacks and bike helmets, clad in hoodies, kente cloth
> and down vests, they represented a convergence of races, ages and
> political beliefs that is unusual in one of the nation’s most segregated
> metropolitan areas.
>
> Eventually, more than 150 people formed discussion circles of five or
> six throughout the church’s rooms. For 90 minutes, they spoke, but they
> mostly listened about one another’s encounters with racial hate. In one
> group, a middle-aged white man admitted his lasting shame at not
> confronting a boss who made a racial slur about a black employee.
>
> Across the scuffed parquet of the social hall, a white woman in another
> circle spoke of her shopping trips to the affluent suburb of Shorewood,
> where she noticed that the police routinely pulled over black drivers.
> Such things, she said, left her able only to pray, and then feeling
> inadequate in her prayers.
>
> Such discussions were surely in the Zeidler spirit. As a mayor, he
> presided over a city begrudgingly accepting African-Americans who had
> moved northward in the Great Migration. His home state was so
> politically schizophrenic that during Mr. Zeidler’s Socialist heyday,
> one of Wisconsin’s senators was the Red-baiting Joseph R. McCarthy.
>
> Even as socialism provided Mr. Zeidler with an ideological lens, the
> church supplied the moral teachings that he considered the essential
> complement. Far from resisting religion’s voice in the public square, he
> welcomed it, as does the program of topical discussions that bears his
> name.
>
> Continue reading the main story
> “My father always said, ‘You do nothing alone,’” said the mayor’s
> daughter Anita Zeidler, a senior lecturer in educational psychology at
> the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. “And when I need people to
> work together with and to make social change, I look to the religious.
> Because these are people of good will, who will put effort into doing
> what needs to be done.’”
>
> Her father, the son of a barber, graduated from high school just before
> the stock market crash in 1929, which set off the Depression and cast
> global doubt on the capitalist order. After enlisting in the Army, a
> reliable way of getting a paycheck, he washed out of boot camp with
> rheumatic fever, often a fatal disease in the era before antibiotics.
>
> During a yearlong convalescence, Mr. Zeidler methodically read books of
> political philosophy in search of a belief system. “Essentially, what he
> said is that he was drawn to socialism because they believed in
> brotherhood and equality and getting things done through democratic
> cooperation,” Dr. Zeidler recalled. “It was all about fairness.”
>
> Mr. Zeidler’s decision placed him within a long tradition of socialism
> in Milwaukee, tracing back to the liberals and intellectuals who
> immigrated here after the failed revolutions in the mid-1850s in Germany
> and Austria. They and their descendants proudly and puckishly called
> their American version “sewer soci

Re: [Marxism] Patty Duke

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My Sweet Charlie trailer
http://youtu.be/rTZo9SwSUjw



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> >I have a vague recollection of her being fairly progressive during her
> tenure as head of SAG. Others recall?
> Anyway the family and mental health issues she dealt with personally and
> politically are worthy of note.
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> One of my all-time favourite films is 'My Sweet Charlie' in which she
> played one of the two leading roles.  Her character is a racist, white
> pregnant teenager who has to leave home and ends up in a house with a black
> civil rights activist who is on the run.  Her character's life/views are
> changed by the experience.  A very moving film.
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> My guess from that film is that she was progressive, certainly in the 60s.
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> The film, I think, was made in late 60s.
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: An interview with Mary Scully, independent socialist candidate for President

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Well. I'll be. She used to live in my area. She ran for governor. Guess now
she is now running for president .

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Rise of MORENA » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

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The answer is...sort of.

In MORENA, you have for the most part the Left that used to be part of the
left wing in PRD. It also includes members that were close to Lopez
Obrador's vision and political views. It has incorporated union  and
commmunity activists and those who were socialist and Marxists, but were
not part of PRD.

With the continued battle between factions in the PRD and with the PRD
taking more of a collaborationist view as is  pertained to PAN and PRI (and
the corruption that comes with it), the Obrador wing of the PRD quit and
moved on to create MORENA.

FWIW, MORENA sees itself in the mold of the Cardenismo movement throwing in
with bits of social democracy, revolutionary nationalism, and agrarian
populism.

Their web page:

http://morena.si/

The wikipage in Spanish is informative enough:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movimiento_Regeneraci%C3%B3n_Nacional#Ideolog.C3.ADa


Erik


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[Marxism] Eduardo Galeano, Presente! QEPD.

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Eduardo Galeano, leading voice of Latin American left, dies aged 74

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[Marxism] "Views from Alongside a Border - Boots on the Ground" - by Michael Seifert, Brownsville, Texas

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"The second video was footage from the Department of Public Safety, shot
from a helicopter that was in pursuit of a pickup truck. The truck was
speeding along a dirt road, and it appeared that the agents were under the
assumption that there were drugs under a tarp that covered the bed of the
truck. A sniper in the helicopter was asked to shoot out the tires of the
truck. After the sniper fired 18 times, the truck rolled to a stop. Half a
dozen men piled out of the truck and ran off into the brush.

In the bed of the truck, under the tarp, two men were dying, wounded by the
gunfire."

http://alongsideaborder.com/2015/03/31/boots-on-the-ground/
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[Marxism] FWD: Government Cancels Contract With Prison That Inmates Set on Fire

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Date: Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 1:30 P

  Moter Jones 
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/03/prison-bureau-cancels-contract-willacy
Government Cancels Contract With Prison That Inmates Set on Fire

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Re: [Marxism] "There Is No Such Thing As Time" | PopularScience

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I'll take the red sofahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IaYJZ2Usdk

Erik

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 2:46 PM, MM  wrote:

> On 13 Mar 2015, at 9:39 PM, Erik Toren  wrote:
>
> and if we could could.travel back in time, bring with us Karl
> Marx, and lead a revolution just in time before Ronald Reagan takes the
> oath of office?
>
>
> I’m stewing - but not very much - over the quantum uncertainty as to
> whether this is bizarrely irrelevant (which might be interesting) or just
> irrelevantly bizarre (which definitely wouldn’t). Either way, I think it’s
> clear you didn’t understand the question, or the answer, or the terms and
> conditions. But thanks for playing. Don’t forget to pick up your toaster on
> the way out.
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Re: [Marxism] "There Is No Such Thing As Time" | PopularScience

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> 2. How would we test your answer to #1, assuming that we felt a need to do
> so - in between paying the bills and staving off the despair that comes
> from alienation?


and if we could could.travel back in time, bring with us Karl
Marx, and lead a revolution just in time before Ronald Reagan takes the
oath of office?

Erik
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[Marxism] Fwd: [texas_socialist_network] A proposal for a left-unity breakthrough?

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Date: Feb 5, 2015 3:31 PM
Subject: [texas_socialist_network] A proposal for a left-unity breakthrough?
To: 
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http://www.ccds-discussion.org/?p=5120

*DRAFT OF AN EIGHT-POINT PLATFORM FOR MAKING A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH ON ‘LEFT
UNITY’ *

*By Carl Davidson, Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Pat Fry*

*Introduction: The following eight-point proposal is designed to initiate
both a discussion and a process. The points can be further refined, and
subtracted from or added to. Given the scope of the challenges ahead of us,
there is a certain degree of urgency, but it is also wise to take to time
to start off on a sound footing, uniting all who can be united. The main
things it wants to bring into being at all levels—local, regional, national
or in sectors—are common projects. Some of these already exist, such as the
Left Labor Project in New York City, a good example of what we are
advocating here. It brought together organizers from CCDS, CPUSA, DSA,
Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and other independent left trade
unionists and activists. Over a few years work, it was able to build a far
wider alliance bringing together the city’s labor organizations and allied
social movements to bring out tens of thousands on May Day.*

*We know that many of us are already involved in a wide variety of
projects. But is there any compelling reason we have to do this separately,
behaving like a wheelbarrow full of frogs trying to win a common goal? A
good case in point is Chuy Garcia’s mayoral campaign in Chicago. Wouldn’t
this campaign be better served if we worked together in a planned way to
draw in and skillfully deploy even more forces? Or take the labor-community
alliance projects building solidarity for labor strikes or the campaign for
an increase in the minimum wage? We can all make a long list here, but the
core idea should be apparent, at least for starters, and we invite your
responses and queries.*

*1. We need something new*. The left is not likely to find critical mass
through mergers of existing groups, although any such events would be
positive. But a new formation to which all would be equally cooperative in
a larger project—call it a Left Front or Left Alliance—would have a greater
impact. Groups participating in it could retain whatever degree of autonomy
they desire, such as keeping their own newspapers, national committees,
local clubs meeting separately, and so on. Every group involved can
exercise its own independence and initiative, to the degree it finds
necessary. But all would be striving in common to help the overall project
succeed. While the US situation is not strictly comparable, the Front de
Gauche in France, Die Linke in Germany, PODEMOS in Spain and Syriza in
Greece serve as examples.

*2. We need a ‘project based’ common front.* At the grassroots level, it
would be comprised of joint projects—electoral, union organizing, campaigns
against the far right, for a living wage or reducing student debt, for
opposing war, racism, sexism and police violence, and many others. The
existing left groups in a factory, a neighborhood, a city or a campus,
would be encouraged to advance the joint projects.

*3. We need a ‘critical mass’ at the core than is both young, working class
and diverse. *While people from all demographics are welcome, the initial
core has to be largely drawn from the Millennials, those born after 1980 or
so. And the core also has to be a rainbow of nationalities with gender
equity, and well-connected to union and working class insurgencies. If the
initial core at the beginning is too ‘white’ or too ‘1968ers’, it will not
be a pole with the best attractive power for a growing new generation of
socialist and radical minded activists.

*4. We need a common aspiration for socialism. *That’s what makes us a
‘Left Front or Left Alliance’ rather than a broader popular front or
people’s coalition. We are strongly supportive of these wider coalitions
and building the left is not done in isolation from them. But we also see
the wisdom in the concept: the stronger the core, the broader the front.
Moreover we do not require a unified definition on what socialism is; only
that a larger socialist pole makes for an even wider, deeper and more
sustainable common front of struggle.

*5. We do not need full agreement on strategy.* A few key concepts—the
centrality of fighting white supremacy, the intersection of race, class and
gender, the alliance and merger of the overall workers movement and the
movements of the communities of the oppressed—will do. We can also agree on
cross-class al

Re: [Marxism] ‘Selected Letters of Langston Hughes’

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> LANGSTON HUGHES


Let America be America Again

Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.

(America never was America to me.)

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.

(It never was America to me.)

O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.

(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")

Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek--
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one's own greed!

I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean--
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today--O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.

Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That's made America the land it has become.
O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home--
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,
And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa's strand I came
To build a "homeland of the free."

The free?

Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay--
Except the dream that's almost dead today.

O, let America be America again--
The land that never has been yet--
And yet must be--the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine--the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME--
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose--
The steel of freedom does not stain.
>From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!

O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath--
America will be!

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain--
All, all the stretch of these great green states--
And make America again!
Langston Hughes 
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Rubén Blades in performance at Lincoln Center | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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http://youtu.be/DJlxaIZ5hS0

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Four films of note | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Not a documentary about the drug trade in México, but a good satire is El
Infierno (2010).

http://youtu.be/inZbKHB69Hc

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> 1. "Occupy the Farm": struggle against UC Berkeley administrators to use
> land for food production rather than commercial development, including a
> Whole Foods market.
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> 2. "Drug Lord: the search for Shorty": about "El Chapo" Guzman, the head
> of the Sinaloa cartel.
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> 3. "Salt of the Earth": Wim Wenders documentary about Brazilian
> photographer committed to social justice and ecology.
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> 4. "Embedded": documentary short about photojournalist covering
> conflicts in Libya, Syria and elsewhere.
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[Marxism] "The haunting poetry of a Chinese factory worker who committed suicide" - The Washington Post

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"On the last day of September, a 24-year-old migrant worker in the southern
Chinese city of Shenzhen killed himself. Xu Lizhi jumped out of a window of
a residential dormitory run by his employer, Foxconn, the huge electronics
manufacturing company with a million-strong workforce that makes the
majority of the world's Apple iPhones.

In most cases, Xu's suicide would have been yet another footnote in the
vast, sweeping story of China's economic boom and transformation. He is one
of a legion of young Chinese migrants who emerge out of rural obscurity to
find work in China's teeming cities, only to end up crushed by both the
dullness and stress of factory jobs, insufficient wages and a steady
accumulation of personal disappointments.

But Xu was a poet. "
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[Marxism] "The haunting poetry of a Chinese factory worker who committed suicide" - The Washington Post

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"On the last day of September, a 24-year-old migrant worker in the southern
Chinese city of Shenzhen killed himself. Xu Lizhi jumped out of a window of
a residential dormitory run by his employer, Foxconn, the huge electronics
manufacturing company with a million-strong workforce that makes the
majority of the world's Apple iPhones.

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vast, sweeping story of China's economic boom and transformation. He is one
of a legion of young Chinese migrants who emerge out of rural obscurity to
find work in China's teeming cities, only to end up crushed by both the
dullness and stress of factory jobs, insufficient wages and a steady
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Unitarian Youth Tackle the Need for Violent Revolution - Challenge Newspaper - The Revolutionary Communist Progressive Labor Party

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As a UU memberWhat the hell??? 


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Re: [Marxism] I hear from a supporter of the Donetsk People's Republic

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> "Louis Proyect = cypto-Zionist faggot White Nationalist".glutten free!
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Erik

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