[Marxism] Is Trump a "traitor"?
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * "Is Donald Trump a “traitor”, an agent of a rival foreign power (Russia)? That is the claim of the former federal prosecutor Kenneth McCallion in his recently published book Treason & Betrayal. Along the way, McCallion presents some serious evidence that it is to Russian capitalism that Trump’s true allegiance lies." But what is "treason" really, and what are "national interests"? Is Russian imperialism really a rival to US imperialism? Has the mainstream of the US capitalist class largely lost control over its president, or has a new wing of that class simply gained dominance, as Roger Silverman says? What does all this mean for the present state of US capitalism? These are some of the questions indirectly raised in the book by former federal prosecutor Kenneth McCallion in his book "Treason & Betrayal". https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/11/01/is-trump-a-traitor-a-book-review/ -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Is Trump a traitor?
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I honestly cannot get interested in the Russian interference question at all, at all. But this was a very well written article. The opening paragraphs are especially fine pieces of polemical writing, that I would use if I were still teaching writing. Every sentence is like a dagger and they all go in deep. I wish I had written them! Comradely Gary Risen wrote: *I find it hard to write about Donald Trump.* *It is not that he is a complicated subject. Quite the opposite. It is that everything about him is so painfully obvious. He is a low-rent racist, a shameless misogynist, and an unbalanced narcissist. He is an unrelenting liar and a two-bit white identity demagogue. Lest anyone forget these things, he goes out of his way each day to remind us of them.* *At the end of the day, he is certain to be left in the dustbin of history, alongside Father Coughlin and Gen. Edwin Walker. (Exactly – you don’t remember them, either.)* _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
