[Marxism] One Cyclist's Photographic Trek Through the Rust Belt - CityLab

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[Marxism] Legal Cannabis Fuels Fears of Displacement in Denver - CityLab

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Re: [Marxism] Japanese nativism

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Re: [Marxism] Japanese nativism

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Louis,
I would very much like to have a copy of the Harper´s Magazine article.
Thanks/Håkan

2017-05-22 20:24 GMT+02:00 Louis Proyect via Marxism <
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> (From a Harper's magazine article behind a paywall. Contact me if you'd
> like a copy.)
>
> Yet not even Japanese excellence could insulate the country from economic
> disaster. In 1990, the stock and real-estate markets collapsed. Desperation
> and bitterness gave way to a proliferation of angry nationalist rallies,
> which have continued to the present day. Protesters took to gathering in
> the streets and harassing ethnic minorities, whom they accuse of taking
> away their jobs. Koichi Nakano, a political scientist who studies these
> groups at Sophia University, in Tokyo, told me, “These are basically
> spontaneous, rather fluid networks of haters.” Most are working-age men who
> have never managed to find secure employment; Nakano said that 37 percent
> of Japanese workers today have sporadic, temporary positions.
>
> When I was in Tokyo, not long ago, on any given day I would see dozens of
> people carrying Japanese flags and shouting vague, violent threats in
> minority neighborhoods or outside foreign embassies. Nakano estimates that
> there are more than a hundred nationalist groups that convene across the
> country. They are not on the fringe: A leader of the group Zaitokukai,
> which has called for a large-scale massacre of Korean residents, has been
> photographed hobnobbing with a senior member of the Liberal Democratic
> Party, the current ruling party. Several L.D.P. officials have been
> photographed posing with the head of a neo-Nazi group in front of a
> Japanese flag. Even the more centrist members of the L.D.P. proudly refer
> to their country’s ethnic makeup as “homogeneous” — an impossible claim to
> make of a former colonial empire. Nearly half of Abe’s cabinet belongs to a
> group known as the League for Going to Worship Together at Yasukuni, a
> shrine in Tokyo that commemorates Japanese soldiers, including a number of
> convicted war criminals. Abe’s wife makes pilgrimages to Yasukuni, and Abe
> sends offerings on holidays.
>
> One afternoon, I attended a festival at the Yasukuni Shrine. The entrance
> was lined with tens of thousands of paper lanterns emitting a warm, golden
> light. Visitors wandered around eating vanilla soft serve. I asked a man
> why the festival was so important to him. “Koreans!” he said, and thrust
> his middle finger into the air. “Fuck Chinese!” He wore a shirt with a
> Japanese flag and text that read Japanese! be proud! you are the
> descendants of the Yamato race.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Georgetown U. Professor Doesn’t Shy From a Fight With the Alt-Right - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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When C. Christine Fair succeeded in getting Richard Spencer kicked out 
of a private gym where they both used to work out, the Georgetown 
University faculty member said she was prepared for a nasty backlash 
from white supremacists.


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[Marxism] Fwd: Arrest of U of Maryland student in stabbing death of Bowie State student shakes both campuses

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White U of Maryland student, who officials say was a member of white 
supremacist group on Facebook, is charged in fatal stabbing of a black 
Bowie State student, leaving others questioning how safe they are.


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[Marxism] Fwd: Popular Native American studies scholar declines deanship at Dartmouth amid concerns over his past support for Israel boycott

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[Marxism] Fwd: Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway People’ - The New York Times

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EFFINGHAM, Ill. — The vast Petro truck stop here is a neon-lit, blacktop 
oasis at the crossroads of America. It beckons big-rig drivers with 
showers, laundry machines, a barber shop, even a knife store. 
“Professional drivers only,” reads the sign above the tables of the Iron 
Skillet restaurant, where truckers sit mostly alone, carrying the 
solitude of their jobs into an otherwise social setting.


Driving a long-haul tractor-trailer is as commonplace as the items that 
drivers carry, from blue jeans to blueberries, from toilet paper for 
Walmart to farm machinery bound for export. There are 1.7 million men 
and women working as long-haul drivers in the country. Yet truckers — 
high up in their cabs — are literally out of view for most Americans.


At a moment when President Trump has ignited a national discussion of 
blue-collar labor and even climbed into a truck during a White House 
event, trucking, which was once among the best-paying such jobs, has 
become low-wage, grinding, unhealthy work. Turnover at large for-hire 
fleets hauling freight by the truckload — the backbone of the industry — 
runs an astonishing 80 percent a year, according to a trade group. 
Looming over the horizon is a future in which self-driving trucks 
threaten to eliminate many drivers’ livelihoods.


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[Marxism] On Iran

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Marxism and the Iranian revolution (Yassamine Mather):
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/marxism-and-the-iranian-revolution/

Veteran Iranian revolutionary Torab Saleth on the class nature of the
Iranian regime:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/12/23/veteran-iranian-revolutionary-on-the-class-nature-of-the-regime/

Torab on the working class movement in Iran (2014) and a 2008 interview I
did with him:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/the-working-class-movement-in-iran-2014-and-a-2008-interview-with-torab-saleth/

Repression and resistance in Iran (interview I did with Yassamine M):
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/the-working-class-movement-in-iran-2014-and-a-2008-interview-with-torab-saleth/

Yassamine on ayatollahs' kids flaunting their wealth, but a new wave of
workers' struggles is taking place:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/05/03/iran-children-of-ayatollahs-flaunt-their-wealth-but-new-wave-of-workers-protests-begin/

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Re: [Marxism] Japanese nativism

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Please send me a copy of this article.


Am 22.05.2017 um 20:24 schrieb Louis Proyect via Marxism:

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(From a Harper's magazine article behind a paywall. Contact me if 
you'd like a copy.)


Yet not even Japanese excellence could insulate the country from 
economic disaster. In 1990, the stock and real-estate markets 
collapsed. Desperation and bitterness gave way to a proliferation of 
angry nationalist rallies, which have continued to the present day. 
Protesters took to gathering in the streets and harassing ethnic 
minorities, whom they accuse of taking away their jobs. Koichi Nakano, 
a political scientist who studies these groups at Sophia University, 
in Tokyo, told me, “These are basically spontaneous, rather fluid 
networks of haters.” Most are working-age men who have never managed 
to find secure employment; Nakano said that 37 percent of Japanese 
workers today have sporadic, temporary positions.


When I was in Tokyo, not long ago, on any given day I would see dozens 
of people carrying Japanese flags and shouting vague, violent threats 
in minority neighborhoods or outside foreign embassies. Nakano 
estimates that there are more than a hundred nationalist groups that 
convene across the country. They are not on the fringe: A leader of 
the group Zaitokukai, which has called for a large-scale massacre of 
Korean residents, has been photographed hobnobbing with a senior 
member of the Liberal Democratic Party, the current ruling party. 
Several L.D.P. officials have been photographed posing with the head 
of a neo-Nazi group in front of a Japanese flag. Even the more 
centrist members of the L.D.P. proudly refer to their country’s ethnic 
makeup as “homogeneous” — an impossible claim to make of a former 
colonial empire. Nearly half of Abe’s cabinet belongs to a group known 
as the League for Going to Worship Together at Yasukuni, a shrine in 
Tokyo that commemorates Japanese soldiers, including a number of 
convicted war criminals. Abe’s wife makes pilgrimages to Yasukuni, and 
Abe sends offerings on holidays.


One afternoon, I attended a festival at the Yasukuni Shrine. The 
entrance was lined with tens of thousands of paper lanterns emitting a 
warm, golden light. Visitors wandered around eating vanilla soft 
serve. I asked a man why the festival was so important to him. 
“Koreans!” he said, and thrust his middle finger into the air. “Fuck 
Chinese!” He wore a shirt with a Japanese flag and text that read 
Japanese! be proud! you are the descendants of the Yamato race.


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[Marxism] PFLP statements on Nakba, hunger strike and MayDay

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https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/pflp-prison-leadership-statement-on-the-current-hunger-strike/

https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/pflp-leader-ahmad-saadats-may-day-statement/

https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/pflp-statement-on-69th-anniversary-of-the-nakba/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Predatory Journals and Predatory Skeptics | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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On the Skeptic Magazine website there’s an article titled “The 
Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct: A Sokal-Style Hoax on Gender 
Studies” co-authored by Peter Boghossian, Ed.D. and James Lindsay, Ph.D. 
that details how they suckered a “peer-reviewed journal” into publishing 
a bunch of gibberish filled with postmodernist jargon.


The article appeared in Cogent Social Sciences, a division of Taylor and 
Francis that along with Sage, Springer and Elsevier represent the 
top-drawer of academic publishing. Or at least has such a reputation. A 
representative paragraph appears in the Skeptic article:


	We conclude that penises are not best understood as the male sexual 
organ, or as a male reproductive organ, but instead as an enacted social 
construct that is both damaging and problematic for society and future 
generations. The conceptual penis presents significant problems for 
gender identity and reproductive identity within social and family 
dynamics, is exclusionary to disenfranchised communities based upon 
gender or reproductive identity, is an enduring source of abuse for 
women and other gender-marginalized groups and individuals, is the 
universal performative source of rape, and is the conceptual driver 
behind much of climate change.


The references are as bogus as the rest of the article, including one 
for the Postmodern Generator, a website coded in the 1990s by Andrew 
Bulhak featuring an algorithm, based on NYU physicist Alan Sokal’s 
method of hoaxing a cultural studies journal called Social Text, that 
returns a different fake postmodern “paper” every time the page is reloaded.


full: 
https://louisproyect.org/2017/05/23/predatory-journals-and-predatory-skeptics/

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[Marxism] Fwd: Netflix by Netflix: On “Sense8” - Los Angeles Review of Books

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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/netflix-by-netflix-on-sense8/
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[Marxism] Fwd: [railroadworkersunited] CANADA: Transport Minister Backs Mandatory Inward-facing Cameras on Locomotives

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Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Railroad Workers United" 
> Date: May 23, 2017 at 11:59:49 AM EDT
> To: "Railroad WorkersUnited" 
> Subject: [railroadworkersunited] CANADA: Transport Minister Backs
Mandatory Inward-facing Cameras on Locomotives
> 
> NOTE: See the response of the Teamster Canada Rail Conference - the
union of the operating crafts - at the tail end of the article.
> 
> Canada recommends mandatory inward-facing cameras on
locomotivesndustry Newsletter
> 
> OTTAWA, Ontario — Canadian Transport Minister Marc Garneau filed
legislation on Monday that would mandate the installation of voice and
video recorders in locomotive cabs.
> 
> The recommendation is a response to the February 2012 fatal wreck of a
Toronto-bound VIA Rail Canada train in Burlington, Ont. Train 92 was
going four times the posted track speed when it derailed and overturned
while crossing from one main to another. Three VIA crew members were
killed in the crash, and more than 40 passengers were injured.
> 
> Rail safety would be enhanced if locomotive voice and video recorder
data could be collected and used for proactive safety management and
accident investigation, Canada’s Transportation Safety Board said in a
report released in September 2016.
> 
> Canadian Pacific, Canadian National, and VIA Rail all cheered the
measure, which also has the backing of the Railway Association of
Canada. 
> 
> "Minister Garneau has shown tremendous political leadership with
today's announcement on inward-facing cameras, and I thank him for his
commitment to safety," CP CEO Keith Creel said in a statement. "Having
the ability to use this technology in a proactive manner will allow us
to prevent incidents and improve rail safety — further protecting the
public, our employees, and the goods we transport for our customers."
> 
> “Nothing is more important than safety, and CN strongly supports the
advancement of inward facing cameras,” CN CEO Luc Jobin said in a
statement. “Regulators on both sides of the border recognize the value
of these devices. We believe this technology is a powerful and important
tool in the investigative process to get to a better understanding of
causation, which will lead to improved safety practices — something we
all want.”
> 
> “Safety is a cornerstone of everything we do at VIA Rail. Accordingly,
we welcome any effort that promotes safe rail operations,” VIA
Representative Mariam Diaby says.
> 
> The proposed amendments to the Rail Safety Act would limit the purpose
for which the data is used in order to address employees’ privacy
concerns, Garneau said. Voice and video data would be used by
Transportation Safety Board accident investigators. Railroads also could
randomly sample the data to identify safety issues, to determine the
cause of non-reportable accidents, and to address safety threats.
Transport Canada also could access the data as part of safety studies
and to ensure compliance.
> 
> If passed as expected, the measure would take effect in 2018.
> 
> Creel has advocated for inward-facing cameras for years, but only if
the technology can be used in a proactive way to shape behaviors. 
> 
> "By implementing [cameras] as a preventative, proactive,
behaviour-changing tool we will promote safe behaviours and improve
safety," Creel says. "We recognize the need to use this technology in a
way that is respectful of our employees, and are committed to working
closely with government, regulators, and the unions to do so." 
> 
> Earlier this year, CP launched an awareness campaign that highlights
the safety benefits of the proactive use of inward-facing cameras. CP
uses inward-facing cameras in 50 of its locomotives in the U.S. The
technology is also being used successfully by others in the U.S., with
studies showing a 40-percent reduction in collisions per million miles
traveled.
> 
> While Teamsters Canada has supported limited uthe union is demanding an 
> explanation of how workers' rights will be
protected, Doug Finnson, president of the Teamsters Canada Rail
Conference, says in a statement released late Tuesday.
> 
> "Marc Garneau's proposal is an unprecedented violation of Canadians'
privacy," he adds. "How can he possibly think that workers aren't
getting the short end of the stick?"
> 
> Contrary to background information provided by Transport Canada,
unions were not consulted prior to the announcement, according to
Finnson. Suggesting there is consensus on the issue is wrong and
unethical, he says. 
> 
> Teamsters Canada, which represents train and engine crews, asserts
access to recordings should be limited to government accident
investigators. The proposed amendments

[Marxism] Fwd: “A Jekyll-Hyde Existence:” Inside the CIA’s 1980 Manual for ferreting out Homosexuals

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[Marxism] Fwd: Netflix by Netflix: On “Sense8” - Los Angeles Review of Books

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Well...here is what I put out on my FB page a few weeks ago as a
mini-review of this season. It's my own take on this:

Just completed binge watching season 2 of "Sense8", the sexually and often
erotically themed sci-fi series on Netflix that covers the development of a
'sense cluster' of 8 young adults spread equally around the world (SF,
Seoul, Hyderabad, Nairobi, Berlin, Mexico City, Iceland and Chicago) who
start 'clustering' that is, realizing they are totally attached at the
telepathic level, even able to experience the emotional and physical
sensations of the others at will. Thus "Sense 8", the title.

The first season introduces use to the characters and, their partners who
are not Sense sensitive. This includes a transgender women (as she
identifies herself) and her lover; a Chicago cop; a Nairobi bus driver; a
gay (though not out as one) actor in Mexico city, etc. The first season
shows how they begin to become aware of each other though of course, not
quite believing it until the end of the first series.

Also revealed, which is very standard fare for this sort of thing, the
secret public-private agency hunting down these 'clusters' of people. In
fact our 8 member team doesn't even realize there are other clusters out
there. At least not until half way through the first season.

The series is probably the most beautifully shot television show I've ever
scene. Last year when it premiered, it was the first series ever shot in
the absolute latest, greatest, HD video. But more importantly it was shot
on location...like everywhere the characters reside: Berlin, India, Mexico,
etc. It's quite impressive.

Important sub themes running throughout the first season and then
*increased* in viability are the issue of gay identity and rights and
transgender identity and rights. While these a "sub-themes" that play parts
of intermediate importance in Season 1, they are elevated, to something of
a preachy level, in Season 2, though it still "works" it does become a bit
much for this viewer. Though in all cases it is always done well.

I highly recommend it if one is a Netflix subscriber.

David
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[Marxism] Fwd: Rivalry and cooperation: the USA, Russia and “regime change” in Syria – Red Flag

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[Marxism] The Beleaguered Tenants of ‘Kushnerville’ - ProPublica

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[Marxism] Amazing China Mieville panel on his book October worth your time

2017-05-23 Thread Andrew Stewart via Marxism
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