[Marxism] W.E.B. Du Bois: A New Book on The Life of a Radical Scholar: *W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History*, by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Gerald Horne | J. T. Roane | AAIHS

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[Marxism] Report: Russia, Turkey, Iran agree to remove Syria’s Assad – Middle East Monitor

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I'll believe this when I see it.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200504-report-russia-turkey-iran-agree-to-remove-syrias-assad/

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[Marxism] Planet of the Anti-Humanists

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If it is from Leigh then it is overall accurate and should be read by all
Socialists, along with known "modernist" caveats like his (their)
endorsement of natural gas a "bridging technology" (expressed in a limited
way in this review). I'd like to see someone challenge Leigh's *actual*
science critiques of the film.

David Walters
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[Marxism] Planet of the Anti-Humanists

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Leigh Phillips trashes "Planet of the Humans". So this means that it 
must be good.


https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/planet-of-the-humans-michael-moore-documentary-climate-change

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[Marxism] An Awkward Kiss Changed How I Saw Joe Biden

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https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/an-awkward-kiss-changed-how-i-saw-joe-biden.html

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Re: [Marxism] W.E.B. Du Bois: A New Book on The Life of a Radical Scholar: *W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History*, by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Gerald Horne | J. T. Roane | AAIHS

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I was somewhat miffed in the accompanying interview that the author did not
credit David Levering Lewis' monumental two volume work on DuBois ---

I will be interested to read that book --- I had the pleasure of meeting
Dr. DuBois once (but I was a 10 year old and could not appreciate the great
man who I was meeting ---).   I do remember how important his work was when
I was in college still be educated about Reconstruction by the right-wing
racists who dominated historiography until the 1960s 
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[Marxism] Neo-Nazi "Reopeners" would Kill nearly as many Americans as died in All US Wars

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https://www.juancole.com/2020/05/reopeners-nearly-americans.html

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[Marxism] Cancel Rent and Stop Playing the Landlord’s Game - CounterPunch.org

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Christopher Ketcham on the board game Monopoly.

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[Marxism] Brace yourself for the most dangerous idea yet: most people are pretty decent - The Correspondent

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Rutger Bregman pays tribute to Kropotkin. Bregman is famous for turning 
the tables on Tucker Carlson who expected the same kind of love-fest he 
gets from Max Blumenthal. Bregman used his interview to excoriate Fox 
News and denounce Carlson as a hypocrite. The interview was never aired, 
needless to say.


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[Marxism] Syria's richest man inflames rare public dispute with Assad | World news | The Guardian

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/03/syria-richest-man-inflames-rare-public-dispute-bashar-al-assad-rami-makhlouf

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[Marxism] Marcus Rediker: A motley crew for our times? / Radical Philosophy

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https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/interview/a-motley-crew-for-our-times

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Re: [Marxism] Planet of the Anti-Humanists

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On 5/4/20 12:10 PM, DW via Marxism wrote:

I'd like to see someone challenge Leigh's*actual*
science critiques of the film.


I'll be writing something for CounterPunch on this.

In the interests of transparency, David Walters is a big, really huge, 
strongly fan of nuclear power plants just like Leigh Phillips.


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[Marxism] Subject: W.E.B. Du Bois: A New Book on The Life of a Radical Scholar: *W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History*, by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Gerald Horne | J. T. Roane | AAIHS

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Certainly understand the feelings around Levering Lewis. However, in
defense of the authors, Horne wrote an important monograph in 1985, several
years before LL, about the Cold War persecution of Du Bois titled "Black
and Red: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Afro-American Response to the Cold War,
1944-1963." While I have admittedly not read LL's work, my impression is
that there is a certain anti-Communist in places, though I might be
incorrect.
-- 
Best regards,

Andrew Stewart

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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 

[Marxism] Planet of the Anti-Humanists

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For some reason Louis is *under* emphasizing my support for nuclear. I'm a
*much bigger* supporter of nuclear than Leigh Philips is! Not "...just like
Leigh Phillips" but far more active. Leigh takes the correct point of view,
of course, but I have a background in energy production that Leigh doesn't
have. Wondering just who Louis is trying to be "transparent" for...? LOL.

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

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

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> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/11/how-greenwich-republicans-learned-to-love-trump

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