[Marxism] Fwd: The Governorate of Homs: the Islamic State’s new fiefdom? | openDemocracy
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Growing IS popularity among the Sunni population of the Homs region It would be impossible to list all the “martyr operations” carried out by IS jihadists in the Homs region because for a very long period the organisation fought in Syria under the cover of Jabhat al-Nusra (Caillet, 2014a). However, one that can be identified is that by the French national convert Nicolas Bons (Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Firansi), who died in a kamikaze attack launched on December 22, 2013, against a position held by a Syrian militia in the Shia town of Um ‘Amad near the village of Deir al-Ful, which has now become an IS bastion in northern Homs. Two months later, in February 2014, Abu al-Qa‘qa al-Tunisi, an IS commander, was killed by the Syrian Revolutionary Front in the town of Rastan to the west of the IS positions. As in other regions, the jihadists were therefore fighting rebels, but the crushing dominance of the Syrian regime in Homs limited the scope of these inter-rebel clashes, with the principal enemy remaining regime forces, both for the jihadists and for all activists in the Syrian revolution. Before leaving the central part of Homs, which was besieged by the Syrian army, ‘Abd al-Basit Sarut, the goalkeeper for the national football team nicknamed the “icon of the revolution” by Syrian activists, had called on Jabhat al-Nusra and the IS to come to the revolutionaries’ assistance. Several days later, despite the fall of Homs, Sarut raised the IS flag on a visit to the organisation’s camp, which distinguishes him from the other jihadist groups. While one should not over-interpret this incident, nevertheless it shows a radicalisation of a part of the Syrian revolutionaries, who were feeling abandoned by western democracies, the Gulf monarchies and moderate rebel groups. So for those who suffered defeat at Baba ‘Amru, the siege of Homs and the town’s fall into the hands of the regime, there was the temptation to join with those who seemed to embody the growing strength of the Syrian insurrection, despite the IS’s radicalism. full: https://www.opendemocracy.net/arab-awakening/romain-caillet/governorate-of-homs-islamic-state%E2%80%99s-new-fiefdom Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Outside agitators in Ferguson, Missouri | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A week ago the popular news and gossip website Gawker published an article titled “Who Are the 'Revolutionary Communists' Allegedly Agitating in Ferguson?” by Michelle Deane, the author of such illuminating pieces such as “Your End-of-August Cocktail Is A Lemon Rosemary Vodka Fizz”. Since I confess to not being a regular Gawker reader, I thought I’d take a quick look at its provenance through the generally reliable Wikipedia. A Brit named Nick Denton, whose politics are rather hard to pin down, launched it in 2003. His main ambition seems to be making money. For some odd reason, he decided to launch a website inspired by the sorry career of Tina Brown, the former editor of “Vanity Fair”, the obvious inspiration for Gawker. full: http://louisproyect.org/2014/08/26/outside-agitators-in-ferguson-missouri/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Keynes is Dead; Long Live Marx! » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/26/keynes-is-dead-long-live-marx/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] forum and articles on Chinese labor
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == tonight in NY: http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1id=12738 Articles by one of the speakers: Outside the New China https://www.jacobinmag.com/2013/09/ outside-the-new-china/ China in Revolt https://www.jacobinmag.com/2012/08/china-in-revolt/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The perfect embodiment of the anarchist concept of the revolutionary order?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == By contrast, the Donetsk Republic formulates its agenda from below, literally on the run, in response to the public mood and the course of events. Strictly speaking this republic is not even a state—rather, it amounts to a coalition of diverse communities, most of them self-organised. In essence, it is the perfect embodiment of the anarchist concept of the revolutionary order. --Boris Kagarlitsky NY Times, August 26 2014 As Peace Talks Approach, Rebels Humiliate Prisoners in Ukraine By ANDREW E. KRAMER and ANDREW ROTH DONETSK, Ukraine — On the sidewalk of a busy street beside a checkpoint, a bearded gunman wrapped a woman in a Ukrainian flag and forced her to stand, sobbing in terror, holding a sign identifying her as a spotter for Ukrainian artillery. “She kills our children,” it read. Because the woman was a spy, said the gunman, a pro-Russian militant, everything that would happen to her would be well-deserved. Passers-by stopped their cars to get out and spit, slap her face and throw tomatoes at her. Her knees buckled. She struggled to mumble in protest of her innocence and to shake her head in denial. This theatrical scene of abuse unfolded a day after the rebel movement had paraded Ukrainian prisoners of war down a main thoroughfare here at bayonet point, then dramatically washed the pavement behind them. (clip) Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Anti-Israel Professor Returns to Trinity College — Will Controversy Come Back Too? – Forward.com
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Marxmailer's Salaita-like travails. http://forward.com/articles/204664/anti-israel-professor-returns-to-trinity-college Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Vijay Prashad's mistranslation
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Can someone let Vijay Prashad know that Jabhat Al-Nusra doesn't translate from the Arabic to support front as he asserted in Monday on DN, but victory front. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: What Would Mary Beard Do? Bonnie Honig On How a Different Chancellor Might Respond to the Salaita Affair | Corey Robin
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[Marxism] Lenin’s Theory of Imperialism and the Rise of Russia as a Great Power
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == *Lenin’s Theory of Imperialism and the Rise of Russia as a Great Power* *On the Understanding and Misunderstanding of Today’s Inter-Imperialist Rivalry in the Light of Lenin’s Theory of Imperialism. Another Reply to Our Critics Who Deny Russia’s Imperialist Character* /By Michael Pröbsting,//Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), August 2014, www.thecommunists.net http://www.thecommunists.net// *CONTENTS* *Introduction* *I.Four Currents in the Workers’ Movement Concerning the Inter-Imperialist Rivalry* *II.Lenin’s Theory of Imperialism and its Revisionist Distortions* *Revisionist Confusion of the Nature of Finance Capital* *Marx and the Centrality of the Production Process* *Imperialism is Based on the Capitalist Value of Production and Not Financial Speculation* *Is There a Capitalist Country which is /Not/ Dominated by Finance Capital?* *Monopolism as the Essence of Imperialism* *The Role of the State in Monopoly Capitalism* *Disparity between the Imperialist Powers* *Can Only the Richest Countries be Imperialist?* *The Disparity between the Great Powers in Lenin’s Time, before 1917* *Are the US and British Models of Imperialism Pure Robbery?* *Explaining Eastern Imperialist Power before 1914* *A Brief Overview of the Imperialist Powers Today* *The Theory of the “Transitional” or “Sub-Imperialist” State* *Is Inter-Imperialist Rivalry Intensifying or Minimizing?* *Excurse: The Maoist Origin of the Super-Power Theory* *III.Social-Imperialism as a Caricature of “Anti-Imperialism”* *“/Third Campism/” and the “/Anti-Imperialist United Front with Putin and Xi/” in the Struggle between Imperialist Rivals* *Inverted Social-Imperialism as a Variation of Class-Collaboration* *IV.Again on Russia as an Imperialist Power* *Russian and Foreign Monopolies in Banking* *Who Controls Russia’s Monopolies?* *Russia’s Foreign Investment and Foreign Policy* *Excurse: Eurasianism and Putin’s Bourgeois Allies in Western Europe* *Summary* ** Read more at http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/imperialism-theory-and-russia/ -- Revolutionär-Kommunistische Organisation BEFREIUNG ak...@rkob.net www.rkob.net +43-650-4068314 --- Diese E-Mail ist frei von Viren und Malware, denn der avast! Antivirus Schutz ist aktiv. http://www.avast.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
