[Marxism] On the misadventures of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States in Putinist Russia
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[Marxism] Fwd: An extraordinary state of ‘managed depression’ - FT.com
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut paste the article. See our TsCs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.supp...@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/89771ebe-43d5-11e4-8abd-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz3Fw4CSloM Suppose we then learned that the yield on 10-year government bonds was just 2.6 per cent in the US, 2.4 per cent in the UK, 1 per cent in Germany and 0.6 per cent in Japan. One would have to forget the notion of high inflation; we would suggest instead that these economies had been allowed to fall into a deep, prolonged depression. If we were told that central banks had also implemented huge expansions of their balance sheets, confidence in this hypothesis would strengthen. Why else would policy makers have been so unorthodox? Up to a point, we would also have been right. In the US, UK and the eurozone, output has fallen far below what virtually everybody expected eight years ago. The same is true of Japan, though the trend in question ended two and a half decades ago. Yet, contrary to what we might also have expected, we do not observe accelerating deflation: the latest data on annual consumer price inflation are 1.7 per cent in the US, 1.5 per cent in the UK and 0.3 per cent in the eurozone. None of these figures, even the last, are all that distant from announced targets. When we look at the high-income economies in this way, we must recognise that they are in a truly extraordinary state. The best way to describe it is as a managed depression: aggressive monetary policies have been sufficient to halt accelerating deflation, but they have been insufficient to produce a strong expansion. full: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/89771ebe-43d5-11e4-8abd-00144feabdc0.html 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: LENIN'S TOMB: How much fascism?
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Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] Now this is an interesting question: Why did Israel target and kill Hebrew speakers in Gaza?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I’m skeptical that this incident(s) was the premeditated execution of a “new practice” in Gaza ostensibly ordered by the Israeli high command. No doubt militants who know the language of the enemy make more effective combatants in close quarter fighting and on raids, and in that sense pose a greater threat to Israeli security. But this was a 54 year man. The accounts sound more like random acts perpetrated by angry, stressed and trigger happy troops in the field who will seize on any pretext to commit violence, including murder, against civilians. As well as in Gaza, many and perhaps more West Bank Palestinians speak Hebrew. Many have been shot, not for speaking Hebrew, but for throwing stones and other acts of resistance. You would think if there was evidence of such targeted “linguisticide” we would be seeing confirmation of the practice in media reports and from various Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations. You live over there and are better situated than any of us to establish whether anyone other than Max Blumenthal, whom I greatly respect BTW, has reported in the same vein? On Oct 11, 2014, at 1:20 AM, Joseph Catron jncat...@gmail.com wrote: According to several different eyewitnesses [Max Blumenthal] spoke to, offering corroborating accounts of different incidents, it seems that Israeli soldiers were executing a new practice during this latest Gaza war. As Max puts it: 'wanton targeting of Palestinian civilians who spoke Hebrew'. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/inquiry/14582-why-did-israel-target-and-kill-hebrew-speakers-in-gaza -- Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað. ___ pen-l mailing list pe...@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Bolivia: Has Evo Morales proven his critics wrong? - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's a pretty weak case. While his language is restrained and respectful, the details at the end are pretty damning. On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ben Dangl makes the case for Evo Morales--significant because Dangl is a horizontalist. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/10/ bolivia-evo-morales-proven-his-2014101251517262730.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.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
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Returned mail: see transcript for details
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == has anyone else received a message like this? Lou and I did not even receive an error message for this, looks to be a one-off problem with the mail server and Mailman. if anyone sees this again, contact me offlist. Les On 10/11/2014 10:44 PM, Mark Lause via Marxism wrote: Does anybody know why this would this have not gone to the list? -- Forwarded message -- From: Mail Delivery Subsystem mailer-dae...@lists.csbs.utah.edu Date: Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 4:02 AM Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details To: markala...@gmail.com The original message was received at Sat, 11 Oct 2014 02:01:49 -0600 (MDT) from ipoi.cc.utah.edu [155.97.131.81] - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - |/services/apps/pkgs/mailman/mail/mailman post marxism (reason: 1) (expanded from: marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu) - Transcript of session follows - 451 4.0.0 putbody: write error: Broken pipe post script, list not found: marxism 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 1 Final-Recipient: RFC822; marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu X-Actual-Recipient: X-Unix; |/services/apps/pkgs/mailman/mail/mailman post marxism Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Unix; 1 Last-Attempt-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 02:01:55 -0600 (MDT) 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 PYD, the regime, the FSA and the ICG report
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == -Original Message- From: Andrew Pollack via Marxism The ICG earlier this year issued a report which basically called the Kurdish PYD collaborators with the Syrian regime who are only able to govern the autonomous areas thanks to physical regime withdrawal but continued funding. ICG also claims that the self-governance structures everyone is raving about are PYD-appointed fronts; and that PYD repression against opponents continues. I put Arbour in the subject line because she was head of ICG at time of this report (May 2014) http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/Middle%20East%20North%20Africa/Iraq%20Syria%20Lebanon/Syria/151-flight-of-icarus-the-pyd-s-precarious-rise-in-syria.pdf I don't think the issue is Louise Arbour. The report is by the ICG, which is a relatively level-headed group of pro-imperialist analysts. They produce well-researched analysis which, however, is obviously written from a particular point of view. I don't think they go out of their way to doctor facts but of course their spin is there. The fact that the PYD is only able to govern the autonomous areas thanks to physical regime withdrawal is simply a statement of fact, but whether it is also due to continued funding by the regime, let alone low-level collaboration or even alliance, with the regime, as the report suggests, enters seriously into the area of interpretation and spin. As the report shows, it was the PYD that led the uprising in 2004, and suffered fierce repression from the regime. When the uprising began in 2011, naturally they again tried to take over Kurdish regions. When the regime withdrew in mid-2012, was this because the regime loved the PYD or vice versa and they were entering into an alliance with each other? No, the regime withdrew because it looked at a map, saw the Kurdish regions were the furthest thing away, the jihadist-controlled regions were the next furthest away, the FSA and other rebel controlled regions were much closer, including right under their noses in the major cities. By leaving the Kurds be, the regime could focus on the more immediate dangers. Was the PYD complicit with the regime by accepting the withdrawal and trying to build its society, rather than sending its fighters to aid the resistance elsewhere? I don't that criticism is valid, though part of the bad blood between the FSA and PYD is due to that feeling. From the point of view of self-determination, you can't blame the Kurds for getting what they could in the circumstances. I guess you don't actively invite barrel bombs when you can avoid them for a while. The PYD knew very well they would come eventually, if Assad finished off everyone else. The report also says the regime continued to pay salaries in the PYD controlled region. I know nothing about this, but I assume it is based on research. In some instances where the FSA has signed truces with the regime, the regime has agreed to pay salaries. What can we say about this? It is desperation. It is a question of tactics. The report also makes a number of concrete accusations against the PYD for instances of collaboration with the regime, a more serious thing. Some of this seems anecdotal, some more solidly based. It does not appear to be of a systematic nature, but here and there, opportunistic. Question: Is the PYD a perfect organisation that has NEVER DONE ANYTHING WRONG? Were the Bolsheviks? Is there such a thing? In a recent discussion on the GL list, I warned against the tendency to suggest that the FSA were a huge (or tiny, whatever your fancy) morass of smugglers, warlords, swindlers, jihadist, US puppets, bandits, thieves etc, on account of the fact that the sheer anarchy of revolutionary situations, combined with the extraordinary level of counterrevolutionary regime violence, means that a significant number of violations absolutely do happen. If you make those kinds of sweeping generalisations then there has never been anyone worth supporting, ever. I also made the opposite point: while we rightly look at the model of the Rojava revolution (above and beyond the fact that we should defend Kurdish self-determination even if they were run by Kurdish Black Hundreds), we need to avoid romanticisation, the complete opposite attitude to demonisation. The PYD has any number of skeletons in its closet as do most organisations which consist of human beings. It is thus possible that some of what is in the report is right; but organisations in a revolutionary situation evolve based on realities on the ground. It seems to me the current active collaboration between the PYD/YPG and the FSA in Aleppo and Rojava represents a positive evolution for both forces. The real fraternisation on
[Marxism] Malala's Trotskyist sympathies
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here’s the interesting sidelight that is (not suprisingly) absent in most mainstream media biographical sketches of Malala Yousafzai celebrating her Nobel peace prize. She’s a socialist and identifies with the radical wing of the movement. Or at least she did as recently as last year. In March, 2013, she sent the following message of solidarity to the Pakistani section of the International Marxist Tendency which described her as a “sympathizer” who had spoken at one of their summer schools the previous year. Comrade Javed Iqbal, a Pakistani comrade from Birmingham in the UK, intervened to read out a message that had been sent from Malala Yousafzai, the young sympathiser of the Marxist Tendency famous for her part in the struggle for the right to education for girls in Pakistan. She had taken part in the national Marxist Summer School in July of last year in Swat. She was tragically shot in the head in a barbaric attack by fundamentalists, and made headlines worldwide. She is now thankfully recovering in the UK. The message she sent reads as follows: 'First of all I’d like to thank The Struggle and the IMT for giving me a chance to speak last year at their Summer Marxist School in Swat and also for introducing me to Marxism and Socialism. I just want to say that in terms of education, as well as other problems in Pakistan, it is high time that we did something to tackle them ourselves. It’s important to take the initiative. We cannot wait around for any one else to come and do it. Why are we waiting for someone else to come and fix things? Why aren’t we doing it ourselves? 'I would like to send my heartfelt greetings to the congress. I am convinced Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation.’ This was also one of the several moving moments of the congress. A close friend of Malala was also present at the congress, who was on the bus when the girls were attacked. She spoke, making some comments and reading out a poem.” See: http://www.marxist.com/historic-32nd-congress-of-pakistani-imt-1.htm Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] The PYD, the regime, the FSA and the ICG report
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Superb capsule analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the PYD and PYG/Y and why they warrant unconditional support. Karadjis alone gives this list its value. -Original Message- From: Andrew Pollack via Marxism The ICG earlier this year issued a report which basically called the Kurdish PYD collaborators with the Syrian regime who are only able to govern the autonomous areas thanks to physical regime withdrawal but continued funding. ICG also claims that the self-governance structures everyone is raving about are PYD-appointed fronts; and that PYD repression against opponents continues. I put Arbour in the subject line because she was head of ICG at time of this report (May 2014) http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/Middle%20East%20North%20Africa/Iraq%20Syria%20Lebanon/Syria/151-flight-of-icarus-the-pyd-s-precarious-rise-in-syria.pdf I don't think the issue is Louise Arbour. The report is by the ICG, which is a relatively level-headed group of pro-imperialist analysts. They produce well-researched analysis which, however, is obviously written from a particular point of view. I don't think they go out of their way to doctor facts but of course their spin is there. The fact that the PYD is only able to govern the autonomous areas thanks to physical regime withdrawal is simply a statement of fact, but whether it is also due to continued funding by the regime, let alone low-level collaboration or even alliance, with the regime, as the report suggests, enters seriously into the area of interpretation and spin. As the report shows, it was the PYD that led the uprising in 2004, and suffered fierce repression from the regime. When the uprising began in 2011, naturally they again tried to take over Kurdish regions. When the regime withdrew in mid-2012, was this because the regime loved the PYD or vice versa and they were entering into an alliance with each other? No, the regime withdrew because it looked at a map, saw the Kurdish regions were the furthest thing away, the jihadist-controlled regions were the next furthest away, the FSA and other rebel controlled regions were much closer, including right under their noses in the major cities. By leaving the Kurds be, the regime could focus on the more immediate dangers. Was the PYD complicit with the regime by accepting the withdrawal and trying to build its society, rather than sending its fighters to aid the resistance elsewhere? I don't that criticism is valid, though part of the bad blood between the FSA and PYD is due to that feeling. From the point of view of self-determination, you can't blame the Kurds for getting what they could in the circumstances. I guess you don't actively invite barrel bombs when you can avoid them for a while. The PYD knew very well they would come eventually, if Assad finished off everyone else. The report also says the regime continued to pay salaries in the PYD controlled region. I know nothing about this, but I assume it is based on research. In some instances where the FSA has signed truces with the regime, the regime has agreed to pay salaries. What can we say about this? It is desperation. It is a question of tactics. The report also makes a number of concrete accusations against the PYD for instances of collaboration with the regime, a more serious thing. Some of this seems anecdotal, some more solidly based. It does not appear to be of a systematic nature, but here and there, opportunistic. Question: Is the PYD a perfect organisation that has NEVER DONE ANYTHING WRONG? Were the Bolsheviks? Is there such a thing? In a recent discussion on the GL list, I warned against the tendency to suggest that the FSA were a huge (or tiny, whatever your fancy) morass of smugglers, warlords, swindlers, jihadist, US puppets, bandits, thieves etc, on account of the fact that the sheer anarchy of revolutionary situations, combined with the extraordinary level of counterrevolutionary regime violence, means that a significant number of violations absolutely do happen. If you make those kinds of sweeping generalisations then there has never been anyone worth supporting, ever. I also made the opposite point: while we rightly look at the model of the Rojava revolution (above and beyond the fact that we should defend Kurdish self-determination even if they were run by Kurdish Black Hundreds), we need to avoid romanticisation, the complete opposite attitude to demonisation. The PYD has any number of skeletons in its closet as do most organisations which consist of human beings. It is thus possible that some of what is in the report is right; but organisations in a revolutionary
[Marxism] Fwd: The PYD, the regime, the FSA and the ICG report
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Correction: That should read YPG/YPJ. Begin forwarded message: From: Marv Gandall marvga...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Marxism] The PYD, the regime, the FSA and the ICG report Date: October 12, 2014 at 12:27:43 PM EDT To: Michael Karadjis mkarad...@gmail.com, Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Superb capsule analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the PYD and PYG/Y and why they warrant unconditional support. Karadjis alone gives this list its value. -Original Message- From: Andrew Pollack via Marxism The ICG earlier this year issued a report which basically called the Kurdish PYD collaborators with the Syrian regime who are only able to govern the autonomous areas thanks to physical regime withdrawal but continued funding. ICG also claims that the self-governance structures everyone is raving about are PYD-appointed fronts; and that PYD repression against opponents continues. I put Arbour in the subject line because she was head of ICG at time of this report (May 2014) http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/Middle%20East%20North%20Africa/Iraq%20Syria%20Lebanon/Syria/151-flight-of-icarus-the-pyd-s-precarious-rise-in-syria.pdf I don't think the issue is Louise Arbour. The report is by the ICG, which is a relatively level-headed group of pro-imperialist analysts. They produce well-researched analysis which, however, is obviously written from a particular point of view. I don't think they go out of their way to doctor facts but of course their spin is there. The fact that the PYD is only able to govern the autonomous areas thanks to physical regime withdrawal is simply a statement of fact, but whether it is also due to continued funding by the regime, let alone low-level collaboration or even alliance, with the regime, as the report suggests, enters seriously into the area of interpretation and spin. As the report shows, it was the PYD that led the uprising in 2004, and suffered fierce repression from the regime. When the uprising began in 2011, naturally they again tried to take over Kurdish regions. When the regime withdrew in mid-2012, was this because the regime loved the PYD or vice versa and they were entering into an alliance with each other? No, the regime withdrew because it looked at a map, saw the Kurdish regions were the furthest thing away, the jihadist-controlled regions were the next furthest away, the FSA and other rebel controlled regions were much closer, including right under their noses in the major cities. By leaving the Kurds be, the regime could focus on the more immediate dangers. Was the PYD complicit with the regime by accepting the withdrawal and trying to build its society, rather than sending its fighters to aid the resistance elsewhere? I don't that criticism is valid, though part of the bad blood between the FSA and PYD is due to that feeling. From the point of view of self-determination, you can't blame the Kurds for getting what they could in the circumstances. I guess you don't actively invite barrel bombs when you can avoid them for a while. The PYD knew very well they would come eventually, if Assad finished off everyone else. The report also says the regime continued to pay salaries in the PYD controlled region. I know nothing about this, but I assume it is based on research. In some instances where the FSA has signed truces with the regime, the regime has agreed to pay salaries. What can we say about this? It is desperation. It is a question of tactics. The report also makes a number of concrete accusations against the PYD for instances of collaboration with the regime, a more serious thing. Some of this seems anecdotal, some more solidly based. It does not appear to be of a systematic nature, but here and there, opportunistic. Question: Is the PYD a perfect organisation that has NEVER DONE ANYTHING WRONG? Were the Bolsheviks? Is there such a thing? In a recent discussion on the GL list, I warned against the tendency to suggest that the FSA were a huge (or tiny, whatever your fancy) morass of smugglers, warlords, swindlers, jihadist, US puppets, bandits, thieves etc, on account of the fact that the sheer anarchy of revolutionary situations, combined with the extraordinary level of counterrevolutionary regime violence, means that a significant number of violations absolutely do happen. If you make those kinds of sweeping generalisations then there has never been anyone worth supporting, ever. I also made the opposite point: while we rightly look at the model of the Rojava revolution (above and beyond the fact that we should defend Kurdish self-determination even if they
[Marxism] Turkish anarchists in defense of Kobane
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The message below is from an anarchist list and is obviously copied from a webpage, but I couldn't (easily) locate that page so I'm just forwarding the text. I don't know if their direct support in Kobane is very substantial or more token, but in either case it is an admirable example of solidarity and internationalism, especially coming from within the country most infamous for its oppression of the Kurdish minority and military conflict in Kurdistan. To me at least, one interesting point discussed is under Prison conversion below, where it mentions that Ocalan has in recent years become a convert to the ideas of Murray Bookchin, which is quite a shift from the original PKK's left-Stalinist ideology. This (as implied below) has everything to do with the alliance between his supporters (YPG) and Turkish (and Syrian?) anarchists. Beginning with the Spanish civil war, Stalinist groups generally treat anarchists as they would Trotskyists or any other independent left current having its own program and world view, so the PKK's apparent evolution has made possible the coming together of left currents in defense of the ISIS onslaught against the Kurds. It remains unfortunate that the FSA and other Syrian revolutionary currents are primarily nationalist in outlook and therefore cannot think in terms of Kurdish self-determination as that would threaten the current borders of Syria. I take hope, as Michael Karadjis has just posted, that facts on the ground will continue to bring together these forces in joint action and promote better understanding, and eventually a common front against Assad. - Jeff _ Turkish anarchists, who made headlines around the world during the battle for Taksim Square, have decamped to the besieged Kurdish town of Kobani to support the fight against the Islamic State. While Turkish security forces look on from across the border as the Islamic State continues its onslaught against Kobani, a group of Turkish activists have crossed the border to support the Kurds. They call themselves Devrimci Anarsist Faaliyet (Revolutionary Anarchist Action), and their members were on the barricades last year when major protests erupted around Taksim Square and Gezi park in Istanbul. Speaking to Channel 4 News, the group reveals it has visited Kobani on three occasions, bypassing Turkish border guards and helping Kurdish refugees to escape into Turkey. We were part of the resistance that started in Taksim and Gezi park. Turkish anarchist spokesperson The most important task was to help civilians from Kobani to pass through the border. After that we supported immigrants for transportation, setting up tents, organising the distribution of materials sent in solidarity, one group member explained. We were part of the resistance that started in Taksim Gezi park. We were part of the resistance against police violence, against state terrorism and in the direct democracy experience afterwards. After Taksim Square was occupied, we have actively participated in resistance along the barricades and behind the barricades. However we have to make this clear: we are not only in the streets when the turmoil in society is high. Read more: Kurdish spring: what are the PKK fighting for? Image credit DAF Prison conversion The links between Kurdish groups and anarchists were born from the proscribed PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) leader Abdullah Ocalan's prison conversion to the writings of Murray Bookchin, a New York anarchist academic. In Kobani the PYD (Democratic Union Party) and its armed wing, the YPG, are followers of Ocalan, and have attempted to implement an autonomous form of Kurdish direct democracy. Turkish radicals are hoping to learn from this experience. YPG is organising the fight at the highest level against Isis as a self-defence force. So we are trying to support in every way possible, the anarchist explained. Protest calls The border near Kobani has seen violent scenes as Turkish forces attempt to control the flow of refugees both into Turkey and back to Syria. In recent days the DAF have been supporting calls for people to come onto the streets to protest against the Turkish government's stance on Syria. Police have used tear gas and water cannon this week as unrest spread to six Turkish cities over Turkey's lack of action against IS. One 25-year-old protester was killed in the eastern province of Mus and there were other deaths reported in Diyarbakir, Turkey's largest Kurdish city.  Image credit DAF Peace process threatened The activists worry that the government is not taking the ongoing and currently quite delicate peace process with the PKK
[Marxism] The Ringworm Scandal: When Israeli Doctors Killed Tens of Thousands of Arab Children 45 minute video
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2014/10/12/the-ringworm-scandal-when-israeli-doctors-killed-tens-of-thousands-of-arab-children/?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=Feed%3A+richardsilverstein%2FZOfh+%28+Tikun+Olam-%D7%AA%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9F+%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%9D%3A+Make+the+World+a+Better+Place%29 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] Now this is an interesting question: Why did Israel target and kill Hebrew speakers in Gaza?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Marv Gandall marvga...@gmail.com wrote: You live over there and are better situated than any of us to establish whether anyone other than Max Blumenthal, whom I greatly respect BTW, has reported in the same vein? Not that I'm aware of, no. But there's still a fog of war over many incidents. So much stuff happened, everywhere at once, that a lot of it hasn't received a great deal of attention. -- Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað. 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] Catalan national struggle enters critical phase
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dick Nichols, Barcelona The normally torpid Spanish legal system had an attack of extreme speed on September 29. Its highly abnormal Usain Bolt-like behaviour was caused by the Catalan regional government formally decreeing its long-awaited November 9 non-binding consultation of Catalan public opinion on the region's political status. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57518 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker 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: Syrian Anarchist Challenges the Rebel/Regime Binary View of Resistance
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Interview with Nader Atassi. http://truth-out.org/news/item/18617-syrian-anarchist-challenges-the-rebel-regime-binary-view-of-resistance 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] Bolivia: Morales wins crushing victory in poll
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This win is a triumph for anti-imperialists and anti-colonialists, Bolivia's left-wing President Evo Morales told thousands of supporters from the balcony of the presidential palace on the evening of October 12 after a crushing win in that's day's presidential poll, Reuters said http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/13/us-bolivia-election-idUSKCN0I103120141013 . https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57529 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker 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] Marxist classic in English for first time and v cheap
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Marxist classic in English for first time and v cheap Henryk Grossman: Fifty Years of Struggle over Marxism 1883-1932 An indispensable survey of the history of Marxist theory and the forces which shaped it over the half century following Marx's death. Over 100 pages, available as an ebook for only US$5.50 and an elegantly produced paperback for a mere AU$10 (about US$9, UK£5.50) plus shipping. Ebook from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B00OE6KF7O Paperback: email redflag.s...@gmail.com Focusing on the issue of reform versus revolution, Henryk Grossman, the foremost Marxian economic thinker of the interwar period, provides an enlightening and spirited summary of the first half-century of Marxism after Marx. The introduction by Rick Kuhn, the leading authority on Grossman’s life and work, masterfully situates his essay in its historical and theoretical contexts. ---Andrew Kliman, emeritus professor of economics at Pace University and author of Reclaiming Marx’s “Capital” and The Failure of Capitalist Production Henryk Grossman is an important, though often overlooked, Marxist whose work on the breakdown of capitalism is indispensible. Rick Kuhn has done us a service by bringing to light Grossman’s extremely useful survey of socialism, with its special emphasis on the movement’s theoretical controversies and the circumstances in which they arose. ---Paul D’Amato, author of The Meaning of Marxism The current revival in interest in Marxism deserves to have at its disposal the work of earlier generations of Marxists, particularly those who forged their politics before the shadow of Stalinism fell. Grossman ranks among the finest of such figures. This new translation of Grossman's essay, deftly introduced by Rick Kuhn, is, therefore, to be warmly welcomed. ---Joseph Choonara, author of Unravelling Capitalism: A Guide to Marxist Political Economy Contents Introduction Fifty years of struggle over Marxism, 1883–1932 A. Marxists of the early period B. The advance of reformism a) Revisionism b) The Neo-Kantians c) The radicals on the defensive d) Reformism in Marxist disguise (the neo-harmonists) C. The resurgence of revolutionary Marxism a) The decay of revisionist theory b) The development of the materialist conception of history c) The problems of imperialism and war d) The problem of the proletarian seizure of power. Marxist theory and the Soviet Union e) The end of capitalism Literature Bibliography 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] Marxist classic in English for first time and v cheap
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Marxist classic in English for first time and v cheap Henryk Grossman: Fifty Years of Struggle over Marxism 1883-1932 An indispensable survey of the history of Marxist theory and the forces which shaped it over the half century following Marx's death. Over 100 pages, available as an ebook for only US$5.50 and an elegantly produced paperback for a mere AU$10 (about US$9, UK£5.50) plus shipping. Ebook from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B00OE6KF7O Paperback: email redflag.s...@gmail.com Focusing on the issue of reform versus revolution, Henryk Grossman, the foremost Marxian economic thinker of the interwar period, provides an enlightening and spirited summary of the first half-century of Marxism after Marx. The introduction by Rick Kuhn, the leading authority on Grossman’s life and work, masterfully situates his essay in its historical and theoretical contexts. ---Andrew Kliman, emeritus professor of economics at Pace University and author of Reclaiming Marx’s “Capital” and The Failure of Capitalist Production Henryk Grossman is an important, though often overlooked, Marxist whose work on the breakdown of capitalism is indispensible. Rick Kuhn has done us a service by bringing to light Grossman’s extremely useful survey of socialism, with its special emphasis on the movement’s theoretical controversies and the circumstances in which they arose. ---Paul D’Amato, author of The Meaning of Marxism The current revival in interest in Marxism deserves to have at its disposal the work of earlier generations of Marxists, particularly those who forged their politics before the shadow of Stalinism fell. Grossman ranks among the finest of such figures. This new translation of Grossman's essay, deftly introduced by Rick Kuhn, is, therefore, to be warmly welcomed. ---Joseph Choonara, author of Unravelling Capitalism: A Guide to Marxist Political Economy Contents Introduction Fifty years of struggle over Marxism, 1883–1932 A. Marxists of the early period B. The advance of reformism a) Revisionism b) The Neo-Kantians c) The radicals on the defensive d) Reformism in Marxist disguise (the neo-harmonists) C. The resurgence of revolutionary Marxism a) The decay of revisionist theory b) The development of the materialist conception of history c) The problems of imperialism and war d) The problem of the proletarian seizure of power. Marxist theory and the Soviet Union e) The end of capitalism Literature Bibliography 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] Kobani, the Kurdish issue and the Syrian revolution, a common destiny
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Excellent commentary Kobani, the Kurdish issue and the Syrian revolution, a common destiny Posted on October 12, 2014 syriafreedomforever.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/kobani-the-kurdish-issue-and-the-syrian-revolution-a-common-destiny/ The city of Kobani, which is in its far majority inhabited by Kurdish people, in Syria has been under direct threat for several weeks of the Islamic State (IS). Since the beginning of the offensive of the IS on September 16 2014, more than 550 people died, including 298 militants of the IS, 236 Kurdish fighters and around twenty civilians. More than 12 000 civilians still remain in some sections of the city of Kobani, while the offensive of the IS on Kobani and its surrounding villages has led to the forced displacement of about 200,000 people. The city would actually have fallen long ago if it was not for the resistance organized by the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (YPD which is linked to the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party), and its military forces, units of protection people (YPG), and also the active participation of at least three battalions of Arab fighters in the city: the revolutionary battalion of Al Raqqa, the battalion of ” the northern Sun” and the battalion of “Jirablis”. On October 4 the Free Syrian Army (FSA) had also decided to send a thousand fighters to defend Kobani. The city Kobani has a strategic location for the IS. First the city lies between the cities of Cerablus and Tell Abyad, which are both under the occupation of the IS, and its capture would allow a territorial continuity for the IS, and secondly the city is also a gateway to Turkey. Kobani, a key city in the Rojava autonomous regions The city of Kobani is the third Kurdish city of Syria and was the first Kurdish city to be liberated from the Assad regime in July 19, 2012. Kobani is also the center of one of the three cantons (with Afrin and Cizre) that established themselves in”democratic autonomous regions” from a confederation of “Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Turkmen, Armenian and Chechen” as stated in the Preamble of the Rojava’s (name of western or Syrian Kurdistan) Charter. Experiences of self-administrations in these regions are very interesting, particularly regarding the rights of women and religious and ethnic minorities. Some contradictions nevertheless exist, especially regarding the authoritarianism of the PYD forces that have not hesitated to repress activists or to close institutions towards them. We should not forget that the PYD, like its mother organization the PKK, lacks democratic credentials in is internal functioning and in regards to other organisations considered as rivals or just as we have seen critical of it. We must remember for example the protest movements in late June 2013 in some cities of Rojava, such as Amouda and Derabissyat, against the repression and arrests by the PYD forces of Kurdish revolutionary activists (1). The PYD is however far from being the only organization in this case in Syria, and within the Syrian opposition. That does not stop us from providing a full support to the Kurdish national liberation movement in its struggle for self-determination in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran against authoritarian regimes that oppress them and / or prevent them from achieving their self-determination. It is also why we should demand for the removal of the PKK of all lists of terrorist organizations in Europe and elsewhere. We can indeed criticize the leadership of the PKK or the PYD for some of their policies, but as argued before, a fundamental principle of revolutionaries is that we first need to support all forms of liberation and emancipation struggle unconditionally, before we are entitled to criticize the way they are led. The coalition and Turkey or the struggle against the Kurds The bombings of the international coalition led by the USA and with the collaboration of the reactionary monarchies of the Gulf have failed to stop the offensive of the IS since September 23. At that period the IS was at 60 km of Kobani… today the IS has entered and occupied several districts of the city. The IS has also destroyed several houses and administrative buildings. This military intervention shows once more that it is not designed to help the local populations in their struggle for freedom and dignity, but serve the objectives of Western imperialists, with the agreement of Russian imperialism, and of all the regional sub imperialists, participating directly (Saudi Arabia and Qatar) or indirectly (Turkey), or not opposing it like Iran. All these actors want to put an end to the revolutionary processes in the region and restore its stability with authoritarian regimes that
