[Marxism] Pakistan: Paramilitaries kill three striking workers
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. * Protests erupted throughout Pakistan after the shooting dead on the picket line of three striking workers at Karachi Airport on February 2. The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) employees were part of a nationwide strike against the privatisation of the state-owned airline. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61042 -- “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 _ 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
[Marxism] Clinton sinking in the lowland sea?
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. * “You say I’m corrupt. Prove it!” In longer form, Clinton makes the strong claim that “you will not find that I ever changed a view or a vote because of any donation that I ever received.” This claim can be disproved with a single example. Here ya go. Let’s look at what Elizabeth Warren has to say on Clinton and the bankruptcy bill; note the appeal to those burdened with student loans. (Many of you may have seen this, but it’s well worth a second look. The video was “blasted out” to the press “almost instantaneously” by the Sanders campaign, to whom we should give credit both for being both better at oppo and more agile than we might think.) Here it is: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/02/sanders-v-clinton-democratic-debate-corruption-health-care-and-theories-of-change.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _ 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
[Marxism] Latin America's CELAC summit debates push back against US power, economic measures
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: “How the West Came to Rule”: a work for the ages | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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. * Hi all, I'm in the middle of this book and I think in addition to being very thorough it also provides basic summaries and critiques of other Marxist assessments of international capitalism. If anyone asks, I'm willing to lend my ebook version (just contact off-list). Best, - Amith On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > 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. > * > > When Jim Blaut succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 2000, he was denied the > possibility of completing the third and final installment in a series of > books about Eurocentrism. The first two—“The Colonizer’s Model of the > World” and “Eight Eurocentric Historians”—were polemical but scholarly > rebuttals to a wide range of thinkers, including Robert Brenner. The third > was intended to demonstrate that a different kind of history could be > written, one that gave the “people without history”—as Hegel put it—their > proper due. When I finished reading Alexander Anievas and Kerem > Nisancioglu’s “How the West Came to Rule: the Geopolitical Origins of > Capitalism” this week, I was left with the feeling that Blaut’s book had > finally been written. > > full: > http://louisproyect.org/2016/01/31/how-the-west-came-to-rule-a-work-for-the-ages/ > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com _ 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
[Marxism] Fwd: The Slavery Debate: Why C.L.R James & Eric Williams were right - YouTube
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[Marxism] My answer to the Barnesite rightwing drift!
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 this the advance party of some of the Barnesites going over to the extreme right wing populists? Pat told me around 20 years that Barnes father was in the Republican Party. He cannot remember who told him this! I suspect it was Tony Roberts who told him this. Roberts heard some of the gossip around the SWP leadership by going to one of their conventions in 1973. The Trotskyist wing would not have told Roberts this because at that stage they did not want to undermine Barnes. He found this out by hearing the gossip around the middle class circles which surrounded the rising Barnes leadership. I just want to take up two outrageous statements. There is a favourable implication emphsaing the worse right wing union bureaucrats within SEIU who are backing Trump! Trotsky argued that when reaction grows with the rise of populism and fascism that reactionary ideas come into the working class via the middle class; lumpen proletariat; and aristocracy of labour! Trotsky noticed how many factory workers in Germany were influenced by the Nazi party during the early 1930s. Racism and xenophobia is the politics of despair. The middle class carries this into sizeable elements of the working class. Some of the Barnesites argue Trump is no racist. American Trotskyist George Brietman argued racism could not be an effective tool by the capitalists to divide the working class if racist ideas were not strong. Pat has known Jonathan Silberman since 1968. He cannot believe how far he has degenerated. Silberman makes the methodlogical mistake of the Barneistes in not seeing a large layer of UKIP are influenced by xenophobic ideas. He denies this. Behind Silberman's ultra-leftist guise of ignoring the differences between the Labour Party' Tories; and UKIP is a major move to the right of not fighting the right wing ideas of the Tories and UKIP. There are even large layers of backward workers who are going through profound experiences with the Tory party and beginning to go into struggle. It is dialectically ironic that they understand the difference between the Tory and Labour Party better than a leading cadre who has been around 47 years forgets everything he has learned. What's happening to the Barneistes is a layer of the older middle class are going through major social and psychological crises as individuals. The Barnesistes are like most of the Shactmanites were too right wing on Vietnam because they supported American Imperialist intervention into Vietnam to intervene into the middle class radicalisation in the mid to late 1960s, a new generation of middle class layers radicalsing now like the Barneistes did in the 1960s. The saviour of humanity maybe some of the Jewish middle class radicalsing. I have just found out yesterday that there is a film coming out called "Trotsky in Vienna",. There is little information about this film, as it has been released just a few days ago. Is this film been made in Hollywood? Is it a warning shot by a layer of the Jewish middle class warning the Capitalists of the price they pay if a layer of Capitalists start working with the fascists. This radicalisation of the Jewish middle class could solve the cadre crisis, finalising the missing ingredient to complete the world revolution. The Tory party is finished with millions of workers in terms of influence. UKIP is still a danger if Corbyrn retreats from his reform promises. The main trend within Britain Is a left shift is the radicalisation around Corbyn in the Labour Party. This radicallsation in the Labour Party has boasted the politics of hope with the campagns against austerity and xenophobia. Brittish Trotskyists need to win millions of workers to revolutionary politics who are radicalsing around Corbyn so if he backtrack, that base can be won over. This will guarantee the victory of a Socialist revolution carrying the hopes to a successful conclusion. _ 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
[Marxism] Is this the advance party of some Barniesites moving towards the Republican Party?
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Re: [Marxism] Hillary Battles Bernie Sanders, Chick Magnet
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. * With all respect, Louis, I do not think that Bernie Sanders has "a narrow message." That is modern code for an emphasis on class over race, gender, age, etc. Wythe Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: > 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'll be voting Green but I loved this op-ed piece.) NY Times Op-Ed, Feb. 7 2016 Hillary Battles Bernie Sanders, Chick Magnet by Maureen Dowd MANCHESTER, N.H. — HILLARY CLINTON first grabbed the national spotlight 47 years ago as an idealistic young feminist, chiding the paternalistic establishment in her Wellesley commencement speech. So it’s passing strange to watch her here, getting rebuffed by young women who believe that she lacks idealism, that she overplays her feminist hand and that she is the paternalistic establishment. Bernie Sanders may be a dead ringer for Larry David, but Hillary is running the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” campaign. She can’t fire up young voters by dwelling on what can’t be done in Washington and by explaining that she’s more prose than poetry. She’s traveling around New Hampshire with a former president who could easily layer in some poetry, and a handful of specific snappy plans for the future, to her thicket of substance and stack of white papers. But somehow, Hill and Bill campaign side by side without achieving synergy. Is it that he’s as tired as he looks or does she feel too competitive with him to ask for that kind of help? As one Hillary booster in Hollywood marveled: “There’s no chance her husband doesn’t understand the problem. The look on his face during her speeches evokes a retired major league All Star watching his son strike out in a Little League game. This is so fixable.” Hillary is like a veteran actor who doesn’t audition well. Bill could tell her not to shout her way through rallies, that it doesn’t convey passion but just seems forced, adding to her authenticity problem. Her allies think mentioning her shouting is sexist, and sexism does swirl around Hillary, but her campaign cries sexism too often. In 2008, Barack Obama used race sparingly. Even after all this time watching Bill and Barry, she still has not learned the art of seduction on stage. She’s surrounded by former Obama and Bill Clinton strategists, but they are not helping her achieve “the goose bump experience,” as Lily Tomlin called it. Hillary has ceded the inspirational lane to the slick Marco Rubio, who’s more like the new John Edwards than the new Obama. In the MSNBC debate on Thursday night, Hillary huffily said she could not be an exemplar of the establishment, as Sanders suggested, because she’s “a woman running to be the first woman president.” But she is establishment. So is Nancy Pelosi. So was Eleanor Roosevelt. Hillary must learn to embrace that and make it work for her, not deny it. As a woman, as a former first lady, senator and secretary of state, she’s uniquely equipped to deliver a big, inspiring message with a showstopping speech that goes beyond income inequality, that sweeps up broader themes of intolerance, fusing the economic, cultural and international issues at stake. She could, as one talented political speechwriter riffed, say something like this: “We’re a stronger country when more people have higher incomes; when women get paid the same as men; when we draw on the diverse talents of immigrants; when we show the world that America is a place that embraces all religions, that offers refuge to the persecuted and the terrorized. When a few old rich white men are the only ones who succeed, that’s not just unfair, it’s untenable.” Hillary’s most poignant moment came during the CNN town hall on Wednesday night when she said that, as a young woman, she had never expected to run for president herself, given that her husband was “a natural.” It was her misfortune in 2008 to run into another natural. She was not “likable enough” that year. But it was at least fathomable. She was running against the Tulip Craze Barack Obama. Now she’s running against a grumpy gramps, a stooped socialist with a narrow message, brusque manner and shaky grasp of world affairs. But the Clintons are still leveling the same charges, that her opponent’s stances are fairy tales and that his idealism masks tough tactics. And she’s still not likable enough for the young women who were supposed to carry her fo
[Marxism] Fwd: Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red: The Ukrainian Marxist Critique of Russian Communist Rule in Ukraine, 1918-1925 | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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. * The last thing I would expect from a knucklehead Putinite like Mike Whitney or Pepe Escobar is any kind of engagement with the history of Ukrainian national oppression but it never fails to amaze me how little interest there is for the Marxist traveling circus consisting of people like Roger Annis, the ex-Trotskyist in Canada, Renfrey Clarke, the Socialist Alliance member in Australia, sect leaders Alan Woods and Jeff Mackler et al. Most of these people probably were exposed to what the Fourth International said about Ukraine in the 1960s and have either forgotten it in their dotage or more likely sweep it under the rug. If there’s anybody who can be called the leader of this new breed of Great Russian Chauvinism, it is Boris Kagarlitsky who has a material incentive to be Putin’s spin doctor. His think-tank is funded by the Kremlin. There’s one man who has their number. He is Stephen Velychenko, the chair of the Ukrainan studies at the University of Toronto who wrote a two-part series on the traveling circus. This is from part one:. Kargalitsky’s pro Kremlin audience finds his worker revolution scenario appealing. But given their preconceptions, ignorance of Russian and Ukrainian, and minimal knowledge about either country, they either cannot, or choose not to, know what he omits from his articles. For example, he makes no mention of Russian imperialism, great power chauvinism, non Russian national movements, linguistic and cultural russification of non Russians, or the link between the national and the social questions. He does not dwell on how his imagined “working class” movement was aided and funded in its origins by Ukraine’s pro Russian capitalists (oligarchs); in particular, Rinat Akhmetov, nor that the local Russian extremist leaders are not interested in nationalization – least of all Akhmetov’s holdings. He does not mention either the small size of the neo-Nazi section of the Ukrainian right nor how few Ukrainian citizens support the Russian neo nazi right. [9] For all their Marxist rhetoric neither Kargalitsky or his likeminded reflect on why the Russian neo-Nazi leaders of Ukraine’s imagined proletarian revolution do not associate themselves with Marxism of any kind, why they sport double headed eagles and tsarist colours, rather than hammers and sickles and red banners, why they use Orthodox symbolism, or, why they wax nostalgic over the tsarist empire rather than the short-lived Russian Bolshevik Krivoi-Rog Republic of 1918. In order to correct the “preconceptions” and “ignorance” that plagues so much of the left, Velychenko has just written a book titled “Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red: The Ukrainian Marxist Critique of Russian Communist Rule in Ukraine, 1918-1925” that demonstrates in copious detail how the Bolsheviks treated the Ukrainians just like the British treated the Irish. Lenin was probably the most committed to breaking with Great Russian Chauvinism and probably would have been a force for combating Stalin’s open embrace of it but even he was not immune. What you can read below is the first nineteen pages of chapter one, a section titled historical background. For people committed to understanding the roots of Ukrainian resistance to Russia domination, even when expressed in a distorted form, Velychenko’s book is essential. full: https://louisproyect.org/2016/02/07/painting-imperialism-and-nationalism-red-the-ukrainian-marxist-critique-of-russian-communist-rule-in-ukraine-1918-1925/ _ 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
[Marxism] How the Red Scare destroyed a small-town teacher (Boston Globe)
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. * How the Red Scare destroyed a small-town teacher Anne Hale's life in Wayland fell to pieces in the 1950s when informants reported her to the FBI for disloyalty to country. FOR ANNE HALE, the sight of 700 of her neighbors packed shoulder to shoulder in the Wayland High School auditorium must have felt overwhelming. As the middle-aged second-grade teacher sat in front of the crowd, facing her judges and jury on the School Committee, the long odds against her that June evening in 1954 - at the height of McCarthyism -would have come into sharp relief. Hale could have avoided this public spectacle and quietly resigned from the job she'd held for six years in a profession she'd loved for decades. Instead, she chose to take a public stand. In a letter addressed to the parents of her students, she had declared, "I think it will do less harm to the children to see me standing up for what I believe to be true, than to see me run away." Anne Hale was about to find out if the town of Wayland agreed with that conclusion. . More: http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2016/02/04/how-red-scare-destroyed-small-town-teacher/OyzaMTrsxMsx54liP1YX9I/story.html?s_campaign=8315 Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math Citi® Double Cash Card Earn Cash Back Twice on Purchases Earn 1% When You Buy, 1% As You Pay http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/56b7b57ab410935791e59st02duc _ 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
[Marxism] Two films
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. * This weekend I dropped in on the World Community Film Festival in Courtenay, BC. http://www.worldcommunity.ca/film-festival/ I saw How to Change the World, a documentary on Greepeace. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4144504/ I am happy to recommend this film. In one way it is a period piece. At the time, it was not regarded as odd that a boat would set out on a protest voyage carrying only men. And the decision making, if we can call it that, was based on forceful and charismatic individuals, with little process to allow a voice for all. This is not to take away from their remarkable achievements. My partner saw Nefertiti's Daughters. Based on her account I would recommend it. "Nefertiti's Daughters is a story of women, art and revolution. Told by prominent Egyptian artists, this documentary witnesses the critical role revolutionary street art played during the Egyptian uprisings." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3909458/ ken h _ 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
Re: [Marxism] Mike Alewitz on Bernie Sanders
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. * "But that Sanders poses as a socialist and projects a sort of crude and erratic class divide -- in the context of the US Presidential Game Show : that has to be very significant. That has to be a plus because, despite what ever his preferences, Sanders unleashes and inspires forces that may later find him,and his party allegiance, wanting. What happens 'if'/when he backs Clinton? Where does that momentum and frustration go? It won't default to a bunch of wannabe 'we-told-you-so' outfits who did not go through the Sanders experience with them. It will instead be demoralised. And the promise fades because the 'real' socialists could not harness it." I would say, Dave, that your points are really an argument that would give many leftists in the U.S. a justification to support Sanders, much like a similar argument made it palatable for otherwise skeptical people of color--and some leftists--to support Obama in 2008 (and only less so in 2012). I believe that what is remarkable about this "up-ante'd" posing of a "socialist" running for a capitalist party is NOT that it "unleashes and inspires forces that may later find him . . . wanting" (THAT is the trap), but the reason behind this event; namely that the economic crisis created by the capitalists and the political bankruptcy of their TWIN parties has resulted in growing disaffection with capitalism and openness (openly so) to ideas that are both truly socialist and the phony "socialism" propounded by Sanders and, now, some of those "wannabe" outfits trying to ride the coattails of this "Sanders experience". It is indeed remarkable that there are more people looking to socialist ideas. But that yearning for socialist ideas is an argument actually to BE socialist, to Explain socialism for what it truly IS and for veritable socialists engage larger numbers of interested youth and the oppressed that "crude and erratic class divide" by showing WHERE that divide actually is, between the interests of the working and oppressed masses and that of the liberal wing of the ruling classes on the one hand and, as well, against the pessimism and frustration emanating from the disaffected privileged and reactionary elements among the classes that represent the fascist alternative. Now is the time to be clear ("patiently explain") about the lessons and devastating results inherent in what has up to now only been an esoteric notion (for the masses) of "lesser-evil politics". Now is the time to present truly anti-capitalist, "socialist", or independent-of-the-capitalist-parties alternative to the Twin Pillars of Continued War, Repression, Environmental Devastation, and Economic Disaster that are the Democratic and Republican Parties. Supporting a (supposed) radical to "build a people's movement" within the capitalist parties is exactly the wrong thing to do and does nothing to "unleash and inspire" social forces that have already become inspired and already at least partially unleashed by their/our own reaction to the ongoing capitalist drive toward barbarism. It is not Sanders that unleashing or inspiring anything, but only reflecting the very real potential for actually building a "people's movement" and "political revolution" against the capitalist parties an d their failed policies. Indeed, the liberal capitalists may not have seen the potential for drawing the masses back into their lesser-evil trap, but it is plainly clear that supporting that attraction is likely a great opportunity for creating that very "demoralisation" that would come of the Sanders campaign and--to be very clear--even his potential victory if it comes to that! A Sanders presidency would do the same for all the working masses that the Obama victory did for the Black and Brown communities, a descendant spiral into continued and acquiescent misery at the hands of our murderous rulers with a "socialist" at the helm. Rather than building momentum for change we would see more economic devastation, more suppression of democratic rights, and continued war and militarization of communities with effect that even "radicals" would be giving such outcomes their tacit endorsement at worst or weakened credibility in trying to counter it at best. The masses may actually learn from such an experience, but they will be doing so with an even more moribund "revolutionary" current flailing away in the wake of the demoralising "flood" that entrapped the "socialists" to bring Sanders to power. And, such an outcome would be the result of a "victory" and not the more likely "defeat" of the Sanders campaign to run capitalism for the cap
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Why the Syria talks remind me of the Oslo process - Al Jazeera English
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. * This is about what I was thinking too, except that my point of comparison was to the Paris peace talks between the US (+ puppets) and the Vietnamese. Not only did they not obtain anything useful (even after agreeing on the shape of the negotiating table) but most of the US bombing and destruction of the country (and a couple of neighboring countries) occurred after formal "peace negotiations" had begun. Eventually the Vietnamese won anyway, but that probably would not have been possible without great material assistance from the Soviet Union, as well as widespread international solidarity. Both of which are mainly lacking for the Syrians :-( - Jeff At 10:09 07-02-16 -0500, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: > >full: >http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/01/syria-talks-remind-oslo-pr ocess-geneva-palestine-160131120716373.html > > _ 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
[Marxism] Michelle Alexander on Hillary/Bill's mass incarceration record
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[Marxism] Hillary Battles Bernie Sanders, Chick Magnet
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'll be voting Green but I loved this op-ed piece.) NY Times Op-Ed, Feb. 7 2016 Hillary Battles Bernie Sanders, Chick Magnet by Maureen Dowd MANCHESTER, N.H. — HILLARY CLINTON first grabbed the national spotlight 47 years ago as an idealistic young feminist, chiding the paternalistic establishment in her Wellesley commencement speech. So it’s passing strange to watch her here, getting rebuffed by young women who believe that she lacks idealism, that she overplays her feminist hand and that she is the paternalistic establishment. Bernie Sanders may be a dead ringer for Larry David, but Hillary is running the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” campaign. She can’t fire up young voters by dwelling on what can’t be done in Washington and by explaining that she’s more prose than poetry. She’s traveling around New Hampshire with a former president who could easily layer in some poetry, and a handful of specific snappy plans for the future, to her thicket of substance and stack of white papers. But somehow, Hill and Bill campaign side by side without achieving synergy. Is it that he’s as tired as he looks or does she feel too competitive with him to ask for that kind of help? As one Hillary booster in Hollywood marveled: “There’s no chance her husband doesn’t understand the problem. The look on his face during her speeches evokes a retired major league All Star watching his son strike out in a Little League game. This is so fixable.” Hillary is like a veteran actor who doesn’t audition well. Bill could tell her not to shout her way through rallies, that it doesn’t convey passion but just seems forced, adding to her authenticity problem. Her allies think mentioning her shouting is sexist, and sexism does swirl around Hillary, but her campaign cries sexism too often. In 2008, Barack Obama used race sparingly. Even after all this time watching Bill and Barry, she still has not learned the art of seduction on stage. She’s surrounded by former Obama and Bill Clinton strategists, but they are not helping her achieve “the goose bump experience,” as Lily Tomlin called it. Hillary has ceded the inspirational lane to the slick Marco Rubio, who’s more like the new John Edwards than the new Obama. In the MSNBC debate on Thursday night, Hillary huffily said she could not be an exemplar of the establishment, as Sanders suggested, because she’s “a woman running to be the first woman president.” But she is establishment. So is Nancy Pelosi. So was Eleanor Roosevelt. Hillary must learn to embrace that and make it work for her, not deny it. As a woman, as a former first lady, senator and secretary of state, she’s uniquely equipped to deliver a big, inspiring message with a showstopping speech that goes beyond income inequality, that sweeps up broader themes of intolerance, fusing the economic, cultural and international issues at stake. She could, as one talented political speechwriter riffed, say something like this: “We’re a stronger country when more people have higher incomes; when women get paid the same as men; when we draw on the diverse talents of immigrants; when we show the world that America is a place that embraces all religions, that offers refuge to the persecuted and the terrorized. When a few old rich white men are the only ones who succeed, that’s not just unfair, it’s untenable.” Hillary’s most poignant moment came during the CNN town hall on Wednesday night when she said that, as a young woman, she had never expected to run for president herself, given that her husband was “a natural.” It was her misfortune in 2008 to run into another natural. She was not “likable enough” that year. But it was at least fathomable. She was running against the Tulip Craze Barack Obama. Now she’s running against a grumpy gramps, a stooped socialist with a narrow message, brusque manner and shaky grasp of world affairs. But the Clintons are still leveling the same charges, that her opponent’s stances are fairy tales and that his idealism masks tough tactics. And she’s still not likable enough for the young women who were supposed to carry her forward as a Joan of Arc. According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll, Sanders won among young men and women in Iowa by 70 points. And in New Hampshire, going into the weekend, polls showed him leading with women, racking up yawning margins with women under 45 and with both sexes under 30. Lyndon Johnson said that the two things that make politicians more stupid than anything else are sex and envy. With Hillary, there are three things: sex, money and the need for secrecy. She was in on sliming
[Marxism] Fwd: Why the Syria talks remind me of the Oslo process - Al Jazeera English
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[Marxism] Fwd: Russia in Crisis: the Agonies of the Oil Empire | LeftEast
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. * In the attempt to maintain the existing balance of forces, the regime must revisit their foreign policy of the past two years, including the war that is still dragging on in Ukraine, conflict with the west and the developing military engagement in Syria. Moscow is already taking active steps toward the removal of US and EU sanctions. For the first time since the moment that Russia annexed Crimea, direct negotiations over the fate of Donbas began in Kiev in between Ukrainian president Poroshenko and Russian representative Boris Gryzlov (a member of Putin’s inner circle of “friends”). This meeting was followed by an hours-long consultation between the Kremlin’s main “facilitator” of Ukrainian affairs and Assistant US Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. The repeal of the sanctions is necessary for the Russian government, among other reasons to enable large-scale foreign loans to augment depleted national financial resources. Dependence on oil prices could soon be completely replaced by another dependency—this time on international creditors. All of this means that Russia is on the threshold of serious changes, which in the short term indicate an end to “Putinism” as a system—at least as we have known it during these “fat” years. full: http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/russia-in-crisis-the-agonies-of-the-oil-empire/ _ 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
[Marxism] Fwd: Syrian Kurds begin diplomatic push with Moscow office - Yahoo News
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[Marxism] Walter Benjamin, Blanqui and the Politics of the Apocalypse
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. * Doug Greene on "Walter Benjamin, Blanqui and the Politics of the Apocalypse" at the Center for Marxist Education, Cambridge, MA on 2/6/2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQpyUjJAo-s Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math Fast, Secure, NetZero 4G Mobile Broadband. Try it. http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=NZINTISP0512T4GOUT2 _ 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
[Marxism] Comment on the fascist blitzkrieg in Aleppo
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. * Sam Charles Hamad https://www.facebook.com/sam.c.hamad/posts/1110201289013482?fref=nf&pnref=story This is a very deliberate and systematic plan of ethnic cleansing by the regime in Free Aleppo, as we've been seeing with other parts of Syria for years. It'll involve the physical extermination of parts of the populace, but it'll mainly involve the displacement of large amounts of civilians - these refugees that are cast into a merciless exile. It's part of a genocide. There's a deliberate effort here to depopulate areas of liberated Syria. A rump state that exists on an almost solely communitarian and sectarian basis, propped up by imperialist Russia and Iran, with all the racist and sectarian elements that determine imperialism in general and this imperialism in particular, dependent on foreign Shia jihadists who have no affinity with Syria, can only depopulate the areas that revolted against it. It makes potential governance easier, while it sucks away the base of the rebellion, both in terms of manpower and for other 'human resources', so to speak. This is structural too - it's why Russia and the regime have targeted hospitals and other civil structures. Dismantling the infrastructure of liberated areas. Drain the lifeblood of the revolution. There are now literally no functioning hospitals in North Aleppo, all have been destroyed by the regime and, latterly with much more vicious precision, Russia. It's also worth noting that when one talks of 'Free Aleppo', they're not just using rhetoric. A culture has developed in areas of liberated Aleppo that, despite being under the constant threat of death from above, would have been unthinkable in Baathist Syria. The regime's apparatuses of extermination, the feared security forces responsible for those Holocaust-esque photos of thousands of Syrians tortured and beaten to death leaked by 'Caesar', will begin to operate in those areas, buoyed as they were very early on in the revolution by Iranian intelligence capabilities, and now also by Russian ones. The destruction of Free Aleppo, if it is allowed to occur, will be remembered in years maybe decades to come as something between Stalingrad and the sack of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258. Those whose worldview is narrow and conservative, such as most of the left and the right, will snigger and sneer at comments such as this, at the travails of brown people in far away places that don't feature in the 'worthy victims' part of their ideological dichotomy, but all those who've followed the fate of the Syrian revolution through all its trying, testing contradictions without caving to craven indifference, savage support for counter-revolution or conservative isolationism determined so obviously by racism, will know it to be true _ 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
[Marxism] Memo to the Australian Tax Office: You offshoring jobs is the same as business offshoring profits
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. * Memo to the Australian Tax Office: You offshoring jobs is the same as business offshoring profits Saving money, the driver for cutting the ATO staff by 20%, is also the driver of big business tax avoidance. Business tax avoidance is systemic. It requires a systemic response, not Tax Office staff cuts. http://enpassant.com.au/2016/02/07/memo-to-the-australian-tax-office-offshoring-jobs-is-the-same-as-offshoring-profits/ _ 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
Re: [Marxism] Mike Alewitz on Bernie Sanders
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. * Manuel Barrera writes: "Heatwaves rising from the desert always seem like an oasis.' ..only if you think that the Sanders phenomenon has no cause in real angst and suffering. It is a symptom of the everyday experience of millions -- most of whom would not be able to make the transition, on their own, to relating to another alternative left voice. If Sanders had remained an 'independent' -- of course that may indeed be a different challenge with an easier tactical passage. But inside the DEMs...!? That's your problem, stateside. But that Sanders poses as a socialist and projects a sort of crude and erratic class divide -- in the context of the US Presidential Game Show : that has to be very significant. That has to be a plus because, despite what ever his preferences, Sanders unleashes and inspires forces that may later find him,and his party allegiance, wanting. What happens 'if'/when he backs Clinton? Where does that momentum and frustration go? It won't default to a bunch of wannabe 'we-told-you-so' outfits who did not go through the Sanders experience with them. It will instead be demoralised. And the promise fades because the 'real' socialists could not harness it. dave riley _ 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