[Marxism] on North Korea

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https://theintercept.com/2017/08/09/the-madman-with-nuclear-weapons-is-donald-trump-not-kim-jong-un/



https://theintercept.com/2017/05/03/why-do-north-koreans-hate-us-one-reason-they-remember-the-korean-war/
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[Marxism] Venezuela in Crisis

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We have to be clear from the start about the leading rightwing opposition
force the MUD (Democratic Unity Roundtable) – a cabal headed by Venezuela’s
old ruling families like the Capriles that are currently lynching Chavistas
in the streets and making veiled appeals for a military coup. But it is not
enough to oppose these reactionaries; we have to figure out the best way to
defeat them. Therefore, this is a preliminary attempt to define what a more
successful socialist political movement requires in Latin America.

Elected in 1998, Chavez was a left populist figure. For instance, his first
major social program – the Plan Bolivar


*The immense popularity of Chavez was due to his redistribution of the oil
wealth through programs such as this government subsidized food store
(photo: 2005). A reported 9 million turned out for Chavez’s funeral.*

2000 – mobilized the military to provide food aid, vaccinations, and basic
upgrades in sanitation in many working-class neighborhoods. Chavez’s
policies answered some of the material needs of a population that at that
time had a poverty rate of over 55%, but he did not directly challenge
capitalism as a political economy, nor did he completely cashier them out
of government, despite crafting a new Constitution. However, his programs
and he, himself, were hugely popular, and for good reason.


*Oil Nationalized*In 2001, Chavez began to nationalize the oil industry to
fund everything from public housing to adult literacy programs. It was then
that a concerted effort began on the part of Venezuela’s oil and mining
families, as well as the U.S. state department, to oust him from power.
They failed to remove him in a botched coup in 2002, and open economic
sabotage. It was these events that pushed Chavez to the left. In 2006
formed a new party, the PSUV to help build what he called “21st century
socialism”. By this time, he had already reduced poverty in the country by
at least 25%, and increased the number of doctors in Venezuela to 20,000,
up from just 1600 in 1999.

But the PSUV has not overthrown capitalism. While they have nationalized
the oil industry, and intermittently supported workers co-ops, they have
never moved toward a planned economy and the prerequisite public control of
the commanding heights of the economy and public control of investment. In
effect, the PSUV has been engaged in an 18-year New Deal. They are the
stewards of a messy, ad-hoc subsidization of the Venezuelan working-class
rather than a working-class party in-itself running the economy.

The oil dependency could only have been eliminated through a systematic
plan for the economy, one that was democratically managed and controlled by
the working class itself. But this would have required the complete
overthrow of the “free” market, meaning of capitalism itself. Nothing less,
no half-measures would do. Failing to do this, the regime’s social measures
were dependent on high oil prices.



*Oil Dependency*Chavismo has in fact been entirely dependent on oil revenue
to provide welfare, and here we come to the crux of the current economic
and political crisis. The PSUV is entirely dependent on a healthy global
oil market, including American consumption. Thus, while they present
themselves as a socialist bulwark against American imperialism, the
Chavistas actually pushed Venezuela toward even greater dependence on
global capital. Since world oil prices collapsed in 2013 – and have yet to
recover – the government has had to slash social spending and layoff
thousands of public employees, and reopen the country to greater foreign
investment through Special Economic Zones and prioritizing the repayment of
foreign debt.

It is a powerful example of the impossibility of socialism in a single
country.

There is also the question of whether, because of climate change, workers
themselves won’t be paying back what oil revenues gave them.

There is a related failure of Chavista economic policy that proves, to
quote a recent article

in
Jacobin, “the situation that prevails is not the result of too much
socialism, but too little.” For years the PSUV has maintained a complex
currency exchange system, that in effect allows people to purchase U.S.
dollars from the government below market value. The basic hope was that
through this exchange rate the government could indirectly control prices.
In fact, however, just the opposite has happened: the exchange rate has
allowed massive black markets to develop for nearly every conceivable good,
including food 

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Trump approval rebounds to 45%, surges among Hispanics, union homes, men

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Hispanic is a big category. I wonder which subgroup of Hispanics has
surged.

Erik

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> It's worth noting that the Washington Examiner pretty much occupied the
> position of the Washington Times, the old Moonie Reaganite paper.  The poll
> is from Zogby Analytics, which "provides custom research and insight to
> leaders of businesses and communities, as well as to individuals."
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> I suspect it's a lot less reliable than other sources, though his approval
> rating may have experienced a modest bounce among those who voted for him
> and have since tended to become disaffected.  This is mostly because of his
> verbal pissing contest with Kim Jong un.
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[Marxism] Fwd: White Marxism: A Critique of Jacobin Magazine

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[Marxism] Fwd: IRIN | Black flags over Idlib: The jihadi power grab in northwestern Syria

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[Marxism] From Soviets to Oligarchs:, Inequality and Property in Russia 1905-2016

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In brief, our new findings reveal an extreme level of inequality in Russia and a
persistent concentration of rent-based resources—which are unlikely to be the 
best
recipes for sustainable development and growth. While our results have 
implications
for the growth and convergence prospects of Russia (and more broadly for the 
role of
policies, institutions, and ideology in inequality dynamics), we stress that 
the present
paper is essentially focused on measuring inequality and explaining how the 
various
existing sources can be combined. Our modest objective is to make explicit what 
we
know and do not know about inequality in Russia, and to put Russia’s inequality
trajectory in historical and comparative perspective. More data is required 
before we
can make further progress in interpreting the findings.





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[Marxism] Fwd: Review: Michael Moore, Bragging on Broadway, in ‘The Terms of My Surrender’ - The New York Times

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The show got an awful review. Moore's shtick has grown stale.

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[Marxism] Fwd: Trump approval rebounds to 45%, surges among Hispanics, union homes, men

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[Marxism] Fwd: Meet Kim Jong-un, a Moody Young Man With a Nuclear Arsenal - The New York Times

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Quite informative.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/world/asia/kim-jong-un-north-korea-nuclear.html
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[Marxism] Fwd: From philosophy to psychoanalysis: a classic Freudian move | Aeon Essays

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From 1895 onwards, Freud uncompromisingly rejected the philosophical 
orthodoxy of his day – the twin assumptions of body-mind dualism and the 
equation of mentality with consciousness. In place of the former, he 
argued that our mental processes are processes within a physical organ – 
the human brain – rather than a non-physical mind. This physicalist 
stance was, although not entirely unheard of at the time, certainly bold 
and unusual. Freud also rejected the view that we can investigate the 
mind through introspection, because ‘it follows, from the postulate of 
consciousness providing neither complete nor trustworthy knowledge of 
the neuronal processes that these are … to be regarded as unconscious 
and are to be inferred like other natural things’.


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[Marxism] Eduardo del Río, Political Cartoonist Known as Rius, Dies at 83

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NY Times, August 11 2017
Eduardo del Río, Political Cartoonist Known as Rius, Dies at 83
By SAM ROBERTS

Eduardo del Río in 2010. Credit Hector Vivas/Jam Media, via Getty Images
Eduardo del Río, a self-taught Mexican caricaturist who weaponized his 
pen to mock politicians, imperialism, religion, corruption, consumerism 
and carnivores — getting himself kidnapped and excommunicated and also 
becoming immensely popular in the process — died on Tuesday at his home 
in Tepoztlán, about 50 miles south of Mexico City. He was 83.


His death, from complications of prostate cancer, was announced by Gov. 
Graco Ramírez of Morelos State.


Mr. del Río, a lapsed seminarian who adopted the pen name Rius, drew 
thousands of editorial cartoons. He also published humor magazines and 
more than 100 graphic nonfiction books.


“The only revenge we have as Mexicans,” he often said, “is to laugh at 
the powerful.”


His books, many with provocative titles, included “Marx for Beginners,” 
“The Dictionary of Human Stupidity,” “The True History of Uncle Sam,” 
“100 Proposals to Save What Is Left of Mexico,” “Hitler for Masochists,” 
“The Stomach Is First” and “Would Jesus Christ Have Been Catholic?”


Among his most sarcastic and successful satires were the comic books Los 
Supermachos, which chronicled small-town politics, and Los Agachados 
(The Underdogs or, literally, The Stooped Ones).


He also worked for publications of various political persuasions, among 
them the Mexico City dailies La Jornada and El Universal.


At the newspaper Ovaciones, he told The New York Times in 1979, “I’d 
have to do two or three cartoons each day before the editor would accept 
one that was bland enough.” He lasted 14 months. Ovaciones was one of 
five papers that fired him.


“With the death of Rius,” Mexico’s culture secretary, María Cristina 
García Cepeda, said this week, “a period of political caricature and 
popularization has come to an end.”


Mr. del Río was an early supporter of Fidel Castro’s Cuban revolution, 
but soured on the regime’s repression and corruption. He was a 
card-carrying Communist for seven years until 1968, when he renounced 
his membership to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.


But he reserved his most splenetic rants for the political shenanigans 
and growing materialism he found at home. A society’s degree of 
civilization, he said acerbically, could be measured by the numbers in 
four categories: cars, televisions, heart attacks and cancer patients.


Eduardo Humberto del Río García was born on June 20, 1934, in Zamora, an 
epicenter of conservative Roman Catholicism in southwestern Mexico. 
Before he was six months old, he recalled, his father died after 
squandering what little money the family had on gambling.


His widowed mother moved with her two sons to Mexico City, where Eduardo 
secretly devoured comic books, consumed the classics at a secondhand 
bookstore and completed his secondary school education at a seminary run 
by the Salesian order.


He worked as a messenger and a cashier, sold soap and finally landed a 
job answering phones in a funeral home, where he had plenty of time to 
practice his drawing. (His older brother was a commercial artist.) He 
was recruited by Ja Ja, a humor magazine, after his doodles were noticed 
by a mourner who was familiar with the magazine’s editor.


A self-described Marxist-masochist, Mr. del Río founded the Mexican 
Workers Party’s magazine Popular Insurgency. He Latinized his surname to 
Rius, he said, in case his family considered his irreverent cartoons too 
incendiary.


Indeed, his work was so caustic that it caused him to be kidnapped. 
Grabbed by the police in 1969, he was turned over to soldiers, who, he 
later told The Times, “took me up a mountain and stood me next to an 
open grave.”


He continued: “‘We’re going to kill you now,’ they said. ‘You’re an 
enemy of Mexico.’ ”


He said he was freed only after the soldiers learned that he was related 
to a former Mexican president.


Years later, the publication of his book “The Manual of the Perfect 
Atheist,” in 1980, got him excommunicated from the church, he said, 
because it not only challenged God’s existence but also suggested, as 
one chapter title put it, “the exploitation of Christ by man.”


“I have to thank God, who made me an atheist and the Catholic Church, 
which made me anticlerical,” he told La Jornada.


His “Marx for Beginners” was praised by the political scientist Andrew 
Hacker in The Times Book Review as “a superb little book” peppered with 
“beguiling illustrations.”


His latest book, “Los Presidentes Dan Pena” (“The Pitiful Presidents”), 
published 

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Trump approval rebounds to 45%, surges among Hispanics, union homes, men

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On 8/11/2017 1:15 PM, Erik Toren via Marxism wrote:


Hispanic is a big category. I wonder which subgroup of Hispanics has
surged.

Erik


Public opinion surveys claiming things about Latinos generally would not 
be worth the paper they're printed on if someone printed them. But the 
entire field of public opinion polling is in crisis, for the techniques 
that worked in the 20th Century no longer do. Most of all, people aren't 
cooperating with surveys


But apart from that, Zogby surveys are systematically biased (in a 
statistical sense) due to their design. It is a self-selected population 
skewed towards heavier internet and especially email usage.


Zogby says they're surveying "Likely voters". Likely voters in what 
election? You may say, well, the next one is November 2018 but that is 
wrong. My county board of elections had 12 elections scheduled for the 
current year, one a month. In reality, from among the self-selected 
participants, Zogby is deciding who merits being counted and whose 
answers should be discarded as coming from a member of the great unwashed.


The traditional screens for "likely voter" include questions like do you 
know where your voting place is? Who is running in this election? When 
did you register to vote? Those really only become significant when the 
election is very close.


Zogby did not detail its methodology for this survey, but we know they 
survey by email invitation. A greater proportion of Latinos are Internet 
users but a higher percentage (than among the general population) have 
access mostly or exclusively through smartphone, so they use email less.


Although "Hispanic" is now the largest racial/ethnic minority (that the 
government counts), surveys rarely break out numbers for Latinos, even 
though they do so for Blacks. That's because they have so few Latinos 
that actually respond. The response rate among Latinos is lower than for 
anglos and Blacks even in bilingual phone surveys.


But the truth is the OVERALL response rate is now so low for the 
population as a whole as to call into question the validity of polling, 
period. That's why the largest and most prestigious polling 
organization, Gallup, has stopped doing election polls.


When I first became involved in the field at CNN in 1990, the response 
rate for phone polls was close to 50%. For the last few years it has 
been under 10%, according to Pew. For email-invitation surveys, the 
response rate is even lower.


Zogby says they had 1300 people in their new poll. They do these 
presidential approval surveys frequently and in July they had 856 and in 
June, 1031 and at the end of April 876. This raises the obvious 
question: did the methodology change? Were different numbers of 
invitations to participate sent out? Or did the response rate vary 
wildly, so that half again as many people responded now as three or four 
weeks ago? If so, THAT is probably a more significant data point worth 
exploring than what they think of Trump.


But we don't know because Zogby only says they send out "thousands" of 
emails. Nor do they publish a detailed, question-by-question breakdown 
of results like reputable pollsters do.


And then consider the Latino sub-sample. If they actually got the same 
percentage as among the 2016 voters (10%) that would have been 130 of 
the 1300 total respondents. But my experience tells me it was about 
2/3rds that number, let's say 90. The MoE with that sample is more than 
10%, which means the numbers this survey gives for Latinos are 
meaningless. Even at 130 they're junk (MoE=8.7%). And the previous 
surveys that the new Hispanic number is being compared to was 856, so 
there was no way you could have gotten meaningful percents out of that 
poll.


BTW under representation of a huge problem because it is not just 
Latinos. Experience shows polling respondents systematically under 
represent young people, minorities, and people without a college 
education. So you take your raw results, and then you look at the 
demographics you SHOULD have had, based on, for example, census bureau 
numbers, and weigh the results accordingly. So if you should have had 
120 Blacks but actually only had 100 Blacks respondents, you give a 
"weight" of 1.2 to each Black respondent.


But when it comes to "likely" voters, you define what the target 
universe looks like, how many Blacks, how many high school graduates. 
So, are the demographics those of the 2016 presidential or the 2014 
off-year electorate? If we're talking about the 2020 electorate, who is 
the Democrat? Clinton gives you one electorate, Bernie, a very different 
one.


(This was the big reason Gallup 

[Marxism] Fwd: How Do You Price a Problem Like Korea? - MoneyBeat - WSJ

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(We are doomed.)

"Analysts are trying to work out what happens to the markets they cover 
in the event of an all-out nuclear war"


https://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2017/08/11/how-do-you-price-a-problem-like-korea/
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Re: [Marxism] FW: Korean Crisis Spotlights Trump Agenda

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The author, due to his complicity in transforming a revolutionary
organization (with all its faults) into a political sect which expelled
dissidents and went on to become an absurd cult, has no credibility other
than as a commentator on faraway events.

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> By Barry Sheppard
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Re: [Marxism] FW: Korean Crisis Spotlights Trump Agenda

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Another contribution on Trump's provocations:

North Korea: Stop the American Warmongers!

https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/asia/stop-us-madman-threatening-north-korea/



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The author, due to his complicity in transforming a revolutionary
organization (with all its faults) into a political sect which expelled
dissidents and went on to become an absurd cult, has no credibility other
than as a commentator on faraway events.

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The author is a long-time US Marxist and currently columnist for a number
of international web sites. -- Richard Fidler

By Barry Sheppard



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Re: [Marxism] Trump approval ratings rebound

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This article is based on a poll by Zogby polling. Evidently they do a lot
of their polls via the internet and this makes them unreliable. (Just a few
days ago I saw on CNN that Trump's ratings were down to something like
37%.) See this article on Zogby:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/worst-pollster-in-world-strikes-again/

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[Marxism] ruling class mouthpiece - "The game is over, and North Korea has won" - Foreign Policy Magazine

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The big question is where to go from here. Some of my colleagues still
think the United States might persuade North Korea to abandon, or at least
freeze, its nuclear and missile programs. I am not so sure. I suspect we
might have to settle for trying to reduce tensions so that we live long
enough to figure this problem out. But there is only one way to figure out
who is right: Talk to the North Koreans.


The other options are basically terrible. There is no credible military
option. North Korea has some unknown number of nuclear-armed missiles,
maybe 60, including ones that can reach the United States; do you really
think U.S. strikes could get all of them? That not a single one would
survive to land on Seoul, Tokyo, or New York? Or that U.S. missile defenses
would work *better* than designed, intercepting not most of the missiles
aimed at the United States, but every last one of them? Are you willing to
bet your life on that?

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/09/the-game-is-over-and-north-korea-has-won/
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Trump approval rebounds to 45%, surges among Hispanics, union homes, men

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It's worth noting that the Washington Examiner pretty much occupied the
position of the Washington Times, the old Moonie Reaganite paper.  The poll
is from Zogby Analytics, which "provides custom research and insight to
leaders of businesses and communities, as well as to individuals."
https://zogbyanalytics.com/news/788-trump-approval-at-45-support-among-hispanics-west-and-union-voters-jumps-double-digits

I suspect it's a lot less reliable than other sources, though his approval
rating may have experienced a modest bounce among those who voted for him
and have since tended to become disaffected.  This is mostly because of his
verbal pissing contest with Kim Jong un.

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[Marxism] Fwd: A Taxi Driver | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Opening on August 11th at the AMC Empire 25 in NY and the same day 
nationally, “A Taxi Driver” is a South Korean film based on an important 
event in the country’s history. In 1980, during a rebellion in Gwangju 
against a recent military coup, a German reporter named Jürgen Hinzpeter 
came to South Korea to cover the rebellion but had no way to reach the 
city except by cab since all public transportation had been shut down by 
the military. Even a cab would have trouble getting through since all 
the major roads had been blockaded. It was up to a cab driver named Kim 
Sa-bok to drive the reporter into Gwangju, taking dirt roads to bypass 
the military guards. As a result of Hinzpeter’s film footage of the 
occupying military’s massacre of up to 600 people, the South Korean 
government was perceived worldwide as a bloody dictatorship.


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[Marxism] respectable Negroes can't advise Colin Kaepernick on shit!

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