[Marxism] New Zealand: neo-colony or junior imperialist

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One of the main dividing lines on the NZ left. . .
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[Marxism] Fortress Europe - anti-migrant, anti-worker

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[Marxism] California Prosecutor Called Maxine Waters a ‘Loud Mouthed C-Word in the Ghetto.’ His New Boss Calls it ‘Salty’ Language

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[Marxism] Ralph Nader: The Democrats Are Unable to Defend the U.S. from the “Most Vicious” Republican Party in History

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JON SCHWARZ: I’m interested in the history of the Democrats caving, 
being more and more willing to do whatever the right wants, for the past 
40 years. Take the recent stories about Jared Kushner. Whatever the 
ultimate underlying reality there, I think it’s fair to say that if a 
Democratic president had appointed their son-in-law to hold a position 
of tremendous power in the White House – if Hillary Clinton had 
appointed Chelsea’s husband Marc Mezvinsky – and stories had come out in 
the Washington Post and New York Times about him trying to set up a back 
channel with Russia, he would have been out the door before the day was 
over.


RALPH NADER: Do you want me to go through the history of the decline and 
decadence of the Democratic Party? I’m going to give you millstones 
around the Democratic Party neck that are milestones.


The first big one was in 1979. Tony Coelho, who was a congressman from 
California, and who ran the House Democratic Campaign treasure chest, 
convinced the Democrats that they should bid for corporate money, 
corporate PACs, that they could raise a lot of money. Why leave it up to 
Republicans and simply rely on the dwindling labor union base for money, 
when you had a huge honeypot in the corporate area?


And they did. And I could see the difference almost immediately. First 
of all, they lost the election to Reagan. And then they started getting 
weaker in the Congress. At that time, 1980, some of our big allies were 
defeated in the so-called Reagan landslide against Carter, we lost 
Senator [Gaylord] Nelson, Senator [Warren] Magnuson, Senator [Frank] 
Church. We had more trouble getting congressional hearings investigating 
corporate malfeasance by the Democrat [congressional committee] chairs. 
When the Democrats regained the White House [in 1992] you could see the 
difference in appointments to regulatory agencies, the difficulty in 
getting them to upgrade health and safety regulations.


The second millstone is that they didn’t know how to deal with Reagan. 
And the Republicans took note. That means a soft tone, smiling … You can 
say terrible things and do terrible things as long as you have [that] 
type of presentation.


[Democrats] were still thinking Republican conservatives were dull, 
stupid, and humorless. They didn’t adjust.



full: 
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[Marxism] Trump Is Mentally Unwell — and Everyone Around Him Knows It

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[Marxism] Washington Monthly | The Socialist Network

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There’s no denying that much of what today’s socialists are demanding 
fits within the liberal tradition of a Ted Kennedy or Paul Wellstone. 
Advocating something like single-payer health care, but calling yourself 
a socialist, can look like mere positioning. In fact, the socialist 
writers I spoke with didn’t really have a problem with that. “Part of it 
is just a rhetorical claim,” said Ryan Cooper, an opinion writer at the 
Week who identifies as a democratic socialist. He said that the core 
aspects of his political agenda are creating a “complete welfare state” 
and reducing inequality by democratizing ownership of capital. Why use a 
term as loaded as socialism to describe those ideals? “The point is to 
say, ‘Here’s a left,’ in a way that just could not possibly be co-opted 
by Andrew Cuomo types.”


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https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/july-august-2018/the-socialist-network/

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[Marxism] Mike Pence not invited to 'big LGBT party' held outside his house | The Independent

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Re: [Marxism] California Prosecutor Called Maxine Waters a ‘Loud Mouthed C-Word in the Ghetto.’ His New Boss Calls it ‘Salty’ Language

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Shaun King, the black rights activist, sent this out through his
organization earlier. There are some e-mail addresses to send complaints. I
sent an e-mail.

Amith,

Today I need you to take a few important action steps, OK?

As you already know, prosecutors and district attorneys are the gatekeepers
of America’s criminal justice system. No single person plays a larger role
in the machine of mass incarceration. That’s why when we see a bad actor in
this system, we have to call them out.

Today — that man is Deputy District Attorney Michael Selyem of San
Bernardino, California. He basically runs the huge DA’s office there and
prosecutes more people than anyone else in the county.

Let me tell you what he recently posted about Rep. Maxine Waters on social
media. I apologize in advance for the vulgarity.

He said:

*“Being a loud-mouthed cunt in the ghetto you would think someone would
have shot this bitch by now.”*

Yeah. He said that. To be clear, he doesn’t even deny it. He has a long
history of being deeply bigoted and offensive online. Those are his actual
words.

And this man is expected to give equal and fair justice to all? To women?
To communities of color? That’s impossible. Any man who not only thinks
like that, but is bold enough to share it publicly, is a danger to us all.

He should’ve been fired immediately! PERIOD.

No man who thinks and speaks like this needs to be a prosecutor of justice
in this country.

So here’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to let the DA’s office know
how we feel.

   1. Call them now @: (909) 382–3800 & (909) 382–7755. Ask to speak to a
   supervisor or HR or a manager. And let them know, in your own words, how
   you feel about this. Leave a voice mail message if you have to, but try to
   speak to an actual person. Be courteous, but be clear about how you feel.

   2. Email current District Attorney Mike Ramos @ mra...@sbcda.org and let
   him know how you feel.

   3. Email the new incoming District Attorney Jason Anderson *by filling
   out this form.*
    His
   motto when he ran for office was “public safety, not politics.” Let’s hold
   him to that.

   4. Email Chief Deputy District Attorney Julie Peterson @
   jpeter...@sbcda.org and let her know how you feel.

Let’s start there and give this a few days.

If any employee of a mainstream corporation said this, they’d already be
fired. Public employees, particularly ones who hold life and death in their
hands with the justice system, should be held to an even higher standard.

Let’s go!

— Shaun

PS: if you want to help us keep fighting back against corrupt DAs all
across the country, *chip in to support our work at Real Justice here.
 *Your
contribution will help us elect reform-minded prosecutors who are committed
to using the powers of their office to promote public safety, achieve
justice, fight structural racism, and defend our communities from abuse by
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[Marxism] I Am Not A Man

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I Am Not A Man
by Harold Norse

I am not a man. I can’t earn a living, buy new things for my family. I 
have acne and a small peter.


I am not a man. I don’t like football, boxing and cars. I like to 
express my feelings. I even like to put my arm around my friend’s shoulder.


I am not a man. I won’t play the role assigned to me – the role created 
by Madison Avenue, Playboy, Hollywood and Oliver Cromwell. Television 
does not dictate my behavior.


I am not a man. Once when I shot a squirrel I swore that I would never 
kill again. I gave up meat. The sight of blood makes me sick. I like 
flowers.


I am not a man. I went to prison for resisting the draft. I do not fight 
when real men beat me up and call me queer. I dislike violence


I am not a man. I have never raped a woman. I don’t hate blacks. I don’t 
get emotional when the flag is waved. I do not think I should love 
America or leave it. I think I should laugh at it.


I am not a man. I have never had the clap.

I am not a man. Playboy is not my favorite magazine.

I am not a man. I cry when I’m unhappy.

I am not a man. I do not feel superior to women.

I am not a man. I don’t wear a jockstrap.

I am not a man. I write poetry.

I am not a man. I meditate on Peace and Love.

I am not a man. I don’t want to destroy you.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Norse

Born Harold Rosen to an unmarried Lithuanian Jewish immigrant in 
Brooklyn. In the early 1950s, he came up with the new last name, Norse, 
by rearranging the letters in Rosen.


He received his B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1938, where he edited the 
literary magazine. Norse met Chester Kallman in 1938, and then became a 
part of W. H. Auden's "inner circle" when Auden moved to the U.S. in 
1939. (Kallman and Auden later became lifelong partners.) However, Norse 
soon found himself allied with William Carlos Williams, who rated Norse 
the 'best poet of [his] generation.' Norse broke with traditional verse 
forms and embraced a more direct, conversational language. Soon Norse 
was publishing in Poetry, The Saturday Review and The Paris Review. He 
got his master's degree in literature from New York University in 1951. 
His first book of poems, The Undersea Mountain, was published in 1953.


From 1954-59 Norse lived and wrote in Italy. He penned the experimental 
cut-up novel Beat Hotel[6] in 1960 while living in Paris with William S. 
Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso from 1959 to 1963. He 
traveled to Tangier, where he stayed with Jane and Paul Bowles. 
Returning to America in 1968, Norse arrived in Venice, California, near 
Charles Bukowski. He moved to San Francisco in 1972 and lived in the 
Mission District of San Francisco for the last 35 years of his life.


Memoirs of a Bastard Angel traces Norse's life and literary career with 
Auden, Christopher Isherwood, E. E. Cummings, Tennessee Williams, 
William Carlos Williams, James Baldwin, Dylan Thomas, William Burroughs, 
Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Paul Bowles, Charles Bukowski, 
Robert Graves and Anaïs Nin. With Carnivorous Saint: Gay Poems 1941-1976 
Norse became a leading gay liberation poet. His collected poems, In the 
Hub of the Fiery Force, appeared in 2003.


Norse is a two-time NEA grant recipient, and National Poetry Association 
award winner.


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[Marxism] Fighting Words : Democracy Journal

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What’s in a name? Franklin Delano Roosevelt called himself a Christian, 
a Democrat, and a liberal. He did not call himself a democratic 
socialist, or any other kind of socialist. He was, in fact, no socialist 
at all. Nor was he a conservative or a reactionary, although many on the 
socialist and communist left charged that he was—including the Communist 
Party USA, which attacked his New Deal for a time (until Moscow’s 
political line changed) as American “masked fascization.”


The only Americans who considered Franklin Roosevelt a socialist were 
right-wing Republicans. “The New Deal is now undisguised state 
socialism,” Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio declared in 1934. “Roosevelt 
is a socialist, not a Democrat,” Congressman Robert Rich of Pennsylvania 
announced on the House floor a year later. Roosevelt scoffed at such 
talk, but in 1939 he paused to present a very concise political 
dictionary of his own. “A radical,” he told the New York Herald Tribune, 
“is a man with both feet firmly planted—in the air.” A conservative, he 
continued, “never learned to walk forward”; a reactionary walked 
backward in his sleep. A liberal, though, used legs and hands “at the 
behest—at the command—of his head.” The metaphor was poignant coming 
from him, but it also emphasized his point: In the face of all 
adversity, he was every inch a liberal.


In the 1936 election, FDR masterfully ran as an unabashed liberal and at 
the same time completely outmaneuvered the left and would-be populists 
like Louisiana Governor Huey Long, who, before his assassination, 
planned to challenge Roosevelt in the campaign on a “Share Our Wealth” 
platform. As Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks related in It Didn’t 
Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States, the Great 
Depression “presented American radicals with their greatest opportunity 
to build a third party since World War I.” But Roosevelt’s New Deal, in 
its improvisational way, offered a triumphant liberal alternative.


The election of 2016 showed how confused these old labels and 
distinctions have become. The socialist senator Bernie Sanders, for 
example, rallying his supporters with a speech at Georgetown University 
in November 2015, offered a surprising definition of socialism, which 
consisted of a paean to FDR and the social protections ushered in by the 
New Deal. “Almost everything he proposed, almost every program, every 
idea, was called socialist,” Sanders said—as if the right-wing 
name-calling was the rightful definition.


Somewhere the ghost of FDR burst out laughing, while the ghost of one of 
Sanders’s other heroes, Eugene V. Debs, scratched his head.


In a piece about that speech for The New Yorker, Jedediah Purdy remarked 
smartly on how Sanders, while waving the socialist banner and 
proclaiming a political revolution, consistently and conveniently 
“defined his position from the right flank of history.” That the 
economic royalists of the 1930s and their defenders called FDR a 
socialist evidently made it so. Never mind that the socialist leader 
Norman Thomas, when asked whether Roosevelt had carried out the 
Socialist Party platform, famously quipped that he had not, “unless he 
carried it out on a stretcher.”


full: https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/48/fighting-words/
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[Marxism] UBC student uses satellite images to track suspected Chinese re-education centres where Uyghurs imprisoned

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He is looking for re-education camps in Xinjiang, the Chinese region where, 
scholars estimate, hundreds of thousands of mainly Muslim people have been 
forced to undergo political indoctrination. What Mr. Zhang has found has given 
the Chinese-born University of British Columbia law student, 28, an important 
role in documenting a system that Chinese authorities call “vocational skills 
training,” but critics liken to military prisons.
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[Marxism] Newly Unearthed FBI File Exposes Targeting of Folk Singer Dave Van Ronk

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[Marxism] The Con of Diversity

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Chris Hedges interviews Glen Ford of BAR, who puts forward arguments 
about "diversity" that are identical to those made by Walter Benn 
Michaels and Adolph Reed. It reminds me a bit of how the two also 
support Assad because Nicholas Kristof opposes him. "Diversity" is a 
byproduct of the struggle against racial exclusion. When you attack 
Harvard's decision to use preferential admissions for Black and Latino 
students, you help strengthen the momentum to keep Black and Latino 
workers at the low end of industrial jobs.


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Re: [Marxism] [pen-l] Paul Gildig on the "stupid" socialist climate change strategy

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Yes, I realized that mismatch after I'd sent it, but it doesn't change 
the nature of my problems with what Gilding advocates. It reads like a 
snatch of Greenpeace literature,  or the no-growth strategies concocted 
years ago in Rome and promptly forgotten. He can avoid the issue of 
growth under capitalism but that doesn't improve on his course of 
action. I repeat: how under conditions of exploitation of wage labor to 
make adequate return - profitability - on investments in order to 
expand, as an absolute imperative which is the sine qua non and essence 
of capitalism, can anyone seriously envision any substantial change in 
the basic conditions under which capitalism must operate? What 
capitalist personification is going to have the latitude extended by 
corporate shareholders to so weaken the firm's competitive position?


Cooperative production of alternate forms of energy is already in the 
hopper for environmental planners. But in an economic system built from 
top to bottom on high energy consumption, with places like India and 
China and Iran and Turkey in addition to the usual players moving ass 
over teakettle to put two cars in every garage and on pain of survival 
increase share of market in an endless array of goods requiring high 
amounts of energy, with no overall global government oversight and 
planning for parity, how can you turn the gigantic liner around before 
it hits the iceberg - short of fundamental systemic change? And I'll 
add, from the bottom up, not top-down, or forgeddit. And how envision a 
"partial collapse" of capitalism under these imperatives? Of course I 
agree that the shortest route is the only route, and I take your meaning 
and I certainly share your sense of urgency. Someone has to point out 
the serious questions raised with the adequacy of the map on which the 
proposed shorter route is being charted.


On 7/9/2018 6:25 AM, ehr...@marx.economics.utah.edu wrote:

Ralph, you misrepresent what Terrence McNally in Alternet
says about Paul Gilding:


[Paul Gilding] apparently sees the climate crisis as an
"unmatched business opportunity," consistent with growth
with an "ethic of sustainability."

This sounds like a straight capitalist approach, while the
full quote, which you supply in the same email, says:


Coming decades will see loss, suffering and conflict, but
[Paul Gilding] believes the crisis offers us both an
unmatched business opportunity as old industries collapse
to be replaced by new ones, and a chance to replace our
addiction to growth with an ethic of sustainability."

(1) It is an unmatched business opportunity after a partial
COLLAPSE of the economy, for those businesses which are now
suppressed (for instance by the continued flood of subsidies
and lack of regulation or enfocement of regulationw of fossil
and nuclear industries.

(2) According to this source, Gilding does not believe that
growth can be CONSISTENT with an ethic of sustainability,
but that growth must be REPLACED by an ethic of
sustainability.

Therefore I hope that other readers were not discouraged to
listen to the interview I recommended, which, I repeat, is at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2z7AiLVwE4=

In my judgment, Gilding is too much of a techno-optimist,
and he is not critical enough of geo-engineering.
But the point which I wanted to make with my email is:

Mixing up the class struggle with the mass movement to
preserve the conditions which keep the living conditions on
this planet so that humans can continue to live comfortably
is a bad strategy.

Gilding came to this conclusion based on his activism
experience at Greenpeace, and based on his systemic
approach.  He applies the rule that one can best survive a
crisis by embracing the changes, and the adaptive cycle, see

https://www.resalliance.org/adaptive-cycle

The crisis which humanity will face is not the end of
everything, but valuable technologies and skills developed
in the old system will be liberated from the rigid
structures trying to preserve the old system and can be put
to work to serve humanity better.  Picking up the pieces and
rearranging them is a more effective approach than
trying to re-start everything from scratch.

Gilding finds it significant that coal companies have lost a
lot of their stock market value recently, i.e. damage to the
environment can also be bad for business.  He uses his
insight into the systemic connections to advise businesses,
so that they know how to produce without doing so much
damage to the environment.  This makes sense to me.  Even
capitalist businesses have a stake in the preservation of a
hospitable climate.  If they produce unsustainably, then
their 

[Marxism] Marx and Engels on Civil War: New Collection - HARD CRACKERS

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[Marxism] The Left is Not a Church | Benjamin Studebaker

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Blog post on divisions in the East Bay DSA between Bread and Roses and 
Unity and Power factions. The author makes Unity and Power look like 
ultraleft madmen.


https://benjaminstudebaker.com/2018/04/28/the-left-is-not-a-church/
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[Marxism] Why Didn’t Socialism Have Over-Production Crises? | Peoples Democracy

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https://peoplesdemocracy.in/2018/0701_pd/why-didn%E2%80%99t-socialism-have-over-production-crises
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[Marxism] Turning to the Working Class

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Interesting Kim Moody interview.

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/07/kim-moody-new-left-working-class-labor-notes
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[Marxism] U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials

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(Glad to see Russia step into the breach on this one.)

NY Times, July 9, 2018
U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials
By Andrew Jacobs

A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved 
quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered 
this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health 
Assembly.


Based on decades of research, the resolution says that mother’s milk is 
healthiest for children and countries should strive to limit the 
inaccurate or misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes.


Then the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant 
formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations.


American officials sought to water down the resolution by removing 
language that called on governments to “protect, promote and support 
breast-feeding” and another passage that called on policymakers to 
restrict the promotion of food products that many experts say can have 
deleterious effects on young children.


When that failed, they turned to threats, according to diplomats and 
government officials who took part in the discussions. Ecuador, which 
had planned to introduce the measure, was the first to find itself in 
the cross hairs.


The Americans were blunt: If Ecuador refused to drop the resolution, 
Washington would unleash punishing trade measures and withdraw crucial 
military aid. The Ecuadorean government quickly acquiesced.


The showdown over the issue was recounted by more than a dozen 
participants from several countries, many of whom requested anonymity 
because they feared retaliation from the United States.


Health advocates scrambled to find another sponsor for the resolution, 
but at least a dozen countries, most of them poor nations in Africa and 
Latin America, backed off, citing fears of retaliation, according to 
officials from Uruguay, Mexico and the United States.


“We were astonished, appalled and also saddened,” said Patti Rundall, 
the policy director of the British advocacy group Baby Milk Action, who 
has attended meetings of the assembly, the decision-making body of the 
World Health Organization, since the late 1980s.


“What happened was tantamount to blackmail, with the U.S. holding the 
world hostage and trying to overturn nearly 40 years of consensus on the 
best way to protect infant and young child health,” she said.


In the end, the Americans’ efforts were mostly unsuccessful. It was the 
Russians who ultimately stepped in to introduce the measure — and the 
Americans did not threaten them.


The State Department declined to respond to questions, saying it could 
not discuss private diplomatic conversations. The Department of Health 
and Human Services, the lead agency in the effort to modify the 
resolution, explained the decision to contest the resolution’s wording 
but said H.H.S. was not involved in threatening Ecuador.


“The resolution as originally drafted placed unnecessary hurdles for 
mothers seeking to provide nutrition to their children,” an H.H.S. 
spokesman said in an email. “We recognize not all women are able to 
breast-feed for a variety of reasons. These women should have the choice 
and access to alternatives for the health of their babies, and not be 
stigmatized for the ways in which they are able to do so.” The spokesman 
asked to remain anonymous in order to speak more freely.


Although lobbyists from the baby food industry attended the meetings in 
Geneva, health advocates said they saw no direct evidence that they 
played a role in Washington’s strong-arm tactics. The $70 billion 
industry, which is dominated by a handful of American and European 
companies, has seen sales flatten in wealthy countries in recent years, 
as more women embrace breast-feeding. Over all, global sales are 
expected to rise by 4 percent in 2018, according to Euromonitor, with 
most of that growth occurring in developing nations.


The intensity of the administration’s opposition to the breast-feeding 
resolution stunned public health officials and foreign diplomats, who 
described it as a marked contrast to the Obama administration, which 
largely supported W.H.O.’s longstanding policy of encouraging 
breast-feeding.


During the deliberations, some American delegates even suggested the 
United States might cut its contribution to the W.H.O., several 
negotiators said. Washington is the single largest contributor to the 
health organization, providing $845 million, or roughly 15 percent of 
its budget, last year.


The confrontation was the latest example of the Trump administration 
siding with corporate interests on numerous 

Re: [Marxism] Why Didn’t Socialism Have Over-Production Crises? | Peoples Democracy

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The Stalinist economies were subject to severe anarchy of production, as has 
been noted by 
all serious economists who studied the Soviet economy, no matter what their 
general point of 
view, provided they weren't hacks. It was manifested in a number of features of 
the economy, 
noted even by the Soviet authorities themselves, and yet repeated over and over 
again, year 
after year. For example, there was -- aside from enterprises fioghting among 
themselves to 
get the resources that they were supposedly entitled to in the plan, and even 
having special 
executives whose job was to conduct this fight  -- dolgostroi ("slow-build"), 
which was the 
phenomenon that it took longer and longer, as the years went on, for Soviet 
construction 
projects to be finished. The planning authorities cried and lamented and beat 
their breasts 
about this year after year, and yet continued to specify plans that put forward 
an unrealizable 
amount of construction. This wasn't a failure in the technical ability to plan, 
or else it would 
have been solved in a few years. Instead it got worse over the years. It 
stemmed from the 
very nature of the economy, and no doubt contributed to the prolonged 
stagnation that the 
Soviet economy eventually fell into.

The difference among serious students of these economies is why did this 
anarchy exist. In 
my view, it's because they were state-capitalist economies, not socialist 
economies and not 
transitional economies. It was a sign the economy was run by a new bourgeoisie, 
and it 
occurred because the individual and small-group interests of the different 
members of the 
ruling bourgeoisie conflicted, and these interests had priority, in the way the 
Soviet economy 
actually worked, over the general interests of the ruling bourgeoisie as a 
whole, to say 
nothing of the economy as a whole or the population as a whole.

See "The anarchy of production under the veneer of Soviet revisioinist 
planning" 
at http://www.communistvoice.org/12cSovAnarchy.html


Louis Proyect wrote:
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> https://peoplesdemocracy.in/2018/0701_pd/why-didn%E2%80%99t-socialism-have-over-production-crises
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[Marxism] A left candidate for City Council in Providence

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Sorry to repeat, was asked to take this down previously by the folks
affiliated with the campaign to accommodate their campaign schedule.

https://rimediacoop.org/2018/07/09/andrew-stewart-justice-gaines/

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https://theintercept.com/2018/07/01/ocasio-cortez-data-suggests-that-gentrifying-neighborhoods-powered-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-victory-over-the-democratic-establishment/
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[Marxism] Starvation in the Ukraine

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This is from another list, a reply to me.  I ask for information from people 
who are better informed than I am.
knhieb...@shaw.ca
ken h


The mass starvation from the drought of 1932-1933 occurred in Ukraine but it 
also in the other parts of the Soviet Union, and it occurred in North America 
too where people died as well.  The ultranationalist Ukrainians dubbed this the 
Holodomor in the late 1970s.  The timing of that name creation occurred not 
coincidentally very soon after a TV series called "Holocaust"  came out and 
many many millions in North America saw a dramatisation of Ukrainian 
ultranationalists joining with the Nazis in the mass murder of Jews and other 
enemies of the Third Reich.  The ultranationalists shared the Nazi hatred of 
Jews and Communists.  These were also the major enemies of Canada and the US as 
well at that time, and of other capitalist countries too of course.

I trust the academic reports i've read that say that around 3.3 million died in 
Ukraine during that drought period.  It was horrendous no doubt.  Millions died 
elsewhere too from the drought but it is not blamed on the Soviet govt in those 
other places.  

The ultranationalist very often TRIPLE the number of deaths to 10 million.  
They have used this exaggerated figure  when competing with the Jewish 
community for public education programs (like when they fought the Human Rights 
museum in Winnipeg which now has a permanent wing on the Holocaust).  

One of the several key reasons that so many died in Ukraine (and yes it was a 
higher percent than elsewhere in the USSR) was because the Ukrainian 
nationalists organised huge programs to sabotage the Soviet land reform/farm 
collectivisation programs that the govt was doing all over the country.  The 
farm land was owned by a very small number of people and the govt thought that 
it would be a more fair system to share the land and the wealth from the land 
(ie food) with many people and this meant taking it away from the few who owned 
it.  Whether this nationalisation was smart, or right or fair or not is another 
question.  

Robert Conquest wrote a huge tome about the Ukraine and the deaths during the 
drought.  He was an extremely right-wing scholar who worked for the IRD a 
British intelligence agency spreading extremely anticommunist propaganda.  He 
wrote about the Ukrainian resistance to the Soviet land reform programs and 
said that the Ukrainians sabotaged the govt program by slaughtering millions of 
their sheep and goat and pigs and other farm animals.  It was a huge percent of 
their farm animals. 80% as i recall. That happened just before the Holodomor.  
One year before?   This was one major factor in the deaths of the Ukrainians 
who sabotaged the govt's collectivisation programs..  This factor is however 
completely ignored and perhaps not even known by ultranationalists like 
Chrystia Freeland, even though it was detailed in Conquest's book and they 
think the world of Robert Conquest because he was so extremely anticommunist.

Minister Freeland co-authored an article about the Holodomor in an 
ultranationalist newspaper (which then and still does rely very  heavily on 
thousands of news stories fed to them by the RFE/RL.  (The RFE/RLstarted as a 
CIA propaganda mill in 1949 with the aid of Nazis from eastern Europe).  
Freeland co-wrote this when she was about 20 in about 1990.  Her article of 
course completely blamed the Soviets for all the deaths from the drought.  She 
quoted Conquest but nothing was mentioned about his data on the sabotage 
programs. Freeland's article concluded on the very same page as an 
advertisement for a book which openly glorified and honoured the Ukrainian 
Waffen SS Galicia as if they were heros of WWII because they fought against the 
Soviet Red Army (who were our allies and thankfully they defeated the Nazis 
largely on their own, which I am grateful to them for).  These "heroes" of 
Freeland's community ie., the Waffen SS Galicia were created, armed, financed 
by the Nazis and led by Himmler. Thousands of them were brought to Canada in 
large part because they promised to oppose the communists in the Ukrainian Cdn 
community.  A third of all the communists in Canada back in the early 1900s 
were Ukrainians and about a third were Jews. These were Canada's main internal 
enemies and we brought in tens of thousands fascist supporters including Nazi 
war veteran to deal with them.  Plus the RCMP helped deal with them too.

We are willing to use Nazis to fight our enemies.  We are arming ukraine, which 
now has a Nazi Battalion.  They are our allies in Russophobia, a mass psychosis 

Re: [Marxism] Starvation in the Ukraine

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On 7/9/18 11:32 AM, Ken Hiebert via Marxism wrote:


This is from another list, a reply to me.  I ask for information from people 
who are better informed than I am.
knhieb...@shaw.ca
ken h




There were a series of exchanges between me and the feckless Grover Furr 
over these matters generated by my review of a narrative film about what 
Ukrainians call the Holodomor.


1. My review: 
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/24/socialism-betrayed-inside-the-ukrainian-holodomor/


2. Furr's attack on it: 
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/03/the-holodomor-and-the-film-bitter-harvest-are-fascist-lies/


3. My reply: 
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/24/what-caused-the-holodomor/


4. Furr's reply: 
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/31/the-ukrainian-famine-only-evidence-can-disclose-the-truth/


I did not reply to #4 because it was so lame.
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[Marxism] Bartender cursed at Stephen Miller as he picked up takeout sushi: Washington Post | TheHill

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Re: [Marxism] Marx and Engels on Civil War: New Collection - HARD CRACKERS (Louis Proyect)

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Very interesting and nice to see CPUSA adapting the Du Bois line of
thinking about the Civil War from BLACK RECONSTRUCTION. Guess Herbert
Aptheker's legacy is bearing some some good bounty.

-- 
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Andrew Stewart


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Re: [Marxism] Marx and Engels on Civil War: New Collection - HARD CRACKERS (Louis Proyect)

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On 7/9/18 1:41 PM, Andrew Stewart via Marxism wrote:


Very interesting and nice to see CPUSA adapting the Du Bois line of
thinking about the Civil War from BLACK RECONSTRUCTION. Guess Herbert
Aptheker's legacy is bearing some some good bounty.



From Andrew Zimmerman, the editor of this book that I ordered today:

For this reason I wholly agree with Johnson that scholars and activists 
should follow Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. I think doing so requires 
developing not just Robinson’s concept of racial capitalism, but also 
his concept of a black radical tradition in a complex dialogue with Marxism.


As Johnson suggests, what Robinson analyzed as the black radical 
tradition offers a more promising perspective than liberal humanism for 
understanding slavery and combatting ongoing racial capitalism. For 
Robinson this tradition was not simply a response to racial capitalism 
or enslavement; it had African roots prior to, and independent of, the 
forms of oppression it combatted. “The Black radical tradition,” he 
wrote, “casts doubt on the extent to which capitalism penetrated and 
re-formed social life and on its ability to create entirely new 
categories of human experience stripped bare of the historical 
consciousness embedded in culture. . . . After all it had been as an 
emergent African people and not as slaves that Black men and women had 
opposed enslavement.” Robinson does not reduce the black radical 
tradition to a static, ahistorical, unitary culture; that is why he 
refers to an “emergent African people” comprised of many different 
cultures and classes and a broad range of cultural and political 
productions, from the social healing practices of Obeah, Vodou, and 
other Afro-Atlantic religions to the writings of contemporary black 
intellectuals.


full: 
http://bostonreview.net/forum/remake-world-slavery-racial-capitalism-and-justice/andrew-zimmerman-when-liberalism-defended

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