Re: [Marxism] Liberal jubilation

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Moreover, the same pundits are touting the House election as a vindication of 
their suburban strategy. Whatever chastening effect the 2016 election outcome 
had is long gone SR


> On November 7, 2018 at 6:15 AM Mark Lause via Marxism 
>  wrote:

> 
> What i've found amusing is how many of the pundits and Democratic
> mouthpieces are now talking back the expectations that brought out many of
> those who voted for them.
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[Marxism] On patriarchy/matriarchy

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A sore lack on almost any political discussion list, no less than in the 
culture generally and that includes most of the the left, is that there 
is neither the prominent presence of women in Marxist discussion groups 
(exceptions are rare and certainly no quorum) nor discussion of the 
problem of patriarchy/matriarchy. Discussion of patriarchy/matriarchy, 
and corresponding action, have periodically come and gone as prominent 
issues, but no one really even pretends to have a handle on it, 
especially one that reaches understanding that leads to any path to 
resolution; and lacking a vision of change, that all-important matter 
slips from the glaring view it cries out for. But one thing's sure: talk 
about socialism or preserving what remains of our natural surroundings 
is, as we should know talk, just that, without a massive overturning of 
male dominance. It's recessive and endemic and in major denial. Speaking 
for myself, I certainly have made major mistakes in my life mainly 
stemming from the fact that I was conditioned to the right to "man's 
estate," male dominance in the family and everywhere else as a dog-given 
right. All I've been able to do about that is try to learn what in 
hell's going on. (By the way, rather than use he or she or person or 
they in referring to both genders at once, does anyone use s/he?)


When I think of who among current thinkers that I've read is approaching 
this issue in any systematic, fruitful way a few books occur to me. I 
know there are others, Melinda Cooper and Nancy Fraser come to mind, but 
one I learned much from is Chris Knight's fascinating "Blood Relations" 
and another is Sylvia Frederici's equally fascinating "Caliban and the 
Witch." Both authors are Marxists. Both books are by now probably 
available online. The former book has to do, among other topics, with 
coordination of menstrual cycles and the ancient matriarchal custom and 
mythology built around variations on "no food, no sex," and by 
implication current relevance. The latter tells the story of witches and 
witchcraft; if I could pin it, it's about persecution of uppity or 
protesting women, and the function in nascent capitalism of witch hunts 
and trials and burnings in sustaining and enhancing male dominance and 
corresponding furtherance of the growth of capital accumulation - and 
here too the perduring relevance of that and its extensions. Needless to 
say, they're not getting the attention they deserve, they share relative 
obscurity, and that has to be a function of major denial, which stands 
always in the way of change.


Another, a major 600-page book just published on the history and 
etiology of matriarchy, and an exhaustive survey of the relevant 
literature from the fields of human behavior and archeology, is 
psychoanalyst Mario Rendon's "Why War?" (2018 NY: International 
Psychoanalytic Books). Dr. Rendon, a native of Colombia, had a practice 
for about 40 years in Manhattan, is listed on staff at Albert Einstein 
College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, and 
he was a Fellow and Trustee of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. 
He is now retired and living in Connecticut. I have the privilege of 
having been in a discussion group for the past 6 or 7 years with Mario, 
and we are currently about 400 pages through his book. Dr. Rendon is a 
rare person, unassuming and very reticent about his impressive 
accomplishments. He presented at the Left Forum on Istvan Meszaros. I 
suspect that this book will languish in the prevailing culture as well, 
even more so since it seems to be primarily addressed to the 
male-dominated and decidedly un-Marxist psychoanalytic and psychiatric 
communities. Mario has given me permission to send the url of the online 
galley copyto anyone interested.


From the publisher's blurb:

“Thus God and Nature link’d the gen’ral frame, And bade Self-love and 
Social be the same.”


Pope [i]

The Argument of Pope could be the argument of this book. It is 
remarkable that he wrote it in 1733 foretelling so many modern themes. 
That the total set of interrelations of the universe must include 
society (Hegel), that everything stands in relationship to everything 
else (Darwin), that happiness and love are reciprocal (Freud), that 
reason is a continuation of instinct (Darwin), that instinct produces 
social institutions (Veblen), that patriarchy had a historical origin as 
did religion, and that therefore unlike material imperatives they are 
reversible (Morgan, Meszaros), that governments based on love and those 
based on fear are antipodes (Marx), and that true self-love results in 
public good (Adam 

[Marxism] Three outstanding documentaries | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Under consideration are three outstanding documentaries, two from the 
9th annual NY Documentary Film Festival that opens tomorrow and one 
available on iTunes.


Part of the film festival (Tuesday, Nov 13, 5:15pm and Wednesday, Nov. 
14, 10:15am at the IFC Center), “Patrimonio” documents the struggle of 
fishermen in the small town of Todos Santos in Baja California in Mexico 
in defense of their livelihoods—and thus, their existence—against the 
Black Creek Corporation that was trying to impose a development called 
Tres Santos over the very land they have used for over a century to 
support their families. The centerpiece of the development was a “Green” 
hotel that would appeal to people who read the NY Times Sunday Travel 
section in search of exotic or novel resort areas.


This development threatened their “patrimonio” as one activist fisherman 
puts it. If New York Film Critics Online did not restrict nominations to 
films that have only opened for general theatrical release, this would 
be my choice for best documentary of 2018.


“The Providers” refers to doctors and paramedics working out of a clinic 
in northeastern New Mexico that serves a desperately poor and neglected 
rural population. Seeing three of its staff members on their rounds 
reminds you that some people join the profession out of a love of 
humanity rather than the dollar. It also will be screened as part of the 
festival on Friday, November 9 at 5:30pm at the Cinepolis Chelsea and on 
Monday, November 12 at 12:45pm at the IFC Center.


Finally, on iTunes, is “Resistance at Tule Lake” that tells the 
long-neglected story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who stood up to FDR’s 
mass incarceration during World War II. Condemned as potential traitors, 
they were put into a concentration camp at Tule Lake Segregation Center, 
where they protested the attack on their rights as Americans, whether 
they were citizens or not.


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Re: [Marxism] a protest

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Mark
I would tend to go for the Three Stooges myself.  But the truth is probably
that what the Democrats are most concerned with is any attack on the status
quo. They will move heaven and earth to prevent a broad democratic movement
emerging such as Corbynism in the UK. By that reckoning a narrow victory in
the House and "as you were" in the Senate was all they wanted.

I cannot advise US comrades because I am tucked away down under.  The
formula that Trotksyism taught me was that first the Social Democrats have
to fail before Fascism can gain real purchase. Brazil seems a classic
instance of that.  In Australia the Labor Party is about to take over next
year.  Their failure is almost predestined. By that reckoning we should
have a far right wing upsurge from 2022 on wards, when  I will be entering
my 80s. Oh Joy!

comradely

Gary

On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 12:56 PM Mark Lause  wrote:

> As in 2016, the question is whether Donald Trump is a political genius or
> the Democrats function rather like the Three Stooges trying to build a
> house.  I know which option makes the most sense to me.
>
>
> Of course, now there is no
>
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[Marxism] Midterm elections | Richard Seymour on Patreon

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[Marxism] Democrats Were Not "the Lesser Evil" for the Migrant Caravan

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[Marxism] John Smith on Brexit, the British border in Ireland and the old world order

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"Five months before the March 29 leaving date, talks on how to avoid an
acrimonious and chaotic exit of Britain from the European Union are on a
knife-edge. A ‘hard’ Brexit would be a political and economic earthquake
with global ramifications, but even if an agreement is reached the profound
political crisis gripping Britain is set to deepen, as the ruling
Conservative Party shatters into warring factions and the possibility grows
of its replacement by a Labour Party government led by the avowedly
socialist Jeremy Corbyn.

"Most pundits expect a last-minute deal because this is what. . . "

Full at:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2018/11/07/brexit-another-day-in-the-death-of-the-old-world-order/

John is author of the excellent *Imperialism in the 21st Century*.  See our
interview with him:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/interview-with-john-smith-author-of-imperialism-in-the-twenty-first-century/
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[Marxism] Left journalist Ken Silverstein on the US elections

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Democrats can spin it however they want, they lost. The party that controls
White House traditionally loses big in midterms. Democrats lost 3 seats in
Senate and picked up very modest number, 26 at moment, in House. Yes, the
system is totally broken and voter suppression played a role, but those
results are pathetic given that they were running against Trump and the
rest of the GOP Loony Tunes. This is what defeat tastes like, savor the
ashes. Pelosi and Schumer should go and the party should be put into
bankruptcy and extinguished.
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[Marxism] Turkish aggression against Iraq and Syria

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https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/turkey-launches-new-aggression-against-iraq-and-syria

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[Marxism] Liberal jubilation

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All this jubilation from the Democrats over becoming a majority in the 
House is beside the point. Trump's reactionary regime is not that 
interested in imposing its agenda through legislation. They are mostly 
interested in rescinding previous legislation like Obamacare and 
Dodd-Frank. Except for the tax cuts, what other laws has Trump pushed?


Trump has mostly ruled through appointments. Like reactionary judges. Or 
putting people in charge of the EPA and the Department of the Interior 
hostile to the stated goals of the agency. Just yesterday, the NY Times 
had a big investigative report on how his appointments have led to banks 
and corporations being slapped on the wrist rather than getting the big 
fines originally levied under Obama.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/us/trump-sec-doj-corporate-penalties.html
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[Marxism] America’s halfway house | Michael Roberts Blog

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The mid-term Congressional elections saw a swing to the opposition 
Democrats in the Lower House and the Republicans were ousted as the 
majority party.  This is a blow to President Trump who mounted a 
campaign based on fear of immigrant caravans flooding into the US from 
Latin America and supposed rising crime provoked by the Democrats. This 
line of attack did not work.  But the perceived strong US economy seems 
to have had the effect of consolidating Trump’s position in the Senate. 
There the Republicans gained seats. Losing control of the lower house 
means that any further tax and financial handouts to big business and 
the rich are likely to be curtailed. But as the Republicans increased 
their hold on the Senate,Trump can expect to continue with his wild 
foreign policy outbursts and his ‘trade war’ with China.


Although there are more ‘progressive’, Sanders-type Democrats elected to 
Congress, the Democrat party remains a stalwart supporter of (and funded 
by) Wall Street and big business. As Democrat House leader Nancy Pelosi 
has made clear, “I have to say, we’re capitalist ― and that’s just the 
way it is”. She added that “However, we do think that capitalism is not 
necessarily meeting the needs with the income inequality that we have in 
our country.”  But she says nothing about how to reverse this income 
inequality (let alone wealth inequality).  Even the ‘left wing’ of the 
Democrats as led by Senator Elizabeth Warren, stay firmly in the 
capitalist camp – merely looking for ways to make it “accountable”.


full: 
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2018/11/07/americas-halfway-house/

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[Marxism] Duncan Hunter defeats Ammar Campa-Najjar in California District 50

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Re: [Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Question: Are Catholics persecuted in Vietnam?

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Sorry for overlooking this Chris. The short answer is that I believe the
discourse of "religious persecution" regarding Vietnam is BS, driven by the
desire to catch the attention of right-wing US leaders who love that kind
of stuff.

Many Catholics have indeed been persecuted, as have Buddhists, atheists,
communists (including CPV members), liberals etc - for political
oppositionist activity. That does not prevent the Catholic Church doing all
the things that churches do, nor does it prevent millions around the
country massing into churches,monasteries, cathedrals etc.

There have been some specific disputes between the government and the
Catholic church,but not over religious freedom or "persecution of religious
minorities" (minorities? Catholicism is second only to Buddhism in Vietnam,
and Buddhist leaders, when persecuted for their political activism, are
also likely to raise the "religious freedom" banner). Often land disputes.
When I was there and following more closely, I judged there were instances
where the government was in the wrong (eg, taking the property of a nunnery
here the nuns were engaged in great social activity with the poor, for the
"public interest", but in fact for private looting for the "cadres"), and
some where the church was in the wrong (eg, mass demonstrations in Hanoi to
get land returned that had been nationalised after 1954 like other feudal
land - the actual church buildings were still in use for church purposes,
they just wanted their feudal property restored; and in fact it had been
Buddhist land before the French gave it to the Catholic church; the
government wanted to use the land for a public park).

The Catholic Church is also opposed to Vietnam's widely used legal abortion
laws, and to its leading role east Asia on gay rights and same-sex
marriage,but from what I could see, they tended not to push these ideas too
forcefully or publicly, perhaps understanding they would be too out of step.

There is no religious persecution, but a regime that continues to live so
far in the past in terms of political repression is going to give
ammunition to almost any conceivable charge, as the arbitrariness and
opaqueness makes rational public discussion very difficult.

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 12:51 PM Chris Slee via Marxism <
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:

>
> rac-vic.org/2018/09/07/2pm-sat-22-sept-public-meeting-dont-deport-huyen
>
> The Refugee Action Collective in Melbourne has been campaigning against
> the planned deportation of a Vietnamese woman called Huyen.The
> advertisement includes the following statement:
>
> "Catholic asylum seekers who were returned to Vietnam from Indonesia last
> year were harassed, arrested, and threatened with imprisonment. Government
> led and government sanctioned land confiscations, church burnings, violence
> and threats of torture continue against Catholics and other religious
> minorities in Vietnam."
>
> I was a bit surprised by this.  I don't doubt that there is political
> repression in Vietnam, but I am surprised to hear of a campaign against
> "religious minorities".
>
>
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Re: [Marxism] Liberal jubilation

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What i've found amusing is how many of the pundits and Democratic
mouthpieces are now talking back the expectations that brought out many of
those who voted for them.  They're already yammering about how the parties
have to work together.  And look at all the women elected--who may also be
ex-military and ex-National Security functionaries.  And let's not be
"confrontational" dealing with the the Trumpster fire.
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[Marxism] In Iowa, Pioneering Undergrad Workers Union Keeps Growing | Portside

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Two years ago, 350 dining-hall workers at Grinnell College made history 
when they formed the first union of undergraduate workers at a private 
college. Now hundreds of other student workers on campus are campaigning 
to join then.


Without lawyers or an international union behind them, these young 
workers represented themselves at the National Labor Relations Board, up 
against high-powered “union avoidance” lawyers and university 
administrators—and won. They’re set for a November 27 election.


Grinnell, founded by abolitionists and once a stop on the underground 
railroad, has a reputation for its commitment to social justice. Yet 
this October, Grinnell’s lawyers outrageously claimed that a union would 
“erode the egalitarian nature” of the college, creating a “caste system” 
and turning student workers into “an underclass of serfs.”


full: 
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Re: [Marxism] Sussex Uni professor tweets ?Israelis blew up Twin Towers?

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Dear oh dear. It just goes to prove what I wrote 30 years back, that academic 
qualifications do not prevent men from being charlatans or fools, or both. 

Paul F
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-LatAm]: Triplett on Bayard de Volo, 'Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Castro's Victory'

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Best regards,
Andrew Stewart 

Begin forwarded message:

> From: H-Net Staff 
> Date: November 7, 2018 at 8:30:59 AM EST
> To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org
> Subject: H-Net Review [H-LatAm]:  Triplett on Bayard de Volo, 'Women and the 
> Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Castro's Victory'
> Reply-To: H-Net Staff 
> 
> Lorraine Bayard de Volo.  Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How
> Gender Shaped Castro's Victory.  New York  Cambridge University
> Press, 2018.  xi + 272 pp.  $24.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-63084-6.
> 
> Reviewed by Jennifer Triplett (University of Michigan)
> Published on H-LatAm (November, 2018)
> Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz
> 
> In the final months of 1958, a rag-tag band of bearded men in olive
> fatigues swept across the island of Cuba--bolstered by groundswell of
> popular support along the way--and eventually ousted dictator
> Fulgencio Batista with their superior militarism, grit, and courage.
> At least, this is the official version of the story. During the last
> sixty years, however, scholars from a range of disciplines have
> attempted revisions on what Lorraine Bayard de Volo terms the "Cuban
> War Story," the Cuban state's official narrative of the events (both
> triumphs and failures) of the armed insurrection leading to the
> eventual regime change of January 1, 1959. Bayard de Volo's
> compelling new monograph, _Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How
> Gender Shaped Castro's Victory_, makes an important contribution to
> this revisionist literature by reexamining the Cuban War Story
> through a gendered lens.
> 
> Previous scholarship, such as that of Julia Sweig, has identified
> several key myths that the Cuban War Story perpetuates.[1] Such
> mythology includes Che Guevara's Sierra narrative that privileged the
> rural initiative over the urban one, the importance of 1959 as a
> flashpoint (when, in fact, social revolution had been brewing since
> the Machado dictatorship of the 1930s), and the centrality of Fidel
> Castro. Bayard de Volo's findings corroborate Sweig's, but she
> further identifies two additional facets of the Cuban War Story that
> beg reconsideration: the erasure of women from the panorama of the
> insurrection and the privileging of the tactical aspects of war over
> ideological ones. In her examination of the events spanning from
> before the storming of the Moncada barracks in 1952 to the rebels'
> eventual triumph six years later, Bayard de Volo illuminates the
> ideological aspects of the insurrection--the "battle for hearts and
> minds"--as well as women's involvement in both the military and
> discursive theaters of war. Her gendered reassessment of the Cuban
> War Story allows her to make convincing theoretical claims regarding
> both the importance of ideas in armed conflicts and the role of
> gender as a "tactic" therein.
> 
> The book's organization is an innovative one. It begins in 1952, well
> before many other examinations of the Cuban Revolution, and generally
> follows the course of pivotal events leading up to the rebels'
> eventual triumph over the Batista regime. Bayard de Volo recounts
> episodes such as the botched storming of the Moncada barracks, the
> rebels' time in exile, their 1956 return to Cuba in the landing of
> the _Granma_ yacht, the general strike of April 1958, and the
> creation of an all-women combat platoon just before the conclusion of
> the armed conflict later that year. The empirical detailing of these
> events allows the author to bolster further the case for rejecting
> key mythologies within the Cuban War Story. At the same time,
> however, each chapter makes a theoretical move in support of the
> author's arguments that both ideas and gender matter for
> understanding armed conflict.
> 
> In the second chapter, Bayard de Volo delves into women's historical
> (pre-1950) political participation and mobilization in Cuba, thereby
> contradicting the Cuban War Story myth that the revolution sprang
> forth in 1958 from the efforts of Castro and his comrades. The author
> thus demonstrates that (1) the growing support for a social
> revolution began well before 1958 (or even the 1950s) and (2) women
> were politically active and organized well before Batista's regime
> came to power. In keeping with the idea that the insurrection was
> both an ideological and a military one, the author speaks to both the
> symbolic importance of women's previous mobilization and their
> tactical contributions to rebel efforts. On the discursive side,
> "rebels used narratives of women's contributions in prior conflicts
> to legitimize contemporary women's activism and inspire Cubans more
> generally to 

[Marxism] More, and Worse, Punishment of a Professor Who Followed His Conscience | ACADEME BLOG

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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Midwest]: Jeffers on McDonnell, 'Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America'

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> From: H-Net Staff 
> Date: November 7, 2018 at 11:29:51 AM EST
> To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org
> Subject: H-Net Review [H-Midwest]:  Jeffers on McDonnell, 'Masters of Empire: 
> Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America'
> Reply-To: H-Net Staff 
> 
> Michael A. McDonnell.  Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the
> Making of America.  New York  Hill and Wang, 2015.  Maps. 416 pp.
> $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8090-2953-2.
> 
> Reviewed by Joshua J. Jeffers (Middle Tennessee State University)
> Published on H-Midwest (November, 2018)
> Commissioned by Patrick A. Pospisek
> 
> In this deeply researched and engagingly written narrative, Michael
> A. McDonnell returns the Odawa and their ancestors at Michilimackinac
> to their rightful place in the history of the Great Lakes region. A
> key location for controlling access to the American interior,
> Michilimackinac was the political and cosmological center of
> Anishinaabewaki, the Anishinaabe world. Like recent works looking at
> Shawnee, Dakota, and Mandan history, McDonnell's book situates the
> Odawa at Michilimackinac at the center of their own history, making
> clear that we cannot understand the history of early America without
> comprehending Indian Country on its own terms.[1] Moving beyond a
> history of "mutual dependence between natives and newcomers to think
> about a history ... that emphasizes strength and expansion in the
> midst of empire," McDonnell argues that the Odawa at Michilimackinac
> "helped precipitate critical turning points" that "reverberated
> across the Atlantic and helped alter world history" (pp. 15, 19, 33).
> 
> At the center of a vast network of kinship and trade, the Odawa at
> Michilimackinac wielded enormous influence that extended into
> surrounding Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan peoples. "Though the
> French liked to claim the role of peacemakers and mediators," writes
> McDonnell, it was the Odawa who brokered peace and set the terms for
> European access in the upper Great Lakes (p. 16). Thus, the French
> were in the _pays d'en haut_ "because the Anishinaabeg wanted them
> there" (p. 52). By allowing the French to maintain a post at the
> straits in exchange for generous provisions, presents, and offers of
> alliance, the Odawa purposely drew the French into their networks of
> trade and alliance, and the French came to rely on Indigenous
> connections and expertise "for their very subsistence" (p. 15). Close
> relations with French traders offered the Anishinaabe access to
> French trade goods and enhanced their status in the region. This
> influence along with their strategic location made them integral to
> "a sprawling but indigenous trading system," which enabled them to
> insist on their own terms in dealings with missionaries, traders, and
> colonial officials (p. 27).
> 
> Perhaps the most enduring contribution of _Masters of Empire _is its
> periodization of colonial North America and in particular the
> interpretation of the causes and origins of the Seven Years' War.
> While emphasizing the attack on the Miamis at Pickawillany as the
> opening salvo of the war is not new, McDonnell's reinterpretation of
> the events immediately following that attack, in particular the lack
> of an English response, provides the context for a view from Indian
> Country that offers a new perspective on how "Native Americans in the
> _pays d'en haut _helped trigger and profoundly shape the contests
> that would define the geopolitical landscape of North America" (p.
> 273).[2] While Memeskia (Old Briton, Le Demoiselle) led a group of
> Miamis that was more anti-French than pro-British, the lack of a
> response from the English for this blatant attack on one of its
> Indian allies was interpreted by many Natives living in the Ohio
> Valley-Great Lakes region as both a sign of weakness and evidence
> that the English coveted Native land and sought alliances merely as a
> way to achieve that end. As a result, a wave of anti-British
> sentiment spread across the region. Recognizing this shift in
> attitude, pro-French leaders at Michilimackinac seized the moment to
> argue for an all-out offensive against the English. Raids began as
> early as 1753. Even more significant, however, during the early
> summer of 1754, as George Washington stumbled his way toward the
> annals of history at Jumonville Glen, "some twelve hundred delegates
> from at least sixteen different nations from across the _pays d'en
> haut_" met at Michilimackinac and declared the opening of what
> McDonnell labels the "First Anglo-Indian War" (p. 165). By the
> following 

[Marxism] Capitalist Ju$tice vs. A Socialist World

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Capitalist Ju$tice vs. A Socialist World
By Bonnie Weinstein
“Thinking outside the box” is a popular metaphor that means, “to think 
differently—from a different or new perspective.” It’s meant to encourage 
creative thinking—to find new or different ways to solve problems. 
But when it comes to the rationalization and justification of capitalism by the 
capitalist class, there is no “outside” of the box. 
When it comes to war, the capitalists say, “there has always been war—it’s 
human nature to be war-like.” When it comes to economic inequality they say, 
“there has always been a wealthy minority in power over the masses—the wealthy 
are on top because they are smarter, better, stronger. The poor are poor 
because they are inferior.” 
This is social Darwinism and it is beat into our heads from the time we are 
born. We are taught to believe that this is the way it is, has always been, and 
will always be. It’s what justifies Manifest Destiny, slavery and 
imperialism—the “great white hope” that is meant to “tame and/or slaughter the 
savages” and establish “civilization,”—i.e., white domination by force of 
violence. 
Capitalist Ju$tice is determined by income inequality
You may have noticed that the wealthy rarely go to jail and almost never get 
the death penalty or life without parole—these punishments are for the masses. 
Not for the capitalists.
In an August 31, 2018 New York Times article by Robert H. Frank titled, “How 
Rising Inequality Has Widened the Justice Gap,” the author states:
“Rising inequality has harmed low-income families not only by depriving them of 
a fair share of society’s income growth, but also in a more specific way: It 
has stacked the legal system even more heavily against them. According to a 
recent survey, more than 70 percent 
 of 
low-income American households had been involved in eviction cases, labor law 
cases, and other civil legal disputes during the preceding year, and in more 
than 80 percent 
 of 
those cases they lacked effective legal representation.”
That’s because in a capitalist society like ours it takes money to have 
adequate legal representation—just as it takes money to eat, have a home, 
clothes, medical care, education.
The article goes on: 
“Many top earners are not only talented and hardworking, but they are also 
lucky to have grown up in privileged circumstances. And it is one thing to say 
that someone who is ten percent more skillful should be paid ten percent more. 
But in today’s winner-take-all marketplace, those who are only one percent more 
talented often earn thousands-of-times more. These observations are difficult 
to square with anyone’s conception of a just society.”
This is because capitalism—by its very structure—is designed to protect the 
privileges of the wealthy by any means necessary. That is the purpose of the 
courts, the police and the military. After all, workers are talented and 
hardworking too, but we are not adequately compensated for it.
The economic structure of capitalism and the laws created and enforced by 
capitalists are all designed to allow the wealthy to accumulate the profits 
that the working masses produce. 
Workers are only compensated for our labor by what we demand and can win 
through cooperative actions such mass demonstrations, union organizing and 
strikes. As revolutionary socialist James P. Cannon once put it, “The ethic of 
capitalism is: ‘From each whatever you can get out of him—to each whatever he 
can grab.’”1
Even the so-called democratic electoral system is rigged in favor of the 
wealthy. It’s a system that allows working people to vote for one wealthy 
representative of the capitalist class over another. We do not get to vote on 
laws, or who sits on the Supreme Court. We have no say over the cost of credit 
card interest rates, gas and electric rates, education, food or housing, etc. 
We have no say over the costs to us, of any of the basic necessities of life. 
Capitalism is democracy for the wealthy and dictatorship over the working 
class. 
Capitalist pillaging and destruction of the world
Capitalism is a stage of social evolution that has outlived its usefulness. It 
destroys the world in order to increase private profits for the wealthy. 
The gap between the rich and the poor has grown astronomically in the last few 
decades. Not just in the United States but all over the world. And it is 
reinforced by massive military interventions—led by the United States and its 
allies—across the globe. 
Natural resources wherever 

Re: [Marxism] a protest

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Gary MacLennan has expressed by exact feelings.

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