Re: [Marxism] Supporting dictators is not anti-imperialism

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On 6/27/19 7:31 PM, Richard Modiano via Marxism wrote:


  “The peaceful democratic revolution of 2011 sparked off by the Arab
uprisings later became militarised in response to the brutal repression
carried out by the state. Syria typifies the moral and political
degeneration of pseudo-anti-imperialists who support, or fail to oppose,
the genocidal crushing of a democratic uprising by a totalitarian state
allied with Iranian and Russian imperialism.”

https://roarmag.org/essays/supporting-dictators-is-not-anti-imperialism/


Meredith Tax has the same blind loyalty to the Kurds as the Green Left 
in Australia.

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[Marxism] Supporting dictators is not anti-imperialism

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 “The peaceful democratic revolution of 2011 sparked off by the Arab
uprisings later became militarised in response to the brutal repression
carried out by the state. Syria typifies the moral and political
degeneration of pseudo-anti-imperialists who support, or fail to oppose,
the genocidal crushing of a democratic uprising by a totalitarian state
allied with Iranian and Russian imperialism.”

https://roarmag.org/essays/supporting-dictators-is-not-anti-imperialism/
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[Marxism] Daraa: Life under regime rule in the revolution's birthplace

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https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2019/6/27/daraa-life-under-regime-rule-in-the-revolutions-birthplace
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[Marxism] 'RUSSIAGATE,' SYRIA AND THE LEFT | CounterVortex

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[Marxism] Imperial Overreach in Iran | Suvrat Raju | Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.)

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https://rupeindia.wordpress.com/2019/06/27/imperial-overreach-in-iran/


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[Marxism] "Hell is coming" | Richard Seymour on Patreon

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A Spanish weather forecaster warned, earlier this week: "hell is coming".

This was prognostically pregnant. It was a forecast of a forecast. A 
summer heatwave, like an aberrantly balmy February, means only what it 
portends. Even scorched earth crop failure and Artic wildfire are 
meaningful only if interpreted like signs, shadows cast before coming 
events. Unless they indexed multiple breakdowns in the web of life, 
ocean acidification, deforestation, soil erosion, over-fishing and mass 
extinction, they would be mere anecdotes. Hell is coming, only because 
hell is coming.


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[Marxism] Linux Beach: “Working Group” Can you find Henderson or “leak” his full OPCW report?

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https://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2019/06/working-group-can-you-find-henderson-or.html
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[Marxism] Chulas Fronteras; Del Mero Corazón | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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New Yorkers have the opportunity to see a couple of Les Blank 
documentaries opening at the Metrograph, a new theater that has an 
outstanding commitment to the sort of films that make New York City 
still a worthwhile place to live despite the gradual transformation of 
the city into something resembling Abu Dhabi.


https://louisproyect.org/2019/06/27/chulas-fronteras-del-mero-corazon/
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[Marxism] Who Owns Tomorrow? • Commune

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[Marxism] SCOTUS paves way for worst of both worlds

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"The US Supreme Court’s ruling today against the inclusion of a citizenship
question on the US 2020 census is a sneaky way for the Republican right
wing majority to have the best of both worlds. ...

"So, [Roberts] joined the “liberal” minority, but with a hitch: His opinion
simply said that Ross must come up with a better excuse than the one he has
used so far. (Up until now, Ross has claimed that he needs those statistics
to better enforce the Voting Rights Act. That is like Donald Trump
jr. saying he shot and killed elephants because he cares about wildlife.)
All reports say that while it will be extremely difficult to redo the
census questionnaire in time, it’s not impossible. In any case, even if it
doesn’t get done in time by 2020, even if it causes chaos, since when has
chaos inhibited the Trump administration?"

https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/06/27/supreme-court-census-ruling-grounds-being-prepared-for-inclusion-of-citizenship-question/
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[Marxism] (no subject)

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M.E. O'Brien on insurgent queer and trans communism:

"Recent years have also seen a blossoming in the smaller worlds of queer
communist and socialist politics. Though the scale of US gay rights
organizing has atrophied since the victory of the gay marriage campaign,
efforts to organize trans and queer people explicitly against capitalism,
to think queer freedom alongside communism, are at their most vibrant since
the gay liberation era of the early 1970s. Communism has inspired growing
numbers of young working-class trans people raised on vicious austerity and
chronic underemployment, on the one hand, and Tumblr social justice and
meme politics, on the other. New forthcoming journals seek to engage queer
communist theory: Invert in the UK, Pinko in the US."

https://communemag.com/fifty-years-of-queer-insurgency/
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Re: [Marxism] Need a poem

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> On Jun 27, 2019, at 2:09 PM, MM  > wrote:
> 
> The Rochester book doesn’t seem to be available on line

Okay, wrong again. The book is here:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89096994983 


The story opens Ch. 1 on page 11.

The author has her own Wikipedia page:

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



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Re: [Marxism] Need a poem

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> On Jun 27, 2019, at 1:50 PM, MM  wrote:
> 
> I stand corrected; Sherwood incorporates it in his poem, but it has an older 
> source, mentioned here:

Okay, it’s mentioned in Leontiev’s “Political Economy: A Beginner's Course” 
(1935), attributed to “A. Rochester, Labour and Coal, p. 11, International 
Publishers, New York, 1931.” The Rochester book doesn’t seem to be available on 
line, but here’s the passage from Leontiev:

--
The following passage is taken from a book describing the life of miners in 
America:

“A miner's son asked his mother: 'Why don't you light the fire? It's so cold.'

“'Because we have no coal.· Your father is out of work, and we have no money to 
buy coal.’

“'But why is he oul of work, mother?’

“'Because there's loo much coal.’"

This conversation excellently portrays the glaring contradiclion which becomes 
evident during every capitalist crisis. The family of the coal miner freezes 
because "loo much" coal has been mined from the bowels of the earth. Millions 
of people go hungry because "loo much" bread has been produced and wheal is 
therefore used for locomotive fuel. The unemployed and their families are 
without sheller because "loo many" honses have been built which are therefore 
standing vacant.
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Re: [Marxism] Need a poem

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> On Jun 27, 2019, at 1:43 PM, MM  wrote:
> 
> It’s from Kenneth Sherwood, Code of Signals:

I stand corrected; Sherwood incorporates it in his poem, but it has an older 
source, mentioned here:

"One story told in the mine fields during the 1920s underscored the fundamental 
problem. A miner's son asked his mother, "Why don't you light the fire? It's so 
cold." "Because we have no coal. Your father is out of work, and we have no 
money to buy coal." "But why is he out of work, Mother?" "Because there's too 
much coal.””

http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-2C0

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Re: [Marxism] Camejo and Shawki

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Not to mention Pedro's prediction of slowing economic growth from energy
shortages. Like so many (remember the late Mark Jones on this list?), there was
a tendency to view resource (and particularly oil) exploitation as a technical
question of physical availability (that was Hubbert's error) without factoring
in the role of the capitalist profit drive in finding new ways to develop new
sources (e.g. fracking, which now makes the US the largest oil producer
globally, or close to it). Oil production continues to increase, as does the use
of fossil-fuel energy. That's capitalism...

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On 2019/06/27 3:58 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
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> I'm working on an article about the ex-ISO right now and accessed this 
> article I wrote in 2004 for background.
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/american_left/CamejoShawki.htm
> _ 


On Camejo: "He pointed to the likelihood that the United States has 
either reached the Hibbert curve or will soon do so. This means that the 
rate of economic growth will be slowed by energy shortages. We are also 
facing a situation in which home ownership has become a kind of savings 
plan for most working people, as house values increase as a result of 
cheap mortgage rates induced by low inflation rates. When rising energy 
costs leads to an inflationary spike, home values will begin to sharply 
decrease. The consequence might be massive consumer default and bankruptcy."

This is a line of argument I'm not too familiar with, but it's plausible 
since the oil price hit $145/barrel in 2008 (before crashing to $35 
within a few months). But I thought the general correlation of inflation 
to real estate was opposite to what's posited below (i.e., inflationary 
spikes allow real estate to hold value better than other commodity 
forms). Also, my sense of 2007-08 mortgage defaults in the U.S. was much 
more based upon the Exploding Adjustable Rate Mortgage phenomenon (a 
low-interest baiting, then switching to high rates after a few years), 
which especially hit African American neighborhoods, as well as those 
who were engaged in real estate flips coming up to the top of the 
Kuznets property cycle in particular locales in the U.S. Southwest, 
Florida and a few vulnerable cities. But I stand to be corrected. Has 
anyone revisited this?

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Re: [Marxism] Need a poem

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> On Jun 27, 2019, at 1:43 PM, MM  wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 27, 2019, at 10:20 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
>> mailto:marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>> Does anybody know this poem?
> 
> It’s from Kenneth Sherwood, Code of Signals:
> 
> http://www.lulu.com/shop/kenneth-sherwood/code-of-signals/paperback/product-23210945.html
>  
> 
PDF here: http://kennethsherwood.com/CodeOfSignals/CodeOfSignals-sample.pdf

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Need a poem

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> On Jun 27, 2019, at 10:20 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
>  wrote:
> 
> Does anybody know this poem?

It’s from Kenneth Sherwood, Code of Signals:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/kenneth-sherwood/code-of-signals/paperback/product-23210945.html
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[Marxism] Camejo and Shawki

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I'm working on an article about the ex-ISO right now and accessed this 
article I wrote in 2004 for background.


http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/american_left/CamejoShawki.htm
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[Marxism] Tony Wood reviews new book on Shining Path

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LRB, Vol. 41 No. 13 · 4 July 2019
Even Hotter, Even Louder
by Tony Wood

The Shining Path: Love, Madness and Revolution in the Andes by Orin 
Starn and Miguel La Serna

Norton, 404 pp, £19.99, May, ISBN 978 0 393 29280 0

On 26 December 1980, residents of Lima woke to a gruesome, incongruous 
sight: dead dogs had been strung up from lampposts in the city centre, 
some bearing pieces of cloth scrawled with the words: ‘Deng Xiaoping, 
Son of a Bitch.’ It was the work of the Partido Comunista del 
Perú-Sendero Luminoso. Sendero (or Shining Path, as it’s referred to in 
English) was an ultra-orthodox Maoist group which had a few months 
earlier launched an armed insurrection against the Peruvian state. The 
combination of ideological rigidity and violence was to become Sendero’s 
hallmark, but at this early stage not many people in Peru took them 
seriously: they were few in number, politically isolated even from the 
rest of the far left, and thought to be geographically confined to the 
highland region of Ayacucho. Yet the insurrection soon spread beyond its 
base in the Andes, engulfing large parts of the country, from remote 
mountain hamlets to Lima’s shanty towns, the pueblos jóvenes.


Sendero’s goal was nothing less than the destruction of the Peruvian 
state, which was, it said, dominated by a coalition of landowners and 
bureaucrats, from which the country’s workers and peasants could only be 
liberated by a ‘People’s War’ on the Chinese model. The movement was 
incubated in the 1960s at the University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga in 
Ayacucho, under the leadership of Abimael Guzmán, a philosophy 
professor. Born in 1934, Guzmán was the illegitimate son of an 
accountant on a hacienda. He became a member of the Communist Party in 
the 1950s while studying philosophy and law in Arequipa, Peru’s second 
largest city, before joining the faculty at Ayacucho in 1962. Originally 
a loyal Stalinist, Guzmán took the Chinese side during the Sino-Soviet 
split and became a Maoist, travelling twice to China – once in 1965, and 
again in 1967, at the height of the Cultural Revolution – and returning 
invigorated by the ideological fervour he witnessed there. By all 
accounts Guzmán was quiet and reserved, though he was also an effective 
pedagogue and a steely political operator, quickly able to extend the 
influence of the Maoist faction in Ayacucho, especially in the 
university. He and his fellow thinkers were prominently involved in 
student protests against the military dictatorship of Juan Velasco 
Alvarado in June 1969. Dozens were killed in clashes with security 
forces, sparking further protests that led the government to call a 
state of emergency; Guzmán and other leaders were briefly imprisoned. 
The following year, he led a splinter group away from the main Maoist 
party, naming it the Peruvian Communist Party-Shining Path of José 
Carlos Mariátegui, after Peru’s most prominent Marxist.


It wasn’t until a decade later that Sendero began its armed struggle. 
Its first action was to send a detachment of fighters into the village 
of Chuschi to seize and burn ballot boxes on 17 May 1980 – the day 
before every other political party in Peru took part in elections that 
would seal the country’s transition to democracy after 12 years of 
military dictatorship. As far as Sendero was concerned, the elections 
were a sham that would do no more than repackage the same system of 
exploitation; a communiqué from September 1979 argued that 
‘personalities change … but electoral opportunism persists, and the 
people gain nothing from it.’ Against the usual empty promises, Sendero 
offered a dramatic, total remedy: in the words of a party document from 
April 1978, ‘a mass war to destroy the old state of landowners and 
grands bourgeois and build a new democracy’.


Sendero’s rhetoric, shaped above all by Guzmán, deployed a distinctive 
combination of dry dogma and apocalyptic imagery. A document produced by 
its conference in December 1979 asserted that ‘our party forged with the 
strongest light and the purest steel had a decisive moment and generated 
the National Construction Plan … the communists rose up and the earth 
shook and as the earth shook the comrades advanced.’ At the 1988 Party 
Congress, held clandestinely in Lima, Guzmán said that ‘the soul of the 
party begins to burn even hotter, even louder, illuminating the skies 
and melting the earth … Legions of iron will converge in a red sea, 
armed, rolling across the earth, shaking and upending it.’ The verb 
barrer, ‘to sweep away’, appears frequently in Sendero’s statements, 
reflecting an almost millenarian commitment to smashing 

[Marxism] Fwd: Need a poem

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Dear Louis,

I am looking for a poem that goes something like this:

Why is the house so cold? asks the daughter
Because we can't afford coal says the mother
Why can't we afford coal?
Because your father lost his job in the mine
Why did he lose his job?
Because the mine closed
Why did the mine close?
Because there is too much coal

It's a perfect description of the absurdity of capitalism, how plenty 
leads to want. No other economic system does this.


Search as I might on Google I cannot find the poem.

I do not wish to submit this to Marxmail under my own name. However, if 
you do, maybe someone will recognize it.


---

Does anybody know this poem?
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Re: [Marxism] Camejo and Shawki

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On 2019/06/27 3:58 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:


I'm working on an article about the ex-ISO right now and accessed this 
article I wrote in 2004 for background.


http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/american_left/CamejoShawki.htm
_ 



On Camejo: "He pointed to the likelihood that the United States has 
either reached the Hibbert curve or will soon do so. This means that the 
rate of economic growth will be slowed by energy shortages. We are also 
facing a situation in which home ownership has become a kind of savings 
plan for most working people, as house values increase as a result of 
cheap mortgage rates induced by low inflation rates. When rising energy 
costs leads to an inflationary spike, home values will begin to sharply 
decrease. The consequence might be massive consumer default and bankruptcy."


This is a line of argument I'm not too familiar with, but it's plausible 
since the oil price hit $145/barrel in 2008 (before crashing to $35 
within a few months). But I thought the general correlation of inflation 
to real estate was opposite to what's posited below (i.e., inflationary 
spikes allow real estate to hold value better than other commodity 
forms). Also, my sense of 2007-08 mortgage defaults in the U.S. was much 
more based upon the Exploding Adjustable Rate Mortgage phenomenon (a 
low-interest baiting, then switching to high rates after a few years), 
which especially hit African American neighborhoods, as well as those 
who were engaged in real estate flips coming up to the top of the 
Kuznets property cycle in particular locales in the U.S. Southwest, 
Florida and a few vulnerable cities. But I stand to be corrected. Has 
anyone revisited this?


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[Marxism] Military Contractor Withdraws IPO After Daily Beast Reports

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This is the company that runs a for-profit intake shelter for migrant 
children that NPR called a “prison camp.” John Kelly, Trump's former 
chief of staff, was just named to its board of directors.


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[Marxism] America’s new redneck rebellion

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Financial Times, June 27, 2019
America’s new redneck rebellion
by Edward Luce in Charleston, West Virginia

When West Virginia’s schoolteachers went on strike last year, the 
state’s history flared back to life.


The teachers donned red bandanas in honour of the early 20th-century 
miners who wore the garments in their infamous pitched battles with coal 
operators. The strikers of the so-called mine wars thus acquired the 
name “rednecks”. The label meant something very different then than it 
does today — the red of workers’ blood, rather than poor white prejudice.


These days West Virginia is better known for its “deplorables”, an 
epithet Hillary Clinton ill-advisedly used to describe half of Donald 
Trump’s supporters in the 2016 campaign. Though Clinton meant the term 
more generally, West Virginia took it personally, giving Trump his 
second-largest margin of victory after Wyoming.


There was a time, however, when West Virginia was the most radical state 
in the union. “We went ‘red’ because we wanted to hearken back to what 
West Virginia once was,” says Jay O’Neal, a teacher based in the state 
capital of Charleston, who organised the strike with fellow teacher 
Emily Comer over chronically low pay and the declining quality of health 
insurance.


Jay 0’Neal, a leader of the teacher’s strike: ‘Moving to West Virginia 
radicalised me. The state is government of the corporation, by the 
corporation, for the corporation’ © Matt Eich
The historical origin of the term redneck is often traced to poor white 
cotton farmers sunburned from working the fields — “po whites”, in the 
words of black slaves. Nowadays, a redneck is generally taken to be 
racist. There are still plenty of those. West Virginia’s miner rednecks, 
though, were a multiracial group.


African-American and Italian immigrant “scabs”, who had been moved in by 
the coal owners to replace the striking Appalachian miners, were invited 
to join the illegal United Mine Workers union. They accepted. According 
to local activists, as the 10,000-strong integrated army marched towards 
a showdown with the coal owners’ private army, the strikers desegregated 
whites-only public spaces at gunpoint.


Barring the US civil war, the 1921 battle of Blair Mountain was the 
largest armed insurrection in American history. Dozens of lives were 
lost, with private planes even hired to drop bombs on American citizens. 
It was also a milestone in desegregated labour history. Unlike West 
Virginia’s teachers, who took nine days to win last year’s strike, West 
Virginia’s miners lost their battle. They had to wait for the presidency 
of Franklin Delano Roosevelt 12 years later for the right to organise.


A century on, that redneck spirit is stirring again. In 2018, there 
were more strikes in America than in any year since Ronald Reagan was 
president — and more than 10 times as many days were lost to strikes or 
lockouts than in the year Trump was elected. Last month Uber and Lyft 
drivers even stopped work for a day. Contrary to its image among some 
metropolitan liberals as a hotbed of Trumpian know-nothings, West 
Virginia has led the picket lines.


With a per capita income of under $25,000 — less than half the US 
average — West Virginia is ground zero for American populist discontent. 
Trump caught that frustration in 2016: he scooped up 68 per cent of West 
Virginia’s vote against Clinton’s 26 per cent.


Many Democrats, particularly those who rarely visit West Virginia, have 
since written it off as “Trump country”. Yet, some polling has suggested 
that Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s socialist challenger, who is running 
second behind Joe Biden in this cycle’s Democratic primaries, would have 
defeated Trump in the state by 48 to 46 per cent.


“Moving to West Virginia radicalised me,” says O’Neal, who came from 
Texas. He and Comer were chosen for Time magazine’s list of 100 most 
influential people last year. West Virginia’s schools strike triggered 
similar walkouts in Los Angeles, Oklahoma, Arizona, Kentucky and 
elsewhere. “This state is run by the ‘good ol’ boy’ network,” says 
O’Neal. “It is government of the corporation, by the corporation, for 
the corporation.”


I drive five hours across some of America’s most breathtaking scenery to 
meet Mike Weaver. “Almost heaven, West Virginia” opens John Denver’s 
classic song “Country Roads”. Almost Heaven is also the name of the 
Washington-based yacht of Joe Manchin, the state’s Democratic senator, 
who berths in the capital when Congress is in session.


You can inhale the song’s lyrics as you spin through the deep gorges, 
wide meadows and craggy mountain byways. The state is 

[Marxism] 'White supremacist' Sen. Coleman Blease created Section 1325 migration law Castro, Democrats want to overturn - The Washington Post

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The provision of federal law criminalizing unlawful entry into the 
United States — which some Democratic presidential candidates now want 
to undo — was crafted by an avowed white supremacist who opposed the 
education of black Americans and favored lynching, which he justified by 
saying, “to hell with the Constitution.”


The law, referred to as Section 1325, became a flash point in the first 
of two Democratic presidential debates this week, when Julián Castro, a 
former secretary of housing and urban development, challenged his rivals 
to back its repeal. The measure’s little-known history did not arise on 
Wednesday night in Miami, where the first cohort of Democrats vying to 
compete against President Trump took the stage. No one mentioned Sen. 
Coleman Livingston Blease.


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[Marxism] Beyond the Vote: Base-Building for Class Independence in Philadelphia - Regeneration Magazine

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[Marxism] Salacious FBI Information Again Attacks Character of MLK | Black Agenda Report

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Re: [Marxism] Trump administration lawyer goes dog-sitting rather than work over weekend to reunite immigrant parents and kids - New York Daily News

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Since this is a year old, we know the outcome -- they are probably STILL
not in compliance!
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