[Marxism] Coronavirus: China’s income inequality could expand in 2020 as outbreak rattles world’s No 2 economy

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[Marxism] An Illustrated Love Song to Jewish Restaurants of Old - The New York Times

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(I ate at one of these Jewish dairy restaurants in the 1960s and didn't 
care for it much. The vegetables were overcooked. What I do miss are the 
Jewish delicatessens which were almost as ubiquitous as pizza parlors 
are today. Their owners all died off and their kids became accountants, 
doctors and professors.)


NY Times, March 17, 2020
An Illustrated Love Song to Jewish Restaurants of Old
By Dwight Garner

The Dairy Restaurant
By Ben Katchor
Illustrated. 496 pages. Nextbook/Schocken. $29.95.

In his memoir, “Lucky Bruce,” Bruce Jay Friedman gave three reasons why 
there are relatively few Jewish junkies: 1) “Jews need eight hours of 
sleep.” 2) “They must have fresh orange juice in the morning.” 3) “They 
have to read the entire New York Times.”


In his obsessive, melancholy and hungry-making new book, “The Dairy 
Restaurant,” the writer and illustrator Ben Katchor suggests that orange 
juice is hardly the primal elixir of the Jewish diaspora. About New York 
City at the end of the 19th century, he writes: “For the poorest Jews of 
the Lower East Side, healthful affordable milk was a taste of paradise.”


Katchor’s new book is a study of, and love song to, the American dairy 
restaurant and the development of the expressive “milekhdike,” or dairy, 
personality (consider Zero Mostel sighing over a platter of blintzes). 
Dairy restaurants began to flourish in New York City and elsewhere in 
the late 1800s; a century later, nearly all were defunct.


Katchor offers multiple descriptions of this cuisine, and prints 
delectable old menu cards. He derives an early description of the food 
from the writing of Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916), whose short stories 
about Tevye the Dairyman were the basis for the musical “Fiddler on the 
Roof.” “The stories remind us of the wide range of dairy dishes,” 
Katchor writes. “The potato knishes, the milkhiker borscht, the cheese 
kreplekh, the varnishkes, the pirogen, blintzes, buttermilk, and for 
dessert pudding and poppy cakes — the food of a Jew’s pastoral dream.”


This is an encyclopedic book, history as told through old newspapers and 
telephone books and scraps of detail found in letters and memoirs. These 
restaurants have mostly disappeared without a trace. Katchor establishes 
their existence through ephemera like a single recovered matchbook or a 
postcard found on eBay or a sugar cube with a printed wrapper that 
someone thought to save.


This dense cultural and culinary history is reason enough to come to 
“The Dairy Restaurant.” But Katchor, who made his name in the 1990s with 
his weekly comic strip “Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer,” and has 
won a MacArthur fellowship, has a sharp mind and a sly sense of humor. 
His words and his charcoal-palette drawings have a combinatory intelligence.


He starts at the beginning, in the Garden of Eden, which he considers to 
be, in its way, the first restaurant. In Adam and Eve covering their 
nakedness with palm fronds, Katchor sees “the first account of dressing 
for dinner.” He charts in Eden the first indirect lighting, the first 
mixed drink, the first recorded instance of a couple splitting a dish. 
When Adam and Eve stray from the menu, they are cast out of the 
establishment.


The Garden of Eden set the model for our present condition, Katchor 
suggests. “The course of human life is no more, or less, altered every 
day in countless restaurants and cafes, by people ordering the ‘wrong’ 
things, waiters and bouncers waiting to do their job, and owners looking 
on with a mixture of motherly love and proprietary scorn.”


This book continues though the tangled rabbinical debates about the 
Torah and dietary laws, and the Orthodox Jewish dietary restrictions 
that separated meat from dairy. Thanks to the vicissitudes of history, 
Katchor writes, “exile and travel were defining aspects of Jewish life,” 
and “somewhere a Jew was always eating out.”


The thrice-scrubbed look of dairy restaurants, with their glazed white 
tile, was distinctive — modern, healthy, optimistic, shorn of old-world 
associations. These sanitary interiors were borrowed from those of 
milking houses. Health and good digestion were seemingly on offer. About 
dairy restaurants in midtown Manhattan during the middle of the last 
century, Katchor writes: “Homesick Jewish businessmen with peptic ulcers 
were the perfect customers.”


Many of the best moments in this book are stray gleanings. Katchor 
writes, for example, about the two months Leon Trotsky spent in New York 
City in 1917. Trotsky was a vegetarian who ate most of his meals in 
Jewish dairy restaurants, his favorite being the Triangle Dairy in the 
Bronx. 

[Marxism] Goldman sees China's economy shrinking 9% in first quarter amid coronavirus outbreak

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[Marxism] [Essay] Where Our New World Begins, by Kevin Baker | Harper's Magazine

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(This is a tremendous article on the Tennessee Valley Authority as a 
signature example of the New Deal as well as a call for pushing through 
a Green New Deal. Very long and very informative. Harper's allows you to 
read one and maybe more articles a month, breaking with their past. This 
one is a must. The opening grafs of the article appear below.)


he river “flows up the map,” they used to say, first south, then west, 
and then north, and through some of the most verdant and beautiful 
country in America. It is called the Tennessee, but it drains some forty 
thousand square miles of land in seven states, from the Blue Ridge 
Mountains to Alabama, and from Mississippi to the Ohio River, an area 
nearly the size of En­gland.


Before the 1930s, it ran wild, threatening each spring to flood and wash 
away the humble farms and homes along its banks. Most of it was not 
navigable for any distance, thanks to “an obstructive fist thrust up by 
God or Devil”—as the writer George Fort Milton characterized it—that 
created a long, untamed run of rapids known as Muscle Shoals. The fist 
dropped the river 140 feet over the course of 30 miles, and therein lay 
the untapped potential of the Tennessee, the chance to make power—a lot 
of it—out of water.


The six million people who lived in the Tennessee Valley in 1933 had 
little power, though, literal or political. At a time when an estimated 
70 percent of Americans could have light at the flip of a switch, only 
10 percent of rural families throughout the United States had 
electricity—­and a full one quarter of the nation still lived either on 
farms or in rural communities. Bringing power to the farms just wasn’t 
worth it, private utility companies insisted. They were too scattered 
and too poor—and those in the Tennessee Valley were among the poorest to 
be found anywhere in the country.


The region had been floundering since at least the end of the Civil War, 
falling further and further behind a rapidly industrializing nation. The 
local farmers grew cotton or corn, crops that, repeated year after year, 
leeched the fertility out of the land. To compensate, they bought more 
fertilizer on credit, falling deeper into debt, unable to afford the 
modern farm machinery that was transforming agrarian life elsewhere in 
the country.


In their desperation, the people of the Tennessee Valley had begun to 
cut or burn down more and more of the area’s once copious forests every 
year, seeking to clear more marginal land for farming, to sell the 
timber, or simply to heat their homes and cook their meals. 
Deforestation only further drained the soil, and what little land they 
had kept slipping away. While much of urban America was enjoying the 
boom years of the Roaring Twenties, the average annual income in the 
Valley had shrunk to just $639 a family, while many made as little as 
$100. Incredible as it may seem to us today, one third of the people in 
the Valley suffered from malaria. Malnutrition, pellagra, hookworm, and 
other parasites were ubiquitous.


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[Marxism] Trump Has Sabotaged America's Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic

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By Laurie Garrett. Written on Jan. 31, it already highlights Trump's 
malfeasance. She was ahead of the curve.


https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump-united-states-public-health-emergency-response/

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[Marxism] Call for Updates and Insight from Italian and US collectives | Lefteast

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Dear Readers,

As we try to care for ourselves, our loved ones, and our comrades, we 
are also struggling to find ways to engage in mutual aid that make sense 
under conditions of “invisible” contagion. We repost below two recent 
pieces that inspired us, and some links to resource pages.


The LeftEast collective has been discussing the pandemic that is tying 
us together around the world in ways that are more explicit to many than 
capitalism. The words of one of our editors speak for many of us: “I am 
shifting between apocalyptic catastrophising, a neutral feeling that in 
my online-mostly position things don’t quite change, and an almost 
optimism this thing can bring shock to the system and change politics in 
ways I thought only a war would do… but deeply worried about those in 
vulnerable positions (e.g. migrants crossing to Europe and European 
borders now), and wondering if and how one can volunteer in a meaningful 
way without being exposed to danger…”


full: 
https://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/coronavirus-updates-inspiring-pieces/


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Re: [Marxism] "personal distancing plus social solidarity" Re: Fwd: [pen-l] If we want everyone to stay home during a coronavirus crisis, we need deep change to make that possible

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Dear Louis,

you might have misunderstood want I meant (or I expressed myself badly).

1) Obviously no one should feel obligated to go on the streets. Everyone 
should be free to stay home. It is necessary to employ a service for 
people who stay at home. Naturally, we are also in favour of quarantin 
meassures for people who are infected (in addition to mass and free 
testing etc.).


2) In general it is important to take precautions on health issues. But 
this has been also the case in all the last years when there were 
influenza epidemic. As you certainly know this has also caused many 
vicitims. (152,000 in Europe in the saison 2017/18 alone) Did anyone 
call for a mass lockdown at that time? Of course, not!


3) How shall we fight for a better health care system? By staying home? 
Hardly! No, by mass actions. For this people (those without health 
risks) need to gon on the streets.


4) Finally, do you really think the rulers in China, Europe, etc. impose 
mass lockdowns and ban demonstrations because they are concerned about 
health? If so, why did they not do it in all the years before when 
influenza struck?! Don't you think that there is a connection between 
the policy of mass lockdown, the current economic slump (which is of 
1929-33 proportions) and the fact that the world has seen the largest 
rise of mass protests in 2019 - at least since 1945?! (See for this our 
article on a new study: 
https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/confirmation-of-revolutionary-character-of-historic-period/)


Please be assured that I wish you a long life!

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In short, South Korea has certainly dealt best with the crisis and 
without a mass lock down. Mass and free testing and health care is 
crucial.


Well, this is not South Korea here in NYC. I am fucking 75 years old 
and had bronchitis lasting a month last October. If it was up to me, 
there would be a strict curfew after 8pm. The rules being enforced 
right now are not an impediment to workers militias or a general 
strike. Instead, it is the backwardness of the working-class. Maybe 
the economic collapse and the realization that pandemics are a product 
of capitalist contradictions will change that but in the meantime, I 
want to live and write until I croak about 10 years from 
now--hopefully in my sleep.


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Re: [Marxism] "personal distancing plus social solidarity" Re: Fwd: [pen-l] If we want everyone to stay home during a coronavirus crisis, we need deep change to make that possible

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1) Obviously no one should feel obligated to go on the streets. Everyone 
should be free to stay home. It is necessary to employ a service for 
people who stay at home. Naturally, we are also in favour of quarantin 
meassures for people who are infected (in addition to mass and free 
testing etc.).


Have you actually been reading about why schools and pubs are being 
closed? Young people have no idea whether they are "infected" or not 
unless they take a test. For the majority, they experience no symptoms 
for up to five days even if they are contagious. Within that period, 
they can come into contact with many other people, including me. I am 
glad that you are in favor of quarantine measures of infected people, 
but if I get infected, I will probably die.


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[Marxism] Review: Augustine Sedgewick’s ‘Coffeeland’ - The Atlantic

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The effects of caffeine mesh with the needs of capitalism in myriad 
ways. Before the arrival of coffee and tea in the West in the 1600s, 
alcohol—which was more sanitary than water—was the drug that dominated, 
and fogged, human minds. This might have been acceptable, even welcome, 
when work meant physical labor performed out of doors (beer breaks were 
common), but alcohol’s effects became a problem when work involved 
machines or numbers, as more and more of it did.


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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Coronavirus gives us a terrifying glimpse of the future – and highlights a chilling paradox | Jeff Sparrow | Opinion | The Guardian

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In 2018 the World Health Organization predicted a threat from what it 
called “Disease X”, on the basis that “a serious international epidemic 
could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease”. 
At the same time the global pandemic director for America’s National 
Security Council resigned – and then his entire team was disbanded by 
Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton.


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In short, South Korea has certainly dealt best with the crisis and 
without a mass lock down. Mass and free testing and health care is crucial.


Well, this is not South Korea here in NYC. I am fucking 75 years old and 
had bronchitis lasting a month last October. If it was up to me, there 
would be a strict curfew after 8pm. The rules being enforced right now 
are not an impediment to workers militias or a general strike. Instead, 
it is the backwardness of the working-class. Maybe the economic collapse 
and the realization that pandemics are a product of capitalist 
contradictions will change that but in the meantime, I want to live and 
write until I croak about 10 years from now--hopefully in my sleep.


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Thanks, will send over some SA material. Your collection is fabulous, 
I'll let comrades here know!


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First, I have to say that I am not sufficiently informed about the 
situation in South Africa.


In general, for our analysis and perspective on the COVID-19 crisis I 
refer to the numerous documents which are collected on a special page: 
https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/collection-of-articles-on-the-2019-corona-virus/


In short, South Korea has certainly dealt best with the crisis and 
without a mass lock down. Mass and free testing and health care is 
crucial.


I also want to point out that militant sectors of the working class 
and youth don’t accept the bourgeois atomization approach (i.e. 
“social distancing”). The French Yellow Vests and the Chilean 
protestors both demonstrated (and clashed with the police) in the last 
days despite the government forbidding this - using the COVID-19 as a 
pretext.


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On 3/17/2020 11:46 AM, RKOB via Marxism wrote:
Comrades, allow me to take this opportunity to say something on this 
whole "social distancing" ideology. The title say: "If we want 
everyone to stay home during a coronavirus crisis, we need ..." I 
understand that sectors of the rulering class want people to stay 
home and to forbid mass assemblies. We saw this in China and now in 
Europe (incl. the country where I am living, Austria). I also 
understand that sectors of the masses - terrorized and confused by 
the neverending media propaganda - share this.


Well, to slow the spread until medical interventions and state 
support systems are in place, perhaps "personal distancing plus 
social solidarity" to emphasise mutual aid?


If anyone wants a collection of critical ideas, let me know, as they 
exceed 35k limits here. I have statements of demand from 
working-class and social/health-movement activists from all over the 
world. An example from here in South Africa is from the SA 
Federations of Trade Unions: 
http://saftu.org.za/protect-us-and-we-will-protect-each-other-saftu-call-on-ramaphosa-governmentthe-war-against-covid-19-must-be-fully-engaged-with-working-class-support/


Here is a strong statement - at 1.30' for about 13 minutes - from 
SAFTU leader Zwelinzima Vavi: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meWFTExJmwc (following the SA 
president's statement)


Please send me material we can circulate here to avoid the mere 
medicalization of Covid-19, and instead deepen our class, gender, 
race and ecological perspectives.





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[Marxism] How Spanish flu helped create Sweden's modern welfare state | Cities | The Guardian

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[Marxism] Coronavirus Foreshadow's Bigger Disruptions in Future - Bloomberg

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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-16/coronavirus-foreshadow-s-bigger-disruptions-in-future

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Re: [Marxism] Marxism Digest, Vol 197, Issue 31

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>
> Modified title: More Social perspectives on COVID-19. follows: Re COVID-19
> Social and Political Analyses - New Politics
>

Last week & week before, there were a 3-4 messages on COVID that seemed
unduly skeptical to me. Since then I'm glad the tide shifted on this list.
Here is another 'corrective' piece, which is however now much less needed.
However it also has some perspectives that are different from other recent
ones.

http://ml-today.com/2020/03/17/how-should-marxists-view-the-covid-19-pandemic-of-2019-2020/
 The first largest third of this piece reprises some key medical
literature; the last third has some material from the Financial Times with
chimes well with Patrick Bond's alert yesterday on oil prices - targeting
the expensive shale extraction methods of the USA.

In the start of the piece is this small section on the relationship of
health reforms to capitalist society:
"Throughout this, Marxists may recall how Friedrich Engels wrote about
infectious diseases:

“Capitalist rule cannot allow itself the pleasure of creating epidemic
diseases among the working class with impunity; the consequences fall back
on it and the angel of death rages in its ranks as ruthlessly as in the
ranks of the workers.”

In about 1980, a Marxist history of medicine concluded that there were
three fundamental reasons that a ruling class provided health care benefits
for its working classes:

“The motives which drive a class society to the establishment and
maintenance of an institutionalised system of health care are:
Firstly to ensure good health for the ruling class itself; sanitary reforms
often followed the spread of epidemics from over-crowded slums to the
quarters inhabited by the well-to-do;Secondly, to
ensure a minimum of health for the working class in order to maximize its
capacity to produce profit for the ruling class; at particular junctures this
becomes especially important – for example, in time of war when there is a need
for cannon fodder from the working class;
Thirdly, to avert social
unrest among the working class – unrest presenting the threat of social
revolution which would sweep away the class society itself. As that wily
gentlemen of the upper classes, Joseph Chamberlain expressed it bluntly:
  “What ransom will property pay for
the security which it enjoys?..  What insurance will wealth find it to its
advantage to provide?”

Cheers Hari Kumar


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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Africa]: Luongo on Carpenter and Lawrance, 'Africans in Exile: Mobility, Law, and Identity'

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> From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW 
> Date: March 17, 2020 at 1:50:56 PM EDT
> To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org
> Cc: H-Net Staff 
> Subject: H-Net Review [H-Africa]:  Luongo on Carpenter and  Lawrance, 
> 'Africans in Exile: Mobility, Law, and Identity'
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> 
> Nathan Riley Carpenter, Benjamin N. Lawrance, eds.  Africans in 
> Exile: Mobility, Law, and Identity.  Framing the Global Series. 
> Indianapolis  Indiana University Press, 2018.  Illustrations, maps. 
> xvi + 337 pp.  $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-03808-1; $85.00 
> (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-03807-4.
> 
> Reviewed by Katherine Luongo (Northeastern University)
> Published on H-Africa (March, 2020)
> Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut
> 
> Nathan Riley Carpenter and Benjamin N. Lawrance's far-ranging, 
> innovative edited collection engages with experiences and 
> understandings of exile, focusing on "the breadth and complexity of 
> exile and its deep and lasting impact on people across and beyond the 
> African continent" (p. 3). Experiences of exile, they argue, have 
> been viewed too often as one of two extremes, either as profoundly 
> alienating or as deeply romantic. Exiles themselves have also been 
> misunderstood. While the archetype of the exile is the exceptional, 
> elite individual whose activities and existence challenge state 
> power, _Africans in Exile_ shows instead how ordinary Africans have 
> come to experience exile as a result of their everyday interactions 
> with the state. At the same time, the collection disrupts the popular 
> notion that exile necessarily equals isolation and disconnection, 
> demonstrating instead both how exile applies to communities and how 
> exile can generate communities (p. 7). The central goal of _Africans 
> in Exile_, which it achieves ably, is to "reconsider exile in its 
> totality and to argue for its centrality to theorizations of state 
> power in colonial and postcolonial Africa" (p. 4). 
> 
> The sixteen chapters that make up _Africans in Exile_ derive 
> primarily from papers presented at the 2015 Conable Conference in 
> International Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology, an 
> interdisciplinary meeting organized around the topic of "exile and 
> deportation in global perspective."[1] The chapters carry the reader 
> across a broad expanse of time, space, and topic. Chapters on the 
> politics of exile in colonial Africa, such as Trina Leah Hogg's 
> careful examination of the deportation of political prisoners in 
> nineteenth-century Sierra Leone and the "violent geography of exile" 
> that ensued from colonial policy and practice, reveal "the critical 
> role that colonial engagement with frontier communities had in 
> constructing colonial law" (p. 56). Those chapters addressing the 
> complicated relationship between exile and decolonization, for 
> instance, Joanna Tague's lively study of the education of Mozambican 
> refugees in exile in Dar es Salaam during Mozambique's civil war, 
> challenge "the conflation of exile with punishment by framing exile 
> as opportunity," showing how exile could provide the space and 
> resources to prepare for a new kind of permanency (p. 138). And 
> chapters on postcolonial varieties of exile, for example, Lawrance's 
> sensitive treatment of the testimonies of Togolese asylum seekers' 
> narratives of torture, point to the "internal dynamics of 
> repression," which have rendered self-imposed exile the only option 
> for countless contemporary Africans (p. 288). 
> 
> While the chapters thus address a remarkable diversity of people, 
> places, and periods, they are nonetheless united by their interest in 
> the political purposes of exile and in the centrality of exile to 
> "any account of state power or critical rereading of colonial and 
> postcolonial oppression" (p. 4). They also share a strong focus on 
> how exile "was as much a state of mind as it was a physical 
> situation" and lend careful attention to how exiled people have 
> exerted agency within what is typically regarded to be a 
> fundamentally disempowering experience (p. 7). Whether addressing 
> Africans who experienced exile as a punitive measure--as something 
> done _to_ them--or those who experienced exile as a voluntary 
> condition, the chapters show how people have been able to take 
> ownership of their circumstances. 
> 
> The organization of the chapters into three, roughly equal, 
> methodologically oriented sections lends further cohesiveness to 

Re: [Marxism] Marxism Digest, Vol 197, Issue 33

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Michael P (RKOB) clearly does not understand the science behind the current 
public health measures at all. These are measures that a working class 
government would have put in place along with all the other demands for mass 
testing, universal socialized healthcare and OTHER special emergency measures 
to protect the vulnerable from asymptomatic carriers much earlier!! . If you 
cannot in your mind separate necessary public health measures from state 
repression than we are in very dangerous territory.  The working class has to 
use all its powers to force effective public health measures! This has always 
been part of our historic task. 
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[Marxism] What coronavirus has taught us about inequality

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https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/coronavirus-taught-inequality-200316204401117.html 



A good article on Al Jazeera which demonstrate which difference it makes 
if thousands die in a pandemic in a Southern country (like Haiti) or in 
the Global North.


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[Marxism] Rob Wallace book

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Few know more about viruses and pandemics than biologist Rob Wallace. His book, 
Big Farms Make Big Flu is now offered by Monthly Review Press at a substantial 
discount.

https://mailchi.mp/monthlyreview/now-thru-feb-12-40-discount-off-big-farms-make-big-flu-1348235?e=baed4654c3
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-SHERA]: Kasmach on Chernev, 'Twilight of Empire: The Brest-Litovsk Conference and the Remaking of East-Central Europe, 1917-1918'

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Subject: H-Net Review [H-SHERA]: Kasmach on Chernev, 'Twilight of Empire:
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Borislav Chernev.  Twilight of Empire: The Brest-Litovsk Conference
and the Remaking of East-Central Europe, 1917-1918.  Toronto
University of Toronto Press, 2017.  328 pp.  $36.95 (pdf), ISBN
978-1-4875-1334-4; $79.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4875-0149-5; $36.95
(e-book), ISBN 978-1-4875-1335-1.

Reviewed by Lizaveta Kasmach (Independent Scholar)
Published on H-SHERA (March, 2020)
Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha

Borislav Chernev's _Twilight of Empire _offers a unique study of the
first peace negotiations of the First World War, leading to the
signing of two peace treaties in Brest-Litovsk by the Central Powers
and Ukraine on February 9, 1918, and the Central Powers and Russia on
March 3, 1918. Aiming to look beyond the traditional notion of
Brest-Litovsk as a settlement imposed by Germany on Russia, Chernev
meticulously explores the course and backgrounds of the peace
negotiations as well as the implications of the diplomatic
proceedings on a number of different actors apart from the obvious
Russo-German bilateral negotiation dynamic. With a focus on the
entire region of East-Central Europe in 1917-18, _Twilight of Empire
_ultimately seeks to explain imperial dissolution and the rise of the
concept of national self-determination.

Analyzing various historiographical traditions (British, German,
Ukrainian, Ukrainian Soviet, Russian, Soviet, post-Soviet,
Belarusian, and Bulgarian) in evaluating Brest-Litovsk peace, Chernev
formulates his chief approach in this study by choosing to treat
negotiations outcomes from multiple perspectives since they went
"beyond influencing any single nation, affecting rather the wider
region of East-Central Europe thus ushering in an era of unparalleled
ideological struggle which dominated Europe's twentieth century" (p.
11). Consequently, from the very start, Chernev adopts a broad
geographical definition of East-Central Europe, seeing it spatially
as the areas between the Elbe and Dnieper Rivers, reminding readers
of a similar focus in Timothy Snyder's _Bloodlands_ (2010). In this
context, _Twilight of Empire_ offers a view on the origins and
reordering of this particular region during the final stages of World
War I. The value and novelty of this book is precisely in refocusing
readers' attention to the rather forgotten and short-lived first
peace treaty of the war as the "focal point of the interrelated
processes of peacemaking, revolutions, imperial collapse, and nation
state creation in the multi-ethnic, entangled spaces of East-Central
Europe during a decade-long continuum of violence between 1914 and
1923" (p. 4). Referring to Peter Holquist's understanding that World
War I in Eastern Europe transformed in other violent conflicts that
lasted way beyond 1918 (_Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia's
Continuum of Crisis, 1914-1921_ [2002]), Chernev describes in detail
how and why the ending phase of the war was about to introduce the
great ideological struggles of the twentieth century.

Chernev demonstrates an excellent command of Western, Soviet, and
post-Soviet literature on the subject as well as all relevant
historiographical debates, which requires a good working knowledge of
at least several foreign languages. More important, he introduces
previously overlooked Bulgarian and Austrian government documents as
sources. These allow an insight into Bulgarian and Ottoman policies
for a better interpretation of relations between Germany and
Austria-Hungary in the final stages of World War I. An important and
novel thesis arising from this analysis is a picture of a "less
united, less German-dominated Central Powers alliance, with a greater
divergence of individual policies and multiple foci of agency" (p.
6).

To give a better introduction for a reader outside of this specific
area, the book starts with several maps and a glossary introducing
all the major protagonists whom the reader will encounter. The
extensive use of diaries gives a more intimate look into the
circumstances and reasoning of diplomats. Throughout the book,
Chernev also skillfully intersperses his narration with curious
details and little anecdotes, creating an illusion of transporting
his readers back in time (first encounters of Central Powers'
aristocrats with inexperienced Bolshevik delegates, Bolsheviks
bringing a barrel of caviar to Christmas dinner, rowdy behavior of
the peasant delegate Stashkov, 

[Marxism] Depression haunts Covid-19 quarantine victims

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https://asiatimes.com/2020/03/depression-haunts-covid-19-quarantine-victims/ 



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[Marxism] "personal distancing plus social solidarity" Re: Fwd: [pen-l] If we want everyone to stay home during a coronavirus crisis, we need deep change to make that possible

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On 3/17/2020 11:46 AM, RKOB via Marxism wrote:
Comrades, allow me to take this opportunity to say something on this 
whole "social distancing" ideology. The title say: "If we want 
everyone to stay home during a coronavirus crisis, we need ..." I 
understand that sectors of the rulering class want people to stay home 
and to forbid mass assemblies. We saw this in China and now in Europe 
(incl. the country where I am living, Austria). I also understand that 
sectors of the masses - terrorized and confused by the neverending 
media propaganda - share this.


Well, to slow the spread until medical interventions and state support 
systems are in place, perhaps "personal distancing plus social 
solidarity" to emphasise mutual aid?


If anyone wants a collection of critical ideas, let me know, as they 
exceed 35k limits here. I have statements of demand from working-class 
and social/health-movement activists from all over the world. An example 
from here in South Africa is from the SA Federations of Trade Unions: 
http://saftu.org.za/protect-us-and-we-will-protect-each-other-saftu-call-on-ramaphosa-governmentthe-war-against-covid-19-must-be-fully-engaged-with-working-class-support/


Here is a strong statement - at 1.30' for about 13 minutes - from SAFTU 
leader Zwelinzima Vavi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meWFTExJmwc 
(following the SA president's statement)


Please send me material we can circulate here to avoid the mere 
medicalization of Covid-19, and instead deepen our class, gender, race 
and ecological perspectives.




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Re: [Marxism] "personal distancing plus social solidarity" Re: Fwd: [pen-l] If we want everyone to stay home during a coronavirus crisis, we need deep change to make that possible

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First, I have to say that I am not sufficiently informed about the 
situation in South Africa.


In general, for our analysis and perspective on the COVID-19 crisis I 
refer to the numerous documents which are collected on a special page: 
https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/collection-of-articles-on-the-2019-corona-virus/


In short, South Korea has certainly dealt best with the crisis and 
without a mass lock down. Mass and free testing and health care is crucial.


I also want to point out that militant sectors of the working class and 
youth don’t accept the bourgeois atomization approach (i.e. “social 
distancing”). The French Yellow Vests and the Chilean protestors both 
demonstrated (and clashed with the police) in the last days despite the 
government forbidding this - using the COVID-19 as a pretext.


Am 17.03.2020 um 12:04 schrieb Patrick Bond:

On 3/17/2020 11:46 AM, RKOB via Marxism wrote:
Comrades, allow me to take this opportunity to say something on this 
whole "social distancing" ideology. The title say: "If we want 
everyone to stay home during a coronavirus crisis, we need ..." I 
understand that sectors of the rulering class want people to stay 
home and to forbid mass assemblies. We saw this in China and now in 
Europe (incl. the country where I am living, Austria). I also 
understand that sectors of the masses - terrorized and confused by 
the neverending media propaganda - share this.


Well, to slow the spread until medical interventions and state support 
systems are in place, perhaps "personal distancing plus social 
solidarity" to emphasise mutual aid?


If anyone wants a collection of critical ideas, let me know, as they 
exceed 35k limits here. I have statements of demand from working-class 
and social/health-movement activists from all over the world. An 
example from here in South Africa is from the SA Federations of Trade 
Unions: 
http://saftu.org.za/protect-us-and-we-will-protect-each-other-saftu-call-on-ramaphosa-governmentthe-war-against-covid-19-must-be-fully-engaged-with-working-class-support/


Here is a strong statement - at 1.30' for about 13 minutes - from 
SAFTU leader Zwelinzima Vavi: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meWFTExJmwc (following the SA 
president's statement)


Please send me material we can circulate here to avoid the mere 
medicalization of Covid-19, and instead deepen our class, gender, race 
and ecological perspectives.




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[Marxism] Russian Writer, Political Activist Eduard Limonov Dies - The Moscow Times

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https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/03/17/russian-writer-political-activist-eduard-limonov-dies-a69660

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[Marxism] free opera streaming starting tonight

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Each night, the institution will post an encore showing of an opera from
its “Met Live in HD” series

Tonight - La Boheme



Wednesday – Il Trovatore



Thursday – La Traviata



Each streaming session will begin at 7:30 p.m. EST and remain available on
the homepage of metopera.org for 20 hours.



https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/after-closure-met-opera-offers-free-streaming-past-performances-180974428/
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[Marxism] During the Mexican-American War, Irish-Americans Fought for Mexico in the ‘Saint Patrick’s Battalion’

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Anti-Catholic sentiment in the States gave men like John Riley little
reason to continue to pay allegiance to the stars and stripes

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[Marxism] coronavirus, capitalism and the forces of nature

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Socialists have to lead the way in looking at how capitalism relates to the
natural world. Basically, this pandemic results from habitat loss and
monoculture factory farming.

"The Covid-19 pandemic which is wreaking such havoc is first and foremost
an environmental disease. Or, more exactly, it is caused by how our society
– capitalist society – interacts with the natural world. This includes both
wilderness areas and modern capitalist agriculture, and the relationship
between these two. As with all resources, from human labor power to raw
chemicals to everything in between, capitalism views everything as
potential capital to be exploited and profited off of. Their idea is that
modern technology can control the laws of nature, can dominate the natural
world and bend it to their will, just as they try to do (largely
successfully) with labor power, meaning us, the working class. Time and
again we witness the results – from cancer pandemics to global warming.
Almost all of these, however, have crept up on us gradually, but the
Covid-19 pandemic is hitting with a bang. As they say, “the (immediate)
prospect of hanging causes the mind to focus wonderfully” and this
immediate and sudden crisis can help our minds to focus

"Habitat loss, combined with modern capitalist agriculture, is the driving
force behind this [spread of diseases from other animal species to
humans]"

This crisis can become a "teaching moment" if socialists don't continue to
ignore these issues.

https://oaklandsocialist.com/2020/03/17/coronavirus-capitalism-and-the-forces-of-nature/

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[Marxism] Homage to Kevin Coogan | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Within the past five months, I have lost two of my closest political 
co-thinkers. On November 9, 2019 Noel Ignatiev died somewhat 
unexpectedly even though he had been dealing with serious illnesses for 
a number of years. On March 6th, I learned that Kevin Coogan had died. 
By a strange coincidence, I only met Noel and Kevin just once in person 
and each time at lunch, over hamburgers. We spent hours in conversation. 
With Noel, it was about the 1960s and being Jewish. With Kevin, it was 
mostly about Lyndon LaRouche. Notwithstanding the brief time I spent 
with the two, there were long-standing email and FB exchanges that made 
me feel as close to them than most people I knew in the Trotskyist 
movement. What we all had in common was old soldiers tales about life in 
the “vanguard”. We traded stories about battles we fought and laughed at 
our selves for having participated in them.


Before speaking about my experiences online with Kevin, I should share a 
couple of important posts that help put him into context.


The first was a series of Tweets about Kevin from Craig Fowlie, who is 
the Editorial Director for Routledge’s social sciences division. He 
leads an editorial team of 120 that included Kevin, a free-lancer. If 
you have a Twitter account, you can read them here. It begins: “Kevin 
was a brilliant & extremely knowledgeable researcher whose 1999 book 
Dreamer of the Day  is one of most important works on post-war fascism.”


full: https://louisproyect.org/2020/03/17/homage-to-kevin-coogan/

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Re: [Marxism] During the Mexican-American War, Irish-Americans Fought for Mexico in the ‘Saint Patrick’s Battalion’

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The 1999 movie _One Man's Hero_ was good enough to merit a recommendation
to those who've not seen it.
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[Marxism] Bloomber: Coronavirus Will Revive an All-Powerful State

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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-17/coronavirus-will-revive-an-all-powerful-state

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: [pen-l] If we want everyone to stay home during a coronavirus crisis, we need deep change to make that possible

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Comrades, allow me to take this opportunity to say something on this 
whole "social distancing" ideology. The title say: "If we want everyone 
to stay home during a coronavirus crisis, we need ..."


I understand that sectors of the rulering class want people to stay home 
and to forbid mass assemblies. We saw this in China and now in Europe 
(incl. the country where I am living, Austria). I also understand that 
sectors of the masses - terrorized and confused by the neverending media 
propaganda - share this.


But it is - I use a diplomatic formulation and try to be an English - 
irritating to read such calls for "social distancing" and "stay home" in 
self-proclaimed progressive publications. What a silly way to serve the 
class enemy! Sure, those who fear mass unrests want us to stay home with 
the worst economic slump taking place just now. But we also should want 
this?! Surely not!


I can only appeal to comrades not to spread such reactionary nonsense. 
The ruling class has already sufficient access to world of media. They 
really don't need our help!


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elegantly. At this time we need Bernie’s policies more than ever. Vote for
him! : If we want everybody to stay home during a coronavirus crisis, we
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