[Marxism] Bela Fleck/Abigail Wishburn Streamed on You Tube Today

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Comrade,

Watching just an awesome recital by the couple
.  Banjos with a "Black Lives
Matter" sign as background.  They promised to stream it for a few weeks.
The first part is a Jazz trio that did not interest me as I came to hear
Bela.  Me and V have seen him at least twice, maybe 3,4 times.

If only interested in this part its easy to navigate to it just move cursor
to almost the end that isn't.  Their performance is maybe 25 - 30 mins long.

They do a song on the indigenous.  She sings one in Chinese that she
learned during an extended stay in Sichuan.  They duet on a Hank, Sr tune.
Sing an Abbey Lincoln
 tune
introduced by pointing at her activism.  Last thing "Take me to Harlem"
with great lyrics but, I think, musically missing something.  Maybe a
gospel choir.

Comrade, I am far from a musicologist but know what I like when I hear it.

In the 60's the soundtrack to our lives was cause and effect of our
struggles, protests, movements.  There must be a music of this movement.
Maybe musics.  But Fleck's incursion of his politics into this Allegheny
world sounds a tocsin for others to follow.  Not just bluegrass but C,
folk, rap, R, classical, jazz and blues.

We must find, encourage and support our troubadors-to-be.  I know one
personally.  Devin Hoff is a world-class bassist
who shifts through the varied
music scenes listed above with grace, fluidity, mastery of himself and his
instrument, bass.  Even better is his politics.  Even better is the man.
He currently lives and will soon be active again in NYC, hopefully the
C19thing will be beaten even though it is 'managed' by a rudy-poot
nincompoop.

But as for Bela Fleck and Abigail Wishburn's presentation all that was
missing, besides the gospel choir, was Doc and Merle Watson but, alas, both
are gone.
Freihofer's Jazz Fest: Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn with Skidmore Jazz
Institute Alumni Trio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8p3HNGmEkA

JAI
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[Marxism] (99+) (PDF) STATE, CAPITAL, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE NEOLIBERAL POLICY PARADIGM IN PUTIN'S RUSSIA | Ilya Matveev - Academia.edu

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[Marxism] The Black Officer Who Detained George Floyd Had Pledged to Fix the Police

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NY Times, June 27, 2020
The Black Officer Who Detained George Floyd Had Pledged to Fix the Police
By Kim Barker

MINNEAPOLIS — There were two black men at the scene of the police 
killing in Minneapolis last month that roiled the nation. One, George 
Floyd, was sprawled on the asphalt, with a white officer’s knee on his 
neck. The other black man, Alex Kueng, was a rookie police officer who 
held his back as Mr. Floyd struggled to breathe.


Mr. Floyd, whose name has been painted on murals and scrawled on protest 
signs, has been laid to rest. Mr. Kueng, who faces charges of aiding and 
abetting in Mr. Floyd’s death, is out on bail, hounded at the 
supermarket by strangers and denounced by some family members.


Long before Mr. Kueng was arrested, he had wrestled with the issue of 
police abuse of black people, joining the force in part to help protect 
people close to him from police aggression. He argued that diversity 
could force change in a Police Department long accused of racism.


He had seen one sibling arrested and treated poorly, in his view, by 
sheriff’s deputies. He had found himself defending his decision to join 
the police force, saying he thought it was the best way to fix a broken 
system. He had clashed with friends over whether public demonstrations 
could actually make things better.


“He said, ‘Don’t you think that that needs to be done from the inside?’” 
his mother, Joni Kueng, recalled him saying after he watched protesters 
block a highway years ago. “That’s part of the reason why he wanted to 
become a police officer — and a black police officer on top of it — is 
to bridge that gap in the community, change the narrative between the 
officers and the black community.”


As hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated against the police after 
Mr. Floyd’s killing on May 25, Mr. Kueng became part of a national 
debate over police violence toward black people, a symbol of the very 
sort of policing he had long said he wanted to stop.


Derek Chauvin, the officer who placed his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck for 
more than eight minutes, has been most widely associated with the case. 
He faces charges of second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter; 
Mr. Kueng and two other former officers were charged with aiding and 
abetting the killing. At 26, Mr. Kueng was the youngest and least 
experienced officer at the scene, on only his third shift as a full officer.


The arrest of Mr. Kueng, whose mother is white and whose father was from 
Nigeria, has brought anguish to his friends and family. “It’s a gut 
punch,” Ms. Kueng said. “Here you are, you’ve raised this child, you 
know who he is inside and out. We’re such a racially diverse family. To 
be wrapped up in a racially motivated incident like this is just 
unfathomable.”


Two of Mr. Kueng’s siblings, Taylor and Radiance, both of whom are 
African-American, called for the arrests of all four officers, including 
their brother. They joined protests in Minneapolis.


In a Facebook Live video, Taylor Kueng, 21, appeared with the head of 
the local N.A.A.C.P. to speak of the injustice that befell Mr. Floyd, 
acknowledging being related to Mr. Kueng but never mentioning his name.


Mr. Kueng’s sister Radiance posted a video of Mr. Floyd’s final minutes 
on Facebook. “Just broke my heart,” she wrote. In an interview, she said 
that as a black man, her brother should have intervened. She said she 
planned to change her last name in part because she did not want to be 
associated with her brother’s actions.


“I don’t care if it was his third day at work or not,” she said. “He 
knows right from wrong.”


A Full House

Through his life, Mr. Kueng straddled two worlds, black and white.

Mr. Kueng, whose full name is J. Alexander Kueng (pronounced “king”), 
was raised by his mother, whom he lived with until last year. His father 
was absent.


As a child, Mr. Kueng sometimes asked for siblings. Joni Kueng, who 
lived in the Shingle Creek neighborhood in north Minneapolis, signed up 
with an African-American adoption agency.


When Alex was 5, Ms. Kueng brought home a baby boy who had been 
abandoned at a hospital. Alex soon asked for a sister; Radiance arrived 
when he was 11. Taylor and a younger brother came in 2009, when Alex was 
about 16.


Radiance Kueng, 21, said their adoptive mother did not talk about race. 
“Race was not really a topic in our household, unfortunately,” she said. 
“For her adopting as many black kids as she did — I didn’t get that 
conversation from her. I feel like that should have been a conversation 
that was had.”


Growing up, Mr. Kueng and his family made repeated trips to Haiti, 
helping at 

[Marxism] Chris Maisano’s class-reductionism apologetics | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Re: [Marxism] WSJ editorial: " Mr. Trump heads for what could be an historic repudiation that would take the Republican Senate down with him."

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Question -- Does this editorial indicate that the ruling class has already
soured on Trump and this is the first step towards persuading the
Republicans to dump him and try to win with Pence (or at least save the
Senate?) ---

OR is this a "cri de coeur" from the true believers who desperately want
Trump to win again and are trying to SHOCK him into running a REAL campaign?

I'm not sure, just reading the editorial --

(but one thing I AM sure about --- It sure is FUN to watch the "thieves
fall out" (though thieves is much too mild -- it's more like the ending of
Reservoir Dogs [we can hope, right?])

(Mike Meeropol)



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Re: [Marxism] Gone With the Wind

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The first time I heard a great Mozart opera, I remember how sexist and classist 
its plot was. I left the music hall filled with wonder at how good the music 
was and how socially defective the plot and lyrics were.  Nobody is suggesting 
that we throw Mozart out the window.  One can focus on the beautiful while not 
forgetting the ugly and the context within which it was written.

> On June 26, 2020 at 7:43 PM Michael Meeropol  wrote:
> 
> Here's an example --- In many Marx brothers films, there are incredibly 
> stereotyped blacks hanging around, dancing, etc. --- Groucho would often 
> refer to them as "darkies" --- You have to be inured to those elements but I 
> expect that the more sensitive one is, the less likely is one to be willing 
> to ignore that shit and focus on the incredibly clever humor ---
> 
> I wonder if I could stomach watching "A Day at the Races" again ...Maybe 
> just stop watching near the end!!!
> 
> 
> > > Most movies made before the 1960s, that come close to 
> dealing with race or with having racial or racialized components or figures 
> in them, are going to be suspect on these grounds. This is going to be a 
> case-by-case search and decision-making process, and there will be many close 
> calls, though all movies should have a copy at a central museum of film. I am 
> for keeping "Casablanca" in regular use, as I deem its racist components too 
> minor to cause such a good and classic film to disappear from public 
> availability. But that sort of judgment must be applied to many films; some 
> will be put away, most (I suspect) will survive. WH
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[Marxism] Emerging Republican election strategy

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Combine closed polling stations, increased Covid-19 numbers, eliminating
mail-in ballots in some states, and the possible closure of the USPS this
fall (making mail-in ballots impossible), and you get a Republican election
strategy that might possibly work.
https://oaklandsocialist.com/2020/06/27/republican-election-strategy-starting-to-emerge/

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[Marxism] Building the Party Through Struggle: A Response to French and Gong - New Politics

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By Ashley Smith and Charles Post

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[Marxism] WSJ editorial: " Mr. Trump heads for what could be an historic repudiation that would take the Republican Senate down with him."

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The Trump Referendum
Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y; June 26, 2020

President Trump may soon need a new nickname for "Sleepy Joe" Biden. How 
does President-elect sound? On present trend that's exactly what Mr. 
Biden will be on Nov. 4, as Mr. Trump heads for what could be an 
historic repudiation that would take the Republican Senate down with him.


Mr. Trump refuses to acknowledge what every poll now says is true: His 
approval rating has fallen to the 40% or below that is George H.W. Bush 
and Jimmy Carter territory. They're the last two Presidents to be denied 
a second term. This isn't 2017 when Mr. Trump reached similar depths 
after failing to repeal ObamaCare while blaming Mitch McConnell and Paul 
Ryan. He regained support with tax reform and a buoyant economy that 
really was lifting all incomes.


---

Now the election is four months away, voters know him very well, and Mr. 
Trump has reverted to his worst form. His record fighting the 
coronavirus is better than his critics claim after a bad start in late 
February and March. He mobilized federal resources to help hard-hit 
states, especially New York.


But he wasted his chance to show leadership by turning his daily 
pandemic pressers into brawls with the bear-baiting press and any 
politician who didn't praise him to the skies. Lately he has all but 
given up even talking about the pandemic when he might offer realism and 
hope about the road ahead even as the country reopens. His default now 
is defensive self-congratulation.


The country also wants firm but empathetic leadership after the death of 
George Floyd, but Mr. Trump offers combative tweets that inflame. Not 
long ago Mr. Trump tweeted that a 75-year old man who was pushed by 
police in Buffalo might be an antifa activist. He offered no evidence.


Americans don't like racial enmity and they want their President to 
reduce it. Mr. Trump has preached racial harmony on occasion, but he 
gives it all back with riffs that misjudge the national moment. His "law 
and order" message might resonate if disorder and rioting continue 
through the summer, but only if Mr. Trump is also talking about racial 
reconciliation and opportunity for all.


Mr. Trump has little time to recover. The President's advisers say that 
he trailed Hillary Clinton by this much at this point in 2016, that they 
haven't had a chance to define Mr. Biden, and that as the election nears 
voters will understand the binary choice. Perhaps. But in 2016 Mrs. 
Clinton was as unpopular as Mr. Trump, while Mr. Biden is not.


Mr. Biden hasn't even had to campaign to take a large lead. He rarely 
leaves his Delaware basement, he dodges most issues, and his only real 
message is that he's not Donald Trump. He says he's a uniter, not a 
divider. He wants racial peace and moderate police reform. He favors 
protests but opposes riots and violence.


Some Democrats are literally advising Mr. Biden to barely campaign at 
all. Eliminate the risk of a mental stumble that will raise doubts about 
his declining capacity that was obvious in the primaries. Let Mr. Trump 
remind voters each day why they don't want four more years of tumult and 
narcissism.


Mr. Trump's base of 35% or so will never leave, but the swing voters who 
stood by him for three and half years has fallen away in the last two 
months. This includes suburban women, independents, and seniors who took 
a risk on him in 2016 as an outsider who would shake things up. Now 
millions of Americans are close to deciding that four more years are 
more risk than they can stand.


---

As of now Mr. Trump has no second-term agenda, or even a message beyond 
four more years of himself. His recent events in Tulsa and Arizona were 
dominated by personal grievances. He resorted to his familiar themes 
from 2016 like reducing immigration and denouncing the press, but he 
offered nothing for those who aren't already persuaded.


Mr. Trump's advisers have an agenda that would speak to opportunity for 
Americans of all races -- school choice for K-12, vocational education 
as an alternative to college, expanded health-care choice, building on 
the opportunity zones in tax reform, and more. The one issue on which 
voters now give him an edge over Mr. Biden is the economy. An agenda to 
revive the economy after the pandemic, and restore the gains for workers 
of his first three years, would appeal to millions.


Perhaps Mr. Trump lacks the self-awareness and discipline to make this 
case. He may be so thrown off by his falling polls that he simply can't 
do it. If that's true he should understand that he is headed for a 
defeat that will reward 

Re: [Marxism] GONE WITH THE WIND

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On 6/27/20 12:10 AM, Ken Hiebert via Marxism wrote:

"When even people
with college education talk about cinema,
we post movie reviews from pedestrian
hacks like James Agee…”

It seemed clear to me when Louis posted the Agee review, it was not to further 
our understanding of the movie, or intended to serve as a review, but rather to 
illustrate the racist support for the movie.  With that purpose in mind, it was 
useful to post it.


James Agee was no pedestrian hack.

From Wikipedia:

After graduation, Agee was hired by the Time Inc. as a reporter, and 
moved to New York City, where he wrote for Fortune magazine in 
1932-1937, although he is better known for his later film criticism in 
Time and The Nation. In 1934, he published his only volume of poetry, 
Permit Me Voyage, with a foreword by Archibald MacLeish.


In the summer of 1936, during the Great Depression, Agee spent eight 
weeks on assignment for Fortune with photographer Walker Evans, living 
among sharecroppers in Alabama. While Fortune did not publish his 
article, Agee turned the material into a book titled Let Us Now Praise 
Famous Men (1941).[6] It sold only 600 copies before being remaindered. 
Another manuscript from the same assignment discovered in 2003, titled 
Cotton Tenants, is believed to be the essay submitted to Fortune 
editors. The 30,000 word text, accompanied by photographs by Walker 
Evans, was published as a book in June 2013. John Jeremiah Sullivan 
writes in the Summer 2013 issue of BookForum that, "This is not merely 
an early, partial draft of Famous Men, in other words, not just a 
different book; it's a different Agee, an unknown Agee. Its excellence 
should enhance his reputation."[7] A significant difference between the 
works is the use of original names in Cotton Tenants; Agee assigned 
fictional names to the subjects of Famous Men in order to protect their 
identity.[8]



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[Marxism] [INTERVIEW] Kimberlé Crenshaw: Liberty. Equality. Intersectionality. An antidote against fascism. | Lefteast

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