[Marxism] 6 ways you're about to get screwed by the job market
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Re: [Marxism] Thailand: Smells like a coup, tastes like a coup, looks like a coup
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 5/22/14 11:09 PM, Michael Smith via Marxism wrote: It's a … Thaidan! Well, not exactly. The Euromaidan politicians (as opposed to ordinary Ukrainians who were sick and tired of corruption, police brutality, etc.) favored deeper penetration of the economy by means of integration into the EU. But in Thailand, the section of the ruling class that was hostile to Thaksin were much more like Yanukovych, opposing foreign investments. Thaksin was deeply committed to neoliberalism and globalization. As I pointed out in my article on Thailand, the anti-imperialist left is by no means unified on supporting the red shirt agenda. In fact, Global Research, one of Putin's biggest fans, has been vehement in its opposition to Thaksin: http://www.globalresearch.ca/thailands-military-an-important-independent-institution/5360806 The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in front of which Thaksin Shinawatra spent his last evening as Thailand’s prime minister, and whose corporate-financier interests it serves has backed Shinawatra for nearly a decade, has recently published an op-ed titled, “Can Thailand Break Its Coup Addiction?” Despite Thailand being run openly by convicted criminal, mass murder, and fugitive Thaksin Shinawatra, who was not elected, not on the ballot, and is not even in the country, the CFR’s piece implies that the current regime is a legitimate “parliamentary democracy,” and that coups are outdated, unnecessary, and undermine the country’s “democracy.” Should the CFR have its way, Thaksin Shinawatra would not only be allowed to continue running the country via his nepotist-appointed sister, current prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra – already a breathtaking display of banana republic-style corruption – but eventually return both to Thailand and to power, to repay the West for the last decade of stalwart support it has provided him. --- Also, that mouthpiece of the American ruling class that can be relied upon for its steadfast opposition to poor people everywhere has a position much closer to Giles Ji Ungpakorn than me: Thomas Fuller, NY Times, May 22 2014: The coup was seen as a victory for the elites in Thailand who have grown disillusioned with popular democracy and have sought for years to diminish the electoral power of Thaksin Shinawatra, a former prime minister who commands support in the rural north. Unable to win elections, the opposition has instead called for an appointed prime minister and pleaded with the military for months to step in. As soldiers spread out throughout Bangkok on Thursday, the generals issued a series of announcements, declaring most of the constitution “terminated,” banning gatherings of more than five people, imposing a curfew, and shutting schools. The coup was at least the 12th military takeover since Thailand abandoned the absolute monarchy in 1932. But unlike many of the previous coups that involved infighting among generals, Thursday’s takeover had as subtext the political awakening among rural Thais who have supported Thaksin and benefited from patronage and policies such as universal health care and microloans. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Neil Davidson: The revolutionary process in Ukraine is not over yet | LeftEast
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Q: How can you describe the overthrow of Yanukovych’s regime in Ukraine in terms of historical materialist social theory? A: The revolutionary process in Ukraine isn’t over yet, and in a sense how we define revolutions depends on their ultimate outcomes, but the notion of ‘political revolution’ seems to be the most accurate way to describe the likely short-term outcome. By this I mean a revolution which doesn’t fundamentally change the nature of society, the mode of production. In other words, it isn’t a ‘social revolution’, but one which does change the personnel and perhaps the actual nature of the regime. Another way of looking at it would to say that political revolutions occur within the state rather than transforming the state. This is not to denigrate the courage or creativity of the masses in Maidan or in similar revolutions – some of the greatest events of the 20th century like the Mexican or Iranian revolutions were political in this sense: its an argument about outcomes, about consequences, not processes. full: http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/ukraine-political-revolution/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] A Bohemian Comic Rhapsody
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[Marxism] Most US drone strikes in Pakistan attack houses
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[Marxism] Home Planet News Online First Issue and Onward
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I would like to recommend that people take a look at a new online poetry magazine called Home Planet News. The following note about the magazine is by its editor, Frank Murphey. There is also a mention of a memorial for the poet and novelist, D.H. Melhem at the Poetry House in NYC. DH died last year. She was also the poetry editor for Socialism and Democracy and the author of a very good book about Gwendalyn Brooks. GS * We have received many wonderful comments on our first issue of HPN OnLine. Under advice, We set up a Facebook page which (in the first week) received nearly 100 Likes. Please, it is in all of our interest to get people to our site. There are so many brilliant works, poems, fiction, reviews that deserve as large an audience as possible. Help get the word out. If you are on Facebook, Like us on Facebook, get your friends to like us on Facebook. And don't stop there. Tell people about us, email about us, speak about us, write about us. One of the reasons HPN OnLine will accept poems that have been previously publish in small editions is that we are committed to getting the largest readership of our works as possible. If you can think of any way HPN OnLine can improve our outreach, please let us know. We are hoping to get out a second edition in October and will begin accepting works for the next issue in June. On Saturday, June 7th, there will be a memorial for D. H. Melham. In will be held at Poet's House, 10 River Terrace NYC between 3 and 5 pm. A reception will follow. Please come and help celebrate the life and work of this wonderful artist. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] UKRAINE: Excuse Me Mister: How Far Is It From Simferopol To Grozny?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Posted in direct response to the Tahrir-ICN article in the subject line cited by Louis (with typos corrected): http://tahriricn.wordpress.com/2014/05/19/ukraine-excuse-me-mister-how-far-is-it-from-simferopol-to-grozny/ I can only agree with the moral thrust of articles such as this. It is important to combat the recrudescence of (for lack of a better word, since the phenomenon is broader than this) “neo-Stalinism”, this time though, rubbing shoulders directly with conscious reactionaries of the most retrograde sort. The photo of Zizek was particularly repulsive, especially considering his latest article on Ukraine, which was not bad for Zizek, except that he too ends it with a rejection of geo-political (and I would add, economic) analysis as (I paraphrase) “having nothing to do with liberatory projects”. Dovetailing therefore with the apparent thrust of this article, on the same question! Hence agreement here comes with a critical conditional: Is ALL geopolitical analysis “obtuse geopolitical analysis”? When is it not “obtuse”? IOW, what is the place of objective geo-political and economic analysis in a revolutionary movement? I have been raising this issue consistently for some time since it emerged with the Libyan and Syrian Arab Springs, and unfortunately the issue has become rather glaring with respect to Ukraine events. The issue is the general abandonment of ANY substantial perspective on US or EU imperialism. Attempts to raise a perspective on this in context are met with varying degrees of irritation or dismissal by those whose perspective is completely aligned with this article., At best it may be met with homilies about how we all agree that US/EU imperialism is of course “bad”, lets move on. Or that all imperialisms are “the same”, equally bad, which is false on its face. This silence has been particularly egregious with respect to Ukraine, “having observed a stubborn refusal to acknowledge”, or make substantial sense of, very clear evidence of direct intervention of US and EU imperialism, both over the long term and more immediately. US intervention in particular is intimately bound up with the role of the fascists, in creating an unintended stage for the fascists to act. In an aside, it must be pointed out that the fascists or far right alone did not “lead” Maidan; it is led by the *broad right*, from neoliberals/neocons all the way to the actual fascists forming a defacto, if unintended, bloc (because the fascist role IS an embarrassment to the US/EU imperialists, if not to Putin). I really, honestly don’t understand this attitude. My best explanation is that some do not want to “resemble” our troglodyte opponents, fear of mixing banners and so forth. These are legitimate practical political concerns – we DON’T want to mix our banners with them. But we won’t avoid doing so by abandoning geo-political analysis – to them! Instead, we need to appropriate such analysis FROM their control, and render it, precisely, non-obtuse, by converting it into a guide to show the way to a real concrete solidarity, beyond abstract moral stances, with the revolutions, uprisings and mass movements taking place outside our own countries. After all, how can we feel shame at our privileges, and at our own historic failures that have in fact left the Arab Spring and the people of Ukraine in the lurch, and at the same time, refuse to criticize, in concrete relation to events, the very imperialism that is the objective basis of those very same privileges and failures??? Do you see the problem here? Sincerely -Matt Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] U.S. Planned to Block Allende long before 1970 Election
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[Marxism] Filming the Fear Index » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Godzilla, Captain America, Fukushima and Drones Filming the Fear Index by LOUIS PROYECT Taking a break from my customary fare of small-budget radical films that get short shrift in the mainstream media, I decided to check out “Godzilla” and “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”, two films playing at Multiplexes everywhere. While my primary motivation was to soak up some mindless entertainment, there was the added incentive of the films as apparently having something in common with my regular agitprop diet. Director Gareth Edwards told the Telegraph that his remake of Godzilla was supposed to reflect the questions that the incident at Fukushima raised. This would not be the first attempt by Edwards to use a monster movie as a vehicle for politics. Filmed near the Mexican-US border, his 2010 “Monsters” was widely interpreted as a comment on the immigration debate. As for Captain America, he is trying to preempt a cabal taking over the planet through the use of drones. Sound familiar? Well, this is what co-director Joe Russo told the NY Times: “We were trying to find a bridge to the same sort of questions that Barack Obama has to address. If you’re saying with a drone strike, we can eradicate an enemy of the state, what if you say with 100 drone strikes, we can eradicate 100? With 1,000, we can eradicate 1,000? At what point do you stop?” full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/23/filming-the-fear-index/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] test -- please ignore
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Re: [Marxism] test -- please ignore again
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[Marxism] more test
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[Marxism] Piketty findings undercut by errors - FT.com
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[Marxism] A Troublesome Racial Smog » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Problems with Nicholas Wade’s A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History A Troublesome Racial Smog by ALAN GOODMAN Nicholas Wade’s book, A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History, is what the title suggests: a troubling view of human history. A Troublesome Inheritance is troublesome, but not for the reason he proposes: his courageous telling of hard truths about genetic differences among races. Rather, Wade’s lack of understanding of history, the social sciences, population genetics, and the scientific process is troublesome. Not getting the basics right leads to his linking of all manner of lived inequalities to genetic differences among races. His logical errors set the clock back more than a century on public understandings of human genetic variation. http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/23/a-troublesome-racial-smog/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Eduardo Galeano Disavows His Book ‘The Open Veins’ - NYTimes.com
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 5/23/14 7:38 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/24/books/eduardo-galeano-disavows-his-book-the-open-veins.html Maybe Galeano now hates his book because Hugo Chavez recommended it (and helped increase MR's coffers.) In this interview he sounds like a Venezuelan contra: http://aristeguinoticias.com/0603/mundo/debate-por-hugo-chavez-mario-vargas-llosa-y-eduardo-galeano/ En 2011, Galeano declaró en una entrevista en Montevideo que Chávez quizás era un dictador, pero “un dictador rarísimo” porque ganó varias elecciones limpias. “Hugo Chávez es un dictador, sin embargo, es un curioso dictador. Ganó ocho elecciones en cinco años. Y ahora, recientemente, se sometió a un referéndum en el que preguntaba a los venezolanos si querían el modelo de Estado que él proponía. Es el único presidente de la historia de la humanidad en hacerlo. Y ganó con el 60 por ciento”. Agregó: “Uno enciende la televisión venezolana y lo primero que ve es a miles de ‘periodistas’ diciendo que en Venezuela no hay libertad de expresión. Uno enciende la radio venezolana y hay miles de ‘periodistas’, analistas, opositores de Chávez, diciendo que allí no hay libertad de expresión. Y uno abre el diario venezolano y hay un título enorme que dice: AQUÍ NO HAY LIBERTAD DE EXPRESIÓN. “En los últimos cinco años tan sólo un medio de comunicación ha sido clausurado. Pero no fue clausurado por el gobierno de Chávez, sino por estos ‘demócratas’ (se refería a la derecha de Venezuela)… Extraña dictadura y extraños demócratas. Yo creo que en Venezuela hay un divorcio genial: el divorcio entre la realidad y la realidad virtual…” Un año antes, en 2010, Galeano también habló sobre los medios de Venezuela al diario español El País. A pregunta expresa de ese diario sobre los “conflictos” de Chávez con la prensa, reflexionó: “Hay una demonización de Chávez. Antes Cuba era la mala de la película, ahora ya no tanto. Pero siempre hay algún malo. Sin malo, la película no se puede hacer. Y si no hay gente peligrosa, ¿qué hacemos con los gastos militares? El mundo tiene que defenderse. El mundo tiene una economía de guerra funcionando y necesita enemigos. Si no existen, los fabrica. No siempre los diablos son diablos y los ángeles, ángeles”. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Open Borders discussion
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == *There has been an interesting debate about open borders in the letters column of the British left-wing paper *Weekly Worker* in recent weeks. All the letters on the subject have been put together in the current issue. Below we are reprinting some extracts from some of the letters supporting workers’ right to free movement:* It has been asked what Marx would have done. We can easily answer by describing what the First International, of which he was a member, did. They organised! The International announced that “the emancipation of labour is neither a local nor a national, but a social problem, embracing all countries” and that “Each member of the International Association, on removing his domicile from one country to another, will receive the fraternal support of the Associated Working Men”. Furthermore, “To counteract the intrigues of capitalists – always ready, in cases of strikes and lockouts, to misuse the foreign workman as a tool against the native workman – is one of the particular functions which our society has hitherto performed with success. It is one of the great purposes of the Association to make the workmen of different countries not only feel but act as brethren and comrades in the army of emancipation.” See: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/05/24/workers-rights-and-open-borders/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] How I Got Kicked Out Of The 9/11 Museum: Gothamist
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Re: [Marxism] Eduardo Galeano Disavows His Book ‘The Open Veins’ - NYTimes.com
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 5/23/14 8:40 PM, Ernestleif via Marxism wrote: Open veins helped form me. As Did USA. If it's true then I'll miss EG! I was hasty. The Galeano interview supported Chavez. I misread his irony. I read Open Veins in 1967, after joining the SWP. Around the same time I read Malcolm X's autobiography and John Gerassi's The Great Fear in Latin America. They were as formative as anything I would read by Marx et al. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Eduardo Galeano Disavows His Book ‘The Open Veins’ - NYTimes.com
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == lord knows more kids today should be reading the USA trilogy! The Big Money by dos passos did it for me. Brian McKenna -Original Message- From: Ernestleif via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu To: Brian mckenna...@aol.com Sent: Fri, May 23, 2014 8:40 pm Subject: Re: [Marxism] Eduardo Galeano Disavows His Book ‘The Open Veins’ - NYTimes.com == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Open veins helped form me. As Did USA. If it's true then I'll miss EG! Sent from my iPhone On May 23, 2014, at 8:13 PM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == were you being sarcastic Louis about him sounding like a contra? Admittedly I used googletranslate but it seems very clearly a critique by Galeano of the Venezuelan contras ps kudos to Michael for his quotes; let's hope Galeano hasn't gone down the Dos Passos road, but if so it's a very good parallel; lord knows more kids today should be reading the USA trilogy! 2014-05-23 19:56 GMT-04:00 Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 5/23/14 7:38 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/24/books/eduardo-galeano- disavows-his-book-the-open-veins.html Maybe Galeano now hates his book because Hugo Chavez recommended it (and helped increase MR's coffers.) In this interview he sounds like a Venezuelan contra: http://aristeguinoticias.com/0603/mundo/debate-por-hugo- chavez-mario-vargas-llosa-y-eduardo-galeano/ En 2011, Galeano declaró en una entrevista en Montevideo que Chávez quizás era un dictador, pero “un dictador rarísimo” porque ganó varias elecciones limpias. “Hugo Chávez es un dictador, sin embargo, es un curioso dictador. Ganó ocho elecciones en cinco años. Y ahora, recientemente, se sometió a un referéndum en el que preguntaba a los venezolanos si querían el modelo de Estado que él proponía. Es el único presidente de la historia de la humanidad en hacerlo. Y ganó con el 60 por ciento”. Agregó: “Uno enciende la televisión venezolana y lo primero que ve es a miles de ‘periodistas’ diciendo que en Venezuela no hay libertad de expresión. Uno enciende la radio venezolana y hay miles de ‘periodistas’, analistas, opositores de Chávez, diciendo que allí no hay libertad de expresión. Y uno abre el diario venezolano y hay un título enorme que dice: AQUÍ NO HAY LIBERTAD DE EXPRESIÓN. “En los últimos cinco años tan sólo un medio de comunicación ha sido clausurado. Pero no fue clausurado por el gobierno de Chávez, sino por estos ‘demócratas’ (se refería a la derecha de Venezuela)… Extraña dictadura y extraños demócratas. Yo creo que en Venezuela hay un divorcio genial: el divorcio entre la realidad y la realidad virtual…” Un año antes, en 2010, Galeano también habló sobre los medios de Venezuela al diario español El País. A pregunta expresa de ese diario sobre los “conflictos” de Chávez con la prensa, reflexionó: “Hay una demonización de Chávez. Antes Cuba era la mala de la película, ahora ya no tanto. Pero siempre hay algún malo. Sin malo, la película no se puede hacer. Y si no hay gente peligrosa, ¿qué hacemos con los gastos militares? El mundo tiene que defenderse. El mundo tiene una economía de guerra funcionando y necesita enemigos. Si no existen, los fabrica. No siempre los diablos son diablos y los ángeles, ángeles”. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/ernestleif%40gmail.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mckenna193%40aol.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Eduardo Galeano Disavows His Book ‘The Open Veins’ - NYTimes.com
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Larry Rohter, the Times reporter who wrote this rather dumb article, was a Times correspondent in Venezuela. He vigorously attacked Oliver Stone's film, South of the Border, about Venezuela and Hugo Chavez. Stone replied in an rebuttal published here: http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/oliver_stone_responds_to_new_york_times_attack_20100628 Among Stone's comments were: Rohter should have disclosed his own conflict of interest in this review. The film criticizes the New York Times for its editorial board’s endorsement of the military coup of April 11, 2002 against the democratically elected government of Venezuela, which was embarrassing to the Times. Moreover, Rohter himself wrote an article on April 12 that went even further than the Times’ endorsement of the coup: “Neither the overthrow of Mr. Chavez, a former army colonel, nor of Mr. Mahuad two years ago can be classified as a conventional Latin American military coup. The armed forces did not actually take power on Thursday. It was the ousted president’s supporters who appear to have been responsible for deaths that numbered barely 12 rather than hundreds or thousands, and political rights and guarantees were restored rather than suspended.” – Larry Rohter, New York Times, April 12, 2002 These allegations that the coup was not a coup – not only by Rohter — prompted a rebuttal by Rohter’s colleague at the New York Times, Tim Weiner, who wrote a Sunday Week in Review piece two days later entitled “A Coup By Any Other Name.” (New York Times, April 14, 2002) Unlike the NYT editorial board, which issued a grudging retraction of their pro-coup stance a few days later (included in our film), Rohter seems to have clung to the right-wing fantasies about the coup. It is not surprising that someone who supports the military overthrow of a democratically elected government would not like a documentary like this one, which celebrates the triumphs of electoral democracy in South America over the last decade. During our phone conversation, Rohter got more agitated as I steadfastly refused to concede anything about what Open Veins tells us about Latin America's history. He seemed to think that MR Press is obliged to make note of Galiano's remarks, but I said that would be ridiculous. Should we put a blurb on the book, stating that the author has now repudiated his book (which, by the way, he did not)? I asked him, what publisher would do that, especially when we think the book is right on the money. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Catastrophism incarnate
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[Marxism] The race for oil and Ecuador's indigenous people
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