Re: [Marxism] NYRB review of Naomi Klein
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * [reply inline / bottom-posted] on Thu, 20 Nov 2014 22:36:34 -0500, Marv Gandall via Marxism wrote: On Nov 20, 2014, at 10:27 PM, Ratbag Media via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: The level of myopia flagged by some of the purists who seek to denigrate Klein's perspective amazes me. [...] I may be mistaken, but I'd be surprised if she means by the end of capitalism the economic and political expropriation of the bourgeoisie and the replacement of private by public ownership of the major industries, as happened in the USSR, China, and Cuba, consistent with the traditional understanding of the socialist movement. Naomi seems to have more in mind a radical reform of the system and strict regulation of the corporations. [...] Socialism in one country - as in USSR, China, and Cuba - is a dead end and as we have seen turns into its opposite. Stalinism and its junior off-shoots of Maoism, Gueverism, Enverism, etc. did and will get us nowhere fast. In fact, these sub-standard 'socialist' ideologies have to be overcome as barriers to the socialist/communist advance that the world and its people need. And how anyone can begin to imagine that the environment cannot be of primary concern to Marxists and a Marxist program is incredible. Capitalism and its ever-readiness to extract profit regardless of consequences is what is damaging workers' and other working people's lives and the planet as whole. One way or another, capitalism will kill us if we don't stop it. Naomi Klein is an important writer and her contribution to the debate on capitalism's destruction of the planet is something no Marxist can ignore. -- Jim (j...@redunity.org) on 21/11/2014 NUJ 024828 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Ilya Budraitskis: The Perpetual “Trotskyist” Conspiracy
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Who Is Behind the Trotskyist Conspiracy? Ilya Budraitskis November 21, 2014 OpenLeft.ru Speaking at a meeting of his United People’s Front a couple days ago, Vladimir Putin said, “Trotsky had this [saying]: the movement is everything, the ultimate aim is nothing. We need an ultimate aim.” Eduard Bernstein’s proposition, misquoted and attributed for some reason to Leon Trotsky, is probably the Russian president’s most common rhetorical standby. He has repeated it for many years to audiences of journalists and functionaries while discussing social policy, construction delays at Olympics sites or the dissatisfaction of the so-called creative class. “Democracy is not anarchism and not Trotskyism,” Putin warnedalmost two years ago. Putin’s anti-Trotskyist invectives do not depend on the context nor are they influenced by his audience, and much less are they veiled threats to the small political groups in Russia today who claim to be heirs of the Fourth International. Putin’s Trotskyism is of a different kind. Its causes are found not in the present but in the past, buried deep in the political unconscious of the last generation of the Soviet nomenklatura. The strange myth of the Trotskyist conspiracy, which emerged decades ago, in another age and a different country, has experienced a rebirth throughout Putin’s rule. Sensing, apparently, the president’s personal weakness for “Trotskyism,” obliging media and corrupted experts have turned this Trotskyism into an integral part of the grand propaganda style. Until he died, the indefatigable “Trotskyist” Boris Berezovsky spun his nasty web from London. Until he turned into a conservative patriot, the incendiary “Trotskyist” Eduard Limonov seduced young people with extremism. Camouflaged “Trotskyists” from the Bush and, later, the Obama administrations have continued to sow war and color revolutions. Unmasking “Trotskyists” has become such an important ritual that for good luck, as it were, the famous Dmitry Kiselyov decided to launch a new media resource by invoking it. So what is the history of this conspiracy? And what do Trotskyists have to do with it? Read the rest here: http://therussianreader.wordpress.com/2014/11/21/budraitskis-trotskyist-conspiracy/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: The Business of “Art vs. Commerce” in Hollywood » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Alejandro Iñárritu's Birdman and Alex Ross Perry's Listen Up, Philip The Business of “Art vs. Commerce” in Hollywood by LOUIS PROYECT Starting around this time each year I try to catch up with the American narrative films that I anticipate my colleagues in New York Film Critics Online will be considering for awards at our yearly meeting in early December. Unlike those who get paid to review junk like “Horrible Bosses 2”, I write about films that my colleagues tend to ignore. As one fellow pointed out a couple of years ago, he never reviews documentaries because his readers do not go to see them. For the most part, the films that I put on my list are those that are likely to make the final cut at the NYFCO meeting. These tend to be those that the New Yorker Magazine and other arbiters of middlebrow taste deem “intelligent” and “daring”. Inured as I am to such judgments, I see watching them more as a chore than anything else. All in all, it reminds me of the cramming I did in for high school geometry finals. This week I made time in my busy schedule for “Birdman” and “Listen Up, Paul”, films that have main characters involved with making art. In “Birdman”, Michael Keaton plays the former star of the Birdman movies now in his sixties who is directing a Broadway play based on Raymond Carver’s short story collection “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”. The eponymous antihero of “Listen Up, Paul” is a young novelist who develops a friendship with an older novelist clearly based on Philip Roth. With allusions to Raymond Carver and Phillip Roth, what could go wrong? Clearly we are miles ahead of “The Transformers” and “Pirates of the Caribbean” but when you start a thousand miles behind the marker set by a Stanley Kubrick or an Alfred Hitchcock, the prospects are guarded at best. full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/21/the-business-of-art-vs-commerce-in-hollywood/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Oil Price: Russia can survive an oil price war
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Re: [Marxism] NYRB review of Naomi Klein
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On Nov 20, 2014, at 11:30 PM, Joseph Green via Marxism wrote: Klein prettifies the carbon tax, and does not recognize it as a market measure, no better than the rest of them; This is the purest ultraleft idiocy. As I have pointed out--and as Green absurdly ignores--the capitalism system is not about to be overthrown by a proletarian revolution, not in less time than we have before the human environment is irrevocably destroyed. Our struggle therefore absolutely must center on demands for effective measures operative within the logic of the capitalist system. Effective carbon taxation is not merely better--it is the ONLY way to make the intensification of pollution so UNPROFITABLE that the capitalist market totally abandons it and is forced, by its own logic, to recognize and act on the real, and ever-increasing, profitability of investment in the whole range of maturing carbon-eliminating energy technologies. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures. Herakleitos of Ephesos _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Grocon, the CFMEU and bourgeois 'justice'
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[Marxism] Fwd: Obama should be more like Reagan, grow some cojones and grant a blanket amnesty | Gustavo Arellano | Comment is free | The Guardian
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Re: [Marxism] NYRB review of Naomi Klein
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Ted Glick makes an argument very similar to Shane's here: http://ecowatch.com/2014/11/17/naomi-klein-this-changes-every-thing/ It's certainly true, as Shane and Ted say, that the odds on making a socialist revolution in time to save the planet and its species are frighteningly small. But that doesn't mean pushing only those demands which supposedly make continuing pollution profitable. It means building a global movement for socialism which alone -- even short of revolution -- has the power to force substantial cuts in emissions. And which in consequence means a movement giving millions of workers the awareness that they have to go all the way because they see capital and its NGO allies dragging their feet. Given the current weakness of movements for socialism, especially in the biggest polluting countries (US and China), we need to think strategically about demands which build those movements, and argue for them to take up transitional climate demands. What's more, a workers' movement fighting for confiscatory carbon taxes is more likely to scare the ruling class into substantial cuts in emissions far more than a movement which starts with an acceptable demand which lowers profits just enough to nudge the bosses to shift their investments from dirty to clean industries. On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Shane Mage via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On Nov 20, 2014, at 11:30 PM, Joseph Green via Marxism wrote: Klein prettifies the carbon tax, and does not recognize it as a market measure, no better than the rest of them; This is the purest ultraleft idiocy. As I have pointed out--and as Green absurdly ignores--the capitalism system is not about to be overthrown by a proletarian revolution, not in less time than we have before the human environment is irrevocably destroyed. Our struggle therefore absolutely must center on demands for effective measures operative within the logic of the capitalist system. Effective carbon taxation is not merely better--it is the ONLY way to make the intensification of pollution so UNPROFITABLE that the capitalist market totally abandons it and is forced, by its own logic, to recognize and act on the real, and ever-increasing, profitability of investment in the whole range of maturing carbon-eliminating energy technologies. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures. Herakleitos of Ephesos _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Documenting the Vanishing Rio Grande | VICE News
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * In the course of his journey, McDonald has seen the river transform from the opulent headwaters of Colorado's San Juan Mountains into something akin to a drainage ditch in El Paso. Lecturing during a stopover at West Texas' Sul Ross State University, McDonald projected slides of his expedition. In one photograph, the Rio Grande was little more than a trickle, and McDonald was frozen mid-air as he effortlessly leapt over the big river. I've spoken with everyone from farmers who barely made it out of the third grade to PhD professors, and the ones who are very in tune with the river have all the same observations, McDonald said. The river is much less reliable, there's much less of it, and the quality is not nearly the same as what it was. Atmospheric temperatures in the Upper Rio Grande — from the river's headwaters in Colorado to Paso del Norte, Texas some 350 miles downstream — has been steadily increasing since 1970 — a trend that the US Bureau of Reclamation expects to continue. And with river flows decreasing, there isn't enough volume to carry sediment along the course of the Rio Grande, which causes it to accumulate. When that happens the amount of water the river can absorb during a deluge decreases, leading to frequent flooding. full: https://news.vice.com/article/documenting-the-vanishing-rio-grande _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Business of “Art vs. Commerce” in Hollywood » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 11/21/14 9:46 AM, Ernest Leif wrote: I agree with your points regarding the anti-hero. Too add to that I feel that American auteurs favor coldness over heartfelt emotions. Is this the partial legacy of Kubrick? So no, the tramp certainly is not coming back anytime soon. Kubrick's coldness? Maybe you're right. But for that matter, I wouldn't mind films with creepy major characters if they were at least done right. For example, Scorsese's early films were very good but went downhill as he grew older (the Woody Allen syndrome.) Raging Bull, for example, is quite powerful while The Wolf of Wall Street, another film with a shitty main character, is crap. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] NYRB review of Naomi Klein
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * It was a typo. It should have been obvious from the context that I meant UNprofitable. On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Shane Mage via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On Nov 21, 2014, at 9:18 AM, Andrew Pollack wrote: Ted Glick makes an argument very similar to Shane's here: http://ecowatch.com/2014/11/17/naomi-klein-this-changes-every-thing/ It's certainly true, as Shane and Ted say, that the odds on making a socialist revolution in time to save the planet and its species are frighteningly small. But that doesn't mean pushing only those demands which supposedly make continuing pollution profitable... How about reading what I wrote? The whole point is to make continuing pollution UNprofitable. On Nov 20, 2014, at 11:30 PM, Joseph Green via Marxism wrote: Klein prettifies the carbon tax, and does not recognize it as a market measure, no better than the rest of them; This is the purest ultraleft idiocy. As I have pointed out--and as Green absurdly ignores--the capitalism system is not about to be overthrown by a proletarian revolution, not in less time than we have before the human environment is irrevocably destroyed. Our struggle therefore absolutely must center on demands for effective measures operative within the logic of the capitalist system. Effective carbon taxation is not merely better--it is the ONLY way to make the intensification of pollution so UNPROFITABLE that the capitalist market totally abandons it and is forced, by its own logic, to recognize and act on the real, and ever-increasing, profitability of investment in the whole range of maturing carbon-eliminating energy technologies. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures. Herakleitos of Ephesos _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Business of “Art vs. Commerce” in Hollywood » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I do think Kubrick was cold which of course doesn't take anything away from his supreme talent. I feel the same way about Godard, even though I revered the man throughout my 20s, especially *La Chinoise,* and in many ways I still do. *Paths Of Glory* but after that...? As for a filmmaker who has nothing but heart I recommend Truffaut and of course Chaplin. On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: On 11/21/14 9:46 AM, Ernest Leif wrote: I agree with your points regarding the anti-hero. Too add to that I feel that American auteurs favor coldness over heartfelt emotions. Is this the partial legacy of Kubrick? So no, the tramp certainly is not coming back anytime soon. Kubrick's coldness? Maybe you're right. But for that matter, I wouldn't mind films with creepy major characters if they were at least done right. For example, Scorsese's early films were very good but went downhill as he grew older (the Woody Allen syndrome.) Raging Bull, for example, is quite powerful while The Wolf of Wall Street, another film with a shitty main character, is crap. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Middle East Studies Association Fights a Rising Tide of Critics
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * (Despite the impression conveyed by this article, Steven Salaita told the New School meeting that MESA is actually not so nearly as pro-Palestinian as, for example, the American Studies Association. A MESA statement on his case simply stated that the right to debate the Middle East should be respected. Meh.) Chronicle of Higher Education November 21, 2014 Middle East Studies Association Fights a Rising Tide of Critics By Peter Schmidt Washington With tensions between Israelis and Palestinians escalating after this week’s terrorist attack on a Jerusalem synagogue, one scholarly group, the Middle East Studies Association, appears unlikely to escape conflict anytime soon. Yet, after a year in which many of its members have been publicly accused of anti-Israel bias or even outright anti-Semitism, the group, known as Mesa, is not showing any signs of shying away from controversy. In addition to having published strongly worded attacks on its members’ accusers and lodged protests against Israel’s shelling of Palestinian educational institutions, the association plans to wade right into hot-button debates related to Israel at its annual conference, which begins here on Saturday. Steven G. Salaita, the scholar who became a cause célèbre among academe’s critics of Israel last summer, will headline a panel discussion of new assaults on academic freedom. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign responded to Mr. Salaita’s inflammatory social-media posts denouncing Israel’s treatment of Palestinians by withdrawing an offer to hire him as a tenured professor. Many academics protested that decision. Campus Watch, which was established by the Middle East Forum, a conservative think tank, and monitors Middle East studies programs for speech it deems hostile to Israel, last month denounced the planned panel as stacked with critics of that nation. But Nathan J. Brown, a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University who will be completing a two-year term as Mesa’s president, argued this week in an email that the planned panel discussion was about the Salaita case, not about Israel. He added, I am not clear why anybody would care to check the balance of political positions represented on what is at most an issue of tangential relevance to the discussion. The Mesa conference also has come under fire for including a reception being held by the International Institute of Islamic Thought, a Virginia-based group that has been accused of ties to Islamist radicals. Also planned for the Mesa conference is a debate on whether Mesa should at least consider following the lead of scholarly groups such as the American Studies Association by boycotting Israeli educational institutions. Many supporters of Israel have alleged that such boycotts are motivated by anti-Semitism; more broadly, the boycott movement has been criticized as representing the same sort of threat to academic freedom that Mesa routinely denounces. Mesa has rejected such boycotts until now, although it strongly defends the right to discuss them. In a September letter to his organization’s members, Mr. Brown said Mesa’s Board of Directors last spring advised its Committee on Academic Freedom that the issue was sufficiently controversial within our own ranks that it was probably best not to attempt to speak with a collective voice on the call to boycott institutions. In an interview conducted via email because he was in Belgium, Mr. Brown said the organization will be voting only on a member-proposed resolution asking for a discussion of the issue, and not any formal motion to academically boycott Israeli institutions. No Stranger to Conflict Accusations of hostility to Israel are nothing new to the Middle East Studies Association, an Arizona-based organization with more than 2,700 members interested in the Middle East or North Africa, and nearly 40 affiliated groups. Mesa describes itself as a non-political association. But seven years ago, some scholars established a separate counterweight to it—the much smaller Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa—motivated by perceptions that Mesa was overly politicized and hostile to conservative thought. Over the past year, tensions between American colleges’ critics and supporters of Israel have flared as the global movement calling for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israel has gained a foothold on U.S. campuses. In addition, Israel’s military actions in Gaza last summer were denounced by some American academics so strongly that their rhetoric prompted
[Marxism] Fwd: The Left, Labour, and the Future of U.S. Radicalism: The Struggle for Immigrant Rights | Striffler | New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
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[Marxism] On the Nature Origins of Our Ecological Crisis
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[Marxism] Fwd: How WWI Produced the Holocaust - The Daily Beast
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * In Tooze’s view, the political landscape that emerged from World War I was a failed ideological liberal-progressive project launched primarily by Woodrow Wilson, who used America’s position of privileged detachment to frame the transformation of world affairs. Wilson wanted to end imperialist rivalries in European politics. And only a “peace without victory”—the goal he announced to the U.S. Senate in January 1917—could ensure that the United States would emerge as the undisputed arbitrator of world affairs. Tooze provides the reader with numerous questions here, such as: What had gone so wrong after 1918? Why was American policy miscarried at Versailles? Why did the world economy implode in 1929? And why did the Western Powers lose their grip in such a spectacular fashion in the decade following the end of the war? By way of answering these questions, Tooze guides us through the numerous diplomatic and economic catastrophes that emerged from World War I. Eventually we start to get a well-rounded and extremely comprehensive insight into why Wilson’s American foreign policy was so misguided. Wilson placed his faith 100 percent in American capitalist values, which he believed were natural byproducts of American exceptionalism: the idea that the United States is guided by God’s will to be morally and spiritually superior to the rest of the world. But Wilson was gravely mistaken when he placed his faith in the idea that “markets and business would replace politics and military power.’ As Tooze writes, “the consequences of this push to depoliticize the world economy were perverse. Far from taking politics out of economic life, the result was to drive Europe ever more deeply into the greatest financial and political entanglement of all—reparations.” full: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/21/how-wwi-produced-the-holocaust.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: The poverty of Political Marxism | International Socialist Review
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * In other words, there is a very crucial dimension of sociohistorical development missing in Brenner’s analysis: that is, the international or, more broadly, intersocietal relations. Consequently, within this spatiotemporal tunneling there emerges a particularly problematic form of Eurocentrism. Brenner’s spatial tunneling gives rise to a methodologically internalist analysis as he conceives the origins and sources of capitalist modernity as a product of developments primarily internal to England. This posits a strong “inside-out” model of social causality (or methodological internalism) whereby English-cum-European development is conceptualized as endogenous and self-propelling. In turn, temporal tunneling gives rise to the notion of historical priority as Europe is thereby conceived as the permanent core and prime mover of history. For Brenner’s followers, these problems are only compounded as the possibility of the development of early capitalisms outside of the English countryside that Brenner allows for is rejected.16 The notion of the origins of “capitalism in one country” is thus taken literally. full: http://isreview.org/issue/94/poverty-political-marxism _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] The Crisis of Cosmology - Part one
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The SMPP describes the veritable zoo of particles that are said to be the “fundamental building blocks” of matter, consisting of small particles called leptons, such as the electron and neutrinos and a variety of larger particles called quarks, which make up protons and neutrons. In addition, the SMPP explains the behaviour of three of the four forces of nature: . Louis, I have trouble with this sentnece fundamental building blocks of nature. First we thought atoms are the building blocks. Then then came the realization of atomic particles, electrons, protons and neutrons. And further, we have understood the existence of even more fundamental entities, leptons, nutrinos and what not. But does the quest end here to declare that they are the building blocks. We should instead say, as far as science knows, these appear to be basic building blocks, but other possibilities can not be ruled out. May be string theory or some other theory may evolve into a coherent explanation of the structure of matter and the universe formed by it some day in the near future.Vijaya Kumar Marla _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Season of Monsters - Lina Sergie Attar - POLITICO Magazine
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Culture is not gazing at antiquities and feeling a constructed nostalgia with a distant past. This is the lesson that Syrians, the people of history and heritage, have learned in the most violent way. During turbulent times in history, when everything we know is falling apart and our collective past is being erased in front of our eyes, culture transcends its definition. It calls for creating something that was never there before. To imagine a place so perfect it was called paradise. Then build it. full: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/syrias-season-of-monsters-112988_full.html#.VG9ydVfF_Ht _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Argentina’s Case Has No Victors, Many Losers - NYTimes.com
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * At a conference at Columbia University this week, Joseph E. Stiglitz, the Columbia economist who was previously the chief economist of the World Bank, said fairness required that all creditors, not just bondholders, be considered when weighing what should happen to a country that cannot pay its bills. That list of creditors would include pension recipients in the country, who might have to go hungry so that a hedge fund could make a large profit on bonds it bought at a deep discount after the country defaulted. full: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/business/international/in-argentinas-debt-case-no-winners-but-a-lot-of-losers.html?ref=business _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Partners in Crime: The Continental Capitalist Offensive and the Killing Fields of Mexico | The Bullet No. 1058
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[Marxism] Fwd: Dolphins at the Hilton » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
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Re: [Marxism] NYRB review of Naomi Klein
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On Nov 21, 2014, at 9:18 AM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: It's certainly true, as Shane and Ted say, that the odds on making a socialist revolution in time to save the planet and its species are frighteningly small. But that doesn't mean pushing only those demands which supposedly make continuing pollution profitable. Given the current weakness of movements for socialism, especially in the biggest polluting countries (US and China), we need to think strategically about demands which build those movements, and argue for them to take up transitional climate demands. What's more, a workers' movement fighting for confiscatory carbon taxes is more likely to scare the ruling class into substantial cuts in emissions far more than a movement which starts with an acceptable demand... Concretely, is there much difference in the demands favoured by the established environmental organizations and the left-wing of the environmental movement? I'm not referring to the customary differences of strategy, nor the theoretical differences about whether it is possible to achieve the necessary reforms short of a sweeping change in capitalist property relations. What are the acceptable demands that Andy and the eco-socialist movement would reject, and what respectable environmental groups are advancing these? _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] On the Nature Origins of Our Ecological Crisis
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The development of civilization and of industry in general has ever shown itself so active in the destruction of forests, that everything done by it for their preservation, compared to its destructive effect, appears infinitesimal. -- Karl Marx; Capital: A Critique Of Political Economy; Volume II; The Process Of The Circulation Of Capital T -Original Message- From: Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sent: Nov 21, 2014 11:04 AM To: Thomas F Barton thomasfbar...@earthlink.net Subject: [Marxism] On the Nature Origins of Our Ecological Crisis POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * http://www.jasonwmoore.com/uploads/The_Capitalocene__Part_I__June_2014.pdf _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/thomasfbarton%40earthlink.net _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Highway 61 Again--A Book Review
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Re: [Marxism] The Crisis of Cosmology - Part one
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 21 Nov 2014, at 6:33 PM, Marla Vijaya kumar via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: Louis, I have trouble with this sentnece fundamental building blocks of nature Which of the following are better understood as the “building blocks” of a human being? 1. Particles, atoms, molecules, genes, cells, tissues, etc. 2. Parents, communities, techniques, stories, ideas, aspirations, etc. Just because you can tear something apart into some other things - under rarified conditions, no less - on what basis does that mean those are the things it is made of? (With apologies to the CERN, of course.) And who - or what - “makes” a human being? How? From what? _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] NYRB review of Naomi Klein
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Socialism in one country = socialism in no country. T Socialism in one country - as in USSR, China, and Cuba - is a dead end and as we have seen turns into its opposite. Stalinism and its junior off-shoots of Maoism, Gueverism, Enverism, etc. did and will get us nowhere fast. In fact, these sub-standard 'socialist' ideologies have to be overcome as barriers to the socialist/communist advance that the world and its people need. And how anyone can begin to imagine that the environment cannot be of primary concern to Marxists and a Marxist program is incredible. Capitalism and its ever-readiness to extract profit regardless of consequences is what is damaging workers' and other working people's lives and the planet as whole. One way or another, capitalism will kill us if we don't stop it. Naomi Klein is an important writer and her contribution to the debate on capitalism's destruction of the planet is something no Marxist can ignore. -- Jim (j...@redunity.org) on 21/11/2014 NUJ 024828 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/thomasfbarton%40earthlink.net _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Highway 61 Again--A Book Review
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Flower power. On Nov 21, 2014, at 7:22 PM, Shane Mage via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: On Nov 21, 2014, at 3:07 PM, Ron Jacobs via Marxism wrote: petal to the metal??? _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Highway 61 Again--A Book Review
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 11/21/14 3:07 PM, Ron Jacobs via Marxism wrote http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2014/11/going-down-highway-61-again.html I hitchhiked from Dallas to Baltimore on Highway 61 in August 1965. It is a miracle I made it in one piece. I was trying to emulate Jack Kerouac, it had nothing to do with civil rights. Had many incredible encounters including a ride with some guy in Maryland driving a hot-rod. I wish I had kept a journal. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Canadian military veterans plan to enlist with Kurds battling ISIS
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[Marxism] Normalizing Atrocities
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * http://nyusjp.wordpress.com/2014/11/21/normalizing-atrocities/ Normalizing Atrocities*Why we must challenge the Culture of Impunity for Israeli War Crimes at NYU Law* [image: DSCN2042] https://nyusjp.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/dscn2042.jpg Nearly 200 people, including Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, 71 NYU students, 23 alumni, and others, petitioned https://www.dropbox.com/s/j0bi4wianhui0b0/Petition%20IDF%20Advisor%20Signatures.pdf?dl=0an NYU Law student organization to rescind its invitation to Israeli military advisor Eran Shamir-Borer. On tour throughout the country to justify Israel’s summer atrocities in Gaza, Shamir-Borer heads the strategic affairs branch in the international law department at the Israeli Military Advocate General’s Corps. He is involved selecting targets for Israeli strikes http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/world/middleeast/israel-braces-for-war-crimes-inquiries-on-gaza.html?_r=0 and “providing operational law advice prior to, and during, active conflict http://oursoldiersspeak.org/lt-col-dr-eran/”. Israeli war criminals have met explosive outcry at universities following Israel’s deadly invasion of Gaza, which killed two thousand Palestinians — mostly civilians. Over 1,500 people signed a similar petition https://www.change.org/p/tufts-university-president-anthony-monaco-cancel-idf-lt-col-dr-eran-shamir-borer-s-speech-at-tuftsto cancel Shamir-Borer’s stop at Tufts University — where he was met with a “ die-in http://tuftsdaily.com/news/2014/11/11/tufts-students-protest-idf-lieutenant-colonels-lecture-fletcher/ ”. Following Tufts’ example, demonstrators at NYU Law disseminated literature, held signs, and performed a die-in last Thursday, 13 November, at Shamir-Borer’s speaking event. The petition references the international consensus among human rights organizations http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE15/032/2014/en/613926df-68c4-47bb-b587-00975f014e4b/mde150322014en.pdf and UN authorities http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/03/israel-air-strike-un-school-gaza-rafah that Israel committed war crimes during its Gaza invasion. Among Israel’s targets during this summer’s massacre were UN shelters http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/03/us-appalled-disgraceful-israeli-shelling-gaza-un-school , beach goers http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/world-cup-fans-killed-gaza-bomb-hits-cafe-1394390500 , hospitals http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/middle-east-unrest/another-gaza-hospital-hit-israeli-strike-four-dead-40-hurt-n161086 , ambulances http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/mounting-evidence-deliberate-attacks-gaza-health-workers-israeli-army-2014-08-07, places of worship http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/middle-east-unrest/gaza-mosques-sports-complex-fishing-boats-bombed-israel-n161741 , journalists http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/09/palestinian-killed-israel-attack-journalist-car-hamdi-shihab_n_5572073.html, and the entire villages of Khozaa http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/08/04/gaza-israeli-soldiers-shoot-and-kill-fleeing-civilians ,Beit Hanoun http://972mag.com/watch-civilians-have-no-safe-place-to-go-in-gaza/94518/, and Shujayah http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israelgaza-crisis-youtube-footage-refers-scale-of-destruction-after-50-days-of-shelling-9702396.html. While Israel accused Palestinian militants of hiding behind civilians, international observers consistently find that Israel, not Palestinian militants http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2014/07/jeremy-bowens-gaza-notebook-i-saw-no-evidence-hamas-using-palestinians-human, uses human shields http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/20/us-palestinian-israel-children-idUSBRE95J0FR20130620 . The event took place with heightened university security, requiring http://i.imgur.com/koSMvpM.png students to show ID to enter the room. *How We Talk About Palestinians* Campus discussion ranged from supporting the petition to vulgar and derisive anger that the event was being protested. One law student callously compared outcry over the summer’s tragedy to stress during finals week with a mocking counter-petition http://imgur.com/W9HF7Ur for the Law School to provide more puppies during exams. Another wrote http://imgur.com/cmG97Fm,W9HF7Ur%22%20%5Cl%20%220, “Personally, I believe all Muslims are complicit in very serious crimes…But you don’t see me sending 12 emails…every time NYU hosts a Muslim speaker”. Another signed the petition with a vulgarity. But perhaps even more conspicuous was the silence of many supporters, who defended the petition in private, but refused to add their names. [image: DSCN2054] https://nyusjp.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/dscn2054.jpg *“Academic
