[Marxism] Fwd: When Marx looked outside Europe | International Socialist Review
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[Marxism] Fwd: Hanukkah — bah, humbug | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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 same way I used to organize sales for the Socialist Workers Party in Houston in the 1970s, directing people to various grocery stores or college campuses with bundles of the Militant, the Chabad sends its young missionaries to what they regard as fruitful opportunities for converting lost souls. But this Hasidic outreach group is not interested in saving Christians or Muslims. It is people like me, secular Jews, that they are trying to reach, based on their presence in front of my building during Jewish holidays throughout the year. Yesterday as I was on the sidewalk in front of my high-rise, one of these young men, clad in a dark suit and wearing a wide-brimmed fedora made by Borsalino, approached me to ask if I’d like to have a donut in honor of Hanukkah. (My building is ecumenical with a Christmas tree and a Hanukkah menorah in the lobby in an obvious bid to make the Jewish residents more amenable to chipping in for the staff’s holiday bonus.) No thanks, I said. full: http://louisproyect.org/2014/12/21/hanukkah-bah-humbug/ _ 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: Raising Ambitions: The Challenge in Teaching at Community Colleges - NYTimes.com
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[Marxism] Problems with recognizing 'Palestine'
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. * We've just reblogged a very good article by Joseph Massad that appeared on electronic intifada. It's about western governments recognizing 'Palestine', ie the PA-administered territory (under the thumb of Israel and the tutelage of western capitalist regimes) and the problems this presents for the struggle for a single, democratic state solution. See: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/12/22/the-problem-with-recognising-palestine/ Phil _ 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: Isis morale falls as momentum slows and casualties mount - FT.com
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Hanukkah — bah, humbug | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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 Chabad are not the only part of the Jewish community that prmotes Hanukkah. So does the Bund and the anti-Zionist Satmars. In general, it is wise not to let one's anger at State Zionism spill over into agreeing with the alcoholic Iraq War supporter Christopher Hitchens. The Seleucid regime was not progressive, It was the occupying force of a slave-owning empire which was no more interested in promoting reason and logic than Thomas Jefferson was. They imposed their religious beliefs by force - that is what sparked the rebellion by the Maccabbees. Those Jews who claimed to be symnpatheric with the Greek philosophers were just rationalizing their collaboration with the occupiers. At least when Alexander te Great was alive, he did not interfere wth the practice of Judaism, let alone force the Jews to worship uncircumcised Greek gods. Jews who fancied Greek philosophy then were not targeted by fundamentalists. On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Louis Proyect 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. * In the same way I used to organize sales for the Socialist Workers Party in Houston in the 1970s, directing people to various grocery stores or college campuses with bundles of the Militant, the Chabad sends its young missionaries to what they regard as fruitful opportunities for converting lost souls. But this Hasidic outreach group is not interested in saving Christians or Muslims. It is people like me, secular Jews, that they are trying to reach, based on their presence in front of my building during Jewish holidays throughout the year. Yesterday as I was on the sidewalk in front of my high-rise, one of these young men, clad in a dark suit and wearing a wide-brimmed fedora made by Borsalino, approached me to ask if I’d like to have a donut in honor of Hanukkah. (My building is ecumenical with a Christmas tree and a Hanukkah menorah in the lobby in an obvious bid to make the Jewish residents more amenable to chipping in for the staff’s holiday bonus.) No thanks, I said. full: http://louisproyect.org/2014/12/21/hanukkah-bah-humbug/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/sranz18% 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] [Pen-l] Fwd: Hanukkah — bah, humbug | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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. * Judaism, as much as any other world religion, can boast an extraordinary history of secular thought. Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Isaiah Berlin, Christopher Hitchens, Tony Kushner—who can think of better Jews than these ...? Leaving aside whatever else we think of Hitchens, he learned his mother had been a secret Jew in middle age, and didn't care. (I actually discussed Jewishness with him in I think 2001. He mentioned his wife's - I'm not sure which one - but not his own, which he seems to have considered non-existent. On that rare point, I might agree with him.) -- Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað. _ 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] Submission to list: The AFL-CIO must now break all ties with the Democratic Party!
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 following comment was made on the AFL-CIO NOW Blog article: Just Because the Engine is Running Doesn’t Mean It Has Gas By William Spriggs, 12/12/201 http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Economy/Just-Because-the-Engine-is-Running-Doesn-t-Mean-It-Has-Gas4 Comment by Jeremy Wells The organizational crises facing the AFL-CIO and the economic crises facing working people will never be solved by former Obama appointee William Spriggs, playing games with statistics. Fundamentally new organizational and political strategies are now demanded. The AFL-CIO must now break all ties with the Democratic Party! The historic low voter turnout in November dramatically confirmed what the low popularity poll numbers for Obama and Congressional politicians of both parties, have indicated. Neither corporate corrupted Democratic nor reactionary Republican parties, neither Democratic nor Republican millionaire politicians, can ever represent or fight for the economic interests of the working class majority of voters. The AFL-CIO supported Democratic Party candidate for the Governor of Michigan, Mark Schauer, was defeated in his attempt to unseat incumbent Republican Governor Rick Snyder. Schauer's campaign slogans ignored the working class. Schauer said not a word about the hundreds of destitute families living in Detroit, unable to pay their utility bills, were having their water shutoff! Instead, Mark Shauer's slogans advocated, among other things, cutting middle-class taxes and that Rick Snyder doesn't understand middle-class values. This Middle Class rhetoric, never mentioning the dire needs of the working class majority, is often used by AFL-CIO President Trumka as well as President Obama. The AFL-CIO today must realize that trade union labor contracts, by themselves, have failed to secure and maintain the economic justice of their members. Collective bargaining agreements only deal with wages and benefits with one employer. Labor contracts do not cover other essential economic needs required by working people. These economic needs are secured and maintained by laws passed by pro-labor law-makers, not by trade union contracts. New laws are now desperately needed to maintain public (not privatized) tuition-free education, establish universal single-payer (not Obama-care) health care, maintain (not cut) Social Security, create millions of living wage public sector jobs (which the private sector can not provide), to promote worker owned co-operative enterprises, etc. A new Solidarity political party, to break with the corporate-corrupted Democratic Party,to powerfully unite organized trade union and unorganized workers, which refuses all corporate money and agendas, will run and elect pro-labor law-makers as soon as possible in every local, State, and Federal election. The long-term goal of The Solidarity Party would be to build a new economy that provides a universal minimum standard of living for all working people. Pro-worker mass media economic education for the public and all working people. The AFL-CIO must help sponsor, produce, and broadcast nightly on PBS television, a news and commentary program promoting the economic betterment of working people. Worker funded, not corporate corrupted! Millions of new Solidarity Party voters, paying a minimal monthly dues, would easily fund the Solidarity Party organizational needs. Fund-drives would provide on-going financial support of a pro-labor PBS program from viewers. The Solidarity Party will fail if simply a trade union party and must unite and fight in solidarity for economic justice for all workers, unorganized as well as organized A new 21st Century understanding is needed by the labor movement, by the AFL-CIO, to develop new organizational and political strategies to fight back Capitalist Globalization which has permanently lost millions of U.S. jobs and impoverishes U.S. workers. New ways of economic production and job creation, new ways of work, that break with the failed 20th century system of wage-slavery work and capitalist exploitation, are not only possible but now necessary for economic justice in the 21st century. _ 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: Raising Ambitions: The Challenge in Teaching at Community Colleges - 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. * This article is interesting. Ira Schor has written a lot about teaching students such as those described here. Critical Teaching and Everyday Life is a good introduction. When I taught, at a college in Johnstown, PA, where at least for a decade or so, most of my students were not all that different from community college students. I was struck by how little most teachers knew about teaching and how little effort they put in to learning how to teach. Shocking incompetence was the rule. But what I also learned was how poorly those students majoring in education performed and how bad their teachers were. We all are opposed to the attacks on public school teachers and their unions. But we are loathe to see or admit how dreadful many of our kids' teachers are. Most of us start life curious and intelligent. Something seems to happen along the way, though. _ 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] Spanish Civil War and British artists
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[Marxism] Torture queen heroine of Zero Dark Thirty
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