Re: [Marxism] Agent Scully explains Karl Marx's theory of alienation
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 second Louis's suggestion of The Fall. I stumbled onto it via Netflix myself. I suspect that she turned her success in the X-Files into a career that seems heavily centered on the UK at this point. Good for her. ML _ 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] California delta's water mysteriously missing amid drought
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Re: [Marxism] Qusai Zakarya's op-ed about Yarmouk in FP
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 Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 4:36 PM, A.R. G amithrgu...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, I'm aware what Israel's role is not. I think we should mention what Israel's role is, namely exiling hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into Syria in the first place where they and their camps become tokens for the conquests of psychopaths. - Amith Except I've noticed that whenever Israel is dragged into this discussion when it doesn't belong in is invariably to make a propaganda point beneficial to Assad. _ 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] Qusai Zakarya's op-ed about Yarmouk in FP
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. * What is the propaganda point for Assad? That he is victimizing Israel's victims? The Assad-or-Israel line is itself a form of both pro-Assad and Zionist propaganda. On Saturday, April 11, 2015, Clay Claiborne clayc...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 4:36 PM, A.R. G amithrgu...@gmail.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','amithrgu...@gmail.com'); wrote: Yeah, I'm aware what Israel's role is not. I think we should mention what Israel's role is, namely exiling hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into Syria in the first place where they and their camps become tokens for the conquests of psychopaths. - Amith Except I've noticed that whenever Israel is dragged into this discussion when it doesn't belong in is invariably to make a propaganda point beneficial to Assad. -- - Amith _ 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] Qusai Zakarya's op-ed about Yarmouk in FP
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 Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Clay Claiborne via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: Except I've noticed that whenever Israel is dragged into this discussion when it doesn't belong in is invariably to make a propaganda point beneficial to Assad. [W]hen it doesn't belong? In a conversation about Palestinian refugees?! This neoconservative arc has reached full circle. Note the date and time. -- 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
Re: [Marxism] Agent Scully explains Karl Marx's theory of alienation
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. * While I agree that 'The Fall' is great TV, I have one reservation about it, and that isn't that the villain went on to play Christian Grey in 50 Shades. I couldn't help but notice that the character of Anderson's boss is written as a Catholic and I found myself wondering if that was a deliberate choice, given that the RUC was a sectarian force and the PSNI is supposed to be a non-sectarian symbol of the new Northern Ireland - hence the presence of a high ranking Catholic in the show. I could be reading too much into it and I'm not up to date with how successful Adams and co have been in getting the PSNI to seem like a more neutral arm of the state. Others on this list (eg Phil F) would be much more knowledgeable than I on this subject. Cheers, John On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Mark Lause 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. * I second Louis's suggestion of The Fall. I stumbled onto it via Netflix myself. I suspect that she turned her success in the X-Files into a career that seems heavily centered on the UK at this point. Good for her. ML _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/johnedmundson4%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] Henry Roth's complete novels
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. * NY Review of Books, Apr. 21 2015 A Prodigal Struggle with Demons by Nathaniel Rich Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Complete Novels by Henry Roth, with an introduction by Joshua Ferris Liveright, 1,279 pp., $39.95 Muriel Parker Roth and Henry Roth (left) with Muriel’s sister Elizabeth Parker Mills and brother-in-law John Mills IV (right), shortly after the Roths’ marriage. In 1939, the Millses invited the Roths to move into their penthouse apartment with them on East 23rd Street. When Henry Roth’s debut novel, Call It Sleep, was published in 1934, critics judged it second as a work of fiction, and first as a work of anthropology. An autobiographical account of immigrant Jewish life on the Lower East Side, the book was praised in the New York Herald Tribune as “the most accurate and profound study of an American slum childhood that has yet appeared”; the New York Times reviewer wrote that it “has done for the East Side what James T. Farrell is doing for the Chicago Irish.” The New Masses, a Marxist journal, debated whether the novel was sufficiently revolutionary. This arid political criticism might have contributed to killing it off, for the novel was out of print by 1936. When it was republished as an Avon paperback in 1964, it was the mysterious fate of the author, who at that point had never completed another novel, that captured the public imagination. Championing Call It Sleep on the cover of The New York Times Book Review, Irving Howe led with a discussion of the novel’s precarious “underground existence” and “vague rumors” that Roth had become a “duck farmer in Maine.” Within the week Call It Sleep had sold more than ten times the number of copies it had sold in the previous three decades, on its way to selling more than a million copies. This came as a shock to Roth, who, after stints as a psychiatric hospital orderly, precision tool grinder, English teacher, and maple syrup vendor, was in fact a waterfowl farmer in Montville, Maine. Roth’s legend grew with profiles, to which he reluctantly submitted, in national magazines that, as his biographer Steven Kellman put it, “contributed to the myth of Henry Roth as the Rip Van Winkle of American literature.”* Roth did not awake from his long professional slumber until 1994, with the publication of A Star Shines Over Mt. Morris Park, his first novel in sixty years and the beginning of a four-volume saga called Mercy of a Rude Stream, which has now been published for the first time in a monstrous volume of 1,279 pages, nearly twenty years after his death in 1995. The book comes with endorsements comparing Roth to Balzac (from Cynthia Ozick), Nathanael West (Harold Bloom), and Philip Roth (Bloom again, as well as Joshua Ferris, in his introduction to the edition). Roth bears resemblances to these writers, to be certain: he shares Philip Roth’s agonized sense of humor, Balzac’s interest in sociological detail, and West’s fascination with the grotesque. But the publication of the complete Mercy of a Rude Stream is an opportunity to appreciate how sublimely strange Roth’s masterpiece is. It is not remotely like anything else in American literature. Even though Roth had repeatedly renounced Call It Sleep (“The man who wrote that book at the age of twenty-seven is dead,” he told interviewers), A Star Shines Over Mt. Morris Park continues where the previous novel left off—in the summer of 1914, with Roth’s eight-year-old hero moving with his family from the Lower East Side to Jewish Harlem. Roth’s alter ego, David Schearl in Call It Sleep, has been renamed Ira Stigman, but like Schearl he is an only child, Galicia-born. His parents, Genya and Albert, have become Leah and Chaim, which happen to be the names of Roth’s own parents. (“Genya,” oddly, is the name given to one of Leah’s sisters, whom we learn will later be killed in a concentration camp.) Ira’s parents are not identical to their predecessors; they are more complex, richer. Chaim, like Albert, is a milkman, though he is not nearly as cruel, possessing a self-deprecatory streak that humanizes him; Leah, while as excessively devoted to her son as Genya, is less beatific and a stronger adversary to her husband. Though six decades have passed between novels, readers will find the same cold-water flat with the same green oilcloth–covered table, the same arguments about money, the same florid Yiddish imprecations. Several episodes are repeated nearly intact, including the attempted seduction of the narrator’s mother while she is left alone with her son (in Call It Sleep, the suitor is Albert’s coworker; in Mercy, he is Leah’s
[Marxism] Radical Anthropology talks
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. * Radical Anthropology An Introduction to Anthropology Summer 2015 Human language and symbolic culture emerged in Africa over 100,000 years ago, in a momentous and revolutionary upheaval whose echoes can still be heard in myths, fairy tales and ritual traditions from around the world. Topics this term range from the history of the family, through archaeoastronomy, climate science and mythology to the politics of sex and gender. In addition to lectures and workshops, the term features spectacular live shows by two of Britain's most celebrated performance artists, Marcus Coates (May 19) and Marisa Carnesky (June 23). April 21 ‘The origin of the family, private property and the state.’Chris Knight April 28 ‘Behind Every Good Man: Women's production and reproduction among the Hadza of Tanzania’. Colette Berbesque May 5 ‘Capitalism, fossil fuels and the discovery of global warming.’ Gabriel Levy May 12‘Does father absence affect children growing up?’ Paula Sheppard May 19‘Becoming animal and becoming human’, a live show by Marcus Coates May 26 ‘The Revolution in Rojava: Strengths and Challenges’. Jeff Miley June 2 ‘The Coming of the Dread: the Rastafari-Maori of New Zealand’s East Coast.’ Dave Robinson June 9 'A Basque Magdalenian cave interpreted in the light of the sex-strike theory of human origins'. Lionel Sims June 16 ‘A key myth from Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Mythologiques: “The Hunter Monmanéki and his wives”’. Chris Knight June 23 ‘Carnesky’s Incredible Bleeding Woman.’ Marisa Carnesky June 30 ‘Revolution, repetition and the cult of death: the burials and empty tombs of Rosa Luxemburg.’ Anthony Auerbach July 7Annual General Meeting. All talks held at the Cock Tavern, 23 Phoenix Rd., NW1 1HB (Euston). All events are free but small donations welcome. Tuesdays, 6.30–9.00pm. More Info: radicalanthropologygroup.org For updates on meetings and anthropology news, follow us on @radicalanthro and Facebook _ 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] Islamic ( Sham) Front visited St. Elias Church in Aleppo to celebrate Greek Orthodox Easter
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[Marxism] Judith Malina, Founder of the Living Theater, Dies at 88
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. * NY Times, Apr. 11 2015 Judith Malina, Founder of the Living Theater, Dies at 88 By BRUCE WEBER Judith Malina, an actor and director who with her husband, Julian Beck, founded the Living Theater, a troupe of activists and provocateurs who advanced the idea of political theater in America, catalyzed fierce debate over their methods and intentions, and in the name of art ran afoul of civic authorities on three continents, died on Friday in Englewood, N.J. She was 88. Her death, at the Lillian Booth Actors Home, was confirmed by a friend and playwright, Karen Malpede. Ms. Malina had lung disease caused by years of smoking. For movie and television buffs, especially those not old enough to remember beatniks, Lenny Bruce, Vietnam War protests or other symbols of remonstration against Eisenhower-era complacency, Ms. Malina was best known as a character actress. She appeared on “The Sopranos” (as Aunt Dottie, a dying nun who reveals to the gangster known as Paulie Walnuts that she is actually his mother) and in films including “The Addams Family,” Woody Allen’s “Radio Days” and, perhaps most memorably, “Dog Day Afternoon,” as the anguished and frantic mother of Sonny Wortzik, the misguided bank robber played by Al Pacino. But she steered a far more emphatic and influential course with the troupe sometimes known simply as the Living, which occupied the leading edge of stage experimentation in the 1950s and 1960s and both fed and fed on the counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s. It was perhaps the most prominent and persistent advocate for a “new theater,” one that sought to dissolve the accepted artifice of stage presentations, to conjoin art and political protest, and to shrink, if not eliminate, the divide between performers and the audience. A diminutive woman (journalists often noted that she weighed less than 100 pounds) who studied acting and directing with Erwin Piscator, the German director and theorist who, like Brecht, was a proponent of epic theater, Ms. Malina was tireless and passionate in advancing the idea that theater can be, and should be, a blunt force for cultural change. She and Mr. Beck, an Expressionist painter as a young man who became renowned as a set designer, considered themselves anarchists and pacifists, and their productions were statements as much as performances. Idealistic and fervent, they began planning a new kind of theater company in 1947, when she was 21 and he a year older. The troupe’s first public production, Gertrude Stein’s “Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights,” was staged in 1951 at the Cherry Lane Theater in Greenwich Village. Their belief that the theater and real life are part of an experiential continuum drew them, at first, to present plays written in verse or otherwise abstract language — they produced work by Kenneth Rexroth, T. S. Eliot, Paul Goodman, Jean Cocteau, W. H. Auden and William Carlos Williams, among others — and to involve their audiences in the action of their shows in defiance of the so-called fourth wall, the conventional presumption of separation of the actors from the audience. “We believe in the theater as a place of intense experience, half-dream, half-ritual, in which the spectator approaches something of a vision of self-understanding, going past conscious to unconscious, to an understanding of the nature of all things,” Mr. Beck wrote in The New York Times in 1959. He added that “only the language of poetry can accomplish this, only poetry or a language laden with symbols and far removed from our daily speech can take us beyond the ignorant present toward these realms.” The period of Mr. Beck and Ms. Malina’s greatest impact and notoriety began in the late 1950s with productions that included groundbreaking dramas like “The Connection” (1959), Jack Gelber’s harrowing depiction of a den of heroin addicts, and “The Brig” (1963), Kenneth H. Brown’s portrayal of a harsh day in the life of a Marine prison. (Both were made into films.) It was during the run of “The Brig” that the Living was shut down by the Internal Revenue Service — an event that led to demonstrations outside the company’s home at West 14th Street and Avenue of the Americas, with placards bearing slogans like “Art Before Taxes.” Mr. Beck and Ms. Malina represented themselves at their trial, arguing that it was both wrong and unreasonable for the government to take away their theater without making a good-faith effort to help them save it, and that their nonviolent civil disobedience was a reaction against the unfair administration of the law. But they also turned the trial into a loopy spectacle
[Marxism] Gay marriage referendum set to pass in Ireland
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[Marxism] Yarmouk: trapped between two counter-revolutions
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[Marxism] Mexican farm workers take on huge companies
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. * Thousands of farm workers in the Mexican state of Baja California walked out of the fields on Tuesday, March 17, at the peak of the winter harvest season. This strike pits against each other two diametrically-opposed social forces. On the one side, there are some of the biggest and richest companies in the world. The large farms in Baja, about 200 miles south of San Diego, specialize entirely in produce for the U.S. market – for big companies that we all know: Walmart, Safeway, Kroger, Albertsons, and others. Mexico’s produce exports to the U.S. are a business worth more than 7.5 billion US dollars a year. On the other side are fruit pickers, the vast majority of whom are indigenous people from the southern states of Mexico. Many of them are illiterate and don’t even speak much Spanish. Trying to escape extreme poverty, they have migrated hundreds of miles north, only to be caught up in extremely bad working and living conditions. The companies pay the fruit pickers as low as 7 dollars a day for more than 10 hours of back-breaking work in the sun – if they pay them at all. The bosses often withhold the pickers’ wages in order. . . full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/mexican-farm-workers-strike/ _ 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
