[Marxism] How Russian and American bombing consolidates support for ISIS

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How Russian and American bombing consolidates support for ISIS

November 9, 2015

As is well-known, the ongoing Russian airstrikes, despite Putin’s
claim to be carrying out an “anti-ISIS” campaign, have overwhelmingly
struck the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and other anti-Assad, anti-ISIS
fighters, in regions where no ISIS even exists (western Homs, Hama,
Idlib, southern Aleppo, and even Damascus and Daraa).

The terrible civilian toll is also hardly in dispute, from bombing
nine hospitals 
(http://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2015/10/23/nine-russian-airstrikes-hit-hospitals),
schools, factories, even bombing the revolutionary town of Kafranbel,
the high point of ongoing civil opposition to the regime
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-is-russia-bombing-my-town/2015/11/06/e1084ca0-8274-11e5-9afb-0c971f713d0c_story.html),
 driving tens of thousands more refugees fleeing north from Aleppo
(http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/20/russia-us-sign-memorandum-syria-bombings-airstrikes).

Indeed, the extent to which this has actually facilitated ISIS
advances in the north Aleppo region is a whole story in itself
(http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/19/russia-bombs-isis-gains.html;http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/10/russian-airstrikes-help-isis-gain-ground-in-aleppo;
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/566032-isis-nears-regime-positions-outside-aleppo).
The ongoing attack on the FSA and other rebels in southern Aleppo
province by an Assad-Russian-Iranian-Hezbollah coalition directly
facilitated ISIS seizing territory from the rebels in northern Aleppo.
The Assad-ISIS relationship, which ranges from minor conflict in
certain places through détente in others, is best considered to be
strategic alliance in the Aleppo region. The farce of all this was
further highlighted when ISIS even returned some territory it had
seized from the rebels back to the regime!
(https://twitter.com/YallaSouriya/status/653278940711157760).

However, if partly to head off the criticism that its “anti-ISIS” war
was targeting anyone but ISIS. Russia did eventually begin to strike
some ISIS-controlled territory, overwhelmingly in the form of civilian
slaughter. Perhaps some 10 percent of Russian strikes have by now been
on such ISIS—controlled regions. In contrast, the year-long US
airstrikes have overwhelmingly struck ISIS, though there again, some
10 percent or less have struck other anti-Assad, anti-ISIS fighters,
mostly Nusra, but also Islamic Front and even the FSA.

This may be described as one of the tactical differences that exist
between the Russian and American approaches to the war in which they
have much in common. The other tactical difference is the question of
how long Assad himself should be allowed to remain in a “transitional”
regime, with the aim of saving the regime as a whole, finding a
“political solution” and launching a joint US-Russian-regime-former
opposition war against ISIS and everyone else the US and Russia
consider to be “terrorists.” The US says a few months, because his
divisive presence undermines the task of saving the regime as a whole
and widening its base, while Russia says it is not enamoured to Assad,
but we need to keep him a little longer to batter down more
“terrorists” before ditching him. The final declaration from the
recent meeting in Vienna, involving countless imperialist and
sub-imperialist powers but no Syrians, made this fundamental agreement
rather clear (http://eeas.europa.eu/statements-eeas/2015/151030_06.htm).

The article below examines one of the things the US and Russian
bombing of ISIS-controlled regions (when the Russian do take a break
from bombing ISIS’s enemies) have in common: the callous disregard for
civilian lives and/or civilian infrastructure by both, which is
actually boosting support for ISIS.

The article focuses on some terrible Russian bombings of civilians in
ISIS-controlled Deir Ezzor province in the far east of Syria, and
notes that this is on top of the fact that the Assad regime bombings
in this region already kill far more civilians than are killed by the
ISIS rulers themselves.

But it is not only in Deir Ezzor. According to the anti-ISIS
underground activist network, ‘Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently’,
last week 25 Russian airstrikes on the ISIS capital, Raqqa, hit
hospitals, schools, infrastructure, bridges and civilian
neighbourhoods https://twitter.com/Raqqa_SL/status/661507443516665856.
According to one activist, Hamid Imam, 35 people were killed by
Russian bombs and “The city’s infrastructure is almost completely
destroyed. Two historical main bridges are gone, and people are
currently getting by through 

[Marxism] Fwd: Syria Comment » Archives Russia and the Free Syrian Army

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A decade later in Syria, the roles are reversed. Russian politicians 
will contemptuously label any Syrian who has taken up arms to stop the 
depredations of Bashar al-Assad’s army a “jihadi terrorist” and in lieu 
of a political strategy, they smirk and puff their chests and say “bring 
‘em on.” Their American counterparts sound like the anti-Iraq War tankie 
left in 2003-2004, eyes darting nervously around the room as they try to 
explain that there are good salafi insurgents and bad salafi insurgents. 
Give it a year more, and they’ll be complaining about Russia’s “cowboy 
attitude.”


full: 
http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/media-maskirovka-russia-and-the-free-syrian-army/

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[Marxism] Fwd: “God hates Renoir”: He sucks at painting, and this is why you should care - Salon.com

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Henry Clay Frick, whose mansion was turned into the Frick Museum, was 
among the most powerful capitalists of late 19th- and early 20th-century 
America. Chairman of the prodigious Carnegie Steel Company, Frick was 
militantly against unions, and used violence to crush workers’ attempts 
to take democratic control over their lives.


The industrialist “dispatched the Pinkertons to murder train unionists 
at his coal mine in Pittsburgh, and then he used all his money to buy 
art,” Geller recalled. “Then Frick moved it out of the coal mining town, 
because he was concerned that the air would damage it, so he just put it 
in his Midtown mansion.”


“It serves as a perfect metaphor for the whole thing,” Geller said, 
“because he can use it to deaden the insides of people, to put them to 
sleep, so they don’t think about why this guy is so much richer than all 
of us, and how much blood of workers is on his hands.”


At the museum, Geller said there was a “breathtakingly bad Renoir 
painting — so we surreptitiously placed a barf bag right in front of it, 
on a very expensive piece of furniture that was purchased with the 
literal blood of coal miners.”


full: 
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How Russian and American bombing consolidates support for ISIS

November 9, 2015

As is well-known, the ongoing Russian airstrikes, despite Putin’s
claim to be carrying out an “anti-ISIS” campaign, have overwhelmingly
struck the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and other anti-Assad, anti-ISIS
fighters, in regions where no ISIS even exists (western Homs, Hama,
Idlib, southern Aleppo, and even Damascus and Daraa).

The terrible civilian toll is also hardly in dispute, from bombing
nine hospitals 
(http://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2015/10/23/nine-russian-airstrikes-hit-hospitals),
schools, factories, even bombing the revolutionary town of Kafranbel,
the high point of ongoing civil opposition to the regime
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-is-russia-bombing-my-town/2015/11/06/e1084ca0-8274-11e5-9afb-0c971f713d0c_story.html),
 driving tens of thousands more refugees fleeing north from Aleppo
(http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/20/russia-us-sign-memorandum-syria-bombings-airstrikes).

Indeed, the extent to which this has actually facilitated ISIS
advances in the north Aleppo region is a whole story in itself
(http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/19/russia-bombs-isis-gains.html;http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/10/russian-airstrikes-help-isis-gain-ground-in-aleppo;
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/566032-isis-nears-regime-positions-outside-aleppo).
The ongoing attack on the FSA and other rebels in southern Aleppo
province by an Assad-Russian-Iranian-Hezbollah coalition directly
facilitated ISIS seizing territory from the rebels in northern Aleppo.
The Assad-ISIS relationship, which ranges from minor conflict in
certain places through détente in others, is best considered to be
strategic alliance in the Aleppo region. The farce of all this was
further highlighted when ISIS even returned some territory it had
seized from the rebels back to the regime!
(https://twitter.com/YallaSouriya/status/653278940711157760).

However, if partly to head off the criticism that its “anti-ISIS” war
was targeting anyone but ISIS. Russia did eventually begin to strike
some ISIS-controlled territory, overwhelmingly in the form of civilian
slaughter. Perhaps some 10 percent of Russian strikes have by now been
on such ISIS—controlled regions. In contrast, the year-long US
airstrikes have overwhelmingly struck ISIS, though there again, some
10 percent or less have struck other anti-Assad, anti-ISIS fighters,
mostly Nusra, but also Islamic Front and even the FSA.

This may be described as one of the tactical differences that exist
between the Russian and American approaches to the war in which they
have much in common. The other tactical difference is the question of
how long Assad himself should be allowed to remain in a “transitional”
regime, with the aim of saving the regime as a whole, finding a
“political solution” and launching a joint US-Russian-regime-former
opposition war against ISIS and everyone else the US and Russia
consider to be “terrorists.” The US says a few months, because his
divisive presence undermines the task of saving the regime as a whole
and widening its base, while Russia says it is not enamoured to Assad,
but we need to keep him a little longer to batter down more
“terrorists” before ditching him. The final declaration from the
recent meeting in Vienna, involving countless imperialist and
sub-imperialist powers but no Syrians, made this fundamental agreement
rather clear (http://eeas.europa.eu/statements-eeas/2015/151030_06.htm).

The article below examines one of the things the US and Russian
bombing of ISIS-controlled regions (when the Russian do take a break
from bombing ISIS’s enemies) have in common: the callous disregard for
civilian lives and/or civilian infrastructure by both, which is
actually boosting support for ISIS.

The article focuses on some terrible Russian bombings of civilians in
ISIS-controlled Deir Ezzor province in the far east of Syria, and
notes that this is on top of the fact that the Assad regime bombings
in this region already kill far more civilians than are killed by the
ISIS rulers themselves.

But it is not only in Deir Ezzor. According to the anti-ISIS
underground activist network, ‘Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently’,
last week 25 Russian airstrikes on the ISIS capital, Raqqa, hit
hospitals, schools, infrastructure, bridges and civilian
neighbourhoods https://twitter.com/Raqqa_SL/status/661507443516665856.
According to one activist, Hamid Imam, 35 people were killed by
Russian bombs and “The city’s infrastructure is 

[Marxism] US is suffering a profits recession

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FT, Nov. 9 2015
US is suffering a profits recession
by Russ Koesterich

It is easy to forget that when market volatility first started to rise 
in late June, investors were reacting to concerns over rising interest 
rates and a pending Federal Reserve tightening. Since then, the focus of 
anxiety has shifted from rates to growth, a fear that only intensified 
as weakness spread from emerging markets to commodities to European 
exporters. Today, investors are increasingly worried that even the 
mighty US economy will succumb to a global slowdown.


Fortunately, signs of a pending US recession are few. However, there may 
be indications another “recession” has already hit: one of profits.


Certainly the economy is slowing, but we are probably witnessing another 
reversion to the new mean of 2 per cent growth, rather than something 
more acute. The US is not immune to the turbulence that began in 
emerging markets, but some of those disruptions come with silver 
linings: the resulting drop in rates and energy prices both support the 
US household sector. There is also little risk of the Fed prematurely 
derailing the recovery. Given the recent collapse in inflation 
expectations, an aggressive Fed is arguably the least of the market’s 
worries.


Leading indicators also provide some comfort. Before the last recession 
there were red flags. Several leading indicators, including the 
Conference Board’s Index of Leading Indicators as well as the Chicago 
Fed National Activity Index, began a steady decline in the spring of 
2006, a full 18 months before the start of the recession. Now, few 
measures are suggesting robust growth but instead a slow but positive 
expansion over the next three to six months.


That said, this relatively sanguine outlook comes with an important 
caveat: few indicators provide much warning outside of the next few 
quarters. A recession may not be lurking before next spring, but the 
outlook gets cloudier the farther out you look.


However, while the US may not be at imminent risk of an economic 
recession, the disappointing earnings companies are reporting suggest it 
may already be suffering through a profits recession.


Looking back at history, profits recessions typically accompany economic 
recessions. This should not come as a surprise. Historically, the 
biggest determinant of earnings growth is revenue growth, which is 
itself a function of economic growth. Looking back at more than 60 years 
of national accounts, corporate profits data demonstrate the importance 
of economic growth for corporate profitability; quarterly changes in 
real GDP explain roughly 30 per cent of the variance in quarterly 
earnings growth.


Given this relationship, in the absence of an economic recession why 
should investors worry about a profits recession? The reason is that 
there have been exceptions, periods when the economy was expanding but 
corporate profits temporarily fell. Unfortunately, those periods have 
coincided with two trends that are evident today: a stronger dollar and 
lower oil prices.


The most recent example was in 1998. Despite a stellar economy, 
corporate profits were falling. Similar to today, part of the blame 
could be attributed to the strong dollar. From the summer of 1996 
through the summer of 1998 the dollar appreciated roughly 20 per cent 
against a basket of its peers. The rapid appreciation of the dollar put 
a squeeze on US exporters.


In contrast, the profits recession of 1986 occurred coincident to a 
period of dollar weakness. In 1985 the dollar started a long-term 
decline and, similar to today, a collapse in oil prices contributed to 
the following year’s profits recession. West Texas Intermediate crude, 
the US benchmark, fell from more than $30 a barrel in the spring of 1984 
to just over $10 a barrel by July of 1986.


What do these incidents suggest about the current situation? While we 
are probably experiencing a profits recession, or at least a profits 
drought, it should not be long or deep. With US growth on a lower than 
expected trajectory and the Fed likely to be particularly timid in 
raising rates, further dollar appreciation is likely to be more muted 
and slower. As for oil, in the absence of another significant drop, the 
negative impact of lower oil should start to fall out of energy company 
earnings by the first quarter of next year.


Investors looking to 2016 should look past this temporary profits 
drought and focus on the real economy. How the US fares in 2016 is 
likely to hold the key to whether the current profits blip is simply an 
interruption in the bull market or the beginning of the end.


Russ Koesterich 

[Marxism] Policy.Mic: The Most Important Socialist in America Not Named Bernie Sanders Just Won Re-election

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[Marxism] Vice News: The Most Militarized Universities in America

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[Marxism] Christmas Island update

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[Marxism] NYT: rotesting Against Israel, Youth in Gaza Also Defy Hamas

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[Marxism] We've never had it so good. . . ?

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[Marxism] Elections in India.

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Two elections this past week in India, both at different scales.

In the local elections (municipal and panchayat) in Kerala, the Left Democratic 
Front swept the polls.

In the state elections in Bihar, the right-wing BJP was demolished by the Grand 
Alliance of former socialist parties and the Congress. The Left parties ran 
separately and made a decent showing across the state.

My article, which is more on Bihar than Kerala, is in today's Counterpunch, 
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/09/bihars-message-to-the-indian-right/.

The general argument about Left Unity is from my book, No Free Left: the 
Futures of Indian Communism, 
http://mayday.leftword.com/book/no-free-left/9789380118277/. You can read a 
review of the book in The Hindu, 
http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/no-free-left-the-futures-of-indian-communism/article7117614.ece.

For those interested, I have an article in Vikalp on the 98th anniversary of 
the Bolshevik Revolution, 
http://www.vikalp.ind.in/2015/11/what-does-1917-represent-in-2015.html.

Warm regards,

Vijay.


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[Marxism] Fwd: Achilles Heel | Online Only | n+1

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The increasingly frequent cycles of triumph, injury, training, and 
recovery have made the cult of fitness around football even more martial 
and epic than usual. Advertisements are now composed entirely of jump 
cuts between rippling bodies yelling, barking, testifying to some 
endless purgatory of reps, sets, and routines. Menacing homilies about 
commitment linger on screen to be joined by this model of shoe or that 
style of gear. “Every single day,” we hear Tom Brady chant stoically, 
“every single day,” as his image, multiplied a thousandfold by 
technology, drills relentlessly with itself, perfectly in sync, in a 
macabre echo of authoritarian spectacle.”You are the sum of all your 
training,” Under Armour threatens us, before urging, finally, at the 
end, “Rule Yourself.” In its unalloyed praise for the eternal necessity 
of discipline, the sports commercial is a worthy heir to Puritan 
austerity. Excess physique is grace rewarded. Lean muscle is proof that 
God loves us and wants us to be strong. At least until we return to the 
action to find a 25-year-old sobbing as he tries to hold a ligament in 
place and we wonder how many college educations his extended family has 
just lost forever.



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[Marxism] "a blue and white kristallnacht is only a matter of time"

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Re: [Marxism] Social Democratic economic policy in Sweden

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AP, September 21, 1992
TURMOIL IN EUROPE; Sweden to Cut Worker Benefits

STOCKHOLM, Sept. 20— The Government reached agreement today with the 
main opposition party on an austerity program that would reduce state 
benefits for employee needs like sick leave and workers' compensation, 
further eroding Sweden's welfare system.


The deal is aimed at helping Prime Minister Carl Bildt avoid a collapse 
of his center-right coalition Government and at restoring confidence in 
the economy in advance of Sweden's expected entry into the European 
Community by 1997. The package still requires parliamentary approval.


Employers and unions will take over payments for sick leave and 
occupational injury insurance from the Government, the news agency T.T. 
said.


Mr. Bildt held four days of talks with the Social Democrats, the main 
opposition party, to gain backing for the package.

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[Marxism] Social Democratic economic policy in Sweden

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The aim of social democratic policy in Sweden was "doubtless to increase 
the share of profits in the national product at the expense of wages".


--Social Democratic Minister of Finance Kjell-Olof Feldt during the Olof 
Palme government 1982-86

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[Marxism] HuffPost: Open Letter to Hillary Clinton from a Young Palestinian Feminist

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[Marxism] This is the 3CR Australia community radio statement regarding the fascist United Patriots Front

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This is the 3CR Australia community radio statement regarding the 
fascist United Patriots Front


On Sunday 1st November, five members of the fascist group United 
Patriots Front (UPF) gained entry to the premises of 3CR Community Radio 
and filmed throughout the building without permission.


To read the whole statement click here.

http://enpassant.com.au/2015/11/09/community-radio-station-3cr-statement-on-attempted-intimidation-by-the-united-patriots-front/

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Re: [Marxism] Elections in India.

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on Mon, 9 Nov 2015 19:06:12 +, Prashad, Vijay via Marxism wrote:
> [...]
> For those interested, I have an article in Vikalp on the 98th anniversary of 
the Bolshevik
> Revolution, 
http://www.vikalp.ind.in/2015/11/what-does-1917-represent-in-2015.html
..

There seems to be no understanding in this article that the Russian Revolution 
started to turn into its opposite once there were no further revolutions of 
note 
in the world, especially in western Europe. Thus did the wasted (20th) century 
provide proof of the impossibility of 'socialism in one country'.

Jim

 
 -- 
 Jim (j...@redunity.org) on 09/11/2015

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Re: [Marxism] "a blue and white kristallnacht is only a matter of time"

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At 11:02 09-11-15 -0500, Dennis Brasky via Marxism wrote:
>
>http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/11/09/a-blue-and-white-kristallnacht-is-only-a-matter-of-time

Thanks for finding this Dennis! I was at this Kristallnacht memorial 
yesterday in Amsterdam where Haneen Zoabi spoke, and I can say that her 
speech (along with the other two speakers) was excellent (as you can read for 
yourself using the link in the article). What's important, is that unlike 
previous years, even with leftists involved, this Kristallnacht memorial 
acknowledged the Nazi holocaust but  also connected it to all other cases of 
national oppression, that of Palestine being one of the most urgent (and 
one where the Dutch government is complicit).A repeated theme was that there 
is no validity in "ranking" the severity of oppression -- rejecting the 
Zionist assertion that the Nazi holocaust was unique and any comparisons to 
it are tantamount to denial -- and that struggling against one is struggling 
against all.

Also, the dispute that the article described over the BDS advocate in Munich 
was mirrored here in regards to Zoabi's speaking. As news got out of her 
planned appearance at the "alternative" Kristallnacht memorial, the Zionists 
(as usual.) cried "antisemitism" and the police were sent with orders to 
shut down the event if her speech violated the law! The Zionists and their 
allies (all the parties in government, and most of the others) worked 
themselves up into thinking that she would say something antisemitic because 
that's what they think Palestinians are! So there were plenty of cops there, 
but of course they couldn't do anything. I guess it's just as well the cops 
were there as they did keep a group of about 50 Zionist types quiet and 
apart from us.

Here's the link to her speech:
   
http://abu-pessoptimist.blogspot.nl/2015/11/what-should-be-learned-from-persecution.html

- Jeff
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[Marxism] Socialism must be rescued from its imprisonment within national boundaries

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There is now a growing recognition among socialists that political and 
economic action for workers’ rights has to be developed on an 
international scale, and that such action must sensibly direct its 
activities at the level of the EC. Dennis MacShane has outlined a number 
of areas for labour movement activity in Europe for the 1990s, paying 
particular attention to the struggle for a shorter working year and on 
environmental protection (MacShane, 1990). Lambert has pointed out that 
a number of ‘new politics’ parties in Europe already frame their 
programmes in terms of the need for European-wide policies (Lambert, 
1991). Picciotto has called for the ‘building of a new internationalism 
which can combine the strengths of class politics and popular social 
movements’ (Picciotto, 1991, p.59) Within social-democracy, there has 
been a call for a European-wide Socialist Party by Ken Coates, the 
Nottingham MEP (Coates, 1990; 1991), which has drawn stern opposition 
from Neil Kinnock on the grounds that such a party would be premature. 
The new leader of the German Social Democrats, Bjorn Engholm, has 
commented that ‘at every party Congress in Europe we talk about global 
interdependencies in terms of the economy, the environment and other 
issues, yet our social-democratic parties are organised in a classically 
national manner’. He also notes how ‘ludicrous’ it is that the European 
Parliament has less power than did the Reichstag before the First World 
War (Engholm, 1991, p.8). Achille Occhetto, leader of the Italian Party 
of the Democratic Left, has urged the development of socialist politics 
for the new ‘European nation’ and believes it will ‘capture the 
imagination of the young’ (The Guardian, January 25, 1990). Eric Heffer 
indicated a rethink on the traditionally anti-European British Left when 
he wrote that he was convinced ‘that a point has been reached where 
socialism must be rescued from its imprisonment within national 
boundaries’ (The Guardian, November 4, 1990).


Politically, this implies nothing less than a reversal of the trend of 
the past 120 years, since the disintegration of the First International 
and the rise of socialist/ labour parties based in and sucked into the 
arena of the nation state. It is also clear that ‘economic’ demands have 
to be widened to encompass the priorities of the new social movements 
(see Gorz, 1989, part 3 & Appendix), in a coalition of forces seeking 
widespread democratisation of all areas of life, eventually leading to a 
new, much more radical, Social Charter mark two. The Swedish experience 
appears to confirm Marx’s observation in On the Jewish Question that 
‘politics has become the serf of financial power’ (Marx and Engels, 
1975, p.171). Both Marx and Engels pointed out that what they termed 
‘communism’ was possible only on an international scale (Marx and 
Engels, 1975, p.53; Marx and Engels, 1976, p.352), although the 
squirming footnotes of the editors of the Marx-Engels Collected Works 
try to suggest that they did not really mean what they said. Socialist 
movements of various sorts have come to power in nation-states and all 
of them have had to contend with the hostile power of the world economy. 
But if Europe becomes the world economic hegemony of the 21st Century, 
the exercise of political power will perhaps be less vulnerable than in 
the old nation states.


Lawrence Wilde, "The Politics of Transition: The Swedish Case", Capital 
and Class, Summer 1992


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[Marxism] To a Waverer

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To a Waverer, by Bertolt Brecht

You tell us
It looks bad for our cause.
The darkness gets deeper. The powers get less.
Now, after we worked for so many years
We are in a more difficult position than at the start.
But the enemy stands there, stronger than ever before.
His powers appear to have grown. He has taken on an aspect
of invincibility.
We however have made mistakes; there is no denying it.
Our numbers are dwindling.
Our slogans are in disarray. The enemy has twisted
Part of our words beyond recognition.

What is now false of what we said:
Some or all?
Whom do we still count on? Are we just left over, thrown out
Of the living stream? Shall we remain behind
Understanding no one and understood by none?

Have we got to be lucky?

This you ask. Expect
No other answer than your own.
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Re: [Marxism] Nicos Poulantzas: State, class and the transition to soc ialism

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I should have know better than to trust Doug Greene with providing the correct 
link to his Poulangtzas article. :)

The correct link is:
http://links.org.au/node/4543


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To: Jim Farmelant 
Subject: [Marxism] Nicos Poulantzas: State, class and the transition to 
socialism
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 07:12:08 -0500



The video of Doug Greene's lecture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuzG2P4M8b0


The article on which the lecture was based.
http://www.redwedgemagazine.com/essays/heroic-deed-myth-revolution




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