[Marxism] The Occupation of the American Mind ...
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.counterpunch.org/2016/05/23/the-occupation-of-the-american-mind-a-film-that-palestinians-deserve/ In his Counterpunch piece The Occupation of the American Mind: a Film That Palestinians Deserve, Andrew Stewart models the inclusivity that he would like to see in the Palestine solidarity movement. He says, "Does Alison Weir, as a single-policy advocate, go on the radio shows of a few folks who might be white nationalists?" He avoids the term white supremacist which might give offence to some white nationalists. If Alison Weir's outreach to white nationalists is successful we can look forward to some of them joining our demonstrations. We'll have to think about some expressions that we thoughtlessly use, such as "Israeli apartheid." Not everyone sees apartheid as something bad. ken h _ 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] Slump capitalism and the end of history (1997)
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. * Capitalist triumphalism. . . ah, it all seems so long ago now. https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/04/24/from-the-vaults-slump-capitalism-and-the-end-of-history-1997/ _ 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] On the global power of finance
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. * Tony Norfield's *The City* (about London and the global power of finance): https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/tony-norfields-the-city-london-and-the-global-power-of-finance/ Review of Tony's book: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/02/25/in-review-the-city-london-and-the-global-power-of-finance/ Our interview with Tony: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/interview-with-tony-norfield-on-finance-and-the-imperialist-world-system-today/ Tony looking at what's wrong with the idea that the finance sector is bad and capitalist production is good: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/01/11/capitalist-production-good-capitalist-finance-bad/ _ 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: How one journalist is going after false news on Syria - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
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Re: [Marxism] Can livestock fix man-made deserts?
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 am a developing a website hub focused on soil based agriculture -- and 'microbe farming' -- that often explores rotational grazing http://soilalliance.blogspot.com.au/ I strongly recommend Alan Broughton's recent paper on 'Ruminant livestock and green house gases' http://soilalliance.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/ruminant-livestock-and-greenhouse-gases.html It is a great summary of the role of livestock in soil recovery and climate gas sequestration. For those looking for a referenced summary of the methodology in the face of much activity blaming cattle for climate change(as in the absurd 'Cowspiracy') I recommend 'Letter to a Vegetarian Nation' by Sheldon Frith. http://www.regenerateland.com/2015/12/03/letter-to-a-vegetarian-nation-or-we-should-eat-meat/ dave riley _ 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: In Syria, Keeping the Faith | Boston 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. * Review of "Burning Country". http://bostonreview.net/world/elizabeth-shakman-hurd-syria-burning-country _ 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] Request re ACW, ante-bellum South etc
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. * Bound labor has always been a feature of capitalism (and wage labor was always a feature of the Southern system). Horne grossly overstates the point on the American Revolution, inverting the position that almost every Marxist writer from Marx on ever took on the American Revolution. There was no unified strategy in 1776 beyond independence. Nor was the Republican Party a unified force. Nor was the Lincoln administration consistent in its positions until near the very end. Next time you're at the library, please check out my recent book on _Free Labor: the Civil War and the Making of the American Working Class_ http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/83qmn2rk9780252039331.html It argues that the failure of Reconstruction includes the failure to reconstruct a workers movement that included the general strike activities that actually ended slavery. 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
Re: [Marxism] Tariq Ali to share podium honors with Tim Anderson
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. * p.s.: at the Left Forum I bumped into a speaker from a "humanitarian" group who had been on a panel with Tariq Ali on refugees the day before. I told her I thought it was hypocritical for Ali to speak on such a panel given his support for the man who drove out 95% of the refugees: Assad. She responded testily that she didn't know nor care what Ali's politics were, and "if the left doesn't stop playing these pro- vs. anti-Assad games we'll never get around to helping refugees." I knew the Stalinist rot was infecting the organized "left," but didn't realize it was rearing its ugly head among NGOs. But then I shouldn't be surprised, as it has the same class basis. _ 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] Tariq Ali to share podium honors with Tim Anderson
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. * See this widely-endorsed statement on the same theme just issued: http://www.syriauk.org/2016/05/to-participants-and-organisers-of.html For background on Ali and Syria, see: http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article36553 and https://syriafreedomforever.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/response-to-tareq-ali-what-is-really-happening-in-syria/ _ 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] Tariq Ali to share podium honors with Tim Anderson
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. * Tariq, I just wanted to drop you a line reminding you of what a fuckwit you are on Syria. I can sort of understand why you would be affiliated with John Rees's gang since these people at least have a patina of legitimacy from the demonstrations they organized against Bush's war in Iraq. I hope that they are paying you good money for speaking at the "Crossing Borders" conference since it will cost your tattered reputation dearly. But Tim Anderson is a rancid specimen who makes no bones about his backing of Bashar al-Assad. Being an invited guest of a conference that gives him a platform is like speaking at rally in 1938 in defense of the Moscow Trials. Anderson is the master of the Big Lie. This is a guy who writes articles for batshit Michel Chossudovsky's website claiming that al-Assad's popularity was confirmed by his big victory in the 2014 "multi-party" elections in Syria. Surely someone as trained in Chomskyism as you would understand the difference between real elections and demonstration elections, right? This absurd conference is co-sponsored by "Stopimperialism.org", the website of a deranged propagandist named Eric Draitser who is ubiquitous to CounterPunch. Draitser is indistinguishable from Pepe Escobar, Mike Whitney and Andre Vltchek when it comes to these questions. In fact all these people might be the sock puppets of somebody in a Moscow basement on Putin's payroll for all I know. Btw, no point in tattling on me to Jeff St. Clair again. For obvious reasons, I stopped writing for CounterPunch long ago. Regretfully yours, Louis Proyect _ 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] The Occupation of the American Mind: a Film That Palestinians Deserve
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. * Great film http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/23/the-occupation-of-the-american-mind-a-film-that-palestinians-deserve/ Best regards, Andrew Stewart _ 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: Talking to Assad today is futile
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[Marxism] Fwd: Chris Hedges: Reform or Revolution - Chris Hedges - Truthdig
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. * If you would have told me in 1986 when I was enduring Hedges's articles about Central America in the NY Times that he would be giving talks on Rosa Luxemburg at the Left Forum 20 years later, I would have told you that you're nuts. I guess that's what Marx was talking about in the Communist Manifesto: "Finally, in times when the class struggle nears the decisive hour, the progress of dissolution going on within the ruling class, in fact within the whole range of old society, assumes such a violent, glaring character, that a small section of the ruling class cuts itself adrift, and joins the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands. Just as, therefore, at an earlier period, a section of the nobility went over to the bourgeoisie, so now a portion of the bourgeoisie goes over to the proletariat, and in particular, a portion of the bourgeois ideologists, who have raised themselves to the level of comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole." http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/reform_or_revolution_20160522 _ 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
