Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Open Letter to Bernie Sanders from Former Campaign Staffers
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 problem with this call is that it is based on an independent Sanders campaign or Sanders/Green campaign actually becoming the dominant anti-Trump force. That seems to me to be highly unlikely to say the least and the idea that Clinton and the Democrats would abandon the field is surely put forward as a merely fanciful rhetorical device. No the reality must be faced that a supercharged third party Sanders/Green campaign might well secure a healthy percentage of votes but nowhere near enough to displace Clinton as the major challenger to Trump. The further reality is that the more successful such a campaign was the more likely that it would take enough votes from the Clinton Democrats to leave Trump the final winner. This is not-as far as I am concerned- an argument against such a campaign. But it should be built on an honest understanding of what it involves. The possibility of a Trump victory is being used as a bogey-man argument to force support to the very-right wing candidacy of Hillary Clinton. But this is not the 1930's , Trump does not equal fascism, the Democrats are not Social Democrats and a call for an independent left campaign is not a breach of a non-existent united front against a non-existent threat of fascism. However it would be counter-productive in the short and long run to build a left third party on a false basis of becoming in this election cycle the dominant force against Trump. Rather it should be done on the basis of a decisive break form the falsity of lesser-evilism and the beginning of a fight to build an independent political leadership. While I look at these issues from afar in Australia I would think that a first step would be advocating a vote for the Greens and to build that as strongly as possible. Unfortunately Sanders is now out of the picture for such a project as he has become a shill for Wall St Hillary. On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 6:24 AM, 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. > * > > > > > http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/29/run-bernie-run-open-letter-to-bernie-sanders-from-former-campaign-staff/ > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gregadler502%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: Perry Anderson: Incommensurate Russia. New Left Review 94, July-August 2015.
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 the outset of his rule, Putin insisted not only that the country belonged historically to Europe, but that it shared an identity with its most advanced region—‘We are West Europeans’. He even suggested it might join NATO. If subsequent declarations were more tempered, the regime and its media never ceased to invoke the common values of Western civilization, defended by Russia alongside the US and EU, in its battle against contemporary terrorism. Diplomatically, Putin was the first to express solidarity with Bush after the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon; closed down Soviet bases in Cuba and Vietnam; opened Russian airspace for American supply-lines to Afghanistan; made little case of NATO expansion to the Baltics; ran down, rather than building up, his country’s military establishment—so many pointed demonstrations that Russia was a reliable partner of the West, and staunch member of the international community. full: https://newleftreview.org/II/94/perry-anderson-incommensurate-russia _ 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: Open Letter to Bernie Sanders from Former Campaign Staffers
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[Marxism] Some recent journalism of mine
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 doing some independent writing now on the election. Here's my newest stuff. Due to the effort to do this independently, it would be my great privilege if you would LIKE/SHARE this on your various social networks like FaceBook, Twitter, Google+, etc. Why Trump Will Win (It Has Nothing To Do With Fascism): https://rimediacoop.org/2016/07/25/andrew-stewart-why-trump-will-win/ If Trump Loses: https://rimediacoop.org/2016/07/27/andrew-stewart-if-trump-loses/ Various Rhode Island Videos from the DNC Protests in Philly https://rimediacoop.org/2016/07/29/various-rhode-island-videos-from-the-dnc-protests-in-philly/ Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer after the DNC https://rimediacoop.org/2016/07/29/andrew-stewart-remembering-fannie-lou-hamer-after-the-dnc/ Countering The Nader Baiter Mythology https://rimediacoop.org/2016/07/29/andrew-stewart-countering-the-nader-baiter-mythology/ An Interview with Anthony Maselli about DNC Protests https://rimediacoop.org/2016/07/30/andrew-stewart-an-interview-with-anthony-maselli-about-dnc-protests/ -- 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: Palestine and Hillary, 'the lesser evil'
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. * By Steven Salaita. https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2016/7/26/palestine-and-hillary-the-lesser-evil _ 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: Kurdish Forces Bolster Assad in Aleppo - The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Sanders campaign is officially over. Now his supporters wonder: What’s next? - The Washington Post
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. * Notice the liberal race-baiting at the end, which is popping up more and more: “Sometimes you need to check our privilege at the door and realize who will really be affected by your decision [to not back Hillary].” Too bad Hillary's Walmart wage-slaves don't have any privilege to check. _ 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: Kurdish Forces Bolster Assad in Aleppo - The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
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