[Marxism] Helen Clark's UN bid not supported by Maori Party leaders

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There's a lot of sycophancy right now in NZ about Helen Clark's bid for the
UN secretary-general post.

Yesterday the co-leaders of the Maori Party came out and said they were not
supporting her.

Excellent.

https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/helen-clarks-un-bid-maori-party-leaders-note-the-empress-has-no-clothes/
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Re: [Marxism] The Sanders campaign is officially over. Now his supporters wonder: What’s next? - The Washington Post

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> On Jul 29, 2016, at 11:26 AM, Clay Claiborne via Marxism 
>  wrote:
> 
> There is a very good reason why most people of color are more afraid of a
> Trump presidency than the white Left.

Clay’s point is extremely important. For that reason, I was somewhat at a loss 
for words this evening when a seasoned comrade from Venezuela — someone with 
long and deep experience on the left, and a person of colour — passionately 
made the case that there’s a good reason people around the world are more 
afraid of a Clinton presidency than a Trump presidency. The argument was that 
while a Trump represents capital interests that stand to lose from, for 
instance, the TPP (and the whole regime of investor-protection agreements 
currently being advanced), Clinton represents those that would *gain* from such 
deals, at the expense of much of the rest of the world. I don’t offer that as a 
rebuttal of Clay’s argument, but it seems like another dimension of the current 
dilemma that needs to be taken into account.

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Sanders campaign is officially over. Now his supporters wonder: What’s next? - The Washington Post

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On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Dennis Brasky 
wrote:
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> And as for Trump's Islamophobia,
>
Trump's Islamophobia is merely his opening tactical approach to the main
issue for white racists in Amerca, black people in America. Muslims are
less that 1%, they are not the final destination of the white supremacist
movement he is building.


> Bill's sanctions which killed half a million Iraqi kids in the 1990s and
> the 2003 war that Hillary endorsed which killed over one million, there's
> also plenty to fear from her presidency. Whichever turd wins, we lose!
>
Only a white person could say that because any colored person in America is
already facing more slights and abuses in the past year because of the
campaign of one of these turds and not the other.

Kennedy & Johnson's war in Vietnam killed more people of color than the KKK
could ever think about. So what's your point? My point that they, and even
Bill Clinton, weren't consciously building a white supremacist mass
movement that lead to increased attacks on you and yours. Maybe that's not
been your problem? Have you been subjected to more racist attacks as the
Trump campaign has "progressed."

We'll hear a lot of talk about not voting for the lesser of two evils in
the white left this year but there is a reason why 88% of colored people in
the US oppose Trump and its not because they are stupid.

Tomorrow, I begin my shift of 4 days x 10 hrs in the engine room of the
Internet, so if you don't hear from me for a while, that could be why.

Clay Claiborne, Director
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Venice, CA 90291
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: The Sanders campaign is officially over. Now his supporters wonder: What’s next? - The Washington Post

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On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Andrew Pollack 
wrote:

> So from a historical perspective the FDRs/Kennedys/Clintons and their
> lesser-evil mantra are a much bigger political danger for the exploited and
> oppressed.
>
That would also seem to make the relative gains made by black people under
FDR and Kennedy/Johnson a big danger as well. My perspective must be a
little different than yours because I wouldn't put Clinton in the same
class but then I still remember not being allowed to drink a soda at
Woolworths so maybe my experience is too,


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Re: [Marxism] Connecting Black Lives Matter and Syrian Lives Matter

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The connection is that the development of white supremacy against Africans
in support of racial slavery under developing monopoly capitalism in the
United States has provided the prototype [ the economic, social, political,
and even sexual (notice how quickly the plight of Syrian refugees in Europe
has been sexualized with tales of rape and molestation - for a good
discussion of the underlying psychology and its development in the
pre-Antebellum South see Joel Kovel, White Racism A Psychohistory { this is
also important in understanding how deep the rabbit hole of racism goes})]
for the operation of white supremacy, .i.e. racism, in every sphere and
with every people, especially, but not limited to, other national
minorities.

I found this article interesting but superficial.

> Syrian revolutionaries can point to the African American struggle against
> racism and capitalist injustice as “the other America,” which needs
> international solidarity.
>
Without acknowledging what has already been done in this regard - like from
Kafranbel.

Was this written by someone in BLM, because that would explain why it makes
statements that should apply to everyone as though they apply especially to
BLM,

>  Black Lives Matter can embrace Syrian revolutionaries, now refugees, and
> engage in a dialogue with them about what happened to the Syrian
> revolution, what is required to end the war now, and how to establish
> social justice in Syria.

But in case they should ask for a no-fly zone like the Libyans got, there's
this:

> U.S.  imperialist military intervention in the Middle East has only made
> matters worse.
>

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[Marxism] Connecting Black Lives Matter and Syrian Lives Matter

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[Marxism] "Babies were burned"

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*from* *Indian Summer* *by Alex Von Tunzelmann.* In the 1947 partition of
India and Pakistan, there were as many as a million deaths as Muslims,
Hindus and Sikhs attacked, murdered, raped and burned each other:

http://www.delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?p=3127
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[Marxism] [UCE] Fwd: What Happened to the Pink Tide? | Jacobin

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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/pink-tide-latin-america-chavez-morales-capitalism-socialism/
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[Marxism] Fwd: “A Bitter Disappointment,” Edward Said on His Encounter with Sartre, de Beauvoir and Foucault | Critical-Theory.com

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[Marxism] [UCE] Fwd: The Long Depression – an interview | Michael Roberts Blog

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MK: In your new book you describe three depressions: that of the years 
1873-1897, 1929-39 and the present one.  Is there anything we can learn 
from this?


MR:  In my view, this is not a normal recession, but a depression. 
That’s different from the normal slumps. That does not happen very 
often. In the history of modern capitalism, of the 19th century until 
now, there have only been three major depressions. In a depression, 
recovery is so weak that economies do not return to the same growth 
rates or even the level of output that previously existed, except for a 
very long time.


There was a big slump in 1873 in Britain, Germany and the US, the major 
capitalist economies then. There was no real strong recovery after that. 
There were a series of slumps which went on for the next 20 years.  That 
was a depression: a low level of growth and a series of slumps. It took 
a really long time before sustained recovery was possible.


The second depression is called the Great Depression. This began with 
the collapse of the stock markets in the US in 1929, similar to the 
collapse of the housing market in the US in 2007. After the crash in 
1929 the US, the largest capitalist economy in the world, went into the 
most severe depression. There was prolonged mass unemployment, and there 
was no real recovery during the 1930s.  The only thing that turned it 
around was that the US entered the Second World War, alongside Britain, 
against the so-called Axis powers. Government production was increased, 
which led to the economic growth and recovery. So only war brought 
recovery in the 1930s. In my view, we are in a similar period. It’s 
going to take some drastic changes in order for capitalism to recover at 
all.


https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2016/08/02/the-long-depression-an-interview/
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[Marxism] It's tough for billionaires

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