Re: [Marxism] Why Green Party's Jill Stein should drop her presidential bid

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On 8/30/16 10:35 PM, Clay Claiborne via Marxism wrote:

Why Green Party's Jill Stein should drop her presidential bid

http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2016/08/why-jill-stein-should-drop-her.html




In 1914 revolutionary socialists backed the Zimmerwald Manifesto because 
socialist parliamentarians had voted for war credits. As senator, 
Hillary Clinton voted for the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan that has 
led to a million deaths. Whatever faults there are in Jill Stein's 
position on Syria, it is only a position. I would never back a candidate 
for president who voted for the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. Clay, 
of course, is entitled to his own opinion.

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[Marxism] Why Green Party's Jill Stein should drop her presidential bid

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Why Green Party's Jill Stein should drop her presidential bid

http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2016/08/why-jill-stein-should-drop-her.html



Clay Claiborne, Director
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Venice, CA 90291
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Read my blogs at the Linux Beach 

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[Marxism] Fwd: ASSAD MAY BE A WAR CRIMINAL, BUT HE’S UNAC’S WAR CRIMINAL | We Write What We Like

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https://wewritewhatwelike.com/2016/08/30/assad-may-be-a-war-criminal-but-hes-unacs-war-criminal/
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[Marxism] The UK Labour Party Elections

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There is a very set pattern to the events in the UK.  Corbyn travels
throughout the land attracting record crowds. His opponent speaks to fewer
and fewer. The media probes endlessly for a weakness and the abuse from
inside the Labour Party of their leader escalates.  The Labour Party
secretary, Iain McNicol and the Deputy Leader Tom Watson have put all their
energy into purging the party of Corbyn supporters. The scale of the purge
necessary is likely to be too much even  for their efforts, but they still
keep trying.
Some commentators are puzzled as to why the purge is so relentless when the
latest poll shows it is clearly likely to be ineffective. I myself think
that it is because when we are in a crisis, as Tom Watson and the
Parliamentary Labour Party are, one reverts to what one is good at.  Watson
has been excellent in the past at purging Young Labour of the Militant
tendency and he is having another go now. When the election is over and
Corbyn wins, what then?

The key is the September Conference when a new NEC that is more sympathetic
to Corbyn takes over. Will there be a counter purge of the Old Right and
the Blairites? It is a pure guess, but I think that Corbyn's instincts are
towards peace and forgiveness.
But some of his opponents have gone out on a limb so far that it is
difficult to see them put away their weapons. Watson and McNicol have also
made so many enemies, that even Corbyn might not be able to save them. As
well, if the power shifts to the branches with the support of the new NEC,
then some of the Blairites will be in danger of deselection.

There have been blood curdling threats from among the anti-Corbynites of a
renewed leadership challenge next year. This time they say they will have a
better candidate than the woeful Owen Smith. The latter has performed
poorly, but any candidate against Corbyn would run up against the same
obstacles. Corbyn is overwhelmingly popular with the grassroots of the
party and with those who long for change. Contesting leadership elections
is what Corbyn does well and forcing another election will just make him
stronger.

So the options for his enemies are either a split or continued sniping.
Taking either option is fraught with danger for the PLP.  The sensible
option would be to go along with Corbyn's moderate Keynesian program and
some of them will do that.  But the problem seems to be that a hard core is
reluctant to believe that Corbyn represents a rejection of the neoliberal
agenda.

That resurfaced in a tweet from George Eaton, the political editor of the
New Statesman when he wrote
"Two pieces endlessly written since 2008: 1. Neoliberalism is dead. 2.
Political realignment is coming. Neither true nearly a decade on/"
My tweet said
"Look up 2nd law of dialectics. You'll wake up one morning and
neoliberalism will be residual not hegemonic. Read Heraclitus."
My point is that the circumstances which produced Corbynism have not gone
way.  Indeed, the current stagnation in the international economy will
drive more and more people to seek relief from neoliberalism.  Politics is
in  a state of flux.  Yet, the Blairites are incapable of change. Like the
Bourbons, they will learn nothing and forget nothing.  The Old Right will
still want to go on hunts for Trots, as you do.  I have no idea how many
parliamentarians that represents.  It is though a good deal smaller than
the figure of 172 who passed the notorious motion of no confidence in
Corbyn. As for the rest of the PLP, the membership will forge a PLP which
is more in their image, through deselection and/or sudden conversions.

Dramatic surprises await us all.

comradely

Gary
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Re: [Marxism] A "Nazi" party as an Assad ally

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And neo-Nazis of the West also support Assad.

Andrew Auernheimer (weev) for example: http://i.imgur.com/xNeNcfk.jpg

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[Marxism] Fwd: Socialists and the electoral arena: in response to Sophia Burns

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The first two paragraphs of Sophia Burns’s article struck a chord with 
me, especially the reference to mass demonstrations as a way of raising 
political consciousness and as an alternative to the dreary election 
cycles we endure every four years when the bourgeoisie gets to pick its 
next White House puppet. We may have the right to vote but not the right 
to decide policy. We pull the lever and they pull the strings. I learned 
that in 1965 with my first and last vote for a Democrat who had assured 
voters that “we are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles 
away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.”


Within two years I had joined the Socialist Workers Party and threw 
myself into building mass demonstrations against the war in Vietnam, a 
major focus of the group. What I did not expect was the near collapse of 
the movement in 1968 when the other groups and individuals associated 
with the National Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam essentially 
pulled out of street actions and put all their energy into electing 
Eugene McCarthy or Robert F. Kennedy. I became convinced that the 
antiwar movement was dead and doubted party leaders who said that 
activities would pick up after the elections when the war was certain to 
continue. As it turned out, they were right—one of the last times in 
fact. After the antiwar movement did come to an end because of the final 
victory of the Vietnamese themselves, the party went into a crisis of 
perspectives that finally led to its virtual extinction.


full: http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=12797
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[Marxism] US occupation is still poisoning Iraq's children without any criminal prosecution

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> http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37398-war-not-over-us-occ
>> upation-is-still-poisoning-iraq-s-children
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[Marxism] Fwd: insufficient respect: Yes, do compare atrocities!

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Though it is nothing like the cause of Syria's misery, one culprit has 
played a major role in its perpetuation.  It not only erodes the will of 
the West to do something.  It also actually undermines the international 
order.  That culprit is the human rights discourse that has built up 
since the end of the Second World War.


http://insufficientrespect.blogspot.com/2016/08/yes-do-compare-atrocities.html
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Re: [Marxism] A "Nazi" party as an Assad ally

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I saw their flags in Beirut some time ago, my understanding was that there
was considerable dispute as to where they were on the political spectrum.


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[Marxism] Fwd: New sordid details emerge from Yanukovych’s ledger

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So it turns out that the Party of Regions led by Kremlin stooge 
Yanukovych was bribing both election officials and an ULTRARIGHT group 
allied with Privy Sektor to maintain its grip on the country. What will 
Roger Annis make of that, I wonder.


http://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/new-sordid-details-emerge-from-yanukovychs-ledger-421693.html
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Re: [Marxism] A "Nazi" party as an Assad ally

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SSNP is definitely bad news and is universally considered to be on the
right, perhaps even explicitly fascist. But they're bit players, just as is
the old Moscow-oriented CP on the "left" (of Assad's regime).

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[Marxism] A "Nazi" party as an Assad ally

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I haven't heard much about this group - anyone have more info?

http://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/could-a-nazi-party-soon-rule-syria/71156?utm_source=pdb_medium=email_campaign=08302016=f1fb285d292e14c446e8568e7609c0d6
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[Marxism] Fwd: Checkmate for a broken republic: on Benjamin and Brecht

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http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2016/08/checkmate-broken-republic-benjamin-and-brecht
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