Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Tough-Talking Philippine President Duterte
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. * Louis, So you haven't forgotten Lipmann. Don't be so angry with him. He is a good man, with his own set views.Cool,Cool.Vijaya Kumar Marla From: Louis Proyect via Marxism To: marl...@yahoo.com Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2016 7:33 AM Subject: Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Tough-Talking Philippine President Duterte 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. * On 12/9/16 8:54 PM, Michael Karadjis via Marxism wrote: > > Yeh but don't forget that Marcos was overthrown in a Colour Revolution > organised by Shultz and Wolfowitz, an early shot by the Neocons > (http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/site_packages/econ_hitmen/3150philipp_coup.html). > So Marcos must have been doing something good. Too bad Walter Lippmann isn't around to defend Duterte. I was flabbergasted when he defended the Myanmar generals as "anti-imperialist". So ahead of this time. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/marlavk%40yahoo.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
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Tough-Talking Philippine President Duterte
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. * On 12/9/16 8:54 PM, Michael Karadjis via Marxism wrote: Yeh but don't forget that Marcos was overthrown in a Colour Revolution organised by Shultz and Wolfowitz, an early shot by the Neocons (http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/site_packages/econ_hitmen/3150philipp_coup.html). So Marcos must have been doing something good. Too bad Walter Lippmann isn't around to defend Duterte. I was flabbergasted when he defended the Myanmar generals as "anti-imperialist". So ahead of this time. _ 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: Tough-Talking Philippine President Duterte
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. * -Original Message- From: Andrew Pollack via Marxism A wide array of left, human rights and movement groups have come together to protest Duterte's policies, from the Marcos burial to the mass killings. Yeh but don't forget that Marcos was overthrown in a Colour Revolution organised by Shultz and Wolfowitz, an early shot by the Neocons (http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/site_packages/econ_hitmen/3150philipp_coup.html). So Marcos must have been doing something good. _ 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] As I Walked Out One Evening
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. * As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming river I heard a lover sing Under an arch of the railway: ‘Love has no ending. ‘I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, ‘I’ll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky. ‘The years shall run like rabbits, For in my arms I hold The Flower of the Ages, And the first love of the world.' But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: ‘O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time. ‘In the burrows of the Nightmare Where Justice naked is, Time watches from the shadow And coughs when you would kiss. ‘In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day. ‘Into many a green valley Drifts the appalling snow; Time breaks the threaded dances And the diver’s brilliant bow. ‘O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you’ve missed. ‘The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead. ‘Where the beggars raffle the banknotes And the Giant is enchanting to Jack, And the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer, And Jill goes down on her back. ‘O look, look in the mirror, O look in your distress: Life remains a blessing Although you cannot bless. ‘O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start; You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart.' It was late, late in the evening, The lovers they were gone; The clocks had ceased their chiming, And the deep river ran on. _ 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 Plague was an economic boon to survivors
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: After fascism, what? | rs21
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 think that the incorrect usage of the term has lead consistently since the Popular Front days to demonizing any and all rightwingers so as to frighten the Left into the arms of the liberals. On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Gary MacLennan via Marxism wrote > > > Lou, > > It is part of Trotskyist folklore to get one's definition of fascism > absolutely correct in order (I presume) to avoid the mistakes of the > "social fascism" period. _ 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: Shackles and Dollars - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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. * (Didn't realize this was behind a paywall.) THE CHRONICLE REVIEW Shackles and Dollars Historians and economists clash over slavery By Marc Parry DECEMBER 08, 2016 PREMIUM For Edward E. Baptist, the scandal was a gift. It had taken the Cornell University historian over a dozen years to produce a study tracing the creation of American capitalism to the expansion of slavery. It took less than one day for a short book review to turn his 400-page narrative into a cause célèbre. The inciting review appeared in The Economist magazine. It faulted Baptist’s study, The Half Has Never Been Told (Basic Books, 2014), for exaggerating the brutality of bondage based on the questionable testimony of "a few slaves." Baptist fired back in Politico and The Guardian. The magazine’s critique, he wrote, "revealed just how many white people remain reluctant to believe black people about the experience of being black." The Economist, widely denounced online, published an apology. The controversy stimulated both public discussion of slavery and sales of Baptist’s book. Within academe, though, some think it had another effect: to squelch debate over The Half Has Never Been Told. Skeptical scholars may have been wary of criticizing its arguments for fear of being perceived as apologists for slavery. That silence is breaking. In a series of recent papers and scholarly talks, economists, along with some historians, have begun to raise serious questions about Baptist’s scholarship. Their critiques echo parts of the Economist review, only this time backed up by reams of economic research. The attack is notable because it has expanded beyond The Half Has Never Been Told to assail the wider movement to which that book belongs. Over the past several years, a series of books has reshaped how historians view the connection between slavery and capitalism. These works show the role that coercion played in bringing about a modern market system that is more typically identified with freedom. At a moment of rising frustration with racial and economic inequality, they have won a level of attention and acclaim that academics dream about but almost never get. Some think the books’ forensic accounting of how slave labor was stolen may buttress the case for reparations. What the economists are now assembling amounts to a battering ram aimed at the empirical foundations of these studies, which include Walter Johnson’s River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (Harvard University Press) and Sven Beckert’s Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Knopf). The critics, whose own scholarship stakes out similar turf, say the new histories are riddled with errors, make overblown claims, or distort evidence to suit their story lines. "The shocking thing is how far they have deviated from the traditional strengths of history, in terms of using evidence and evaluating arguments," says Paul W. Rhode, who chairs the economics department at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and until recently served as co-editor of The Journal of Economic History. The clash is a reckoning for two disciplines that have long developed in isolation. Some researchers believe that economic history would gain strength if historians and economists worked together. By September, though, the sniping over slavery had gotten so nasty that one scholar trying to build bridges between the camps, Caitlin Rosenthal, described herself as "kind of terrified." Rosenthal, a historian at the University of California at Berkeley, was about to visit Dartmouth College to speak at a public debate in which Baptist would confront the economists face to face. "I have no idea what’s going to happen," she said, adding, "It’s possible that it’s going to just be a huge fight." The best way to understand this fight is to take a closer look at the book that has caused the most friction, The Half Has Never Been Told. When you think about the slave trade, what probably comes to mind are the voyages that brought some 600,000 to 650,000 African captives across the Atlantic to the territories that would eventually become the United States. The heart of Baptist’s study is a different slave migration, one that took place within those states. Between about 1790 and 1860, traders and owners moved some one million enslaved people from older states like Virginia and Maryland to newer territories within the South’s dynamically expanding cotton economy. The slaves were marched in chains or shipped on boats to lands the U.S. had acquired from other empires and cleared of native peoples. At first, they ended up in
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Splurge and Purge - The Baffler
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[Marxism] Fwd: Splurge and Purge - The Baffler
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[Marxism] Fwd: Hungary 1956: a socialist revolution – International Socialism
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. * 1945 meant the end of the old ruling classes and political elites, the end of the landed aristocracy, of the immensely rich and rather unpopular Catholic Church with its feudal customs and giant estates, of the old officer corps and of the state bureacracy staffed by the gentry, an end to the feared gendarmerie which had terrorised the countryside without regard for legality or humanity, and an end to racial laws and to ethnic and gender discrimination. Spontaneous communist experiments started by Council Republic veterans (not to speak of the former prisoners of war who took the Bolshevik side in the Russian civil war in 1918-20) were suppressed by the party and the Soviet military authorities. But it was plain that socialist and Communist workers and peasants wanted socialism, not some half-baked people’s democracy. They wanted an immediate Commune order (this was the popular name of the Council Republic, spelt “Kommün”), total socialisation of all means of production, consumer equality, free state education for all, abortion and divorce on demand, a citizens’ army and police and a council system in workplaces and localities. We know what the Stalinists did with all this. They were always fighting the left—and people tend to forget that in the 1940s social democracy was to the left of the Communist Party; this is why it was so mercilessly persecuted. full: http://isj.org.uk/hungary-1956-a-socialist-revolution/ _ 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] Surviving Hate and Death—The AIDS Crisis in 1980s USA
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[Marxism] Fwd: Fidel and the Good People
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[Marxism] Fwd: Future Imperfect | Ibraaz
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[Marxism] Fwd: Narcos and the Story of Colombia’s Unhappiness
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. * Notwithstanding my advice to CounterPunch readers to junk Netflix, it is still worth the membership fee for many of the European television shows they reprise such as Wallander and for their own productions such as Narcos that I have been watching for the past several weeks. As you may know, this series now in Season Two is about the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the leader of the Medellín cartel that shipped billions of dollars worth of cocaine into the USA in the 1980s, and who is played brilliantly by Brazilian actor Wagner Moura. Narcos has very few deep insights about the social and economic context for the rise of the drug industry so why would a Marxist film critic recommend it? The answer is that it is vastly entertaining and has enough background about the Colombian political context of the 1980s to motivate reading about the “war on drugs”. Like the “war on terror” and the Cold War that preceded it, it was one in a series of conflicts that were designed to mobilize Americans against a dreaded enemy after the fashion of the permanent warfare in Orwell’s 1984. When a population grows restive over declining economic prospects, what better way to suppress resistance than to redirect anger against an external threat? Indeed, you will find striking affinities between the hunt for Pablo Escobar and the one for Osama bin-Laden. full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/09/narcos-and-the-story-of-colombias-unhappiness/ _ 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: Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life by Philippe Girard - bookforum.com / daily review
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[Marxism] Fwd: Jill Stein Sees Russia From Her House
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Tough-Talking Philippine President Duterte
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 a similar column of his in October. This is not just bat-shit crazy, but concretely dangerous. A wide array of left, human rights and movement groups have come together to protest Duterte's policies, from the Marcos burial to the mass killings. At the same time the CPP has been sucking up to Duterte and apologizing for his "excesses." This is all overlaid with the growth, however modest, of revolutionary groups which left the CPP over its class collaboration and lack of democracy. On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 10:18 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. > * > > Andre Vltcheck boosts "anti-imperialist" caudillo. > > http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/09/tough-talking-philipp > ine-president-duterte/ > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/acpollack2%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: Tough-Talking Philippine President Duterte
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[Marxism] Fwd: After fascism, what? | rs21
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. * Looking at Trump through this model it is plain that Trump is not a fascist and in fact bears very few points of comparison with the politics of the 1930s. https://rs21.org.uk/2016/12/08/after-fascism-what/ _ 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] This way for the gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
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 have been reading on Levinas and I may yet get around to a post on his work. An essay on the Levinasian face in literature contained a link to Tadeusz Borowski's short story *This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen* https://cc136.k12.sd.us/thiswayforgasstory.pdf I followed the link and read this passage where Borowski describes the unloading of the trains into Auschwitz. *We climb inside. In the corners amid human excrement and abandoned wrist‐watches lie squashed, trampled infants, naked little monsters with enormous heads and bloated bellies. We carry them out like chickens, holding several in each hand.* The character in the story tries to get the women to take the children but they run away in horror. An SS oficer makes to shoot the man carrying the children. Then a woman comes and takes the children. Borowski writes * You mustn't shoot, I'll carry them." A tall, grey‐haired woman takes the little corpses out of my hands and for an instant gazes straight into my eyes."My poor boy," she whispers and smiles at me. Then she walks away, staggering along the path. I lean against the side of the train. I am terribly tired.* This is the moment of redemption. The woman has look into the narrator's face and in Levinasian terms seen as the trace of G-d. The analysis is elegant and as always when I encounter faith and decency bound together, I wish it were so. But that is not why I am writing about my encounter with Borowski. Reading the story I was filled with a burning hatred for the far right. That I have lived long enough to see the filth make a come back fills me with rage. How could over 40% of Austrians have voted for a Far Rightist? How could a piece of dirt like Trump be elected to the White House? What is wrong with people? Listers should be advised that these questions are more rhetorical venting. I know, I know but I am still horrified. comradely Gary _ 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
