Re: [Marxism] The Trump-Putin coalition for Assad lays waste to Syria: Imperial agreement and carve-up behind the noisy rhetoric

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A few comments on the article by Michael Karadjis:

***

1. The US and Assad

Michael says:

"The deepening American intervention in Syria under the administration of 
president Donald Trump has been both far bloodier than that under Barack Obama, 
and also more openly on the side of the regime of Bashar Assad, as has been 
clarified by a number of recent official statements and changes".

Michael notes that: 

"However, within a number of months of Trump’s election, some events began to 
cast doubt on this trajectory. Above all, in contrast to the complete absence 
of any military clash between the US and Assad in the Obama years, the first 
half-year of Trump saw one regime airbase bombed, one regime warplane downed, 
and three minor hits on pro-Assad Iranian-led Iraqi militia in the southeast 
desert".

But he argues that these are "minor clashes".  The "main game" is "a US-Russia 
alliance, a victory for Assad".

I agree that these clashes are small incidents, and that in general the US 
under Trump is collaborating with Assad.

My question is:  How long has this pro-Assad policy been in effect?

The reference to "the complete absence of any military clash between the US and 
Assad in the Obama years" could be taken as implying that the US has always 
supported Assad, ever since the start of the uprising in 2011.

But in considering the lack of direct military clashes between the US and Assad 
during the  Obama period, we should not forget that allies of the US did 
intervene militarily.  Israel bombed Syria on a number of occasions.  Turkey 
and the Gulf states supplied weapons to rebels (albeit limited in quantity and 
quality).

I think that initially the US probably wanted Assad to be replaced.  While he 
had collaborated with the US in some ways, he was not totally reliable.

On the one hand, he had collaborated with the CIA's rendition program.  But on 
the other hand, he had collaborated with Hezbollah, which had driven Israel out 
of Lebanon.

Thus I think the US had a perspective of removing Assad, and bringing a section 
of the opposition into the government, while keeping the regime largely intact. 
 

However the policy of replacing Assad has been dropped.  Russian and Iranian 
support for Assad made it too difficult to carry out.

***

2. The US and Iran in Syria

Michael seems to downplay hostility between the US and Iran as a factor 
influencing events in Syria: 

"One reason commonly cited for the US stand in al-Tanf is that the 
Baghdad-Damascus Highway passes through the town, and the US is thereby 
blocking a direct Iranian connection, a “land bridge”, to Syria, which would 
effectively link Iran to Hezbollah in Lebanon by land...

"While the real reason may be a mixture ... the anti-Iranian reason is 
undermined by the fact that there remains a great expanse of Syria-Iraq 
borderland that Iranian, pro-Iranian Iraqi and Assadist forces can seize in 
order to form the land bridge. If we take out the small area around al-Tanf in 
the southeast corner, and the northern part of the Iraq-Syria border around 
Hassakah, controlled by the US-backed SDF, then we are left with the entire 
ISIS-controlled Deir-Ezzor province".

Michael seems to imply that the US would be unconcerned if Iranian-led forces 
were able to take over a large part of Deir Ezzor province.  I think it is more 
likely that the US rulers have reluctantly accepted that they have no realistic 
way of preventing it.

I suspect that the US might originally have had the aim of trying to seize Deir 
Ezzor using forces trained at al-Tanf, thereby preventing Iranian-led forces 
from controlling the various roads through the province, but then realised that 
their proxy force was not up to the task.

The relationship between the US and Iran is complex.  They are cooperating 
against ISIS, especially in Iraq, but the US is still imposing economic 
sanctions on Iran, which means that the hostility is not just a matter of 
rhetoric.

***

3. Turkey's role in Syria

MK: "In addition, the rebel-held region of northern and eastern Aleppo province 
where Turkish troops are present as part of the Euphrates Shield operation is 
effectively a de-escalation zone, as the rebels there only fight ISIS and are 
not permitted to confront the regime (and, at least in this case, it also means 
they are free from regime bombing)".

If the "rebels" are no longer fighting the Assad regime, should they still be 
called "rebels"?   Some former rebel groups have become instruments of Turkish 
intervention in Syria.

The Turkish-backed groups are fighting the Syrian Democratic Forces, not ISIS.

MK: "At present there is much talk of a 

[Marxism] Fwd: In the Wake of US Climate Failures, Don't Look to China for a Panacea

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Richard Smith, always astute.

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[Marxism] Fwd: The Hollow Courage of Bill Maher

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Good take down.

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Re: [Marxism] What a German Communist said about the Nazis in 1930

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When Hitler came to power, many German CPers who had wanted to fight but
were vetoed by the Soviets tried to flee to the USSR but were met at the
border.  Staying at your post wasn't necessarily a matter of choice.
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[Marxism] Immigrants Shouldn’t Have to Be ‘Talented’ to Be Welcome

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NY Times Op-Ed, Sept. 7 2017
Immigrants Shouldn’t Have to Be ‘Talented’ to Be Welcome
Masha Gessen

The terms of the debate over President Trump’s decision to revoke the 
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are familiar, as are the 
terms of the larger conversation about immigration in this country: On 
one side are hardworking immigrants; on the other are politicians who 
wrongly claim that these immigrants harm the economic interests of 
native-born Americans.


As protests broke out across the United States in response to Mr. 
Trump’s move, reporters and immigrant advocates stressed that the 
administration’s actions will hurt achievers — people who have graduated 
from college, people who have bought houses, people who work for 
high-tech companies.


There is nothing wrong with this story. It’s one that most, if not all, 
immigrants like to tell about themselves — even if their actual story 
doesn’t neatly fit the narrative. In fact, as Hannah Arendt pointed out 
in her essay “We Refugees,” written in 1943 at the height of the 20th 
century’s refugee crisis, people whose stories fit the narrative least 
well — the most desperate and the worst-wounded of the immigrants — are 
especially invested in thinking of themselves as destined for success 
and, of course, as future loyal citizens.


But something goes awry when this becomes the dominant story told about 
immigrants in America. This has been happening for a number of years: 
The good people of America talk about immigrants as hard workers who 
conscientiously contribute to the economy. (I myself have made it onto a 
few lists of exemplary immigrant success stories.) In fact, DACA was 
designed to reward achievement: to qualify for the program, an applicant 
had to be in school or hold a high school diploma or equivalent, or have 
been honorably discharged from the armed forces. Those who hadn’t been 
able or lucky to meet those requirements were apparently deemed unworthy 
of staying in the country where they had lived since they were children.


When Mr. Trump issued an executive order banning entry by citizens of 
predominantly Muslim countries, American technology companies responded 
with a lawsuit in which they stressed that immigrants have founded and 
run many large tech companies. The revocation of DACA has brought forth 
similar — and much-quoted — responses from Silicon Valley. When the 
president threw his support behind a reform plan that would drastically 
reduce immigration to this country, editorial writers argued against it 
by pointing out that immigrants benefit the economy.


These arguments usually begin by stating that America is a “land of 
immigrants.” This not only is an insult to Native Americans and the 
descendants of those who were brought to this country against their will 
but also constitutes a sort of sleight of hand. It turns the stories of 
individual immigrants into the “story of America.” It’s one thing for 
individuals to base their sense of self-worth on their contribution to 
the American economy. It’s quite another to claim that America values 
immigrants because of this contribution: This paves the way to thinking 
that America should make decisions about immigrants based on whether 
they benefit the economy. It can even reframe giving safe haven to the 
persecuted as giving jobs to the well qualified.


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This is neither new nor specific to Republicans. Hillary Clinton’s 
campaign promised comprehensive immigration reform that would “bring 
millions of hardworking people into the formal economy.” Bernie 
Sanders’s platform promised to build an immigration system that would 
“match our labor market needs.” Responding to DACA’s repeal, the Senate 
Democratic leader Chuck Schumer mentioned “hardworking” people whose 
“contributions are vital to our economy.”


But what’s wrong with the decision to discontinue DACA is that people — 
not workers — will be deported. Lives — not careers — will be shattered. 
The problem is that it’s inhumane. As long as politicians consider it 
necessary to qualify the victims as “hardworking” or “talented,” they 
fail to stand up to the administration’s fundamentally hateful 
immigration agenda.


The reform package backed by Mr. Trump last month also claims to pursue 
economic aims. Neither Democrats nor Republicans — nor critics in the 
news media — have taken issue with this underlying premise: They have 
largely 

[Marxism] Simeon Wright, Witness to Abduction of Emmett Till, Dies at 74

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NY Times, Sept. 7 2017
Simeon Wright, Witness to Abduction of Emmett Till, Dies at 74
By SAM ROBERTS

Simeon Wright picked cotton all day in his father’s field on Wednesday, 
Aug. 24, 1955, just as he had done every summer growing up in the 
Mississippi Delta. It was just too hot, though, for his 14-year-old 
citified cousin, Emmett Till.


After a few hours of harvesting, Emmett, lately arrived on vacation from 
Chicago, wearily retreated to the Wrights’ home on Dark Fear Road, just 
outside the cotton-milling hamlet of Money, Miss.


That night, the boys sought refreshment with relatives and friends, all 
black, at Bryant’s Grocery & Meat Market in Money. Inside, Emmett bought 
some bubble gum from the 21-year-old white woman, Carolyn Bryant, who 
ran the store with her husband. It was a fateful encounter.


She would tell her husband that Emmett had made a sexually suggestive 
remark to her, that he had grabbed her by the waist, that he had let 
loose a wolf whistle. She would repeat those contentions in court, then 
retract some years later. Whatever happened in those fleeting moments, 
the encounter would lead to Emmett’s kidnapping and murder and the 
mutilation of his body four days later in a crime that would shake the 
nation and galvanize the nascent civil rights movement.


Simeon Wright was only 12 at the time. He was sharing his bed with 
Emmett the night of Aug. 27 when two white men — Carolyn Bryant’s 
husband, Roy, and his half brother, J. W. Milam — abducted Emmett at 
gunpoint.


It was Simeon who identified Emmett’s ring for the police a few days 
later, after his cousin’s beaten body, one eye gouged out, had been 
fished from the Tallahatchie River, weighted down with a 75-pound cotton 
gin fan tethered to his neck with barbed wire.


And it was Mr. Wright who five decades later would donate a sample of 
his DNA, helping federal prosecutors prove that the disfigured body — 
the one the nation saw in shocking photographs of the open coffin — was 
Emmett’s. (The defendants had claimed they could not be convicted 
because the victim was never conclusively identified.)


Simeon Wright, who fled Mississippi with his parents and siblings after 
the not-guilty verdict, died on Monday in Countryside, Ill., a Chicago 
suburb. He was 74. His family said the cause was complications of bone 
cancer.


Six decades after leaving the South, still haunted by the murder, Mr. 
Wright belatedly became a keeper of his cousin’s legacy.


“Our world was never the same after that,” he told The New York Times in 
2004.


The aroma of honeysuckle every summer would remind him of his boyhood 
home. The rumbling of an automobile evoked his sleeplessness in the bed 
from which his cousin had been kidnapped.


“I lay there that night,” Mr. Wright recalled in an oral history 
interview in 2011, “and every car that I would hear, I thought it was J. 
W. Milam and Roy Bryant bringing Emmett back.”


Mr. Wright was the youngest of the group that took the family’s Ford 
sedan to the store in Money, near Greenwood. His older brother Maurice 
drove.


“Maurice sent me in behind Emmett to make sure that he didn’t say 
anything that he shouldn’t, because he just didn’t know the ways of the 
South,” Mr. Wright recalled in the oral history, made for the 
Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture by 
the Southern Oral History Program.


Only Mrs. Bryant knows what Emmett said to her before Simeon went into 
the store to retrieve him. Emmett may have violated a taboo in the Jim 
Crow South by placing his money directly in her hand instead of on the 
counter. By all accounts, though, he did not grab her.


Mrs. Bryant testified at the trial of Mr. Bryant and Mr. Milam that 
Emmett had physically menaced her. But earlier this year, Mrs. Bryant 
(now Carolyn Bryant Donham) retracted that part of her testimony in the 
book “The Blood of Emmett Till,” by Timothy B. Tyson. By Mr. Wright’s 
account, Mrs. Bryant soon afterward left the store and, as she walked to 
her car, Emmett whistled at her suggestively.


“To this day I don’t know what possessed Emmett to do that,” Mr. Wright 
was quoted as saying in the Tyson book.


“It scared us half to death,” he told Chicago Magazine in 2009. “We were 
almost in shock. We couldn’t get out of there fast enough, because we 
had never heard of anything like that before. A black boy whistling at a 
white woman? In Mississippi? No.”


The next evening, as Mr. Wright recalled in “Simeon’s Story: The 
Kidnapping of Emmett Till” (2010), which he wrote with Herb Boyd, “a 
girl who lived nearby told us she had heard about what happened in Money 
and that 

[Marxism] Kate Millett, Ground-Breaking Feminist Writer, Is Dead at 82

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NY Times, Sept. 7 2017
Kate Millett, Ground-Breaking Feminist Writer, Is Dead at 82
By PARUL SEHGAL and NEIL GENZLINGER

Kate Millett’s first and most famous book, “Sexual Politics” (1970), is 
credited with inciting a Copernican revolution in the understanding of 
gender roles, but it began life somewhat unobtrusively, as a doctoral 
thesis. And its author was a somewhat reluctant standard-bearer for the 
new feminism.


Ms. Millett, who died on Wednesday in Paris at 82, was freshly out of a 
job, fired from her teaching position at Barnard College for her role in 
organizing student protests in 1968, and she worked furiously to develop 
her arguments into a book. She passed with distinction (although one 
adviser complained that reading her work was like “sitting with your 
testicles in a nutcracker”), and the book, published by Doubleday, 
became a sensation.


“Sexual Politics” sold 10,000 copies in a fortnight. Time magazine 
called Ms. Millett “the Mao Tse-tung of Women’s Liberation” and featured 
her on the cover, with a portrait by Alice Neel. Along with Ti-Grace 
Atkinson and Shulamith Firestone, she became a defining architect of 
second-wave feminism.


“Sexual Politics” combined literary criticism, historical analysis and 
passionate polemic. In close readings of writers like D. H. Lawrence and 
Henry Miller — the so-called champions of sexual liberation — Ms. 
Millett traced contempt and outright hatred of women.


Freud’s theory of “penis envy” came in for withering critique; so too 
did Norman Mailer and his anxious regard for masculinity. (“Precarious 
spiritual capital in need of endless replenishment and threatened on 
every side,” Ms. Millett called it.)


Some of her targets fired back. Mailer lampooned her in “The Prisoner of 
Sex” as “the Battling Annie of some new prudery.”


The “Sexual Politics” project, Ms. Millett told Time, “got bigger and 
bigger until I was almost making a political philosophy.” From 
depictions of the sexes in literature, she examined how women were 
socialized to accept, even defend, their lower status in society, a 
process she called “interior colonization.”


“It is interesting,” she wrote in “Sexual Politics,” “that many women do 
not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could 
be found of the totality of their conditioning.”


She examined how patriarchy had been developed and then defended, by 
law, medicine, science, schools.


“Patriarchy’s chief institution is the family,” she wrote. “It is both a 
mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit 
within a patriarchal whole.”


She added: “As the fundamental instrument and the foundation unit of 
patriarchal society, the family and its roles are prototypical. Serving 
as an agent of the larger society, the family not only encourages its 
own members to adjust and conform, but acts as a unit in the government 
of the patriarchal state, which rules its citizens through its family 
heads.”


The New York Times called the book “the Bible of Women’s Liberation” and 
“a remarkable document because it analyzes the need and nature of sexual 
liberation while itself displaying the virtues of intellectual and 
emotional openness and lovingness.”


But it was also met with fierce criticism, notably by Irving Howe, who, 
in Harper’s Magazine, described it as “a figment of the Zeitgeist, 
bearing the rough and careless marks of what is called higher education 
and exhibiting a talent for the delivery of gross simplicities in tones 
of leaden complexity.”


The book displayed such scant interest in children, he wrote, that 
“there are times when one feels the book was written by a female 
impersonator.”


Ms. Millett died while on vacation with her spouse, Sophie Keir, with 
whom she had had a relationship of many years; they recently married. 
Ms. Keir said by email that the cause was cardiac arrest. The two had 
been going to Paris annually to celebrate their birthdays, she said, 
adding that Ms. Millett had had long ties to the women’s movement in France.


Ms. Millett was an artist as well as a writer and had established an art 
colony at a farm in LaGrange, N.Y., splitting time between that home and 
an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.


Besides Ms. Keir, she is survived by two sisters, Sally Millett Rau and 
Mallory Millett Danaher.


Ms. Millett was born on Sept. 14, 1934, in St. Paul. Her mother, the 
former Helen Feely, sold insurance to support the family after her 
father, James, had left.


Ms. Millett graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1956 and then 
went to Oxford. She pursued her art career in Japan and New 

[Marxism] Orwell vs Huxley

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*Today's encore selection -- from Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public
Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman.*

The first half of the 20th century saw two competing visions of the future
from British authors George Orwell (1903-1950) and Aldous Huxley
(1894-1963). Though it came 17 years later, Orwell's dystopian novel *1984* is
better known; however, Huxley's *Brave New World* has proven more relevant.
Written in the shadow of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin, *1984* shows a world
ruled by an oligarchical dictatorship with perpetual war, pervasive
government surveillance and incessant public mind control. Set in 2540
AD, *Brave
New World* was published in 1932 and began as a parody of H. G. Wells'
optimistic and utopian novel *Men Like Gods*. Neil Postman contrasted the
two visions in the foreword to his 1985 classic *Amusing Ourselves to Death*
:

"We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and [Orwell's]
prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves.
The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had
happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares. But
we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another --
slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous
Huxley's *Brave
New World*.

"Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did
not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an
externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is
required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he
saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the
technologies that undo their capacities to think.

"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was
that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who
wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of
information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be
reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be
concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of
irrelevance.

"Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would
become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies,
the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in *Brave
New World Revisited*, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever
on the alert to oppose tyranny 'failed to take into account man's almost
infinite appetite for distractions.' In *1984*, Huxley added*, people are
controlled by inflicting pain. In* Brave New World, they are controlled by
inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin
us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.

"This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right."

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[Marxism] [UCE] Re: Antifa and free speech

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They used to tell us that ultralefts, at heart, tend to be little more than
confused liberals.  It never ceases to amaze me just how often that it is
validated.

So we will have "radicals" cheering as lawyers advocate the government
regulation of speech.  And pretending that it's all about them--what they
are inclined to do--regardless of context.  Latin America in the 1970s.
Weimar Germany in the 1920s.  Trumpian America today.  And any historical
materialists who wants to talk about conditions and context is clearly a
closet reactionary unworthy of any discussion beyond ritual denunciation
and abuse.

. . . and come election time, they're going to be warning that the
imminence of fascism leaves us no choice but to vote for whatever political
zombie the Democrats will offer.

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[Marxism] PRESS RELEASE: Green Party of RI calls for Greens, progressives across New England to join in regional conference this fall

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

The Green Party of Rhode Island has been active for 25 years, running
candidates for office and agitating on a number of issues in Rhode
Island politics. Now we will mark this anniversary with a celebration
and regional summit this fall to bring together Greens and
progressives from across New England to plan and build our future
efforts.

With a duopoly system that is still dysfunctional almost a year after
the election and a White House that is engaging in an obvious
'shock-and-awe' publicity campaign strategy, the Left in New England
needs to come together to build and develop a strategy for 2018 but
also 2019, 2020, and beyond. The best defense against both
neoliberalism stemming from the Democrats and neofascism fostered by
Trump and his base which targets frontline communities, is a proper
offense. This means we cannot and should not pass up the opportunity
to build on the municipal, state, and regional level. Rhode Island was
home to one of the early American Green Parties and so it is only
right to take inspiration from this progressive heritage to move
forward boldly into the future with a political party for the 99%.

What would a New England Regional Summit look like?

In the most ideal and maximized situation, the day would start in the
morning and run until evening sometime in October in Providence. It
would be divided into a few blocks, lasting an hour each. Each would
feature a session headline speaker that opens with an address. Then we
would offer break-out workshops and panel sessions on a variety of
Green topics. The remainder of time would be used for networking and
socializing. This gathering would have the capacity to develop
strategy around which political campaigns to run in 2018, policy to be
pursued as a progressive community in the coming year, and even the
opportunity to propose a Green New Deal for our state that would put
people to work across Rhode Island while not building 'all pollution
and no solution' fossil fuel infrastructure in Providence and
Burrillville.

But for this to happen, the Green Party of Rhode Island would need to
begin by getting a tally of who is interested in attending. Greens and
Green voters from across Rhode Island, New England, or even the entire
United States are invited to visit
 to register
their preliminary interest in this event. At a minimum, we will  mark
the anniversary with a celebration amongst Rhode Island Greens and
friends.

Headline speakers are currently being approached for availability. But
this will only happen if we have Greens and Green voters willing to
attend.


FOR MORE INFO CONTACT:
Glen Bennett
(401) 738-7295 | (401) 738-7295 (c) | gebenn...@verizon.net
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[Marxism] Fwd: Herbert Marcuse remembered | MR Online

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By Paul Buhle.

https://mronline.org/2017/09/06/herbert-marcuse-remembered/

My own take on Marcuse:

http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/modernism/marcuse.htm
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[Marxism] Fwd: Socialist Forced Off Democratic Campaign for Criticism of Israel

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https://theintercept.com/2017/09/06/socialist-forced-off-democratic-campaign-for-criticism-of-israel/
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Re: [Marxism] Attack on Darwin

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See the section at Wilson's wiki criticizing this new bio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._N._Wilson#Critical_studies_and_reviews_of_Wilson.27s_work

I've read and enjoyed Wilson's biographies of various religious figures,
from Jesus to Paul to C.S. Lewis etc. But he's always got an axe to grind.
Sometimes useful in that it portrays sharply the main figure within his or
her social/philosophical context. But he's clearly wild with his axe-swings.

See in contrast the overlapping works of Karen Armstrong (and for general
classical history, Mary Beard).
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A. N. Wison is a curious character.  Back in the 1970's, he first made his name 
as one of the Young Fogeys. For a long time, he was known as a religious man, 
and indeed, at one point, he began studies to prepare to become an Anglican 
priest, but he dropped out.

By the early 1990's, when atheism started to become fashionable in the UK, he 
announced himself as being an atheist, and wrote a number of books, article, 
and pamphlets on behalf of atheism.  More recently, he has announced his 
re-conversion back to Christianity. 

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-- Original Message --
From: Gregory Adler via Marxism 
Subject: [Marxism] Attack on Darwin
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 16:39:31 +1000

 

The continued drive to discredit Darwin and his central contribution to our
understanding of evolution and its driving forces strikes me as analogous
to the attacks of Steadman et al on Marx. These attempts to shade our
understanding in the interrelated fields of science and political economy
go along with the increasing dominance of the reactionary undergrowth in
what is taken to be normal politics. Although I am sure that Wilson
expresses himself much more eloquently than Trump.

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2017/08/wilson-makes-unconvincing-attempt-kick-darwin-his-throne
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[Marxism] Attack on Darwin

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The continued drive to discredit Darwin and his central contribution to our
understanding of evolution and its driving forces strikes me as analogous
to the attacks of Steadman et al on Marx. These attempts to shade our
understanding in the interrelated fields of science and political economy
go along with the increasing dominance of the reactionary undergrowth in
what is taken to be normal politics. Although I am sure that Wilson
expresses himself much more eloquently than Trump.

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2017/08/wilson-makes-unconvincing-attempt-kick-darwin-his-throne
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