Re: [Marxism] David Graeber: manufactured ignorance: the strange case of Juan Cole and the Kurdish freedom movement
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 Proyect asks for a reference for my statement that: "Turkish-backed groups, some of which use the label 'FSA', have attacked Rojava on numerous occasions." "Turkish-backed groups" include ISIS, which has obviously attacked Rojava. But Louis is probably asking about FSA groups. Several examples are given in the book "Revolution in Rojava", by Michael Knapp, Anja Flack and Ercan Ayboga (Pluto Press, 2016). Their most detailed account of conflict between the YPG and a section of the Free Syrian Army relates to events in Aleppo. While Aleppo is not part of Rojava, the Kurdish areas of Aleppo followed similar policies to those in Rojava. The attacks on the predominantly Kurdish Aleppo neighborhoods of Sex Maqsud (Sheikh Maqsoud) and Asrafiye by some Turkish-backed FSA groups reflect their hostility towards the Rojava revolution. "Revolution in Rojava" outlines the conflict as follows: "Both belligerents - the regime on one hand, and the FSA and other armed opposition groups on the other - pressured the YPG to take sides. "The FSA, flush with money from the Arab-Sunni Gulf states, began systematically buying up property in the Kurdish neighborhoodsFSA members took to carrying their weapons around outdoors - but the councils [local councils established in the Kurdish neighborhoods] took notice and demanded that they cease doing so. "The councils also demanded that the FSA pull out of Sex Maqsud [Sheikh Maqsoud] toward Asrafiye. During Ramadan, on August 19 [2012], more than 3,000 people demonstrated in support of this demand. But the FSA didn't withdraw - instead it fired at the residents from buildings. The YPG fought back, and in the hours-long battle, 13 civilians and several FSA fighters were killed... "But this and other battles drove the FSA out of Sex Maqsud and AsrafiyeOver the next months, the FSA kept shooting into the two neighborhoods, but now from a distance. "Since the Kurds had not sided with the regime, the regime forces became increasingly brutal. The army intervened militarily, then began attacking with helicopters and planes, each time taking several lives. "The state shut down the electricityThere was a de facto food embargo "The Kurds' neutrality angered both sides, the state and the FSA, which escalated their attacks "In the summer and fall of 2013, the YPG defended Aleppo well, pushing back attacks by Islamic and other armed opposition groups, as well as parts of the FSAIn the spring of 2014, the YPG concluded a ceasefire with the FSA and other armed opposition groups. "Since early 2015, the self-governed parts of Aleppo have repeatedly come under attack from jihadists. The new coalition Jaish Al-Fatah, led by Al-Nusra (Al Qaeda) and heavily supported by Turkey, is continually trying to conquer the liberated parts of Aleppo, but the people of Sex Maqsud are maintaining their self-defence." (Revolution in Rojava, p. 100- 102) *** Here is a brief report on events in Serekaniye, a town on the Turkish border: "In November 2012, about 3,000 heavily armed jihadists - Al-Nusra and parts of the FSA , like the Syrian Islamic Liberation Front (SILF) - slipped over the Turkish-Syrian border at Ceylanpinar and attacked Serekaniye. The goal was to push on to Qamislo and bring down the self-government in Cizire. After four days of fighting, they occupied Serekaniye. The FSA touted the invasion as "the FSA's liberation of Ras Al-Ayn." But the "liberation" took the form of massacres, devastation and the radical application of Sharia law "In June 2013...the YPG/YPJ liberated Serekaniye and expelled Al-Nusra and the FSA." (Revolution in Rojava, p. 225) Chris Slee From: Louis Proyect Sent: Friday, 23 February 2018 11:37:38 AM To: Chris Slee; Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition Subject: Re: [Marxism] David Graeber: manufactured ignorance: the strange case of Juan Cole and the Kurdish freedom movement On 2/22/18 7:17 PM, Chris Slee wrote: > > > The FSA was never a single united organisation, so we can't speak of "the > FSA" doing anything. But Turkish-backed groups, some of which use the label > "FSA", have attacked Rojava on numerous occasions. Reference, please. > We prioritise solidarity with the Rojava revolution because of its socially > progressive nature - women's rights, ethnic and religious inclusiveness etc. Waiting to see a single article since 2013 about the brutal siege of East Ghouta. Maybe if Assad left them alone, they'd have a chance to organize seminars on Murray Bookchin's writings and see the light. > >
[Marxism] Top Marx | Review of *Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason* by David Harvey | Joe Gill | The Morning Star
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Re: [Marxism] Gun regulation?
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. * Not dealing with these folks, students from Florida here, I'm dealing with YOU who supposedly are not brain dead knee jerk liberalsall who should know better but clearly don't. With these students it's a wholly different one born from tragedy. It also requires not being condensing jerks to them as well..it means being honest and discussing all the issues surrounding *their* demands. D. _ 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] Gun regulation,
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 2/24/18 9:50 PM, DW via Marxism wrote: Redneck Revolt is one of several armed leftwing militias growing around the U.S. It's especially big in the mid-Atlantic states, or so it seems. They were in Charlettesville during the car attack by the racist far right. They opened carried their ARs (among other weapons) but also provided the first on the spot medical care provided by their medic's division. They were instrumental in getting the 3% Militia to withdraw and, to denounce the KKK torch parade that was openly racist and fascist. They were the ones that guarded that Church under threat from the armed right wingers. Not because they pointed guns at them but because they could speak a common language. Some even quit the 3% and joined Redneck revolt. GOOD. They are complete idiots and so are all these recycled White Panthers, Young Patriots from the 60s. _ 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] Gun regulation?
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. * Right on! On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 8:49 PM, Ken Hiebert via Marxism > > > On this issue of gun control I am most interested in the question of how > we should respond to the anti-NRA movement among high school students. Do > we think this is mainly a reactionary movement? > If a counter movement develops in the high schools opposed to further > restrictions, who should be reach out to? Who should we try to find common > ground with? > If we want to find common ground with the anti-NRA young people we should > probably avoid phrases like “...the anti-gun brain dead liberals…" > > ken h > > _ 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] Gun regulation,
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. * John, this is not about a fantasy world like some young Maoists who revel in trying to organize the peasantry in the US in some Prolonged People's War. This is much more down to earth. And it really is political. Redneck Revolt is one of several armed leftwing militias growing around the U.S. It's especially big in the mid-Atlantic states, or so it seems. They were in Charlettesville during the car attack by the racist far right. They opened carried their ARs (among other weapons) but also provided the first on the spot medical care provided by their medic's division. They were instrumental in getting the 3% Militia to withdraw and, to denounce the KKK torch parade that was openly racist and fascist. They were the ones that guarded that Church under threat from the armed right wingers. Not because they pointed guns at them but because they could speak a common language. Some even quit the 3% and joined Redneck revolt. GOOD. The issue of workers owning guns has little to do with "The Revolution". Putting it that way shows you are out of touch with leftwing gun owners and activists and take a mechanical view of the discussions now under way. On your comments on Facebook and other places I responded that I support many of the regulations being asked for by the Florida students who marched this last week. I am for actually discussing them as well. But I also noted to that many here, including yourself, are rapidly abandoning long held positions held by the Socialist Left on gun control. This is, IMO, an adaptation to liberal gun control advocacy. Liberals and the leaders of almost every gun control organization that has help organize or supported the recent student demonstrations are indeed anti-gun and want to ban guns, full stop. They view every regulation toward doing this as a step in the direction of a fake "gun free society". I noted I support them even though it is a concession to the liberals AND the state...when socialists would rather have the government control *all the guns* I begin to wonder what is going through people's head. I make these concessions (I've listed them previously here and on FB) knowing full well that these ARE concessions. That doing so in FACT makes the state stronger. Every gun control organization (and the Democrats who benefit the most from these regulations in a partisan way) has far more faith in the FBI and ATF than they do in the 99.99% of the people who own guns. I do not but it IS a concession to this line of thought. It means, ultimately, gun confiscation. It is in fact telling workers and oppressed...do NOT arm yourself because *only* organizing mass action (something we of course prioritize) protests will protect you when you are assaulted by racists and that we should strengthen the local cops (you know...the ones who are murdering Black youth left and right) and FBI. No Marxist should *ever* support that. Do you consider the political consequences of "winning" a ban on ARs or all weapons for that matter? Also, unlike everything other country in the world...we have far more guns of all types in circulation. Including the ARs that everyone on the left seems bent of banning. Few would ever be turned in and certainly not by the racist right wing which IS well armed and will stay well armed. These militias have 10s of thousands of members and there are 100 million gun owners in the US. Do you believe that banning weapons...which is where this clearly leading and was demanded by many of the students at the recent marches...will actually work? Arming by activists is first and foremost a *political act*. Even when workers armed in the 1930s (and before) and later when the Decons armed and Robert F. William, did so...at no point did they serious think that they would take on the state. Who believed that? No...every act like this puts the *political onus* on the State that there is a *political price to pay* if they get into an armed fight with armed citizens. See Wacko, in fact, more recently. When workers and the oppressed here did so the did it because there was no choice and not to do so would of jeopardized them. These are not exceptions but rather the rule when things begin to get rough. Any gun control measure will generally leave lots of people unarmed. The people who will remain armed, as the liberals want, are the cops, the State and the FBI/DEA/ATF. *Because that is what they WANT*. NOT to note this is irresponsible even if by dint of recent events are forced backward to support some gun control methods. The actual racists and KKK types will NEVER disarm. To assume they will is terribly niave. As we discuss this to ignore the consequences is n
[Marxism] Fwd: NY Times reader comment nails Paul Krugman (excellent in its clarity and simplicity)
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Re: [Marxism] Debs Blog update (18-04)
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 didn't know that, having only Ray Ginger's biography of him. The project, John, so you know...is the "Selected Writings". A lot...5 volumes right now, perhaps 6 if Haymarket is open to that. So unless we can find something by Debs, it will be hard to insert such commentary in the books outside the introductions. If you have some sources on this I'd appreciate knowing about them. I sent your message onto Tim Davenport who is the main editor of this Project. Keep in mind, as a rough guess, there are enough of Debs writings, in documents, essays and especially newspaper columns (his real role in society was that of opinion maker, not unlike H.L. Menken or other famous writers) to fill approx. 30 volumes! David Walters _ 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] Gun regulation
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. * When I posed the question originally, I didn't mention the issue of workers' self defense against the police and the state in general. Those who raise this issue - and those who claim that "we" need guns to defend "ourselves" against a repressive state - are simply playing make believe. No amount of AR 50's and other assault weapons will stand up to the arsenal that just the local police have, never mind the National Guard. It's like the Native Americans fighting with bows and arrows against the cavalry with their Gatling guns. That issue is simply make-believe. John Reimann -- *“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?” *Sophie Scholl, executed by the Nazis 2/22/1943. She was 21 years old. Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _ 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] Gun regulation?
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. * DW says, " Black rights were won without guns? Really?" What I said was, "Black civil rights and voting rights were won (to the extent that they were won) mostly with out guns.” The word “mostly” is not just a weasel word. I was aware that guns did play a role, for example the Deacons of Defence. Nevertheless I must concede that DW has cited examples I was unaware of, the presence of guns in the headquarters of the SCLC, and the experience in Chattanooga. I am glad to learn something new, even if it I have to do so in a very public way. Does my suggestion that black civil rights and voting rights were won mostly without guns survive this new information? I think there is room for argument. The young people who sat in at lunch counters, did they carry guns? The marchers from Selma to Montgomery, did they carry guns? I am sure that the March on /Washington in 1963 was carried out without guns, although I cannot say that none of the demonstrators carried guns on their way to the march. If I were compelled to speculate I’d say that for the most part they did not carry guns. Perhaps someone can correct me on this point. The three civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi, were they carrying guns? Should they have been? Would they have survived if they had been carrying guns? On this issue of gun control I am most interested in the question of how we should respond to the anti-NRA movement among high school students. Do we think this is mainly a reactionary movement? If a counter movement develops in the high schools opposed to further restrictions, who should be reach out to? Who should we try to find common ground with? If we want to find common ground with the anti-NRA young people we should probably avoid phrases like “...the anti-gun brain dead liberals…" ken h _ 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: YOU AREN’T A VULCAN, BUT A SQUISHY AND IDEOLOGICAL HUMAN | Cold and Dark Stars on Patreon
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[Marxism] raoul peck
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-War]: Bogdan on Davies and Kent, 'The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World'
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. * -- Forwarded message -- From: H-Net Staff Date: Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 5:58 PM Subject: H-Net Review [H-War]: Bogdan on Davies and Kent, 'The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World' To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org John Davies, Alexander J. Kent. The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World. Chicago University Of Chicago Press, 2017. Maps. 272 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-38957-8. Reviewed by Nina Bogdan (University of Arizona) Published on H-War (February, 2018) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey The story of how John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, the authors of _Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World_, gained access to the "secret" Soviet maps showcased in their book is both familiar and somewhat anticlimactic--as the Soviet Union disintegrated, pieces of it went up for sale, to include cartographic productions. The suddenness of the collapse created opportunities to make a quick ruble (or, more likely, dollar), particularly in places like the Baltic states, where Soviet rule was thrown off as expeditiously as possible. Given the culture of secrecy around all map production and cartography in the Soviet Union throughout its history, it is no wonder that the individuals who had access to the maps in bulk (and who coincidentally also needed money) were former Soviet military personnel. However, as the authors describe, despite the efforts of various parties to get their hands on them, a huge number of maps were simply destroyed. For example, Aivars Zvirbulis, a Latvian orienteer (orienteering is a sport that combines racing and navigation), negotiated to buy one hundred tons of maps out of _six thousand tons_ set for destruction as waste paper, but in the end acquired only two or three tons as "local children" set fire to the rest (p. 132). The fact that the painstaking work of Soviet cartographers ended up all over the world in private hands, scholarly institutions, and museums, then, is something to celebrate, given the work and craft that went into creating these maps. There is no end to the irony that Western military forces used Soviet-made maps of Afghanistan prior to invasion in 2001. Not only were these maps incredibly accurate but they were also the only such maps available. The authors have compiled an atlas, which, though it provides some interesting insights and explanations, raises a host of broader questions: What was the purpose of creating detailed maps in the Russian language of places with seemingly little military or intelligence interest? Was it part of a plan to take over the world? If so, what does this say about the supposed threat of nuclear annihilation posed by a perennially aggressive, according to Western discourse, Soviet state, a threat that led directly to a central doctrine of US foreign policy during the Cold War: the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)? Why create maps of places that theoretically would no longer exist in the event of nuclear holocaust? Was it because the Soviet government considered a nuclear exchange survivable? Or did the Soviet political and military leadership remain convinced that a conventional war was possible and thus drew up contingency plans that included "mapping the world" to assist their reconnaissance forces? Or was the global mapping project simply part of Soviet efforts to maintain domestic full employment? There are no answers to these questions in the book; instead, the authors present the maps as curious examples of the focus and activity of a secretive repressive regime--a seemingly obsessive attempt between 1950 and 1990 to collect detailed topographic information literally from everywhere in the world and to create accurate high-quality maps of those locations. The military purpose of the mapping is clear and indubitable as the authors point out time and again: much of the information included in the maps is militarily oriented. Details such as navigability of rivers, carrying capacity of bridges, and number of tracks in railroads may interest some tourist travelers but are not details generally included in tourist maps or even standard maps for administrative purposes. The book is divided into four chapters and includes eight appendices, but, at 234 pages, the text takes second place to the graphics: a significant portion of the book is dedicated to the maps, which are reproduced at a high level of quality. In the foreword, James Risen notes both the beauty and craft of the maps, as well as the mystery behind their production. And though the authors point to the age of the maps reproduced to account for problems of quality, the a
[Marxism] Raoul Peck speaks on 'The Young Karl Marx' | BUILDseries via MR Online
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[Marxism] Corbyn and British imperialism
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Re: [Marxism] Debs Blog update (18-04)
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. * David, I hope you will consider including Debs relationships with his Gay and Lesbian friends. Debs was not hetero. He was bisexual. I raised this with the other man working on this book and he responded in a nasty all-knowing attitude that he knew all about Debs - and this could not be! He even stupidly said that Debs was married to a woman (and when I gave some facts - he refused to consider.) He said Debs had a daughter (who was adopted) - I said Harry Hay had a biological daughter and both Oscar Wilde and Abe Lincoln also had two sons - so what? Debs was friends with several openly Gay men - and traveled to spend time with them: James Riley, Horace Traubel and what should be most obvious in his association with the Altoona PA department store owner. Debs never met but liked both Jack London and Oscar Wilde's writings. Among his Lesbian friends (non-sexual) was Frances Willard the then leader of the WCTU). That Debs at lest showed no hostility to Gays and Lesbians and was not supportive of the religious haters, would be something nice to include . John From: Marxism on behalf of DW via Marxism Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2018 9:22 AM To: causecollec...@msn.com Subject: [Marxism] Debs Blog update (18-04) 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. * Got another update of the Debs blog if you wanna skim it... https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdebsproject.org%2F2018%2F02%2F24%2Fminers-massacres-and-math-18-04%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cacb84dc908c24dd666e408d57bab52fd%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C636550898110760314&sdata=9d0flIQThuO9lQLEuMbB4ZUmRH2b0h0ot1pqcAISZr4%3D&reserved=0 tim _ Full posting guidelines at: https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marxmail.org%2Fsub.htm&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cacb84dc908c24dd666e408d57bab52fd%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C636550898110760314&sdata=aQaYc2Mbjssj8cbrHZc%2B63XUa4dSNhQv4uz%2F6LSNRFo%3D&reserved=0 Set your options at: https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.csbs.utah.edu%2Foptions%2Fmarxism%2Fcausecollector%2540msn.com&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cacb84dc908c24dd666e408d57bab52fd%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C636550898110760314&sdata=wstj%2FQE%2FXUjxwD1FfaZbmdc%2B1OEQUS7c0Gb8RdwGiSc%3D&reserved=0 _ 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] Gun regulation?
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. * DRUM's take on Panthers is interesting. That said...History of when and where (Slavery/ radical reconstruction etc.) is really not relevant. Where we are today, the concrete shape the call (against NRA , Trump's Tone deaf attitude,and Rubio being put on the spot by a student about whether he will pledge not to take a penny from NRA) is more relevent. Concrete matters. History is good to shed light on it. But history is not the determinent. The concerete---i.e the PRESENT is the determinant. From: Louis Proyect via Marxism To: Saman Sepehri Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2018 3:10 PM Subject: Re: [Marxism] Gun regulation? 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 2/24/18 3:31 PM, DW via Marxism wrote: > The Black Panthers*ended* police harassment in Oakland before the NRA > supported Mulford Act was passed banning such practices (which resulted > immediately in the OPD harassing young Black men again in the largely Black > neighborhoods of Oakland). It was also their fetishizing of weapons that helped lead to their demise. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/p70volkl%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] Gun regulation?
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. * Posted this on our RR FB page... http://www.mockingbirdpaper.com/content/my-guns-saved-my-life-when-state-and-liberals-left-me-die On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 12:31 PM, DW 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. > * > > Gawd...such one sided bullshit. Black rights were won without guns? Really? > The fact that the SCLC leadership kept assault rifles in their headquarters > was...irrelevant? That many Blacks were armed was "without guns". The fact > is it is hard to prove a negative but I suspect many klan attacks did *not* > happen because they knew Black people were *armed* often in violation of > RACIST gun control laws. Ken you should no better than to peddle such crap. > The Black Panthers *ended* police harassment in Oakland before the NRA > supported Mulford Act was passed banning such practices (which resulted > immediately in the OPD harassing young Black men again in the largely Black > neighborhoods of Oakland). Armed Blacks confronted *regularly* the White > Leagues and armed Whites throughout Reconstruction. By now, Ken, et al, you > should of all read about the "Racist Roots of Gun Control". An excellent > article. [ > http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/civil-rights/ > 347324-the-racist-origin-of-gun-control-laws > ] > > Louis...no...it is not true that only the Mpls strikes were workers armed. > Actually they were not armed then. It was afterwards they, and many other > unions organized such guard groups. The fact is that as a push back against > armed scabs and the cops, racist mobs, the oppressed *always* armed. How? > They owned guns to begin with and if the gun control laws were not enacted > (always against Blacks and the oppressed) they could go out an purchase > them. The last mass arming of Blacks was in 1980 during the Chattanooga > riots where armed, Black veterans mostly, formed an ad-hoc militia and > pushed the white racist sheriffs out of the Black community. Also, all > petty crime stopped cold during these 3 days. They could not of done this > without being armed and at that time, with the latest in weapons including > ARs. > > Second of all, Louis, the anti-gun brain dead liberals that many here are > adapting too DO want your .30-30 banned. They want ALL guns banned. And > they are quite open about this. They see every incremental gun control > measure as a forward step in that direction. THEY have more faith in the > State to handle weapons than civilians and want more cops, more FBI and ATF > to take charge. That is "Marxism"? Gawwdd. > > It is not 1936 or 1980. While gun ownership has been fairly constant, > including the AR-15 (which started as the "Black Rifle" craze during the > Reagan administration), for almost 3 decades. Yet...it's only be the last > few years that these massacres have taken place. Why is that? Columbine > occured sans AR-15s (the used pistols and shotguns). The facts are that 97% > of all the 36,000 () gun deaths are not made by military looking > AR-type rifles. And that 61% of those 36,000 last year (JAMA) are not from > violent attacks but from...suicides. The real deaths of children and young > people come from hand guns. But that is not the emotional push button we > see...EVER. It's only about these relatively few and particularly ugly > school massacres. > > I accept that some things ought to be done. I do support raising the age to > 21 for hand gun or rifle purchases. All firearms. I'm also for actual > licensing with proof-of-proficiency in safety handling. Lastly I'm for > better background checks and establishing a "cannot purchase list" > administered by qualified mental health experts (school counselors, > psychologists, therapists, etc) but with a right to challenge. This "could" > reduce but not eliminate such massacres. Nor would banning AR type rifles > or large capacity magazines. It might help some but with so many such > firearms in circulation, few would turn them in and fewer still would > register what they have. And why should they? THEY are not the criminals. > Disturbed people commit these crimes. And that is where the problem will > lie: gun bans ... which is exactly the agenda of the anti-gun crowd. > > All those positions I outlined above are huge fucking concessions to the > state. They give the government...the FBI and the ATF (the new found lovers > of the Democrat
[Marxism] Raoul Peck On Karl Marx, James Baldwin And Revolution | Sam Bromer | The Forward
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Rojova Illusion | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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Re: [Marxism] Gun regulation?
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 2/24/18 3:31 PM, DW via Marxism wrote: The Black Panthers*ended* police harassment in Oakland before the NRA supported Mulford Act was passed banning such practices (which resulted immediately in the OPD harassing young Black men again in the largely Black neighborhoods of Oakland). It was also their fetishizing of weapons that helped lead to their demise. _ 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] Gun regulation?
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. * Gawd...such one sided bullshit. Black rights were won without guns? Really? The fact that the SCLC leadership kept assault rifles in their headquarters was...irrelevant? That many Blacks were armed was "without guns". The fact is it is hard to prove a negative but I suspect many klan attacks did *not* happen because they knew Black people were *armed* often in violation of RACIST gun control laws. Ken you should no better than to peddle such crap. The Black Panthers *ended* police harassment in Oakland before the NRA supported Mulford Act was passed banning such practices (which resulted immediately in the OPD harassing young Black men again in the largely Black neighborhoods of Oakland). Armed Blacks confronted *regularly* the White Leagues and armed Whites throughout Reconstruction. By now, Ken, et al, you should of all read about the "Racist Roots of Gun Control". An excellent article. [ http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/civil-rights/347324-the-racist-origin-of-gun-control-laws ] Louis...no...it is not true that only the Mpls strikes were workers armed. Actually they were not armed then. It was afterwards they, and many other unions organized such guard groups. The fact is that as a push back against armed scabs and the cops, racist mobs, the oppressed *always* armed. How? They owned guns to begin with and if the gun control laws were not enacted (always against Blacks and the oppressed) they could go out an purchase them. The last mass arming of Blacks was in 1980 during the Chattanooga riots where armed, Black veterans mostly, formed an ad-hoc militia and pushed the white racist sheriffs out of the Black community. Also, all petty crime stopped cold during these 3 days. They could not of done this without being armed and at that time, with the latest in weapons including ARs. Second of all, Louis, the anti-gun brain dead liberals that many here are adapting too DO want your .30-30 banned. They want ALL guns banned. And they are quite open about this. They see every incremental gun control measure as a forward step in that direction. THEY have more faith in the State to handle weapons than civilians and want more cops, more FBI and ATF to take charge. That is "Marxism"? Gawwdd. It is not 1936 or 1980. While gun ownership has been fairly constant, including the AR-15 (which started as the "Black Rifle" craze during the Reagan administration), for almost 3 decades. Yet...it's only be the last few years that these massacres have taken place. Why is that? Columbine occured sans AR-15s (the used pistols and shotguns). The facts are that 97% of all the 36,000 () gun deaths are not made by military looking AR-type rifles. And that 61% of those 36,000 last year (JAMA) are not from violent attacks but from...suicides. The real deaths of children and young people come from hand guns. But that is not the emotional push button we see...EVER. It's only about these relatively few and particularly ugly school massacres. I accept that some things ought to be done. I do support raising the age to 21 for hand gun or rifle purchases. All firearms. I'm also for actual licensing with proof-of-proficiency in safety handling. Lastly I'm for better background checks and establishing a "cannot purchase list" administered by qualified mental health experts (school counselors, psychologists, therapists, etc) but with a right to challenge. This "could" reduce but not eliminate such massacres. Nor would banning AR type rifles or large capacity magazines. It might help some but with so many such firearms in circulation, few would turn them in and fewer still would register what they have. And why should they? THEY are not the criminals. Disturbed people commit these crimes. And that is where the problem will lie: gun bans ... which is exactly the agenda of the anti-gun crowd. All those positions I outlined above are huge fucking concessions to the state. They give the government...the FBI and the ATF (the new found lovers of the Democratic liberal and gun control crowd) more power, databases and addresses of gun owners. In this sense, technically, the NRA is 100% correct: it makes it easier for the State to confiscate any weapon. But I'm willing to make that concession...and it IS a concession...because of the current climate. But no socialist should ever support gun confiscation. David _ 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] Debs Blog update (18-04)
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Re: [Marxism] Gun regulation?
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. * One of the arguments around guns is offered by the NRA (and perhaps others). They say without gun rights we are prey to losing our rights in general. What is the actual experience? Black civil rights and voting rights were won (to the extent that they were won) mostly with out guns. Gay rights won were won without guns. Or take a negative example where rights were lost. Would Japanese people in the US and Canada have been better able to defend their rights in World War II if they had a higher instance of gun ownership? ken h _ 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] Gun regulation?
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 2/24/18 10:59 AM, John Reimann via Marxism wrote: Sure, the issue of gun regulations of some sort only touches the surface of the issue of mass shootings. What really needs to be addressed are the issues of prevalent violence, alienation, narcissism, and the cheapening of human life in US society. But given its prominence, we can't afford to ignore the issue of gun regulation nor have a knee-jerk reaction. Your thoughts? John Reimann For some reason, Trotskyists have had a pat answer to this question based on a dogmatic understanding of the need for workers self-defense. In reality, the only use of such weapons occurred during the Minneapolis strikes when hunting rifles were stored at teamster headquarters. I doubt that we'll ever reach a point where a 30-30 is illegal. Back in the 30s, you didn't have deranged 19 year olds taking a semiautomatic weapon to a high school and opening fire on their peers. The underlying issue is the mental/societal breakdown taking place against a backdrop of economic decline and the glorification of violence through video games, TV shows, and the reality of imperial war. _ 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] MIA e-book division: More May Made Me: Additional Elements of an Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France, By Mitchell Abidor
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[Marxism] Gun regulation?
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 socialists need to have a serious discussion about this campaign of the youth in the US against the NRA and against assault weapons. On the one hand, there are the arguments that the original gun laws were introduced to take guns away from the newly freed slaves in the South after the Civil War. And in the 1970s, gun laws in California were tightened up to at least partially disarm the Black Panther Party. Equally important is the fact that with up to 8 million assault weapons floating around in the US, you're never going to get them out of circulation, so what is likely to happen is that the far right, including fascist groups, would be the ones who end up with them. In other words, you can't trust the capitalist state to regulate guns. Then there's the other arguments: In the first place, while it's true that you can't trust the capitalist state, still, we have all sorts of government regulations that we don't want to see dismantled - environmental regulations, for example. Or who would advocate eliminating speed limits, even though we know that they're selectively enforced and used in a racist way? How about driving and auto ownership - should that be completely deregulated? As for assault weapons: Aren't there some limits we would advocate? Are we okay with people owning mortars, bazookas, rpg's? How about owning a batch of sarin gas? If we just say "no, no, no, no", do we really want to end up sounding exactly like the NRA? Sure, the issue of gun regulations of some sort only touches the surface of the issue of mass shootings. What really needs to be addressed are the issues of prevalent violence, alienation, narcissism, and the cheapening of human life in US society. But given its prominence, we can't afford to ignore the issue of gun regulation nor have a knee-jerk reaction. Your thoughts? John Reimann -- *“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?” *Sophie Scholl, executed by the Nazis 2/22/1943. She was 21 years old. Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _ 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: What Strategy for the US Left?
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. * Charlie Post critiques Vivek Chibber. Both of these guys are super-hard core Political Marxists so it really makes you wonder if the theory is some kind of sine qua non for correct political strategies. That's the gist of Robert Brenner's 1977 article that accused Paul Sweezy of "neo-Smithian" deviations. Chibber is even more self-assured than Post. Unless you agree with him on these obscure postcolonial scholars, you will never understand how to make a revolution in India. Seriously? https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/02/socialist-organization-strategy-electoral-politics _ 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: Stop the Slaughter in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta | The Nation
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[Marxism] Fwd: Brothers in Arms
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[Marxism] Fwd: What went wrong at Newsweek, according to current and former staffers.
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[Marxism] On India
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