Re: [Marxism] Turkey’s unexpected empire in Syria

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RKOB says that "Turkey is hostile to the HTS", and claims this is the 
background to "the current attack of Zenki and Ahrar against the HTS in the 
north of Syria".

But HTS has previously attacked Ahrar al-Sham and other groups, so the latter 
probably don't need Turkey's encouragement to hit back. 

It is not uncommon for rebel groups to fight each other.  In 2014, for example, 
Jabhat al-Nusra attacked the Syrian Revolutionaries Front, a Free Syrian Army 
coalition with a strong presence in Idlib province.  Some of the survivors of 
the SRF fled to Afrin and later became part of the Syrian Democratic Forces.  
Others fled to Turkey.

I agree that HTS is not fully under Turkey's control.  But they have in the 
past worked together to attack Rojava.

Kurdish sources have claimed that "Jabhat al-Nusra" members have joined the 
Turkish invasion of Afrin.  I am not sure if they are referring to current 
members of HTS, or people who have in the past been members of Nusra and retain 
a similar reactionary ideology.

HTS has had various splits, and reportedly still has internal divisions.  See 
Charles Lister: 

https://warontherocks.com/2017/10/turkeys-idlib-incursion-and-the-hts-question-understanding-the-long-game-in-syria/
 

Hence it is conceivable that one part of HTS is collaborating with Turkey to 
attack Afrin while another part of HTS is busy fighting Ahrar al-Sham.

The RCIT places a lot of importance on the fact that HTS rejects the Astana 
agreement.  But groups should be judged on what they are for, not just what 
they are against.  HTS stands for theocratic dictatorship.  They are enemies of 
the Syrian revolution - if by "Syrian revolution" we mean the struggle for 
democracy that began in 2011.  

Their reactionary politics repel the majority of Syrians, causing some 
(particularly the religious minorities) to see Assad as the lesser evil.

Meanwhile Turkey is invading Afrin with the goal of crushing those fighting for 
democracy and women's liberation.  Solidarity with the revolution in northern 
Syria should be our main task.

Chris Slee




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I also read this article yesterday. Hence I saw that it also contains
the following:

"/In Idlib, the establishment of a network of Turkish military bases in
January 2018 has led to a concerted attempt by militias backed by Ankara
to expel Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and other jihadist groups from major
towns. As this attempt to reduce HTS’s power unfolds, Diyanet has also
ramped up efforts to take control of welfare and governance across the
province./"

This is another evidence which totally contradicts what you (and other
YPG supporters) argued just 3 weeks ago: that HTS would participate in
Turkey's invasion in Afrin or, more general, that the HTS would be an
agent of Ankara.

It rather confirms what I, and others, have argued since a long time:
that Turkey is hostile to the HTS and is determined to pressurize,
minimize and defeat them.

This is the background of the current attack of Zenki and Ahrar against
the HTS in the north of Syria.

More on this in our latest articles on Syria:

https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/syria-idlib-the-attack-of-the-astana-conspirators-could-be-repelled-thus-far/

https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/turkey-s-hidden-war-against-hts-in-idlib/


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> https://ahvalnews6.com/turkey-syria/no-exit-turkeys-unexpected-empire-syria
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> "By August 2016, Turkey’s government felt impelled to order military 
> operations that have led to Turkish control over large parts of northern 
> Syria. Culminating with the recent assault on the Afrin region, the primary 
> focus of these operations has been to prevent the YPG from seizing more 
> territory along the Turkish border..

[Marxism] Syria: Women of Afrin call for global support

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https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/syria-women-afrin-call-global-support


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[Marxism] Women in Vieques, Puerto Rico, lead the fight against U.S. Navy contamination of their island

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Re: [Marxism] ‘The Game Done Changed’: Reconsidering ‘The Wire’ Amidst the Baltimore Uprising | The Nation

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> On Mar 12, 2018, at 10:25 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
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> https://www.thenation.com/article/game-done-changed-reconsidering-wire-amidst-baltimore-uprising/
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> 

This is another outstanding piece from Dave Zirin, and yet more confirmation 
that he is indeed “our most important sportswriter.”

It’s also a pretty powerful confirmation that there’s a lot wrong with “The 
Wire,” over and above all of the things that are wrong with David Simon.

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[Marxism] Hotter, Drier, Hungrier: How Global Warming Punishes the World’s Poorest

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NY Times, March 12, 2018
Hotter, Drier, Hungrier: How Global Warming Punishes the World’s Poorest
By SOMINI SENGUPTA

KAKUMA, Kenya — These barren plains of sand and stone have always known 
lean times: times when the rivers run dry and the cows wither day by 
day, until their bones are scattered under the acacia trees. But the 
lean times have always been followed by normal times, when it rains 
enough to rebuild herds, repay debts, give milk to the children and eat 
meat a few times each week.


Times are changing, though. Northern Kenya — like its arid neighbors in 
the Horn of Africa, where Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson paid a 
visit last week, including a stop in Nairobi — has become measurably 
drier and hotter, and scientists are finding the fingerprints of global 
warming. According to recent research, the region dried faster in the 
20th century than at any time over the last 2,000 years. Four severe 
droughts have walloped the area in the last two decades, a rapid 
succession that has pushed millions of the world’s poorest to the edge 
of survival.


Amid this new normal, a people long hounded by poverty and strife has 
found itself on the frontline of a new crisis: climate change. More than 
650,000 children under age 5 across vast stretches of Kenya, Somalia and 
Ethiopia are severely malnourished. The risk of famine stalks people in 
all three countries; at least 12 million people rely on food aid, 
according to the United Nations.


A grandmother named Mariao Tede is among them. Early one recent morning, 
on the banks of a dry stream, with the air tasting of soot and sand, Ms. 
Tede stood over a pile of dark embers, making charcoal. A reed of a 
woman who doesn’t keep track of her age, she said she once had 200 
goats, enough to sell their offspring at the market and buy cornmeal for 
her family. Raising livestock is traditionally the main source of income 
in the region, because not much food will grow here.


Many of her goats died in the 2011 drought, then many more in the 2017 
drought. How many were left? She held up five fingers. Not enough to 
sell. Not enough to eat. And now, in the dry season, not even enough to 
get milk. “Only when it rains I get a cup or two, for the kids,” she said.


The most recent drought has prompted some herders to plunder the 
livestock of rival communities or sneak into nature reserves to graze 
their hungry droves. Water has become so scarce in this vast county — 
known as Turkana, in northwestern Kenya — that fetching it, which is 
women’s work, means walking an average of almost seven miles every day.


Ms. Tede now gathers wood to make charcoal, a process that is stripping 
the land of its few trees, so that when the rains come, if the rains 
come, the water will not seep into the earth. On the roadside stood what 
were once sacks of food aid, now stuffed with charcoal, waiting for 
customers.


Further along that same road, in a village blessed with a water pump, a 
herder named Mohammed Loshani offered up his ledger of loss. From 150 
goats a little over a year ago, he had 30 left. During the 2017 drought, 
10 died one month, a dozen the next.


“If we get rain I can build back my herd,” he said. “If not, even the 
few I have will die.” He knew no one who had rebuilt their herds to 
pre-2011 drought levels.


“If these droughts continue,” Mr. Loshoni said, “there’s nothing for us 
to do. We’ll have to think of other jobs.”


Poor Rains and You’re ‘Done’

When Gideon Galu, a Kenyan meteorologist with the Famine Early Warning 
Systems Network, or FewsNet, looks at 30 years of weather data, he 
doesn’t see doom for his country’s herders and farmers. He sees a need 
to radically, urgently adapt to the new normal: grow fodder for the lean 
times, build reservoirs to store water, switch to crops that do well in 
Kenya’s soil, and not just maize, the staple.


Rainfall is already erratic. Now, he says, it’s getting significantly 
drier and hotter. The forecast for the next rains aren’t good. “These 
people live on the edge,” he said. “Any tilt to the poor rains, and 
they’re done.”


His colleague at FewsNet, Chris Funk, a climatologist at the University 
of California, Santa Barbara, has linked recent drought to the long-term 
warming of the western Pacific Ocean as well as higher land temperatures 
in East Africa, both products of human-induced climate change. Global 
warming, he concluded, seems to produce more severe weather disruptions 
known as El Niños and La Niñas, leading to “protracted drought and food 
insecurity.”


Jessica Tierney, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Arizona, took 
the longer view. By analyzing marin

Re: [Marxism] Imperialism today: a critical assessment of Latin American dependency theory

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On 3/12/18 3:16 PM, Richard Fidler via Marxism wrote:

http://lifeonleft.blogspot.ca/2018/03/imperialism-today-critical-assessment.html
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Kudos to Richard for the translation. I have written a lot about 
dependency theory over the years but never encountered Marini.

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[Marxism] Imperialism today: a critical assessment of Latin American dependency theory

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http://lifeonleft.blogspot.ca/2018/03/imperialism-today-critical-assessment.html
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http://tinyurl.com/y9epy7bk

Brazilian economist and sociologist Ruy Mauro Marini (1932-1997) was a prime
exponent of what became known as dependency theory, an attempt to explain the
systemic unequal relations of the Latin American countries in particular with
the developed economies of the imperialist “North.” He was a close collaborator
of, among others, Vânia Bambirra and the recently-deceased Theotónio Dos Santos.
Marini’s best-known work, first published in Spanish in 1972, is Dialectics of
Dependency.[1]

Morini was a founder of the Brazilian Marxist organization Política Operária and
later, during his Chilean exile, a member of the Movimiento de Izquierda
Revolucionaria (MIR). Forced into exile again after the Pinochet coup, he taught
at the UNAM in Mexico for many years, returning to Brazil shortly before his
death from cancer in 1997.

In the following essay, Argentine Marxist Claudio Katz analyzes Marini’s work in
light of contemporary developments in global capitalism. He assesses Marini’s
attempt to understand and explain the initial developments in neoliberal
globalization and suggests some ways in which dependency theory might now be
renewed and updated. And he comments critically on the work of some current
proponents of versions of dependency theory.

Among Katz’s most recent works is Bajo el imperio del capital, also published in
French translation in Quebec.[2] Katz is a professor in the University of Buenos
Aires, a member of the left economists’ group (EDI), and a researcher with the
National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET).

Published by Katz on his web page, my translation from the Spanish.

– Richard Fidler

* * *

Imperialism and dependency: similarities and differences with the Marini era
By Claudio Katz

SUMMARY
The main theorist of dependency anticipated trends of neoliberal globalization.
He analyzed productive globalization, the centrality of exploitation and the
relative weight of surplus value transfers. But the employment crisis exceeds
what was envisaged by Marini, in a scenario disrupted by the mutation of the
United States, the collapse of the USSR and the rise of China.

Claudio KatzThe new national and social disparities emerge in an
internationalized economy, without correlation in states and ruling classes.
This absence of total transnationalization recreates dependency. The
semiperipheries present an economic dimension differentiated from the
geopolitical status of sub-imperialism. The “Global South” does not reincarnate
the old periphery, nor does it include China. There are solid pillars to renew
dependency theory.

Full: http://tinyurl.com/y9epy7bk




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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Michio Kaku picks five books to help you understand the future | Books | The Guardian

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This right-wing website has, what looks like a reasonably accurate profile of 
Kaku.

http://www.keywiki.org/Michio_Kaku


Jim Farmelant
http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant
http://www.foxymath.com 
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[Marxism] Fwd: The autonomous labor unions: a true force of change in Algeria « Algérie Résistance

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Michio Kaku picks five books to help you understand the future | Books | The Guardian

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On 2018-03-12 13:54, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:


Michio Kaku was a Maoist when young and continued to be a radical on
his radio show. Somewhere along the line he became a "futurist" and a
rather woolly-minded one


Yes, in fact I remember attending a conference/rally where he was a 
keynote speaker. Which is exactly how people with his stature can best 
help, in my view. And while I joined in applause of his (= our) 
political positions, I have a much dimmer view of those who use their 
well-deserved prestige to pose as authorities on topics which are 
clearly outside of their discipline. And separately, I have a dim view 
of those scientists who use the most speculative scientific hunches 
(which are often distorted in the process) to corral popular interest 
and glorify themselves, at the expense of millions of scientists doing 
unglamorous daily work that actually contributes to human knowledge, 
albeit answering questions that most people never would have asked. For 
that is what I found when I listened to the radio show (or perhaps it 
was other online material) of Kaku that Louis mentions.


One such issue I recall from circa 1990 was opposition to the planning 
of the (very successful) Cassini–Huygens mission due to its use of a 
radioactive plutonium power source (not a nuclear reactor but akin to 
the plutonium cells used in some early implantable cardiac pacemakers). 
Of course we were all anti-nuclear and Kaku played well to our ears when 
he joined the chorus against the (very tiny) risk involved, EVEN THOUGH 
his expertise is in theoretical physics, quite unrelated. I'm not saying 
that I knew any better at the time myself, but now I realize that the 
Cassini–Huygens spacecraft was probably about the one instance where 
nuclear power is very justified: a billion kilometers from any human 
civilization and where solar power would have a 100 times lower efficacy 
compared to the location of the earth.


And I was similarly dismayed to hear Kaku promoting other speculative 
science which would have appeared to be more oriented to fascinating his 
lay-audience rather than imparting actual knowledge. Which relates to 
what Louis calls "futurism," (and which must remain "woolly-minded" in 
order to bypass tangible objections). A few excerpts in that regard:



. the fourth wave of science, which is AI

The “tricorder” of Star Trek, which analyses your health by simply 
scanning your body, is coming.


[Humans] going back to the moon after 50 years, and then going to Mars, 
perhaps to the asteroids


For Musk, creating a civilisation beyond the Earth would be an insurance 
policy for the human race.



Now I cannot emphasize enough the damage done to thousands of scientific 
budgets that would be caused by diverting resources to pointless and 
wasteful manned (or even womanned) space missions that can very well be 
accomplished robotically. And the best insurance policy for the human 
race is to protect THIS planet, as if it were the only one that could 
sustain life (which it is). And not to pander to science fiction themes 
that may have captured people's imaginations but shouldn't be draining 
their wallets. Of course there will be a variety of opinions and 
judgements in these regards, but I really resent media stars using their 
prestige (in a different field!) and irresponsibly employing science 
fiction to generate income for businesses (like Elon Musk, given 
privitization after all) pursuing foolish programs for which they are 
paid billions of working people's wealth.


- Jeff



https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/12/further-reading-michio-kaku-books-to-understand-future

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[Marxism] Fwd: Elon Musk: we must colonise Mars to preserve our species in a third world war | Technology | The Guardian

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Re: [Marxism] The best TV criticism I've ever read: The Wire and the World (Jacobin)

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The initial review has prolly taken this in the wrong direction unless you
adhere to auteur theory. David Simon is not the the voice of the series so
using interviews as an insight is suspect from the beginning. If anything,
this should have more attention on genre and ideological structures
inherent in the film apparatus than the polite nods in that direction.
There is no reason to "dumb down" film analysis into film reviews, but this
comes close.

And whatever your personal opinion of David Simon or *The Wire,* it is part
of the dialogue on long form television that cannot be simply dismissed as
garbage. Cinematic media is rarely a straight thumbs up or down, it's
conversation (or invitation) to a cultural discussion about what
constitutes genre conventions.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Max Blumenthal and the Streisand Effect | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-War]: Rutherford on Moorhouse, 'The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact With Stalin, 1939-41'

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It's been a while since I've done this, and the context surely warrants it,
so:
Paul's book is a MUST-BUY for an understanding of the mentality, practice
and social sources of the fellow traveler, from Stalin to Assad and all
their Ilk (including the social dem fakers).
Speaking of Germany and the Soviet Union, I just saw the first two episodes
(no spoilers please) of "Babylon Berlin," and besides its numerous artistic
merits, one of the story lines involves German Trotskyists...
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-War]: Rutherford on Moorhouse, 'The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact With Stalin, 1939-41'

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I did a fair bit of reading about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and especially 
how it was seen in Britain, when researching my PhD. The pact really took 
people by surprise, yet if one read Stalin's speech to the CPSU's Eighteenth 
Congress, there were hints that something was already afoot, as Stalin heavily 
implied that Germany was not a threat to the Soviet Union, and that the world's 
bourgeois democracies powers could no longer rely upon Moscow's good favours 
were they to find themselves at war with Germany.

One Trotskyist group in Britain, the Workers International League, considered 
that Stalin's speech showed that Soviet foreign policy was shifting, and saw 
this as a consequence of the uncertainties that had arisen after the Munich 
debacle and the collapse of Czechoslovakia. Its journal concluded: 'Stalin's 
speech of last month further emphasises the uncertainty of Soviet foreign 
policy and his readiness to strike a bargain with Hitler.' This, however, was 
rather the exception. The Communist Party was especially caught on the hop. It 
had reproduced Stalin's speech in its weekly paper without critical comment, 
and a fortnight before the pact was signed, one party leader, Johnny Campbell, 
insisted that there could 'be no rapprochement between the Soviet Union and the 
Fascist states' (Daily Worker, 9 August 1939).

Rather amusingly, after the pact was signed, the Communist Party called for 
another pact, between Britain and the Soviet Union, even though this was 
implicitly prohibited by the clause in the M-R Pact stating that neither of the 
contracting parties would 'participate in any grouping of powers' which was 
'either directly or indirectly aimed against the other contracting party'. The 
party also declared that it would support a war against the fascist powers, 
although Berlin was now allied to Moscow, and it did support Britain's war 
against Germany when it broke out in September. This anomaly was subsequently 
ironed out when in October Moscow ordered the communist parties to oppose the 
war, not without some bother within the British party's Central Committee.

My book, which covers this episode, is still available < 
https://secure.francisboutle.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=10&products_id=50 >.

Paul F
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[Marxism] Fwd: Climate change is a disaster foretold, just like the first world war | Jeff Sparrow | Opinion | The Guardian

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[Marxism] Fwd: ‘The Game Done Changed’: Reconsidering ‘The Wire’ Amidst the Baltimore Uprising | The Nation

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Re: [Marxism] The best TV criticism I've ever read: The Wire and the World (Jacobin)

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On 3/12/18 9:43 AM, DW via Marxism wrote:

Louis seems the
only person I've ever heard of who didn't like the series...and also likely
didn't read the review. Birds of a feather...sad.

David


My views on David Simon are based not on "The Wire" but on "The Deuce". 
It was pure, unadulterated garbage. Simon's associate Richard Price had 
a lot to do with this steaming pile of manure. Price's detective novels 
are cut from the same cloth as Simon's teleplays. It exploits Black 
criminality for the lurid tastes of a middle-class audience.

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Re: [Marxism] The best TV criticism I've ever read: The Wire and the World (Jacobin)

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Louis wrote:

David Simon is a horse's ass. I once watched 10 minutes of "The Wire" and
turned it off because it was racist crap as Ishmael Reed pointed out in an
interview:
http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/09/30/no_it_relies_on_clichs_about_blacks_and_drugs/
I did watch all of Simon's "The Deuce" and hated it:
https://louisproyect.org/2017/09/13/the-deuce/

Simon appears Reed seems to be the horses ass and probably didn't even
watch the series. Quite typical of political commentators. Louis seems the
only person I've ever heard of who didn't like the series...and also likely
didn't read the review. Birds of a feather...sad.

David
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[Marxism] We Are What We Manufacture

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NY Times Sunday Book Review, March 11, 2018
We Are What We Manufacture
By BETH MACY

BEHEMOTH
A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
By Joshua B. Freeman
Illustrated. 427 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. $27.95.

Joshua B. Freeman doesn’t chronicle the aftershocks of the loss of five 
million factory jobs from the American landscape or show you the impact 
of disappearing factory jobs on towns across America. And I wish he had 
addressed the abandoned plants, escalating drug crime and crowded food 
pantries.


But what this distinguished professor of history at CUNY’s Queens 
College does is lay out two centuries of factory production all over the 
world in ways that are accessible, cogent, occasionally riveting and 
thoroughly new. The history of large factories, as Freeman outlines it, 
is the history of the modern world and most everything we see, 
experience and touch.


At a time when the ghost of the American dream hovers over headlines 
ranging from free trade vs. protectionism to opioid addiction and other 
so-called diseases of despair, “Behemoth: A History of the Factory and 
the Making of the Modern World” should be required reading for all 
Americans, especially the 8 percent of the American labor force who 
still work in manufacturing (down from 24 percent in 1960).


If you are reading this review on an iPad or iPhone or another Silicon 
Valley-designed computer screen, then Freeman’s history will not only 
explain how and where your device came to be produced but also how the 
story of modern production parallels the story of your relative level of 
affluence, from the balance in your retirement funds to the 
circumstances prompting your ancestors’ migration from an unproductive 
Irish potato field to a western Pennsylvania steel mill.


There are few items in our homes that didn’t originate as disparate 
components in faraway supply plants, touched by many hands in multiple 
countries. But whose hands actually make and order the assembling of the 
products, from the B-24 builders in Ypsilanti, Mich., whose goods flew 
into combat during World War II, to the corporate owners who erected 
three million square meters of yellow netting to prevent overworked 
Chinese Foxconn workers from jumping to their deaths in 2010?


Freeman tells us who both the makers and the corporate owners are, and, 
more impressively, he shows us how, over a relatively short period of 
time, their stories come to be entangled. He wants us to leave his book 
grappling with the question: How should human beings balance economic 
good with environmental harm, need with greed?


He is more concerned with the building up of factories than the tearing 
down, chronicling the pros and cons of factory work with a scholar’s 
even gaze. When a developing country embraces manufacturing to propel 
itself away from agrarian subsistence, the work is invariably rote and 
exploitive and often even life-threatening. But, over all, life 
expectancy climbs and poverty and disease plummet.


That was as true in the wake of the Industrial Revolution in Western 
Europe — before which only half of French children, plagued by hunger 
and disease, lived to see the age of 20 — as it is now in Ethiopia, 
where the producers of Ivanka Trump’s shoes recently relocated from 
Dongguan, China, chasing a more desperate work force content to work for 
a pittance (roughly $30 a month) rather than paying the rising wages of 
their predecessors in China ($560).


Capitalism, naturally, takes advantage of such increasingly swift and 
secretive moves. It was the striving capitalists, after all, who 
pioneered the world’s initial giant factories — first among them a 
British wigmaker named Richard Arkwright who patented his spinning 
machine in 1768, then created an empire of steam-powered cotton mills. 
Arkwright knew he had arrived when he was able to lend the Duchess of 
Devonshire 5,000 pounds to pay down her gambling debts, even if he and 
his fellow mill owners used laborers as young as 7 years old.


Freeman dips into a delicious expanse of source material from Charles 
Dickens to Karl Marx to Tim Cook, from Bloomberg Businessweek to The 
National Rip-Saw. In roughly chronological order, British silk mill 
owners give way to the Boston barons who developed the factory town of 
Lowell, Mass., in 1822, building dorm-style housing for the out-of-town 
farmers’ daughters they hired and innovating a standardized production 
process that bested the British and would “morally uplift” via such 
utopian amenities as company-sponsored libraries and potted plants.


The wealthy Boston merchant Frances Cabot Lowell not only figured 

[Marxism] Fwd: (3) Debate: Syria, Ghouta, and the Left (1/2) - YouTube

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Yasser Mounif debates Rania Khalek.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPA-bAhFzJk&t=9s
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[Marxism] Fwd: Michio Kaku picks five books to help you understand the future | Books | The Guardian

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Michio Kaku was a Maoist when young and continued to be a radical on his 
radio show. Somewhere along the line he became a "futurist" and a rather 
woolly-minded one as this would indicate.


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/12/further-reading-michio-kaku-books-to-understand-future
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[Marxism] Fwd: The World Market, ‘North-South’ Relations, and Neoliberalism | Jessop | Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research

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[Marxism] Fwd: Why Every Progressive Should Read The Good Soldier Švejk | Portside

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Haven't you read it yourself? Don't waste time. It is, as the article 
states, mandatory for leftists.


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Re: [Marxism] Imperialism and super-exploitation

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Argentine Marxist Claudio Katz has recently published a critical assessment of 
Marini's analysis of imperialism and dependency, as well as another article 
specifically addressed to controversies over super-exploitation. I will be 
posting an English translation of the first later today on my blog (will send 
to this list), and will probably translate the second within a few days. See 
the original articles at https://katz.lahaine.org/. 

Richard

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On 2018/03/12 05:50 AM, Philip Ferguson via Marxism wrote:
> As Smith so brilliantly shows, capital in the North restored much of 
> the fall in its profitability suffered in the 1970s on the back of the 
> super exploitation of the South:
> full at:
> https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/03/09/imperialism-and-super-exploitati
> on/
>

Thanks Phil,

First, it's also good to recall Michael's caveats: "I am not sure that Smith 
has proved that ‘super-exploitation’ is the dominant characteristic of modern 
imperialism.  As he shows, imperialism of the 19th century also relied on 
super-exploitation of the masses in the colonies (to the level of slavery) and 
that, in the industrialisation of imperialist countries like Britain in the 
late 18th and early 19th century, driving wages below the value of labour power 
was a powerful factor in the exploitation of labour (see Engels on The 
condition of the working-class in England). For that matter, super-exploitation 
is visible in the imperialist economies too..."

Second, you might know some of this debate has migrated to the Review of 
African Political Economy, where the "North" and "South" now also includes 
disputes over East and West, and the role of spatial processes as part of 
capital's super-exploitative armory:

http://roape.net/2018/01/10/david-harvey-denies-imperialism/
http://roape.net/2018/02/05/realities-ground-david-harvey-replies-john-smith/

However, neither Smith nor Harvey address the full implications of sub-imperial 
accumulation in the Mauro Marini tradition (a tradition which also centrally 
stresses the role of super-exploitation). I've nearly finished an intervention 
along these lines. Anyone else gathering information about these processes?

Cheers,
Patrick
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Re: [Marxism] Imperialism and super-exploitation

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While I can not provide links, I can send several essays of Marini as 
well as about him (as a pdf) to those who are interested. Please contact 
me offline if you want me to send them.



Am 12.03.2018 um 06:45 schrieb mkaradjis . via Marxism:

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Patrick, can you provide some good links on this "Mauro Marini
tradition" regarding sub-imperialism, thanks.

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On 2018/03/12 05:50 AM, Philip Ferguson via Marxism wrote:

As Smith so brilliantly shows, capital in the North restored much of the
fall in its profitability suffered in the 1970s on the back of the super
exploitation of the South:
full at:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/03/09/imperialism-and-super-exploitation/


Thanks Phil,

First, it's also good to recall Michael's caveats: "I am not sure that Smith
has proved that ‘super-exploitation’ is the dominant characteristic of
modern imperialism.  As he shows, imperialism of the 19th century also
relied on super-exploitation of the masses in the colonies (to the level of
slavery) and that, in the industrialisation of imperialist countries like
Britain in the late 18th and early 19th century, driving wages below the
value of labour power was a powerful factor in the exploitation of labour
(see Engels on The condition of the working-class in England). For that
matter, super-exploitation is visible in the imperialist economies too..."

Second, you might know some of this debate has migrated to the Review of
African Political Economy, where the "North" and "South" now also includes
disputes over East and West, and the role of spatial processes as part of
capital's super-exploitative armory:

http://roape.net/2018/01/10/david-harvey-denies-imperialism/
http://roape.net/2018/02/05/realities-ground-david-harvey-replies-john-smith/

However, neither Smith nor Harvey address the full implications of
sub-imperial accumulation in the Mauro Marini tradition (a tradition which
also centrally stresses the role of super-exploitation). I've nearly
finished an intervention along these lines. Anyone else gathering
information about these processes?

Cheers,
Patrick

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[Marxism] Finance and the imperialist world system

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I thought I had something new to say on these questions, both because
‘British imperialism’ was a term that nowadays seemed to be used only for
the colonial period and because, as far as I could see, nothing had been
done on this topic relating to the UK since the 1980s, ie before the recent
decades in which the financial system had become such a major issue. I have
long had an interest in ‘finance’ and capitalism, since well before I ended
up, much to my surprise, in getting a job in a bank dealing room.

I have always been interested in how things work economically/socially.
Initially, as a teenager, this led me to be a left-wing Keynesian, as I
thought the capitalist economy could be more progressively managed. Later,
at university, I was attracted by Marxist analysis as it made much more
sense! I have been a Marxist ever since. My jobs have also been in
economics and business, and these have provided so-called ‘real world’
experience with which to judge and develop Marxist theory. . .

full interview with Tony Norfield:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/interview-with-tony-norfield-on-finance-and-the-imperialist-world-system-today/
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