[Marxism] NZ prime minister's baby and social inequality

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by *Don Franks*

NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern’s bearing of a baby while in office has
understandably launched many words.

Michelle Duff writing in the NZ Herald enthused: "When her partner Clarke
Gayford is excited about being a stay at home dad, it's equally
inspirational.

"It sets a precedent.  It normalises powerful women and nurturing, caring
men.  It decimates outdated ideals of where a mother 'should' be - at home,
with the children, while dad earns the money.  It smashes those boring
boxes and makes room for new shapes, new ways we can all live our lives.

"It creates a conversation about pregnancy, and motherhood, and what's
expected, and what sucks. It means we are thinking and talking about how
workplaces and attitudes can be improved.”

Something in that I think.

Just, not in Duff’s mind-numbing. . ."

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Re: [Marxism] NYU Professor Releases Personal Info On Almost 1, 600 ICE Agents - Blue Lives Matter

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Note how the right-wingers who are attacking Levigne are trying to make it
seem like he did something criminal. All of the personal info was publicly
available, all he did is compile them in one place. So he is hardly pulling
an Assange.

Amith R. Gupta

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[Marxism] NYU Professor Releases Personal Info On Almost 1, 600 ICE Agents - Blue Lives Matter

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Re: [Marxism] Young hoist red flag but know nothing of Mao and less of Lenin

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On 6/21/18 2:04 PM, Michael Yates via Marxism wrote:

I mean, why did you Louis or any of us bother to learn about the past, the 
good, the bad, and the ugly? Seems we just wasted our time.


I didn't feel it was necessary to elaborate on this but I was alluding 
to how the left destroyed itself in the 1970s through its schematic 
appropriation of Lenin, Mao, Stalin and especially Trotsky. The 
Trotskyist group I belonged to had 2000 members in 1977 but now it is 
reduced to 60 people about my age. As for the Maoists, they were twice 
our size but spread across several groups including Avakian's. Today, 
they have almost no influence. You get lots of people on Twitter paying 
obeisance to Stalin but that's what you'd expect. I don't know if 
there's a counterpart to Eugene V. Debs in Australia but if there is, 
that's who I'd advise those young people to read. The goal today is to 
build a socialist party that has much in commons with not only Debs's 
party but socialist parties around the world except those that are 
socialist in name only, like in France or Germany. I was impressed with 
DSA's involvement in immigrant rights even though the same week I got an 
email about their electoral work that was filled with the usual bunk. 
Let's hope the noose the DP is putting around Sanders's neck will wake 
them up.

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[Marxism] Young hoist red flag but know nothing of Mao and less of Lenin

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Somehow, not learning  and perhaps not caring either, about history doesn't 
seem that hopeful. Perhaps someone can explain this to me. Socialism? Hey, that 
sounds good. I'll go for that. I can't read the article because it appears that 
I would have to subscribe. Maybe Louis can paste it in. I may be missing 
something.


I mean, why did you Louis or any of us bother to learn about the past, the 
good, the bad, and the ugly? Seems we just wasted our time.
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[Marxism] FW: Behind Venezuela's crisis: Nature, money and modernity in a petro-state

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As widely reported, Venezuela is immersed in a major economic, social and
political crisis that shows no signs of early resolution.

Among its pressing problems, says Steve Ellner, are “four-digit annual
inflation, an appalling deterioration in the standard of living of both popular
and middle sectors, and oil industry mismanagement resulting in a decline in
production.”

The report by Ellner, a long-time scholar and resident of Venezuela, is highly
recommended for its analysis of the economic situation and the constellation of
political forces, as well as the limited options facing the government headed by
Nicolas Maduro. President Maduro was re-elected May 20 with a 68% majority but
54% of registered voters abstained due to the call for an electoral boycott by
the major opposition coalition.

Compounding the country’s many home-grown difficulties, some of which were
triggered by the sharp drop in global oil prices of recent years, is the
economic war being waged internationally against Venezuela. As Ellner explains,
Washington’s hostile actions, which have escalated since Obama incredibly
labelled Venezuela an “extraordinary threat to national security” of the USA,
“have impacted the Venezuelan economy in many ways.”

The Trudeau government is playing a major role in this offensive against
Venezuelan sovereignty, its economy and political leadership. It is
participating in the OAS-sponsored Lima Group of right-wing Latin American
governments aimed at isolating Venezuela internationally. Immediately following
Maduro’s victory in the May 20 election, Ottawa slapped new sanctions on
Venezuela, accusing the country’s leaders of murders and other human-rights
abuses, and hinting that Canada might ask the International Criminal Court to
prosecute Maduro’s government.

Venezuela’s crisis — heavily impacted by the decline in state oil revenues — has
led many, including some on the left, to question the resource extraction and
export strategies characteristic in varying degrees of all the “progressive”
governments elected in Latin America over the last twenty years.

Those strategies have deep roots, however, in the history and social structures
of Latin America established by foreign conquest and occupation and as they have
evolved in the two centuries since most countries gained their formal
independence from their colonial masters.

An outstanding analysis of the 20th century background is Fernando Coronil’s
book The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela, first
published in English in 1997 and later translated into Spanish by a Cuban,
Esther Pérez. Coronil (1944-2011) was a Venezuelan anthropologist who spent much
of his academic career teaching in the United States.

Fernando CoronilA classic of Latin American economic and social history,
Coronil’s book was published by Nueva Sociedad in 2002, then reissued in 2013 by
the publisher Alfa, in Caracas. “One of the fundamental books for understanding
Venezuela,” write the editors of Nueva Sociedad in its March-April 2018 edition
(No. 274), it “helps us to advance in an analysis of current problems in
Venezuela in light of a rentier model that began in the 1930s and has lasted
under the Bolivarian Revolution, which today is facing its most critical
moment.”

The 2013 edition of the book contains a prologue by Venezuelan sociologist
Edgardo Lander, reproduced in almost its entirety in Nueva Sociedad. Published
below is my translation of Lander’s text. Where Lander quotes Coronil (indented
text), I have substituted the English text from his book, with the relevant page
references.

Coronil wrote in advance of the recent work by Marxist ecosocialists such as
Paul Burkett and John Bellamy Foster on the ecological content in Marx’s work,
most of which is still unknown in Latin America. One can only speculate as to
how a reading of their studies might have modified his critique of Marx’s
alleged failure to incorporate nature in his analysis of the process of wealth
creation.

A further caveat for readers in the “Canadian petro-state,” where the Trudeau
government is so committed to ecologically disastrous tar-sands extraction and
export that it has — contrary to all economic logic — nationalized Kinder
Morgan’s Canadian assets to ensure construction of the TransMountain bitumen
pipeline expansion to the west coast.

There is a fundamental difference between Venezuela, where rent from oil is the
main source of state income, and Canada with its developed manufacturing and
service sectors and diversified economy. As Trudeau says, the TransMountain
pipeline is an integral part of his government’s Pan-Canadian 

[Marxism] SPLC Apologizes & Pays 3.3M to Maajid Nawaz Amid Lawsuit Threat

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http://www.newsweek.com/splc-nawaz-million-apologizes-981879

Honestly, kind of pathetic. For one thing, there isn't a chance in hell
that the lawsuit would have held up in court; calling someone "an
anti-Muslim extremist" is a statement of opinion, as opposed to a statement
of fact. Under US law that isn't enough to get it into the courtroom.

Nawaz and his whacky Uncle Tom-brand of Muslim "Reform" is deeply rooted in
Islamophobia which is why he is a favorite "authentic" Muslim voice among
neocons. Not sure where you draw the line at "extremist" but I'd certainly
call him a bigot and an opportunist.

Amith R. Gupta
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[Marxism] Quick note on Colombian elections

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*Quick note on Colombian elections*



Colombia has just elected Ivan Duque president. This should come as no
surprise to anyone who pays attention to Colombia (even though it does seem
to surprise the reporters at the Nation magazine
https://www.thenation.com/article/right-wing-wins-colombia-amid-divisions-left/).




Duque, like outgoing President Juan Manuel Santos is the scion of one of
the country’s powerful political families. His father, Ivan Duque Escobar,
was one of the most powerful 20th century Liberal Party politicians of
Antioquia. In the 1980’s, when Alvaro Uribe was mayor of Medellín, Duque’s
father was governor of Antioquia. Medellin is the capital of Antioquia and
the second largest city in Colombia. Another important friend of the two
men at the time was Pablo Escobar.



The younger Duque grew up surrounded by the politically powerful in Bogotá.
His father graduated to become the Minister of Mines and Development and
served as CEO of the municipally owned water company of Bogotá, SOFASA
(Renault manufacturing subsidiary), and Banco Popular. He also served on
the board of directors of the Banco de la Republica, the country’s central
bank. Duque’s mother also came from a politically important family.



Duque’s roots in the Liberal Party of Antioquia, plus a lifetime spent
making connections in the high society of Bogotá boosted him into the
Senate where he quickly became known as a friend of big business. He was
the key ally of the sugar and soft drink industries’ successful campaign to
squash the Minister of Health’s public education campaign against obesity.
From there, it was a hop, skip and a jump to becoming Alvaro Uribe’s chosen
successor.



The Uribista coalition has been in perpetual crisis. Aside from the number
of its leading figures who have fled into exile to avoid prosecution or
been convicted and served time in jail, the Uribistas are very short on
talent. During the last presidential election they had a field of primary
candidates who could barely compose sentences while standing on two feet.
Their eventual nominee, Ivan Zuluaga was a case in point.



One Uribista who could talk and think on his feet was Andrés Felipe Arias
Leiva. He was Uribe’s chosen successor eight years ago. Known as Uribito,
he was Uribe’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. Unfortunately
for Uribe’s plans, Uribito was sentenced to 17 years and 4 months of prison
for corruption. He fled to the United States where he now lives comfortably
and anonymously.



Duque is the new Uribito, but under new circumstances. The demobilization
of the FARC ended a whole period of history in Colombia, even though
guerrilla warfare continues. The ELN is expanding into some of the areas
which were once controlled by the FARC, but it is numerically weak and has
no popular support. Guerrillaism in fact, has no popular support.



Instead a broad, but not cohesive, social democratic movement has risen in
its place. Gustavo Petro personified it in the recent elections. While much
is made of Petro’s background in M-19, he is a man whose politics are very
flexible but tend more towards the ideas of 19th century French radicalism
with a hint of environmentalism mixed in than to anything anyone would
associate with the Paris commune or the Bogotazo.



Nevertheless, Petro is a fighter.



His eight million votes represent the largest mass left wing movement ever
seen in Colombia. It has two basic wings: a movement of the working class
and the very poor displaced people of the cities of Colombia, and a
movement of the university trained technocrats, bureaucrats, and
intelligentsia of the same cities. Petro is the titular leader of the
former while Sergio Fajardo, former mayor of Medellín is the titular leader
of the latter.



Duque’s speeches were full of bland, empty posturing attempting to appeal
to Fajardo’s base. He promised not to return to war and even promised to
protect the environment. Behind the empty phrases, Duque has already
launched a lottery for Ministries. Corruption even bigger than usual is the
guiding theme of the new government.



The great danger now is further revival of the paramilitaries. The old
paramilitary organizations have been demobilized and remodeled. During the
election campaign and now after the elections, the new paramilitary
organization, the Aguilas Negras (Black Eagles), closely tied to the
Medellín oligarchy and to the cocaine trade, has threatened Petro
supporters with assassination.



According to Indepaz (Instituto de Estudios para el Desarrollo y la Paz –
Institute for Studies of Development and Peace), between January and May
this year there were 78 

[Marxism] The Plot Against López Obrador and the violent history of Mexican elections - Dan La Botz

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[Marxism] How Latinos Are Shaping America’s Future

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[Marxism] Family separation and the churches

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Since most Canadians don't even know this it is notable that we had a 
Prime Minister for 12 years who was from the evangelical Christian and 
Missionary Alliance - Stephen Harper. His over-the-top support of Israel 
was partly conditioned by his religious leanings.

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Re: [Marxism] Family separation and the churches

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Comrades of a certain age will remember Ray Stevens' use of that hymn as
the intro to his hit song "Everything is Beautiful," which contains this
line:
 "We shouldn't care 'bout the length of his hair/Or the color of his skin."
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Re: [Marxism] Family separation and the churches

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Michael Marking said:
"I, too, was raised in a Baptist home, and remember well the song, "Jesus
loves the little children..." It was taught to me by the same folk who
expected me to provide, on a school test, some of the reasons that the
"Negroes" were better off as slaves. Some of the same folk who took in
an occasional cross lighting. (That school was in Florida, in the
1960s.) I could go on, but…"


I think Michael is entirely correct to point out the glaring contradiction 
between an anti-racist message and other behaviour by some fundamentalist 
Christians.  I observed this in the church I grew up in.
If the church was going to do outreach among non-whites they had to discourage 
racist expressions among their congregants.  An uncle of mine told us that he 
had one day in Sunday School referred to some housing as “not fit for a 
Chinaman.”  He was a decent man and felt bad when he realized that he had said 
this in front of a Chinese boy.

Our minister tried to discourage the use of the word “Chinatown” to refer to a 
part of our small town.  He referred to it as “Glendale.”  So I was surprised 
by an odd statement by the same minister one Sunday.  Speaking of interracial 
marriage, he said why would a white woman want to be one of the wives of an 
African chief.  
It was not until many years later that I understood what was being said.  I 
learned the our church, The Christian and Missionary Alliance was quite strong 
in the southern US.  Presumably, that part of the church was asking their 
church in the north and in Canada to come to the defence of segregation.  Given 
the widespread sympathy for the civil rights movement, it was hard for the 
church to do this explicitly and so we had this puzzling and tangential 
reference to what was happening in the US.

I caught a whiff if this on one other occasion when one lay activist in our 
church explained to me that black people preferred to stick to themselves.  
Again, a roundabout way of referring to segregation.

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[Marxism] The continuing debate on imperialism

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[Marxism] Good news at last

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In 2016, more non-Hispanic whites died than were born in twenty-six 
states; more than at any time in U.S. history. Some 179 million 
residents or roughly 56 percent of the U.S. population, lived in these 
26 states In contrast, non-Hispanic white (hereafter referred to as 
white) deaths exceeded births in just four states in 2004 and seventeen 
as recently as 2014. White deaths also exceeded white births in the 
nation as a whole for the first time in U.S. history in 2016, according 
to data from the National Center for Health Statistics. When births fail 
to keep pace with deaths, a region is said to have a "natural decrease" 
in population, which can only be offset by migration gains. In seventeen 
of the twenty-six states with white natural decreases, the white 
population diminished overall between 2015 and 2016. Our analysis of the 
demographic factors that cause white natural decrease suggests that more 
states are likely to experience it in the future.i


The growing incidence of this white natural decrease has important 
implications for the nation's demographic future. America is becoming 
more racially and ethnically diverse. Most scholarly research on 
diversity has focused on the influence that growing minority populations 
have played in fostering such diversity. For example, the substantial 
surplus of Latino births over deaths together with past immigration have 
contributed enormously to the growing diversity of the United States. 
But other demographic processes are also at work. These include the 
rising incidence of white natural decrease due to aging and 
below-replacement fertility among the 61 percent of the population who 
are white. As we shall see, the accelerating diversity of the U.S. 
population is a function of this white natural decrease as well as the 
growth of minority populations.


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[Marxism] Divest From the Biz of Incarceration

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http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2018/06/divest-from-business-of-incarceration.html

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[Marxism] When Both Men and Women Drop Out of the Labor Force, Why Do Economists Only Ask About Men? | Beat the Press | CEPR

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[Marxism] Journal article that was withdrawn last year amid intense debate is republished by the National Association of Scholars

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Eight months after it was withdrawn from Third World Quarterly amid 
threats to its author and the journal's editor and questions about why 
it was published in the first place, an article arguing in favor of 
colonialism has been published again.


The National Association of Scholars said this month that Bruce Gilley’s 
“The Case for Colonialism” deserves a permanent place in the scholarly 
record, and so it appears in the summer issue of its journal, Academic 
Questions.


“The efforts to censor [Gilley’s] article and the attacks on him 
personally were outrageous,” Peter Wood, NAS’s president, said in his 
announcement. “Gilley published a well-reasoned and humane perspective 
on the political and economic challenges that face many Third World 
nations. Anyone who actually reads the article will see his thoughtful 
tone and good will.”


The latter part of Wood’s statement is debatable. Thousands of scholars 
called for the retraction of the Gilley’s piece when it was published in 
September, with many calling it poor scholarship, or clickbait. Critics 
generally said that Gilley’s pitch for modified colonialism for 
economically struggling nations who agreed to it completely ignored the 
historical ills and racism of the system.


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[Marxism] Was Albert Einstein a Racist?

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[Marxism] 'This Is What Solidarity Looks Like': Mass Demonstrations at LaGuardia Airport as Kids Ripped From Parents Arrive in New York

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[Marxism] The West Point Soldier Who Called It as He Saw It

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[Marxism] Once Again, the Right Wing Wins in Colombia, Amid Divisions on the Left | The Nation

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Uribe, however, has managed to distract Colombians by exploiting 
Venezuela’s economic collapse to stoke fear among voters. His tirades 
against “castrochavismo,” a term fusing the surnames of Fidel Castro and 
former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, which he loosely applies to 
progressive opponents, are often echoed and amplified by his supporters. 
Comparisons likening Petro to Venezuela’s current president, Nicolás 
Maduro, are common. “We don’t want another Maduro in Colombia. That’s 
what Petro is,” said Ruth Teresa Ramos, 48, who was volunteering as an 
electoral witness in Bogotá for Duque’s campaign on election day. Fredy 
Urrego, another volunteer for Duque who spent two decades serving in the 
military, said he was voting “so that Colombia doesn’t become another 
Venezuela.”


Despite Petro’s efforts to distance himself from Venezuela’s Bolivarian 
Revolution and his attempts to woo moderate voters, other left-leaning, 
peace-supporting factions refused to support him in the runoff, even 
under the looming threat of a potential Duque presidency. Sergio Fajardo 
and Humberto de la Calle, two center-left candidates who finished with a 
collective 26 percent in the first-round vote, both called for their 
voters to cast empty ballots in the runoff instead of voting for Petro. 
Others, like prominent center-left politicians Claudia Lopez and Antanas 
Mockus, only announced their support for Petro’s campaign after he 
pledged to uphold twelve political “commandments,” which were actually 
written in stone. Among them were promises against land expropriation 
for rural development and against convening a constituent assembly to 
rewrite the country’s constitution, as Maduro had done last year in 
Venezuela. “If politics were clean, if we focused on political 
platforms, arguments, and proposals alone, we’d win,” said Gustavo 
Bolivar, a senator recently elected to Congress with Petro’s Colombia 
Humana party.




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Re: [Marxism] Vietnamese demonstrate against Chinese imperialism

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Thanks for this thoughtful and convincing observations!


Am 20.06.2018 um 17:37 schrieb mkaradjis:

The CPV has built "some relations" with the US, yes, but this is
exaggerated. If you read these articles carefully you will note that
despite their dispute over the islands, Vietnam has also maintained
strong relations with China. As I explained, the anti-Chinese
opposition calls the CPV government "communist traitors" for allegedly
selling out to China, which on the islands question is an absurd
charge, because the CPV strongly pushes Vietnam's claim, only
insisting. correctly, that no blood should be spilt over the fate of
uninhabited islands. Therefore, the anti-China nationalist opposition
implies that they advocate war to push for Vietnam's sovereignty over
the islands; and this can only mean support for a stronger alliance
with the US, which the CPV rejects. I don;t mean the broad movement
described here, because as I said, it is of very mixed consciousness
and has a strongly progressive thrust, but I mean the more
ideologically right-wing nationalist spokespeople.

Vietnam's policy is one of balance between the US and China. But what
is often overlooked is that, as a counterweight to both, Vietnam has
actually built up very strong relations with Russia. Given the Putin
regime's reactionary role in the world, that is certainly no better
than an alliance with the US, but geography matters; Vietnam is not
Syria or Ukraine. Where Vietnam is, the main danger is not the US or
Russia, but the gigantic Empire hovering right above it, on its land
and sea borders. For those of us awed by China's astonishing growth
and its enormous projection of power, like the trillion-dollar ''Belt
and Road Initiative' traversing Eurasia, imagine being a small country
like Vietnam under its shadow, when the colossus has already attacked
several times in living memory and lays claim to the entire sea up to
your coastline. But given  its own history with the US, naturally
Vietnam wants to avoid falling too much under a US shadow, even if it
is currently less dangerous than China. A Russian tilt is therefore a
pragmatic choice. So it is Russia that Vietnam  offers to build its
first nuclear plant; it is Russia that has been offered the rights to
develop Cam Ranh Bay, the former American base in the south during the
war; it is Russia that has sold Vietnam advanced submarines with the
capacity to do damage to the Chinese navy should it become necessary.


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[Marxism] [UCE] Discussing Capitalist Restoration in North Korea

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