[Marxism] Joint Statement on the looming Global Trade War

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A joint statement of seven organizations. It has been published in seven 
languages by now. Here is the English version:


https://www.thecommunists.net/rcit/joint-statement-on-the-looming-global-trade-war/ 



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[Marxism] Global Warming in South Asia: 800 Million at Risk

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Re: [Marxism] DSA member Ocasio-Cortez elected (Jason)

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On 7/4/18 7:30 PM, Jason via Marxism wrote:


You continue to evoke their authority against me without yet having
produced a single substantive reference to back up your position.


Let me propose an alternative. Why don't you write a 2000-3000 word 
article defending support for the Democratic Party and post it to the 
list? I have made all the points I want to make both in messages to the 
list and on my blog. Even though I think your ideas are not that 
different from Gus Hall's and Michael Harrington's, you obviously feel 
the need to convince people on this list who are fairly inoculated 
against both the CP and the DSA, at least on the electoral front. Say 
your piece and then let's move on to other things.

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[Marxism] Werner Angress’s “Stillborn Revolution: the Communist Bid for Power in Germany, 1921-1923” (part two) | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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This is the second in a series of reproductions of chapters in Werner 
Angress’s “Stillborn Revolution: the Communist Bid for Power in Germany, 
1921-1923”. In the first installment, I posted the chapter on “The 
Genesis of the March Uprising” that discussed the factors that led to 
what Paul Levi called the “greatest Bakunist putsch in history”. This 
chapter titled “The March Uprising and its Failure” is a horrifying 
narrative of how the Communist Party of Germany under the direct 
influence of a Comintern emissary named Bela Kun staged an ultraleft 
adventure that in some ways makes the Weatherman “Days of Rage” in 1969 
look sane by comparison.


As a preface to the chapter, there are some terms that need clarification.

--The“Zentrale” was the central committee of the German CP that got its 
marching orders from Bela Kun.


--The “Rote Fahne” was the newspaper of the CP that served as the main 
propagandist for the so-called March Action.


--The “Orgesch” was an anti-Semitic militia that was a forerunner of 
Hitler’s Stormtroopers.


--The “KPD” is the initials for the CP.

--The “KAPD” is the initials for the Communist Workers Party of Germany 
that was a split from the KPD, on an even more ultraleft basis. Among 
the better-known members were Antonie Pannekoek, Karl Korsch, and Paul 
Mattick.


Politically, the disastrous outcome was a major factor in the rise of 
Nazism because it discredited the CP. Some of Angress’s chapter might be 
unfamiliar to those who have not studied the scandalous “March Action”. 
As background, I recommend this brief article by Pierre Broué, who like 
Angress, wrote an important book on the German Communist Party in the 
1920s: 
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/broue/works/1964/summer/march-action.htm


full: 
https://louisproyect.org/2018/07/05/werner-angresss-stillborn-revolution-the-communist-bid-for-power-in-germany-1921-1923-part-two/

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Re: [Marxism] DSA member Ocasio-Cortez elected (Jason)

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Louis, you call my references "obscure" and "Talmudic" then blithely say
that those who advocate what I'm saying "have likely never read Lenin,
Trotsky or Rosa Luxemburg," ignoring my references to those and related
thinkers.

You continue to evoke their authority against me without yet having
produced a single substantive reference to back up your position. Perhaps
I'm wrong--perhaps it's there. Then show me. But when you dismiss my actual
references with your hand waving to their tradition without backing it up,
you are engaging in confirmation bias and not reasoned discussion.

Similarly, you cannot possibly have enough knowledge to call me "a
case-hardened reformist". It might work to help you from examining
conflicting evidence but it doesn't help the discussion and you cannot
demonstrate that to be the case.

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[Marxism] Ms. Ocasio-Cortez

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 I think the victory of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez in a Democratic Party primary is
fantastic news, but I would not have campaigned for her or voted for her.

Whether or not she does anything progressive, radical or even revolutionary
in the future is besides the point. What is important now is the fact that
the voters in that district voted for her and her program over the machine
hack and his program.

Those mostly working class voters are radicalizing. Her program will not
ever be promoted or voted into being by the Democratic Party, so those
voters will either have to give up and go home, or will come into conflict
with their party over this program.

That's a good thing.

How should revolutionaries relate to this movement? United in the streets
in demonstrations, united in the labor movement, but separate when it comes
to elections.

The idea that we always have to be with the masses, especially in a country
like the United States where a substantial part of the masses have
reactionary consciousness on many issues, is wrong.

Sometimes we have to explain and wait.

Despite the growing mass movements, and their tendency to grow together,
when it comes to supporting the party of war in the United States (that
would be the party of Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Clinton
and Obama) we have to separate ourselves from working class supporters of
that party, including the ones who are trying to take it over and change it.

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez 's election is not much different from the election and
reelection of Ron Dellums in Oakland/Berkeley. Dellums made lots of radical
speeches and received the enthusiastic support of a large part of the left
in the Bay Area. He was instrumental in deflating the movement for the
Peace and Freedom Party.

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez may turn out to be different. Maybe, she will move left
and break with the Democrats. Maybe she will become a revolutionary. Maybe,
she will do great things. But for now she is part of one of the two most
powerful imperialist political parties on the planet.

Anthony
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[Marxism] [UCE] Swans Commentary: Michael Yates's "Naming the System, " by Louis Proyect - lproy12

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[Marxism] [UCE] Popular Iranian Cinema Before the Revolution Webcast | Library of Congress

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Re: [Marxism] navigating between the Scylla of sectarian abstentionism and the Charybdis of opportunism (Dennis Brasky)

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On 7/4/18 3:23 PM, John Reimann via Marxism wrote:

I read the article that Dennis posted. (Louis did too.) It's typical of
ISO; it "navigates between... sectarian abstentionism and...
opportunism"... by actually *combining *the two! Quite a feat in one
relatively short article, but then the ISO is well experienced in this sort
of thing.


But it is not a statement of the ISO. It is instead a couple of letters 
to their newspaper that has been opened up for public discussion by its 
membership, which is commendable.


In fact, there is a follow-up by Alan Maass and Jen Roesch, and from 
Paul Le Blanc, that replies to the letters. They are quite good. I 
already posted a link to the replies:


https://socialistworker.org/2018/07/04/socialists-aoc-and-the-democratic-party
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Re: [Marxism] navigating between the Scylla of sectarian abstentionism and the Charybdis of opportunism (Dennis Brasky)

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I read the article that Dennis posted. (Louis did too.) It's typical of
ISO; it "navigates between... sectarian abstentionism and...
opportunism"... by actually *combining *the two! Quite a feat in one
relatively short article, but then the ISO is well experienced in this sort
of thing.

The way it does so is being general and abstract - making general comments
are in the abstract are unanswerably right, but have no real meaning as far
as actions. "*The tactics we choose will have to be responsive to the
trajectory of events as it unfolds from here. Simply asserting that
socialists must build an independent party, an argument which is absolutely
correct, does not give us a complete answer to the question."*

Tell me, what exactly does this mean in the concrete; what exactly are they
proposing?

I learned to develop a good bullshit-meter from my days in the carpenters
union. There, at times, some of the union officials would respond to a mood
in the union with all kinds of militant-sounding statements, but what did
it mean in practice?

There's a corollary to this: The real sign of leadership is being able to
map out a general perspective - a general course upon which the workers'
movement can and must develop and then propose the very next concrete steps
that can and should be taken. That's what real leadership of the working
class movement is all about. It's what's really necessary. However, it's
also what really angers the sectarians, opportunists and reformists because
it's exactly there that they cannot hide behind fine sounding phrases and
abstractions.

I have made my view completely clear on the overall longer term trajectory
and what concrete steps can and should be taken in the here and now. The
ISO is typically vague about it. It helps them avoid pissing people off,
but it also means they have nothing real to offer.

John Reimann
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[Marxism] [UCE] “What to the American Slave Is Your 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech

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https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/4/what_to_the_slave_is_4th


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Re: [Marxism] BDS Versus Settler-Colonialism

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On 7/1/18 9:19 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:

https://solidarity-us.org/atc/195/032-2/


This is the correct link for Alan Wald's article:

https://solidarity-us.org/atc/195/review-bds/
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[Marxism] Review of a French Maoist's novel about colonizing industry in the post-68 period

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BOOKFORUM, SUMMER 2018
Anomie of the People
A fiction of the French revolts
JASON E. SMITH

LESLIE KAPLAN IS a French writer born in Brooklyn (1943), or an American 
author who lives in Paris and writes in French. The daughter of a US 
“information officer” busy with anti–Communist Party propaganda in the 
post-Yalta culture wars on the Continent, Kaplan moved to Paris as a 
child and stayed when her parents left. As a student, she was 
radicalized in the movement against the Algerian War. By 1968, she had 
joined a small Maoist organization that had recently begun its “settling 
down” campaign, sending personnel into large factories across France to 
make contact with the most militant workers. Kaplan had settled in a 
Lyon washing-machine factory when the strike wave of May and early June 
1968 intervened; she would remain within the libertarian-communist left 
afterward, into the next decade. She began publishing in the early ’80s, 
and her first book, L’excès—l’usine (1982), distilled in an outwardly 
poetic form her experience of “the factory.” Now being published in 
translation (by Julie Carr and Jennifer Pap) for the first time, by 
Oakland-based Commune Editions, Excess—The Factory resurfaces in English 
at a moment when the factory, for the workers of much of Europe and 
North America, seems almost an anachronism: replaced by the big-box 
store, the warehouse, and the logistics cluster, when not by prisons 
blooming upstate.


The topos of the factory and the mine belongs to an estimable if minor 
tradition of the French novel: Zola’s Germinal, Céline’s Journey, Robert 
Linhart’s The Assembly Line. Kaplan’s writing here is distinguished from 
these models by its emphatic purging of the telling anecdote, the 
instructive story, in favor of the deployed detail that (as Kaplan 
elsewhere puts it) “is the condensation of many different levels, an 
infinity of levels.” Drawn out into nine “circles,” her anti-epic is 
superficially modeled on Dante’s poem. We might be descending into 
Blake’s satanic mills, but the arrangement is stripped of the Inferno’s 
theological trappings, allegorical mechanics, or cosmological order 
(instead: “the great factory, the universe”). As we pass from circle to 
circle, we seem to move from factory to factory, or from workshop to 
workshop. We—or rather the plural, faceless “you” called into being by 
the narrator—-operate in a continuous present: We make boxes, cables, 
crackers, rubber parts, headlights, ultimately just “things.” The sense 
of time is as uncertain as the identity of the narrator or the narrated 
“you”: “You are outside of time, under the sky of the factory”; “You 
move indefinitely, outside of time”; “Time is elsewhere: only space 
exists, infinite, in your mind”; “Time stays there, like a box”; “Time 
is outside, in things.” Like time, features commonly attributed to the 
subject are, in the factory, made things, rendered pastelike, viscous: 
“Thought is sticky”; “The gaze sticks to everything like a fly” (echoes, 
here of Sartre’s Nausea). There is little sense, as in the Inferno, of 
descent, or of a preparation for elevation. We are at rock bottom. But 
the concentricity proposed by the book’s structure suggests our 
uncertain movements are zeroing in on something. Violence seems around 
every bend. If most of what we do is making (boxes, cables, etc.), the 
place itself, its vastness, threatens, acts: “Space, space kills.” By 
the book’s end, this verb is given a palpable agency. We see, in a city 
square, a little girl playing with a “grey” baby: “At one point the 
woman who might be the mother says to the little girl: Come on, you’re 
going to kill the baby. The little girl lifts up the baby and asks: Do 
you think I’m going to kill you?” Fin.


There are no men in the factory. The workshops, the assembly lines, are 
as segregated as an Orthodox synagogue. The factory is vaster than the 
plant itself: It is the surrounding neighborhood, the city, and beyond 
(“the great factory, the universe”). Everywhere the gaze alights, there 
is no world, only waste: “All space is occupied: all has become waste. 
The skin, the teeth, the gaze.” The shadow cast by the factory is 
terrifying; on its outskirts, “you see torn off mouths, lost hair, 
burned bodies,” and “piled up barrels, shovels and skins.” Among these 
wastes, there are women, only women: beautiful, freshly made-up, 
Yugoslavian, black, hunchbacked, reading books, missing teeth, “used,” 
“damaged.” One of these women—perhaps all of them—is “there, infinite.” 
A flash of desire, a current of solidarity, runs between you and this 
“infinite”: “You love her, you love her so 

[Marxism] Freedom Rider: Ocasio-Cortez and the Left | Black Agenda Report

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[Marxism] NEW BOOK: 'Managerial Capitalism' by Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy

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[Marxism] Trump Officials Reverse Obama’s Policy on Affirmative Action in Schools

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As I tried to explain in a blog post 
(https://louisproyect.org/2018/06/17/harvard-university-bias-against-asian-americans-affirmative-action-and-life-itself/), 
the reports about Harvard passing over applications by Asian-American 
students because of "personality" deficits was a smokescreen for the 
all-out attack on affirmative action discussed below. It indicates how 
off-base Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed have been about 
affirmative action serving the needs of the ruling class to create a 
Black and Latino elite. Affirmative action is absolutely necessary both 
in the Ivy League and in many private industry sectors that channel 
Blacks and Latinos into low-paying jobs.


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NY Times, July 34, 2018
Trump Officials Reverse Obama’s Policy on Affirmative Action in Schools
By Erica L. Green, Matt Apuzzo and Katie Benner

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Tuesday that it was 
abandoning Obama administration policies that called on universities to 
consider race as a factor in diversifying their campuses, signaling that 
the administration will champion race-blind admissions standards.


In a joint letter, the Education and Justice Departments announced that 
they had rescinded seven Obama-era policy guidelines on affirmative 
action, which, the departments said, “advocate policy preferences and 
positions beyond the requirements of the Constitution.”


“The executive branch cannot circumvent Congress or the courts by 
creating guidance that goes beyond the law and — in some instances — 
stays on the books for decades,” said Devin M. O’Malley, a Justice 
Department spokesman.


Striking a softer tone, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos wrote in a 
separate statement: “The Supreme Court has determined what affirmative 
action policies are constitutional, and the court’s written decisions 
are the best guide for navigating this complex issue. Schools should 
continue to offer equal opportunities for all students while abiding by 
the law.”


The Trump administration’s moves come with affirmative action at a 
crossroads. Hard-liners in the Justice and Education Departments are 
moving against any use of race as a measurement of diversity in 
education. And the retirement of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy at the end 
of this month will leave the Supreme Court without its swing vote on 
affirmative action while allowing President Trump to nominate a justice 
opposed to policies that for decades have tried to integrate elite 
educational institutions.


A highly anticipated case is pitting Harvard against Asian-American 
students who say one of the nation’s most prestigious institutions has 
systematically excluded some Asian-American applicants to maintain slots 
for students of other races. That case is clearly aimed at the Supreme 
Court.


“The whole issue of using race in education is being looked at with a 
new eye in light of the fact that it’s not just white students being 
discriminated against, but Asians and others as well,” said Roger Clegg, 
the president and general counsel of the conservative Center for Equal 
Opportunity. “As the demographics of the country change, it becomes more 
and more problematic.”


Democrats and civil rights organizations denounced the administration’s 
decisions. Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House 
Democratic leader, said the “rollback of vital affirmative action 
guidance offends our nation’s values” and called it “yet another clear 
Trump administration attack on communities of color.”


Guidance documents like those rescinded on Tuesday do not have the force 
of law, but they amount to the official view of the federal government. 
School officials who keep their race-conscious admissions policies 
intact would do so knowing that they could face a Justice Department 
investigation or lawsuit, or lose funding from the Education Department.


The Obama administration believed that students benefited from being 
surrounded by diverse classmates, so in 2011, the administration offered 
schools a potential road map to establishing affirmative action policies 
and race-based considerations that could withstand legal scrutiny from 
an increasingly skeptical Supreme Court.


In a pair of policy guidance documents issued in 2011, the Obama 
Education and Justice Departments informed elementary and secondary 
schools and college campuses of “the compelling interests” established 
by the Supreme Court to achieve diversity. They concluded that the court 
“has made clear such steps can include taking account of the race of 
individual students in a narrowly tailored manner.”


But Trump Justice Department officials identified those 

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[Marxism] Return to Houston

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In the prosperous subdivision on the flood plain where I stayed, 3-4 
houses on every block were up for sale, nearly a year after the 
hurricane. Several properties not up for sale there are still in the 
process of being restored.


Nearly every major intersection has make-shift signs put up by someone 
wanting to buy properties “as is”, and for cash (see the photo below).


The people who left clearly don’t want a repetition of the experience 
they had with Harvey.


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[Marxism] Trump, Obama and the Nature of Fascism

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[Marxism] Is the gun the basis of modern Anglo civilisation? | Aeon Essays

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Eighteenth-century Indian arms were as sophisticated as European. Then 
came the British Empire to drive industry backwards


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