Re: [Marxism] Complicating the Narrative on Nicaragua | NACLA

2018-09-30 Thread Joaquin Bustelo via Marxism

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I think the best statement that has been made on Nicaragua, one that 
reflects so many contradictory elements and how much many of us of the 
older generations have invested there, was on the eve of July 19 by 
former Uruguayan president José Mujica in the Uruguayan Senate:


https://youtu.be/qn9ebYH4IeA

*  *  *

I feel ill. Because I know people as old as I am. Because I remember 
names of compañeros who gave their lives in Nicaragua fighting for  a 
dream. And I feel I have been asked to intercede with the Pope for him 
to do something, and I said no. And they've talked to me from one side 
and talked to me from the other. And I feel that something that was a 
dream has strayed and fallen into autocracy. And I think that those who 
yesterday were revolutionaries are no longer aware that in life, there 
are moments when you have to say I'm leaving.


*  *  *

I think _part_ of the statement was prompted by 93-year-old Nicaraguan 
poet Ernesto Cardenal, who in June sent an open letter to Mujica asking 
him to speak out in support of the protests.


But the pain and sense of loss in Mujica's statement should not stop us 
from seeing things as they are and calling them by their right name.


And this article is a shame-faced defense of the indefensible: an 
autocratic regime that has murdered hundreds of people.


Shame-faced because it presents the most vulgar apologetics as "context" 
that should be taken into account. Yet he somehow overlooks that Murillo 
and Ortega are much more likely to denounce the protests as a satanic 
rather than an imperialist plot.


Although Ortega continues to own the  "Sandinista" brand, I searched the 
web for statements about this crisis by leading Sandinista political and 
cultural figures from the 1980s,  mostly on video because I don't trust 
the reporting.


Apart from the first couple, Bayardo Arce, Doris Tijerino, all the 
prominent 1980s Sandinistas I found have called for Daniel to go.


Most striking are the repeated statements by his brother Humberto, as 
well as the emphatic denunciations by Henry Ruiz ("Modesto"), Luis 
Carrión, Jaime Wheelock, Víctor Hugo Tinoco (members of the National 
Directorate),  Dora María Téllez, Mónica Baltodano, and many others. 
Victor Tirado, also a commander of the revolution, "no longer has full 
control of his mental faculties" according to his son who denounced the 
way he was manipulated to appear next to Daniel at the July 19 rally, 
but five years ago in an interview Tirado has said he had no relations 
with Ortega and that the president should resign. Also writers and 
artists like the Mejía Godoy brothers, Norma Elena Gadea, Katia Cardenal 
(of Duo Guardabarranco), Pancasán, Sergio Ramírez (who was 
vice-president), Carlos Chamorro (editor of Barricada), Ernesto Cardenal 
(Minister of Culture), and Monica Baltodano.


Are they all agents of imperialism?

But even if everything that the article says is true, how does that 
justify the murder of hundreds of students?


And --of course!-- American imperialism is trying to take advantage of 
it. But who are its agents: students outraged by a murderous  autocratic 
regime or the imperialist interests, right wing parties and bosses that 
Ortega has been in bed with for more than a decade?


And of course now that they think they have a chance, they are trying to 
take advantage of the situation to oust him. Same thing as happened to 
Gaddafi. You can reach an accommodation with imperialism. But they do 
not forgive, and they do not forget.








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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Congressional Bloodshed: The Run-Up to the Civil War

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NY Times Sunday Book Review, Sept. 30, 2018
Congressional Bloodshed: The Run-Up to the Civil War
By David S. Reynolds

THE FIELD OF BLOOD
Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
By Joanne B. Freeman
Illustrated. 450 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $28.

So, you think Congress is dysfunctional?

There was a time when it ran with blood — a time so polarized that 
politics generated a cycle of violence, in Congress and out of it, that 
led to the deadliest war in the nation’s history.


In her absorbing, scrupulously researched book “The Field of Blood,” 
Joanne B. Freeman uncovers the brawls, stabbings, pummelings and duel 
threats that occurred among United States congressmen during the three 
decades just before the Civil War.


Freeman, a professor of history and American studies at Yale, mines a 
valuable document that gives us a front-row view of the action: the 
11-volume diary that the political observer Benjamin Brown French kept 
between 1828 and his death in 1870. A New Hampshirite who worked as a 
lawyer and journalist before turning to politics, French moved in 1833 
to Washington, where he served as a congressional clerk for 14 years. 
After that, he stayed close to the political scene, working as a 
part-time clerk, a lobbyist and a buildings commissioner under three 
presidents. Originally a Jacksonian Democrat, French became an 
antislavery Republican loyal to Lincoln, whom he served as commissioner 
of public buildings.


Using French’s diary as a lens on Congress, Freeman describes many 
violent episodes. “Between 1830 and 1860,” she writes, “there were more 
than 70 violent incidents between congressmen in the House and Senate 
chambers or on nearby streets and dueling grounds, most of them long 
forgotten.” In 1841, an exchange of insults between two representatives, 
Edward Stanly of North Carolina and Henry Wise of Virginia, led to a 
wild melee in which nearly all the members of the House pummeled one 
another. John B. Dawson of Louisiana “routinely wore both a bowie knife 
and a pistol” into the House and once threatened to cut a colleague’s 
throat “from ear to ear.” Angry over a speech delivered by the 
antislavery Ohioan Joshua Giddings, Dawson shoved Giddings and 
threatened him with a knife. Another time, Dawson pointed his cocked 
pistol at Giddings and was prevented from shooting him only when other 
congressmen intervened.


Giddings, an outspoken abolitionist, was accustomed to such treatment 
from the pro-slavery side. He was attacked at least seven times. Like 
the acerbic John Quincy Adams, the antislavery former president who 
represented Massachusetts in the House, Giddings intentionally goaded 
Southerners to violence in order to expose the barbarism of the slave power.


As Freeman notes, the Southerners were vulnerable to such goading 
because of the code of honor they followed. According to the code, even 
a mild insult could trigger a fight or, in some cases, a duel. Freeman 
tells us of the fiery Mississippi senator Henry S. Foote, who fought 
four duels in his political career and was wounded in three of them. On 
the Senate floor, he raised a pistol toward an opponent, the Missouri 
senator Thomas Hart Benton, who bared his chest and invited Foote to 
shoot, yelling: “I have no pistols! Let him fire! I disdain to carry 
arms!” Another senator grabbed Foote’s weapon and locked it in a drawer.


Although this confrontation did not prove fatal, another one, between 
Congressmen Jonathan Cilley of Maine and William J. Graves of Kentucky, 
did. Cilley, a Democrat, had charged a Whig editor, James Watson Webb, 
with having accepted a bribe. Outraged by the accusation, Webb wrote a 
letter in which he challenged Cilley to a duel. He sent the letter 
through Graves, a Whig friend. When Cilley refused to accept the letter, 
Graves felt insulted and made his own duel challenge to Cilley. The two 
men faced off with rifles on a dueling ground outside Washington. Both 
missed their targets in the first two rounds, but in the third Graves 
killed Cilley.


Offended Southern honor also lay behind the most famous violent 
congressional incident of the era, the near-deadly assault in May 1856 
on the Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner by the South Carolina 
representative Preston Brooks. Having delivered his withering 
antislavery speech “The Crime Against Kansas,” Sumner was sitting alone 
in the Senate at his desk, which was bolted to the floor, when Brooks 
approached him. Declaring that Sumner had libeled his state and 
slandered a relative of his, Brooks pounded Sumner with his gold-headed 
cane, delivering at least a dozen blows before his cane 

[Marxism] Hit Men and Power: South Africa’s Leaders Are Killing One Another

2018-09-30 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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NY Times, Sept. 30, 2018
Hit Men and Power: South Africa’s Leaders Are Killing One Another
By Norimitsu Onishi and Selam Gebrekidan

UMZIMKHULU, South Africa — Their fear faded as they raced back home, the 
bottle of Johnnie Walker getting lighter with each turn of the road. 
Soon, Sindiso Magaqa was clapping and bouncing behind the wheel of his 
beloved V8 Mercedes-Benz, pulling into familiar territory just before dark.


Minutes later, men closed in with assault rifles. Mr. Magaqa reached for 
the gun under his seat — too late. One of his passengers saw flashes of 
light, dozens of them, from the spray of bullets pockmarking the doors.


The ambush was exactly what Mr. Magaqa had feared. A few months before, 
a friend had been killed by gunmen in his front yard. Then, as another 
friend tried to open his front gate at night, a hit man crept out of the 
dark, shooting him dead. Next came Mr. Magaqa, 34. Struck half a dozen 
times, he hung on for weeks in a hospital before dying last year.


All of the assassination targets had one thing in common: They were 
members of the African National Congress who had spoken out against 
corruption in the party that defined their lives.


“If you understand the Cosa Nostra, you don’t only kill the person, but 
you also send a strong message,” said Thabiso Zulu, another A.N.C. 
whistle-blower who, fearing for his life, is now in hiding.


“We broke the rule of omertà,” he added, saying that the party of Nelson 
Mandela had become like the Mafia.


Political assassinations are rising sharply in South Africa, threatening 
the stability of hard-hit parts of the country and imperiling Mr. 
Mandela’s dream of a unified, democratic nation.


But unlike much of the political violence that upended the country in 
the 1990s, the recent killings are not being driven by vicious battles 
between rival political parties.


Quite the opposite: In most cases, A.N.C. officials are killing one 
another, hiring professional hit men to eliminate fellow party members 
in an all-or-nothing fight over money, turf and power, A.N.C. officials say.


The party once inspired generations of South Africans and captured the 
imagination of millions around the world — from impoverished corners of 
Africa to wealthy American campuses.


But corruption and divisions have flourished within the A.N.C. in recent 
years, stripping much of the party of its ideals. After nearly 25 years 
in power, party members have increasingly turned to fighting, not over 
competing visions for the nation, but over influential positions and the 
spoils that go with them.


The death toll is climbing quickly. About 90 politicians have been 
killed since the start of 2016, more than twice the annual rate in the 
16 years before that, according to researchers at the University of Cape 
Town and the Global Initiative Against Transnational Crime.


The murders have swelled into such a national crisis that the police 
began releasing data on political killings for the first time this year, 
while the new president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has lamented that the 
assassinations are tarnishing Mr. Mandela’s dream.


But Mr. Ramaphosa is struggling to unite his fractious party before 
elections next year and has done little to stem the violence. His 
administration has even resisted official demands to provide police 
protection for two A.N.C. whistle-blowers in the case surrounding Mr. 
Magaqa’s murder, baffling some anticorruption officials.


September.CreditThuli Dlamini/Sunday Times, via Getty Images
The recent assassinations cover a wide range of personal and political 
feuds. Some victims were A.N.C. officials who became targets after 
exposing or denouncing corruption within the party. Others fell in 
internal battles for lucrative posts. In rural areas — where the party 
has a near-total grip on the economy, jobs and government contracts — 
the conflict is particularly intense, with officials constantly looking 
over their shoulders.


Mr. Magaqa’s province, KwaZulu-Natal, is the deadliest of all. Here, 80 
A.N.C. officials were killed between 2011 and 2017, the party says. Even 
relatively low-level ward councilors have bodyguards, and many 
politicians carry guns themselves.


“It was better before we attained democracy, because we knew the enemy — 
that the enemy was the regime, the unjust regime,” said Mluleki Ndobe, 
the mayor of the district where Mr. Magaqa and five other A.N.C. 
politicians have been assassinated in the past year.


“Now, you don’t know who is the enemy,” he said.

More than any other, the death of Mr. Magaqa, the most prominent 
politician assassinated so far, has focused attention on 

[Marxism] How a disastrous change in perspective disempowered the left and let the right rise | Jeff Sparrow | US news | The Guardian

2018-09-30 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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[Marxism] Hit Men and Power: South Africa’s Leaders Are Killing One Another - NY Times

2018-09-30 Thread Dennis Brasky via Marxism
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Hit Men and Power: South Africa’s Leaders Are Killing One Another

Political assassinations are rising sharply in South Africa, threatening
the stability of hard-hit parts of the country and imperiling Mr. Mandela’s
dream of a unified, democratic nation.

But unlike much of the political violence that upended the country in the
1990s, the recent killings are not being driven by vicious battles between
rival political parties.

Quite the opposite: In most cases, A.N.C. officials are killing one
another, hiring professional hit men to eliminate fellow party members in
an all-or-nothing fight over money, turf and power, A.N.C. officials say.

The party once inspired generations of South Africans and captured the
imagination of millions around the world — from impoverished corners of
Africa to wealthy American campuses.

But corruption and divisions have flourished within the A.N.C.
in
recent years, stripping much of the party of its ideals. After nearly 25
years in power, party members have increasingly turned to fighting, not
over competing visions for the nation, but over influential positions and the
spoils that go with them

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[Marxism] DNC Chair - "Dems have room for Kavanaugh supporters"

2018-09-30 Thread Dennis Brasky via Marxism
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>
>
> Just when you think that the Dems have lowered the bar as far as possible,
> they find another level!
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AGeY8Nk-DE=player_embedded
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[Marxism] (no subject)

2018-09-30 Thread John Reimann via Marxism
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From today's NY Times (
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/30/world/europe/uk-brexit-theresa-may.html?action=click=Top%20Stories=Homepage
)

"After two years of negotiation, Britain has reached a moment of
consequence for the process known as Brexit. The insulating layer of time
that had protected the country from a potentially failed divorce from the
bloc is thinning. Soon, it will be gone.

"What this could mean for ordinary Britons has been seeping into the
newspapers, sometimes in leaks from secret government reports: Northern
Ireland has only one energy link to the mainland, so a no-deal Brexit could
lead to rolling blackouts and steep price rises; and the energy system
could collapse, forcing the military to redeploy generators from
Afghanistan to the Irish Sea

"In many ways, the country is in the same position it was on the morning
after the 2016 referendum: without a clear plan

"In the meantime, there is a strange calm, as if the country is waiting to
see if a storm will make landfall. On Twitter, the novelist Robert
Harrisrecently
compared the atmosphere
 to the
months before Britain entered World War I, when the authorities watched
helplessly as they were dragged toward war by the momentum of events

"Was Brexit, as Mr. Johnson would argue, an act of emancipation that would
breathe life into a once-proud imperial power? Or was it, as his opponents
would contend, a gesture of rage by communities that feel left behind by
global capitalism, egged on by politicians’ false promises and
tabloid-fueled xenophobia?"

The idea of "Lexit" or of a socialist Brexit was always a daydream.
Socialist support for Brexit is like socialist support for ending bourgeois
democracy... when the alternative is bourgeois bonapartism! And remaining
"neutral" isn't much better. It's based on the idea that anything that
destabilizes capitalism is good. No. What we should strive for is what
strengthens the working class, what helps the working class unite and
become more clear on its role in history. Brexit did just the opposite.

That doesn't mean uncritical support for the daydream that the EU is - that
the European capitalist states could all cooperate to end the history of
devastating wars between them. Opposition to Brexit should have been linked
with a call for a working class struggle throughout the region for a
minimum wage, minimal levels of social services, etc. Instead, with Brexit,
we got the campaign that British workers and British capitalists have a
common interest. It lowered the class consciousness. And, incredibly,
socialists played into it!

John Reimann
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[Marxism] How a college drop out became a champion of investigative journalism | Media | The Guardian

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Re: [Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] A State Adequate to the Task | Chuang

2018-09-30 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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Members of Chuǎng have been living in and travelling throughout mainland 
China since the late 1980s. In addition to trying to understand the 
dominant trends of capitalist development and struggles within mainland 
society as a whole, we’ve also of course been on the lookout for people 
who share political perspectives with our own. Over much of this 
timespan, the results have been sparse. We’ve met a handful of 
anarchists, but their interest in society has generally been limited to 
informal conversations, the realm of art and its attendant subcultures, 
and occasional acts of protest. We’ve also met a few remnants of the 
Cultural Revolution’s “ultra-left” who either became liberals or 
continue trying to justify their anti-state positions among more 
mainstream Maoists by citing exceptional quotations from the Great 
Helmsman, rather than examining the structures and struggles of the 
present. But in recent years, this situation has undergone a subtle 
change. The mainlanders from whom we’ve learned the most tend to be 
involved in small groups that emerged from the strike wave of 2010, when 
activists (mainly students and recent graduates, along with a few older 
leftists) from cities throughout China “discovered the new working 
class,” moved to sunbelt industrial districts and got jobs in factories 
there.




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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] A State Adequate to the Task | Chuang

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Members of Chuǎng have been living in and travelling throughout mainland 
China since the late 1980s. In addition to trying to understand the 
dominant trends of capitalist development and struggles within mainland 
society as a whole, we’ve also of course been on the lookout for people 
who share political perspectives with our own. Over much of this 
timespan, the results have been sparse. We’ve met a handful of 
anarchists, but their interest in society has generally been limited to 
informal conversations, the realm of art and its attendant subcultures, 
and occasional acts of protest. We’ve also met a few remnants of the 
Cultural Revolution’s “ultra-left” who either became liberals or 
continue trying to justify their anti-state positions among more 
mainstream Maoists by citing exceptional quotations from the Great 
Helmsman, rather than examining the structures and struggles of the 
present. But in recent years, this situation has undergone a subtle 
change. The mainlanders from whom we’ve learned the most tend to be 
involved in small groups that emerged from the strike wave of 2010, when 
activists (mainly students and recent graduates, along with a few older 
leftists) from cities throughout China “discovered the new working 
class,” moved to sunbelt industrial districts and got jobs in factories 
there.


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[Marxism] The Most Important Least-Noticed Economic Event of the Decade

2018-09-30 Thread Andrew Pollack via Marxism
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A localized recession in manufacturing-heavy areas can explain a lot of
things.

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[Marxism] Talk on CLR James and the Haitian revolution

2018-09-30 Thread Philip Ferguson via Marxism
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I don't suppose there is anyone here in or near Dunedin (NZ), but just in
case, there's an interesting public talk next Sunday in the public library
here:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2018/09/24/20427/
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