[Marxism] Racism - a fragment
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I hope my remarks shed some light on the psychology of racism. Some time after I was ten years old my father brought home taped music on a reel to reel tape. So sometime after 1955. I must have heard that tape many times, because those songs have stayed with me for decades. They were cloyingly sentimental songs sung by white men about black men. At least that was my impression at the time. Looking back after all this time I see two things in these songs. One was an inclination for southern whites to tell the world they actually viewed blacks with kindness. “Some of my best friends are Negros.” I think our church was a transmission belt for this message. And secondly, they did not want to see themselves as bad or hateful people. They needed to convince themselves of their kindly feelings towards black people. Or at least some of them felt that need. This version is by Paul Robeson and not the version I recall from decades ago. He has altered the words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Tvq_0tkyw This could be the one I remember. https://www.lpdiscography.com/?page=song&song=8071 ken h _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Asia]: Wanchoo on Smith, 'Modern Empires: A Reader'
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * -- Forwarded message - From: H-Net Staff Date: Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 6:19 PM Subject: H-Net Review [H-Asia]: Wanchoo on Smith, 'Modern Empires: A Reader' To: Bonnie G. Smith. Modern Empires: A Reader. New York and London Oxford University Press, 2017. 416 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-937592-9. Reviewed by Rohit Wanchoo (Delhi University) Published on H-Asia (January, 2019) Commissioned by Sumit Guha Wanchoo on Smith, ed., _Modern Empires_ A huge body of literature has grown around the theme of empires and it is no easy task to put together a volume that covers over five centuries of the history of empires across the world. Bonnie Smith has selected extracts from the pronouncements of empire builders as well as the responses of those who experienced the consequences, whether as leaders, slaves, soldiers, women, or subalterns. Inevitably, any selection of extracts will leave many area specialists disappointed. But for those interested in a global perspective this collection is a very valuable introduction. The principal virtue of this book is that it presents an eclectic selection that can be used by undergraduates and their teachers with widely varying ideological perspectives. The twelve chapters of this book are chronologically arranged but the chapters themselves are organized on the basis of the dominant feature of the period. The introductions to the chapters and the headnotes before each extract provide the basic background for understanding the text that follows. The author has critiqued the greed and ambitions of the empire builders and more traditional Eurocentric views of empire; highlighted violence, plunder, and exploitation by the imperial powers; and incorporated women's viewpoints. Tracking the emergence of empires since 1450, Smith has identified the Ottomans, Mongols, Russians, and Chinese in Asia; the Portuguese, Spanish, and Americans in the New World; and the British, French and other European powers in Asia and Africa. Modern world history has been shaped by the rise and fall of these empires as much as by industrialization and the rise of nation-states. She has tried to capture the "unfolding history of interactions" (p. 10) among peoples across the world using well-crafted headnotes before each extract. She shows how empires have contributed to globalization, migrations, and the movement of goods and ideas across the world, but more extracts are needed to give the reader a stronger sense of these worldwide interactions and interconnections. Some extracts from the work of economists and economic historians could be added to bolster frequent references to the economic exploitation by imperial powers. A valuable collection of extracts can be found in a book by Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik (_The World that Trade Created: Society, Culture and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present_, 2006). Alternatively, the author could write separate comments, longer than the headnotes, on the maps in the book. These could be on the enslavement of Africans (map 3) and on the movement of commodities like sugar, cotton, and silver (maps 4, 7, and 9). Would it make sense to include extracts from Pomeranz on the great divergence and Sanjay Subrahmanyam on connected histories? Although Adam Smith was unable to foresee the benefits or misfortunes accruing from the discovery of America and the sea route to India, he thought that the "general tendency would seem to be beneficial" (p. 160). The economics of empire--discussions of the costs and benefits of empire in the imperial centers as well as the economic critique of imperial exploitation in the periphery--deserve greater attention, even in a general history of empire. There are extracts from imperialists like Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Robert Clive, and Commodore Perry. Castillo, who took part in the conquest of Mexico between 1519 and 1521, wrote about the Aztec emperor Monteczuma and Malinche, who aided the Spanish in their conquests. A reference to Stephen Greenblatt's discussion of the conquest of Mexico and the role of Malinche or Dona Marina could be made in the headnote (_Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World_, 1992). In general, the headnotes could refer to well-known works to help the reader in further research. The observations of Bartolomo de Las Casas could be introduced by referring to Walter Mignolo's work (_Local Histories/Global Designs_, 2012). Although the bibliography at the end of the book is helpful some of the arguments of these books could be incorporated in the headnotes quite profitably. The Inca Empire gets a testimonial from Pedro de Cieza de Leon, who recorded with
[Marxism] The working class movement in Iran
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[Marxism] Coming up to 40th anniversary of Iranian revolution: the class nature of the regime
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[Marxism] Marx for me (and hopefully for others too)
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Re: [Marxism] John Salter Jr./Hunter Bear bio
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[Marxism] John Salter Jr./Hunter Bear bio
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Re: [Marxism] Hunterbear, R.I.P.
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 1/7/19 3:23 PM, Jim Farmelant via Marxism wrote: From his son, Peter Salter on Facebook: --- The strongest man I ever knew died today, in his home, and in the care and companionship of the family he helped create. John R. Salter Jr., later known as John Gray, left a permanent mark on this world as a labor organizer, Civil Rights leader, author, college professor, father, grandfather, great-grandfather. He liked to say he was an agitator, but he was really a helper and a solver. He could not stomach injustice, and the bigger the wrong, the fiercer the foe, the better. Our father held on longer than anyone expected, but that was within in his character. Like everything else in his life, he was going to do this on his own terms. He is already missed and mourned, but we know he will always be near, and his legacy will live on." Eerie. Just yesterday he came to mind and I went to his website to see if he was still alive. He unsubbed from the list at least a decade ago so I lost touch with him. Here's something he wrote for American Socialist, the magazine that Bert Cochran and Harry Braverman published in the 1950s that I identify with strongly: Navaho Indians: Oil and Mining Buzzards Hover Overhead: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/amersocialist/amersoc_5709-b.htm Here's Hunter and me musing on the movie "Broken Arrow" about the Apache wars: https://louisproyect.org/2009/12/26/broken-arrow/ He was also deeply involved with the civil rights movement as well documented on his website: http://hunterbear.org/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Hunterbear, R.I.P.
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * >From his son, Peter Salter on Facebook: --- The strongest man I ever knew died today, in his home, and in the care and companionship of the family he helped create. John R. Salter Jr., later known as John Gray, left a permanent mark on this world as a labor organizer, Civil Rights leader, author, college professor, father, grandfather, great-grandfather. He liked to say he was an agitator, but he was really a helper and a solver. He could not stomach injustice, and the bigger the wrong, the fiercer the foe, the better. Our father held on longer than anyone expected, but that was within in his character. Like everything else in his life, he was going to do this on his own terms. He is already missed and mourned, but we know he will always be near, and his legacy will live on." Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math No More Tinnitus: 1 Odd Trick Ends The Ringing Overnight fighttinnitusnow.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5c33b5351552a35343232st04vuc _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fw: New post published Iranian Labor Leader Speaks of His Torture & Challenges Iran’s “Intelligence” Minister
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Re: [Marxism] Moon of Alabama: ?Integrity Initiative? ? New Documents From Shady NGO Released | Washington Babylon
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * A broken clock is right twice a day. Say what you will (and which incidentally is perhaps correct about the source), the fact is that the Left can’t get it’s shit together and build a viable project for taking power in these United States. I don’t have much patience for the Jacobin elite hipster aesthetic but at least Bhaskar Sunkara is getting something right about state power. It’s a foolish crusade with no hope but it also is way more coherent than the mess in the Greens. Best regards, Andrew Stewart Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 12:42:31 -0500 From: Louis Proyect To: marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: Re: [Marxism] Moon of Alabama: ?Integrity Initiative? ? New Documents From Shady NGO Released | Washington Babylon Message-ID: <7d84c700-8ed3-ca67-1499-a1ec4f92d...@panix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed On 1/7/19 11:23 AM, Andrew Stewart via Marxism wrote: > > http://washingtonbabylon.com/moon-of-alabama-integrity-initiative-new-docs-jan-2019/ > > As I understand it, the Integrity Initiative was responsible for a "false flag" incident in which the novichok used to nearly kill the Skirpals was actually made in Porton Downs, a British military lab, rather than in Russia. It was necessary, according to Moon of Alabama, Tim Hayward, and Craig Murray, to poison the Skirpals in order to build a case against Russia so that the Conservative government of Teresa May could promote a new Cold War against Russia. I don't know quite how to put this but this is 9/11 Trutherism type analysis. Remember how the CIA-organized attack on the WTC and the Pentagon was needed to give the USA an excuse to invade Iraq? It makes perfect sense for Tim Hayward to be a key figure in all this since the pro-Assad group he has organized includes Mark Crispin Miller, the batty NYU professor who is a die-hard Truther. May didn't need to poison anybody in order to heighten tensions against Russia. That is like busting down an open door. I am all for Anonymous exposing the ties the Integrity Initiative has to British military intelligence but I'll be damned if I accept that as justification for all the other bullshit people like Tim Hayward and websites like Moon of Alabama spread _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Moon of Alabama: ‘Integrity Initiative’ – New Documents From Shady NGO Released | Washington Babylon
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[Marxism] the mass murder of the American buffalo
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[Marxism] Blame the victim!
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * clip - Working-class people often get blamed for their troubles. They should have planned better, been less demanding, or just been smarter. Those are just some of the judgments that surfaced again in the weeks after General Motors’ announcement late in November that it would close five plants in the U.S. and Canada, leaving thousands of workers without jobs. Those who suggest that people should simply leave these communities have also not been paying attention. People have been leaving these areas for decades, starting during the early 1980s when the steel industry closed dozens of plants. As Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson noted in their 1985 book, *Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass, *deindustrialized spurred a significant migration of industrial workers, many headed to places like Houston in search of new jobs in the oil industry. Since 1970, Youngstown’s population has dropped by about 85,000 people. Trumbull County next door, where the Lordstown plant operates, lost about 30,000 people. Given the long-term economic struggles of the region, we might expect those numbers to be higher, but many people stayed despite the area’s limited opportunities. Why? Because along with deep roots, they have friends and family who help each other get by in hard times, and a poor economy keeps the cost of living low. For many, their most significant economic assets – their homes – are not portable or worth enough to make selling worthwhile. In the Mahoning Valley, people can often get by on part-time jobs and the informal economy of barter and DIY. https://workingclassstudies.wordpress.com/2019/01/07/blaming-workers-again/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Moon of Alabama: ‘Integrity Initiative’ – New Documents From Shady NGO Released | Washington Babylon
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Re: [Marxism] The logic behind the rhetoric
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Thank you for this, Vijaya. Raju J Das York University, Toronto On 2019-01-07 10:51 a.m., Marla Vijaya kumar via Marxism wrote: POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The ruling BJP in India and its parental Fascist outfit RSS, have been on an ideological overdrive since 2014 when they came to power. Their pet theory was that Hinduism was the dominating world religion for the last 50 thousand years or 100 thousand years as you please. Lord Ram had ruled the whole globe for 10 thousand years and his ruling period was the golden age of the world, unsurpassed since then. India is the land where Aryans had emerged and they had spread throughout the world, educating the barbarians. (It does not matter that latest genetic research by many labs, including the Harvard Medical School had ruled out any major migrations out of India, thousands of years ago. RSS had declared that Western science and especially genetic research is fake and only the genetics propounded in the Vedas (?) is authentic). India had flying machines, intergalactic travel and nuclear weapons since antiquity. The technology was stolen by the West and they had built rockets and atom bombs (they quote Oppenheimer to assert this). Ancient India had test tube babies and plastic surgery. A baby elephant's head was transplanted on Ganesha using plastic surgery. This , according to them is the indisputable proof. Modi himself had asserted in a previous Indian Science Congress, inviting ridicule and scorn from Indians and the world scientific community. A minister in Modi's cabinet had claimed that Darwin's theory is wrong as no one, not even his grandfather had ever seen men emerging out of monkeys. He had confidently declared that Darwin is wrong! And he says that the Holy Vedas had declared so. Queried by journalists to reveal which stanza of Rigveda or any other Holy book mentions this fact, he thundered, "it is for you, ignorant fellows to find that out!" Another state chief minister had declared that pen drives were found in archaeological ruins. His proof: there is a boulder with a protrusion that vaguely resembles as USB port. His claim is that ancient India had super computers (take it with a pinch of salt: with boulder sized USB drives). A prominent Indian scientist, Prof. Jayant Narlikar, who was a student of Fred Hoyle asked the Hindu fanatics to show him proof that Ancient India had knowledge of electro-magnets, without which neither atom bombs, nor space ships nor computers are possible. There was no answer from these "learned men." One might brush off these rantings as religious fanaticism, but there is a clear political agenda behind all this. By declaring that Hindu religion is tens of thousands of years old, they deny that the Indus Civilisation is non-Aryan. All Indians are descendants of Aryan races and the existence of Dravidians is a myth propagated by the West. According to them, BJP and RSS are the torch bearers of HINDUTVA or the essence of Hinduism. Since Aryans and their Vedic Religion are born here in India, all other religions are imports from outside. So India is the land of Hindus and others have to either convert to Hinduism or face expulsion from the country. This has successfully rallied many Hindus, believing that RSS and BJP will bring back the past glory of Hinduism. This trump card, they try to use every time the country faces an election. Modi had brought down India economy to new lows during his tenure. His Currency withdrawal, Goods and Services Tax etc, have damaged the economy. Nearly 12.5 million jobs are lost with the economy in slump. His open corruption in the case of buying of French Jets (the Rafale) had caused considerable damage to his claim that he is running a corruption free administration. The details of the defence deal reveal that his close associates were benefited to the extent of hundreds of millions of Indian Rupees. Indian farmers are on a warpath with agriculture getting impossible for millions of poor farmers across the country. nearly 350 thousand farmers had committed suicides by drinking pesticides, finding no way to pay off their debts. There was enough proof that many businessmen close to Modi had cheated the Indian Government Banks to the tune of billions of Rupees and some of escaped out of the country.Modi promised 20 million new jobs every
[Marxism] The logic behind the rhetoric
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The ruling BJP in India and its parental Fascist outfit RSS, have been on an ideological overdrive since 2014 when they came to power. Their pet theory was that Hinduism was the dominating world religion for the last 50 thousand years or 100 thousand years as you please. Lord Ram had ruled the whole globe for 10 thousand years and his ruling period was the golden age of the world, unsurpassed since then. India is the land where Aryans had emerged and they had spread throughout the world, educating the barbarians. (It does not matter that latest genetic research by many labs, including the Harvard Medical School had ruled out any major migrations out of India, thousands of years ago. RSS had declared that Western science and especially genetic research is fake and only the genetics propounded in the Vedas (?) is authentic). India had flying machines, intergalactic travel and nuclear weapons since antiquity. The technology was stolen by the West and they had built rockets and atom bombs (they quote Oppenheimer to assert this). Ancient India had test tube babies and plastic surgery. A baby elephant's head was transplanted on Ganesha using plastic surgery. This , according to them is the indisputable proof. Modi himself had asserted in a previous Indian Science Congress, inviting ridicule and scorn from Indians and the world scientific community. A minister in Modi's cabinet had claimed that Darwin's theory is wrong as no one, not even his grandfather had ever seen men emerging out of monkeys. He had confidently declared that Darwin is wrong! And he says that the Holy Vedas had declared so. Queried by journalists to reveal which stanza of Rigveda or any other Holy book mentions this fact, he thundered, "it is for you, ignorant fellows to find that out!" Another state chief minister had declared that pen drives were found in archaeological ruins. His proof: there is a boulder with a protrusion that vaguely resembles as USB port. His claim is that ancient India had super computers (take it with a pinch of salt: with boulder sized USB drives). A prominent Indian scientist, Prof. Jayant Narlikar, who was a student of Fred Hoyle asked the Hindu fanatics to show him proof that Ancient India had knowledge of electro-magnets, without which neither atom bombs, nor space ships nor computers are possible. There was no answer from these "learned men." One might brush off these rantings as religious fanaticism, but there is a clear political agenda behind all this. By declaring that Hindu religion is tens of thousands of years old, they deny that the Indus Civilisation is non-Aryan. All Indians are descendants of Aryan races and the existence of Dravidians is a myth propagated by the West. According to them, BJP and RSS are the torch bearers of HINDUTVA or the essence of Hinduism. Since Aryans and their Vedic Religion are born here in India, all other religions are imports from outside. So India is the land of Hindus and others have to either convert to Hinduism or face expulsion from the country. This has successfully rallied many Hindus, believing that RSS and BJP will bring back the past glory of Hinduism. This trump card, they try to use every time the country faces an election. Modi had brought down India economy to new lows during his tenure. His Currency withdrawal, Goods and Services Tax etc, have damaged the economy. Nearly 12.5 million jobs are lost with the economy in slump. His open corruption in the case of buying of French Jets (the Rafale) had caused considerable damage to his claim that he is running a corruption free administration. The details of the defence deal reveal that his close associates were benefited to the extent of hundreds of millions of Indian Rupees. Indian farmers are on a warpath with agriculture getting impossible for millions of poor farmers across the country. nearly 350 thousand farmers had committed suicides by drinking pesticides, finding no way to pay off their debts. There was enough proof that many businessmen close to Modi had cheated the Indian Government Banks to the tune of billions of Rupees and some of escaped out of the country.Modi promised 20 million new jobs every year, but the employment potential in the country is showing a consistent negative trend. Unemployment is at an alarming high. In this background, the best weapon available to the Hindu supremacists is to create and circulate concocted stories about the glory of Hinduism and thus garner the votes of 84% of the electorate, who are Hindus. But it is to be seen whether religion is stronger than hunger. Modi's ruling BJP had faced humiliating de
[Marxism] Frozen as the Oceans Rise: On “We’re Doomed. Now What?” - Los Angeles Review of Books
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[Marxism] Kafka’s Last Trial by Benjamin Balint review – long battle over a literary legacy | Books | The Guardian
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * And Theodor Adorno was right to insist that he was not “a poet of the Judaic homeland”. Indeed, one of the themes running throughout Benjamin Balint’s fascinating and forensically scrupulous account of the history of Kafka’s papers is the writer’s deeply ambiguous relationship – if it can even be called that – with Israel, or, as it still was in his time, Palestine. While Brod, a typical Mitteleuropean man of letters, “came,” according to the journalist and Zionist Robert Weltsch, “to complete identification with the Jewish people”, Kafka maintained a sceptical attitude on the “Jewish question”, both in the personal and the public spheres. “What have I in common with the Jews?” he asks in his diary, adding with typically lugubrious humour, “I have hardly anything in common with myself.” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/05/kafka-last-trial-benjamin-balint-review _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Open Letter: Great Tasks demand Great Initiative!
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