Re: [Marxism] It's leftism or Zionism - you can't have both - Opinion - Israel News | Haaretz.com

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The JVP statement has gotten too much fanfare if anything:

https://mondoweiss.net/2019/01/rejection-imperialism-criticism/

JVP's statement is contradictory. They say they reject Zionism but then
repeatedly imply that they have some kind of connection to Israel as Jews.
The entire organizing model is about Jewish people having a special right,
as Jews, to talk about Israel/Palestine (note:JVP is entirely based in
America) -- almost, as if to imply, that Jews form some sort of singular
national group??

If anything their org is a critical, dissenting extension of Zionism, not
an opponent. Like, really really liberal Zionism.

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> >
> https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-it-s-leftism-or-zionism-you-can-t-have-both-1.6914579
> <
> https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-it-s-leftism-or-zionism-you-can-t-have-both-1.6914579
> >
>
>
> JVP recently came out as officially anti-Zionist:
>
> Jewish Voice for Peace’s announcement that it opposes Zionism, published
> quietly on its website earlier this month, has thus far come and gone
> without much fanfare or public attention. It simply wasn’t surprising for
> many.
>
> “This doesn’t change anything about our focus or our political analysis,”
> JVP’s executive director, Rebecca Vilkomerson says, explaining that the
> change is not a huge departure for the organization in either practice or
> principle. “It just names something that hasn’t been named before.”
>
> Naming, however, can have powerful repercussions. Just a few days after
> the statement went up on JVP’s website, an umbrella group of Jewish
> organizations in Boston voted to expel any of its members who partner with
> anti-Zionist Jewish groups.
>
> https://972mag.com/jvp-anti-zionist-rebecca-vilkomerson-2/139912/
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Re: [Marxism] It's leftism or Zionism - you can't have both - Opinion - Israel News | Haaretz.com

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Comrades should be aware of Bret Stephens's vicious attack on the 
anti-Zionist left in yesterday's NYT:


The Progressive Assault on Israel

A movement that can detect a racist dog-whistle from miles away is 
strangely deaf when it comes to some of the barking on its own side of 
the fence.


full: 
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/opinion/sunday/israel-progressive-anti-semitism.html


Ordinarily, I ignore this schmuck but I couldn't help Tweeting at 
@BretStephensNYT, @nytopinion:


Israelis are voting with their feet. 10% of the people in my high-rise 
speak Hebrew, none wear yarmulkes. Soon Israel will consist mostly of 
Meier Kahane wannabes and Bret Stephens will be their mouthpiece. That's 
Zionism in 2019.


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Re: [Marxism] It's leftism or Zionism - you can't have both - Opinion - Israel News | Haaretz.com

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> On Feb 8, 2019, at 1:16 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
>  wrote:
> 
> https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-it-s-leftism-or-zionism-you-can-t-have-both-1.6914579
>  
> 


JVP recently came out as officially anti-Zionist:

Jewish Voice for Peace’s announcement that it opposes Zionism, published 
quietly on its website earlier this month, has thus far come and gone without 
much fanfare or public attention. It simply wasn’t surprising for many.

“This doesn’t change anything about our focus or our political analysis,” JVP’s 
executive director, Rebecca Vilkomerson says, explaining that the change is not 
a huge departure for the organization in either practice or principle. “It just 
names something that hasn’t been named before.”

Naming, however, can have powerful repercussions. Just a few days after the 
statement went up on JVP’s website, an umbrella group of Jewish organizations 
in Boston voted to expel any of its members who partner with anti-Zionist 
Jewish groups.

https://972mag.com/jvp-anti-zionist-rebecca-vilkomerson-2/139912/

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[Marxism] Socialists and the fight for democracy in Venezuela - International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

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[Marxism] A Tidal Wave of Mud - The New York Times

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Luiz de Castro was installing lamps at a mining complex in Brazil late 
last month when a loud blast split the air. He figured it was just a 
truck tire popping, but a friend knew better.


“No, it’s not that!” the friend said. “Run!”

Dashing up a staircase, caked in mud and pelted by flying rocks, Mr. 
Castro clambered to safety. But as he watched, a wall of mud unleashed 
by the collapse of a mining dam swallowed his co-workers, he said. 
Tiago, George, Icaro — they and at least 154 others, all buried alive.


The deluge of toxic mud stretched for five miles, crushing homes, 
offices and people — a tragedy, but hardly a surprise, experts say.



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[Marxism] Kleptocracy Is on the Rise in America - The Atlantic

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[Marxism] Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (The Modern Jewish Experience) - Kindle edition by Elissa Bemporad. Politics

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Re: [Marxism] It's leftism or Zionism - you can't have both - Opinion - Israel News | Haaretz.com

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> On Feb 9, 2019, at 1:29 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
>  wrote:
> 
> Comrades should be aware of Bret Stephens's vicious attack on the 
> anti-Zionist left in yesterday's NYT:

Mondoweiss has published a response to Stephens:

“Thank you Bret Stephens, for making anti-Zionism a subject for every dinner 
table, and BDS a household word” 

https://mondoweiss.net/2019/02/stephens-subject-household/

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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Asia]: Sidhu on Paliwal, 'My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal'

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Best regards,
Andrew Stewart 

Begin forwarded message:

> From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW 
> Date: February 10, 2019 at 6:50:44 PM EST
> To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org
> Cc: H-Net Staff 
> Subject: H-Net Review [H-Asia]:  Sidhu on Paliwal, 'My Enemy's Enemy: India 
> in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal'
> Reply-To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org
> 
> Avinash Paliwal.  My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the 
> Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal.  Oxford  Oxford University 
> Press, 2017.  400 pp.  $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-068582-9.
> 
> Reviewed by Waheguru Sidhu (New York University)
> Published on H-Asia (February, 2019)
> Commissioned by Sumit Guha
> 
> Sidhu on Paliwal, _India and Afghanistan_
> 
> The revealed limitations of the explicatory and predictive capacities 
> of traditional international relations theories and research tools 
> have spawned a host of innovative approaches to address their 
> lacunae. Among them is the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), 
> propounded by Paul Sabatier and Hank Jenkins-Smith in the late 1980s, 
> to enhance theoretical and methodological tools to study the process 
> of policy formulation: "The ACF has three principal theoretical 
> domains: advocacy coalitions, policy subsystems, and policy change. 
> The ACF posits that advocacy coalitions and policy subsystems are the 
> most efficient way to organize actors interested in the policy 
> process for empirical research."[1] ACF is premised on the notion 
> that belief systems are the primary drivers for those engaged in 
> policymaking. The belief system itself has three tiers: core beliefs 
> (which are fundamental, broad, and--derived from social conditioning 
> that determines values--difficult to change); policy core beliefs 
> (which are more specific and--refer to the application of core 
> beliefs to the policy realm--are also difficult to change); and 
> secondary beliefs (which are related to the minutiae of policy 
> implementation and--based on learning--are subject to change). Thus, 
> advocacy coalitions are collections of individuals who share a common 
> belief system. In turn, these coalitions compete with each other to 
> determine policy in official and bureaucratic subsystems. It is this 
> contestation among coalitions, coupled with external events, that 
> prompts policy change over a long period.[2] 
> 
> Using the ACF crutch unquestioningly and superficially, journalist 
> turned scholar Avinash Paliwal examines one of the most understudied 
> aspects of India's foreign policy: the "kaleidoscopic quality" of its 
> approach towards Afghanistan from the time the Soviets marched into 
> the graveyard of empires in December 1979 until the US decision to 
> march out of it nearly four decades later. It was in Afghanistan that 
> India's determination to keep the Cold War out of the region failed 
> spectacularly when the Soviets arrived on South Asia's doorstep; yet 
> New Delhi not only acquiesced to the Soviet presence but dutifully 
> supported the various Moscow-backed puppet regimes in Kabul. It was 
> the Soviet presence in Afghanistan that cemented the US-Pakistan 
> strategic alliance, gave cover for Islamabad's covert nuclear weapon 
> capability, and changed India's security scenario for the worse. It 
> was in Afghanistan that India, despite being then led by a hard-line 
> nationalist coalition, had to surrender humiliatingly to the 
> hijackers of Indian Airlines IC-814 in 1999. And, following the 
> events of 9/11, it was in Afghanistan that India welcomed the 
> continued presence of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization-led 
> International Security Assistance Force, despite its avowed aversion 
> to military alliances operating in its neighborhood. By delving into 
> detail of these and other complex developments Paliwal's book makes a 
> valiant effort to provide a coherent narrative of Indian 
> policymaking, even when it was not discernable to most Afghans and 
> other external observers. 
> 
> With a perfunctory nod to the ACF framework Paliwal identifies two 
> advocacy coalitions seeking to dominate India's Afghan policy. The 
> "partisans" are policymakers whose approach to Afghanistan is 
> centered on "necessarily treating Pakistan as an enemy, or is not 
> accommodative of Pakistani interests in Afghanistan" (p. 19). This 
> group considers all Afghan factions opposed to Islamabad as "natural 
> allies," while it promotes a "'containment' policy vis-a-vis 
> pro-Pakistan factions" (p.12). 
> 
> In contrast, "conciliators" are policymakers who "gravitate towards 
> the 'engage-with-all' axiom, however difficult it 

[Marxism] A Left-Wing History of the Republican Party - COSMONAUT

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https://cosmonaut.blog/2019/02/10/a-left-wing-history-of-the-republican-party/
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[Marxism] Stephen Colbert and 'Saturday Night Live's' mockery only makes Trump stronger - Los Angeles Times

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[Marxism] Venezuela Defines the Future of the Region

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The struggle for Venezuela will decide the destiny of Latin America, 
argues Claudio Katz. We must recognise global Right's hypocrisy in its 
attempts to topple Maduro. But it doesn't act alone: similar forces are 
alive inside a government that has failed to counteract economic collapse.


https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4235-venezuela-defines-the-future-of-the-region
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[Marxism] How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should have answered Chuck Todd’s question about whether a socialist can be a capitalist | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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On Friday night, Chuck Todd interviewed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the 
Meet the Press Daily show on MSNBC. Like most of the people with shows 
on MSNBC, Todd identifies with the Democratic Party leadership and would 
tend to tougher with someone like Bernie Sanders or Ocasio-Cortez than 
Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton. The interview has generated more than the 
usual interest since Todd asked her if a democratic socialist can be a 
capitalist, which is an absurd question since it mixes apples and 
oranges. A democratic socialist is a politician while a capitalist is 
someone who is belongs to a class defined by its relationship to the 
means of production. Much of the interview has the two working at 
cross-purposes but it is worth watching since it gets to the heart of 
Ocasio-Cortez’s core beliefs and implicitly those on the left who nod 
approvingly of her and Sanders’s self-identification as socialists.


We should start off by acknowledging that her supporters in the DSA are 
much further to the left and would not offer the kind of circumlocutions 
she puts forward if they were being interviewed. DSA websites are filled 
with proclamations about the need to abolish private property and 
produce on the basis of human need. In this sense, they are the 
continuation of major Social Democratic parties that insisted on the 
need for a classless society even if their modus operandi was based on 
class-collaboration. With Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez, you get something 
different. Their idea of socialism is Sweden under Olof Palme while Olof 
Palme’s idea was something much closer to the Jacobin editorial board, 
especially given their affinity with the Meidner Plan that hoped to 
gradually increase the percentage of corporate shares owned by workers 
until the boss was eased out. Instead, it was the Meidner plan that was 
eased out in Sweden.


full: 
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Re: [Marxism] A Green New Deal Is the First Step Toward an Eco-Revolution

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It seems to me a very good first step in terms of getting climate change on
the agenda . . . as with health care, wealth inequality, etc.  Sure, I'd
rather the independent Left be doing it, but it seems to have not known how
to do so.  Thus, we struck with what has been able to get those issues on
the agenda--a bevy of new Democratic Congresswomen who have gotten down to
addressing serious questions in the middle of the silliest political
atmosphere in recent American political history.

I think it's useful to see this as an essential step.

I mean, we have always known that the first mass response when these issues
surfaced on the grand scale was that voters would look to the Democratic
party for relief.  This is something through which we are destined to
pass.  *No amount of repeated denunciations of this course is going to make
this phase shorter or less painful*.  Indeed, watching the Democratic
experience with those good "reasonable" candidates that don't scare the
"moderate" voters is playing out in Virginia . . . and will continue to do
so.  And, at some point, Shumer and Pelosi will present the new members of
Congress (and their many, many followers) with an ultimatum or a series of
ultimatums.

That will be the signal for us to have some useful advice and initiatives,
where possible.

Of course, we wanted to have positioned ourselves to have a more serious
influence on these things, the various kibbles and bits of the far left
could have started cooperative efforts to launch independent electoral
interventions . . . or done it through the Greens or some other such
vehicle.  Given that this did not happen--and doesn't look very likely to
happen now--we are left to buckle up and ride out this period.

Cheers,
Mark L.
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[Marxism] Nan Goldin Leads a Protest at the Guggenheim Against the Sackler Family | The New Yorker

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[Marxism] Genocide in the "New World" caused global cooling

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A fascinating (and horrifying) article. It claims that Europeans were
responsible for the death of some 90% of the human inhabitants of the
Americas after Columbus arrived here. This virtual elimination of the human
population led to reforestation of previously farmed lands as well as of
the huge cities that had existed. The result was increased absorption of
CO2 and the subsequent "little ice age", according to these authors.

https://www.businessinsider.com/climate-changed-after-europeans-killed-indigenous-americans-2019-2?fbclid=IwAR2JNhfxGzGYUAbP5rDwwwXpBqZxHmBxEByBjvLPUmm6vAWTENs43VeO7Ag_campaign=buffer_content=buffer3a0b0_medium=social_source=facebook.com

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Re: [Marxism] It's leftism or Zionism - you can't have both - Opinion - Israel News | Haaretz.com

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Indeed, though I think even that's an overstatement when considering how
even unofficially most of their members have opposed Zionism since the
beginning. So even the evolution is minimal.

On Sat, Feb 9, 2019, 12:15 PM MM  wrote:

> On Feb 9, 2019, at 12:11 PM, A.R. G  wrote:
>
> The JVP statement has gotten too much fanfare if anything:
>
> https://mondoweiss.net/2019/01/rejection-imperialism-criticism/
>
>
> Offered as a sign of how the politics are evolving, not for endorsement.
>
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[Marxism] Renewed Labour | Issue 33 | n+1

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(Interesting how close Corbynites and Sandernistas are to each other 
ideologically. Will be writing something about A. O-C's interview with 
Chuck Todd tomorrow. It is no wonder Bhaskar Sunkara gobbled up the 
Tribune. It helps consolidate the social democratic (democratic 
socialist, if you prefer, left. Smooth operators.)


McDonnell has broken a pre-2008 taboo by naming the system and calling 
it a problem, but transforming capitalism doesn’t sound the same as 
overthrowing it. Especially since the Brexit vote and the anxiety it 
generated, McDonnell has positioned himself as the “long-term” planner 
to end the rickety years of capitalist fundamentalism. Years of 
divesting from the state has paid poor dividends: failing 
infrastructure, an undereducated workforce, and measly aggregate demand. 
“Jeremy Corbyn and I are the stabilizers of capitalism,” he has 
proclaimed, echoing the claim Yanis Varoufakis once made for the role of 
the left in our moment.


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[Marxism] Trade Union Fears Brexit Disruption

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Report: Trade Union Fears Brexit Disruption
https://www.porttechnology.org/news/report_trade_union_fears_brexit_disruption

In January 2019, shipping company P also announced that it would reflag its 
fleet of short sea vessels to EU member state Cyprus amidst Brexit uncertainty.

In addition to reflagging its vessels, Maersk has confirmed that it will stop 
admitting cadets from the UK, following a decrease in demand for Junior 
Officers and the implementation of a new manning structure.


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[Marxism] The Green New Deal and changing America | Michael Roberts Blog

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It seems now very opportune that I recently posted three times on my 
blog my views on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), an increasingly 
attractive theory for the left to justify government spending to meet 
the ‘needs of the many’.  For just this week, left Democrats in the US 
Congress, led by the rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), a 
member of Democratic Socialists of America, launched what they call the 
Green New Deal (GND), an alternative programme for a future US 
government to adopt to provide proper public services in education and 
health and to deal with global warming and environmental pollution.  And 
the GND and AOC make clear that funding for these badly needed 
government programmes can be achieved if we follow the policy 
conclusions of MMT.


full: 
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/the-green-new-deal-and-changing-america/

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[Marxism] ZCommunications » Global Economy on the Brink

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By Jack Rasmus

Becoming real as well is evidence of emerging defaults, a critical phase 
that typically follows asset markets’ decline and slowing profits. In 
the US there’s the Sears default, with JCPenney in the wings. And the 
giant corporation, once the largest in the world, the General Electric 
Corp., slouching toward default. Its global profits slowing and stock 
price imploding, GE is now desperately selling off its best assets to 
raise cash to pay its excess debt. It’s not alone. Scores of energy 
companies involved in US shale oil and gas production are teetering on 
the brink.  In Europe, there’s deepening troubles at Deutschebank, and 
just about all the Italian banks, and UBS in Switzerland, and the Greek 
banks.  In Japan, there’s trillions of dollars in non-performing bank 
loans as well, which Japan’s central bank continues to cover up. And 
then there’s China, with more than $5 trillion in bad loans held by 
local governments, by shadow bankers, and by its state owned enterprises 
that the China central bank and government keep bailing out by issuing 
‘trusted loans’ (i.e. equivalent of junk bonds in US).



full: https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/global-economy-on-the-brink/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Debs project...back in the saddle. Volume 1 due out on Feb 22.

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[Volume 1, *Building Solidarity on the Tracks, 1877-1892, *is due out in 10
days, Feb. 19 from Haymarket. Volume 2, The Selected Works of Eugene V.
Debs Volume, t*he Rise and Fall of the ARU, (1892-1896*) will be out in
August or September of this year and Volume 3, *Path to a Socialist Party,
1897-1904*) we think will be out by January of next year.--DW]

This marks the beginning of the third year of the Debs project.

By now I have the preparation cycle pretty well figured out, kicking off
research the first week of February and getting into final compilation and
writing mode around the first of August.

As I write this I am in a weird place with the project — Volume 1 (*Building
Solidarity on the Tracks, 1877-1892*) is still at the printer; Volume 2 (*The
Rise and Fall of the ARU, 1892-1896*) is heading for indexing; Volume 3 (*Path
to a Socialist Party, 1897-1904*) has an introduction that is still being
futzed with… Now here I am simultaneously ready to kick off research and
article transcription for the fourth volume, tentatively titled *Red Union,
Red Paper, Red Train, 1905-1910.*

It seems a little bit scattered having four 750-page books happening at
once, eh?



*Gene Debs the Subject of New Documentary Film: *Other aspects of the
political story [in the film] are overdrawn or wrong, including an
over-association of Debs with the Industrial Workers of the World (to the
extent of ignoring his endorsement of the anti-syndicalist reaction in the
Socialist Party in 1913), a complete failure to mention or explain his 1916
Congressional run, as well as howling errors such as calling defrocked
Socialist Congressman Victor L. Berger a pro-WWI “jingoist,” pronouncing
the name of Debs’ French-Alsatian father Jean as “JEEN,” and misspelling
and mispronouncing the name of Attorney General Harry Daugherty as
“Daughtery.” Such errors should not happen in a documentary of this scale.

Full: https://debsproject.org/2019/02/09/back-in-the-harness-19-01/
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[Marxism] Britain's impossible futures, by Paul Mason (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, February 2019)

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The UK parliament is at an impasse, the latest vote producing a majority 
for a renegotiation of its departure from Europe that the EU cannot 
grant. Both main parties risk fracture. So does the UK.


https://mondediplo.com/2019/02/01brexit
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[Marxism] Is there space for a new centre party? | Richard Seymour on Patreon

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[Marxism] Socialism and exploitation | David Ruccio | MR Online

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