[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-FedHist]: Keefer on Collea, 'New York and the Lincoln Specials: The President's Pre-inaugural and Funeral Trains Cross the Empire State'
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 via H-REVIEW Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 1:46 PM Subject: H-Net Review [H-FedHist]: Keefer on Collea, 'New York and the Lincoln Specials: The President's Pre-inaugural and Funeral Trains Cross the Empire State' To: Cc: H-Net Staff Joseph D. Collea. New York and the Lincoln Specials: The President's Pre-inaugural and Funeral Trains Cross the Empire State. Jefferson McFarland, 2018. 225 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-7075-1. Reviewed by Bradley Keefer (Kent State University - Ashtabula) Published on H-FedHist (February, 2019) Commissioned by Caryn E. Neumann One of the overlooked elements in the study of Abraham Lincoln's presidency may be his connection to trains. During the Civil War, railroads shipped manufactured goods, troops, livestock, and munitions across the country to assist in bringing about a Union victory. In peacetime, the extensive rail network connected small towns with big cities and brought prosperity to many regions, including central New York. Thus, it was appropriate that during the secession winter of 1861, the president-elect traversed the Empire State by rail on his way to Washington to take office. Ironically, the funeral train carrying his body back to Springfield, Illinois, reversed this route in the spring of 1865. In _New York and the Lincoln Specials_, Joseph Collea traces the importance and impact of those journeys in an engaging narrative aimed at a broad spectrum of readers. It is rare to find a single volume that appeals to so many interests. In one regard it is a travelogue of nineteenth-century New York, in which towns, countryside's, and a myriad of citizens come into view from many perspectives. The author utilizes newspaper accounts, personal observations, and official documents to describe the receptions that Lincoln's party received in communities from Buffalo to New York City. Among these details are glimpses of local landmarks, natural wonders, and references to notable people and events past, present, and future. In many ways, it feels as if the inaugural party navigated a half-century of New York's history and culture during the trip's thirteen days. For railroad enthusiasts, there are details about engines, cars, trestles, stations, and roundhouses that create a picture of a booming, innovative, and pioneering industry. During both presidential journeys, folks in whistle-stops opened their pocketbooks and tapped local resources to build speaking platforms, manage overflow crowds, and coordinate with railroad officials to keep deadlines and maximize safety. The details of the funeral train and the logistics of Lincoln's solemn journey home are well documented, as functionaries from the secretary of war down to the officers in municipal police departments all scrambled to patch together a dignified last goodbye to the slain president. Above all, this is a tribute to Lincoln; or rather, an acknowledgment of the effect that the man had on people, before and after his tragic death. Collea writes vividly of the emotional crowds, brass bands, flowery speeches, shuffling reception lines, and carefully coordinated pageantry of his triumphant entrance and gut-wrenching exit from the national stage. The sense of déjà vu is unavoidable as quoted introductions, tributes, and the president-elect's short, homey speeches are repeated in one town newspaper after the other. Yet, the redux of similar scenes reflects what it must have been like for the participants themselves, whose thrill or sorrow were often mitigated by pickpockets, excessive cold, pouring rain, botched logistics, crushing crowds, racial and gender discrimination, or Lincoln's weary (on the incoming trip) or morbidly deteriorating (on the outgoing journey) physical condition. While not a scholarly monograph, the book successfully analyzes the political implications of Lincoln's pre-inaugural interactions with both his enthusiastic supporters and skeptical Democratic opponents in places like Albany and New York City. While critical of the incoming president's hackneyed and non-political utterances at numerous stops, Collea concedes that Lincoln's simple desire to be seen by the electorate was a legitimate goal, though he happily contrasts it with more dynamic efforts by the lesser-known vice-president-elect, Hannibal Hamlin. Throughout the story, the author effectively illustrates the widespread fascination with public figures in general, and Abraham Lincoln in particular, using rail travel as his framework. The author's energetic, insightful, and often clever writing is augmented by appropriate illustrations and an
Re: [Marxism] The AnftiFa Antimonies, Part 3 | 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. * Actually, you are spot on...the lack of coherence and strategy is what I most harp on when I talk to people who bloc up as antifa. But dumbass assumptions about how they are (white kids from suburbs, etc) are jut uniformed. The problem to me is that strategies and tactics must be in the context of theory and theories within a greater philosophy, then the correct strategies and tactics can be discerned, and the techniques and skills needed can be learned. There is nothing like this in most formations, they tend to focus almost exclusively on tactics. This is a critical and crucial error. Add to that, most eschew the Gramscian war of position and know little about Clausewitz, and you have the situation they find themselves in, reacting to symptoms instead of analyzing the circumstances, past and present in according to theory, to reach possible actions and directions to follow. Add to this, far too little about political education (however, you might understand that), and you have (just some) of the dilemma's that surround those you term, "antifa". On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 8:08 PM Mark Lause wrote: > The muddle that is Antifa's "organization" seems to reflect the obvious > lack of coherence around a strategy. So much so that Brother Masko can > only make assertions about who they are and how they feel . . . and not why > they do what they do or what they aspire to achieve. > > Anyone else remember the schoolteacher in "All Quiet on the Western > Front"? He urged others to put themselves at risk, while he himself was > not going to join them or even to explain why they should do so. > > > -- J.A. Masko "The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned." Antonio Gramsci. _ 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] The AnftiFa Antimonies, Part 3 | 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. * The muddle that is Antifa's "organization" seems to reflect the obvious lack of coherence around a strategy. So much so that Brother Masko can only make assertions about who they are and how they feel . . . and not why they do what they do or what they aspire to achieve. Anyone else remember the schoolteacher in "All Quiet on the Western Front"? He urged others to put themselves at risk, while he himself was not going to join them or even to explain why they should do so. _ 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] Oakland teachers strike, day 3
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 short video of the third day of the Oakland teachers strike. https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/02/26/oakland-teachers-strike-day-3/ -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _ 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] NDTV Defence Editor reports Indian air strikes on Pakistan
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[Marxism] The interview Fox refused to air revives issue of media ownership: Don Pittis | CBC News
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[Marxism] Charles Glass writes an obituary for the revolution he helped to kill | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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. * For the past 8 years, the quantity of pro-Assad propaganda has been oceanic. Even after his obvious military victory, some of his publicists continue to repeat the talking points they have made since 2011. Among them is Charles Glass, who has articles in the prestigious February 2019 Harpers magazine and the most recent NY Review of Books that pay lip-service to the reality that the country is ruled by a dictator. Clearly, liberal magazines would hold someone like Vanessa Beeley at arm’s length but put down the welcome mat for someone like Glass who was ABC News chief Middle East correspondent from 1983–93 and never be caught dead writing obvious regime propaganda. Recently, Verso Books published his Syria Burning: A Short History that will be a companion piece to their publication of arch-Assadist Max Blumenthal’s The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS and Donald Trump. Given Tariq Ali’s long-standing affinity for the butcher of Damascus, it is not surprising that such books are being foisted on an unsuspecting public. full: https://louisproyect.org/2019/02/25/charles-glass-writes-an-obituary-for-the-revolution-he-helped-to-kill/ _ 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] The Political Repression of the Radical Left in Russian Occupied Crimea – Кампнія Солідарності з Україною
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. * Russia’s annexation of Crimea was purportedly an exercise in free political expression, a watershed moment in history when a historic part of Russia returned to the motherland against the backdrop of a fascist putsch in Ukraine. Indeed, Crimea’s “reunification” (in Kremlin lingo) with Russia was sold, at least in part, as a humanitarian operation to restore order, secure Russia’s strategic interests, and protect the rights of Russians in Crimea. And while no one can deny that Russia did indeed protect its strategic interests (e.g. Black Sea naval fleet), the claim that Crimea’s return to Russia brought political freedoms is tenuous at best. Russian media may portray Crimea as a tranquil and politically free region of the Russian Federation, but the reality is that serious political repression of leftists is ongoing there. And there is barely a whisper about it in international media, even among the radical left. https://ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/2019/02/25/the-political-repression-of-the-radical-left-in-russian-occupied-crimea/ _ 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] The AnftiFa Antimonies, Part 3 | 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. * Ok, so you're not interested in discussion. Thanks for clearing that up. On Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 2:41 PM Jeffrey Masko via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> 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. > * > > Sorry to bother the collective buttlicking of idiots like Chris Hedges, you > can continue your dogpiling now as it is clear none of you are interested > in engaging those who believe in antifa tactics. Btw, I don't overall, but > have and continue to work with those that do, in order, to one- find out > what they really think aside from what people say they think or stand for- > and two, in order to not further alienate young organizers and activists by > curt, snobbish and uninformed opinions based on limited experience. > Moreover, it seems most how post on this list are more concerned about > their version of what the left is or should be and not with what is > actually happening. And folks wonder why they are being regarded as > dinosaurs. Good luck with that. > > Direct questions? To the best of my ability since I would never term myself > antifa. > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/markalause%40gmail.com > _ 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] Bezos F****ing version of the Green New Deal
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 2/25/19 2:48 PM, Mike Sola via Marxism wrote: firewalled Want a Green New Deal? Here’s a better one. By Editorial Board February 24 at 2:47 PM WE FAVOR a Green New Deal to save the planet. We believe such a plan can be efficient, effective, focused and achievable. The Green New Deal proposed by congressional Democrats does not meet that test. Its proponents, led by Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), are right to call for ambition and bold action. They are right that the entire energy sector must be reshaped. But the goal is so fundamental that policymakers should focus above all else on quickly and efficiently decarbonizing. They should not muddle this aspiration with other social policy, such as creating a federal jobs guarantee, no matter how desirable that policy might be. And the goal is so monumental that the country cannot afford to waste dollars in its pursuit. If the market can redirect spending most efficiently, money should not be misallocated on vast new government spending or mandates. In this series of editorials, we propose our own Green New Deal. It relies both on smart government intervention — and on transforming the relentless power of the market from an obstacle to a centerpiece of the solution. To glimpse what we mean, take a brief trip with us to Dominion Energy’s Cove Point plant on the Chesapeake Bay’s western shore. Giant natural-gas storage tanks offer a warning of how the U.S. government must step up its efforts to combat global warming — but also of how environmentalists and politicians who claim to know how to do that are generally unable to predict how technology and practice will develop. The plant is a reminder that big change is far easier when you get the market to work with you, rather than against you. Huge ships used to bring liquefied natural gas from overseas, weigh anchor a mile offshore and pipe their cargo into the tanks at Cove Point. Then fracking unlocked vast amounts of cheap U.S. gas, turning the country from net importer to net exporter. Now ships wait offshore to receive U.S. liquefied natural gas for export to Asia. As he celebrated the facility’s shipments to Japan in Yokohama last June, Dominion Chief Executive Officer Thomas Farrell boasted that the United States has perhaps 200 years’ worth of obtainable natural gas that “we will be exporting toward our allies across the world for decades and decades.” To some, Cove Point is evidence that unhindered economic growth enables environmental stewardship. U.S. natural gas is far less damaging to the environment than coal. It has become so cheap that it is displacing coal in electricity generation, driving down emissions. To others, Cove Point is an environmental catastrophe. Natural gas is still a fossil fuel, and burning it releases lots of greenhouse-gas emissions, which cause climate change. Both arguments are right. Natural gas’s displacement of carbon-rich, toxic coal as the country’s top electric fuel source would have seemed a preposterous dream just a decade ago. It has come about with no government mandate and while saving consumers money. When the market demands an outcome, things change fast. But even substantial reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions in the long term will not be enough to head off catastrophic climate change. The transition from coal to natural gas has been beneficial. But society must eliminate its carbon dependency. It cannot burn vast amounts of any fossil fuel for “decades and decades,” as Mr. Farrell hopes, unless there is a revolution in emissions capture technology. Even in the short term, U.S. emissions are rising, despite the restraint that stepped-up natural-gas burning has provided. The government must demand more change, more quickly. Putting the planet first requires accepting both insights. The government should insist on cutting emissions but, to the largest extent possible, decline to dictate how, instead setting incentives and standards that unleash public and private effort. Carbon pricing can do a lot — but not everything ASK PRACTICALLY any climate scientist whether humanity must cut greenhouse-gas emissions, and you get an emphatic yes. Ask practically any economist how to do that as cheaply as possible, and the answer is equally emphatic: put a price on carbon dioxide emissions with a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade program. Pollution pricing is not untested theory. It is the policy that ended acid rain, ahead of schedule and more cheaply than projected. Following that success, it was long assumed that pricing
Re: [Marxism] Bezos F****ing version of the Green New Deal
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Re: [Marxism] The AnftiFa Antimonies, Part 3 | 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. * Sorry to bother the collective buttlicking of idiots like Chris Hedges, you can continue your dogpiling now as it is clear none of you are interested in engaging those who believe in antifa tactics. Btw, I don't overall, but have and continue to work with those that do, in order, to one- find out what they really think aside from what people say they think or stand for- and two, in order to not further alienate young organizers and activists by curt, snobbish and uninformed opinions based on limited experience. Moreover, it seems most how post on this list are more concerned about their version of what the left is or should be and not with what is actually happening. And folks wonder why they are being regarded as dinosaurs. Good luck with that. Direct questions? To the best of my ability since I would never term myself antifa. _ 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] Bezos F****ing version of the Green New Deal
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[Marxism] Netanyahu Sparks Outrage Over Pact With Racist Party
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. * NY Times, Feb. 25, 2019 Netanyahu Sparks Outrage Over Pact With Racist Party By David M. Halbfinger JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made something of an art form of cutting deals with small Israeli political parties, but his latest alliance has earned him denunciations from quarters where he has usually been able to count on unshakable support. Mr. Netanyahu, his future imperiled by prosecutors and political challengers alike, has enraged Jewish leaders in Israel and the United States by striking a bargain with a racist anti-Arab party whose ideology was likened by one influential rabbi to Nazism. Even pro-Israel groups in the United States that prefer to air their disagreements quietly have issued public condemnations. The furor has aggravated already fraught relations between Israel and Jews in the diaspora, undercutting American and European Jewry’s efforts to fight anti-Semitism at a time when it is on the rise on both continents. The embattled Mr. Netanyahu, grasping for every potential vote, has turned to the extremist party Otzma Yehudit, or Jewish Power, whose leaders have a long history of expressing support for violence against Palestinians, expulsion of Arabs from Israel and the occupied territories, and a ban on intermarriage or sex between Jews and Arabs. The prime minister arranged for the organization to merge into a somewhat more mainstream party of religious Zionists, the Jewish Home. That pact, announced Wednesday, could easily catapult Otzma Yehudit from the disreputable fringe into Israel’s next governing coalition. Otzma Yehudit’s leaders proudly call themselves disciples of Meir Kahane, the Brooklyn-born anti-Arab militant who served a term in Israel’s Parliament in the 1980s before his Kach party was outlawed in Israel and declared a terrorist group by the United States. He was assassinated in 1990. Much as Kach did, Otzma Yehudit’s platform calls for annexing the occupied territories, rejecting a Palestinian state, expelling “enemies” of Israel — a euphemism for Arabs — and taking “ownership” of the Temple Mount. The site, in Jerusalem, is holy to both Muslims and Jews, and is overseen by Muslim clerics under Jordanian supervision. The pact between Mr. Netanyahu and the Kahanists set off a predictable eruption from liberal Jewish groups like J Street and Americans for Peace Now, as well as the Union of Reform Judaism, which normally stays out of Israeli politics. But the outrage was not limited to the left. On Friday, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the American lobbying group known as Aipac, and the American Jewish Committee, both of which rarely weigh in publicly on Israeli politics, declared Otzma Yehudit’s ideas “reprehensible.” They vowed not to have any contact with its leaders even if they become part of the next government. In an equally extraordinary step, Rabbi Benny Lau of Jerusalem, a pillar of religious Zionism, repeatedly assailed the merger over the weekend, warning on social media that “the defilement and destruction of the land serves as a guarantee for the loss of the land.” Rabbi Lau lamented that the prime minister seemed concerned only with winning re-election, and, from his pulpit at the Ramban Synagogue, likened Kahanism to Nazism and its ideas to the Nuremberg Laws. “The entry of the racist doctrine into the Knesset is the destruction of the Temple,” he wrote on Facebook on Sunday. In Israel’s chaotic parliamentary system, small parties like the ultra-Orthodox Shas can be make or break when it comes to forming a majority coalition after an election, and Mr. Netanyahu has routinely struck deals giving them outsize influence. But this time, he is running with his indictment on corruption charges widely expected, and facing his toughest challenge yet from Benny Gantz, a centrist and popular former army chief. So desperate to prevent any right-wing ballots from being squandered on a party unable to win its own seats in the Knesset, Mr. Netanyahu has pre-emptively stretched his coalition’s margins farther to the right than ever before. The two leaders of Otzma Yehudit who could win Knesset seats, depending on the merged party’s share of the vote in April, are Michael Ben Ari and Itamar Ben Gvir. They are co-founders of Lehava, a group that opposes Jewish-Arab relationships and was implicated in a 2014 arson attack on a school for Jewish and Arab children in Jerusalem. Mr. Ben Ari calls Arabs the “enemy” and advocates expelling them. He was denied a visa to the United States in 2012 as a member of a terrorist organization. Mr. Ben
[Marxism] Britain's Big Squeeze
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. * MUST READING. NY Times, Feb. 25, 2019 Britain's Big Squeeze By Ellen Barry BRIGHTON, England — Alex McIntyre was raised on budget cuts. The youth center where he went after school was shuttered when he was 10. When he was 11, his mother’s housing benefit was shaved away, a casualty of the Welfare Reform Act. By the time the streetlight in his cul-de-sac began blinking off at midnight a few years later, these events had knitted together into a single story, about a government policy that had defined his childhood. “Austerity, that’s what I know, that’s my life,” said Mr. McIntyre. “I’ve never known an England that was a different way.” Now 19 and old enough to vote, Mr. McIntyre is making up for lost time. Over the last six months, he was drawn into the center of the Momentum movement, an ideological marketplace buzzing with rebranded socialism and trade unionism. His parents may have gotten their news from The Sun and The Daily Mail, but he listens to reports on the “crisis of capitalism” from Novara Media, a left-wing independent media group. Over Christmas he started reading Marx. Mr. McIntyre is the first in his family to attend college, part of a vast cohort of young Britons that was meant to embody upward social mobility. It is a paradox that so many in this bulge, like their counterparts in the United States, are giving up on free-market capitalism, convinced it cannot provide their families with a decent life. The general election of 2017 exposed the starkest generation gap in the recent history of British politics. Young voters broke dramatically for the Labour Party, whose socialist leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has promised to rebuild the welfare state and redistribute wealth. Hardened against the centrists of their parents’ generation, they have tugged the party to the left, opening up rifts that are now fracturing Labour. The young also saw their views on exiting the European Union — three-quarters of them voted to remain — bulldozed by Leavers their grandparents’ age. Mr. McIntyre is still angry that he was too young, by a year, to vote in that 2016 referendum. He is pale and lanky, discreetly tattooed, caustically funny and so well mannered that he would rather miss his train than cut into a line. (“Being British can be limiting,” he observed.) He is not representative of a generation. But his grievance is generational: that the state has taken away benefits his parents and grandparents enjoyed, like low-cost housing and free education. “We’re not blind to it. We’re not stupid, you know,” Mr. McIntyre said. “The reason we’re opposing what’s going on is what we’ve been dealt.” Britons who came of age in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008 will, in many cases, be worse off than their parents. Born on the wrong side of skyrocketing property values, 30-year-olds are only half as likely to own homes as baby boomers were at the same age. A third are expected to rent for their whole lives. Unlike previous generations, they are expected to foot the bill for an expensive education. The average graduate now owes the government more than 50,800 pounds, or $64,000, a debt to be paid back gradually upon securing a well-paid job, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The portion of Britons attending college has climbed to 49 percent, the highest level ever, but they will graduate into a historic spell of wage stagnation. Robert Ford, a professor of politics at the University of Manchester, recalled Margaret Thatcher’s thesis about homeownership: By allowing low-income Britons to buy the state housing they rented, she could make them into stakeholders in market capitalism, enlarging the Tory Party. With his students, realizing in their 20s that they are not likely ever to own a home, that process has been thrown into reverse. “All the risk has been shifted onto them,” he said. “They know this is not the situation their parents and grandparents were in. You’ve got a generation since the crisis with lower mobility and lower security. It makes them less convinced that the market delivers good outcomes.” It was a big deal for Alex McIntyre to make it to college. He comes from a lower-middle-class neighborhood of Welwyn Garden City, north of London, one where life expectancy trails the national average. He grew up in a state-subsidized rental property and attended a school ranked “Requires Improvement” by the state educational inspection agency. His sister had her first child at 16. Social mobility was a mantra for the Conservative Party during those years. David Cameron promised this in 2010, as he
[Marxism] Eugene V. Debs: A Graphic Biography - Progressive.org
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Re: [Marxism] The AnftiFa Antimonies, Part 3 | Washington Babylon
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Re: [Marxism] The AnftiFa Antimonies, Part 3 | 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. * I have yet to hear anyone speak about Antifa but from their personal experiences, and outside of the people involved in it, I have yet to hear anything positive. I recall many of these people during several large-scale anti-neoliberalism protests that I attended when I was much younger. At the time, I shared their worldview having become interested in anarchism. In retrospect I wonder what the hell I was thinking. Andrew Stewart's description matches my own experiences with people active in Antifa. More importantly, if Antifa varies so widely that one cannot generalize from one group to another, I wonder why they are all proudly sharing in the same name, labels, sloganeering, symbolism, etc. Needless to say the fact that they operate in a clandestine fashion with no apparent accountability to anyone but themselves and with a heavy focus not on those who rule over us but rather on hooliganism and street brawls with fringe extremists should be enough to conclude that they are irrelevant if not prone to bringing unnecessary risks and worth excluding from left organizing. Amith R. Gupta On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:56 AM Mark Lause via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> 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 antifa eagerness to choose abuse over engaging around ideas is a clear > demonstration that Trump is just a symptom of a disease in body politic > that is broadly and deeply pervasive. > > And fundamentally a faith-based response to reality. > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 11:44 AM Jeffrey Masko via Marxism < > marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> 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. > > * > > > > "Throwing these security agencies a bone by linking BIPOC organizers with > > public hooliganism exhibited by a bunch of suburban revolutionaries who > > have credit scores and the ability to very easily avoid serious > > repercussions for said misbehavior is the height of petit bourgeois > > posturing." > > > > Typical generalizations from someone who has limited experience. Stick to > > talking about RI., you know nothing about actually anitfa groups outside > > your immediate experience from what you write, yet you generalize this to > > all antifa groups (??). I don't have much respect for antifa formations, > > but what you write is so far off-base (like my quote above), it's no > wonder > > you use a hack like Chris Hedges as support, since you sound so much like > > his whinging from the days of Occupy. > > > > Further, you post a copy of Bray's book, but don't even take the time to > > critique it, which is quite easy due to his omission of any overlap of ML > > and Anarchist theory just to begin with. > > > > Thanks for the same trite bullshit I can read damn near anywhere. > > > > j.masko > > _ > > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > > Set your options at: > > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/markalause%40gmail.com > > > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com > _ 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] The AnftiFa Antimonies, Part 3 | 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. * The antifa eagerness to choose abuse over engaging around ideas is a clear demonstration that Trump is just a symptom of a disease in body politic that is broadly and deeply pervasive. And fundamentally a faith-based response to reality. On Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 11:44 AM Jeffrey Masko via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> 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. > * > > "Throwing these security agencies a bone by linking BIPOC organizers with > public hooliganism exhibited by a bunch of suburban revolutionaries who > have credit scores and the ability to very easily avoid serious > repercussions for said misbehavior is the height of petit bourgeois > posturing." > > Typical generalizations from someone who has limited experience. Stick to > talking about RI., you know nothing about actually anitfa groups outside > your immediate experience from what you write, yet you generalize this to > all antifa groups (??). I don't have much respect for antifa formations, > but what you write is so far off-base (like my quote above), it's no wonder > you use a hack like Chris Hedges as support, since you sound so much like > his whinging from the days of Occupy. > > Further, you post a copy of Bray's book, but don't even take the time to > critique it, which is quite easy due to his omission of any overlap of ML > and Anarchist theory just to begin with. > > Thanks for the same trite bullshit I can read damn near anywhere. > > j.masko > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/markalause%40gmail.com > _ 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] The AnftiFa Antimonies, Part 3 | 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. * "Throwing these security agencies a bone by linking BIPOC organizers with public hooliganism exhibited by a bunch of suburban revolutionaries who have credit scores and the ability to very easily avoid serious repercussions for said misbehavior is the height of petit bourgeois posturing." Typical generalizations from someone who has limited experience. Stick to talking about RI., you know nothing about actually anitfa groups outside your immediate experience from what you write, yet you generalize this to all antifa groups (??). I don't have much respect for antifa formations, but what you write is so far off-base (like my quote above), it's no wonder you use a hack like Chris Hedges as support, since you sound so much like his whinging from the days of Occupy. Further, you post a copy of Bray's book, but don't even take the time to critique it, which is quite easy due to his omission of any overlap of ML and Anarchist theory just to begin with. Thanks for the same trite bullshit I can read damn near anywhere. j.masko _ 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] Ishmael Reed Doesn’t Like Hamilton | Current Affairs
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[Marxism] Uncovering the Truth About a Raid on the Black Panthers | Flint Taylor | Literary Hub
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[Marxism] A Tale of Three Cities
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[Marxism] The future belongs to the left, not the right, For the time being, rightwingers are thriving,
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. * (Except for its nativism, this is a good article. Maybe the nativism disqualifies it completely but interesting that it is in the Financial Times.) FT.com Opinion Geopolitics The future belongs to the left, not the right For the time being, rightwingers are thriving, but their rise is self-limiting WOLFGANG MÜNCHAU Matteo Renzi, Italy’s former prime minister, is getting ready to form his own centrist political movement, very much like French president Emmanuel Macron’s La République en Marche. A new centrist group in the UK has also brought excitement, albeit for different reasons. Liberal pro-Europeans are certainly not going down without a fight. But the odds are not looking good for many of them. Liberal democracy is in decline for a reason. Liberal regimes have proved incapable of solving problems that arose directly from liberal policies like tax cuts, fiscal consolidation and deregulation: persistent financial instability and its economic consequences; a rise in insecurity among lower income earners, aggravated by technological change and open immigration policies; and policy co-ordination failures, for example in the crackdown on global tax avoidance. When the financial crisis struck, continental European governments did not take full control of their banking systems, crack down hard enough on bonuses, or impose financial transaction taxes. They did not raise income and corporate taxes to counter-balance cuts in public sector spending. They did not tighten immigration policies. The usual economic statistics do not capture how the lives of people on lower incomes have changed over the last two decades. Stagnating real disposable incomes matter, but so does lower job security and reduced access to credit markets and mortgages. I expect the pushback against liberalism to come in stages. We are in stage one — the Trumpian anti-immigration phase. Immigration carries net economic benefits, especially over the long term. But there are losers from it, too, both actual and imagined. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to open Germany’s borders to 1m refugees in 2015 was justified on ethical grounds, and I am sure will bring long-term benefits. But it turned into a crisis because she did not prepare her country politically. The euro, too, was a liberal fair-weather construction. Once crisis struck, politicians did the minimum they needed to ensure its survival, but they failed to solve the underlying problems, which nowadays express themselves as imbalances that do not self-correct. Without a single safe asset and a genuine banking union, the eurozone will remain prone to financial crises. Liberal democracy has been successful at breaking down trade barriers, protecting human rights and fostering open societies. But the inability to manage the social and economic consequences of such policies has rendered liberal regimes inherently unstable. For now, the right is thriving on the anti-immigration backlash. But its rise is self-limiting for two reasons. First, rightwing policies are not succeeding even on their own narrow terms. A wall along the border with Mexico will not stem US immigration flows any more than the re-nationalisation of immigration policies would in Europe. And second, I suspect that immigration will soon be superseded by other issues — such as the impact of artificial intelligence on middle-class livelihoods; rising levels of poverty; and economic dislocation stemming from climate change. This is a political environment that favours the radical left over the radical right. The right is not interested in poverty and its parties are full of climate-change deniers. Some of the rightwing populists may speak the language of the working classes, but the left is more likely to deliver. The killer policy of the left will be the 70 per cent tax rate proposed by freshman US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It is not the number that matters, but the determination to reverse a 30-year trend towards lower taxation of very high incomes and profits. There would be collateral damage from such a policy for sure. But from the perspective of the radical left, collateral damage is a promise, not a threat. What about the radical centre? Mr Macron has demonstrated that grassroots liberalism can succeed as an electoral strategy. But there are factors specific to the French electoral system that favoured Mr Macron’s victory in 2017. And it is too early to pass judgment on whether his actual policies will deliver what his voters wanted. Italy is also a candidate for a Macron-style revolution, but that could not
[Marxism] Writing slavery back into American business history | Berkeley News
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[Marxism] We Need to Talk About Christopher Hasson | Washington Babylon
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[Marxism] The AnftiFa Antimonies, Part 3 | Washington Babylon
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[Marxism] Robert Kraft, Meet Bella Robinson! | Washington Babylon
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[Marxism] Trump Threatens a Second Embargo of Cuba
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. * (For those so positive that Trump's foreign policy was not as bad as Hillary Clinton's, isn't it time for some reflection? I wouldn't have voted for either of these jerks, but really...) The Trump administration is threatening to unleash a flood of lawsuits involving Cuba, which no U.S. president has ever done. It has set a deadline of March 2 to announce whether it will create, in the words of the National Lawyers Guild, “a second embargo” of Cuba — “one that would be very difficult to dismantle in the future.” Trump may give current U.S. citizens standing to sue in U.S. courts even if they were Cuban citizens when the Cuban government nationalized their property after the 1959 Revolution. They would be able to bring lawsuits against U.S. and foreign companies that allegedly profit from the nationalized properties. https://truthout.org/articles/trump-threatens-a-second-embargo-of-cuba/ _ 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] Extinction Rebellion
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. * EXACTLY. “The intelligent people on the political left have woken up to the fact that we’ve got an existential emergency that could destroy human society in the next 10 years,” he said. “It’s in the cards. A lot of us have already gone through the grief process. But these [newly awakened] people just had that enlightenment. They’re in shock. They’re maintaining a veneer of ‘It’s sort of OK.’ This is what the Green Deal [a United Kingdom government policy initiative] is about. It is an attempt to pretend that industrialization can stay the same. We can all still be wealthy. We can all still have great jobs. It is like Roosevelt’s New Deal. But the New Deal was based on the idea that we can carry on plundering nature and nothing’s going to happen. Maybe that was right in the 1930s. But it’s not right anymore. It’s a matter of physics and biology. We simply cannot maintain these levels of consumption. They haven’t reckoned with that. One of the main reasons the climate debate has not gotten into a serious mode over the last 30 years is because people who are in charge of informing the public are terrified of telling the public that they can’t have the high consumer lifestyle anymore. It’s a taboo. But like any addiction, there comes a moment of truth. We’re there now.” https://www.truthdig.com/articles/extinction-rebellion/ _ 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] WeAsked: Left Perspectives on Venezuela from the (Semi)Periphery | Lefteast
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[Marxism] Nigeria’s nightmare | Michael Roberts Blog
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. * Inequality is huge, with the gini coefficient of inequality of income over 40. Nigeria has the highest proportion of people earning below the World Bank’s definition of poverty in the world! Out of 180 countries, Transparency International places it the 144th least corrupt – in other words, it is near the top for corruption. Nigeria’s annual inflation rate is permanently in double digits, with interest rates for borrowing near 20%. The choice for the people in this election is between the incumbent president, an ex-general who participated vigorously in previous military coups and dictatorships but is now a ‘converted democrat’; and an oil tycoon. No wonder the voter turnout is likely to be only around 45% of 73m eligible to vote; the unemployed youth and poor do not vote (except with their feet). So Nigeria’s nightmare is likely to continue. full: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/02/24/nigerias-nightmare/ _ 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
