[Marxism] New Zealand: the barbarism of identity politics - spiked

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These people have been on a downward spiral for decades. Now they seem 
to have hit rock-bottom.


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[Marxism] Letter to the ISO membership

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The International Socialist Organization’s Steering Committee sent this
letter to members about a deep crisis in the ISO. We are sharing it
publicly here on *SW*. We have edited it slightly to be published on a
public website and have added updated information

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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Another teachers' strike in the making

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[Marxism] In Christchurch, Signs Point to a Gunman Steeped in Internet Trolling

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NY Times, March 15, 2019
In Christchurch, Signs Point to a Gunman Steeped in Internet Trolling
By Daniel Victor

A camera mounted to his head, the gunman who livestreamed part of his 
savage attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday 
began his video by casually making reference to a current internet meme.


He appeared to be steeped in the culture of the extreme-right internet. 
And in the terrible minutes of video that followed, he proved to be a 
nonchalant, unrepentant killer.


As of Friday night, the gunman had not been identified by the 
authorities. But just before the attack began, a man who said he was a 
28-year-old from Australia published a link on a right-wing forum to a 
74-page manifesto, and another link on the same forum to a personal 
Facebook page with the video that would soon document the slaughter.


Based on the video, the manifesto and social media posts, a picture has 
begun to emerge of a man primarily driven by white nationalism and a 
desire to drive cultural, political and racial wedges between people 
across the globe. That, he hoped, would stoke discord and, eventually, 
more violence between races.


It is unclear whether the Facebook user is the man whom the authorities 
in New Zealand have charged in the shootings that have left at least 49 
people dead. They have said only that the suspect is a man in his 20s.


Australia’s main public broadcaster reported that the Facebook user 
worked as a personal trainer at a gym in the city of Grafton after 
finishing school in 2009 until 2011, when he left to travel overseas. 
Where exactly his travels took him was not immediately known, but the 
manifesto’s author wrote that he explored much of Europe in the spring 
of 2017.


And a man using the same name visited the Gilgit-Baltistan 
administrative territory of Pakistan in October, people at two hotels 
there confirmed.


Asghar Khan, the manager of operations at the Serena Hotel there, said 
the man seemed like a “nature-loving” traveler. Syed Israr Hussain, 
owner of the nearby Osho Thang hotel, said he stayed there for two or 
three days with a group of backpackers.


“He was normal and polite during his stay,” Mr. Hussain said. “There was 
nothing out of the ordinary.”


The gunman appeared to pair the shooting with the typical trolling 
tactics of the internet’s most far-right instigators, playing to a 
community of like-minded supporters online who cheered him on in real 
time as they watched bodies pile up. And the manifesto states plainly 
what usually goes unstated by internet trolls: By design, its author 
wanted to get everyone upset and arguing with each other.


[Follow our live briefing on the Christchurch killings here.]

One of the goals of his bloodshed, he wrote, was to “agitate the 
political enemies of my people into action, to cause them to overextend 
their own hand and experience the eventual and inevitable backlash as a 
result.” He said he wanted to “incite violence, retaliation and further 
divide.”


The manifesto, the harrowing video and what appear to be the gunman’s 
social media posts feature typical white nationalist rhetoric with 
layers upon layers of irony and meta jokes, making it difficult to parse 
what is genuine and what he just thought was funny.


The gunman seems to have a significant interest in history — at least, 
the parts that fit into a white nationalist narrative. On his weapons, 
he wrote the names of centuries-old military leaders who led battles 
against largely nonwhite forces, along with the names of men who 
recently carried out mass shootings of Jews and Muslims.


The manifesto, steeped in anti-Muslim sentiment, refers to nonwhites as 
“invaders” who threaten to “replace” white people. The author says he 
used guns instead of other weapons because he wanted the United States 
to tear itself apart arguing over gun laws.


His choice of language, and the specific memes he referred to, suggest a 
deep connection to the far-right online community. The link to the 
livestreamed video was first posted to the /pol/ forum of 8chan, a 
notorious far-right space, where the gunman was hailed as a hero after 
the shooting.


Some of his references were subtle. As he drove to the mosque, he 
listened to a song associated with a 1995 Serbian nationalist video, 
which has recently been co-opted as a racist meme.


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What might appear to be a bizarre, rambling section of the manifesto was 
actually a relatively old meme known as Navy 

Re: [Marxism] [UCE] From Alana Goodman: AOC’s chief of staff ran $1 Million slush fund; diverted campaign cash to his own firms | Washington Babylon

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It is total nonsense.

I won't waste time with the details but it is a bogus complaint filed by a
right-wing group sponsored by Trump supporters. They're taking aim at the
leadership of Justice Democrats, a liberal-leaning organization that pushes
progressive Dems to run against incumbents.

Amith R. Gupta


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> > basic allegation may be true
> > but the the cheap, lurid, gossip-sheet style (a la the National
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> > true intent - news, or vitriol?
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> > - Bill
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Re: [Marxism] [UCE] From Alana Goodman: AOC’s chief of staff ran $1 Million slush fund; diverted campaign cash to his own firms | Washington Babylon

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On 3/15/19 10:58 AM, William Quimby via Marxism wrote:
Andrew, I'm surprised that you would forward this! Did you read it? The 
basic allegation may be true
but the the cheap, lurid, gossip-sheet style (a la the National 
Enquirer) makes me wonder about the

true intent - news, or vitriol?

- Bill


To me, what's puzzling is that Ken Silverstein is on record as 
supporting A. O-C.


"But a few new House Democrats are off to great starts, and no star 
shines brighter than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, if you 
think my endorsement will help your political career, you’ve got it, 
just say the word."


https://washingtonbabylon.com/give-me-an-a-give-me-an-o-give-me-a-c-whats-that-spell/

I know that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds but 
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Andrew, I'm surprised that you would forward this! Did you read it? The 
basic allegation may be true
but the the cheap, lurid, gossip-sheet style (a la the National 
Enquirer) makes me wonder about the

true intent - news, or vitriol?

- Bill

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[Marxism] The Puzzle of Cheap Billionaires

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NY Times Op-Ed, March 15, 2019
The Puzzle of Cheap Billionaires
By Jennifer Weiner

I’ve been thinking lately about one of my relatives, now of blessed 
memory. This woman was gracious and kind. Her clothes and makeup were 
always impeccable; her home was well decorated and welcoming. When you 
went over for tea, the cups would be porcelain, and the utensils would 
be sterling silver. The sweetener would come in white paper packets, 
embossed with the Golden Arches, most likely pilfered from the nearby 
McDonald’s where she and her girls would go for coffee, and woe betide 
the server who failed to offer them the senior discount.


This was a woman who could afford to buy a bag of sugar. But she 
wouldn’t dream of it. Maybe it was Depression-era thrift, or maybe it 
was the tiny thrill of a tiny theft, the minute dopamine rush you get 
when you do something that isn’t exactly stealing but isn’t entirely 
legitimate either.


Her quirk was far from unique. We’ve all seen (or maybe even carried) 
pocketbooks full of stolen Sweet’N Low or used a guest bathroom where 
the towels were Egyptian cotton, the countertops were Carrara marble and 
the soap was a tiny rectangle from a Holiday Inn Express.


The rich are different. Some of them drop six figures to get their 
children into a college where they didn’t earn a spot.


And some of them seem to be cheap about the weirdest things. There’s our 
president, who likes to brag about his tremendous fortune and who has 
twice served an assortment of fast food to championship college football 
players who came to call. Maybe Mr. Trump, a fast-food aficionado 
himself, believed that the spread was exactly what the athletes wanted. 
And maybe it was.


But we know that Mr. Trump has bragged about underpaying contractors who 
he has said have done shoddy work and has cut workers’ benefits and 
salaries, being cheap in a way that causes pain and suffering.


We also know that he pretty much lives to troll. So it’s hard for me not 
to read the bargain-menu feast as intended, at the very least, to enrage 
the libs and, as a bonus, keep costs down, too.


But maybe Mr. Trump’s behavior makes a kind of sense when you put it in 
the context of the billionaire thrift-boast, the 0.001 percent variation 
on the humblebrag. See, for example, Warren Buffett and his reported $18 
haircuts, or how he never pays more than $3.17 for breakfast. Or Jeff 
Bezos, letting the world know about his $81,840 annual salary from 
Amazon. The Ikea founder, Ingvar Kamprad, flew coach and bought his 
clothes at flea markets. Queen Elizabeth II is said to reuse wrapping 
paper. Stars in jewels and couture scarf In-N-Out burgers on their way 
home from the Oscars.


See? they are saying. Of course we could afford caviar or a fancy car or 
a fresh roll of wrapping paper. Fame and fortune haven’t changed us. 
Deep down, we’re just like you!


Which brings us to Robert Kraft, a 77-year-old billionaire, Donald Trump 
pal, New England Patriots owner and, apparently, a fellow cheap senior. 
Last month Mr. Kraft was swept up in a statewide sting operation and 
charged with soliciting sex in a South Florida strip mall. Mr. Kraft is 
an undisputed billionaire. If he wants to pay for sex, he could hire the 
most discreet, professional escorts. If it had to be sex with someone at 
a strip mall, he could have probably bought the entire strip mall — nail 
salon, Outback Steakhouse and all.


But according to the prosecutors, that’s not what happened. Instead, 
they say, for two days in a row he visited a seedy-looking storefront 
called Orchids of Asia Spa, where he spent less than 20 minutes per 
visit and paid between $100 and $200 for these encounters, one of which 
involved oral sex, with women who were, according to the police, 
prisoners, brought over from China with the promise of legitimate jobs.


These women’s lives sound miserable. They were flown to America. Many 
were routed through Flushing, Queens, then dispatched to spas all over 
the country. They would work up to 14-hour days, seven days a week, 
cooking their meals on hot plates, sleeping on the massage tables, being 
moved from business to business, sometimes after they’d surrendered 
their passports to their bosses.


Mr. Kraft wasn’t the only superrich guy who was caught up in this 
investigation: John Childs, who founded a private equity firm, and John 
Havens, the former chief financial officer of Citigroup, were also charged.


Mr. Kraft and Mr. Childs have denied the charges. The police say they 
have taped evidence. But the allegations do present this tantalizing 
question: If these men are indeed guilty, why are billion

[Marxism] Thirty Years Gone: Remembering “Cactus Ed”

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Interesting critique of Edward Abbey who had many negative views but 
were not reflected in his novels, as far as I can tell.



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[Marxism] Alex Jones: Shoot Him, Please. (Ha, ha. Just kidding.) | Washington Babylon

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[Marxism] Why ‘X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills’ is the Graphic Novel You Didn’t Know You Needed to Read | Washington Babylon

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[Marxism] The Great Blues Singer Gladys Bentley Broke All the Rules | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian

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[Marxism] Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? - The New York Times

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A brutal take-down of a hyper-development project of the sort that is 
transforming Manhattan into something resembling an emirate city.


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[Marxism] Ben is Back; Beautiful Boy | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Given the enormity of the drug crisis in the USA, particularly centered 
on opioid overdoses that are the largest cause of death of people under 
the age of 50, it was inevitable that Hollywood would begin to produce 
“problem” movies such as “Ben is Back” and “Beautiful Boy”. It also just 
as inevitable that such films would be based on the suffering of 
well-to-do families and suffused with clichés.


“Ben is Back” stars Julia Roberts as Holly Burns, the matriarch of a 
generally happy family eagerly awaiting Christmas day, the happiest time 
of the year, especially if you live in the suburbs and have lots of 
money to lavish on presents. Pulling into her driveway with a carload of 
gifts to place under the Christmas tree, she sees the ghost of Christmas 
past, namely her college-aged son Ben (Lucas Hedges) who has cut short 
his stay in a drug rehabilitation facility to return home from the holidays.


The entire family treats Ben as if he was the scariest ghost showing up 
in Scrooge’s bedroom. He is there not to remind them of their lifetime 
of sins but the pain he has visited on them in the past as an opioid 
addict. Hoping to enjoy a happy time with the family, he is put on the 
defensive by his mom’s insistence that he take a drug test in the 
upstairs bathroom right off the bat. As he pees into a bottle, she 
stands behind him with her arms folded to make sure he is not turning in 
a fake sample.


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[Marxism] Late capitalism and the death drive | Richard Seymour on Patreon

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[Marxism] Nuclear Powers Need to Disarm Before It’s Too Late - FPIF

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The possibility of a nuclear exchange is enhanced by the disparity 
between India and Pakistan’s military forces. One does not have to be 
Carl von Clausewitz to predict the likely outcome of a conventional war 
between a country of 200 million people and a country of 1.3 billion people.


Pakistan reserves the right to use nuclear weapons first. India has a 
“no first use” policy, but with so many caveats that it is essentially 
meaningless. In brief, it wouldn’t take much to ignite a nuclear war 
between them.


If that happens, its effects will not be just regional. According to a 
study by the University of Colorado, Rutgers University, and UCLA, if 
Pakistan and India exchanged 100 Hiroshima-sized nuclear warheads (15 
kilotons), they would not only kill or injure 45 million people, but 
also generate enough smoke to plunge the world into a 25-year long 
nuclear winter.


Both countries have between 130 and 150 warheads apiece.

Temperatures would drop to Ice Age levels and worldwide rainfall would 
decline by 6 percent, triggering major droughts. The Asian Monsoon could 
be reduced by between 20 and 80 percent, causing widespread regional 
starvation.


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[Marxism] New Zealand mosques' attack suspect praised Trump in manifesto | News | Al Jazeera

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The Australian-born suspect who shot dead dozens of Muslim worshippers 
in Christchurch, New Zealand, has published a manifesto citing US 
President Donald Trump and Anders Breivik, the Norwegian white 
supremacist who murdered 77 people in Norway in 2011.


The 74-page dossier by Brenton Tarrant, which has been described by 
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison as a "work of hate", praised 
Trump as "a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose".


The 28-year-old, who is now in police custody, also claimed that he had 
"brief contact" with Breivik and had received a "blessing" for his 
actions from the mass murderer's acquaintances.


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[Marxism] All the Livelong Day--Book Review

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[Marxism] bellingcat - Shitposting, Inspirational Terrorism, and the Christchurch Mosque Massacre - bellingcat

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[Marxism] On the 8th anniversary of the Syrian Revolution

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Re: [Marxism] New Washington Babylon story follow-up on potential attack on Venezuela

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Epstein makes the valid point that we are not seeing the sort of propaganda
campaign in the media that we saw in the build-up to the US invasion of
Iraq. He concludes that that this means an invasion of Venezuela is less
likely. He's right, but he's also not taking into account the complexity of
the situation. In the early 2000's, the mainstream of the US capitalist
class had given themselves over to the neoconservatives. That was why they
installed Bush into the White House. They were more or less united behind
Bush's strategy (if you want to dignify it with that term).

Today, the central fact of US political life is exactly that to a large
degree they have lost control over their executive branch. Policy towards
Venezuela is a perfect example. Last August Trump proposed a US invasion.
His national security advisor - H.R. McMaster - and his secretary of state
- Rex Tillerson - both strongly resisted. These were two of the "adults" in
the administration. They were more representative of the mainstream of the
US capitalist class. And they've been replaced by Mike Pompeo (secretary of
state) and John Bolton (security advisor), throwbacks neoconservatism if
there ever were ones.

The admission of the NY Times that they had it wrong and that it was the
protesters who burned the aid trucks, not Maduro's armed forces, shows that
the representatives of the capitalist mainstream - have major doubts about
an invasion. That's why we're not seeing that propaganda campaign.

As for what's coming out of the White House, Trump is somewhat tied down
fighting against any investigation by either Mueller or congress. That too,
is staying his hand. In the future, though, he could launch an invasion
precisely in order to distract from the investigation.

(By the way, on CNN last night, Katherine Rampell, columnist for the
Washington Post, commented: "What we actually want to know is 'who does he
[Trump] owe money to?' You have to remember, this was a guy who banks
would not lend money to. This was a guy who was buying golf courses in all
cash. If you know anything about real estate transactions, you know this
makes no sense." She was of course referring to Trump's money laundering
operation. Once again, we see that the very logic of the situation is
forcing them ever further down the path of revealing this operation.)

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[Marxism] Letter of Support for Climate Change Strike

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[Marxism] The right-wing terrorist attack in Christchurch, NZ

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At least 49 people at two mosques in Christchurch NZ have been gunned down
by right-wing nationalists this afternoon, NZ time.

This is the initial response from the independent NZ-based Marxist blog
Redline:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/03/15/the-massacre-in-christchurch-individual-terrorism-was-nurtured-by-state-terrorism/



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