Re: [Marxism] Protest in Miraflores
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 saw an item on Al Jazeera this morning about a woman who left for Colombia with her grandmother, hoping to be able to get insulin for her, as it has become unavailable in Venezuela. Tragically, the grandmother died. The truth is that without the blockade, insulin would have been available in Venezuela. On the other hand, had the woman been a poor Colombian, what chance would she have had of receiving the insulin she needed to survive even that long. That question was not asked in the item. So the story is a human tragedy, I have no reason to believe it's untrue, and it is being replicated many times over, but it isn't the whole story. What's going on in Venezuela is,in part, the fault of Maduro and the corruption in his government, partly the retreat from some of the best bits of Chavismo, partly the fact that a single third word country can't really build "socialism in one country" and partly the fact that the US has backed the coup plotters with massive sanctions. It's not an either / or situation. There were huge Sandinista rallies right before the party was voted out of power - rallying with their hearts and voting with their stomachs - was how I heard it explained. There is not necessarily a contradiction between people still "supporting Maduro" , and on the other hand trying to get to Colombia because it looks like offering a better life right now. Without the sanctions, but with Maduro and all his faults, do you think Venezuelans would be leaving in such numbers for a better life in Colombia? Because Colombia doesn't usually rank high on Marxists' lists of top countries to be in. Cheers, John On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 1:27 AM John Reimann 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. > * > > Here is a video of a protest in Caracas. The woman in the video is saying > "more than eight days without electricity or water." > > http://elpitazo.net/gran-caracas/video-alrededores-de-miraflores-llenos-de-protestas-y-exigencias-de-cambio-este-31marzo/ > > It is also interesting to note that none of the reports that defend Maduro > mention that 10% of the population (over 3 million people) have fled the > country. I saw one video of people walking and hitch hiking for four days > to reach Colombia. If things are more or less normal there, if the support > for Maduro remains so widespread, then how can that be? > > John Reimann > > -- > *“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/johnedmundson4%40gmail.com -- The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose _ 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] A Political Quake in Turkey as Erdogan’s Party Loses in His Home Base of Support
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, April 1, 2019 A Political Quake in Turkey as Erdogan’s Party Loses in His Home Base of Support By Carlotta Gall ISTANBUL — Step by step over the years, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey sought to ensure nobody could challenge him. He marginalized adversaries. He purged the army, the police and the courts. He cowed the press. He strengthened his powers in the Constitution. And he promised Turks a bright economic future. So it was a huge surprise when the outcome of weekend municipal voting showed on Monday that Mr. Erdogan’s party had not only lost control of Ankara, the political center, but maybe Istanbul, the country’s commercial center, his home city and longstanding core of support. Even if the results were not final, they amounted to the most momentous political earthquake to shake Mr. Erdogan in nearly two decades of basically uncontested control at the helm of Turkey, a NATO ally and critical linchpin of stability in the region. What was different this time was the rapidly tanking economy and a highly disciplined opposition. It deployed monitors to not only scrutinize the vote tallies but also sleep on sacks of sealed counted ballots to guard against possible tampering by members of Mr. Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party, the AKP. “We think they were not able to rig the election,” said Ilayda Kocoglu, 28, vice president of the Istanbul branch of the opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP, who slept on some sacks herself. “They were not expecting us to be that organized, or that resolved.” The results do not mean that Mr. Erdogan, whose term as president lasts for four more years, will change his behavior, which includes promoting Islamic religious values over secularism, closer ties to Russia and chillier relations with NATO. But the election showed Mr. Erdogan has weaknesses. “It’s a catastrophe for him,” said Asli Aydintasbas, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. “We now know he is not invincible.” Turkey’s weakened economy, which had rapidly expanded for years under Mr. Erdogan, was at the top of voters’ concerns, despite Mr. Erdogan’s exhortations that the problems are not of his making. The country tumbled into a recession in March. Unemployment exceeds 10 percent, and up to 30 percent among young people. The Turkish lira lost 28 percent of its value in 2018 and continues to weaken. Inflation has reached 20 percent. Ms. Kocoglu said she and her colleagues understood within an hour of the closing of polls Sunday night that they were watching Turkey’s most momentous change since Mr. Erdogan took power. Even the most remote areas of the Istanbul metropolitan area showed a defeat for Mr. Erdogan’s mayoral candidate. As of Monday night, results from the High Election Council had still not been fully released and Mr. Erdogan’s party had not conceded defeat in Istanbul. But the tally showed the opposition candidate, Ekrem Imamoglu, ahead with 99 percent of the votes counted. At a late night news briefing in Istanbul, Mr. Imamoglu said he was trusting in Turkey’s institutions more than the AKP to confirm his victory. “I don’t expect this from the party,” he said. “For years to come AKP will not accept my win.” Opposition mayors in Turkey’s two most important cities give the Republican People’s Party high-profile opportunities to show how it can govern effectively, with control of municipal services from garbage collection to mass transit. And Mr. Imamoglu has promised that as mayor of Istanbul, he would audit the books, a prospect that could create new problems for the AKP should he uncover evidence of corruption under the ruling party’s watch. The Republican People’s Party, long criticized for a lack of organization, for once was well prepared for the election. Mr. Imamoglu, 49, a former district mayor, mobilized thousands of volunteers to observe the election at every ballot box in the greater metropolitan area and record the count on a specially designed application, giving the party its own independent tabulation. “We were able to compare our numbers with theirs,” Ms. Kocoglu said. A decisive moment came at 9 p.m. Sunday when Mr. Erdogan gave his first speech of the evening, claiming victory for the AKP overall in the municipal district elections. The election commission suddenly stopped releasing election results for Istanbul, as did the semiofficial Anadolu news agency, which is widely followed on election nights as the source favored by the government for results. The president’s camp had already seen which way the vote was going and
[Marxism] Why Nobody in the Future Will Think Obama Was Wonderful
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[Marxism] Global Capitalist Crisis and Twenty-First Century Fascism: Beyond the Trump Hype - Science & Society, Vol. 83, No. 2, April 2019
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[Marxism] The danger of racial opportunism | Richard Seymour on Patreon
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[Marxism] ‘Breaches Everywhere’: Flooding Bursts Midwest Levees, and Tough Questions Follow - The New York Times
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[Marxism] ISO Dissolution -- A Quick Thought
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[Marxism] Erdogan, Turkey’s Leader, Staring at Major Electoral Defeat
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, April 1, 2019 Erdogan, Turkey’s Leader, Staring at Major Electoral Defeat By Carlotta Gall ISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confronted the prospect of a stunning political defeat on Monday, as local voting in Turkey showed his party had lost the capital, Ankara, and possibly Istanbul, its largest city and his key base of support for many years. The results of the municipal balloting on Sunday from around the country was a telling barometer of Mr. Erdogan’s weakened standing with voters, as Turkey’s economy has fallen into a recession and he has assumed sweeping new executive powers. Mr. Erdogan was not conceding defeat on the results in Istanbul, which were still unofficial. But the head of the High Election Council said the opposition mayoral candidate, Ekrem Imamoglu, was leading the Istanbul race by 27,806 votes, with only 24,000 remaining ballots to be counted. “The mathematics of the issue is over,” Mr. Imamoglu told a news conference, asserting there was no way that the candidate of Mr. Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party, former Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, could catch up. If the Istanbul results are confirmed, the Justice and Development Party is likely to appeal to the High Election Council. Mr. Erdogan claimed victory over all in the elections, pointing to results that showed his party 15 points ahead of the opposition Republican People’s Party in districts nationwide. But for the first time in his political career, Mr. Erdogan was tasting defeat not only in mayoral races in the center of Turkish political power, Ankara, but his hometown, Istanbul, the country’s business center. “Please do not be heartbroken with this result,” he told supporters in an address Sunday evening. “We will see how they are going to administer.” Rusen Cakir, a veteran commentator, said on Twitter that the turnaround was as historic as Mr. Erdogan’s arrival on the political stage, when, as an Islamist and former political prisoner, he first won the mayorship of Istanbul. “The election today is as historic as the local election in 1994,” Mr. Cakir said. “It’s the announcement of a page that was opened 25 years ago and is now being closed.” If Mr. Erdogan’s candidate loses the Istanbul race, it would be a severe blow to his party, which after 17 years in power has been showing a decline in popularity. “While losing Istanbul would be a nuclear defeat for Erdogan,” said Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, “losing Ankara, which is shorthand for political power and government, is a pretty significant loss.” In a sign of how seriously he regarded these elections, Mr. Erdogan held up to eight campaign rallies a day across the country, taking center stage in the municipalities as he portrayed the vote as a matter of “national survival” and a chance to cement his administration “in perpetuity.” The declining economy was at the forefront of voters’ concerns. After years of impressive growth, Turkey entered a recession in March. Unemployment is over 10 percent, and up to 30 percent among young people. The Turkish lira lost 28 percent of its value in 2018 and continues to fall, and inflation has reached 20 percent in recent months. Investment analysts reported that Turkey was depleting its international reserves to bolster the lira in the run-up to the election. Finance Minister Berat Albayrak promised to announce a package of new financial measures after the election, but investment confidence remains weak. “The campaign showed Erdogan’s desperation to win,” said Asli Aydintasbas, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. “He is vulnerable because of his declining votes.” While Mr. Erdogan remains by far the most popular politician in the country, his party failed to secure a majority in parliamentary elections in June and was forced into an alliance with the Nationalist Movement Party. A referendum in 2017 that gave him sweeping new authority over the legislature and the judiciary was approved by just a narrow majority of Turks. Even pro-government newspaper columnists warned that corruption and cronyism in the municipalities were turning voters away from the ruling party. Opinion polls showed that a larger percentage of voters than usual remained undecided right up to the election, which officials of his party took as a sign of unhappiness among the electorate. Opposition candidates offered change and promised to create jobs, improve education and bolster social services. And some were blistering in their
[Marxism] After China's deadly chemical blast, questions mount over safety and corruption - The Washington Post
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Re: [Marxism] Yes, It Was That Bad : Democracy Journal
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[Marxism] Yes, It Was That Bad : Democracy Journal
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 author was a film reviewer for In these Times 30 years ago and a damned good one. I wondered whatever happened to her.) The media and the Russians helped elect Donald Trump. The pressing question now is, can we avoid a repeat performance? BY PATRICIA AUFDERHEIDE https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/52/yes-it-was-that-bad/ _ 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] Marxist critiques of Human Capital Theory
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. * In response to Steve Sharra's query: Bowles and Gintis The Problem with Human Capital Theory -- A Marxian Critique The American Economic Review, v. 65, issue 2 You should be able to download a PDF (without charge) at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/4720740_The_Problem_with_Human_Capital_Theory-A_Marxian_Critique It's also available through JSTOR. _ 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] Cambridge MA book event: SDS/Progressive Labor memoirs
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. * Tuesday, April 9, 2019 7:00pm Porter Square Books 25 White Street Cambridge, MA You Say You Want a Revolution: SDS, PL, and Adventures in Building a Worker-Student Alliance Louis Proyect in CounterPunch: "a must-read book"; "impossible to put down." >From Cuba to Harvard Yard and San Francisco State. Defying the travel ban, fighting the war and racism, student strikes, labor and community alliances. Come celebrate, question, and enjoy readings from this publication of memoirs with participants in struggles from the sixties and seventies, as part of the vital discussion about building strong movements today. More info on event at https://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/you-say-you-want-revolution-sds-pl-and-adventures-building-worker-student-alliance Comrade Proyect's review at https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/22/rebuilding-a-revolutionary-left-in-the-usa/ Available at Amazon (and elsewhere) https://www.amazon.com/You-Say-Want-Revolution-Worker-Student/dp/0578406543 _ 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] Protest in Miraflores
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. * Here is a video of a protest in Caracas. The woman in the video is saying "more than eight days without electricity or water." http://elpitazo.net/gran-caracas/video-alrededores-de-miraflores-llenos-de-protestas-y-exigencias-de-cambio-este-31marzo/ It is also interesting to note that none of the reports that defend Maduro mention that 10% of the population (over 3 million people) have fled the country. I saw one video of people walking and hitch hiking for four days to reach Colombia. If things are more or less normal there, if the support for Maduro remains so widespread, then how can that be? John Reimann -- *“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] Marxist critiques of Human Capital Theory
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. * Hello, Are there Marxist critiques of human capital theory as used by the World Bank, in PDF or some other easily accessible format? Grateful if someone can share links. Steve -- Blog: http://mlauzi.blogspot.com/ Twitter: @stevesharra LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevesharra _ 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] Zionism and Anti-Semitism
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. * *Zionism and Anti-Semitism* /By Yossi Schwartz (Israel / Occupied Palestine)/ https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/zionism-and-anti-semitism/ -- Revolutionär-Kommunistische Organisation BEFREIUNG (Österreichische Sektion der RCIT, www.thecommunists.net) www.rkob.net ak...@rkob.net Tel./SMS/WhatsApp/Telegram: +43-650-4068314 --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _ 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
