Re: [Marxism] Indian elections: the challenges of unseating a racist (Green Left Weekly)

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I think it is a useful service of GLW to publish such interviews in 
order to give a better insight into the situation in India and the 
positions of the left.


However, I think it is utterly wrong for GLW not to so any critical word 
about the positions of the organization which they are advertising.


Kavita Krishnan, a leader of the CPI-ML (Liberation), says in the 
interview that her party is “calling for a vote for opposition 
candidates against the BJP: the priority is to defeat the BJP, 
especially in Bihar and Jarkhand. We are working very hard in the seats 
we are contesting … and in other seats … to support candidates from 
other parties against the BJP.”


Since “the opposition” is the UPA alliance led by the Congress Party, 
this means nothing else but the support of the CPI-ML (Liberation) for 
one of the two main parties of India’s capitalist class. One can hardly 
forget that it was the Congress Party which led three wars against 
Pakistan, which sent troops to occupy party of Sri Lanka, etc.


As Krishnan says in the interview her party even tried (unsuccessfully) 
to join the alliance with the Congress Party!


This position is the Indian version of supporting Clinton against Trump 
and of supporting Democratic Party candidates against Republicans. It is 
the classic Stalinist popular front policy to which the ex-Trotskyist 
GLW seems to accommodate more and more.


Of course, all this is not completely surprising. As one can see from 
the quotes given in the following article, the CPI-ML (Liberation) is a 
truly Indian social-patriotic party which proudly stands “with our army 
against terrorism” (see 
https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/asia/kashmir-social-patriotism-among-indian-left)


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https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/indian-elections-challenges-unseating-racist


Elections in India will take place from April 11 to May 23. Green Left Weekly’s 
Susan Price spoke to Kavita Krishnan, a member of the politburo of the 
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation (CPI-ML) about their 
campaign to challenge Narendra Modi’s far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 
government.

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Re: [Marxism] Libya: Defend Tripoli! Defeat Haftar!

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Well, it should not be so difficult to recognize the difference:

In Afghanistan and Iraq, U.S. imperialism was able to occupy the whole 
country and to install a colonial puppet regime. They controlled most of 
the country for years. Yes, there were local uprisings which temporary 
weakened the control in this or that town/area (e.g. Fallujah 2004 for a 
few months). But by and large the U.S. forces with tens of thousands of 
troops plus their colonial administration dominated the country for a 
number of years. Only after a considerable period their rule weakened 
because of the popular insurgency and they had to retreat.


In Libya there were no U.S. or other NATO troops on the ground (except a 
few special forces which had to stay there in secret). The imperialists 
did not control the country at any point. Guess why they had to close 
their embassies soon?!


It is really difficult to comprehend why it is so difficult for some to 
understand such simple facts!


But, of course, some don't want to recognize these facts because their 
are politically blinded. The basis for this blindness is to be found in 
the increasing collaboration between Saudi Arabia & UAE (which finance 
and support Haftar) and the YPG (see on this e.g. 
https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/the-shameful-response-of-the-kurdish-ypg-on-the-killing-of-the-saudi-journalist-kashoggi/). 
These Gulf monarchies always hated the Arab Revolution (this is why 
Tunisia's Ben Ali - who received strong support by Gaddafi before his 
fall - fled to Saudi Arabia in January 2011 with the country's gold 
reserves). The YPG also never supported the Arab Revolution and is 
currently looking for an agreement with the Assad dictatorship (see on 
this e.g. 
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/01/egypt-mediate-kurds-syria-regime-manbij.html; 
https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/isis-will-be-defeated-in-a-month-says-syrian-kurdish-militia-leader-1.817941; 
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-ypg-exclusive/exclusive-syrian-kurdish-ypg-expects-negotiations-with-damascus-soon-idUSKCN1PI2LO). 
And it is the darling of numerous Stalinist and also some "Trotskyists" 
who also viewed the Arab Revolution sceptical or even hostile. This was 
expressed by their hostility to the Libyan Revolution, to Assad as well 
as their support for the bloody military coup of General Sisi in Egypt. 
(On the Egypt coup and the left see the following pamphlet e.g. 
https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/egypt-and-left-army-socialism/)


Am 13.04.2019 um 01:54 schrieb Chris Slee:

RKOB asks:

"Well, if NATO's role was so decisive for the overthrow of Gaddafi (which
is the usual claim of Stalinists and friends of Assad and Putin), why
did it not imposs its control of the country after 2011?!"

The US and its allies have had great difficulty in controlling Afghanistan and 
Iraq too.  Libya is not qualitatively different.

A large part of Afghanistan is under Taliban control.

In Iraq it proved very difficult to establish a stable pro-US regime, due in 
part to popular hostility to the occupation, but also due to conflicts within 
the Iraqi political elite, and the influence of Iran amongst Iraqi Shia 
politicians and militia leaders.  The Iraqi state was so so weak that in 2014 
ISIS was able to capture a large part of the country, including Mosul.

Overthrowing the former governments (Taliban, Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi) was the 
easy part.  Building a stable new government was much harder.  This applies to 
Libya as well as Afghanistan and Iraq.

Chris Slee

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Well, if NATO's role was so decisive for the overthrow of Gaddafi (which
is the usual claim of Stalinists and friends of Assad and Putin), why
did it not imposs its control of the country after 2011?! Quiet the
opposite, the Western embassies had to withdraw from Libya in the
following years.

For everyone with open eyes, it should not be so difficult to recognize
the difference between Libya 2011 and for example Afghanistan 2001 or
Iraq 2003.

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[Marxism] Indian elections: the challenges of unseating a racist (Green Left Weekly)

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https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/indian-elections-challenges-unseating-racist


Elections in India will take place from April 11 to May 23. Green Left Weekly’s 
Susan Price spoke to Kavita Krishnan, a member of the politburo of the 
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation (CPI-ML) about their 
campaign to challenge Narendra Modi’s far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 
government.

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[Marxism] Who are Venezuela’s colectivos? (Green Left Weekly)

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[Marxism] Ecuadoran corruption scandal behind Assange arrest

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Julian Assange's expulsion from the Ecuadoran embassy in London seems to
have been motivated, at least in part, by the INA papers corruption scandal

https://defend.wikileaks.org/2019/04/03/ecuador-twists-embarrassing-ina-papers-into-pretext-to-oust-assange/
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[Marxism] James Robertson: roast in hell

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Re: [Marxism] Libya: Defend Tripoli! Defeat Haftar!

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RKOB asks:

"Well, if NATO's role was so decisive for the overthrow of Gaddafi (which
is the usual claim of Stalinists and friends of Assad and Putin), why
did it not imposs its control of the country after 2011?!"

The US and its allies have had great difficulty in controlling Afghanistan and 
Iraq too.  Libya is not qualitatively different.

A large part of Afghanistan is under Taliban control.  

In Iraq it proved very difficult to establish a stable pro-US regime, due in 
part to popular hostility to the occupation, but also due to conflicts within 
the Iraqi political elite, and the influence of Iran amongst Iraqi Shia 
politicians and militia leaders.  The Iraqi state was so so weak that in 2014 
ISIS was able to capture a large part of the country, including Mosul.

Overthrowing the former governments (Taliban, Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi) was the 
easy part.  Building a stable new government was much harder.  This applies to 
Libya as well as Afghanistan and Iraq.

Chris Slee

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Well, if NATO's role was so decisive for the overthrow of Gaddafi (which
is the usual claim of Stalinists and friends of Assad and Putin), why
did it not imposs its control of the country after 2011?! Quiet the
opposite, the Western embassies had to withdraw from Libya in the
following years.

For everyone with open eyes, it should not be so difficult to recognize
the difference between Libya 2011 and for example Afghanistan 2001 or
Iraq 2003.

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> I found this article to be in a state of total denial about the role of
> NATO in overthrowing the dictatorship. As if they played no role at all!
> Wow. What BS. It's highly likely that the original Benghazi rebellion would
> of been wiped out had it not been for French/NATO bombardment and
> destruction of Qaddafi's armor division. NATO also played an essential role
> in providing intelligence to the troops closing in on Qaddafi's convoy out
> of Tripoli and also, as it happens, destroyed most of that convoy. I'm
> don't believe that this was a question of no agency by the Libyan masses
> but to deny the role of NATO is to deny reality.
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[Marxism] Workers at the American Museum of Natural History Protest Gala for Bolsonaro | Left Voice

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Re: [Marxism] Socialism and Democracy

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On 4/12/19 6:35 PM, george.snedeker via Marxism wrote:

I am looking for someone to review the following book for the Journal, 
Socialism and Democracy:

  


Socialist Defecter

By Victor Grossman



Here is the Blurb on the book from Monthly Review Press:

   


The circumstances that impelled Victor Grossman, a U.S. Army draftee stationed 
in Europe, to flee a military prison sentence were the icy pressures of the 
McCarthy Era. Grossman-a.k.a. Steve Wechsler, a committed leftist since his 
years at Harvard and, briefly, as a factory worker-left his barracks in Bavaria 
one August day in 1952, and, in a panic, swam across the Danube River from the 
Austrian U.S. Zone to the Soviet Zone. Fate-i.e., the Soviets-landed him in 
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic. There he remained, 
observer and participant, husband and father, as he watched the rise and 
successes, the travails, and the eventual demise of the GDR socialist 
experiment. A Socialist Defector is the story, told in rare, personal detail, 
of an activist and writer who grew up in the U.S. free-market economy; spent 
thirty-eight years in the GDR's nationally owned, centrally administered 
economy; and continues to survive, given whatever the market can bear, in 
today's uni
  ted Germany.



The book is great. I have a review lined up for next Friday but I 
encourage you to volunteer to write a review for S just to get a free 
copy. Victor Grossman is real raconteur who combines a wry sense of 
humor with some fascinating insights into East Germany that get past the 
stereotypes found in movies about the Stasi, etc. This comment on my 
excerpt from the book by Marxmail comrade John Edmundson should give you 
an idea that there was more to East German realities then the typical 
tearing down the wall in order to get bananas and porn narrative:



My wife was coincidentally in Berlin on a Journalistes en Europ 
scholarship when the wall came down. She spent a lot of time between the 
two Berlins. Despite the Stasi and the seeming austere nature of the 
East, it was two other things really stuck in her mind from that time. 
One was that people were not defined by their work. They did other 
things with their time – belonged to groups based on their interests 
etc. No obsession with what you ‘do’ and what you earn. The other was 
that they didn’t seem to want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. 
Somewhat naively perhaps, they wanted the ‘socialist’ model but with the 
freedom that the West seemed to offer, particularly travel. They really 
appreciated the security the state provided around the essentials of 
life, especially things like cheap childcare. And whenever my wife went 
back to the West it seemed crass – garish neon and billboards, evidence 
of drug addiction and a pressure that seemed overwhelming. She doesn’t 
nostalgise about East Germany, she’s no Stalinist, but she knows there 
were elements there of what could have been.


Romania in contrast felt like Hell on Earth . . .

Cheers,
John

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[Marxism] Socialism and Democracy

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I am looking for someone to review the following book for the Journal, 
Socialism and Democracy:

 

Socialist Defecter 

By Victor Grossman



Here is the Blurb on the book from Monthly Review Press:

  

The circumstances that impelled Victor Grossman, a U.S. Army draftee stationed 
in Europe, to flee a military prison sentence were the icy pressures of the 
McCarthy Era. Grossman-a.k.a. Steve Wechsler, a committed leftist since his 
years at Harvard and, briefly, as a factory worker-left his barracks in Bavaria 
one August day in 1952, and, in a panic, swam across the Danube River from the 
Austrian U.S. Zone to the Soviet Zone. Fate-i.e., the Soviets-landed him in 
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic. There he remained, 
observer and participant, husband and father, as he watched the rise and 
successes, the travails, and the eventual demise of the GDR socialist 
experiment. A Socialist Defector is the story, told in rare, personal detail, 
of an activist and writer who grew up in the U.S. free-market economy; spent 
thirty-eight years in the GDR's nationally owned, centrally administered 
economy; and continues to survive, given whatever the market can bear, in 
today's united Germany.

 

If you would like to review this book, write to me at 
george.snede...@verizon.net

 

George Snedeker

Book Review Editor


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[Marxism] The Fall of Sudan’s “Morsisi”

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[Marxism] Paul Buhle: A People's Historian

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Re: [Marxism] A sectarian passes on

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‘Retired’ is a relative term when it comes to Robertson, who died on 7 April.

I wouldn’t leap to underestimate his involvement in the recent line changes on 
the national question by the Spartacists.

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> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 08:14:23 -0400
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> James Robertson, the founder of the Spartacist League, has croaked. Born 
> in 1928, he retired from political life decades ago.
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[Marxism] The Russian Film Industry Under Putin | Wilson Center

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[Marxism] Fwd: NEW OPENING DATE: THE FILMS OF ABBAS KIAROSTAMI, touring theatrical retrospective starts July 26 in NY and rolls out nationally through 2019

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THE FILMS OF ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

TOURING NATIONAL RETROSPECTIVE

INCLUDES NEW RESTORATIONS OF THE KOKER TRILOGY, THE TASTE OF CHERRY, 
RARE SHORTS, DOCUMENTARIES, AND MORE


NEW OPENING DATE
Now opens July 26, 2019 at IFC Center in New York
**Previously announced August 2, 2019**

Janus Films presents a touring retrospective spanning the master’s 
career, including new restorations undertaken by the Criterion 
Collection and mk2 with the invaluable contribution of Ahmad Kiarostami. 
Additional touring dates to come.


“Abbas Kiarostami is one of the true poets of cinema, but his work has 
not always been easily accessible,” said Peter Becker, President of the 
Criterion Collection/Janus Films. “We couldn’t be prouder to be working 
with his son Ahmad and our partners at mk2 on these new restorations to 
reveal the full scope of his vision, from his wonderful, rarely-screened 
early children's films to the quietly majestic triumph of TheKoker Trilogy."


Full retrospective includes:

The Koker Trilogy
WHERE IS THE FRIEND'S HOUSE?
AND LIFE GOES ON
THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES

Feature Films
THE EXPERIENCE
THE TRAVELER
A WEDDING SUIT
CASE NO. 1, CASE NO. 2
FELLOW CITIZEN
FIRST GRADERS
HOMEWORK
CLOSE-UP
TASTE OF CHERRY
SHIRIN
24 FRAMES

Children's Shorts
THE BREAD AND ALLEY
BREAKTIME
SO CAN I
TWO SOLUTIONS FOR ONE PROBLEM
THE COLORS
HOW TO MAKE USE OF LEISURE TIME
TRIBUTE TO TEACHERS
SOLUTION
TOOTHACHE
ORDERLY OR DISORDERLY
THE CHORUS

About the director
Abbas Kiarostami is one of the most acclaimed and influential of Iran’s 
major filmmakers. After studying painting and graphic design, he moved 
into filmmaking at the Iranian Institute for the Intellectual 
Development of Children and Young Adults in 1969, for which he made 
numerous children’s shorts and documentaries over the next two decades.


International renown came with the “Koker Trilogy,” three films – Where 
Is My Friend’s House?(1987), And Life Goes On (1992), and Through the 
Olive Trees(1994) – that were shot in the village of Koker, with each 
film reflecting back on making of its predecessor. In between, 
Kiarostami made Close-up(1990), which furthered the director’s interest 
in the lines between fiction and documentary, and ended this remarkable 
period with the Palme d’Or-winning Taste of Cherry(1997) and The Wind 
Will Carry Us(1999).


In the new millennium, Kiarostami broadened his creative focus, devoting 
more time to forms including photography, installation art, and poetry, 
and embraced low-budget digital filmmaking with films like Ten (2002) 
and Shirin (2008). At the decade’s end, he went abroad to make two 
dramatic features, both centering on male-female relations: Certified 
Copy(2010) in Italy, and Like Someone in Love (2012) in Japan. In 2016, 
while in the midst of working on his final film 24 
Frames(2018),Kiarostami was hospitalized and underwent two operations. 
He was transferred to Paris in June of the same year, and died there on 
July 4 at the age of 76.



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[Marxism] SWP 1977 Bob P - SL - Making of an American Sect.pdf

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[Marxism] A red-green manifesto for the 21st century

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No shortcuts: The climate revolution must be ecosocialist.

Only a mass socialist, feminist, internationalist, pro-peasant,
anti-racist, indigenous, and anti-colonial movement can save humanity

Declaration was drafted by Daniel Tanuro and adopted by the national
leadership of Belgium’s Gauche Anticapitaliste. Translated for Climate &
Capitalism by Richard Fidler

https://climateandcapitalism.com/2019/04/12/no-shortcuts-the-climate-revolution-must-be-ecosocialist/




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[Marxism] No shortcuts: The climate revolution must be ecosocialist

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[Marxism] DeGrowth, the Green New Deal and This Island Earth | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Back in the early 1970s, the Socialist Workers Party was well on its way 
to becoming the largest group on the left in the USA. To a large part, 
Peter Camejo’s speeches were responsible for this. He was not only good 
at explaining why you should become a socialist but doing so in an 
entertaining manner. One of the jokes that never failed to get a laugh 
was his description of an abundant life under socialism. Money wouldn’t 
be necessary. You’d go to a state-owned grocery store and be able to 
walk out with a shopping cart overflowing with filet mignons. This would 
not prompt an arrest but a referral to a psychiatrist because who in the 
world would do such a thing.


Although Peter would eventually adopt an ecosocialist outlook that would 
have made such a joke obsolete, he was reflecting a certain kind of 
techno-optimism that characterized our movement. Its prophet Leon 
Trotsky wrote an article in 1926 titled “Radio, Science, Technique and 
Society” that exclaimed: “The atom contains within itself a mighty 
hidden energy, and the greatest task of physics consists in pumping out 
this energy, pulling out the cork so that this hidden energy may burst 
forth in a fountain. Then the possibility will be opened up of replacing 
coal and oil by atomic energy, which will also become the basic motive 
power.”


full: 
https://louisproyect.org/2019/04/12/degrowth-the-green-new-deal-and-this-island-earth/

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[Marxism] Neoliberalism and UN Climate Policymaking

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https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-04-11/existential-risk-neoliberalism-and-un-climate-policymaking/
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[Marxism] How Big Business Is Hedging Against the Apocalypse

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NY Times, APRIL 11, 2019
How Big Business Is Hedging Against the Apocalypse
By JESSE BARRON 

Rex Tillerson stood under a 32-foot pipe organ at the Morton H. Meyerson 
Symphony Center in Dallas, explaining how the world worked. It was May 
2015, in the middle of an oil-price crash, and Exxon Mobil’s earnings 
had fallen 46 percent compared with the same quarter the year before. 
But Tillerson, then Exxon’s chief executive, told his shareholders to be 
confident in the future. Oil and gas furnished billions of people, 
including the very poor, with cheap, reliable fuel — a fact not easily 
negated by a weak fiscal quarter. “Our view reflects the reality,” 
Tillerson said, “that abundant energy enables modern life.”


Later that morning, a Capuchin Franciscan friar rose to speak. A 
so-called faith-based investor, Michael Crosby belonged to a tight 
circle of religious leaders who bought stock in public companies in the 
hope of exerting a moral influence on them. While Tillerson, head of one 
of the largest oil companies in the world and a power broker in 
international geopolitics, was accustomed to ignoring protesters, Crosby 
proved more tactical than most. He submitted a motion to appoint a 
climate-change expert to Exxon’s board, which gave him the floor for 
several minutes. Then he laid into Tillerson for having uttered “not one 
word or syllable” about climate change. He asked why Saudi Arabia 
invested in solar panels while Exxon spent nothing. “You’re living out 
of the past,” he told Tillerson.


At Exxon’s annual meetings — as in most rooms where important business 
happens — people speak in the subdued patter of corporate jargon, 
language that camouflages the reality it describes. So in the 2,000-seat 
auditorium, it would have taken a moment to appreciate the gravity of 
what Crosby was actually describing, which was not a few numbers on a 
balance sheet but something closer to the fate of the species. Global 
energy consumption is rocketing upward every year: The Energy 
Information Administration expects it to climb another 28 percent within 
a generation. Hydropower, wind and solar contribute about 22 percent of 
the total, and their share grows yearly. But the net amount of energy 
generated by hydrocarbons is growing yearly, too. It’s all rising 
because demand is rising. Global hydrocarbon producers, meanwhile, have 
so much product in reserve that burning even half of it would leave us 
with slightly worse than heads-or-tails odds of staying under the 
two-degree-Celsius threshold that, according to climate models, could 
bring mass famine, drought, flooding and fires.


From his spot beneath the pipe organ, Tillerson regarded the friar. 
“Like it or not,” he said, the world would depend on fossil fuels “for 
the next several decades” — well into the middle of the century. This 
was Tillerson’s line whenever people asked him about the future of 
hydrocarbons: Remind them how dependent they are and paint alternatives 
as childlike fantasies. Tillerson said the motion for a climate-change 
expert would be defeated. Turning to renewables, he dismissed them as a 
sucker’s bet. “Quite frankly, Father Crosby,” he said, “we choose not to 
lose money on purpose.” The crowd at the Symphony Center showered him 
with applause.


Three years later, an Irishman named Declan Flanagan, chief executive of 
the renewables company Lincoln Clean Energy, was addressing his own 
shareholders in Copenhagen when he delivered a cryptic announcement. 
Lincoln, he said, was going to build a solar farm in the Permian Basin — 
the heart of West Texas oil country — with funding put up by a 
“blue-chip counterparty.” Flanagan let this hang for a moment in the 
room while he breezed through a jargony update on regulatory matters. 
Finally he returned to the story. “I mentioned the blue-chip 
counterparty,” he reminded his listeners. “That,” he said in his strong 
Irish accent, “is Exxon Mobil.”


‘It’s a fast-moving area with even more uncertainty than an uncertain 
world.’


Between Exxon’s meeting in Dallas and Flanagan’s announcement in 
Copenhagen, the oil giant had installed a new chief executive — 
Tillerson having exited for a brief sojourn in Washington — but had not 
experienced a change of heart. No decision had been made to execute a 
bootleg turn away from hydrocarbons. Exxon’s executives, like everyone 
in the energy business, had watched as the cost of renewable power 
tumbled ever lower in Texas, where a lattice of high-tension power lines 
carried electricity from the bright, windy plains of the far West and 
the Panhandle to the thirsty cities below. Far from feeling worried, 
Exxon 

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A search for articles at this link by and about Robertson yields some
> interesting material, especially on how to assess the Cuban Revolution --
> the issue over which his sectarian character reached full flower.
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[Marxism] Yellow Vest Movement Struggles to Reinvent Democracy as Macron Cranks Up Propaganda and Repression

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By Richard Greeman.

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[Marxism] CounterPunch on Stage: The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda

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By the irrepressible Ishmael Reed.

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[Marxism] A sectarian passes on

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James Robertson, the founder of the Spartacist League, has croaked. Born 
in 1928, he retired from political life decades ago.

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[Marxism] Learn the lessons - Weekly Worker

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I generally don't have much use for the gossipy CPGB newspaper but this 
is a measured and useful commentary on the ISO dissolution.


https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1246/learn-the-lessons/
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Re: [Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Why Do Coops Hate Unions? - Organizing Work

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[Marxism] Silicon Valley, once a bastion of libertarianism, sees a budding socialist movement | Salon.com

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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Why Do Coops Hate Unions? - Organizing Work

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