Re: [Marxism] Huffington Post: New York Times Apologizes For Anti-Semitic Cartoon In International Edition

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"And the yarmulke on Trump’s head, what point does that make?"

I think it suggests that America is being run by a Jew, and that's why it
is so strongly supportive of Israel.
I usually agree with Amith on these issues, but I think here the cartoon is
pretty disgusting.

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> I don’t know what the cartoonist intended, but the cartoon has problems.
> There is a distinction to be made if you want to indicate Israel with a
> Star of David.  On the Israeli flag it appears between two bars.  By itself
> it might indicate Israel or it might simply indicate someone or something
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Re: [Marxism] Huffington Post: New York Times Apologizes For Anti-Semitic Cartoon In International Edition

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I don’t know what the cartoonist intended, but the cartoon has problems.  There 
is a distinction to be made if you want to indicate Israel with a Star of 
David.  On the Israeli flag it appears between two bars.  By itself it might 
indicate Israel or it might simply indicate someone or something Jewish.
If you want to indicate Israel, why not use the flag?

And the yarmulke on Trump’s head, what point does that make?  How does that 
help anyone to understand the relationship between the US and Israel?

ken h



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[Marxism] Ask Ethan: Could The Big Rip Lead To Another Big Bang?

2019-04-28 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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Re: [Marxism] Huffington Post: New York Times Apologizes For Anti-Semitic Cartoon In International Edition

2019-04-28 Thread John Obrien via Marxism
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I found the cartoon to have troubling symbolage with the use of the Star of 
David and the Yamika on Trump, as being anti-Jewish.
It follows a historical usage of anti-Jew hatred.   Those as myself who are not 
of Jewish ancestry, need to be aware and sensitive to
how such images and messages, are used to spread hate.   That the Star of David 
was used by zionist to promote their state and views,
is to suggest that other symbols used by one segment or sector of another 
identity group - represents ALL of that group.

I am no fan of any organized religion.  Too often myelf been attaked by 
religious fanatics, but I understand the difference of one or a
group, as for the whole ancestry of a people and those with religious beliefs, 
being ALL bad and an enemy and to be feared and hated.
It is why I oppose zionism and all forms of wrong misplaced superiority over 
others.

I took the time to learn about history of injustice - and hate and fear of 
those "different".  As a atheist, I will wear a Star of David,
or another symbol, if a way to show resistance to wrong and of usually 
religious based intolerance, focused on those "different".





As usual, anti-Semitism conflated with anti-Zionism by arguing some sort of
vague rhetorical similarity. NYT's apology is simply an extension of the
paper's regular Zionist and anti-Arab & anti-Muslim propaganda.

Amith R. Gupta

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Re: [Marxism] Statement of solidarity with the Sudanese and Algerian Uprisings

2019-04-28 Thread Joseph Green via Marxism
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It's excellent that this statement appeared at this time. I've signed it, and 
also 
written in support on it on the Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice list (April 27):

Support the Sudanese and Algerian uprisings!

We reproduce below a statement of solidarity by many prominent leftists with 
the 
mass uprisings in Sudan and Algeria. It calls for people to learn more about 
these 
struggles and take part in solidarity actions supporting them. At a time when 
one 
struggle after another in the Arab Spring has been drowned in blood, the new 
upsurge in Sudan and Algeria has shown that the masses will never submit to 
tyranny. It's important to express solidarity with these struggles so as to 
help 
paralyze foreign intervention against them. And, in our view, another reason to 
support solidarity statements is to prevent these struggles from being 
denounced 
by sham "anti-imperialists" as the struggle against the Syrian dictator Assad 
has 
been denounced. 

So we wholeheartedly welcome this solidarity statement, although we have a 
somewhat different view of the perspective for these struggles than is put 
forward 
in this statement. It points to the important stand of the people of these 
countries 
that it isn't sufficient to get rid of "an individual figurehead", but that 
there has to 
the complete removal of the old regime. Very true. But the statement creates 
the 
impression that the overthrow of old regimes would mean the not just political 
liberation from dictatorship, but economic liberation as well. In our view, 
these 
important uprisings in Algeria and Sudan will, even if completely successful, 
only 
achieve some economic relief, but not economic liberation. These uprisings, if 
successful, will open the road for the working class to be able to organize 
itself in 
a wider and more profound fashion. It will be the start of an intensified class 
struggle, in which the working masses will struggle for their needs and for 
fundamental economic change. This is the path forward; there is no other. But 
it is 
a long path, and there will not be a decisive economic victory at the outset.

This was the perspective for the Arab Spring as well. We supported it 
unwaveringly from its beginning in 2011, both during the moments of inspiring 
success and in the long years of bloody setbacks as the old forces or 
dictatorship 
sought revenge. But we also pointed out, even at the beginning of the 
struggles, 
even during the moments of revolutionary euphoria, that even if these struggles 
were completely successful, they would not bring economic liberation. They were 
neither anti-imperialist struggles nor even very radical economically, and even 
if 
the old regimes were uprooted, the resulting regimes would likely be 
disappointing in many ways. This is because the democratic movement isn't the 
same as the socialist movement. And the forces behind this great democratic 
upsurge in the Middle East and North Africa were variegated in class 
composition, 
while the local working class movements had limited strength. Nevertheless the 
overthrow of the old dictators would lift a heavy weight from the backs of the 
working people, and open the way for further struggle. It would be a momentous 
occasion that would change the Middle East and North Africa and end the long 
stagnation of political life.

We put forward this perspective not to throw cold water on solidarity, but to 
encourage solidarity and to fight the doubts about the Middle Eastern and North 
African movements that were growing in the left. We said this not to inhibit 
economic demands in these movements, but to provide the best support for 
them. Not the theory of "permanent revolution", nor the idea that 
"self-organization" would immediately cast aside capitalism in one community at 
a 
time, but a realistic assessment of the class struggle would sustain support 
for 
these struggles. (See our articles from 2011 "Against left-wing doubts about 
the 
democratic movement" and "Leninism and the Arab Spring" [1].

 The same perspective is true for the struggles in Sudan and Algeria. The 
different economic interests in the opposition to the dictatorship, and the 
state of 
organization of the masses has to be taken into account. Just because the 
solidarity statement doesn't mention these issues directly, doesn't mean that 
they 
don't affect what happens in these countries and the world. Just because some 
political trends don't understand the difference between democratic and 
socialist 
movements, doesn't mean that this difference doesn't exist. And failure to 
understand it inhibits the development of the working class section of 

Re: [Marxism] Huffington Post: New York Times Apologizes For Anti-Semitic Cartoon In International Edition

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As usual, anti-Semitism conflated with anti-Zionism by arguing some sort of
vague rhetorical similarity. NYT's apology is simply an extension of the
paper's regular Zionist and anti-Arab & anti-Muslim propaganda.

Amith R. Gupta


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Re: [Marxism] Two New Books Dramatically Capture the Climate Change Crisis

2019-04-28 Thread Ralph Johansen via Marxism

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Of course, being who they are, the NYT misses the crucial sequence that 
defines the prospects: capitalism is a system of producing goods which 
depends totally on profitable return on investment, without which 
investment is pointless and will not take place. In which case 
capitalism, predicated on continued expansion from successive increments 
of accumulation, would collapse. There is no room within such a system 
for the drastic measures which are essential to preserving our 
environment, among which foremost is no further growth, in the sense of 
the incremental accretion of commodities on which capitalism depends, no 
further capital accumulation. Which is why, under the spell of 
capitalism and its distortions and misinformation about results and 
prospects, most of the rest of us have hardly a clue as to what must be 
done, more than likely until it is way too late. That awareness is 
indispensable to the task of system change. It certainly won't emanate 
from the corporate boardrooms or their governmental satraps. Figure that 
out and we might have reason for the hope that NYT reassures us about.


Louis Proyect wrote

NY Times Sunday Book Review, April 28, 2019
Two New Books Dramatically Capture the Climate Change Crisis
By John Lanchester

THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH

   Life After Warming
   By David Wallace-Wells

   LOSING EARTH
   A Climate History
   By Nathaniel Rich

   Climate change is the greatest challenge humanity has collectively
   faced. That challenge is, to put it mildly, practical; but it also
   poses a problem to the imagination. Our politics, our societies, are
   arranged around individual and group interests. These interests have
   to do with class, or ethnicity, or gender, or economics — make your
   own list. By asserting these interests, we call out to each other so
   that as a collective we see and hear one another. From that
   beginning, we construct the three overlapping, interacting R’s of
   recognition, representation and rights.

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[Marxism] Two New Books Dramatically Capture the Climate Change Crisis

2019-04-28 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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NY Times Sunday Book Review, April 28, 2019
Two New Books Dramatically Capture the Climate Change Crisis
By John Lanchester

THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH
Life After Warming
By David Wallace-Wells

LOSING EARTH
A Climate History
By Nathaniel Rich

Climate change is the greatest challenge humanity has collectively 
faced. That challenge is, to put it mildly, practical; but it also poses 
a problem to the imagination. Our politics, our societies, are arranged 
around individual and group interests. These interests have to do with 
class, or ethnicity, or gender, or economics — make your own list. By 
asserting these interests, we call out to each other so that as a 
collective we see and hear one another. From that beginning, we 
construct the three overlapping, interacting R’s of recognition, 
representation and rights.


The problem with climate change, as an existential challenge to 
humanity, is that the interest-based model of society and politics 
doesn’t work. Most of the people in whose interest we are demanding 
action aren’t here. They haven’t been born yet. And because the areas 
first and most affected by climate change are the poorest regions of 
earth, we are talking about the least seen, least represented group on 
our planet. We have to imagine these people into being, and then grant 
them rights, and then take unprecedented, society-wide action on that basis.


The demand climate change makes on us is to feel empathy for the unborn 
poor of the global south, and change our economies to act on the basis 
of their needs. That’s something humanity has never done before.


Pessimism would be an ethical catastrophe. It leads only to despair, 
despair to inaction, and inaction to a future world David Attenborough 
has described as “the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction 
of much of the natural world.” To avoid the most terrible possible 
versions of our future, we have to stay positive; it’s the only moral 
response to this crisis. And there are grounds to do so, as David 
Wallace-Wells argues in his brilliant new book, “The Uninhabitable 
Earth: Life After Warming”: “We have all the tools we need, today, to 
stop it all: a carbon tax and the political apparatus to aggressively 
phase out dirty energy, a new approach to agricultural practices and a 
shift away from beef and dairy in the global diet; and public investment 
in green energy and carbon capture.”


Global emissions could be cut by a third if the richest 10 percent of 
humanity cut their use of energy to the same level as affluent, 
comfortable Europe. One prospective technique to scrub carbon from the 
atmosphere would cost $3 trillion a year, a colossal amount — but 
significantly less than the current level of subsidies paid out globally 
for fossil fuel, estimated at $5 trillion. Taken all in all, solutions 
are “obvious” and “available.” The only obstacle to implementing them is 
political will.


This litany of ideas might make “The Uninhabitable Earth” sound upbeat. 
That would be misleading. At the heart of Wallace-Wells’s book is a 
remorseless, near-unbearable account of what we are doing to our planet. 
Climate change is “not just the biggest threat human life on the planet 
has ever faced but a threat of an entirely different category and 
scale,” he writes. Even if collective action manages to keep us to 2 
degrees Celsius of warming — a target it looks like we are currently on 
course to miss — we would be facing a world in which “the ice sheets 
will begin their collapse, global G.D.P. per capita will be cut by 13 
percent, 400 million more people will suffer from water scarcity, major 
cities in the equatorial band of the planet will become unlivable, and 
even in the northern latitudes heat waves will kill thousands each summer.”


But remember, he writes, “this is our best case scenario.” Wallace-Wells 
takes us through a compendium of the ways in which things could get so 
much worse, from simple “heat death” through catastrophic storms, 
droughts, flooding, wildfires, pollution, plague, economic collapse and 
war. We will see migration on a scale the world has never experienced: 
United Nations and World Bank estimates of how many people will be 
forcibly displaced by the middle of this century range from the tens to 
the hundreds of millions. All of this will affect the world’s poor far 
more than the world’s rich. The innocent, who have done the least to 
damage the environment through the consumption of fossil fuels, will 
suffer more than the guilty.


“The Uninhabitable Earth” gives readers’ emotions a thorough workout 
along that pessimism-to-despair spectrum, before we are brought 

[Marxism] Huffington Post: New York Times Apologizes For Anti-Semitic Cartoon In International Edition

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[Marxism] Unanswered Questions in the Mueller Report

2019-04-28 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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By John Risen.

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[Marxism] ZCommunications » US GDP 1st Qtr 2019 Analysis–The Facts Behind the Hype

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[Marxism] Haftar’s Attempted Coup and Trump’s Collusion over Libya – LobeLog

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[Marxism] bellingcat - Ignore The Poway Synagogue Shooter’s Manifesto: Pay Attention To 8chan’s /pol/ Board - bellingcat

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[Marxism] Hatred of One is Hatred of All: San Diego Synagogue Shooter had Attempted to Burn down Mosque

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[Marxism] China: Two Telling Trends

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China: Two Telling Trends

New data from the OECD verifies once again the imperialist character of 
China’s economy


By Michael Pröbsting

https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/asia/imperialist-china-two-telling-trends/

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