Re: [Marxism] Huffington Post: New York Times Apologizes For Anti-Semitic Cartoon In International Edition
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. * "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. On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 2:48 PM Ken Hiebert 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. > * > > 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 > > > > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mkaradjis%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] Huffington Post: New York Times Apologizes For Anti-Semitic Cartoon In International Edition
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 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 _ 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] Ask Ethan: Could The Big Rip Lead To Another Big Bang?
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Re: [Marxism] Huffington Post: New York Times Apologizes For Anti-Semitic Cartoon In International Edition
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 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 _ 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] Statement of solidarity with the Sudanese and Algerian Uprisings
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. * 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
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. * 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 On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 11:10 AM Alan Ginsberg 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. > * > > > https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-york-times-antisemitic-cartoon_n_5cc47e9be4b04eb7ff968179 > _ > 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] Two New Books Dramatically Capture the Climate Change Crisis
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. * 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. _ 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] Two New Books Dramatically Capture the Climate Change Crisis
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 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
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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
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. * 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/ -- 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