[Marxism] Joint Statement: Stop the new aggression of Israel in Gaza!

2019-05-06 Thread RKOB via Marxism

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*Stop the new aggression of Israel in Gaza!!! // Alto a la nueva 
agresión de Israel en Gaza!!!*


/Joint Statement // Declaración conjunta/

Revolutionary Communist International Tendency // Corriente Comunista 
Revolucionaria Internacional (RCIT)


International Workers’ Unity-Fourth International // Unidad 
Internacional de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores – Cuarta Internacional (UIT-CI)


6 May 2019 // 6 de mayo de 2019

https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/joint-statement-of-rcit-and-uit-ci-stop-the-new-aggression-of-israel-in-gaza/

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[Marxism] The Hidden History of Slavery in New York | The Nation

2019-05-06 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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[Marxism] Pluralism Lost in Syria’s Uprising

2019-05-06 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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While secular activists’ position is closer to the truth, it still omits 
an important part of the reason for the revolution’s failure. Syria’s 
mainstream opposition failed to articulate an inclusive definition of 
citizenship and an inclusive alternative that could allay the fears of 
minorities, secularists, and other sectors of the society—including 
Sunnis, who opposed the Assad regime but failed to see a place for 
themselves in the future envisioned by the armed opposition. Regime 
violence, repression, and international support best explain the Assad 
regime’s resilience, but the opposition’s own platform still bears 
scrutiny. The armed opposition’s failure to craft a compelling vision of 
Syrian citizenship and an inclusive alternative explains a significant 
degree of the limits on its popular appeal. It was never able to reflect 
the inclusive appeal of the initial protest movement that gathered large 
sectors of the Syrian population from various backgrounds.


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[Marxism] The Reality Behind the ‘Surging’ U.S. Economy | Sarah Anderson | Common Dreams

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[Marxism] Trump May Redefine Poverty, Cutting Americans From Welfare Rolls - Bloomberg

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[Marxism] Is Tucker Carlson becoming woke? | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Re: [Marxism] "Putin Punches Above his Weight"

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A remarkably right-wing account of careful Russian counter-moves against US 
imperialism - that of course misrepresents the situation in Venezuela, Ukraine, 
etc.


> On May 6, 2019, at 11:48 AM, John Reimann via Marxism 
>  wrote:
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> 
> As if by magic, this column by Gerald Seib - who is probably the most
> important columnist for the WSJ - appears today. Seib makes clear that
> economic power is far from the only concern for US imperialism. He also
> makes clear that even the WSJ, normally so supportive of Trump nowadays, is
> unhappy with his recent comments about Russia and Venezuela. (More on this
> issue coming.)
> https://www.wsj.com/articles/putin-punches-above-his-weight-1155715?mod=hp_lead_pos10
> 
> You’ve got to give Vladimir Putin his due: The man knows how to play a weak
> hand well.
> 
> With relatively little investment, the Russian leader is expanding his
> toehold in the Western Hemisphere and potentially getting access to giant
> oil and uranium supplies by backing a dictator in Venezuela
> 
> .
> 
> With relatively little investment, he has expanded his base of operations
> in the Middle East by propping up a dictator in Syria
> 
> and
> by trying to send some sophisticated Russian military equipment into
> Turkey. (For the latter effort, he’d actually turn a profit.)
> 
> And with relatively little investment, and little notice from a distracted
> international community, he has kept up a low-level war against those
> fighting a Russian takeover in eastern Ukraine
> ,
> holding on to a bargaining chip he might find useful someday.
> 
> He does all this while overseeing an economy roughly the size of South
> Korea’s, which produces little or nothing the world wants to buy, outside
> of oil and military gear.
> 
> It’s an audacious strategy—and it is working. Never was that more clear
> than last week, when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security
> adviser John Boltoncited Russian support
> 
> as
> the only reason Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro remained in his country
> in the face of an organized uprising by his opponents and elements of his
> own military.
> 
> In return, Mr. Putin got not opprobrium from the U.S., which is openly
> backing the Maduro foes, but instead a phone call lasting more than an hour
> 
> with
> President Trump, in which they discussed Venezuela as well as other world
> hot spots.
> 
> In short, Mr. Putin appears to recognize the moment he is in, and what to
> do about it. After almost two decades of a focus on combating terrorism and
> Islamic extremism, the world is evolving into a new era of big-power
> competition. The U.S. and China are the two big competitors now, of course,
> but Mr. Putin is making sure Russia is the third.
> 
> His problem is that Russia doesn’t have the economic might of the U.S. and
> China. So he brings to the table what he can, which is basically the
> ability to make trouble and thereby insert himself into the global mix.
> 
> Thus, Russia became an early world leader in the 21st-century tool of
> unconventional combat—cyber warfare. The Kremlin combined that skill with
> its traditional willingness to engage in the dark arts of covert action to
> interfere with the 2016 election in the U.S., as well as other elections in
> the West.
> 
> As the U.S. tries to maintain economic pressure on North Korea, Russia
> provides just enough economic relief to Pyongyang
> 
> to
> ensure that Moscow has to be a player in how the standoff over North
> Korea’s nuclear program plays out.
> 
> Meanwhile, Mr. Putin is wedging himself into the space between East and
> West by offering to sell Russia’s 

[Marxism] "Putin Punches Above his Weight"

2019-05-06 Thread John Reimann via Marxism
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As if by magic, this column by Gerald Seib - who is probably the most
important columnist for the WSJ - appears today. Seib makes clear that
economic power is far from the only concern for US imperialism. He also
makes clear that even the WSJ, normally so supportive of Trump nowadays, is
unhappy with his recent comments about Russia and Venezuela. (More on this
issue coming.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/putin-punches-above-his-weight-1155715?mod=hp_lead_pos10

You’ve got to give Vladimir Putin his due: The man knows how to play a weak
hand well.

With relatively little investment, the Russian leader is expanding his
toehold in the Western Hemisphere and potentially getting access to giant
oil and uranium supplies by backing a dictator in Venezuela

.

With relatively little investment, he has expanded his base of operations
in the Middle East by propping up a dictator in Syria

and
by trying to send some sophisticated Russian military equipment into
Turkey. (For the latter effort, he’d actually turn a profit.)

And with relatively little investment, and little notice from a distracted
international community, he has kept up a low-level war against those
fighting a Russian takeover in eastern Ukraine
,
holding on to a bargaining chip he might find useful someday.

He does all this while overseeing an economy roughly the size of South
Korea’s, which produces little or nothing the world wants to buy, outside
of oil and military gear.

It’s an audacious strategy—and it is working. Never was that more clear
than last week, when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security
adviser John Boltoncited Russian support

as
the only reason Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro remained in his country
in the face of an organized uprising by his opponents and elements of his
own military.

In return, Mr. Putin got not opprobrium from the U.S., which is openly
backing the Maduro foes, but instead a phone call lasting more than an hour

with
President Trump, in which they discussed Venezuela as well as other world
hot spots.

In short, Mr. Putin appears to recognize the moment he is in, and what to
do about it. After almost two decades of a focus on combating terrorism and
Islamic extremism, the world is evolving into a new era of big-power
competition. The U.S. and China are the two big competitors now, of course,
but Mr. Putin is making sure Russia is the third.

His problem is that Russia doesn’t have the economic might of the U.S. and
China. So he brings to the table what he can, which is basically the
ability to make trouble and thereby insert himself into the global mix.

Thus, Russia became an early world leader in the 21st-century tool of
unconventional combat—cyber warfare. The Kremlin combined that skill with
its traditional willingness to engage in the dark arts of covert action to
interfere with the 2016 election in the U.S., as well as other elections in
the West.

As the U.S. tries to maintain economic pressure on North Korea, Russia
provides just enough economic relief to Pyongyang

to
ensure that Moscow has to be a player in how the standoff over North
Korea’s nuclear program plays out.

Meanwhile, Mr. Putin is wedging himself into the space between East and
West by offering to sell Russia’s S-400 air-defense system to Turkey, which
happens to be a member of the American-led North Atlantic Treaty
Organization. After members of Congress declared that Turkey couldn’t both
buy the American-made F-35 jet fighter and have a Russian air-defense
system geared toward shooting down that same jet, Russia stepped up and
said it also would sell its own jet fighters to Turkey instead.

Only in the second instance, most likely, is the Putin goal to gain some
particular advantage or asset. Russia fishes in troubled waters. One day it
may catch something that turns out to be valuable.What is Russia’s goal in
all this? Probably, in the first instance, it’s simply to keep Russia in
the global game. By ensuring that 

[Marxism] Six Questions for Zack Foster Who Wants The Trump/Rubio Coup in Venezuela To Succeed | Washington Babylon

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https://washingtonbabylon.com/six-questions-for-zack-foster-who-wants-the-trump-rubio-coup-in-venezuela-to-succeed/


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[Marxism] Frank Zappa Explains Fake News in 16 Seconds | Washington Babylon

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[Marxism] George R.R. Martin Fans Will Love the ‘Wild Cards’ Series | Washington Babylon

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[Marxism] Katha Pollitt: A Radical Reunion: Harvard’s Student Strikers, 50 Years Later

2019-05-06 Thread Alan Ginsberg via Marxism
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We are older, grayer and for the most part, more rotund—but our commitments
to left politics haven't changed.

https://www.thenation.com/article/harvard-strike-sds-vietnam/

Pollitt's piece in The Nation differs from many accounts of Students for a
Democratic Society in that it discusses both the positive and negative
aspects of the role of the Progressive Labor Party in SDS. (Most accounts
either ignore PL or denounce it.)

The recent collective memoir, "You Say You Want a Revolution: SDS, PL and
Adventures in Building a Worker-Student Alliance" includes accounts by
participants in the Harvard strike.
https://www.amazon.com/You-Say-Want-Revolution-Worker-Student/dp/0578406543

Lou Proyect's review of that book is at
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/22/rebuilding-a-revolutionary-left-in-the-usa/
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[Marxism] White Settlers Wiped Thousands of Miles of Cherokee Trails Off the Map. This Man is Reclaiming Them — By Walking Each and Every One.

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https://narratively.com/white-settlers-wiped-thousands-of-miles-of-cherokee-trails-off-the-map-this-man-is-reclaiming-them-by-walking-each-and-every-one/
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[Marxism] New York Unions Come Out Against Single-Payer and Finance Reform Bills | Left Voice

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Re: [Marxism] [UCE] Why I’m Pro-Detente with Russia - RAI with Stephen Cohen (5/5)

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> On May 6, 2019, at 9:59 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
>  wrote:
> 
> Jay's Real News network has good stuff on current events as long as it lays 
> off Syria and Ukraine. It is the new home of Grayzone, which gives you an 
> idea of where it is coming from.

Cohen’s a venal mess. Jay at least seems intelligent enough to distinguish 
between the Soviet Union and Russia, although the slip at 2:40 might give away 
that he hasn’t really come to terms with it yet.
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[Marxism] Ramapough Mountain Indians, Inc. v. Township of Mahwah, Ramapo Hunt

2019-05-06 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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A victory for Lenape Indians, the same people who "sold" Manhattan to 
the Dutch.


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Re: [Marxism] [UCE] Why I’m Pro-Detente with Russia - RAI with Stephen Cohen (5/5)

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On 5/6/19 9:37 AM, Andrew Stewart via Marxism wrote:

https://youtu.be/jj1pTdgCPhY



I wonder if Cohen has somehow lost his regular gig as John Batchelor's 
regular guest on WABC radio. For 5 years at least, Cohen has used this 
ultraright radio show as a place to promulgate the same talking points 
he makes on Paul Jay's TV show. Imagine that, an NYU professor emeritus 
who used to teach at Princeton and is the author of a great bio of 
Bukharin now reduced to being interviewed at a radio show that has guest 
hosts like Sebastian Gorka and Stephen Moore. Ever since Cohen became 
emeritus, he has not written a single article. All the crap he is 
credited with on The Nation is just transcriptions from Batchelor's 
radio show. That pro-Putin stuff can really rot your brain out.


Jay's Real News network has good stuff on current events as long as it 
lays off Syria and Ukraine. It is the new home of Grayzone, which gives 
you an idea of where it is coming from.


Later today, I will be blogging about "Is Tucker Carlson becoming 
woke?", prompted by the chummy interview he did with a Grayzone reporter 
about Venezuela.



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[Marxism] Lewis Lapham: Can America Survive the Rule of a “Stupified Plutocracy”? - YouTube

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Lapham gives a history of the concept of “the American dream” — a phrase that 
first appeared in 1900, to mean something very different than it does today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM20eUDP6GE


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[Marxism] [UCE] Why I’m Pro-Detente with Russia - RAI with Stephen Cohen (5/5)

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https://youtu.be/jj1pTdgCPhY


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[Marxism] O Billionaires! | by Ben Fountain | The New York Review of Books

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Bloomberg by Bloomberg
by Michael R. Bloomberg
Wiley, 244 pp., $27.95

From the Ground Up: A Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America
by Howard Schultz, with Joanne Gordon
Random House, 352 pp., $28.00

Donald Trump, Michael Bloomberg, Howard Schultz: all three of these 
billionaire-politicians began their careers in that semicivilized field 
of aggression known as sales. Schultz sold Xerox copiers in midtown 
Manhattan, pounding pavements and making fifty cold calls a day. 
Bloomberg cut his teeth as a securities trader at the Wall Street firm 
of Salomon Brothers, where, as one of his former partners put it, you 
had to come to work “ready to bite the ass off a bear.” And Trump, of 
course, peddled lifestyle fantasies in the form of “prestige” real 
estate high in the sky.


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[Marxism] Silent Spring’s Encore

2019-05-06 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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Rachel Carson’s famous and brilliant book Silent Spring (1962), which 
literally ignited the environmental movement, has never been more 
relevant than it is today.


A mimeo of Silent Spring is scheduled for publication by the UN, as the 
most comprehensive study of life on the planet ever undertaken, an 
1,800-page study by the world’s leading scientists that spells out in 
detail the results of a massive study of the world’s ecosystems. The 
conclusion: Nature is in “steep decline.”


https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/06/silent-springs-encore/
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[Marxism] Human society under urgent threat from loss of Earth's natural life | Environment | The Guardian

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/06/human-society-under-urgent-threat-loss-earth-natural-life-un-report
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[Marxism] ZCommunications » How Accurate Are the US Jobs Numbers?

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The just released report on April jobs on first appearance, heavily 
reported by the media, shows a record low 3.6% unemployment rate and 
another month of 263,000 new jobs created. But there are two official US 
Labor dept. jobs reports, and the second shows a jobs market much weaker 
than the selective, ‘cherry picked’ indicators on unemployment and jobs 
creation noted above that are typically featured by the press.


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[Marxism] Elite gathering reveals anxiety over ‘class war’ and ‘revolution’

2019-05-06 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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FT.com, May 2 2019
Elite gathering reveals anxiety over ‘class war’ and ‘revolution’
Michael Milken invokes Margaret Thatcher as conference debates threats 
to capitalism
by Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Lindsay Fortado and James Fontanella-Khan 
in Los Angeles


The Milken Institute’s annual gathering of the investment, business and 
political elites this week featured big names from US Treasury secretary 
Steven Mnuchin to David Solomon, chief executive of Goldman Sachs.


But the biggest applause from the 4,000-strong crowd in Beverly Hills 
was for a guest appearance by Margaret Thatcher.


Despite widespread optimism about the outlook for the US economy and 
financial markets, some of the biggest names on Wall Street and in 
corporate America revealed their anxiety about the health of the 
economic model that made them millionaires and billionaires.


Mr Milken himself, whose conference was known as the predators’ ball 
when he ruled over the booming junk bond market of the 1980s, was among 
those fretfully revisiting a debate that has not loomed so large since 
before the fall of the Berlin Wall: whether capitalism’s supremacy is 
threatened by creeping socialism.


Mr Milken played a video of Thatcher from two years before she became UK 
prime minister. “Capitalism has a moral basis,” she declared, and “to be 
free, you have to be capitalist”. Applause rippled through the ballroom.


In the run-up to the conference, essays by Ray Dalio of Bridgewater 
Associates and Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase about the case 
for reforming capitalism to sustain it have been widely shared. 
Executives are paying close attention to what one investment company CEO 
called “the shift left of the Democratic party”, personified by 2020 
presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and the 
social media success of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the democratic 
socialist elected to Congress last year.


“I’m concerned with this notion that somehow socialism’s going to creep 
back in, because capitalism is the source of our collective wealth as a 
country,” Mr Schmidt said, urging his fellow capitalists to get the 
message out that “it’s working”.


Mr Milken asked Ken Griffin, the billionaire founder of the hedge fund 
Citadel, why young Americans seemed to have lost faith in the free 
market, flashing up a poll on the screen behind them which showed 44 per 
cent of millennials saying they would prefer to live in a socialist country.


“You and I grew up in a different era, where the cold war was waking up 
and there was a great debate in America about the strengths and 
weaknesses of socialism as compared to the economic freedom that we 
enjoy in our country,” Mr Griffin replied, saying that they had “seen 
that question answered” with the collapse of the Soviet Union.


The younger generation that support socialism are “people who don’t know 
history”, he said.



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Re: [Marxism] Elite gathering reveals anxiety over ‘class war’ and ‘revolution’

2019-05-06 Thread MM via Marxism
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> On May 6, 2019, at 7:35 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
>  wrote:
> 
> The younger generation that support socialism are “people who don’t know 
> history”, he said.

“If you just knew history, you’d understand that your inability to pay your 
medical bills is a good thing.” 
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