[Marxism] Linux Beach: Lies, damned lies, and engineering sub-team reports

2019-05-31 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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[Marxism] Ripping the Headlines - Steve Salaita

2019-05-31 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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Headlines are critical and often decisive elements of any news cycle. 
They inhabit a specific rhetorical genre—being a kind of art, as 
well—one reason why most publications don’t allow contributors the honor 
of writing them.  They can be tantalizingly vague, purposefully 
misleading, or notoriously sensational (looking at you, Salon).  But, 
like any textual phenomenon, they’re never neutral.  Even headlines that 
aim to be functional omit infinite possibilities; editors select certain 
words over others, limit description according to ideological need, and 
influence a reader’s focus.  (These conventions aren’t inherently bad, 
but they preclude objectivity.)


https://stevesalaita.com/ripping-the-headlines/
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[Marxism] (19) ‘Dumping Trump’ robot: Making Satire Great Again - YouTube

2019-05-31 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cqcvYB-NUE
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[Marxism] A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

2019-05-31 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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Your first reaction to a book titled A History of the World in Seven 
Cheap Things that consists of 312 pages is to wonder if it is the first 
in a series of volumes since a single volume hardly seems capable of 
packing in everything from Ancient Egypt to the 2007 financial crisis. 
Yet, oddly enough, it does an excellent job by using a singular 
perspective, namely how “cheapness” has become the sine qua non for 
class society’s dubious advances over millennia.


Co-authors Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore are exponents of what they call 
world-ecology. While I am not familiar with Patel’s work, I have been 
reading Moore ever since he was a graduate student and posting to the 
World Systems Network, a defunct mailing list that was home to scholars 
like Immanuel Wallerstein and Andre Gunder Frank. World systems theory 
always made a lot of sense to me since it was premised on the idea that 
Europe was responsible for what Frank called the development of 
underdevelopment in Asia, Africa and Latin America. What Moore 
contributed to this theory was the ecological dimension. Colonialism 
involved massive changes to nature that were universally destructive 
even though they helped to make cheap commodities available to the 
colonizers.


full: 
https://louisproyect.org/2019/05/31/a-history-of-the-world-in-seven-cheap-things-2/

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[Marxism] U.N. Special Rapporteur Calls for Julian Assange to Be Freed, Citing “Psychological Torture”

2019-05-31 Thread Ralph Johansen via Marxism

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https://www.democracynow.org/2019/5/31/seg_1_julian_assange_please_update
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Re: [Marxism] Could Democratic Socialists and Big Business Become Allies? | Fortune

2019-05-31 Thread Ralph Johansen via Marxism

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Michael Meeropol wrote

   I read it -- it's total nonsense 
   
   To wit?

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Re: [Marxism] Could Democratic Socialists and Big Business Become Allies? | Fortune

2019-05-31 Thread Michael Meeropol via Marxism
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I read it -- it's total nonsense 

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[Marxism] Walter Benjamin Arcade Materials: Red, Blue, Yellow

2019-05-31 Thread Mark Littmann via Marxism
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Three books/pamphlets of experimental writings on Walter Benjamin's The Arcades 
Project, including poetry, theory and prose.

http://arcadematerials.bigcartel.com/ 

Sam Dolbear on Facebook:

We aren't making a profit, just hoping to cover costs, and need a good number 
of pre-orders before we go to print. Anything above costs we'll donate to NELMA 
(North East London Migrant Action).
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[Marxism] The Crisis of Left Populism in France.

2019-05-31 Thread andrew coates via Marxism
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The Crisis of Left Populism in France.


LFI MP, Clémentine Autain, with an independent base in the bloc of left 
groupings, Ensemble, made a very public intervention in Le Nouvel Observateur 
(Clémentine Autain tire les leçons des 
Européennes).

She observed that La France insoumise was backed by 36% of its voters in 2017 
while 57% of Macron’s supporters from that year chose his list and 78% of 
Marine Le Pen’s have voted for the Rassemblement National. Their “political 
capital” had been severely eroded.

"Autain questioned the left populist strategy of dividing the people into an 
“us” and the “elites”, including intellectuals and the media. They had built 
walls rather than bridges. The deputy observed that Mélenchon had railed 
against those who’d supported a petition to support migrants, while he had let 
a sovereigntist wing, increasingly nationalist, best known for François Cocq et 
Djordje Kuzmanovic, off with mild rebukes. That is, until one of them, Andrea 
Kotarac, made an appeal to vote for Marine le Pen. This did not show 
difficulties about the “internal democracy” of the LFI – a point few would 
ignore. It shied away from the need not the rebuild the old “union of the left” 
but to bring together “le peuple sur une base de gauche “, the people on a 
left-wing basis."


https://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2019/05/31/the-crisis-of-left-populism-in-france/






Salutations,



Andrew Coates
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[Marxism] Could Democratic Socialists and Big Business Become Allies? | Fortune

2019-05-31 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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[Marxism] When Black Female Victims Aren’t Seen as Victims

2019-05-31 Thread Dennis Brasky via Marxism
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In Peru, rampant stereotypes about Afro-Peruvian women as aggressive and
hypersexual leaves many women unwilling or unable to seek support as
victims of sexual abuse.

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/notoneless-black-female-victims/

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Re: [Marxism] Bernie Sanders campaigned for Marxist party in Reagan era

2019-05-31 Thread Michael Meeropol via Marxism
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I hate to say it -- but that was one of the reasons I was always skeptical
of the idea that Bernie could have beaten Trump (or that he could do so
this time around).   Didn't stop me from supporting Bernie vs. Clinton but
with other choices (Warren for sure, maybe even Harris ...) I am thinking
it might be best not to :take a chance" on Bernie this time around --

I am really torn of course .

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> candidate, you'll see this every day of the week and far worse.
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[Marxism] Let’s Not Upset the President: The White House Tells the Navy to Hide the U.S.S. McCain

2019-05-31 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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(Oddly enough, this reminds me of how Stalin had Trotsky's image 
air-brushed out of photos showing him next to Lenin.)


NY Times, May 31, 2019
Let’s Not Upset the President: The White House Tells the Navy to Hide 
the U.S.S. McCain

By Mark Landler and Eileen Sullivan

WASHINGTON — The White House’s directive to hide a Navy destroyer named 
after Senator John McCain during President Trump’s recent visit to a 
naval base in Japan was driven, administration officials said on 
Thursday, by a fear of bad visuals — the name of the president’s nemesis 
clearly visible in photographs of him.


In truth, it would have been a bad visual for only one person: Mr. Trump.

Yet an effort to airbrush an American warship by covering its name with 
a giant tarp and then hiding it with a barge demonstrates how anxious 
the Trump administration has become about the grudges of the president. 
It also shows the extraordinary lengths officials in the bureaucracy are 
willing to go to avoid provoking Mr. Trump.


Sailors from the McCain were not invited to Mr. Trump’s speech on 
another ship, the Wasp, at the Yokosuka Naval Base, although crew 
members from most other American ships at the base were, a Navy service 
member based at Yokosuka said.


When several sailors from the McCain — wearing uniforms that bore the 
ship’s name and insignia — turned up anyway at the Wasp to hear Mr. 
Trump’s speech, they were turned away, the service member said. The 
service member, who requested anonymity because he was not allowed to 
speak publicly, said that a gate guard told the two sailors they were 
not allowed on the Wasp because they were from the McCain.


The hide-the-ship scheme, which Mr. Trump insisted he knew nothing about 
but called a “well meaning” gesture, drew a torrent of criticism on 
Thursday from retired military officers. They said it was an egregious 
attempt to politicize the armed forces, while Democratic lawmakers 
termed it petty vindictiveness against a dead war hero.


The episode came at the end of a visit in which Mr. Trump had already 
sided with a foreign dictator against his national security adviser over 
the threat posed by North Korean missiles, and joined the North Korean 
regime in heaping ridicule on a former vice president, Joseph R. Biden Jr.


The email instructing the Navy to obscure the ship, the John S. McCain, 
came from the White House military operations office, after consultation 
with a White House advance team working in Japan, according to an 
administration official. The Navy initially complied with the order by 
hanging a tarp over the ship’s name. But higher-level officers got wind 
of the plan and ordered the tarp removed and the barge moved before Mr. 
Trump arrived.


“It sounds like someone in the chain of command made a boneheaded 
mistake in judgment,” said Jack Keane, a retired Army general who 
advises Mr. Trump and said he once tried to broker a reconciliation 
between him and Mr. McCain.


It is not clear, in any event, if Mr. Trump even saw the McCain during 
his brief visit. He arrived in Yokosuka on Marine One, and addressed the 
sailors in a hangar bay below decks on the Wasp.


The acting defense secretary, Patrick Shanahan, has denied knowing about 
the White House directive and on Friday during a trip to Singapore said 
that he would not have moved the ship. But questions about why the Navy 
has acquiesced to it are likely to dog Mr. Shanahan when he goes before 
the Senate for his confirmation hearing in the coming weeks.


Mr. Trump is not the first president to politicize the military: George 
W. Bush famously landed on the deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham 
Lincoln and spoke to sailors under a banner proclaiming “Mission 
Accomplished” during the Iraq war. Nor is he the first president to 
nurse grudges: Richard M. Nixon once ordered a reference to the “Battle 
Hymn of the Republic” deleted from a speech because it was a “Kennedy 
song,” played at the funeral of Robert F. Kennedy.


But Mr. Trump has taken both habits to greater extremes. Some of the 
nearly 1,000 sailors and Marines at his speech in Japan wore round 
patches emblazoned with a likeness of Mr. Trump and the words “Make 
Aircrew Great Again” — a play on his campaign slogan — on their flight 
suits.


Critics said Mr. Trump’s animus for Mr. McCain set off a cascade of 
decisions by lower-level officials that not only dishonored the 
senator’s memory but also disrespected the sailors who serve on the 
McCain. In addition to Mr. McCain, the ship is named after his 
grandfather, John S. McCain Sr., a Navy admiral during World War II, and 
his father, John S. McCain Jr., an admiral 

[Marxism] Free speech debate sparked by controversial BDS speech at a commencement

2019-05-31 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/05/31/free-speech-debate-sparked-controversial-bds-speech-commencement
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[Marxism] The Racist Origins of San Francisco’s Housing Crisis | The New Republic

2019-05-31 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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https://newrepublic.com/article/154028/racist-origins-san-franciscos-housing-crisis
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[Marxism] The Green New Deal Can’t Be Anything Like the New Deal | The New Republic

2019-05-31 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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The resources necessary to maintain our current rate of production 
simply don’t exist on the planet. There isn’t enough topsoil to sustain 
agricultural production; at its current rate, topsoil will be depleted 
in a few decades and lead to mass starvation. There’s not enough cobalt, 
lithium, and other resources necessary to electrify transportation at 
its current scope; demand is already outstripping supply of such 
minerals and electric vehicles currently account for less than 2 percent 
of the market. There aren’t enough fish to keep trawling the oceans at 
our current intensity, with virtually every single commercial fishery in 
the world headed toward collapse. There’s not enough wild habitat to 
keep deforesting at the current rate, with sixty football fields of 
forest being destroyed every minute and dozens of species going extinct 
everyday.


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Re: [Marxism] The Enduring Horror of Chernobyl

2019-05-31 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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Last night I watched the second episode of this powerful series that was 
so shocking that I had to check for articles about how close or how far 
it was to the actual events, especially since it came close to a 
calamity that could have been as costly to life and property as a 
nuclear bomb. It turned out that by all accounts, "Chernobyl" sticks 
close to the reality, which convinces me that nuclear power plants 
should not be part of the Green New Deal, whatever Jacobin authors write.


https://www.businessinsider.com/chernobyl-volunteers-divers-nuclear-mission-2016-4
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[Marxism] A Conversation Among Capitalists

2019-05-31 Thread John Reimann via Marxism
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Oaklandsocialist has been privy to a private conversation among some
capitalist kingmakers who gathered together on the occasion of the
California Democratic Party convention being held here in San Francisco.
Here are some excerpts:

"*Tom*: First of all, I feel compelled to lay out our position on this
race. Yes, we have discussed this before, but we must be sure that nothing
has changed. Until this juncture, we have all agreed that Trump has
accomplished some excellent achievements, achievements that nobody else
would have been able to accomplish. The most obvious is the tax reform. We
know that we have accomplished a lot on this through all different
administrations, but as we have discussed previously, nobody expected to be
able to go so far, so fast We all know that that is of paramount
importance, but we must… I repeat, we *must*… consider the longer term
issues. And the president has proven himself incapable of doing so. Not
only that, but he’s removed all those gentlemen that we were so happy to
help provide for his administration. Gentlemen such as the generals or our
dear friend, Rex

*Howard [speaking after Biden's name is raised]**:* Hold on, you guys. Hold
on just one damn second here. You guys know me. I came up from the ranks,
and I don’t pull my god damn punches. Joe is a good guy. I like golfing
with him. His god damn hair transplant… well, I guess he needed to do it to
look young, as damn long as he’s been around. *(Howard chuckles here.)*And
I know he’s trying to stay young for the ladies… even the *very *young
ones. Now, I don’t give a damn what a man does behind closed doors. In
fact, I’m fortunate that my doors…. Well, I won’t go any further down that
road. But, come on guys – you watch the news just like I do. You see the
shit-storm Joe kicked up with his touchy-feely stuff on even the young
girls. He swore off it and then just yesterday, here the damn idiot goes
out and does the same damn thing! I mean, what the hell is the guy
thinking? Or maybe he just can’t help himself"

*Jeffrey**:* Now, hold on a minute, please, Howard. The issue we must
consider is: “What are our options,” assuming we are still in agreement
that we really do need a change in the White House. So, let us go down the
list of the more prominent individuals. First of all, let us consider Mr.
O’Rourke…

*Jeffrey**:* Yes, Beto. I actually am somewhat personally familiar with the
young man. He cuts a fine figure, you know. Youthful, fine smile, you know.
Fine smile. And politically, he appears to be quite reliable. However….

*Howard** (interrupting)*: Come off the bullshit, Jeff. *(According to our
informant, Howard has consumed several scotch and sodas by this time.) *A
goddam smile – that’s all well and good. Sure, you need that to sell the
goddam goods. But have you ever seen him talk? The damn guy jumps up on
tables… *Do you hear me? He jumps up on the goddam table!*… and waffles on
flapping his hands all around. Can you imagine what would happen if he fell
off the table while he’s running for president? And, anyway, nobody’s going
to take him seriously when he’s flapping his arms around like a goddam
wounded duck. Nope, young Beto won’t do. Maybe in four or eight years, and
after he’s won a major political race, but now? Forget about it.

They continue to discuss the relative merits of some of the other
contenders.

And if you want to believe that this is for real, well, that's up to you...
But you got to admit: It could have happened!

Read the entire conversation here:
https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/05/31/a-conversation-among-capitalists/
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Poland]: Polak-Springer on Materka, 'Dystopia's Provocateurs: Peasants, State, and Informality in the Polish-German Borderlands'

2019-05-31 Thread Andrew Stewart via Marxism
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Begin forwarded message:

> From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW 
> Date: May 30, 2019 at 10:15:26 PM EDT
> To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org
> Cc: H-Net Staff 
> Subject: H-Net Review [H-Poland]:  Polak-Springer on Materka, 'Dystopia's 
> Provocateurs: Peasants, State, and Informality in the Polish-German 
> Borderlands'
> Reply-To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org
> 
> Edyta Materka.  Dystopia's Provocateurs: Peasants, State, and 
> Informality in the Polish-German Borderlands.  Bloomington  Indiana 
> University Press, 2017.  Illustrations, map. 257 pp.  $80.00 (cloth), 
> ISBN 978-0-253-02887-7; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-02896-9.
> 
> Reviewed by Peter Polak-Springer (Qatar University)
> Published on H-Poland (May, 2019)
> Commissioned by Anna Muller
> 
> Oral Histories of a "Polonized" Borderland
> 
> With Allied support, after World War II, Poland annexed Germany's 
> eastern regions, including Pomerania, Warmia, Mazuria, Eastern 
> Brandenburg, and Silesia, in return for surrendering its own interwar 
> eastern borderlands to the Ukraine. This westward geographic shift 
> was accompanied by massive forced population exchange. The German 
> inhabitants of Poland's newly annexed territories, which in Poland 
> were officially referred to as the "recovered territories," were 
> almost all expelled and lost their lands, property, and possessions. 
> Migrants from the heartlands of Poland as well as expellees from east 
> of the Curzon Line filled the void in these lands and inherited what 
> the Germans had left behind. The new Soviet-controlled regime 
> dominated what effectively was a colonizing Polish state that 
> captured the annexed borderlands, socially engineered them, and then 
> distributed lands and property as it saw fit. It did all this with 
> the ultimate goal of building a Soviet communist society. 
> 
> Since the fall of communism and the opening of Polish state archives 
> to researchers, historians working with archival documents, as well 
> as with other written sources, have dominated scholarship on the 
> German-Polish borderlands. This left one aspect of this topic largely 
> unexplored: how ordinary people remembered the history of the postwar 
> era. In focusing on this issue, Edyta Materka's book makes a 
> pioneering historiographical contribution, even as her work is 
> largely one in ethnography. As a cultural anthropologist carrying out 
> ethnographic work with (current and former) inhabitants of these 
> borderlands, she introduces not only a new methodology to but also a 
> new way of writing the history of Poland's western territories. One 
> of the unique features of her book vis-à-vis the existing historical 
> literature is that the author includes herself as an agent in her 
> narrative and analysis. For example, Materka writes about her 
> background as a child of Polish immigrants to New Jersey in the 
> United States during the 1990s, who as a graduate student moved to 
> the Pomeranian village of Bursztyn (Bernstein) near the city of 
> Słupsk (Stolp) with her family to carry out her fieldwork. She 
> interviews her relatives and other "pioneers," the first postwar 
> Polish settlers who appropriated and "Polonized" this village and 
> larger province from the Germans after the war. Some of them were 
> communist government agents and others were ordinary farmers. She 
> also interviewed the descendants of Germans who were expelled from 
> the "recovered territories," as they come back to visit their 
> family's former homes. 
> 
> Materka's ethnographic methodology allows her to write a history of 
> an aspect of everyday life in the "recovered territories" and 
> People's Poland that would have been quite difficult to do strictly 
> based on archival sources. (To her credit, however, she does 
> supplement her oral historical work with research in regional Polish 
> archives.) Her focus is on a particular type of informal practice in 
> these areas during the entire postwar communist era, which she refers 
> to by the Polish name, as there is no exact English-language 
> equivalent--_kombinacja_. She describes it as "the improvisational 
> process of reworking economic, political, or cultural norms for 
> personal gain" (p. 2). She demonstrates the term's linguistic origins 
> in the English word "combination," which since the early days of the 
> Industrial Revolution was an association for workers that fought 
> management for better pay and conditions, whereby the term received 
> the attributes of scheming, trickery, and 

[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Buddhism]: Hessler on Cohen, 'Charismatic Monks of Lanna Buddhism'

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> From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW 
> Date: May 28, 2019 at 1:22:35 PM EDT
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> Subject: H-Net Review [H-Buddhism]:  Hessler on Cohen, 'Charismatic Monks of 
> Lanna Buddhism'
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> Paul T. Cohen, ed.  Charismatic Monks of Lanna Buddhism.  Copenhagen  
> NIAS Press, 2017.  272 pp.  $27.00 (paper), ISBN 978-87-7694-195-6.
> 
> Reviewed by Felix Hessler (Leibniz University Hannover / Mote Oo 
> Education, Yangon)
> Published on H-Buddhism (May, 2019)
> Commissioned by Thomas Borchert
> 
> The collection of eight articles presented by Paul T. Cohen in 
> _Charismatic Monks of Lanna Buddhism_ gives fascinating insights into 
> a strand of Theravāda Buddhism that has received little scholarly 
> attention until now. At the heart of contemporary Lanna Buddhism, 
> which is mainly practiced in the areas around Chiang Mai (Thailand), 
> the borderland of neighboring Myanmar and, to a lesser degree, in 
> Laos and southern China, lies the work of the _ton bun_ (person of 
> merit), charismatic holy monks.  Since many of these monks see 
> themselves in a lineage with the famous Khruba Siwichai (1878-1938) 
> and share several distinctive characteristics, some scholars speak of 
> a "khruba movement." Khruba translates as "venerated teacher." It is 
> not an official title given by governments or the sangha hierarchy, 
> but is given by local communities out of veneration. In the context 
> of Lanna Buddhism and the "khruba movement" it refers to _ton 
> bun--_monks who are believed to be holy and who share a number of 
> distinct qualities. According to Paul Cohen, one defining feature of 
> the khruba movement is the "paradoxical combination in this holy man 
> tradition of other-worldly asceticism and this-worldly activism" (p. 
> 1); the latter mainly being expressed through religious building 
> activities while the former refers to ascetic practices like constant 
> wandering, vegetarianism, eating only one meal a day, strict 
> meditation, and the associated attainment of supernatural powers. 
> Ferocious temple-building projects can be witnessed in many parts of 
> the Theravāda world. What is especially noteworthy about the ton 
> bun's building of temples and subsequent communities is that those 
> are framed in the broader narrative of the Lanna chronicles 
> (_tamnan_), which include legends about the Buddha's visits to the 
> Lanna region. These building projects thus transform spaces into 
> "Buddha-Lands" and thereby build new moral communities. Since most 
> followers belong to marginalized non-Tai minorities (or non-Bamar 
> minorities in Myanmar), this has social as well as political 
> implications. 
> 
> The book thus not only serves as a good introduction to Lanna 
> Buddhism, but uses the latter as a focal point to contribute to 
> several broader scholarly arguments concerning such topics as: 
> sainthood and charisma, retraditionalization and modernity, 
> conceptualizations of the relationship between the spiritual and the 
> material as expressed in religious building activities, or the role 
> holy men play for ethnic minorities. Due to the variety of the 
> subjects covered, at times I was unable to see a unifying thread. 
> Nevertheless, this variety is one of the strengths of the book, 
> showing that the study of Lanna Buddhism is not only worthwhile in 
> itself but can add fruitful perspectives in these broader arguments. 
> In the following, I seek to shed some more light on these topics by 
> giving summaries of the eight articles and, in the process, hope to 
> fairly evaluate some of their strengths and weaknesses. 
> 
> As many famous khrubas were disciples of Khruba Siwichai and some are 
> even believed to be his reincarnation, it makes sense that Kathrine 
> A. Bowie's article, "Khruba Siwichai. The Charismatic Saint and the 
> Northern Sangha" gives an introduction of this prototypical ton bun. 
> Siwichai lived in difficult times. At the beginning of the twentieth 
> century, the Thai state was in the process of strengthening its 
> stronghold in the northern provinces, and part of that was the 
> expansion of the influence of the Thammayut order. The northern 
> sangha was at that time fairly independent of the sangha of central 
> Siam/Thailand and Siwichai was a vocal opponent of the new policies. 
> His confrontational attitude led to his repeated incarcerations as "a 
> traitor to his religion and his king" (p. 29). His support among the 
> local populace, which was afflicted by famines and epidemics, grew, 
> 

[Marxism] Turkey: Leyla Guven ends hunger strike (Green Left Weekly)

2019-05-31 Thread Chris Slee via Marxism
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