[Marxism] The US Economy at Mid-Year | Greg Godels | ZZ's blog

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[Marxism] William I. Robinson - U.S. trade war against China ascribed to the crisis of legitimacy of the US state and use as a lever to further open China to transnational capital

2019-07-03 Thread Ralph Johansen via Marxism

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William I. Robinson, Sociologist 
 

June 25 at 1:27 PM 
·


**The Economist magazine reported in its May 25 issue that U.S. 
technology companies have invested $1bn in Chinese ones since the start 
of last year, while Chinese tech firms poured nearly four times as much, 
$3.8 billion, into U.S. based companies. Previously, Apple put $1bn into 
the Chinese ride hailing company Didi Chuxing, and Microsoft bought 
state in Laiye, an “AI butler” that handles voice commands through apps. 
Intel has taken stakes in a number of Chinese startups. Nvidia, a U.S. 
maker of AI chips, is invested in WeRide, a Chinese leader in 
self-driving technology. And the list on Chinese-US capital integration 
goes on and on, in tech and in all sectors of the economy.


As this data (and much more) makes clear, the U.S. trade war against 
China cannot be explained as competition and rivalry among respective US 
and Chinese capitalist groups. I and my colleagues from the “global 
capitalism school” approach to 21st century capitalism have long since 
argued that the leading capitalist groups worldwide has become so 
intertwined, cross-invested and integrated into one another that these 
leading sectors are no longer national (“US capital”, “Chinese capital”, 
“French capital”) but transnational. Hence the transnational capitalist 
class (TCC) is the ruling group worldwide, and this TCC has no interest 
in economic nationalism, trade wars, and tariffs.


A better explanation for Trump’s trade war with China would focus on two 
things. First is the crisis of legitimacy of the US state and Trump’s 
effort to shore up his rocky social base by deploying the rhetoric and 
policies of economic nationalism alongside his racist scapegoating, 
especially of immigrants, even as the TCC opposes these trade policies. 
Second, the Chinese market is more closed to transnational capital than 
is the US market. The threat of tariffs and sanctions is a lever to 
further open China up to transnational capital.


Meanwhile, the global economy is moving ever closer towards recession. 
The G20 will meet on June 28 and 29 in Japan. If a deal is not struck 
between US and Chinese trade negotiations, a sell-off of shares would be 
the likely outcome. Would such an outcome be a trigger for the recession?


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[Marxism] Manslaughter Charge Dropped Against Alabama Woman Who Was Shot While Pregnant

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NY Times, July 3, 2019
Manslaughter Charge Dropped Against Alabama Woman Who Was Shot While 
Pregnant

By Farah Stockman

Prosecutors in Alabama said on Wednesday that they were dropping a 
manslaughter charge against Marshae Jones over the death of the fetus 
she was carrying when she was shot in the belly.


The case stirred outrage across the country in late June after a grand 
jury indicted Ms. Jones, who was accused of starting a fight that 
resulted in the shooting. The state recognizes a fetus at any stage of 
development as a “person” for criminal homicide or assaults.


The same grand jury declined to charge the woman who fired the shot, 
Ebony Jemison, finding that she had fired in self-defense during an 
altercation with Ms. Jones on Dec. 4. The police have said that Ms. 
Jones, 28, who was five months pregnant, started the fight and failed to 
remove herself and her fetus from harm’s way.


“We are gratified the district attorney evaluated the matter and chose 
not to proceed with a case that was neither reasonable nor just,” the 
law firm representing Ms. Jones, White Arnold & Dowd, said in a statement.


Lynneice Washington, the district attorney for part of Jefferson County, 
said in a news conference, “After viewing the facts of this case and the 
applicable state law I have determined that it is not in the best 
interest of justice to pursue prosecution of Ms. Jones on the 
manslaughter charge for which she was indicted by the grand jury. 
Therefore, I am dismissing this case and no further legal action will be 
taken against Ms. Jones in this matter.”


She said the decision not to prosecute Ms. Jones was in no way a 
criticism of the grand jury. “The citizens took the evidence presented 
them by the Pleasant Grove Police Department and made what they believed 
to be a reasonable decision to indict Ms. Jones,” she said. “The members 
of the grand jury took to heart that the life of an unborn child was 
violently ended and believed someone should be held accountable. But in 
the interests of all concerned, we are not prosecuting the case.”


Ms. Washington, a Democrat, who became Alabama’s first black female 
district attorney when she was elected in 2016, had signaled earlier 
that she might drop the charges.


At the time, the police said Ms. Jones’s “involvement and culpability” 
would be presented to a grand jury to determine if she, too, should be 
charged.


“When a five-month pregnant woman initiates a fight and attacks another 
person, I believe some responsibility lies with her as to any injury to 
her unborn child,” Lt. Danny Reid of the Pleasant Grove Police 
Department said then. “That child is dependent on its mother to try to 
keep it from harm, and she shouldn’t seek out unnecessary physical 
altercations.”


Abortion rights activists, already up in arms over Alabama’s recent 
adoption of the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the country, 
assailed the indictment of Ms. Jones as a demonstration of the dangers 
of the “personhood” movement, which presses for laws like those in 
Alabama that give the rights of fetuses equal or greater weight than the 
rights of the women who carry them. An organization that supports 
abortion rights in Alabama, the Yellowhammer Fund, helped Ms. Jones post 
bail.


But the case provoked little outrage in Pleasant Grove, the city of 
10,000 people on the western edge of Birmingham where Ms. Jones was shot.


According to a law enforcement officer with direct knowledge of the 
investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity, Ms. Jones and Ms. 
Jemison, 23, had been feuding over a man they both worked with. The 
officer said that Ms. Jones spotted Ms. Jemison in the parking lot of a 
Dollar General store in Pleasant Grove on Dec. 4 and started fighting 
with her.


Ms. Jones had hit Ms. Jemison several times and pinned her in her 
vehicle, the officer said, when Ms. Jemison reached for a gun and fired 
point blank into Ms. Jones’s stomach.


The uproar over the indictment of Ms. Jones is not the first time that 
the application of Alabama’s fetal rights laws has attracted criticism 
and concern.


Alabama has prosecuted hundreds of women for using controlled substances 
while they are pregnant, under a 2006 “chemical endangerment” law, 
according to an investigation by ProPublica and Al.com. Doctors have 
argued that such prosecutions discourage pregnant addicts from seeking 
the treatment that they and their fetuses need.


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[Marxism] The Socialist Manifesto of Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin: Socialism without Revolution   – New Politics

2019-07-03 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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https://newpol.org/the-socialist-manifesto-of-bhaskar-sunkara-of-jacobin-socialism-without-revolution/
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[Marxism] John Molyneux, Hal Draper and the organizational question | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

2019-07-03 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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[Marxism] Paul Mason on Corbyn and Brexit

2019-07-03 Thread John Reimann via Marxism
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"There were always numerous fractions lined up within Corbynism: the unions
needed a party less addicted to privatisation and anti-union laws; welfare
recipients were sick of the bullying state; anti-capitalists and
environmentalists wanted radical action; plus there was the old, Stalinist
wing of the movement, with its perennial obsessions: opposition to Trident,
Nato and the EU.

"And that’s where the bigger problem begins. All these groups could be
contained within a project of anti-austerity and democratisation. Not all
of them can be contained within an internationalist response to Brexit.
And, as we are now finding out, not all of them are committed to democracy
as a means of sorting out differences….


"The crisis of Corbynism has begun because its economic nationalist wing
has claimed the exclusive right to dictate policy and strategy to the rest
of us. In a pre-networked era that might have worked — but it won’t now….


"So the task for Corbyn is clear: to come out fighting against a no-deal
Brexit, with a narrative based on values that reconnect his leadership to
progressive Britain. That means a struggle in parliament to bring down the
Johnson administration, and an election pledge to stop Brexit and rebuild
Britain instead. Without this change, Labour’s chances of forming a
majority government go from slim to zero, no matter how disastrously
Johnson performs."

There is another issue that Mason doesn't deal with in this article, but
it's connected. That is Corbyn's flirtation with the pro-Assad left. For
instance, his having had Chris Williamson in his shadow cabinet. The
anti-Semitism charges against Williamson seem bogus, but he is a supporter
of the Assadists. Corbyn's links with these ideas seem to derive from what
Mason calls "the old Stalinist wing". However, there's a lot of the newer
left that also has that position.  That, however, is not something that
seems to be at the core of British politics. Brexit is.

The entire article is well worth reading.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/07/without-transformation-brexit-labours-election-chances-are-dead?fbclid=IwAR3GKyZZ34wdJym7_Ku07-iLPBvowcgEY9O0UrWTYup3B5r3ZXgGqQvUfPo





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Re: [Marxism] Saudi Support for "left-wing" YPG/SDF

2019-07-03 Thread John Reimann via Marxism
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Chris Slee writes:

*"The PYD remained separate from the Turkish-backed rebels for several
reasons."The Turkish state had a long history of repression against its own
Kurdish population, and encouraged hostility to the Rojava revolution
amongst the rebel groups it supported."*

He misses the point. The PYD and its predecessor never involved themselves
in the uprising against Assad from the very first. At the very least, they
had an implicit truce with Assad. Yes, maybe some of the rebellion had
prejudices against the Kurds, but Chris should read "Burning Country". The
authors make it very clear that the majority of the rebels made very
conscious attempts to appeal to all groups in Syria. That includes both the
Shia and the Kurdish people.

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[Marxism] Tulsi Gabbard and the Art of the Half-Sentence - Steve Salaita

2019-07-03 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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https://stevesalaita.com/tulsi-gabbard-and-the-art-of-the-half-sentence/
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[Marxism] HARD CRACKERS- Growing old in “post-recession” America

2019-07-03 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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https://hardcrackers.com/growing-old-post-recession-america/
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Re: [Marxism] Saudi Support for "left-wing" YPG/SDF

2019-07-03 Thread Chris Slee via Marxism
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The PYD remained separate from the Turkish-backed rebels for several reasons.

The Turkish state had a long history of repression against its own Kurdish 
population, and encouraged hostility to the Rojava revolution amongst the rebel 
groups it supported.

Some of the rebels were Arab nationalists who did not support Kurdish rights.

Another factor was the rise of Sunni-sectarian ideology within the rebel 
movement.  This led to the growth of  groups such as Jabhat al-Nusra, which 
carried out the forced conversion of the Druze in Idlib province.  Such actions 
are counter-revolutionary.

Chris Slee

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Well, the YPG/PYD/SDF is not so isolated. It receives political and
military support from the U.S. and the EU. It is supported, as we just
saw, by Saudi Arabia (you can call it "humanitarian aid" if you like.)

What is true is that the the YPG/PYD/SDF is isolated from the Arab
masses. True, this is also because of Arab nationalist sentiments.
However, the PKK/YPG historically has worked hard to isolate themselves
from the Arab masses. They never defended an Arab or Muslim country
suffering from imperialist aggression (I know it in the cases of Iraq in
1990/91 as well as 2003 and I am pretty sure that this was also the case
in Afghanistan 2001).

You say that the revolution must be spread to the whole of Syria. How
true! But the PKK/YPG never supported the popular uprising! Instead,
they kept their relations with the Assad regime and refused to join the
uprising. By such they helped the regime to concentrate their forces to
suppress the uprising.


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Re: [Marxism] NY Review of Books

2019-07-03 Thread Todd Ensor via Marxism

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 a.. EMAILa.. PRINTa.. TWEETa.. SHAREHow Republicans Became Anti-ChoiceSue 
HalpernNOVEMBER 8, 2018 ISSUEReversing Roe

a documentary film directed and produced by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg

Elliott Landy/Magnum PhotosAbortion rights demonstrators, New York City, 
1968
It is impossible to understand American politics of the past half-century 
without taking abortion into account. The Brett Kavanaugh charade most 
recently, the machinations of the Republican Party more generally, and the 
infectious fundamentalism creeping into everyday life: all begin with 
abortion. Other issues may have been as divisive—civil rights comes to 
mind—but none has been as definitional. These days, the litmus test for 
Republicans running for political office or nominated to the judiciary is 
opposition to abortion. On the Democratic side, it is almost equally crucial 
to be pro-choice. Yet as the Netflix documentary Reversing Roe ably shows, 
this was not always the case.


Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision establishing a woman’s 
constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy for any reason in the first 
two trimesters, and in the third trimester under certain circumstances, was 
issued in 1973. Seven justices affirmed the decision, with Harry Blackmun, a 
Nixon appointee, writing for the majority. If that seems strange to us now—a 
conservative justice on a conservative court invoking a right to privacy on 
behalf of women—it is because the alliance between the Right to Life 
movement and the right wing appears to us to be so close as to be 
preordained. But in the late 1960s and early 1970s, many Republicans were 
behind efforts to liberalize and even decriminalize abortion; theirs was the 
party of reproductive choice, while Democrats, with their large Catholic 
constituency, were the opposition.


Republican governor Ronald Reagan signed the California Therapeutic Abortion 
Act, one of the most liberal abortion laws in the country, in 1967, 
legalizing abortion for women whose mental or physical health would be 
impaired by pregnancy, or whose pregnancies were the result of rape or 
incest. The same year, the Republican strongholds of North Carolina and 
Colorado made it easier for women to obtain abortions. New York, under 
Governor Nelson Rockefeller, a Republican, eliminated all restrictions on 
women seeking to terminate pregnancies up to twenty-four weeks gestation. 
(Reversing Roe shows young women in Dallas boarding airplanes headed to 
these states.) Richard Nixon, Barry Goldwater, Gerald Ford, and George H.W. 
Bush were all pro-choice, and they were not party outliers. In 1972, a 
Gallup poll found that 68 percent of Republicans believed abortion to be a 
private matter between a woman and her doctor. The government, they said, 
should not be involved.


Perhaps more surprisingly, the right to abortion was forcefully supported 
and advanced by the Protestant clergy. The Clergy Consultation Service on 
Abortion (CCSA), which was established in 1967, not only counseled pregnant 
women about their choices, it enlisted physicians to perform abortions. One 
of these, who is featured in the film, was Dr. Curtis Boyd, a gynecologist 
and Baptist minister now in his eighties. He began his practice in Texas at 
the behest of theCCSA in 1968, fully aware that he was breaking the law. 
“Our role is to help [a woman] make a decision in the grace of God that she 
can live with,” Boyd told theSanta Fe Reporter and NM Political Report last 
year. He reckons he is the oldest abortion provider in the country. After 
the Roe decision, the CCSA opened the first legal abortion clinic in the 
United States, in New York City.


Roe v. Wade originated in Texas. (The named defendant, Henry Wade, was the 
Dallas district attorney at the time.) In the years after the Supreme Court 
decision, women were able to obtain abortion services at forty-one clinics 
across the state. Today that number is down to twenty-two, with clinics so 
far apart that some women have to travel three hundred miles to reach one. 
In ten Texas cities with more than 50,000 residents, there isn’t a single 
abortion clinic. In the country as a whole, 162 abortion clinics or medical 
facilities that perform abortions have closed since 2011.


So what changed? Why did those pro-choice Republicans repudiate their 
support for a woman’s right to choose? Why did the 1976 Republican platform 
support “the efforts” of those calling for a constitutional amendment to 
protect the “right to life” of the unborn? Why is it, as John Seago, the 
legislative director of Texas Right to Life, tells the filmmakers, that 
anyone running for any office in 

[Marxism] The Quincy Institute

2019-07-03 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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So George Soros and the Koch brothers have formed a new think-tank 
called The Quincy Institute that "will lay the foundation for a new 
foreign policy centered on diplomatic engagement and military 
restraint." Do these bozos get their ideas about John Quincy Adams from 
the miniseries that featured Paul Giamatti? Or maybe "Amistad" which 
included Adams serving as attorney to the slaves who had revolted? 
Weren't they aware that Adams was President Monroe's Secretary of State? 
You know Monroe, don't you? The Doctrine guy...

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[Marxism] Istanbul's new mayor and Syrian refugees

2019-07-03 Thread John Reimann via Marxism
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I suspect that many on the left welcomed the defeat of Erdogan's party in
the recent mayoral election in Istanbul. However, all that glitters is not
(necessarily) gold. Over this last weekend there were riots against Syria
refugees in Istanbul. According to this article, the new mayor at least
seems to sympathize with the rioters, and it's possible that his party
helped organize it. See:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turks-clash-syrians-dangerous-spark-lit-istanbul?fbclid=IwAR1jC_ldfFvsXVltFS06X6XufjYe9YGMq2jAH3EfM7pH1TlyWfetHGR3UEw

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Re: [Marxism] Saudi Support for "left-wing" YPG/SDF

2019-07-03 Thread RKOB via Marxism

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Well, the YPG/PYD/SDF is not so isolated. It receives political and 
military support from the U.S. and the EU. It is supported, as we just 
saw, by Saudi Arabia (you can call it "humanitarian aid" if you like.)


What is true is that the the YPG/PYD/SDF is isolated from the Arab 
masses. True, this is also because of Arab nationalist sentiments. 
However, the PKK/YPG historically has worked hard to isolate themselves 
from the Arab masses. They never defended an Arab or Muslim country 
suffering from imperialist aggression (I know it in the cases of Iraq in 
1990/91 as well as 2003 and I am pretty sure that this was also the case 
in Afghanistan 2001).


You say that the revolution must be spread to the whole of Syria. How 
true! But the PKK/YPG never supported the popular uprising! Instead, 
they kept their relations with the Assad regime and refused to join the 
uprising. By such they helped the regime to concentrate their forces to 
suppress the uprising.


Am 02.07.2019 um 23:45 schrieb Chris Slee:

Northeastern Syria is isolated and under threat from both Turkey (which has 
already invaded Afrin) and the Assad regime.  In this situation they take aid 
from whoever will offer it.  I believe that Saudi Arabia gives a small amount 
of humanitarian aid.

The Saudi regime's motives probably include its rivalry with Iran and Turkey for 
influence in the Middle East.  (The article mentions "the possibility of conflict 
with Iranian militias")

There is an obvious tension between the goal of building a democratic society 
in northeastern Syria and the need to receive aid from an undemocratic regime 
such as Saudi Arabia, as well as from US imperialism.

Trotsky said it is impossible to build socialism im one country.  Even less so 
is it possible to build socialism in part of a country, such as northeastern 
Syria.

The only solution is the spread of the revolution to the rest of Syria and/or 
to Turkey.

Chris Slee


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The so-called progressive YPG/SDF continues to receive full support by
the Saudi monarchy. According to a new report "Thamer al-Sabhan, Saudi
minister of state for Middle East affairs, visited Deir ez-Zor, where he
met with Kurdish leaders, US Deputy Secretary of State Joel Rayburn, US
Ambassador William Roebuck and a number of Arab sheikhs and dignitaries.
During his visit, Sabhan called on Arab tribes to join forces with the
Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) ..."

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/06/syria-deir-ez-zor-saudi-arabia-kurds-arab-tribes.html

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