[Marxism] Marxist Left Review | Review: Bhaskar Sunkara’s Socialist Manifesto

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[Marxism] 1958: My Search for Socialism | John Riddell

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John Riddell memoir.

part 1: https://johnriddell.com/2019/08/12/1958-my-search-for-socialism/

part 2: 
https://johnriddell.com/2019/08/14/my-encounter-with-the-trotskyist-movement/

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[Marxism] We can be wary of China without blindly following the US into war

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https://www.theage.com.au/national/we-can-be-wary-of-china-without-blindly-following-the-us-into-war-20190813-p52gqv.html
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Re: [Marxism] A base building primer for the socialist movement | puntorojo (Louis Proyect)

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Why write a instruction manual for such an exercise that is not tethered to
an independent political party?

-- 
Best regards,

Andrew Stewart


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Re: [Marxism] Lyme Disease and Biowarfare - CounterPunch.org

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You must be kidding me. For someone who has/had Lyme's, this is great. Not,
not only I am routinely dismissed by Drs, now we have another bio
conspiracy to content with (Aids anyone?). About a million articles tracing
it back 60,000 years and the human desire to get out of the cities and into
the rural areas that are "safe"?

https://publichealth.yale.edu/article.aspx?id=15651
Just one such pub, you can spend all day reading them if you like
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[Marxism] Minimalist democracy: the antipolitics of the right. | Richard Seymour on Patreon

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[Marxism] A base building primer for the socialist movement | puntorojo

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[Marxism] A Boom Time for the Bunker Business and Doomsday Capitalists

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NY Times, Aug. 14, 2019
A Boom Time for the Bunker Business and Doomsday Capitalists
By Julie Turkewitz

201 FEET UNDERGROUND, Kan. — In his pitch to potential buyers, Larry 
Hall touts his condominium’s high ceilings and spacious living rooms. 
Then there are the swimming pool, saunas and movie theater. But what 
really sets the development apart, in his view, is its ability to 
survive the apocalypse.


Mr. Hall has converted a former military nuclear missile vault into a 
luxury condominium built 15 stories into the Earth’s crust. He is a 
leader among a new group of real estate developers investing in the 
nation’s central prairies and Western foothills: doomsday capitalists.


Americans have, for generations, prepared themselves for society’s 
collapse. They built fallout shelters during the Cold War and basement 
supply caches ahead of Y2K. But in recent years, personalized disaster 
prep has grown into a multimillion-dollar business, fueled by a 
seemingly endless stream of new and revamped threats, from climate 
change to terrorism, cyberattacks and civil unrest.


Bunker builders and brokers have emerged as key players in this field. 
And they see the interior of the country, with its wide-open spaces, as 
a prime place to build. Aiding them is history. During the Cold War, the 
military spent billions of dollars constructing nuclear warheads and 
hiding them in underground lairs around the nation, often in Kansas, 
Nebraska, Oklahoma and New Mexico. Those hideaways, emptied of their 
bombs, are now on the market and enterprising civilians are buying them 
(relatively) cheap and flipping the properties. Eager customers abound.


The 12 apartments in Mr. Hall’s Survival Condo, as he calls it, begin at 
$1.3 million. When he started selling the condos around 2011, he said, 
all the units sold within months.


To Mr. Hall, and to many in his field, this is a calling, not just a 
business. “I’m saving lives,” he said during a recent visit to his 
bunker, the exact location of which he insisted be kept under wraps. He 
entered the building’s elevator as it began its long descent into the 
earth. “To me, this is something to feel good about.”


These projects have plenty of skeptics, among them John W. Hoopes, a 
professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas who spent years 
studying the myth that the world would end in 2012. He accused doomsday 
investors of hawking “survival porn,” which he described as a 
“hypermasculine fantasy” that danger is near and a select few will be 
able to save themselves and their families — if they are prepared.


“Fear sells even better than sex,” Professor Hoopes said. “If you can 
make people afraid, you can sell them all kinds of stuff,” he added, 
“and that includes bunkers.”


But survival homes now dot America’s interior, pulling in clients who 
are part of a larger movement of people who are choosing to retreat from 
society, or at least ready themselves for escape.


Kiki Bandilla, 52, a health insurance agent in Castle Rock, Colo., 
distanced herself from people she called “Chicken Littles,” who think 
“the sky is falling.” She characterized her membership at a survival 
community called Fortitude Ranch as a reasonable insurance policy.


“I don’t like to be dependent on anything, be it big government, big 
food sources or big pharma,” she said. “My interest isn’t from a place 
of fear. My interest is from a place of freedom.”


In recent years, Prepper Camp, a three-day disaster-preparedness and 
homesteading expo in North Carolina, has turned into a survivalist’s 
Burning Man. PrepperCon, outside Salt Lake City, has drawn thousands of 
visitors. Bunker-in-a-box companies have proliferated, sending 
ready-made shelters to suburban doorsteps. High-end real estate agents 
now track down hideaways for California techies and Texas oil executives.


In Las Vegas, an underground bunker built by the Avon Cosmetics 
executive Girard Henderson, featuring a midcentury chef’s kitchen and a 
wood-burning fireplace, is on sale for $18 million.


Here in Kansas, one couple has been selling old missile silos through a 
company called 20th Century Castles. In Colorado, a former weapons 
compound featuring half a mile of underground tunnels is listed on the 
real estate site LoopNet for $4.2 million.


In Indiana, Robert Vicino, a California property developer, has 
converted a former government site into an underground mansion called 
Vivos that he says is “like a very comfortable four-star hotel.” He has 
also purchased 575 former weapons cellars in South Dakota that he is 
turning into a subdivision he calls the “largest survival community on 
earth.”

[Marxism] Syria 'truther' heads fundraising campaign to sue British Labour Party | al-bab.com

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Re: [Marxism] DSA Convention 2019: This is Not What Democracy Looks Like | Left Voice

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I was at the convention 2 years ago but not this year. It is sad to hear that 
the same issues continue:

> Resolutions were proposed in a vacuum, without a discussion of the broader 
> political context.

I don't know what can be done as long as these disagreements between caucuses 
continue to be a focus of so many. And worse, I don't know how that could be 
done except with another "caucus" that fights for a revolutionary orientation, 
which also feels like just adding another caucus that will end up in procedural 
bickering with the existing caucuses!

Tristan
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[Marxism] Prominent Centrists and the Fiction of the White Working Class // New Socialist

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[Marxism] ZCommunications » Argentina

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On August 12, 2019, financial markets in Argentina crashed. The stock 
market contracted 38% in just one day. The currency, the Peso, fell 20% 
after falling as low as 30% and recovered to 20% only when Argentina’s 
central bank raised its interest rate to 75%. Watch next for bond 
interest rates, both government and corporate, and especially dollarized 
bonds which Argentina has loaded up on in recent years, to freefall as well.


What’s going on in Argentina? What’s likely to happen next? And what do 
the events in Argentina have to do with falling financial asset 
prices—i.e. stocks, currencies, derivatives, commodity futures, real 
estate prices, etc.—now underway globally as well?


https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/argentina-the-next-global-financial-crisis/
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[Marxism] Why Moscow is ready to fight for independent politicians | Lefteast

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[Marxism] Pop-Up Populism: The Failure of Left-Wing Nationalism in Germany.

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"Aufstehen’s leaders insisted that their movement was not defined by its 
opposition to migrants. But they consistently cast migrants as either pawns in 
the game of finance capital or as the phony poster children of misguided urban 
idealists.Quinn 
Slobodian and William 
Callison [?]  Summer 
2019"
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/pop-up-populism-the-failure-of-left-wing-nationalism-in-germany?fbclid=IwAR1XbXuVLzNZ5ubsm5g175zB0iJdamGNyduOjSHmO4gaLSpq7wbVOU_m0AY

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