Re: [Marxism] Iran: Economic Blockade and Crowd Protests were also How the US made the 1953 Coup

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Frankly I think Cole has lost his head. The current mass uprising in Iran
are just "crowd protests" like in 1953. Right ... Yes, in both cases there
is a US blockade, but the similarity ends there. The uprising today - which
has rapidly spread to dozens of towns and cities and began in the Arabic
Ahwaz region, is part of the revolutionary wave that includes Lebanon and
Iraq, in both cases uprisings that are also confronting Iranian-backed
regimes, while popular uprising continues in Idlib, Deir ezzor and has now
been reignited in Daraa, and a month or so ago was also in Egypt (not so
much an Iranian ally, but definitely an Assad all). Context matters.  Iran
in 1953 was in the midst of a revolutionary situation and the blockade
aimed at bringing back the Shah, via the state organs that still existed in
Iran. Iran today is run by a 40-year theocratic tyranny; people don't need
fuel hikes to want to destroy the regime that has oppressed them for
decades, they are a mere spark. Louis' last point - It is not even clear
what sort of regime the USA is pinning its hopes on - underlines another
key difference - all the organs of the capitalist state are fully under the
control of the mullah regime and have been for decades. The most that could
occur would be an internal coup within the regime, but for what purpose is
unclear. Worth remembering that the mainstream of the US capitalist class
supported the nuclear deal and was opposed to Trump ripping it up and
re-imposing sanctions. Sure, Bolton was a dolt leftover from a previous
era, but he's gone, and it was Trump that made him gone.  Frankly I doubt
there's more to it than Trump wanting a new deal he can pretend is "better"
but under his name.

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> Juan Cole's points are well taken but if Iran is to survive this
> economic warfare, it will only be a result of ending the clerical
> dictatorship and allowing ordinary working people to have control of
> their destiny, just as was the goal in Syria in 2011. It is not even
> clear what sort of regime the USA is pinning its hopes on. A return to
> the Shah?
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Re: [Marxism] [pen-l] A Spy Complex Revealed - Leaked Iranian Intelligence Reports Expose Tehran’s Vast Web of Influence in Iraq

2019-11-18 Thread Ralph Johansen via Marxism

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   Here's the plain message to US policymakers, divulged in these
   leaks, that Risen emphasizes - "We invaded, and Iran won the war ...
   It’s a warning against further aggression in the region." (but which
   is unlikely to be heeded - US policy is too far gone in the
   direction of naked power and reliance on crude military measures as
   policy).

   As an extension of what Anwar Shaikh emphasizes, capitalist economic
   power exists to out-maneuver the competition for market share. That
   includes, in a turbulent and uncertain global era, maneuvering for
   domination over cheap labor, resources and untrammeled flow of
   global investment and its return in a process in which the
   initiating party seeks to impose more damage on the
   competitor/adversary than it visits upon itself, even to the point
   of risking unintended chaos. That is the nature of the capitalist
   process, and capitalist wars are an extension of that principle:
   ergo, "further aggression in the region" is a given; and the policy
   conclusion has to be that though Iran may have won the battle. we
   will continue, through necessary exercise of the power we have and
   for geopolitical and economic reasons must use, by any means
   necessary, to win the war in the sense that more damage is imposed
   than incurred. And that there is no alternative. That's what "two
   minutes to midnight" signifies.

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   *JAMES RISEN:* You see in the documents several people who were
   Iraqis who had worked with the CIA, who were now unemployed. So they
   go to the Iranians and say, “I’d be happy to work with you if you
   pay me.” And the Iranians, in these documents, are interested in
   talking to them, but the first requirement they have is that they
   tell them everything they ever did with the CIA. …

   To me, the message of these documents — and I hope this is the way
   we’ve presented it — is the United States’ invasion of Iraq was an
   historic mistake, a strategic blunder of massive proportions. We
   invaded, and Iran won the war. That is a lesson to be learned today
   in how we operate in the Middle East, what we do in the Middle East.
   It’s a warning against further aggression in the region. …

   Iran had two adversaries on its borders. One was the Taliban Afghan
   government, and the other was the Iraqi government, Saddam Hussein.
   Both were enemies of Iran. We deposed both of them. It’s such a huge
   thing to admit to yourself, as a country, that everything we’ve done
   in Iraq for the last 15 years was a mistake. All these lives lost
   were in vain. All the money poured into there has gone for a
   misbegotten, tragic mistake, that we have benefited what we now
   consider one of our biggest enemies. It’s almost like it’s such a
   huge thing to admit, that nobody wants to admit it. And I think
   that’s the real power of these documents.

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[Marxism] Mayakovsky and Stalin | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

2019-11-18 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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Re: [Marxism] Robert E. Lee was a traitor, not a hero!

2019-11-18 Thread Michael Meeropol via Marxism
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This is no small issue.   My brother and I have spent over 40 years pushing
back against the accusation (made about a year ago by Trump himself) that
our parents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were "traitors."   As everyone
knows, treason is defined in the Constitution -- you must be "making war"
upon the United States giving aid and comfort to our [declared] enemies.
(that was why the NY Daily News in a fit of frustration demanded Congress
declare war on Vietnam so that the demonstrators could be arrested for
treason)

[our father, of course, was giving "aid and comfort" to AN ALLY during
World War II]

My brother has spoken publicly more than I and he has come up with a great
rhetorical question -- "What was the greatest act of treason in American
History?"   I've tried this a number of times and RARELY does someone think
of "the Civil War" --- yet it OBVIOUSLY is the greatest act of treason in
American history -- from the minute the cannon was fired on Fort Sumter
till Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, every Confederate soldier
was "making war upon the United States" and every Confederate politician
was "giving aid and comfort to [the US's] enemies"

We need to be constantly making that point ---especially to defenders of
Confederate Generals' Statues
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[Marxism] Abolishing whiteness has never been more urgent | USA | Al Jazeera

2019-11-18 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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[Marxism] Warren’s cagey health plan | Doug Henwood | LBO News

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[Marxism] New Yorker: The Iranian Shadow Commander Qassem Suleimani

2019-11-18 Thread RKOB via Marxism

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The Shadow Commander

Qassem Suleimani is the Iranian operative who has been reshaping the 
Middle East. Now he’s directing Assad’s war in Syria.


By Dexter Filkins 
, September 23, 
2013, September 30, 2013 Issue 
, 
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30/the-shadow-commander


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[Marxism] Robert E. Lee was a traitor, not a hero!

2019-11-18 Thread Dennis Brasky via Marxism
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Lee was no hero. He was neither noble nor wise. Lee was a traitor who
killed United States soldiers, fought for human enslavement, vastly
increased the bloodshed of the Civil War, and made embarrassing tactical
mistakes.



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[Marxism] Stefanik Stands By Her Man and Roger Stone Gets Convicted on All Counts: Impeachment Day Two

2019-11-18 Thread Ron Jacobs via Marxism
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[Marxism] This Is Why Dark Energy Is The Biggest Unsolved Problem In The Universe

2019-11-18 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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[Marxism] How to Save the Planet and Ourselves

2019-11-18 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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By Chris Hedges

If you read only one book this year, it should be Roger Hallam’s “Common 
Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop 
Climate Breakdown and Social Collapse.”


Hallam’s lucid and concise book, which echoes Thomas Paine’s “Common 
Sense,” says what many of us now know to be true but do not say: If we 
do not replace the ruling elites soon we are finished as a species. It 
is a cogent, well-argued case for global rebellion—the only form of 
resistance that can save us from ecosystem collapse and human-induced 
genocide. It correctly analyzes the failure of environmentalist 
activists in groups such as 350.org to understand and confront global 
corporate power and thus make a meaningful impact as we barrel toward 
ecocide. “Common Sense for the 21st Century” is a survival manual for 
the human species.


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[Marxism] A Hard Case | The Point Magazine

2019-11-18 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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A Hard Case
Victor Serge’s Notebooks: 1936-1947

by J. Hoberman

https://thepointmag.com/criticism/a-hard-case-victor-serge-notebooks/
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[Marxism] A Charter School Gets Canceled for Wanting to Teach Indigenous History | The New Republic

2019-11-18 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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[Marxism] Iran: Economic Blockade and Crowd Protests were also How the US made the 1953 Coup

2019-11-18 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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Juan Cole's points are well taken but if Iran is to survive this 
economic warfare, it will only be a result of ending the clerical 
dictatorship and allowing ordinary working people to have control of 
their destiny, just as was the goal in Syria in 2011. It is not even 
clear what sort of regime the USA is pinning its hopes on. A return to 
the Shah?


https://www.juancole.com/2019/11/economic-blockade-protests.html
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[Marxism] Milex and the rate of profit | Michael Roberts Blog

2019-11-18 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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A review of The Economics of Military Spending: A Marxist perspective – 
by Adem Yaviz Elveren, Routledge, 2019.


https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/11/18/milex-and-the-rate-of-profit/
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[Marxism] The sustainable development index: Measuring the ecological efficiency of human development in the anthropocene - ScienceDirect

2019-11-18 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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By Jason Hickel.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800919303386
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[Marxism] Iraq: Rally against the Brutal Repression of the Revolution

2019-11-18 Thread RKOB via Marxism

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https://www.thecommunists.net/rcit/iraq-rally-in-support-of-the-popular-uprising-16-11-2019/


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[Marxism] Iran: Long Live the Popular Uprising against the Mullah Regime!

2019-11-18 Thread RKOB via Marxism

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Iran: Long Live the Popular Uprising against the Mullah Regime!

Unite with the popular insurrections in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria etc. to a 
single Intifada! Down with the US sanctions against Iran!


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