Re: [Marxism] Lysenko

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> On Dec 14, 2019, at 10:23 PM, Ken Hiebert via Marxism 
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> Tonight I had occasion to pick up a copy of The Spark, Marxist Theory and 
> Discussion, a publication of the Communist Party of Canada.
> It carries a review of Lysenko’s Ghost: Epigenetics and Russia.  The reviewer 
> claims that advances in science have vindicated Lysenko.
> 
> “…the author accidentally but fatally exposes West capitalist bioscience to 
> be severely flawed.  With its dogmatic rejection of the possibility of other 
> methods of inheritance it was Western bioscience that was shown to  be less 
> open, narrow, non-dialectical, philosophically frozen and inferior in 
> comparison to an imperfect but superior Soviet dialectical science.”
> 
> Can someone who knows more about this than I do please comment.



LOREN GRAHAM, Lysenko’s Ghost: Epigenetics and Russia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard 
University Press, 2016. Pp. 200. ISBN 978-0-674-08905-1. £18.95 (hardback). 
doi:10.1017/S0007087416000959


There is a remarkable moment, halfway through this book, when Graham happens to 
bump into Trofim Lysenko (1898–1976) – after numerous failed attempts to 
arrange a meeting – in a dining room at the House of Scientists. Lysenko is 
sitting and eating alone, having lost his position of dominance at the 
Institute of Genetics (where he dismissed Mendelian genetics and promoted a 
version of the inheritance of acquired characteristics that promised to make 
Russia a verdant land). Amazingly, we witness Lysenko brazenly laying down the 
victim card, but Graham has the better hand, citing Lysenko’s public criticism 
of his rivals, who often ended up in prison or dead. When Lysenko died five 
years after this encounter, few people would have predicted that he and his 
theories would be granted a curtain call. But, as Graham shows in this 
delightful little book – part history, part memoir – research in epigenetics 
has done so. In recent years, geneti- cists have shown that environmental 
changes can affect the expression of genes (without altering the genetic code) 
and that, crucially, in some cases and through an as-yet-unknown mechanism, the 
resulting phenotype can be inherited. Graham asks whether this research 
vindicates Lysenko, but he also offers his book as a history of the concept of 
‘soft inheritance’.

Graham takes us from Hippocrates to Paul Kammerer via Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and 
Ivan Pavlov in thirty-two pages. It is useful to have this synthesis, as it 
shows how common belief in the inheritance of acquired characteristics has 
been; indeed, it underlines Graham’s assertion that ‘the twentieth-century 
denial of the inheritance of acquired characteristics is likely to be con- 
sidered an odd detour in biological thought’ (p. 16). This is chiefly a history 
of ‘official’ science, and as such Graham perhaps overstates the extent to 
which the inheritance of acquired characteristics had been discredited in the 
West by the 1920s. As Piers Hale’s work suggests (to take one example), 
research scientists like J.B.S. Haldane and Julian Huxley were at least 
concerned that the non-specialist public (and perhaps other research 
scientists) would accept George Bernard Shaw’s Lamarckian-inspired biology. 
More research on this needs to be done, touching as it does on important issues 
of the relation between science and the public, and the construction of 
scientific understandings in the ‘popular’ realm. Graham maintains a similar 
division between ‘of- ficial’ science and the popular when citing Kammerer’s 
status as a ‘popularizer’ and a ‘speculator in a way that is alien to 
scientists seeking reliable evidence and rigorous analysis’ as a reason why 
scientists rejected his ideas (p. 39). This sort of speculation was fairly 
common amongst scientists in the early twentieth century, for example in the 
To-day and To-morrow series – small books, some of which were written by 
practising scientists (including Haldane, the biologist H.S. Jennings and the 
physicist James Jeans), which often contained speculative scientific daydreams. 
Indeed, Graham is particularly good at pointing out how politics shaped ideas 
about heredity (and vice versa).

The material on what is happening in Russia today is perhaps most fascinating, 
not least because many of the historical chapters on the USSR will be familiar 
to readers of Graham’s previous work. Supporters of 

[Marxism] Lysenko

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Tonight I had occasion to pick up a copy of The Spark, Marxist Theory and 
Discussion, a publication of the Communist Party of Canada.
It carries a review of Lysenko’s Ghost: Epigenetics and Russia.  The reviewer 
claims that advances in science have vindicated Lysenko.

“…the author accidentally but fatally exposes West capitalist bioscience to be 
severely flawed.  With its dogmatic rejection of the possibility of other 
methods of inheritance it was Western bioscience that was shown to  be less 
open, narrow, non-dialectical, philosophically frozen and inferior in 
comparison to an imperfect but superior Soviet dialectical science.”

Can someone who knows more about this than I do please comment.

ken h


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[Marxism] British election results

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The front-stabbers won and the back-stabbers lost.

It's extraordinary how much emotion a lot of the left has invested in the
Labour Party, the #2 team for British Imperialism Ltd.

The reality is that the British working class in the 21st century has a lot
less investment in the British LP than the left does.  Unskilled workers in
particular.

The LP lost the working class in Scotland a few years ago, a country where
Labour had been the dominant party for a century.  Now the LP has just one
seat left in Scotland - yep, one!  They are only the third party, miles
behind the SNP and well behind the Tories.

In England, including some of the most hard-core old working class areas,
they trail the Tories.

The only country in Britain where they still have the most seats is Wales,
the smallest and less populous country within Britain.  Even there the
Tories are catching them up.

Meanwhile the British state is facing potential problems in the part of
Ireland they still rule over.  The parties favouring a united Ireland now
have more seats than the parties that support British rule.  (That's
potentially also a problem for the southern ruling class in Ireland because
they don't want a united Ireland any more than the Brits do.)

Who knows, the days of the so-called 'United Kingdom of Britain and
Northern Ireland' might be numbered.  We might end up with the 'United
Kingdom of England and Wales'.
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Re: [Marxism] Ex-Breitbart editor says Stephen Miller is a white supremacist, and she was too - CNNPolitics

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"The White House has not commented on McHugh's interview. When the emails
were first revealed last month a White House spokesperson told CNN: "While
Mr. Miller condemns racism and bigotry in all forms, those defaming him are
trying to deny his Jewish identity, which is a pernicious form of
anti-Semitism."

In case there is any ambiguity left about whether the "anti-Semitism" witch
hunt is a front for racism

Amith R. Gupta


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[Marxism] Financial Times on factors in British election results

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[Marxism] Ex-Breitbart editor says Stephen Miller is a white supremacist, and she was too - CNNPolitics

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[Marxism] Boris Johnson and the Coming Trump Victory in 2020

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(Strictly for information purposes.)

NY Times Op-Ed, Dec. 14, 2019
Boris Johnson and the Coming Trump Victory in 2020
By Roger Cohen

Donald Trump, in his telling, could have shot somebody on Fifth Avenue 
and won. Boris Johnson could mislead the queen. He could break his 
promise to get Britain out of Europe by Oct. 31. He could lie about 
Turks invading Britain and the cost of European Union membership. He 
could make up stories about building 40 new hospitals. He could double 
down on the phantom $460 million a week that Brexit would deliver to the 
National Health Service — and still win a landslide Tory electoral 
victory not seen since Margaret Thatcher’s triumph in 1987.


The British, or at least the English, did not care. Truth is so 20th 
century. They wanted Brexit done; and, formally speaking, Johnson will 
now take Britain out of Europe by Jan. 31, 2020, even if all the tough 
decisions on relations with the union will remain. Johnson was lucky. In 
the pathetic, emetic Jeremy Corbyn, the soon-to-depart Labour Party 
leader, he faced perhaps the worst opposition candidate ever. In the 
Tory press, he had a ferocious friend prepared to overlook every 
failing. In Brexit-weary British subjects, whiplashed since the 2016 
referendum, he had the perfect receptacle for his “get Brexit done.”


Johnson was also skillful, blunting Nigel Farage’s far-right Brexit 
Party, which stood down in many seats, took a lot of Labour votes in the 
seats where it did run, and ended up with nothing. The British working 
class, concentrated in the Midlands and the North, abandoned Labour and 
Corbyn’s socialism for the Tories and Johnson’s nationalism.


In the depressed provinces of institutionalized precariousness, workers 
embraced an old Etonian mouthing about unleashed British potential. Not 
a million miles from blue-collar heartland Democrats migrating to Trump 
the millionaire and America First demagogy.


That’s not the only parallel with American politics less than 11 months 
from the election. Johnson concentrated all the Brexit votes. By 
contrast, the pro-Remain vote was split between Corbyn’s internally 
divided Labour Party, the hapless Liberal Democrats, and the Scottish 
National Party. For anybody contemplating the divisions of the 
Democratic Party as compared with the Trump movement’s fanatical 
singleness of purpose, now reinforced by the impeachment proceedings, 
this can only be worrying.


The clear rejection of Labour’s big-government socialism also looks 
ominous for Democrats who believe the party can lurch left and win. The 
British working class did not buy nationalized railways, electricity 
distribution and water utilities when they could stick it to some 
faceless bureaucrat in Brussels and — in that phrase as immortal as it 
is meaningless — take back their country.


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It’s a whole new world. To win, liberals have to touch people’s emotions 
rather than give earnest lessons. They have to cease being arid. They 
have to refresh and connect. It’s not easy.


Facebook reaches about one-third of humanity. It is more powerful than 
any political party — and it’s full of untruths, bigotry and nonsense. 
As Sacha Baron Cohen, the British actor, said last month of the social 
media behemoths: “The truth is that these companies won’t fundamentally 
change because their entire business model relies on generating more 
engagement, and nothing generates more engagement than lies, fear and 
outrage.”


That’s the story of Brexit, a national tragedy. That’s the story of 
Johnson, the man of no convictions. That’s the story of Trump, who makes 
puppets of people through manipulation of outrage and disregard for 
truth. That’s the story of our times. Johnson gets and fits those times 
better than most. He’s a natural.


“Brexit and Trump were inextricably linked in 2016, and they are 
inextricably linked today,” Steve Bannon told me. “Johnson foreshadows a 
big Trump win. Working-class people are tired of their ‘betters’ in New 
York, London, Brussels telling them how to live and what to do. Corbyn 
the socialist program, not Corbyn the man, got crushed. If Democrats 
don’t take the lesson, Trump is headed for a Reagan-like ’84 victory.”


I still think Trump can be beaten, but not from way out left and not 
without recognition that, as Hugo Dixon, a leader of the now defeated 
fight for a second British referendum, put it: “There is a crisis of 
liberalism because we have not found a way to connect to the lives of 
people in the small towns of the postindustrial wasteland whose 

Re: [Marxism] IMPEACHMENT

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On 12/14/19 9:13 AM, Michael Meeropol via Marxism wrote:


Dear Activists --- I dont know if the attached expanded version of a radio
commentary would be useful to any readers in arguing the issue of
impeachment  but I attach it here because it MIGHT be of use.   I
framed it for a radio audience that might include many people who have NOT
followed the arguments about impeachment.   (The article I reference at the
end of the piece makes the case for impeachment from a more left wing
position than the one I take in this commentary).

Solidarity, Mike


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THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXPANDED VERSION OF A COMMENTARY DELIVERED ON 
DECEMBER 6, 2019 OVER WAMC-FM by MICHAEL MEEROPOL, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF 
ECONOMICS AT WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY


PRESIDENT TRUMP MUST BE IMPEACHED
	On May 23, 2017, I delivered a commentary in which I tried to argue 
that attempting to impeach Trump was a waste of time --- and potentially 
would do more harm than good.
[anyone who wants a copy of it can send me a message through WAMC-FM 
with their e-mail address]
	Well, I was wrong.   I have watched the impeachment hearings before the 
House Intelligence Committee.   I have listened very closely to the 
attempted Republican counters to the impeachment effort.   I watched the 
first day of hearings before the House Judiciary Committee on December 4 
and I saw on Thursday, December 5 the speech by House Speaker Nancy 
Pelosi stating that the House of Representatives will begin receiving 
reports from the House Committees that have gathered factual information 
about Trump’s conduct with an eye towards drafting Articles of 
Impeachment for the full house.
I am now convinced that Trump must be impeached.  I also believe if the 
Senate took its role seriously, even the Republicans would support 
impeachment as Republicans came to do the same when they forced 
President Richard Nixon to resign back in 1974.
[By the way, the entire House Intelligence Committee Report is available 
on line --- and there is a relatively short executive summary that 
should be easy reading for anyone.   The pathetic Republican minority 
response to the fact witnesses that had testified for over two weeks 
ignores some very important elements of the testimony by the fact 
witnesses and makes many false claims.   One of the most seriously 
egregious out and out lies is that the Trump Administration released the 
delayed funds to Ukraine after “thoughtful review.”   There was no 
thoughtful review whatsoever – and the proof of this is that the famous 
phone call when Trump asked the President of Ukraine for “a favor” did 
not once mention corruption --- did not probe with the Ukraine President 
what his new administration was doing about corruption.  (And this 
discussion of true anti-corruption activity were in the written talking 
points prepared for Trump by his staff.  Of course he just ignored them 
--- maybe he never even read them!)  Instead, the money was released 
when Trump learned that a whistleblower had – well – “blown the 
whistle!”   And by the way, the famous phone call with Gordon Sondland 
where Trump stated “I want nothing!  I want nothing!  There is no quid 
pro quo!” occurred the very day that he learned about the whistleblower 
report.   For the full texts of the reports from the House Intelligence 
Committee plus some analysis go to 
https://www.npr.org/2019/12/03/782759563/read-impeachment-inquiry-report-by-house-intelligence-committee]
 The extraordinary flouting of the will of Congress involves refusal to 
cooperate in any way with the House Impeachment inquiry.   The 
Constitution is clear that the House of Representatives is the sole 
determinant of HOW to conduct an impeachment inquiry.   [See Article 1, 
Section 2, Clause 5 of the Constitution].  They chose to conduct the 
inquiry by requiring the testimony of a number of federal officials and 
former officials as well as the submission of documents for the House’s 
consideration.   Trump and his cronies in the government have refused 
all cooperation.   That refusal constitutes an obstruction of Congress 
and will undoubtedly be one of the Articles of Impeachment created by 
the Judiciary Committee.   Then there was the cynical extortion of the 
government of Ukraine (holding up already appropriated funds designed to 
bolster Ukraine’s military) demanding activity to throw dirt on the man 
who Trump feared as his strongest competitor in 2020 

[Marxism] Reflections on our defeat and the challenge ahead – Will to Truth

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I was a canvasser for Labour in the North West, in 8 different 
constituencies that we’ve lost, and this is what I learnt


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[Marxism] This Labour meltdown has been building for decades | Aditya Chakrabortty | Opinion | The Guardian

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For decades, their party took much of the north, the Midlands and Wales 
as its birthright. It was the “red wall” that would repel invading Tory 
forces. As one Labour county councillor in Derbyshire, the region that 
lost Dennis Skinner as an MP on Thursday night, told me: “They barely 
bothered to campaign.” While the party bigwigs threw their weight about, 
the mines and the manufacturers, the steel and the shipbuilding were 
snuffed out. With them went the culture of Labourism: the bolshy union 
stewards, the self-organised societies, most of the local newspapers. 
Practically any institution that might incubate a working-class 
provincial political identity was bulldozed.



In North East Derbyshire last month, I saw up close what was left: 
warehouses and care work. Bullying bosses, zero-hours contracts, poverty 
pay and social security top-ups. Smartphones to tell you whether you 
have a shift that morning, and Facebook to give you the news, or some 
dishonest fragment of it. Across the UK, mines were turned into museums, 
factories swapped for call centres, meaningful local government replaced 
by development quangos.


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[Marxism] IMPEACHMENT

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Dear Activists --- I dont know if the attached expanded version of a radio
commentary would be useful to any readers in arguing the issue of
impeachment  but I attach it here because it MIGHT be of use.   I
framed it for a radio audience that might include many people who have NOT
followed the arguments about impeachment.   (The article I reference at the
end of the piece makes the case for impeachment from a more left wing
position than the one I take in this commentary).

Solidarity, Mike
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[Marxism] Fossil Fuel Industry Trying to Co-Opt Youth Climate Movement

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This is the kind of analysis Cory Morningstar might have written if she 
wasn't a crude conspiracy theorist.


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[Marxism] Brexit Won’t Deliver Sovereignty — And Neither Will Far-Right Movements Anywhere - FPIF

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[Marxism] Superhero Movies and Comic Book Nerds Won the 2010s | GEN

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There have always been people who will tell you that arty things are 
stupid, that liking them is pretentious, and that preferring arty things 
to mass-market entertainment is a symptom of elitism. The thing that’s 
new about MCU Twitter’s reaction to Scorsese’s statement is that the 
people making these arguments against the supposed privileging of a 
certain type of arty thing are doing it without rejecting the notion 
that movies should aspire to fulfill an audience’s need for profundity. 
They’re just arguing that we can and should look to corporate superhero 
movies to provide it.


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[Marxism] India: Down with CAB!

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India: Down with CAB!

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