[Marxism] The Party’s Over: Bernie’s Last Dance With the Dems - CounterPunch.org

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It will be clear, I hope and think, to those very good people, once and 
for all, that they can never get what they want from the Democratic Party.


What happens to Bernie and those people politically after that depends 
on what Bernie does. if he fights like hell with his plurality all the 
way through, refuses to accept whatever centrist the DNC picks, and 
calls for a Demexit and third party, then he, those people, and the 
movement he led, will be alive and kicking.


If he accepts himself and his “us” being brushed aside, embraces the 
DNC’s centrist pick, and does “everything in my power” to keep their 
game going—well, I hope and think his supporters will see once and for 
all that they can never get what they want from the Democratic Party or 
from him, and it will be the political death of both of them. Bernie 
will then have sheepdogged from the top dog position.


full: 
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/31/the-partys-over-bernies-last-dance-with-the-dems/

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[Marxism] Democracy Now: Saturday Marks 60th Anniversary of Historic Greensboro Four Sit-In

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Saturday marks the 60th anniversary of the Greensboro Four sit-in protest
at the lunch counter at Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina.
On February 1, 1960, four freshmen students at North Carolina’s A State
University — Ezell Blair Jr., Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil and David
Richmond — refused to leave the whites-only lunch counter after being
denied service. Their action inspired a nationwide wave of sit-ins aimed at
desegregating businesses and public spaces. Within weeks of their action,
sit-in protests spread to over 250 cities and towns across the country,
sparking a nationwide movement that saw more than 400 protests by the end
of the year.

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[Marxism] critique of Giridharadas book?

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Can anyone on the list direct me to a critique of /Winners Take All /by Anand Giridharadas? It was 
recommended to my son as an antidote to his anticapitalist sentiments.


Thanks,

Michael Sola


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Re: [Marxism] Watch: US Harvard law students walk out en mass as Israeli ambassador begins to justify Jewish settlements – Redress Information

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> On Feb 1, 2020, at 4:47 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
>  wrote:
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> https://www.redressonline.com/2020/02/watch-us-harvard-law-students-walk-out-en-mass-as-israeli-ambassador-begins-to-justify-jewish-settlements/
>  
> 

This is beautiful, but just to be clear it happened in November:

Story: 
https://imemc.org/article/harvard-students-walk-out-en-masse-of-israeli-consul-general/

Video: https://twitter.com/raza_hamzah/status/1194692536725639168

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[Marxism] Watch: US Harvard law students walk out en mass as Israeli ambassador begins to justify Jewish settlements – Redress Information

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[Marxism] The 18th-Century Quaker Dwarf Who Challenged Slavery, Meat-Eating, and Racism

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“By the time he himself died, in 1759, Lay had eked out a strange and deeply 
principled life for himself in the Philadelphia area. He lived in a cave, made 
his own clothes, and walked everywhere. He had become a vegetarian and felt 
that animals, including horses, should not be exploited for their labor or 
their meat. In 1737 he published the revolutionary tract All Slaveholders That 
Keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates, a mixture of polemic, musings, and 
autobiography, put together in a curiously nonlinear, almost postmodern, 
format. (The publisher—Benjamin Franklin, a longtime, if a little wary, 
friend—chose to keep his own name off the text.) Despite his requests to be 
cremated, which would have been tantamount to paganism, Lay was buried in an 
unmarked grave close to his wife’s, in the Quaker burial ground.

“During his life and after his death, many people, Rediker says, thought of Lay 
as deranged. “[Historians] thought he was not sane, and this was a very 
effective way of putting him at the margins.” Ableism, too, seems to have 
factored in this general unwillingness to take him seriously. But some of those 
in the abolitionist movement did feel the need to celebrate this “Quaker 
comet,” as he came to be known. Benjamin Rush, one of his earliest biographers, 
said Lay was known to virtually everyone in Pennsylvania; his curious portrait 
was said to hang in many Philadelphia homes. This early abolitionist burned 
bright, and, despite his exclusion from many abolitionist narratives, refuses 
to be extinguished from history.” 


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[Marxism] Bong Joon Ho: ‘Even among ourselves we wonder why Korean cinema exploded’

2020-02-01 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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I don't care for "Parasite" but this is worth reading.

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/bong-joon-ho-even-among-ourselves-we-wonder-why-korean-cinema-exploded-1.4150208
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[Marxism] Brexit Has Arrived. But Boris Johnson’s Reign Is Just Beginning.

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NY Times Op-Ed, Feb. 1, 2020
Brexit Has Arrived. But Boris Johnson’s Reign Is Just Beginning.
By Richard Seymour

(Mr. Seymour writes about British politics.)

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his “People’s Government” — it scarcely 
calls itself Conservative at this point — has fulfilled the promise on 
which it was elected in December and “got Brexit done.”


There are difficulties ahead. Mr. Johnson has promised impossible and 
contradictory things on Brexit: Maximum regulatory freedom where it 
suits his government, maximum frictionless trade where it suits the 
British economy. The European Union is unlikely to give him what he 
wants in the months of negotiations to come.


But by fulfilling his pledge, Mr. Johnson has won enormous good will 
from nationalist voters across England and Wales. Outside the European 
Union, he will also have more scope to change the British government’s 
role in the economy. This gives him a unique opportunity do what his 
predecessors could not: build a lasting popular base for the 
Conservative Party. Mr. Johnson can now take advantage of his big 
majority to overhaul British capitalism, incentivizing long-term 
Conservative voters while permanently annexing chunks of the Labour 
Party’s historic base.


Already, the dimensions of Mr. Johnson’s plans are becoming clear. He 
has no intention of running the country as any Conservative leader since 
Margaret Thatcher would have: He is not out to roll back the state. 
Instead, he is out to secure the support of working-class voters who 
handed over to the Tories dozens of seats formerly held by Labour. His 
premiership, set free by Brexit, could reshape Britain’s electoral map 
for decades.


During the election, Mr. Johnson campaigned as an almost single-issue 
nationalist, the phrase “get Brexit done” falling robotically from his 
lips between every other stammer. Beyond that, much of what he said was 
conventionally Tory: He promised harsher restrictions on immigration, 
meaning an end to free movement from the European Union and the 
expansion of the “hostile environment” for migrants. Domestic 
repression, the manifesto promised, would also tighten, with a bigger 
penal system and a greater emphasis on “counter-extremism,” which, as 
Home Secretary Priti Patel has indicated, will target parts of the left. 
Mr. Johnson has also hinted at constitutional reforms, which would 
strengthen the executive and weaken judicial challenges. He promises an 
attack on liberal norms and legality in the name of national invigoration.


Tellingly, he distanced himself from the last government. He would end 
austerity, raise spending on the National Health Service, guarantee 
pensions, raise the minimum wage and borrow £100 billion to invest in 
infrastructure. Many of these promises were grossly exaggerated, but 
they served to underline the point that a Johnson administration would 
be different. And since the election, the government has acted to carry 
out its commitments, passing legislation to guarantee N.H.S. spending 
increases and proposing moderate improvements to workers’ and renters’ 
rights. It has also promised that most of the infrastructure spending 
will be invested in England’s deprived northern regions — and this week 
backed up the promise by nationalizing the north’s major rail service.


If this sounds like an incursion into Labour territory, it is. Many of 
the policies are directly taken from Labour’s plans. The push for a 
larger state resonates with a politically ambiguous popular memory of 
the postwar era — a certain nostalgia for the era of big, dynamic 
industries owned by the British government inflects both a version of 
the left-wing politics of the Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, and a 
version of Brexit sentiment. Mr. Johnson knows that many of the votes 
contributing to a Conservative majority were “lent” by voters who wanted 
Brexit done. A more interventionist state is a way to shore up a 
lasting, broad coalition.


This pragmatic raid on enemy turf was first conceived under Mr. 
Johnson’s predecessor, Theresa May. More thoughtful Tories knew they had 
to change. The British state and economy had become dysfunctional: 
gaping regional inequalities, a housing market inaccessible to younger 
workers, weak labor productivity, sluggish investment and very little to 
export. Mrs. May’s advisers understood that the Conservatives had to 
break with the formula of austerity and financialization somehow.


But while she used the rhetoric of working-class uplift, she was unable 
to back it up with policy. Her chancellor, Philip Hammond, a traditional 
ally of the banks, was determined 

[Marxism] Fwd: [Books] Senate Conducts Another U.S. Trial Where Racism Decides the Outcome

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 Forwarded Message 
Subject: [Books] Senate Conducts Another U.S. Trial Where Racism Decides 
the Outcome

Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 08:41:37 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
From: Max Elbaum 
Reply-To: Max Elbaum 
To: bo...@lists.people-link.net

Friends and Family,
I'm sharing the rant I dashed off after hearing the news of the Senate 
vote yesterday afternoon. Thanks for reading, peace and always hope.

Max

Senate Conducts Another U.S. Trial Where Racism Decides the Outcome

It's no accident that on the same day the Senate voted not to hear any 
witnesses in its sham impeachment trial the Trump administration 
announced it was adding six countries, including Nigeria, Africa's most 
populous nation, to its restrictive travel ban.


Get beneath the rhetoric and both actions are about race and racism. As 
have been the outcome of so many trials and so many immigration policies 
in U.S. history.


The bottom line consideration in those Republican senators' minds when 
they voted today was revealed by a conservative former GOP policy 
director who still has ties with his old friends. Evan Mullin tweeted 
the day before the vote:
"Republican leaders in Congress believe - and privately say - that they 
fear the country is quickly changing in ways that may soon deprive them 
of power, and that they must use the power they have now to delay it as 
long as possible, even by harming the Republic if necessary."


Decoding that doesn't require re-reading the pages in "To Kill a 
Mockingbird" about that story's jury verdict:
"The country is quickly changing" means "the proportion of people of 
color is growing and white people soon might not be a majority."


"They must use the power they have now" means "democracy is a nice idea 
that we've said we believe in for decades, but when it comes right down 
to it maintaining white power in general and our white power in 
particular is more important."


Full text: https://www.facebook.com/max.elbaum/posts/10159955151564848

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[Marxism] These Blue-Collar Trump Supporters Think the Economy Is Great. Your Move, Democrats. - In These Times

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http://inthesetimes.com/article/22283/blue-collar-trump-rally-economy-wisconsin-2020-socialism
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[Marxism] American Bottom | Boston Review

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(By Walter Johnson, the Harvard historian of slavery.)

Designed as a bucolic working-class suburb of St. Louis, the nearly 
all-black town of Centreville now floods with raw sewage every time it 
rains. “Bring us back some help,” residents say, living through an 
environmental horror that evokes centuries of official disinterest in 
black suffering, as well as a future in which the poor are left to 
suffer in areas made uninhabitable by climate change.


http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality-race/walter-johnson-american-bottom
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[Marxism] The Radical Lives of Abolitionists | Boston Review

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American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation
Holly Jackson
Crown, $28.00 (cloth)

American Radicals establishes the truly riotous nature of 
nineteenth-century activism, chronicling the central role that radical 
social movements played in shaping U.S. life, politics, and culture. 
Holly Jackson’s cast of characters includes everyone from millenarian 
militants and agrarian anarchists to abolitionist feminists espousing 
Free Love. Rather than rehearsing nineteenth-century reform as a history 
of bourgeois abolitionists having tea and organizing anti-slavery 
bazaars for their friends, Jackson offers electrifying accounts of 
Boston freedom fighters locking down courthouses and brawling with the 
police. We learn of preachers concealing guns in crates of Bibles and 
sending them off to abolitionists battling the expansion of slavery in 
the Midwest. We glimpse nominally free black communities forming secret 
mutual aid networks and arming themselves in preparation for a coming 
confrontation with the state. And we find that antebellum activists were 
also free lovers who experimented with unconventional and queer 
relationships while fighting against the institution of marriage and 
gendered subjugation. Traversing the nineteenth-century history of 
countless “strikes, raids, rallies, boycotts, secret councils, [and] 
hidden weapons,” American Radicals is a study of highly organized 
attempts to bring down a racist, heteropatriarchal settler state—and of 
winning, for a time.



full: http://bostonreview.net/race/britt-rusert-radical-lives-abolitionists
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[Marxism] Globalization and health equity: The impact of structural adjustment programs on developing countries - ScienceDirect

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We find that structural adjustment reforms lower health system access 
and increase neonatal mortality. Additional analyses show that labor 
market reforms drive these deleterious effects. Overall, our evidence 
suggests that structural adjustment programs endanger the attainment of 
Sustainable Development Goals in developing countries.


https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953619304897
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[Marxism] [UCE] Sanders, Socialism and Socialist Organization - Alan Maass - Medium

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Ex-ISOer joins Sandernista movement.

https://medium.com/@alanmaass/sanders-socialism-and-socialist-organization-bd63ff45dfb8
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[Marxism] Capitalism, Socialism, and Existential Despair | Chris Wright | The Bullet

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https://socialistproject.ca/2020/01/capitalism-socialism-and-existential-despair/


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[Marxism] Excerpt: “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine,” Rashid Khalidi

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https://theintercept.com/2020/02/01/hundred-years-war-palestine-book-rashid-khalidi/
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[Marxism] Cancel This! | On the Media | WNYC Studios

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https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-cancel-this

This podcast includes a discussion of Joe Rogan, the stand-up comedian 
and guru to millions of alienated American men whose endorsement of 
Bernie Sanders has antagonized gay supporters. I only knew Rogan as 
someone who offered commentary on mixed-martial-arts matches. The 
podcast is mostly an interview with an Atlantic Monthly journalist who 
wrote an article titled "Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular?"


https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/08/my-joe-rogan-experience/594802/

Here's an excerpt:

There’s a tendency right now to make every single thing about Donald 
Trump, but if you don’t see the dotted line connecting the president to 
a wave of men who feel thwarted and besieged and sentenced to an endless 
apology tour, then you’re not paying attention. Lots of these panicked 
men, as it happens, despise Trump every bit as much as they love Joe 
Rogan. But that’s just a healthier response to the same core stimulus: a 
plunging sense of self-worth caused by a rapidly changing society. In 
2019, men feeling thwarted and besieged is a bipartisan experience. This 
is the era of the Angry White Man, and it’s not just the MAGA army. It’s 
a description that also matches your garden-variety “Bernie bro,” the 
Biden guy who just wants to change the subject, and that walking man bun 
who charged the stage at a Kamala Harris campaign event and showed his 
“profound respect” for all the women present—for a conversation about 
equal pay—by grabbing the microphone to lecture her about animal rights. 
All kinds of men out there are pissed off and looking for someone to blame.


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[Marxism] Economic Circulations: Blood-Based Systems of Value in Alexander Bogdanov’s Red Star - COSMONAUT

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Virginia L. Conn discusses the nature of blood exchange as a basis for 
collectivism in Alexander Bogdanov sci-fi masterpiece Red Star.


https://cosmonaut.blog/2020/02/01/economic-circulations-blood-based-systems-of-value-in-alexander-bogdanovs-red-star/
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[Marxism] How Chaos at Chain Pharmacies Is Putting Patients at Risk | Ellen Gabler | The New York Times

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/health/pharmacists-medication-errors.html


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