[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Environment]: Kredell on Seymour, 'Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age'

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> From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW 
> Date: May 1, 2020 at 2:08:29 PM EDT
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> Subject: H-Net Review [H-Environment]:  Kredell on Seymour, 'Bad 
> Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age'
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> Nicole Seymour.  Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the 
> Ecological Age.  Minneapolis  University of Minnesota Press, 2018.  
> 316 pp.  $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5179-0389-3.
> 
> Reviewed by Jack Kredell (University of Idaho)
> Published on H-Environment (May, 2020)
> Commissioned by Daniella McCahey
> 
> Mainstream Western environmental culture--_March of the Penguins_ 
> (2005), Sierra Club ad campaigns, Al Gore's _An Inconvenient Truth_ 
> (2006), _National Geographic Explorer_ (2015) and _Hostile Planet_ 
> (2019), the BBC's _Planet Earth_ (2006) and _Blue Planet_ (2001) 
> series, Netflix's _Our Planet_ (2019)--has a tendency to operate from 
> a position of moral and intellectual superiority, reinforced by 
> definitions of the more-than-human environment that tend to be 
> spatially "superior" as well--pristine geographies that select for 
> wild plants and animals but which exclude our messy urban and 
> suburban environments. Almost universally, these Western 
> environmentalist works rely on "serious" affective attitudes and 
> appeals--doom and gloom, guilt, shame, awe, wonder, reverence, 
> sanctimony, self-righteousness, sentimentality, expertise--that 
> reflect a discourse of moral, aesthetic, and even racial purity. In 
> response, Nicole Seymour's _Bad Environmentalism: Irony and 
> Irreverence in the Ecological Age_ offers its archive of "bad 
> environmentalism" to help dismantle the affective and ideological 
> barriers that situate the environment as our sanctified, unfunny, 
> nonhuman Other, one whose moral, ethical, and aesthetic standards we 
> fail to live up to (even as we threaten to destroy it). 
> 
> Seymour's _Bad Environmentalism_ belongs to a growing body of 
> ecocritical scholarship that analyzes the cultural production of 
> environmental affect and sensibility. Foundational to that 
> scholarship is the belief that a comprehensive and discursive 
> understanding of environmental affect can lead to a more ethical 
> engagement with the nonhuman world. However, the prescriptivist bent 
> of environmentalist discourse, with its arsenal of high-minded, 
> moralizing affects and sensibilities, is precisely how _Bad 
> Environmentalism_ wants us to break bad. With sources from "low" mass 
> culture, literary satire (Percival Everett, Sherman Alexie, and 
> Edward Abbey's _The Monkey Wrench Gang__ _[1975]), and the artistic 
> avant-garde (Isabella Rossellini's _Green Porno_ [2008], Shawna 
> Dempsey and Lori Millan's performance art project _The Lesbian 
> National Park Service_ [1997], and _Goodbye Gauley Mountain_ [2013]), 
> "bad environmentalism" is a socially and culturally diverse group of 
> environmental texts that employ non-serious affective modes and 
> behaviors, such as irony, pastiche, absurdity, camp, and playfulness. 
> By addressing the environment and environmentalism with irony and 
> irreverence, claims Seymour, "the works in my archive undercut public 
> negativity toward activism while also questioning basic environmental 
> assumptions: that reverence is required for ethical relations to the 
> nonhuman, that knowledge is key to fighting problems like climate 
> change" (p. 5). Importantly for Seymour, reflexive and non-serious 
> techniques challenge cultural assumptions about environmentalism 
> while simultaneously offering more enjoyable and relatable forms of 
> environmental affect and engagement through humor, obscenity, 
> disgust, and even arousal. Here we must take Seymour's 
> non-seriousness seriously in terms of its ethical departure from the 
> ideology of mainstream environmentalism: the notion of a reverential 
> environmentalism only reinforces the affective split or barrier 
> between, on the one hand, nature as the distant, suffering, and 
> sympathetic Other; and on the other, the near and all-to-familiar 
> thing in which our bodies--obscenely and toxically--are always 
> already enmeshed and at stake. _Bad Environmentalism_ is an attempt 
> to reach out across that barrier. Solidarity rather than knowledge 
> becomes key to fighting climate change.   
> 
> In addition to its critique of normative environmental attitudes, 
> Seymour's project doubles 

[Marxism] The Democrats Are Worthless Howie Hawkins

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I think the problem in this country is that since 1936 the Popular Front,
when the Communists went into a coalition with the liberal bourgeoisie
against the fascists, has been the dominant policy on the Left. However,
since 1848 the traditional principle of socialist politics was class
independence from the capitalists. The so-called “socialists” in this
country have forgotten that. They don’t know that they’re continuing the
Popular Front because they don’t study history. And when you’re in a
Popular Front with the Democrats, you are the junior partner: they set the
agenda, and you go out and knock on doors or make phone calls. You’re not a
Left anymore; you’re just grunt workers for the corporate liberals and
neoliberals. Howie Hawkins


https://platypus1917.org/2020/05/01/the-democrats-are-worthless-an-interview-with-howie-hawkins/


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Re: [Marxism] Intelligence Community Statement on Origins of COVID-19

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> Out of curiosity, how would such a thing be investigated? Is there
> something about a "manmade" contagion that leaves a trace in a way that an
> "unintentional" one does not?

Right, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9

"the genetic data irrefutably show that SARS-CoV-2 is not derived from any 
previously used virus backbone"

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[Marxism] Bolivia vs Venezuela: COVID-19 response reveals true nature of governments (Green Left)

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https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/bolivia-vs-venezuela-covid-19-response-reveals-true-nature-governments

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Re: [Marxism] Intelligence Community Statement on Origins of COVID-19

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Out of curiosity, how would such a thing be investigated? Is there
something about a "manmade" contagion that leaves a trace in a way that an
"unintentional" one does not?

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> Deep state rebuffs the imbecile in the White House
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[Marxism] Netflix to Stream Remastered Versions of Kiarostami’s Films | The Iranian

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https://iranian.com/2020/04/26/netflix-to-stream-remastered-versions-of-kiarostamis-films/

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[Marxism] Subject: Rosa Luxemburg on present-day sects

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Way back in the 1970's, I was in the Workers League (which has since
morphed into the Socialist Equity Party and the World-Wide Socialist Web.)
At the time, it was part of The International Committee of the Fourth
International which was essentially a franchise organization run out of the
British Workers Revolutionary Party (although it may have still been called
the Socialist Labor League) run by a crazed little man named Gerry Healy.

The Workers League had gathered up as many of its American flock as it
could to fly them over to England to provide international extras for the
casting of one of Healy's big conferences. Healy liked to get up in front
of crowds and harangue them.

The SLL/WRP had just had a split with a group led by a guy named Alan
Thornet. Thornett's supporters were handing out leaflets in front of the
venue to all who were entering the place. Inside the door, a team of WRP
cadre led by Healy lieutenant Mike Banda was collecting leaflets from all
those who walked through the door with one in their hands.

I didn't leave the Workers League immediately, but I knew I was on my way
out the door when that happened.

Anthony
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[Marxism] Intelligence Community Statement on Origins of COVID-19

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Deep state rebuffs the imbecile in the White House

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/2112-intelligence-community-statement-on-origins-of-covid-19

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[Marxism] Fwd: Letter to the Governor on Rent Relief

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(Marxmailer John Imani speaks up.)

Gov Newsom,

The first thing that I will tell you is that I stayed on hold for more 
than 40 minutes just now.  99% of the people who wanted to comment would 
have hung up.  I stayed on that line wondering just how incompetent you 
telephone interface with the public was.  Bad.  Bad.  Real bad.  You are 
losing a tremendous amount of information that would come from 
residents.  At minimum you should include an option to leave a message.


My comment that I would have left with a member of your staff (who 
apparently does not exist in so far as answering the telephone) is on 
the divide you, the governor, has erected between homeowners and rents.


Homeowners are, in the main, better off than renters.  Yet there is a 
mortgage moratorium while rent is only delayed.  How will renters, many 
of whom struggle with making the monthly payment, how will we be able to 
pay the 1month, 2 months or 3 months arrears.  There will be a wave of 
evictions like nothing ever seen especially in areas undergoing 
gentrification where , in general, more well-to-do are driving out the 
long-term residents by being ready and willing to pay higher rates.  To 
this existing depopulation gong on right now will be added to the spaces 
opened up by evictions.  Accompanying these evictions will be a 
concomitant increase in the already disastrous and disgraceful number of 
the homeless.


I urge you to use your common sense and treat the unfortunate of 
California equitably and provide an immediate rent moratorium.


I am,

S John Daniels aka John A Imani
Lancaster and LA
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Re: [Marxism] Rosa Luxemburg on present-day sects

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Interesting. Rosa herself was not about the sectarian squabbles herself.
She exhibited the same straitjacket nonsense she accuses the PPS of. The
latter of which had a far bigger and wide ranging discussion as one sort of
issues. If you tried to raise the issue of an independent Poland, you'd be
out on your ass quick enough from her group. Moreover, when the Iskraists
and others were trying to form an All-Russian (which included Poland)
workers party (this became the RSDWP) she infamously kept her sect out of
this important formation to remain isolated from the working class she
claimed to be part of. Just say'n she was not about sectarianism herself...

David Walters
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[Marxism] Rosa Luxemburg on present-day sects

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For the most part, this does not conform to my experience in Canada, in the 
League for Socialist Action (beginning for me in 1967) and later the 
Revolutionary Workers League.
I can think of rare instances when we were discouraged from buying the paper of 
another group or attending the public meeting of another group.  But these were 
exceptions.

A few summers ago I was chatting with a comrade who was in the LSA with me.  
After a glass of wine she confessed to me that in the branch meetings decades 
ago, whenever I stood up and remarked on what another small left group was 
saying or doing, she would roll her eyes.  But that was it.  No one approached 
me to ask me not to make these remarks.

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[Marxism] [UCE] Workers at Amazon, Whole Foods, Instacart, and Target Are on Strike and Need Your Solidarity

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https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/strike-boycott-amazon-whole-foods-instacart-target-coronavirus

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[Marxism] Film at Lincoln Center's Virtual Cinema

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More virtual cinema for the cognoscenti.

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/film-at-lincoln-centers-virtual-cinema/#films

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[Marxism] Rosa Luxemburg on present-day sects

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Rosa Luxemburg's words back in 1906 remind me of today's Leninist sects:

‘The PPS went to great lengths never to expose themselves to a discussion with 
their adversaries before the working masses, making every effort to avoid it, 
so that the masses would not hear any criticism of their program. Indeed, as 
such critique only led to factitiousness, then it was lost time. Workers who 
were members of the PPS were not allowed to bring the publications of other 
parties into the organization. They were supposed to believe what the PPS said, 
just as devout Catholics are supposed to believe what the church teaches.

Just as churches expect their “little sheep” to believe in the shepherd’s words 
and not talk back, so the PPS instills in the masses certain ideas, as articles 
of belief, using every means in its power to prevent members of the party from 
encountering the arguments of adversaries, denouncing every difference of 
opinion in the ranks of their party as disorganization and factitiousness, and 
attempting to form not a cadre of conscious, critically thinking workers, but a 
church of believers. They made fanatics of their supporters, enveloping their 
minds with a cloud of beliefs so dense that no light could shine in. Their work 
was not to raise workers’ consciousness, but to distort their minds.’

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[Marxism] Anti-apartheid veteran Denis Goldberg dies in South Africa | Steve Sweeney | The Morning Star

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/anti-apartheid-veteran-denis-goldberg-dies-in-south-africa


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[Marxism] Socially Engaged Cinema in a Time of Social Distancing | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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When New York movie theaters closed down on March 15th, so did 
invitations to the press screenings needed for my reviews. Unlike other 
film critics, I don’t cover Hollywood films. My beat consists of 
documentaries, foreign-language and American independent films that get 
screened in places like the Film Forum and Cinema Village in New York, 
the Laemmle in Los Angeles, et al.


This month, while Hollywood lies dormant and the entertainment press 
troubles itself over its impending doom, there are a number of films 
that came my way that CounterPunch readers should find interesting. 
While I have referred to them in the past as VOD, the film distributors, 
who are connected to the art theaters, have come up with a new term to 
describe the films under consideration below. They are part of the 
Virtual Cinema world, a term I guess that is meant to evoke virtual reality.


Whatever you call it, it is an opportunity to see leading edge cinema 
unlike most of the escapist fare featured on Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, et 
al. Indeed, they are far more relevant to the current pandemic crisis 
insofar as they imagine that another world is possible.


full: 
https://louisproyect.org/2020/05/01/socially-engaged-cinema-in-a-time-of-social-distancing/


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[Marxism] New pamphlet - Covid 19: The Capitalist Pandemic

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New oaklandsocialist pamphlet
Covid-19: The capitalist pandemic

Introduction
"This pamphlet is produced to help explain this [capitalist disaster]
so that working class people can resolve the disaster that capitalism has
created. We are the only force on the planet that can do so!
In this pamphlet:
New world era: Disaster stalking the planet
Capitalism clashes with laws of nature; laws of nature more powerful
Dinosaur & reform wings of capitalist class offer no solution
Socialists must recognize this new world era
Factory farming & NAFTA Flu
Wild habitat loss
Coming pandemics can be even worse
Nature cannot be “conquered”
Regenerative farming part of solution
Socialist program necessary for a new workers movement

https://oaklandsocialist.com/2020/05/01/pamphlet-covid-19-the-capitalist-pandemic/

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[Marxism] ‘The Merry Month of May:’ a Summons to Grasp the Spirit of the Time - CounterPunch.org

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By Peter Linebaugh and David Roediger

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/01/the-merry-month-of-may-a-summons-to-grasp-the-spirit-of-the-time/

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Re: [Marxism] George Shriver has died

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from Verso Books

In Memoriam of George Shriver, translator of Rosa Luxemburg

It is with great sadness that we have heard of the death of George
Shriver. *Peter
Hudis*, general editor of The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg remembers a
friend and a comrade.

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4689-in-memoriam-of-george-shriver-translator-of-rosa-luxemburg
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[Marxism] Emergency Workers Organizing Committee

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DSA and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
(UE) have formed the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC)
to help workers organize for workplace closures, safety protocols,
just compensation, and a union during the coronavirus crisis. Want to
start a union to protect yourself and your coworkers but don’t know
how? Fill out this form, and an organizer will get in touch.
Fight Covid-19; Organize at Work
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerf2QzafRMvvM1zjr8Oynz4ZYZ_bQ1U0cKJ5eeWclnT8yCgA/viewform

“It’s Time to Engage in as Much Class Struggle as We Can”
Meagan Day interviews Mark Meinster, an International Representative for UE
Jacobin magazine, April 16
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/04/united-electrical-workers-dsa-workplace-organizng-coronavirus
 . . .
MD: You don’t often see socialist organizations and unions
collaborating this closely on projects of this magnitude. Does it bode
well for future of the working-class movement?

MM: I think it’s absolutely necessary for the future of the working class...

Our union was founded by people who had a critique of capitalism, and
who were fundamentally opposed to the idea that the interests of the
boss and the interests of the workers are the same. Our whole outlook
flows from that belief that there is clear, sharp class struggle
happening in the world, and that this economic system is not working
for workers.

But this has often set UE apart. Talking critically about capitalism
in the labor movement wasn’t that possible before ten years ago or so.
Now we’re seeing changes happen politically, and we’re seeing new
openings for unions and left organizations to work together. And we’re
seeing, hopefully, the resurgence of the Left and labor working
together to try to rebuild working-class power.


We Need the Labor Movement To Organize Worker Fightback in the Face of
the COVID-19 Crisis
by Carl Rosen, Andrew Dinkelaker and Gene Elk
In These Times, April 10
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/22459/workers-strike-walk-out-covid-19-coronavirus-labor

"Life-and-death circumstances are being imposed on U.S. workplaces and
workers are increasingly responding by standing up, fighting back and
walking out, but frequently without the support of organized labor.
Unions have a choice right now: Hunker down and try to ride out the
COVID-19 storm or put our shoulders to the task of assisting workers
in their fight to either improve conditions on the job or shut their
workplaces down..."
 . . .
"Our union, the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of
America (UE), has called on all workers, both our members and nonunion
workers, to stand up and fight. We have created online resources to
help nonunion workers take action to win safe workplaces. We have
published a special issue of UE Steward on how to organize members
around COVID-19 issues in the workplace. Alongside the Democratic
Socialists of America we are launching a joint effort called the
Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, which will provide
organizing and logistical support to workers who are ready to take on
their boss. Our members, both in organized shops and in workplaces
where we have organizing campaigns, are winning concessions from their
employers through militant and creative tactics."


Bernie’s Army Redeploys to Support Covid-19’s Frontline Workers
by Steven Greenhouse
In These Times, April 29
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/22491/frontline-workers-organize-with-DSA-UE-EWOC-Bernie-campaign-organizers

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