[Marxism] The comedian going viral for lip-syncing Trump: 'People really hate him' | US news | The Guardian

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[Marxism] Fwd: Milwaukee Sentinel Editorial Re: Wisconsin Supreme Court Decision

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Subject:Milwaukee Sentinel Editorial Re: Wisconsin Supreme Court 
Decision
Date:   Thu, 14 May 2020 19:16:56 -0400
From:   William Quimby 
To: 


It’s up to us. We can’t count on our elected representatives to work 
together for the public good in Wisconsin. They have proven themselves


utterly incapable of compromising even in an emergency to come up with a 
sensible plan to protect the health of our most vulnerable


friends, neighbors and family members.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/2020/05/14/editorial-wisconsin-politicians-supreme-court-evers-vos-fitzgerald-failed-protect-public-good-health/519182/ 


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[Marxism] Hunger Gnaws at the Edges of the World: The Twentieth Newsletter (2020).

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[Marxism] Inside Trump’s coronavirus meltdown

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FT.com, May 14, 2020
Inside Trump’s coronavirus meltdown
What went wrong in the president’s first real crisis — and what does it 
mean for the US?


By Edward Luce

When the history is written of how America handled the global era’s 
first real pandemic, March 6 will leap out of the timeline. That was the 
day Donald Trump visited the US Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention in Atlanta. His foray to the world’s best disease research 
body was meant to showcase that America had everything under control. It 
came midway between the time he was still denying the coronavirus posed 
a threat and the moment he said he had always known it could ravage America.


Shortly before the CDC visit, Trump said “within a couple of days, 
[infections are] going to be down to close to zero”. The US then had 15 
cases. “One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” A few days 
afterwards, he claimed: “I’ve felt it was a pandemic long before it was 
called a pandemic.” That afternoon at the CDC provides an X-ray into 
Trump’s mind at the halfway point between denial and acceptance.


We now know that Covid-19 had already passed the breakout point in the 
US. The contagion had been spreading for weeks in New York, Washington 
state and other clusters. The curve was pointing sharply upwards. 
Trump’s goal in Atlanta was to assert the opposite.


Wearing his “Keep America Great” baseball cap, the US president was 
flanked by Robert Redfield, head of the CDC, Alex Azar, the US secretary 
of health and human services, and Brian Kemp, governor of Georgia. In 
his 47-minute interaction with the press, Trump rattled through his 
greatest hits.


He dismissed CNN as fake news, boasted about his high Fox News 
viewership, cited the US stock market’s recent highs, called Washington 
state’s Democratic governor a “snake” and admitted he hadn’t known that 
large numbers of people could die from ordinary flu. He also 
misunderstood a question on whether he should cancel campaign rallies 
for public health reasons. “I haven’t had any problems filling [the 
stadiums],” Trump said.


What caught the media’s attention were two comments he made about the 
disease. There would be four million testing kits available within a 
week. “The tests are beautiful,” he said. “Anybody that needs a test 
gets a test.”


Ten weeks later, that is still not close to being true. Fewer than 3 per 
cent of Americans had been tested by mid-May. Trump also boasted about 
his grasp of science. He cited a “super genius” uncle, John Trump, who 
taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and implied he 
inherited his intellect. “I really get it,” he said. “Every one of these 
doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a 
natural ability.” Historians might linger on that observation too.


What the headlines missed was a boast that posterity will take more 
seriously than Trump’s self-estimated IQ, or the exaggerated test 
numbers (the true number of CDC kits by March was 75,000). Trump 
proclaimed that America was leading the world. South Korea had its first 
infection on January 20, the same day as America’s first case, and was, 
he said, calling America for help. “They have a lot of people that are 
infected; we don’t.” “All I say is, ‘Be calm,’” said the president. 
“Everyone is relying on us. The world is relying on us.”


He could just as well have said baseball is popular or foreigners love 
New York. American leadership in any disaster, whether a tsunami or an 
Ebola outbreak, has been a truism for decades. The US is renowned for 
helping others in an emergency.


In hindsight, Trump’s claim to global leadership leaps out. History will 
mark Covid-19 as the first time that ceased to be true. US airlifts have 
been missing in action. America cannot even supply itself.


South Korea, which has a population density nearly 15 times greater and 
is next door to China, has lost a total of 259 lives to the disease. 
There have been days when America has lost 10 times that number. The US 
death toll is now approaching 90,000.


What has gone wrong? I interviewed dozens of people, including outsiders 
who Trump consults regularly, former senior advisers, World Health 
Organization officials, leading scientists and diplomats, and figures 
inside the White House. Some spoke off the record.


Again and again, the story that emerged is of a president who ignored 
increasingly urgent intelligence warnings from January, dismisses anyone 
who claims to know more than him and trusts no one outside a tiny 
coterie, led by his daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner – the 
property developer who Trump has empowered 

[Marxism] Book Review: IMPACT Comics from Dark Horse EC Archives

2020-05-14 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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Guest Review by Paul Buhle

EC Archives: Impact. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse, 2020.  168 pages. $49.95.

Impact Comics, which lasted only 5 issues, would be memorable if for 
only one story. As Greg Sadowski, the forgotten fan-biographer of artist 
Bernard Krigstein suggests,”Master Race,” a mere eight pages and 
scripted by Al Feldstein (Mar., 1955), is the masterpiece of 
anti-fascism but also of comic art design and execution. It enters the 
mind of the Holocaust survivor as he discovers, tracks down and wreaks 
revenge upon a human monster within the bowels of Manhattan’s subway system.


https://comicsgrinder.com/2020/05/13/book-review-impact-comics-from-dark-horse-ec-archives/

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[Marxism] NY Times: We Must Not Forget The Jackson State Massacre

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Fifty years ago, the police fired into a crowd at the historically black
college, killing two.

By Robert Luckett

Dr. Luckett is a professor of history at Jackson State University.

May 14, 2020

JACKSON, Miss. — In the 1960s, white motorists driving along John R. Lynch
Street, which cut through the middle of the historically black campus of
what was then called Jackson State College, would often taunt students
along the way with racist epithets, throw objects at them and threaten to
hit pedestrians.

On Feb. 3, 1964, a white driver slammed into a Jackson State student named
Mamie Ballard, sending her to the hospital. This incident began a yearslong
push to close Lynch Street to traffic, which in turn helped propel the
already potent local civil rights movement.

Jackson State may have been majority black, but it was in the capital of a
state dominated by white supremacists, who governed the college. Informed
by the civil rights and Black Power movements, students naturally saw the
fight to close Lynch Street as a cornerstone of their broader push for
justice and equality in Mississippi. With an increasingly aggressive tenor,
the ensuing student demonstrations, which peaked each spring, demanded
justice for Ms. Ballard, who survived, and that Lynch Street be closed.

On May 14, 1970, someone set fire to a dump truck parked in the middle of
Lynch Street a few blocks from campus. While there was no evidence that
student protesters had been involved, white authorities cited the vandalism
to justify the use of force.

Late that evening officers from the Jackson Police Department and the
Mississippi Highway Patrol marched onto campus, accompanied by the
so-called Thompson Tank, an armored personnel carrier that Mayor Allen
Thompson, the city’s segregationist mayor, had purchased in 1964, ahead of
what he termed the civil rights “invasion” of Freedom Summer. That same
year the Mississippi Legislature gave the Highway Patrol broad authority to
intervene in protests, even if local authorities hadn’t requested them. The
patrol still held that power in 1970.

The phalanx of officers proceeded to Alexander Hall, a women’s dormitory,
arriving close to midnight. But instead of facing a mass of angry
protesters, they found scores of students enjoying a Thursday evening
relaxing outside as graduation neared. Later asserting that a sniper had
shot at them from a window in Alexander Hall — an absurd claim with no
evidence — the police fired more than 400 rounds of ammunition over 28
seconds in every direction.

In the chaos that spilled into the early morning hours of May 15, two men,
Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, were left dead; a dozen other
young people were wounded in the gunfire. Hundreds of others bear physical
and psychological scars to this day. Gibbs was a junior political science
major at Jackson State. He had married his high school sweetheart, and they
had one son. Unbeknown to Gibbs and his wife, Dale, she was pregnant with
their second son.

Green was a senior at nearby Jim Hill High School. He had been walking home
from his after-school job on the opposite side of the street from Alexander
Hall, which meant the police had turned to fire in the opposite direction
from the supposed sniper.

Graduation was canceled, and the Class of 1970 received their diplomas in
the mail. A number of injured students and the families of Gibbs and Green
sued the city and state, represented by the renowned civil rights attorney
Constance Slaughter. The plaintiffs lost; no one was ever charged in the
killings. The section of Lynch Street through campus was finally closed,
and the Gibbs-Green Memorial Plaza now stands in front of Alexander Hall.
But those concessions did nothing to lessen the trauma for those who
survived.

The 50th anniversary of the police attack at Jackson State comes at a
moment when America is struggling with a pandemic, the impacts of which
have weighed heavily, and unjustly, on black bodies. Thanks to the
insufficient and belated response of national and state leaders that has
inflamed the pandemic, people of color are disproportionately represented
among Covid-19 cases, and they bear the brunt of the government’s
aggressive enforcement of quarantine rules.

Then came the video showing the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed
black man out for a jog in Georgia. Although he was killed in February,
only last week were the men shown on a video confronting Mr. Arbery
arrested. As the survivors of the May 1970 attack at Jackson State and
modern proponents of Black Lives Matter understand, justice remains elusive.

Through it all, we must be reminded that state-sanctioned 

[Marxism] The Race to Replace a Dying Neoliberalism - FPIF

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By Walden Bello

The global financial crisis of 2008 was a profound crisis of capitalism, 
but the subjective element — popular alienation from the system — had 
not yet reached a critical mass. Owing to the boom created by 
debt-financed consumer spending over two decades, people were shocked by 
the crisis, but they were not that alienated from the system during the 
crisis and its immediate aftermath.


Things are different today.

The level of discontent and alienation with neoliberalism was already 
very high in the global North before the coronavirus hit, owing to the 
established elites’ inability to reverse the decline and living 
standards and skyrocketing inequality in the dreary decade that followed 
the financial crisis. In the U.S., the period was summed up in the 
popular mind as one where the elites prioritized saving the big banks 
over saving millions of bankrupt homeowners and ending large-scale 
unemployment, while in much of Europe, especially in the south, the 
people’s experience of the last decade was captured in one word: austerity.


https://fpif.org/the-race-to-replace-a-dying-neoliberalism/

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Re: [Marxism] Vox Shamelessly Smears Michael Moore’s “Planet of the Humans”

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On 5/14/20 12:45 PM, Sami El-sayed via Marxism wrote:

There is no simple technological fix for climate change. But climate
change is a technology problem - you will not stop, slow or mitigate
climate change without green tech - or genocide. It's also a social
problem (of property relations, ecological renewal etc) and an
economic problem (of the capitalist market and profit motive both of
which lead to wasteful consumption patterns and inhibit the
development of green tech).


Absolutely. I  understand that the biology department in Oxford has 
teamed up with Pfizer to develop a technique that uses cloning to 
reproduce Bluefin Tuna by the millions. I also understand that Leigh 
Phillips and Aaron Bastani are serving as consultants to Elon Musk who 
has plans to build a massive rocket ship capable of hauling back an 
asteroid to earth that is 98 percent sapphire. The jewels will provide 
everybody on earth $50,000 per month.


What, me worry?

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Re: [Marxism] Vox Shamelessly Smears Michael Moore’s “Planet of the Humans”

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"Stokes falsely accuses the film of advocating for population control
and then compares the filmmakers with hate groups ... Nowhere in the
film does anyone even mention population control, much less advocate
for it. In fact, the filmmakers are against population control.
Producer Ozzie Zehner is recorded saying clearly, “I’m not for
population control”."

Right, not for pop control, just number one with pop control
advocates! Frankly, I don't care about what views they have outside of
their films when it's the films that will be mass consumed. The
reality is that the film did not take a hardline position against
population control, and if you mention population as a cause of the
climate crisis but don't immediately follow up with an opposition to
population control, then logic of the argument is for population
control. If you take a horse to water, don't be surprised if it
drinks. This is - at best - a glaring omission which provides succor
to ecofascists parading as socialist degrowthers and at worst is a nod
in the direction of ecofascism itself.

Either way, enough to completely discredit the film, and that's before
we get into the old school arguments it puts against renewable energy
which Orfalea says aren't lies. Sure, they're not lies if we're
talking about lying in the most strict sense (i.e. making the abstract
historical argument), but they are absolutely misrepresentations of
renewable energy to the point that they are lies of omission. The
argument can be made that the film isn't "about" renewable energy
tech, but if that's the case don't spend a good chunk of it attacking
old renewable energy tech without explaining how things have improved.
Again - not anti-renewable energy, just number one with anti-renewable
energy advocates!

There is no simple technological fix for climate change. But climate
change is a technology problem - you will not stop, slow or mitigate
climate change without green tech - or genocide. It's also a social
problem (of property relations, ecological renewal etc) and an
economic problem (of the capitalist market and profit motive both of
which lead to wasteful consumption patterns and inhibit the
development of green tech). The choice is green technology organised
and implemented by a planned economy or genocide. Ecosocialism or
ecofascism. As far as I'm concerned, with the way Planet of the Humans
presents itself, it tries to ride the fence. The most generous
analysis you can honestly put forward of this is that it's a massive
propaganda blunder by well-intentioned filmmakers, though frankly
calling the likes of Gibbs well-intentioned is a bit of a stretch.


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[Marxism] Vox Shamelessly Smears Michael Moore’s “Planet of the Humans”

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[Marxism] Genocidal Gina: How Rhode Island Governor Sacrificed Humanitarian Credibility to Appease GOP Crackpots | Washington Babylon

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[Marxism] In Bid for Party Unity, Biden Moves Beyond Restoring the Pre-Trump Era

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(Ocasio-Cortez closes ranks with the Pelosi wing of the DP. Watch 
Jacobin/DSA fall into line as the election draws near.)


NY Times, May 14, 2020
In Bid for Party Unity, Biden Moves Beyond Restoring the Pre-Trump Era
By Katie Glueck and Astead W. Herndon

Throughout the Democratic presidential primary, Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s 
rivals criticized his focus on restoring America to the pre-Trump era, 
accusing him of promoting a backward-looking political vision that 
ignored the deep-rooted causes of the nation’s problems.


Mr. Biden’s message to voters sometimes fueled that perception: He 
constantly invoked the Obama legacy. He leaned on longtime party donors 
and endorsements from establishment Democrats — some of whom had been 
out of office for years. He criticized some of the progressive ideas of 
his primary rivals.


But as he steps into the general election having vanquished the party’s 
left wing, and the nation reels from a pandemic that has devastated the 
economy, Mr. Biden is striking fewer of the moderate notes that won him 
the nomination, instead courting progressives with a new openness to 
systemic disruption.


The clearest sign of that shift came on Wednesday, when Mr. Biden 
announced a slate of joint policy task forces with Senator Bernie 
Sanders focused on issues ranging from climate change to criminal 
justice reform. The task force members include stalwart Biden allies, 
but also a who’s who of “Medicare for all” champions, advocates for 
eliminating college debt, and critics of the Obama administration’s 
immigration policy — the kind of activists who have long been skeptical 
of Mr. Biden’s more incremental instincts.


Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, perhaps the 
nation’s most prominent young progressive, is co-chair of the climate 
change task force along with former Secretary of State John Kerry, a 
significant development as Mr. Biden seeks to improve his standing with 
younger and more liberal voters.


While the task forces have yet to convene, and it is far from clear 
whether they will produce policy results or simply the appearance of 
political harmony, Mr. Biden is plainly trying to unite the most 
progressive wing of the party with the Democratic establishment. That’s 
a goal critical to delivering a big Democratic vote against President 
Trump, and his united Republican Party, in November.


“I think I can speak for a lot of young people in that I was not 
motivated or inspired by Biden’s refrain of a return to normalcy,” said 
Varshini Prakash, the executive director of the progressive climate 
activism group Sunrise Movement, who will join Ms. Ocasio-Cortez on the 
climate policy working group. “If you want to energize our generation, 
give us a vision of what we’re fighting for — and not just what we’re 
fighting against.”


In recent weeks, Mr. Biden has detailed an agenda that increasingly 
features progressive policies and language. Where he once pitched a 
message anchored in electability, he has now embraced a rhetorical stew 
that mixes the “hope” of former President Barack Obama with the populism 
of Mr. Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren.


It’s a reflection of political sensitivity to the national mood, which 
risks turning to overwhelming anger as economic pain builds. But it is 
also an implicit acknowledgment that Mr. Biden cannot win by merely 
promising to remove Mr. Trump.


“Yes, I’ve endorsed Vice President Biden and yes, we’re working to help 
organize progressives,” said Representative Barbara Lee of California, a 
former chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. “But we have to 
make sure that an agenda that speaks to the aspirations of all Americans 
is an agenda that he embraces.”


In recent weeks,  Mr. Biden’s words and his policies have drifted left.

He announced a new plan last week focusing on systemic racism, and 
indicated in a Snapchat interview that he supported a federal rent 
bailout. In discussing big businesses and stimulus money, he recently 
snarled in a Politico interview, “This is the second time we’ve bailed 
their asses out.”


And this month, he was co-author of an op-ed article with Ms. Warren in 
McClatchy newspapers, acknowledging that “for many Americans, our 
economy wasn’t working even before the devastation of the Covid-19 crisis.”


“The blinders have been taken off,” Mr. Biden said at a recent 
fund-raiser. “Because of this Covid crisis, I think people are 
realizing: ‘My Lord. Look at what is possible.’”


Such a messaging shift presents both opportunities and challenges for 
Mr. Biden, who spent much of the primary keenly focused on how a 
presidential candidate’s 

[Marxism] How to Argue With Your Comrades

2020-05-14 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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Ex-ISOer doesn't like "scorched-earth campaigns" against the Sandernista 
left for the overprojections in Jacobin/DSA about Sanders's prospects. 
Who in fuck's name is he talking about? Left Voice? My blog? 
CounterPunch? Maybe if they were more comfortable in their reformist 
politics, they'd be more thick-skinned.


https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/left-arguments-comrades-democratic-socialism-bernie-sanders

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[Marxism] The DSA Is Growing Fast During the Coronavirus Pandemic - The Atlantic

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/05/dsa-growing-during-coronavirus/611599/

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[Marxism] US elderly care devastated by the profit system - World Socialist Web Site

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I am obviously no fan of WSWS but they do produce some important 
material from time to time. This morning I was trying to get to the 
bottom of the big money behind nursing homes after reading that NY had 
passed legislation that shields nursing homes from lawsuits. Many of 
them are based on REITs, the initials for Real Estate Investment Trust, 
which are held by private equity firms. No wonder, nursing home 
residents constitute 30 percent of all casualties in the pandemic.


https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/25/nurs-a25.html

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[Marxism] Joe Biden teams with Bernie Sanders on new, policy-focused task forces - Vox

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Prediction: Jacobin/DSA will ramp up its wink-wink, nod-nod support for 
Biden.


https://www.vox.com/2020/5/13/21257078/joe-biden-bernie-sanders-joint-unity-task-forces-democratic-policy

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[Marxism] Clarion Ledger: Mississippi poultry worker who died of COVID-19 pushed for better pay, conditions

2020-05-14 Thread Alan Ginsberg via Marxism
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A tribute to labor activist Celso Mendoza

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2020/05/11/forest-mississippi-poultry-worker-celso-mendoza-dies-coronavirus/3104375001/?fbclid=IwAR0Ha0nOTKiSFtyCi1W44JlNcnzy3cJ50D-uRoePrko5bGgD_ee5WlihI7w
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[Marxism] 'Monstrous Cruelty: As Hunger Soars, Trump USDA Resumes Effort to Take Nutrition Benefits From More Than a Million People | Common Dreams News

2020-05-14 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/14/monstrous-cruelty-hunger-soars-trump-usda-resumes-effort-take-nutrition-benefits

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[Marxism] [UCE] Mississippi poultry worker who died of COVID-19 pushed for better pay, conditions

2020-05-14 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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https://amp.clarionledger.com/amp/3104375001

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[Marxism] Can we simultaneously oppose Bayer/Monsanto’s biotechnology and support Cuba’s Interferon Alpha 2B? | Don Fitz | MR Online

2020-05-14 Thread Kevin Lindemann and Cathy Campo via Marxism
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https://mronline.org/2020/05/13/can-we-simultaneously-oppose-bayer-monsantos-biotechnology-and-support-cubas-interferon-alpha-2b/


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