[Marxism] What is ‘post-capitalism’? | The Marx Memorial Library | The Morning Star

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[Marxism] Nearly half of American adults are now unemployed

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Re: [Marxism] Trump in ‘fragile’ mood and may drop out of 2020 race if poll numbers don’t improve, GOP insiders tell Fox News | The Independent

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Let's get real -- -poll numbers mean nothing because it is impossible to
predict which "likely" voters will actually get to vote -- due to pandemic
fears, voter suppression, non-availability of mail-in ballots, long lines
at the polls, etc.

I would hope the DEMS assume they are going to lose and work their asses
off not to  any other approach helps Trump slither through to another
"victory" ---

(one could get all politically philosophical and ask "would it be better
for the 'revolution' if Trump won?" I won't go there but others might want
to )

Malcolm X said memorably that he'd rather have Goldwater than Johnson (in
1964) ... and gave good reasons 

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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-TGS]: Astor on Garrison, 'German Americans on the Middle Border: From Antislavery to Reconciliation, 1830-1877'

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From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW 
Date: Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 2:29 PM
Subject: H-Net Review [H-TGS]: Astor on Garrison, 'German Americans on the
Middle Border: From Antislavery to Reconciliation, 1830-1877'
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Zachary Stuart Garrison.  German Americans on the Middle Border: From
Antislavery to Reconciliation, 1830-1877.  Carbondale  Southern
Illinois University Press, 2019.  232 pp.  $30.00 (paper), ISBN
978-0-8093-3755-2.

Reviewed by Aaron Astor (Maryville College)
Published on H-TGS (June, 2020)
Commissioned by Alison C. Efford

Untitled[German Americans on the Middle Border: From Antislavery to
Reconciliation, 1830-1877 by Zachary Garrison]

The literature on nineteenth-century German immigration to the United
States and participation in the American Civil War continues to
develop. Historians like Bruce Levine, Walter Kamphoefner, Alison
Efford, Mischa Honeck, Andre Fleche, and Kristen Layne Anderson have
offered robust and nuanced explanations of German immigrants'
distinctive role in the political, cultural, and ethno-racial
transformations shaping mid-nineteenth-century America.[1] Zachary
Garrison's _German Americans on the Middle Border: From Antislavery
to Reconciliation, 1830-1877_ adds to this growing body of
literature. Like most other books in this vein, Garrison focuses on
the "midwestern" United States primarily, leaving aside sizable
German communities in places such as New York, New Orleans, Texas, or
Pennsylvania. But his interpretation stands apart by altering the
chronological framework and reassessing the ideological principles
animating many German American communities.

Garrison's book examines the mid-nineteenth-century "Middle Border,"
a region defined by many American "Border States" historians to
include both free and slave states. Specifically, the "Middle Border"
incorporates southern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, the Ohio River
portion of Kentucky, and the state of Missouri. At the heart of the
Middle Border were the cities of St. Louis, Louisville, Evansville,
and Cincinnati, though smaller towns like Cape Girardeau and Hermann,
Missouri, and Belleville, Illinois, are also included. In this
heartland area of the United States, Germans arrived in large numbers
beginning in the 1830s, and they immediately altered the political
landscape of an already divided region. By 1860, they had become a
decidedly antislavery element, regardless of their residence in free
or slave states. In fact, as Garrison points out, Germans living in
proximity to slavery were more antislavery than those living further
north in cities like Milwaukee. These German immigrants volunteered
early for the Union cause and vigorously supported emancipation,
often before other Union soldiers. After the war, their politics
started to shift away from Radical Republicanism and toward the new
Liberal Republican movement that downplayed matters of Reconstruction
in favor of economic development and national "reconciliation."

How, why, and when Germans contributed to this story is the point of
departure for historians. Garrison offers four new interpretative
points. First, he begins his discussion long before 1848 with the
so-called Dreissigers, who settled in the Ohio and Mississippi
Valleys in the 1830s. From the beginning, German Lutherans,
Catholics, Jews, and freethinkers settled in geographically disparate
American communities while attempting to forge a German American
identity. By starting as early as the 1830s, Garrison assesses the
extent to which the 1848ers actually changed--or solidified--existing
German American political values. Dreissigers invited a whole range
of Germans to settle in the region, some of them religious exiles
like the Saxon Lutherans who rejected the Prussian Union (and formed
the Missouri Synod) and Catholics from Westphalia and Bavaria. Others
were secular liberal nationalists chafing under the Metternich
system. But most were economic migrants dislocated by land-hungry
Junkers and early industrialization. They established newspapers that
welcomed new immigrants to cities and "colonies" in the American
West.

Garrison's second interpretative point is the emphasis on _Bildung
_as an ideological driver of German political identification in
America. _Bildung _referred to intellectual and physical
self-improvement through a combination of education, moral
improvement, community engagement, and gymnastics. Anything standing
in the way of _Bildung_ was to be opposed, whether it be
authoritarian rule, self-righteous temperance and anti-immigrant
reformers, or slaveholding aristocrats. Garrison notes the congruence
of 

[Marxism] How Did Artists Survive the First Great Depression? | David A. Taylor | Literary Hub

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Re: [Marxism] Spike Lee's awful new film on the Vietnam War - Da 5 Bloods

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Here's a link to Viet's review

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/movies/da-5-bloods-vietnam.html


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> Everyone should read Viet Thanh Nguyen's review of the Spike Lee movie ---
> It is very important in reminding us that US treatments of the war
> routinely ignore the Vietnamese or turn them into PROPS rather than people
> ...
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> One would think Lee as a person of color would be more sensitive to this
> issue --- NOT!!!
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Re: [Marxism] Spike Lee's awful new film on the Vietnam War - Da 5 Bloods

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Everyone should read Viet Thanh Nguyen's review of the Spike Lee movie ---
It is very important in reminding us that US treatments of the war
routinely ignore the Vietnamese or turn them into PROPS rather than people
...

One would think Lee as a person of color would be more sensitive to this
issue --- NOT!!!



> > Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods: How Bad is It?
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[Marxism] Chief Beaten by Police Is Longtime Fighter for Indigenous Rights

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NY Times, June 29, 2020
Chief Beaten by Police Is Longtime Fighter for Indigenous Rights
By Catherine Porter

TORONTO — He survived Canada’s notoriously abusive schools for 
Indigenous children and went on to lead his own nation. He battled 
governments and oil giants over the pollution of his traditional 
territory, garnering him the praise and admiration of Desmond Tutu, 
Greta Thunburg and celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio.


But when police officers double-teamed Allan Adam, the outspoken leader 
of one of Canada’s First Nations, tackling him to the pavement and 
punching him over an expired license plate, he said they treated him as 
though he were voiceless and powerless.


“They did it to the chief. Not just any chief,” said Mr. Adam, the 
leader of the Dene nation of 1,200 people in northern Alberta, which 
famously fought for its rights in the midst of an oil boom affecting its 
territory. He was someone known, he said, to “not back down from a fight.”


“They shouldn’t have picked me,” Mr. Adam said in a phone interview from 
his home in Fort Chipewyan on remote Lake Athabasca. “They made a mistake.”


Mr. Adam was charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting 
arrest. On Wednesday, the charges against him were dropped.


But videos of the police beating an unarmed man have prompted not just 
an investigation into the officers involved, but also outrage across 
Canada, with growing demands for an overhaul of the country’s policing 
system, which imprisons Indigenous and black people at highly 
disproportionate rates.


But they’re know where to look out for your brother right after the more 
you have no reason to fear. Not at all. Nowhere is that more likely to 
come out of nowhere. You know we are patient. It’s good to know that 
you’re good at what that there will be no reason why.


“We have to seriously open the eyes of every nonnative Canadian to the 
realities that we, as Indigenous people of the land, have had to live 
with for decades,” Mr. Adam said at a news conference last week.


Mr. Adam was the youngest of 11 children. His father was a hunter and 
trapper who supported the family by fishing and harvesting furs.


Just before his 6th birthday, Mr. Adam was dropped off at a brick 
building on the edge of town: the Holy Angels residential school. His 
three years there are still too painful to discuss, he said in the 
interview.


The schools, though mostly established by religious orders, were used by 
the Canadian government for more than 160 years to assimilate Indigenous 
children forcibly, removing them from their families and cultures.


A national Truth and Reconciliation Commission declared them tools of 
“cultural genocide” five years ago in a report that documented 
widespread physical and sexual abuse and thousands of deaths.


“When I think of residential school, I think of death, rape and physical 
abuse,” said Mr. Adam, who lost fluency in his native Denesuline 
language while at the school, where he feared being hit for speaking it.


“Horrific stories I suffered at the hands of nuns and priests and 
schoolteachers,” he said.


Mr. Adam said he took up drinking and smoking at age 9, after leaving. 
Most of his classmates from that time, he said, are dead.


Reconnecting to the land saved his life, Mr. Adam said.

When he was a child, his parents would take him out into the boreal 
forest for five months a year, teaching him to fish, trap and hunt.


His father taught him to shoot a moose during mating season by standing 
still in darkness, waiting for the crashing sound of the animal’s approach.


“If it wasn’t for the land, I wouldn’t be here today,” said Mr. Adam, 
53, now a father of five and grandfather of 12. He added, “It taught me 
to become a human being again.”


After seventh grade, Mr. Adam left school, he said, “when the trauma 
started coming back.” He worked as a firefighter and truck driver as 
well as for his nation’s housing authority, among other jobs. He went to 
prison four times for assault, he said, because he would not back down 
from a fight.


“I’ve been run over so many times in life, I won’t let that happen 
again,” he said. “What residential school did to me, I won’t let that 
happen to my kids.”


He found his calling once he was elected to the government of his 
nation, which has land in central Canada around Lake Athabasca and the 
Athabasca River.


Four years later, in 2007, he was elected chief on an economic 
development platform to exploit the nearby upriver oil sands, which had 
grown from a single mine in his childhood to a sprawling landscape of 
smokestacks and tailings ponds.


A few weeks after his 

[Marxism] The Downwardly Mobile:How Some People Lose Class Privilege

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We have two narratives about class in this country. Perhaps the most
prominent is the American Dream – the idea that hard work and moral
fortitude can lead people from rages to riches. The second is that of the
rigged class system, one designed to ensure that the privileged remain
privileged while the poor remain poor.

There are several problems with these narratives, but I want to focus on
one: they both miss a large group of people, the downwardly mobile. In
fact, one in two kids born into the upper-middle-class – one in two kids
born to a college-educated professional parent – fall out of this class as
adults.

I wanted to learn how kids raised with so much could lose the privileges
they had. So I poured over interviews researchers conducted with over 100
upper-middle-class Americans who they followed from age 13 to age 28. I
found out that my idea that they have so many resources was wrong.

https://workingclassstudies.wordpress.com/2020/06/29/the-downwardly-mobile-how-some-people-lose-class-privilege/
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[Marxism] Nixon, Patton, Vietnam and the 1970 invasion of Cambodia

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[Marxism] Is Russia Financing Taliban Bounty Hunters to Slaughter American Troops? Seriously? | Washington Babylon

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[Marxism] Spike Lee's awful new film on the Vietnam War - Da 5 Bloods

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Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods: How Bad is It?

by Jerry Lembcke



*Jerry Lembcke is emeritus professor of sociology at Holy Cross College in
Worcester, MA. He is the author of 8 books including* The Spitting Image:
Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam, CNN’s Tailwind Tale: Inside
Vietnam’s Last Great Myth*,* and Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, and Fantasies of
Betrayal. *In 1969 he was a Chaplain’s Assistant assigned to the
41**st** Artillery
Group in Vietnam. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of
American Historians. *

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/176072
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[Marxism] Bernie’s student army learns to live with Biden - POLITICO

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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/28/bernie-sanders-college-supporters-joe-biden-328353

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Re: [Marxism] Spike Lee's awful new film on the Vietnam War - Da 5 Bloods

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and how could I forget the CIA-run torture chambers aka "tiger cages"!



On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 10:29 AM Dennis Brasky 
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> Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods: How Bad is It?
>
> by Jerry Lembcke
>
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>
> *Jerry Lembcke is emeritus professor of sociology at Holy Cross College in
> Worcester, MA. He is the author of 8 books including* The Spitting Image:
> Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam, CNN’s Tailwind Tale: Inside
> Vietnam’s Last Great Myth*,* and Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, and Fantasies of
> Betrayal. *In 1969 he was a Chaplain’s Assistant assigned to the 41**st** 
> Artillery
> Group in Vietnam. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of
> American Historians. *
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> https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/176072
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[Marxism] Blazing the Path for a New Left Party | Socialist Alternative

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[Marxism] Houston Surge Fills Hospitals With Young

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NY Times, June 28, 2020
‘Feeling Like Death’: Inside a Houston Hospital Bracing for a Virus Peak
As young patients fill new virus wards, Houston Methodist is calling 
nurses to work extra shifts and ramping up its testing efforts.

By Sheri Fink

HOUSTON — Melissa Estrada had tried to be so careful about the 
coronavirus. For months she kept her three children at home, and she 
always wore a mask at the grocery store. She and her daughter even 
stitched face coverings for relatives and friends.


But over the weekend Ms. Estrada, 37, was fighting the virus at Houston 
Methodist Hospital after a week of treatments that included an 
experimental drug, steroids, intensive care and high doses of oxygen. 
She probably contracted the virus while attending a dinner with 
relatives who had also been cautious, she said. Within days, all four 
adults and several children who had been at the gathering tested 
positive for the coronavirus.


“It was really, really scary,” Ms. Estrada said of her illness. She 
worried constantly about leaving her children motherless. “You hear 
about it and you think it’s the older people or the people with 
underlying issues,” she said. “And I’m healthy. I don’t understand how I 
got this bad.”


Coronavirus cases are rising quickly in Houston, as they are in other 
hot spots across the South and the West. Harris County, which includes 
most of Houston and is one of the largest counties in the nation, has 
been averaging more than 1,100 new cases each day, among the most of any 
American county. Just two weeks ago, Harris County was averaging about 
313 new cases daily.


Measures to cope with the surge and to plan for its peak were evident 
over the weekend at Methodist, which called nurses to work extra shifts, 
brought new laboratory instruments on line to test thousands more 
samples a day and placed extra hospital beds in an empty unit about to 
be reopened as patients filled new coronavirus wards.


Gov. Greg Abbott, speaking in Dallas on Sunday, said that the virus had 
taken a “very swift and a very dangerous turn” in Texas, and that the 
increase in the rate of positive coronavirus tests, to over 13 percent 
in the past month from less than 4 percent, was an “alarm bell.” He made 
the grim assessment after meeting with Vice President Mike Pence and Dr. 
Deborah L. Birx, the coordinator of the White House’s coronavirus task 
force, who joined the governor in urging all Texans to wear masks and 
avoid close contact in crowds.


Mr. Pence, appearing at a Dallas rally celebrating religious freedoms, 
threw his support behind Mr. Abbott and his efforts to reopen the 
state’s economy — even as the governor made an about-face on Friday in 
his phased plan by ordering bars closed and capacity at restaurants cut. 
Many young people had socialized in them, standing close together, not 
wearing masks, some expressing skepticism that they could become infected.


During the virus’s first peak in April, the majority of patients testing 
positive in the Methodist hospital system were older than 50. Now the 
majority are, like Ms. Estrada, relatively young. Nearly one-third of 
intensive care patients are now under 50, much higher than in the 
initial coronavirus surge.


The stress on medical institutions burst into public view last week, 
when Texas Medical Center — a downtown cluster of Houston’s major public 
and private hospitals, including Methodist — announced that the baseline 
intensive care unit capacity across its hospitals was full, with 28 
percent of beds occupied by virus patients. That was nearly twice a 
threshold established by the state, which called for I.C.U.s to have a 
maximum 15 percent of virus patients for hospitals to resume elective 
services.


The hospitals typically operate with nearly full I.C.U.s, and had 
planned to increase the number of critically ill patients they could 
treat. But the next morning, the governor issued an executive order that 
again restricted elective surgeries in Harris County. The order, 
however, allows hospitals to continue performing surgeries and 
procedures that will not deplete their capacity to care for coronavirus 
patients; some hospital executives and doctors, including ones at 
Methodist, said they were able to continue providing those services, 
which they viewed as particularly needed after being halted during the 
initial shutdown. The Texas Medical Center hospitals are collectively 
treating about 1,500 coronavirus patients, according to figures released 
on Saturday.


During the previous surge in mid-April, Methodist’s system had at most 
just over 200 coronavirus patients. On Sunday, it had nearly 

Re: [Marxism] Don’t Let Blackwashing Save the Investor Class

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The point is not whether you have individual leaders issuing instructions.
Quite the reverse\.  The rebirth of BLM after the Floyd murder makes this
issue all the more important.  In part, this is because the larger an
unmarshalled demonstration becomes the easier it is for right-wingers or
police agents to shape what happens.   We've seen it happen.  More
substantively, it's because it shows the potential for it to have an even
greater impact with larger numbers.

When the new wave of demonstrations started, the organizers decided to keep
everything a secret.  No call went out, not even at the last minute for
people to show up a particular location and time.  It was kept, as
explained to me, "private information" so as to "catch the police by
surprise."  Later, there were several demonstrations called publicly by
different groups, including the DSA.  These are flip sides of the same
coin.  The point is to unite in a principled way the largest numbers we
can, and to engage participants to get involved in organizing the next such
action.

Things have improved here and there, as they will with experience . . .
But this is going to be a very uneven process.  I'm terribly encouraged by
the fact that Democrats haven't coaxed them into a political domesticity
yet, as they did so easily with the bulk of Occupy.  The pressure is going
to increase and we can't be surprised if they do successfully blight these
efforts.  But the issue will survive as will the experience.  I am fairly
confident a President Biden will have less benefit of the doubt than Obama
had, so it could be a terribly interesting administration.

. . . But let's hold off on our Lenin analogies until we see what pulls
into Finland Station.
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[Marxism] The Slave Trade | C-SPAN.org

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History professor Marcus Rediker lectured during a course on Colonial 
America at the University of Pittsburgh. He talked about the origins of 
the slave trade to the Americas between 1640 and the early 1800s.


https://www.c-span.org/video/?296230-1/slave-trade

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Re: [Marxism] Don’t Let Blackwashing Save the Investor Class

2020-06-29 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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On 6/29/20 7:50 AM, Mark Lause wrote:
This goes again to a lack of organization in the movement.  It seems to 
me that virtually anyone can present themselves can act in the name of 
BLM or be treated as a spokesperson of BLM.




This would have been more of an issue prior to George Floyd's murder. 
There have been more than TWO THOUSAND protests as documented in this map:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:George_Floyd_protests_map#/map/0

By and large, there was no counterpart to Jack Barnes or Ahmed Shawki 
sending instructions out to local BLM organizers to carry them out. 
Johnson demonizes these protests by referring to people like DeRay 
Mckesson cashing in. You get the same kind of analysis from Cory 
Morningstar who wrote 25,000 words demonizing Greta Thunberg because her 
tour was funded by corporations. You might as well denounce Lenin for 
taking that ride on a German train.


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[Marxism] The Western Origins of the “Southern Strategy” | The New Republic

2020-06-29 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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For many people, the so-called Southern strategy was the original sin 
that led directly to the many racial and political problems we face 
today. Richard Nixon, it is said, implemented this nefarious strategy by 
appealing to Southern racists with coded phrases like “law and order” to 
gain the White House in 1968. In truth, the seeds of the Southern 
strategy were sown in the West 100 years earlier, as detailed in a new 
book by Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson, How the South 
Won the Civil War.


https://newrepublic.com/article/158320/western-origins-southern-strategy

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Re: [Marxism] Don’t Let Blackwashing Save the Investor Class

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This goes again to a lack of organization in the movement.  It seems to me
that virtually anyone can present themselves can act in the name of BLM or
be treated as a spokesperson of BLM.

This repeats the earlier problems with Occupy over much of the country.
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[Marxism] Statue wars - Weekly Worker

2020-06-29 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1304/statue-wars/

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