[Marxism] Nobel Peace Prize for Cuban Doctors

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https://www.cubanobel.org/nobelcuba?recruiter_id=930938 


Selflessness, solidarity and working for the common good characterize what the 
Nobel Peace Prize should be about. These traits aptly describe Cuba’s Henry 
Reeve International Medical Brigade, which has saved over 80,000 lives since 
2005 and has been fighting COVID-19 in 27 countries. Join us in asking the 
Nobel Committee to award Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade a 
Nobel Peace Prize!
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[Marxism] The ever-legible Leger | Christine Lindey | The Morning Star

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Re: [Marxism] a defense of antifa

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Glad to see that you're finally getting to the early June emails in your
inbox. ;-)

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> > On 6/3/20 10:42 AM, Ron Jacobs via Marxism wrote:
> > >
> > > http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2020/06/in-defense-of-antifa.html
> > >
> >
> > "The unfortunate (for some) truth is that sometimes, you gotta’ fight
> > fascists if you want to fight fascsim. [sic]"
> >
> > The truth is concrete.
> >
> > At the outset of the Minneapolis protests, this meant arson. The Migizi
> > American Indian community center burned to the ground. When I brought
> > this to the attention of a riot fetishist on FB, he told me that the
> > center was not targeted. It accidentally caught fire from an adjacent
> > building. It took me a few minutes to discover that the targeted
> > building was a post office.
> >
> > Torching a post office means that people anxiously awaiting an
> > unemployment check or a medical report are shit out of luck. This
> > "diversity of tactics" business goes back to the anti-WTO protests in
> > Seattle in 1999. For the next decade, the black bloc showed up at every
> > one of these protests to fight the cops in order to breach a WTO meeting
> > behind a guarded perimeter. None of this had the slightest impact on the
> > WTO.
> >
> > Black bloc tactics have now focused on fighting the fascists and the
> > cops. Fascists might not get invitations to colleges nowadays but they
> > certainly are bigger than ever. My impression is that they figured out
> > rallies and marches don't work. I also believe that they are focused on
> > building up their ranks in the police and army.
> >
> > As for the cops, burning post offices or looting an Aldo shoe boutique
> > will never have any effect on killer cops. Here in NYC, stop and frisk
> > has almost completely disappeared. It was not breaking Starbucks windows
> > that had an impact. It was a peaceful, legal protest that helped to turn
> > things around.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > NY Times, June 17, 2012
> > Thousands March Silently to Protest Stop-and-Frisk Policies
> > By John Leland and Colin Moynihan
> >
> > In a slow, somber procession, several thousand demonstrators conducted a
> > silent march on Sunday down Fifth Avenue to protest the New York Police
> > Department’s stop-and-frisk policies, which the organizers say single
> > out minority groups and create an atmosphere of martial law for the
> > city’s black and Latino residents.
> >
> > Two and a half hours after it began, the peaceful, disciplined march
> > ended in mild disarray. As many marchers dispersed, police officers at
> > 77th Street and Fifth Avenue began pushing a crowd that defied orders to
> > leave the intersection, shoving some to the ground and forcing the
> > protesters to a sidewalk, where they were corralled behind metal
> > barricades. After protesters pushed back, the officers used an orange
> > net to clear the sidewalk, and appeared to arrest at least three people.
> >
> > The presence of several elected officials at the march, including the
> > Democratic mayoral hopefuls Bill de Blasio, the public advocate;
> > Christine C. Quinn, 

[Marxism] Democrats Will Never Choose Transformative Change – So Give Them No Choice | Black Agenda Report

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[Marxism] Haft Tapeh strike in Iran

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"Thousands of Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Company workers have been on strike for
a month now, demanding the immediate payment of all unpaid wages,
reinstatement of sacked workers, and the return of the embezzled funds to
the workers.

"Presently, the growing escalation of the protests have increased the
pressure on the Islamic Republic. Protests of Haft Tapeh workers today is
certainly one the main forefronts of the struggles of the working class in
Iran

"Please Sign the statement of support. Oaklandsocialist is seeking support
for this statement:
We send our comradely greetings to the Haft Tapeh strikers and to the
entire working class of Iran and we congratulate those fellow workers for
having won the freedom of Youseff Bahmani, Ebrahim Abassi, Mohammad
Khanifar, Moslem Cheshm Khavar, strike leaders at Haft Tapeh. We also
totally oppose the attacks on the Iranian people by Donald Trump. This
includes his imposition of sanctions against Iran. We workers the world
over have the same interests and the same enemies. Workers of all lands
unite. We have nothing to lose but our chains. We have a world to win.

"Contact us at oaklandsocial...@gmail.com to add your name and/or the name
of your organization."

https://oaklandsocialist.com/2020/07/16/strike-of-haft-tapeh-workers-in-iran/

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[Marxism] Living in dark times: the poetry of Bertolt Brecht | Edward Mackinnon | Culture Matters

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Re: [Marxism] a defense of antifa

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Agree. Dan

Dan La Botz

See my books and articles at: World Cat

, New Politics , Solidarity
, Solidaire

, Jacobin , Solidarites
,MR Online
, Counterpunch
, CityBeat
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> On 6/3/20 10:42 AM, Ron Jacobs via Marxism wrote:
> >
> > http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2020/06/in-defense-of-antifa.html
> >
>
> "The unfortunate (for some) truth is that sometimes, you gotta’ fight
> fascists if you want to fight fascsim. [sic]"
>
> The truth is concrete.
>
> At the outset of the Minneapolis protests, this meant arson. The Migizi
> American Indian community center burned to the ground. When I brought
> this to the attention of a riot fetishist on FB, he told me that the
> center was not targeted. It accidentally caught fire from an adjacent
> building. It took me a few minutes to discover that the targeted
> building was a post office.
>
> Torching a post office means that people anxiously awaiting an
> unemployment check or a medical report are shit out of luck. This
> "diversity of tactics" business goes back to the anti-WTO protests in
> Seattle in 1999. For the next decade, the black bloc showed up at every
> one of these protests to fight the cops in order to breach a WTO meeting
> behind a guarded perimeter. None of this had the slightest impact on the
> WTO.
>
> Black bloc tactics have now focused on fighting the fascists and the
> cops. Fascists might not get invitations to colleges nowadays but they
> certainly are bigger than ever. My impression is that they figured out
> rallies and marches don't work. I also believe that they are focused on
> building up their ranks in the police and army.
>
> As for the cops, burning post offices or looting an Aldo shoe boutique
> will never have any effect on killer cops. Here in NYC, stop and frisk
> has almost completely disappeared. It was not breaking Starbucks windows
> that had an impact. It was a peaceful, legal protest that helped to turn
> things around.
>
> ---
>
> NY Times, June 17, 2012
> Thousands March Silently to Protest Stop-and-Frisk Policies
> By John Leland and Colin Moynihan
>
> In a slow, somber procession, several thousand demonstrators conducted a
> silent march on Sunday down Fifth Avenue to protest the New York Police
> Department’s stop-and-frisk policies, which the organizers say single
> out minority groups and create an atmosphere of martial law for the
> city’s black and Latino residents.
>
> Two and a half hours after it began, the peaceful, disciplined march
> ended in mild disarray. As many marchers dispersed, police officers at
> 77th Street and Fifth Avenue began pushing a crowd that defied orders to
> leave the intersection, shoving some to the ground and forcing the
> protesters to a sidewalk, where they were corralled behind metal
> barricades. After protesters pushed back, the officers used an orange
> net to clear the sidewalk, and appeared to arrest at least three people.
>
> The presence of several elected officials at the march, including the
> Democratic mayoral hopefuls Bill de Blasio, the public advocate;
> Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker; Scott M. Stringer, the
> Manhattan borough president; and William C. Thompson, the former city
> comptroller, seemed to signal a solidifying opposition to the policy,
> which has long been opposed by civil rights groups.
>
> Wade Cummings, 46, a teacher, attended with his 19-year-old son, Tarik.
> Both said they had been stopped by police officers — once for the
> father, three times for the son.
>
> “I’m concerned about him being stopped and it escalating,” the father
> said. “I like to believe I taught him not to escalate this situation,
> but you never know how it’s going to go down.”
>
> Police officers stopped nearly 700,000 people last year, 87 

[Marxism] Or does it implode | Richard Seymour on Patreon

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Does the ruling class want to rule or not? If you own the world, and 
want to exploit it for the foreseeable future, oughtn't you work to 
secure the conditions of ongoing exploitability? That's in the nature of 
ruling, is it not?


The biggest crisis in the history of global capitalism. Threatening 
enormous turmoil for years to come. You would think that the world's 
ruling classes would have formulated a somewhat coherent, standardised 
response to the threat of pandemics. Because of the global nature of the 
problem, only a globalised solution could work.


Compare with the coordinated response to the global financial crash in 
2008. In the medium-term aftermath of the crisis, there were significant 
strategic differences between the EU leadership over the timing and 
extent of stimulus and deficit-repayments. Nonetheless, there was 
significant convergence on the basic policy instruments of monetary 
easing, fiscal stimulus and bailouts.


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[Marxism] Chris Hedges: America faces a historic choice — "ugly corporate tyranny" or revolution | Salon.com July 16, 2020

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Chris Hedges: America faces a historic choice — "ugly corporate tyranny" 
or revolution | Salon.com

https://www.salon.com/2020/07/16/chris-hedges-america-faces-a-historic-choice--ugly-corporate-tyranny-or-revolution/

If I were writing it, I wouldn't change much in this compelling analysis 
by Chris Hedges, except that I would place greater emphasis on class as 
a determinant, and even more emphasis on ruling class power as a barrier 
well-designed to inhibit forward movement.


To recapitulate what I and many others on these lists see:

We are in a country that still very much dominates the globe, ever since 
WW2, with the primacy of the dollar as the world medium at which prices 
are set, the world's most powerful market, reputation among the poor and 
the darker-skinned around the globe as most desirable place to be - 
simultaneously driven by need, deprivation, hate and fear; the most 
powerful military, economic, political and cultural regime in history, a 
buffering middle class that benefits from that power with the most 
secure and relatively comfortable living conditions (matched and 
buttressed in more "developed" allied countries) in the history of the 
species, which protects the powerful from the full force of revolt among 
those most adversely affected.


The power, ever increasing, of the primary driver of capital 
accumulation, the competitive, piratical, no-holds-barred compulsion to 
extract profit at least cost from new investment increments of surplus 
to maximize market share, and the need to shape and condition the world 
socioeconomic system to comport with that imperative.


As is now becoming generally recognized on the left, It seems that 
whatever change for the better there will be will only come in this 
world when it is an active prospect here in the United States, the 
"belly," since without America on board, the dominant factor in 
production, exchange and distribution, change faces overwhelming odds.


Also we have, so far, no history on this continent of invasion, or 
generally acknowledged threat of physical destruction from other parts 
of the world. No chastening background. Nor have we yet any meaningful, 
generalized history of overt class consciousness in this regime of 
"equal opportunity," as much as that may appear to be coming undone or 
at least questioned.


It's this privileged position and rulers' power that gives me qualms 
about Hedge's assertion that "hope for change lies in the streets" of 
the United States. Expected feints yes, given the extent of continuing 
protest, toward change in the reactions of the powerful, like the 
current toleration of "Black Lives Matter" painting of dominant streets, 
the removal or renaming of offensive racist icons, corporate assent in 
many quarters to police reform, and the political donning of 
kente-cloth; but only to divert protest long enough to better facilitate 
means of repression.


Hedges does acknowledge the overwhelming police and ultimately 
military-carceral power to repress that movement, but that will gain 
force only once the domestic media are silenced by common boardroom 
assent, just as they have been since Vietnam in showcasing American 
savaging of others on the planet.


I'd say change of whatever extent will soon have to go underground and 
largely off the streets, over a long, painful period, not depend on 
exchange through the surveillance-capable and confined electronic media 
controlled by capital in that process, and be closely organized around a 
developing, viable vision of change, in order to overcome or mitigate 
the increasingly unequal, intractable socioeconomic and irreversible 
environmental catastrophe we see happening before our eyes.




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[Marxism] Each Heartbeat Must Be Our Song; the Redness of Blood, Our Banner: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2020).

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Too little has been made of the fact that countries like Laos and 
Vietnam have been able to manage the coronavirus; there are no confirmed 
deaths from COVID-19 in either country. Both of these Southeast Asian 
states border China, where the virus was first detected in late December 
2019, and both have thriving trade and tourist relations with China. 
India is separated from China by the high Himalaya Mountains, while 
Brazil and the United States have two oceans between themselves and 
Asia; nonetheless, it is the United States, Brazil, and India that have 
shocking numbers of infections and fatalities. What accounts for the 
ability of relatively poor countries like Laos and Vietnam to attempt to 
break the chain of this infection, while richer states – notably the 
United States of America – have floundered?


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[Marxism] What Black Lives Matter Has Revealed About Small-Town America

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NY Times, July 16, 2020
What Black Lives Matter Has Revealed About Small-Town America
By Campbell Robertson

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — Nikki Wilkerson was used to thinking of herself as 
the “small brown girl” growing up in rural Pennsylvania.


She has been eyed skeptically while out shopping and questioned by the 
police for no clear reason at all. But she had resigned herself to 
keeping quiet about racism, which her white friends never seemed to 
notice even when it happened right in front of them. Nobody around here 
ever talked about any of this. It’s just what it was.


And yet there one afternoon in early June, right in the middle of the 
county seat, she happened upon it: a crowd of white people demanding 
justice for Black lives. They would be joined by Black high school 
students, children of Latino farmworkers, “gays, lesbians, queer, 
transgender, whatever,” Ms. Wilkerson, 34, said. “This was not the 
Chambersburg I grew up in. I had no idea. All of these people are just 
coming out of the woodwork.”


The sight was inspiring, she said. But also frustrating. “Why weren’t we 
doing this a long time ago?”


Black Lives Matter could be responsible for the largest protest movement 
in U.S. history, which sprang up in countless cities and small towns 
after George Floyd was killed by the police in May. While the street 
protests have tapered off in most places, newly minted activists in 
small towns are still discussing plans for new events or standing in the 
back of otherwise empty City Council meetings to make their demands for 
police reform.


But beyond any policy changes, which could be slow in coming, a 
significant consequence of recent weeks could be the realization for 
many Americans in small towns that their neighbors are more multiracial 
and less willing to be quiet about things than most people had assumed.


Across the state in Lehighton, Pa., a town that is 95 percent white, 
Montreo Thompson, 26, pulled a lawn chair into his driveway in early 
June and held up a Black Lives Matter poster. Within days he was helping 
lead marches in towns all over the region, and also protesting alongside 
Black people he had never seen before — some of whom lived down the 
street. “They were literally walking distance from our house and I never 
knew they were there.”


Small-town America has never been racially or politically monolithic. 
After the 2016 election and especially in places where President Trump 
romped, thousands of women who were aghast at the result became 
politically active for the first time in their lives, meeting in library 
basements and organizing small but regular rallies. Still, that 
movement, powered chiefly by middle-aged, middle-class women in the 
suburbs and exurbs, was in many ways just a preamble to the mass wave of 
protests following Mr. Floyd’s death.


For weeks, protesters in Chambersburg gathered on the sidewalk in front 
of Central Presbyterian Church, a bronze-steepled landmark dedicated in 
1871, just seven years after the town was burned to the ground by 
Confederate soldiers. The Rev. Scott Bowerman, who has been pastor of 
the church for eight years, called Mr. Trump’s election “an apocalyptic 
moment.” It was a deliberate word choice, he said, based in the root 
meaning of apocalypse: a revelation.


The 2016 election, Mr. Bowerman said, revealed that Franklin County, 
where Chambersburg sits, was not only conservative but enamored of a 
brand of America-first politics that truly electrified many of the white 
voters, who unfurled flags for Mr. Trump in a way they never had for any 
another candidate. Mr. Trump won the county by more than 45 points, 71 
to 25 percent.


But the election also revealed a silent minority, long quiet about their 
politics. Many already knew one another (“the usual suspects,” Mr. 
Bowerman said) but they began forming overtly liberal groups — Franklin 
County Coalition for Progress, Community Uniting, Concerned Citizens of 
Franklin County — planning events to celebrate Pride month, for 
instance, and digging into issues like redistricting reform. A new 
organization called Racial Reconciliation began holding discussion 
groups at the Presbyterian church, with mostly white attendees.


But then the George Floyd demonstrations began. These protesters were 
not the Trump faithful, nor were they members of the so-called 
resistance. At first, nobody recognized them at all.


“I couldn’t believe it,” said Linda Thomas Worthy, a founder of Racial 
Reconciliation and one of the county’s most outspoken figures on racial 
issues. She would drive through downtown during the first week of the 
protests to try to 

[Marxism] The Case for Degrowth

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[Marxism] 'Bloodbath' at University of Akron

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Governing board votes to eliminate 97 full-time faculty positions.

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[Marxism] What College Activists Want

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Chronicle of Higher Education, JULY 15, 2020  PREMIUM
What College Activists Want
Defunded police. Inclusive coursework. Faculty members who look like 
them. Students demand radical change for racial justice, and they’re not 
backing down.


By Katherine Mangan and Marc Parry
David Zentz, Andrea Morales, Dean Lavenson, and Mark Abramson for The 
Chronicle


There was a time when stripping a racist’s name from a building would 
have been celebrated as a breakthrough for racial justice in higher 
education. Today, it’s accepted as a starting point.


As the Covid-19 pandemic and outrage over police violence converge, 
college students are demanding radical change. They want Confederate 
symbols toppled, police departments defunded, coursework diversified, 
departments restaffed with people of color, and a host of other actions.


“We’re past the point of conversation and reforms and panels,” said 
Maliya Homer, president of the Black Student Union at the University of 
Louisville. “We can’t panel our way out of this oppressive system that 
controls us.”


For students like Homer, these issues are personal. On a daily basis, 
they face fear, frustration, judgment, and ostracism because of their 
race and ethnicity, and their demands are shaped by those common 
experiences.


The Chronicle spoke with four student activists, each shedding light on 
a single demand.


The demand: Sever ties with the police.
The activist: Maliya Homer, president of the Black Student Union at the 
University of Louisville

Dean Lavenson for The Chronicle

When Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was 
shot to death by Louisville police officers who crashed into her 
apartment in the middle of the night, it was a jarring reminder for 
Maliya Homer of how vulnerable she felt as a Black woman.


Homer, president of the University of Louisville’s Black Student Union, 
had been disturbed for years about accounts of local police officers 
questioning Black and brown students for behavior that wouldn’t have 
raised suspicion if they were white. A Mexican American friend, wearing 
a hoodie and walking to the library, was asked where he was heading. A 
white student driving with two Black passengers said a police officer 
pulled out her gun when they asked her for directions.


But Taylor’s death marked a turning point for Homer. “Breonna’s murder 
was the last time I was going to even entertain ideas of reform,” she 
said. It “made me feel like Black women are dispensable.”


On May 31, Homer and the Black Student Union called for the university 
to sever ties with the Louisville Metro Police Department. “Nothing 
about being in closer proximity to state-sanctioned violence makes us 
any safer," Homer wrote in the statement.


Helping impoverished neighborhoods near the campus meet food and 
affordable-housing needs would be a more equitable and effective way, 
she said, to improve public safety. Policing, Homer believes, 
contributes to the school-to-prison pipeline. She might have ended up 
there herself if the police had been summoned during her years as a 
strong-willed middle-schooler, she said.


Louisville’s president, Neeli Bendapudi, sympathized with Homer’s 
concerns but wrote in a response on the university’s website that 
cutting ties “would be an insufficient answer to a very complex 
problem.” The university relies on the local police to help investigate 
crimes, the president wrote. Its criminal-justice department houses a 
police-training institute.


Bendapudi promised that campus police officers would lead most 
investigations and that de-escalation or cultural-sensitivity training 
would be required for all officers hired to work on campus.


To Homer, those steps fall short. “It’s a slap in the face,” she said, 
“when you have Black and brown students asking you, begging you, telling 
you we don’t feel safe” with the metro police department, “and you talk 
about reform."


The demand: Remove symbols of oppression.
The activist: Tyler Yarbrough, student senator at the University of 
Mississippi

Andrea Morales for The Chronicle

Tyler Yarbrough couldn’t believe the image in his Twitter feed.

The University of Mississippi student senator was about to drive from 
his college town of Oxford to his hometown of Clarksdale for a 
Juneteenth event marking the end of slavery. And his university had just 
released plans to build what looked to him like a “shrine to white 
supremacy.”


The picture on his phone showed an artist’s rendering of the campus 
cemetery to which the university planned to relocate its statue of a 
Confederate soldier. The project involved upgrading the cemetery 

[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Albion]: Mistry on Ogborn, 'The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World'

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> From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW 
> Date: July 15, 2020 at 12:11:06 PM EDT
> To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org
> Cc: H-Net Staff 
> Subject: H-Net Review [H-Albion]:  Mistry on Ogborn, 'The Freedom of Speech: 
> Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World'
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> 
> Miles Ogborn.  The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the 
> Anglo-Caribbean World.  Chicago  University of Chicago Press, 2019.  
> x + 309 pp.  $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-65768-4; $105.00 (cloth), 
> ISBN 978-0-226-65592-5.
> 
> Reviewed by Heena Mistry (Queen's University at Kingston)
> Published on H-Albion (July, 2020)
> Commissioned by Patrick J. Corbeil
> 
> Miles Ogborn's new book highlights the importance of speech and 
> speech practices in broadening our understanding of slavery in the 
> Anglo-Caribbean and the Atlantic World. By examining how speech in 
> sugar islands like Barbados and Jamaica was policed, attributed 
> force, diminished, held accountable, and discredited, Ogborn 
> delineates the oral cultures that made empire and slavery. By 
> centering speech, he offers new ways of understanding legal cultures 
> of empire, metropolitan and colonial politics, imperial knowledge 
> networks, the negotiation of religion at imperial frontiers, and the 
> abolition of slavery. Ogborn offers scholars an example of how to 
> deliberately consider speech and its meaning in historical context, 
> making the book useful as a methodological intervention. He 
> highlights the ubiquity of words spoken in resistance to or in direct 
> disregard of the power hierarchies of slavery despite repercussions. 
> However, his argument that certain kinds of speech contested 
> boundaries and restrictions in the sugar islands leaves readers 
> wondering whether the measures planters employed when acting on their 
> fears of this speech can really help us move away from accounts of 
> slavery that center power. 
> 
> _Freedom of Speech_ argues that "who can speak and what they might 
> say" are central questions for understanding the violent struggle 
> between humanity and freedom that characterized transatlantic slavery 
> (p. 34). By examining traces of speech and silencing in the archives 
> of plantation slavery, Ogborn argues that speech was an "asymmetrical 
> common ground" upon which slavery worked. He claims that his 
> methodology helps tie together "separate accounts" of power and 
> resistance that "emphasize either the extraordinary apparatus of 
> domination brought to bear on the enslaved population or the manifold 
> forms of resistance that those same populations deployed" (p. 17). It 
> remains unclear what specific literature he is responding to, as he 
> does not name any specific works that allegedly build separate 
> accounts of power and resistance. More convincing is his claim that 
> his book moves beyond understanding the Caribbean as "either the 
> silence of slavery or the astonishing and inventive proliferation of 
> creolized sonic forms" (p. 28). 
> 
> Ogborn reveals the inseparability of British, Caribbean, and West 
> African histories. Ephemeral and mobile speech accompanied by printed 
> materials created conversations that threaded together all sides of 
> the Atlantic. Readers are thus left with the impression that it is 
> impossible to fully understand British legal history, abolition, 
> planter politics, missionary work, or histories of colonial botany 
> without understanding the important ways different forms of speech 
> and silencing were integral to these connections. 
> 
> This book's strength and primary appeal is its insistence that 
> historians move away from the divide between orality and literacy, as 
> power was transmitted through forms of speech as well as forms of 
> writing. Ogborn builds a compelling case for why orality and literacy 
> are entwined. He argues that an understanding of empire as the 
> triumph of writing over speaking is inaccurate, as empires are oral 
> cultures too. The oral cultures of both slaves and colonists crossed 
> the Atlantic through networks of slavery and empire. Imperial power 
> was invested in speech practices, which can be recovered by reading 
> for "the uses of orality" and "instances where speech was required or 
> chosen" in printed materials (p. 28). Instead of "hoping to hear what 
> was really said in the past," he considers the forms of talk that 
> appear in traces or the "contours of suppressed and unheard modes of 
> speech" (p. 29). 

[Marxism] Two Articles on the 'Irish Slaves ' Myth

2020-07-16 Thread Brian Kelly via Marxism
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1. Ireland and Slavery: Debunking the ‘Irish Slaves’ Myth
http://www.rebelnews.ie/2020/07/02/irish-slaves-debunking-myth/ 


2. Ireland and Slavery: Framing Irish Complicity in the Slave Trade
http://www.rebelnews.ie/2020/07/13/4961/ 

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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] [UCE] Prefiguration and (Cosmic) Utopia with A. M. Gittlitz - COSMONAUT

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Remi and Rudy welcome A. M. Gittlitz, the author of I Want to Believe: 
J. Posadas, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism and producers of The Antifada 
podcast to discuss the role of utopias and prefiguration in historical 
and modern-day communist strategy. We cover topics from Russian Cosmism, 
the parallels between New World and Space Utopias, the relationship 
between the subjective and objective conditions for revolution, finding 
spaces where we can imagine a better world, and how to find hope in the 
end of the end of history. The episode ends with the opening of Cosmos: 
Carl Sagan’s hope for a brighter future


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[Marxism] Chris Hedges: America faces a historic choice — "ugly corporate tyranny" or revolution | Salon.com

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https://www.salon.com/2020/07/16/chris-hedges-america-faces-a-historic-choice--ugly-corporate-tyranny-or-revolution/

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[Marxism] Sebastian Gorka and neo-Nazi ties return to Trump WH | Molly Boigon | The Forward

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https://forward.com/news/450835/sebastian-gorka-neo-nazi-ties-trump-national-security-education-board/


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