[Marxism] Left Forum Panel: The New “Great Game”: Inter-Imperialist Rivalry and Cooperation in the Age of “Resource Wars”

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Steve Horn and I will be presenting at the Left Forum on Saturday, 5/31 
at 3:10. Rm 1.66


The New “Great Game”: Inter-Imperialist Rivalry and Cooperation in the 
Age of “Resource Wars”


The current scramble for control of hydrocarbon energy, the fuel of 
capital accumulation and imperial power, raises the issue of reform or 
revolution for the Left. Increasing competition for natural gas and oil 
shapes not just the geopolitics of major powers and client states, but 
multinational corporations — global energy giants and financial 
institutions. The new “Great Game” — energy competition among rivals and 
“frenemies” from Europe to China; pipeline politics and the race for 
shale gas; the effects on ”imperialized” countries, possible “energy 
wars,” and global environmental implications will be examined.




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[Marxism] My piece on World War I, The Highest Stage of Catastrophe

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... Just out in the latest Against the Current...

The war brought an end to centuries of dynastic rule by Kaiser, Czar, 
Emperor and Sultan in Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East; 
set the stage for the eventual demise of the British Empire; and further 
relegated France to secondary power status. It finished off the 
crumbling “sick man of Europe,” the Ottoman Empire at Constantinople 
which had once ruled much of southeast Europe, western Asia and North 
Africa. It furthered Japan’s aspiration to become East Asia’s dominant 
imperial power...


The war’s devastation created the conditions for Russia’s revolutions in 
February and October 1917, and the resultant first attempt to “construct 
the socialist order” as Lenin boldly proclaimed to the Congress of 
Soviets. Simultaneously it foreshadowed the coming of a new imperial 
order as the United States, already established as a powerhouse of 
productivity, transformed from being a debtor to a creditor nation set 
on its course to eventually replace Britain as capitalism’s reigning 
superpower


http://solidarity-us.org/node/4198

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[Marxism] Question, re: Role of Singapore?

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Wondering if anyone out there can suggest some readings on the role of 
Singapore as a center of finance in the global circuits of capital?  
Especially interested, in regard to the extraction and flows of gas, oil 
and other energy across Asia, and the Pacific.


Thanks,
-Allen

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Clemson debates whether to rename building @insidehighered

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Have you read the marvelous book ob Tillman by my friend, Steve Kantrowitz?


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 In 1876, a black state senator in South Carolina was hauled off by a train by 
 a mob. Simon Coker was given the chance to pray before he was murdered. While 
 kneeling, he was shot in the head.
 
 The assassination was part of a systematic paramilitary campaign by white 
 supremacists in the post-Civil War South to intimidate and suppress black 
 voters. One of the leaders present at Coker’s murder became South Carolina’s 
 governor and a longtime U.S. senator.
 His name was Benjamin Tillman.
 
 Today, 139 years later, at the center of the campus of Clemson University, 
 stands an iconic brick building.
 Its name is Tillman Hall.
 
 full: 
 https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/02/13/clemson-debates-whether-rename-building
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Re: [Marxism] Strange Bedfellows: The Modernists and the Nazis | The Los Angeles Review of Books

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Hello, Lewis…

I recently switched my e-mail address from alr...@tds.net to 
allen.m.r...@gmail.com  But now I’m receiving a bunch of separate messages 
rather than the listed “digest” that I was receiving previously. How do I 
switch over to receive the list or digest form once again? (Can you do that for 
me?)

Thanks,
-Allen
 
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[Marxism] The re-emergence of social cleansing in El Salvador

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“...Since 2014, Salvadoran human rights activists have been denouncing that 
death squads with possible connections with the police have been waging a 
campaign of “social cleansing” against gangs and suspected gangs members. These 
allegations suggest that the security forces may be reviving an ill-conceived 
practice from the country’s past for dealing with political turmoil. 

This Central American nation has a long and bitter history related to death 
squad practices. During El Salvador twelve-year internal armed conflict 
(1980-1992), the country developed a notorious reputation for extra-judicial 
killings, torture, disappearances, and paramilitary death squads that killed 
tens of thousands of people.

Following the war, a new generation of death squads emerged targeting gangs, 
politicians, human rights defenders and judicial officials. The most famous of 
these death squads was the Sombra Negra, or Black Shadow, which was active in 
the early to mid-1990s but that has resurfaced periodically over the last 
decade. The Salvadoran media reported in 2014 on Sombra Negra graffiti 
appearing in several communities as well as on the opening of a Sombra 
Negraanti-gang web page….”

https://www.opendemocracy.net/democraciaabierta/carlos-rosales-ana-leonor-morales/emergence-of-social-cleansing-in-el-salvador
 
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[Marxism] Suggestions for reads on Portugal??

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Looking for suggestions for historical readings on Portugal  - the Salazar 
regime, the resistance to it, the anti-colonial and national liberation 
struggles, and the revolution of 1974.
( Was just in the country for the first time and realized, especially after 
visiting the remarkable “Museum of the Resistance” in Lisbon, that I really 
don’t much at all about the history, but came away wit the sense that there are 
some important lessons there.) 
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Re: [Marxism] Giroux's "Ghost of Fascism in the Age of Trump"

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Louis:  You wrote "Just as Harry Truman paved the way for McCarthy with his 
ban on CP'ers having government jobs, so did Bill Clinton pave the way for 
Trump with his  abolition of aid to dependent children on welfare….”  

Certainly true. The pertinent question for us today is what might Trump be 
paving the way for?  A narrow focus on Trump, as cause rather than symptom, 
blocks or obscures the larger forces at play on numerous levels, mounting 
crises at various levels, none of which bode well.  Ein gespenst (ghost?) is 
haunting America, (and it clearly isn’t that of communism). And that, it seems, 
is what Giroux is arguing. 



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Re: [Marxism] "Fisking Douma"?

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I usually am not “sarcasm-challenged” so I find myself wondering why the line 
in your opener, "Only those people 
who are for "regime change" and being paid off by the Rothschild Bank, I 
guess." We know, of course, who those are who readily and regularly reference 
the Rothschilds. You’re not slipping, are you, Louis?
 
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Re: [Marxism] Review of Gerald Horne?s *The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

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My 3/22 radio interview with Gerald Horne, re: "The Apocalypse…”:
https://monthlyreview.org/press/gerald-horne-on-the-centrality-of-race-via-wort-community-radio/
 


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[Marxism] My recent piece marking the centenary of the end of WW I

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https://solidarity-us.org/atc/197/end-of-great-war/ 


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[Marxism] Walden Bello on "Crisis After Crisis: 10 Years After the Crash, There’s No ‘Reforming’ Global Capitalism

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“...The real battle is now between two post-globalization camps: democratic 
socialists… and fascists.”

https://fpif.org/crisis-after-crisis-10-years-after-the-crash-theres-no-reforming-global-capitalism/
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[Marxism] 2008... Ten Years On

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Jerome Roos: "...In short, the global firestorm unleashed by the collapse of 
Lehman Brothers ten years ago has by no means subsided. Not only are the 
consequences of the financial crash still with us today, in the form of 
widening inequality, rising debt and crippling political instability, but the 
crisis of capitalism itself also persists and continues to wreak havoc across 
the globe, constantly changing shape as it makes its way from one disturbance 
to another….

https://roarmag.org/essays/lehman-brothers-fallout-financial-crisis/


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Re: [Marxism] Is there a Marxist position on Fashion...

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Passages in the 1901 pamphlet, “Socialism and the Home" by May Walden Kerr, at 
the time one of the associates at Chicago’s “Charles H. Kerr & Co." took up the 
question back when… (pp 7-11.)

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015068650624;view=1up;seq=11
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[Marxism] FYI: Statement, International Assembly of the Peoples and Tricontinental

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> https://www.thetricontinental.org/declaration-covid19/?utm_source=Tricontinental+subscribers+single+list_campaign=85a7e66cdd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_21_02_28_medium=email_term=0_bb06a786c7-85a7e66cdd-190627853
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> In Light of the Global Pandemic, Focus Attention on the People.
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> March 21, 2020
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> International Assembly of the Peoples and Tricontinental: Institute for 
> Social Research.
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