Re: [Marxism] [marxism-thaxis] From a forthcoming article on socialist economic planning

2020-05-10 Thread Charles Brown via Marxism 
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Politically Formative for the Millennials and youth was the historically large 
and long Occupy Wall Street protest which was the beginning of a return to more 
class struggle consciousness, 99% and 1% struggle. Many millennials have a 
sense that socialism comes out of the 99% uniting and struggling against the 
1%; they have relearned the Old Left’s central truth . 

Go Millennials ! 



> On May 9, 2020, at 2:33 PM, Jim Farmelant  wrote:
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> From a rough draft of a forthcoming article on socialist economic planning 
> being written with Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina  and Brendan Sullivan.
> --
> Visions of Socialism:
> 
> One of the most striking phenomena in US politics since the 2008 economic 
> crash has been a revival of interest in socialism, especially among the 
> Millennial generation. In fact, you would have to go back some eighty or more 
> years ago to see a time when there was such a big interest in socialism. Even 
> in the 1960’s, the last period when we saw the flourishing of major leftist 
> political movements , there wasn’t so much a mass interest in socialism as 
> much as there were movements led by people who identified as socialists or 
> communists. Most public discussion then was over things like civil rights, 
> black power, and opposition to the Vietnam War. There wasn’t that much talk 
> as to what a socialist alternative to capitalism would look like, even though 
> many political activists back then would have described themselves as being 
> anti-capitalist.
> 
> It must be said that up to now, things haven’t seemed all that different. As 
> much as half of the Millennial generation, according to recent opinion polls, 
> seems willing to identify as socialists. Yet, it is not at all clear as to 
> what they mean by that term. Do they mean an economic order where the means 
> of production are owned by workers and their use is the product of democratic 
> deliberation, as Marx stated “a community of associated producer” (the 
> classic definition)? Or do they mean a more humane capitalism with a more 
> generous welfare state - more or less like what exists (and is being 
> meticulously disassembled) in the Scandinavian countries?
> 
> Right now, a major candidate in the race to become the Democratic Party’s 
> presidential nominee in 2020, Bernie Sanders, calls himself a socialist. But 
> what does he mean by that? It would seem that for him, socialism is basically 
> just the liberalism of FDR and Truman, something that he has reiterated time 
> and time again in his speeches. So is socialism nothing more than a revival 
> of the liberal reformism of FDR, or God forbid, JFK? For many, that is 
> perhaps all they mean by the term. A matter of pouring old wine into new 
> bottles, while sticking on somewhat misleading labels.
> 
> Having said that, it is evident that many people are seeking something more 
> radical than that. In the face of the environmental threats being posed by 
> climate change, not to speak of the ever increasingly growth of economic 
> inequality, reaction, racism and sexism, it doesn’t seem that a revival of 
> FDR’s liberalism is a panacea. In other words, it doesn’t seem to be enough 
> to just seek a reformed capitalism. That has been tried before, and we have 
> seen that while in the short and medium run, capitalists can acquiesce when 
> reforms are legislated, they will, over the long run, seek to gut and 
> overturn them. This is the confirmed history of social democratic reforms, a 
> history that has played out in the US and most other industrial countries 
> over the last 50 years.
> 
> So, what is to be done? It is clear that at least a sizable minority of the 
> people who now identify as socialists are in fact seeking a new economic 
> order to replace capitalism outright. This entails that working people will 
> actually own the means of production and the market economy that we have now 
> will be replaced by a planned economy.
> 
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Re: [Marxism] [marxism-thaxis] Have a Happy and Merry December 25

2017-12-25 Thread Charles Brown via Marxism 
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We all stand on the shoulders of giants; it's the Homo sapiens way. 




"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do 
not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing 
already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead 
generations weighs like a nightmare ( and dreams ! -CB) on the brains of the 
living..."  Giggles 




> On Dec 25, 2017, at 10:45 AM, Jim Farmelant  wrote:
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> Today, the world pauses on the birthday of one of history's greatest men, 
> whose teachings continue to benefit the entire human race, let us join in 
> toasting the memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and of all the giants on whose 
> shoulders he stood.
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Re: [Marxism] [marxism-thaxis] When New York City Was the Capital of American Communism

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The good ole days 

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> On Oct 21, 2017, at 11:12 AM, Jim Farmelant  wrote:
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/opinion/new-york-american-communism.html
> 
> The Brooklyn-born playwright and critic Lionel Abel, who cut his political 
> teeth in left-wing circles in Greenwich Village in the 1930s, remarked in his 
> memoirs that during the Depression years, New York City “went to Russia and 
> spent most of the decade there.” Leaving aside Mr. Abel’s taste for the 
> mordant, he had a point.
> 
> For a few decades — from the 1930s until Communism’s demise as an effective 
> political force in the 1950s — New York City was the one place where American 
> communists came close to enjoying the status of a mass movement. Party 
> members could live in a milieu where co-workers, neighbors and the family 
> dentist were fellow Communists; they bought life insurance policies 
> (excellent value for money) from party-controlled fraternal organizations; 
> they could even spend their evenings out in night clubs run by Communist 
> sympathizers (like the ironically named Café Society on Sheridan Square in 
> Greenwich Village, a showcase for up-and-coming black performers like Billie 
> Holliday).
> 
> What became the Communist Party U.S.A. (its name varied in the early years) 
> was founded in Chicago in 1919 and, following a period of underground 
> organization, opened its national headquarters in that city in 1921. But the 
> bulk of the movement’s members were in New York, and in 1927 Communist 
> headquarters were shifted to a party-owned building in Manhattan, at 35 East 
> 12th Street, one block south of Union Square. (The building still stands, 
> although under new ownership, and in what has evolved into a considerably 
> less proletarian neighborhood than in the old days.)
> 
> New York would remain the capital city of American Communism from then on. 
> Leading communists, including such figures as William Z. Foster and Earl 
> Browder, had their offices on the top floor of the 12th Street building; 
> accordingly, within the movement, it became the custom to refer to party 
> leadership as the “ninth floor.” (And, for some reason, even in non- and 
> anti-Communist left-wing circles, “the party” was always understood to refer 
> to the Communists, rather than any rival organizations.)
> 
> Immigrants, many of them of Eastern European Jewish background, provided the 
> main social base for the party in New York City in the 1920s:As late as 1931, 
> four-fifths of the Communists living in the city were foreign-born.
> 
> Of course, immigrant radicalism was nothing new in New York. The socialist 
> leader Morris Hillquit, born in Riga, Latvia, won more than a fifth of the 
> votes cast in the 1917 mayoral election. Socialists initially hailed the news 
> of the Bolshevik Revolution, but many of them — except for those who left to 
> become Communists — came in time to understand and oppose the Soviet regime’s 
> abandonment of the left’s traditional democratic and egalitarian ideals.
> 
> Neither of the two main rival left-wing parties, Socialists or Communists, 
> enjoyed much success in the 1920s. But with the onset of the Great 
> Depression, Socialists were poised once again to become the dominant party on 
> the left. In the 1932 presidential election, the Socialist candidate, Norman 
> Thomas, won almost nine times the votes that the Communist candidate, Mr. 
> Foster, received. (Neither of them had a fraction of the support of the 
> actual winner, Franklin D. Roosevelt.)
> 
> But the balance of power on the left was about to change, and nowhere would 
> that change make itself felt more dramatically than in New York. With the 
> Depression spiraling out of control in the early 1930s, the Soviet Union 
> began to be viewed in a new and more sympathetic light by millions of people 
> around the world, including many in the United States. The “workers’ state” 
> with its planned economy, viewed at a hazy distance and with a lot of wishful 
> thinking, seemed to offer a desirable alternative to the cruel irrationality 
> of a failed capitalist system, with its mass unemployment and widespread 
> social misery.
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Re: [Marxism] [marxism-thaxis] Doug Greene on "The Critical Communism of Antonio Labriola"

2016-08-07 Thread Charles Brown via Marxism 
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Doug Greene , the non-Marxist

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Re: [Marxism] [pen-l] Fwd: Art, Literature and Culture From a Marxist Perspective | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Problem is when intellectuals substitute literary or aesthetic critical theory 
for Marxist theory and philosophy as with Nietszche , Post Mods , Left Business 
Observers, et al.  It replaces materialist theory with a crypto-idealist 
philosophy. Today they ignore fundamental naturalism and biology. 

I'm not saying McKenna does this. 

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> On May 14, 2016, at 4:21 PM, Louis Proyect  wrote:
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> If you look at the table of contents of Tony McKenna’s brilliant collection 
> of articles titled “Art, Literature and Culture from a Marxist Perspective”, 
> you will be struck immediately by the seemingly eclectic combination of high 
> and popular culture with Vincent Van Gogh sitting cheek by jowl next to Tupac 
> Shakur. This, of course, leads to an interesting question as to the merits of 
> such a distinction. Keep in mind that Charles Dickens was basically the 
> Stephen King of his day.
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Re: [Marxism] [marxism-thaxis] Have a happy and merry December 25

2015-12-24 Thread Charles Brown via Marxism 
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A body in motion or at rest ( though there is no ether or absolute rest) will 
remain in motion ...



> On Dec 24, 2015, at 6:57 PM, "Jim Farmelant"  wrote:
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> Today, as the world pauses on the birthday of one of history's greatest men, 
> whose teachings continue to benefit the entire human race, let us join in 
> toasting the memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and of all the giants on whose 
> shoulders he stood.
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Re: [Marxism] [marxism-thaxis] The Heroic Deed: Myth and Revolution

2015-10-05 Thread Charles Brown via Marxism 
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"Scientific pretentions " ? Giggles

I am interested in the effort to analyze ( scientifically , presumably) the 
role of myth in capitalist society and culture as I'm teaching anthropology 
where the study of myth is important, but of course mostly in societies with 
different modes of production and social structures from capitalism . 

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> On Oct 4, 2015, at 6:42 AM, "Jim Farmelant"  wrote:
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> The essay, by Doug Enaa Greene,  was published in Red Wedge.
> http://www.redwedgemagazine.com/essays/heroic-deed-myth-revolution
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> And the video of the talk, based on that essay, can be seen here.
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Re: [Marxism] [marxism-thaxis] Erwin Marquit, R.I.P.

2015-02-22 Thread Charles Brown via Marxism 
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Presente , Comrade Marquit



 On Feb 22, 2015, at 10:47 AM, Jim Farmelant farmela...@juno.com wrote:
 
 Erwin Marquit, who was profiled in Monday’s Variety section as a major figure 
 in the Communist Party of Minnesota, died Thursday morning from cancer. He 
 was 88.
 
 Marquit, of Minneapolis, was a professor at the University of Minnesota for 
 several decades, teaching physics and, for a time, a course on Marxism. In 
 1974, he ran for governor of Minnesota, the first Communist Party candidate 
 in 32 years.
 
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