Re: [Marxism] Distinction between authoritarian and totalitarian states
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * [reply inline / bottom-posted] Saturday, February 25, 2017, 4:09:37 PM, you wrote: > Louis, There is a debate going on among the left cadre > whether Modi's BJP is aspiring to build a fascist state. BJP and RSS > have got all the armaments ready to build a totalitarian state.BJP > is a branch of the all powerful RSS (Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh - > Translation: National self service group), which actually exterts > its influence on the administration. In fact, Modi has to bow before > the authority of RSS leasdership cotorie. Major decisions are taken > at the Nagpur HQ of RSS, located in Central India. RSS has got many > shadowy organisation such as Bajrang Dal (the Monkey God Corps), > Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP for short - the ideological wing of RSS), > Sanatan Sansthan (the covert organisation that had murdered 3 > prominent intellectuals). It is reported that RSS has under its > umbrella hundreds of such covert and overt organizations, with > membership running into 3 or 4 million. Added to this, they have > many local outfits such as Shiv Sena (Shiva's Army). > [...] Shiv Sena is a fascist party local to the state of Maharashtra, particularly in Bombay (renamed Mumbai by the fascists), carving its way by being xenophobically opposed, often violently, to workers from outside the state. It was set up on the initiative of the CIA to destroy leftist trade unions in the Bombay mills; it now has its own fascist trade unions. Shiv Sena was in a Maharashtra government coalition with the BJP; that co-operation ended in 2014. Shiv Sena is not part of the BJP, nor is the breakaway group, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena. Somewhat gratifyingly, these two Senas have literally been at each other's throats, spilling fellow fascists' blood. -- In solidarity Jim _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] A blast from the Past - Blair returns
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * [reply inline / bottom-posted] on Tue, 22 Nov 2016 09:58:35 +1000, Gary MacLennan via Marxism wrote: > > So Tony is taking time out from his consultancies for tyrants and fellow war criminals to rescue > the Centre in UK and world politics. > >[rest deleted] He may be queering the pitch of those just revealed by today's Independent newspaper to have been beavering away to set up a campaign for another UK referendum on staying in the EU. Blair is itching to get into UK politics with some kind of launch already scheduled for January. And he has made statements against exiting from the EU. But Blair is toxic not only for the Labour left, but any association with him is seen as a danger throughout the party. Right bureaucrats, who are still in charge of party administration despite the left's advances, have been suspending (usually leftwing) members for calling opponents within the party 'Blairites' - everyone sees this as a derogatory term these days. War criminal Blair is not good news for any UK campaign. You can access the Independent article about the pro-EU referendum campaign here: http://tinyurl.com/hgy3po5 or bitly version http://ind.pn/2gvU9Dw Jim Moody - - J i m ( j i m @ r e d u n i t y .. o r g ) o n 2 2 / 1 1 / 2 0 1 6 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] [UCE] Re: Proof of Turkey-ISIS ties?
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * What exactly is the meaning of 'Baathist amen corner' that is different using the wording 'pro-Baathist'? Perhaps it is a uniquely US leftists' expression, or is it unique to this discussion list, where it keeps popping up? Jim - - J i m ( j i m @ r e d u n i t y .. o r g ) o n 0 8 / 1 2 / 2 0 1 5 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] No Support for Cameron's Lies and the Blairites' War Fantasies
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Tony Greenstein's blog: 'Of one thing we can be certain. Bombing Raqa will not defeat ISIS. The bombing of ISIS by the United States in the last year is positive proof of this. Until Russia began bombing in earnest, it never occurred to the United States to stop ISISs lucrative trade in oil by bombing the tankers queuing up for miles to take oil from ISIS controlled Syria across the border. Hence why the US only began bombing oil tankers in November 2015. 'As the article from Socialist Action below makes clear, the US in the past year hasnt been serious about defeating ISIS because the alternative would have been to hand victory to Syrias President Assad. Instead it has played with ISIS like a cat with a mouse. In essence the US has been on both sides of the Syrian war. Aiding the Kurds in Kobani yet giving the green light to Turkeys Erdogan to attack the Kurdish PKK, both in Turkey itself and in Iraq. Turkey maintains that the Syrian Kurdish fighters of the PYD are just an offshoot of the PKK and that they will not hesitate to attack them.' http://azvsas.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/labour-should-oppose-bombing-of-syria.html - - J i m ( j i m @ r e d u n i t y .. o r g ) o n 3 0 / 1 1 / 2 0 1 5 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Most LP members against air strikes in Syria
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Reuters UK Monday 30 November: 'Britain's opposition Labour Party said on Monday three-quarters of its members opposed bombing Islamic State militants in Syria, according to a sample of responses the party received over the weekend.' http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/11/30/uk-mideast-crisis-syria-britain-idUKKBN 0TJ1K920151130 [With the election of leftist Jeremy Corbyn as leader, Labour Party membership has more than doubled in Britain to around 400,000, more than that of all other British parties combined.] - - J i m ( j i m @ r e d u n i t y .. o r g ) o n 3 0 / 1 1 / 2 0 1 5 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Elections in India.
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * [reply inline / bottom-posted] on Mon, 9 Nov 2015 19:06:12 +, Prashad, Vijay via Marxism wrote: > [...] > For those interested, I have an article in Vikalp on the 98th anniversary of the Bolshevik > Revolution, http://www.vikalp.ind.in/2015/11/what-does-1917-represent-in-2015.html .. There seems to be no understanding in this article that the Russian Revolution started to turn into its opposite once there were no further revolutions of note in the world, especially in western Europe. Thus did the wasted (20th) century provide proof of the impossibility of 'socialism in one country'. Jim -- Jim (j...@redunity.org) on 09/11/2015 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Podemos inicia su campa�a electoral con una marcha en Madrid
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Podemos inicia su campaña electoral con una marcha en Madrid (El País) La dirección de Podemos ha convertido este sábado la llamada marcha del cambio, una movilización abierta a todos y convocada en Madrid para escenificar la ruptura con la vieja política, en el arranque de su campaña electoral. Pablo Iglesias y su núcleo de confianza han intentado afianzar sus principales mensajes y estrategia ante decenas de miles de personas congregadas en la Puerta del Sol, después de un recorrido de menos de un kilómetro entre Cibeles y la plaza que simboliza los entusiasmos del 15-M. Según los cálculos de este diario, a la una de la tarde había unos 153.000 manifestantes 100.000 para la policía y 300.000 según la estimación de los organizadores. más aquí: http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2015/01/31/actualidad/1422673981_619047.html -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org) on 01/02/2015 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Greek Leader Who Said 'Jews Don't Pay Taxes' Named Defense Minister
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * [reply inline / bottom-posted] on Tue, 27 Jan 2015 23:36:52 -0500, Sheldon Ranz via Marxism wrote: On the one hand, Nixon and Stalin were two anti-Semites who supplied Israel with arms, so need to worry on that front (unless you're Palestinian). On the other hand, the only other anti-austerity party that got seats was the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn. Talk about being between a rock and a hard place - or to please any Greeks out there, between Scylla and Charybdis. Holy Odysseus, Batman - does Tzipris have tsores! This is not correct: KKE is surely another anti-austerity party, and it has enough seats to form a government coalition with Syriza, even if its ageing Stalinism has made it into yet another quasi-social democratic party. You'd think that would make it a good fit with the left social democratic Syriza. More to the point for Marxists, however, is when you decide not to form a government, even when you can, or even participate as a minority in government. For revolutionaries it would be parliamentarist suicide to do so if there is no revolutionary situation and the overwhelming majority of the population is not with you. (And they aren't with Syriza yet.) -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org) on 28/01/2015 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Greek Leader Who Said 'Jews Don't Pay Taxes' Named Defense Minister
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * [reply inline / bottom-posted] on Wed, 28 Jan 2015 08:28:46 -0500, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: I thought most of us would be aware at this point that the KKE despises Syriza and regards it as pro-austerity. Unlike any CP in the world, it is a throwback to 3rd period Stalinism and as such evokes the social fascism outlook of the pre-Popular Front period. This is why Syriza ended up in bloc with ANEL more than anything else. I think that there's a somewhat idealized view of wielding power here. There's a tendency to idealize the Bolsheviks who never would have descended to such opportunist maneuvers. If you read E.H. Carr, however, you'll discover that they didn't always live up to their lofty ideals. For example, Mustafa Kemal was very amenable to friendly relations to the infant Soviet republic, so much so that the Kremlin looked the other way when he killed the leaders of the Turkish CP. And then there's Fidel. The Cuban revolutionaries were so desperate for friendly relations internationally that they didn't break with Franco's Spain after taking power. When the PRI in Mexico that had taken Cuba's side in its dealings with the OAS massacred students in 1968, the Cuban press said zero. If you are looking for purity, you'd better stick with the newspapers of self-declared vanguard parties that will never be forced to make choices that contradict their principles. Of course KKE despises Syriza. But the point responded to was by a contributor who left out KKE when listing those 'parties' opposed to austerity. Dismiss it by all means as a likely suitor for Syriza, but it cannot be ignored on the anti-austerity front, however this all plays out in coming months. The 20th was a wasted century, so it's worse than pointless to idealize the Bolsheviks or any other set of Marxists from that time. One of the most foul ideas to have emerged via Stalin but espoused by those to his left who ought to know better is to imagine that you can have socialism in one country: that is, national socialism. Russia, Cuba, China, etc. were doomed to fail on this basis: they turned into their opposite soon after their revolutions because revolution was not generalized, causing misery to their populations and actually holding back revolution within and elsewhere. And when the party substitutes for the class as leader, then we're certainly up that famous creek without a paddle. -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org) on 28/01/2015 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] British neo-Nazi Nick Griffin on holiday with the Assads
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * [reply inline / bottom-posted] on Sun, 30 Nov 2014 22:24:17 +1100, Michael Karadjis via Marxism wrote: [...] Like his fellow British fascism fan George Galloway and American former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke, Griffin is a long-time admirer and ally of Assad and regular visitor to Syria George Galloway may be many things we can deprecate, but he is not a 'British fascism fan'. Unless 'fascism' is used to mean anything we don't like, which is unscientific. -- Jim (j...@redunity.org) on 30/11/2014 NUJ 024828 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] NYRB review of Naomi Klein
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * [reply inline / bottom-posted] on Thu, 20 Nov 2014 22:36:34 -0500, Marv Gandall via Marxism wrote: On Nov 20, 2014, at 10:27 PM, Ratbag Media via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: The level of myopia flagged by some of the purists who seek to denigrate Klein's perspective amazes me. [...] I may be mistaken, but I'd be surprised if she means by the end of capitalism the economic and political expropriation of the bourgeoisie and the replacement of private by public ownership of the major industries, as happened in the USSR, China, and Cuba, consistent with the traditional understanding of the socialist movement. Naomi seems to have more in mind a radical reform of the system and strict regulation of the corporations. [...] Socialism in one country - as in USSR, China, and Cuba - is a dead end and as we have seen turns into its opposite. Stalinism and its junior off-shoots of Maoism, Gueverism, Enverism, etc. did and will get us nowhere fast. In fact, these sub-standard 'socialist' ideologies have to be overcome as barriers to the socialist/communist advance that the world and its people need. And how anyone can begin to imagine that the environment cannot be of primary concern to Marxists and a Marxist program is incredible. Capitalism and its ever-readiness to extract profit regardless of consequences is what is damaging workers' and other working people's lives and the planet as whole. One way or another, capitalism will kill us if we don't stop it. Naomi Klein is an important writer and her contribution to the debate on capitalism's destruction of the planet is something no Marxist can ignore. -- Jim (j...@redunity.org) on 21/11/2014 NUJ 024828 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Danish leftists supported military aid to Iraq
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == According to Michael Voss, writing in International Viewpoint to try to justify it, the parliamentary group of the Red-Green Alliance (RGA - Enhedslisten) in Denmark has voted to join hands with its bourgeoisie and make war on West Asia again. 'Danish socialists voting for a parliamentary decision to send a military plane to Iraq under US command is not usual. Even more unusual is the fact that I considering myself a revolutionary Marxist voted to support that decision. Nevertheless, that is what happened a few weeks ago.' mf: http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article3601 -- Jim (j...@redunity.org) on 16/09/2014 NUJ 024828 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
