I'm looking for recommendations for literature on the growth of Maoism in the
West, especially in the 1960s and 1970s. In particular, any material giving
some idea of how much information on life in Mao's China was known in the West
during this period would be of great interest. Not just
You might start with back issues of Monthly Review, which was pretty
keen on Mao's Cultural Revolution -- although they are loathe to admit
it now, as they celebrate their various anniversaries.
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I don't know if Ian is interested in looking
at the history of French Maoism but the following
interview with Badiou looks interesting. Badiou
is probably one of the few contemporary French
intellectuals who would still accept the label
of Maoist. Back in the late 1960s and early
1970s, lots of
Ian Pace wrote:
I'm looking for recommendations for literature on the growth of Maoism in the
West, especially in the 1960s and 1970s. In particular, any material giving
some idea of how much information on life in Mao's China was known in the
West during this period would be of great
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee262
Intellectual Affairs
New Civil Rights Movement
October 14, 2009
By Scott McLemee
In the weeks leading up to the National Equality March -- held in
Washington this past Sunday -- I found myself in the awkward position,
for a straight person,
Thanks for all suggestions so far. The context for this is a projected
paper/article (just in the planning/abstract stage at the moment) looking at
various composers explicitly engaging with Maoist ideas in their work,
primarily Cornelius Cardew. But I'm interested in anything on the reception
Artesian writes:
...so I wouldn't
rush out and buy shares in Baosteel based on the WSA article, know what I
mean?
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Jeez, Artesian, anyone following your investment advice would have been
short China and long the US market since 2000, and we know where they'd
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was sent in HTML.)
Subject: Re: [Marxism] Literature on Western Maoism
From: Ethan Young ethanyo...@earthlink.net
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:14:41 -0400 (EDT)
To: marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu
Monthly Review does not hide its
Naxalites experiencing widening support ? I would strongly counter that view..
If you look at Andrha Pradesh, they have been routed from there.. these people
survive by the barrel of the gun, and by terrorizing innocent people in
far-fetched villages.. if they believe that India can be
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/22874
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This article has a lot of flaws but at least it does not fall for the
inter-imperialist rivalry within the G-20 and over the US dollar nonsense.
It properly shows the shared interest (even if it seems to imply a level of
coordination and conspiracy) of capitalists across nations. If only the
left
SOCIALIST VOICE
Marxist Perspectives for the 21st Century
http://www.socialistvoice.ca
October 14, 2009
HONDURAS: ‘NOTHING WILL BE THE SAME AGAIN’
http://www.socialistvoice.ca/?p=708
by Federico Fuentes
What began as a coup aimed at deposing a millionaire landowner
president, whose “crime” had
I never give investment advice. Remember, the markets are fundamentally
irrational.
My advice to myself , which I did follow as a matter of fact, was to get out
of stocks in 2000, and then get out of everything in 2007 except US Treasury
instruments. The reasoning behind both those decisions?
Rajesh wrote:
...the question for them and their
proponents is the same.. is there a
murdering path to socialism/communism?
No, the question should be: is armed struggle
a legitimate path to socialism/communism
in India? The same question could be raised
for the Philippines, or Palestine, or
Indeed, I think the same question can be raised for places like
Palestine, or
even Northern Ireland or the Philippines. How's that working out, exactly?
Palestine itself is not engaged in armed struggle for socialism. If so,
I missed the memo. They are engaged in a defensive, somewhat
Actually, I think the real question for all is: Is armed struggle both a
viable substitute for and a successful alternative to class-conscious mass
action?
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Sent: Wednesday, October 14,
TALK BY PROFESSOR SHLOMO SAND,
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF TEL AVIV, ON HIS NEWLY
TRANSLATED BOOK, THE INVENTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
(This may be the most important and most surprising book on Zionism,
Israel and Judaism written in the last fifty years. Nothing in
David S.,
I don't think it's so clear as it used to be. I've drifted from my old
SWP/LTF days as opposition to armed struggle as we debated it in the
1970s and, as people practiced it, had different results that we
expected. I think there is no *easy* answer to you question and
generally...
Gee, speaking of steel and China and overcapacity-- from yesterday's Wall
Street Journal:
China Takes a Hard Look at Its Steel Industry
Beijing and Companies Move Toward Lowering Taxes to Promote Consolidation
and Cut Capacity
Frustrated in previous attempts to consolidate its fragmented steel
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n20/brom01_.html
Obama’s Delusion
David Bromwich
Long before he became president, there were signs in Barack Obama of a
tendency to promise things easily and compromise often. He broke a
campaign vow to filibuster a bill that immunised telecom outfits against
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48859
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By *Malik Miah, *San Francisco October 11, 2009 — The heat is on the
administration of US President Barack Obama. The energised conservative
base has taken over town hall meetings on health care. There are
“birthers” (those who claim Obama is not a US citizen and ineligible to
be president),
I'm looking for someone to review Rick Wolff's Capitalism Hits The Fan, the
book, not the video, for Socialism and Democracy. Write to me offline if you
are interested at snedek...@verizon.net
George
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Hello again: Colombia, Colombia. Today there was a national paro - more or
less a national strike, called by the CUT and other trade union federations.
It is pretty hard to tell how big the response was, but it was not
overwhelming. The Plaza Bolivar, the main plaza in Bogotá, was maybe
half-full,
1- Organizing is easier on one level (for those with computers) - but this
last weekend event, only had one tenth the number of the last national march.
2 - The partial answer to your point two is - the Oct. 11, 2009 event took that
date because of the successes that the Oct. 11, 1987
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If capitalism needs racism, then capitalism should be impossible in an
ethnically homogenous society, such as Iceland.
^
CB: Britain was enthically homogenous at the primitive accumulation
phase of capitalism , too. The racism was in colonialism and the slave
trade . Capitalism would
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