Re: [marxmail] GOP Still Wants to Pretend the Preservation of Slavery Wasn’t a Major Reason for the American Revolution - CounterPunch.org

You mean the 1619 Project. I have no problem with any of it other than the bizarre understanding of the American Revolution. I'll restate a few of the big points . . . . 1. The calendar makes its own demands. Britain did not abolish slavery until the 1830s, so it was not under any greater

[marxmail] Arizona Vote "recount"

What would you do if a pathologically violent person who had a series of assaults to his record declared that he planned to assault you and was following you around and preparing to carry out his next assault? Would you just passively wait "until it happens"? That is exactly the state of affairs

[marxmail] The Climate Solution Actually Adding Millions of Tons of CO2 Into the Atmosphere

New research shows that California’s climate policy created up to 39 million carbon credits that aren’t achieving real carbon savings. But companies can buy these forest offsets to justify polluting more anyway. See:

[marxmail] post-Bernie DSA future

When the Party’s Over: Organizing after Bernie Brendan O'Connor, Baffler #57, May 2021 https://thebaffler.com/salvos/when-the-partys-over-oconnor . . . In the aftermath of Bernie 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the George Floyd rebellion, it has become clearer than ever that one of the primary

[marxmail] Why Marx Still Matters | Interview with David Harvey | Dan Denvir | Tribune

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Re: [marxmail] GOP Still Wants to Pretend the Preservation of Slavery Wasn’t a Major Reason for the American Revolution - CounterPunch.org

"no Marxist supports the contrarian idea that race was the motive in igniting the American revolution — not even a small reason, let alone a major reason" Horseshit.  Where does anyone invoking the shitdealing scum of Awn-tee-faw--especially when incapable of more than three narcissistic lines

[marxmail] Remember The Essential Workers After COVID: They Deserve Better

by Joshua B. Freeman *Joshua B. Freeman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. The twentieth anniversary of his book, **Working Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War Two**, was the subject of a day-long conference

[marxmail] Psychiatry Confronts Its Racist Past, and Tries to Make Amends

> > "Critics operating both inside and outside the A.P.A. say that it still > must overcome high hurdles to truly address its issues around racial equity > — including its diagnostic biases, the enduring lack of Black psychiatrists > and a payment structure that tends to exclude people who can’t

[marxmail] How Israel Quashed 1982 Efforts to Recognize the Armenian Genocide

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Re: [marxmail] GOP Still Wants to Pretend the Preservation of Slavery Wasn’t a Major Reason for the American Revolution - CounterPunch.org

>From one perspective one could say that the French Revolution took place to secure property rights that included their right to own slaves in Santo Domingo. Or that the English Revolution of the seventeenth century took place to impose the will of God on the Romanish heathen of Ireland. I've

[marxmail] H-Net Review [H-Environment]: Alberto on Putman, 'Boosting a New West: Pacific Coast Expositions, 1905-1916'

Best regards, Andrew Stewart Begin forwarded message: > From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW > Date: May 5, 2021 at 10:54:15 AM EDT > To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > Cc: H-Net Staff > Subject: H-Net Review [H-Environment]: Alberto on Putman, 'Boosting a New > West: Pacific Coast Expositions,

[marxmail] "Covid Catastrophe": Capitalism Unable to Overcome India's Feudal and Colonial Heritage

Capitalism's inability to overcome a past of feudalism plus colonial conquest is expressed in India through its present "covid catastrophe". See: https://oaklandsocialist.com/2021/05/05/covid-catastrophe-capitalism-unable-to-overcome-indias-feudal-and-colonial-heritage/ John Reimann -- *“Science

[marxmail] Leninism? – Spectre Journal

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[marxmail] Australia doesn’t want a war with China. It’s time to raise voices against it

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[marxmail] Putin’s majority in decline? | Fourth International

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[marxmail] Show more sharing options,,After Controversial Faculty Firings, Collin College Trustees Will Face Voters

* Show more sharing options After Controversial Faculty Firings, Collin College Trustees Will Face Voters By Michael Vasquez

[marxmail] The Ever Given and the Monstrosity of Maritime Capitalism | Boston Review

Two timely new books unmask the colossal shipping industry behind global trade, whose monstrous pursuit of profit has long wreaked havoc on laborers and the seas they sail through.

Re: [marxmail] GOP Still Wants to Pretend the Preservation of Slavery Wasn’t a Major Reason for the American Revolution - CounterPunch.org

This is the sort of thing I was talking about the other day, with regard to the Oakland Socialist piece. Another article, the main purpose of which is to herd people into the Democrat fold. As far as the specifics of the article, no Marxist supports the contrarian idea that race was the motive

[marxmail] The Revolutionary Minimum-Maximum Program - Cosmonaut

In this essay, I am going to talk about an important part of Marx that is often ignored: his contribution to the art of political program. There is no lack of literature exploring the theories and philosophical ideas of Marx. Yet we often forget that Marx was not only a political strategist