Re: [marxmail] Critique of David Graeber's role in Occupy Wall Street

btw Ackerman was not involved with the Labor Party and has/had no personal experience with it also, Labor Campaign for Single Payer https://www.laborforsinglepayer.org/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1360):

Re: [marxmail] Hurricane Katrina and racism

Hurm... Not particularly complicated, then. Thank you. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1359): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1359 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76740968/21656 -=-=-

[marxmail] Inside the Gorbachev-Bush “Partnership” on the First Gulf War 1990

New Documents Show Soviet Leader Scrambling to Stay in Sync with Americans, But Ultimately Aiming for Non-Use of Force Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait 30 Years Ago Posed First Test for Post-Cold War Superpower Cooperation Soviet transcripts of Gorbachev conversations with Mitterrand, Cheney, Baker, and

Re: [marxmail] Critique of David Graeber's role in Occupy Wall Street

The source is a very brief book review of *Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement* by Stephen Ashby and C.J. Hawkins (U of Illinois, 2009) in case anyone else is interested. It was published in a free weekly 'alternative' paper based in Springfield, *Illinois Times*, April 8 (-14),

[marxmail] Swans Commentary: Debunking Bob Woodward, by Louis Proyect - lproy31

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Re: [marxmail] Critique of David Graeber's role in Occupy Wall Street

Thanks Louis! On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 5:50 PM Louis Proyect wrote: > On 9/9/20 7:29 PM, Dayne Goodwin wrote: > > I am not able to access Arena's references for this article. If anyone > else is able and/or knows this "Sampson 2010" reference i would like to > check it out. > thank you, Dayne >

Re: [marxmail] Critique of David Graeber's role in Occupy Wall Street

I am not able to access Arena's references for this article. If anyone else is able and/or knows this "Sampson 2010" reference i would like to check it out. thank you, Dayne Heroes and villains abound. Among the latter are the leaderships of the United Paperworkers International and AFL‐CIO. The

Re: [marxmail] Are the protests schulead for 11am Indian time for September 10th 2020 at India Gate the beginning of serious revolutionary unrest?

The revolution will begin precisely at 11:00. Don't be late. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1352): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1352 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76743302/21656 -=-=-

[marxmail] Strike. This Could Be Our Last Stand.

Opinion Strike. This Could Be Our Last Stand. If we can’t get our government to help us now, when will we ever? Farhad Manjoo ByFarhad Manjoo Opinion Columnist

Re: [marxmail] Why China Isn’t Capitalist

In my view China is capitalist. It combines imperialist and semi-colonial features: http://links.org.au/capitalism-workers-struggle-china "China's economy is now essentially capitalist, as indicated by the privatisation of the bulk of the means of production, and the conversion of labor

[marxmail] Are the protests schulead for 11am Indian time for September 10th 2020 at India Gate the beginning of serious revolutionary unrest?

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Re: [marxmail] Mike Whitney's mutation

for some reason, Whitney's email address was truncated when I did a copy-and-paste. It ends @msn.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1344): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1344 Mute This Topic:

Re: [marxmail] Mike Whitney's mutation

as to Whitney's background (including an e-mail address that appears in many of his articles): from Socialism and Democracy Online, March 20, 2011 *Mike Whitney* graduated from St. Michael’s College in 1975 with a degree in English literature. For the last twenty-five years he has been running

Re: [marxmail] Mike Whitney's mutation

On 9/9/20 4:16 PM, Dayne Goodwin wrote: Does anyone know about his personal history and identity?  How does he 'make a living', his age, family, background.. He owned a landscaping business some years ago. That's about it. Unlike yours truly, he doesn't seem interested in connecting with

Re: [marxmail] Mike Whitney's mutation

Does anyone know about his personal history and identity? How does he 'make a living', his age, family, background... On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 11:00 AM Patrick Bond wrote: > On 9/9/2020 6:30 PM, fkalosar...@yandex.com wrote: > > The gateway to Whitney's degeneration--or as I see it, his > >

[marxmail] Hurricane Katrina and racism

Adolph Reed Jr. in WSWS interview : "every step along the way, class was a better predictor than race". https://www.bookforum.com/print/2703/a-history-of-the-human-choices-that-led-to-one-of-the-century-s-worst-natural-disasters-24175

Re: [marxmail] Greek Turkish confrontation over natural gas mining in Mediterranean sea

Στις 9/9/20 11:51 π.μ., ο mkaradjis . έγραψε: Aside from OKDE, the Cliffite-derived groups always took a strong anti-nationalist stand, I assume that's still the case. Are there any others? Well, we are in a very strange situation. Let me try to describe it. First of all the Antarsya

Re: [marxmail] Women and people of color make up the majority of the Trump coalition

On 9/9/20 1:39 PM, Carol Stokes wrote: There is no trickery. The misleading comes from combining categories which we are usually OK with: women and people of color. In this case, the vote breakdown amounts to A and Not-A, where Not-A is greater than A. Here's a better way of seeing Trump's

Re: [marxmail] Democrats clash over Biden diversity goals

These black corporatists have no imagination --- Heather McGhee would make a FABULOUS Secretary of the Treasury --- for just ONE example --- I bet we could come up with TEN or more outstanding recommendations just from the AFrican American "branch" of all peoples of color in this country --- >

Re: [marxmail] Women and people of color make up the majority of the Trump coalition

Another important trick they've used on this is to give us a breakdown of who supports who by party. What does that mean? They don't check voter registrations. They just ask people "Are you a Democrat or a Republican?" People who like Trump will say Republican generally and those who don't will

Re: [marxmail] Women and people of color make up the majority of the Trump coalition

On 9/9/20 12:35 PM, Carol Stokes wrote: I did read the entire article. I wouldn't post something I hadn't read. The chart shows white men as 62% of 34%, which the article explains. Like I said, it is a trick with numbers. What if white men constituted 49 percent of Trump voters, white women

[marxmail] More on Assange

Consider the source (no endorsement here), but this appears to be a worthwhile summary of the current status: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/09/09/assa-s09.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1331):

[marxmail] Democrats clash over Biden diversity goals

In the last presidential election, I remember seeing a cartoon that showed a man and woman in Afghanistan with a drone flying over them. The man said "I read that the next drones will be sent by a woman," and the woman says "I feel like such a part of history". Here we are again!

Re: [marxmail] Mike Whitney's mutation

The gateway to Whitney's degeneration--or as I see it, his flowering--as a crypto-Nazi was his infatuation with Putin, which began long before CP even dreamed of getting rid of him.  "Way to go, Vlad!" he exclaimed ecstatically in CP over some Putin wave of the hand that was supposed to have

[marxmail] Symptoms of Terminal Capitalism

Symptoms of Terminal Capitalism It’s time to pull the plug By Bonnie Weinstein The President of the United States has sent armed Federal Police agents into cities and threatens to send them across the country to suppress the massive protests against police violence in response to the murder of

[marxmail] Strike. This Could Be Our Last Stand.

Strike. This Could Be Our Last Stand. If we can’t get our government to help us now, when will we ever? By Farhad Manjoo, Opinion Columnist, Sept. 9, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/opinion/general-strike.html?action=click=Opinion=Homepage Labor Day hit with an extra knife-twist of

[marxmail] Women and people of color make up the majority of the Trump coalition

This article is not new, but it refers to something that is fixed in time, so it doesn't matter so much. I found it yesterday, when I was reading another story about how white people with degrees and non-whites in general were moving toward Trump. (Ugh.) If I learned anything in the last

[marxmail] Abraham’s exile: the sad story of a young Marxist historian.

(By Jairus Banaji on FB.) Abraham’s exile: the sad story of a young Marxist historian. Here’s a paradox in the form of a question: how was it that what one reader for Princeton University Press described c.1979 as “the most important book on 20th-century Germany written in the last 15 years”

Re: [marxmail] How Trump Is Losing His Base - The American Prospect

Hello. I am new to this group. Yesterday, I read something on the 538 blog that said Trump was gaining support from white people with degrees and non-whites in general. I wonder if this will offset the ones he is losing?

[marxmail] Are Young People to Blame for Spreading Coronavirus?

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[marxmail] Remembrance of Palestinian struggles past: two films by Julia Bacha

Julia Bacha’s two documentaries, *Budrus *(2009) and *Naila and the Uprising* (2017), represent important contributions to the cultural struggle against Israeli apartheid—though watching them at this historical juncture feels somewhat bittersweet. Celebrating the power of non-violent Palestinian

[marxmail] How Trump Is Losing His Base - The American Prospect

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Re: [marxmail] Mike Whitney's mutation

As someone who remembers reading Whitney often and with interest on CP maybe ten years ago, I find this almost unbelievable. Not just the conversion as such, but the crappy level of writing and the paper thin reasoning. Often these days I wonder whether these leftists-turned-far rightists

[marxmail] Mike Whitney's mutation

Mike Whitney was a long-time contributor to CounterPunch who mostly wrote about economics, with a lot of Assadist bullshit thrown in. After he quit (or was booted) from CP, he began writing for UNZ Review, a neo-Nazi website run by Ron Unz, who used to donate to CP. Like Whitney and long

[marxmail] Possible Future Trends of CO2 Concentration and Global Temperature - CounterPunch.org

By Manuel Garcia Jr. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/09/possible-future-trends-of-co2-concentration-and-global-temperature/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1313): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1313 Mute This

[marxmail] Scholars on strike for racial justice

Academics across the U.S. strike and teach for racial justice and an end to police violence against people of color. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/09/scholars-strike-racial-justice -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply

[marxmail] 'The Struggle for Democracy in Africa' by Iyasou Alemayehu - COSMONAUT

The following article was published by the European office of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party in Rome in 1980. It appeared in the first and only issue of theEthiopian Marxist Review, an English-language periodical the EPRP’s foreign section hoped would engage the world left. In 1980

Re: [marxmail] Greek Turkish confrontation over natural gas mining in Mediterranean sea

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 7:17 AM ioannis aposperites wrote: > > Thank you for your comment. The statement of OKDE(Spartakos) is not an > analysis; it is rather a part of the discussion inside ANTARSYA and the > broader Greek left on how to respond to nationalism and warmongering. > We have indeed

Re: [marxmail] I can't wait.

> > The former lawmaker said none of this should come as a surprise to > Christians who have been awaiting the apocalypse. Oh good, a little millenarianist eschatology to round things out. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online