Re: [marxmail] NPR stumps for adventurism

On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 2:56 PM Louis Proyect wrote: > I'll be responding to the idea of looting and arson being revolutionary > tomorrow. This bullshit has been around since the Weathermen Days of Rage > and it is just a reflection of the low level of class struggle in the USA, > as well as the

Re: [marxmail] Movement For A People's Party - A Party For Us

Our Assessment of the Movement for a People’s Party Socialist Organizer, July 31 https://tinyurl.com/y5htzq7a "In December 2017, The Organizer newspaper published an editorial that underscored the political importance of the newly formed Movement for a People’s Party (MPP), which had resulted

[marxmail] two chapters of DSA endorse the Walker/Hawkins presidential campaign

Yesterday the Colorado Springs and Salt Lake City chapters of the DSA endorsed the Howie Hawkins/Angela Walker Green Party campaign for president and vp of the U.S. (Last year the Salt Lake City chapter of the DSA changed its name from Salt Lake DSA to Democratic Socialists of Salt Lake.)

[marxmail] The Young Eugene V. Debs

The Young Eugene V. Debs An interview with Tim Davenport by Shawn Gude Jacobin, August 28 https://jacobinmag.com/2020/08/eugene-v-debs-unions-american-socialism A pair of leftist historians has undertaken a massive project: compiling a six-volume collection of Eugene Debs’s writings and speeches.

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 > >

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] 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),

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] 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 i

Re: [marxmail] Unions threaten work stoppages amid calls for racial justice

the text from the Associated Press: https://apnews.com/02da00cb921ec61a69d8a30c9ff56244 On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 10:52 AM Ken Hiebert wrote: > This was picked up in a good number of news outlets. > ken h > > >

Re: [marxmail] "How Trump is losing his base"

“The Democrats are worthless”: An interview with Howie Hawkins Gregor Baszak, Platypus Review 126 | May 2020 https://platypus1917.org/2020/05/01/the-democrats-are-worthless-an-interview-with-howie-hawkins/ . . . "... I think the problem in this country is that since 1936 the Popular Front, when

Re: [marxmail] Movement For A People's Party - A Party For Us

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 10:07 AM wrote: > . . . Although Blumenthal has written some damn fat books on Israel that > used to look good from a left perspective... It has been some years but our 'leftist' reading group of a dozen which included leading local Palestine solidarity activists could

[marxmail] presidential election: Roger Stone urges Trump to declare martial law if election stolen by Dems

*Roger Stone calls for Trump to seize total power if he loses the election* by Timothy Johnson, Media Matters, Sept. 11 https://www.mediamatters.org/roger-stone/roger-stone-calls-trump-seize-total-power-if-he-loses-election *"Stone also said federal authorities should seize all Nevada ballots,

Re: [marxmail] presidential election: Roger Stone urges Trump to declare martial law if election stolen by Dems

-thugs-followed-the-brooks-brothers-riot-intimidation-playbook On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 9:57 PM Dayne Goodwin via groups.io wrote: > *Roger Stone calls for Trump to seize total power if he loses the election* > by Timothy Johnson, Media Matters, Sept. 11 > > https://www.mediamatters.org

Re: [marxmail] Movement For A People's Party - A Party For Us

loser look at the August 30 “People’s Convention” sponsored by the MPP to see if our assessment of the MPP is off base." . . . On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 8:40 AM Louis Proyect wrote: > > On 9/4/20 10:22 PM, Dayne Goodwin wrote: > > > "No sooner had the compromise agreement

Re: [marxmail] NY Times article on Kamala Harris's parents radical history

’s dispatches from the United States as far back as 1965, when he published a lengthy article about Malcolm X in The Sunday Gleaner. > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 5:52 PM Dayne Goodwin via groups.io wrote: > > Malcolm X: the man and his mission > by Donald J. Harris > https://glea

Re: [marxmail] Party As Articulator - Viewpoint Magazine

Very good! even if the author's jargon does seem to "come from fancy intellectuals writing in their spacious offices." On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 11:26 AM Louis Proyect wrote: > Last year, the largest socialist organization in the United States decided > to throw its weight behind Bernie Sanders,

Re: [marxmail] "How Trump is losing his base"

The case for an independent Left party by Howie Hawkins International Socialist Review, Issue #107, 2018 https://isreview.org/issue/107/case-independent-left-party -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1449):

Re: [marxmail] Debt

Thanks Andrew. we know that anarchism is a political ideology/perspective that has developed mainly from within petit-bourgeois sectors of capitalist (or becoming-capitalist) societies On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 6:43 AM Andrew Pollack wrote: > > Something I posted to this list a few years ago on

[marxmail] 'Go Away! Go Away!' Factory Workers Heckle Belarusian Strongman as Nationwide General Strike Kicks Off

'Go Away! Go Away!' Factory Workers Heckle Belarusian Strongman as Nationwide General Strike Kicks Off "Lukashenko is a former president," said one strike leader. "He needs to go." by Jake Johnson, Common Dreams, August 17

[marxmail] Austin City Council votes to cut police department budget by one-third, reinvest money in social services

Austin City Council votes to cut police department budget by one-third, reinvest money in social services https://www.texastribune.org/2020/08/13/austin-city-council-cut-police-budget-defund/ by Meena Venkataramanan, Texas Tribune, Aug. 13, 2020 . . . "The proposal to cut police funding by about

Re: [marxmail] Kamala Harris’s Father, a Footnote in Her Speeches, Is a Prominent Economist

Malcolm X: the man and his mission by Donald J. Harris https://gleaner.newspaperarchive.com/kingston-gleaner/1965-04-04/page-7/ Maybe someone else can manage to make the article available to us. On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 4:32 PM Louis Proyect wrote: > > NY Times, Aug. 21, 2020 > Kamala Harris’s

[marxmail] University of Utah pays more than $450,000 in ransomware attack on its computers

University of Utah pays more than $450,000 in ransomware attack on its computers by Scott D. Pierce, Salt Lake Tribune, August 21 https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/08/21/university-utah-pays-more/ The University of Utah paid extortionists almost half a million dollars after a ransomware attack on

[marxmail] "Finish the Fight"

"...But the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment has been an opportunity for some to take a closer look at the stories of the women of the movement — the ones we think we already know, and the ones that have been lost to history. *"Finish the Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary

[marxmail] DSA at a crossroads

DSA at a Crossroads by Andrew Sernatinger, Tempest, August 19 https://www.tempestmag.org/2020/08/dsa-at-a-crossroads/ . . . "Without some kind of infrastructure-building, all of DSA’s work is mediated through other organizations and we actually don’t live up to our potential. A socialist

[marxmail] RNC Gave Prime Time to Vigilantes. The Next Day a Gunman Shot BLM Protesters.

RNC Gave Prime Time to Vigilantes. The Next Day a Gunman Shot BLM Protesters. by Mark Bray, Truthout, August 26, 2020 https://truthout.org/articles/rnc-gave-prime-time-to-vigilantes-the-next-day-a-gunman-shot-blm-protesters/ "The opening night of this week’s Republican National Convention (RNC)

Re: [marxmail] Meet the Philosopher Who Is Trying to Explain the Pandemic

It works for me, Peter. On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 8:29 PM Peter Turner wrote: > The link you provide does not go to the subject you cite. > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 6:42 PM Dayne Goodwin > wrote: > >> *U.S. troops buried Iraqi foes alive. Army says division buried thousands

Re: [marxmail] What Materialist Black Political History Actually Looks Like

I think that Reed's evaluation of C.L.R. James is unfair to James' full life political trajectory. I think that the most popular understandings of James' politics suffer from anti-Marxist interpretations of James' later years. It has been a few years but i think of Farrukh Dhondy's biography of

[marxmail] Lessons from the Amazon Tax Victory in Seattle

Lessons from the Amazon Tax Victory in Seattle Labor Notes, July 23 https://labornotes.org/2020/07/lessons-amazon-tax-victory-seattle Pressed by a relentless working class movement, the Seattle City Council on July 6 adopted a first-time-ever tax on Amazon and other big businesses that will bring

Re: [marxmail] Transitional Programme | A Transition to Nowhere | Prometheus

Good advice for Joseph. Appreciate the excellent responses from Ken, Chris and John. On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 5:42 AM John Reimann <1999wild...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is no such thing as "The Transitional Program by Leon Trotsky". He > never wrote and never would have written anything by that

Re: [marxmail] Donald Trump: Emperor of the Lumpen Proletariat or the Stalin of Capitalist Counter-Revolution? - The Bullet

Bryan Palmer on Donald Trump https://socialistproject.ca/2020/09/trump-emperor-of-lumpen-proletariat/ brilliant! conclusion: . . . "This is all very bad news. It stampedes what is left of the left into the arms of the mainstream Democratic Party. Sadly, however, while the continuity of the

[marxmail] Trump plan to hi-jack election

[There are also recent articles on this in Forbes and in The Atlantic which i don't have access to] *The Legal Fight Awaiting Us After the Election* *The aftermath of November’s vote has the potential to make 2000 look like a mere skirmish.* by Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker, Sept. 28 issue

Re: [marxmail] » Open Letter: Dump Trump, Then Battle Biden

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 6:34 PM Jim Brash via groups.io wrote: > I wonder if these people realize that joining the Biden camp they'll be > closing the door on independent politics. You sheepdog once you usually > herd the sheep forever. They all keep saying that Biden can be pushed left. >

Re: [marxmail] » Open Letter: Dump Trump, Then Battle Biden

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 6:34 PM Jim Brash via groups.io wrote: > > I wonder if these people realize that joining the Biden camp they'll be > closing the door on independent politics. You sheepdog once you usually herd > the sheep forever. . . One of my mentors, the late Peter Camejo, used to

Re: [marxmail] From one current in the resistance

international solidarity! btw, the German counterpart of (U.S.) AFL president Samuel Gompers, Carl Legien (chairman of the General German Trade Union Federation) led the General Strike that defeated the March 1920 Kapp Putsch. Legien: "He countered the right-wing Kapp Putsch of March 1920 by

Re: [marxmail] Joe Biden Torpedoes Bernie Sanders: 'I Beat the Socialist'

Howie Hawkins on Bernie Sanders May 2020 interview of Hawkins by G. Baszak . . . GB: Some might say that it was the function of Bernie Sanders all along to get young people to place their hopes in the Democrats... HH: I think it’s true. My friend, the late Bruce Dixon used the sheepdog metaphor.

[marxmail] Rank-and-file union members snub Biden for Trump

In some unions, especially the building trades, support for the president remains solid despite the efforts of labor leaders to convince members otherwise. by Holly Otterbein and Megan Cassella, POLITICO, Sept. 22

Re: [marxmail] Why I’m for Voting For Biden and Urge You To Do So - New Politics

I don't think that Trump's apparent proto-fascist political trajectory is unique to him, a singularity. I think the capitalist system is in crisis and the capitalist class generally is moving toward 'fascist-type solutions'. Leading capitalist politicians (and some of the billionaires) are in

Re: [marxmail] Koba: An Excerpt from Ronald Grigor Suny’s “Stalin: Passage to Revolution” - Los Angeles Review of Books

I also respect Suny and hope i will be able to get into his new book at some point. However there is a passage in this *LA Review of Books* excerpt that puzzled me: "Somehow they found copies of *The Communist Manifesto*, Marx’s *The Erfurt Program*, and Engels’s *The Development of Scientific

Re: [marxmail] Koba: An Excerpt from Ronald Grigor Suny’s “Stalin: Passage to Revolution” - Los Angeles Review of Books

On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 2:10 AM Vladimiro Giacche' < vladimiro.giac...@gmail.com> wrote: > Couldn‘t be Marx‘ Critique of GOTHA Program (1875, Published by Engels in > 1891) instead ? > Could be, Vladimiro. Of course i don't KNOW. Maybe Ronald Suny has the sources and resources to eventually be

Re: [marxmail] Koba: An Excerpt from Ronald Grigor Suny’s “Stalin: Passage to Revolution” - Los Angeles Review of Books

I don't think so. Engel's *Critique of the Erfurt Program* wasn't published until 1901-02 and didn't become well-known for decades. It seems reasonable to me to assume that *The Development of Scientific Socialism* was the title used for the translation of what had been published (1880) as the

Re: [marxmail] Koba: An Excerpt from Ronald Grigor Suny’s “Stalin: Passage to Revolution” - Los Angeles Review of Books

On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 9:02 PM Dayne Goodwin via groups.io wrote: > I don't think so. Engel*s' **Critique of the Erfurt Program* wasn't > published until 1901-02 and didn't become well-known for decades. > > It seems reasonable to me to assume that *The Development of Scientific

Re: [marxmail] Why Julius Krein was ready to pay $2,000 to Adolph Reed Jr. for a book review | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

Some might be interested in this easy-read critical history up through last year of U.S. government (southern-border-focus) immigration policies and practices: *Sand and Blood: America's Stealth War on the Mexico Border* by John Carlos Frey Bold Type Books, June 2019 *Hidden Deaths in a Long War*

Re: [marxmail] presidential election: Roger Stone urges Trump to declare martial law if election stolen by Dems

the 2000 election has become one of those major false "facts" (i.e. U.S. intervened in Vietnam to protect democracy in South Vietnam) regularly reported in the 'news' media. On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 9:09 AM Ken Hiebert wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 08:57 PM, Dayne Goodwin wrot

Re: [marxmail] Notes on the passing of Stephen F. Cohen | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

I agree with Louis that damages paid to SWP by government were minimal. I recall the SWP rejecting a much more generous settlement offer early on (1976?, suit was initiated in 1973) in order to continue exposing government repression. I believe the government also paid over $400,000 to SWP

[marxmail] Greg Palast: Here's how Trump will steal the 2020 election

Here's how Trump will steal the 2020 election interview with Greg Palast, Salon, June 15 https://www.salon.com/2020/06/15/investigative-journalist-greg-palast-heres-how-trump-will-steal-the-2020-election/ . . . "...In 2020 we are heading into a disaster, and it's a very well-designed and

[marxmail] Jack Rasmus: Trump's executive orders and possible coup strategy

Trump’s Executive Orders: EOs as PR and FUs Jack Rasmus, August 9, 2020 https://jackrasmus.com/ . . . "Upon close inspection the EOs are therefore mostly smoke and mirrors, designed to produce useful electoral soundbites for his campaign between now and November. The EOs are more PR for public

[marxmail] How AOC and Bernie ended up working for Biden

How AOC and Bernie ended up working for Biden https://redflag.org.au/node/7297 by Sarah Garnham, Red Flag (AU), July 30 . . . "There is no doubt that corporate America and the vast majority in the capitalist class back Biden and that he, in turn, will rule for them. And despite attempting to

Re: [marxmail] The Roots of Racist Policing – Spectre Journal

Property May Not Be Theft, but It’s Not NOT Theft As nationwide protests destroy buildings, monuments, and police stations, it’s time to get the facts straight. by R.H. Lossin, Nation magazine, July 28 https://www.thenation.com/article/society/property-capitalism-segregation-protests/ On Tue,

Re: [marxmail] History Professor shot in head by Trump's goons in Portland!

Lewis & Clark history department chair shot at protest by Jim Redden, Portland Tribune, July 27, 2020 Maureen Healy says she was at a peaceful protest when she was shot in the head by an 'impact munition' fired by a federal officer.

Re: [marxmail] eyewitness account of Portland's Resistance to Trump's Gestapo thugs

Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police Force https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-dhs-was-destined-to-become-a-secret-police-force by Masha Gessen, New Yorker, July 25 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply

[marxmail] coming soon

Grayzone exposes color revolution in Belarus -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#419): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/419 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76216493/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES &

Re: [marxmail] NY Times photo essay: Along Russia's 'Road of Bones,' Relics of Suffering and Despair

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 9:37 AM Alan Ginsberg wrote: > The Kolyma Highway in the Russian Far East once delivered tens of thousands of prisoners to the work camps of Stalin’s gulag. The ruins of that cruel era are still visible today. > by Andrew Higgins, Photographs and Video by Emile Ducke >

Re: [marxmail] Are We in Denial about Denial? | Public Books

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 1:45 PM P1D via groups.io wrote: > thanks, Louis Yes! must reading imo, see Louis msg below. Also recommend these two references: The Authoritarian Personality Revisited: Reading Adorno in the Age of Trump by Peter E. Gordon, boundary2, June 15, 2016

Re: [marxmail] The Plushbottoms of Teton County | by Ian Frazier | The New York Review of Books

My memory is that it was at Jackson Hole in the early 1990s where Democrat political consultants and representatives of the big health insurance corporations (the "Jackson Hole Group", descendant still exists) met to work out the incoming Clinton administration's "managed competition" healthcare

[marxmail] indigenous, racial justice and climate activists protest at DNC

Biden Be Bold: AOC & Cori Bush Join Climate Protest Outside DNC Urging Activists to “Bring the Heat” Protesters at Democratic Party Headquarters Demand Biden Support Green New Deal (Nov. 19) https://www.c-span.org/video/?478243-1/environmental-activists-members-congress-speak-dnc Amy Goodman: "In

Re: [marxmail] Brazil

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 3:27 PM wrote: > The PSOL is a left split from the Workers Party which is gaining ground, > especially in Sao Paolo >

Re: [marxmail] Environmental writers pen Obituary for Great Salt Lake

sad news, Allan On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 8:22 AM allan ainsworth via groups.io wrote: > > *OBITUARY FOR GREAT SALT LAKE: EVEN LAKES ARE NOT IMMORTAL.* > BY *STAFF* | NOVEMBER 30, > 2020 > > Great Salt Lake experienced her final glimmering sunset today,

[marxmail] Labor Notes, comments on nat'l election, CA referendums

*This Election Shows Labor's Ground Game Matters (Especially During a Pandemic)* Meredith Schafer and Martí Garza, Labor Notes, Nov. 10 https://labornotes.org/2020/11/viewpoint-election-shows-labors-ground-game-matters-especially-during-pandemic "Despite record turnout, the razor-thin margins

Re: [marxmail] think this is really good

consider also: *Adorno’s, "Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda" *(1951) http://freudians.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Adorno_Freudian_Theory_Pattern_Fascist_Propaganda.pdf and *The Authoritarian Personality Revisited: Reading Adorno in the Age of Trump* by Peter E. Gordon,

Re: [marxmail] Comment on my Paul Robeson article

(1877) Peter H. Clark, “Socialism: The Remedy for the Evils of Society“ Posted on January 28, 2007 contributed by: BlackPast https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1877-peter-h-clark-socialism-remedy-evils-society/ On Fri, Dec 4,

Re: [marxmail] Mike Davis, Trench Warfare, NLR 126, November–December 2020

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 3:09 PM Louis Proyect wrote: > https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii126/articles/mike-davis-trench-warfare Mike Davis on the U.S. 2020 election and prospect of coming "trench warfare" a few of his important points imo: . . . "If the Republicans retain the Senate as they

Re: [marxmail] Korea’s Tireless Patriot and Revolutionary

On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 7:40 AM Andrew Pollack wrote: > note this from the review: > In October 1938, en route to Manchuria, Kim was reportedly shot to death. > The CPC had ordered him killed for being a right-wing Trotskyist and a > Japanese spy. > In those days the Communist Parties used

Re: [marxmail] Korea’s Tireless Patriot and Revolutionary

d off on Kim's invasion of the South --- > supposedly Kim was telling each that the other had already approved his > plans > 3) Stalin was caught off guard (was boycotting the UN because of the > failure to substitute the PRC for Chiang kai-Shek's ROC) > On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 3:50 A

Re: [marxmail] Korea’s Tireless Patriot and Revolutionary

Thanks Louis for calling our attention to this article and thanks to Andrew Pollack and Viejo Oso Grunon for sharing the text of the article. I appreciated learning about Kim San and about Helen Foster Snow's 1941 book on Kim San, "The Song of Arirang: The Story of a Korean Revolutionary in

Re: [marxmail] Korea’s Tireless Patriot and Revolutionary

You go ahead Andrew. You probably know more than i do. I am not familiar with her book on the "The Chinese Labor Movement" (orig. pub. by "Nym Wales" in 1945). I did get a copy of Long's biography a year or two ago but the book arrived simultaneously with an out-of-town visitor who persuaded me

Re: [marxmail] Why Workers Everywhere Should Read Labor’s Untold Story

"Labor's Untold Story" was THE labor history book - almost required reading - for young people like myself radicalizing in the latter 1960s and learning how we were educationally/politically victims of the McCarthy-ite, anti-communist hegemony of the 1950s. AFAIK Chris Townsend has put in many

Re: [marxmail] Jacobin glorifies Dolores Ibárruri, Stalinist executioner of the Spanish Revolution - World Socialist Web Site

On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 3:43 PM Louis Proyect wrote: . . . > I am not closing the thread on the Spanish Civil War but I am urging > comrades to have their final say... . . . *my one comment*: Because Spain was in a revolutionary situation the basic historical question was whether revolutionary

Re: [marxmail] Dashiell Hammett - The Social Science Collective

This article tells about Dashiell Hammett working as a union-busting Pinkerton agent from 1910 to 1922 (except for a stateside year in the army 1918-1919) most of the time in the mountain west and northwest fighting in the corporate and government war mainly against the IWW. In his book on

Re: [marxmail] "Anti-imperialist" opposition to the Vietnam war

Here's the text of a key part of what former CPUSA General Secretary Earl Browder said in 1965, published in *As We Saw the Thirties *(pp. 233-234, edited by Rita James Simon, U of Illinois Press, 1967), about his experience working out the CPUSA's electoral strategy for the 1936 U.S. presidential

Re: [marxmail] The role of money in politics

On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 10:11 PM John Reimann <1999wild...@gmail.com> wrote: > Analyzes the money sources in the Democratic Party and shows how those at > the top control the party through finances. > https://oaklandsocialist.com/2020/12/20/the-role-of-money-in-politics/ > . . .

Re: [marxmail] Venezuela: socialist victory masks deeper problems (Green Left)

the # after venezuela should be a - https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/venezuela-socialist-election-win-masks-deeper-problems On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 2:38 AM Chris Slee wrote: > > > https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/venezuela#socialist-victory-masks-deeper-problems > > >

Re: [marxmail] The Next Donald Trump (per Sunkara)

America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent Trump was ineffective and easily beaten. A future strongman won’t be. Zeynep Tufekci, The Atlantic, Nov. 6 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/trump-proved-authoritarians-can-get-elected-america/617023/ . . . "I suspect that

Re: [marxmail] What readings should be a part of our political education?

George Breitman, "How a Minority Can Change Society" ( https://solidarity-us.org/foundingstatement/) find it here: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/breitman/1964/xx/minority.htm On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 5:09 PM Louis Proyect wrote: > On 11/11/20 6:46 PM, Syed Ephraim Hussain wrote:

[marxmail] How to Stop a Power Grab

*Annals of Activism*: How to Stop a Power Grab As democracy hangs in the balance, activists are drawing lessons from the study of civil resistance. by Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, Nov. 23 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/23/how-to-stop-a-power-grab . . . In the past fifteen years, there

Re: [marxmail] A Simple Theory of Why Trump Did Well

A Simple Theory of Why Trump Did Well by Jamelle Bouie NYTimes Opinion Columnist, Nov. 18 . . . "But voters, and especially the low-propensity voters who flooded the electorate in support of Trump, aren’t attuned to the ins and outs of congressional debate. They did not know — and Democrats

Re: [marxmail] Hidden fighters/ Molly Crabapple

Thanks Andrew and especially you Ken for continued study of this. I think these are very important yet little known developments in the socialist movement. I hope to find time and opportunity to learn more and more deeply. (Obviously Joseph Green has belittled this into a petty hobby horse for

[marxmail] on Trump and U.S. capitalist politics

Donald Trump Was a Monster Forged by the American Free Market by Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Jacobin, Nov. 8 https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/donald-trump-us-free-market-democracy . . . But Trump was also, and in a somewhat more direct sense, the first (late) capitalist president — not the first to

[marxmail] Biden: killing and torture as usual

Why Senators Must Reject Avril Haines for Intelligence by Medea Benjamin/Code Pink, Marcy Winograd/Progressive Democrats of America Common Dreams, Dec. 29 https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/29/why-senators-must-reject-avril-haines-intelligence "Even before President-Elect Joe Biden sets

[marxmail] Sanders Refutes McConnell Claim That $2,000 Direct Payments Amount to 'Socialism for Rich People'

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/31/watch-sanders-refutes-mcconnell-claim-2000-direct-payments-amount-socialism-rich Common Dreams, Dec. 31 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5014):

Re: [marxmail] Sanders Refutes McConnell Claim That $2,000 Direct Payments Amount to 'Socialism for Rich People'

Only Six Senate Democrats Voted Against Advancing $740 Billion Pentagon Bill https://truthout.org/articles/only-six-senate-democrats-voted-against-advancing-740-billion-pentagon-bill/ by Jake Johnson, Common Dreams, Dec. 31 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent

[marxmail] Life In China's Surveillance State

Life In China's Surveillance State NPR, Fresh Air, Jan. 5 https://www.npr.org/2021/01/05/953565094/life-in-chinas-surveillance-state German journalist Kai Strittmatter says the Chinese state has amassed an astonishing amount of data about its citizens, which it uses to punish people for even

Re: [marxmail] next steps?

I notice that many young socialists around here (intermountain west) get involved with the SRA's as an unromantic practical matter of course. The SRA's seem to function as a united socialist front with people from M-L's to DSAers to anarchists working together. I agree that revolutionary

Re: [marxmail] US socialists condemn coup attempt, call mobilisation January 20 (Green Left)

*Inaugurate Justice Jan. 20* https://xrpdx.org/save-the-date-inaugurate-justice-on-january-20th/ https://allevents.in/portland/rally-to-inaugurate-justice/200020548002734 Fight the Right, Fight for Democracy/Luchemos contra la Derecha, Luchemos por la Democracia DSA , January 7, 2021

[marxmail] Spectre: 'reorient...DSA...to address multiple crises of capitalist system'

We Cannot Let Yesterday’s Farce Become Tomorrow’s Tragedy Antifascist Organizing Now! Spectre Editorial Board, January 9, 2021 https://spectrejournal.com/we-cannot-let-yesterdays-farce-become-tomorrows-tragedy/ . . . Liberals will outdo themselves in a rush to rally behind bipartisan capitalist

Re: [marxmail] Spectre: 'reorient...DSA...to address multiple crises of capitalist system'

ll require organizing, not lobbying." On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 1:12 AM Dayne Goodwin via groups.io wrote: > > We Cannot Let Yesterday’s Farce Become Tomorrow’s Tragedy > Antifascist Organizing Now! > Spectre Editorial Board, January 9, 2021 > https://spectrejournal.com/we-cann

[marxmail] Rally to Inaugurate Justice

good political work being done by Portland, OR area activists: https://xrpdx.org/save-the-date-inaugurate-justice-on-january-20th/ and https://allevents.in/portland/rally-to-inaugurate-justice/200020548002734 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group.

[marxmail] Biden Lifts Health Care Plan From Insurance Lobbyists

Biden Lifts Health Care Plan From Insurance Lobbyists by Andrew Perez and Julia Rock, Daily Poster, Jan. 19 https://www.dailyposter.com/p/news-biden-lifts-health-care-plan President-elect Joe Biden’s new COVID relief plan does not adopt existing Democratic legislation to expand government

[marxmail] Abolish the Landlords

Abolish the Landlords The Politics of the Permanent Housing Crisis by Geoff Guy, Rampant, Jan. 19 https://rampantmag.com/2021/01/19/abolish-the-landlords/ . . . ...Whether the eviction crisis comes to pass or not, we are experiencing a collective drama staged at a scale that lays bare the basic

Re: [marxmail] Marxism and Keynesianism | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

Great essay and discussion on your blog, Louis (and here Michael). It brings to mind an old anecdote about the volatile Andrew Kliman. Around May/June of 1983 UofUtah Economics Dept. Chair and marxist E. Kay Hunt took the initiative to invite thirty or more local Salt Lake socialists and

[marxmail] Immigration Activists Prepare to Fight a "Timid" Biden After He Walks Back Key Promise

Immigration Activists Prepare to Fight a "Timid" Biden After He Walks Back Key Promise Waiting for a bill won’t cut it, activists say—Biden could halt the cruel detention and deportation machine tomorrow. Maurizio Guerrero, In These Times, January 19, 2021

Re: [marxmail] Hunts Point Produce Workers...Strike...

Hunts Point Strike Is the Bold Labor Action the Country Needs by Natasha Lennard, Intercept, January 23 2021 https://theintercept.com/2021/01/23/covid-nyc-hunts-point-strike/ . . . "Most of the striking workers live locally. Hunts Point has one of the highest concentrations of Latinx residents in

[marxmail] CNN: Israel...is...an 'apartheid regime,' rights group says

Israel isn't a democracy, it's an 'apartheid regime,' rights group says by Sam Kiley, CNN, Jan. 12 https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/12/middleeast/israel-apartheid-regime-report-intl/index.html Jerusalem (CNN) Israel is no longer a democracy but an "apartheid regime" devoted to cementing the supremacy

[marxmail] The Trump administration’s parting outrage against Cuba

by Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flories Nation of Change, Jan. 12 https://www.nationofchange.org/2021/01/12/the-trump-administrations-parting-outrage-against-cuba/ "On January 11, in his final days before leaving office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo added one parting blow to the series of

Re: [marxmail] How White Evangelical Christians Fused With Trump Extremism

In the 1980s when our Central America Solidarity and Anti-Apartheid movements had conflicts with adherents of the "Aryan Nations" organization (based in northern Idaho) i learned about the "Christian Identity" movement, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Identity At that time the Aryan

[marxmail] What the Labor Movement Wants From Biden Administration

What the Labor Movement Wants From a Joe Biden Administration by Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue, Dec. 22 https://www.teenvogue.com/story/unions-joe-biden-labor-movement . . . "...If Biden really wants to be “the most pro-union president,” he must make labor law reform and card check a priority — and

[marxmail] The Plague Year, New Yorker

The Plague Year: The mistakes and the struggles behind America’s coronavirus tragedy by Lawrence Wright, New Yorker, Dec. 28 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-plague-year "Lawrence Wright’s definitive account of this Plague Year", Susan B. Glasser -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

[marxmail] film about 1962 massacre of striking workers in Novocherkassk

“Dear Comrades!” Is Andrei Konchalovsky’s Masterpiece Ideology smacks head on into love in the director’s film about the 1962 massacre of striking workers in Novocherkassk, starring Julia Vysotskaya. by Anthony Lane, New Yorker, Dec. 25

Re: [marxmail] Assistance Finding Book

Frederick you might be mixing up memories of several books. There is a thick (now old) book collecting all the "Letters to Americans, 1848 - 1895" by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels published by International Publishers (New World Books) in 1953. There is this more recent book edited by Robin

Re: [marxmail] Korea’s Tireless Patriot and Revolutionary

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 2:05 PM Chris Slee wrote: > An article I wrote in 2003 puts the repressive North Korean regime in context. North Korea was devastated by US bombing during the war and has been subject to an economic blockade ever since. >

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