[marxmail] Medicine and Activism in George Eliot’s “Quarry for Middlemarch” - Los Angeles Review of Books

Since the onset of COVID-19, women’s careers, especially in the humanities, have beenincreasingly undervalued . We’re beingdisproportionately dismissed

Re: [marxmail] NPR stumps for adventurism

On 8/30/20 8:22 AM, jenorem via groups.io wrote: Here's Spectre Journal's take on the uprisings, including on 'looting': https://spectrejournal.com/theses-on-the-uprising/ Not surprising. I had a bit of a tiff from the unnamed chap who posted a link to this article on Spectre's Twitter

[marxmail] Rampant destruction of forests ‘will unleash more pandemics’ | Environment | The Guardian

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[marxmail] Coronavirus sceptics, conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers protest in London | Coronavirus outbreak | The Guardian

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[marxmail] Eviction Moratorium Delays Crisis Until January, When Tenants Will Owe Back Rent

(This is the same bogus gift to working people as Trump's proposed but not adopted payroll tax suspension. With the payroll tax suspension, which social security and medicare rely on, you will still have to pay for them down the road.) The nationwide eviction moratorium announcedTuesdayby the

[marxmail] My Eighty-Six Jobs | by Kerri Arsenault | The New York Review of Books

Hard work provided our families with homes, indoor plumbing, higher education, and Jordache jeans. Nobody was bound to the “company store,” however, the debt we accrued was far more costly. While the paper mill gave our town life since 1901, it also generated tons of toxic waste and, arguably,

[marxmail] The Savaging of Detlev Helmig, Citizen  - CounterPunch.org

Was a U. of Colorado professor fired for being a thorn in the side of the petroleum industry? https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/03/the-savaging-of-detlev-helmig-citizen/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1117):

[marxmail] What a 16-Year-Old Learned in Three Months of Portland Protests

Race andAmerica * Portland Shooting

[marxmail] Was Mao a Bukharinist?: The “Three-Line Struggle” in Economic Debates Preceding the Great Leap Forward - COSMONAUT

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[marxmail] Sparked by Covid-19, Undergraduate Organizing May Be the Next Front in Campus Labor Relations

STUDENT WORKERS * Facebook * Twitter

[marxmail] Iowa grad students and faculty stage 'sickout' to protest campus reopening plan

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[marxmail] Six Complexities of These Pandemic Times: The Thirty-Sixth Newsletter (2020).

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[marxmail] ‘Vanguard’ Spotlights the Black Women Who Fought for the Vote

ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story BOOKS OF THE TIMES ‘Vanguard’ Spotlights the Black Women Who Fought

[marxmail] A Hope Machine: On Jeffrey Brooks’s “The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks” - Los Angeles Review of Books

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[marxmail] Forrest Hylton | Bolivia’s Roadblocks · LRB 2 September 2020

Now that a new date for elections – 18 October – is irreversible, Bolivia has once again narrowly avoided civil war. Jeanine Áñez was installed as president in a coup last November with Brazilian,USand Bolivian military support, following the overthrow of the democratically elected government

[marxmail] The era of modern protest belongs to the American left | ROAR Magazine

Left and right-wing movements in the US are falsely framed as equally energized, but BLM is the only true mass movement supported by a majority of Americans. https://roarmag.org/essays/mass-protest-united-states/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this

[marxmail] Frederick Engels on the two-party system in the USA

It is well known that the Americans have been striving for 30 years to shake off this yoke, which has become intolerable, and that in spite of all they can do they continue to stink ever deeper in this swamp of corruption. It is precisely in America that we see best how there takes place this

[marxmail] Oliver Cromwell Cox and the Capitalist Sources of Racism

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[marxmail] Moderator's note

On 9/5/20 9:08 AM, Max Power wrote: Trump puts the brakes on an $8 billion industry that studies indicate does not achieve the desired goal. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/515239-white-house-tells-federal-agencies-to-cancel-divisive-racial _._,_._,_ I have just removed Max

[marxmail] A Very American Zombie Virus in 'Blood Quantum' | by Robert Sullivan | The New York Review of Books

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[marxmail] The Wages of Whiteness | by Hari Kunzru | The New York Review of Books

Further toward the center, the politics of whiteness has disrupted journalism and academia, with opposition to it coalescing around the defense of free speech, an issue that has united right-wingers with centrist liberals. The spectacle of American conservatives wringing their hands about

[marxmail] Cousins Like Us: Black Lives and John Maynard Keynes - Los Angeles Review of Books

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[marxmail] The White Nostalgia Pandemic - Los Angeles Review of Books

Like a David Brooks column come to life, the Biden campaign pretends to recapture some past but essential American goodness, which presumably existed before November 2016. Like Robinson, just when and where would Joe Biden like to take us? And what was the condition of the American soul in the

[marxmail] Watch List | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

Despite its innocuous sounding titled, “Watch List” is the harrowing story of a Filipino woman forced to join a police-led death squad in order to have her name taken off a list of suspected drug users targeted for assassination by the very same type of death squad. Starring as Maria,

[marxmail] Portland Debates How to Build a Party – The Call

Ferment in the DSA over "the dirty break". I give credit to Bread and Roses caucus for summarizing the objections they faced in a Portland debate from their opponents. https://socialistcall.com/2020/08/07/portland-debate-democratic-party/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive

[marxmail] The Game Is Not a Game: The Power, Protest, and Politics of American Sports

NY Review of Books, SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 ISSUE Ball Don’t Lie by Jay Caspian Kang The Game Is Not a Game: The Power, Protest, and Politics of American Sports by Robert Scoop Jackson Haymarket, 203 pp., $36.95; $16.95 (paper) Sports metaphors, as a rule, are silly and rarely accurate. Football is

[marxmail] Rampant | Revolutionary Politics—Chicago Style

Another new Marxist website, this time launched by ex-ISOers in Chicago, I'm told. I am not sure that I would have included it in my article about new Marxist websites since it has an article titled "All Power to the Looters". Then again, Spectre had the same type of article but without the

[marxmail] Video: Pro-Trump Counterprotesters Received NYPD Escort Before Driving Through Black Lives Matter March - Gothamist

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[marxmail] 'Disaster for Endangered Species and the Natural World': Advocates Decry Trump Move to Gut Habitat Protection Law | Common Dreams News

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[marxmail] What If Christopher Nolan Movies Are Actually Crap?

Shouldn't even be a question. https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/dyzjy7/what-if-christopher-nolan-movies-are-actually-crap -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1187): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1187 Mute This

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

On 9/4/20 10:22 PM, Dayne Goodwin wrote: "No sooner had the compromise agreement fallen through than The Organizer‘s editorial board learned that the MPP had joined the California Progressive Alliance (CPA) as an “organizational ally.” The CPA is a coalition that works both inside and

[marxmail] College Professor Dies Teaching Online Class After Weekslong Battle With COVID-19 | HuffPost

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[marxmail] David Graeber, anthropologist and author of Bullshit Jobs, dies aged 59 | Books | The Guardian

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[marxmail] Revolutionary, Muslim-Majority Sudan Declares Separation of Religion and State

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Re: [marxmail] Military Industry

On 9/6/20 6:23 AM, Ismail Lagardien via groups.io wrote: Hi All. I hope everyone is safe and healthy... I want to tabulate the value of the US military industry. I will search online, but if anyone has a source or knows of a paper that has pulled together the following, I shall be grateful

[marxmail] MR Online | If humanity is to have any future at all

John Bellamy Foster Interviewed by Ömur Şahin Keyif for BirGün (Istanbul) https://mronline.org/2020/09/05/if-humanity-is-to-have-any-future-at-all/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1216):

[marxmail] Race and the Left: Paul Robeson and the "Peekskill Incident" - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)

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[marxmail] Harry Braverman’s class analysis of early American history | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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[marxmail] 1619 Project: Trump says Department of Education will investigate use in schools - CNNPolitics

I bet WSWS.org is deliriously happy over this. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/06/politics/trump-education-department-1619-project/index.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1222): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1222

[marxmail] Hundreds of JMU students are sick. Thousands have to move home by Monday. | Education | richmond.com

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[marxmail] In the Wake of US Climate Failures, Don't Look to China for a Panacea | System Change Not Climate Change

Excerpted from Smith's new book: But in China, none of this applies. China's rulers are not private capitalists -- at least not with respect to their state economy. China's rulers are bureaucratic collectivists who run a hybrid bureaucratic collectivist-capitalist economy, a system largely

Re: [marxmail] Why China Isn’t Capitalist

explained in the sources I cited, Richard McGregor, Carl Walter and Fraser Howie, James McGregor, and others. Why don’t you write a review of my book? Best, Richard On Aug 21, 2020, at 5:19 PM, Louis Proyect <mailto:l...@panix.com>> wrote: On 8/21/20 2:37 PM, Richard Smith wrote: D

Re: [marxmail] The contagious idea that Black Lives Matter | Richard Seymour on Patreon

On 8/30/20 8:11 PM, Roger Kulp wrote: grants from the Ford Foundation.and the WK Kellogg Foundation,in 2016? So what? If it weren't for BLM, you wouldn't have had millions of Americans out on the streets in June and July. I don't see it as an organization but as a sprawling, locally based

Re: [marxmail] These Photos Will Change the Way You Think About Race in Coal Country - Yes! Magazine

On 8/30/20 7:43 PM, Roger Kulp wrote: Link please. https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2018/03/15/these-photos-will-change-the-way-you-think-about-race-in-coal-country/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1013):

[marxmail] Patrick Hilsman on how COVID-19 denialism and Assadism go hand in hand

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[marxmail] The Po-Po Are a No-Go at SEIU Drop the Cops Town Hall | Left Voice

On August 30, SEIU Drop the Cops hosted a virtual town hall meeting to discuss the continuing fight against racism and police terror. The event, which attracted more than a hundred participants, highlighted the campaign’s five demands that advocate for a radical shift in the labor movement.

[marxmail] Facebook: A Most Violent Platform | Jacob Silverman

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[marxmail] More on Kameny

Turning to “The Lavender Scare” [the documentary, unfortunately not VOD yet], we meet some of the same figures who are featured in “Before Stonewall”. Among them is Frank Kameny, who, while probably well-known to gay activists, deserves much greater recognition from the left in general. Like

[marxmail] From Here to Equality | William A. Darity Jr. | University of North Carolina Press

In defense of reparations. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469654973/from-here-to-equality/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1084): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1084 Mute This Topic:

[marxmail] Wreckreation, Public Lands, and the Fecal Timebomb - CounterPunch.org

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[marxmail] Trump Just Went Full QAnon in a Fox News Interview

President Donald Trump’s latest unfounded claims were so unhinged that even a Fox News host called them a “conspiracy theory.” In an interview with Laura Ingraham broadcast on Monday night, Trump made multiple baseless claims about his opponent Joe Biden being controlled by a shadowy group of

[marxmail] How did the US's mainstream right end up openly supporting vigilante terror? | Richard Seymour | Opinion | The Guardian

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[marxmail] 'A sacred spot': why gold mining threatens Nova Scotia's 'wildest' river | Public lands | The Guardian

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[marxmail] Watered-Down “Anti-Racism Training” in Schools from the ADL Is Perpetuating Racism

(ADL is the Anti-Defamation League, a Zionist group.) The ADL’s approach is designed to tick boxes for white adults dutifully talking over racial violence with children, while remaining profoundly unthreatening to actual racist power. For instance, ADL materials don’t mention protesters’

[marxmail] From Trade-Union Consciousness to Socialist Consciousness with Chris Townsend - COSMONAUT

Three of our writers are joined by veteran union organizer Chris Townsend for a podcast discussion on labor organizing across history and in the present day. Chris, Remi, Peter, and Annie will explore how to do what Lenin emphasized/had to be done/: how do we inject the political ‘good news’

[marxmail] New Trump pandemic adviser pushes controversial ‘herd immunity’ strategy, worrying public health officials

New Trump pandemic adviser pushes controversial ‘herd immunity’ strategy, worrying public health officials Scott Atlas, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, speaks with President Trump during a coronavirus briefing on Aug 12. Scott Atlas, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, speaks

[marxmail] The NBA Strike and the Limits of the Left’s Class-Centric Politics | The New Republic

There’s a popular misconception that the NBA primarily consists of players who hail from challenging backgrounds. The current crop of stars largely skews suburban, and the league is also increasingly international. It’s telling, then, that anti-racist consciousness permeates the NBA even as it

[marxmail] The Young Eugene V. Debs

(That's David Walters, Marxmail subscriber.) Was this how you met your now-coeditor, David Walters? TD Yeah. Once I was aboard with MIA I made the acquaintance of David Walters, one of the founders and the most active volunteers at the site. David saw this slew of previously unknown Debs

[marxmail] Another Black Man Murdered by Cops in Rochester, NY

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[marxmail] #Trotsky2020: The Relevance of Trotsky’s Ideas Today - YouTube

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[marxmail] The Communist University for Toilers of the East (KUTV) | Global South Studies, U.Va.

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[marxmail] Trump’s New COVID Adviser Is Pushing Herd Immunity, Which Some Liken to Eugenics

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[marxmail] Colorblind Proletarian Brotherhood:,African Americans, American Indians,,and Racial Inclusivity in the,Oklahoma Socialist Party

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[marxmail] Authoritarian Anarchism Meets Autocratic Soul Searching - CounterPunch.org

But since the market of ideas is mostly owned and controlled by the few, how realistic is it to endorse the imaginary freedom of the liberal pluralist model as a solution? Not everyone can add their two cents to the arguments equally. The evolution of the protests was dictated by the

[marxmail] The Work of Analogy: On Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” - Los Angeles Review of Books

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[marxmail] Why is this top Democrat absent from the fight against toxic pollution in Cancer Alley? | US news | The Guardian

(A damning article on a member of Biden's transition team.) Richmond, the 46-year-old congressman, has represented the residents of Reserve, and most of the people living in a densely polluted area between New Orleans and Baton Rouge referred to as Cancer Alley, for almost a decade. A rising

Re: [marxmail] Black Americans Want Police to Retain Local Presence

On 9/7/20 2:51 PM, Roger Kulp wrote: The problem with BLM is the same problem you see with the DSA.There are definitely pro-capitalist,reformist factions of both.BLM may not be an NGO,but they have the support of NGOs,like the Ford Foundation,and Microsoft Philanthropies,so BLM may for all

[marxmail] Four Dead in Ohio: On Derf Backderf’s “Kent State” — Cleveland Review of Books

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

On 9/7/20 5:05 PM, Roger Kulp wrote: RE: The DSA Socialist Majority Caucus As a Marxist viewing the DSA as an outsider,it seems to be a movement in continual flux,one in search of its identity.This article from the Grayzone last year provides a clearer picture of what happened to the DSA

[marxmail] U. of Michigan graduate students to strike in protest of fall reopening | The Michigan Daily

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[marxmail] Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean. Part One: Corrosive Waters

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

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[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

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

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[marxmail] Oregon fires hit home

As many of you might know, I have a pretty strong friendship with Jeffrey St. Clair, the editor of CounterPunch, for which I have been writing since 2012. I just got the word from him on FB that he and his family were ordered to evacuate Oregon City, a town of about 37,000 people not far from

[marxmail] Strategic implications of the reductionism debates – Tempest

Interview with Asad Haider – part 2 (reductionism refers to class/race) https://www.tempestmag.org/2020/09/strategic-implications-of-the-reductionism-debates/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1407):

[marxmail] Biden’s transition team: neoliberalism incarnate | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

On September 5^th , Joe Biden added four new members to his transition team, which was not really a team. It consisted only of Ted Kaufman, the 81-year old Democratic senator from Delaware. Considering Kaufman’s reputation as a deficit hawk and his advanced age, Biden had to cover his left

[marxmail] Iran's secular shift: new survey reveals huge changes in religious beliefs

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[marxmail] Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement | Brennan Center for Justice

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[marxmail] Festering Grievances and the Return to Arms in Southern Syria-final.pdf

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Re: [marxmail] Adolph Reed on American Affairs and Angela Nagle

On 9/11/20 11:33 AM, Ryan via groups.io wrote: There are a lot of ad hominem attacks on this list. Makes it difficult for a relative newcomer to socialism (8 yrs rather than 60) to sort out who the “good guys” and “bad guys” are. Nobody is going to spoon-feed you background, Ryan. You have

Re: [marxmail] Adolph Reed on American Affairs and Angela Nagle

On 9/11/20 9:48 AM, Tristan Sloughter wrote: This is pretty funny. Reed was interviewed by Katie Halper and brought up American Affairs and Angela Nagle. I scanned through the interview to find the time of the clip that is floating around twitter: https://youtu.be/wwPDTkKJVDk?t=7232 Tristan

Re: [marxmail] Adolph Reed on American Affairs and Angela Nagle

On 9/11/20 12:01 PM, Carol Stokes wrote: Regarding Nagle in general, she's part of a small but growing group of people who refer to themselves (sometimes, for lack of a better description) as post-left. Their argument is that the left has become a petite bourgeois project that is hostile to

[marxmail] New Collection on Chile's Sept. 11th

OVID TV is great. The Netflix for radicals. Forwarded Message Subject:New Collection on Chile's Sept. 11th Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:47:29 + From: Priscilla Posada To: Louis Proyect Hi Louis, We've curated a collection of 8 films based around the cia

Re: [marxmail] Black, Native American and Fighting for Recognition in Indian Country

On 9/10/20 6:58 AM, C. Horgan wrote: This is fascinating. I never knew Indians had slaves. Were they involved in cotton production? How were they able to keep them, especially when removed from their land, and on the trail of tears? Yes. That happened. This also happened: At the outbreak of

[marxmail] Louis Proyect: Review - Philosophical Arabesques

In chapter nine of "Return of Nature", Foster discusses Bukharin's "Philosophical Arabesques", a work written in prison. I reviewed it for "Revolutionary History" in 2005. It is a reminder that Trotsky was not the only brilliant revolutionary in the USSR.

[marxmail] Interesting paragraph from Foster's "Return of Nature"

The 1930s and early 1940s were a time in which scientists in Britain became increasingly radical in their political orientation, reflecting the battle against fascism. C. P. Snow estimated that of the two hundred brightest young physicists in Britain, around three-quarters considered

Re: [marxmail] Adolph Reed on American Affairs and Angela Nagle

On 9/11/20 4:55 PM, Carol Stokes wrote: I don't know if you are referring to some other time Reed discussed Nagle, but in the Katie Halper interview, Reed does not say he turned down the $2,000 because of Nagle, and he does not call her a fascist. Yes, you're right. But he did call Julius

[marxmail] News from Utah

Looks like they're back up and running but part of their rebirth was eliminating the Marxism list, not that I'd want to go back there after what we went through. One benefit about them rebooting is the availability of our archives that go back to the earliest days, starting in 1994 with the

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

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[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] 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] 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

[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

[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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[marxmail] Harvard historian examines how textbooks taught white supremacy – Harvard Gazette

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