[Marxism] Fwd: WikiLeaks's Assange: Yiannopoulos is facing 'censorship' | TheHill
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[Marxism] Fwd: 'We Need Communism' YouTube Vlogger Kid Sceneable Speaks Out
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[Marxism] Wally Kaufman, 89: union and Communist Party leader |RickNagin | People's World
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[Marxism] Video of debate between communist and conservative
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[Marxism] A view on the general strike
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * A true general strike is possible in Trump's America http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2017/02/true-general-strike-trump-america-170221044733116.html Lena P Afridi is an independent writer who specialises in income inequality and racial and economic justice. She holds a Master's in Regional Planning from Cornell University. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Video of discussion at recent commemorative meeting in Dublin for Irish revolutionary Peter Graham (1945-71)
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Re: [Marxism] [UCE] Fwd: The Rise and Fall of the Socialist Party of America | Jacobin
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Re; [Marxism] [UCE] Fwd: The Rise and Fall of the Socialist Party of America | Jacobin I look for a history of the working class in the US that situates it in the world while at the same time closely documenting from the available archives the felt experiences of real people, not "leaders," in that class. Sort of on the model of E P Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class, a close reading of that history in its lived context, centered on working people, with the experience of parties and sects if present at all, on the periphery of or reflective of that narrative. I would look for such a project to bring it up to the ominous present, where the members of the American working class seem to be stuck in our "exceptional state," the empire, living off the proceeds of the rest of the world from whence comes the product we preponderantly consume, and due to which we cannot or choose not presently to join the rest of the working world in solidarity, let alone engender any faint recognition of class belonging or significant sense of common plight and purpose domestically. This in the context of global capital run rampant. If there is such, one that combines global breadth of analysis with historical detail and sociological depth, I haven't seen or I don't remember it. Who can render this portrait for us to hold in front of our uncomprehending, denying faces? Hell, we're so stuck on ourselves we can't even include the Cubans, the Dominicans, the Venezuelans, the Japanese or more than one or two Canadian teams in our baseball "World Series." --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Donald Trump’s team of con men drafts a peace plan for Ukraine | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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Re: [Marxism] fake news and neuroscience
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 2017-02-21 21:27, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote: I love that the author debunks neuroscience Well of course he does NOT do that; he isn't talking about neuroscience but about crumby journalism and in this case what he calls "neurobabble". In a more pointed remark he generalizes the phenomenon to all appeals to "science": "These are important findings, because they suggest that people systematically vary in their ability to apply basic critical thinking, simply as a result of the presence of irrelevant science- speak." I see this all the time with physics, for instance, with the use of the word "quantum" in ways that have nothing to do with quantum mechanics, or using the "uncertainty principle" to elevate the status of uncertainty in totally different realms. Please don't blame science for the misuse of its vocabulary whether by charlatans or shoddy journalists. - Jeff https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2017/feb/20/fake-news-and-neurobabble-how-do-we-critically-assess-what-we-read _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] fake news and neuroscience
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[Marxism] March 8 global women's strike
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[Marxism] Refugees entering Canada
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[Marxism] Fwd: Russian Bolsheviks, Ukrainian Communists, and the Comintern: How Russian Bolsheviks Shaped Foreign Radical Leftist Views on Ukraine, by Stephen Velychenko | KRYTYKA
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[Marxism] Fwd: They Released 14 Wolves In A Park. But No One Was Prepared For THIS. What Happens Next Is A Miracle And Proves That We Must Take Care Of Our Amazing Planet.
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[Marxism] Why I Became a Socialist
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: A General Strike Against Trump? Here’s a Dark History Lesson - The Daily Beast
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Green Party After the Election | Solidarity
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * By Howie Hawkins THE POLITICAL DYNAMIC augured well for a progressive third party challenge in 2016. With the two most unpopular major party candidates in history, and a large progressive vote mobilized for Sanders in the Democratic primaries, hopes were high that the Greens could do much better, perhaps reaching five percent or more to secure general election federal funding for the 2020 Green presidential campaign. But lacking a large, well-organized membership base to provide local legs for the campaign and a sizable cohort of Green elected officials to give the Green Party political weight, the campaign was marginalized by the media and discounted by the voters. So the limited gains for the Greens should not be surprising at all. Until the Green Party has built a real power base of well-organized, dues-paying members and elected Green caucuses in city councils, state legislatures and the U.S. House, it will not be taken seriously in a presidential run by most media and most voters. It is now time for the Greens to go back to grassroots organization and movement building. As we enter Trump time, the Greens and the broader left should learn from their mistakes during the Bush II era when too many got caught up in the Anybody-But-Bush strategy to get the Democrats back in power. For the Greens, that approach yielded the divisive and self-defeating safe-states strategy of 2004 by one faction of the party, which undermined the party’s very rationale for existing as an independent alternative. Greens should be friendly with grassroots Democrats in the Sanders/Warren wing as they quixotically try (again) to replace corporate Democrats with progressive Democrats. Greens should work with them in the fightback against Trumpist scapegoating and oppression of immigrants, minorities and women, expansion of the security and surveillance state, imperial wars, climate madness, cuts to public health care and schools, union-busting and on many other fronts. But the real power structure of the Democratic Party — the corporate donors and their political representatives, led now by the corporate neoliberal Chuck Schumer — will do what corporate Democrats always do with progressive Democratic personalities: use them as bait to lure progressives into a supporting corporate Democrats as the lesser evil. full: https://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/4855 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] From Russia, with lies
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[Marxism] Fwd: Useful experts in Russian media | EU vs Disinformation
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[Marxism] Fwd: Trump and the Contradictions of Capitalism
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[Marxism] Fwd: A General Strike Against Trump? Here’s a Dark History Lesson - The Daily Beast
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