[Marxism] Challenges for #Spanishrevolution and the wellsprings of an explosive movement
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Spain: Wellsprings of an explosive movement Dick Nichols, Barcelona In late April, the progressive Spanish daily *Publico*asked why there was so little resistance to the economic crisis, despite the country’s 5 million jobless and rising misery. The union and social movement leaders and left academics interviewed pointed to the numbing impact of mass unemployment, the casualisation of work, the bureaucratisation of organised labour, widespread scepticism that striking could achieve anything, and the economic cushion provided by Spain's extended families. They also cited the apparent failure of French and Greek general strikes against austerity. The consensus was that, given the absence in Europe of even one successful struggle, people in Spain were resigned to battling their way through the crisis as best they could. No-one sensed the new wave of struggle just over the horizon. http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/47824 Challenges for #spanishrevolution In a contribution to the magazine Viento Sur, Real Democracy Now! activist Nacho Álvarez looked at the challenges facing the Real Democracy Now! movement three weeks after May 15. Excerpts of the article are published below. * * * Collective reflection about what to do, how to channel people’s anger and how to structure a sustained and massive protest movement now grips the streets and squares of hundreds of Spanish cities. Moreover, last Saturday, May 28, more than a hundred mass meetings — the majority of them very well-attended — took place in all Madrid’s suburbs and neighbourhoods. Protest is expanding like an oil slick. In improvised meeting-places thousands of young — and not so young — people intensely discuss the present political situation, our main problems, and how to overcome them. Those who taking their first steps in politics come together with those who help out with their experience. It seems unlikely that a movement of this size will implode as spontaneously as it arose. Nonetheless, the movement itself, because of its own features, is already beginning — at least in Madrid — to face a number of important challenges. http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/47826 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Nothing happened in Peru
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == An important and remarkable victory http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43287667/ns/world_news-americas/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Nothing happened in Peru
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I just wanted to point out that nothing happened in Peru yesterday, as should be obvious from the posts on this list. Joaquín Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] After 44 years of occupation: where is the Israeli Peace Camp?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == By Samah Sabawi On a section of the apartheid wall in Occupied Palestine someone spray-painted a quote from Edward Said that says: "Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement?" It is worth considering the wisdom of this statement. This month marks the 44th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. Palestinians are coming face to face with their worst nightmare: there may never be a Palestinian state. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in his May address to the US Congress, told the world Israel does not believe that it is occupying Palestinian land and there would never be a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders. His speech received 29 standing ovations from the US Congress and overwhelming approval from the public and the political establishment in Israel. ... It is astounding to see that, while all of this is happening, there still is no serious reaction from Israelis to protest their government’s blatant disregard for a peaceful resolution based on international humanitarian law, with two states living side by side. http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/47832 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Pamphlet: Capitalism and workers’ struggle in China (revised edition) | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == By *Chris Slee* */Preface to the revised edition (2011) /* /June 6, 2011 – /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/-- There are a number of changes in this edition compared to the first edition (Resistance Books 2010). Most of these changes merely expand on points made in the original, supplying more detail in the text and/or the footnotes. Others take account of new developments in the year since the first edition was published./ /The biggest change is in the discussion of the Great Leap Forward, which has been significantly expanded and rewritten. I felt this was necessary for two reasons. First, I wanted to acknowledge that natural disasters as well as mistaken policies played a role in the reappearance of famine in 1959-61. Second, I wanted to explain in more detail what the policy errors were, and why I consider that Mao was largely responsible for them./ Full text at http://links.org.au/node/2349 Subscribe free to Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373 You can also follow Links on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LinksSocialism Or join the Links Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10865397643 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Reflections on the World Socialist Web Site
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CallMe Ishmael: >>Maybe there would need to be short runs of a print version to be strategically distributed in digitally underserved areas.>> PDFs of leaflets and articles would probably be more practical. They can be hosted on a website and downloaded by activists as needed for printing in short runs for distribution in such areas. Cutting costs makes free distribution a real option. Ed Lewis Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] World Socialist Website
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Healy also appears to have got some Iraqi money around the Newsline period. A former SLLer told me of an uncomfortable visit to Baghdad after an election campaign featuring Vanessa Redgrave, in which he was asked to explain the derisory number of votes. Bob Pitt wrote a book-length description and analysis of Healy and his operations, based on first-hand experience. http://www.scribd.com/doc/33035535/Rise-and-Fall-of-Gerry-Healy Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Swans Release: June 6, 2011
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Welcome to Swans Commentary http://www.swans.com/ June 6, 2011 $$$ Oops, no donation this time around... $$$ Note from the Editors: The dumbing down of America appears to be the only thing that is working effectively in the country, when one considers that the populace is at present more interested in whether Representative Anthony Weiner tweeted a photo of his bulging underwear to a female college student than if the ruling elite will succeed in destroying Medicare. From the demise of the health care system to that of education, the future does not look pretty, particularly when one considers Professor Jonah Raskin's observations that college students have become an infantilized generation of illiterates. Actually, one institution that is going strong is the prison-industrial complex. Michael Barker reports on Michelle Alexander's study that concludes "that mass incarceration in the United States had, in fact, emerged as a stunningly comprehensive and well-disguised system of racialized social control that functions in a manner strikingly similar to Jim Crow." As for the health care system, Gilles d'Aymery looks at the Randian roots and neoliberal efforts of Representative Paul Ryan, the current champion of the bipartisan anti-Medicare cause. Also threatened are rural health care centers across the country, including the Anderson Valley Health Center near Swans headquarters that lost its state funding and is months away from perhaps closing its doors, while the federal grants that could have helped were compromised away in the recent budget debate... As Charles Marowitz observes, we assume in the Middle East that the status quo must be overthrown -- whereas in America we delude ourselves that new elections will save us. According to Louis Proyect's book review, there are alternatives, and we must do everything in our power to build a world movement that understands that without democracy, there cannot be socialism and that without socialism, there cannot be democracy. In light of the arrest of the former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic and the death of Lawrence S. Eagleburger, the former secretary of state and career foreign service civil servant, we are republishing Gilles d'Aymery's July 2005 article "Srebrenica Mon Amour." Eagleburger spent seven years of his career in Yugoslavia, whose dissolution he likened to a Greek tragedy. From Italy, Peter Byrne takes us on a trip to the buried heart of Matera -- not your typical small Italian city; while from Ghana, Femi Akomolafe calls for his fellow Africans to dream big and ask what exactly is wrong with them. Raju Peddada concludes his series on the engineers with big dreams who developed the F-1 rocket engine. In the French corner, Francesca Saieva contemplates the social aspects of Italian writer Italo Calvino's protagonist Marcovaldo, and Simone Alié-Daram's poem makes a splash with three angels. Guido Monte's blending describes the night thoughts of a Tunisian woman on a death-boat along the waves of the Sicily Channel, and we close with your letters, with thoughts on Aymery's coverage on the last edition's scandal du jour, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and more. # # # # # All the articles and the Letters to the Editor can be freely accessed from Swans front page. Please go to: http://www.swans.com/ You can also access our past issues at: http://www.swans.com/library/past_issues/past_issues.html And you have access to over 15 years of archives by date, author, and subject at: http://www.swans.com/library/archives.html Remember, what's free to you is not to us! To help our work financially please visit http://www.swans.com/about/donate.html # # # # # Swans (aka Swans Commentary), ISSN: 1554-4915, is a bi-weekly non-commercial ad-free Web-only magazine which provides original content to its readers. We encourage pulp publications to republish Swans Work in print format. Please contact the publisher at ix.netcom.com>. Please, do not repost Swans Work on the Web and other mailing lists: "Hypertext" links to any pages of Swans.com are authorized; however, republication of any part of this site, inlining, mirroring, and framing are expressly prohibited. (You are receiving this E-mail notification for you have expressed your interest in Swans and the work of its team. If you wish not to receive these short notifications, simply reply to this E-mail (delete the content) and enter the word REMOVE in the subject line.) Cordially, Gilles d'Aymery -- Swans "Hungry man, reach for the book: It is a weapon." B. Brecht Send list submissions to: Marxism@
[Marxism] James Petras M.I.A.
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == James Petras M.I.A. By Max Ajl · In Spring 2011 Book Review: War Crimes in Gaza and the Zionist Fifth Column in America by James Petras James Petras has been cloned. Petras I is still reliable, if a bit creaky in his old age. He digs for information in Chapare, Chiapas, and elsewhere in the Latin American countryside, interviewing militants from the Venezuelan National Peasant Front Ezequiel Zamora, rural organizers from the Brazilian Landless Worker’s Movements, syndicalists in Uruguay, and slum-dwellers in Argentine villas de miseria. He pores through primary resources in Portuguese and Spanish, clattering out endless reams of political journalism on the struggle of the dispossessed in Latin American, situating their struggles within the political economy of global imperialism. Petras I’s analysis may be a little theoretically fuzzy, but he gets his hands dirty and deals with facts. Then there’s another Petras. Petras II is slightly off the rails. Still kind of coherent, he deploys Marxist sociological analysis in the pursuit of a highly idiosyncratic series of theses: that an interwoven complex of institutions called the Zionist Power Configuration has taken over the American government, that the ongoing aggression against Iraq emerged not out of Texaco, but out of Tel Aviv, and that the Iranian Green Movement was a bunch of Gucci revolutionaries from the posh neighborhoods of North Tehran. Both are busy, but especially the latter, who has been churning out pamphlets accusing Israel of allying with an American Fifth Column at the rate of one a year for the past half decade. full: http://jacobinmag.com/spring-2011/james-petras-m-i-a/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] HBO documentary on Bobby Fischer
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On a chess-related note, do chess fans here know the specifics of the 1951 world chess championship between Mikhail Botvinnik and David Bronstein. I read somewhere that the govt. of Stalin was putting pressure on Bronstein to loose the match. He was ahead by one point with 2 games to go and lost the 23 rd game. As some might guess by his last name, Bronstein seems to have been a relative of Trotsky... -- Ian J. Seda-Irizarry Department of Economics 818 Thompson Hall University of Massachusetts-Amherst Phone: (413)-687-3889 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] World Wide Socialist Web Site
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi everyone: The reigning godfather of the World Wide Socialist Website, David North, is also the CEO of a large printing company in Michigan.There he uses his real name of David Green. Green and a few freinds in the old Workers League fashioned their business and their politics out of the wreckage of the Workers League and the International Committee of the Fourth International. The Godfather of the ICFI was a feisty little guy named Gerrry Healy. Back in the 1970's Gerry Healy, who you migh call the great grand God Father of the World Wide Socialist Web Site, believed fervently that England was the center of the World Wide Socialist Revolution (which was rapidly approaching), that the key to building a revolutionary party to lead that soon to occur event to victory was a daily newspaper, and that the only person in the world who could be the Later-Day reincarnation of Vladmir Lenin was a short nasty little Irishman named Gerry Healy. Healy also understood that money is the mother's milk of all politics. He made getting money for his project of producing a daily newspaper a personal crusade. Hunting angels in the world of movie stars was one of his specialties. He caught a few, most notably members of the illustrious Redgrave family, and milked a few more using that connection. Then he pursued the Libyan connection, and succeeded in getting a little cash by using his daily newspaper to promote Gaddhaffis green revolution. This was a totally corrupt and cynical move from a man who had poured scorn on the genuine thing when ra real evolution occurred in Cuba. After Healy's British organization, the Socialist Labour League, changed its name to the Workers Revolutionary Party, and the name of their newspaper to the Newsline. The daily paper was a fiasco. The organization went into terminal crisis, and then blew up when Healy's secreataries started revealing his decades of sexual abuse. Amidst the wreckage David North and his freidnds stole the assetss of the Workers League in the USA, which consited of a web offset press and an entire printing shop paid for with money raised from the dues and donations of that organizations mostly poor and working class members, and moved it to detroit where they set up a business for their personal profit. The name of that company is Grand River Printing Inc Company Addresses: 22153 Telegraph Road Southfield, MI Green is CEO and Ann Porster, the former Workers League Treasurer, is CFO. Both were Ivy Leaguers at the time they joined the Healyite movement. The World Wide Socialist Webe and the Socialist Equity Party are simply subsidiaries of Grand River, sort of like going to church for these business executives. What they learned from Healy includded having aprofessional journalistic polish for their.political organs. Anthony The executirve of Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Analysis in Spain [was Reflections on the World Socialist Website]
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == David P A: " I'm afraid I haven't done a very good job of putting this together in a coherent and linear fashion. I hope it's still of some use to people reading it, and if you have any questions I'll try to answer them." Thank you, David, this recollection is indeed helpful to me at least. It puts into better perspective the "read between the lines" analyses of the bourgeois press like the Guardian and reinforces my thought that the 15M movement is indeed an independent movement that is gaining political ground in the current context, especially in Spain. Reading in between the lines of some of the Spanish press, for example, Granada Digital (http://www.granadadigital.com/cuenca-se-ofrece-como-interlocutor-con-los-indignados-de-la-plaza-del-carmen-99496/), it seems the PSOE and I imagine others of the "political class" (interesting term that seems to have real meaning to many in Spain) are trying hard to assimilate this movement and precisely because of its unstructured nature, it appears ripe for it. I am excited to be going to Spain and seeing firsthand for myself. Actions continue to spread and to take advantage of other political events such as the World Environment Day (see http://www.granadadigital.com/el-movimiento-15m-de-granada-convoca-una-concentracion-en-la-alhambra-100756/). I hope I can find a way to post news about them when I am there, but do not want to repeat what others have already reported.best regards and comradely, Manuel Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Analysis in Spain [was Reflections on the World Socialist Website]
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 05/06/2011 18:11, Manuel Barrera wrote: > I am interested if Spanish or other European comrades can provide analyses of > the current struggle in Spain.Here is an article from the > Guardian:http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/28/spain-election-zapatero I will try, though the last time I attempted this I got accused of being sectarian for no discernible reason. The premise of the Guardian is that Rubalcaba is likely to succeed Zapatero in the presidency (as an aside, Spain is a monarchy but for historical reasons the head of government is called a president, you may substitute PM if you want). I find that extremely unlikely. I'll try to give a lot of background. If you're familiar with the last 10 years in Spanish politics there may be little new. In 2008 the PSOE won the general elections, but it doesn't have a sufficient majority in Parliament. It has therefore been operating on the basis of more or less temporary arrangements with other political forces. Fundamentally, Basque and Catalan nationalists, the left, and in some cases the PP. For instance, some of the cuts which PP is now criticising are cuts which they voted in Parliament, and which otherwise would not have passed. At first the crisis didn't seem to hit Spain. The unemployment rate was at a historic low, there was state surplus, etc. However, although the crisis came late, it came very strongly. Since at least 2000 and probably earlier, Spain's model of growth was based on the real estate sector. Part of this came with a relative liberalisation on land use, and part with certain fiscal incentives which made getting a mortgage an economically rational choice. In fact, many families and not few enterprises saw real estate as a speculative investment vehicle, rather than a way to satisfy actual needs. This process came accompanied with an overwhelming amount of corruption in Spain's municipalities, which are the entities that control land use, and which have historically been underfunded. Mayors reached deals to allow land to be developed well beyond the reasonable needs, for the sake of the taxation to be derived from the development, or, all too often, as a means to obtaining bribes (comisiones). As a result of a lot of corruption having been unearthed, as well as the cuts which the government has been engaging in (including a 5% cut on the wages of civil servants) people are largely disappointed and depoliticised. Phrases like "they are all the same", "they're all thieves", etc, are common, and perhaps with a measure of justice. However, it seems that such scandals cause more harm to the PSOE and the left than to the PP, and often PP governments obtain majorities in areas where their representatives have been accused and sometimes sentenced for corruption. The difference in polls between PP and PSOE is at least 10 percentage points. While, if the municipal elections which took place the 22nd of May had been general elections, the PP would not have obtained a sufficient majority to govern alone, it is quite likely that in the coming general elections on 2012 the voting patterns will afford them a comfortable parliamentary majority. Zapatero has already stated he will not run for the upcoming elections, at least as a candidate to the presidency. Rubalcaba was chosen by the Federal Committee, although there had been a promise that primary elections would take place within the PSOE. While this promise hasn't been violated in its form (there will be primaries) the substance is very different: after the central organ of the party has decided in favour of one candidate, it is unlikely that other serious candidates will arise and will obtain support. In fact, the current minister of defence, Chacón, was going to run for that position, but decided to withdraw her candidacy. Rubalcaba is very hated by some sectors in the right for reasons I am not clear on. At the same time, a good amount of the right and its sympathisers support his hardline stance regarding ETA and the Basque conflict, and his tenure at the Ministry of the Interior, during which ETA has been significantly weakened, to the point that Basque nationalist currents are now presenting a political project which explicitly repudiates armed struggle. It's likely that Rubalcaba can somewhat disassociate himself from Zapatero's failure, but it's unlikely that such a disasociation could be complete enough as to afford PSOE another victory in 2012. While the vast majority of Spaniards reject typical rightwing positions (labour reform, pension reform, wage deflation, etc) it's no less true that the PSOE has itself been carrying such policies through, so there's little to choose from between PSOE and PP. I am convinced that PP would have taken, and will indee
Re: [Marxism] Reflections on the World Socialist Web Site
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > The opportunity for the left is that publishing is no longer an expensive > proposition, particularly with skilled volunteer labour, and the Marxists > Internet Archive shows what can be done in that department. Agree that this is an opportunity, but two concerns: 1. The digital divide: how do you build a mass working-class readership when access to the Internet remain unequal along class lines? This is one advantage of the old-timey newspaper: it's still a handy way of getting information to people without a computer. Maybe there would need to be short runs of a print version to be strategically distributed in digitally underserved areas. 2. In terms of the online "content," as they say, it would have to be more than text--produce videos and photo essays too. It seems like viral videos and such are shaping up to be the pamphlets of our day. Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Costa Rica notes, part 2
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == One of the reasons I was anxious to see Costa Rica with my own eyes is that the country was hailed throughout the 1980s as an alternative to Sandinista Nicaragua. Liberals and social democrats always held up Costa Rica as being within Nicaragua’s grasp rather than the socialist model embraced by the FSLN leaders. There was something seductive about this argument given the two countries’ obvious similarities. Both had an abundance of volcanoes that erupted periodically, spilling natural fertilizers into the soil. Both were endowed by natural beauty, an asset that clearly could have benefited the tourist industry. One imagines that this model might have been in the back of the FSLN leaders’ minds despite their lip service to Cuba. With their go-slow attitude toward agribusiness, some Marxists often accused them of being sell-outs. Perhaps they always considered development along Costa Rican lines as a contingency. Unfortunately, the animosity of Washington condemned them to follow a path much more like Haiti’s. Costa Rica enjoys the reputation of being the Switzerland of Central America, a nation that is democratic, egalitarian and pacifist. In other words, it is the polar opposite of Nicaragua, as well as every other country there. Why? While this image promoted heavily by Costa Rican bourgeois historians doesn’t take into account the brutal commonalities that exist between banana republic Costa Rica and banana republic Honduras, there is still some truth to it. full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/costa-rica-notes-part-2/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Analysis in Spain [was Reflections on the World Socialist Website]
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I am interested if Spanish or other European comrades can provide analyses of the current struggle in Spain.Here is an article from the Guardian:http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/28/spain-election-zapatero The growing gulf between Spain's PSOE government and its population is not likely to close after Zapatero steps down as prime minister, as is expected to take place shortly. His now very likely successor is the government's "strongman" – seen by some as the most able to push through unpopular austerity. Manuel > Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 23:18:03 +1000 > From: ozl...@optusnet.com.au > Subject: Re: [Marxism] Reflections on the World Socialist Website > To: mtom...@hotmail.com > > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > Anyone interested in the broader crisis in print publishing, which we're > in the midst of at the moment, might like to have a look at the > Australian Media Alliance's report: Life in the clickstream: The future > of journalism. http://www.thefutureofjournalism.org.au/ > > It points out, for example, that 166 US newspapers had closed down or > stopped publishing a print edition between 2008 and late last year, with > the loss of 35,000 jobs. > > To some, this may be hackneyed generalities, but to myself and my > workmates in the media industry, it's far more serious. > > Ed Lewis > > > > > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/mtomas3%40hotmail.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Keynes help!
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Someone on an anthropology listserve just asked the question below. Can anyone help? Thank You, Brian McKenna Dear Folks, This has nothing to do with the environment, or even much to do with anthropology. However, you are a fairly diverse set of people and I hope that one of you might be able to help. I think that John Maynard Keynes once said something like: do not expect a bank clerk to know how the banking system works. I have driven myself nearly blind on web searches for this, to no effect. Do any of you recognise what I ascribe to Keynes? If not, do any of you know where I might go for help? Any advice would be appreciated. And I apologise for the non-environmental-anthropological intrusion. Yours, James Carrier -Original Message- From: Louis Proyect To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition ; Progressive Economics Sent: Sun, Jun 5, 2011 8:45 am Subject: [Pen-l] A warming planet struggles to feed itself http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/science/earth/05harvest.html __ en-l mailing list e...@lists.csuchico.edu ttps://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Kurdish culture and the Turkish response
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/arts/turkeys-kurds-slowly-build-cultural-autonomy.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Reflections on the World Socialist Website
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Anyone interested in the broader crisis in print publishing, which we're in the midst of at the moment, might like to have a look at the Australian Media Alliance's report: Life in the clickstream: The future of journalism. http://www.thefutureofjournalism.org.au/ It points out, for example, that 166 US newspapers had closed down or stopped publishing a print edition between 2008 and late last year, with the loss of 35,000 jobs. To some, this may be hackneyed generalities, but to myself and my workmates in the media industry, it's far more serious. Ed Lewis Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] A warming planet struggles to feed itself
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/science/earth/05harvest.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] HBO documentary on Bobby Fischer
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This airs tomorrow night at 9pm. http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/bobby-fischer-against-the-world/index.html I will be watching it as part of a Swans article on Bobby Fischer. Yesterday I watched "Searching for Bobby Fischer" on Netflix, a fictional film based on the book written by Fred Waitzkin about his prodigy son Josh. The book is far better than the film but I can recommend the film by itself. Interesting factoid about Fischer. His mother was a medical aid volunteer in Sandinista Nicaragua. More to come. Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Essential readings on Iran
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Essential Readings: Iran 1 Jun 04 2011 by Raha Iranian Feminist Collective In recent years, there has been a deluge of popular English-language writings by Iranians in exile, as well as hand-wringing public policy books by U.S.-based think tank pundits, all insisting on the same basic message: Iran represents a geo-political problem of unparalleled importance. While the stated goal of these books and organizations is to educate the English-reading global public about Iran, very often the message comes laced with support for militarily enforced regime change and full-scale neo-liberalization. Case in point: the mission statement of the Iran Democracy Project, a well-established California-based think tank, claims that its “central goal is to help the West understand the complexities of the Muslim world, and to map out possible trajectories for transitions to democracy and free markets in the Middle East, beginning with Iran.” From problematic bestsellers to superficial fare treating Iranian politics as an impossible paradox needing U.S. expertise to be solved, what so much of this literature lacks is a historical understanding of Iranian political modernity and social movements. Without this understanding, the daily news coming out of Iran, not to mention U.S. and European state responses to that news, seems inscrutable at best and terrifying at worst. Thirty years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution catapulted Iranian affairs to the forefront of global politics, the world witnessed an explosion of popular domestic opposition to the apparent electoral fraud of the Ahmadinejad regime and his clerical backers in 2009. Despite some mainstream coverage of these unprecedented events, not enough context was provided by a global media quick to denounce the regime’s violence but less eager (or able) to give credit to the ongoing peoples’ movements — most importantly women’s, students’, and labor organizations — that provided the strategic and moral backbone of these (as well as earlier) anti-regime protests. Frighteningly, the Iranian citizenry’s outpouring of deserved frustration and anger was painted by many in the U.S. government as a valid excuse to import the same kind of “democracy” that had been militarily delivered to the Iraqi and Afghan people. To add to the confusion, some factions of the U.S.- and Europe-based left rushed to support the Iranian state against the protesters’ accusations of systematic violence, brutal repression, and economic malfeasance, ostensibly because of the regime’s illusory anti-imperialist credentials. (For Raha’s response to this messy discourse see our recent statement.) Despite the above, the situation is not so grim. We in Raha know that — much like in neighboring countries experiencing the Arab Spring — people’s aspirations and movements in Iran flourish despite both domestic and international pressure. Below we have put together a list of historical texts, artistic works, and links to political statements and videos that offer a richer and more nuanced understanding of Iran and Iranians. full: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/1756/essential-readings_iran Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
