[Marxism] Left (Lib) vs. White House over mortgage deal

2011-09-25 Thread Greg McDonald
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64344.html


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[Marxism] HRW official in Tripoli: It really is racist violence against all dark skinned people,

2011-09-25 Thread Fred Feldman

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.http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/in-libya-the-peril-of-being-black/2011/09/09/gIQAY2FoFK_print.html

In Libya, the peril of being black

By Leila Fadel, Published: September 10

TRIPOLI, Libya --- Vivienne looked out through the bars of the Tripoli 
jail cell where rebel authorities had held her for five days. She is one 
of a group of 90 Nigerian migrants who were rounded up during the 
climactic battle here last month against Moammar Gaddafi's troops, 
accused of possessing weapons and killing Libyans.

Vivienne said her only crime is her black skin.

They think because we are black, we are fighting for Gaddafi, she said 
this week, afraid to give her last name. We were hiding. We were 
afraid. There were gunshots and bombs. Around her, other women --- 
hairdressers, housekeepers, one pregnant --- told the same story.
Since the uprising against Gaddafi's 42-year-long rule began in 
February, many dark-skinned Libyans and sub-Saharan Africans here have 
feared for their lives. They have been targeted for arrests and 
killings, they say, because of perceptions that they colluded with the 
autocratic leader, who is accused of using foreign African mercenaries 
to mow down his opponents and counted black Libyans among his staunchest 
supporters.


More than 1.5 million sub-Saharan Africans are thought to work in Libya, 
a country of 6.5 million, according to Refugees International, most of 
them as day laborers in low-paid jobs. The International Organization 
for Migration said that it has evacuated about 1,400 migrants from the 
capital and that about 800 others have taken refuge in the fishing port 
of Janzour, just west of the city.


Driven from home
At a makeshift camp in the port, the migrants sleep under decrepit boats 
hung with blankets and cook in tin pots over fires. Some said they were 
forced out of their homes at gunpoint. Others said they ran when they 
lost family members or heard of friends being killed. With no money, 
they say, they don't want to go home but feel that they cannot stay in 
Libya.


Peter Bouckaert, the emergencies director for Human Rights Watch, said 
there was violence throughout the uprising against black Libyans and 
sub-Saharan Africans in the capital, adding that his group had confirmed 
Gaddafi's use of foreign mercenaries there. The persecution, he added, 
was still going on.


It really is racist violence against all dark-skinned people, 
Bouckaert said. This situation for Africans in Tripoli is dire.


Dealing with racism that came to a head during the uprising is among the 
biggest challenges facing Libya's new rebel authority as it seeks to 
replace Gaddafi's repressive rule with a transparent and accountable 
democracy.


The rebels' Transitional National Council has called for restraint and 
an end to revenge attacks, but as it struggles to gain control of the 
country, it has done little to curb racial persecution.
On Friday night, troops loyal to the new Libyan authority launched 
military offensives against two of Gaddafi's final bastions of support, 
according to fighters whose relatives were participating in the assault. 
Fighting broke out outside Sirte, 300 miles east of Tripoli, and 
fighters entered the town of Bani Walid, 96 miles southeast of the 
capital, where three of Gaddafi's sons are believed to be holed up. The 
offensives came a day earlier than the rebel-imposed deadline for the 
towns to surrender or fight.


In Janzour, meanwhile, migrant families sleep on bug-infested 
mattresses. Before aid groups began providing fresh water and medical 
support this week, they drank and bathed in salt water from the sea. The 
women go in fear of rape.


They need to be moved somewhere where they are safe, said Niklas 
Bergstrans, the communications officer for Doctors Without Borders in 
Tripoli. It's disappointing. We haven't seen any concrete actions from 
the Transitional National Council and other international organizations.


On Friday, Edobar Igwe, 27, sat in the shade of a fishing boat. He has 
been sleeping in the Janzour camp for a month after fleeing Misurata, 
131 miles east of Tripoli, when armed men came to his home and killed 
his girlfriend, he said.


Misurata residents are particularly vengeful toward black Libyans and 
African migrants because of Gaddafi's use of the predominantly black 
neighboring town of Tawargha as a base during the long battle for their 
city this spring. Many of their women, they say, were raped by Tawargha 
residents and pro-Gaddafi forces. Now Tawargha is abandoned, and if the 
residents return, they will likely be beaten or killed, Misuratans say.


Igwe fled to the capital and hid until he heard that Janzour was a safe 
place for blacks. A mason, he came to Libya from Nigeria 

[Marxism] 707 page book about Karl Marx's personal life

2011-09-25 Thread Louis Proyect

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NY Times September 23, 2011
At Home With Karl Marx
By SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE

LOVE AND CAPITAL
Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
By Mary Gabriel
Illustrated. 707 pp. Little, Brown  Company. $35.

“I first encountered the Marx family story in the back of a London 
magazine,” Mary Gabriel writes in the opening line of her intimate 
account of Karl Marx and his family. It is not a reassuring start for 
the reader, particularly when the publisher promises a book that 
uncovers “the unyielding love that bound together a man and woman in the 
midst of history’s whirlwind.” Gabriel should try to have whoever came 
up with that one fired.


The history of Marx the man, father, husband and journalist is dramatic 
enough to require no overwriting, and indeed “Love and Capital” is a 
huge, often gripping book. It gives an entertaining and balanced 
portrait of Marx, Engels, their colorful milieu of exiles, freaks and 
revolutionaries, and the little-known Marx family, dominated by Karl’s 
political obsession. It also details illicit love affairs, the deaths of 
children and financial struggles, all based on vast research and 
narrated with empathetic passion. At the same time, it is too long by 
200 pages and often undermined by flagrantly purple throbbings, minor 
mistakes and portentous overegging.


In the prologue we learn that London “signaled like a beacon in the 
black and roiling North Sea waters”; for us English pedants, the city 
stands on the Thames. One sentence ploddingly reads: “In rooms 
throughout England, men of vision were similarly hard at work.” Marx is 
described as “a man-child,” whose mind is “as hard and brilliant as a 
diamond.” Emperor Napoleon III, a shrewd politician whose career may 
have ended in disaster but who managed to dominate France and to some 
extent Europe for 20 years, is said by Gabriel to have had “the placid 
face of a dimwit.”


Gabriel, the author of a biography of Victoria Woodhull, argues that 
Marx’s private life is especially relevant now, because in 2008 “as I 
moved from research to writing, belief in the infallibility” of 
capitalism “began to waver,” making Marx’s analysis seem “more prescient 
and compelling.” But this is surely an argument for a new work on 
Marxism, not on his private life. No one should disagree with Plutarch’s 
view that personality matters in history, but Gabriel writes in her 
introduction that without the women in Marx’s life, “there would have 
been no Karl Marx, and without Karl Marx the world would not be as we 
know it.” Is that really true? Did the Dickensian facts of Marx’s family 
life, no matter how delicious, change the world?


In fact, “Love and Capital” is enjoyable not so much because of any 
brisk analysis of Marxist theory that it provides or its endless catalog 
of political feuding, but because of the details of family life and 
family politics that Gabriel offers up — her vivid portrait of a 
struggling, obsessional bohemian intellectual in the capitals of 
mid-19th-century Europe.


Gabriel’s heroine is certainly Marx’s wife, a beautiful aristocrat. As 
the author puts it: “Jenny von Westphalen was the most desirable young 
woman in Trier,” so well connected that her brother later became 
Prussian interior minister even while Marx was planning the downfall of 
the reactionary kingdoms of Europe.


Jenny remains her own person as she copes with the mountainous 
selfishness and self-regard of her husband. When they have sex before 
they actually marry, she writes to him: “I can feel no regret. When I 
shut my eyes very tightly, I can see your blessed smiling eyes. . . . Oh 
Karl . . . I am happy and overjoyed. . . . Each happy hour I lived 
through again.” Marx may have been brooding, wild, intolerant and 
implacable in his political feuds, treating enemies with contempt, but 
as Gabriel describes him, he also loved dancing, luxury and gossip, and 
was attractive to women and men alike. Even when he was immersed in the 
interminable arcane economics of Marxism, he managed to maintain a 
quality of wisdom and modernity: he wisely commented that “children must 
bring up their parents,” and he valued Christianity — that opium of the 
people — because it taught adults to love children.


Jenny always supported him: “Do not suppose that I am bowed down by 
these petty sufferings. . . . I am among the happiest and most favored 
few in that my beloved husband, the mainstay of my life, is still at my 
side.” And so we follow the couple from Cologne to Paris to Brussels, 
back and forth until they find their final home in the attics of London 
and then immortal rest in Highgate Cemetery.


The marriage may have been happy and passionate, but it was cursed by 
the tragedies of infant mortality, financial 

[Marxism] HRW official in Tripoli: It really is racist violence against all dark skinned people,

2011-09-25 Thread DW
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My comrades in the Fourth International in Algeria confirm the same thing.
There are now 10s of thousands of Black workers, perhaps the largest
component of the Libyan working class are now in refugee camps in Algeria.
Algeria has refused to recognize the NATO imposed NTC government in Libya.
Algeria for some time has become a 'target' of the latest round of
intervention.

David

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[Marxism] Solution to today's NYT acrostic puzzle

2011-09-25 Thread Louis Proyect

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Archimedes was the quintessential math nerd. Plutarch tells how his 
servants had to forcibly bathe their preoccupied master who would sketch 
geometrical figures in the oils that anointed his naked body after bath 
time.


Ouellette, Calculus Diaries


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[Marxism] John Halle report on Wall Street protests

2011-09-25 Thread Louis Proyect

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Hi Everyone,


The following is a report from the Wall Street Occupation protest march 
which I am now on the train returning home from.


When I arrived at Zuccotti Park at approximately 12:15,  the march which 
was just getting under way initially appeared to be small, marginal and 
unimportant.  By describing it in this way, I do not mean to denigrate 
it. After all, I have spent a good part of my life attending small, 
marginal, and almost certainly unimportant events-namely concerts by 
obscure ensembles performing obscure new music, whatever that means 
these days.  Of course, in these days of internet connectedness, events 
which attract only a few local participants can attract a national, or 
even world-wide audience of thousands.  A concert in New York of the 
music of Lamonte Young or Milton Babbitt will almost certainly seem, and 
almost certainly is marginal, by any reasonable definition of the term. 
 But invariably, scattered around the world there are a few pockets of 
admirers who will amplify the event into something which is, at least, 
in their minds of great importance.  The same goes with 
#occupywallstreet.  Numerous tweets, blog postings, comments to blogs, 
reports of solidarity marches, busses arriving from Madison, St. Louis, 
etc. gave the impression that this event had the potential to attract 
large or at least respectable numbers.


The fact is that it did not.   The original group, and I made several 
efforts to check this, was almost certainly less than 1000, which is to 
say that it filled about a half the length of a New York  city block. 
Those who were at the Feb 15, 2003 demonstration will remember that the 
throng extended the entire length of 5th Avenue from 42 St. to 96th, 
across to and back down again on Second across to the United Nations and 
then back up again to 96th.  That makes for something like 120 blocks or 
more crammed full with people-a crowd estimated at a million. This was 
almost certainly a factor of 500 smaller-an indication of where this 
movement needs to go to get the attention of Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie 
Dimon, and the other felons who are now our de facto rulers. More on 
that later.


When I describe the march as marginal, those familiar with protests of 
this general sort will know what I mean.  Doug Henwood's report 
(http://lbo-news.com/2011/09/23/visiting-the-occupiers-of-wall-street/) 
of his visit to Zuccatti Park (a.k.a. Liberty Plaza) nicely captured a 
static version of the basic outlines of the scene pretty well: a throng 
of college or post college radicals, whatever that means these days (not 
much, in my experience), with a few moth eaten contingents from the 
various Marxist sects still carrying the flag based on some more or less 
idiosyncratic passage in the Grundrisse, a few obvious psychotics best 
avoided, a few artsy lower east side types, though by now surely 
displaced to the outer boroughs. Of course, there were lots more: a few 
vaguely neurotic looking, aging academics like myself, a disarmingly 
pretty Asian girl with purple hair and her boyfriend, a few hip-hop 
enthuiasts, likely attracted by rapper Lupe Fiasco who had endorsed the 
march.  In any case, this is what we had to work with.  And as Donald 
Rumsfeld famously remarked, you protest with the marchers you have, not 
those you wish you had.  And so I joined in somewhat skeptically though 
I was to become less so for several reasons which I'll describe in the 
following, along with some interspersed commentary and reflections.


First, as the march got close to its ultimate destination of Union 
Square, it seemed to pick up steam, its numbers increasing, the chants, 
while still mostly pedestrian, becoming more coherent and less obvious 
recyclings of decades old slogans which have become by now almost 
irrelevant.  Most significantly, as the march progressed it would be 
infused with a lot more passion and legitimate anger.  On this latter 
point, it needs to be observed that a double digit unemployment rate 
means that being college student or a recent grad is likely to be 
suffused with something in between misery, dread and stark terror of the 
future which likely awaits. And while this has becoming increasingly 
apparent to me among the students I teach, it was still more visible in 
the faces of more than a few of the protestors.  This is not just the 
long term future of carbon induced planetary apocalypse which they will 
live to see-and which I, thankfully, will not.  It is the immediate and 
midterm future of  un- or at best underemployment at wages and working 
conditions reflecting the tight, employer-centric labor market.  That 
means eking out an living through dead end internships, temporary office 
work will become the norm for 

Re: [Marxism] Breaking-Light-Speed l?

2011-09-25 Thread Jeff
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At 08:56 24/09/11 -0700, DW wrote:

Speaking of Russians, when the USSR was still a going concern, they used to
organize the most quirky conferences..

A *large* section of the Soviet academy *rejected* some of Einsteinium
physics. They would have conferences organized with papers *against* E=MC2.

You have really hurled an insult at the USSR, but perhaps it was well
deserved. A conference whose participants actually disagreed with the
special theory of relativity would have the same respect among the physics
community as a conference of the flat earth society. What's more, if you
were to have attended such a conference during the USSR, I suspect you
would have found yourself among a large number of conspiracy theorists and
Jew-haters!

First let me state that I applaud intellectual freedom and the RIGHT to
hold such conferences in the SU (too bad they didn't extend that right to
fringe political positions!). I classify it under freedom of religion,
a freedom I strongly support. Freedom of religion is a special case of the
right to be stupid, a right I also strongly support but hate to see
exercised! 

The special theory of relativity (a consequence of which is the
impossibility of matter or signals travelling faster than the speed of
light) is perhaps the most tested theory in physics (especially if you
include all the unrelated predictions which at some point relied on
relativity in their derivation). Opposition to it is absolutely without any
reasonable basis and has existed largely due to anti-semitism, given that
Einstein (who's Jewish) became very well known in 1918 and during the
subsequent two decades during which quantum mechanics matured. Many Nazi
scientists rejected the special theory of relativity (but of course this
didn't prevent them from trying to develop an atom bomb which they knew
would have released an amount of energy given by E=mc^2). The fact that
there has been antisemitism among officials and scientists in the Soviet
Union is an unfortunate fact that probably contributed to the attendance of
any such conference.

But I repeat that special relativity is about as certain as the earth being
round rather than flat. The round earth is easily accepted by lay-persons
because it is easily visualized, as with a globe of the earth. The
space-time fabric that special relativity describes has never been
visualized by anyone, as it describes a four-dimensional space, but more
importantly because it is a non-Euclidian space which is unlike our
experience and which is only concisely described using equations, not
pictures. Tom's question that if something is moving 99% the speed of
light why can't you just push it a little faster? are extremely normal
reactions to special relativity and such paradoxical thought experiments
often stump expert physicists before they have a chance to think it through.

Physicists who witness experiments (such as this neutrino experiment) which
appear to contradict special relativity, are interested in resolving the
paradoxes posed by such results, but do not join the media commentators who
have written that this places a question mark over the theory itself. By
way of example, here is an otherwise GOOD scientific experiment which in
1838 determined that the earth isn't round:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_Level_experiment

Many geologists rejected the idea of fossil-fuel being from, well, fossils
and think the whole thing is bogus and oil originates in mantel and lower
levels of the Earths crust. 

I have no expertise in geology so I won't comment on such theories, except
to state that they are PROBABLY wrong (but I wouldn't stake my life on it,
as I would with special relativity). In particular, they probably were
motivated by the economic value of Russia's large gas and oil reserves in
opposition to moving away from fossil fuels (whoops, I mean underground
hydrocarbons) back when people used to worry about peak oil. Nowadays
the concern with global warming makes the point largely moot.

And, dozens of other what we in the West cal
junk science. Some of this stuff is carried over to this day in modern,
post-Soviet Russia.

Mysticism and anti-semitism? Yes, I am afraid so.

- Jeff





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[Marxism] The American ‘allergy’ to global warming: Why?

2011-09-25 Thread Louis Proyect

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http://posttrib.suntimes.com/news/7806599-418/the-american-allergy-to-global-warming-why.html

This was just one of at least a dozen articles that Jeff St. Clair 
linked to on FB in the past month or so. Interesting that he is so at 
odds with Cockburn on a question that receives so little attention on 
Counterpunch. I guess some CP editors are more equal than others.



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Re: [Marxism] 707 page book about Karl Marx's personal life

2011-09-25 Thread Einde O'Callaghan

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On 25.09.2011 16:58, Louis Proyect wrote:

snip


LOVE AND CAPITAL
Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
By Mary Gabriel
Illustrated. 707 pp. Little, Brown  Company. $35.


snip


The history of Marx the man, father, husband and journalist is dramatic
enough to require no overwriting, and indeed “Love and Capital” is a
huge, often gripping book. It gives an entertaining and balanced
portrait of Marx, Engels, their colorful milieu of exiles, freaks and
revolutionaries, and the little-known Marx family, dominated by Karl’s
political obsession. It also details illicit love affairs, the deaths of
children and financial struggles, all based on vast research and
narrated with empathetic passion.


I'm not certain how much of the stuff reported in the various reviews is 
actually new. It seems to cover much the same ground as Francis Wheen's 
very readable biography of Marx - although perhaps with a different 
focus. And there's also Yvonne Kapp's two volume biography of Eleanor 
Marx, which covers some of the same ground.


And the story of Marx's fling with Lenchen and the birth of Freddy 
Demuth is rather ancient news!


Einde O'Callaghan


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Re: [Marxism] 707 page book about Karl Marx's personal life

2011-09-25 Thread Louis Proyect

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On 9/25/11 1:51 PM, Einde O'Callaghan wrote:


I'm not certain how much of the stuff reported in the various reviews is
actually new. It seems to cover much the same ground as Francis Wheen's
very readable biography of Marx - although perhaps with a different
focus. And there's also Yvonne Kapp's two volume biography of Eleanor
Marx, which covers some of the same ground.

And the story of Marx's fling with Lenchen and the birth of Freddy
Demuth is rather ancient news!


I am sure that Wheen's gossipy bio got big play in the NYT as well. What 
won't get reviewed is a David Harvey book.



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[Marxism] Mass grave of Libyan prisoners from 1996 found

2011-09-25 Thread Tristan Sloughter
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http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/09/20119251823889148.html

Mass grave of Libyan prisoners found

Remains of 1,700 inmates slain in Abu Salim jail during Gaddafi's rule
unearthed amid continuing battles over Sirte.

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Re: [Marxism] Mass grave of Libyan prisoners from 1996 found

2011-09-25 Thread Louis Proyect

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On 9/25/11 4:13 PM, Tristan Sloughter wrote:


http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/09/20119251823889148.html

Mass grave of Libyan prisoners found

Remains of 1,700 inmates slain in Abu Salim jail during Gaddafi's rule
unearthed amid continuing battles over Sirte.


To put that into perspective, the USA has 50 times as many people as 
Libya so that the proportional number of deaths here would be 85,000. 
Those men were killed over a few hours apparently. What an insane 
bloodlust. The admiration that some leftists have for Qaddafi is simply 
beyond me.



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Re: [Marxism] Breaking-Light-Speed l?

2011-09-25 Thread Tristan Sloughter
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http://neutrinoscience.blogspot.com/2011/09/arriving-fashionable-late-for-party.html

Supernova 1987a was a distance of 166,912 ± 10.1 light years [2] from Earth
when it died. Taking these values we can calculate that the time difference
between the neutrinos arriving at the neutrino observatories and the
telescopes seeing SN1987a would be

*2.48 x 10-5 x 166912 = 4.14 years*

Combining the errors on the SN1987a distance, systematic and statistical
errors of the Opera result we get a value of

*4.14 ± 0.97 years*

There is no evidence to support that this is the case - as I mentioned the
neutrinos were seen just 3 hours before SN1987a was seen by optical
telescopes. In this case the neutrinos did not arrive early for the party it
was the light that was fashionably late!

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Re: [Marxism] Breaking-Light-Speed l?

2011-09-25 Thread Shane Mage

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On Sep 25, 2011, at 5:58 PM, Tristan Sloughter wrote:


http://neutrinoscience.blogspot.com/2011/09/arriving-fashionable-late-for-party.html

Supernova 1987a was a distance of 166,912 ± 10.1 light years [2]  
from Earth

when it died...


A completely specious number based only on the fantasy dogma that  
redshift indicates distance.  The actual distance is totally unknown  
and could be much, much less.


...the neutrinos were seen just 3 hours before SN1987a was seen by  
optical
telescopes. In this case the neutrinos did not arrive early for the  
party it

was the light that was fashionably late!


So we learn that the neutrinos did the impossible--they arrived  
sooner and so travelled faster than the light did!
*If* (a gigantic if) this is true, and the experimental values are  
confirmed, the Supernova would have been quite close to us. It would  
be interesting indeed to see the contortions the Astronomical Faithful  
would be going through to save their General Relativity-based Big  
Bang cosmology.



Shane Mage

scientific discovery is basically recognition of obvious realities
that self-interest or ideology have kept everybody from paying  
attention to



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Re: [Marxism] Mass grave of Libyan prisoners from 1996 found

2011-09-25 Thread Gary MacLennan
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Tristan reported: Remains of 1,700 inmates slain in Abu Salim jail during
Gaddafi's ruleunearthed amid continuing battles over Sirte.

Lou commented: To put that into perspective, the USA has 50 times as many
people as Libya so that the proportional number of deaths here would be
85,000. Those men were killed over a few hours apparently. What an insane
bloodlust. The admiration that some leftists have for Qaddafi is simply
beyond me.

Myself: Lou, I echo these sentiments. The dead are indeed many. I wonder if
Comrade Luko would care to respond.

comradely

Gary
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[Marxism] Occupy Wall Street

2011-09-25 Thread Gary MacLennan
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I have just watched the Chris Hedges interview: very good.  He strikes a
moral tone and I continue to think that is the correct political way to go
in these times, despite occasional growls from Scientific Marxism types.

All my admiration and best wishes go out to the brave young people who are
protesting in the face of public indifference and state
thuggery. theirs is the future or there will be none.

comradely

Gary

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[Marxism] China Left Review, issue No.4: Historical Legacies, Global Financial Crisis, and China’s Working Class Movement

2011-09-25 Thread Saul Thomas
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Issue #4 / 第四期

*2011年夏季*
*Summer 2011*

*历史遗产、全球金融危机与中国工人阶级运动*

*/Historical Legacies, Global Financial Crisis, and China’s Working
Class Movement/*

Edited by Stephen Philion and The Chinese Workers Editorial Collective /
编辑: 方迪、中国工人研究网

* English Introduction http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=464
* 中文前言 http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=502

*历史背景和中国工人总体状况 / Historical Background and Chinese Workers’
Overall Conditions*

* 中国工人研究全体编辑: 工人阶级的现状和未来
  http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=505
* Research on Chinese Workers Editorial Collective: The Chinese
  Working Class Present Conditions and Future
  http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=471

* 韩西雅: 工人阶级、工会、党、行政:建国初有关工会问题的两次争论
  http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=508
* HAN Xiya: The Working Class, Union, Party, and Administration: Two
  Key Debates on the Role of the Union in the Early Years of the
  People’s Republic http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=467

* 韩西雅: 工人阶级管理企业、管理上层建筑的实践
  http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=644
* HAN Xiya: Chinese Working Class Management of Enterprises and
  Superstructure http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=648

* 张耀祖: 新中国60年工人阶级的演变和发展
  http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=514
* ZHANG Yaozu: Notes on The Transformation and Development of the
  Chinese Working Class During the Past 60 Years
  http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=474

* Joel ANDREAS: Expropriation of Workers and Capitalist
  Transformation in China http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=477
* 乔尔.安舟: 中国资本主义改革与剥夺工人
  http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=517

*中国国企工人面在改制和全球金融危机中的斗争 / Struggles by China’s
Traditional Working Class in Response to SOE Restructuring and Global
Financial Crisis*

* 燎原: 辽阳铁合金厂的改制过程和工人的反腐维权斗争
  http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=519
* LIAO Yuan: The Restructuring Process at the Liaoyang Fero-alloy
  Factory and Workers’ Anti-Corruption Struggles
  http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=480

* 裴海德: 从两个案例看城市传统工人 http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=523
* PEI Haide: What Two Case Studies Tell Us about the Situation of
  State Owned Enterprise Workers Today
  http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=483

* Stephen PHILION: By What Right do Chinese State Enterprise Workers
  Fight for Rights? http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=486
* 方迪: 中国国企工人通过什么权利斗争
  http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=525

*中国新工人阶级的形成 / The Formation of China’s New Working Class*

* 沈梅: 金融风暴以来珠三角工人处境及劳资矛盾走向
  http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=528
* SHEN Mei: The Plight of Pearl River Delta Region Workers and Labor
  Conflicts: Trends since the Onset of the Financial Crisis
  http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=488

* 水木: 深圳打工者现状――对一位维权志愿者的访谈
  http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=532
* SHUI Mu: The Conditions of Migrant Workers in Shenzhen: A
  Discussion with a Rural Migrant Workers’ Rights Activist
  http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=492

* 潘毅,任焰: 未完成的无产阶级化――当代中国第二代农民工的身份认知、情
  感与集体行动 http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=534
* PUN Ngai and REN Yan: The Implications of /Nongmingong /(Peasant
  Worker, Migrant Worker): An Incomplete Proletarianization
  http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=498

* 陈敬慈: 中国的阶级斗争:珠三角新工人罢工案例研究
  http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=537
* Chris CHAN: Class Struggle in China: Case Studies of Migrant
  Worker Strikes in the Pearl River Delta
  http://chinaleftreview.org/?p=495


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