[Marxism] Saturday's Socialist speak out

[En Passant with John Passant]

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The massacre in South Africa of 48 mine workers shows that it just not enough 
to get rid of apartheid; South African workers need to overthrow economic 
apartheid and can only do that by overthrowing capitalism.

In Australia Julia Gillard has held hands with Tony Abbott and introduced a 
Pacific 'solution' which will deport asylum seekers to Nauru or Manus Island 
with indefinite detention there on the agenda.

At the same time in other wins for basic human rights, the UK Government is 
prepared to break international law to arrest Julian Assange ad send him to 
Sweden for questioning. As today's Fairfax press makes clear the US is gunning 
for him and he will be extradited to the US for trial on crimes that carry the 
death penalty. Until the US gives a guarantee that is not the case, Assange is 
right to resist going to Sweden to answer questions, and to call on Swedish 
authorities to interview him in London.

This is the same British government which did not extradite mass murderer 
Augusto Pinochet to Spain for trial on crimes against humanity.

In Russia 3 members of female punk bad Pussy Riot have been sentenced to 3 
years in jail for the 'crime' of playing for one minute in a church.

The revolt against Assad continues and he has not yet been able to win back 
control of Aleppo. Victory to the revolutionaries.

The campaign for refugees and against Gillard's vile Pacific 'Solution' kicks 
off next Saturday 25 August in Canberra at 12.30 in Garema Place.  Join the 
demonstration.

Protest against the new Pacific 'solution'

12:30 Saturday 25 August

Garema Place, Civic

The Australian government has voted to treat refugees who try to come here by 
boat in the most vicious way ever. Julia Gillard's and Tony Abbott's scheme 
condemns people seeking asylum to indefinite detention and mental torture in 
hell-holes on Manus and Nauru Islands. The real, simpler, cheaper way to 
prevent people drowning during dangerous voyages is to bring them to Australia 
on navy ships or, better, by air.

Support the refugees 

 Come to the rally


12:30 Saturday 25 August Garema Place, Civic

http://enpassant.com.au/2012/08/18/saturdays-socialist-speak-out-54/

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[Marxism] Ecuador defies British threats, strikes a blow for dignity

[Stuart Munckton]

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The government of Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa gave Julia Gillard's
Australian government a lesson in dignity on August 16 when, in face of
threats by Britain to raid its London embassy, it granted WikiLeaks asylum
to editor-in-chief Julian Assange.

Ironically, Ecuador's decision to grant asylum to the Australian citizen
who founded the whistleblowing website came on the same day the Australian
Senate voted to further punish those seeking asylum in this country.

Adding to the dark irony, WikiLeaks has exposed war crimes committed by the
United States in countries such as Afghanistan — from where many of those
who seek asylum in Australia have fled.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51918

-- 
“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

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[Marxism] The Age: US in pursuit of Assange, cables reveal

[Joseph Catron]

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Perhaps like most cables, there isn't much here we couldn't have guessed.
But confirmation's often helpful:

http://www.theage.com.au/national/us-in-pursuit-of-assange-cables-reveal-20120817-24e8u.html


-- 
"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
lytlað."

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[Marxism] Bruce A. Dixon on Fletcher and Davidson

[Louis Proyect]

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http://blackagendareport.com/content/tired-old-so-called-leftists-give-same-old-excuses-supporting-obama-2012


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Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

[Todd Wolfson]

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I would add "Mother" by Maxim Gorky, which is beautiful and details the life of 
a young activist, Pavel, who is caught up in the revolutionary underground of Russia, 
circa 1902. The story depicts how Pavel's idealism and commitment to socialism transforms 
his nervous peasant mother into a valiant fighter in the struggle for a new order. I love 
the character development, and how Gorky dwells on small things, and I think it is an 
appropriate read for a teenager.

Todd


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Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

[Shane Mage]

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The question was "novels about communism."  Nobody yet has mentioned a  
novel about communism.
Let me suggest two Soviet novels about communism--about the  
contradiction between the professed communist values of the counter- 
revolutionary Stalinist regime and the realities of life as  
experienced by those trying to live in accordance with communist  
values. Both eminently suitable for young adults, both really  
excellent novels for all ages.


--Not by Bread Alone, by Vladimir Dudintsev

--Children of the Arbat, by Anatolii Rybakov




Shane Mage


This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
 always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
 kindling in measures and going out in measures.
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos






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Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

[John Wesley]

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"History will absolve me" by Fidel Castro Ruz

El pueblo armado jamas sera aplastado!
 


 From: Nick Fredman 
To: Mr. Goodman  
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?
  
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Not fiction but maybe one for the history teachers, and parents, and maybe
for a younger demographic, but I'm becoming quite a fan of the books and BBC
version of Horrible Histories, along with our 8-year-old (and somewhat less
appropriately, given how gory it is, our not quite 4-year-old), particularly
the often hilarious songs in the TV version.

Not particularly radical overall, apart from the need for potential Marxists
to get a good sense of history, but there's a few slyly subversive lyrics,
e.g. We're just listened to 'The four Georges': "Born to rule over
you/Georges 4, 3, 1 and 2/You had to do what we told you to/Just because our
blood was blue...People hated us, and we hated them too" etc.

The most subversive songs are:

Luddites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgBiGrpWNQU

William Wallace, Scottish rebel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g61xASD-24

Suffragette city
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VamBADwizd8

Boudicca
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LhT7rCC6O8

Not at all radical but hilarious are the ancient Celtic hip hop boast battle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXgtZbrcxBQ
and the Viking soft rock anthem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qSkaAwKMD4




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Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

[Nick Fredman]

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Not fiction but maybe one for the history teachers, and parents, and maybe
for a younger demographic, but I'm becoming quite a fan of the books and BBC
version of Horrible Histories, along with our 8-year-old (and somewhat less
appropriately, given how gory it is, our not quite 4-year-old), particularly
the often hilarious songs in the TV version.

Not particularly radical overall, apart from the need for potential Marxists
to get a good sense of history, but there's a few slyly subversive lyrics,
e.g. We're just listened to 'The four Georges': "Born to rule over
you/Georges 4, 3, 1 and 2/You had to do what we told you to/Just because our
blood was blue...People hated us, and we hated them too" etc.

The most subversive songs are:

Luddites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgBiGrpWNQU

William Wallace, Scottish rebel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g61xASD-24

Suffragette city
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VamBADwizd8

Boudicca
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LhT7rCC6O8

Not at all radical but hilarious are the ancient Celtic hip hop boast battle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXgtZbrcxBQ
and the Viking soft rock anthem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qSkaAwKMD4




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Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

[Louis Proyect]

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http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/literature/children/index.htm


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[Marxism] Amandla Editorial Comment : A Brutal tragedy that should never have happened

[Ken Hiebert]

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No event since the end of Apartheid sums up the shallowness of the 
transformation in this country like the Marikana massacre. What occurred will 
be debated for years. It is already clear the mineworkers will be blamed for 
being violent. The mineworkers will be painted as savages. Yet, the fact is 
that heavily armed police with live ammunition brutally shot and killed over 35 
mineworkers. Many more are injured. Some will die of their wounds. Another 10 
workers had been  just prior to this massacre.

http://www.amandlapublishers.co.za/home-page/1522-a-brutal-tragedy-that-should-never-have-happened-editorial-comment

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Re: [Marxism] Website correction: OCCUPY THE FILM FESTIVAL! Sept 15 ­ 16

[Louis Proyect]

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On 8/17/12 6:41 PM, Anthology Publicity wrote:



Dear Press,
Some of the press links in the previous version of this release had an
incorrect weblink for the festival. It is:
http://occupythefilmfestival.com/schedule/
(previous versions of the link were missing "the" in the name of the
festival.)





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Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

[dajj1950]

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Re Grapes of Warth: As backgound reading I have just read Rick Wartzman,
Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes
of Wrath. Very good on backgound of the attempts to unionise farm workers
and the trial of CPUSA in California.

Another good book is Thomas Kennelly The People's Train. A fictionalised
story of Russian Bolsheviks in Australia. The second part of the book deals
with the return to Russia after the revolution. A second volume is planned.
doug jordan.
>-- Original Message --
>Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:29:04 +1000
>From: Nick Fredman 
>Subject: Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?
>Reply-To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition
>   
>To: douglas jordan 
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>A more positive suggestion is The Grapes of Wrath. We've just had the Woody
>Guthrie centenary and listening to his songs springs to mind as a class
>activity. 
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[Marxism] Fwd: OCCUPY THE FILM FESTIVAL! Sept 15 ­ 16

[Louis Proyect]

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*ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
*32 SECOND AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10003; (212) 505-5181

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

*/CONTACTS: For specific info about this festival, contact the fest
organizers:/*

/Jen Nedbalsky: 917-476-4301/

/Michelle Fawcett: 718-490-4841/

/Or email: //occupythefilmfesti...@gmail.com/
//

*//*

*/You can also contact and/or cc Stephanie, Anthology’s publicist, at:/*

/public...@anthologyfilmarchives.org
/

*/
/*

*/OCCUPY THE FILM FESTIVAL!/*

*/September 15 – 16/*

/OCCUPY THE FILM FESTIVAL CELEBRATES THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE OCCUPY 
 WALL STREET MOVEMENT /


/WITH A MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA! //DOZENS OF FILMS ** GUERRILLA PROJECTIONS/

/ POSTER + PHOTO + NEWSPAPER EXHIBIT/

*//*

On the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, OCCUPY THE FILM FESTIVAL 
brings together the most compelling and innovative films of the movement 
that captured the public imagination. Beginning as a ragged camp on Wall 
Street’s doorstep last September, before exploding into the most 
powerful social movement in decades, Occupy has inspired countless 
artists to produce visionary collaborative projects, short art films, 
and sweeping documentaries capturing the spirit of the movement.


Mainstream media bias and blackouts mean this movement is poorly
understood. Come witness the real stories the 1% doesn’t want you to
see. Experience the new world of the 99%.

//

/Brought to you by a coalition of media organizers and artists, OCCUPY
THE FILM FESTIVAL will feature a full weekend of festivities, including
Occupy photography show by award-winning artists, an exhibit of
OccuPrint posters and occupied newspapers from around the country,
informational tabling, and outdoor**projections by the Illuminator! /

//

Highlights of the festival include U.S. premieres along with exclusive
question-and-answer sessions with the filmmakers:

An intimate portrait, and U.S. Premiere, */FAIR SQUARE: OCCUPY
AMSTERDAM/* follows one encampment from its inspired birth to its many
challenges, a story mirrored in occupations around the world. Filmmaker
and anthropologist SaraBlom will travel from Amsterdam to New York City
for the festival. “I am absolutely ecstatic about participating in
OCCUPY THE FILM FESTIVAL in New York,” says Blom.

“We cannot wait for the corporate media to tell our story,” says
Director Dennis Trainor, Jr., “We must take on that task for ourselves.”

Shot on the front lines in New York City, Boston and DC, */AMERICAN
AUTUMN: AN OCCUDOC/*//is a fast-paced and fearless provocation to
Occupy! Featuring Naomi Klein, Prof. Cornell West, Dr. Margaret Flowers, 
Sgt. Shamar Thomas and many Occupy Wall Street organizers.


*/WE ARE NOT BROKE/*unmasks how corporations like Exxon, Google and Bank 
of America conceal colossal profits overseas while political leaders 
claim “We’re broke!” and what one group of ordinary peopledecided to do 
about it. “We’re happy to be part of honoring the first year anniversary 
of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City,” says Co-Director 
Karin Hayes.



*/A SHORTS PROGRAM/*will precede each feature and highlight the
creativity the movement inspired around the country and world. The
shorts hail from Spain to Minneapolis, from Greece to Hawaii, and
portray vets, farmers, economists, students and artists who Occupy
everywhere for a better world for the 99%.

//

*/FULL DETAILED SCHEDULE at www.occupyfilmfestival.com/*

//

*/FESTIVAL DATES and TIMES:/*///Saturday, September 15 at 6:00 & 8:30,
and Sunday, September 16 at 7:30.**/


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[Marxism] Sunkara muses that Ryan might move the presidential campaign to the left

[michael yates]

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http://inthesetimes.com/uprising/entry/13664/could_paul_ryan_move_the_race_to_the_left/
 We all have to earn a living. But this seems unworthy of a paycheck.
  

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Re: [Marxism] Owen Jones opposes immunity for Assange

[Steffan Wyn-Jones]

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The Guardian editorial of yesterday carries a similar message. There's a 
lengthy comments section too with many issues raised. 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/16/julian-assange-wikileaks-refugee-protection?commentpage=1#start-of-comments
 > Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:43:28 -0400
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> Subject: [Marxism] Owen Jones opposes immunity for Assange
> To: mrpettymrsmo...@hotmail.com
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> based on his book about the "chavs". He was a Marxmail subscriber 
> briefly when he was in his teens.)
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> http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/owen-jones-there-should-be-no-immunity-for-assange-from-these-allegations-8053869.html
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[Marxism] The corruption of the ANC

[Louis Proyect]

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http://socialistresistance.org/3801/the-corruption-of-the-anc

The corruption of the ANC

August 11, 2012 11:40 am

Bobby Wilcox, a South African socialist who spent seven years in Robben 
Island under the apartheid regime, explains how the African National 
Congress has become notorious for its culture of self enrichment and 
corruption.


In 2007, when accused of profiting handsomely from his facilitation of a 
certain Black Economic Empowerment deal, Mr Smuts Ngonyama, then head of 
the ANC presidency notoriously answered: “I didn’t join the struggle to 
be poor”. This remark, which exposed his crass self-centredness, caused 
a huge outcry, mostly from hypocritical liberals outside the ranks of 
the ANC but also from within its ranks as well. But Mr Ngonyama’s 
statement was not without hidden sympathy and the belief in this idea 
has manifested itself to an ever increasing degree today. After all, 
Julius Malema, expelled president of the ANC Youth League also stated, 
“what the whites have, we also want”.


We are being confronted with a litany of corrupt acts by senior members 
of the ANC along with questionable appointments to high ranking state 
positions. We have had the appointment of Menzi Simelane as director of 
the National Prosecuting Authority, later ruled as improperly appointed 
by the Supreme Court of Appeal. There is the notorious case of President 
Zuma’s buddy, Schabir Shaik, who was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment 
for corruption, only to be released after two years in dubious 
circumstances for so-called medical reasons. We have the case of Richard 
Mdluli, member of the heinous “Special Branch” of the South African 
Police Service in the apartheid years, who was appointed head of Police 
Crime Intelligence, but later suspended on full pay, facing an 
investigation of murder, et al. Now there has been the case of former 
head of police, Jackie Selebi, found guilty of fraud and corruption and 
sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment. He too has been released on 
parole after serving less than two years of his sentence, spent in the 
convenience of public hospital treatment. The list goes on and on – 
Julius Malema, who allegedly enriched himself through corrupt political 
dealings in the Limpopo Province, Tony Yengeni, convicted fraudster who 
also enjoyed early release on parole and now Head of Political Education 
in the ANC and the late Sicelo Schiceka, Minister of Cooperative 
Governance, who, inter alia, utilised state funds to visit his 
girlfriend imprisoned in Switzerland on drug related charges. Schiceka 
recently died at the age of 45 “after a long (undeclared) illness”, etc, 
etc, etc.


The corruption in the ANC is not without precedent. The history books 
are replete with the acts of the leadership of bourgeois democratic 
struggles turning to corruption and in many cases, brutal dictatorships 
to enrich themselves. After all, “we didn’t struggle to be poor”.


The petty bourgeois leadership of the ANC in order to promote its class 
interests, reached accommodation with the representatives of the 
bourgeois, the leadership of the National Party and formed a ‘government 
of national unity’ with them. On assuming power the ANC proceeded to 
reward Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and its other leaders, who had 
served long terms of imprisonment under the regime, by sanctioning their 
unprecedented enrichment. Nobody, least of all the now critical 
liberals, questioned where this money came from and what its purpose 
was. Then, the salaries of politicians and high ranking personnel in 
government offices were dramatically increased, besides the grand salary 
allocations for those in the employ of ANC itself. This was ostensibly 
to reward Blacks with the kind of standard of living that they were 
previously denied. Suddenly, it became highly profitable to be a 
politician, particularly an ANC politician. For instance, the chairman 
of the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), Andile Lungisa, earns a 
whopping salary of R790 000 a year. Not to be outdone the chief 
executive, Steven Ngubeni, earns the magnificent sum of R1.8 million 
(£141,790 /$222,450) per year. The Chief Operations Officer, Magdalene 
Moonsamy, earns R1.2 million a year. All are former members of the ANC 
Youth League – no other qualifications required. Salaries within the 
Youth League itself do not fall far behind. There have been serious 
questions about the validity and necessity of the NYDA which has 
achieved very, very little to promote the interests of the youth of 
South Africa to date.


All of this has resulted in an unholy scramble for lucrative positions 
that needed no special qualifications other than being a loud proponent 
of the ANC. Today the country is paying dearly for

Re: [Marxism] The Left and the Arab Spring

[Louis Proyect]

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On 8/17/12 3:12 PM, Clay Claiborne wrote:


 The Left and the Arab Spring
 


For someone sitting on the very edge of survival, hope is extremely
important. Often it is only hope, sometimes even false hope, that allows
him to make it to the next day. That is one of the reasons that religion
has always found such a resonance among the lower classes, especially in
times of great hardship or struggle. Cynicism is deadly for someone on
the edge of survival. Even in the darkest night, he cannot afford to be
cynical. That cynicism just might push him over the edge.



This is a really great skewering of Thomas Mountain, just one of many 
contributors to Counterpunch whose articles on Libya proved out to be 
utter nonsense.


In one piece Mountain libeled the Benghazi opponents of Qaddafi as mafia 
gangs involved in "human trafficking". When I challenged him to provide 
evidence, all he could say was that was a "well-hidden" fact. This is 
one of the things that always used to disgust me about Alexander 
Cockburn and Jeff St. Clair as well. These are supposed to be serious 
investigative journalists. Don't they care that someone on "their side" 
is just making shit up?



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[Marxism] The Left and the Arab Spring

[Clay Claiborne]

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The Left and the Arab Spring



For someone sitting on the very edge of survival, hope is extremely
important. Often it is only hope, sometimes even false hope, that allows
him to make it to the next day. That is one of the reasons that religion
has always found such a resonance among the lower classes, especially in
times of great hardship or struggle. Cynicism is deadly for someone on
the edge of survival. Even in the darkest night, he cannot afford to be
cynical. That cynicism just might push him over the edge.

Cynicism is a privilege. When practiced by those in a position to do it
well, cynicism allows them to criticize the oppressor and sympathize
with the oppressed without ever having to move out of their comfort
zone. In fact, one of the main objects of this practice of cynicism is
to make the cynic more comfortable. He may not, as yet, be wanting for
much personally, but he can see the growing misery all around him so he
has to think or do something. The cynic solves this dilemma by thinking
that nothing can be done!

Hope is entirely a question of subjective attitude. So is cynicism, but
cynicism pulls off its master trick by masquerading as objective
reality. The cynic always tends to think things really are the way he
thinks they are. Time and again you will see him substitute his
subjective understanding, even when he knows it is limited!, for
objective reality.

In the United States, this type of cynicism has gained a strong hold on
the left in the past decade or more. It has been helped immeasurably by
the decline of science and engineering in our culture and a decline in
the understanding and practice of dialectical materialism
 on the left.

Since September 11, 2001, there has also been what I think of as the
/"Invasion of the Conspiracy Theories"
/ and all sorts of trash from
weird 9/11 theories to chem trails have been given standing. The most
significant have been a number of generally related theories that
believe a very small clique, often Zionist-related, is /"orchestrating"/
both sides of all wars and just about everything else in the political
and economic life of the planet.

If that's the case, what can you do but gossip about it?

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[Marxism] Age Shock: How Finance is Failing Us by Robin Blackburn

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[Marxism] India: Auditor report details undue benefits to private sector

[Rajesh Roy]

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Undue benefits of Rs 3.8 lakh crore to private parties under UPA government: 
CAG 


NEW DELHI: Already under attack over various scams, government on Friday faced 
a fusillade from the comptroller and auditor general (CAG), which has estimated 
"undue benefits" of over Rs 3.8 lakh crore to private parties in coal blocks 
allotment without bidding, Delhi airport development and diversion of coal to a 
power project. 

The CAG attack came when three of its reports on coal allocation, development 
of Delhi airport by GMR-led DIAL and ultra mega power project of Reliance Power 
Ltd were tabled in Parliament on Friday. The CAG, however, brought down the 
estimated loss in the allocation of 142 coal blocks since July 2004 from Rs 
10.7 lakh crore in the draft report to over Rs 1.85 lakh crore being the 
benefit to private allottees. 

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/indl-goods/svs/metals-mining/undue-benefits-of-rs-3-8-lakh-crore-to-private-parties-under-upa-government-cag/articleshow/15534459.cms 

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Re: [Marxism] Socialist Party of Azania statement on miner massacre

[Louis Proyect]

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On 8/17/12 10:44 AM, DW wrote:

Socialist Party of Azania


South African Lambertists. What a waste.


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[Marxism] Socialist Party of Azania statement on miner massacre

[DW]

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[Socialist Party of Azania resulted from a split in the Black
Consciousness group AZAPO about 10 years ago--DW]

Socialist Party of Azania
HEAD OFFICE: Unit 8 Renaissance Centre  Ghandi Square ↔ 2001
P.O. Box 11039  Johannesburg  2000
↔
Marikana Massacre

The demand for a living wage has ended in the cold-blooded shooting
down and murder of some 50 mine workers in Marikana by the South
African Police force. One can safely say without fear of contradiction
that their deaths are as a direct consequence of the ruling party’s
subordinated policies. Further they were killed firstly because two
policemen were amongst the ten people who had died earlier but also
because the ruling oligarchy continues to hold Black lives cheap.

Before rigor-mortis could even set in on the bullet riddled bodies of
the mine workers, “…platinum futures surged to a one-month high… at
the world's No. 3 producer of the metal raised concerns that supply
would be more limited than previously thought.” reads the banner
headline on Google News as well as every other business website on the
internet.

Even in death the shattered bodies of the black worker, accrues profit
for the rapers of continents and destroyers of nations with the eager
support from the ANC government and its storm-troopers.

The mechanics of exploitation are simple – the bosses feel threatened
with a loss of profit by workers demanding a fair wage in exchange for
their labour. They appeal to the ANC and its tripartite partner,
Cosatu to rein in their members’ demands, the workers join or form
alternate structure to challenge the existing union bosses. The police
or soldiers are called in to settle a labour dispute as swiftly as
possible. Did we miss here – oh yes, the blame for these deaths will
be placed at the doorstep of the workers who had legitimate demands
and who felt betrayed by the union they had always supported, in this
particular case the COSATU affiliated  NUM.

The Socialist Party of Azania knows with certainty that in order to
eliminate exploitation and to create an environment where a living
wage can be earned by the black working class, requires that we
nationalise all the natural resources for the benefit of all. The ANC
however, as government, has made sure that the issue of
nationalisation, the real first building block for socialism dies an
early and sudden death. This is the precondition of the IMF/World Bank
gurus that the so called “free market economics” should be enforced on
all countries of the world. Simply put: profit is always put before
the interests of people and never vice versa.

We have now entered that phase of our history where the securo-centric
nature of the state will do all in its power to crush the rising forms
of dissent and rebellion that the poor and desperate workers of this
country embark upon. They will protect the “assets” of the
multi-national corporations with no compunction for the lives of the
black worker, the black women/man or the black child. We are at the
end of the day merely collateral damage in the defence of Imperialism.

We all must with immediate effect, move to assist the shattered
community in Marikana, by firstly helping them to bury their deceased,
and then secondly assist them to build a base of resistance to the
brutal machinery of both state and capital that seeks to keep them in
perpetual slavery


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[Marxism] PROGRESS

[Hunter Gray]

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In the final days of August, 1961, Eldri and I -- just married up in Superior, 
Wisconsin -- left my family home at Flagstaff, Arizona en route to Mississippi. 
 I had as my vehicle the 1957 Arizona champion drag strip car, a Chev Bell Air. 
 My brother had gotten that some way, couldn't keep up the payments, and Dad 
took it over.  Normally, a cautious driver, the racy vehicle with surrealistic 
designs on its doors, did something to him.  And he loved to drive it 90 mph in 
second gear -- and 120 in high.The term was not in vogue back in those days but 
people, including much impressed students of his, who witnessed this would 
certainly have noted it in our times as "awesome".  Before long, though, he got 
something else and passed the Champ on to me -- always a pretty sedate guy at 
the wheel.  We were pulling a long U-Haul trailer, covered by a tarp.

The closest I'd ever been to Dixie was extreme northwest Texas and northern 
Oklahoma.  It was clear, from central Texas onward, that it was going to be, 
for us anyway, an adventure: increasingly hot, humid; and vastly more Black 
people than I'd seen anywhere before, even in the Army.  My rural Northern 
Arizona accent -- sometimes termed "Highland South" by linguists -- seemed 
somewhat anemic compared to those we now began to hear.

Just inside the Louisiana line, on a conventional two lane highway, we stopped 
at a rural gas station.  The owner, who hustled over, was a rather heavy Anglo, 
maybe about 40. He was genial. His son, mid-teens, was sitting on a chair in 
front happily strumming a guitar.  It was a pleasant, folksy little scene.

When he had filled our tank and I was handing him cash, he asked where we were 
going.

"Jackson," I told him.

He nodded approvingly but -- but then went on with one of the cruder "jokes" 
I'd ever heard.  Smiling he said, "How in the Hell can the Kennedys get a man 
on the moon when they can't get a bus load of  n_ers across Mississippi?" 
-- a reference to the Freedom Rides which had been much in the news earlier in 
the summer.

Poker faced, we said nothing, collected our change, and drove on. 

At about 2 a.m., with mists rising like ghosts all around us, we hit the very 
long bridge across the very long and wide River -- pointed directly into 
Vicksburg, Mississippi.  At the end of the bridge, armed border guards wearing 
wide-brimmed hats, emerged from the darkness and looked us over carefully.  One 
pulled back the tarp on our trailer, checked the routine items inside.  Another 
asked, "Where y'all headed?"

This was not the point to say we were going to Tougaloo, the Negro college just 
north of Jackson, and that we thought we might well become involved in the 
incipient civil rights movement in the state.  Instead, pragmatically, and 
figuratively tossing my old Explorer Scout code into the river below, I 
muttered that we were going to Birmingham to see my uncle.  [And I did indeed 
have an uncle in that city.]

They collected a one dollar toll and with a pro forma, "Welcome to Miss-sippi," 
waved us into the Closed Society.

Tougaloo had promised us on-campus housing but that was filled up.  They found 
a temporary place for us on the edge of Lamar Avenue, near all-White Millsaps 
College, with a Black neighborhood right across the street.  But we were soon 
evicted from that a day after we had two Tougaloo students over for supper.  
The college then found us another place, on a sort of almost low-income White 
street, Bailey Avenue.  We had Black friends over to that one but they slipped 
in and out at night.  Early on, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission 
began surveilling us, even following Eldri, who was pregnant with Maria, in a 
big white car with a long aerial when she walked up several blocks to a small 
grocery store.

Bailey Avenue saw the death one night of our Arizona Champ.  It was parked on 
level turf, right in front of our house.  We had gone to bed but, before I 
slipped off into sleep, I inexplicably arose, partially got dressed, and went 
out and put the car into neutral gear.  The emergency brake was rather poor 
but, as I've noted, everything was level turf.  Eldri was a little puzzled at 
my action, which I couldn't quite explain, but we were soon asleep.

We were awakened in the middle of the night by a very loud crash immediately 
outside.  Turned out that a drunk driver, coming up Bailey Avenue which was 
lined with parked vehicles, crashed directly into ours.  If it hadn't been in 
neutral, he would have been killed.  My car, smashed, was up on a neighbor's 
lawn.   We immediately replaced it with a brand new litle "robin's egg blue" 
AMC Rambler.  When we were at the junkyard to take a last fond look at the 
Champ, we were approached by a man from ne

[Marxism] The American Left and the Arab Spring

[Louis Proyect]

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http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=1965

The American Left and the Arab Spring

by Clay Claiborne on August 17, 2012

For someone sitting on the very edge of survival, hope is extremely 
important. Often it is only hope, sometimes even false hope, that allows 
him to make it to the next day. That is one of the reasons that religion 
has always found such a resonance among the lower classes, especially in 
times of great hardship or struggle. Cynicism is deadly for someone on 
the edge of survival. Even in the darkest night, he cannot afford to be 
cynical. That cynicism just might push him over the edge.


Cynicism is a privilege. When practiced by those in a position to do it 
well, cynicism allows them to criticize the oppressor and sympathize 
with the oppressed without ever having to move out of their comfort 
zone. In fact, one of the main objects of this practice of cynicism is 
to make the cynic more comfortable. He may not, as yet, be wanting for 
much personally, but he can see the growing misery all around him so he 
has to think or do something. The cynic solves this dilemma by thinking 
that nothing can be done!


Hope is entirely a question of subjective attitude. So is cynicism, but 
cynicism pulls off its master trick by masquerading as objective 
reality. The cynic always tends to think things really are the way he 
thinks they are. Time and again you will see him substitute his 
subjective understanding, even when he knows it is limited(!) for 
objective reality.


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[Marxism] Malcolm Fraser and the years of rage in Australia

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Tom O'Lincoln has just republished his wonderful book Years of Rage: Social 
Conflict in the Fraser Era. This is a Monet of a book in which the daub of 
detail creates the canvas of class conflict in Australia, stretching from 
Kerr's coup through the 7 years of the Fraser Governments to the election of 
the Hawke Labor Government in 1983. There are important lessons for today.

http://enpassant.com.au/2012/08/17/malcolm-fraser-and-the-years-of-rage/


  

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Re: [Marxism] Drums of War Pump Up the Volume

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in this piece Ron writes:
" Unlike the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the almost complete opposition to
that war on the left side of the political spectrum, there are some left
leaning individuals willing to support NATO intervention in Syria and even
in Iran. This shortsighted and ultimately naive stance accepts the
humanitarian interventionist lingo of the warmongers at face value and
believes that the capitols of the interventionists have no ulterior
motives.  In short, they seem to believe that the only reason why the US
and its allies are arming some Syrian rebels, providing them with
intelligence, and have placed an armada in the seas surrounding Iran and
Syria, is because they believe in the right of the Syrian people to
self-determination."

I think that's news to all of us. Even Pham Binh doesn't believe that. Who
then could you be referring to?

You're right of course that we must begin preparing for mass mobilization
against threatened attacks against Iran and against  intervention in Syria.

Those of us who are for the Syrian Revolution  must also step up our
education about the reality of that Revolution, and find ways to support it.

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Ron Jacobs  wrote:

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[Marxism] Owen Jones opposes immunity for Assange

[Louis Proyect]

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(Jones is a kind of rising star of the left commentariat in Britain 
based on his book about the "chavs". He was a Marxmail subscriber 
briefly when he was in his teens.)


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[Marxism] Drums of War Pump Up the Volume

[Ron Jacobs]

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http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-drums-of-war-pump-up-volume.html

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Re: [Marxism] What Paul Ryan and Obama have in common

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I haven't been to the open secrets site or other places that report
the declared contributions, but that sounds just about right.

The Democratic fund-raisers, though, are claiming that Romney's
getting all this undeclared financial support because of Citizens
United.

My response is that both sides are.

ML


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Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

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On 17.08.2012 02:33, Louis Proyect wrote:




On 8/16/12 8:29 PM, Nick Fredman wrote:
  > Lord of the Flies anti-capitalist? Even reading it for school around
age 14

it was obviously about the nastiness of human nature. So much was of the
curriculum was come to think of it. Animal Farm. Day of the Triffids.
A bit
later King Lear. No wonder we became morose and listened to The Smiths.



https://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2004/09/07/lord-of-the-flies/

The British Marxist critic Paul O'Flinn wrote a short critique of "Lord 
of the Flies" called "William Golding and Original Sin", which was 
published in a short book called "Them and Us in Literature". The 
article can be read at:




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Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

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I agree with list members who are wary about Orwell's _Animal Farm_ as
a suitable novel for youngsters.

I too did the book at school, and it was presented, just like
_Nineteen Eighty-Four_, as a straightforward anti-communist work; that
_Animal Farm_ described what happened in the Soviet Union and why it
happened. It wasn't until many years later, after having becoming a
socialist, that I found out a bit more about Orwell and his novels,
and discovered why they were commandeered by the right to argue
against socialism.

One of the major problems with _Animal Farm_, and one that is most
useful to the right, is that it presents the rise of an elite -- in
his case, the pigs -- as an inevitable and ineluctable process
following a revolution. Of course, using different species of animals
to show people at different levels of political consciousness, and the
consequences of that in a post-revolutionary society, doesn't help;
after all, a cat can't become a dog, a cow a pig, and so on, but this
stylistic aspect only goes to reinforce the fact that Orwell was
unable to explain the rise of an elite in other than banal terms. To
paraphrase a saying of Winston Smith in Orwell's later novel, Orwell
knew how but he couldn't explain why.

Orwell complained after the publication of _Animal Farm_ that his
novel was being used for anti-socialist purposes. He did the same
after the publication of _Nineteen Eighty-Four_. But this misuse was
not accidental; Orwell's own political weaknesses allowed this to
happen.

If anything, Orwell's last two novels could be used as a prime example
of where an author's intentions are undermined by his weaknesses. But
that, I suspect, would be a topic for sixth-formers or university
students, not 13 or 14 year-olds.

Some years back I wrote an essay on Orwell that outlined his political
weaknesses and how his books could be easily hijacked by the right.
Anyone wanting a PDF of it can contact me off-list.

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Re: [Marxism] What's a good novel for 13-14 year olds?

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on Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:38:03 -0500, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
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> 'Back home he finally settled into a teaching job in Salisbury. To
> those who knew him he seemed a changed man, brooding and withdrawn.
> He had grown a beard while a naval officer, and having shaved it off
> when demobbed now grew it again, as though more comfortable showing
> less of his face to the world. It marked him out as a disgruntled
> outsider (a forerunner of beatniks) and ascetic seafarer ("a cross
> between Captain Hornblower and Saint Augustine", as Michael Ayrton
> put it). His pupils nicknamed him Scruff and found him less than
> diligent: he'd set them work to get on with while he furtively
> scribbled in a notebook.

Sadly, the bit about his teaching methods is true. He was quite distant as 
a teacher and I distinctly remember him giving us pupils in Salisbury the 
Golden Treasury of Verse to read while he got on with something else. He 
was, however, far from furtive.

Nonetheless, at the time he taught me and just after I read everything he 
had then written. Lord of the Flies is a tour de force for reasons others 
have noted, though drawing on characters from Marlborough rather than my 
state grammar school. (IMO Peter Brook's 1963 B&W film version is far 
superior to the 1990 film.)

And some of his other works are also suitable for 13-14 year olds:
The Inheritors - daily life for a band of Neanderthals
Pincher Martin - bears similarities to Ambrose Bierce's 'An Occurrence at 
Owl Creek Bridge'
Free Fall - whose main character joins the Communist Party briefly
The Spire - about the ecclesiastical politics of adding a spire to 
Salisbury Cathedral in 1320

-- 
Jim (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 17/08/2012

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