Re: [Marxism] Hatchet job on European left and anti-Semitism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Does writer Catron even guess that he's playing the game? If Jews do in fact 'run the media', why is this 'out-of-whack'? What could this possibly mean? Does this 'fact' alter social relations in any way? Did it emerge as a result of subterfuge by threatening outsiders? Raising the issue outside of any historical or class context serves only one purpose - stigmatizing and scapegoating a particular, ethnically identified social sector, despite all demurrals. And given the history of such stigmatization, I have to ask, what's the point? Politically, that is?ey 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] The latest challenge to the Brenner thesis
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Is incoherence Brenner's stock in trade? Or is the effluvia of academic Marxism just the vapor of tenure tracked former activists? Who is this written for? What is its purpose? What effect is it supposed to have on an opposition to capitalism? What does Brenner do in an active way in the movement? Does serving on an editorial board further the socialist movement? None of this is meant to be mean spirited, but only representative of a trend among intellectals who regard themselves as Marxists. I could be misinformed about what Brenner actually does. But my comments or questions are meant to address a phenomenon of what is in effect academic quietism - words without participation, lacking relevancy for a popular audience and in need of translation before they can be digested. I once downloaded an article from the University of California that was actually an introduction to a book he had written. The "introduction" was itself of inordinate length and to get past all the extraneous verbiage and qualifiers on the first page was a chore.I tried editing it but it seemed it would take a month. Economics is a difficult task enough to command without having to read it in a Henry James obscurantist format. I once spent the better part of a year attempting to put into publishable format a juridical history of slavery by the late George Olshausen, a Cochranite. Since I was charged by his will with the obligation to publish it I felt it deserved an audience. I passed it on to Leon Litwack, hoping that his blessing would help get a publisher, but couldn't get the blessing. George was an appellate lawyer, and a good one. OK. Maybe its just late in the day, in the year, in the movement. -Original Message- From: guava tree To: Wayne M. Collins Sent: Thu, Oct 25, 2012 12:41 pm Subject: Re: [Marxism] The latest challenge to the Brenner thesis == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == >From "The Origins of Capitalist Devlopment: A Critique of Neo-Smithian Marxism" -- http://guavapuree.wordpress.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/shacht%40aol.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] Moderator's note
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 10/29/12 9:22 PM, Staci Page wrote: Hey you I am out and about w/ a couple of my girlfriends at the moment but let me give you this here so you can check out my pix and if you're still interested you can just call me or or just send a text, and we'll setup a meet after I return to my place if you txt me while I am out and about, maybe I will be available to come over?? This schmuck is out of here. 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] Role of climate change in Hurricane Sandy
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hey you I am out and about w/ a couple of my girlfriends at the moment but let me give you this here so you can check out my pix and if you're still interested you can just call me or or just send a text, and we'll setup a meet after I return to my place if you txt me while I am out and about, maybe I will be available to come over?? Sent from my iPhone 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] Van Thanh Rudd on joining Socialist Alternative in Australia
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Van Thanh Rudd: What group in Australia is up to the task? What group out there sees the logic and potential of a revolutionary class in Australia (and the world) - one that sees the working class as the motor for changing a system that glo... rifies private property, into one that collectivizes property? And what is the group will fight for justice and achieve victories along the way in the ongoing struggle against war, greed, sexism, racism and inequality? I believe it is Socialist Alternative. http://enpassant.com.au/2012/10/29/van-thanh-rudd-on-joining-socialist-alternative/ 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] The 43 Group
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 29.10.2012 13:37, Kit Johnson wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi, I'm currently researching The 43 Group who were an anti-fascist direct action group operating in London immediately after WW2. Currently not finding a great deal written about them in academic literature but from what I've read thus far there were communists also actively attending and disrupting some of the same fascist meetings as the 43 Group and so wondered whether anyone on the list might be able to point me towards some archive material that give accounts of some of these events or make reference to the 43 Group. An obvious place to start would be the literature cited in the Wikipedia article about the 43 Group: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43_Group Incidentally, as a young man Vidal Sassoon, later more famous as hairstylist to the stars, was an active member of the 43 Group. Since one of the places where they were most active in opposing the BUF was Ridley Road Market in Dalston (in the Borough of Hackney) the archives in the local library, which is now called after C.L.R. James, might be a good place to start. Einde O'Callaghan 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] Hatchet job on European left and anti-Semitism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:56 PM, dan wrote: Only 28% of French people feel that "there is a disproportionate number of > JEws in the media, entertainment, banking and legal industries" against 41% > of Americans. Are we obligated to pretend that all of those things are untrue? I'm speaking of the United States here. In France, I have no idea, and it could very well be different. But disproportionate Jewish representation in the American media is hardly a secret. It's just not. http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jews-do-control-the-media http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Their-Own-Invented-Hollywood/dp/0385265573 And during the period when I worked with lawyers in New York, nobody - least of all the Jews - was shy about observing their presence in the profession was all out-of-whack, even compared with their local population. I'm well aware that the offensiveness of some stereotypes doesn't hinge on their accuracy. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/04/nbc-serves-fried-chicken_n_449821.html Maybe this is one of those things, in France anyway. I really don't know. But any pollster who flat-out asks, "Is this true?" is, well, asking for it. -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað." 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] Hatchet job on European left and anti-Semitism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Again, all this talk of France being an "Antisemitic" nation is false. But no matter how many times real facts and figures get quoted, the same "France is an antisemtic nation" nonsense keeps re-emerging. Again, and again, and again. I posted last year, and the year before that, and the year before that, on the same issue. French media have been intently monitoring antisemtism in France for over fourty years, and the universal consensus is that "JEWISHNESS IS LESS OF A STIGMA NOWADAYS IN FRANCE THAN IN 1975". Actually, French people display LESS antisemtic attitudes than American, British, German or Spanish citizens. In the most recent polls, less than 23% of French people "would be bothered if their daughter married a JEwish man" compared to 37% of Americans. Only 28% of French people feel that "there is a disproportionate number of JEws in the media, entertainment, banking and legal industries" against 41% of Americans. But France still gets branded as "antisemitic" by Zionist propagandists, and not the US. The fact that many French politicians, popular entertainers, leading intellectuals, are Jewish and that this is not an issue in France is disregarded. Only the occasional violent antisemitic terrorist act is reported (and I'm sure similar acts occur in the US) : the horrifying shooting in Toulouse, the plaster-grenade attack in Strasbourg,... Actually, I'd like to know how many antisemitic terrorist attacks are reported each year in the US (Neo-Nazi and Islamist combined). Jews are not being persecuted in France, neither Ashkenazi or Sepharadis (more recent immigrants from former French colonies in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, and who are very vociferous in their pro-Zionist advocacy). The reason why France is singled out for criticism appears to be France's official mildly (very mildly) "critical" stance towards the state of Israel. Palestinians and ISraelis are depicted as "two parties to a conflict", and France is reluctant to pick sides. Considering how Isreal is very clearly the agressor, this French stance is indeed mild, but it still does not please Zionists as much as the official US stance. 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] Hurricane Sandy
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/hurricane-sandy/ 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] Why We Should Get Used to Catastrophic Weather
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > > > > http://www.alternet.org/environment/why-hurricane-sandy-has-morphed-frankenstorm-and-why-we-should-get-used-catastrophic?akid=9601.201902.zOSipW&rd=1&src=newsletter734886&t=6&paging=off > 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] Communist composer Hans Werner Henze dies
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/oct/27/hans-werner-henze-dies-age-86 German composer Hans Werner Henze dies age 86 Imogen Tilden, Tom Service guardian.co.uk, Saturday 27 October 2012 14.58 BST The death of German composer Hans Werner Henze has been announced today. Schott Music said that Henze, 86, died on Saturday in Dresden; the cause of death has not been disclosed, but Henze's health has been frail since suffering from a serious illness in his late 70s that left him incapacitated for two months in 2005. Henze's work over the decades straddled musical genres. He composed stage works, symphonies, concertos, chamber works and a requiem. He once said that "many things wander from the concert hall to the stage and vice versa." Henze was born July 1, 1926 in Gütersloh in western Germany. After studying and begun his career in Germany, he moved to Italy in 1953. Having lived through fascism, he became a committed communist, and many of his works of the 60s and 70s have an explicitly political inspiration (his Sixth Symphony was composed for Cuba). But the expressive freedom of Henze's music put him at odds with the post-war avant-garde. In Italy - in Ischia and latterly in a house in the hills outside Rome, he developed a language of searing, abundant poetry that drew on the Austro-German tradition from Beethoven to Berg yet was also infused with Mediterranean lightness and modernist astringency. His many operas, from Boulevard Solitude in 1951 to his final works in the genre, Phaedra, written in 2007 and Gisela, 2010, belong to the most important canon of theatrical works of our time (including We Come To The River, composed for Covent Garden in 1976); his series of 10 symphonies and other large-scale works are among the most significant reinvigorations of the orchestral tradition in the post-war period. 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] Shakespeare on Frankenstorm
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == KING LEAR: Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once, That make ingrateful man! Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain! 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] The Ideas of Nikolai Bukharin
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Does anyone have an electronic copy of The Ideas of Nikolai Bukharin to share, please Ismail Lagardien Nihil humani a me alienum puto 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
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== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/10/29/editorial-board-quits-protest-changes-environmental-journal Coup at Environmental Journal? October 29, 2012 - 3:00am By Scott Jaschik The incoming editors of the journal Organization & Environment have posted on its website a notice in which they suggest that authors may want to hold off on submissions until December, when they will start to review pieces. The notice reflects a reality that this isn’t a standard transition – but a shift in editorial direction for the journal that has its fans outraged and has led its editorial board to resign en masse. The editorial board members are charging that SAGE Journals (the publisher) is engaged in "an editorial coup" designed to displace environmental sociology and a leftist critique of environmental issues with an emphasis on the more business-friendly concept of sustainability. SAGE says that its changes for the journal have been misunderstood, and were designed to help the journal. A joint statement from the editorial board members who have quit says that the changes are "a gross violation of academic freedom, scholarly standards, scientific responsibility, and business ethics." The 24 editorial board members quitting include professors at leading universities in the United States along with academics from Australia, Austria, Canada and Mexico. The editorial board members said in their statement that SAGE "used its ownership rights to carry out a behind the scenes shift in editorial control." One of the resigning board members – John Bellamy Foster of the University of Oregon – recently wrote to the environmental section of the American Sociological Association of the damage he said the shift would cause. Foster wrote that over the last decade, environmental sociology has flourished in part because of the commitment of Organization & Environment to publish such work. Prior to this work by Organization & Environment, many environmental sociologists had difficulty finding appropriate homes for their work, he wrote. "O&E is being transformed from a self-designated ‘eco-social’ journal with strong links both to critical organizations theory and environmental sociology to one in which environmental sociology will be excluded, in favor of a sustainability-management (or green-capitalist) policy orientation," Foster writes. "This represents a major setback for environmental sociology, if not environmental social science as a whole." This is not the first time SAGE has been accused of an editorial coup of a scholarly journal. Similar statements were made in 2009 by supporters for a political science journal managed by the publisher, which disputed those accounts. Bob Howard, executive director for journals publishing at SAGE, issued a statement Sunday in response to questions about the resignations at Organization & Environment. He said he was "deeply concerned" about the resignations, but that they were based on the publisher's actions being "misconstrued." He said that SAGE saw environmental sociology as "an important sub-discipline" but that "the number of scholars publishing in this field is small. As a consequence, the journal does not have strong copy flow and many issues publish late." Howard added, "Our intervention was solely about maintaining the journal's quality and impact over the longer term I believe that by broadening the journal's remit, we can grow its reach and impact and that this will benefit the articles it publishes in environmental sociology, as well as in other related areas. Publishing without this broader remit was looking increasingly limiting to the journal's future." He said that the journal will continue to welcome pieces in environmental sociology, even as it moves into "other approaches." 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] In praise of hatred
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I was honoured to be asked to write the introduction to the English translation of Khaled Khalifa‘s third novel, In Praise of Hatred – set in Syria in the 1980s and essential background reading for the current tragedy. Four paragraphs of the introduction are reprinted below, and then Maya Jaggi’s review in the Guardian. full: http://qunfuz.com/2012/10/28/in-praise-of-hatred 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
