[Marxism] Gilgit Baltistan wants end to Pakistani occupation, activist says
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mirza Abdul Salam, former Rawalpindi/Islamabad president of the Balawaristan National Student Organisation (BNSO), is now studying in Sydney. He is keen to do what he can to let the world know about the plight of his people in the remote nation of Gilgit Baltistan, which has been occupied by Pakistan since 1948. Before the independence and partition of India in 1947, Gilgit Baltistan was occupied by the British-supported feudal rulers of Kashmir. Bordering Pakistan, China, Afghanistan, and India, the area is claimed by both Pakistan and India. However, Salam told *Green Left Weekly* the people of Balwaristan reject both these claims. -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Varoufakis, Mirowski, Caffentzis
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In the talk below, Yanis Varoufakis gives a good (passionate!) exposition of Marx, and then goes on to make a critique of Marx's "closed system" in a way that, for obvious reasons, made me think of Bohm-Bawerk. He also criticizes Marxian economists for an emphasis on mathematical modeling without acknowledging that the context of said modeling is almost always in self-defense against those who challenge Marxist economics on the basis of its alleged mathematical flaws. http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/05/14/confessions-of-an-erratic-marxist-keynote-speech-subversive-festival-zagreb-croatia-14th-may-2013/ This, in turn, reminded me of Philip Mirowski's More Heat Than Light (1989), in which Morowski criticizes Marx for shifting between an ontology based on the substance theory of contemporary physics on the one hand, and a then-nascent field theory on the other. According to this argument, Marx never understood (how could he?) the implications of the latter obliterating the conditions and assumptions of the former. What these critiques appear to have in common (Varoufakis' and Mirowski's) is that they both criticize economic modeling for "physics envy," and the critique is applied to Marxist and Neoclassical modeling (Mirowski claims Neoclassical modeling to be stuck in the physics of the 1860s, Marxian the physics of the 1840s). Such as it is, George Caffentzis includes a treatment of Mirowski in the following: http://www.academia.edu/3152487/Crystals_and_Analytic_Engines_Historical_and_Conceptual_Preliminaries_to_a_New_Theory_of_Machines And it appears Mirowski has a new title forthcoming from Verso: http://www.versobooks.com/books/1416-never-let-a-serious-crisis-go-to-waste Has anyone read The Global Minotaur? 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] Letter from the US: The cruel persecution of Lynne Stewart
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Lynne Stewart, a movement attorney who was jailed for the “crime” of being the defense lawyer for alleged terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, is dying in prison of stage-four cancer. Her family and supporters, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, are asking that she be granted compassionate release so she can live out her final days outside prison walls. The warden of Stewart's prison has approved her compassionate release, however the Department of Prisons has so far refused to grant it. http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/54237 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Native Americans unite against pipeline
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On May 16, a group of Native Americans leaders representing 10 sovereign nations walked out of a meeting with US State Department officials after an attempt to have “nation to nation” talks in Rapid City, South Dakota. The pipeline would go through the Ogallala Aquifer, the source of drinking water for much of the Great Plains region, including the tribes in South Dakota. Debra White Plume, an Oglala Lakota activist and founder of Owe Aku (“Bring Back the Way”), said: “We know that without drinking water on the Pine Ridge, it is genocide for our people, our nation. We are working as best we can to stop the tar sands oil pipeline from entering our territory.” In late February, 30,000 to 50,000 people came to Washington, DC, to tell Obama “no” to the Keystone XL Pipeline. The march featured a many indigenous leaders from across North America. Chief Jacqueline Thomas of the Saik'uz First Nation in British Columbia spoke at the rally about the new surge of native unity against the Keystone pipeline and other pipelines crisscrossing Canada, saying: “Never in my life have I ever seen white and Native work together until now.” This statement published below by sovereign nations leaders explains why they walked out on the meeting with State Department officials. http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/54236 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Counteracting Influences
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Re: [Marxism] Los Angeles Review of Books - "Behind The Candelabra" And The Queerness Of Liberace
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Liberace NEVER represented me as a Gay man, or the Gay men I loved then and since! - to think ALL Gays viewed a wealthy frivolous mincing immature self centered costumed performer in mink and diamonds, while people were without food - and who went to court twice to say it was an insult to be called homosexual - as being a positive image and what an apparent Marxists would call an "ice breaker"? I guess respect is not possible, instead of still being told to accept as "positive" - a repulsive role model as someone to be entertained to LAUGH AT - and what to still expect on a Marxist List in 2013? Can not a Gay Liberationist view be considered as valid, than the usual heterosexist image/message of some kind of second class entertainer role, to foster dis-respect and self-hating and homophobia? But why would any knowledgeable Marxist view Liberace as some kind of positive role model? This sounds more like what some kind of liberal with no class perspective would describe instead! News Flash!! - there were Gays before Liberace and many were rebelling and not entertaining the privileged wealthy and parasitic rulers!!! If you can not tell LGBT people about positive role models who were fighters for a better world and why they should continue that struggle, then I seriously ask one to become better aware of LGBT history, to provide better "ice breaker" role models, than the self hating Liberace. It was ridiculous denial by many heteros to portray Liberace four decades ago as some macho entertainer dating and lusting after women, as what was promoted then with the silence of denial and dis-respect. It seems the same thinking, to state he was a positive role model for ALL Gays and something good in reinforcing this sad stereotype image, particularly on young people then and today. Liberace was an unwelcomed celebrity performer to me when I was young. I was seeking and needing self-respecting males who openly were intimate with other identified males. Many similar isolated poor working class kids today do NOT have a positive view of Liberace, only someone to be at best laughed at, or pitied, or mostly shunned, since there are no shared values and positive experiences with this "role model and ice breaker". > Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 20:13:26 -0500 > From: gulfm...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: [Marxism] Los Angeles Review of Books - "Behind The Candelabra" > And The Queerness Of Liberace > > > Notwithstanding O'Brien's negative assessment of Liberace's politics, > visually he was an out-of-the-closet icebreaker for gays, despite his > off-the-stage politics. So: no freedom fighter for sure, but... > > On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 2:51 PM, John Obrien wrote: > > > > I saw this film for free - and my impressions are: > > 1) don't waste your time viewing it 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] Public School Teachers fighting back: June issue of Monthly Review
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The June issue of Monthly Review is about public school teachers fighting back against attempts to gut the US system of public education. Good articles on the Chicago Teachers Union and more. If you are interested in bulk orders, send me an email. mikedjya...@msn.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] Obama Takes Excited Daughters Out For Day Of Drone-Watching | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
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Re: [Marxism] Los Angeles Review of Books - "Behind The Candelabra" And The Queerness Of Liberace
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Notwithstanding O'Brien's negative assessment of Liberace's politics, visually he was an out-of-the-closet icebreaker for gays, despite his off-the-stage politics. So: no freedom fighter for sure, but... On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 2:51 PM, John Obrien wrote: > > > I saw this film for free - and my impressions are: > > 1) don't waste your time viewing it > > 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] Syrian Freedom - الحرية السورية • Syria: Hezbollah's military intervention
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The loss of the strategic town of Qusayr by Syrian rebels clearly demonstrates that the presence of Hezbollah fighters inside Syria is a life preserver of sorts for a regime badly in need of one. That Bashar al-Assad can use the help is beyond question. Yet the wisdom of this intervention is very much in question, as Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah may discover at his leisure. By sending young Lebanese men to fight and die in Syria for an incompetent, feudalistic family regime, Nasrallah may be inadvertently undermining the very basis of his heretofore unassailable position in Lebanon. http://syrianfreedomls.tumblr.com/post/52250322058 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] Paulson restates US economic objectives in China in advance of summit
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Henry Paulson, writing in today's Wall Street Journal, wants American economic interests to top the agenda during Xi Jinping's forthcoming visit to the US. Paulson, the former Goldman Sachs CEO and Treasury Secretary, reflects the views of the Wall Street banks who would like to see progress on a Bilateral Investment Treaty to accelerate the opening of China's financial sector. He also touches on the other US economic aims, which include the elimination of subsidies to China's expanding state-owned firms who present an increasing challenge to US multinationals; easing of government procurement policies to improve access for American manufacturers; continued measures to promote Chinese consumer spending on US imports, and Chinese convergence with US policies on cybersecurity and climate change. Implicit in Paulson's op-ed is a reminder to the American ruling class faction which wants a more aggressive posture towards China that the country is by far the US's fastest growing export market and that "China's new leadership team is beginning to act in ways…(that) will mean new markets and opportunities for U.S. companies. Clearly, it is in Washington's best interest to use bilateral negotiations to help Beijing make this transition." The Path to Double Happiness By HENRY M. PAULSON JR. Wall Street Journal June 5 2013 When President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet this week in California for an unusually private set of conversations, national-security issues are sure to dominate. Make no mistake: Whether, and how deeply, the two countries cooperate on North Korea and Iran will be an important test of their relationship. Another top priority will be growing American concerns about cybersecurity, which, more than any issue, has the potential to damage trust and confidence in relations with China. But because economic issues have anchored the Chinese-American relationship in recent decades, it is important that the two presidents seize this moment to reinvigorate their shared economic agenda. This is the first time since China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 that the political and economic climates in both countries are ripe for establishing mutually beneficial economic agreements. China has made strong economic progress over the past decade because of adaptations required by WTO membership. That process has benefited the U.S. and China significantly. Yet in recent years, reform in China has stalled. There is an urgent need for China to restart its reform process and continue to open its markets to competition. Just as China's WTO accession furthered the cause of economic reform, so too can negotiating new economic agreements with the U.S. President Xi Jinping and the new leadership team recognize that reforms are essential for China's economic success. Meantime, President Obama is focused on restoring America's competitiveness, and he understands the importance of international trade and investment to accomplish that goal. The case for launching significant economic negotiations this week is compelling. For starters, China and the U.S. have the world's largest economies and did a record-shattering $493 billion in two-way trade in 2011. U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market. When world-wide U.S. exports dropped almost 18% during the 2009 financial crisis, exports to China dropped only about 2.5%. This demonstrates China's potential to become a demand driver for U.S. products over the long haul. It also demonstrates the degree to which our economies are intertwined. This interdependence has touched the lives of ordinary Americans and Chinese: U.S. innovations have helped raise living standards across the world, including for hundreds of millions of Chinese. For its part, China has exported capital at a time when Washington has been a major borrower. More than $1 trillion in Chinese holdings of U.S. Treasury securities have helped finance U.S. deficit spending and keep interest rates low. Given such extraordinary interdependence, economic tensions are too high. In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition. Although the U.S. economy is much more open than China's, national security concerns and increasing Chinese cyberintrusions have led to rising levels of anti-China sentiment that have made Chinese investment here more difficult. Trade deficits persist. And many U.S. companies argue that Beijing is tilting the playing field to favor its own national champions. But the fundamental issue is that U.S.-China
Re: [Marxism] Los Angeles Review of Books - "Behind The Candelabra" And The Queerness Of Liberace
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Most big-budget films with leading gay characters are almost exclusively about sex, and more particularly about the suffering of the principals. There may be a kind of cultural law that until an oppressed group attains freedom the artistic representation of them will remain as a group. Womens' films were about women as women struggling for freedom until maybe the mid 70s, there were blacks as only civil rights figures, etc. 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] Two Liberal Voices for Intervention, but Not in Syrian War
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == (I have to laugh at the knuckleheads at MRZine, WSWS.org, Global Research et al ad nauseam who have been warning for the past 2 years about Syria turning into the next Iraq. If there's anybody who symbolizes "humanitarian intervention" better than Samantha Powers, I can't think of them. These ferkakte "anti-imperialists" refuse to take the bourgeoisie at its word. It has zero interest in dispensing anti-aircraft weaponry into the hands of a guerrilla force whose "moderate leader" says things like "The facts have proven beyond any doubt that the claws of international politics are tainted and that the world’s super powers are seeking, through the distribution of roles in the open and behind closed doors, to undermine the legitimate interests of the peoples of the world and trade in them by inciting sectarian sentiments, and the examples are plenty: from Syria and the Middle East, to Sudan and Rwanda, to Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan." When will these idiots wake the fuck up?) NY Times June 5, 2013 Politics | News Analysis Two Liberal Voices for Intervention, but Not in Syrian War By MARK LANDLER WASHINGTON — In naming Susan E. Rice and Samantha Power to key national security posts, President Obama has turned to two prominent advocates of liberal interventionism, a foreign-policy credo that calls for the United States to act aggressively to defend human rights – by military means, if necessary. Both are veterans of his 2008 campaign and have strong personal relationships with Mr. Obama. But they will be working for a president who has consistently resisted intervening in the most dire human-rights calamity of the day, the civil war in Syria. Given Mr. Obama’s fixed views, it is not clear whether even Ms. Rice and Ms. Power could prod him into action. Ms. Rice, who is becoming national security adviser, and Ms. Power, who is replacing Ms. Rice as American ambassador to the United Nations, teamed up in 2011, along with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, to persuade Mr. Obama to back a NATO-led intervention in Libya that was designed to head off a slaughter of the rebels in Benghazi. In her new role, Ms. Rice in particular will be able to exert even more influence, occupying a West Wing office down the hall from a president who has already concentrated foreign policy decision-making in the White House. But as Mr. Obama and his aides have long argued, Libya is no Syria. The first was a clear-cut case in which air power could prevent Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi from killing thousands of rebels in their stronghold; the second, a sectarian struggle, pits a regime with sophisticated air defenses against rebels scattered throughout the country. Neither Ms. Rice nor Ms. Power has spoken out publicly in favor of a more aggressive American response to the blood bath in Syria, which is perhaps not surprising, given Mr. Obama’s well-known views and their own roles as rising stars in his administration. Administration officials said that in the debate last summer about whether to supply the rebels with arms – a proposal pushed by the then-director of the Central Intelligence Agency, David H. Petraeus – Ms. Rice sided with those who opposed it. Over time, however, officials said, she has become more open to lethal aid, given the stalemate in the civil war. Gary Bass, a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University, said that in formulating its Syria policy, the administration would have to answer a basic question. “Do you think of Syria as being a Rwanda or a Bosnia, where human rights concerns trumped everything?” he said. “Or do you see it as more like Iraq, where it’s not clear there’s a good side to get behind?” There are other voices for stronger action, including Secretary of State John Kerry. He may find common cause with Ms. Rice on Syria even as he struggles to carve out an influential role in an administration where decision-making resides at the White House. Ms. Power and Ms. Rice, who are friends, each bring their long, sometimes painful histories to this issue. For Ms. Power, who made her name as a journalist covering the wars in the former Yugoslavia, Bosnia was a formative experience. In her book “A Problem from Hell,” she presented a history of genocide in the 20th century and a withering critique of the failure of the United States and other countries to respond to them. For Ms. Rice, who began her career in the National Security Council during the Clinton administration, Rwanda was a crucible. President Bill Clinton’s inaction in the face of genocide there fueled many of the people who worked for him, including Ms. Rice, not to allow a repeat. Years later, she told Ms. Power, who was
[Marxism] Los Angeles Review of Books - "Behind The Candelabra" And The Queerness Of Liberace
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I saw this film for free - and my impressions are: 1) don't waste your time viewing it 2) It let Liberace and his family off easily. Liberace made his money entertaining old hetero women who wanted to see Liberace "as the boy who never grew up". With millions of dollars made - Liberace stayed in the closet and sued successfully TWICE in court tabloid writers implying that he was a homosexual (who would think such!!) The film alluded to only one famous court case. While including Liberace comments in his criticising celebrities Jane Fonda and Ed Asner's support for progressive causes, there is no concerns of Liberace not contributing any money or effort for LGBT rights or those being discriminated against. One thing that should have been in this film was Liberace's sister ordering the only Gay bar then in Las Vegas to be evicted and closed on property that her brother Liberace had owned - because "it was frequented by those immoral people", after Liberace's death. Family Values Indeed!! Of course the current conditions of having LGBT's to be laughed at for entertainment in the U. S., is better than their been physically attacked as was widespread and condoned in the not so far past - and still continues - but it is not the role that those wanting liberation seek. There is a difference in grudging tolerance and with that of real respect. However, there was no reason then or now to respect Liberace - but there is for respecting ourselves in thinking this film does somehow promote rights for LGBT working and poor people. Liberace has no connection to Marxism, except as an opponent who deserves no attention, time or respect - despite the good intentions of the actors who agreed to make this bad movie. Who cares what the lives of wealthy people are in dealing with substance abuse and sex? This is a Marxist List and could do better to focus on progressive LGBT figures in historical films instead, even if made by other directors. This film is a waste of time. > Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 09:20:02 -0400 > From: l...@panix.com > Subject: [Marxism] Los Angeles Review of Books - "Behind The Candelabra" And > The Queerness Of Liberace > To: causecollec...@msn.com > > I don't know how many folks have HBO but Steven Soderbergh's biopic of > Liberace is worth watching if for no other reason that he is an > interesting director. The film itself has generated a lot of buzz, a lot > of it having to do with Michael Douglas's performance as Liberace. > > I have very mixed feelings about the film. Some critics say that it is > Soderbergh's way of thumbing his nose at celebrity and glitz--something > that I can obviously embrace--but there is a voyeuristic aspect to the > film that is singularly off-putting. 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] REMINDER
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[Marxism] Counteracting Influences
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From Daniel Gross's review of Mark S. Mizruchi's "The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite" in the latest Bookforum: "But Mizruchi really whiffs on the phenomenon of that has transformed corporate life in the past fifty years of globalization. The expansion of trade and the continual opening of new markets has really changed what it means to be a large corporation, and what it means to run one. The typical member of the S&P 500 gets about half of its revenues from overseas operations. For America's largest companies--organizations like McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Intel, Microsoft, Boeing--the proportion is closer to 80 percent. That wasn't the case in the '50s. What's more, virtually all the growth that big companies have seen in recent years has come via international expansion. Many of our iconic firms are American in name and heritage only." Karl Marx, V. 3 of Capital, Chapter 14, “Counteracting Influences” "Capitals invested in foreign trade can yield a higher rate of profit, because, in the first place, there is competition with commodities produced in other countries with inferior production facilities, so that the more advanced country sells its goods above their value even though cheaper than the competing countries. In so far as the labour of the more advanced country is here realised as labour of a higher specific weight, the rate of profit rises, because labour which has not been paid as being of a higher quality is sold as such. "Just as a manufacturer who employs a new invention before it becomes generally used, undersells his competitors and yet sells his commodity above its individual value, that is, realises the specifically higher productiveness of the labour he employs as surplus-labour. He thus secures a surplus-profit. As concerns capitals invested in colonies, etc., on the other hand, they may yield higher rates of profit for the simple reason that the rate of profit is higher there due to backward development, and likewise the exploitation of labour, because of the use of slaves, coolies, etc." 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] MSNBC Aligns With Objectives of the State » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
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[Marxism] UCLA Anderson Forecast paints dismal picture of economic recovery - latimes.com
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[Marxism] ECO-SOCIALIST UTOPIANISM
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi I thought Alan's response was pretty generous. It read to me more like something I'd read on my local conservative MPs facebook about radical greenies all wanting us to wear Kaftans and eat mung beans than someone who knew anything about Marxism. And this in response to a generic style of ecosocialist conference presentation that was interesting but pretty run of the mill. An 80 year old communist mate of mine used to talk about being condemned for trying to introduce 'barracks socialism' by socialising housework (and thereby threatening women's natural role in the kitchen). Now every time he goes to a local leagues club he can get an "all you can eat" roast dinner - the like of which he rarely ate in his life - for about $12. So capitalism has achieved "barracks socialism" with a human face. Nevertheless he grasps the notion of ecological limits under capitalism and realises that no sane society which was planning what to do with its water resources would use 1000s more litres producing beef over grains for food. 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] Occupy Gezi: The Limits of Turkey’s Neoliberal Success
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == An article by Cihan Tugal, who has written a number of excellent articles on Turkey for NLR. http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/12009/occupy-gezi_the-limits-of-turkey%E2%80%99s-neoliberal-succ 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] Philippines: Left challenges dynasties in mid-term elections
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In May 13 mid-term elections for both houses of Congress, and provincial and municipal-level local governments, the control of electoral politics in the Philippines by a small number of powerful, nepotistic families became a big issue. It was the left-wing Party of the Labouring Masses (PLM) that put the question of political dynasties onto the agenda. However, not all the PLM’s impact on the election translated into votes and, due to fraud, not all the votes the PLM received in the ballot box translated to votes in the official tally. http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/54234 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Scott Morrison should stop the 'terrorism' witch-hunt
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Claims by Australian politicians that 'a convicted murderer' has been held in low security immigration facilities are simply not true. This asylum seeker has never been convicted of murder or any specific terrorism charges. That much is clear from transcripts of the original trial. The only charge that is still outstanding against him is that he was a member of a jihadist organisation, and that charge is the subject of appeal. http://enpassant.com.au/2013/06/05/scott-morrison-should-stop-the-terrorism-witch-hunt/ 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
