Re: [Marxism] Trotsky’s Pursuer Finds a Pursuer to Call His Own
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == About the reflexive slap at Cuba in the pentultimate paragraph of this review, a friend wrote to me what many readers on this List know--I can think of any number of countries in US controlled Latin America where a writer lives in fear of being murdered, not just put on trial. By ALVARO ENRIGUE THE MAN WHO LOVED DOGS By Leonardo Padura Translated by Anna Kushner 576 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $35. I don’t know if all this self-incrimination is part of the novel because Mr. Padura wants to make the point that in Cuba, writing is an activity fraught with fear, or because it is the involuntary reflex of someone who has awaited the day of his own political trial. In any case, it stands as a clear register of the author’s circumstance: Cuba may be the last place in the Americas where being a writer means living in terror. 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] Drugs, Diamonds, International Intrigue — You Won't Believe Two Hollywood Producers' Crazy Backstory | Features | Los Angeles | Los Angeles News and Events | LA Weekly
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Good pick! On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 1/16/14 2:07 PM, Gulf Mann wrote: Which Hollywod actor would be best cast as Barnes? Bela Lugosi. Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/ marxism/gulfmann%40gmail.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
Re: [Marxism] Drugs, Diamonds, International Intrigue — You Won't Believe Two Hollywood Producers' Crazy Backstory | Features | Los Angeles | Los Angeles News and Events | LA Weekly
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This reads like a sleazy Elmore Leonard novel. Speaking of which, why not do a low budget film based on some aspect or another of the SWP? Which Hollywod actor would be best cast as Barnes? On 1/15/14, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: Drugs, Diamonds, International Intrigue — You Won't Believe Two Hollywood Producers' Crazy Backstory 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] Red and Black
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A good review, which we'd expect from Nelson George--but a book about women authored by a woman written in workmanlike prose--OUCH! On 9/22/13, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NY Sunday Times Book Review September 20, 2013 Red and Black By NELSON GEORGE HARLEM NOCTURNE Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II By Farah Jasmine Griffin Illustrated. 242 pp. Basic Civitas. $26.99. In the national consciousness, Harlem has usually been defined by two eras: the artistic and cultural explosion of the 1920s, known as the Harlem Renaissance, and the drug-fueled devastation that began in the 1950s and peaked in the late ’80s. The Harlem Renaissance has been well documented by its poets, novelists and essayists, as well as by a legion of scholars in the decades since. The long, depressing ghetto years were recounted most eloquently by James Baldwin, and by lesser mortals like sociologists, memoirists, politicians, Hollywood screenwriters and rappers. Today’s whiter Harlem of multimillion-dollar brownstones and flashy eateries is already the subject of books, blogs and innumerable magazine travel articles. In her book “Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II,” Farah Jasmine Griffin, a professor at Columbia University, delves into a largely underexplored aspect of Harlem’s rich history: the years just before, during and immediately after World War II, a period of optimism, creativity and turmoil. Moreover, Griffin uses the lives of three female artists — the choreographer and dancer Pearl Primus, the writer Ann Petry and the composer and pianist Mary Lou Williams — as signposts through an era, in a work that paints the “greatest generation” in a much less flattering light than do the usual jingoistic accounts. Griffin’s narrative encompasses the war and the second great migration of blacks to the North from the South. She also highlights two movements that will be less familiar to contemporary readers: the Double V, or Double Victory, campaign, in which “black Americans fought . . . overseas for their country but also to be recognized as citizens at home”; and the Popular Front initiative, conceived by the Communist Party in response to “the economic crisis of the Great Depression and the rise of fascism.” “For black people,” Griffin writes of Double V, “the war provided an opportunity to accelerate their demands for equality. . . . Black Americans highlighted the distance between this ideal of America and the reality of ongoing racial inequality, often through the black press and civil rights organizations.” The Popular Front, meanwhile, “focused on culture as an especially important forum for educating and mobilizing audiences in support of an antifascist agenda.” Although by 1939 its official end had come, the idea of it “would continue throughout the war years. Without Popular Front venues like Café Society, or publications such as PM, a leftist newspaper, it is doubtful that Petry, Primus and Williams could have met with such success.” Griffin argues that her three main subjects “consistently confronted the darkness of our nation’s soul. They were critical of white supremacy and the excess of American capitalism. Yet, their art and their activism also denoted a firm belief in the transformative nature of social change.” None of these women were native New Yorkers. Primus was born in Trinidad and, as a child, relocated with her family to the city, where she was exposed to Afro-Caribbean dance, the innovations of Martha Graham and the sweaty swing style popular at the Savoy Ballroom. As an adult, Primus fused these movements with her own impressive physicality. Her ability to leap majestically high made her popular, and John Martin, the New York Times dance critic, praised her “tremendous inward power,” “fine dramatic sense” and “superb technique.” Of the three women in Griffin’s narrative, Primus was the most progressive politically, joining the Communist Party when it was still one of the few organized white movements to challenge Jim Crow and the violence that fed it. The F.B.I. opened a file on her in 1944. Petry was never a Communist but was published in Popular Front periodicals and served as “women’s editor,” columnist and features editor at the Harlem newspaper The People’s Voice, a left-leaning enterprise published by Adam Clayton Powell, the pastor and New York City councilman. Born and raised in Connecticut by an established middle-class New
Re: [Marxism] Union Square protests
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A smallish protest of perhaps 30 people that looked like it was organized by the RCP made the local TV news in Houston tonight. On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: ==**==**== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ==**==**== My wife and I were down in Union Square this afternoon to pick up some cheap wine at Trader Joe's when a sizable protest was taking place against the Zimmerman verdict--4 to 500 people, mostly Black. Greg Grandin just reported on FB that it has swelled to 1000. I urge New Yorkers to turn out. Let's keep the pressure on. Here's a slide show of the protest, on the NYT home page no less: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/**07/15/us/george-zimmerman-** verdict-trayvon-martin.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/us/george-zimmerman-verdict-trayvon-martin.html __**__ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.**utah.eduMarxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.** utah.edu/mailman/options/**marxism/gulfmann%40gmail.comhttp://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/gulfmann%40gmail.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] Fwd: grin
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == [image: 134307 600 Surveilling Snowden at Moscow Airport cartoons] View all cartoons by R.J. Matson http://www.cagle.com/author/r-j-matson/ 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] Bolivia, Nicaragua and Venezuela all offer Snowden asylum
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Why can't such nations prepare papers making Snowden an honorary citizen /or papers granting him immediate assylum, deliver them directly to him in the Moscow airport, and walk with him to a waiting plane to carry him to the receiving nation? This will require a novel procedure for sure, but a legally not unreasonable one to deal with a novel situation. On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Wythe Holt jr. wh...@law.ua.edu wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Such chances grow only in the number of nations willing to say they will grant him asylum. But no nation has said they would grant such asylum if Snowden cannot reach their territory first, and no nation has allowed, much less invited, Snowden to cross their airspace to reach a place of asylum. From: marxism-bounces+wholt=law.ua@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu[marxism-bounces+wholt= law.ua@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu] on behalf of Stuart Munckton [ stuartmunck...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2013 12:42 AM To: Wythe Holt jr. Subject: [Marxism] Bolivia, Nicaragua and Venezuela all offer Snowden asylum == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has now been offered asylum in three American countries: Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. http://wlcentral.org/node/2846 -- “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/wholt%40law.ua.edu Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/gulfmann%40gmail.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
Re: [Marxism] Bolivia, Nicaragua and Venezuela all offer Snowden asylum
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'll query him when he returns from California tomorrow. On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:17 PM, randy...@aol.com wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The fact is that Snowden can reach Venezuela as long as he has a visa for it. He still has physical custody of his US passport, and thus can travel on that unless he hits a country who will honor the US revocation of it. Ask your brother about how he can get to Venezuela since he might have some info on that. I think Venezuela can take a visa to him at the airport, and he can get on an airline flight. Randy In a message dated 7/8/2013 9:38:32 A.M. Central Daylight Time, gulfm...@gmail.com writes: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Why can't such nations prepare papers making Snowden an honorary citizen /or papers granting him immediate assylum, deliver them directly to him in the Moscow airport, and walk with him to a waiting plane to carry him to the receiving nation? This will require a novel procedure for sure, but a legally not unreasonable one to deal with a novel situation. On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Wythe Holt jr. wh...@law.ua.edu wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Such chances grow only in the number of nations willing to say they will grant him asylum. But no nation has said they would grant such asylum if Snowden cannot reach their territory first, and no nation has allowed, much less invited, Snowden to cross their airspace to reach a place of asylum. From: marxism-bounces+wholt=law.ua@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu [marxism-bounces+wholt= law.ua@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu] on behalf of Stuart Munckton [ stuartmunck...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2013 12:42 AM To: Wythe Holt jr. Subject: [Marxism] Bolivia, Nicaragua and Venezuela all offer Snowden asylum == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has now been offered asylum in three American countries: Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. http://wlcentral.org/node/2846 -- “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/wholt%40law.ua.edu Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/gulfmann%40gmail.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/randyjet%40aol.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/gulfmann%40gmail.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
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 causecollec...@msn.com 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
Re: [Marxism] Dirty Wars
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == JSOC (plus Green Berets, Rangers, Seal Teams, etc.) = SS. All composed of delusional, psychopathic, sociopathic stalkers and killers. All composed of volunteer troops who are of course in denial about this and who are more consciously motivated by thrills, machoism, and patriotism. All witting or unwitting loyal enforcers for the corporatist capitalist/imperialist Ruling Class criminal mob. On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: ==**==**== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ==**==**== I'll be writing a review on this closer to the release date but just want to say at this point that it is the best antiwar film I have seen since 2003. It has the political edge of Michael Moore at his best with something of the tension of one of the Bourne films. Look out for it when it arrives at your local theater... DIRTY WARS You are invited to an advanced screening of Dirty Wars a film by investigative journalist and national security correspondent at The Nation and author of the international bestseller Blackwater: The Rise of the Worlds Most Powerful Mercenary Army Jeremy Scahill and director Richard Rowley. Opens in theaters Jun 7. trailer: http://dirtywars.org/trailer Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill deliver this summers political thriller exposing Obama's counterterrorism measures in the Middle East. in Dirty Wars Rowley takes us on a chilling ride with investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill as he traces the rise of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the most secret and elite fighting force in U.S. history, exposing covert operations carried out by men who do not exist on paper and will never appear before Congress. No target is off-limits for the JSOC “kill list,” even if the person is a U.S. citizen. __**__ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.**utah.eduMarxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.** utah.edu/mailman/options/**marxism/gulfmann%40gmail.comhttp://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/gulfmann%40gmail.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
Re: [Marxism] Hard Hats, Hippies, and the Real Antiwar Movement - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is behind a pay wall. On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: ==**==**== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ==**==**== http://chronicle.com/article/**Hard-Hats-Hippiesthe/139125http://chronicle.com/article/Hard-Hats-Hippiesthe/139125 __**__ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.**utah.eduMarxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.** utah.edu/mailman/options/**marxism/gulfmann%40gmail.comhttp://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/gulfmann%40gmail.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
Re: [Marxism] Hard Hats, Hippies, and the Real Antiwar Movement - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Many thanks. ~Gulfmann On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Andren Sath andrens...@gmail.com wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It wasn't for me, but here's the text just in case: On 17 May 2013 13:21, Gulf Mann gulfm...@gmail.com wrote: This is behind a pay wall. Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/andrensath%40gmail.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/gulfmann%40gmail.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
Re: [Marxism] Assad's backers on the left are ignoring reality
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In a conflict between Ruling Class dictators and religious fundamentalists, both of which have the blood of progressives/Leftists on their hands, my position tends toward neutrality. Fie on both their houses. Let them continue to slaughter one another. When my enemies fight, I wish them both well. On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Lester Schonbrun schonb...@gmail.comwrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I claim there is a similarity between reporting of events in Syria and past reporting about Iraq, Panama, Nicaragua, Yugoslavia, Libya, etc.. It seems to me that Assad is being singled out in the way Hussein, Noriega, Ortega, Qaddafi, and Milosevic were. What followed in the past was US or Nato bombardment, the devastation of the respective countries, with ordinary people taking the heaviest toll, etc., the privatization of what had previously been socialized, and etc. I am asking for clarification: What makes some so certain this isn't another instance of that pattern? On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Clay Claiborne clayc...@gmail.com wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't know how you think there is an intense zeroing in on “human rights” violations. by the MSM in Syria. There has just been a very brutal massacre of 1000-1500 Syria's around Banias between May-2-5 and hardly a word about it was said on the MSM. If they wanted to built a war fever around Syria all they would have to do is report what is really happening on the human rights front, no babies in incubators needed, but they don't. The true extent of the humanitarian situation is being hidden by the MSM. The question is why and what does that do to your thesis. On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Lester Schonbrun schonb...@gmail.com wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Two Thoughts on Syria. 1. The media coverage of Syria is strikingly similar to coverage of Iraq before our “leaders” invaded that country, similar to Chile before the CIA sponsored the coup and murder of Allende, similar to Panama before we bombed them, ditto Libya, and I could name many more. In those cases, there was an intense zeroing in on “human rights” violations. That focus was a precursor to US aggression. How is this different? 2. Why do we save characterizations like “bloodthirsty” for leaders of other countries, when our leaders have shed more blood than all others combined? On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Michael Karadjis mkarad...@gmail.com wrote: ==**==**== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ==**==**== - Original Message - From: Shane Mage Assad's Western defenders either don't mention Israel at all when they list the countries they think are waging war on Syria (and hope no-one notices the omission); or, even worse, they add Israel to their list despite the evidence (and hope no-one notices). A very odd reaction to the Israeli aggressions! It could be said accurately the Israel is waging war directly, the West economically, the Arab dictatorships by proxy as well as ideologically. None of which, of course, justifies a smidgen of support for Assad! If you mean actual war on Syria, then exactly, Israel is the only state that has actually waged war, with these latest bombings, and in any case with the 46 year occupation sovereign Syrian territory in the Golan, it is in a state of war. But the post was not talking about war on Syria, but about the war on Syria, ie, leftist code for the 99% indigenous Syrian uprising (quite separate is the issue of the proportion of this uprising that is still democratic v the proportion that is reactionary-sectarian). It is code for support for Assad's bloodthirsty repression. Pro-Assad leftists usually list Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, the US and other imperialist powers. My contention is that to the
Re: [Marxism] This list, (was To V. C.)
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Happy May Day Lou, and keep your chin up. You and this list are an important Internet resource, and that includes your commentary. As Ken and others have already written, the circulation and impact of Marxmail goes far beyond those who subscribe to it. Every day I forward multiple items to some or all of the 20+ people in my mini-network, including 3 who worked with you here in Houston. Although I know you would rather walk on hot coals for eternity, if you ever ventured back to Houston, you wouldn't have to pay for lodging. You and Les deserve more than a medal, and have the respect and admiration of many. ~Gulfmann On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Ken Hiebert knhieb...@shaw.ca wrote: : Even though there are only 1,500 subscribers I expect that certain items get a broader circulation. Every once in a while there is an item that i forward to other lists. Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/gulfmann%40gmail.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
Re: [Marxism] Israelis shocked by racist football chants
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Angelus Novus fuerdenkommunis...@yahoo.com wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dennis Brasky wrote: Zionism shares with Nazism a drive to remove an unwanted human population. Angelus Nouvs replied: There's nothing wrong with pointing out the inherent brutality of the Zionist project, but there *is* something wrong with the implied assumption that it's some unique quality only shared with Nazism. I add: Correct I think, Angelus Nouvs. The same thing happened, mas o menos, in the USA when blacks, having been excluded from many major league sports decades earlier, were invited by some franchise owners to desegregate them some decades later. I'm surprised that some of these athletes, like Jackie Robinson, weren't murdered by racist whites back in the day. Of course, in the years following blacks (and whites and others who supported them) were killed by racist whites when they tried to desegregate the rest of society (schools, neighborhoods, jobs, etc.). Look further back in our national history at slavery in the USA or the Jim Crowism that followed it. In fact, the Nazis sent at least one team to the USA in the 1930s precisely to study how the rulers and their managers managed the race problem in the USA. Nazism had no monopoly on violent, murderous, state-sanctioned racism. We won't even mention the history of Native Americans, Hispanics, Asians, etc., in the country. ~Howard Beeth Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/gulfmann%40gmail.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
Re: [Marxism] Atheism Humanism as Bourgeois Ideology
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Bones--This is an audio only, which I'm not gonna listen to. However, if you click on the link, you'll find there is listed a second audio about a Hungarian novelist.~H/ On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Jim Farmelant farmela...@juno.com wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ralph Dumaon on the atheist/humanist/skeptics movements in the US: http://www.thinktwiceradio.com/dumain/dumain.html Ralph summarizes the contents of his podcast as follows: I propose a framework in which the intellectual basis of the atheist - humanist - skeptical movement, particularly in the USA, can be seen as a progressive bourgeois ideology that, while marking an historical advance beyond pre-modern, pre-industrial, pre-technological, pre-capitalist, supernaturally based forms of unreason, addresses only one half of the cognitive sources of irrationality of the modern world, and is ill-equipped to grapple with the secular forms of unreason, which can be denoted by the term ideology. I argue that the Anglo-American intellectual heritage of atheism has never absorbed the indispensable heritage of German philosophy and social theory from Hegel to Marx to 20th century critical theory and thus remains philosophically underdeveloped and ensconced in a naive scientism. I furthermore argue that American atheism/humanism lacks adequate historical perspective due to the historical amnesia induced by the two historical breaks of McCarthyism and Reaganism. To combat historical amnesia I highlight not only relevant intellectual history but the buried history of working class atheism. I also sketch out some relevant philosophical aspects of the history of the American humanist movement beginning with the first Humanist Manifesto of 1933. I then discuss the intellectual consequences of the political repression of the McCarthy era. From there I discuss two prominent influences of the 1960s and 1970s, atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair and humanist Paul Kurtz. I highlight Kurtz's dialogue with the Yugoslav Marxist-Humanist philosophers and his failure to learn from the encounter. Finally, I discuss the intellectual shortcomings of the so-called new atheism and today's celebrity atheists in the context of the depressing political perspective of our reactionary neoliberal era. I also don't spare the dissidents within the movement from my accusations of intellectual superficiality. I end on a note of bleak pessimism. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math Fast, Secure, NetZero 4G Mobile Broadband. Try it. http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=NZINTISP0512T4GOUT2 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/gulfmann%40gmail.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
Re: [Marxism] Anti-WikiLeaks campaign undermines anti-rape campaigns
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == or play with him, set an example of him to other potential whistleblowers, jangle his nerves, bleed his financial resources, divide progressives, etc. It's not like the Ruling Class doesn't have a budget for cruel and unusual punishment of all kinds. On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Graham Milner gkmil...@bigpond.com wrote: ==**==**== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ==**==**== Perhaps Stuart Munckton could confirm the veracity of the article below. It is dated August 24. My hard copy of the same issue of 'Green Left Weekly' is dated August 22. I attempted without success to post a comment on this article, criticising its author's equivocation over the vital need of the international left to unite in defence of Julian Assange. I posed the question in my comments that if I, or anyone else, alleged that the Duke of Edinburgh was a serial pederast, how much credence would be given to such allegations? I suggested that if the Swedish or British authorities seriously believe that Julian Assange is guilty of sexual violence then they should either charge him under the relevant statute(s), or back off. - Graham Milner - Original Message - From: Stuart Munckton stuartmunck...@gmail.com To: Graham Milner gkmil...@bigpond.com Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 10:41 AM Subject: [Marxism] Anti-WikiLeaks campaign undermines anti-rape campaigns ==**==**== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ==**==**== The personal saga of WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange has been used to overshadow the ground-breaking journalism of WikiLeaks in exposing the secrets of governments and corporations around the world. http://www.greenleft.org.au/**node/51992http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51992 -- “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.eduMarxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.** utah.edu/mailman/options/**marxism/gkmilner%40bigpond.comhttp://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/gkmilner%40bigpond.com __**__ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.**utah.eduMarxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.** utah.edu/mailman/options/**marxism/gulfmann%40gmail.comhttp://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/gulfmann%40gmail.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
Re: [Marxism] Marx's Racist Put-Down of Lassalle
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == gyp as in cheat as in Gypsy? Prolly so... On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Ken Hiebert knhieb...@shaw.ca wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Ken H. said: If we can pride ourselves on being more advanced today, don't we owe this to the struggles of those who have fought racist oppression? In the absence of such struggles, how many of us would be more advanced than Marx? (The us I am referring to is in particular whites who oppose racism). Mark L. said: I have no idea what this means. Can you clarify, please Ken Hiebert replies: Thanks for giving me the chance to express myself more clearly. Marx was highly intelligent and a humanist, but this was not enough to free him from racist ideas. The generations that came after him were exposed to anti-racist and anti-colonialist struggles. These struggles helped the later generations to free themselves of racist ideas. So, if we are more advanced than Marx on racism, it is not because we are morally or intellectually superior. (Not that anyone was suggesting that}. Revolutionaries working in unions have been confronted with a workforce divided by race and ethnicity and have had to develop a response to that. I don't know if Marx had that experience in the union movement of his day. I look at my own history of ignorance and how I overcame it. When I was a child I would sometimes hear the expression to jew someone down, meaning to haggle or to drive a hard bargain. I remember clearly that i used this expression one day in the classroom and my teacher challenged me on it. I had used the expression as thoughtlessly as you might say to gyp someone. i wonder how long I might have gone on using that expression if my teacher had not challenged me. I remember as well being at university and standing looking at a plaque that reported the number of women and men in the Arts department. Men out numbered women about 2 to 1. It didn't dawn on me that there was anything wrong with this (aside from the difficulty in dating). This was 1966. It was a few more years before I was influenced by the women's liberation movement. Without the women's movement would I have advanced at all in my thinking? ken h Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/gulfmann%40gmail.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
Re: [Marxism] The Story of My Arrest for Disrupting Tony Blair
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Good advice, apparently painfully learned. On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: ==**==**== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ==**==**== Counterpunch May 31, 2012 Diary of a Mad Carney The Story of My Arrest for Disrupting Tony Blair by LAWRENCE REICHARD On May 20 I was arrested for yelling “liar” and “warmonger” at Tony Blair as he spoke to the graduating one percenters at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, 50 miles from my Bangor home. As the cops led me away, before they arrested me, I calmly led fully 4-6 of them in a serpentine pattern weaving in and out of a line of planted stately trees. It took them about four or five trees to figure out I was yanking their chain. And as they led me away I continued to yell. Hence my arrest. Much to my surprise the news shot around the world, thanks largely to an AP story that cited Blair’s current faux job of negotiating a solution to the Palestine problem. Never mind that he supported Israel’s 2008-2009 war on the people of Gaza. The story of my arrest made papers in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Ukraine, Iran and Ghana. And it made the front page of the Bangor Daily News, my hometown paper, replete with my name and mug shot. That’s when things got interesting. The next day I showed up for a previously scheduled substitute teaching gig at Hampden Academy, a public high school in Hampden, Maine, where I had been a substitute teacher for more than eight years. Before first period I was asked by a school administrator to keep a low profile. I agreed to do this, and I did. During the course of the day a half-dozen or so students asked me why I had protested Blair, and in a few short, calm sentences I told them. They uniformly supported me, and the students in general were more vocally and demonstrably friendly than normal that day. The next day I got a call from a local TV reporter who said she had heard I might be fired from my sub job because of the Tony Blair incident, and she asked to interview me. Thinking it might be an opportunity to further publicize Tony Blair’s war crimes, I agreed. I was wrong. All the reporter cared about was the possibility of my being fired. All my efforts to direct the interview back to the real issue at hand quickly and inexorably found their way to the floor of the editing room. The Iraq war is old news. It doesn’t sell. Bright and early the next morning I called my supervisor at Hampden Academy and asked to come in and speak with him. My request was granted. In that meeting I was told that I was innocent until proven guilty but that my presence at Hampden Academy had produced a “carnival-like atmosphere” and that this was not needed. In other words I had been fired. So much for innocent until proven guilty. I had been called to sub 12 of the 16 school days prior to my arrest. After my arrest I did not get called for six straight days and I emailed the school in an attempt to clarify my status. I received a reply asking me to call the school and I did. I was then told that I should apply to sub elsewhere and that the school wanted things to “calm down a little bit.” So I went public. In the week following my arrest the Bangor Daily News ran no less than three op-eds about my arrest, one of them by me. A local talk radio station had me on. And there was the aforementioned TV report. Clearly there was media interest in the story. I fired off a press release, and I got two bites and one nibble that has yet to play out. The Bangor Daily News wrote an online piece that will likely make its print edition, and the same TV reporter called and interviewed me again. Some people are a little slow to learn, and I am apparently one of them. Again I thought this would be an opportunity to talk about a war that has killed and displaced hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, has killed almost 5,000 Americans, has gravely wounded some 30,000 Americans, has wrought considerable environmental destruction, and has utterly squandered an estimated $3 trillion of national wealth. Meanwhile Hampden Academy is laying off personnel. But the media cares not one whit about all this. As had happened the week before, they wanted to talk only of my firing and the mechanics of my arrest, not the real issue at hand – Blair’s extremely costly lies. And so ends my more than eight years of unblemished subbing at Hampden Academy. In January I was fired from my other job after my heavy and much publicized involvement with Occupy Bangor. I
Re: [Marxism] Columbia Manhattanville expansion kills worker
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == No, I understood fine, Louis. I know that class forces contend in your neighborhood, mine, Homs, Tripoli, and everywhere. Still, it ain't often that workers die on the job right across the street from where one works. My post was an attempt to link you in your place with others in their various places. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: ==**==**== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ==**==**== On 3/22/2012 1:15 PM, Gulf Mann wrote: Cripes, Louis, you musta thought you were in Homs or Tripoli. Stick to the shadows. Duck and dodge. I guess you didn't understand the point of my posting this. It had nothing to do with me. It was about Columbia using a criminal enterprise 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] Fwd: QUERY: How are Loyalists treated in courses? [G Furr]
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == You can inform the listserve that all of Grover's questions are answered in Gary Nash's The Unknown American Revolution. I use it in my grad seminar. M -- Forwarded message -- From: John Saillant oie...@yahoo.com Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:16:54 -0500 Subject: Re: QUERY: How are Loyalists treated in courses? [G Furr] To: h-oie...@h-net.msu.edu I'm glad to see this thread about Loyalists because I'd like to raise a question or two. Here is one of them: Why did so many in the 13 colonies support the Revolution? I understand why many in the colonial elite did so. They became the new ruling elite, replacing British governors, Parliament, etc. But why did so many of the common people support it? Grover Furr Montclair SU 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] From the latest London Review
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == No problems here either. On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Alistair Boyd-Bell andrens...@gmail.comwrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == These articles seem to be behind a paywall, is this the case for anyone else? On Aug 18, 2011 5:51 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n16/stefan-collini/from-robbins-to-mckinsey Stefan Collini The Dismantling of the Universities Since perhaps the 1970s, certainly the 1980s, official discourse has become increasingly colonised by an economistic idiom, which is derived not strictly from economic theory proper, but rather from the language of management schools, business consultants and financial journalism. British society has been subject to a deliberate campaign, initiated in free-market think tanks in the 1960s and 1970s and pushed strongly by business leaders and right-wing commentators ever since, to elevate the status of business and commerce and to make ‘contributing to economic growth’ the overriding goal of a whole swathe of social, cultural and intellectual activities which had previously been understood and valued in other terms. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n16/corey-robin/the-war-on-tax Corey Robin Downgrading Obama The debt crisis confronting the Obama administration is the product of war and taxes. There is little dispute that the origins of the crisis predate Obama’s election. When George W. Bush took office in 2001, the US had a $2 trillion budget surplus. Many believed that if the country merely continued on the path set by Bill Clinton, the national debt, then $5.7 trillion, would be eliminated by the end of the decade. Bush chose a different way. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n16/thomas-powers/too-fast Thomas Powers Malcolm X How to be black in America was the challenge for spirited young men of colour who found their way to Harlem in the troubled years of the 1940s, when music, poetry, dance and art were giving way to drink, drugs, street crime and sex for money. Malcolm Little’s first impulse was to cut loose in the big city where he found himself soon after his 17th birthday in 1942. Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/andrensath%40gmail.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/gulfmann%40gmail.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
Re: [Marxism] The Encyclopedia of Anti Revisionism on-line: The dirty little secret
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Let me second Dayne here, Waistline2. When I open one of your posts, I always settle in, fire up a smoke, and put on my thinking cap. Thank you for sharing. On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Dayne Goodwin daynegood...@gmail.comwrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 2:47 PM, waistli...@aol.com wrote: . . . I believe I am the only comrade that communicates on list such as this. The value of the list for me has been exposure to a vast amount of literature and ideas. Thank you for doing so. Please keep it up. Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/gulfmann%40gmail.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
Re: [Marxism] Roger Cohen: Goldstone is bizarre
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 4/8/11, Dennis Brasky dmozart1...@gmail.com wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Goldstone won't seek report nullification http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_israel_un_report Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/gulfmann%40gmail.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
Re: [Marxism] Wallerstein: Libya and the World Left
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What a wonderful sounding quote, although palpably untrue: as a rule, oppressors want to be free, even while they unite to deny such freedom to their victims. On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:40 PM, dave x dave...@gmail.com wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Wallerstein: Libya and the World Left http://www.iwallerstein.com/libya-world-left/ excerpt: The key struggle worldwide right now is the second Arab revolt. It will be hard enough to obtain a truly radical outcome in this struggle. Qaddafi is a major obstacle for the Arab, and indeed the world, left. Perhaps we should all remember Simone de Beauvoir’s maxim: “Wanting to be free yourself means wanting that others be free.” Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/gulfmann%40gmail.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] Politics the Super Bowl
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == How do people decide which athletic team to root for? Most people prolly root for the home team or the team closest to home or the team with which they have some biographic connection. That's the majority way of deciding. A part of the minority--the Ann Randites and their cousins--commit to individual players they favor and side with them regardless of which team they shirt up for. Another part of the minority, more rational, scientific, and prolly gambling addicted, bet the Vegas line. It's head over heart for them. For me this Super Bowl, it's politics. NFL teams are all owned by Rulingclass kazillionaires who use them as toys for amusement or as investments to make $$$. If teams don't make $$$ or fail to amuse by losing too much, Rulingclass kazillionaires either move them to a larger, more profitable venue or sell them in disgust to another Rulingclass kazillionaire looking for a play toy or a cash register. Only 1 team in the NFL ain't owned by Rulingclass kazillionaires: the Green Bay Packers, who instead are municipally owned by the citizens of Green Bay. The Packers thus represent ordinary Workingclass stiffs, like the big majority of Americans. Like us. They have the only valid claim of being America's Team. A further attraction with the Packers is that Green Bay is by far, far, far the smallest city in the nation to field an NFL team. Imagine plucky little Green Bay going up against the largest, wealthiest cities in the land. It's a David vs. Goliath contest. In other words, no contest all all for me to pick sides. 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
