[Marxism] Fwd: SYRIZA and Elections in Greece: Crisis, Challenges and Potential
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * "So this all brings us to the question: assuming that SYRIZA does win the elections, as all the evidence points to, what happens next? For one, SYRIZA would face not only the resistance of the Troika, the ruling classes of Europe, the conservative and social democratic parties of Greece, and the capitalists at home. For one, SYRIZA would probably have to form a coalition government, unless they were to gain 35-40% of the vote which would give them an absolute majority meaning they'd have to compromise with other parties. If SYRIZA were to come to power, they may face heavy pressure from the Troika that cause them to fail and toppling the government. Or the pressure could cause SYRIZA to temper its radicalism and continue the agenda of austerity. "Yet ruling class is not the only resistance SYRIZA faces. They also have to deal with the Greek people – millions of whom are jobless and have spent years fighting austerity. While the reformists in SYRIZA will try to play respectful, the masses of people, possessing a government that at least promises to improve their position, could push farther than Tsipras and the reformists are willing to go. This could lead to a revolutionary showdown with the forces of Greek capitalism and imperialism throughout Europe." FULL: http://www.openmediaboston.org/content/syriza-and-elections-greece-crisis-challenges-and-potential-3072 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Interest in Bukharin's writing
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[Marxism] The 1960s on Redline
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[Marxism] Nigeria: 'Je Suis Baga'? The world ignores the tragedy of Baga | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * By *Baba Aye* January 17, 2015 – /Links International Journnal of Socialist Renewal/ -- The fishing community of Baga, by Lake Chad in Borno state, Nigeria, was under siege by Boko Haram for a week at the beginning of January/. /Amnesty International described the ensuing bloodbath as Boko Haram’s “deadliest massacre”, estimating that some 2000 persons were killed. Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan, who condemned the “dastardly terrorist attack” against /Charlie Hebdo /cartoonists within hours of the tragic event in Paris, did not say a word about this tragedy. The attacks on Baga and more than 16 towns and villages in its Local Government Area started on January 3. The insurgents overran the headquarters of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) of the Chadian, Nigerien and Nigerian armies. Fleeing soldiers, men, women and children from Baga were pursued into the villages and bushes, killed and buildings set ablaze. Full article at http://links.org.au/node/4244 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Interest in Bukharin's writing
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Thanks!!! Dave and Einde, can someone put it on the Crossroads page? On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Jim Farmelant via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > POSTING RULES & NOTES > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > * > > > > Here is Hessen's paper. > > > http://webfiles.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/rereadingClassics/Hessen.pdf/V1_Hessen.pdf > > > > Jim Farmelant > http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant > http://www.foxymath.com > Learn or Review Basic Math > > > -- Original Message -- > From: Andrew Pollack via Marxism > Subject: Re: [Marxism] Interest in Bukharin's writing > Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 16:05:32 -0500 > > > Bukharin's English-language archive is here: > http://marxists.org/archive/bukharin/library.htm > > Most of "Science at the Crossroads" is here: > http://www.marxists.org/subject/science/ > I say most because it doesn't include Hessen's landmark study, which really > must be rectified!!! > > Anyway if your collective study of Bukharin yields new items to be posted > that would be great (even though I'm a vehemently anti-Bukharin > Trotskyist). > > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 3:34 PM, jasmine via Marxism < > marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > > > POSTING RULES & NOTES > > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > > * > > > > I am currently taking notes on Bukharin's interesting, 1930s work: > Science > > at the Crossroads. This was Bukharin's presentation, with the other > > delegates from the USSR, on Science; the document was presented to the > > International Congress of the History of Science and Technology. > > > > The above mentioned title does take some time and effort to unravel and > > penetrate esp., considering the historical developments that have taken > > place in science since the 1930s. Lenin lauded Bukharin as a > theoreticians > > of excellence, not without reason. > > > > To this day the talents of Bukharin are not acknowledged, nor fully > > realised, neither have they been fully understood. > > > > Bukharin's Marxism does critique -the absolutist and Bonapartist aspects > > of Stalinism. Though Bukharin's strong expression is subte and oft not > > worth the trouble -to the general reader. > > > > One is bound to consider the context when reading any of Bukharin's > > writing. His ideas are subtly spun in a context (the post-civil war, > > consolidation of Stalinism, Totskyism, the rising of Fascism and a > > depressed global Capitalism of that time). Many would contend that these > > factors are similar to our own i.e., considering the similarity with our > > current historical condition. > > > > Any reading has a backdrop of Bukharin's fall, His notorious show trial, > > the historical distortions put this promising Marxist, either as an enemy > > of the Socialism, painted as an inconsequential Stalinist. > > > > However a basic reading always traps the reader, as such an approach > > obscures Bukharin's unique and original Marxist position. He is obscured > in > > the conventions and distorted reproductions of the central committee and > > others enemies; all with a particular general line. > > > > A more serious study is needed i.e., towards relooking at this figure; > > such a study would bring much new thoughts on many new topics. I find > > Bukharin's angle on theory and practice offers up a critique on each and > > every hegemon (evident in Gramsci's work) and hence Stalinism. > > > > The works of Bukharin need to be expanded upon to clarify his teachings > > within the limits caused by the consolidation and cementing of a new type > > of absolutism (Stalinism). > > > > All of Bukharin's work have a distinct identity, esp., within the Marxist > > corpus; the works do provide a lot of depth, an analysis with a wonderful > > emphasis on the validity of sociology, the Historico-materialist slant. > > With some effort the text even breaks out and clearly critiques its > > stultified Stalinist (the general line of a quasi police state). > > > > However Science at the Crossroads, like Frederick Engel's Dialectics of > > Nature, takes time to reinterpret; both where written in different > > historical condit
[Marxism] Solidarity Forever-100 years old.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Greek elections: Syriza’s young radicals plot a political earthquake for Europe | World news | The Guardian
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[Marxism] Clashes erupt between Assad regime and YPG in Hasakah
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Clashes erupt between Assad regime and YPG in Hasakah The significance of this being that, to date, while the PYD has been alliance with the FSA in Kobane, and off and on in Aleppo, in the Hasakah region the PYD has had an unofficial, pragmatic detente with the regime forces there. Some have called it an alliance of convenience (obviously, the immediate threat to Rojava in that region - far northeast - has been from ISIS, so it made sense for the PYD/YPG to not provoke the regime in that region, given the regime's pragmatic policy of leaving the YPG alone to concentrate on slaughtering the rest of the country). Hopefully, this will further clarify things. https://twitter.com/dilkocer/status/556426934251696128 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yij2cG3cTuE&feature=youtu.be https://twitter.com/Flea1337/status/556433761953677312 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBFDaCE _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Interest in Bukharin's writing
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Doug Greene's lecture, "Bukharin: Favorite of the Whole Party" might be of interest to you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma2If4rtp8w Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: jasmine via Marxism To: Jim Farmelant Subject: [Marxism] Interest in Bukharin's writing Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 20:34:21 + POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I am currently taking notes on Bukharin's interesting, 1930s work: Science at the Crossroads. This was Bukharin's presentation, with the other delegates from the USSR, on Science; the document was presented to the International Congress of the History of Science and Technology. Th What's your flood risk? Find flood maps, interactive tools, FAQs, and agents in your area. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/54bae8c42c64468c422d4st03vuc _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Interest in Bukharin's writing
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Here is Hessen's paper. http://webfiles.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/rereadingClassics/Hessen.pdf/V1_Hessen.pdf Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math -- Original Message -- From: Andrew Pollack via Marxism Subject: Re: [Marxism] Interest in Bukharin's writing Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 16:05:32 -0500 Bukharin's English-language archive is here: http://marxists.org/archive/bukharin/library.htm Most of "Science at the Crossroads" is here: http://www.marxists.org/subject/science/ I say most because it doesn't include Hessen's landmark study, which really must be rectified!!! Anyway if your collective study of Bukharin yields new items to be posted that would be great (even though I'm a vehemently anti-Bukharin Trotskyist). On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 3:34 PM, jasmine via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > POSTING RULES & NOTES > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > * > > I am currently taking notes on Bukharin's interesting, 1930s work: Science > at the Crossroads. This was Bukharin's presentation, with the other > delegates from the USSR, on Science; the document was presented to the > International Congress of the History of Science and Technology. > > The above mentioned title does take some time and effort to unravel and > penetrate esp., considering the historical developments that have taken > place in science since the 1930s. Lenin lauded Bukharin as a theoreticians > of excellence, not without reason. > > To this day the talents of Bukharin are not acknowledged, nor fully > realised, neither have they been fully understood. > > Bukharin's Marxism does critique -the absolutist and Bonapartist aspects > of Stalinism. Though Bukharin's strong expression is subte and oft not > worth the trouble -to the general reader. > > One is bound to consider the context when reading any of Bukharin's > writing. His ideas are subtly spun in a context (the post-civil war, > consolidation of Stalinism, Totskyism, the rising of Fascism and a > depressed global Capitalism of that time). Many would contend that these > factors are similar to our own i.e., considering the similarity with our > current historical condition. > > Any reading has a backdrop of Bukharin's fall, His notorious show trial, > the historical distortions put this promising Marxist, either as an enemy > of the Socialism, painted as an inconsequential Stalinist. > > However a basic reading always traps the reader, as such an approach > obscures Bukharin's unique and original Marxist position. He is obscured in > the conventions and distorted reproductions of the central committee and > others enemies; all with a particular general line. > > A more serious study is needed i.e., towards relooking at this figure; > such a study would bring much new thoughts on many new topics. I find > Bukharin's angle on theory and practice offers up a critique on each and > every hegemon (evident in Gramsci's work) and hence Stalinism. > > The works of Bukharin need to be expanded upon to clarify his teachings > within the limits caused by the consolidation and cementing of a new type > of absolutism (Stalinism). > > All of Bukharin's work have a distinct identity, esp., within the Marxist > corpus; the works do provide a lot of depth, an analysis with a wonderful > emphasis on the validity of sociology, the Historico-materialist slant. > With some effort the text even breaks out and clearly critiques its > stultified Stalinist (the general line of a quasi police state). > > However Science at the Crossroads, like Frederick Engel's Dialectics of > Nature, takes time to reinterpret; both where written in different > historical conditions i.e., before many of today's scientific concepts came > about. Despite this the underlying framework holds ground and can be built > upon. > > There is a essential Marxist kernel that remain, forever i.e., for as long > a particular (hegemonic) scientific interest poses and is claimed as an > absolute form (cloaked in whatever fancy dress). > > Science is held up (o be linked to the production process, thereby the > claim of discoveries as private property i.e., and the reader can consider > various interests (prison, military industrial complex &c.) > > The work can be a tool to look upon the current condition of Science. It > takes time to work through; and esp.,
Re: [Marxism] Kagarlitsky to join Russian nationalist marches? RE: Marxism Digest, Vol 135, Issue 33
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[Marxism] the racist history of modern police unions
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Re: [Marxism] Kagarlitsky to join Russian nationalist marches? RE: Marxism Digest, Vol 135, Issue 33
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Louis' question as to whether Boris Kagarlitsky would join a protest in Moscow against foreign political intervention in Russia is rhetorical but also ill-willed because it relies on a vague article in The Guardian and because if he really wanted to know, including about what, exactly, the Guardian is reporting upon, then he would ask Boris. For my part, I would need to know more about the views and intentions of the march organizers in Russia to have an opinion. But I can say that if I were in Haiti prior to the coup of 2004 or in Egypt prior to the coup of 2013, I would definitely have joined marches against the foreign governments and NGOs that were fomenting those coups. Louis place a segment of private correspondence from me to him on the list re the John Pilger speech of Dec. 5. I like to think I can write to him in private. I'll be disappointed if that is not the case. For the information of the list, I was referring to the fact that yet another established writer (John Pilger) is added to the Louis' list of Kremlin dupes, therefore the "circle" of writers who are not dupes (ie who recognize the NATO intervention in eastern Europe for what it is) grows smaller by the day. RA _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Sol Dollinger interview, part two | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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[Marxism] "Our Terrible Country"
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[Marxism] Fwd: Kurds Battle Assad's Forces, Opening New Front In Syria's War
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Re: [Marxism] Interest in Bukharin's writing
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Bukharin's English-language archive is here: http://marxists.org/archive/bukharin/library.htm Most of "Science at the Crossroads" is here: http://www.marxists.org/subject/science/ I say most because it doesn't include Hessen's landmark study, which really must be rectified!!! Anyway if your collective study of Bukharin yields new items to be posted that would be great (even though I'm a vehemently anti-Bukharin Trotskyist). On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 3:34 PM, jasmine via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > POSTING RULES & NOTES > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > * > > I am currently taking notes on Bukharin's interesting, 1930s work: Science > at the Crossroads. This was Bukharin's presentation, with the other > delegates from the USSR, on Science; the document was presented to the > International Congress of the History of Science and Technology. > > The above mentioned title does take some time and effort to unravel and > penetrate esp., considering the historical developments that have taken > place in science since the 1930s. Lenin lauded Bukharin as a theoreticians > of excellence, not without reason. > > To this day the talents of Bukharin are not acknowledged, nor fully > realised, neither have they been fully understood. > > Bukharin's Marxism does critique -the absolutist and Bonapartist aspects > of Stalinism. Though Bukharin's strong expression is subte and oft not > worth the trouble -to the general reader. > > One is bound to consider the context when reading any of Bukharin's > writing. His ideas are subtly spun in a context (the post-civil war, > consolidation of Stalinism, Totskyism, the rising of Fascism and a > depressed global Capitalism of that time). Many would contend that these > factors are similar to our own i.e., considering the similarity with our > current historical condition. > > Any reading has a backdrop of Bukharin's fall, His notorious show trial, > the historical distortions put this promising Marxist, either as an enemy > of the Socialism, painted as an inconsequential Stalinist. > > However a basic reading always traps the reader, as such an approach > obscures Bukharin's unique and original Marxist position. He is obscured in > the conventions and distorted reproductions of the central committee and > others enemies; all with a particular general line. > > A more serious study is needed i.e., towards relooking at this figure; > such a study would bring much new thoughts on many new topics. I find > Bukharin's angle on theory and practice offers up a critique on each and > every hegemon (evident in Gramsci's work) and hence Stalinism. > > The works of Bukharin need to be expanded upon to clarify his teachings > within the limits caused by the consolidation and cementing of a new type > of absolutism (Stalinism). > > All of Bukharin's work have a distinct identity, esp., within the Marxist > corpus; the works do provide a lot of depth, an analysis with a wonderful > emphasis on the validity of sociology, the Historico-materialist slant. > With some effort the text even breaks out and clearly critiques its > stultified Stalinist (the general line of a quasi police state). > > However Science at the Crossroads, like Frederick Engel's Dialectics of > Nature, takes time to reinterpret; both where written in different > historical conditions i.e., before many of today's scientific concepts came > about. Despite this the underlying framework holds ground and can be built > upon. > > There is a essential Marxist kernel that remain, forever i.e., for as long > a particular (hegemonic) scientific interest poses and is claimed as an > absolute form (cloaked in whatever fancy dress). > > Science is held up (o be linked to the production process, thereby the > claim of discoveries as private property i.e., and the reader can consider > various interests (prison, military industrial complex &c.) > > The work can be a tool to look upon the current condition of Science. It > takes time to work through; and esp., to see the work as a Marxist critique > of Stalin's bureaucratic state. > > The figure of Bukharin is blurred, as was Marxism; he has become a > historical distortion. But his works have an interesting Marxist > orientation, they give readers a means to materialise and touch and > realize the potential in Bukharin's ideas, which made this friendly man to > be such a threat. > > My i
Re: [Marxism] Interest in Bukharin's writing
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 1/17/15 3:34 PM, jasmine via Marxism wrote: I would also like to make contact with any comrades that are interested in re-establishing, relooking and sharing thoughts on the writings of comrade Bukharin. I am very pro-Bukharin as these articles reflect: Review of "How it All Began": http://www.swans.com/library/art9/lproy01.html Review of "Philosophical Arabesques": http://www.swans.com/library/art12/lproy33.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Interest in Bukharin's writing
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I am currently taking notes on Bukharin's interesting, 1930s work: Science at the Crossroads. This was Bukharin's presentation, with the other delegates from the USSR, on Science; the document was presented to the International Congress of the History of Science and Technology. The above mentioned title does take some time and effort to unravel and penetrate esp., considering the historical developments that have taken place in science since the 1930s. Lenin lauded Bukharin as a theoreticians of excellence, not without reason. To this day the talents of Bukharin are not acknowledged, nor fully realised, neither have they been fully understood. Bukharin's Marxism does critique -the absolutist and Bonapartist aspects of Stalinism. Though Bukharin's strong expression is subte and oft not worth the trouble -to the general reader. One is bound to consider the context when reading any of Bukharin's writing. His ideas are subtly spun in a context (the post-civil war, consolidation of Stalinism, Totskyism, the rising of Fascism and a depressed global Capitalism of that time). Many would contend that these factors are similar to our own i.e., considering the similarity with our current historical condition. Any reading has a backdrop of Bukharin's fall, His notorious show trial, the historical distortions put this promising Marxist, either as an enemy of the Socialism, painted as an inconsequential Stalinist. However a basic reading always traps the reader, as such an approach obscures Bukharin's unique and original Marxist position. He is obscured in the conventions and distorted reproductions of the central committee and others enemies; all with a particular general line. A more serious study is needed i.e., towards relooking at this figure; such a study would bring much new thoughts on many new topics. I find Bukharin's angle on theory and practice offers up a critique on each and every hegemon (evident in Gramsci's work) and hence Stalinism. The works of Bukharin need to be expanded upon to clarify his teachings within the limits caused by the consolidation and cementing of a new type of absolutism (Stalinism). All of Bukharin's work have a distinct identity, esp., within the Marxist corpus; the works do provide a lot of depth, an analysis with a wonderful emphasis on the validity of sociology, the Historico-materialist slant. With some effort the text even breaks out and clearly critiques its stultified Stalinist (the general line of a quasi police state). However Science at the Crossroads, like Frederick Engel's Dialectics of Nature, takes time to reinterpret; both where written in different historical conditions i.e., before many of today's scientific concepts came about. Despite this the underlying framework holds ground and can be built upon. There is a essential Marxist kernel that remain, forever i.e., for as long a particular (hegemonic) scientific interest poses and is claimed as an absolute form (cloaked in whatever fancy dress). Science is held up (o be linked to the production process, thereby the claim of discoveries as private property i.e., and the reader can consider various interests (prison, military industrial complex &c.) The work can be a tool to look upon the current condition of Science. It takes time to work through; and esp., to see the work as a Marxist critique of Stalin's bureaucratic state. The figure of Bukharin is blurred, as was Marxism; he has become a historical distortion. But his works have an interesting Marxist orientation, they give readers a means to materialise and touch and realize the potential in Bukharin's ideas, which made this friendly man to be such a threat. My interest in his work has led me to try to get hold of a digital version of any of his Prison writings esp., How it all Began, and Philosophical Arabesques. I would also like to make contact with any comrades that are interested in re-establishing, relooking and sharing thoughts on the writings of comrade Bukharin. ... Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Shlomo Sand's "Invention of the Jewish People" can be read online
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[Marxism] Re Marxism
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I have enjoyed receiving and reading your messages and the various links that your mailing list provides. Hopefully 2015 will continue the success of all the contributors, writers, readers, moderator's &c., the atoms and organs of the list. This Marxist mailing list is a valuable resource for intellectuals, activists &c., esp., as the list emphasises Marxism as a broad, permanent, continual and dynamic instrument. The List focuses on the changes that occur from general to the specifics within the world of reality. All socio-historical phenomena emerge, are defined and developed within a given context i.e., the totality of conditions. Human formations (externally real though reflected in the inner world) generated out of the struggles of contending realities (dialectics). As a tool Marxism's spatio-temporalism provides a position with the latent and dynamic properties (when expanding on the and bring about latent powers) residing and maturing in the developing material structure of the world. The Marxist perspective should be regenerated and developed; it s expressiveness and revolutionary potential -is cradled in the current conditions; it is a historical development maturing in an epoch of capitalism. Though the basis of revolutionary gains lie on the basis of the realised gains (applied theory and practice) developing according to socio-historical conditions. Marxism's international (global) qualities express and develop according a latent antithesis lying within Capitalism contradictions: in which we have subordination of the whole (globalization) to a particular 1% interest. Or, on the other hand, subordination the particular interest (the individual) to the established economic interest (its mode of production). Though, in the latter an established whole serves the particular, the individual, in this case. Each particular individual being the atom, from which it and in which he or she is established (defined (developed (education, broadly speaking))). In this process, resolving the contention i.e., internal and external contradiction (struggle). we derive and establish a settled, harmonious as a fully completed form (whole (Socialism )) its critique and action establishes the underpinning rationale of Marxism and offers a more settled and humane social order. Marxism allows us to go beyond the distorted totalitarian labels and stereotypes that are commonly pinned (e.g., the Soviet experiment). Capitalism is (a total system serving a narrowly focused interest) it should accordingly be critiqued and have its socio-economic ideological expressiveness scrutinised i.e., and critiqued, exposing and helping the social forces that lie within and behind its ideas. Such a system's antithesis would be a global movement with a broad interest. The above facilitates an understanding of the real world, outside the obfuscatory, diversionary trap of idealistic philosophical. Such a basis underlines Marx's point: our aim is to transform the real world; its socio-historical development ought to be looked at as a dynamic interplay of social forces and confronted with the right coordination of theoretical and practical activism, this is intrinsic to the Marxist approach. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Caning of Saudi Blogger Is Delayed Amid Protests
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * NY Times, Jan. 17 2015 Caning of Saudi Blogger Is Delayed Amid Protests By BEN HUBBARD BEIRUT, Lebanon — A lawyer in Saudi Arabia who founded a human rights group was sentenced to 15 years in prison. His wife, a women’s advocate who won a courage award from the State Department, says she is barred from leaving the country. Her brother, a writer who ran a liberal online forum, is also in jail and was sentenced to be caned regularly in a public square over the next few months. International condemnation of the writer’s sentence, which also included a prison term and a heavy fine, has mounted since a video of him receiving his first round of blows appeared on YouTube, and the State Department and the United Nations have called for the caning to stop. The Saudi authorities did not administer the second round of blows as scheduled on Friday. But the case of the writer, Raif Badawi, has nonetheless drawn new attention to the Saudi government’s harsh treatment of dissidents for acts that are considered anything but criminal in the West. Adding to the scrutiny of Saudi Arabia’s legal system are the rise of the Islamic State extremist group, which, like Saudi Arabia, claims to rule according to Shariah, and the attack on the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo for its satirical portrayals of the Prophet Muhammad, an act considered criminal in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government, which has joined the United States-led air campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, condemned the violence in Paris as a “cowardly terrorist attack which is incompatible with Islam.” But at home, Saudi rulers strike hard at those who question how they apply Islam to governance, rights groups say. “There is just no tolerance for any kind of domestic dissent or activism,” said Adam Coogle, a researcher for Human Rights Watch. “They have made it a red line and a zero-sum game, where anyone who crosses that line will be dealt with.” The caning of Mr. Badawi is the latest step by the Saudi government to punish a small group of activists in the western port city of Jidda who have challenged the kingdom’s fundamentalist, patriarchal system, to the fury of the state and conservative elements of Saudi society, including their own families. Speaking through Skype from Jidda, Samar Badawi said her problems began after she fled her father’s house and moved into a shelter for battered women. Her father, angry that she had left, filed a lawsuit against her in 2009 for “parental disobedience.” For her defense, she took on a young lawyer named Waleed Abulkhair, who had started a group to track human rights in Saudi Arabia, and the two found common ground in their activism. “He was a rights activist, and his path was full of dangers, so would he be able to find a woman who would put up with the thorny road he was on?” Ms. Badawi said. For her part, she liked how he valued women’s rights. The couple decided to marry, but Ms. Badawi’s father withheld his consent. So she sued him under a Saudi law that makes it illegal to prevent a woman from marrying. At the first court hearing in that lawsuit, she was arrested on the disobedience charge and spent six months in jail, according to Human Rights Watch. After she was released, she prevailed in both cases — hers against her father and her father’s against her — and she and Mr. Abulkhair finally married. The couple worked together on rights campaigns, calling for women to have the right to drive in the kingdom and criticizing Saudi Arabia’s guardianship system, which generally bars women from working, marrying or traveling abroad without the permission of a male guardian. Ms. Badawi also sued the government in 2011 for not allowing women to vote in local elections, a move cited by the State Department when it gave her an International Woman of Courage Award in 2012. “You are making a difference,” Hillary Rodham Clinton, then secretary of state, told her at the award ceremony, which was also attended by Michelle Obama. But the Saudi government was pursuing her husband, barring him from traveling abroad, detaining him for holding “unauthorized gatherings” and charging him with various crimes, including seeking to overthrow the head of state, tarnishing the reputation of the judiciary and forming an unlicensed organization, according to a State Department report. Mr. Abulkhair was convicted last year and is now serving a 15-year prison sentence. The United States government says he was punished for “exercising his rights to freedom of expression and association.” Ms. Badawi has continued her activism. But sh
Re: [Marxism] ‘Provocative’ Bolshevik anti-Religious Caricatures.
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I'd go a step further than Richard and say that Turkey has its own traditions of ethnic cleansing and/or genocide (depending on how you define your terms) with the precise logic of secularism. It's at least as likely as any other metaphysical belief system to be used for rotten ends. At this point in history, I don't see how anyone can claim, with a straight face, that it's intrinsically cleaner than the others. On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Lenin's Tomb via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: Turkey does have its own traditions of secularism (often highly > problematic, being linked to national chauvinism and autocracy) -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað." _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] ‘Provocative’ Bolshevik anti-Religious Caricatures.
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I’m sorry, but this utterly delusional. Young Muslims are standing up in classrooms and saying “I am not Charlie”, and they’re being vilified by the Education Secretary and the political editor of France 2, and measures are promised to ‘integrate’ these kids. The idea that any “Muslim young people” looked at a cartoon of an imam fucking a goat, or a joke about Mohammed being a paedophile - both of these being hackneyed racial stereotypes in both Europe and north America, informing the chants of neo-Nazis and the racist Right - and thought “my whole belief system is predicated on lies”, is absurd. Charlie Hebdo has been banging this anti-Muslim drum for at least eight years, if not more, beginning with the ‘Danish Cartoons’ which similarly played on a series of simplistic stereotypes about Muslims as terrorists, primitives, savages and so on - where is the evidence that it has made a single, tiny dent in growth of reactionary religious currents? Is Dieudonne-Soral the evidence of Charlie Hebdo’s growing influence among Muslim kids? Will someone dare to say that the murder of the cartoonists is itself evidence of this, perhaps? As for the reproduction of the cartoons by a centre-left Turkish newspaper, Turkey does have its own traditions of secularism (often highly problematic, being linked to national chauvinism and autocracy) which are hardly strengthened by the publication of these juvenile anti-Muslim stereotypes. I can well imagine that the editors thought it would wind up the Islamist leadership and the pious middle class, but trolling is not the same thing as “weakening the influence of the most reactionary currents within the Muslim community”. I find the levels of delusion and denial around this subject incredible. > On 16 Jan 2015, at 19:47, David P Á via Marxism > wrote: > > * > > On 16/01/2015 20:16, Ken Hiebert via Marxism wrote: >> And that leads me back to the questions I have asked previously on this >> list. Did the Charlie Hebdo cartoons have the effect of freeing some Muslim >> young people from religious belief? Did the cartoons have the effect of >> weakening the influence of the most reactionary currents within the Muslim >> community? > > I think so. It's a difficult question to answer definitively, but my > impression is that such anticlerical views have been useful both in > France and abroad for these purposes, and perhaps the republishing of > one of them by a Turkish newspaper may be regarded as evidence towards this. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Family's Obit for Frank Fried - Presente! Jan. 24 Memorial Service in Alameda, CA
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I hope comrade are following Amandla. It's an invaluable source for news and analysis about South Africa from a revolutionary perspective http://amandla.org.za/ p.s. look for its articles also at http://amandla.org.za/ and internationalviewpoint.org - sometimes they appear there before they do on Amandla's own site On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Patrick Bond via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > POSTING RULES & NOTES > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > * > > On 2015/01/16 03:13 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: > >> ... >> Frank’s friendship with Miriam Makeba inspired him to active solidarity >> with the fight against Apartheid in South Africa. After Apartheid, he was a >> stalwart supporter of the struggle to build a Socialist alternative as the >> only way to guarantee the promise of Liberation. He helped launch Amandla!, >> a popular radical opinion magazine associated with the Democratic Left >> Front, and remained a valued advisor to its editors. >> > > A modest understatement, for his hospitality and comradeship were valued > enormously by many on the SA indy left. I met him twice, at a Cape Town > conference where he sparkled about ten years ago, and along with Saul > Landau and Susan Galleymore at his house in Alameda four years ago. Such a > great scene. What an amazing life... > > > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ > options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com > _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Family's Obit for Frank Fried - Presente! Jan. 24 Memorial Service in Alameda, CA
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 2015/01/16 03:13 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: ... Frank’s friendship with Miriam Makeba inspired him to active solidarity with the fight against Apartheid in South Africa. After Apartheid, he was a stalwart supporter of the struggle to build a Socialist alternative as the only way to guarantee the promise of Liberation. He helped launch Amandla!, a popular radical opinion magazine associated with the Democratic Left Front, and remained a valued advisor to its editors. A modest understatement, for his hospitality and comradeship were valued enormously by many on the SA indy left. I met him twice, at a Cape Town conference where he sparkled about ten years ago, and along with Saul Landau and Susan Galleymore at his house in Alameda four years ago. Such a great scene. What an amazing life... _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Kurdish Paris march highlights hypocrisy -- different killings, different standards
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The day before the huge January 11 demonstration in Paris against the killings at the *Charlie Hebdo* office, another demonstration marked another set of killings in the French capital. On January 10, tens of thousands of Kurds and their supporters marched to mark the assassination two years earlier of three Kurdish women activists of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and to protest the French government’s foot-dragging on clarifying the truth about the crime. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58056 -- “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 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
