Re: [Marxism] What is 'Grace"?

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Interesting Vijay.  I would nominate the late Roy Bhaskar as the closest
representative of 'grace' that I ever knew. David Graeber used the word
"preternatural" to describe his gentleness. There have only been a handful
of people in my life who had what I would call a still center that made
them wonderful to be near.  And he was one of them.

ae

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> Sometime back, on a lazy evening my childhood friend asked me "What is
> grace"?I said it has nothing to do with beauty, but the way a person
> conducts himself/herself in daily life. I could recall so many people who
> had that quality. Here is one song from an old Urdu film, "Anupama".
> Sharmila Tagore, the leading lady of the film exudes natural grace.Kuchh
> Dil Ne Kaha - Dharmendra - Sharmila Tagore - Anupama - Lata - Evergreen
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> which there is a traditional snake dance. Waheeda Rehaman, the heroine,
> effortlessly shows how the character in the film is seeking perfection in
> dance, her life's passion.Snake Dance - Waheeda Rehman - Dev Anand - Guide
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[Marxism] Fwd: Poll Shows 47.8% of Greeks Trust SYRIZA and 84% Want the Euro | GreekReporter.com

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Poll Shows 47.8% of Greeks Trust SYRIZA and 84% Want the Euro | GreekReporter.com

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thanks louis. among everything else that can be said the greek people still are 
the best gauge for judging syriza. 

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[Marxism] Book by Karen Paget

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Patriotic Betrayal: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Secret Campaign to Enroll 
American Students in the Crusade Against Communism
http://www.amazon.com/Patriotic-Betrayal-Campaign-American-Communism/dp/0300205082

I read the review in Harpers.  Perhaps the most striking revelation was that 
American students, in contact with iraqi students, developed a list of names 
that was later turned over to the Iraqi government leading to repression and 
death for many.
This may be old news to some, but i expect there are others like me that will 
find this very revealing.
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[Marxism] Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth

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NY Times SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW, MARCH 22, 2015
‘The Looting Machine,’ by Tom Burgis
By MICHELA WRONG


THE LOOTING MACHINE
Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s 
Wealth

By Tom Burgis
321 pp. PublicAffairs. $27.99.

Back in the Mobutu era, I worked as a stringer in Kinshasa, the capital 
of what was then Zaire. “So, what do they want?” my driver Pierre would 
ask whenever I exited a Western embassy after a chat with a diplomat. 
“What’s the plan?” His question captured the sense of powerlessness that 
pervaded the country, a product of Big Man rule, Cold War interference 
and brutal colonial experience. If there was something of which Pierre 
felt certain, it was that he was not master of his fate.


Times have changed, but the suspicion African citizens nurse that they 
are unwitting pawns in someone else’s high-stakes chess game is as 
justified today as it was then, if Tom Burgis is to be believed. Only 
now, the shadowy players are not to be found in state rooms in 
Washington, Moscow, Paris or London. What he describes instead in “The 
Looting Machine” is a network of anonymous multinationals, corporate 
investors and bankers who strike opaque deals with coup leaders and 
precarious African elites that allow them to drain the continent’s 
natural resources in exchange for precious little — if you’re an 
ordinary African. Enormous bribes, tax exemptions and the cynical 
manipulation of the practice known as “transfer pricing,” in which 
multinationals shift earnings to jurisdictions where they pay less tax, 
suck the revenues away. “These networks fuse state and corporate power,” 
Burgis writes. “They are aligned to no nation and belong instead to the 
transnational elites that have flourished in the era of globalization. 
Above all, they serve their own enrichment.”


This is a brave, defiant book, for the bleakness of Burgis’s vision jars 
with the tenor of the times. “Africa Rising” has become the obligatory 
catch phrase applied to the continent in recent years, a label inspired 
by the growth of an aspirational African middle class, the invigorating 
impact of mobile-phone and Internet technology, and growth rates in 
gross domestic product that European countries can only envy. It is 
fashionable, these days, to be upbeat about Africa.


Burgis is having none of it. Impressive growth rates, as he points out, 
often mask staggering inequality. Africa’s astonishing mineral abundance 
has, counter­intuitively, doomed it to economic underdevelopment: The 
continent’s share of global manufacturing in 2011 was a paltry 
1 percent, unchanged since 2000. “The Looting Machine” explores the 
contours of the infamous “resource curse,” which dictates that the 
countries appearing to have everything going for them — Angola and 
Nigeria with their oil, the Democratic Republic of Congo with its coltan 
and diamonds, Guinea with its bauxite, Niger with its uranium — remain 
the poorest and worst governed, their local industries wiped out by 
imports and democratic accountability undermined by the flood of dollars 
into the coffers of a ruling elite.


The sinister drama described in the book has its ­antiheroes, the robber 
barons of our day. One of them is the Israeli Dan Gertler, who 
befriended Laurent Kabila’s son Joseph in the 1990s. In return for a $20 
million war chest contribution, Gertler was awarded a monopoly to buy 
every diamond dug from the ground in Congo. If the transactions Gertler 
masterminded have made him a billionaire, Burgis notes that between 2007 
and 2012 “just 2.5 percent of the $41 billion that the mining industry 
generated in Congo flowed into the country’s meager budget.”


Even more intriguing is Sam Pa, a Chinese businessman with “many names 
and many pasts.” Founder of the shadowy Hong Kong-registered Queensway 
Group syndicate, Pa has exploited his connections with China’s Communist 
Party and military to broker complex deals in Angola, the Republic of 
Congo, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe. So often hailed as Africa’s 
salvation, China emerges particularly badly from Burgis’s account. While 
maintaining a fiction of distance between itself and the Queensway 
Group, he writes, Beijing is busily winning contracts on the syndicate’s 
coattails that help keep fragile, venal regimes firmly in place.


Burgis, who crisscrossed Africa to gather his material, has a brisk, 
muscular writing style, but he overestimates the average reader’s 
appetite for the nitty-­gritty of shareholdings and corporate filings, 
detail that may grip in the heat of an unfolding newspaper investigation 
but makes eyelids droop when recalled at leisure. The

[Marxism] The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power

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(So if we are living in a new Gilded Age, why aren't workers fighting 
back like the Wobblies et al? Fraser said it was because those workers 
had a memory of precapitalist existence, the family farm typically. But 
I think the real explanation is the sheer brutality of 19th and early 
20th century working conditions when job protection was nonexistent and 
pay was barely sufficient to cover the rent in a rat-infested tenement. 
For some workers that is still the case but for the average railroad 
worker, for example, life is much different than it was when Eugene V. 
Debs was their spokesman.)


NY Times SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW, Mar. 22 2015
‘The Age of Acquiescence,’ by Steve Fraser
By NAOMI KLEIN

THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE
The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
By Steve Fraser
470 pp. Little, Brown & Company. $28.

For two years running, Oxfam International has traveled to the World 
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to make a request: Could the 
superrich kindly cease devouring the world’s wealth? And while they’re 
at it, could they quit using “their financial might to influence public 
policies that favor the rich at the expense of everyone else”?


In 2014, when Oxfam arrived in Davos, it came bearing the (then) 
shocking news that just 85 individuals controlled as much wealth as half 
of the world’s population combined. This January, that number went down 
to 80 individuals.


Dropping this news in Davos is a great publicity stunt, but as a 
political strategy, it’s somewhat baffling. Why would the victors of a 
class war choose to surrender simply because the news is out that they 
have well and truly won? Oxfam’s answer is that the rich must battle 
inequality or they will find themselves in a stagnant economy with no 
one to buy their products. (Davos thought bubble: “Isn’t that what cheap 
credit is for?”)


Still, even if some of the elite hand-wringing about inequality is 
genuine, are reports really the most powerful weapons out there to fight 
for a more just distribution of wealth? Where are the sit-down strikes? 
The mass boycotts? The calls for expropriation? Where, in short, are the 
angry masses?


Oxfam’s Davos guilt trip doesn’t appear in Steve Fraser’s “The Age of 
Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized 
Wealth and Power,” but these are the questions at the heart of this 
fascinating if at times meandering book. Fraser, a labor historian, 
argues that deepening economic hardship for the many, combined with 
“insatiable lust for excess” for the few, qualifies our era as a second 
Gilded Age. But while contemporary wealth stratification shares much 
with the age of the robber barons, the popular response does not.


As Fraser forcefully shows, during the first Gilded Age — which he 
defines loosely as the years between the end of the Civil War and the 
market crash of 1929 — American elites were threatened with more than 
embarrassing statistics. Rather, a “broad and multifaceted resistance” 
fought for and won substantially higher wages, better workplace 
conditions, progressive taxation and, ultimately, the modern welfare 
state (even as they dreamed of much more).


To solve the mystery of why sustained resistance to wealth inequality 
has gone missing in the United States, Fraser devotes the first half of 
the book to documenting the cut and thrust of the first Gilded Age: the 
mass strikes that shut down cities and enjoyed the support of much of 
the population; the Eight Hour Leagues that dramatically cut the length 
of the workday, fighting for the universal right to leisure and time 
“for what we will”; the vision of a “ ‘cooperative commonwealth’ in 
place of the Hobbesian nightmare that Progress had become.”


He reminds readers that although “class war” is considered un-American 
today, bracing populist rhetoric was once the lingua franca of the 
nation. American presidents bashed “moneycrats” and “economic 
royalists,” and immigrant garment workers demanded not just “bread and 
roses” but threatened “bread or blood.” Among many such arresting 
anecdotes is one featuring the railway tycoon George Pullman. When he 
died in 1897, Fraser writes, “his family was so afraid that his corpse 
would be desecrated by enraged workers, they had it buried at night . .  
. in a pit eight feet deep, encased in floors and walls of 
steel-reinforced concrete in a lead-lined casket covered in layers of 
asphalt and steel rails.”


Of course violence went both ways. Protests and strikes consistently 
faced bloody attacks from both state forces and hired guns, prompting 
the formation of various armed worker militias. 

[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Re: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth

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On 2015/03/22 05:28 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
...It also leaves Burgis vulnerable to a criticism sometimes voiced by 
African intellectuals, who accuse Westerners denouncing corporate 
misbehavior on their continent of wanting to keep it locked in a state 
of preindustrial innocence that chimes with their romantic 
preconceptions of “the Dark Continent.”


This sentence seems terribly silly to me. Do we know who Wrong means, 
here, exactly?


I argued the opposite last year, come to think of it: "Social 
Scientists’ Failure of Analytical Nerve: ‘Africa Rising’ From Above – Or 
Uprising From Below? 
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[Marxism] Syriza and Its Discontents

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Syriza and Its Discontents
by Peter Bratsis
Truthout


[Bratsis writes about the "four months" time (of 2/20 arrangement) but
one month has already passed.]


One of the key talking points for Greece's Prime Minister Alexis
Tsipras and the Syriza leadership for the last few years has been that
political power is not "won" in elections; that power must be created;
that it comes from below. Tsipras often noted that without people on
the streets, making demands, pushing the government, demonstrating
popular will, a Syriza regime would not be able to achieve its
promises and goals.
. . .
If the temporary deal with the Eurogroup is going to lead to disaster
it is not because the Greek people will lose faith in the Syriza
government and withdraw support, nor is it because it will demobilize
social movements and keep them from actively asserting their
preferences and interests in support of Syriza initiatives. We have
already seen that public opinion is of no consequence, actions matter,
and that protests and strikes are of similarly little consequence
today if they do not transform the everyday. The real risk, in my
opinion, is that the fear of the Syriza government in alienating
segments of the Greek public, combined with a obsession with economic
questions and implementing the Thessaloniki program without any delays
or changes, will take away all attention from making the changes to
political practice and everyday life that are necessary for new a
political power to emerge and replace the old.
. . .
The question of austerity has overwhelmed all political discussions
inside and outside Syriza. This is not surprising. However, it has set
up a set of false divisions between those who disagree on how best to
undo austerity in Greece. Must the efforts be Europeanist in character
or can a more traditional patriotic and nationalist effort be more
effective? Must banks be nationalized or can economic growth be
furthered through private control? At what price does it make sense to
privatize public assets? And, most centrally, can Greece stay in the
eurozone and end austerity or must a return to a national currency
occur so that Greece can regain the political sovereignty necessary
for imposing a new set of policies. One side presents itself as the
more "left" option, but the differences are fundamentally ones of
tactics and not of values or principles.
. . .
The dangers that the current debates within and about Syriza present
us with are two-fold. On the one hand, the forces within Syriza risk
polarizing themselves over tactical differences rather than
fundamental divisions of goals and values. On the other hand, it is
precisely these common goals that have limited the discussion to how
to undo austerity and have kept us from exploring ways to transform
the political and cultural routines of Greek society so as to create
new modalities of political power.
. . .

Peter Bratsis is associate director of the Center for the Study of
Culture, Technology and Work at the Graduate Center and assistant
professor of political science at Borough of Manhattan Community
College of the City University of New York.  He is the author of
Everyday Life and the State, editor (with Stanley Aronowitz) of
Paradigm Lost: State Theory Reconsidered, and edits the journal
Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination.
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[Marxism] Veteran Indian Trotskyist dies

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I saw something about him recently, perhaps on this list.
ken h

Raj Narayan Arya

http://www.bolshevik.org/statements/ervin_20150318_Raj_Narayan_Arya.pdf
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[Marxism] on Greece-EU financial situation; Tsipras meeting Merkel tomorrow

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German media: Greece to remain liquid until April 8

Deutsche Welle (Berlin and Bonn), incl. Reuters and AFP sources
March 22

A prominent German newspaper has reported that Greece has enough
liquidity to last roughly two more weeks. If Athens fails to submit
viable reforms by then, Brussels will reclassify the country's
finances as "critical."

According to the Sunday edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine
Sonntagszeitung (FAS), EU Commission experts in Athens have confirmed
that the country's coffers would be able to finance salaries and wages
until the second week of April.

The Commission's estimates presume that the Greek government will have
to dip into the country's social insurance fund and state-owned
enterprises in order to continue paying government employees,
diplomatic sources told FAS.

From April 9, Greece must repay a 467-million-euro ($505-million) loan
to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It must also refinance
short-term government bonds in the days following the IMF deadline.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras must also convince Brussels in
approximately the same time period that his government, which first
came to power in January, can implement effective reforms. Doing so
will unlock 7.2 billion euros for the crisis-stricken country, the
final tranche of its 240-billion EU-IMF loan.

On Friday, Tsipras assured the heads of EU institutions that they
could expect a list of reforms "in the coming days."
. . .
Fears have been running high over the potentially catastrophic
repercussions for Greece and its fellow EU members if Tsipras cannot
convince creditors to release more money by the April deadline. Not
only would the worsening crisis negatively impact the value of the
euro, it would also inflict a larger toll on the lives of average
Greek citizens.

Responding to an appeal by Tsipras on Friday, EU Commission President
Jean-Claude Juncker indicated the European body's readiness to release
roughly 2 billion euros to help the Greek people.
. . .
With a highly-anticipated deadline fast approaching, Greece's head of
government is scheduled to make his first official visit to Berlin to
meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday.

"We will have time to talk to each other in detail and perhaps also
argue," Merkel told the German parliament last week.

Political discord between Berlin and Athens has worsened in recent
weeks, particularly as a result of renewed demands that Germany pay
reparations for World War II.

A controversial interview with Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis
on German public television, followed days later by a biting response
by one of Germany's leading satirists
,
have also fueled public debate in Germany about how its own media
portrays Greece.



Germany Gives Greece One Final Ultimatum After Friday's "Optimistic"
Talks Devolve Into Disagreement And Confusion
by Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge, March 22


On Friday, the main catalyst that launched the early ramp in the
EURUSD, subsequently sending both the Dax over 12,000, and the US
stock market soaring, was speculation and hope that the latest round
of Greek talks on late Thursday night ahead of tomorrow key meeting
between Tsipras and Merkel in Berlin, had gone well, and there was a
reason to be optimistic about the near-term for a Greece which
increasingly more see as on the verge of expulsion from the monetary
union. We explained as much, although we added the provision that at
this point it is likely too late to do much if anything about Greece
in "German DAX Surges Over 12,000 On Greek Optimism, But The Money Has
Run Out."


Now, courtesy of reporting by the FT, we can also rule out any of the
so-called optimism in the aftermath of Thursday's talks because as
Peter Spiegel reports, not only was there no real consensus, but the
talks "ended in disarray", and even though "Greece’s prime minister
and fellow Eurozone leaders emerged from a meeting early on Friday
morning touting a breakthrough agreement to unlock much-needed bailout
funds for Athens — only to fall into disagreement hours later about
what it all meant."

Two days of intensive and occasionally heated negotiations at an EU
summit in Brussels amounted to little more than a repeat 

[Marxism] The Moss Review exposes the sexual and physical brutality on Nauru and all Australian PM Tony Abbott can say is ‘things happen’

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The Moss Review exposes the sexual and physical brutality on Nauru and 
all Australian PM Tony Abbott can say is ‘things happen’


Let's build the demonstrations against this sexual and physical 
brutality and violence and for refugees this coming Sunday, Palm Sunday, 
in capital and other cities across Australia. See you there.


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[Marxism] Fwd: The Tecnica video is back online | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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In July 2008 I digitized a video about Tecnica from VHS and posted it to 
Google/Video. This was before Google bought Youtube and when it was a 
reasonable alternative for longer videos like “Tecnica—at Work in 
Nicaragua”, which ran for 20 minutes.


I just took a look at my posting of the Google video on my blog that 
month and was pleased to see the late Roger Burbach’s comment:


Louis,

Great article and video. You captured the spirit of the 80s in Nicaragua 
and among those internationalistas to went to participate in a dream.


Drop me a note.

Roger Burbach

I was not so pleased, however, to have learned a few months ago that the 
video had disappeared. A bit of research turned up the following on 
Wikipedia:


On April 15, 2011, Google announced via email that after April 29 they 
would no longer allow playback of content hosted on their service, but 
reversed the decision one week later to provide users with greater 
support for migration to YouTube. Google Video was shut down and 
replaced by Google Videos on August 20, 2012. The remaining Google 
Videos content was automatically moved to YouTube.


Well, I never got any fucking email from fucking Google because I did 
not have a Gmail account at the time. Or maybe I had a Gmail account and 
they never bothered to contact me. In the meantime I had disposed of the 
VHS tape and was now shit out of luck. Email to the few Tecnica returned 
volunteers I had contact with turned up nothing.


Searching around desperately, I discovered that a copy of the tape was 
in the University of Wisconsin’s historical archives for Tecnica—I guess 
a cardboard box sitting somewhere for people doing research on 
Nicaragua. I called them up to see if they could send me a copy but was 
upset to learn from the first person I spoke to that they did not do 
such things. When I remonstrated with the person about how we had risked 
our lives in volunteering in Nicaragua (Ben Linder was not a volunteer 
but our volunteers completed his project), she turned me over to the 
head librarian who was kind enough to have a DVD made. This is finished 
product, hopefully something that will not get lost in a corporate black 
hole again.


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[Marxism] REMINDER: NYU SJP Events this week

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NYU Students for Justice in Palestine presents

ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK

March 23-26, 2015

"I have witnessed the systematic humiliation of Palestinian men, women and
children by members of the Israeli security forces. Their humiliation is
familiar to all black South Africans who were corralled and harassed and
insulted and assaulted by the security forces of the apartheid government.”

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an international series of events
 that seeks to raise awareness about
Israel’s apartheid policies towards the Palestinians and to build support
for the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.

119 faculty at NYU

have thus far signed onto an open letter calling for NYU to divest
from “companies
that violate International Law and human rights in the occupied Palestinian
territory”and adopt a “human rights screen” for investments.

The events below, part of Israeli Apartheid Week, will be held at New York
University by the NYU Students for Justice in Palestine. Please feel free
to disseminate & spread the word!

MOWING THE LAWN

Understanding Ongoing Israeli Violence in Gaza

245 Sullivan Street | Furman Hall 216 | 6PM | Wednesday, March 25

https://www.facebook.com/events/827560463945717/

“There is no other option but ‘mowing the lawn.’ There is no option for a
political solution.”

Israeli military strategist Efraim Inbar on Israeli invasion of Gaza.

This summer, a series of Israeli incursions into the Occupied Palestinian
Territory of Gaza killed over two thousand Palestinians, most of whom were
civilians. This number includes roughly five hundred children. Most human
rights monitors concluded that Israel perpetrated a number of war crimes
during this campaign, including deliberately targeting civilians,
infrastructure, medical facilities and shelters. Months later, Gaza is
still under a blockade, restricting reconstruction. People in Gaza continue
to die from the lingering effects of the war campaign.

Join us to hear about the ongoing predicament the people of Gaza face from
eyewitness Joe Catron, who was on the ground as a journalist in Gaza during
the invasion, and NYU graduate student in history Jehad Abusalim, who grew
up in Gaza.



Jehad Abusalim is a PhD Student in History and Hebrew and Judaic Studies at
NYU. Born and raised in Gaza, he has worked closely with PalThink for
Strategic Studies, Hadaf Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian
Center for Democracy and Conflict Resolution. Currently, Jehad's academic
research focuses on Gaza in the aftermath of the 1948 Nakba [expulsion].



Joe Catron is a freelance reporter and Palestine solidarity activist. Joe
was present in Gaza during Israel’s military offensive this summer, when he
joined a group of internationals who tended to Gaza’s hospitals and local
rescue teams. He lived in Gaza for three and half years. He has written for
Electronic Intifada, Middle East Eye, and is the co-editor of The
Prisoners’ Diaries: Palestinian Voices from the Israeli Gulag, an anthology
of accounts of Palestinian detainees freed during a 2011 prisoner exchange.


FROM FERGUSON TO PALESTINE

238 Thompson Street | NYU Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life C95
| 7PM | Thursday, March 26

https://www.facebook.com/events/802098696493202/

The St. Louis County Police Department that killed Michael Brown, placed
Ferguson under siege, and sparked a nationwide movement against racism and
police brutality, trained closely with the Israeli military. Over 9,000
American officials, including police, border guards, and military, have
trained closely with the Israeli military. This collaboration has ranged
from monitoring suspect ethnic demographics to domestic counterinsurgency
and crowd control.

Join us for a panel discussion with activists and leaders in the
African-American and Palestinian community emphasizing the importance for
cross solidarity organizing. The summer's events in Palestine and across
the United States, specifically in Ferguson, have placed the connection
between racist and colonial oppression in both places on full display
sparking transnational solidarity and consciousness raising. It is in the
spirit of forming a stronger global movement to liberate all peoples that
inspires and challenges us to move towards thinking in terms of joint
struggle.



Cherrell Brown is a national organizer with Equal Justice USA. This past
year, Cherrell was part of a delegation to Palestine and has written about
the similarities between black struggle in America and the

[Marxism] Fwd: Do Marxist Principles Permit Us to Be Greens?

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By Mark A. Lause

If I had a dollar for every time I heard somebody say that they wouldn’t 
support the Greens because they were “a bourgeois party,” I’d probably 
be able to buy my very own state legislator . . . or, at least, a cheap 
city councilman.


While this assertion seems usually intended to kill the subject, I think 
a more refined understanding about the class nature of political parties 
among American Marxists is worth the risk of a discussion.


Not that this is easy in 21st century America. Unlike countries where 
citizens actually hold members in political parties, working people who 
are not officeholders or functionaries of an American party are only 
“Democrats” or “Republicans” in the sense of being consumers drawn to a 
party’s image. All things being equal, they and their class can no more 
“own” their party than they can the company that made the car they 
drive. We know which class owns that company.


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Re: [Marxism] What is 'Grace"?

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Gary,    I would to further add that "grace" is that quality in some 
people, that makes others feel natural and at ease in their presence.Were the 
viseos I referred accessible?
Vijaya Kumar Marla 


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 Interesting Vijay.  I would nominate the late Roy Bhaskar as the closest 
representative of 'grace' that I ever knew. David Graeber used the word 
"preternatural" to describe his gentleness. There have only been a handful of 
people in my life who had what I would call a still center that made them 
wonderful to be near.  And he was one of them.
ae
gary





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Sometime back, on a lazy evening my childhood friend asked me "What is grace"?I 
said it has nothing to do with beauty, but the way a person conducts 
himself/herself in daily life. I could recall so many people who had that 
quality. Here is one song from an old Urdu film, "Anupama". Sharmila Tagore, 
the leading lady of the film exudes natural grace.Kuchh Dil Ne Kaha - 
Dharmendra - Sharmila Tagore - Anupama - Lata - Evergreen Hindi Songs

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There is another video, from the 1965 film, Dev Anand's 'The Guide', in which 
there is a traditional snake dance. Waheeda Rehaman, the heroine, effortlessly 
shows how the character in the film is seeking perfection in dance, her life's 
passion.Snake Dance - Waheeda Rehman - Dev Anand - Guide - S.D. Burman - 
Bollywood Dances

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[Marxism] Chinua Achebe, African Literary Titan, Dies at 82

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NY Times, Mar. 22 2015
Chinua Achebe, African Literary Titan, Dies at 82
By JONATHAN KANDELL

Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author and towering man of letters whose 
internationally acclaimed fiction helped to revive African literature 
and to rewrite the story of a continent that had long been told by 
Western voices, died on Thursday in Boston. He was 82.


His agent in London said he had died after a brief illness. Mr. Achebe 
had used a wheelchair since a car accident in Nigeria in 1990 left him 
paralyzed from the waist down.


Chinua Achebe (pronounced CHIN-you-ah Ah-CHAY-bay) caught the world’s 
attention with his first novel, “Things Fall Apart.” Published in 1958, 
when he was 28, the book would become a classic of world literature and 
required reading for students, selling more than 10 million copies in 45 
languages.


The story, a brisk 215 pages, was inspired by the history of his own 
family, part of the Ibo nation of southeastern Nigeria, a people 
victimized by the racism of British colonial administrators and then by 
the brutality of military dictators from other Nigerian ethnic groups.


“Things Fall Apart” gave expression to Mr. Achebe’s first stirrings of 
anti-colonialism and a desire to use literature as a weapon against 
Western biases. As if to sharpen it with irony, he borrowed from the 
Western canon itself in using as its title a line from Yeats’s 
apocalyptic poem “The Second Coming.”


“In the end, I began to understand,” Mr. Achebe later wrote. “There is 
such a thing as absolute power over narrative. Those who secure this 
privilege for themselves can arrange stories about others pretty much 
where, and as, they like.”


Though Mr. Achebe spent his later decades teaching at American 
universities, most recently at Brown, his writings — novels, stories, 
poems, essays and memoirs — were almost invariably rooted in the 
countryside and cities of his native Nigeria. His most memorable 
fictional characters were buffeted and bewildered by the competing pulls 
of traditional African culture and invasive Western values.


“Things Fall Apart,” which is set in the late 19th century, tells the 
story of Okonkwo, who rises from poverty to become a wealthy farmer and 
Ibo village leader. British colonial rule throws his life into turmoil, 
and in the end, unable to adapt, he explodes in frustration, killing an 
African in the employ of the British and then committing suicide.


The acclaim for “Things Fall Apart” was not unanimous. Some British 
critics thought it idealized precolonial African culture at the expense 
of the former empire.


“An offended and highly critical English reviewer in a London Sunday 
paper titled her piece cleverly, I must admit, ‘Hurray to Mere Anarchy!’ 
” Mr. Achebe wrote in “Home and Exile,” a 2000 collection of 
autobiographical essays. Some critics found his early novels to be 
stronger on ideology than on narrative interest. But his stature grew, 
until he was considered a literary and political beacon, influencing 
generations of African writers as well as many in the West.


“It would be impossible to say how ‘Things Fall Apart’ influenced 
African writing,” the Princeton scholarKwame Anthony Appiah once wrote. 
“It would be like asking how Shakespeare influenced English writers or 
Pushkin influenced Russians.”


Mr. Appiah, a professor of philosophy, found an “intense moral energy” 
in Mr. Achebe’s work, adding that it “captures the sense of threat and 
loss that must have faced many Africans as empire invaded and disrupted 
their lives.”


Nadine Gordimer, the South African novelist and Nobel laureate, hailed 
Mr. Achebe in a review in The New York Times in 1988, calling him “a 
novelist who makes you laugh and then catch your breath in horror — a 
writer who has no illusions but is not disillusioned.”


Mr. Achebe’s political thinking evolved from blaming colonial rule for 
Africa’s woes to frank criticism of African rulers and the African 
citizens who tolerated their corruption and violence. Indeed, it was 
Nigeria’s civil war in the 1960s and then its military dictatorship in 
the 1980s and ‘90s that forced Mr. Achebe abroad.


In his writing and teaching Mr. Achebe sought to reclaim the continent 
from Western literature, which he felt had reduced it to an alien, 
barbaric and frightening land devoid of its own art and culture. He took 
particular exception to"Heart of Darkness,"the novel byJoseph Conrad, 
whom he thought “a thoroughgoing racist.”


Photo
Mr. Achebe in Nigeria, in 1966. Credit Carlo Bavagnoli/Time Life 
Pictures-Getty Images
Conrad relegated “Africa to the role of props for the breakup of one 
petty European min

Re: [Marxism] Chinua Achebe, African Literary Titan, Dies at 82

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He died in 2013, I think.
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Re: [Marxism] Chinua Achebe, African Literary Titan, Dies at 82

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On 3/22/15 6:59 PM, Kathleen McCook wrote:

He died in 2013, I think.


Yup. I have no idea why people post out of date stuff on FB.
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[Marxism] new Podemos party does well in regional(Andalusia) elections

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Spain's Andalusia vote sets stage for national upheaval
by Inmaculada Sanz
Reuters, March 22

SEVILLE - Leftist newcomer Podemos made spectacular inroads in
elections in the Spanish region of Andalusia on Sunday, with the vote
splitting over the political spectrum in a foretaste of the upheaval
likely in national elections before the year-end.

The vote showed the anti-austerity sentiment that brought Syriza to
power in Greece has now taken root in Spain, where one in four workers
is unemployed, and also ended the two-party system built when the
Franco dictatorship ended in the 1970s.

While Spain is emerging from the euro-zone debt crisis as one of
Europe's fastest growing economies, a campaign by the ruling People's
Party (PP), and to a lesser extent the Socialists, to show that newly
minted political alternatives are dangerous for the recovery did
little to limit their magnetism.

"We are the protagonists of the change, of the creation of new
alternatives. ... The political map in Andalusia and Spain has
changed," said Teresa Rodriguez, who led the Podemos campaign in
Andalusia.

Although the two dominant parties, the Socialists and the PP, came
first and second in the vote, they lost support from the last election
in 2012.

The Socialist party won 47 seats out of 109 in the regional
parliament, while the PP suffered heavy losses to take second place
with 33 seats.

Podemos, only a year old, took 15 seats while Spain's other political
newcomer, Ciudadanos, on the center-right of the spectrum, grabbed
nine seats. Former communists Izquierda Unida won five seats.
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[Marxism] Sidney Blumenthal commemorates Danny Schechter

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Sidney Blumenthal

When, during the summer of 1975, I landed in Lisbon with my girlfriend, 
Jackie, to cover the unfolding Portuguese Revolution for the Boston 
Phoenix, the first thing we did was have dinner with Danny Schechter, 
who had already scoped out the scene. Over bottles of vinho verde, Danny 
swept the plates of grilled chicken and fries to the side as he sketched 
the political state of play on the paper tablecloth. Drawing boxes that 
he filled in with the names of political parties, aligned on the left, 
right and center of the table, he literally connected the dots. Upon 
making each point, he would punctuate it with a laugh. Danny almost 
always accompanied his insights or observations with laughter. His laugh 
was bemused, knowing and infectious. It was a rumbling laugh that built 
to a crescendo with a head nod. He meant for you to know that when you 
smiled or laughed in response to him you knew, too.


Laughter was part of Danny’s language and epistemology. Having equipped 
me with his complete knowledge of the revolution he left the next day to 
return to Boston. I folded up the diagramed tablecloth to keep as a sure 
guide. A few days later, I went to the U.S. Embassy to interview a 
political attaché, but Danny’s briefing was far more informative.
I met Danny sometime near the beginning of time, perhaps in 1969 or 
1970, after I graduated from college. I found myself instantly recruited 
doing work for the Africa Research Group on apartheid South Africa, 
Danny’s great crusade. I soon drifted into journalism writing for Boston 
After Dark, then the Phoenix and The Real Paper. The Boston of that era, 
now a lost world, was a crucible for redefining journalism. Danny was 
the star and impresario of WBCN, which was more than a breakthrough 
progressive rock radio station unbound by constricted industry 
playlists, but also one of the most innovative news organizations in the 
country, featuring the broadcasts of Danny Schechter “The News 
Dissector.” Danny’s six o’clock reports were essential listening. He had 
a thrilling way of combining fact and analysis, in a stream of 
information about the most important events that could be heard no place 
else.


The boundaries between the Phoenix, The Real Paper and ‘BCN were fluid. 
Danny brought me in to participate in some of his editing of his reports 
and documentaries, and even put me in for a week to fill in on news 
broadcasts. Observing Danny at work was like being a hurricane chaser; 
but in the whirlwind of this hurricane, order miraculously emerged. 
Danny would race into the studio atop the Prudential Center clutching 
handfuls of crumpled papers with notebooks bulging out of his pockets. 
He had scrawled his reports in bits and pieces across dozens of pages. 
He alone could decipher what he had written. Rushing on the air he 
interspersed his broadcasts with snatches of music that he seemed to 
have located out of the ether. He managed to synthesize it all in a kind 
of performance art. It was breathless, compelling and frequently hilarious.


Danny may have been descended from a lineage of Harpo Marx and Karl 
Marx, Walter Lippmann and Walter Winchell. Beneath the wild hair was a 
sharply trained intellect. He could deliver the smartest analysis if he 
had to in the staccato style of a wire service report. He uniquely mixed 
a thousand influences and 8,000 albums, constantly open to new sources 
and sounds.


Danny was educated at Cornell and the London School of Economics, but he 
was determined to investigate reality from the street level up. Just as 
he effortlessly participated in seminars at Harvard, where he was a 
Nieman Fellow, he wandered without hesitation through Boston’s working 
class neighborhoods and the Combat Zone—and Soweto. He was equally at 
ease with the great, near great and not so great. His mind could meld 
with John Lennon or someone he happened to strike up a conversation with 
in a bar.


I would be remiss not to mention here our mutual friend Jerry Berndt, 
one of the great photographers of our generation, who died at the age of 
69 two years ago in Paris. Jerry was with us on our Portuguese escapade, 
and on many others. His series of photographs of prostitutes and the 
homeless captured not simply their plight, that was easy enough, but 
also their humanity. Jerry, who was from a working class background in 
Milwaukee, had an unusual empathy for the down and out. He provided a 
wry counterpoint to Danny, with whom he often ventured out into the 
urban wilderness. Jerry had the eye to match Danny’s ear. Their 
journalism was unified through their compassion for their subjec

[Marxism] Vale Roger Burbach — an activist dedicated to a better world

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A great *companero*, colleague and friend, Roger Burbach, passed away on
March 5 at the age of 70.

I had the privilege of working with Roger on a book we co-authored
, together with Michael Fox,
titled Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions: The Future of
Twenty-First-Century Socialism.

Despite being almost double our age, Roger was without a doubt the driving
force behind this project, which turned out to be his last book published
while still alive.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58585

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“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s
original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made,
through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man
Under Socialism

“The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of
dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker
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[Marxism] Jerusalem "a tinderbox ready to explode"

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Re: [Marxism] What is 'Grace"?

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Yes, the videos were available.  Extraordinary especially the snake dance
one. I was interested in the presence of the male gaze as well of course in
the dnance.  the latter brought to mind these lines from Yeats


Labour is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.
Nor beauty born out of its own despair,
Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.
O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?

The lines have always been obscure to me, until I once watched a dance
workshop performed by the Bangarra Aboriginal Dance troupe.  The dancers
were working with Indigenous adolescent boys and girls and where they
succeeded  most you could not tell the dancer from the dance. Perfect art
seems effortless or as you might say born out of grace.

comradely

Gary

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> Sometime back, on a lazy evening my childhood friend asked me "What is
> grace"?I said it has nothing to do with beauty, but the way a person
> conducts himself/herself in daily life. I could recall so many people who
> had that quality. Here is one song from an old Urdu film, "Anupama".
> Sharmila Tagore, the leading lady of the film exudes natural grace.Kuchh
> Dil Ne Kaha - Dharmendra - Sharmila Tagore - Anupama - Lata - Evergreen
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> dance, her life's passion.Snake Dance - Waheeda Rehman - Dev Anand - Guide
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