Re: [Marxism] France versus England in terms of the Brenner thesis
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 Mittwoch, 6. Januar 2016 at 23:34, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: > Order the book from Amazon right now Why this unpaid advertisement for a world wide USanian monopoly? Why must a selfproclaimed "Marxist" work to keep people away from their local bookshop? Class struggle against the petty-bourgeoisie? Cheers, Lüko Willms Frankfurt/Main, Germany http://www.mlwerke.de _ 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] Marxism and women's liberation
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[Marxism] Workers, unions and the fight for equal pay in Australia
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[Marxism] Labour parties and their left oppositions
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. * Just as, in the imperialist countries, the ruling class requires a 'loyal opposition' in the form of Labour parties - indeed, today LPs are generally an integral part of capital's political establishment, not oppositional in any sense - so Labour parties require internal loyal oppositions. https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/labour-parties-and-their-left-oppositions/ _ 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] France versus England in terms of the Brenner thesis
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 the Political Marxists view France as "precapitalist" compared to Britain, even *after* the French Revolution. However, France's manufacturing output was 3 times that of Britain's in 1789 according to historian Jeff Horn. I bet you didn't know that. Something I picked up in Anievas and Nisancioglu's "How the West Came to Rule". Order the book from Amazon right now if you know what is good for you. _ 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] My article in Solidarity on tax avoidance and big business
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[Marxism] Fwd: Syria Solidarity UK: How can ‘Stop the War’ help stop the war in Syria?
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 was delighted to accept an invitation to attend a public meeting in December organised by Waltham Forest Stop the War and Stand Up to Racism, and an invitation to speak at a Stoke on Trent protest organised by Staffordshire Stop the War. I am anti-war myself and I believe in engaging with people. I wanted to speak to the conscience of the Stop the War members and try to convey the voices of victims of the war in Syria. I met many wonderful people, and I was touched by their compassion and eagerness to campaign against wars. I have so much respect for Stop the War’s protests against the Iraq invasion in 2003. I highly appreciate their recent campaign to welcome refugees. I also have so much disappointment and disagreement regarding Stop the War’s position on Syria. I am aware that many members of Stop the War are perceiving the Syria war through the same lense as they saw the Iraq invasion in 2003, as ‘an unjust imperial war.’ This is one of the main reasons for the big clash between Stop the War and people supporting the Syrians’ struggle for freedom, dignity, and democracy. I will present my perspective about the Syrian revolution, which might be different to their perspective; it is always helpful to see the other side of the story. Acknowledging our differences can help us to find a common ground and to work together for a just cause. The Syria war is tragic and I am writing to the minds and hearts of peace-loving people to reflect, and to suggest things we can do to help. full: http://www.syriauk.org/2016/01/how-can-stop-war-help-stop-war-in-syria.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] Fwd: Lessons We Can Learn from the Electoral Setback in Venezuela
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. * A third lesson is that 21st century socialism cannot be counterposed to what those like Michael Lebowitz and Marta Harnecker call the “state socialism” of the 20th century. Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador are not socialist countries, but anti-neoliberal capitalist countries with anti-imperialist governments. They cannot be pointed to as new, more democratic models of socialism. http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/06/lessons-we-can-learn-from-the-electoral-setback-in-venezuela/ Stansfield Smith, who wrote the crap above, was on Marxmail a while back. I can't remember if he unsubbed or whether I removed him. In any case he is a regular on the Greenleft mailing list where he and other "anti-imperialists" write Baathist talking points that Michael Karadjis takes apart handily. Smith is a really crude thinker. I would say that he is even more of a dumbbell than John Wight and that is quite some accomplishment. In any case, now that the Chavistas are out of office, the vulgar Marxists are on the march. They invoke Lenin's "State and Revolution" without understanding the context. The Soviets were a form of dual power--a challenge to the existing government. But in Venezuela the communes were an arm of the government funded to the tune of billions of dollars and not arising spontaneously. Smith invokes Russia, China, Vietnam and Cuba as "20th century" socialisms that the Chavistas should have synthesized into their Bolivarian project. But in all of these examples, the existing state apparatus had exhausted all their possibilities in the eyes of the masses. In Venezuela parliamentary democracy had not reached such a dead end. The problem with Smith and his co-religionists is frustration with objective reality. Instead of trying to develop strategy and tactics geared to that reality, they project solutions that are posited as ideals. There is a word for that actually: idealism. _ 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] bleak prospects for Latin America under TPP
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Re: [Marxism] Shi'ite cleric beheaded by Saudis was opposed to Assad
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. * He certainly was: "Oppression is hated. If you are Shia, even if you are oppressed, do not oppress the Sunni or God will hate you. And the same goes for the Sunni, even if he is oppressed, if he oppresses a Shia then God will hate him. How could one who is oppressed become an oppressor? This is a very important point. Those who are oppressed must come together against the oppressors, not to be tools for the oppressors The Khalifa family (rulers of Bahrain) are oppressors! And the Sunnis are not responsible for their sins. There are not real Sunnis; they are tyrants. The Assad family are oppressors, and the Shia are not responsible for their sins!” https://www.facebook.com/kenanrahmani/posts/4026893068423 Also, If you watch this excellent video about the movement for Shiite rights in Saudi Arabia, again we see Nimr condemning all the tyrants of “al-Saud, al-Khalifa, al-Assad” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7zgifyiqnA -Original Message- From: Louis Proyect via Marxism Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2016 12:44 AM To: Michael Karadjis Subject: [Marxism] Shi'ite cleric beheaded by Saudis was opposed to Assad _ 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: Wheaton of Illinois moves to fire professor who wore hijab | Inside Higher Ed
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 1/6/16 10:35 AM, A.R. G wrote: I'll be honest, she's probably better off at another university. The article claims this cesspool was eyeing her for talking about liberation theology. What a terrible place to teach or learn. It sucks that she may lose her job but I think ideally she would be offered a better position at another place. - Amith A funny story about Wheaton. In my comic book memoir, I wrote about my relationship with a comrade in Houston who had worked as a topless dancer before I got to town. After she dropped out of the SWP, she rejoined the Christians and Missionary Alliance that her parents worked for when she was young. They were the Singing Jenkins and used to perform at church revival meetings. She had just broken up with her husband who was the YSA organizer in Houston. And both were students at Wheaton where they first began radicalizing. They joined our movement at U. of Michigan, however. That will give you an idea of the breadth and the depth of the 60s radicalization. It even touched a solipsitic beatnik like me. _ 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: Wheaton of Illinois moves to fire professor who wore hijab | Inside Higher Ed
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'll be honest, she's probably better off at another university. The article claims this cesspool was eyeing her for talking about liberation theology. What a terrible place to teach or learn. It sucks that she may lose her job but I think ideally she would be offered a better position at another place. - Amith On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 6:22 AM, Louis Proyect 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. > * > > > > > https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/01/06/wheaton-illinois-moves-fire-professor-who-wore-hijab > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%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
[Marxism] Fwd: The Silence of Ageism in the Progressive Movements | Opinion | teleSUR English
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. * Bill Fletcher Jr. complains about old farts not being hired for jobs at places like the Institute for Policy Studies or Salon.com, I guess. Doesn't bother me a bit since all those kinds of jobs had little to do with overthrowing capitalism. My advice to youngsters wanting to change the system is to learn a trade like computer programming or welding and do revolutionary politics on your own time. http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-Silence-of-Ageism-in-the-Progressive-Movements-20160104-0006.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] Fwd: Greece's Varoufakis to Launch Pan-European Progressive Movement | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
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[Marxism] Fwd: Wheaton of Illinois moves to fire professor who wore hijab | Inside Higher Ed
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[Marxism] Fwd: University fires professor who says Sandy Hook was a hoax - The Washington Post
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 professor was a typical pro-Assad conspiracy theorist but he was writing his bullshit on his own time. This is a total violation of academic freedom, as egregious as what happened to Steven Salaita. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/01/06/university-fires-professor-who-says-sandy-hook-was-a-hoax/ _ 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] Saudis adopt Assad's tactics
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[Marxism] Fwd: Cattle and capitalism | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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[Marxism] Shi'ite cleric beheaded by Saudis was opposed to Assad
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. * In his own words, according to the available records of his sermons and the few interviews he gave, he was an ardent and uncompromising advocate of the rights of the downtrodden, wherever they might be. Defying the sectarian straitjacket into which he has been cast by the uproar that followed his death, he identified Iran’s ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, as being among the tyrants worthy of being overthrown. He favored peaceful protests — “the roar of the word against authorities rather than weapons,” according to an interview he gave to the BBC in 2011 — but did not explicitly rule out violence as a means of defeating tyranny. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/who-is-the-saudi-cleric-whose-death-has-caused-the-saudi-iran-blowup/2016/01/04/9ac9f0d4-b2ff-11e5-8abc-d09392edc612_story.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] New article, "Myth of the Global Middle Class" on Potemkin Review
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Deconstructing cannibalism | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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 beautifully written. Thank you. What though of Caliban's great speech? - *CALIBAN* Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked, I cried to dream again. There is so much in this. To begin with we have the achievement of subject-object identity where Caliban feels and knows and lives the truth that nature is enchanted. Then we have the highlighting of the fears and hostility of modernity towards nature. These vary same fears lie behind the war we have declared on nature. This, as all on this list know, is a wear nature will win. But even more remarkable for me is the construction of Caliban, only for a moment admittedly, as the moral and aesthetic superior of the colonist, because in Caliban's speech the moral and the aesthetic come into harmony comradely Gary _ 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
