Re: [Marxism] fwd: in defence of ecological marxisms
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. * Dr. W wrote: > http://climateandcapitalism.com/2016/06/06/in-defense-of-ecological-marxism-john-bellamy-foster-responds-to-a-critic/ Back in 2007, I reviewed one of Foster's earlier books, "Marxism and Ecology: Materialism and Nature" (2000). The review can be found at http://www.communistvoice.org/40cMarx.html. It shows the relevance of Marxism to fighting the current environmental crisis, but it also shows the flaws in Foster's work. (Not that Jason Moore is any better.) Foster is fond of fancy philosophical phrases like "metabolic rift", but obscures crucial issues brought to the fore by the environmental crisis . The subjects covered in the review: * The writings of Marx and Engels * Alongside and after Marx and Engels * Lenin and the early Soviet Union * Stalinist and state capitalist ecocide * Marxism and global warming * --Not market methods, but direct regulation of production * --Class basis of environmental destruction * --The nature of state regulation * --Bringing the masses into the environmental struggle * Foster's Marxism without teeth >From the last paragraph of the review: "... Foster's book is harmed by the lack of the very materialism he preaches about: it is an idealist, and even elitist, history of materialism, a doctrine which can only really thrive when it becomes a force among the masses.Nevertheless, his book does show that Marx and Engels were concerned with environmental issues. ... [and] he does end up giving a certain panorama of the views and polemics of a number of people of historical interest. ... But what he doesn't do, despite the title of his book, is give a picture of what Marxism really means for ecology. Foster would drown Marxism, a revolutionary doctrine with many sharp edges, in a sea of bland, philosophical generalities. So to actually see what Marxism says to do about the environment today, one has to go elsewhere. " -- Joseph Green _ 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] The Sanders Campaign Is Absolutely Destroying Us!"
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 also point out that many people who vote Green aren't registered. I voted Green last election and I was registered in other party. - Amith On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Terry Burke 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 registered Democrat for the first time in 24 years last July, to vote for > Sanders tomorrow, June 7. I was a Green... still am I guess, 'cause I'm > taking a voter registration form with me to the polls tomorrow and will > fill it out and re-register Green at the polling place, after casting that > vote. I've signed the "Bernie or Bust" petition on change.org (the updated > one that states that my vote will go to Dr. Stein if the > Demo-Corporat-crats do what it's obvious they will do, as always)... I sent > that to a list of my friends and so far the score is 2 fellow signatories > to the petition and 2 old friends who will vote Clinton. One says that he > will "hate me forever if Trump wins..." ... of course he will, he's an > upper-middle-class small businessman in Sonoma County... like I read in the > collected works of Mao, people support any revolution up to the point where > it threatens their own privilege and status... and he can't see what I see > (with an income maybe 1/5th of his): Clinton IS Trump without the goofy > hair and bellicose rhetoric... same ol' same ol'... shades of '68... > peace and love, > t > > > [image: for President in 2016] > _ > 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
Re: [Marxism] The Sanders Campaign Is Absolutely Destroying Us!"
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 registered Democrat for the first time in 24 years last July, to vote for Sanders tomorrow, June 7. I was a Green... still am I guess, 'cause I'm taking a voter registration form with me to the polls tomorrow and will fill it out and re-register Green at the polling place, after casting that vote. I've signed the "Bernie or Bust" petition on change.org (the updated one that states that my vote will go to Dr. Stein if the Demo-Corporat-crats do what it's obvious they will do, as always)... I sent that to a list of my friends and so far the score is 2 fellow signatories to the petition and 2 old friends who will vote Clinton. One says that he will "hate me forever if Trump wins..." ... of course he will, he's an upper-middle-class small businessman in Sonoma County... like I read in the collected works of Mao, people support any revolution up to the point where it threatens their own privilege and status... and he can't see what I see (with an income maybe 1/5th of his): Clinton IS Trump without the goofy hair and bellicose rhetoric... same ol' same ol'... shades of '68... peace and love, t [image: for President in 2016] _ 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: Panama Papers Show How Rich United States Clients Hid Millions Abroad - The New York Times
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. * Remember how the "anti-imperialist" left claimed the Panama Papers were a conspiracy against Russia because no Americans were named as Mossack Fonseca clients? That claim like all their others turned out to be bullshit. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/06/us/panama-papers.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: in defence of ecological marxisms
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. * http://climateandcapitalism.com/2016/06/06/in-defense-of-ecological-marxism-john-bellamy-foster-responds-to-a-critic/ _ 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: Party Crashing and Political Revolution: With the DNC Just Weeks Away, What’s Next for Our Movement?
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 Kshama Sawant http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/06/party-crashing-and-political-revolution-with-the-dnc-just-weeks-away-whats-next-for-our-movement/ _ 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: The Case for the the Green Party’s Passing of the Anti-Capitalist Amendment
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 contacting Green National Committee delegates by e-mail to try and get them to support Amendment 835: The Economic Democracy Amendment which would make the GP anti-capitalist. Here is a letter that I received from one of them: NAME DELETED, Though this reply may open a can of worms (labelled "Further Replies" perhaps) but I have to ask you to not to write me again. Nothing personal or anything having to do views on 835, but I'd rather not recieve unsolicited pleas (that should be restricted to the GPUS NC list.) Thanks, X My response: I will respect your wishes and will not contact you again, but I am sorry that we have NC delegates who take this top-down attitude towards rank and file Greens who have a right to voice their positions to GNC delegates. Your office is not only for you and other delegates (the NC listserv is only for delegates and alternates), you are accountable to the party as a whole because your votes determine the course of the party, which is the business of rank and file Greens. Best Wishes. _ 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 Case for the the Green Party’s Passing of the Anti-Capitalist Amendment
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. * http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=12582 _ 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
