Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Is Black Bloc a Racist Tactic in the Trump Era: Why White Activists Should Stop Wearing Masks at… – Race & Law — A Critical Analysis – Medium
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. * If all the Black Bloc folks were wearing masks, then how does the author know they were all white? On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 8:50 PM, 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://medium.com/race-law-a-critical-analysis/is-black-blo > c-a-racist-tactic-in-the-trump-era-why-white-activists-shoul > d-stop-wearing-masks-at-f7cf45390292 > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/gregmc59%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: Notes on the Global Condition: India's Informal Capitalism Under Pressure – ADAM TOOZE
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[Marxism] Fwd: Los Angeles Mayor Flirts With Sanctuary Movement While Collaborating With ICE
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[Marxism] Fwd: Visiting scholar detained and nearly deported
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[Marxism] Fwd: Before Lenin: Bolshevik Theory and Practice in February 1917 Revisited | Historical Materialism
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Before Lenin: Bolshevik Theory and Practice in February 1917 Revisited | Historical Materialism
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. * An important article, IMO, and I'm very much looking forward to the next installment. Wherever we all eventually come down on the question of who proposed what, when and why, the implicit thread in the article is that seizing power was necessary and correct, and Eric's aim is to seek to prove that all Bolsheviks did share that goal strategically if not always tactically. This matters for today of course when everyone from the Pink Tide to the CPs in the Philippines, South Africa, etc., still adhere to a "two-stage" revolution in theory and outright capitulation to the bourgeoisie in practice. _ 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] London Gallery LD50’s Alt-Right Show Should Be Its Last, Critics Say
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, Feb. 27 2017 London Gallery LD50’s Alt-Right Show Should Be Its Last, Critics Say By CHRISTOPHER D. SHEA LONDON — LD50, an art gallery on a quiet street in the shabby-but-hip Dalston section of East London, would seem to be an improbable forum for debates about American politics in the era of President Trump. But the gallery drew dozens of protesters on Saturday chanting slogans like “Make racists afraid again!” and “No to the Nazis!” The protest was organized in the aftermath of the gallery’s postelection exhibition on the so-called alt-right, the white nationalist movement that has become famous for its online provocations and, critics say, its associations with anti-Semitism, racism and Islamophobia. The exhibition opened two days after Mr. Trump was elected, and closed in January. It featured printouts of Tweets from far-right groups; engraved statuettes featuring images of Pepe the Frog, a cartoon that has been linked to anti-Semitism; and a diagram tracing the emergence of and connections among online far-right movements. Public controversy did not boil over, however, until this month, when the London artist Sophie Jung shared on Facebook a message from the gallery’s founder, Lucia Diego, expressing sympathy with what she called President Trump’s “Muslim ban.” The interaction quickly got noticed in London’s large but cliquish art world, and the controversy attracted attention in the tabloids. An expletive along with a hammer-and-sickle symbol and a pink swastika was scrawled outside the gallery, which sits above an architecture firm in a neighborhood dotted with Turkish restaurants and Afro-Caribbean markets. Saturday’s protest was planned to distribute leaflets informing neighborhood residents about the gallery’s contents. Andrew Osborne, 42, a fine art technician at the Royal College of Art who has lived in East London for 20 years, helped organize the protest. “There was a Facebook argument going on and then the more you looked into the gallery the more unseemly it seemed,” Mr. Osborne said. “I don’t see why we should tolerate fascism.” When Phil Jones, 37, a resident of East London for 10 years, tried to enter his apartment near the gallery, some protesters accused him of not supporting the anti-fascist cause. After an argument, the police, who were on hand throughout the protest, separated him from the crowd. “I think it is counterproductive to graffiti people’s doors, people who have nothing to do with it,” Mr. Jones said. “It’s a little bit extreme. I had seen exhibitions there. It was just a normal gallery. It’s pretty hostile here now and people may need to get their facts straight first.” One protester, Jenny Graham, 44, who said she’d lived in the neighborhood for 30 years, described the area as “a diverse borough in terms of race, class, ethnicity; everyone here lives happily side by side: Jews, Muslims, everyone.” But the gallery, she said, was out of line. “I wouldn’t set foot in that place unless I had a bomb with me. No platform for the right, for fascism.” In a phone interview, Ms. Diego, the gallery founder, a Spaniard who has lived in Britain for about 12 years, said she was no conservative firebrand, and was getting slammed simply for not being politically correct. “If I had an agenda that I just wanted to push this ideology, I would have just done that from the beginning,” Ms. Diego said, adding. “I’m happy to represent artists on the right and on the left.” Her critics say Ms. Diego is up to something more nefarious. A Facebook page for the exhibition included an emblem of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, a South African neo-Nazi group. Last summer, the gallery hosted web-based talks with speakers like Peter Brimelow, an author who advocates restricting immigration, and Brett Stevens, a right-wing blogger who has spoken admiringly of Anders Behring Breivik, the white supremacist who killed 77 people in a 2011 attack in Norway. The title of the exhibition, “71822666,” was a reference to a thread predicting Mr. Trump’s victory on the web platform 4chan, an anonymous online message board that is widely used by members of the alt-right. Along with the alt-right, it focused on so-called reactionary philosophy, a critique of Western democracy as it is now practiced. In the Facebook message that Ms. Jung shared, Ms. Diego expressed disappointment at the decision by the Museum of Modern Art in New York to hang work by Muslim artists in place of pieces by giants including Matisse and Picasso — a striking protest by an art institution against a federal policy. “It actually diminish
[Marxism] A Once-Forgotten Novel Unites Turkish Readers in Troubled Times
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[Marxism] Fwd: Who's Banking on the Dakota Access Pipeline? | Food & Water Watch
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[Marxism] Fwd: Syria Solidarity UK: Beeley, Assad, and ISIS
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. * Britain’s leading publicist for the Assad regime, Vanessa Beeley, whose recent Bristol meeting we reported on last week, is capping her tour of the UK with a meeting in London on Wednesday. This particular event has some particularly bizarre features. For one thing, it is taking place in the Marx Memorial Library, a hallowed institution of the British left based in a building that has been host to London Radical and Socialist organisations since the 1870s (both William Morris and Lenin worked there. Beeley on the other hand swims in rather different waters. In her time she has been hosted by various conspiracy gatherings and sites from an intertwined nexus that includes Alternative View, UK Column, and 21st Century Wire. All of these groups are somewhere on the libertarian right and she has eventually found a permanent home as Associate Editor at 21st Century Wire. This site was created in 2009 as a climate-change denying project, linked to the US InfoWars, and is currently supporting Donald Trump, and providing apologetics for his Islamophobic travel ban. full: http://www.syriauk.org/2017/02/beeley-assad-and-isis.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] book for review
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. * Socialism and Democracy is looking for someone to review The Idea of Socialism by Axel Honneth. : In this work, the author argues for a radical renewal of socialism, freeing it from its historical and theoretical roots in the economy to pursue the aim of socialism through democracy and social solidarity. Axel Honneth is currently the Director of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany. If you are interested in reviewing this book, write to me at george.snede...@verizon.net Sample reviews can be found at www.sdonline.org Just click on Back Issues. George Snedeker Book review Editor _ 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: Before Lenin: Bolshevik Theory and Practice in February 1917 Revisited | Historical Materialism
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 2/27/17 10:32 AM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote: An important article, IMO, and I'm very much looking forward to the next installment. I have a lot of respect for Eric Blanc's writings on the national question but I think that there are problems with his attempt at making the pre-April Theses Bolshevik Party immune from criticisms. This has a lot to do with Lars Lih's scholarship as is obvious from his article. I may or may not deal with Eric's article per se but I wrote a critique of Lih here that is germane to the discussion: https://louisproyect.org/2015/08/15/lars-lih-and-lenins-april-theses/ _ 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] request for info on the NY 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. * I made some critical remarks on a local anti-Trump discussion blog concerning the role of the Times in leading up to the 2003 war/occupation of Iraq. One reply was this - "It's not the same NYT. They've since hired an ombudsman and have transformed themselves before our eyes for the digital age. But I think it's absolutely incorrect to say that it's the same newspaper it was in 2003, when it contributed to that obscene drum-beat for war. I for one could not live without reading it, and I hope it continues to publish for a very long time." Not following them closely other than the occasional article posted here, is anyone here up to speed about their positions during the Obama years and how they haven't really changed? Feel free to contact me privately. Dennis Brasky _ 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
