[Marxism] Will Trump last four years?

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It's really sheer hubris that makes us continue to ask questions that need
a crystal ball. But we do and really that is about the future in the
present. We are saying in effect that the balance of forces now are such
that Trump will go.

>From here I have no idea of the lived texture of American politics. But I
am inclined to agree with John that Trump will be wheeled off stage.

I am not at all sure, moreover, that a foreign war would save him. The Iraq
War was touch and go for a while.  A Trump War would have all of us on the
streets.  He has no mandate to end the world and that would be said very
loudly and clearly and with a degree of militancy that the Iraq protests
lacked.

comradely

Gary.
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[Marxism] Prediction: Trump won't last

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I've taken to watching CNN news - something I've never done before. Every
night is a full-on campaign for a half hour or more against Trump. There
hasn't been anything like it since the Watergate scandal, when the
capitalist class determined that Nixon had to go. This time, as in this
report 
from
a month ago, the issue is that they are now convinced that Trump is
determined to look out more for his own financial interests than for the
interests of his class as a whole. (The basic issue is that Russian
financiers have invested over $100 million in his buildings, and he'll
never forget that.) In addition, he has so discredited himself and his
entire administration with his tweets that, as many on CNN - both the
talking heads and the politicians - have commented, "who will believe him
if he has to take action against North Korea or Syria?"

but what will happen if he goes? While Pence is reliable (for them) he
doesn't have the base of true believers that Trump has, and that base will
be infuriated if Trump goes, even if he goes through "natural" causes
(which they will never believe, and they'll probably be right). And as for
the rest of us, there will be such jubilation that all hell is liable to
break loose. They're in a situation of damned if he lasts and damned if he
doesn't.

Here  is an
update.

John

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Re: [Marxism] Two perspectives on Syria

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On 3/20/17 8:30 PM, Philip Ferguson via Marxism wrote:


Workers Fight (British co-thinkers of Lutte Ouvriere):
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/syria-at-war-between-the-militias-the-imperialists-and-their-local-stooges/


This article cites Nir Rosen. Not a reliable source.

https://pulsemedia.org/2014/12/23/on-nir-rosens-definitions-of-sectarian-and-secular/
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[Marxism] Two perspectives on Syria

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Veteran Canadian Marxist Richard Fidler:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/03/19/socialists-and-syria/

Workers Fight (British co-thinkers of Lutte Ouvriere):
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/syria-at-war-between-the-militias-the-imperialists-and-their-local-stooges/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Iran Daily: Supreme Leader — West’s Treatment of Women is “Zionist Plot” | EA WorldView

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http://eaworldview.com/2017/03/iran-daily-supreme-leader-wests-treatment-of-women-is-zionist-plot/
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Re: [Marxism] Didn't Patrick Cockburn say the war in Syria was over?

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Forgot to link to the source:
http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/R-SANA/SANA-Dispatch5-Syria-armed-opposition.pdf

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[Marxism] New Crop of Young Adult Novels Explores Race and Police Brutality

[Louis Proyect via Marxism]

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NY Times, Mar. 20 2017
New Crop of Young Adult Novels Explores Race and Police Brutality
By ALEXANDRA ALTER

Angie Thomas started writing her young-adult novel, “The Hate U Give,” 
in reaction to a fatal shooting that took place some 2,000 miles away. 
But to her it felt deeply personal.


Ms. Thomas was a college student in Jackson, Miss., when a white transit 
police officer shot Oscar Grant III, an unarmed, 22-year-old 
African-American man, on a train platform in Oakland, Calif., in 2009. 
She was shocked when some of her white classmates said he had probably 
deserved it. She responded with a short story about a teenage girl who 
is drawn to activism after a white officer shoots her childhood best friend.


That story grew into a 444-page novel, as shootings of unarmed young 
black men continued.


Ms. Thomas worried that no one would publish a young-adult novel about 
such a raw and polarizing subject. Instead, 13 publishers bid in a 
frenzied auction. Balzer & Bray bought it in a two-book deal, and Fox 
2000 optioned the film rights.


When “The Hate U Give” came out last month, it became an instant 
critical and commercial hit, with more than 100,000 copies in print. The 
novel — one of several new children’s books that use fiction to address 
police shootings of unarmed black teenagers — debuted at the top of The 
New York Times’s Young Adult best-seller list, and has drawn ecstatic 
praise from critics, librarians, book sellers and prominent young-adult 
novelists. John Green, the author of “The Fault in Our Stars,” called 
the work “a stunning, brilliant, gut-wrenching novel that will be 
remembered as a classic of our time.”


“The Hate U Give,” which takes its title from a phrase coined by the 
rapper Tupac Shakur, is one of a cluster of young-adult novels that 
confront police brutality, racial profiling and the Black Lives Matter 
movement. Several are debut novels from young African-American writers 
who have turned to fiction as a form of activism, hoping that their 
stories can help frame and illuminate the persistence of racial 
injustice for young readers.


“For me, specifically for black teenagers, it’s a reflection of what 
we’re all facing right now,” said Jay Coles, a 21-year-old college 
student from Indianapolis, who sold his first novel, “Tyler Johnson Was 
Here,” to Little, Brown Books for Young Readers this year. Mr. Coles 
said he had started writing the book, which centers on a black teenager 
whose twin brother is shot by a police officer, as a way to process his 
depression and rage after Trayvon Martin was killed in Florida in 2012.


This fall, Crown Books for Young Readers will publish Nic Stone’s debut 
novel, “Dear Martin,” about a black high school scholarship student at 
an Atlanta prep school who becomes a victim of racial profiling when an 
off-duty officer fires at him and his best friend during an argument at 
a traffic light.


In “Ghost Boys,” a middle-grade novel by Jewell Parker Rhodes, the ghost 
of a young black boy who was shot by a white police officer witnesses 
the aftermath of his death, and meets the ghosts of other black boys, 
including Emmett Till, the black teenager who was killed by white men in 
1955. The novel, which Little, Brown Books for Young Readers will 
release next spring, was partly inspired by the death of 12-year-old 
Tamir Rice.


Teachers and librarians across the country have embraced the new body of 
children’s literature dealing with racial bias and injustice. Hundreds 
of schools and libraries have ordered copies of “The Hate U Give.” Other 
recent young-adult novels about violence against black teenagers, 
including Kekla Magoon’s “How It Went Down,” have been used in high 
school classrooms to talk about racial inequality.


Some educators see fiction as a particularly potent tool for engaging 
with volatile topics and instilling empathy in young readers.


“Kids have so many questions, and they want to engage on these topics,” 
said Deborah Taylor, a youth librarian in Baltimore. “We kind of shy 
away from the notion that this is a fact of life for our kids.”


The cluster of novels is also arriving at a moment when the children’s 
book industry is struggling to address the lack of diversity in the 
stories it publishes, and the scarcity of children’s books by 
African-American authors.


While the number of children’s books featuring African-American 
characters has grown in the last decade, the number of books by black 
authors has barely budged, according to data collected by the 
Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of 
Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education. Out of some 3,400 

[Marxism] Fwd: Students for Bernie Find Their Home in Growing Socialist Movements - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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