[Marxism] Democratic ‘Resistance Summer’ Becomes Protest Against Democrats | PopularResistance.Org

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[Marxism] (Fwd) Moscow's Bolshevism@100/World Association for Poli Econ conferences - 3-5 November (deadline for abstract: August 15)

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by briefing you on WAPE, which we hosted in 2015 here in Johannesburg... 
do join us!)


Call for papers

To all those who are not indifferent to the fate of the October Revolution,

We invite you to take part in the work

International Forum



OCTOBER. REVOLUTION. FUTURE

(Moscow, November 3-5, 2017)



The purpose of the Forum - an appeal to the future, and not just a 
historical analysis of the Revolution and its results. What, who and how 
can and should do, in order that the impulse of the Revolution live in 
the 21st century - the Forum participants will be looking for these 
questions.


The forum will combine the achievements of scientific conferences and 
social forums will become a place for dialogues within the framework of 
a single space of theorists and practitioners of social creativity.


The Forum is preceded by a series of three international scientific 
conferences that are going on simultaneously, dedicated to the 
philosophical, historical, political and economic problems of the 
Revolution and its heritage. The conferences will be held on November 
3-4 on the basis of the Moscow Finance and Law University.


Within the framework of the forum on November 3-4, there will be a 
conference of the World Association for Political Economy The October 
Revolution: Promoting the Development of World Economy and Improving 
People’s Livelihood).


The Forum itself will be held on November 5 in the art space "Red 
October". The forum will be held as a series of open seminars and 
roundtables, discussions and performances. The unity of the Forum will 
be ensured by plenary sessions, complimentarity and coherence of the 
program..


Leading scientists from Moscow State University, St. Petersburg State 
University, RAS institutes, other scientific and educational centers of 
Russia, countries of Europe, Asia, America, Africa, politicians, 
artists, activists of various social organizations and social movements 
will take part in the Forum.


Initiators of the Forum: "Alternatives" journal, Rosa Luxemburg 
Foundation (Russian branch)


The working languages of the Forum are Russian and English



To participate in the Forum seminars or one of its conferences, it is 
necessary to register by sending an e-mail to address alternat...@bk.ru 
before August 15, indicating regalia, topic and annotation of the 
report. Please note that of all participants of the seminar (round 
table) must register on web-site. The link will be sent before the end 
of July!




Confirmation of inclusion in the program are sent before September 10th.

Payment of registration fee - until September 25th.

Invitations to obtain a visa will be sent until October 1st

Travel and accommodation of nonresident participants, as a rule, is NOT 
paid for by the organizing committee.






Recommended hotels in Moscow:.



http://www.president-hotel.ru/index/ - President hotel

http://www.hotelwarsaw.ru – Warsaw

http://www.maanhotels.ru/akademical/ - Akademicheskaya

http://www.sevastopol-hotel.ru/ru/nomera-i-tseny/vtoroj-korpus - 
Sevastopol Modern


https://www.hotelsputnik.ru - Sputnik





Program of the Forum (Project):



3-4 November. MFUA (Vvedenskogo Street, 1a). Work of international 
scientific conferences:


International Conference "Philosophy of the Revolution" (November 3rd, 2 
sections). Co-organizers: Moscow University of Finance and Law (MFYuA), 
Center for Contemporary Marxist Studies of the Philosophical Faculty of 
Moscow State University.


Problematic field:

• Revolution: socio-philosophical comprehension and phenomenology;

• Dialectics of the Revolution: creation and destruction; Progress and 
regress; Goals and means; Revolution and counter-revolution; Revolution 
and reform;


• Theoretical model and practices of social revolutions of the twentieth 
century: nature, prerequisites, driving forces, results;


• Socialist revolution as social liberation: economy, and society; 
Classes and parties; Man and culture.


International Conference "October: Lessons and Challenges of History" 
(4th of November; 2-3 секции). Co-organizers: Moscow University of 
Finance and Law (MFYuA)


Problematic field:

· October: what was it? Historical events and their theoretical 
qualifications


· Istria and the historiography of October: "white spots", 
myths, ideologems;


· The history of October: theoretical and political-ideological 
discussions.


 International Conference "Political Economy of the Revolution" 
(November 3rd-4th, 4-5 sections). Co-organizers: World Association for 
Political Economy, Moscow 

[Marxism] France and Venezuela coups comparison

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http://www.greanvillepost.com/2017/07/13/comparing-coups-macrons-is-one-maduros-is-not/

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[Marxism] Greg Wilpert: Time for international left to take a stand on Venezuela

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Venezuela is heading towards an increasingly dangerous situation, in which
open civil war could become a real possibility.

http://links.org.au/venezuela-time-left-take-stand

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[Marxism] Fwd: Meral Aksener, Turkey's Iron Lady and Challenger of Erdogan | Time.com

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Re: [Marxism] Banned from discussing in DSA

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John Reimann wrote

"Today, the leadership of DSA banned a discussion on building a working 
class political party. As explained in this video, I was to make a 
presentation to the delegates to the upcoming national convention on 
this issue, but just before that subject came up I was bounced off the 
video conference call. I’m being told it was because I “left” it but 
that is untrue."


Read the full story and see the video of what I would have said here



The DSA has that reputation, a faction aligned with the Democratic 
Party, and to the extent that they are controlled by a leadership that 
won't discuss the option you describe that reputation is deserved, if 
so, if all that you say is true, and if this local leadership is 
representative of the national leadership, it shows that they are simply 
leading a growing number of people searching for an alternative into a 
blind alley, a graveyard, for that's as we know what the Democratic 
Party is. It is more and more apparent that the Bernie movement 
represents, as he rejects an alternative party option and goes about 
being chairperson of "outreach" for the the powerful Clintonian faction 
in the party - the entrenched faction that has brought us welfare 
"reform," Romney-type health care neglect, the carceral state, licensing 
of Wall Street predation and brutal imprisonment and expulsion of 
immigrants. I admit to having for a time placed hope in Bernie the 
self-described "socialist" Democratic Party caucus member to break in 
the direction of a third party and having been jolted awake again.


If you have no opportunity for dialogue with these people, then I'd go 
elsewhere. This is an old pattern in politics, to which we're all 
vulnerable in our efforts, and I have to wonder about the class base of 
this kind of organization.


And then at the other end is the Trump movement, where as you say in 
your video 1/3 of working class people for various reasons troubled 
themselves to vote and selected a right wing option. Trump may get a 
program going for massive rehabilitation of an infrastructure that has 
been badly neglected for at least the past 20 years, and that may result 
in millions re-employed, for a time, and that is contingent on getting 
the Democrats and at least a plurality of tight-fisted fiscal 
Republicans to fund it. What he will not and cannot do is bring back 
jobs lost to automation and artificial intelligence, and those jobs 
leaving the US for cheaper labor in poorer regions. That is the larger 
picture, on which return of a vibrant, productive economy would depend 
and over which neither Trump nor anyone else has any control. Certainly 
that also includes the environmental disaster we seem to be facing. 
Least of all does he have options in dealing with the rest of the globe, 
in an increasingly connected and polar context. And In many ways, isn't 
Trump a news-hogging diversion while the bondholders ravage the commons?


So there's disorder at the border but while the authoritarian, 
nationalist  right wing, takes over they offer no panaceas with staying 
power. What it does offer is the prospect of inadvertent larger war 
amidst growing nationalism, toxic tariffs and trade barriers. And if the 
result is a repressive, militarized state, that won't get them far, 
particularly in a country with at least the trappings of a history of 
democratic traditions and a large but atrophying so-called middle class. 
It's a stick ultimately without a carrot as the saying goes, operating 
in the context of dwindling opportunity and growing alienation, not just 
at the parties but at the whole system. If I weren't persuaded as to 
that, and if I felt that acting in one's own interest in any and all 
contexts means to most people forever acting alone and not together, I'd 
feel there's no hope left, for the left or anyone else. Watch for 
movement to prevent the cities from further "urban renewal," where much 
of the funding for infrastructure rehabilitation would go (and where the 
opportunities for shutting  down entire urban complexes are greatest 
with the chance that displacement of the poor can coalesce with other 
interests, including Walmart-type working class resentment, in and out 
of jobs.


So, John, keep the faith and keep your hackles up but if possible your 
voice from getting too shrill.



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[Marxism] Fwd: One Hamptons party explains what’s wrong with American politics | New York Post

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The author of this article is a rightwing idiot but I am glad she wrote 
it. Disgusting.


http://nypost.com/2017/07/10/why-ordinary-americans-hold-politicians-and-media-in-contempt-all-in-one-hamptons-party/ 


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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Back on his pedestal: the return of Friedrich Engels

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A socialist resurgence has revived the radicalism of the German Marxist 
thinker. Now the artist Phil Collins is bringing his statue back to the 
British city he called home


JULY 14, 2017 by: John Lloyd

The artist Phil Collins wanted to bring Friedrich Engels back to 
Manchester where, in the mid-19th century, he had lived for two decades. 
The German Marxist thinker established the first great industrial city 
in the annals of communist history with his excoriating 1845 polemic The 
Condition of the Working Class in England. But in the 171 years since 
his death, Manchester forgot about him.


Collins told me his search for Engels was a “dream”. And it came true: 
he found him lying face down in the earth, long neglected, behind a 
creamery in Mala Pereshchepina, a few hours from the north-eastern 
Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. He was a man of two halves, sawn through at 
the waist, mouldy, unlovely, cast in concrete.


His sorry condition told a wider story. After the Soviet Union emerged 
from the terror-driven idealism of the Stalinist era, party leader 
Leonid Brezhnev sought to hold up the USSR as a “developed” socialist 
state. Other gods were put into place: Lenin statuary was displayed 
everywhere, as were busts of Karl Marx and, less frequently, his friend 
and funder Engels. All gazed purposefully into the future. This one had 
been erected in 1970 and stood stonily in the village for several 
decades, a gentleman of the Victorian era in frock coat and long beard.



Phil Collins at the depository of Soviet-era statues in the Ukrainian 
city of Zaporizhia searching for a statue of Engels © Nikiforov Yevgen
The collapse of Soviet communism two decades later saw many come off 
their pedestals — a culling that was more or less total in the satellite 
states. Some remained in the Russified areas of eastern Ukraine; but in 
2015, as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine continued, an 
increasingly anti-Russian government decreed that Soviet symbols must be 
removed, pro-Soviet speech banned and even the singing of Soviet-era 
songs forbidden. So Collins, previously nominated for the Turner Prize 
for a video about people whose lives had been ruined by appearing on 
reality TV, came upon the object of his search when it was at a literal 
low point in its concrete existence.


He and two Russian-speaking aides, Anya Harrison and Olga Borissova, had 
begun their search in August last year, sensibly enough, in the city of 
Engels, on the Volga. There they found a statue, also concrete, still 
standing amid the ruin of the meatpacking plant that had commissioned 
it. But the local authority, at first helpful, later proved fearful of 
giving the icon to foreigners at a time of east-west tension. It 
referred the decision to a court: a decision is still pending.


With time running against them, the searchers moved on to the Belarusian 
city of Vitebsk, where they found a triptych statue — an Asian woman, an 
African man, with a white young man between them, embracing both, 
expressing the theme of brotherhood (and less overtly, Soviet 
leadership). Collins was tempted but it, too, was denied a visa.


Finally they came to Mala Pereshchepina, where the local authorities 
were only too glad to get rid of what was by now a legally toxic 
artefact. In mid-May this year, the two-tonne, near-four-metre-high 
cement behemoth was loaded on to a flatbed truck to be trundled across 
Europe, to the city of Engels’ epiphany. This Sunday evening, when it is 
unveiled outside Home, a big modern arts building in Manchester largely 
funded by the city council, Collins’ quest will finally be at an end.


The artist’s timing is impeccable. June’s UK general election saw a 
surge of support for the Labour party led by the far-left Jeremy Corbyn. 
Like Bernie Sanders in last year’s US Democratic primaries, this ageing 
socialist appealed first of all to the young. Marxism, which had been 
read the last rites by many, has found new life, reuniting its 
long-lonely intellectuals and academic advocates with the masses. The 
French economist Thomas Piketty’s 2013 book Capital in the Twenty-First 
Century, a self-conscious echo of Marx, was a huge seller. Commentators 
on the left are making connections between what Engels wrote and 
contemporary society. Writing in the Guardian after the fire at the 
Grenfell Tower block of flats in London, Aditya Chakrabortty explicitly 
linked the tragedy with The Condition of the Working Class, stating 
Britain “remains a country that murders its poor”.


In such narratives, modern despair and marginalisation are laid at the 
feet of capitalism. The brutality of regimes 

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Deplorable.

The failure reflects the decision of the left-wibng to plan nothing and do
nothing until it was too late to change anything . . . other than fiddle
with words and elect select people as part of a slate.

That said, we all know that making speeches on the need for a working class
party doesn't get us one.  At this stage, the optimum to be expected from
the DSA is to that members will--here and there--run independently of the
Democrats.  More important than tweaking platforms or passing resolutions
or electing self-declared Left DSA people to internal positions will be
making those campaigns successful.  That is, we need to demonstrate that
independent campaigns are the best way to recruit and build a socialist
organization.

That, in turn, will give such a perspective increasing weight in the group.

Solidarity,
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[Marxism] Time for the International Left to Take a Stand on Venezuela | Gregory Wilpert | teleSUR English

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[Marxism] The politics of fire: from Ancient Rome and San Francisco to GrenfellTower | Cities | The Guardian

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[Marxism] Walter Benjamin on How to Stop Worrying and Love Late Capitalism

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[Marxism] making peace with Assad's state of barbarism

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The first Geneva communiqué in 2012 did mention that a new government
should be formed by “mutual consent,” which indirectly excludes the
possibility that Assad could participate because the opposition would
reject it. But today, six years into the war, few truly believe that Assad
will simply depart. Whatever the outcome, it will include a transition in
which Assad is probably involved.

One does have to wonder about this legitimacy that Macron speaks of. Does
Assad still have it, after unleashing every type of violence against his
own people? Is he still legitimately a president who can be relied upon to
cooperate on counterterrorism, when he is barely in control of his own
country and is wholly dependent on the fighting power of Iran and Russia?

As for Macron’s question — Where is Assad’s natural successor? — ask any
Syrian opposed to Assad’s rule and he or she will have the answer for you:
Assad has killed, jailed, or exiled anyone who could rise as a potential
replacement. It’s a ruthlessly efficient modus operandi that the Assads
have used before, including in Lebanon, where they stand accused of having
steadily assassinated over decades every progressive politician and
intellectual figure.

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[Marxism] Wild Thing: A New Biography of Thoreau - Los Angeles Review of Books

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Back on his pedestal: the return of Friedrich Engels

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[Marxism] Fwd: Syria Retold | aNtiDoTe Zine

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Interview of author of "We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled: Voices from 
Syria".


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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: As the centre collapses, it distorts democracy

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I read Odran Waldron's article (http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=13575) and
it is very good. But I have a somewhat different take on what is
happening.  For a start we would all agree that the Centre is a relational
concept. It is not something that one would meet at the bottom of the
garden. As it is relational, it has  geographical (spatial) and historical
(time) dimensions. Basically, it helps me to think of Centres as clusters
of common sense - what people expect and what people think is normal.

Against Waldron, I would argue that he is exactly wrong to say that
centrists are always homeless.  For the Centre is precisely where we feel
at home. We do this, as Luckacs pointed out, by converting time into space.
To put this another way, we create the illusion that time has stopped or
been abolished. We indulge in what Bhaskar called 'endism'. For example, we
had Fukuyama talk about reaching the end of history.

I am not denying that Gary Liniker is being insincere when he tweets he
feels homeless.  But what he is experiencing is the return of  the flow of
time. Think of the Heraclitus fragment - "It is impossible to step into the
same river twice for new waters are forever closing around you".  That is a
feeling we fear, probably because Consciousness does not want to die. We
all desperately want to proclaim the end of time.

I have lived under two distinct Centres -  First there was the
Keynesian-Social Security Centre which lasted approximately from 1945 to
about 1973-1975. We then entered what Koselleck terms  a 'saddle-time'.
Roughly, this was from 1975-1984 during which time a new Centre - the
Neoliberal Centre was established.

I think some things are worth pointing out.  The Neoliberal Centre was
established though great struggles. These included the brutal Pinochet Coup
in Chile and the UK miner's strike of 1984-5.  In Australia we had the
sacking of the Labor Government in 1975 and the crushing of the electricity
workers strike in Queensland in 1985.

On a philosophical level, the fact that I can name the Neoliberal Centre
shows that there is thinking which is more universal than neoliberalism and
that therefore it is in crisis. Hegel puts it like this.

'If I inquire after their origin and confine them to the point whence they
arose, then I have transcended them; for now it is I who am the universal,
and they are the conditioned and limited. If they are supposed to be
validated by my insight, then I have already denied their unshakeable,
intrinsic being' (Phenomenology: 437).

That is why the Right instinctively hate everyone talking about
"neoliberalism", for to name neoliberalism is to challenge it and to
suggest that to say "There is no alternative" is to lie. Here we have the
clue to the power of the Corbynistas' slogan "Another world is possible".

That is also why Barthes talked about the 'ex-nomination' of the ruling
class. When we revolutionaries use the phrase 'ruling class' outside of our
circles, everyone else rolls their eyes and taps their foreheads.  We sound
mad. Trust me on that one.

The ruling class are so powerful that they do not have a name.  It was not
until the Occupy Movement of 2011 that they universally became "the 1%",
that is, they were named.

Neoliberalism has lasted until the present but we are in the throes of a
crisis of the Neoliberal Centre and we may emerge from this into a new
centre. Hopefully, that will be something like the centre that Corbyn is
offering in the UK.  But my Trotskyist background prompts me to think that
there will have to be a huge struggle around getting the ruling class to
accept a Keynesian Centre.

It is this struggle that we are seeing at the moment. The defenders of the
Neoliberal Centre fear the masses who are pushing for a new Centre.  When
the new Centre is established the struggles will die down but the potential
for struggle will always be there. But that is enough for today

comradely

Gary

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> Politically homeless was how Gary Lineker put it, not realising that he
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> Centrism always has been and always will be homeless, an absence of
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[Marxism] The revolutionary feminists fighting ISIS

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The revolutionary feminists fighting ISIS



https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/revolutionary-feminists-fighting-isis

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[Marxism] Syrian Arab women form self defense battalion

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"Arab women have announced the foundation of "Martyr Amara Arab Women's 
Battalion"
under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces".

https://anfenglish.com/women/first-time-in-arab-history-women-form-self-defense-battalion-20936



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