[Marxism] The Trump-Putin coalition for Assad lays waste to Syria: Imperial agreement and carve-up behind the noisy rhetoric
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 deepening American intervention in Syria under the administration of president Donald Trump has been both far bloodier than that under Barack Obama, and also more openly on the side of the regime of Bashar Assad, as has been clarified by a number of recent official statements and changes. https://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/2017/09/05/the-trump-putin-coalition-for-assad-lays-waste-to-syria-imperial-agreement-and-carve-up-behind-the-noisy-rhetoric/ _ 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] Imperialism: a critique of David Harvey
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 my opinion China has clearly become an imperialist power in the last decade. Nevertheless, its development has a clear uneven character. For those who are interested in this issue I would like to refer to a number of studies and pamphlets: China‘s transformation into an imperialist power. A study of the economic, political and military aspects of China as a Great Power, http://www.thecommunists.net/publications/revcom-number-4; China’s Emergence as an Imperialist Power, http://newpol.org/content/china%E2%80%99s-emergence-%E2%80%A8imperialist-power Is Lenin’s Theory of Imperialism Incompatible with the Concept of Permanent Revolution? https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/imperialism-theory-and-permanent-revolution/ The China Question and the Marxist Theory of Imperialism, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/reply-to-csr-pco-on-china/ Lenin’s Theory of Imperialism and the Rise of Russia as a Great Power. On the Understanding and Misunderstanding of Today’s Inter-Imperialist Rivalry in the Light of Lenin’s Theory of Imperialism, http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/imperialism-theory-and-russia/ Russia and China as Great Imperialist Powers. A Summary of the RCIT’s Analysis, http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/imperialist-china-and-russia/ Am 04.09.2017 um 07:26 schrieb mkaradjis . via Marxism: 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. * "Chinese corporations are investing in mines in Africa and Latin America, ports in Australia, Greece and Sri Lanka, etc." It is fascinating to think the degree to which Chinese imperialism plays such a dominant role in Greece through control of its main port, yet if we were forced to think through old, established dogmatic categories, we would have to insist that Greece was an imperialist country and China was a semi-colonial (or "oppressed") country. It is a good example of how refusing to see Russia and China as imperialist powers seems to me to be a refusal to simply look today's reality in the face. It is true, as Chris says, that it is complicated, "because China is still a source of cheap labor for US, European and Japanese corporations." That was also true of Tsarist Russia, whose vast countryside was immensely more backward than is today's Chinese countryside, yet Lenin, correctly, saw it as an imperialist country. I believe that is called "the law of uneven and combined development." On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Chris Slee via Marxism 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. * While I disagree with some of David Harvey's formulations, I think we do have to recognise that the rise of China is a significant change. Chinese corporations are investing in mines in Africa and Latin America, ports in Australia, Greece and Sri Lanka, etc. Does this make China an imperialist power? The situation is complicated, because China is still a source of cheap labor for US, European and Japanese corporations. Chris Slee From: Marxism on behalf of Philip Ferguson via Marxism Sent: Sunday, 3 September 2017 9:00:26 PM To: Chris Slee Subject: [Marxism] Imperialism: a critique of David Harvey 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://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/09/03/imperialism-a-critique-of-david-harvey/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/chris_w_slee%40hotmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mkaradjis%40gmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lis
[Marxism] Rosa Luxemburg's 'The Accumulation of Capital', 100 years on
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[Marxism] Fwd: Misreporting Ukraine: The Scourge of Conspiracies – Under the Mask of Philanthropy
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Re: [Marxism] Rosa Luxemburg's 'The Accumulation of Capital', 100 years on
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 2017/09/05 11:01 AM, Philip Ferguson via Marxism wrote: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/09/05/rosa-remixed-up-100-years-after-the-accumulation-of-capital/ There are questions in this (exceedingly grumpy) review posed to me, so I sent back this quick answer to Walter Daum: Walter: [Bond] repeatedly quotes her statements to the effect that “capital cannot accumulate without the aid of non-capitalist relations.” But the main examples he provides are those of extractive industries that strip the continent of minerals, and he vividly describes the infamous massacre of platinum miners at Marikana in 2012. How is this an example of “super-exploitative relations between capitalist and non-capitalist spheres” being confirmed in Africa today? My reply: The super-exploitation of the non-capitalist sphere entails: 1) land grabs of the soil above which the minerals are found; 2) nature grabs of the minerals themselves; 3) grabs of the social reproduction of labour power in the form of super-exploited women suffering the conditions of migrant labour in neo-apartheid SA (more at http://womin.org.za) Sorry I didn't make that clear, but you'd agree? Cheers, Patrick _ 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] Imperialism: a critique of David Harvey
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Re: [Marxism] [UCE] The Financial Times on big data in China
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. * Some of the issues raised by Jim have been hashed out periodically on this list, most recently in the context of the heightened competition between Amazon/Walmart/Whole Foods et al. I won't rehash that, except to say that Jim's point about Walmart using computer systems actually shows the efficiency of moving calculation inside the corporation (while moving work outside; I think Louis linked an article on that a couple days ago re inequality and contract work). So here's a new example: When a retail corporation's entire chain of stores moves overnight to introduce massive fashion lines - in this case gender-neutral clothes - one cannot plausibly claim it as a victory for the market. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/04/world/europe/uk-britain-gender-children-john-lewis.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0 _ 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] Rosa Luxemburg's 'The Accumulation of Capital', 100 years on
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[Marxism] Fwd: Militias and Crony Capitalism to Hamper Syria Reconstruction | SyriaUntold | حكاية ما انحكت
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[Marxism] Georgia: The Radical Experiment Crushed by Stalin - ZED Books
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[Marxism] Fwd: Diplomacy With North Korea Has Worked Before, and Can Work Again | The Nation
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[Marxism] Fwd: Making Their Own History | Solidarity
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[Marxism] Fwd: How the UAW Lost at Nissan | Solidarity
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[Marxism] Fwd: Running for the People: “Run, Run, Run (for office) and Don’t Look Back” | Solidarity
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[Marxism] Fwd: Hillary Clinton Defends Call To Deport Child Migrants | HuffPost
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[Marxism] David Harvey, Baran-Sweezy and imperialism: some further comments
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