Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Race and the Logic of Capital | Solidarity

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See also the responses to Roediger.

I still prefer my schema:
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[Marxism] Cheers!

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Hi Louis,

As a regular reader, I want to express my appreciation both for your incisive 
analysis and the high quality of the articles you forward on to readers.

All the Best for the New Year,

Dick Taylor
Minneapolis
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[Marxism] Fwd: Estar Baur (1920-2017) | Solidarity

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Reading this, I regret not having interviewed her as well as her husband 
Erwin.


http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/5192

Erwin Baur interview: 
https://louisproyect.org/2015/02/11/erwin-baur-interview-part-one/

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[Marxism] Fwd: William ("Bill") Pelz | Solidarity

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A commemoration.

http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/5193
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[Marxism] Fwd: Race and the Logic of Capital | Solidarity

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Alan Wald reviews new book by David Roediger.

http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/5183
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Re: [Marxism] Are Iran's protests Economic or Political?

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I would add that the revolt is also a youth revolt.  Young people in Iran have 
their personal lives, their cultural lives, their sex lives supervised by 
older, puritanical people.
Parties are often held in secret, fearful of a visit from the police.
You could argue that these young people are being shallow and self-centred, but 
that would change nothing.
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[Marxism] Dan Talbot, Impresario of Art Films, Is Dead at 91

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NY Times, Jan. 1 2018
Dan Talbot, Impresario of Art Films, Is Dead at 91
By ANITA GATES

Dan Talbot, one of the most influential figures in the world of 
art-house film as an operator of Manhattan theaters — including Lincoln 
Plaza Cinemas, which is scheduled to close on Jan. 28 — and a founder of 
the film distribution company New Yorker Films, died on Friday at his 
home in Manhattan. He was 91.


His death was confirmed by Ewnetu Admassu, the general manager of 
Lincoln Plaza.


Manohla Dargis, co-chief film critic for The New York Times, summed up 
Mr. Talbot’s impact in a 2011 interview with him at the Cannes Film 
Festival, where in his 80s he continued to see four to six films a day. 
She described his theaters as places where “generations of moviegoers 
have had their minds and worlds expanded, and even blown.”


Mr. Talbot was always realistic about the narrow appeal of his product. 
In 1987, interviewed during a Public Theater retrospective, “The Age of 
New Yorker Films,” he described his chosen field as “a very financially 
masochistic business.” In fact, he told Ms. Dargis (and others) what he 
thought of the term show business: “It’s not a business. It’s a casino.”


And he acknowledged that the audience for art-house films was both small 
and static. “It’s an elite, college-educated, well-traveled group, and 
it’s very determined,” but it isn’t growing, he told The Times in 1981.


Mr. Talbot chose to trust his own tastes. “When I look at movies, I 
don’t think of the box office,” he said in the same interview. “If it 
appeals to my aesthetic sense, if it has some artistic foundation, I 
take a chance with it.” And that system worked.


He introduced American moviegoers to a whole universe of European 
filmmaking, including the French New Wave and the postwar German 
auteurs. One of his greatest successes was Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 
“The Marriage of Maria Braun” (1979), about one German woman’s struggles 
after World War II, which ran for a full year.


Mr. Talbot’s boldest moves included “Point of Order,” 188 hours of the 
1954 McCarthy Senate hearings, edited to 97 minutes; “Shoah,” Claude 
Lanzmann’s almost nine-and-a-half-hour interview-based documentary about 
the Holocaust, which aired on PBS after half a year in theaters; and a 
1960 release of “Triumph of the Will,” Leni Riefenstahl’s infamous 
propaganda documentary about the 1934 Nazi Party Congress.


Daniel Talbot was born on July 21, 1926, in the Bronx. His father, 
Israel, worked as a textile jobber. His mother, the former Jeanne 
Frances Charak, owned a fabric and notions shop.


After graduating from New York University with a literature degree, Mr. 
Talbot worked in publishing and film — as a book editor, as East Coast 
story editor for Warner Bros. and briefly as film critic for the 
pacifist magazine The Progressive. After a year living in Spain, putting 
together a collection of essays titled “Film: An Anthology” (1959), Mr. 
Talbot returned to the United States and the opportunity that became the 
New Yorker Theater.


Mr. Talbot and his wife, the former Toby Tolpern, learned that the old 
Yorktown Theater, on Broadway between 88th and 89th Street, was 
available. They renamed the theater the New Yorker and reopened it in 
March 1960 as a revival house, presenting “Henry V” with Laurence 
Olivier and “The Red Balloon” as their first double feature. By 1962, 
business was so good that the couple bought the lease. By 1964, Mr. 
Talbot was being interviewed for The New York Post by a young writer 
named Nora Ephron, who described his theater as “a raving success”


It all seemed easy. “The theater had a policy of no policy,” Ms. Talbot 
wrote in “The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes From a Life at the 
Movies,” her 2009 memoir. “We thought of it as our living room, playing 
movies we wanted to see.”


The theater branched out into first-run foreign and independent films 
and presented retrospectives of the work of both actors and directors. 
The New Yorker’s lobby guest book was signed by the city’s creative elite.


New Yorker Films was founded in 1965 after the Talbots saw a movie they 
loved at the New York Film Festival. It was “Before the Revolution,” a 
romantic drama from an unknown 23-year-old Italian director, Bernardo 
Bertolucci, and the only way they could screen the film at the New 
Yorker, they learned, was to agree to distribute it.


By the mid-1970s, the couple were devoting themselves full time to 
distribution, Ms. Talbot recalled. New Yorker Films’s hundreds of 
credits included “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” (1972), “Tampopo” (1985), 
“The Boys of St. Vincent” (1992) and “My Dinner 

[Marxism] interview with biographer of Lucy Parsons

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/31/books/tell-us-5-things-about-your-book-goddess-of-anarchy.html?ref=todayspaper
Notice her (i.e. both Jones and Parsons) contempt for the Democrats
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[Marxism] re Iran

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Louis wrote:
:Ron Jacobs:

One disturbing aspect of Mossaddessin?s text is his referral to the
support that the NCRI and PMOI [MEK] have received from various members
of the US government. Especially disturbing is his quoting of Daniel
Pipes, the neoconservative apologist for the worst of Israel?s
oppressive tactics in Palestine. One would think that he would see this
support for what it truly is: an attempt to manipulate these
organizations into doing Washington?s dirty work in replacing the
theocratic regime in Iran. Conversations I have had with grassroots
supporters of the PMOI, however, make it clear that the majority of its
members understand that their revolutionary vision of Islam is no more
palatable to US goals for the region than that of the fundamentalists."

my response:

Quoting me from 2004 on the PMOI/MEK ignores a bunch of history since
then.  PMOI is very much in cahoots with various right wing agencies and
elements in the intelligence area of the US government.  I have no use for
them and haven't since not long after that review, when they went full bore
with the neocons, pushing those in the organization who did not agree with
that plan out of the group.  I agree that the protests are more than just
outside agencies, but I will not jump on the "Oh it's a protest against the
government so it must be good" radicals who end up aligning themselves with
right wing fundamentalists and reactionary or imperialist regimes in the
name of a revolution that failed, like in Syria.  Doing so ignores the very
real role those regimes and their proxies play in destroying those
potential revolutions.  My understanding of Iran is that its revolution is
stalled and has been for decades.  In the meantime, it has established
itself as a relatively reasonable (and even moderate in terms of today's
reality) force in the region that opposes Israeli expansionism, Saudi
reaction and manipulation, and keeps the US at bay.  All this in spite of
very real threats from Washington, Tel Aviv and even Riyadh--all of whom
have declared their intention to end the current government in Tehran.

ron j

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[Marxism] Long Live the Popular Uprising in Iran!

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https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/long-live-the-popular-uprising-in-iran/


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Re: [Marxism] It’s time to nationalize the internet!

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Love that while she praises municipal efforts she also makes clear that
they're no substitute for nationalization.
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[Marxism] It’s time to nationalize the internet!

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To counter the FCC’s attack on net neutrality, we need to start treating
the Internet like the public good it is.

The Internet was initially a product of public spending. The U.S. Defense
Department first conceived it

in
the 1960s, following a period of feverish technological competition with
the Soviet Union. By the early 1990s, the government ceded control of the
Internet to the private sector, which had the putative capacity to host its
rapid growth. Since then, the transition to corporate stewardship has
stratified the digital landscape and isolated disenfranchised populations.

http://inthesetimes.com/article/20784/fcc-net-neutrality-open-internet-public-good-nationalize
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[Marxism] Fwd: Iran's Rouhani Acknowledges Right To Protest, But Blasts Trump For Encouraging It

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https://www.buzzfeed.com/borzoudaragahi/heres-why-the-protests-in-iran-probably-are-going-to-get

(Bookmark https://www.buzzfeed.com/borzoudaragahi for useful commentary 
on the situation in Iran.)

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[Marxism] Fwd: Are Iran's protests Economic or Political?

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https://www.juancole.com/2018/01/protests-economic-political.html
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[Marxism] Retro thoughts

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I don’t go in much for the seasonal thing but did really thrive through it all 
and actually had a very good time with the family.  

It is as hot as hell here at present. But we will get by on chilled red wine.

My political interests at the moment are firstly in following the Novara Media 
cabal in London.  I have great hopes for Ash Sarkar, James Butler, Michael 
Walker and Aaron Bastani.  

It seems to me that they and the Artist Taxi Driver, Owen Jones, Richard 
Seymour & Paul Mason and others are producing a profoundly moral critique of 
Neoliberal power.  As I have been reading Reinhart Kosselleck I have compared 
the work of Novara Media et al to the critiques of Absolutism fashioned in the 
Enlightenment Clubs and theatres. Those critics brought down the Absolute 
Monarchs.  The critiques of Novara Media et al may well bring down the UK’s 
neoliberal establishment.

The moral impulse behind the critiques is also given added edge by  Novara 
Media’s constant exposure of the mind boggling incompetence  & meanness of the 
Tory Govt that Theresa May leads.

So something good is happening in the UK.  It is also possible that the Trump 
visit could be the catalyst for a major confrontation with the Tory state. That 
makes up in part for my deep grief at the crushing of the Arab Spring.

I have also been genuinely intrigued at the re-emergence of what my old Year 11 
history text book used to call the “Irish Problem”.  We Irish of course thought 
of it as the English Problem. Briefly, Brexit poses an insolvable problem for 
the UK state.  Peace prevails In Ireland because of the absence of a hard 
border between the North and the South of Ireland.  But if the UK leaves the EU 
there will have to be a hard border somewhere. It will either be in Ireland or 
in the Irish Sea.  The Unionists in Ulster have gone hysterical over the latter 
possibility and to pacify them there has been an enormous amount of fudging 
taking place. But sooner or later there will have to be some very hard 
decisions taken.

To add a deal of delight to proceedings state papers released in Ireland have 
shown that MI5 conspired with the Protestant Terrorist gang the UVF to murder 
members of the Miami Show Band.  As well MI5 tried to persuade the UVF to 
assassinate the then Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey!   How’s that for a 
Deep State manoeuvre comrades?  There has been total silence from the British 
Government on the matter.

My other cause that is close to my heart is the struggle of the Palestinians.  
I have spent a good deal of time on Twitter in support of the courageous Ahed 
Tamimi.   She is 16 and a total inspiration for her people.  Everyone talks 
about how much the Israelis fear her courage and example.   That is of course 
true.  But in my tweets I have constantly pointed out that Zionist colonialism 
would not be possible without the complicity of Arab leaders especially in 
Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. It is the very same leaders who most fear what 
Ahed represents.

Some thing must be said about Australian Politics.  I do live here after all! I 
am tempted to think we are in something like a Groundhog Day scenario.  The 
miserable wretched racist Tory Government continues in office.  The opposition 
Labour Party remains wedded to neoliberalism, seemingly of the Lite Variety. So 
their opposition is within definite limits. Yet we did have the Marriage 
Equality Survey and that showed Australia to  be socially progressive and 
marriage reality is not a fact. 

Well done!

So prediction time: foolish but fun. Some where (Europe?) there will be a major 
rupture to the Left that will threaten to destroy  the decayng neoliberal 
centre. Remember this post! I 

Comradely

Gary 



 
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Re: [Marxism] On the new Cold War between Saudi Arabia and Iran

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Yossi Schwartz of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency explains 
the RCIT's approach towards the "Islamic State" as follows:

"In the battle between ISIL and the imperialists, we took the side of ISIL as 
the imperialists are the worst enemy.  However, when ISIL attacked the Kurds 
when the Kurds defended their enclaves, we took the side of the Kurds.  When 
the Kurds and others served the American imperialists, in the battle of Raqqa, 
we stood with ISIL without giving them any political support.  Yes, ISIL is a 
very reactionary organization, but the main enemy are the imperialist butchers 
and their servants".

The RCIT's shift from supporting "the Kurds" against ISIL to supporting ISIL 
against "the Kurds and others" (i.e. the Syrian Democratic Forces) indicates 
political confusion.

Schwartz claims that in the battle for Raqqa "the Kurds and others served the 
American imperialists".  But the fact that the SDF have a military alliance 
with the US against ISIL does not mean they are "serving" the US.  It just 
means that, for the time being, they are working together against a common 
enemy. 

This cooperation began when ISIL was on the offensive, with Kobani under siege. 
 It continues because both the US and the SDF, each for their own reasons, want 
to crush ISIL.

The SDF want to liberate the people who are living under ISIL's brutal rule, 
which is particularly oppressive to women and religious minorities.

Schwartz speaks of "the battle between ISIL and the imperialists".  But ISIL 
has an alliance with Turkey, a state that is increasingly acting like an 
imperialist power.  Some indicators of Turkey's imperialist character include:

1. Turkish capital has extensive investments in other Middle Eastern countries 
(including Iraqi Kurdistan).

2. Turkish troops have invaded northern Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan.

3. Turkey has a military base in Qatar.

4. There is a semi-colonial relationship between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan.  
Turkey buys oil from the Kurdistan Regional Government.  In return, the KRG is 
politically subservient to Turkey.  It allows Turkish troops to enter Iraqi 
Kurdistan and Turkish planes to bomb areas where the PKK is said to be present.

5. Turkey uses some Syrian rebel groups as pawns in its war against the 
Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (DFNS).  For example, some of these 
groups were withdrawn from the battle fronts against the Assad regime in 2016 
in preparation for their participation in Turkey's invasion of northern Syria. 
This contributed to Assad's capture of eastern Aleppo later in that year.

ISIL has until recently been Turkey's main proxy in the war against the DFNS.  
Turkey bought oil from ISIL, helping it to fund its administration and pay its 
fighters relatively well.  Turkey has also supplied weapons to ISIL and 
collaborated in attacks on the DFNS.

The decline of ISIL has forced Turkey to send its own troops into Syria, and to 
rely more heavily on other proxy forces.

Pressure from the US has also forced Turkey to pretend that it is fighting 
against ISIL.  When Turkey sent troops into northern Syria in August 2016, the 
invasion was said to be directed against both the SDF and ISIL.

In reality, Turkey's invasion was essentially directed against the SDF.  It 
came shortly after the SDF had captured Manbij from ISIL.  Turkey's goal was to 
prevent the SDF from capturing other ISIL-held areas in the north of Aleppo 
province, including the towns of Jarablus and al-Bab.  Turkey also hoped to 
drive the SDF out of Manbij.

Initially ISIL offered little or no resistance to the entry of Turkish troops 
into ISIL-controlled territory at Jarablus.  It appeared that there was a deal 
whereby ISIL would withdraw from the border region, handing it over to Turkey.

However, it seems there was disagreement on how far ISIL would have to 
withdraw, leading to serious armed conflict between Turkey and ISIL at al-Bab.

Turkey wanted to control al-Bab with its own forces, presumably because it was 
not confident that ISIL could resist the SDF's advances in the area.  Control 
of the region between al-Bab and Jarablus enables Turkey to block the SDF from 
linking Afrin to the rest of the DFNS.

Once ISIL agreed to leave al-Bab, the alliance between ISIL and Turkey resumed. 
 Turkey attacked the DFNS from the north in an attempt to divert the SDF away 
from its advance on Raqqa.  This was unsuccessful, but Turkey continues to 
attack the DFNS.

Given that ISIL is not just socially reactionary but also an ally of Turkish 
imperialism, there is no reason to support it against the socially progressive 
SDF.

Chris Slee



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