[Marxism] Protests in Iraq spread as people ignore bans (ANF)
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. * Protests in Iraq spread as people ignore bans: https://anfenglishmobile.com/news/protests-in-iraq-spread-as-people-ignore-bans-28261 "Demonstrations are being organised in many cities includ[ing] Baghdad." *** Protesters in Iraq set up a Demonstrators Council: https://anfenglishmobile.com/news/protesters-in-iraq-set-up-a-demonstrators-council-28266 "Demonstrators in Iraq asked the army to replace government officials." "This year is worse as there have been record heat levels, salinity in Basra is growing along with a new dam in Turkey that has greatly limited the water supply, and Iran has cut its delivery of electricity to Iraq over unpaid bills." *** The call for army intervention seems misguided. Some bourgeois media reports say the demonstrators are hostile to Iranian influence in Iraq. Chris Slee _ 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] Richard Seymour on how “Project Fear” failed against Jeremy Corbyn | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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 7/15/18 5:29 PM, Gary MacLennan wrote: I have the book (1st edition) and it is very good. I too am a big fan of RS's & even his Lacanism can be interesting. But jeezuss kryst his pessimism is all pervasive. I put that down to his experience of the ISO (SWP) "revolution is round the cor4ner comrades" line. ae Gary That's the Salvage Weltanschauung, which I guess is sort of ex-SWP: Salvage is edited and written by and for the desolated Left, by and for those committed to radical change, sick of capitalism and its sadisms, and sick too of the Left’s bad faith and bullshit. Salvage has earned its pessimism. Salvage yearns for that pessimism to be proved wrong. _ 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] Richard Seymour on how “Project Fear” failed against Jeremy Corbyn | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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 have the book (1st edition) and it is very good. I too am a big fan of RS's & even his Lacanism can be interesting. But jeezuss kryst his pessimism is all pervasive. I put that down to his experience of the ISO (SWP) "revolution is round the cor4ner comrades" line. ae Gary On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 6:44 AM, 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. > * > > (This is the latest installment of excerpts from Richard Seymour’s book on > Corbyn. I plan to review the book for CounterPunch next week since it is > such an extraordinary combination of brilliant analysis and prose mastery > that suggests Alexander Cockburn and Christopher Hitchens in their prime. > It is criminal that this young man does not have a job writing for the > Guardian or the Independent rather than the fossils they employ.) > > https://louisproyect.org/2018/07/15/richard-seymour-on-how-p > roject-fear-failed-against-jeremy-corbyn/ > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/gary.maclennan1%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] Richard Seymour on how “Project Fear” failed against Jeremy Corbyn | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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. * (This is the latest installment of excerpts from Richard Seymour’s book on Corbyn. I plan to review the book for CounterPunch next week since it is such an extraordinary combination of brilliant analysis and prose mastery that suggests Alexander Cockburn and Christopher Hitchens in their prime. It is criminal that this young man does not have a job writing for the Guardian or the Independent rather than the fossils they employ.) https://louisproyect.org/2018/07/15/richard-seymour-on-how-project-fear-failed-against-jeremy-corbyn/ _ 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] In Town With Little Water, Coca-Cola Is Everywhere. So Is Diabetes.
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, July 15, 2018 In Town With Little Water, Coca-Cola Is Everywhere. So Is Diabetes. By Oscar Lopez and Andrew Jacobs SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico — Maria del Carmen Abadía lives in one of Mexico’s rainiest regions, but she has running water only once every two days. When it does trickle from her tap, the water is so heavily chlorinated, she said, it’s undrinkable. Potable water is increasingly scarce in San Cristóbal de las Casas, a picturesque mountain town in the southeastern state of Chiapas where some neighborhoods have running water just a few times a week, and many households are forced to buy extra water from tanker trucks. So, many residents drink Coca-Cola, which is produced by a local bottling plant, can be easier to find than bottled water and is almost as cheap. In a country that is among the world’s top consumers of sugary drinks, Chiapas is a champion: Residents of San Cristóbal and the lush highlands that envelop the city drink on average more than two liters, or more than half a gallon, of soda a day. “Soft drinks have always been more available than water,” said Ms. Abadía, 35, a security guard who, like her parents, has struggled with obesity and diabetes. Vicente Vaqueiros, 33, a doctor at the clinic in San Juan Chamula, a nearby farming town, said health care workers were struggling to deal with the surge in diabetes. “When I was a kid and used to come here, Chamula was isolated and didn’t have access to processed food,” he said. “Now, you see the kids drinking Coke and not water. Right now, diabetes is hitting the adults, but it’s going to be the kids next. It’s going to overwhelm us.” Buffeted by the dual crises of the diabetes epidemic and the chronic water shortage, residents of San Cristóbal have identified what they believe is the singular culprit: the hulking Coca-Cola factory on the edge of town. The plant has permits to extract more than 300,000 gallons of water a day as part of a decades-old deal with the federal government that critics say is overly favorable to the plant’s owners. Public ire has been boiling over. In April 2017, masked protesters marched on the factory holding crosses that read “Coca-Cola kills us” and demanding that the government shut the plant down. “When you see that institutions aren’t providing something as basic as water and sanitation, but you have this company with secure access to one of the best water sources, of course it gives you a shock,” said Fermin Reygadas, the director of Cántaro Azul, an organization that provides clean water to rural communities. Coca-Cola executives and some outside experts say the company has been unfairly maligned for the water shortages. They blame rapid urbanization, poor planning and a lack of government investment that has allowed the city’s infrastructure to crumble. Climate change, scientists say, has also played a role in the failure of artesian wells that sustained San Cristóbal for generations. “It doesn’t rain like it used to,” said Jesús Carmona, a biochemist at the local Ecosur scientific research center, which is affiliated with the Mexican government. “Almost every day, day and night, it used to rain.” But at a time of growing strife between Mexico and the United States, fed by President Trump’s vow to build a border wall and his threats to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement, the increasing antipathy toward Coca-Cola has come to symbolize the frustrations that many Mexicans feel about their northern neighbor. The plant is owned by Femsa, a food and beverage behemoth that owns the rights to bottle and sell Coca-Cola throughout Mexico and much of the rest of Latin America. Femsa is one of Mexico’s most powerful companies; a former chief executive of Coca-Cola in Mexico, Vicente Fox, was the country’s president from 2000 to 2006. Nafta has been beneficial for Femsa, which has received hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign investment. But in San Cristóbal, Nafta is widely viewed as an unwelcome interloper. On New Year’s Day in 1994, the day the trade pact went into effect, rebels from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation swept into San Cristóbal, declared war against the Mexican state and burned government buildings. Although the two sides eventually signed a peace agreement, anti-globalization sentiment still simmers across the region, one of the poorest in Mexico. “Coca-Cola is abusive, manipulative,” said Martin López López, a local activist who has helped organize boycotts and protests against the soda company. “They take our pure water, they dye it and they trick
[Marxism] Exercises in Self-Destruction: On Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed” - Los Angeles Review of Books
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[Marxism] Martin Duberman Points to the Failures of the Gay-Rights Movement | The New Yorker
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[Marxism] Last and First Men, Two Manifestos
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[Marxism] Are we nearing a decisive crisis in the UK?
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. * Sadly there aren't many posts from comrades to the list recently. I am inclined to answer the question in the heading in the affirmative. My own native land - Ulster, Northern Ireland, the 'wee black hole' as we used to call it is wracked with violence on all sides. Brexit - the vote to leave the EU has acted as a catalyst to bring all sorts of creatures out into the light. Apparently the American ambassador has been making inquiries about the safety of the Fascist leader -Robinson - while he is in prison. His followers openly taunt & chase the police in the streets of London. The right wing of the British Labour Party, known oddly enough as the Centrists, are still conspiring to bring down the Leftist Leader Corbyn. Why? One may as well ask the old Stalinists who sided with Yeltsin against Gorbachev, why they did it, or the scorpion on the frog. Richard Seymour has talked about a deep crisis in the Tory core that Brexit has activated. the Business community does not want Brexit but are unwilling or unable to bring the Tory Party to heel. The Patty itself seems to be in the grip of those who fantasize about the days of imperial glory. Only the Labour Party seems to have a coherent program which could loosely be described as Keynesian - some redistribution plus government investment. Hardly radical but in these the dog days of neoliberalism, to talk once more of public ownership etc is anathema to all those who traded on the neoliberal/Thatcerhite notion that There Is No Alternative. I will try some guesses now. I think May will face a challenge. She will probably hold it off. I think the right wing Blairites will split from Corbyn to try and form a new party with the pro-EU "moderates" in the Tory Party and the Liberal Democrats. I cannot think of any other way they can stop a Corbyn landslide. The timing of such a move is crucial. Some of the rightists including the Labour Party Deputy Leader, Tom Watson, have talked of forming a government of national unity with the Tories. But that move came out of panic, I think, at the sight of the resignations on Monday and the consequent fear of a Tory collapse. Next week when May fronts up to parliament with her Brexit plan is crucial. The right of the Labour Party want to vote with her to prevent an election, but the intervention of their leader Lord Mandelson condemning May's plan for Brexit as unworkable. has certainly muddied the waters. Will May be defeated? Her fate is in the hands of the Hard Brexiters and the Labour Party Blairites. It is very much a question "Watch this space"/ comradely Gary _ 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
