[Marxism] The Next Financial Crisis | Various Authors | New Internationalist via Portside

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[Marxism] 'Apocalyptic threat': dire climate report raises fears for California's future | Environment | The Guardian

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[Marxism] 18 Theses on Marxism and Animal Liberation

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[Marxism] What do socialists mean by socialism? | SocialistWorker.org

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By Todd Chretien

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[Marxism] Liberalism, Ultraleftism, or Mass Action – The Call

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From the website of DSA members who describe themselves in the About page:

The Call is a publication founded to advance the political outlook of a 
group of members in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). We are 
Marxists who believe in a democratic road to socialism. We want to build 
DSA into a mass organization that can help revitalize working-class 
politics and lay the groundwork for a new socialist party in the future.



From the first article they have posted:

INTRODUCTION

One of our goals for The Call is to reprint some of the best writing on 
socialist strategy.


That’s not because we’re dogmatists who prefer to take our cues from 
dusty old books. Too much writing today about socialism falls into the 
trap of reciting catechisms about strategy drawn from conditions far 
removed from our own.


We don’t take any writer as gospel. But we believe that as socialists 
and Marxists we are carrying on a proud tradition. In the course of 
almost two centuries of struggle, organizers and writers have been able 
to capture certain enduring truths about politics. And in other cases, 
the way they approached a question offers us a way to see similar 
problems we face in a new light. It is writing like this — writing that 
gives us the tools to better address the problems we face — that we want 
to highlight for a new generation of socialists.


We thought it would be fitting to start with a speech given by the 
socialist activist Peter Camejo in June of 1970 that has been a major 
reference point for our own political development. Camejo’s “Liberalism, 
Ultra-leftism, or Mass Action” speaks directly to contending assumptions 
about what it takes for movements to win.


full: 
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[Marxism] Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars | US news | The Guardian

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[Marxism] Meet the ‘Change Agents’ Who Are Enabling Inequality

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NY Times Sunday Book Review, August 26, 2018
Meet the ‘Change Agents’ Who Are Enabling Inequality
By Joseph E. Stiglitz

WINNERS TAKE ALL
The Elite Charade of Changing the World
By Anand Giridharadas
288 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $26.95.

First came the books describing just how much worse economic inequality 
had become over the past 20 years, with all the dramatic political 
implications now impossible to ignore. Then there were the tomes about 
globalization (including my own, I admit), detailing the West’s 
unfettered pursuit of neoliberal policies that abetted all this unfairness.


Well, prepare for a new genre: books gently and politely skewering the 
corporate titans who claim to be solving such problems. It’s an elite 
that, rather than pushing for systemic change, only reinforces our 
lopsided economic reality — all while hobnobbing on the conference 
circuit and trafficking in platitudes.


Anand Giridharadas, a former columnist for The New York Times, spoke 
about this phenomenon at an Aspen Institute conference in 2015, and he 
takes his ideas further in his entertaining and gripping new book, 
“Winners Take All.” As the Democratic Party struggles to figure out its 
future and global demagogy thrives, it’s worth considering where we went 
wrong and how best to save the world from the dangerous turn it has 
taken. It’s now very clear that globalization, technology and market 
liberalization did not bring their promised benefits — at least not for 
the vast majority of Americans and those in advanced countries around 
the world.


For those at the helm, the philanthropic plutocrats and aspiring “change 
agents” who believe they are helping but are actually making things 
worse, it’s time for a reckoning with their role in this spiraling 
dilemma. I suggest they might want to read a copy of this book while in 
the Hamptons this summer.


In a series of chapters centered on different individuals who are part 
of this rarefied class, Giridharadas exposes the rationalizations of the 
0.001 percent who actually believe they are making the world a better 
place. The Sacklers helped create the opioid crisis but give money to 
important causes. The chief executive of Cinnabon thinks that being 
transparent about the fat and sugar she peddles offsets the harm her 
company creates. It’s a land of PowerPoint presentations and cuddly good 
intentions.


Giridharadas calls this prevailing ethos “MarketWorld,” made up of 
people who want “to do well and do good.” He beautifully catches the 
language of Aspen, Davos and the recently extant Clinton Global 
Initiative, which will doubtless reappear in the newly born Bloomberg 
initiative. It’s a world of feel-good clichés like “win-win” and “make a 
difference.” The rote conversations of this crowd were on recent display 
at the Public Theater, in the beginning of the second act of the Bruce 
Norris play “The Low Road.” As Giridharadas describes the ethos of 
MarketWorld, it’s made up of people like former President Bill Clinton 
who saw the anger bubbling up but proved unable to “call out elites for 
their sins: or call for power’s redistribution and fundamental systemic 
change; or suggest that plutocrats might have to surrender precious 
things for others to have a mere shot of transcending indecency.”


Like the dieter who would rather do anything to lose weight than 
actually eat less, this business elite would save the world through 
social impact investing, entrepreneurship, sustainable capitalism, 
philanthro-capitalism, artificial intelligence, market-driven solutions. 
They would fund a million of these buzzwordy programs rather than 
fundamentally question the rules of the game — or even alter their own 
behavior to reduce the harm of the existing distorted, inefficient and 
unfair rules. Doing the right thing — and moving away from their win-win 
mentality — would involve real sacrifice; instead, it’s easier to focus 
on their pet projects and initiatives. As Giridharadas puts it, people 
wanted to do “virtuous side projects instead of doing their day jobs 
more honorably.”


In order to really have an economy with the greatest opportunity for 
all, the kind of economy they seem to champion, the MarketWorlders would 
have to pay high levels of corporate and personal income tax, offer 
decent wages to their workers, allow unions, fund public schools 
(instead of pet charter projects) and support some form of single payer 
health care and campaign finance reform. One simply can’t arrive at a 
more economically equal reality when the rungs of the ladder are so far 
apart.


At Davos and the other international conclaves where the muckety-muck

[Marxism] A letter to the NY Times Book Review

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Cost of the Crash
To the Editor:

In his review of “Crashed,” by Adam Tooze (Aug. 12), Fareed Zakaria 
asserts that “the rescue worked better than almost anyone imagined.” He 
notes there was no “double-dip recession” and growth returned “slowly 
but surely.” But this misses what was the major criticism of the 
“rescue.” It merely hit the re-set button — keeping the big banks 
solvent. Meanwhile, the stimulus did little to put people back to work. 
It was not the double-dip recession that critics feared but a long 
sluggish recovery that failed to affect the majority of the people.


For example, it took six years (2009-15) for the unemployment rate to 
return to the pre-recession number. The share of income received by the 
top 1 percent had been 23 percent before the recession. After falling to 
18 percent in 2010 it jumped back to 22 percent by 2015. Meanwhile, as 
late as 2015, the bottom 99 percent of the population had only recovered 
two-thirds of the income they had lost. Zakaria should have added a few 
words to his assertion that the rescue worked: It worked for the top 1 
percent, not for the rest of us.


MICHAEL MEEROPOL
SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

The writer is an emeritus professor of economics at Western New England 
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[Marxism] How the ‘Temp’ Economy Became the New Normal

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I have reviewed one of Hyman's books in the past titled "Borrow: The 
American Way of Debt" that was very good. 
(https://louisproyect.org/2012/04/29/debt/) So I expect this one to be 
very good as well.



NY Times, August 22, 2018
How the ‘Temp’ Economy Became the New Normal
By Jennifer Szalai

Temp
How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became 
Temporary

By Louis Hyman
388 pages. Viking. $28.

There’s nothing like political and economic upheaval to make boredom 
look good. An era like the 1950s, which used to be lampooned for its 
stifling conformity — all those organization men in their gray flannel 
suits — has since been revered for its stability. To the gig-economy 
worker who has no idea how many hours she’ll be putting in next week 
(much less whether she’ll make enough to pay her rent or her health 
insurance), the prospect of donning a fedora, taking the commuter train 
into the city, sitting at a desk from 9 to 5 while her ample pension 
benefits accrue — well, it sounds like a fantasy now.


Then again, it would have been a fantasy for her back then too. As Louis 
Hyman shows in his illuminating and often surprising new book, the 
midcentury idyll of steady employment and a regular paycheck wasn’t 
designed to include women and people of color. For them, today’s 
economic precariousness wouldn’t look entirely unfamiliar. The New 
Deal’s fair labor standards applied only to industrial jobs in factories 
and offices; agricultural and domestic work were deliberately excluded.


“These different protections were rooted in assumptions about whose work 
needed to be secure — and who had power in society,” Hyman writes in 
“Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream 
Became Temporary.” “White men’s work counted. Everybody else’s did not.”


A number of books have been published in recent years about the brave 
new gig economy, but “Temp” examines the underlying cultural shift that 
made it all possible. An astounding 94 percent of American jobs created 
between 2005 and 2015 were for “alternative work.” Slow and steady 
growth used to be a cardinal virtue for the big American corporation. 
Now leanness and flexibility are prized, and nobody is spared. “In the 
end,” Hyman writes, “even white men were not protected from this new 
reality.”


Hyman, a labor historian at Cornell, argues that the common explanation 
for what happened — mainly, that our current dispensation was foisted on 
us by technological and economic change — is self-serving and 
inadequate. He says that human choice, including a palpable shift in 
values, played an essential role. “Temp” traces how, for corporations 
and government policymakers alike, “the risk-taking entrepreneur 
supplanted the risk-averse, but loyal, company man as the capitalist ideal.”


To that end, Hyman homes in on two businesses in particular: Manpower, 
the temporary staffing agency, and McKinsey, the management consulting 
company. In his telling, they acted like a vise, with one supplying the 
labor and the other supplying the ideology; together they helped squeeze 
the American work force into its current shape.


The material they had to work with was the postwar American corporation, 
which tended to be lumbering and cautious. After the convulsions of the 
Great Depression, Americans longed for predictability. Franklin 
Roosevelt created the Security and Exchange Commission in 1934, which 
demanded that publicly traded corporations open their books to enable 
government oversight. Heavy manufacturing entailed enormous investments 
in machinery, which required every worker along the assembly line to 
show up, so that those expensive machines wouldn’t sit idle. 
Corporations couldn’t abide too much volatility. They sought to minimize 
risks rather than maximize profits.


Corporate paternalism might have been born from self-interest, but it 
helped to create a culture that was hard to shake loose. The assumption 
that the corporation had a responsibility to its workers proved to be 
exceptionally stubborn — especially when employee rights were enshrined 
in union contracts. Even Elmer Winter, the founder of Manpower, 
originally pitched his company’s services as “emergency support,” 
filling in when an employee was sick or on vacation. “Permanent, 
full-time jobs were the norm, and Winter did not want to change that — 
at first,” Hyman writes, rather ominously.


But then those permanent, full-time employees were expensive, and temps 
were comparatively cheap. There could be beauty in their contingency; 
you didn’t have to pay them benefits or overtime, and their numbers 
could be quietly sh

[Marxism] A Palestinian Responds to His Israeli Neighbor

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(20 years ago I never would have dreamed that such a review could appear 
in the NY Times Book Review section.)


NY Times, Sunday Book Review, August 26, 2018
A Palestinian Responds to His Israeli Neighbor
By Raja Shehadeh

LETTERS TO MY PALESTINIAN NEIGHBOR
By Yossi Klein Halevi
204 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $24.99.

Dear Yossi,

It has always been my belief that it’s important to engage and 
understand the other in our ongoing struggles in Israel and Palestine. 
That is why I was encouraged when I received your book and read the 
title: “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor.”


From the outset you make it clear that your book, told in a series of 
10 letters to a hypothetical Palestinian correspondent, tells your own 
story: that of a New York Jew who grew up in the right-wing Zionist 
youth movement Betar, and who then decided in the summer of 1982, during 
the Lebanon War, to, as you put it, join the Jewish people “in the 
greatest dare of its history.”


After living for 36 years in your adopted country, you write (still 
addressing your imagined Palestinian audience), you believe that the 
greatest challenge facing your generation of Israelis is “to turn 
outward — to you, neighbor, because my future is inseparable from 
yours.” Later you add: “What choice do we have but to share this land?” 
It is in that spirit that you say you undertook writing these missives, 
to embark “on a journey of listening to each other.”


I find this an admirable goal. But reading your words, I wonder how 
aware you are of what our feelings are on the other side. Though you do 
at least acknowledge that there is a Palestinian “counterstory,” one of 
“invasion, occupation and expulsion,” a history of “dislocation” and 
“humiliating defeats,” the sentiment you most express, again and again 
in your letters, is how deeply we, the Palestinians, misunderstand you. 
It is our ignorance of your history and religion and attachment to the 
land that you seek to correct here.


Over the years I myself have made serious attempts to come closer to my 
Israeli neighbors, to form friendships and appreciate their worldviews, 
and many of my books have been translated and published in Israel. Yet 
in reading your letters I couldn’t help feeling condescended to — an 
unfortunate reaction since I am, I believe, your intended interlocutor. 
In one of your letters you wonder how your people can “empower” mine. 
But it seems the wrong question when all most of us wish is for Israel 
to withdraw from the territories it has occupied and leave us to go on 
with our lives.


It also doesn’t help that while claiming a new understanding of and 
sensitivity to our plight, you rehearse old and discredited narratives, 
like the suggestion that the land of Palestine was empty before Zionists 
arrived or the notion that it was Israel that has constantly offered 
peace, which the Palestinians have persisted in rejecting. (I was 
involved in the Oslo negotiations and I can tell you that Israel shares 
plenty of responsibility for their failure.)


Your letters seem like an intellectual exercise, which is a privilege 
that you enjoy but we do not. “If you were in my place, neighbor, what 
would you do?” you ask. But we are not in your place. You present the 
central problem of the conflict as a “cycle of denial,” in which my side 
is denying yours “legitimacy,” not sufficiently acknowledging “Jewish 
peoplehood,” and yours is denying mine “national sovereignty.” But these 
things are not equivalent. Twenty percent of the population of Israel 
proper are Palestinians who are often treated as second-class citizens. 
And the almost five million Palestinians, like me, who live in the 
territories that Israel occupied in 1967, including East Jerusalem, have 
been living for the past half century under the grueling regime of the 
occupation. These are actual realities, ones that only one side has the 
power to change.


To make peace possible the Palestinians are not required to become 
Zionists, to embrace the narrative of Jewish suffering and redemption 
that you recount in your letters. That you insist on this point as a 
prerequisite for peace makes me wonder how serious you are about sharing 
the land and reaching out to your neighbors.


Unlike you I will not demand that you see the Nakba, the catastrophe 
that Israel’s founding caused for my people, in the same way as I see 
it. You couldn’t. Suffice it for you to recognize your responsibility 
and to put a recognition of that culpability on the agenda for 
negotiations when the time comes for arriving at a settlement between us.


Many of your arguments are couched in religious

[Marxism] Dissidents of the left: In conversation with Yassin al-Haj Saleh

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Extraordinary interview with Yassin al-Haj Saleh, former Syrian
dissident who spent 16 years in an Assadist dungeon, one of the
world's leading revolutionary intellectuals.
https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/content/dissidents-left-conversation-yassin-al-haj-saleh
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[Marxism] Duncan Hunter and his wife have dismayed some wounded warriors. Others withhold judgment

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And this fuckwit is still running ahead of his DP opponent.

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[Marxism] In Kabul, Echoes of Saigon | by Ahmed Rashid | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

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An equally pressing issue, which the US forces, especially, have yet to 
address, concerns the source, or sources, of all the Taliban’s new 
equipment. Providing logistics, massing fighters, and coordinating 
serial attacks around the country are the task of a well-drilled, 
well-supplied command structure. That is what Washington and Kabul are 
dealing with: a Taliban force, once considered a rag-tag army of 
militants, that now has the savvy of generals and the resources of a 
serious army.


For the US, this development is surely resonant of Vietnam. It was the 
1968 Tet offensive launched by the South Vietnamese guerrillas, leading 
to talks in Paris with a North Vietnamese delegation, that paved the way 
for US withdrawal, which, once completed, left the South Vietnamese 
regime to collapse in 1975 and the communists to stroll into Saigon. 
Afghanistan may just have seen its Tet offensive. A resumption of talks 
with the US will eventually follow, but to what end this time?


The Afghan political class is also concerned that the Taliban are making 
friends in the regional power game more quickly than the Afghan 
government is. The Taliban have long had a powerful presence in 
Pakistan, where its leadership is based. In addition, both Iran and 
Russia have been providing some Taliban units with logistical support. 
It’s notable that, in parallel to the intensified military campaign, the 
Taliban has ramped up its diplomacy. In August, the group sent 
delegations to Uzbekistan and Indonesia, and Taliban representatives are 
frequent visitors to China.


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[Marxism] Steve Ellner: Latin American speaking tour

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Please consider the following information. Perhaps your organization or 
university can invite Steve Elner to speak.
George
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We are working on a fall speaking tour by Steve Ellner on the hardship imposed 
on the Venezuelan people by US-Canadian Sanctions.  He is available to speak in 
the East anytime now through mid-October. He will be on the West Coast the 
second half of October and early November. He will be in the Midwest after the 
first week of November. If you would like to invite him, as we are making his 
complete schedule,  please let us know.
   As part of a campaign to educate the public and organize a stronger movement 
against ongoing - and ever increasing - US and Canadian sanctions and 
intervention on the Venezuelan people, we will be mapping out a national 
speaking tour by Steve Ellner during October and November.
   This is now more important with the recent US-Colombia backed assassination 
attempt on Venezuela President Maduro on August 4, and recent US judge ruling 
authorizing the seizure of Citgo's assets in the US.
   If you or your organization are interesting in inviting him to speak 
sometime this fall  - at a university, conference, library or community 
meeting, please contact us.
   Or, if you have suggestions for us about where he could speak,  let us know.
   This builds on our March 2018  Open Letter in Support of Mediation not 
Sanctions on Venezuela


Thanks, Stan Smith and Teri Mattson,
stansfieldsmith...@gmail.com, teri.matt...@yahoo.com
Steve Ellner earned his Ph.D. in Latin American history at the University of 
New Mexico in 1980. Since 1977 he has taught economic history and political 
science at the Universidad de Oriente in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela and for a 
ten year period taught in the graduate school of law and political science of 
the Universidad Central de Venezuela.
He has been a visiting professor at St. John Fisher College (2001), Georgetown 
University (2004), Duke University (2005), Universidad de los Andes (Venezuela, 
2008), Universidad de Buenos Aires (2010), Australian National University 
(2013), and Tulane University (2015).
Among his book publications are:
Venezuela's Movimiento al Socialismo: From Guerrilla Defeat to Electoral
Politics (1988);
Organized Labor in Venezuela, l958-l991: Behavior and Concerns in a Democratic 
Setting  (l993);
Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Polarization and the Chávez Phenomenon. 
(2008);
The Latin American Left: From the Fall of Allende to Perestroika (co-editor, 
1993);
Venezuelan Politics in the Chávez Era: Class, Polarization and Conflict (co-
editor, 2003);
Venezuela: Hugo Chávez and the Decline of an "Exceptional" Democracy" 
(co-editor, 2007);
Latin America's Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in 
the Twenty-First Century
He has published on the op-ed page of the New York Times and the Los Angeles 
Times as well as in the Nation and The Progressive, and has been a regular 
contributor to NACLA: Report on the Americas, Commonweal and In These Times.


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[Marxism] Gary Shteyngart Is Back, on the Road and Still a Master of Dislocation - The New York Times

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I don't read novels but if I did this one and the one written by fellow 
Russian leftist and emigre Keith Gessen would make the cut.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/books/review-lake-success-gary-shteyngart.html
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Re: [Marxism] Palestine, electoral politics and the DSA | SocialistWorker.org

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Mentioned in the article:
https://ijr.com/2018/08/1119016-ocasio-cortez-john-mccain/

^^^I missed that one. Wow, she really did sell out very quickly.

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[Marxism] Radical professors and the hazards of social media | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Re: [Marxism] A Palestinian Responds to His Israeli Neighbor

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I haven’t heard the word used before, so here goes my version:
*Ziosplaining* would be the efforts of Zionists of so-called moderate
stripe, who are endlessly pained by reality, to explain to Palestinians
(and the world) that they have no choice but to support the Israeli
occupation of Palestine. Moreover, as these Zionists implore Palestinians
to understand, they seek to convey how deep their own suffering at being
occupiers runs—if only, *if only*, that is, those rightless, stateless
Palestinians could understand how much grief it gives the Israeli occupiers
to do what they have no choice but to do (build illegal settlements on
stolen land, imprison vast numbers of the population, detain without charge
(including children), engage in ethnic cleansing, kill with impunity,
etc.). If only the Palestinians could grasp the essential goodness and
justness of the occupiers and accept life under occupation, then perhaps
everyone could at last live happily ever after.

Thus, we have this latest effort in the genre, Yossi Klein Halevi’s *Letters
to My Palestinian Neighbor*. That neighbor, by the way, is the author’s
*imaginary* neighbor—the only one possible for such an exercise, because
few and far between would be the Palestinians who wouldn’t gag at this
patronizing effort to have their situation “explained” to them.

https://mondoweiss.net/2018/08/mansplaining-whitesplaining-ziosplaining/

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> (20 years ago I never would have dreamed that such a review could appear
> in the NY Times Book Review section.)
>
> NY Times, Sunday Book Review, August 26, 2018
> A Palestinian Responds to His Israeli Neighbor
> By Raja Shehadeh
>
> LETTERS TO MY PALESTINIAN NEIGHBOR
> By Yossi Klein Halevi
> 204 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $24.99.
>
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Re: [Marxism] A Palestinian Responds to His Israeli Neighbor

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>
> "I haven’t heard the word used before, so here goes my version:
> *Ziosplaining* would be the efforts of Zionists of so-called moderate
> stripe, who are endlessly pained by reality, to explain to Palestinians
> (and the world) that they have no choice but to support the Israeli
> occupation of Palestine. Moreover, as these Zionists implore Palestinians
> to understand, they seek to convey how deep their own suffering at being
> occupiers runs—if only, *if only*, that is, those rightless, stateless
> Palestinians could understand how much grief it gives the Israeli occupiers
> to do what they have no choice but to do (build illegal settlements on
> stolen land, imprison vast numbers of the population, detain without charge
> (including children), engage in ethnic cleansing, kill with impunity,
> etc.). If only the Palestinians could grasp the essential goodness and
> justness of the occupiers and accept life under occupation, then perhaps
> everyone could at last live happily ever after.
>
> Thus, we have this latest effort in the genre, Yossi Klein Halevi’s *Letters
> to My Palestinian Neighbor*. That neighbor, by the way, is the author’s
> *imaginary* neighbor—the only one possible for such an exercise, because
> few and far between would be the Palestinians who wouldn’t gag at this
> patronizing effort to have their situation “explained” to them."
>
> https://mondoweiss.net/2018/08/mansplaining-whitesplaining-ziosplaining/
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 10:24 AM Louis Proyect via Marxism <
> marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> (20 years ago I never would have dreamed that such a review could appear
>> in the NY Times Book Review section.)
>>
>> NY Times, Sunday Book Review, August 26, 2018
>> A Palestinian Responds to His Israeli Neighbor
>> By Raja Shehadeh
>>
>> LETTERS TO MY PALESTINIAN NEIGHBOR
>> By Yossi Klein Halevi
>> 204 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $24.99.
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [Marxism] A Palestinian Responds to His Israeli Neighbor

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I should note, "white" and "man" are identity groups, whereas "Zio(nist)"
is a political designation. So really the word the author might be looking
for is "Jew-splaining" or "Israeli-splaining". Frankly I find the whole
"splaining" business nonsensical. There's certainly something to be said of
men in particular patronizing others and taking credit for the knowledge of
others but in practice from what I've seen from these chauvinistic
pseudo-liberal types that traffic in identity politics, the terms are never
used with precision. I think it's better to make it clear to someone that
the issue is their arrogance, and not their identity per se.

Amith R. Gupta

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> I haven’t heard the word used before, so here goes my version:
> *Ziosplaining* would be the efforts of Zionists of so-called moderate
> stripe, who are endlessly pained by reality, to explain to Palestinians
> (and the world) that they have no choice but to support the Israeli
> occupation of Palestine. Moreover, as these Zionists implore Palestinians
> to understand, they seek to convey how deep their own suffering at being
> occupiers runs—if only, *if only*, that is, those rightless, stateless
> Palestinians could understand how much grief it gives the Israeli occupiers
> to do what they have no choice but to do (build illegal settlements on
> stolen land, imprison vast numbers of the population, detain without charge
> (including children), engage in ethnic cleansing, kill with impunity,
> etc.). If only the Palestinians could grasp the essential goodness and
> justness of the occupiers and accept life under occupation, then perhaps
> everyone could at last live happily ever after.
>
> Thus, we have this latest effort in the genre, Yossi Klein Halevi’s
> *Letters
> to My Palestinian Neighbor*. That neighbor, by the way, is the author’s
> *imaginary* neighbor—the only one possible for such an exercise, because
> few and far between would be the Palestinians who wouldn’t gag at this
> patronizing effort to have their situation “explained” to them.
>
> https://mondoweiss.net/2018/08/mansplaining-whitesplaining-ziosplaining/
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 10:24 AM Louis Proyect via Marxism <
> marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> > (20 years ago I never would have dreamed that such a review could appear
> > in the NY Times Book Review section.)
> >
> > NY Times, Sunday Book Review, August 26, 2018
> > A Palestinian Responds to His Israeli Neighbor
> > By Raja Shehadeh
> >
> > LETTERS TO MY PALESTINIAN NEIGHBOR
> > By Yossi Klein Halevi
> > 204 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $24.99.
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [Marxism] Radical professors and the hazards of social media | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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You are correct of course, Lou but twitter does have its uses. If you
pressed me to specify these I would tend to get a bit vague, but I have
learned an enormous amount from the accounts I follow. It is the immediacy
of twitter that is its strength & I suppose also its weakness.
But thanks to twitter I have come to know of Novara Media - the very
brilliant Bastani, Sarkar, Walker and Butler. & I also have seen something
of the atrocities visited on the Palestinians.

comradely

Gary

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Re: [Marxism] NATO and the Myth of the Liberal International Order | by Tony Wood | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

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Yes, it was an interesting article, but I don't agree with all of it. Wood
seems to be saying that Trump's attacks on the other NATO members is
nothing really new. He cites others presidents "grumbling".  Sure, other
presidents may have grumbled; that is what capitalist allies always do
about each other. It's kind of like a pack of jackals. They might kill a
prey together, but then they all fight over the remains. But Trump's open
attacks are really unprecedented. And I don't see any way around seeing the
in light of his historic links with the Russian oligarchy. I'm not making a
value judgement here, just an observation.

As far as NATO expansion vs. Russia: There is a historic trend, seen among
some of those in the old fascist movement, to counterpose "eurasianism"
with "Atlanticism". In other words, an alliance of Russian capitalism with
European capitalism vs. European and US capitalism's alliance. Again, I'm
not saying that one is any better - or worse - than the other, but I do
think that this is some of what's at play. Just as every capitalist company
basically has to observe the law of nature: "expand or die", it seems to me
that the same holds true of every imperialist nation and every imperialist
alliance.

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