Re: [Marxism] Wine, capitalism and your good health

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https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/01/13/wine-capitalism-and-your-health/

Ok. Thanks for posting this. But as someone who downs closer to 21 than 
14 glasses a week, I like David's rebuttal in the Notes section, below.


Here in South Africa, the core poli-econ of wine story - and critique of 
the industry that employs about 120 000 workers - would be the taste of 
super-exploitation. In one institute I occasionally lecture at in 
Stellenbosch, there is a pre-school and primary school for children of 
nearby farmworkers. They deal with a roughly 10% fetal alcohol spectrum 
disorder, and you can imagine how debilitating that can be. The old "dop 
system" of payments to farmworkers in kind, not in cash, is now illegal. 
But it happens, still.


In early 2013, after the rumble of extraordinary class struggle that 
carried on for about five months in the wake of the August 2012 Marikana 
Massacre (one which still implicates our current president, Cyril 
Ramaphosa, a major Lonmin platinum mine owner), the farmworkers won a 
battle after brave strikes. Some workers took to burning down some of 
the finest vineyards. Eventually they achieved an amazing victory, 
raising daily wages from R70 to R105 (their demand was R150 ... about 
US$17 at the time, but more like $11 now). That 50% increase was, 
naturally, resisted in all sorts of ways by the white wealthy farmers. 
Today a brand new minimum wage (R18/hour for agriculture, R20 for most 
other work) is in effect, so the workers should be getting closer to 
$1.30/hour.


But the class/race/gender struggles in our vineyards remain 
high-pitched. Here's one example:


https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-04-07-groundup-winelands-farmers-accused-of-multiple-assaults/

Probably the most dynamic organiser of farmworkers and land-justice 
campaigns - and most critical Marxist thinker - that you'll find out in 
the vineyards (working from a Cape Town NGO) is Mercia Andrews:


http://aidc.org.za/podcast/ngoisation-politics-mercia-andrews-conference-crisis-politics/ 



https://viacampesina.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/05/EN-09.pdf

Perhaps the best scholar to consult is a quasi-Marxist originally from 
the region, Gavin Williams: http://www.gavinwilliams.org/cape-wine/


Cheers,

Patrick

davidwalters66 says:
January 13, 2019 at 11:55 AM 
 



Very typically junk-science at it’s worst. When you seen “Some experts” 
one should run the other direction. Easily I can show that “some 
experts” and “recent studies” show that drinking a glass or two of wine 
*everyday* lengthens ones lifespan. Please this is incredibly nonsensical.


So you all know…there is NO science that says any amount of wine is 
harmful. None. It’s a extrapolations, not done on human clinical trials, 
but on…rats. Generally speaking, the statistics will show that countries 
with similar economic levels of development people live longer with few 
chronic diseases in heavy wine drinking countries than those that 
consume less wine. France vs the United States for example. But it is 
only of ‘interest’ because correlation does not equal causation. 
However, even the American College of Cardiology agrees drinking some 
wine is better than drinking no wine. And a recent study out of UC 
Irvine notes “Drinking about two glasses of wine or beer a day was 
linked to an 18% drop in a person’s risk of early death—an even stronger 
effect than the life-preserving practice of exercise, according to the 
researchers. ”


Secondly, wine has *not* gone up in alcohol content. Since..when 
exactly? Wine is *cheaper* to make *without* as high an alcohol 
content…all wine runs from 9% to 13% and has for over 100 years at 
least. What they found is that the longer a wine ages…the more it tastes 
better, depending on barrel material and the fermentation process. The 
longer it ferments, the more enriched with alcohol it becomes.


This is article is beneath the generally good quality seen here on Red Line…

David Walters


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[Marxism] Wine, capitalism and your good health

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According to Benjamin Franklin, “Wine makes daily living easier, less
hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance”.

Ben never drove through Marlborough – New Zealand’s largest wine region has
hard work, high risk and tense competition written all over it.

Mile after mile the land is pinned by hard-treated posts, in dead straight
rows.  Countless workers have implanted the structures and cropped to
uniform size the little emerging buds on which everything depends.

On frosty nights thousands are spent to. . .

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[Marxism] Winners and losers in Irish peace process

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This year is the 21st annivrary of the Good Friday Agreement and 25th
anniversary of the (1994) IRA ceasefire.

Text of a talk my friend Liam gave five years ago at a conference in
Hamburg:

I. WHO WON AND WHO LOST POLITICALLY

To sum up, these three points are what parties signed up to politically on
10 April 1998:

First British sovereignty over Northern Ireland remains intact

Second, historical adversaries in Northern Ireland agree to share power in
a local Assembly

Third six cross border bodies between north and south of the island are set
up to recognise the ‘Irish dimension’[i]

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The first and most important question is who won and who lost here ?

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[Marxism] A brief history of the world communist movement – People's World

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Glimpses of reality from the CPUSA. You never would have read something 
so relatively honest when I was young.


https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/a-brief-history-of-the-world-communist-movement/
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[Marxism] [UCE] Bordering on Fascism: Scholars Reflect on Dangerous Times

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Paul Street’s latest:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/11/bordering-on-fascism-scholars-reflect-on-dangerous-times/


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[Marxism] Strike movie

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Apparently based on the Winnipeg General Strike.
ken h


https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/winnipeg-general-strike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JllrjJ_XpQ=youtu.be

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[Marxism] A decades old lesson on immigration

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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-a-decades-old-lesson-on-immigration-from-california-to-donald-trumps/

A decades old lesson on immigration, from California to Donald Trump’s 
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Re: [Marxism] Hunterbear, R.I.P.

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He also had a NY Times obit too. But that is not as detailed as some of the 
others.
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/01/10/us/ap-us-obit-civil-rights-organizer.html


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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 04:00:25 -0700

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John Hunter Gray, Of Mississippi Lunch Counter Sit-In, Dies At 84
National Public Radio, "All Things Considered," January 11
by Karen Grigsby Bates
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/684610222/john-hunter-gray-of-mississippi-lunch-counter-sit-in-dies-at-84


On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 2:53 AM Jim Farmelant via Marxism
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>
> A couple of obits that I have seen:
>
> https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/4555114-civil-rights-activist-and-former-und-professor-john-salter-jr-dies
>
> https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-john-hunter-gray-lunch-counter-protest-photo-dead-20190110-story.html

>
> From his son, Peter Salter on Facebook:
> ---
>
> The strongest man I ever knew died today, in his home, and in the care and 
> companionship of the family he helped create.
>
> John R. Salter Jr., later known as John Gray, left a permanent mark on this 
> world as a labor organizer, Civil Rights leader, author, college professor, 
> father, grandfather, great-grandfather. He liked to say he was an agitator, 
> but he was really a helper and a solver. He could not stomach injustice, and 
> the bigger the wrong, the fiercer the foe, the better.
> Our father held on longer than anyone expected, but that was within in his 
> character. Like everything else in his life, he was going to do this on his 
> own terms.
>
> He is already missed and mourned, but we know he will always be near, and his 
> legacy will live on."
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Re: [Marxism] Hunterbear, R.I.P.

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John Hunter Gray, Of Mississippi Lunch Counter Sit-In, Dies At 84
National Public Radio, "All Things Considered," January 11
by Karen Grigsby Bates
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/684610222/john-hunter-gray-of-mississippi-lunch-counter-sit-in-dies-at-84


On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 2:53 AM Jim Farmelant via Marxism
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>
> A couple of obits that I have seen:
>
> https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/4555114-civil-rights-activist-and-former-und-professor-john-salter-jr-dies
>
> https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-john-hunter-gray-lunch-counter-protest-photo-dead-20190110-story.html

>
> From his son, Peter Salter on Facebook:
> ---
>
> The strongest man I ever knew died today, in his home, and in the care and 
> companionship of the family he helped create.
>
> John R. Salter Jr., later known as John Gray, left a permanent mark on this 
> world as a labor organizer, Civil Rights leader, author, college professor, 
> father, grandfather, great-grandfather. He liked to say he was an agitator, 
> but he was really a helper and a solver. He could not stomach injustice, and 
> the bigger the wrong, the fiercer the foe, the better.
> Our father held on longer than anyone expected, but that was within in his 
> character. Like everything else in his life, he was going to do this on his 
> own terms.
>
> He is already missed and mourned, but we know he will always be near, and his 
> legacy will live on."
>

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Re: [Marxism] Hunterbear, R.I.P.

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A couple of obits that I have seen:

https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/4555114-civil-rights-activist-and-former-und-professor-john-salter-jr-dies


https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-john-hunter-gray-lunch-counter-protest-photo-dead-20190110-story.html


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>From his son, Peter Salter on Facebook:
---

The strongest man I ever knew died today, in his home, and in the care and 
companionship of the family he helped create.

John R. Salter Jr., later known as John Gray, left a permanent mark on this 
world as a labor organizer, Civil Rights leader, author, college professor, 
father, grandfather, great-grandfather. He liked to say he was an agitator, but 
he was really a helper and a solver. He could not stomach injustice, and the 
bigger the wrong, the fiercer the foe, the better.
Our father held on longer than anyone expected, but that was within in his 
character. Like everything else in his life, he was going to do this on his own 
terms.

He is already missed and mourned, but we know he will always be near, and his 
legacy will live on."


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Re: [Marxism] This memo is being circulated online from Wikileaks re: Syria and ousting Assad.

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MK and others have already dealt well with the 'truth' of this. Just to 
note though that Wikileaks themselves were also part of this false 
conspiracist narrative. While Mint Press News etc., embarrassingly 
called the email to Clinton from Rubin a 'Hillary Clinton memo,' 
Wikileaks' Twitter account also deliberately sought to give the 
impression that the email was a 'Clinton memo' by tweeting out an 
attachment which was attached to the email and presenting it as 'the 
Hillary email.' Just a few days ago they tweeted again about 'the 
Clinton memo that killed half a million people.'


https://twitter.com/charliearchy/status/1083882823432323073

That goes rather beyond 'revealing' and into deliberately spreading 
falsehoods.


https://twitter.com/charliearchy/status/1083882823432323073

https://twitter.com/charliearchy/status/1083882823432323073

https://twitter.com/charliearchy/status/1083882823432323073httpht


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Patrick, noone cast doubt on the memo. The problem is the interpretation:
the Mintpress article, and the conspiracist universe, decided it was an
email from Clinton. But it was an email to Clinton. I gave the link to the
public article by James Rubin. There is no evidence that it was Clinton's
view; she never argued that way, loet alone acted that way in office.
Wikileaks can only reveal the memos etc. The significance we need to
determine case by case. As I said, this was one of probably 10s of 1000s of
policy suggestions sent *to* politicians in power, not a message *from* one
of them.

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