[Marxism] Thousands of scientists in Argentina strike to protest budget cuts | Science | AAAS

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[Marxism] Why union linked workers' party could make huge impact at polls in South Africa

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[Marxism] The Racist Dawn of Capitalism | Black Agenda Report

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Reviews of:

Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert
Vintage, $17.95 (paper)

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E. Baptist
Basic Books, $35 (cloth)

River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
Walter Johnson
Harvard University Press, $35 (cloth)

The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British 
Society at the End of Slavery

Nicholas Draper
Cambridge University Press, $34.99 (paper)

https://www.blackagendareport.com/racist-dawn-capitalism
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[Marxism] J.A. Hobson's Imperialism in the news

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I'm not sure if list members will have seen this controversy linked to
Corbyn and his foreword to Hobson's *Imperialism*, but since the book has
been mentioned on the list before perhaps it will be of interest.

one report (lots out there but this seems the most objective):
https://www.ft.com/content/ac5670ec-6c2f-11e9-80c7-60ee53e6681d

Corbyn's forward:
http://spokesmanbooks.blogspot.com/2015/11/jeremy-corbyn-internationalist-at-work.html?m=1

Exchange between Corbyn and the Board of Jewish Deputies:
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/jeremy-corbyn-claims-i-endorsed-book-s-antisemitic-content-are-politically-motivated-1.483756

An interesting exchange of letters regarding Hobson from two historians:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/may/02/jeremy-corbyn-hobsons-imperialism-and-antisemitism

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/may/03/hobson-corbyn-and-antisemitic-tropes

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Re: [Marxism] A progress report on "Utopia in the Catskills"

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More on William Cullen Bryant from Wikipedia:

His first employment, in 1825, was as editor of the New-York Review, 
which within the next year merged with the United States Review and 
Literary Gazette. But in the throes of the failing struggle to raise 
subscriptions, he accepted part-time duties with the New-York Evening 
Post under William Coleman; then, partly because of Coleman's ill 
health, traceable to the consequences of a duel and then a stroke, 
Bryant's responsibilities expanded rapidly. From assistant editor he 
rose to editor-in-chief and co-owner of the newspaper that had been 
founded by Alexander Hamilton. Over the next half century, the Post 
would become the most respected paper in the city and, from the election 
of Andrew Jackson, the major platform in the Northeast for the 
Democratic Party and subsequently of the Free Soil and Republican 
Parties. In the process, the Evening-Post also became the pillar of a 
substantial fortune. From his Federalist beginnings, Bryant had shifted 
to being one of the most liberal voices of the century. An early 
supporter of organized labor, with his 1836 editorials asserting the 
right of workmen to strike, Bryant also defended of religious minorities 
and immigrants, and promoted the abolition of slavery.[8] He "threw 
himself into the foreground of the battle for human rights"[9] and did 
not cease speaking out against the corrupting influence of certain 
bankers in spite of their efforts to break down the paper.[10] According 
to newspaper historian Frank Luther Mott, Bryant was "a great liberal 
seldom done justice by modern writers".[11]


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Re: [Marxism] A progress report on "Utopia in the Catskills"

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On 4/30/19 10:17 PM, Mark Lause wrote:

For those unfamiliar with Cole's "Course of Empire," see his series at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Course_of_Empire_(paintings)




I'm getting deeper now into Cole's story. Early in his career, he made a 
sketch titled "The Fountain, No. 1: The Wounded Indian Slaking His Death 
Thirst" that was based on a poem titled "The Fountain" by William Cullen 
Bryant, a once-famous poet now mostly ignored.


You can see the image of the sketch on the Metropolitan Museum website:

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10494

The Met states:

Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School of landscape painting, drew 
this study for a series (never realized) of paintings based on William 
Cullen Bryant’s poem “The Fountain” (1839). The poem evokes several eras 
of American civilization through incidents that occur at a forest 
stream. In this scene, a wounded brave (modeled after the Hellenistic 
sculpture known as the "Dying Gaul," which Cole had seen in Rome) 
symbolizes the plight of many American Indians in an era of forced 
relocation.


Bryant’s poem can be read here:

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-fountain-4/

In 2003, Ingrid Satelmajer wrote an article about the poem for American 
Periodicals that puts Bryant's politics into context. He was a prominent 
figure in the Democratic Party and supported Andrew Jackson's Indian 
Removal Act only because he thought it was the only way they could be 
saved from total annihilation.


Satelmajer views the poem's message as one that has a great degree of 
ambivalence. Although the Indians were depicted as cruel and white 
civilization as a form of progress, the final outcome would exceed any 
cruelty that preceded it:


	While a cyclical view of cultures might be used to justify the passing 
of the Indians, the possible outcomes the poem's close offers are for a 
tale that could be linear for humans as a whole. Indeed, the nation's 
continuance of its past course, the poem ultimately argues, not only is 
uncertain; that course in fact contains the potential seeds of its own 
destruction. Although natural and uncontrollable forces stand 
responsible for three of the projected changes, the first listed is 
"man" and his "strange arts." The consequent landscape arising from 
human meddling--"wither[ed] and deform[ed]"--places the "strange arts" 
of humans on pair with "chok[ing]" and cataclysmic natural forces.


Bryant also began to break with the Democratic Party on slavery and 
empire. Satelmajer quoting Bryant in the party journal "Democratic Review":


	The question how long an empire so widely extended as ours can be kept 
together by means of our form of government is yet to be decided. That 
this form of government is admirably calculated for a large territory 
and a numerous population we have no doubt, but there is a probable 
limit to this advantage. Extended beyond a certain distance, and a 
certain number of states it would become inconvenient and undesirable, 
and a tendency would be felt to break up into smaller nations. If the 
Union of these states is destined to be broken by such a cause, the 
annexation of Texas to the Union would precipitate the event, perhaps, 
by a whole century. It is better to carry out the experiment with the 
territory we now possess.



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[Marxism] The Retrograde Left - COSMONAUT

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J.R. Murray argues that the left must abandon the micro-sect form of 
organization derived from a false reading of the true meaning of 
Bolshevism, or else we will continue to exist in an endless cycle of 
self-marginalization.


https://cosmonaut.blog/2019/05/04/the-retrograde-left/
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Re: [Marxism] What South Africa Can Teach Us as Worldwide Inequality Grows | Time

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On 2019/05/04 10:33 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:

...

http://time.com/longform/south-africa-unequal-country/
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Thanks, Louis.

It's a fine article on the Cape Town symptoms of urban class-apartheid 
planning. If anyone wants more on the causes, here's a book, Cities of 
Gold, Townships of Coal, which documents the World Bank's influence over 
Joe Slovo, a (neoliberal) Communist Party leader who became the 
country's first post-1994 housing minister, shortly before his death, 
and implemented a policy designed mainly to 'normalize the market' for 
bank housing finance: 
http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/files/Bond%20Cities%20Of%20Gold%20Townships%20Of%20Coal.pdf


"Half the population lives on less than $5 a day." Actually it's more 
like 65% living on less than $3.50/day: 
https://theconversation.com/how-current-measures-underestimate-the-level-of-poverty-in-south-africa-46704 




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[Marxism] What South Africa Can Teach Us as Worldwide Inequality Grows | Time

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On May 8, South Africans are due to vote in the sixth national elections 
since the fall of apartheid. The African National Congress (ANC), the 
liberation party once led by Nelson Mandela that has ruled South Africa 
since 1994, is expected to return to power. But a quarter-century after 
Mandela called for the state to be fundamentally reshaped to address the 
inequalities of apartheid, the world’s most egregious racial divide has 
turned into its most extreme economic disparity. The World Bank last 
year deemed South Africa the world’s most unequal society, estimating 
that the top 10% owned 70% of the nation’s assets in 2015. And the split 
is still largely along racial lines; the bottom 60%, largely comprising 
blacks—which, for the purposes of this story, includes mixed-race people 
and Asians descended from an era of slavery and colonial rule—controls 
7% of the country’s net wealth. Half the population lives on less than 
$5 a day.


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Re: [Marxism] Putin, Trump and Pompeo

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True. But Pompeo is also a meathead, let's not forget. His claim that
Maduro was ready to flee Venezuela, and that he only stayed because Putin
told him to, suggests he was tripping. Flee from what? Meanwhile Trump
reported that Russia wasn't seeking to get involved in Venezuela. In this
case, Trump is correct. What does Russia want there (except a bit of a
bargainung chip I suppose).

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> > Putin may have pointed out to Trump that Guaido's attempts to win over
> the army have been unsuccessful.  Hence any US invasion of Venez.uela would
> meet strong resistance.  Hence Trump may have decided it is not a good idea.
>
> I wouldn't put much stock in Trump's off-the-cuff statements. Ever since
> he has been president, his foreign policy statements, especially on
> places like North Korea, are more stream of consciousness than a
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[Marxism] The Prosecution of No More Deaths Activist Scott Warren

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WARREN’S ARREST WAS the most aggressive in a series of escalating 
actions taken by federal law enforcement against border-based aid 
providers since Donald Trump’s election. In addition to his felony case, 
Warren was one of nine No More Deaths volunteers hit with federal 
littering charges for leaving water on the Cabeza Prieta National 
Wildlife Refuge. As volunteers recovered a record number of human 
remains on the refuge in 2017, officials issued new guidelines 
explicitly criminalizing activity that could prevent future deaths. 
Warren’s trial in the littering case begins on Monday in Tucson. His 
felony trial is scheduled for May 29.


https://theintercept.com/2019/05/04/no-more-deaths-scott-warren-migrants-border-arizona/
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[Marxism] Trump’s New Favorite Network OANN Embraces Russian Propaganda

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When it comes to putting disinformation in front of American eyeballs, 
Vladimir Putin has long been able to count alt-right social media stars 
like Alex Jones and Mike Cernovich as reliable allies. Now the One 
America News Network, a pro-Trump cable news and commentary channel, is 
joining them in embracing some of Moscow’s most vile fake news.


On Wednesday OANN aired a segment claiming to reveal that dozens of 
members of the Syrian Civil Defense, a humanitarian group known as the 
White Helmets, have confessed to faking chemical weapons attacks in 
Syria to frame Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian dictator propped up by Putin.


https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda
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[Marxism] Gilets Jaunes aim to rebuild democracy from below | ROAR Magazine

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[Marxism] Down and Out in the Gig Economy | The New Republic

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n truth, freelance journalism, as a career, is mostly an anachronism. 
Given the rock-bottom rates on offer, few writers actually support 
themselves with full-time freelancing. A lucky handful churn out 
features for the New York Times Magazine and GQ for $2 a word and then 
deliver half-apologetic aw-shucks accounts of their success on the 
Longform podcast, which dispenses romantic tales of literary striving to 
a mass of naive supplicants.


But for most of us, freelance journalism is a monetized hobby, separate 
from whatever real income one earns. The ideal relationship for a 
freelance journalist to their work becomes a kind of excited amateurism. 
They should hope for professional success and acceptance but always keep 
a backup plan or three in mind. They will likely not be welcomed past 
the gates of full-time employment. By year five or six, they might be 
rebranding themselves as “editorial consultants” or “content 
strategists,” realizing that any genuine fiscal opportunity lies in 
shepherding corporate content to life.


full: https://newrepublic.com/article/153744/gig-economy
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Re: [Marxism] Putin, Trump and Pompeo

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On 5/4/19 8:08 AM, Chris Slee via Marxism wrote:

Putin may have pointed out to Trump that Guaido's attempts to win over the army 
have been unsuccessful.  Hence any US invasion of Venez.uela would meet strong 
resistance.  Hence Trump may have decided it is not a good idea.


I wouldn't put much stock in Trump's off-the-cuff statements. Ever since 
he has been president, his foreign policy statements, especially on 
places like North Korea, are more stream of consciousness than a 
Virginia Woolf novel.

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[Marxism] “Chase those Baldheads out of Town!”: resisting the rise of authoritarianism in occupied Haiti | Lefteast

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http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/resisting-the-rise-of-authoritarianism-haiti/
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Re: [Marxism] Putin, Trump and Pompeo

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Putin may have pointed out to Trump that Guaido's attempts to win over the army 
have been unsuccessful.  Hence any US invasion of Venez.uela would meet strong 
resistance.  Hence Trump may have decided it is not a good idea.

Chris Slee

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On Wednesday, Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo threatens US invasion of
Venezuela. On Friday, Trump has a private phone conversation with Putin and
basically then reverses Pompeo's threat. What is happening here?
https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/05/04/putin-trump-and-pompeo/

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[Marxism] Putin, Trump and Pompeo

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On Wednesday, Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo threatens US invasion of
Venezuela. On Friday, Trump has a private phone conversation with Putin and
basically then reverses Pompeo's threat. What is happening here?
https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/05/04/putin-trump-and-pompeo/

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