[Marxism] Syria: Rally in Solidarity with Idlib

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[Marxism] A Marxist History of Capitalism

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BOOK REVIEW
A Marxist History of Capitalism
Posted on October 16, 2018

An important work of Marxist history and theory restores class struggle 
to central place in explaining how capitalism arose and grew, and can 
eventually be overcome


Henry Heller
A MARXIST HISTORY OF CAPITALISM
Routledge, 2018

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[Marxism] How America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery - The New York Times

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This article appeared in last Sunday's NY Times magazine section and is 
a good companion-piece to the one on Lordstown workers facing 
unemployment. It tells the story of how Cerebrus, a private equity firm, 
bought Remington with huge tax breaks from Alabama and then closed down 
the factory because of a decline in gun sales, largely attributed to the 
Trump administration's fecklessness. One of these days, the workers 
getting screwed in places like Huntsville, Alabama are going to resist 
what capitalism is doing to them in such a manner that it will make the 
Yellow Vests look like Quakers by comparison.



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[Marxism] Venezuela’s crisis: A view from the communes (Green Left Weekly)

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“So what exists is a love-hate relationship between the government and the 
commune.

“Even with all its weaknesses and failures, it's our state, it's our 
government. At the same time, we have a relationship in which we have to 
struggle. We're not going to deny that.

“There are things that don’t get to us that we need to produce food, at a time 
when we are importing almost all the food we need. But instead of helping, the 
state puts up all these bureaucratic hurdles, when all we're trying to do is to 
guarantee that people have food and deal with the situation of children with 
malnutrition.

“We are clear, however, that only with this government can we do what we are 
doing with the communes. In another government, we would not have this 
possibility, much less with the type of right-wing government Guaido wants to 
install with his coup.”

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[Marxism] The presentation Paul LeBlanc gave at the Trotsky conference in Havana | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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[Marxism] Putin and Trump’s Ominous Nostalgia for the Second World War | The New Yorker

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[Marxism] Left-Rights - Steve Salaita

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I know some people desire cul-de-sacs and others never think about them, 
but I hate the goddamn things.  They make me feel like I’m cruising 
through Thomas Friedman’s brain.  And they disconnect neighbors in ways 
that make cooperation and comradeship virtually impossible.  Those 
disconnections are evident from the air.  Check out residential 
development from a window seat during takeoff or landing.  You’ll see 
cul-de-sacs spread across the landscape like grape lollipops, their 
houses separated by mere yards but for all intents and purposes in 
different cities.


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[Marxism] Labor unions and green transitions in the USA

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[Marxism] The Serengeti Rules | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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It would be difficult to imagine a more timely film than “The Serengeti 
Rules”, which arrived at the Quad Cinema in NY today and opens at the 
Laemmle in L.A. next Friday. Last Monday the UN released a report that 
made front page news everywhere. The Guardian led with these paragraphs:


	Human society is in jeopardy from the accelerating decline of the 
Earth’s natural life-support systems, the world’s leading scientists 
have warned, as they announced the results of the most thorough 
planetary health check ever undertaken.


	From coral reefs flickering out beneath the oceans to rainforests 
desiccating into savannahs, nature is being destroyed at a rate tens to 
hundreds of times higher than the average over the past 10m years, 
according to the UN global assessment report.


	The biomass of wild mammals has fallen by 82%, natural ecosystems have 
lost about half their area and a million species are at risk of 
extinction – all largely as a result of human actions, said the study, 
compiled over three years by more than 450 scientists and diplomats.


“The Serengeti Rules” is a profile of a group of scientists that could 
be described as the most renowned of those who helped put together the 
UN Report. Now in their seventies, by all appearance, they were focused 
on researching biodiversity and formulating methods that could be used 
to preserve it. The film notes summarize their role in trying to prevent 
species extinctions that by the same token has the effect of preventing 
the extinction of the biggest threat to biodiversity on the planet today—us.


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[Marxism] People's Park

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[Marxism] Fwd: Subterranean Fire - A New Documentary

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From:Scott Noble 
Date: Fri, May 10, 2019, 2:08 PM
Subject: Subterranean Fire - A New Documentary
To: 


Plutocracy - Subterranean Fire

Hello everyone,

I’ve just uploaded the final entry of the “Plutocracy” series: *Subterranean
Fire*.It can be viewed online

for
free.  If you missed any of the previous four entries they can be viewed at
the Metanoia website, where I’m currently holding a fundraiser for my next
planned series.   Plutocracy has been described by historian Sharon Smith
as the “story of the American working class.”

Subterranean Fire is my longest film to date, a full two hours, divided
into three parts.

All of the entries in the series were designed to be self-contained.In
other words, you needn’t have viewed the previous films to enjoy the
latest.

The new documentary focuses mostly on the 1930’s to 1950’s – arguably the
most important period in modern American history.   These decades included
the Great Depression, the peak of labor militancy in 1937 (probably the
closest the US has come to a popular revolution since 1787), the rise of
the “guest worker” phenomenon, the counter-attack against labor unions, the
creation of the military industrial complex, the rise of the FBI, the
foundations of the civil rights movement, and the purging of radicals from
organized labor and public life.

For those who think this is ancient history and not particularly relevant,
you will be surprised to see the many parallels to current events.   The
film is particularly relevant insofar as it explains how American unions
were rendered more and more powerless, leading ultimately to neoliberalism
and a general lack of effective working-class resistance.

I’m expecting a couple of reviews in the coming weeks, and will send those
out as they come in.

The subject matter of the Plutocracy series is not exactly light and
fluffy.   It’s frequently very dark, because it’s an accurate telling of
the American experience.   I’m not Ken Burns.   But I’ve also tried to
focus on some of the many inspiring episodes of American history: stories
of ordinary people coming together and fighting back against incredible
odds.   Part V includes a section on the incredible sit-down wave of 1937,
focusing extensively on the auto industry.

I’ve also ended each film on a positive note.  In part I it was the New
Orleans general strike of 1892; in part II it was the Lawrence Textile
Strike, etc.   I end part V with the current resurgence of strike
activity.   Although the situation looks rather bleak, we witnessed more
American strike activity in 2018 than any year since 1986.   We also saw
the largest strike in human history occur in India.

At this year’s Milken Institute conference (basically a gathering of
billionaires), one hedge fund manager warned that they either had to reform
capitalism or face global revolution.  There are interesting times ahead.


Thank you again to everyone who has donated or otherwise contributed to my
work.   I will send out another email shortly explaining my next planned
project.   If you would like to see my films continue please consider
donating to my fundraiser

.



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[Marxism] book for review

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Socialism and Democracy is looking for someone to review the following book:



Bhaskar Sunkara: The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an 
Era of Extreme Inequality, 2019.

 Publisher's Blurb:

In The Socialist Manifesto, Bhaskar Sunkara delves into the global history of 
socialist movements since the mid-1800s, and offers a realistic vision for a 
democratic socialism in this century.

 

Sunkara argues that socialism isn't anti-liberal, but rather it seeks to 
fulfill aspects of the liberal dream that capitalism frustrates. The ultimate 
goal is not Soviet-style planning, but to win rights to health care, education, 
and housing, and to ensure that workers-not just executives or 
shareholders-share in the success of the companies that employ them.

 With a 15-point roadmap for the future and a chapter imagining the transition 
from capitalism to social democracy, and finally to a fully socialist society, 
The Socialist Manifesto is essential reading for today's emerging socialists, 
and anyone trying to understand them.

 The author is the Editor of Jacobin. 


If this book interests you, write to me at george.snede...@verizon.net.

George


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Re: [Marxism] Trump and the reluctance to reckon with something fundamentally new

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thanks for the clarification, Dayne.

Trump is far from unique. There is Sergio Matterella and Beppo Grillo
leading the Italian government. In Britain there is Nigel Farage and also
Boris Johnson, the latter of whom may be Britain's next prime minister.
There is Marine le Pen in France. Although all these have ties to fascists,
I don't think they are fascists, or in the case of Italy I don't think it's
a fascist government. I just don't think any of them have the mass private
army that would make it possible for them to unleash the mass state
terrorism and the total smashing of all workers organizations that is the
hallmark of fascism.

John Reimann

On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 4:49 AM Dayne Goodwin 
wrote:

> On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 3:00 AM John Reimann <1999wild...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> . . . Dayne seems to use bonapartism and fascism interchangeably. . .
>>
>
> No, didn't mean to give the impression i use bonapartism and fascism
> interchangeably.  I think of Trump as a fascist - at least proto-fascist -
> not as a Bonapartist.  In particular i was responding to your frequent
> comments on how much of the capitalist class dislikes Trump.
>
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 3:00 AM John Reimann <1999wild...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you, Dayne Goodwin, for actually commenting on the essence of the
>> article.
>>
>> Let's look at it from the other point of view - that of bourgeois
>> democracy. Under that form of rule, the bulk of the capitalist class must
>> be able to maintain a widespread base of support in the working class and
>> the petit bourgeois. Not just general support for capitalism, but also for
>> the policies it deems as necessary. As the example of the Chamber of
>> Commerce shows, I think that that support has largely slipped away. Take
>> some other issues: The TPP, "free" trade in general, the Paris Climate
>> Accord, the accord with Iran... And, most important, whom it wants elected
>> as president. Its first choice was Jeb Bush. Then came Hillary Clinton. The
>> overwhelming bulk of the capitalist class did not favor Trump.
>>
>> I think that bonepartism arises when the capitalist class can no longer
>> rule in the old way and the working class cannot take power - usually
>> nowadays because of the role of its leadership. In that sort of situation,
>> a strong man or woman arises, partly out of control of the ruling class
>> itself. Not all bonapartist regimes are identical. Not by a long shot. On
>> the one hand, we have the examples of the PRI in Mexico, which ruled for 70
>> years. It was the old Lazaro Cardenas who brought it to power, exactly out
>> of the sort of situation I described. Once in power, he and the PRI leaned
>> on the working class, at times ruling in its favor, and along the way
>> looting the capitalist class. Then there is the old Batista dictatorship in
>> Cuba. Interestingly, he originally came to power as a "leftist" and he
>> ruled with the support of the Cuban Communist Party. I think it was similar
>> with Peron in Argentina. Then there is Putin, who I would argue is also a
>> bonapartist dictator.
>>
>> Note that in all these cases, bourgeois democratic freedoms are not
>> completely eliminated.
>>
>> Dayne seems to use bonapartism and fascism interchangeably. I look at it
>> differently. I think fascists have a crazed mass base and their own private
>> army of thugs. Hitler's SS are the classic example. That's what allows
>> fascism to go a lot further. (I used to think there was a hard and fast
>> difference between bonapartism and fascism, but I'm not so sure anymore.
>> Look at Pinochet in Chile. He went nearly as far as some fascists did. Or
>> Papa Doc Duvalier in Haiti, who had his private army of thugs, the Ton Ton
>> Macoute.)
>>
>> In neither case is the mainstream of the capitalist class "thrilled" with
>> its ruler. In Mexico. the capitalists large and small constantly grumbled
>> about how the PRI dictatorship ripped them off. (Read Traven's "The State"
>> for a description.) While a wing of the capitalist class is happy with
>> Trump's policies that lead to improved quarterly results, there is also a
>> major wing that is deeply unhappy. For a hint at what is coming, look at
>> the proposed merger of AT&T and Time Warner that Trump's (in)Justice
>> Department fought. Why did they fight it? As retribution for Timer Warner's
>> editorial policies against Trump. I think this is clear from reading the
>> opinion pieces in the NY Times and the Washington Post, vs. the Wall St.
>> Journal the deep, deep divisions in the US capitalist class. And even his
>> supporters are very critical of some of his important policies, especially
>> h

Re: [Marxism] Andrew Johnson and the correct reasons to impeach

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It's worth noting that adherents of the First International and
sympathizers became actively engaged in the impeachment effort, Colonel
Richard J. Hinton playing a particularly prominent role in organizing
people to lobby fence-sitters.

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[Marxism] The WW 1 St. Louis roots of "Make America Great Again"

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One hundred years ago this week, World War I veterans gathered in St. Louis
to promote “100 percent Americanism.” This was the first domestic gathering
of the American Legion, which quickly grew into the largest and most
influential veterans’ organization in the country.

This was where the American Legion officially adopted its name. The group’s
call for “100 percent Americanism” helped launch a period of intense
xenophobia and anti-immigrant policies in interwar America. It is a legacy
that continues to affect our political landscape today.

 The Legion blamed immigrants for undermining American democracy and
contributing to social upheaval. At the Caucus in St. Louis, they urged
Congress to pass a law to deport “alien slackers” who were unequipped for
assimilation. “There is no place in America for such a creature,” the
Legion wrote in its newsletter. “He is worse than a parasite; he is a
menace.”

An unmistakable line of continuity runs from “100 percent Americanism” to
“Make America Great Again,” and from the St. Louis Caucus to a chief
executive who has trouble remembering that he serves all of the nation.
What connects the two is the implication, sometimes the outright assertion,
that some of us are more American than others.

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[Marxism] She Stopped to Help Migrants on a Texas Highway. Moments Later, She Was Arrested.

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NY Times, May 10, 2019
She Stopped to Help Migrants on a Texas Highway. Moments Later, She Was 
Arrested.

By Manny Fernandez

MCALLEN, Tex. — Teresa L. Todd pulled over one recent night on a dark 
West Texas highway to help three young Central American migrants who had 
flagged her down. Ms. Todd — an elected official, government lawyer and 
single mother in a desert border region near Big Bend National Park — 
said she went into “total mom mode” when she saw the three siblings, one 
of whom appeared to be very ill.


Struggling to communicate using her broken Spanish, Ms. Todd told the 
three young people to get out of the cold and into her car. She was 
phoning and texting friends for help when a sheriff’s deputy drove up, 
followed soon by the Border Patrol. “They asked me to step behind my 
car, and the supervisor came and started Mirandizing me,” said Ms. Todd, 
referring to being read her Miranda rights. “And then he says that I 
could be found guilty of transporting illegal aliens, and I’m, like, 
‘What are you talking about?”


Ms. Todd spent 45 minutes in a holding cell that night. Federal agents 
obtained a search warrant to examine her phone, and she became the focus 
of an investigation that could lead to federal criminal charges.


As the Trump administration moves on multiple fronts to shut down 
illegal border crossings, it has also stepped up punitive measures 
targeting private citizens who provide compassionate help to migrants — 
“good Samaritan” aid that is often intended to save lives along a border 
that runs through hundreds of miles of remote terrain that can be 
brutally unforgiving.


Earlier this year, federal agents raided the home of a volunteer who 
provides meals, housing and other aid to migrants in the Texas border 
city of Brownsville. In Arizona, four volunteers with No More Deaths, a 
nonprofit based in Tucson, were convicted on misdemeanor criminal 
charges after leaving water and canned food for migrants hiking through 
the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge. Five other volunteers also 
faced charges, including one felony case now pending in Federal District 
Court in Tucson.


“I honestly don’t feel like I ever did anything wrong: I stopped to help 
some kids,” said Ms. Todd, 53, who serves as both the city attorney of 
Marfa, Tex., and the county attorney of Jeff Davis County, an elected 
position. “It’s been pretty transformative for me, to be perfectly 
honest. To have devoted my life to public service, and then to be 
Mirandized, detained and investigated as if I’m a human smuggler. The 
whole thing was really, really, very surreal. It was like a ‘Twilight 
Zone.’”


Ms. Todd has not been charged with a crime, though the three migrants 
from El Salvador were held for some time as material witnesses, 
suggesting that federal prosecutors were contemplating using them in a 
criminal case against her. A spokesman for the Border Patrol said the 
incident remains “an active case,” but declined further comment, as did 
the United States attorney’s office.


Federal agents at the border in some cases work closely with nonprofit 
shelters and volunteers to coordinate housing and transportation 
logistics for migrants in border cities who have recently been released 
from Border Patrol custody. But often, volunteers who aid illegal border 
crossers before they are in custody are treated far differently.


For Ms. Todd, it started at about 10 p.m. on Feb. 27, just outside the 
funky desert community of Marfa. Ms. Todd was busy that night: She had 
attended a planning and zoning meeting at Marfa City Hall, had a late 
dinner at the Hotel Saint George and was driving back home to nearby 
Fort Davis. Suddenly, a young man in a white shirt ran out of a ditch 
and started waving at her.


“I have two teenage boys,” Ms. Todd said. “I have a 17-year-old and a 
15-year-old, and he looks about the same size as my 15-year-old son, and 
so I literally think, ‘Oh my God, it’s like this kid on the side of the 
road.’ I turn around and go back, because I can’t leave a kid on the 
side of the road.”


He was a bit older than a teenager, she learned, as he and his siblings 
started telling her what had happened.


The three Salvadoran migrants were a family — Carlos, 22, his brother, 
Francisco, 20, and their sister, Esmeralda, 18. They had fled their home 
country years ago and were living with an aunt in Guatemala. Worsening 
gang violence forced them to leave — two of Carlos’s friends were 
murdered, and a gang leader wanted Esmeralda to be his girlfriend, 
according to court documents. The trio headed for the United States and 
crossed the border in a remote stretch

[Marxism] Argentina Was Supposed To Be Over Populism. Economic Misery Could Bring It Back. - The New York Times

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Best seen on NY Times website for graphics of Argentine working-class 
misery.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/business/argentina-economy-macri-populism.html
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[Marxism] Andrew Johnson and the correct reasons to impeach

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> As Brenda Wineapple recounts in her new book, “The Impeachers: The Trial
> of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
> ,” the impeachment
> of Johnson has traditionally been seen as an overreach by Congress, with
> Republican lawmakers privileging partisan considerations over the
> separation of powers. Wineapple thinks that this argument overlooks House
> members’ real, stated reasons for impeaching Johnson: that his opposition
> to basic tenets of Reconstruction, including the enfranchisement of former
> slaves, and his contempt for Congress, rendered him unfit to be President.
>
>
>
>
> https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-author-of-a-new-book-about-andrew-johnson-on-the-right-reasons-to-impeach-a-president
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[Marxism] A New Revolution? Mexico Still Waiting as López Obrador Nears Half-Year Mark

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NY Times, May 10, 2019
A New Revolution? Mexico Still Waiting as López Obrador Nears Half-Year Mark
By Azam Ahmed and Kirk Semple

MEXICO CITY — After his landslide victory last year, President Andrés 
Manuel López Obrador of Mexico promised a staggering transformation of 
his country — on par with independence from Spain and the Mexican 
Revolution.


But five months into his term, the new Mexico he says he is building 
looks an awful lot like the old one he swore to leave behind.


Corruption was a hallmark issue for Mr. López Obrador during the 
campaign, a national scourge he vowed to end. Yet his government has 
announced no major prosecutions of public officials or other prominent 
figures on corruption charges since he took office.


Beyond that, in his first three months, his government awarded more than 
70 percent of its contracts directly, without competitive bids, 
according to Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity, an anticorruption 
group — a sharp reversal from Mr. López Obrador’s promise to break with 
that tradition.


On security, another pivotal issue for Mexico, he promised during the 
campaign to withdraw the military from the streets, undoing a 
contentious crime-fighting strategy that has led to widespread human 
rights abuses.


But instead of following through, Mr. López Obrador ended up 
guaranteeing the military’s role in domestic security, while homicide 
rates in Mexico continue to hit their highest levels in more than two 
decades.


On migration, Mr. López Obrador began his tenure by opening his arms to 
migrants heading north, criticizing the enforcement approach of the 
previous government. But more recently, his administration has taken a 
harder line as well, increasing the detention and deportation of Central 
Americans and others entering Mexico.


Far from countering the stiff measures taken by President Trump along 
the border, Mr. López Obrador has often gone along with them, wary of a 
dust-up with his most important trading partner.


“He makes these grand statements: ‘Neoliberalism is over,’ ‘Corruption 
is over,’” said Carlos Bravo Regidor, a political analyst in Mexico 
City. “He’s more worried about intensifying the message of change than 
actually embarking on the difficult and uncertain labor of making change 
happen.”


Mr. López Obrador has also alarmed many Mexicans with his threat-tinged 
attacks on the media, including his admonitions that reporters should 
“behave well” or “you know what will happen to you” — an ominous warning 
in one of the world’s most dangerous countries to be a journalist. At 
least six journalists have been killed since he took office.


Over the weekend, about 6,000 protesters took to the streets to call for 
Mr. López Obrador’s resignation, frustrated with his polarizing language 
and leery of his administration.


Still, Mr. López Obrador remains wildly popular in the country: The most 
recent polling places his approval rating above 60 percent. That is 
largely because he understands the historical distance between the 
nation’s rulers and its people — and has vowed to close the gap.


He put the presidential plane up for sale and now flies coach around the 
country. He converted the presidential palace into a public cultural 
center. He cut the highest salaries for public employees and raised the 
lowest, and his office says all public servants are required to declare 
their assets and potential conflicts of interest.


These actions reflect his common touch, a rarity among the country’s 
leaders, whose excesses and indifference have been longstanding traditions.


A spokesman for the president said the new government had made other 
changes as well, including altering the Constitution to make corruption, 
fuel theft and electoral fraud serious felonies. More legislative 
changes are on the horizon, the president’s office says, in areas like 
labor law and education.


Mr. López Obrador has also announced a broad range of new programs for 
the poor, a central promise of his campaign. If successful, he says, his 
programs could lift some 20 million people out of poverty during his 
six-year term — despite widespread questions over how he will pay for 
them all.


“For the first time in decades, there’s a president who talks to the 
vast majority of Mexicans who not only felt excluded but despised,” said 
Carlos Heredia, an associate professor at CIDE, a Mexico City university.


The new president also has an immense advantage in the legislature: 
majorities in both houses. With the opposition largely broken, there are 
few checks on his power, which gives him great freedom to pursue his 
agenda but has also 

[Marxism] Bernie and the Sandernistas | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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As I gird my loins for a renewed ideological struggle against Bernie 
Sanders’s bid to become the Democratic Party’s nominee to run against 
Donald Trump, I thought it advisable to get up to speed by reading 
Jeffrey St. Clair’s “Bernie & The Sandernistas: Field Notes From a 
Failed Revolution” that was published in 2016. Since Sanders will be 
running the same kind of campaign he ran in 2016, I hoped to find 
material that might change the minds of millennials about Democratic 
Party politics. Back in 1968, when I was a zealous young Trotskyite, I 
used to love selling the party’s “Truth Kits” about Eugene McCarthy and 
Robert Kennedy. I may have changed my mind about the usefulness of 
Trotskyism but there will always be a need for holding Democratic Party 
politicians up for scrutiny even when it is someone like Bernie Sanders, 
who helped the SWP get on the ballot in Vermont in 1980 when he was 
about to become a third-party Mayor of Burlington. God knows that I 
would be a strong supporter if he ran as an independent next year. I 
even wrote a speech that he could have used if he had done so in 2016.


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[Marxism] Jeff Bezos unveils "Blue Moon" lander, says Blue Origin is serious about helping U.S. return to the moon - The Washington Post,

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This is one of the greatest waste of resources I've seen in a long time. Of
course nothing tops the US "Defense" budget, publicly at $750,000,000,000
per YEAR (though probably another $200 billion more if one includes CIA and
other malevolent budget items along these lines). I'm not against space
exploration but this is just crazy. We have so many problems, it would seem
to me that all resources should be going to solve climate change rather
than vanity projects like this. Another reason we need to junk the
capitalist system.

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[Marxism] Jeff Bezos unveils "Blue Moon" lander, says Blue Origin is serious about helping U.S. return to the moon - The Washington Post

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(Pure insanity.)

Bezos spent the first part of his speech outlining his long-term vision, 
in which one day, as he’s often said, there will be “millions of people 
are living and working in space.” The Earth’s resources are limited, 
while the population and its appetite for energy, continue to grow. The 
answer, he said is to go out into the cosmos and exploit the limitless 
resources there.


“There is no Plan B,” he said. “We have to save this planet.”

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[Marxism] CIA Veteran to Chair Kent State 50th May 4 Commemoration Advisory Committee

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[Marxism] Joy and the labour of the negative | Richard Seymour on Patreon

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The answer, from the perspective of 'radical happiness', is to reanimate 
lost histories of collective, communal ecstasy. Barbara Ehrenreich gives 
us the religious and Dyonisian roots of carnival, rock and dance. Segal 
connects utopias, alternative ways of living, from early socialists and 
feminists, Surrealists, soixant-huitards and Indignados, to moments of 
collective joy in which the utopia is briefly, autopoietically animated. 
The Acid Corbynites reprise Sixties counterculture, acid and the rave 
scene, in which consciousness was altered, bent out of its habitual 
grooves, and "raised".


These moments, in which flare up ancient ecstasies and future utopias, 
are moments of self-forgetting elation. It is not so much that 
participants in festivals, protests, carnivals and churches are happy, 
though they might be, so much as that they stop worrying about whether 
they are happy or not. St John of the Cross, a practitioner of what 
Coventry Patmore called the 'science of ultimates', speaks of his 
consciousness-raising ravishment thus: "All ceased, and I was not,/ 
Leaving my cares and shame/ Among the lilies, and forgetting them."


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[Marxism] History according to EH Carr

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Originally a liberal, Carr began to look at the world with “different 
eyes”, and as early as 1931, after the Great Depression, he began to 
lose faith in the concept of capitalism and the political structure in 
which his early character was forged. In his developing interest in 
Russian history – and reading the Russian literature that was available 
to him – he was inspired to write the 14-volume A History of Soviet 
Russia, the first part of which was published in 1950. During its 
composition he became more convinced by Soviet ideology and before his 
death in 1982, he was urged to formalise his political beliefs, which he 
did in a personal three-page letter to my grandfather. This now 
survives, hidden deep within family archives; it stipulates he was a 
Marxist.


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Re: [Marxism] Regime preservation: How US policy facilitated Assad’s victory

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Apologies to the list, I didn't mean for this personal message to go
through, hadn't realised the message to me had been sent via my earlier
message to list.

On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 1:41 PM mkaradjis .  wrote:

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[Marxism] In Name Only: where are the People in the Romanian EU Election Campaign? | Lefteast

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[Marxism] In some countries in Central and Eastern Europe, roughly one-in-five adults or more say they would not accept Jews as fellow citizens | Pew Research Center

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Nearly 3 times as many Russians than Ukrainians would not accept Jews as 
fellow citizens but we only hear about Ukrainians being neo-Nazis.


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Re: [Marxism] Trump and the reluctance to reckon with something fundamentally new

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On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 3:00 AM John Reimann <1999wild...@gmail.com> wrote:

> . . . Dayne seems to use bonapartism and fascism interchangeably. . .
>

No, didn't mean to give the impression i use bonapartism and fascism
interchangeably.  I think of Trump as a fascist - at least proto-fascist -
not as a Bonapartist.  In particular i was responding to your frequent
comments on how much of the capitalist class dislikes Trump.


On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 3:00 AM John Reimann <1999wild...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you, Dayne Goodwin, for actually commenting on the essence of the
> article.
>
> Let's look at it from the other point of view - that of bourgeois
> democracy. Under that form of rule, the bulk of the capitalist class must
> be able to maintain a widespread base of support in the working class and
> the petit bourgeois. Not just general support for capitalism, but also for
> the policies it deems as necessary. As the example of the Chamber of
> Commerce shows, I think that that support has largely slipped away. Take
> some other issues: The TPP, "free" trade in general, the Paris Climate
> Accord, the accord with Iran... And, most important, whom it wants elected
> as president. Its first choice was Jeb Bush. Then came Hillary Clinton. The
> overwhelming bulk of the capitalist class did not favor Trump.
>
> I think that bonepartism arises when the capitalist class can no longer
> rule in the old way and the working class cannot take power - usually
> nowadays because of the role of its leadership. In that sort of situation,
> a strong man or woman arises, partly out of control of the ruling class
> itself. Not all bonapartist regimes are identical. Not by a long shot. On
> the one hand, we have the examples of the PRI in Mexico, which ruled for 70
> years. It was the old Lazaro Cardenas who brought it to power, exactly out
> of the sort of situation I described. Once in power, he and the PRI leaned
> on the working class, at times ruling in its favor, and along the way
> looting the capitalist class. Then there is the old Batista dictatorship in
> Cuba. Interestingly, he originally came to power as a "leftist" and he
> ruled with the support of the Cuban Communist Party. I think it was similar
> with Peron in Argentina. Then there is Putin, who I would argue is also a
> bonapartist dictator.
>
> Note that in all these cases, bourgeois democratic freedoms are not
> completely eliminated.
>
> Dayne seems to use bonapartism and fascism interchangeably. I look at it
> differently. I think fascists have a crazed mass base and their own private
> army of thugs. Hitler's SS are the classic example. That's what allows
> fascism to go a lot further. (I used to think there was a hard and fast
> difference between bonapartism and fascism, but I'm not so sure anymore.
> Look at Pinochet in Chile. He went nearly as far as some fascists did. Or
> Papa Doc Duvalier in Haiti, who had his private army of thugs, the Ton Ton
> Macoute.)
>
> In neither case is the mainstream of the capitalist class "thrilled" with
> its ruler. In Mexico. the capitalists large and small constantly grumbled
> about how the PRI dictatorship ripped them off. (Read Traven's "The State"
> for a description.) While a wing of the capitalist class is happy with
> Trump's policies that lead to improved quarterly results, there is also a
> major wing that is deeply unhappy. For a hint at what is coming, look at
> the proposed merger of AT&T and Time Warner that Trump's (in)Justice
> Department fought. Why did they fight it? As retribution for Timer Warner's
> editorial policies against Trump. I think this is clear from reading the
> opinion pieces in the NY Times and the Washington Post, vs. the Wall St.
> Journal the deep, deep divisions in the US capitalist class. And even his
> supporters are very critical of some of his important policies, especially
> his trade policies.
>
> Finally, as far as the Putin-Trump relationship: Sure, Trump gets
> something out of it. He gets the silence of Putin as far as his (Trump's)
> past. He also gets the electoral help. And while the extreme weakness of
> the Democrats' candidate was by far and away the main reason that Trump
> won, I don't think we can dismiss the effect of that support. According to
> Craig Unger ("House of Trump, House of Putin") studies by UC Berkeley and
> Swansea University in Wales concluded that Russian intervention swung 3.23%
> of the vote for Trump. That was overall, but because of the electoral
> college system, what matters is state-by-state. Trump won Wisconsin 47.2%
> to 45.5%. He won Pennsylvania 48.2% to 47.5%. Etc. So, if Russian
> intervention just tipped the

Re: [Marxism] ZCommunications » How Accurate Are the US Jobs Numbers?

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think I'm with Henwood on this one -- would love to see if, for example,
Dean Baker has weighed in ...

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> On 5/7/19 5:28 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
> >
> > Rasmus responds:
> >
> >
> https://jackrasmus.com/2019/05/06/why-government-job-stats-are-inaccurate-a-reply-to-doug-henwoods-apology-defense-of-government-reports/
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> https://lbo-news.com/2019/05/07/responding-to-rasmuss-response/
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Re: [Marxism] Trump and the reluctance to reckon with something fundamentally new

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Thank you, Dayne Goodwin, for actually commenting on the essence of the
article.

Let's look at it from the other point of view - that of bourgeois
democracy. Under that form of rule, the bulk of the capitalist class must
be able to maintain a widespread base of support in the working class and
the petit bourgeois. Not just general support for capitalism, but also for
the policies it deems as necessary. As the example of the Chamber of
Commerce shows, I think that that support has largely slipped away. Take
some other issues: The TPP, "free" trade in general, the Paris Climate
Accord, the accord with Iran... And, most important, whom it wants elected
as president. Its first choice was Jeb Bush. Then came Hillary Clinton. The
overwhelming bulk of the capitalist class did not favor Trump.

I think that bonepartism arises when the capitalist class can no longer
rule in the old way and the working class cannot take power - usually
nowadays because of the role of its leadership. In that sort of situation,
a strong man or woman arises, partly out of control of the ruling class
itself. Not all bonapartist regimes are identical. Not by a long shot. On
the one hand, we have the examples of the PRI in Mexico, which ruled for 70
years. It was the old Lazaro Cardenas who brought it to power, exactly out
of the sort of situation I described. Once in power, he and the PRI leaned
on the working class, at times ruling in its favor, and along the way
looting the capitalist class. Then there is the old Batista dictatorship in
Cuba. Interestingly, he originally came to power as a "leftist" and he
ruled with the support of the Cuban Communist Party. I think it was similar
with Peron in Argentina. Then there is Putin, who I would argue is also a
bonapartist dictator.

Note that in all these cases, bourgeois democratic freedoms are not
completely eliminated.

Dayne seems to use bonapartism and fascism interchangeably. I look at it
differently. I think fascists have a crazed mass base and their own private
army of thugs. Hitler's SS are the classic example. That's what allows
fascism to go a lot further. (I used to think there was a hard and fast
difference between bonapartism and fascism, but I'm not so sure anymore.
Look at Pinochet in Chile. He went nearly as far as some fascists did. Or
Papa Doc Duvalier in Haiti, who had his private army of thugs, the Ton Ton
Macoute.)

In neither case is the mainstream of the capitalist class "thrilled" with
its ruler. In Mexico. the capitalists large and small constantly grumbled
about how the PRI dictatorship ripped them off. (Read Traven's "The State"
for a description.) While a wing of the capitalist class is happy with
Trump's policies that lead to improved quarterly results, there is also a
major wing that is deeply unhappy. For a hint at what is coming, look at
the proposed merger of AT&T and Time Warner that Trump's (in)Justice
Department fought. Why did they fight it? As retribution for Timer Warner's
editorial policies against Trump. I think this is clear from reading the
opinion pieces in the NY Times and the Washington Post, vs. the Wall St.
Journal the deep, deep divisions in the US capitalist class. And even his
supporters are very critical of some of his important policies, especially
his trade policies.

Finally, as far as the Putin-Trump relationship: Sure, Trump gets something
out of it. He gets the silence of Putin as far as his (Trump's) past. He
also gets the electoral help. And while the extreme weakness of the
Democrats' candidate was by far and away the main reason that Trump won, I
don't think we can dismiss the effect of that support. According to Craig
Unger ("House of Trump, House of Putin") studies by UC Berkeley and Swansea
University in Wales concluded that Russian intervention swung 3.23% of the
vote for Trump. That was overall, but because of the electoral college
system, what matters is state-by-state. Trump won Wisconsin 47.2% to 45.5%.
He won Pennsylvania 48.2% to 47.5%. Etc. So, if Russian intervention just
tipped the vote in such states by half of that overall estimate, it made
the difference. (NOTE: I am NOT saying that Trump won because of Putin.
It's like a football game where one side, which normally is faster and
stronger, vastly underperforms with a number of fumbles, missed catches,
and general lack of attention. But because they're faster and stronger,
they keep the game close. Then the ref blows a call in favor of the other
team. That call was the final straw, but all the fumbles and lack of
attention of the stronger team is what really made the ultimate difference.)

The main thing is this: Maybe Trump does not represent a qual

[Marxism] Fw: Sri Lanka: bombings pretext for intensified repression (Green Left Weekly)

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