[Marxism] How one jurisdiction is dealing with climate change

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This was in my mail box today.  Scroll down just a bit to
Read the Natural Hazards Householder
The CVRD is a mixed, with small urban, rural and wild spaces, population 80,000.
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[Marxism] Man arrested while attached to IV machine says he was racially profiled - News - Rockford Register Star - Rockford, IL

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[Marxism] Bruce Dixon: ¡Presente! | Washington Babylon

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[Marxism] Government Policies Co-Opt Aid and Reconstruction Funding in Syria | HRW

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[Marxism] Artificial Stupidity - Los Angeles Review of Books

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In Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Aaron Bastani sketches what he 
calls “the three disruptions,” or the evolutionary tipping points that 
have brought humans to the brink of this work-free utopia. Following the 
Neolithic Revolution, which enabled agriculture and human settlements to 
establish themselves at the end of the last ice age, humankind embarked 
upon the Industrial Revolution and “technological innovation.” As for 
the third disruption, that of digital information and artificial 
systems, we are already there. The challenge is to harness them toward 
the common good.


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Re: [Marxism] Honduras Is Still Bleeding... | Eric Draitser on Patreon

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[Marxism] India has just five years to solve its water crisis, experts fear - CNN

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[Marxism] Bruce Dixon ¡presente! | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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[Marxism] Honduras Is Still Bleeding... | Eric Draitser on Patreon

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[Marxism] Bruce Dixon - www.gp.org

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I was born to working class parents, and raised on the south side of 
Chicago. By 1967 I was involved in the citywide organizing effort among 
black high school students demanding the first black history courses and 
opposing the war in Vietnam. In the fall and winter of 1967 we hooked up 
with young Marine and Army veterans just back from the war. We took them 
to nine or ten black high schools on the west and south sides of Chicago 
where we conducted teach-ins at which they recounted stories of rapes, 
murders and war crimes they either took part in or witnessed but were 
powerless to stop. They told us we had a political and moral obligation 
to resist the war and the draft and not allow us to be used in the 
shameful way they had been used.


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[Marxism] Bruce Dixon has died

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We lost a giant today. Bruce A. Dixon died at 2:32 pm with his family in 
Georgia. I miss his political clarity, his guidance, his candor, his 
warmth and his humor. Bruce was a legendary organizer. He was old school 
- organizing person-to-person and always willing to provide assistance. 
It's hard to believe you are gone, Bruce. The world is a better place 
for you having been in it. Rest in Power.


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[Marxism] The legacy of nuclear testing | ICAN

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The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War has 
estimated that roughly 2.4 million people will eventually die as a 
result of the atmospheric nuclear tests conducted between 1945 and 1980, 
which were equal in force to 29,000 Hiroshima bombs.


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[Marxism] Scientists conclude: Chernobyl killed nearly 1 million people

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[Marxism] For Megan Rapinoe, Boldness in the Spotlight Is Nothing New

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NY Times, June 28, 2019
For Megan Rapinoe, Boldness in the Spotlight Is Nothing New
By Jeré Longman

PARIS — The interview room was packed with reporters and television 
cameras. Fox Sports went live with a telecast, as if it were covering a 
presidential news conference. In an indirect way, it was.


Then Megan Rapinoe, the star forward for the United States women’s 
soccer team and a social activist, stood her ground. At a regularly 
scheduled news conference for the team on Thursday, she reiterated that 
she would refuse to visit the White House if the Americans won the 
Women’s World Cup, regardless of President Trump’s criticism of her via 
Twitter on Wednesday.


That move probably didn’t surprise anyone. It is difficult to imagine an 
athlete who appears more assured in her views and comfortable in the 
spotlight than Ms. Rapinoe. She has, after all, dyed her hair lavender 
for the tournament, a sign of her willingness to stand out.


Recently, she became the first openly gay athlete to appear in the 
Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. She and her partner, the basketball 
star Sue Bird, last year became the first gay couple to be featured in 
ESPN’s Body Issue, in which athletes pose without their clothes.


Ms. Rapinoe has led the way in the women’s national team’s lawsuit 
against U.S. Soccer, accusing the federation of gender discrimination. 
She has referred to herself as “a walking protest” of the Trump 
administration. On the field and off, she has relished the big stage and 
has sought to use the public platform provided by the success of the 
national team to advance both women’s soccer and broader social issues.


“If you want to be in this profession, it’s best to embrace those big 
moments,” Ms. Rapinoe said Thursday. “That’s where all the goods are.”


In a statement before the news conference — held to discuss Friday’s 
much-anticipated quarterfinal match in Paris between the World Cup’s two 
favorites, the United States and France — Ms. Rapinoe apologized for 
having used an obscenity when dismissing the idea of a White House 
visit. That comment came in a videotaped interview with the soccer 
magazine 8 by 8 earlier this year.


She even doubled down on Thursday, suggesting that she would encourage 
her teammates not to visit the White House, either. She said she did not 
want a decades-long fight for equality and inclusivity by the American 
team to be “co-opted by an administration that doesn’t feel the same way 
and doesn’t fight for the same things that we fight for.”


Ms. Rapinoe did not directly address Mr. Trump’s criticism of her, in 
which he wrote on Twitter that she “should never disrespect our country, 
the White House or our flag.”


He also wrote: “I am a big fan of the American Team, and Women’s Soccer, 
but Megan should WIN first before she TALKS! Finish the job!”


Ms. Rapinoe, who will be 34 next week, was asked Thursday whether her 
jousting with Mr. Trump might distract her team at such an important 
moment in the World Cup, or destabilize the American locker room. She 
said emphatically that it would not. “I think, if anything, it just 
fires everybody up a little more,” she said.


Ms. Rapinoe has been heavily influenced as an athlete and as an activist 
by an older brother, Brian, who is 38. When Ms. Rapinoe and her twin, 
Rachael, were growing up in Redding, Calif., it was their brother who 
led them into soccer and vigorously challenged them in two-on-one pickup 
basketball games, instilling in the sisters an unrelenting approach.


In his adult life, Brian Rapinoe has struggled with drug addiction, and 
both he and Megan have spoken openly of his issues. On Thursday, Ms. 
Rapinoe acknowledged that her brother’s struggles had influenced her 
social conscience, her views on drug reform and her desire to help 
protect society’s most vulnerable people.


Brian Rapinoe has been in and out of jail for a series of drug-related 
crimes. According to the California Department of Corrections, he is in 
custody in a community re-entry program in San Diego and will be 
eligible for parole in August.


Ms. Rapinoe said she had come to realize that those incarcerated for 
drug addictions were “just normal people; they’re your brothers and your 
friends and your family.” In influencing her sense of social justice, 
she said, her brother’s story “has a lot of ramifications outside of 
drug abuse.”


Most notably, Ms. Rapinoe began kneeling during the national anthem in 
2016 to protest systemic racism and police violence in solidarity with 
Colin Kaepernick, then the San Francisco 49ers quarterback. U.S. Soccer 
later began requiring players to “stand 

[Marxism] Mike Beggs on The Keynesian Counterrevolution

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What is it about capitalism that makes Keynesianism a horizon even would-be 
revolutionaries have trouble seeing past?

Marx lived long enough to declare himself “not a Marxist.” Keynes was not so 
lucky. Followers would make the distinction between “Keynesian economics” and 
“the economics of Keynes.” But by then the word had well and truly transcended 
the man. A name does not become an “ism” by genius alone. The work has to catch 
and ride a historical wave, and much of it never gets picked up, while what 
does get picked up starts growing new associations. “Keynesianism” has come to 
stand in for deficit spending, regulation, and the welfare state — three things 
the General Theory barely mentions, if at all.

Geoff Mann is well aware of the distinctions between Keynes the man, his work, 
and “Keynesianism.” But his book on Keynesianism, In the Long Run We Are All 
Dead, is quite deliberately more about the “ism” than the man. For Mann, Keynes 
is not even the originator of Keynesianism: that would be Hegel — “if not the 
first Keynesian, then his closest previous incarnation” — and we get several 
chapters
on Hegel before the focus shifts to Keynes himself. Mann’s Keynesianism is a 
perennial of modernity; Keynes was simply one of its most able articulators, 
which is why we came to know it by his name. Keynes himself appears in the book 
as a political philosopher who happened to be an economist, though it is no 
accident that the great political philosophies of capitalist society would be 
full of economics.


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[Marxism] The victories – and continuing struggles – of women in Sudan

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https://theconversation.com/the-victories-and-continuing-struggles-of-women-in-sudan-118275
 


As Sudan mourns for those who have lost their lives in recent crackdowns and 
massacres 
,
 there is an urgent need for immediate action – in the form of independent 
investigations – against human rights violations. These are crucial for 
accountability.

Looking to the future, as I argue in my book “Gender, Race, and Sudan’s Exile 
Politics: Do We All Belong to this Country? 
”,
 Sudan needs to build a strong and independent women’s movement that reflects 
the diverse priorities, realities, and visions of Sudanese women.

And as the country looks to a possible transition, the ruling transitional 
council must hand power over to a civilian-led government with at least 40% 
representation of women. It is crucial to ensure that women have meaningful 
participation at all levels, and that commitments to gender equality and 
women’s human rights permeate constitutional, legal and policy reform.
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[Marxism] Can the Working Class Change the World?

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A friend of Monthly Review Press purchased 500 copies of my book, Can the 
Working Class Change the World?, to be given to social change groups. So far, 
we have donated 449 copies of the book to groups around the US and a few 
outside the US. I post this in the hopes that there are Marxmail subscribers 
who are in or know of groups that might be interested in copies. Please email 
me at mikedjya...@msn.com if you are interested. The book has been used already 
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[Marxism] Paul Krugman not fooled by Sanders's "socialism"

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NY Times, June 28, 2019
The S Word, the F Word and the Election
By Paul Krugman

What did you think of the bunch of socialists you just saw debating on 
stage?


Wait, you may protest, you didn’t see any socialists up there. And you’d 
be right. The Democratic Party has clearly moved left in recent years, 
but none of the presidential candidates are anything close to being 
actual socialists — no, not even Bernie Sanders, whose embrace of the 
label is really more about branding (“I’m anti-establishment!”) than 
substance.


Nobody in these debates wants government ownership of the means of 
production, which is what socialism used to mean. Most of the candidates 
are, instead, what Europeans would call “social democrats”: advocates of 
a private-sector-driven economy, but with a stronger social safety net, 
enhanced bargaining power for workers and tighter regulation of 
corporate malfeasance. They want America to be more like Denmark, not 
more like Venezuela.


Leading Republicans, however, routinely describe Democrats, even those 
on the right of their party, as socialists. Indeed, all indications are 
that denunciations of Democrats’ “socialist” agenda will be front and 
center in the general election campaign. And everyone in the news media 
accepts this as the normal state of affairs.


Which goes to show the extent to which Republican extremism has been 
accepted simply as a fact of life, barely worth mentioning.


To see what I mean, imagine the media firestorm, the screams about lost 
civility, we’d experience if any prominent Democrat described 
Republicans as a party of fascists, let alone if Democrats made that 
claim the centerpiece of their national campaign. And such an accusation 
would indeed be somewhat over the top — but it would be a lot closer to 
the truth than calling Democrats socialists.


The other day The Times published an Op-Ed that used analysis of party 
platforms to place U.S. political parties on a left-right spectrum along 
with their counterparts abroad. The study found that the G.O.P. is far 
to the right of mainstream European conservative parties. It’s even to 
the right of anti-immigrant parties like Britain’s UKIP and France’s 
National Rally. Basically, if we saw something like America’s 
Republicans in another country, we’d classify them as white nationalist 
extremists.


True, this is just one study. But it matches up with lots of other 
evidence. Political scientists who use congressional votes to track 
ideology find that Republicans have moved drastically to the right over 
the past four decades, to the point where they are now more conservative 
than they were at the height of the Gilded Age.


Or just compare the G.O.P., point by point, with parties almost everyone 
would classify as right-wing authoritarians — parties like Hungary’s 
Fidesz, which has preserved some of the forms of democracy but has 
effectively created a permanent one-party state.


Fidesz has cemented its power by politicizing the judiciary, creating 
rigged election rules, suppressing opposition media and using the power 
of the state to reward the party’s cronies while punishing businesses 
that don’t toe the line. Does any of this sound like something that 
can’t happen here? In fact, does any of it sound like something that 
isn’t already happening here, and which Republicans will do much more of 
if they get the chance?


One might even argue that the G.O.P. stands out among the West’s white 
nationalist parties for its exceptional willingness to crash right 
through the guardrails of democracy. Extreme gerrymandering, naked voter 
suppression and stripping power from offices the other party manages to 
win all the same — these practices seem if anything more prevalent here 
than in the failing democracies of Eastern Europe.


Oh, and isn’t it remarkable how blasé we’ve become about threats of 
legal persecution and/or physical violence against anyone who criticizes 
a Republican president?


So it’s really something to see Republicans trying to tar Democrats as 
un-American socialists. If they want to see a party that really has 
broken with fundamental American values, they should look in the mirror.


But that won’t happen, of course. Whoever the Democrats nominate — even 
if it’s Joe Biden — Republicans will paint him or her as the second 
coming of Hugo Chávez. The only question is whether it will work.


It might not, or at least not as well as in the past. By spending 
decades calling everything that might improve Americans’ lives 
“socialist,” Republicans have squandered much of the accusation’s force. 
And Donald Trump, who was installed in office with 

[Marxism] Socialism 2019: the Left at a Crossroads | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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For a number of years, the International Socialists Organization, once 
the largest Marxist group in the USA, held educational conferences 
either in Chicago or in various American cities. In 2004, I attended a 
plenary session of a regional conference at City College in New York, 
mostly to hear my old friend Peter Camejo who was the featured speaker 
alongside Ahmed Shawki, the disgraced former leader whose cover-up of 
multiple rapes in the ISO led to its dissolution this year. If Peter had 
lived, I am not sure what he would make of its demise. Although he was a 
sharp critic of “Leninism”, he had high regard for the ISO, as did the 
late Sol Dollinger, a member of Bert Cochran and Harry Braverman’s 
Socialist Union. The Socialist Union was the first attempt to break with 
sectarianism in the USA but dissolved in 1959 because of unfavorable 
political conditions not all that different from what we face today.


Those conditions played a large role in the ISO’s demise. If being a 
Marxist today is like swimming against the current (the aptly named 
magazine of Solidarity, another left group following in the Socialist 
Union tradition), the current period has left most socialist groups 
gasping for air like spawning salmons. The ISO was formed in 1977, just 
at the point when the Socialist Workers Party, the sect I belonged to, 
had begun a “colonization of industry” strategy that would eventually 
reduce its membership by 90 percent. The Maoist groups of the late 60s 
and early 70s had also begun to sputter out and die, their story 
recorded in Max Elbaum’s essential “Revolution in the Air”.


If Leninist groups have a shelf life, the 21-year history of the ISO is 
about par for the course. Except for Kshama Sawant’s Socialist 
Alternative, there is no self-avowed Leninist group that amounts to 
anything in 2019. Those that still exist tend to be hermetically sealed 
sects like the Spartacist League or the Socialist Equality Party that 
have never sought to have an impact on the mass movement, seeing 
themselves instead as its high priesthood critics.


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[Marxism] Book Review: Trotskyists on Trial | Socialist Alternative

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Many activists today look fondly on the Roosevelt administration, and 
see the New Deal era of the Democratic Party as a model to follow. But 
Haverty-Stacke reveals that the Democratic Party under Roosevelt was the 
main driving force behind the crackdowns on civil liberties that would 
later flourish under McCarthyism. The Smith Act was named after 
Democratic Congressman Howard Smith. Meanwhile, another Democratic 
Congressman, Martin Dies Jr., would lead the House Un-American 
Activities Committee, later made notorious by Senator Joseph McCarthy.


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[Marxism] The Cuban Revolution and the National Bourgeoisie

[Louis Proyect via Marxism]

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https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/28/the-cuban-revolution-and-the-national-bourgeoisie/
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[Marxism] Socialism: Democratic Party Style

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The conventional wisdom has lately become that Sanders is more radical, 
that he is a revolutionary intent on building a new world on the ashes 
of the old, while Warren just wants to make the old world work better.


But this is, to put it quaintly, balderdash; they both just want to make 
the old world work better; and it is far from clear even that one is 
more radical than the other.


In pursuit of their goals, they both want to put what Sanders calls “the 
billionaire class” down a couple of notches. I suspect that if I were a 
billionaire or even close, I would actually fear Warren more because she 
seems to know better than Sanders how to do it. She has a plan for that.


https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/28/socialism-democratic-party-style/
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Re: [Marxism] Imperial Overreach in Iran | Suvrat Raju | Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.)

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The article was fantastic -- very interesting and very convincing --

I commend it highly to all on the list -- and thank Kevin and Cathy for
sharing it.

https://rupeindia.wordpress.com/2019/06/27/imperial-overreach-in-iran/
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