[Marxism] US profits revision | Michael Roberts Blog
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Overall corporate profits have suffered two successive quarterly declines, both before and after tax up to Q1 2019 (the second quarter figures will be released at the end of August). US corporate profits are now 2% below where they were at the beginning of 2018. Even before these revisions, non-financial sector corporate profits have been falling over the last five years. What this means is that while speculative or fictitious profits from investment in financial assets have increased sharply, especially with Trump’s tax cuts, profits in the productive sector of the US economy have stagnated at best. https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/07/29/us-profits-revision/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] We Have Already Entered The Sixth And Final Era Of Our Universe
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The Universe is not the same today as it was yesterday. With each moment that goes by, a number of subtle but important changes occur, even if many of them are imperceptible on measurable, human timescales. The Universe is expanding, which means that the distances between the largest cosmic structures are increasing with time. https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/07/26/we-have-already-entered-the-sixth-and-final-era-of-our-universe/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change - CounterPunch.org
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * If regenerative food, farming and land use – which is essentially moving to the next stage of organic farming, free-range livestock grazing and eco-system restoration – are just as essential to our survival as moving beyond fossil fuels, why aren’t more people talking about this? Why is it that moving beyond industrial agriculture, factory farms, agro-exports and highly-processed junk food to regenerating soils and forests and drawing down enough excess carbon from the atmosphere to re-stabilize our climate is getting so little attention from the media, politicians and the general public? https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/29/the-9-lie-industrial-food-and-climate-change/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] White Nationalists and the Legacy of the Waffen-SS from Postwar Europe to Today
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[Marxism] Toward an Alternative “Time of the Revolution” | aNtiDoTe Zine
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[Marxism] The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change - CounterPunch.org
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * I'm glad the article was posted. Clearly there *has* been increase in awareness about regenerative agriculture though I think it's a lot lower than the "22% of the population" the writer states in his essay. It is not being talked about much on the left specifically or the population more generally but it has increased in the last year a bit, I think. If you take the largest internet and network and newspaper resources and run a search for the term "regenerative agriculture" it shows up barely at all. So there is that... Secondly, despite his silly missives about "100% renewable energy" and other myths, the essay was overall very good. I have no doubt he's read material written by Allan Savory, heard David Montgomery speak and read various leftist comments and essays by folks like Dave Riley, Elena Garcia and myself on this topic. He makes an error I wanted to point out though. He wrote "If regenerative food, farming and land use – which is essentially moving to the next stage of organic farming,* free-range livestock* grazing and eco-system restoration...". He made this common mistake. Holistic cattle management, that is as he correctly wrote above this "Grazing and pasturing animals on grass, and more specifically using a planned multi-paddock rotation system" is the **opposite** of "free range grazing". Free range grazing is what has destroyed land throughout the Sahel in Africa and in the western states of the U.S. Everything about regenerative agriculture is about *planning*, and mob-grazing. Before European settlement, animals did NOT "free range". They were constantly on the move. Constantly being herded by natures herders: wolves, cougars, coyotes, and all manner of predator, including nomadic human groups. The idea of a "happy cow" in nature is oxymoronic to the extreme. All ruminants generally lived in a constant state of semi-stress in *nature*. Lastly, on the "9%" of GHG emissions. I didn't even realize "Big Ag" had come up with this number. Defining what the "agricultural industry" is, is not easy. I tend to agree with the author that this industry's contribution to GHG emissions much higher, probably 30% or more but I'd be guessing. The problem is the lack of data in terms of breaking down what he writes about: food processing, fossil fuels used for tractors and farm equipment, trucks to bring food to the processors and then the processed food to market. Andy of this that is used in broader categories such as "industry" and "transportation" then has to be deducted from those categories. Not to mention chemical inputs onto the soil and plants and determining how much of THAT goes into the atmosphere. That is why the numbers vary so much. Just do a google search for "how much does agriculture contribute to greenhouse gas emissions?". There is no question that Big Ag wants to keep that number in the single digits for obvious reasons. I doubt anyone really believes it. David Walters _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Contents of Marxism digest..." James Heartfield was a candidate with Nigel Farage's Brexit Party
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * There is a wider overview of the development of the RCP here: by Bob From Brockley. The RCP's long march from anti-imperialist outsiders to the doors of Downing Street . http://brockley.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-rcps-long-march-from-anti.html "One LM initiative in the post-Referendum period was “The Full Brexit”, an avowedly left-wing pressure group launched in the summer of 2018 to reframe the Brexit narrative as one about “democracy” rather than just bashing immigrants. Alongside a smattering of Blue Labour social conservatives and Lexit Marxists, a good half of its 20 founding signatories are RCP network members." And here: 'Left Wing’ Full Brexit: A Red-Brown Front for Spiked/ex-Revolutionary Communist Party. https://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2019/07/28/left-wing-full-brexit-a-red-brown-front-for-spiked-ex-revolutionary-communist-party/ "This front includes Communist Party of Britain members, Labour Leave, Blue Labour figures, supporters (including a Euro Election candidate, James Hartfield) of Nigel Farage’s far right Brexit Party, and even at least one member (an office holder) of the Conservative Party." " ‘left’ sovereigntists like Thomas Fazi and anti-rootless cosmopolitans, such as Paul Embery, the Communist Party of Britain’s Mary Davis and Nicholas B. Wright" " Prof Costas Lapavitsas, a supporter of a minuscule breakaway from the Greek Syria party, German ‘left’ national populist Prof Wolfgang Streeck, who writes extensively for New Left Review..." Both Bob and myself know former members of the RCP. Andrew Coates _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-CivWar]: Fleche on Sainlaude, 'France and the American Civil War: A Diplomatic History'
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Best regards, Andrew Stewart - - - Subscribe to the Washington Babylon newsletter via https://washingtonbabylon.com/newsletter/ Begin forwarded message: > From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW > Date: July 29, 2019 at 11:57:28 AM EDT > To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > Cc: H-Net Staff > Subject: H-Net Review [H-CivWar]: Fleche on Sainlaude, 'France and the > American Civil War: A Diplomatic History' > Reply-To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > > Stève Sainlaude. France and the American Civil War: A Diplomatic > History. Trans. Jessica Edwards. Chapel Hill University of North > Carolina Press, 2019. 304 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN > 978-1-4696-4994-8. > > Reviewed by Andre M. Fleche (Castleton University) > Published on H-CivWar (July, 2019) > Commissioned by G. David Schieffler > > Fleche Review of Sainlaude, _France and the American Civil War: A > Diplomatic History_ > > The diplomatic history of the American Civil War has received uneven > coverage in the historiography of the conflict. Though historians > have paid considerable attention to the relationship between the > United States, the Confederacy, and Great Britain during the war > years, comparatively few studies venture to explore American > interactions with other European nations, let alone the rest of the > world. The history of the relationship between the Union, the > Confederacy, and France serves as a case in point. Although the > actions of the French had the potential to nearly rival those of > Great Britain in influencing the outcome of the Civil War, only a > handful of books are devoted exclusively to Franco-American diplomacy > during the 1860s. _France and the American Civil War_ aims to begin > to fill this gap in the literature by introducing the work of a > decorated French historian to an English-speaking audience. Stève > Sainlaude, associate professor of history at the University of > Paris-Sorbonne, published two award-wining works in French_, Le > Gouvernement Impérial et la Guerre de Sécession (1861-1865): > L'action Diplomatique_ (2011) and _La France et la Confédération > Sudiste: La Question de la Reconnaissance Diplomatique Pendant la > Guerre de Sécession_ (2011). _France and the American Civil War_ > represents a recapitulation of the arguments of those earlier works, > rewritten by Sainlaude and translated into English by Jessica > Edwards. > > Sainlaude's study sets out to answer one important question that has > captured the interest of historians: why did French emperor Napoleon > III ultimately choose not to recognize the independence of the > Confederacy, even though he privately favored the Southern cause? > Sainlaude argues that the answer can be attributed to the cautious > diplomacy carried out by the officials in charge of the French > Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who concluded that intervention in the > American Civil War would be incongruous with national self-interest. > "To determine its course of action during the American Civil War," > Sainlaude writes, "the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs relied > solely on its assessment of how France could best benefit from the > situation created by the crisis, a judgement that it based on its > diplomats and consuls" (p. 185). > > Sainlaude's line of argument runs contrary to the interpretation > established in previous works by W. Reed West, Serge Gavronsky, > George M. Blackburn, Howard Jones, and Lynn Case and Warren Spencer, > among others.[1] The traditional position holds that widespread > support for the Union from French liberals served as a check on > Napoleon III's pro-Confederate sympathies. Thoroughgoing antislavery > sentiment among the French general public in particular made action > on behalf of the Confederacy almost impossible to contemplate, > especially after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation > Proclamation. Sainlaude counters that French leaders routinely > ignored public passion regarding the conflict, if that passion even > existed at all. "The antidemocratic nature of the [French] regime," > Sainlaude concludes, "meant that decision-makers discussed external > affairs in the closed sphere of the Quai d'Orsay or the Tuileries > Palace. In any case ... contemporary accounts show that the French > paid only marginal attention to the conflict" (p. 184). > > Sainlaude agrees with the traditional interpretation in one respect: > Napoleon III, he argues, detested the United States and would have > been happy to see the Union torn in two. The French emperor > distrusted republican forms of government, believed American culture > was unsophisticated and material
[Marxism] Trump, the 2020 elections and what comes afterwards
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * A lot can change between now and election day, but as of the present Trump is in trouble. His approval ratings have never gone above 50% and state-by-state polls show that many swing states he won in 2016 are trending against him. This means that he is on course to be unable to win the electoral college also. Of course, there is a long ways to go till the elections. Regardless of who wins, though, and despite the wishes of most voters, the United States is never going to return to the relatively stable days of the past. https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/07/29/trump-the-2020-elections-and-what-comes-afterwards/ -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Spiked Online, Brexit, and the looming catastrophe | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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[Marxism] Spiked Online, Brexit, and the looming catastrophe | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 7/29/19 2:28 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: I haven’t paid much attention to the people around Frank Furedi ever since they dropped all pretensions to Marxism with the launch of Spiked Online in 2000. When I first ran into one of their members James Heartfield on the Marxism mailing list that preceded Marxmail, I put a lot of energy into answering him on a host of issues, particularly global warming that he denied. Once the cult leader Frank Furedi disavowed Marxism in the early 2000s, others followed behind him like ducklings following a mother duck. Heartfield fell into line on the policy questions, especially on environmentalism, but continued to represent himself as a Marxist. full: https://secure-web.cisco.com/1nY7gcb5sgXXfvf65800e1w7QmWhgjHgprolrhhQxMbsSanmWXFM1CZmsuCDWQAsE_kAA03BcW73Tbi4CZbVIS5X53z9uQRBkfNX0AOKSKJ-IJ9E5Hj_DUx_101y-AbVVQf0bORzAbwdobKHpg-CSa_r1IcwOMeAvGLIHhARrqzNwEqJ_4X4ZBEoDOGo2drlmL0eG5bqMsbyIc7dIUsnc9PXJEnKJgVvAMuLFuVhwY5-R9n_7qqMpeT_OsSIvwvC_x8kPcjQoacYhtfQpNnCvMno4CmCdHgoHSSQyMRA1UhEcblJWjr0U0Y-QiyVGb_l3DoO5Qr_4kchth2HOq6poSOdcxRFLW4cnE8NvoOVRi3fESsu59hrkMxCSqtn9bjjm/https%3A%2F%2Flouisproyect.org%2F2019%2F07%2F29%2Fspiked-online-brexit-and-the-looming-catastrophe%2F Another reminder. You can click the link above and read my article with no problem just by telling the Cisco system that it is "clean". Otherwise, just go to https://louisproyect.org/ and it is the top article. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Santino William Legan Identified as Gilroy Garlic Fest Shooter – Rolling Stone
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-SAWH]: DeVelvis on Stowe, 'Keep the Days: Reading the Civil War Diaries of Southern Women'
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * -- Forwarded message - From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW Date: Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 3:35 PM Subject: H-Net Review [H-SAWH]: DeVelvis on Stowe, 'Keep the Days: Reading the Civil War Diaries of Southern Women' To: Cc: H-Net Staff Steven M. Stowe. Keep the Days: Reading the Civil War Diaries of Southern Women. Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 228 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-4096-9. Reviewed by Melissa DeVelvis (University of South Carolina) Published on H-SAWH (July, 2019) Commissioned by Lisa A. Francavilla DeVelvis on Stowe, _Keep the Days: Reading the Civil War Diaries of Southern Women_ In what is clearly a labor of love, Steven M. Stowe's _Keep the Days: Reading the Civil War Diaries of Southern Women_ explores both "a way of writing the Civil War and of reading it, too" (p. ix). Using twenty well-known diaries, Stowe explains how women "rose to meet the Civil War with words," showing the reader how best to understand these words along the way (p. x). Perhaps most importantly, Stowe argues for the inclusion, and even prioritization, of life's mundane "trivia" when attempting to understand the lives and times of Southern women during the war (p. 12). Almost all of Stowe's subjects lived in what we now call the Deep South and all were members of the planter class, "the belles of Southern sentimental mythmaking" who lived on wealth accumulated through enslaved labor (p. x). A helpful appendix provides biographies for these women. While Stowe refuses to view them as sympathetic figures, he does stress the importance of empathy, "a grasp on what another person's experience feels like," in reading their diaries (p. x). The use of empathy, he writes, leads to understanding not only the cruelties of a slave-owning society but also "how slaveholding women could believe their lives were _good_ lives" (p. xi). Though discussion of the Confederacy remains highly charged outside of academia, Stowe cautions contemporary readers that mocking these Southern women creates "the opposite of empathy; it is a moral slam dunk from modern times. And it defends us against the enemy, making her a simple villain and feckless, and certainly not one of us" (p. 54). This serves as a warning against contemporary moralizing, but at times Stowe's musings on empathy come across as preemptive defenses against criticism. _Keep the Days_ is broken into six chapters and the first two shine brightest. Chapter 1 concerns "the diaries as they are today" and the often harmful changes editors made in their aim to make the texts "well-behaved" (p. xv). Stowe deliberately chose published and familiar diaries to best illustrate the desire of editors and readers alike to "skip around" in search of a linear narrative of the "big picture" Civil War, with little regard for daily "trivia" (p. 1). Stowe rightly argues that this gendered idea of women's trivia--repetition, passages about love, church, and social visits--is "devalued" and marginalized, while pointing out that "no good editor" would consider cutting the trivia in official military accounts of the war (p. 12). Cutting these passages, Stowe warns, omits critical knowledge of not only the diarist, but time itself--"how the long day passed, and how long it was," and how the war fit into these days (p. 21). The second chapter examines why women kept diaries. Here, Stowe elaborates on how diary-keeping "stretched time into ungainly shapes" as narratives of battle coexisted with a laundry list of the day's chores (p. 32). Wartime writing allowed women to regain some semblance of control as narrators over the events swirling around them, sometimes serving as an emotional "safety valve" for the diarist (p. 32). Perhaps, Stowe muses, editors cut these emotional outpourings to save the diarists from public embarrassment. Whatever the reason, these edits obscure the fact that in Southern women's diaries war was a presence, not the plot. The next three chapters--"Wartime," "Men," and "Slaves"--are, by Stowe's admission, hardly the only topics worth scholarly attention in women's diaries. These three, he reasons, simply "read as a diarist's best moments of doubt and play on the page" (p. xvi). In his section on men, Stowe refers to the romance of war as "eros" without ever quite defining the term, which, when read alongside complicated passages on writing "commentary" as "an act of exile," might create obstacles toward Stowe's goal of a wider readership (pp. 70, 31). That is not to say that ruminations on abstract concepts like time are not useful. Stowe's study of the flexibility of war's end, dubbed "stop time," and his section on
[Marxism] The disinformation age: a revolution in propaganda | Books | The Guardian
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Today social media puts absolutely no constraints on our limits of self-expression, each of us can be a modernist author on our Facebook feed. But this self-expression is then transmuted into data: the language we use, our likes and shares, are all passed to data brokers and then on to advertisers and spin doctors who target us with specially tailored campaigns we might not even be aware of. The more we express ourselves, the less power we have. This has produced a propaganda model that is very different from the 20th century. Instead of stuffing an ideology down people’s throats via TV and radio, a spin doctor has to tailor different messages to different social media groups. A country of 20 million, the chatty digital director of Vote Leave, Thomas Borwick, told me, needs 70 to 80 types of targeted message. Borwick’s job is to connect individual causes to his campaign, even if that connection might feel somewhat tenuous at first. full: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/27/the-disinformation-age-a-revolution-in-propaganda _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Rand Paul, Ilhan Omar and Code Pink
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Rand Paul, whose racist credentials are just as good as those of Trump, has added to Trump's racist call for Ilhan Omar to go back to Somalia. He has offered to help pay for a ticket for her. See: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rand-paul-ilhan-omar_n_5d3f0cc9e4b0db8affabf716?fbclid=IwAR2VyK_erGPmqjhTGNMfoL55b0D3YAXd_B58YwHyQ5Gs-N3FIrF2AQla-FA But let's not forget our good friends in Code Pink. It wasn't so long ago that they were delivering flowers and chocolates to the racist reactionary Rand Paul for his opposition to drone warfare. "We're [Rand Paul's] biggest fans," said Medea Benjamin. (See: https://www.rollcall.com/news/codepink-hearts-rand-paul). Talk about the red-brown alliance! Next, maybe they'll be joining forces with some of the fascist anti-Semites who oppose Israel! John Reimann -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] [UCE] Why I refused to sign the "Transparency Pledge" offered for NPC candidates
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The pledge commits signers to ensuring that "all text is translated into spanish within a reasonable timeframe." That's bunk: it is not going to happen Language justice for Spanish-dominant people is an extremely important, serious matter And it is not a question of translation, but of creating spaces where Latinx people --and especially immigrants and the sons and daughters of immigrants -- feel at home. I can't possibly express my disappointment that concern about the Latino community has been expressed this way, through patronizing tokenization, nor how much I resent having to write something like this once again. Full: http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2019/07/why-i-didnt-sign-transparency-pledge-of.html [Just to remind people, "Joaquín Bustelo" is a pen name I used for many years and have continued to use on this list for people who may not know me as José G. Pérez] _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
