[Marxism] Strike with the Band: The meritocratic failures of classical music | Kate Wagner | The Baffler via Portside
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Re: [Marxism] Kashmir
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. * Dear Vijaya Kumar M, Thanks for your reply. I think it offers all of us a good insight in the way in which – probably quiet many – supporters of the “Communist” Parties of India are thinking. You claim: “The people of Kashmir opted to remain in India”. In fact, it was a Hindu monarch who decided this without asking the people of Kashmir! You praise the constitution of the Indian capitalist state (“The Indian Constitution is egalitarian and ensures equal rights to every citizen, irrespective of his faith or caste. Right now, it is our best bulwark against the onslaught of BJP's communal fascism.”). Yet you can not answer why did the Indian state with its wonderful constitution never allow the Kashmiri people to have a plebiscite! The same with the history of brutal oppression by the Indian state which killed so many people. Your only thought about all these facts are that this is “Pakistani propaganda”. You claim that India has a historic right (since “millennia”!) to possess and occupy another people. Do you claim that the Kashmiri people are part of the “Indian nation”? Do you deny that they are a separate nation? Do you seriously claim that the Kashmiri people have no right of independence because the rest of India considers Kashmir to be part of India?! This is like denying the right of national self-determination to the oppressed people of Russia because the Russian majority population does not support this! How can a communist in the tradition of Lenin justify such an outright violation of the most basic democratic rights of an oppressed nation?! Your inability to answer all this most elementary facts reflects the positions of the “Communist” parties. And this tells us a lot about Indian Stalinism! They are neither internationalist nor communist but patriotic towards a capitalist oppressor state. Lenin called such parties “social-patriotic”. An appropriate characterization of the CPI and the CPI(M)! -- Revolutionär-Kommunistische Organisation BEFREIUNG (Österreichische Sektion der RCIT, www.thecommunists.net) www.rkob.net ak...@rkob.net Tel./SMS/WhatsApp/Telegram: +43-650-4068314 --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _ 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] Kashmir
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. * Dear MM, Peaceful atmosphere where every citizen's aspirations find a place is our idea of a Democratic solution. In India, Muslims form a sizeable minority, about 17-18%, Christians less than 2% and Buddhists a minuscule minority. The Indian Constitution is egalitarian and ensures equal rights to every citizen, irrespective of his faith or caste. Right now, it is our best bulwark against the onslaught of BJP's communal fascism. And BJP has designs to dump the Constitution and declare India, a Hindu Republic. In every town and village, in every street, you find Hindus and Muslims living together for centuries. Our bane is caste discrimination and Communists continue to fight caste oppression. The tragedy of Partition is that a country and its people are trifurcated, with imperialist designs continuously fuelling war and terrorism. If India is to be further subdivided based on ethnicity, religion, language and caste, it will be balkanised in to thousands of tiny fiefdoms for US to play at will. Every town and village has to be divided. The people of India fought for about 90 years to achieve freedom from British colonial rule and do not want any more destruction of their country. If someone calls it chauvinism, well, he is free to advocate his views, but nobody in India supports this view. Vijaya Kumar M _ 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] Kashmir
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 Sep 13, 2019, at 9:49 PM, Marla Vijaya kumar via Marxism > wrote: > > A vast majority of Indians believe that, but they > want a democratic solution to the Kashmir problem within the Indian Union. It’s probably good that we have access to comrade Marla V-K’s reflections. I trust the comrade will eventually inform the list regarding the “democratic solution to the Kashmir problem.” Meanwhile, I can’t help but be reminded of remarks from anti-pope Stephan Hoeller, delivered with a knowing snicker: “Peace? Everyone wants peace — as long as it doesn't interfere with what they would like to do.” _ 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] Kashmir
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. * Dear RKOB, Whether chauvinist or not is to be decided not from your coloured glasses, but by the will of the Indian people. We the communists in India vehemently oppose the oppression unleashed against the people of Kashmir by Congress and BJP governments in the last 30 years. Read a bit of history and about the tragic Partition to learn the facts, before calling names. You seem to believe that it is only BJP which claims that Kashmir is an integral part of India. A vast majority of Indians believe that, but they want a democratic solution to the Kashmir problem within the Indian Union. You seem to be blinded by Pakistan's propaganda. Well, please understand that India is still a functioning democracy, despite BJP's communal fascism whereas Pakistan is controlled by the Military mafia, despite its facade of an elected government. Indian communists want Kashmir to be an integral part of India and this reflects the aspirations of Indian people, including Kashmir people. India is not a playground for playing Divide and Rule, a British technique. We, the people of India want a peaceful and democratic India. If you call this chauvinism, it shows how jaded your worldview is. Vijaya Kumar M On Friday, September 13, 2019, 10:03:40 PM GMT+5:30, RKOB via Marxism wrote: 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. * What a pathetic Indian chauvinist nonsense! 1.I do not want to start a discussion about “Kashmir has been an integral part of India since millenia”. In consider this as a chauvinist argument a la Modi and the BJP! Sufficient to say that: a) There were various and different empires on the South Asian sub-continent (incl. the Muslim Mughal Empire). How can one create a continuity between them and refer to this as justification of occupying Kashmir?! b) In itself this is a reactionary argument. What counts is not “millennia” but what the people of Kashmir want since decades until this very day. Such a chauvinist argument is used by Turkish nationalists to deny the Kurdish people the right to have their own state (“the Kurds were always part of the Ottoman Empire and then Turkey”; “they never had their own state”; etc.). The Greek chauvinists have used the same logic against the Macedonians. By the way: the Zionists also claim the Palestinian land because of Torah and the “millennia”! 2.“The people of Kashmir opted to remain in India”. This is an insult against a) history and b) the people of Kashmir! When did they opt for this?! As a matter of fact it was the Maharaja Hari Singh, a thoroughly dissolute and corrupt Hindu autocrat, who “opted to remain in India”! The Muslim majority population was never asked and certainly would have never agreed to it! (See on this chapter 4 and 5 in this essay incl. numerous sources https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/revolutionaries-and-the-slogan-of-azadi-kashmir/) 3.The UN requested in 1948 (and the Indian government agreed) to hold a plebiscite in which the Kashmiri people could decide about their fate. The Indian government never hold such a referendum. If the people of Kashmir would really wish to remain in India, the government could have easily held such a referendum and then use a pro-Indian result as a huge propaganda victory. Guess why Delhi never allowed a plebiscite! Contrary, the Indian state had to send about 800,000 troops to keep a people of 8 million under control! They had to slaughter up to 100,000 Kashmiri since 1989 and gang-rape thousands of women! How can one imagine that the Kashmiri people want to be part of such a state?! 4.Your argument “Whether Kashmir should remain as apart of India or is to be decided by the people of India” is a thoroughly chauvinist argument which is unfortunately so widespread among the Stalinist and semi-Stalinist forces in India. (See e.g. on the positions of Indian “Communist” parties on Kashmir this essay with numerous references: “Kashmir: Social-Patriotism Among the Indian Left”, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/asia/kashmir-social-patriotism-among-indian-left/) Why on earth should the people outside of Kashmir have a say in which state the people of Kashmir shall live?! Because “Kashmir has been an integral part of India since millenia”?! I repeat: This is a chauvinist argument a la Modi and the BJP! 5.You say: “The two main Commu
[Marxism] Biden's performance
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[Marxism] Containing our movement in ‘safe’ forms - Weekly Worker
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[Marxism] Third Democratic party debate
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[Marxism] The Internet Crackdown Bug Is Spreading | Fast Forward | OZY
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. * Worth a read: Hours before India’s Home Minister Amit Shah announced the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special autonomy on Aug. 5, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi had snapped all telecommunication lines between the contested region of 7 million people and the outside world. More than a month later, much of that communications blockade remains in place. But while that blackout has drawn global headlines, it’s far from unique. From Hong Kong to Sudan, Indonesia to Russia and, of course, India, governments are turning the internet tap off as a key weapon to preempt or curb protests that are increasingly organized via social media. When protests spread out across Papua in late August against the arrest of more than 40 students, Indonesia switched off the internet, refusing to buckle under calls from global human rights groups to restore connectivity. The NetBlocks internet observatory confirmed last week that when protesters took to the streets of Moscow on Aug. 3, Russia enforced a targeted, unannounced internet shutdown in the country’s capital. Amid protests in Khartoum in June, Sudanese authorities cut off the internet nationwide. And last week, Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam suggested that she could turn to a partial or complete internet clampdown to control the protests she continues to face, even after she withdrew a controversial extradition bill. The number of internet shutdowns across the world is rising steeply — from 75 in 2016 to 196 in 2018, according to the nonprofit Access Now, which tracks international cyber censorship. “It is a reflection of our times,” says Michael Kugelman, senior associate at the Wilson Center, a nonpartisan policy forum. “The world is seeing an increase in authoritarian tendencies, and one of the most profound manifestations of authoritarian tendencies is that governments try and control information flow, if not suppress it.” For sure, governments using internet crackdowns to make it harder for protesters to organize is in itself not a new phenomenon. In 2016, India suspended mobile internet services for 133 days in Kashmir after the army killed a militant leader. China’s online censors — often referred to as the “Great Firewall” — block all online content on the mainland that the Communist Party views as problematic. During the Arab Spring, Egypt suspended access to social media platforms that protesters were using to organize. And occasionally governments restrict internet access to prevent the spread of dangerous fake news — Sri Lanka took this approach following the Easter bombings earlier this year. “Sometimes it can be well-intentioned,” says Kugelman. But what were isolated, often ham-handed efforts at controlling protests are now turning into a fast-spreading policy spanning not just more authoritarian regimes such as Russia under Vladimir Putin or Sudan under former dictator Omar al-Bashir, but also democracies and regions such as Hong Kong that have never — until now — had to face the threat of an internet crackdown. Indonesia’s information access is the most free in Southeast Asia, according to Freedom House. What’s more, whether in Kashmir or Russia, the suspension of the internet is increasingly preemptive. Blackouts are getting stricter: In Kashmir this time, even landlines and most cable networks were suspended, though some connections have now been restored. And regimes have learned from the Arab Spring. Because Egypt only cut access to social media platforms, users turned to proxy addresses to access these sites. Now, governments are shutting down the entire internet — not just social media — so proxy addresses can’t be used. Asia and Africa are the worst affected — accounting for 96 percent of the recorded instances of internet cuts since 2016, according to Access Now. Almost always, cyber blackouts are presented by governments as a necessary step to maintain law and order. In May 2019, the Indonesian government limited internet access after protests in Jakarta erupted following the declaration of presidential election results. But in reality, such curbs are invariably part of broader attacks on democratic rights of ordinary people in affected regions. “We have to dispel the notion that somehow shutting off the internet is a good way to preserve public order,” says Adrian Shahbaz, a research director at Freedom House. “If you speak with people on the ground, those are precisely the times when they need access to the internet, for more information, to gather the reality of what is happening on the ground and communicate with loved ones.” At times, gov
[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Japan]: Smith on Yasar, 'Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945'
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: September 13, 2019 at 3:01:14 PM EDT > To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > Cc: H-Net Staff > Subject: H-Net Review [H-Japan]: Smith on Yasar, 'Electrified Voices: How > the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945' > Reply-To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > > Kerim Yasar. Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and > Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945. New York Columbia University > Press, 2018. xv + 277 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-18713-8. > > Reviewed by Martyn Smith (University of Sheffield) > Published on H-Japan (September, 2019) > Commissioned by Martha Chaiklin > > Rocks tumbling from the peak of Mount Fuji, the chug of steam engines > on the Oikawa railway line in Shizuoka, jet engines at Chitose > (Sapporo) or Haneda (Yokohama) airports, the passing of a high-speed > bullet train across the Fuji River, and drag racing at the Fuji > Speedway--these sounds, and the best time of year to capture them, > were among those listed on a map of Japan printed in a 1977 guidebook > to the hobby of sound recording.[1] The article made it clear that by > the 1970s the sounds of Japan could be captured and reproduced by > anyone with the inclination to pack a portable tape recorder, some > spare clothes, and a map. The portability and affordability of > sound-recording technology was just one element in an individual and > technological mobility that transformed everyday social, political, > and economic life after 1945, yet sound was clearly already part of a > Japanese national imaginary and deeply imbricated in economic, > social, and technological change. > > Kerim Yasar's _Electrified Voices_ starts from the premise that sound > is central to the social and ritual life of a community and explains > how this connection between sound and the nation space came about > over the previous century, when the new, "modern" technologies of > telephone, phonograph, and radio began a process of incorporating > sound into a national imaginary that print capitalism had already > initiated. The reproduction of sound that became possible in the > latter part of the nineteenth century radically altered the human > relationship to it. Sound gradually came to be understood as one > aspect of a national culture, and Yasar argues that the new > technologies the book examines made more thorough the state-driven, > ideological processes of homogenization that the Meiji Restoration of > 1868 had accelerated. The book explains how the telephone, > phonograph, and radio radically changed the way Japanese related to > and understood sound, particularly the sound of the voice. > > The roles and uses of sound and our relationship to the sonic > environment are historically and culturally conditioned--often > particular to a given culture. Nonetheless, until relatively > recently, historians have largely ignored sound and concentrated on > the visual aspects of the modern experience. This privileging of > sight over sound meant that the ability to read became indispensable > to social and cultural life and embedded a bias toward writing and > seeing in understanding the world. It also helped to shore up and > literally engrave upon society class distinctions and a tendency to > consider elite visual culture as superior to "less civilized" > preliterate cultures. The role of the written media in shaping > national identities and fueling nationalism is well documented and > Yasar notes the important part Benedict Anderson's work has played in > this. But by explaining the central importance and value placed on > the voice in Japanese culture throughout history, Yasar gives us an > alternate take on the role of technology in shaping the national > space. The technology to record, transmit, and replay sound shaped > the creation of "modern Japan" just as much as the printing press and > the ability to partake in an imagined community through script. > > In the first chapter, dealing with the arrival of the telephone, > Yasar makes a strong argument for the role of the voice in Japan, and > clearly shows how important to Japanese culture the primacy of the > voice and orality was and still is. Scholars from the 1600s on > distinguished Japan as a culture rich in speech and placed it in > opposition to China--the country "rich in script." This "residual > orality" is evident in a range of Japanese arts such as Naniwabushi > (n
[Marxism] “We Have No Names, No Faces.” Massacre of Palestinians At Sabra and Shatilla Camps Vaguely Remembered, but Residents Forgotten | Washington Babylon
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Asia]: Whewell on Yang and Sheel and Sheel, 'Thirteen Months in China: A Subaltern Indian and the Colonial World'
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: September 13, 2019 at 1:49:42 PM EDT > To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > Cc: H-Net Staff > Subject: H-Net Review [H-Asia]: Whewell on Yang and Sheel and Sheel, > 'Thirteen Months in China: A Subaltern Indian and the Colonial World' > Reply-To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > > Anand A. Yang, Kamal Sheel, Ranjana Sheel. Thirteen Months in China: > A Subaltern Indian and the Colonial World. New Delhi Oxford > University Press, 2017. ix + 326 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN > 978-0-19-947646-6. > > Reviewed by Emily Whewell (Max Planck Institute) > Published on H-Asia (September, 2019) > Commissioned by Sumit Guha > > _Thirteen Months in China _is an annotated translation of Gadadhar > Singh's 1902 self-published book, _Ch__ῑn Me Terah M__ᾱs_, a > British Indian soldier's perspective and experience in China during > the Boxer Uprising. The Boxer Uprising at the turn of the twentieth > century was a key moment in Sino-foreign relations. The rebellion > ended with the suppression of the anti-foreign Boxers and the > liberation of the foreign legations by a military force comprising of > eight foreign nations. This "International Expedition" included > British forces, with the majority of British soldiers belonging to > Indian regiments. The uprising's suppression also came at a cost to > lives, homes, and livelihoods. Singh's account gives an insight into > how one Indian man understood his engagement with China. > > The eyewitness account is a fascinating insight into the event and a > description of China precisely because it is the voice of a somewhat > ordinary Indian man. There have been many Western accounts of the > Boxer Uprising and its suppression, as well as other key moments in > modern Chinese history. Whether these were from missionaries, > merchants, or government officials, they have provided a number of > foreign perspectives. Yet Indian voices pale in comparison. From > policemen to soldiers and merchants, Indians were a key part of the > British presence in China. This text therefore adds another "on the > ground" perspective, but one that appears to differ from other > foreign accounts. For example, there appears to be a fuller detailing > of atrocities--something that is often glossed over by other Western > military accounts and which provides more insight into the potential > nature and extent of the violence in the course of the military > campaign. > > Anand Yang provides an interesting and illuminating introduction. > Singh's _Ch__ῑn Me Terah M__ᾱs_, as Yang reminds the > nonspecialized reader, is often considered one of the first Hindi > book-length overseas travel narratives. However, the text is not > simply important because Singh was a pioneer. Aside from an account > of the military campaign against the Boxers, Singh wrote the text > intending it to be a commentary reflecting upon colonialism and what > India could learn from China's predicament. The text is also > important given the status of Singh. Yang proclaims that it is a > "text written by a subaltern, about subaltern experiences, and > intended for fellow subalterns and the emerging reading public" (p. > 9). Certainly, Singh was an ordinary solider, although one would > imagine that proficiency in English and his desire to write his > experiences for an audience made Singh perhaps a little different > from other "subalterns." > > The text itself has been translated by Anand Yang, Kamal Sheel, and > Ranjana Sheel. The first, slim part begins with his journey in June > 1900 from Calcutta to China and the second focuses on war campaigns. > The campaign starts from Dagu up toward the capital, ending with the > liberation of the Foreign Legation. It is a fascinating narrative of > the events, yet the last part, titled "miscellaneous accounts" is > arguably even more intriguing. His account turns to a brief history > of the foreign campaign suppressing the Boxers and a general history > of China from the mid-nineteenth century until 1900. This is followed > by descriptions of China, its people, and its customs. A large part > is dedicated to region and religious customs. It is here that Singh > draws many comparisons of India and China and proposes his ideas of > how "Hindustan" should learn certain lessons from China's > predicament. > > The text has been translated in a way that appears to capture much of > Singh's voice. In one instance, for example,
Re: [Marxism] Kashmir
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. * What a pathetic Indian chauvinist nonsense! 1.I do not want to start a discussion about “Kashmir has been an integral part of India since millenia”. In consider this as a chauvinist argument a la Modi and the BJP! Sufficient to say that: a) There were various and different empires on the South Asian sub-continent (incl. the Muslim Mughal Empire). How can one create a continuity between them and refer to this as justification of occupying Kashmir?! b) In itself this is a reactionary argument. What counts is not “millennia” but what the people of Kashmir want since decades until this very day. Such a chauvinist argument is used by Turkish nationalists to deny the Kurdish people the right to have their own state (“the Kurds were always part of the Ottoman Empire and then Turkey”; “they never had their own state”; etc.). The Greek chauvinists have used the same logic against the Macedonians. By the way: the Zionists also claim the Palestinian land because of Torah and the “millennia”! 2.“The people of Kashmir opted to remain in India”. This is an insult against a) history and b) the people of Kashmir! When did they opt for this?! As a matter of fact it was the Maharaja Hari Singh, a thoroughly dissolute and corrupt Hindu autocrat, who “opted to remain in India”! The Muslim majority population was never asked and certainly would have never agreed to it! (See on this chapter 4 and 5 in this essay incl. numerous sources https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/revolutionaries-and-the-slogan-of-azadi-kashmir/) 3.The UN requested in 1948 (and the Indian government agreed) to hold a plebiscite in which the Kashmiri people could decide about their fate. The Indian government never hold such a referendum. If the people of Kashmir would really wish to remain in India, the government could have easily held such a referendum and then use a pro-Indian result as a huge propaganda victory. Guess why Delhi never allowed a plebiscite! Contrary, the Indian state had to send about 800,000 troops to keep a people of 8 million under control! They had to slaughter up to 100,000 Kashmiri since 1989 and gang-rape thousands of women! How can one imagine that the Kashmiri people want to be part of such a state?! 4.Your argument “Whether Kashmir should remain as apart of India or is to be decided by the people of India” is a thoroughly chauvinist argument which is unfortunately so widespread among the Stalinist and semi-Stalinist forces in India. (See e.g. on the positions of Indian “Communist” parties on Kashmir this essay with numerous references: “Kashmir: Social-Patriotism Among the Indian Left”, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/asia/kashmir-social-patriotism-among-indian-left/) Why on earth should the people outside of Kashmir have a say in which state the people of Kashmir shall live?! Because “Kashmir has been an integral part of India since millenia”?! I repeat: This is a chauvinist argument a la Modi and the BJP! 5.You say: “The two main Communist Parties also adhere to this stand.” This is unfortunately true. These are the same “Communist” parties who supported denying Kashmir its right of national self-determination since the creation of independent India, which ruled West-Bengal for decades and implemented neoliberal policy and which oppressed the Naxalite peasant rebellions. Surely, these are worthy flag-bearers of your arguments! Fortunately, there are also progressive people in India like Arundhati Roy who have the courage to defend the right of the Kashmiri people (for quotes and sources see the first essay mentioned here.) I strongly suggest to stop defending the artificial borders of India which are kept only by violence against various people (See on this e.g. India: A Prison House of Nations and Lower Castes, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/india-is-a-a-prison-house-of-nations-and-lower-castes/) -- Revolutionär-Kommunistische Organisation BEFREIUNG (Österreichische Sektion der RCIT, www.thecommunists.net) www.rkob.net ak...@rkob.net Tel./SMS/WhatsApp/Telegram: +43-650-4068314 --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _ 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] Why Kashmir Is Suddenly a Potential Global Point of Conflict | Common Dreams Views
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. * By Vijay Prashad, a supporter of the CP in India. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/08/14/why-kashmir-suddenly-potential-global-point-conflict _ 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] Kashmir
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 have been observing that a number of posts are there advocating an Independent Kashmir. Let me make it clear that Kashmir has been an integral part of India since millenia. At the time of Partition, the people of Kashmir opted to remain in India, but Pakistan had forcibly taken away the Western part of Kashmir and it has been the point of contention between the two neighbours. And Pakistan has made Western Kasmir as its base to breed terrorism. Whether Kashmir should remain as apart of India or is to be decided by the people of India and certainly not by those outside its borders. The rise of Taliban and and Afghan War and fundamentalism has fuelled separatist feelings in the people of Kashmir. It is true that in the last 30 years, successive governments in Delhi tried to suppress the legitimate democratic demands of the people of Kashmir. An overwhelming majority of Indians want Kasmir to enjoy full democratic rights and that it should remain as a part of the Indian Union. The two main Communist Parties also adhere to this stand. I strongly object to the tone of the messages, picturing India as an occupier of Kashmir. It is a distortion of history. Vijaya Kumar M _ 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] Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2019).
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. * Over the past several weeks, groups of angry people in some of South Africa’s poorest areas have been attacking the small spaza, or convenience stores, in their own neighbourhoods. The mood of the attacks has been utterly xenophobic, since the owners or workers at these spaza stores are mainly seen as foreigners. The workers and owners come from as far off as Bangladesh and as close by as Zimbabwe. It took South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa weeks to respond to the violence. ‘There can be no excuse for the attacks on the homes and businesses of foreign nationals, just as there can be no excuse for xenophobia or any other form of intolerance’, he said on 5 September. https://mailchi.mp/90ba11442d48/strikes-have-followed-me-all-my-life-the-thirty-seventh-newsletter-2019?e=77bd6c9887 _ 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 Water Wars Are Here | The New Republic
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. * Everyone remembers the scene in Chinatown when Jack Nicholson almost gets his nose sliced off, but many do not recall what the dispute was about. It wasn’t drug smuggling or gun running that got Nicholson’s character slashed. It was water rights. Since the film was released in 1974, the question of who will get the limited water in the American West, particularly the all-important flow of the Colorado River, has grown even more contentious. https://newrepublic.com/article/155043/water-wars _ 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] Sarajevo’s Pride | Lefteast
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. * Spontaneous applause, shout-outs, beating drums, smiles and hugs, tears of emotion and joy. Last Sunday, an overwhelming wave of energy, emotion, and collective revival filled the heart of Sarajevo, the stretch between the monument of the Eternal Flame and the square of the Parliament, with about 2000 people. To fully understand the scope of the event, we need to look back. “No one even dares to contemplate organising a Pride in Sarajevo or in another city in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, claimed a controversial article in 2017. Still in the autumn 2018, some activists commented resignedly that it would have been very unlikely to organise one in the short term. The memories lingered of the violent attacks suffered by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex, queer (LGBTIQ) communities in 2008, 2016 and 2014. http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/sarajevos-pride/ _ 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] Theft or exploitation?- a review of Stolen by Grace Blakeley | 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. * All our wealth has been stolen by big finance and in doing so big finance has brought our economy to its knees. So we must save ourselves from big finance. That is the shorthand message of a new book, Stolen – how to save the world from financialisation, by Grace Blakeley. https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/09/13/theft-or-exploitation-a-review-of-stolen-by-grace-blakeley/ _ 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] Counterpunch: The Intellectual Development of Karl Marx
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. * Fantastic review, Louis. The material on Gans and Hegel is really the heart of the book, and you've done it justice. https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/13/the-intellectual-development-of-karl-marx/ _ 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] South Asia: On the Slogan of “Azadi Kashmir”
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. * Should Marxists advocate the independence of Kashmir? An Essay by Michael Pröbsting, 13 September 2019 https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/revolutionaries-and-the-slogan-of-azadi-kashmir/ Contents Introduction 1. The Marxist classics on national self-determination of oppressed peoples 2. The algebraic slogan of the “right of national self-determination” and the specific slogan of “independence” 3. Not only opposition against oppression but active support for the struggle of oppressed nations! 4. The occupation of Kashmir: A casualty of the colonial legacy 5. Kashmir: What do the people want? 6. Independence or joining Pakistan? 7. The Perspective of a Socialist Federation of the Peoples of South Asia 8. The importance of the Kashmiri liberation struggle for the Indian workers movement and left -- Revolutionär-Kommunistische Organisation BEFREIUNG (Österreichische Sektion der RCIT, www.thecommunists.net) www.rkob.net ak...@rkob.net Tel./SMS/WhatsApp/Telegram: +43-650-4068314 --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _ 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
