[Marxism] Walden Bello: China: An Imperial Power in the Image of the West?
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. * *China: An Imperial Power in the Image of the West?* https://focusweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A4_ChinaAnImperialPower_WEB.pdf by Walden Bello This study seeks to answer the question: Is China an imperial power in the image of the West in its relationship with the global south? Over the last 15 years, there have been increasing accusations of Chinese state enterprises and private companies being involved in unfair labor practices, environmentally damaging projects, land-grabbing, locking borrowing countries into debt, and indirectly providing support for dictatorships. many of these accusations parallel similar criticisms of the behavior of state-owned enterprises, private capitalists, and local authorities within China itself. China has also drawn criticism for its unilateral moves in seizing disputed maritime formations and violating the territorial and economic rights of its neighbors in the south China sea. Many of these criticisms are valid, and unless China addresses them in a positive fashion soon, these questionable behaviors and practices could congeal into structures of domination similar to those that have marked the relationship of the West with the global south. Perhaps, equally worrisome is that China’s expansion has its own complex of worrisome characteristics that are not reducible solely to reproducing western patterns but can also lead, if unchecked, to hegemonic behavior. Foremost among these is a technocratic top-down approach to development with a cross-ideological appeal that is resistant to democratic control and insensitive to environmental considerations, fully on display in Beijing’s Belt and road Initiative. Frank and fearless criticism of China's disturbing practices, the study argues, is the best way to help prevent it from following in the footsteps of the West. *"Walden Bello has been one of the most powerful intellectual warriors against Western hegemony and an empathetic advocate of independent development in the Global South for decades. Now, confronting the rise of China, Bello pulls no punches in critiquing this new hegemon and analyzing its origins and weaknesses.” * *Ho Fung Hung Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University; author of The China Boom: Why China Will not Rule the World.* _ 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] Bernie Sanders Is in Trouble - POLITICO Magazine - Actually We Are in trouble
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 10/1/19 8:57 PM, John Obrien wrote: rs, who it actually aided) Your "interst" in the internal workings of the Sanders Campaign - as I stated - always seems to never mention any successes. That probably is a result of my class analysis of the Democratic Party. If you have a different analysis, why don't you share it. _ 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] Bernie Sanders Is in Trouble - POLITICO Magazine - Actually We Are in trouble
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. * Louis, I was in error - Bernie Sanders raised twenty five million dollars in the past three months and not my mention of 19 million. And we shall see what is true and real - in time. As a poor laborer, I do not subscribe to any publication that cost funds. I do not generally read the NY Times, Washington Post, The Nation or Jacobin. One understanding economics and following the money and who benefits from, generally allows for finding the truth and not the lawyers, academic wordsmiths and deceivers, in the employ of the ruling elite. I really like your site for providing informative sources - but this Poltico article had not the purpose to inform but to attack - and you know that - and why you posted it (not caring it appears, who it actually aided) Your "interst" in the internal workings of the Sanders Campaign - as I stated - always seems to never mention any successes. I never see you sharing the Labor for Bernie efforts. Actually I see very little on or about organized labor's left wing, compared to what the bourgeois press wants to promote - as to be concerned about. I would like to see more on the labor unions in other nations as well, on their organizing and efforts with left wing groups. As a labor union member that interests me more than some academic profesors views on culture. It does not mean that I want to not be offered film and art reviews, but there seems a lot more going on around class politics, than the privileged who can afford to go to those movie theaters or plays. Recognize that the U. S. and the world, would be better wih Bernie Sanders as president. What alternative but complain do you propose? We know that the contributors on this site, who promoted and cheered to oust Khadaffi in Libya - and that I believed sadly their views and arguments then - were terribly wrong. Libya is worse today. That is a fact. Sometimes (or often) those of us on the left have to place facts before what we would like. I believe we should side with the youth who want more change and less accept wrong. And what you are unaware of, is that many of these youth who are not asked by paid bourgeois source pollsters and not believing the corporate fed media "news" might surprise you with the upcoming U. S. elections. What we are not prepared for - is when Trump refuses to leave - and the U. S. military sets up "for security" the running of the government - after the now real possibility of large numbers of armed fascists go to Washington DC, to support Trump staying in office, after next year's November election. And while bad weather reduces their numbers over three weeks, from 150,000 to around 30,000 - those remaining will be armed - and Pelosi and Schumer will have no way to remove them - since Trump will still be the military commander (as Clinton and Gore had no courage to even have federal marshals remove a couple of dozen republican party operatives from the Florida election registrar office counting the votes. Pelosi and Shumer are exactly the same) You might be there to challenge the remaining 30,000 armed fascists, but you will be unprepared - and I am unaware that you are courageous to physically fight anyone armed So after the clash between the 30,000 armed fascists that results in chaos, it seems the U. S. military will intervene to retain capitlaist rule "and order". But perhaps not as before with Pelosi and certainly not to support president Sanders carrying out his administrative oversight. This is the likely political road we are currently on. If Biden is the nominee - you can expect Trump will continue - and what then Louis do you propose that poor laborers as myself do? Just take it all nicely and accept business as usual destruction of our only environment? (the poor will suffer starvation while the professional academics will go silent, more interested their food continues provided by the rulers "new food distribution"). Class politics - you bet Louis, and if Trump survives the current impeachment political theater, it seems the "politics as usual" by the political operatives who personally benefit - will be disrupted - or even ended - and another way instead for "law and order" rule will be enacted - for the rulers. It is always FOR the rulers that the compliant best paid corrupt politicians will serve - not us. The internal 20th Century U. S. elections, worked well for the rulers. That model is not likely to continue, if the masses do not recognize and respect it. And the academics familiar with the university campuses and film houses - do not seem to understand that they might be in a very different
Re: [Marxism] Bernie Sanders Is in Trouble - POLITICO Magazine
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 10/1/19 4:29 PM, John Obrien via Marxism wrote: You shared the corporate media article trying to persuade and deceive people not to support Bernie Sanders. But you do not share any articles or success by those supporting Bernie Sanders. When unions endorse Bernie Sanders you do not mention as significant. One would think this reflects welcome news of unons supporting someone openly who mentions the word socialism in a favorable way. Except for the article's title, it is worthwhile, in-depth coverage of the Sanders campaign. If you want pablum, read Jacobin, In These Times or The Nation. _ 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] Bernie Sanders Is in Trouble - POLITICO Magazine
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. * Louis, You shared the corporate media article trying to persuade and deceive people not to support Bernie Sanders. But you do not share any articles or success by those supporting Bernie Sanders. When unions endorse Bernie Sanders you do not mention as significant. One would think this reflects welcome news of unons supporting someone openly who mentions the word socialism in a favorable way. Today a day after your sharing the hit piece by Robert Allbritton (the wealthy banker owner of Politico) and their anti-communist editor Matthew Kaminski (former editor of the Wall Street Jourmal), you do not share that Bernie Sanders Campaign raised 19 million dollars in the recent quarter. That seems some promising news that small contributors and no corporate funds, raised that Huge amount this summer. Being a poor laborer, I did not send any of those funds. But it shows that millions of people reject the corporate message to not support socialism. It is not Bernie Sanders who is in trouble - unlike you and myself, Bernie has been able to break through the corporate deceit and messaging, to reach many people and raise class awareness of tens of millions. Let me repeat that, since some sectarians seeking power control for themselves, envisioning they are Lenin or perhaps Stalin, Mao, Fidel - Bernie Sanders has raised Class Awreness of tens of millions of laborers. My hope is for my Class to have control and not some pathetic insecure individual as Stalin, to advance a better world. Whatever my political differences with Bernie Sanders, he is successful in getting his message out. But I write this not to just respond to sectarian thinking that seems more religious than materialist, in developing a militant working class. Sectarians isolated with no roots in the working class, always miss the "small detail" that one has to interact with people on what their concerns are. Actually it is humanity that is in trouble along with all life on this planet. The very weak and unorganized left in the U. S., so much based in the academia professional milieu are not capable of fighting the fascists, let alone challenging the ruling class and their repressive state apparatus. Here we have an old stubborn man Bernie Sanders, whom I share political differences with - but I am definitely supporting him - because he seems the only hope that some force will end the fossil fuel and farming animal industires destruction of our environment, to survive. The other (electable) candidates will serve the greedy capitalists head long march to destruction. They are just lying politicians who seek personal advancement. Bernie is not a revolutionary socialist. But he will do three things for why I and many others support him: 1- He will be serious on addressing fossil fuel usage/destruction 2 - He will spend effort to address and reduce significantly nuclear weapons 3 - He will encourage an independent movement and awareness to not rely on politicians but to encourage people to join groups and be part of independent movements. The events to come and those of us involved with working people, can then hopefully raise awareness of in the class that will have to address the perceived challenges to come with unfolding events around Trump and his supporters. That class - my class, can only be fooled for so long, until they decide to end capitalist rule and exploitation. Sectarian isolated Marcists are too often like those in some religious cult group - ignoring reality for only what they want. I wish Bernie well. His successes are not defeats for socialist advocates, or the working class. Consider who wants Bernie Sanders to lose - and then what should be asked is: why would any person who considers themselves a socialist of rational thought, want the same as them? I am for a sustainable environment and against nuclear weapons and organizing a militant aware working class. Bernie Sanders is both raising those three major concerns - and why Politico's ownership and funders, want to stop him. https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fmagazine%2Fstory%2F2019%2F09%2F30%2Fbernie-sanders-2020-election-decline-228755data=02%7C01%7C%7C0cd6346742584963369808d745c6ccff%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C637054592446112874sdata=M5xfahNa5BW7%2BVncenEUnvUbDEkS92NwVJQMBZrSi%2BI%3Dreserved=0
[Marxism] Kara Walker Takes a Monumental Jab at Britannia - The New York Times
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[Marxism] China Plays ‘Fight the Landlord’ to Tame Hong Kong
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. * NY Times, Oct. 1, 2019 China Plays ‘Fight the Landlord’ to Tame Hong Kong By Li Yuan “Fight the Landlord” is one of the most popular card games in China. The name comes from the 1950s, when the Chinese Communist Party confiscated property from landowners, often violently, in the name of the masses. As many as two million people were killed. China’s state-controlled media is playing a new game of “Fight the Landlord,” and its target is one of the biggest landlords in the world: the 91-year-old Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing. Hong Kong’s summer of protests stems mainly from sky-high housing costs, China’s media argues, and Mr. Li and other local real estate tycoons should be held responsible. “In the current chaotic situation in Hong Kong, many young people are venting their dissatisfaction with high housing prices and expensive rents at the government,” said an official commentary by the party’s Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, which oversees China’s police and courts. “They’re probably blaming the wrong target.” The return of “Fight the Landlord” lays bare the Communist Party’s shifting attitudes toward the business world. Hong Kong’s property tycoons were once big beneficiaries of an unspoken pact between Beijing and business: They could wheel and deal as they liked, so long as they helped China achieve its economic dreams and left the politics to the Communist Party. Today, as the party tightens its grip over daily Chinese life, business has become another tool for control. Business leaders who aren’t sufficiently loyal can suddenly find themselves at risk. And in Hong Kong, where companies operate under a different set of laws but still depend on the mainland for their profits, China’s state media is increasingly willing to threaten or humiliate any business leader who stands in the way. The party’s growing reach raises questions about the future of people like Mr. Li — and, by extension, of all of Hong Kong. Mr. Li was a consummate player of the old game, cultivating ties with Beijing’s most powerful leaders even as he increased his wealth. But under Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, the party has demanded absolute loyalty, eliminating some of the gray areas where business in Hong Kong once stood. “One of the biggest characteristics of Mr. Xi’s ruling style is that he’s not interested in uniting different interest groups,” said Leung Man-tao, a Hong Kong writer and commentator who has big followings in both the mainland and Hong Kong. “He can’t see the value of gray areas. He wants absolute loyalty.” In the mainland, the party has taken a direct role in how some of China’s biggest and most successful companies do business. This past summer, Chinese officials met with the country’s two most powerful internet tycoons, Jack Ma of Alibaba and Pony Ma of Tencent, to talk about deeper cooperation between state-owned enterprises and the tech giants. Just two years ago, their companies plowed billions of dollars into backing one state-owned telecommunications company. In September, officials in the Chinese city of Hangzhou said they would appoint a government representative to serve as a liaison in the top offices of companies based there, including Alibaba. They said the goal was to improve coordination between government and business. Businesspeople who don’t get on board risk becoming targets. Wang Gongquan, a billionaire venture capitalist who advocated more liberal political and social policies, was detained in September 2013 and jailed for five months. Ren Zhiqiang, a property developer, found his social media accounts deleted when he used them to criticize the party’s tightening control over discourse and is no longer allowed to leave the country. Since the protests began, Beijing has taken a more direct role in Hong Kong. State-controlled media has castigated Cathay Pacific and other employers whose workers joined the protests. Beijing has urged representatives from nearly 100 of China’s biggest state-run companies to step up investment and assert more control of companies in Hong Kong, according to Reuters. Now the government is taking on Hong Kong’s property developers, a group that has long sought to stay in Beijing’s good graces. Hong Kong’s largest pro-Beijing political party in September called on the city government to take back land from property developers to build affordable housing. Some property companies have said they would turn over some plots, though Mr. Li has not made his plans public. Beijing’s accusations against Mr. Li and the other real estate tycoons aren’t
[Marxism] Book Review: *The Damned Don‘t Cry: Pages from the Life of a Black Prisoner and Organizer*, by Frank Edgar Chapman Jr. | Tony Lindsay | Chicago Defender
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[Marxism] Interview with Doug Enaa Greene on Blanqui
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[Marxism] Donald Trump Is Finished
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[Marxism] The Tyranny of Economists | The New Republic
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[Marxism] Pop Social Darwinism in Contemporary American Capitalist Society: the Marketization of Che as Individualist Symbol - CounterPunch.org
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[Marxism] Speech On Environmental Protections by Karl Liebknecht - COSMONAUT
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