[Marxism] Trump, putting Profit Motive and Reelection over Public Health, Undermining Coronavirus Social Distancing Strategy
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[Marxism] Links to Articles (24.3.2020)
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. * As Louis suggests avoiding discussion on the COVID-19 crisis – and I fully understand his reasons for this – I limit myself to post links to some articles from today: COVID-19 and the Lockdown Left: The Example of PODEMOS and Stalinism in Spain https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/covid-19-lockdown-left-podemos-and-stalinism-in-spain/ “Two Years Is Too Long” for “Draconian” Coronavirus Bill, Warn MPs & Rights Groups https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/2020/03/two-years-is-too-long-for-draconian-coronavirus-bill-warn-mps-rights-groups/ (This highlights how strong the ruling class – in this case in Britain – hopes to exploit this crisis.) DOJ seeks new emergency powers amid coronavirus pandemic One of the requests to Congress would allow the department to petition a judge to indefinitely detain someone during an emergency https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/21/doj-coronavirus-emergency-powers-140023 (And here the same from the U.S.) Why is Italy's coronavirus fatality rate so high? Italy toll due to demographics and how deaths are reported, but experts say other nations could soon be in its position. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/italy-coronavirus-fatality-rate-high-200323114405536.html As virus recedes in China, anti-Xi revolt spreads Party scion attacks 'clown' president amid mounting opposition fueled by public anger over handling of epidemic https://asiatimes.com/2020/03/as-virus-recedes-in-china-anti-xi-revolt-spreads/ Duterte uses Covid-19 crisis to tighten his grip Philippine leader given limited emergency powers to combat coronavirus but some fear he may use to impose martial law https://asiatimes.com/2020/03/duterte-uses-covid-19-crisis-to-tighten-his-grip/ Prayut declares a Covid-19 emergency in Thailand Health risks are giving rise to political ones that could prove fatal to Thai democracy 2020 https://asiatimes.com/2020/03/prayut-declares-a-covid-19-emergency-in-thailand/ Israel's Likud is using coronavirus to orchestrate a coup https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/coronavirus-likuds-soft-coup-under-pretext-pandemic How coronavirus shutdowns are redrawing supply chains and globalisation forever https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3076279/how-coronavirus-shutdowns-are-redrawing-supply-chains-and China Is Avoiding Blame by Trolling the World Beijing is successfully dodging culpability for its role in spreading the coronavirus. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/china-trolling-world-and-avoiding-blame/608332/ How China brought the world to a standstill ‘As the planet wrestles with the Covid-19 pandemic, Beijing aims to seize the opportunity the disaster presents,’ report reveals https://asiatimes.com/2020/03/how-china-brought-the-world-to-a-standstill/ -- 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] One Root Cause of Pandemics Few People Think About - Scientific American Blog Network
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Slavery]: Eliot on Berbel and Marquese and Parron, 'Slavery and Politics: Brazil and Cuba, 1790-1850'
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: Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 1:08 PM Subject: H-Net Review [H-Slavery]: Eliot on Berbel and Marquese and Parron, 'Slavery and Politics: Brazil and Cuba, 1790-1850' To: Cc: H-Net Staff Márcia Regina Berbel, Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Tâmis Parron. Slavery and Politics: Brazil and Cuba, 1790-1850. Trans. Leonardo Marques. Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press, 2016. 368 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8263-5648-2. Reviewed by Lewis Eliot (University of South Carolina) Published on H-Slavery (March, 2020) Commissioned by Andrew J. Kettler _Slavery and Politics _is a comparative study of Brazil and Cuba that seeks to "integrate both societies into the broader context of nineteenth-century global capitalism" (p. 3). Authors Rafael Marquese, Tãmis Parron, and Márcia Berbel present what they feel is an important contribution to the historiography of nineteenth-century slavery and the global consequences of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World. They contend that despite shared characteristics, in particular the persistent enslavement of Africans and resistance to republicanism, analyses of Brazil and Cuba have tended to isolate the two regions. In so doing, important aspects of Second Slavery have been left unexamined.[1] The authors focus on international arguments in favor of slavery and their reception and implementation in Brazil and Cuba. Through this focus, _Slavery and Politics_ principally asks how such ideologies buttressed Brazilian and Cuban politics in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution. The authors justify this approach in four ways. They firstly contend that commonalities between Brazil and Cuba had existed since Europeans' early conquest of the Americas but were accentuated in the decades after 1791. They then insist that both states were composed of similar planter classes. These slave owners were extremely influential when crafting imperial policies and consequently are important to look at in concert. Finally, both states shared common histories of pro-slavery positions and, even in the nineteenth century, worked to expand the use of slave labor in Latin America and the Caribbean. The work is composed of four chapters that provide a chronological analysis of Brazilian and Cuban pro-slavery ideologies during the age of revolutions and era of emancipation. To successfully connect the two states, Marquese, Parron, and Berbel necessarily employ a broad approach that focuses on sweeping global trends that highlight commonalities between Brazil and Cuba. In a sense, therefore, the book is as much an examination of the international pro-slavery response to the Atlantic abolition movement, using Cuba and Brazil as case studies, as it is a comparison. The pro-slavery philosophies, as well as the planters and politicians who were attracted to them over and above loyalty to their state, ran counter to the global movement toward abolition yet were in fact global ideologies as well. Chapter 1 provides a sweeping comparative overview of slaveholding in the Americas between the early 1500s and late 1700s, organized around a comparison of Iberian and Anglo-French slavery. According to Marquese, Parron, and Berbel, this period witnessed the rise and fall of an Iberian-dominated Atlantic World that gave way to a "northwestern European Atlantic system" (p. 27). Focusing on this _longue durée_ allows the authors to stress that there were distinct, albeit subtle, differences in slaveholding ideologies between the northwestern and southwestern Atlantic Worlds that became ever clearer as they heard the crescendo of the Haitian Revolution. Although it focuses on Brazil and Cuba for its examples, this chapter essentially presents an examination of slavery scholarship from Eric Williams (_Capitalism and Slavery _[1944]) to Laurent Dubois (_Avengers of the New World _[2004]), via the likes of Frank Tannenbaum (_Slave and Citizen: The Negro in the Americas _[1946]), David Brion Davis (_The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture _[1966]), and Robin Blackburn (_The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848 _[1988]). While this is a useful historiographical reminder, the target audience for this work should either have a clear understanding of this material already or at least know where to find it independently. The second chapter focuses on the period between 1791 and 1824. The first section explores the influence of the Haitian Revolution on Brazilian and Cuban slaveholding ideologies up until the "collapse of the Iberian Atlantic system" in 1808 (p. 76). The chapter then follows the constitutional experiences of
[Marxism] The Virus, Capitalism, and the Long Depression – Spectre Journal
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[Marxism] coronavirus, Trump and the "adults in the room"
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. * "It’s not just that Fauci is hogging Trump’s spotlight. He’s also on a collision course with Trump, as has been every single other “adult in the room”. James Mattis? Gone. H.R. McMaster? Gone. Rex Tillerson? Gone. John Kelly? Gone. These were the people in the Trump administration who had built up a genuine base of their own and who were capable of and tried to look out for the interests of the US capitalist class, rather than just parroting the line of the senile and raging narcissist Donald Trump. And because they had their own base – either in the military or in the broader capitalist class or elsewhere, they were able to and in fact had to stand up to Trump "Workers, however, should have no illusions in Fauci. Basically, what he represents is the view of what is called “econ-modernism.” That is the view that capitalist society can make up for its rape of the planet by ever new and better technology. In this case, as oaklandsocialist has explained in our article on Coronavirus, capitalism and the forces of nature, the real basis of the crisis is how capitalism interacts with and violates the natural world. Fauci’s sole solution is development of a vaccine as well as other medical treatments. He also ignores the frequent link between infectious diseases and environmental factors that weaken the immune system. In this case, what he represents is what appears to be the more sane wing of the capitalist class vs. the senile and insane approach of the other wing and of Trump himself." https://oaklandsocialist.com/2020/03/24/coronavirus-trump-and-the-adults-in-the-room/ -- *“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] Fwd: Detroit Free Press article on Oscar Paskal--Founding Member of SWP
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[Marxism] Bernie Sanders Should Retool His Campaign to Lead the Charge Against Coronavirus
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[Marxism] Metalworkers in Italy’s coronavirus-ravaged Lombardy region to strike, want more businesses closed
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Re: [Marxism] Bernie Sanders Should Retool His Campaign to Lead the Charge Against Coronavirus
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. * https://climateandcapitalism.com/2020/03/23/philippines-a-weak-but-authoritarian-state-confronts-covid-19/ Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 25, 2020, at 7:17 AM, Louis Proyect 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. > * > > The co-authors are typical Jacobin Sandernistas but this is a well-reasoned > article. I only hope that Sanders takes their advice. > > https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/bernie-sanders-campaign-coronavirus-crisis > > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/reihana.mohideen%40gmail.com _ 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 Should Retool His Campaign to Lead the Charge Against Coronavirus
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. * My comment on reading this article is that it sounds very sensible. Also I have a feeling it might happen. There is a total vacuum in terms of political opposition to Trump. The Democrats appear to think that if they keep Biden behind locked doors & issue ever shorter soundbites they might be able to keep the show on the road long enough to sneak a win in November. But Biden has not got a clue what to do. That is probably also medically true as well as politically true. If Trump orders people back to work in the middle of an ever escalating medical disaster then all bets are off. A health crisis will deepen and so will the political crisis. comradely Gary On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 9:17 AM Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> 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. > * > > The co-authors are typical Jacobin Sandernistas but this is a > well-reasoned article. I only hope that Sanders takes their advice. > > https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/bernie-sanders-campaign-coronavirus-crisis > > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gary.maclennan1%40gmail.com > _ 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] Socialist Resurgence statement on Covid-19
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