[Marxism] All the way with JB!

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SDS was known in 1964 for countering LBJ's campaign slogan "All the Way
with LBJ" with "Part of the Way with LBJ."   I wouldn't ask for political
advice from any of these letter signers; some are truly execrable, i.e.
Todd Gitlin and Carl Davidson.

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/letter-new-left-biden/

An Open Letter to the New New Left From the Old New Left

Student takeover of Columbia University in 1968, organized by the Students
for a Democratic Society. (Bev Grant / Getty Images) “THESE are the times
that try men’s souls. The summer soldier ...
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[Marxism] coronavirus, mortality rates and environmental factors

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"The Covid-19 pandemic is but the most striking example of how the laws of
nature are affecting the lives of ordinary working class people. As we will
show, we as workers cannot afford to simply leave it up to the experts to
understand what is happening. In previous articles, oaklandsocialist has
shown why as far as the origins of this disease. Here, we discuss the end
result: Are environmental factors involved in deaths from Covid-19? We are
not academically trained scientists, but any worker can understand some of
the basics. We just have to put in the time to do the research

"according to Webmd “an unexpected 20% of deaths occurred among adults aged
20-64 years, and 20% of those hospitalized were aged 20-44 years

"So, pollution, overwork, sleep deprivation and the related stress all seem
to be related to survival chances of Covid-19. What a surprise!"

https://oaklandsocialist.com/2020/04/17/coronavirus-mortality-rates-and-environmental-factors/

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[Marxism] Countering Racist Scapegoating Around Covid-19

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[Marxism] In Detroit, virus or no virus, many people have a job they need to get to and one way to get there. The bus.

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NY Times, April 16, 2020
In Detroit, virus or no virus, many people have a job they need to get 
to and one way to get there. The bus.

By John Eligon

DETROIT — Paris Banks sprayed the seat with Lysol before sliding into 
the last row on the right. Rochell Brown put out her cigarette, tucked 
herself behind the steering wheel and slapped the doors shut.


It was 8:37 a.m., and the No. 17 bus began chugging westward across Detroit.

On stepped the fast-food worker who makes chicken shawarma that’s 
delivered to doorsteps, the janitor who cleans grocery stores, the 
warehouse worker pulling together Amazon orders.


By 9:15, every available row on the bus was occupied. Strangers sat 
shoulder-to-shoulder. The city might be spread across 139 square miles, 
but one morning last week there was no way to socially distance aboard 
this 40-foot-long New Flyer bus. Passengers were anxious and annoyed. 
Resigned, too.


“I don’t like it, but it’s something you have to do,” Valerie Brown, 21, 
the fast-food worker, said through a blue mask. She was on her way to 
work at a local Middle Eastern fast-food chain.


This hardscrabble city, where nearly 80 percent of residents are black, 
has become a national hot spot with more than 7,000 infections and more 
than 400 deaths. One reason for the rapid spread, experts say, is that 
the city has a large working-class population that does not have the 
luxury of living in isolation. Their jobs cannot be performed from a 
laptop in a living room. They do not have vehicles to safely get them to 
the grocery store.


And so they end up on a bus. Just like the No. 17 — a reluctant yet 
essential gathering place, and also a potential accelerant for a 
pandemic that has engulfed Detroit. It is a rolling symbol of the 
disparity in how this virus is affecting Americans.


After the city’s roughly 550 drivers walked off the job for a day in 
mid-March because of safety concerns, city officials put in effect new 
measures. Riders had to enter through the back doors. Drivers would be 
offered gloves and masks. Buses would be cleaned more frequently.


Later, Mayor Mike Duggan said all of the city’s front-line employees, 
including bus drivers, would get $800 a month in hazard pay. He also 
announced that masks would be made available to riders on all buses.


But on the first day of the mask initiative last week, there were no 
masks on board the No. 17 bus Rochell Brown was driving.


A manager told her that riders were not required to wear them.

Ms. Brown, 49, shook her head and thought about a colleague who died 
this month from complications of Covid-19, the disease caused by the 
coronavirus. “It should be mandatory,” she said of the masks.


She saw herself at risk of a similar fate. She had a heart attack two 
years ago and has hypertension. The night before this ride, her doctor 
suggested she take time off for her safety.


Yet here she was, on a sun-soaked, mild spring morning, performing an 
“essential” duty for $19.13 an hour, but without, she felt, the praise 
and appreciation that police officers and emergency medical workers 
received. No one was peering out of a window clapping for her. Her bus 
was not even equipped with masks.


The route tells the story of these bizarre times. It traces streets 
devoid of traffic, winds through the completely empty parking lot of a 
temporarily shuttered mall and dips into the bustling parking lot of a 
grocery store, one of the few businesses that can still attract big crowds.


That’s where Demetrius Jordan, 37, hops off to work his job as a 
janitor. First order of business at work: wash his hands. The trip was a 
necessary risk for Mr. Jordan, who said he worried most about the people 
whose only respite from the elements was a seat on the bus.


“My concern is about the homeless people on the bus,” he said, adding 
that they were endangering themselves and others. “Are they being 
checked out?”


Drivers and passengers going to work say that is not happening. This 
trip on the No. 17 attracted riders headed to the store, to visit 
friends and family, and at least one homeless man.


Riders should be required to present proof that they are performing 
essential duties, Ms. Brown said.


“I would appreciate that — show some paperwork why you’re out here, what 
I’m risking my life for,” she said. “To me, too many people don’t care.”


A rider stepping off another No. 17 bus vented her frustration.

“I’m an essential worker,” she yelled. “I have to get out here and get 
the bus, but I’m tired of getting on this bus with people that want to 
visit other people because they ain’t working and they’re at home and 

[Marxism] “I hope public health can win out over capitalism” – International Socialism Project

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Claudio Katz interview.

https://internationalsocialism.net/i-hope-public-health-can-win-out-over-capitalism/

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[Marxism] Trump’s call with Wall Street didn’t go as planned - POLITICO

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https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly-coronavirus-special-edition/2020/04/15/closing-time-488927

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[Marxism] The Social Democratic Pipedream

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By Michael Yates.

https://www.sustainlv.org/focus-on/the-social-democratic-pipedream/

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Re: [Marxism] bellingcat - How (not) to Report on Russian Disinformation - bellingcat

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An excellent piece.
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[Marxism] more right-wing sh!t

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This is a message from the President of  right-wing college called
HILLSDALE -

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/thoughts-current-crisis/?utm_campaign=imprimis%3Butm_source=housefile%3Butm_medium=email%3Butm_content=marchapril2020crisis&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8yim-tRZKQbJwhunaDajTEEB635rEkiJL-H4Loo93HrKuzKofGJIQ0ak475HngkmTr5Bb5z94ml47vjFEC4VNkoER2NQ&_hsmi=86356698

It is quite disgusting but for those interested in seeing how so-called
intellectual right-wingers argue it is "interesting"

Most of you will want to delete this but there are some who sometimes study
this crap  those might actually find the reasoning "instructive"

(emhasizing "bureaucratic" entities in the government that have supposedly
"ruined" the government since the 1960s!)

Sorry for cluttering the in box (even if briefly)

Mike
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[Marxism] Motorcycle Madness | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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And here is an article I had published in The Ubyssey in November of 1967.  The 
Ubyssey is the student paper at the University of British Columbia.
ken h

https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcpublications/ubysseynews/items/1.0128219#p13z-4r0f:
 

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[Marxism] Without a Country in Which to Love, a Field to Plant, a Love to Cherish or a Voice to Sing, One is Dead: The Sixteenth Newsletter (2020).

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[Marxism] bellingcat - How (not) to Report on Russian Disinformation - bellingcat

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https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2020/04/15/how-not-to-report-on-russian-disinformation/

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[Marxism] Why the Big Bang Produced Something Rather Than Nothing - The New York Times

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Best seen on the NYT for the graphics.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/science/physics-neutrino-antimatter-ichikawa-t2k.html

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[Marxism] Time for a Balance Sheet of the Sanders Campaign | Left Voice

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[Marxism] How Capitalism Sabotaged Ventilator Production

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Ultraleftists making sense.

http://www.internationalist.org/capitalism-sabotaged-ventilator-production-2004.html

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[Marxism] The Tyranny of Decorum - Too Much Information

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Anytime Bernie so much as made a passing mention of one of Biden’s bad 
votes, there were overwrought accusations that Bernie was “going 
negative,” hand-wringing warnings about the “perils of going negative,” 
with Team Biden shedding crocodile tears about “negative attacks.” This 
transparent bullshit soon became attacks on staffers who dared to point 
out flaws in Biden’s record — Turner and press secretary Briahna Gray 
were routinely demonized on social media, and I myself was labeled a 
toxic “attack dog” for the high crime of periodically tweeting links to 
Biden speeches in the Congressional Record.


https://sirota.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-decorum

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[Marxism] COVID-19: How Big Pharma and Big Philanthropy Consume the World - CounterPunch.org

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By Michael Barker, who is really sharp.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/16/covid-19-how-big-pharma-and-big-philanthropy-consume-the-world/

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[Marxism] What Richard Hofstadter Got Wrong | The New Republic

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By Chris Lehmann

The late historian and author of “The Paranoid Style in American 
Politics” misdiagnosed the fate of modern conservatism.


https://newrepublic.com/article/157190/richard-hofstadter-got-wrong-paranoid-style-reissue-review

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[Marxism] Freedom in Death: Liberalism and the Apocalypse - COSMONAUT

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https://cosmonaut.blog/2020/04/14/freedom-in-death-liberalism-and-the-apocalypse/

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[Marxism] bellingcat - “Satanic” Vaccines And Satire Gone Wild: COVID-19 Disinfo Meets Religion - bellingcat

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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Re: Prepare For The Ultimate Gaslighting | Cognoscenti

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I got sucked into this. Then I came to this part:

The economy is not, at its core, evil. Brands and their products create
millions of jobs. Like people — and most anything in life — there are
brands that are responsible and ethical, and there are others that are not.
They are all part of a system that keeps us living long and strong. We have
lifted more humans out of poverty through the power of economics than any
other civilization in history. Yes, without a doubt, Americanism can be a
force for good.

But, at the same time, its flaws have been laid bare for all to see. It doesn’t
work for everyone
.
It’s responsible for great destruction. Its intentions have been perverted,
and the protection it offers has disappeared. In fact, it’s been brought to
its knees by one pangolin (we have reason to believe
).
We have got to do better and find a way toward a responsible free market.

John

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> Pretty soon, as the country begins to figure out how to “reopen” and
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