[Marxism] Giroux Company's 12 theses
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Twelve Theses on Education's Future in the Age of Neoliberalism and Terrorism http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/24335-twelve-theses-on-educations-future-in-the-age-of-neoliberalism-and-terrorism From inside academia I fear that all this is true. Best, Brian McKenna Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Part Time Workers PBS News
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Finally a good story from the dreadful PBS News Hour http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/part-time-workers-suffer-instability-long-hours-make-ends-meet/ Best, Brian McKenna Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The Violence of Organized Forgetting - Giroux 2014
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Violence of Organized Forgetting, Henry Giroux 2014 http://www.amazon.com/The-Violence-Organized-Forgetting-Disimagination/dp/087286619X/ref=cm_rdp_product Giroux takes us on a timely tour through this maddening age with this passionate book. The Violence of Organized Forgetting is remarkable for its hard won insights into our crushing times -- as interpreted through the lens of one of our premier public intellectuals. Giroux focuses on the damning amnesia that grips us all, as neoliberalism tightens its deadly grip on our minds. He calls it organized forgetting, a malady that strikes at the very the moment of crisis. Giroux rips events from their headline entombment (Chicago teacher's strike, Boston bombings, Hurricane Sandy etc), and illuminates the hidden terrors behind them, meanings rarely countenanced by a subservient media. Like C. Wright Mills, Giroux is determined to convert our private sufferings into public issues, and he takes no prisoners. Giroux is inventing a new form of writing combining three ingredients: 1) He rips events from the headlines, 2) refracts them through the latest in critical social theory (the biblio graphy itself commands our attention as necessary reading in itself) and 3) produces a brilliant alchemy of poetic metaphors and sentences that crystallize reality in a new way. Reading Giroux is like listening to music -- its powerful emotional effects cannot be articulated. . .it is art with a firm moral compass. He quotes fellow artist James Baldwin on the importance of remembering, people who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence. Giroux cries from the rooftops: Do not normalize this descent into madness; see where you are in history, love your brothers and sisters - and help make a revolution. Brian McKenna Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] Feedback on Cancer, Politics and Capitalism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Agreed. Great piece Louis. And I want to add one more salute to Campbell. See Forks over Knives to get the low down on his story (as Esselstyn) http://www.forksoverknives.com/ Cambell was received lots of blowback from industry and Cornell for his work. . it was tough. . .and still is. read more about his fight in hos latest effort Whole http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Rethinking-Nutrition-Colin-Campbell/dp/1937856240 Best, Brian -Original Message- From: Louis Proyect l...@panix.com To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu; Progressive Economics pe...@lists.csuchico.edu Sent: Fri, Aug 29, 2014 3:11 pm Subject: [Pen-l] Feedback on Cancer, Politics and Capitalism Dear Louis Proyect, I am a big fan of your blog. I just read Cancer, Politics and Capitalism on Counterpunch. I just had a quick comment for you about it. But quickly, having studied chemistry and earth science, and after having watched my mother die from lymphoma, I am particularly interested in the intersection of hard science research in relation to diet and cancer. You write in your recent article: Nutritionists are always urging us to eat fruits and vegetables, especially those with anti-oxidant properties such as blueberries and cabbage but there has never been a rigorous study of diet and cancer. This has a lot to do with the near impossibility of conducting a demographically representative study of the effects of eating “good” food and bad. One of the most rigorous studies of diet and cancer was conducted by Dr. T. Colin Campbell in a book he wrote that summarizes the studies findings, called The China Study. Here's a Youtube video of one of his presentations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfsT-qYeqGMnoredirect=1 Check it out. Best, Chris Here's Dr. Campbell's full BIO: Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry (Cornell) Author of The China Study. Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long Term Health (Campbell TC and Campbell, TM II, 2005) T. Colin Campbell, who was trained at Cornell (M.S., Ph.D.) and MIT (Research Associate) in nutrition, biochemistry and toxicology, spent 10 years on the faculty of Virginia Tech's Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition before returning to the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell in 1975 where he presently holds his Endowed Chair (now Emeritus). His principal scientific interests, which began with his graduate training in the late 1950's, has been on the effects of nutritional status on long term health, particularly on the causation of cancer. He has conducted original research both in laboratory experiments and in large-scale human studies; has received over 70 grant-years of peer-reviewed research funding (mostly NIH), has served on several grant review panels of multiple funding agencies, has lectured extensively, and has authored over 300 research papers. Also, he a) coordinated a USAID-supported technical assistance program for a nationwide nutrition program for malnourished pre-school age children in the Philippines (1966-74), b) organized and directed a multi-national project responsible for nationwide surveys of diet, lifestyle and mortality in the People's Republic of China (1983-present), c) was a co-author and member of National Academy of Science's expert panels on saccharin carcinogenicity (1978); food safety policy (1978-79); diet, nutrition and cancer (1981-82); research recommendations on diet, nutrition and cancer (1982-83); and food labeling policy (1989-1990), d) was the organizer and Co-Chair (but listed as Senior Science Advisor) of the World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research report on international diet and cancer recommendations (1993-1997), e) was the principal witness for the National Academy of Sciences in two Federal Trade Commission hearings on issues concerning product-specific health claims (1984-1986), f) was Visiting Scholar at the Radcliffe Infirmary, University of Oxford/England (1985-1986), g) was the Senior Science Advisor for the American Institute for Cancer Research/World Cancer Research Fund (1983-1987, 1992-1997), h) presently holds an Honorary Professorships at the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine and i) is on the Research Advisory Board of the Chinese Institute of Nutritional Sciences in the Chinese Academy of Science, the government’s leading institution responsible for nutrition research and policy in China and is an Advisory Professor of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is the recipient of several awards, both in research and citizenship. In
[Marxism] The Carnage of Capitalsim
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Source URL: http://www.alternet.org/economy/carnage-capita The Carnage of Capitalism August 17, 2014 | AlterNet [1] / By Paul Buchheit [2] Capitalism is expanding like a tumor in the body of American society, spreading further into vital areas of human need like health and education. Milton Friedman said in 1980: The free market system distributes the fruits of economic progress among all people. The father of the modern neoliberal movementcouldn't have been more wrong. Inequality has been growing for 35 years, worsening since the 2008 recession, as a few well-positioned Americans have made millions [3] while the rest of us have gained almost nothing. Now, our college students and medicine-dependent seniors have become the source of new riches for the profitseeking free-marketers. Higher Education: Administrators Get Most of the Money College grads took a 19 percent pay cut in the two years [4] after the recession. By 2013 over half [5] of employed black recent college graduates were working in occupations that typically do not require a four-year college degree. For those still in school, tuition [6] has risen much faster than any other living expense, and the average student loan balance has risen 91 percent [7] over the past ten years. At the other extreme is the winner-take-all free-market version of education, with a steady flow of compensation towards the top. Remarkably, and not coincidentally, as inequality has surged since the 1980s, the number of administrators at private universities has doubled [8]. Administrators now outnumber faculty on every campus [9]across the country. These administrators are taking the big money. As detailed by Lawrence Wittner [10], the 25 highest-paid presidents increased their salaries by a third between 2009 and 2012, to nearly a million dollars each. For every million-dollar public university president in 2011, there were fourteen such presidents at private universities, and dozens of lower-level administrators aspiring to be paid like their bosses. At Purdue [11], for example, the 2012 administrative ranks included a $313,000-a-year acting provost, a $198,000 chief diversity officer, a $253,000 marketing officer and a $433,000 business school chief. All this money at the top has to come from somewhere, and that means from faculty and students. Adjunct and student teachers, who made up about 22 percent [10] of instructional staff in 1969, now make up an estimated 76 percent of instructional staff in higher education, with a median wage [12] in 2010 of about $2,700 per course. More administrative money comes from tuition, which has increased by over 1,000 percent [13] since 1978. At the for-profit colleges, according to a Senate report [14] on 2009 expenses, education companies spent about 23 percent of all revenue on marketing and advertising, and almost 20 percent of revenue on pre-tax profits for their shareholders. They spent just 17.2 percent of their revenue on instruction. Medicine: A 10,000 Percent Profit for Corporations As with education, the extremes forced upon us by free-market health care are nearly beyond belief. First, at the human end, 43 percent [15] of sick Americans skipped [16] doctor's visits and/or medication purchases in 2011 because of excessive costs. It's estimated [17]that over 40,000 Americans die every year because they can't afford health insurance. At the corporate end, drugmakers are at times getting up to $100 for every $1 spent. That's true at Gilead Sciences [18], the manufacturer of the drug Sovaldi, which charges about $10 a pill to its customers in Egypt, then comes home to charge $1,000 a pill to its American customers. The 10,000 percent profit is also true with the increasingly lucrative, government-funded Human Genome Project [19], which is estimated [20] to potentially return about $140 for every $1 spent. Big business is quickly making its move. Celera Genomics [21], Abbott Labs [22], Merck [23], Roche[23], Bristol-Myers Squibb [23], andPfizer [24] are all starting to cash in. The extremes of capitalist greed are evident in the corporate lobbying [25] of Congress to keep Medicare from negotiating better drug prices for the American consumer. Americans are cheated further when corporations pay off generic drug manufacturers to delay entry [26] of their products into the market, thereby ensuring inflated profits for the big firms for the durations of their shady deals. Global Greed Lives are being ravaged by unregulated, free-market capitalism, in the U.S. and around the world. According to the Global Forum for Health Research [27], less than 10 percent of the global health research budget is spent on the conditions responsible for 90
Re: [Marxism] The Carnage of Capitalsim
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == try this one http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/the-carnage-of-capitalism Brian -Original Message- From: Dennis Brasky dmozart1...@gmail.com To: mckenna193 mckenna...@aol.com; Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Sent: Mon, Aug 18, 2014 2:06 pm Subject: Re: [Marxism] The Carnage of Capitalsim link not working On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Brian via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: Source URL: http://www.alternet.org/economy/carnage-capita The Carnage of Capitalism Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Eduardo Galeano Disavows His Book ‘The Open Veins’ - NYTimes.com
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == lord knows more kids today should be reading the USA trilogy! The Big Money by dos passos did it for me. Brian McKenna -Original Message- From: Ernestleif via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu To: Brian mckenna...@aol.com Sent: Fri, May 23, 2014 8:40 pm Subject: Re: [Marxism] Eduardo Galeano Disavows His Book ‘The Open Veins’ - NYTimes.com == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Open veins helped form me. As Did USA. If it's true then I'll miss EG! Sent from my iPhone On May 23, 2014, at 8:13 PM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == were you being sarcastic Louis about him sounding like a contra? Admittedly I used googletranslate but it seems very clearly a critique by Galeano of the Venezuelan contras ps kudos to Michael for his quotes; let's hope Galeano hasn't gone down the Dos Passos road, but if so it's a very good parallel; lord knows more kids today should be reading the USA trilogy! 2014-05-23 19:56 GMT-04:00 Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 5/23/14 7:38 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/24/books/eduardo-galeano- disavows-his-book-the-open-veins.html Maybe Galeano now hates his book because Hugo Chavez recommended it (and helped increase MR's coffers.) In this interview he sounds like a Venezuelan contra: http://aristeguinoticias.com/0603/mundo/debate-por-hugo- chavez-mario-vargas-llosa-y-eduardo-galeano/ En 2011, Galeano declaró en una entrevista en Montevideo que Chávez quizás era un dictador, pero “un dictador rarísimo” porque ganó varias elecciones limpias. “Hugo Chávez es un dictador, sin embargo, es un curioso dictador. Ganó ocho elecciones en cinco años. Y ahora, recientemente, se sometió a un referéndum en el que preguntaba a los venezolanos si querían el modelo de Estado que él proponía. Es el único presidente de la historia de la humanidad en hacerlo. Y ganó con el 60 por ciento”. Agregó: “Uno enciende la televisión venezolana y lo primero que ve es a miles de ‘periodistas’ diciendo que en Venezuela no hay libertad de expresión. Uno enciende la radio venezolana y hay miles de ‘periodistas’, analistas, opositores de Chávez, diciendo que allí no hay libertad de expresión. Y uno abre el diario venezolano y hay un título enorme que dice: AQUÍ NO HAY LIBERTAD DE EXPRESIÓN. “En los últimos cinco años tan sólo un medio de comunicación ha sido clausurado. Pero no fue clausurado por el gobierno de Chávez, sino por estos ‘demócratas’ (se refería a la derecha de Venezuela)… Extraña dictadura y extraños demócratas. Yo creo que en Venezuela hay un divorcio genial: el divorcio entre la realidad y la realidad virtual…” Un año antes, en 2010, Galeano también habló sobre los medios de Venezuela al diario español El País. A pregunta expresa de ese diario sobre los “conflictos” de Chávez con la prensa, reflexionó: “Hay una demonización de Chávez. Antes Cuba era la mala de la película, ahora ya no tanto. Pero siempre hay algún malo. Sin malo, la película no se puede hacer. Y si no hay gente peligrosa, ¿qué hacemos con los gastos militares? El mundo tiene que defenderse. El mundo tiene una economía de guerra funcionando y necesita enemigos. Si no existen, los fabrica. No siempre los diablos son diablos y los ángeles, ángeles”. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/ernestleif%40gmail.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mckenna193%40aol.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
