Re: [Marxism] French Stalinists Join the Bandwagon of Anti-Migrant Demagoguery

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I stopped reading when it said that the chinese government is
"Stalinist-capitalist".




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> French Stalinists Join the Bandwagon of Anti-Migrant Demagoguery
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Re: [Marxism] Refoundation of the FARC

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That's what one would expect. James Brittain explains in his great book
about the FARCS why they can't be defeated:

Revolutionary Social Change in Colombia: The Origin and Direction of the
FARC-EP

https://www.amazon.de/dp/074532875X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_gQaADb1RBR1ZA

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Re: [Marxism] Furr

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Few comments about Furr really addressed the low-level details one should
expect in such a debate.

Too many emotional conclusions, but insufficient development leading to
them.

Probably we'll have to wait some years until someone diggers deeper than
Furr in these recently disclosed files and comes up with different
conclusions.



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> Grover Furr and his quixotic quest to repudiate the entire indictment of
> Stalin is compromised rather unfortunately by his mixture of purported new
> insights with quite old Maoist “anti-revisionist” talking points that were
> tired and annoying in 1968. There is a serious need for a genuine analysis
> of the Soviet Union’s history that is not tethered to Trotskyist ideas
> (which I find to be simply unreasonable and altogether determinist) but
> Furr doesn’t deliver that, instead he charges at the windmills of
> “Khrushchevite revisionism” in a way that doesn’t even acknowledge how the
> economy under the different leaderships evolved over time. The reason why
> this is important (and why Furr fails) is because that is the primary
> reason for the collapse of the Soviet Union. Socialism Betrayed by Kenny
> and Keeran (published by International, the CPUSA label) makes a convincing
> case that the collapse was caused by the growth of the second economy, a
> black market that sprang up parallel to the command system that undermined
> the command system and eventually fostered a dual power standoff between
> the Soviet and capitalism in 1991. The genesis for this issue stems from
> two different wings of the Communist Party. Stalin’s centrism ended up
> being the left wing within the mainstream after the smothering of the Left
> Opposition. Bukharin was the right wing and wanted to continue the NEP
> rather than move towards forced collectivization and expropriation of the
> kulaks. Kenny and Keeran argue that Bukharin’s theories remained viable
> within the party long after he was killed and that first Khrushchev and
> later Gorbachev subsequently worked to reintroduce those policies under
> their tenures. Notably the recent major biography of Deng Xioaping argues
> that the same thing happened when Deng took power, he had studied in the
> Soviet Union when Bukharin was the major Comintern theoretician on economic
> matters. The difference between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the
> maintenance of the Chinese Communist Party was essentially the policy on
> dissent in mass uprisings by workers as these policies began to create
> further hardship for them, Alexander Cockburn pointed this out in a few
> pieces from the period:
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> https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/06/the-meaning-of-tiananmen-square/
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> https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/radical-reality
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> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 13:46:53 -0400
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> To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition
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> Subject: [Marxism] Furr
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> > To start with, I am not going to spend $20 on anything written by Furr.
> I got bootlegged copies of Sunkara and Blumenthal's books to review for the
> same reason. I might consider that in Furr's case but Columbia does not
> have any of his books. Quelle surprise.
> >
>
> Louis: I understand your feelings. So just two final (I promise) questions
> about Grover Furr for the listserv:
>
> 1. Are any parts of his work valuable as a corrective to the anti-Soviet
> writings of people like Robert Conquest? As you wrote, Furr reads Russian
> and has worked with Russian historians in examining the Soviet archives. So
> has he made any valuable discoveries?
>
> 2. Have there been any scholarly refutations of his claims?
>
> People like J. Arch Getty (Origins of the Great Purges), Robert Thurston
> (Life and Terror in Stalin?s Russia, 1934-1941), and others who were able
> to look in the newly opened archives, were able to correct some of earlier
> false and exaggerated claims about the Stalin period. Is Furr continuing in
> this tradition?
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> It?s amazing to me how much Furr written 

[Marxism] Amazon burns - but why?

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Sabrina is a brazilian marxist sociologist and published this video in
English to explain what's going with the Amazon rainforest right now.

https://youtu.be/TfiutlJ7uWc
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Re: [Marxism] Hidden history: The Nazi-Soviet pact which Russia now tries to deny

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Katyn forest? A supposed soviet crime discovered by...  the nazis?? Do you
guys really believe this nazi tale?








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Re: [Marxism] The uses of hunger Stalin’s solution of the peasant and national questions in Soviet Ukraine, 1932 to 1933 | Andrea Graziosi - Academia.edu

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Are you kidding or am I in the wrong group? This article mentions Robert
Conquest as a reliable historian.

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Re: [Marxism] Reification of Lukacs question

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Well, the concept of reification in *History and class consciousness* is
exactly what I research in my master's degree in Philosophy.

To begin with I recommend two guys; Andrew Feenberg (in English), and
Vincent Charbonnier (in French).

These are the ones who have helped me the most in my dissertation.

*- Vincent Charbonnier (a lot of articles)*

https://univ-tlse2.academia.edu/VincentCharbonnier

*- Andrew Feenberg*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlIe5CHdeEo

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283279166_Lukacs's_Theory_of_Reification_and_Contemporary_Social_Movements




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> notion proposed by Lukacs in HISTORY AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS. Any
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Re: [Marxism] Labor Unions Will Be Smaller After Supreme Court Decision, but Maybe Not Weaker

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The same just happened here in Brazil this year. The government stroke down
a law that required workers from any sector (public or private) to pay
union fees. My union, for example, had to fire a lot of employees because
our budget is much smaller now.




Am Do., 28. Juni 2018 um 10:09 Uhr schrieb Louis Proyect via Marxism <
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> NY Times, June 28, 2018
> Labor Unions Will Be Smaller After Supreme Court Decision, but Maybe Not
> Weaker
> By Noam Scheiber
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> With the Supreme Court striking down laws that require government
> workers to pay union fees, one thing is clear: Most public-sector unions
> in more than 20 states with such laws are going to get smaller and
> poorer in the coming years.
>
> Though it is difficult to predict with precision, experts and union
> officials say they could lose 10 percent to one-third of their members,
> or more, in the states affected, as conservative groups seek to persuade
> workers to drop out.
>
> The court’s decision is the latest evidence that moves to weaken unions
> are exacting a major toll. Beyond the dropout campaigns aimed at
> members, conservatives are bringing lawsuits to retroactively recover
> fees collected by unions from nonmembers.
>
> Dropping out of a union is a more attractive proposition now that
> workers no longer have to pay a so-called agency fee, typically about 80
> percent of union dues, if they choose not to belong to a union. (Those
> doing so generally account for a small fraction of the workers whom
> public-sector unions represent.)
>
> In the five years after Michigan passed a law ending mandatory union
> fees in 2012, the number of active members of the Michigan Education
> Association dropped by about 25 percent, according to government
> filings, a much faster attrition rate than before. Its annual receipts
> fell by more than 10 percent, adjusting for inflation.
>
> Still, the more interesting question is whether the unions, whatever the
> blow to their ranks and finances, will be substantially weaker.
>
> Union leaders insist that they won’t — that the crisis posed by the
> case, Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal
> Employees, has brought more cohesion and energy to their ranks.
>
> “No one wanted this case,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the
> American Federation of Teachers. “But the gestalt around the country has
> been to turn an existential threat into an opportunity to engage with
> our members like never before.”
>
> There are reasons to believe that the claim is not merely desperate
> bravado.
>
> One parallel to the current development is a 2014 Supreme Court ruling
> known as Harris v. Quinn, which struck down mandatory union fees for
> home-based workers who serve private individuals but are paid through
> government programs like Medicaid.
>
> As of late 2013, the Service Employees International Union represented
> about 60,000 public-sector home care and child-care workers in Illinois,
> about 40 percent of whom were union members. (The rest paid agency fees.)
>
> Receipts for the service employees union local representing home-based
> workers in Illinois dropped significantly in the four years after the
> decision. But an aggressive membership campaign largely offset the loss
> of members.
>
> It also built and reinforced personal relationships with members, who
> could be summoned to make demands of politicians in nearly every
> legislative district.
>
> “Our members go and meet Sam McCann,” said Keith Kelleher, who until
> last year was president of the local representing these home-based
> workers, referring to a Republican state senator. “He says yes most of
> time because he’s got hundreds of members in his district.”
>
> Public home-based workers in Illinois, a state with a notably anti-union
> Republican governor, continue to notch victories as a result. Last
> summer, home care workers won a 48-cent-an-hour wage increase from the
> state, up from an average wage of $13, in a budget that the legislature
> passed by overriding the governor’s veto. This spring, home child-care
> workers won more than a 4 percent raise.
>
> In anticipation of the Janus ruling, major public-sector unions have
> invested heavily in recent years in reaching out to current members — an
> effort known as internal organizing — and to 

Re: [Marxism] Moishe Postone archive

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Not available anymore. Is there another link?



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> Most of Moishe Postone's work has been collected at the following link,
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Re: [Marxism] Blacks for Trump?

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Interesting. A similar phenomenon is taking place here in Brazil, too. A
right-wing politician is currently being supported by women, gay, and black
people, despite being sexist, homophobic and racist.

Yours, for socialism,
G.A.



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> I watched Trump's rally in Phoenix, Arizona for a few minutes last night
> and like most people was struck by a young Black man with a rather demented
> smile waving a "Blacks for Trump" sign. It turns out he has a website. Here
> is what you will find there:
>
> Republican Senators blocking Trump are Cherokees & Mormons & are
> infiltraters in the Rep. Senate like McCain to block Trump & Muller are
> coming down with Great Wrath because their wicked time to block good policy
> is short, Rev.12:10 & Dan.8:25!
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> Proof that tho ur mixed with these Racist Cherokees ur not them because ur
> Taxed & Regulated etc. & they're not, they hate black & white people
> perpetually Eze.35:5 & Gen.36:1-5!
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> http://www.honestfact.com/
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Re: [Marxism] Brazil's coup gov't 'has revealed its true intentions', MST leader says

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I'm a Brazilian activist and would like to share my views here with you. It
is important not to forget that this coup in Brazil is taking place amidst
a serious capitalist crisis. President Dilma, although promoting a liberal
agenda, wouldn't go right enough as the capitalists would like, and that is
why she is seen as non-reliable by the Brazilian bourgeoisie. They want a
legitimate, a "pure-blood" right-wing government to throw the capitalist
crisis on the working class' shoulders. Over 50 bills against the workers'
rights might be voted in the next few months, and that would take us 40
years back in time.

It does not matter if this coup is backed by the USA. I think it changes
nothing in our tactics. We have occupied a lot of public buildings, and
even the street in which the provisional president Michel Temer lives in
São Paulo. A huge demonstration is schedule to take place next June 10th.
Brazilian's artists and intellectuals are taking sides with the left
against the coup. The provisional government is fragile now, without
legitimacy, and everyday new corruption scandals get the headlines. The
right-wing parties do not have a candidate to compete with (the former
president) Lula in 2018, and that is why they are doing their best to
arrest him. Things are going in an unpredictable way here, since everyday
new tapped phone calls are released.

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> You are reading a lot into one phrase, probably thrown in by a Green Left
> subber in a rush to write an intro. I don't know why it affects solidarity,
> to be honest, if it is included or not, but you clearly know a lot more
> about how Stedile and others have framed it than I do, so are in a good
> place to discuss it with activists in Brazil and report back.
>
> On 28 May 2016 at 17:40, Patrick Bond  wrote:
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> > I love *GLW *and read it cover-to-cover when it arrives here in Durban
> > each week. But Stuart, just let me quickly query you on this opening
> line:
> > "In what has been widely condemned as a US-backed right-wing power
> grab..."
> >
> > The point I want to ask you about, and would ask Stedile if there's a
> > chance (as next week I'll be in Sao Paolo and Rio), is
> >
> > *why on earth would it be useful to invoke Washington (and the potential
> > for a US attack on other BRICS) as a way of fighting this coup? *The
> > first reaction of Stedile was to say that the coup has Obama
> fingerprints,
> > and one reason for overthrowing Dilma is her role in building the BRICS
> > bloc. As I understand it, this was a technique for delegitimising the
> coup
> > plotters, by linking them to imperialism.
> >
> > As I understand it, and could be wrong,
> >
> > *the only evidence associated with Washington's imperialist pro-coup
> > agenda in Brazil is a ten-year old WikiLeaks State Department cable which
> > reflects Temer's role as a mole. Back then. *But Dilma must have known
> > this (it's been public since 2010 when these cables were leaked) and she
> > chose him as her VP, and in any case thousands of foolish people had the
> > same role, surely. Is that all the evidence that the international left
> has
> > to use the description "US-backed"? (Correct me if I'm wrong - but that
> > seems thin. We can surely do better?)
> >
> > It seems to me that since Stedile (and quite a few others) started making
> > this allegation about the US role around 12 May, they have had these
> > problems:
> >
> > 1) lack of evidence aside from the 10-year old memos
> >
> > 2) the other four BRICS have done nothing, and indeed India is publicly
> > welcoming Temer to the next BRICS Summit in Goa
> >
> > 3) other Latin American countries have been much more forceful in
> > condemning the coup, again showing in contrast how little the BRICS offer
> > each other solidarity in such situations
> >
> > 4) the need to activate progressives in places like South Africa and
> > India, to protest at Brazilian embassies, is made more difficult by
> > invoking the "BRICS coups" hypothesis, since at least in South Africa and
> > India, the progressive movements would largely love to see the end of
> their
> > present regimes and are quite suspicious of BRICS (since all the BRICS
> have
> > done in the public eye is 

Re: [Marxism] Stalin nostalgia

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"Stalin’s murderous rule": this is a huge lie defended only by the
bourgeoisie and some Trotskyists. The main goal of attacking Stalin is to
demoralize communism as a whole. See Losurdo's "*Stalin: The History and
Critique of a Black Legend". *In this book Stalin is put in context, and
he's shown just to be taking the same actions other leaders of his time -
in France, USA and England - took. Besides that, these huge numbers of
"mass murders" are shown to be just a Cold War fabrication. I recommend
also "*Life and terror in Stalin's Russia*", by Robert Thurston (this
author is not a Marxist, and this makes his book even more interesting).

*G.A.*
*Brazil*


2016-01-30 16:30 GMT-08:00 Louis Proyect via Marxism <
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> KEN LIVINGSTONE has recently set the cat among the pigeons by suggesting
> that Joseph Stalin the Soviet dictator was not all bad. His crimes and
> aggressions much exaggerated. Ken is evidently at one with Anatoly Utkin, a
> former director of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the editor of a
> teachers‘ manual on modern Russian history, who went so far as to compare
> Joseph Stalin’s erudition to the tardy efforts of those in the West: “Can
> you tell me”, Utkin asked in 2008, “of any other leader, an American
> president, for example, who read 10,000 books?” Utkin was drawing attention
> to the fact that Stalin, when he wasn’t initialling lists of people to be
> shot, got through at least one book every day between 1924 and 1953.
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> Vladimir Putin is also backing the drift towards a revision of Stalin’s
> record with regard to both his victory over Hitler, and the
> industrialisation of the country during the nineteen thirties. Putin,
> despite much evidence to the contrary, favourably contrasts Joseph Stalin’s
> centralism to the dastardly ‘federalism’ of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, which he
> thinks explains the fragmentation of the Russian empire. It seems that
> Stalin, despite many errors and at times, excessive severity, ensured that
> Russian workers and peasants made the sacrifices necessary for the founding
> of modern industry and the consolidation of a great state.
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Re: [Marxism] Brazil - a left challenge to Rousseff

[Glauber Ataide via Marxism]

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Marina Silva is another option for the Brazilian right. She does not have a
single concrete proposal. In her demagogic discourses she always promises a
government for all. And she's not so green,

The left-wing candidate Luciana Genro challenged Marina Silva yesterday in
a national TV debate to choose one side: the workers' or the capitalists'
side. But Marina says this is a discourse of the old left, and that she
represents a new politics.

Besides all that, she's an evangelical committed to the most backward
groups and political positions related to gay marriage, homophobia,
abortion, the teaching of creationism in schools, etc.

Greetings from Brazil,
Glauber



2014-09-02 13:08 GMT-03:00 Louis Proyect via Marxism 
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 On 9/2/14 11:46 AM, Dennis Brasky via Marxism wrote:


 http://www.salon.com/2014/09/01/how_this_politician_could_
 help_save_the_planet/?source=newsletter


 I have grown skeptical of Marina Silva after seeing her endorsed by some
 unsavory Wall Street types. Yes, she is good on environmental issues but
 she is committed apparently to neoliberal reforms, not that the Workers
 Party is any bargain.

 
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