[Marxism] Lyndon LaRouche’s March to Nowhere
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[Marxism] The Prophet Perverted
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Diplo]: Thompson-Brusstar on Chen, 'Manipulating Globalization: The Influence of Bureaucrats on Business in China'
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: Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 9:29 AM Subject: H-Net Review [H-Diplo]: Thompson-Brusstar on Chen, 'Manipulating Globalization: The Influence of Bureaucrats on Business in China' To: Cc: H-Net Staff Ling Chen. Manipulating Globalization: The Influence of Bureaucrats on Business in China. Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center Series. Stanford Stanford University Press, 2018. 232 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0479-7. Reviewed by Michael Thompson-Brusstar (University of Michigan) Published on H-Diplo (February, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach Ling Chen's Manipulating Globalization: The Influence of Bureaucrats on Business in China bears all the hallmarks of an enduring contribution to our understanding of Chinese political economy: a novel phenomenon of apparent importance, cogent theory, extensive fieldwork and interviews, and careful empirical analysis. The following review briefly presents Chen's work and then discusses the implications and lessons for future work in local Chinese political economy. Chen's chief theoretical contribution is the insistence on the importance of local political economy for explaining policy implementation in China, joining a host of other recent works focusing on the diversity of local political and economic conditions in Chinese political economy. It also joins the classic literature on Chinese political structure, including the extensive literature on fragmented authoritarianism, where the Chinese state is portrayed as divided both horizontally and vertically and where policymaking is the site of contestation between rival bureaucracies and factional interests.[1] Building on this foundation, Chen shows how bureaucratic politics, especially coalition making and breaking during the advent of globalized capital, create the conditions for variation in compliance with subsequent policy change, using the case of the domestic electronics industry. Chen's approach shines in the empirical heart of the book (chapters 4 and 5) by showing the crucial role different developmental coalitions played in the effectiveness of implementing pro-domestic upgrading industrial policy at the bureaucracy level and in the actual promotion of research spending at the firm level. Her double approach (focusing not just on government implementation but also on firm take-up and compliance) is exceptional, underscoring the value of her theoretical contribution. Success in industrial transformation is partially determined, she argues, by the _size_ of firms recruited during the foreign direct investment (FDI) recruitment period (largely the 1980s) and the extent to which these firms overlap with exporting firms. This composition of the local economy is crucial because firm-bureaucrat coalitions are the determinants of political infighting; in her case this takes place between the bureaucrats who regulate and promote international commerce and their (sometimes) rivals in the technology and domestic upgrading bureaucracies. Empirically, Chen contributes an in-depth and theoretically driven account of not just the bureaucratic dynamics of FDI recruitment in her four case studies (Wuxi, Suzhou, Shenzhen, and Ningbo) but also the influence of the different types of FDI in these places on the dynamics of bureaucratic competition and firm compliance, especially as national industrial policy shifted from promoting and favoring foreign invested enterprises (FIEs) and FDI to promoting the "domestic innovation" paradigm and vanishing emphasis on foreign firms. When there is high overlap between foreign firms and exporters (and especially when foreign investment is concentrated in few firms), implementation of domestic upgrading will be difficult--both because of large firm bargaining power and because international commerce bureaucrats will oppose it. When foreign firms are fewer and less concentrated, domestic upgrading policy is more likely to succeed. She finds quantitative support for her theory using exciting novel data at both the city and firm levels of analysis. In addition, Chen shows that FDI thus does not only need to be disaggregated into "China circle" and "other" FDI but also needs to be contextualized based on its effects on the _composition_ of local industry, either dominating internationally oriented industry and subsequently pushing local firms into a race to the bottom or flexibly subcontracting with local firms, leading to the potential for domestic competitors to emerge. In contribution, her thick description and careful analysis of the coalition dynamics
[Marxism] The wall isn’t a state of emergency but a state of exception | openDemocracy
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[Marxism] An Honest Living – Steve Salaita
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[Marxism] Venezuela, theory of permanent revolution and role of the working class
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. * "If Mexico is “so close to the United States; so far from god”, then Venezuela is “so endowed with oil; so robbed of wealth”. In 1935, Venezuela had the highest per capita GDP in all of Latin America. Yet today, there are reports of a collapsing oil industry caused partly by the fact that oil industry workers are too weak from hunger to actually be able to work. "What happened? The different imperialist powers, especially US imperialism, played their role robbing and plundering, just as they do all around the world. And in the case of US imperialism, it not only plundered Venezuela and Latin America as a whole, it directly supported both the 2002 attempted coup against Chavez; it also helped fund the reactionary capitalist opposition to him. But the role of imperialism was integrated into the capitalist “development” of Venezuela itself." Venezuelan capitalism couldn't break up the latifundias, couldn't break the grip of imperialism and couldn't modernize society. An attempt was made based on the military, but there is no substitute for the organized working class. In fighting for their own interests at home, US workers must transform their unions and link up with the workers in Venezuela and around the world. read full article here: https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/02/18/venezuela-the-theory-of-permanent-revolution-and-the-role-of-the-working-class/ -- *“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
Re: [Marxism] An Honest Living – Steve Salaita
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 totally fucked up, but I'm a bit confused. Didn't he get nearly $1M from UIUC in the settlement? Why does he need to drive a bus? Amith R. Gupta On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 7:45 PM 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. > * > > > What is it like to go from a tenured professorship to an hourly wage > driving buses? This piece tries to make sense of an unusual transition > > https://stevesalaita.com/an-honest-living/ > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%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] [UCE] Gilets Jaunes: a popular movement of a new kind - International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine
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[Marxism] Nowhere to Hide: The Logic of Chemical Weapons Use in Syria - GPPi
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[Marxism] Russia and Venezuela
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Re: [Marxism] The Prophet Perverted
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. * Truly disgusting to find this current Jacobin article, complainig that Trotsky was portrayed as "effemenite" as if there is something very wrong with being "effemenite" (not "a real normal man"). https://jacobinmag.com/2019/02/trotsky-show-netflix-antisemitism-stalin _ 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] The Prophet Perverted,
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. * I think John O'Brian's response to this was *statically* accurate. That is implying something is wrong with being "effeminate". IT's noted once here in the review: "In the series, Leon Trotsky is repeatedly cast as neurotic, effeminate, egotistical, and full of contempt for common folk." While I agree with John about this, the fact is that the series does do this and that it is done because the Russian masses would identify with the slanders against Trotsky's character as being "negative". In this sense the review was 100% correct and I'm glad the reviewer for Jacobin noted it. David _ 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] Chemical attacks: Syrian military linked to more than 300 strikes, report says - The Washington Post
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