[Marxism] Support the Ships to Gaza

[Joseph Catron]

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I apologize if a shameless pitch for donations is inappropriate
(although, in my defense, these donations will benefit a group in
which I play no role).

However, I thought everyone should be reminded that it's not too late
to contribute a bag of cement for delivery to Gaza by the Ships to
Gaza project, which sails against the Israeli navy in an historic
effort to break the siege on Thursday
(http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2010/05/22/israels-navy-will-have-its-work-cut-out).

Only 5 EUR/7 USD does the trick! Why not donate two or three?

http://www.freegaza.org

And stay tuned to the Interwebs on Thursday (with directions to the
nearest Israeli consulate on hand):

http://fpmdigitalship.blogspot.com

-- 
"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure
mægen lytlað."


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Re: [Marxism] Professor jeered at U. of Arizona for defending immigrant rights

[Gary MacLennan]

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Gawd, Mark what side of the bed did you get out of this morning? I hear what
you say though.  From this distance though and I am glad it is of such
dimensions, things seem to be heating up domestically in the States.  Surely
these are the classic "signs of deomcomposition" are they not?
comradely

Gary

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Re: [Marxism] Announcement for Camejo memoir

[Dayne Goodwin]

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my first copy arrived on Friday and i read it over the weekend.
wanted to talk with Peter about several points in the book.
the book evoked a strong emotional mourning of his absence.
dayne


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> North Star: A Memoir
> By Peter Camejo (1939-2008)
> Cofounder of the California Green Party,
> California gubernatorial candidate, and presidential and
> vice-presidential candidate
>
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Re: [Marxism] The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan

[Dennis Brasky]

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>
> Know Thine Enemy
>
> Paul Le Blanc
>
> Monthly Review
>
>
>
> Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: The Making of the
> Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan (New
> York: W.W. Norton, 2009), 356 pages, $26.95, hardcover,
> $16.95, paperback.
> clip --
>
> Kim Phillips-Fein has provided us with a very fine
> account of how we got where we are--in a stranglehold of
> big business conservatism that has by no means been
> broken by the liberal electoral victory of 2008. She
> has not only absorbed a considerable amount of
> secondary literature, but has also combed through the
> archives, combining her impressive research and
> insights with a well-paced narrative populated with a
> variety of interesting personalities--all quite
> well-to-do, all white, almost all male, and yet a very
> diverse and interesting lot.
>
> This is hardly the only good book on the creation and
> triumph of the conservative movement in the United
> States. George Nash's informative and utterly
> sympathetic The Conservative Intellectual Movement in
> America Since 1945; Godfrey Hodgon's coolly analytical
> The World Turned Right Side Up: A History of the
> Conservative Ascendency in America; and Alan Lichtman's
> bristling, massive, seemingly exhaustive White
> Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American
> Conservative Movement are among other valuable sources
> for those wanting to understand what has happened in
> our country since the Second World War. Each tells the
> story of marginalized intellectual and political
> elements crystallizing over a thirty-year period into a
> powerful political presence that shifted the nation's
> center of gravity far to the right, creating a massive
> popular base and taking control of the state, with
> profound impacts on our cultural and economic life.
>
> Invisible Hands does not pretend to be a comprehensive
> account of the intricacies of right-wing politics in
> the United States. Instead, it focuses sharply on the
> interplay of ideology, organization, and economic
> interest that drove the process forward to ultimate,
> devastating (though perhaps temporary) triumph. In a
> sense, the author is guided by the adage "follow the
> money." An essential aspect of the story involves the
> intellectual and political mobilization of the business
> community--particularly such huge corporations as AT&T,
> Chrysler, Coca-Cola, DuPont, Exxon, Ford, General
> Electric, General Motors, B.F. Goodrich, Greyhound,
> Gulf, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Mobil, Pepsi, Sears &
> Roebuck, Sun Oil, and U.S. Steel. As the author shows
> us, they bankrolled small conservative publications,
> right-wing institutes, foundations, think tanks,
> educational campaigns, cultural offensives, political
> mobilizations, and massive electoral efforts. But, in
> addition to what must ultimately add up to billions of
> dollars in contributions from 1935 to 2000, these
> scions, executives, and well-paid representatives of
> big business intervened in increasing numbers with
> hearts and minds and hands in the struggle to win their
> power back, with a vengeance.
>
> Not that big capital had ever completely lost its power
> in the United States. But as Phillips-Fein shows, the
> mass mobilizations from the left end of the political
> spectrum during the Great Depression and again in the
> wake of the Second World War resulted in a momentous
> power shift--with radical implications for the working
> class and other oppressed layers in our society. The
> militant insurgencies encompassed by, but sometimes
> bursting beyond, an organized labor movement, which
> ultimately represented more than a third of the labor
> force, found reflection in the political arena,
> particularly in the far-reaching social programs,
> economic regulations, and Keynesian perspectives
> represented by Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. All of
> this horrified and enraged a class whose immense wealth
> and power, while hardly destroyed, were curtailed and
> "trespassed" upon by what they saw as unruly and
> insolent employees, union bosses, red- and pink-hued
> "do-gooders," and a swelling legion of government
> bureaucrats. They denounced these government reforms
> and regulations over and over and over again, as
> "socialistic."
>
> full --   http://monthlyreview.org/100501leblanc.php
>

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[Marxism] A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush

[Dennis Brasky]

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> A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush
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> JAMES A. HAUGHT
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> Free Inquiry - Secular Humanism, May 25, 2010
> http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=haught_29_5
>
> Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French
> President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must
> be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible's satanic
> agents of the Apocalypse.
>
> Honest. This isn't a joke. The president of the United
> States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European
> ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers
> in attacking Iraq as a mission from God.
>
> Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American
> leader appealed to their "common faith" (Christianity)
> and told him: "Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle
> East The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled
> This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use
> this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a
> New Age begins."
>
> This bizarre episode occurred while the White House was
> assembling its "coalition of the willing" to unleash
> the Iraq invasion. Chirac says he was boggled by Bush's
> call and "wondered how someone could be so superficial
> and fanatical in their beliefs."
>
> After the 2003 call, the puzzled French leader didn't
> comply with Bush's request. Instead, his staff asked
> Thomas Romer, a theologian at the University of
> Lausanne, to analyze the weird appeal. Dr. Romer
> explained that the Old Testament book of Ezekiel
> contains two chapters (38 and 39) in which God rages
> against Gog and Magog, sinister and mysterious forces
> menacing Israel. Jehovah vows to smite them savagely,
> to "turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws," and
> slaughter them ruthlessly. In the New Testament, the
> mystical book of Revelation envisions Gog and Magog
> gathering nations for battle, "and fire came down from
> God out of heaven, and devoured them."
>
> In 2007, Dr. Romer recounted Bush's strange behavior in
> Lausanne University's review, Allez Savoir. A
> French-language Swiss newspaper, Le Matin Dimanche,
> printed a sarcastic account titled: "When President
> George W. Bush Saw the Prophesies of the Bible Coming
> to Pass." France's La Liberte likewise spoofed it under
> the headline "A Small Scoop on Bush, Chirac, God, Gog
> and Magog." But other news media missed the amazing
> report.
>
> Subsequently, ex-President Chirac confirmed the nutty
> event in a long interview with French journalist
> Jean-Claude Maurice, who tells the tale in his new
> book, Si Vous le Repetez, Je Dementirai (If You Repeat
> it, I Will Deny), released in March by the publisher
> Plon.
>
> Oddly, mainstream media are ignoring this alarming
> revelation that Bush may have been half-cracked when he
> started his Iraq war. My own paper, The Charleston
> Gazette in West Virginia, is the only U.S. newspaper to
> report it so far. Canada's Toronto Star recounted the
> story, calling it a "stranger-than-fiction disclosure ...
> which suggests that apocalyptic fervor may have held
> sway within the walls of the White House." Fortunately,
> online commentary sites are spreading the news, filling
> the press void.
>
> The French revelation jibes with other known aspects of
> Bush's renowned evangelical certitude. For example, a
> few months after his phone call to Chirac, Bush
> attended a 2003 summit in Egypt. The Palestinian
> foreign minister later said the American president told
> him he was "on a mission from God" to defeat Iraq. At
> that time, the White House called this claim "absurd."
>
> Recently, GQ magazine revealed that former Defense
> Secretary Donald Rumsfeld attached warlike Bible verses
> and Iraq battle photos to war reports he hand-delivered
> to Bush. One declared: "Put on the full armor of God,
> so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to
> stand your ground."
>
> It's awkward to say openly, but now-departed President
> Bush is a religious crackpot, an ex-drunk of small
> intellect who "got saved." He never should have been
> entrusted with the power to start wars.
>
> For six years, Americans really haven't known why he
> launched the unnecessary Iraq attack. Official pretexts
> turned out to be baseless. Iraq had no weapons of mass
> destruction after all, and wasn't in league with
> terrorists, as the White House alleged. Collapse of his
> asserted reasons led to speculation about hidden
> motives: Was the invasion loosed to gain control of
> Iraq's oil--or to protect Israel--or to complete Bush's
> father's vendetta against the late dictator Saddam
> Hussein? Nobody ever found an answer.
>
> Now, added to the other suspicions, comes the goofy
> possibility that abstruse, supernatural, idiotic,
> laughable Bible prophecies were a factor. This cas

Re: [Marxism] Professor jeered at U. of Arizona for defending immigrant rights

[Mark Lause]

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It's probably obligatory for me to note it when the history presented on
California and the Civil War is this unreliable and must be based on some
kind of west coast channeling
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ML

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Re: [Marxism] Professor jeered at U. of Arizona for defending immigrant rights

[Mark Lause]

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Anecdotal evidence can always be deceptive, especially when we're comparing
apples and organges.  Clearly, "some young intellectuals" (an imprecisely
defined subset of a younger generation) are going to be ahead of "the older
generations" (a generationally inclusive category).  But there were
certainly plenty of reactionary college kids when we were young.  A lot of
them around out there waving tea bags.

ML

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[Marxism] Krugman on Corp and Repugs

[Matthew Russo]

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Krugman's political analysis is likely wrong.

Putting aside the fact that ObamaBot the Tin Man has no "inner FDR" or soul
of any kind, I'd wager that the U.S. and world ruling class - not
necessarily congruent with the rhetorical run of the mill "corporate
interests" - want to stick with the horse they know.  For this the radical
right rebels have a useful idiot role in dividing and disabling the
Republican Party between now and 2012.  Barring unforeseeable accidents.

The wild card, as always, are the ELITE ruling class radical right, the
American Zionist neocons.  Racism isn't the only thing animating the
Teabaggers;  there is also their falling out with the neocons, whom they
blame for the fiascos of the Bush years that gave them Obama.  The neocons,
meanwhile, must be disgruntled with Obama's foreign policy and retreat from
overt unilateralism.   For now they are out in the cold and at a crossroads
- which way to turn?

Between the two, the neocons are the more dangerous faction over the longer
run.  The Teabaggers are clowns.  The neocons proved that they could grab
executive state power in the Bush years, and can do it again.

-Matt

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[Marxism] Professor jeered at U. of Arizona for defending immigrant rights

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A few comments on this.

The U of A is in Tucson. The overwhelming majority of those in 
attendance at that school...and thus at that commencement were white, or 
as they say in Tucson, Anglo. The majority of Anglos in that state 
support the law. By big margins. Thus it would seem that the large 
number of graduates who applauded the speaker in defense of immigrant 
rights, represents something of an advance, in a way, among Anglos 
there. It was hard to tell the 'split' in the audience. For that matter, 
even the booing was somewhat indeterminate of exactly what was being 
booed: the speaker's citing the new racist law itself or the speaker for 
defending the victims of such a law. Probably both. Same with the applause.

The development of this "Latino" nationality seems to be well under way, 
and contracted, as the ruling class splits over what to do over the 
crisis. It panics.

This Saturday, the Arizona Diamond backs are playing the SF Giants. 
There will be a MAJOR protest there as part of the International 
"Boycott Arizona" campaign. I urge everyone to attend.

* Assemble at Embarcadero at 4:00 p.m.
* March begins at 4:30 p.m.
* Arrive at AT&T Park at 5:15 p.m.
* Game begins at 6:05 p.m.

In the days of our Second American Revolution, the northern California 
militia traveled south to take on the supporters of the Confederacy and 
to meet a threatened invasion of the state by way of Arizona. The miners 
militia in Colorado successful snuffed out a division of Confederate 
Calvery who tried to take Denver. Let's symbolically do the same Saturday!

David


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Re: [Marxism] Story of Stuff...almost a million views...quite good

[Patrick Bond]

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that's just YouTube... see http://www.storyofstuff.org - about 10 
million views all told

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Re: [Marxism] Professor jeered at U. of Arizona for defending immigrant rights

[Thomas Bias]

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In general throughout history the young intellectuals have been ahead of the
older generations: when my mother was starting her senior year at the
University of Oklahoma, the university was ordered by the Supreme Court to
admit a Black law student since Oklahoma did not provide a "separate but
equal" law school for African-Americans. The student was admitted, but he
was required to sit in the back of the classroom behind a partition! That's
the part we were told about. My mother told me that the partition lasted
only one day, because the white students in the class tore the partition
down.-Tom

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Agreed, though there were plenty of those young to whom the future belongs
booing and heckling.

ML

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Re: [Marxism] The war on science continues

[Matthew Russo]

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Joaqu?n Bustelo wrote:

>   I know how much people really REALLY hate Obama but making the sorts
of
> claims that appear on the subject line will only convince those familiar
> with the subject that Marxists are not worth taking seriously.
>

Yeah, I hate Obama that much. And I don't give a good god-damn who takes
me seriously or not. This BP oil spill and Obama's response has me
spitting mad.

Hear, hear!!

Who in their right mind wouldn't be hopping mad at all the BS being so
rudely rubbed in our faces? Not least of all this lifeless automaton of a
President!!

Oil Boom School 101

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6ZN6r5-1QE

IMF Sez  Spanish reserve army  of labor at 20% isn't doing the job:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/10149806.stm

U.S. states budget squeeze (Obama does little but watch) + EU austerity + BP
oil spill = Mrf*g c**ksrs!!

-Matt

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Re: [Marxism] Professor jeered at U. of Arizona for defending immigrant rights

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Agreed, though there were plenty of those young to whom the future belongs
booing and heckling.

ML

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Re: [Marxism] Professor jeered at U. of Arizona for defending immigrant rights

[Gary MacLennan]

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I followed the link here to the youtube film of Soto's speech.  What a
wonderful brave person she is. I salute her and condemn the racist filth
that booed her and also the scum that put the racist comments on the youtube
site.

I was very pleased to see the number of the graduates who rose to their feet
and applauded her at the end. The world belongs to the young and they will
make a better world.

regards

Gary

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[Marxism] Story of Stuff...almost a million views...quite good

[Mark Lause]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBE5QAYXp8

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Re: [Marxism] Police Major Implicates Uribe's brother

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[Marxism] Police Major Implicates Uribe's brother

[Anthony Boynton]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/23/AR2010052303821.html?hpid=artslot&sub=AR&sid=ST2010052304124


* *

*Colombian president's brother said to have lead death squads*

Colombia's paramilitary past resurfaces

By Juan Forero Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, May 24, 2010



YARUMAL, COLOMBIA -- Colombian President Álvaro Uribe will leave office in
August having largely succeeded in winning control of once-lawless swaths of
countryside from Marxist rebels, an accomplishment partly made possible by
more than $6 billion in U.S. aid.



But Uribe's government has also been tarnished by scandals, including
accusations in congressional hearings that death squads hatched plots at his
ranch in the 1980s and revelations that the secret police under his control
spied on political opponents and helped kill leftist activists.



Now a former police major, Juan Carlos Meneses, has alleged that Uribe's
younger brother, Santiago Uribe, led a fearsome paramilitary group in the
1990s in this northern town that killed petty thieves, guerrilla
sympathizers and suspected subversives. In an interview with The Washington
Post, Meneses said the group's hit men trained at La Carolina, where the
Uribe family ran an agro-business in the early 1990s.



The revelations threaten to renew a criminal investigation against Santiago
Uribe and raise new questions about the president's past in a region where
private militias funded with drug-trafficking proceeds and supported by
cattlemen wreaked havoc in the 1990s. The disclosures could prove
uncomfortable to the United States, which has long seen Uribe as a trusted
caretaker of American money in the fight against armed groups and the
cocaine trade.

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Re: [Marxism] Krugman on Corp and Repugs

[Manuel Barrera, PhD]

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I believe Brad, you meant to say descent; descent into the minds of the
liberal bourgeois whose only lens (blinders) are the battle between
capitalist sects who aspire to power and who consider working people and the
oppressed merely "society," the "economy," the "grass roots [who are being]
used."
I also believe, however [sorry, I am changing to a related subject not
directly related to Brad or to Dennis], that "we" are way too incensed with
Obama/Roosevelt/Clinton/Kennedy-ism. I am not sure we are thinking straight
when we get ourselves so "spitting mad" that Obama seems so undeservedly
popular. As could easily be predicted, the President is capitalism's best
answer in a society so well prepared for the illusions of lesser-evil
politics (it's not without accident that we have the education system that
we have and how well it works to support capitalist rule). This makes the
work of us "good folk" (yes, always remember that we are that) very
difficult, and contrary to popular belief, the more radicalized the working
class becomes, the harder it will get to bring our class (adopted or the one
in which we reside) to accept its responsibility and its birthright. It is
not easy to do what we hope to accomplish (just try sometime to pull on a
seemingly red ripe apple from its tree sometime to illustrate the point). 
No matter how dark the night, or how far the horizon, just know and remember
that the World's day will come, that apple will fall. We need to be ready to
steer, we need build our class's confidence to apply itself enough to pick
the fruit we've so badly needed for our sustenance. [sorry for the fruity
and genetic metaphors, I hope I got across]

Brad writes
> Decent article by Krugman in which he at least locates the class (even
> if he doesn't want to call it such) nature of identity politics and
> the TP.  I am getting a little bit annoyed by this liberal notion that
> the big corporations are to blame and not capitalism though.
Dennis' reply -
What's "decent" about this article? It's typical liberal crap that the
Republicans are the corporate party and the Democrats, however tentatively,
stand up for " the common people" and are thus facing corporate wrath. The
insurance and pharmaceutical corporations to name two are very pleased with
Obama.

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[Marxism] Margaret Atwood cashes in

[Louis Proyect]

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I have video footage of her giving a speech at the Bard College 
commencement (she received an honorary degree) as well as an 
interview with an old Bardian who led a protest against her. She 
epitomizes the sleazy "leftist" values of Leon Botstein who picked 
someone perfectly attuned to his own.

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http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/05/margaret-atwood-cashes-in/
Margaret Atwood Cashes In
by Jennifer Matsui / May 17th, 2010

Novelist Margaret Atwood’s decision to travel to Tel Aviv to share 
a literary prize worth a million dollars has ignited a controversy 
in which the septuagenarian author and vice-president of the 
literary human rights organization PEN International has come 
under fire by Palestinian rights activists. Ms Atwood’s acceptance 
of the Dan David Prize, whose previous laureates include Al Gore 
and Tony Blair, is viewed by Ms Atwood’s critics as a betrayal to 
the ideals she supposedly represents, and an unwitting endorsement 
of Israel’s race exclusive policies.

The Canadian author’s insistence that refusing the blood-spattered 
trophy would be tantamount to “censorship” rings as false as her 
commitments to justice as an anti-apartheid activist, and as a 
writer who has made tyranny and oppression recurring themes in her 
novels, elevating her from fiction writer to public intellectual. 
I say “false” because “justice for some” is hardly an ethical 
stance with any merit, and certainly not one that will maintain 
her status as an “oppositional intellectual”. Sadly, this 
“intellectual” has made no effort to research the subject of 
Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land and its 
unyielding, systematic oppression of the Palestinian people (as 
many Jewish and Israeli scholars and activists themselves have 
bravely condemned). Otherwise, she would use the occasion of the 
invitation to condemn an increasingly murderous regime and call 
upon its people to support sanctions, boycotts and divestments 
until their government accepted the rule of International law and 
reversed its policy of displacement and expulsion of Arab people 
from their ancestral lands. Instead the once outspoken author has 
chosen to put monetary interests ahead of the principled moral 
stances she has taken in the past, in order to lay claim to a 
tainted prize given each year to fame-hungry “artists” looking to 
boost sagging sales of their product while making all the 
appropriate noises to the press about free speech.

Ms Atwood’s blandly centrist posturing is symptomatic of a malady 
particular to the cosseted and fossilized members of a wealthy 
nation’s cultural elite, for whom “free speech” is a largely 
unexamined term that by default, advocates the right of 
establishment opinion makers laboring for the warlord and robber 
baron class to set the agenda for public discourse. Thus the 
multi-billion dollar media conglomerate behind South Park and its 
wealthy creators are portrayed as underdog champions of free 
speech, bravely confronting an encroaching Islamic Goliath, just 
as the Canadian author’s flaccid, self-serving justifications for 
fence-sitting is spun into a battle against “censorship”. It’s 
hard to pinpoint Ms Atwood’s definition of the word “censorship” 
unless it means, “Can I just enjoy my windfall without having to 
listen to a howling mob of Debby Downers”?

On the surface, Ms Atwood’s Tel Aviv itinerary seems a worthy 
endeavor undertaken by an energetic senior citizen who has put 
aside her basket of knitting to embark on a fact finding mission 
devoted to sniffing out the roots of a decades-long conflict, 
while indulging her recent interest in issues related to water 
scarcity. How she will gather facts on the ground from a plush Tel 
Aviv hotel suite surrounded by her sycophantic handlers remains to 
be seen. Her new friends at the cosmopolitan gathering place will 
likely remind her that “Jews made the desert bloom”, omitting the 
part about how Israel diverts water supplies from the Palestinians 
to nourish the soil beneath its illegal settlements. Unlike Ms 
Atwood, I am no poet. However, I can’t help but indulge the 
thought that so much spilled blood must have had a hand in making 
Israel’s ill-gained desert outposts a shimmering oasis of 
well-watered lawns, swimming pools and flower beds on one side, 
and a parched, barren human cattle pen on the other.

Last year Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami defended his decision 
to accept the Jerusalem Prize in a rambling, incoherent public 
statement to his detractors that ultimately demonstrated his 
worthiness to be be recipient to this dubious honor. As this 
year’s winner of the Dan David Prize, Ms Atwood is Israel’s most 
recent stooge-laureate of a cynically motivated, prize-giving 
institution that lures arti

[Marxism] They hate war (but it is necessary)

[Louis Proyect]

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I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen 
blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their 
gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities 
destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of 
line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 
hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony 
of mothers and wives. I hate war.

--Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1936

---

America does not fight for the sake of fighting. We abhor war. As 
one who has never experienced the field of battle -- and I say 
that with humility, knowing, as General MacArthur said, "the 
soldier above all others prays for peace" -- we fight because we 
must. We fight to keep our families and communities safe. We fight 
for the security of our allies and partners, because America 
believes that we will be safer when our friends are safer; that we 
will be stronger when the world is more just.

--Barack Obama, 2010


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[Marxism] On the knife's edge

[Louis Proyect]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/23/AR2010052304170.html
One false move in Europe could set off global chain reaction

By Howard Schneider and Neil Irwin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 24, 2010; A01

If the trouble starts -- and it remains an "if" -- the trigger may 
well be obscure to the concerns of most Americans: a missed budget 
projection by the Spanish government, the failure of Greece to hit 
a deficit-reduction target, a drop in Ireland's economic output.

But the knife-edge psychology currently governing global markets 
has put the future of the U.S. economic recovery in the hands of 
politicians in an assortment of European capitals. If one or more 
fail to make the expected progress on cutting budgets, 
restructuring economies or boosting growth, it could drain 
confidence in a broad and unsettling way. Credit markets worldwide 
could lock up and throw the global economy back into recession.

For the average American, that seemingly distant sequence of 
events could translate into another hit on the 401(k) plan, a lost 
factory shift if exports to Europe decline and another shock to 
the banking system that might make it harder to borrow.

"If what happened in Greece were to happen in a large country, it 
could fundamentally mark our times," Angelos Pangratis, head of 
the European Union delegation to the United States, said Friday 
after a panel discussion on the crisis in Greece sponsored by the 
Greater Washington Board of Trade.

That local economic development boards are sponsoring panels on 
government debt in Greece is perhaps proof enough that Europe's 
problems are the world's. That the dominoes can tumble fast was 
shown Thursday when a new and narrowly drawn stock-trading policy 
in Germany helped trigger a sell-off on Wall Street.

It marks a change, Barclays Capital chief European economist 
Julian Callow wrote in a Friday analysis, from a situation in 
which the bonds of European countries were considered to carry 
virtually zero risk to a "brave new world" where sovereign default 
in one of the world's core economic areas is a tangible threat. 
Bank holdings of European debt are now being studied with the same 
focus given to holdings of U.S. mortgage-backed securities as the 
global financial crisis unfolded in 2008 -- and with the same 
suspicion that problems in one part of the world could wreck others.

The most vulnerable European countries -- Greece, Spain, Portugal 
and Ireland -- may represent only about 4 percent of world 
economic activity, but "the debt crisis and its ripple effects are 
bad news for all corners of the world," said Cornell University 
economist Eswar Prasad.

The risk of a worst-case scenario is still considered remote. 
European countries have pledged hundreds of billions of dollars to 
aid indebted neighbors that run into trouble, and they say they 
are committed to fixing the continent's larger economic problems. 
The euro and U.S. markets were both higher Friday after the German 
Parliament approved a key piece of that support program. A renewed 
effort by the U.S. Federal Reserve to ensure that European banks 
have adequate access to dollars has generated little demand -- a 
sign that a feared shortage of cash is not in the offing.

U.S. banks are not heavily exposed to the weaker European 
countries, Fed governor Daniel K. Tarullo said in testimony on 
Capitol Hill last week. Banks are in better shape overall, after 
fresh infusions of capital. Meanwhile, the U.S. economic recovery 
has been strengthening through the year, with jobs added in five 
of the last six months, and recent consumer spending and 
industrial output stronger than most forecasts.

But the fallout from Europe could still be widely felt. U.S. trade 
officials, hoping the country can dramatically boost its exports, 
are dismayed at the steep drop in the value of the euro -- which 
is around $1.25, down from more than $1.50 in November. The 
decline makes American goods more expensive compared with those 
produced in Europe. The slide in the common European currency 
could also change the way China and a host of Asian countries 
approach their currency policies, possibly making them less likely 
to agree with U.S. demands to raise the value of their money. If 
they raised it, Asian goods would become more expensive in world 
markets, making it easier for U.S. products to compete.

The connections are being closely watched. Analysts are studying 
how the involvement of Greek financial institutions in Eastern 
Europe, or Spanish banks in Latin America, could affect those 
economies. The International Monetary Fund and E.U. officials are 
doing biweekly checks on Greece's progress to ensure its economic 
reform program stays on track

[Marxism] Professor jeered at U. of Arizona for defending immigrant rights

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Re: [Marxism] One anarchist statement concerning the May 5 murders

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>From the O.L. blog :

A series of articles has appeared in corporate press in Greece,
showing the difficulties many politicians are faced with here when
attempting an appearance in public. When spotted eating at a
restaurant, ex-PM Karamanlis was approached by a woman shouting “shame
on you, all you know how to do is eat”. A few weeks ago ex-president
of parliament Apostolos Kaklamanis found refuge in a cafe’s toilets to
avoid the crowd’s “congratulations” on his party’s efforts. Corporate
media are now full of anecdotes like this: about the second minister
of Economics who was forced to leave a beach in Athens; the once
all-powerful minister of Shipping who is now heckled on a daily basis
by a group of kids in his home island of Kos. The heckling and abuse
that the ex-minister of Finance, Giorgos Alogoskoufis, has received in
virtually all his recent visits to London. The house of Akis
Tsohatzopoulos, a once-powerful figure in the social-democrat PASOK,
which has turned into a sort of a monument of discontent, with its
outer wall filled with messages of hatred.

Full :

http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2010/05/24/298-this-is-what-popular-rage-tastes-like-politicians-heckled-abused-attacked-at-restaurants-cafes-and-on-the-greek-streets/


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Re: [Marxism] WSJ: In Greece, Anarchy Yields to Soul-Searching

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Joseph Catron wrote:

> "At a nocturnal meeting of 300 black-clad anarchists here several days ago,
> radicals were plotting a demonstration against government austerity
> measures. But the air was thick with something other than the usual
> cigarette smoke and revolution: self-doubt."
> 
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703559004575256390346656722.html
> 


The article is limited to subscribers. Here's the whole thing. 
Keep in mind that the reporters at the WSJ do not necessarily 
share the ultraright viewpoint of management:

ATHENS--At a nocturnal meeting of 300 black-clad anarchists here 
several days ago, radicals were plotting a demonstration against 
government austerity measures. But the air was thick with 
something other than the usual cigarette smoke and revolution: 
self-doubt.

An anti-government demonstration involving radicals earlier this 
month had turned ugly. Unknown assailants firebombed a bank 
building on May 5, leading to the deaths of three bank employees, 
including a pregnant young woman. Authorities haven't named any 
suspects but are investigating whether the culprits were among the 
anarchist youths who rampaged that day.

The killings shocked Greece, and are, at least for now, prompting 
soul-searching among the country's militant fringe and the many 
ordinary Greeks who long have quietly sympathized with it.

"We should think about canceling" participation in the next 
demonstration, a young woman told the shadowy conclave. "In 
marches of this kind there could be violent incidents," she told 
the gathering, held in a graffiti-covered university auditorium 
the anarchists had occupied.

The continued agonizing over the May 5 killings was apparent 
during Greece's latest general strike on Thursday. Roughly 20,000 
union members marched through Athens, a fraction of the more than 
100,000 who took to the streets the day of the murders. In the 
end, the anarchists also took part in Thursday's protests, but 
turnout was modest, and those who did participate were peaceful.

"It's a shock. We always thought of ourselves as people who are 
victims, not people who create victims," says Panagiotis, an edgy 
30-year-old who helps organize cultural events within the 
anarchist scene and condemns the killings. Like most members of 
the movement, he would only gave his first name.

The specter of chaos in the streets is stalking Europe as the 
continent pushes sharp cutbacks to social spending to repair 
battered state finances. But in Greece, epicenter of the European 
debt crisis, some anarchists fear they have given the hated 
austerity measures a helping hand.

The arsonists' "stupidity," says Panagiotis, has helped the 
government and the media discredit the street protests and push 
through pay and pension cuts demanded by the International 
Monetary Fund for bailing out the Greek government.

Images of mayhem in Athens have spurred fears of social unrest 
spreading to Spain, Portugal and other crisis-hit euro countries. 
That may yet happen. But the complex reality is that even in 
Greece--a country with a tradition of resistance to its 
rulers--many people are turning against violent street protests 
they view as excessive.

Opinion polls since May 5 show 54% of Greeks believe the tough 
austerity measures are necessary to avert national bankruptcy, 
while 74% think strikes and protests should be kept to a 
"rational" level. Even many opponents of "ta metra" or "the 
measures," as the cuts are known here, say they don't expect to 
overturn them.

"This is not a city ready to revolt," says Leonidas Bentrouvakis, 
a historian who helped lead a student uprising at the Polytechnic 
university in 1973, when the enemy was Greece's military junta 
rather than an elected government. "There is a deflation of 
protests now," he says. If that trend holds, Greece's government 
has a much better chance of sticking to its austerity course.

The political crisis is far from having passed. Many in Greece say 
street anger could yet reach a boiling point as recession deepens 
later this year amid the cutbacks.

Greece's anarchists are the modern incarnation of a rebel 
tradition, dating back to mountain brigands who fought the Ottoman 
Empire and World War II, when Greece had one of the biggest 
guerrilla movements in Nazi-occupied Europe.

Anarchists believe a free society requires abolishing the state, 
and they rebel against all authority and ruling power. In Greece, 
the leaderless network includes classical anarchists who read 
Russian radical thinkers such as Bakunin and Kropotkin, 
libertarians influenced by American counterculture, 
anti-authoritarians, squatters, autonomists, situationists, 
insurrectionists, and more. Few are pacifists. But in the past, 
violen

Re: [Marxism] Krugman on Corp and Repugs

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> Brad writes -
>
> Decent article by Krugman in which he at least locates the class (even
> if he doesn't want to call it such) nature of identity politics and
> the TP.  I am getting a little bit annoyed by this liberal notion that
> the big corporations are to blame and not capitalism though.
>


reply -

 What's "decent" about this article? It's typical liberal crap that the
Republicans are the corporate party and the Democrats, however tentatively,
stand up for " the common people" and are thus facing corporate wrath. The
insurance and pharmaceutical corporations to name two are very pleased with
Obama.

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Re: [Marxism] Krugman on Corp and Repugs

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The ruling class will never solve the problem of Surplus Value
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[Marxism] Krugman on Corp and Repugs

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Decent article by Krugman in which he at least locates the class (even
if he doesn't want to call it such) nature of identity politics and
the TP.  I am getting a little bit annoyed by this liberal notion that
the big corporations are to blame and not capitalism though.

Brad

The Old Enemies
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: May 23, 2010

So here’s how it is: They’re as mad as hell, and they’re not going to
take this anymore. Am I talking about the Tea Partiers? No, I’m
talking about the corporations.

Much reporting on opposition to the Obama administration portrays it
as a sort of populist uprising. Yet the antics of the
socialism-and-death-panels crowd are only part of the story of
anti-Obamaism, and arguably the less important part. If you really
want to know what’s going on, watch the corporations.

How can you do that? Follow the money — donations by corporate
political action committees.

Look, for example, at the campaign contributions of commercial banks —
traditionally Republican-leaning, but only mildly so. So far this
year, according to The Washington Post, 63 percent of spending by
banks’ corporate PACs has gone to Republicans, up from 53 percent last
year. Securities and investment firms, traditionally
Democratic-leaning, are now giving more money to Republicans. And oil
and gas companies, always Republican-leaning, have gone all out,
bestowing 76 percent of their largess on the G.O.P.

These are extraordinary numbers given the normal tendency of corporate
money to flow to the party in power. Corporate America, however,
really, truly hates the current administration. Wall Street, for
example, is in “a state of bitter, seething, hysterical fury” toward
the president, writes John Heilemann of New York magazine. What’s
going on?

One answer is taxes — not so much on corporations themselves as on the
people who run them. The Obama administration plans to raise tax rates
on upper brackets back to Clinton-era levels. Furthermore, health
reform will in part be paid for with surtaxes on high-income
individuals. All this will amount to a significant financial hit to
C.E.O.’s, investment bankers and other masters of the universe.

Now, don’t cry for these people: they’ll still be doing extremely
well, and by and large they’ll be paying little more as a percentage
of their income than they did in the 1990s. Yet the fact that the tax
increases they’re facing are reasonable doesn’t stop them from being
very, very angry.

Nor are taxes the whole story.

Many Obama supporters have been disappointed by what they see as the
administration’s mildness on regulatory issues — its embrace of
limited financial reform that doesn’t break up the biggest banks, its
support for offshore drilling, and so on. Yet corporate interests are
balking at even modest changes from the permissiveness of the Bush
era.

>From the outside, this rage against regulation seems bizarre. I mean,
what did they expect? The financial industry, in particular, ran wild
under deregulation, eventually bringing on a crisis that has left 15
million Americans unemployed, and required large-scale
taxpayer-financed bailouts to avoid an even worse outcome. Did Wall
Street expect to emerge from all that without facing some new
restrictions? Apparently it did.

So what President Obama and his party now face isn’t just, or even
mainly, an opposition grounded in right-wing populism. For grass-roots
anger is being channeled and exploited by corporate interests, which
will be the big winners if the G.O.P. does well in November.

If this sounds familiar, it should: it’s the same formula the right
has been using for a generation. Use identity politics to whip up the
base; then, when the election is over, give priority to the concerns
of your corporate donors. Run as the candidate of “real Americans,”
not those soft-on-terror East coast liberals; then, once you’ve won,
declare that you have a mandate to privatize Social Security. It comes
as no surprise to learn that American Crossroads, a new organization
whose goal is to deploy large amounts of corporate cash on behalf of
Republican candidates, is the brainchild of none other than Karl Rove.

But won’t the grass-roots rebel at being used? Don’t count on it. Last
week Rand Paul, the Tea Party darling who is now the Republican
nominee for senator from Kentucky, declared that the president’s
criticism of BP over the disastrous oil spill in the gulf is
“un-American,” that “sometimes accidents happen.” The mood on the
right may be populist, but it’s a kind of populism that’s remarkably
sympathetic to big corporations.

So where does that leave the president and his party? Mr. Obama wanted
to transcend partisanship. Instead, however, he finds himself very
much in the position Franklin Roosevelt described in a 

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By *Danielle Sabai*

[This article was written before the Thai government's crushing of the 
Red Shirts' protest site in Bangkok on May 19, 2010. However, it 
provides important background to the events.]
May 17, 2010 -- The political crisis engulfing Thailand is not a clap of 
thunder in an otherwise calm sky. The discourse about a country where 
"everyone lives in harmony and where there is no class struggle but a 
people united behind its adored sovereign" has nothing to do with 
reality. For several decades, the Thai people have been subjected to 
authoritarian regimes or dictatorships and a king in their service. The 
Thai élites have however not succeeded in preventing regular uprisings 
against the established order, including those in 1973, 1976 and 1992, 
all repressed by bloodbaths.

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1,000,000 articles read, 750,000 visits -- Links International
Journal of Socialist Renewal 

May 21, 2010 -- At 11.59pm on May 19, 2010, the 1,000,000th article was 
read at /Links International Journal of Socialist (/since records began 
being kept on April 4, 2008). The article was accessed somebody in 
Toronto, Canada -- the 744,733rd visit to /Links/ -- who entered site at 
the fascinating speech by veteran South African revolutionary socialist 
Neville Alexander. On May 21, at 5.50pm, /Links International Journal of 
Socialsit Renewal/ received its 750,000th visitor, who was from Thailand 
and who read one of Giles Ji Ungpakorn's essential articles on the 
struggle for democracy in that country.

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Neville Alexander: South Africa -- An unfinished revolution?


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[The following address -- the fourth Strini Moodley Annual Memorial 
Lecture, held at the University of KwaZulu-Natal on May 13, 2010 -- was 
delivered by renowned South African revolutionary socialist and theorist 
Neville Alexander. From 1964 to 1974 he was imprisoned on Robben Island. 
*Strinivasa Rajoo "Strini" Moodley* (December 22, 1945--April 27, 2006) 
was a founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement in South 
Africa. In 1976, he was convicted of terrorism in a trial involving 
members of the South African Students' Organisation and the Black 
People's Convention, and imprisoned on Robben Island. The speech is 
posted at /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/ with 
Neville Alexander's permission.]

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Australia: Tax billionaire companies to fund rapid transition to
renewable energy 

By *Dick Nichols*
May 24, 2010 -- Even as the Australian federal Labor government sticks 
its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme [carbon trading scheme] into the 
freezer the climate change crisis intensifies, demanding a response 
adequate to its enormity. The goal dictated by climate science is annual 
emissions reductions of 5% from now to 2020 -- the critical "transition 
decade".

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*Richard Fidler* and *Nathan Rao*

May 14, 2010 -- /Le Monde/ via /The Bullet/ -- The events in Greece 
concern us all. The Greek people are paying for a crisis and a debt not 
of their making. Today it is the Greeks, tomorrow it will be others, for 
the same causes will produce the same effects if we allow it.

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politics 

By *Graham Milner*
With some great revolutionary figures in world history, and in 
international labour history in particular, it has been found necessary 
for historians or biographers to dig out their subjects from beneath "a 
loa

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virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through
disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under
Socialism

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