[Marxism-Thaxis] the-volcker-rule-cites-the-occupy-movement-284-times/

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Fwd: Erwin Marquit i JUST POSTED CHAPTER 18 OF MY DRAFT MEMOIRS ONLINE AT

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Erwin Marquit

i JUST POSTED CHAPTER 18 OF MY DRAFT MEMOIRS ONLINE AT
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~marqu002
More will be coming as I continue reviewing the first draft

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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Anti-Turing

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I always say animals are rational , but they don't have culture, and
culture is concentrated sociality, included social contact with dead
generations. Culture originates with the past generations thinking
about the generations coming after they are dead and purposely sending
"messages" to their progeny of the future, which in terms of what
Ralph sends below is empathy reaching even to future generations ,
caring about future generations who they will never even know when
alive.

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Ralph Dumain
 wrote:
> He had wondered, as had most people at one time or another, precisely why an
> android bounced helplessly about when confronted by an empathy-measuring
> test. Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas
> intelligence in some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order
> including the arachnids. For one thing, the empathic faculty probably
> required an unimpaired group instinct; a solitary organism, such as a
> spider, would have no use for it; in fact it would tend to abort a spider's
> ability to survive. It would make him conscious of the desire to live on the
> part of his prey. Hence all predators, even highly developed mammals such as
> cats, would starve.
>
> -- Philip K. Dick,/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/ (1968; Ballantine,
> 1996, pp. 30-1)
>
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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Anti-Turing

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Word

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Ralph Dumain
 wrote:
> He had wondered, as had most people at one time or another, precisely why an
> android bounced helplessly about when confronted by an empathy-measuring
> test. Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas
> intelligence in some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order
> including the arachnids. For one thing, the empathic faculty probably
> required an unimpaired group instinct; a solitary organism, such as a
> spider, would have no use for it; in fact it would tend to abort a spider's
> ability to survive. It would make him conscious of the desire to live on the
> part of his prey. Hence all predators, even highly developed mammals such as
> cats, would starve.
>
> -- Philip K. Dick,/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/ (1968; Ballantine,
> 1996, pp. 30-1)
>
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Proletarian internationalism

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http://peoplesworld.org/amazon-workers-battle-their-bosses-in-seattle-and-germany/

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Fwd: Doubly "free" labor; alienation; libertarian individualist liberty; Liberty. A study in bourgeois illusion by Christopher Caudwell 1938

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Mike Ballard Wage-slavery is freedom.
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Charles Brown Yes, wage-slavery is so-called doubly "free". It is not
slave labor , so it is free relative to that. But the wage laborer is
"free" of owning any means of production, as pre-wage laborers did.
They have been deprived of any means of production which forces them
to sell their labor to live.
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Charles Brown "One of the prerequisites of wage labor, and one of the
historic conditions for capital, is free labor and the exchange of
free labor against money, in order to reproduce money and to convert
it into values, in order to be consumed by money, not as use...See
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Charles Brown What does the primitive accumulation of capital, i.e.,
its historical genesis, resolve itself into? In so far as it is not
immediate transformation of slaves and serfs into wage labourers, and
therefore a mere change of form, it only means the expropri...See More
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Charles Brown nominally free labour
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Fu Lin-lin Charles Brown, the freedom Marx spoke of in his Capital is
not to be questioned. I am rather referring to the freedom which the
people regard as theirs when they do their part in capitalism - their
role as wage workers.
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Charles Brown Uhhh I'm thinking about what ur saying...Yes, I think
what you are referring to is related to the "freedom" sarcastically
referred to by Marx as being "freed", as in deprived of ownership of
the means of labor. For, without means of labor , the wage laborer is
forced to self her labor to the capitalist for a wage; because the
capitalist owns all the means of production or means of labor,
instruments of production, raw materials, land, etc.
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Charles Brown This is part of what Marx calls alienation, I think.
Wage laborers are alienated or separated from the means of using their
labor to make things. Your thought can even , perhaps, get us to the
libertarian illusion of "freedom" in isolated individuals, or radical
individualism that is the idea underlying so many people's beliefs in
capitalism. It is libertarianism , in the radical individualism that
is the ethic of artists in capitalism, "do your own thing". There are
a million examples of this in the ideals of wage laborers under
capitalism.
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Liberty. A study in bourgeois illusion



Source: “Studies in a Dying Culture,” first published 1938.
Republished 1977 in “The Concept of Freedom,” Lawrence & Wishart, London.
Transcribed: by Dominic Tweedie;
Proofed and corrected: by Guy Colvin, November 2005.



Many will have heard a broadcast by H. G. Wells in which (commenting
on the Soviet Union) he described it as a “great experiment which has
but half fulfilled its promise,” it is still a “land without mental
freedom.” There are also many essays of Bertrand Russell in which this
philosopher explains the importance of liberty, how the enjoyment of
liberty is the highest and most important goal of man. Fisher claims
that the history of Europe during the last two or three centuries is
simply the struggle for liberty. Continually and variously by artists,
scientists, and philosophers alike, liberty is thus praised and man’s
right to enjoy it imperiously asserted.

I agree with this. Liberty does seem to me the most important of all
generalised goods – such as justice, beauty, truth – that come so
easily to our lips. And yet when freedom is discussed a strange thing
is to be noticed. These men – artists, careful of words, scientists,
investigators of the entities denoted by words, philosophers
scrupulous about the relations between words and entities – never
define precisely what they mean by freedom. They seem to assume that
it is quite a clear concept, whose definition every one would agree
about.

Yet who does not know that liberty is a concept about whose nature men
have quarrelled perhaps more than any other? The historic disputes
concerning predestination, Karma, Free-Will, Moira, salvation by faith
or works, determinism, Fate, Kismet, the categorical imperative,
sufficient grace, occasionalism, Divine Providence, punishment and
responsibility, have all been about the nature of man’s freedom of
will and action. The Greeks, the Romans, the Buddhists, the
Mahomedans, the Catholics, the Jansenists, and the Calvinists, have
each had different ideas of liberty. Why, then, do all these bourgeois
intellectuals assume that liberty is a clear concept, understood in
the same

[Marxism-Thaxis] A Neuroscientist’s Radical Theory of How Networks Become Conscious

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Les Schaffer

Kock on Kochiousness ...

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/christof-koch-panpsychism-consciousness

A Neuroscientist’s Radical Theory of How Networks Become Conscious



By Brandon Keim
11.14.13
6:30 AM


A map of neural circuits in the human brain. Image: Human Connectome Project

It’s a question that’s perplexed philosophers for centuries and
scientists for decades: Where does consciousness come from? We know it
exists, at least in ourselves. But how it arises from chemistry and
electricity in our brains is an unsolved mystery.

Neuroscientist Christof Koch, chief scientific officer at the Allen
Institute for Brain Science, thinks he might know the answer.
According to Koch, consciousness arises within any sufficiently
complex, information-processing system. All animals, from humans on
down to earthworms, are conscious; even the internet could be. That’s
just the way the universe works.

“The electric charge of an electron doesn’t arise out of more
elemental properties. It simply has a charge,” says Koch. “Likewise, I
argue that we live in a universe of space, time, mass, energy, and
consciousness arising out of complex systems.”

What Koch proposes is a scientifically refined version of an ancient
philosophical doctrine called panpsychism — and, coming from someone
else, it might sound more like spirituality than science. But Koch has
devoted the last three decades to studying the neurological basis of
consciousness. His work at the Allen Institute now puts him at the
forefront of the BRAIN Initiative, the massive new effort to
understand how brains work, which will begin next year.

Koch’s insights have been detailed in dozens of scientific articles
and a series of books, including last year’s Consciousness:
Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist. WIRED talked to Koch about his
understanding of this age-old question.

WIRED: How did you come to believe in panpsychism?

Christof Koch: I grew up Roman Catholic, and also grew up with a dog.
And what bothered me was the idea that, while humans had souls and
could go to heaven, dogs were not suppose to have souls. Intuitively I
felt that either humans and animals alike had souls, or none did. Then
I encountered Buddhism, with its emphasis on the universal nature of
the conscious mind. You find this idea in philosophy, too, espoused by
Plato and Spinoza and Schopenhauer, that psyche — consciousness — is
everywhere. I find that to be the most satisfying explanation for the
universe, for three reasons: biological, metaphysical and
computational.

'What is the simplest explanation? That consciousness extends to all
these creatures'
WIRED: What do you mean?

Koch: My consciousness is an undeniable fact. One can only infer facts
about the universe, such as physics, indirectly, but the one thing I’m
utterly certain of is that I’m conscious. I might be confused about
the state of my consciousness, but I’m not confused about having it.
Then, looking at the biology, all animals have complex physiology, not
just humans. And at the level of a grain of brain matter, there’s
nothing exceptional about human brains.

Only experts can tell, under a microscope, whether a chunk of brain
matter is mouse or monkey or human — and animals have very complicated
behaviors. Even honeybees recognize individual faces, communicate the
quality and location of food sources via waggle dances, and navigate
complex mazes with the aid of cues stored in their short-term memory.
If you blow a scent into their hive, they return to where they’ve
previously encountered the odor. That’s associative memory. What is
the simplest explanation for it? That consciousness extends to all
these creatures, that it’s an imminent property of highly organized
pieces of matter, such as brains.

WIRED: That’s pretty fuzzy. How does consciousness arise? How can you
quantify it?

Koch: There’s a theory, called Integrated Information Theory,
developed by Giulio Tononi at the University of Wisconsin, that
assigns to any one brain, or any complex system, a number — denoted by
the Greek symbol of Φ — that tells you how integrated a system is, how
much more the system is than the union of its parts. Φ gives you an
information-theoretical measure of consciousness. Any system with
integrated information different from zero has consciousness. Any
integration feels like something

It's not that any physical system has consciousness. A black hole, a
heap of sand, a bunch of isolated neurons in a dish, they're not
integrated. They have no consciousness. But complex systems do. And
how much consciousness they have depends on how many connections they
have and how they’re wired up.

WIRED: Ecosystems are interconnected. Can a forest be conscious?

Koch: In the case of the brain, it’s the whole system that’s
conscious, not the individual nerve cells. For any one ecosystem, it’s
a question of how richly the individual components, such as the trees
in a forest, are integrated within themselves as compar

[Marxism-Thaxis] Obama to prosecute Walmart for violation of workers' rights

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http://peoplesworld.org/u-s-to-prosecute-walmart-for-violation-of-workers-rights/http://peoplesworld.org/u-s-to-prosecute-walmart-for-violation-of-workers-rights/

U.S. to prosecute Walmart for violation of workers' rights




WASHINGTON - The National Labor Relations Board General Counsel is
issuing a decision today to prosecute Walmart for its widespread
violations of its workers' rights. The decision will provide
additional protection for Walmart's 1.3 million employees when they
are speaking out for better jobs at the country's largest employer.

The Board will prosecute Walmart's illegal firings and disciplinary
actions involving more than 117 workers, including those who went on
strike last June, according to the decision.

The decision addresses threats by managers and the company's national
spokesperson for discouraging workers from striking and for taking
illegal disciplinary actions against workers who were on legally
protected strikes. Workers could be awarded back pay, reinstatement
and the reversal of disciplinary actions through the decision; and
Walmart could be required to inform and educate all employees of their
legally protected rights.

"The Board's decision confirms what Walmart workers have long known:
the company is illegally trying to silence employees who speak out for
better jobs," said Sarita Gupta, executive director of Jobs With
Justice and American Rights at Work. "Americans believe that we have
the responsibility - and the right - to speak out against corporate
abuses of workers, and this proves we're finally being heard, and
making kinks in Walmart's armor. Customers, clergy and community
members from across the country are standing with Walmart workers
bravely calling for better jobs and a stronger economy for all of us."

Today's decision addresses charges filed one year ago in advance of
Black Friday 2012, when Walmart managers escalated their efforts to
threaten and discourage workers from going on legally protected
strikes. David Tovar, spokesperson for the company, even went so far
as to threaten workers on national television, saying "there would be
consequences" for workers who did not come in for scheduled shifts on
Black Friday.

Additionally, the decisional covers the illegal firings and
disciplinary actions that occurred after 100 striking Walmart workers
took their concerns to the company's June shareholder meeting in
Bentonville. Support from investors, Walmart workers and the general
public continued to grow after tens of thousands of shareholders heard
from OUR Walmart members at the company's annual shareholder meeting.

When these workers returned to work, Walmart systematically fired and
disciplined them despite their legally recognized, protected absences.
This included disciplinary action against at least 43 workers and the
firing of at least another 23 worker-leaders.

"Working at the largest employer in the country should mean making a
decent living. Those days are long gone," said Tiffany Beroid, a
Walmart worker from Laurel, MD. "Walmart continues to show that it's
afraid to have real conversations about creating better jobs, but
would rather scare us into silence. But change at Walmart is too
important to our economy and for our families for us to stop speaking
out."

Prior to the extended strike in June, American Rights at Work/Jobs
with Justice released a white paper documenting Walmart's extensive
and systematic efforts to silence associates. At that time, there were
more than 150 incidents in stores across the country, with few signs
that Walmart would soon stop targeting those who speak out and act
collectively.

In other labor charges against Walmart, workers have been winning. In
California alone, the National Labor Relations Board recently decided
to prosecute Walmart for 11 violations of federal labor law from some
threats made around Black Friday last year.

In Kentucky, one settlement was reached between Walmart and Aaron
Lawson in which Walmart fired Lawson after he distributed flyers and
spoke out against the company's attempts to silence those who called
for better wages and consistent hours. As part of the settlement,
Walmart agreed to rehire Lawson and provide full back wages for the
time that he was out of work.

Photo: Mel Evans/AP

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Angola bans Islam, begins tearing down mosques

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Angola bans Islam, begins tearing down mosques

Zoom in
November 25, 2013

In an apparent attempt to prevent the spread of Islamic extremism, the
African nation of Angola has banned Islam and is in the process of
tearing down mosques, according to multiple media reports.

On November 24, Angola President José Eduardo dos Santos said the
country is working toward putting an end to Islamic influence in
Angola once and for all.

The African economic news agency Agence Ecofin notes that, "According
to several Angolan newspapers, Angola has become the first country in
the world to ban Islam and Muslims, taking first measures by
destroying mosques in the country."

Rosa Cruz e Silva, the Angolan Minister of Culture, said “The process
of legalization of Islam has not been approved by the Ministry of
Justice and Human Rights, their mosques would be closed until further
notice.”

However, no official explanation has been given as to why Islam
currently faces a need to be legalized in Angola despite its presence
in the country for many years.

Another French publication reports that a minaret of an Angolan mosque
was dismantled last October, and that the city of Zango "has gone
further by destroying the only mosque in the city."

Angola is a majority-Christian nation of about 16 million people, an
estimated 55 percent of whom are Catholic, 25 percent of whom belong
to African Christian denominations, 10 percent of whom follow major
Protestant traditions, 5 percent of whom belong to Brazilian
Evangelical churches and where only between 80,000 and 90,000 people
are Muslim, according to the U.S. State Department.

For more news, information and humor relevant to atheists,
freethinkers, and secular humanists, check out Progressive Secular
Humanist Examiner on Facebook.

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Diop tape

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl7FKb4NPiI

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[Marxism-Thaxis] “Black Revolutionary” explores life of William Patterson

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“Black Revolutionary” explores life of William Patterson and global
freedom fight


by: Tony Pecinovsky
November 8 2013

tags: book review, African Americans, racism, activism, revolutionary, history

William L. Patterson has long been known as a hero in the fight
against racism and for socialism. Probably best known for his
leadership to save the Scottsboro defendants, nine African American
youth falsely accused of raping a white women, and as the director of
the Civil Rights Congress, which was widely viewed as the legal
defense arm of the broad African American freedom struggle, Patterson
also served as a national leader of the Communist Party USA.

In Gerald Horne's new book, "Black Revolutionary: William Patterson
and the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle," we
are privy to Patterson's transformation as a well-to-do New York
lawyer - in Horne's words, he was "living large, accumulating a
sizable bank account" - into a revolutionary and international leader
who struggled his whole life against Jim Crow, South African
apartheid, colonialism, red-baiting and war with the Soviet Union.

It is in his formative days as a young lawyer that Patterson met the
legendary athlete, actor and artist Paul Robeson; they remained
lifelong friends. It was the Communist Party's defense of Sacco and
Vanzetti, two Italian born anarchists falsely convicted of murder that
lead Patterson to give up his high paying gig as a law partner, and
eventually join the Communist Party in 1926.

"I followed the Sacco-Vanzetti case with all my soul," Horne quotes
Patterson as saying. "It was at this moment that a weighty realization
dawned: 'I came to the conclusion then that through the channels of
the law and of more legal action [alone] the Negro would never win
equality' for 'if a white worker like Tom Mooney and white foreigners
like Sacco and Vanzetti could be so victimized, what chance was there
for Negroes at the very bottom.'"

Sacco and Vanzetti were eventually executed in spite of national and
international protest.

After officially joining the party, Patterson immersed himself into
the International Labor Defense, the legal defense arm of the
Scottsboro Boys, and the American Negro Labor Congress, which
challenged the racism of then lily-white American Federation of Labor.

As an emerging and prominent African American leader of the CPUSA,
Patterson was sent to Moscow, where he met dozens of future leaders of
the African liberation movement and forged the international contacts
that proved to be so important in the coming dismantling of Jim Crow
back home.

"While abroad, he recounted, 'I had met leaders [and] liberation
fighters of almost every country in the world' an invaluable
experience that gave him a depth of understanding beyond the ken of
most of his peers...," and another example of how the former Soviet
Union helped to forge the worldwide contacts and connections that
served to isolate Jim Crow racism and eventually hasten its defeat.

While Black Revolutionary is a biography of Patterson, it is also an
examination of how Cold War politics affected the African American
freedom struggle. For example, Horne devotes considerable text to the
NAACP's mismanagement of certain aspects of the Scottsboro case, as
well as, their refusal to help the ILD organize mobilization protests.
In many cases, the NAACP's membership participated in spite of its
leadership's insistence on legal defense only. The NAACP also
disavowed left-progressive leaders, like founding member W.E.B. Du
Bois, in the hopes of saving itself from the emerging Cold War witch
hunt.

Horne also devotes considerable text to the Civil Rights Congress
petition to the United Nations, titled "We Charge Genocide," which was
"a devastating indictment of the U.S. authorities' complicity and
dereliction in lynching, murder, deprivation of voting rights and all
manner of crimes" against African Americans. Patterson delivered the
petition - to much press coverage - in Paris, while Robeson
simultaneously delivered it to the UN headquarters in New York.

After the delivery of the petition, Patterson exclaimed, "...mission
accomplished...[by which] I meant that the struggle for American
Negroes for their rightful place in their own nation was merging with
the liberation struggles of the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin
America." Joyfully, Patterson - in acknowledging the role of the
Soviet Union, the Eastern European states and African liberation
struggles - said, "I had learned much about the essence of the term
international working class solidarity."

However, just as the noxious poison of Jim Crow was being dismantled
and as the mid-50s and early 60s civil rights movements were emerging,
another simultaneous trend was developing - the McCarthy era. Just as
Jim Crow was gasping for its last breath, Patterson and other leaders
of the CRC and Communist Party found themselves in jail; those that
remained free had their passports revoked, were harass

[Marxism-Thaxis] Pope Francis today denounced conservative icons Pat Buchanan and Sarah Palin,

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CB: Long Live the South American Revolution !

 "VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis today denounced conservative icons Pat
Buchanan and Sarah Palin, calling their recent objections to his
leadership style “confusing,” “hypocritical” and “borderline-heresy.”
The pontiff—who was elected to lead the Roman Catholic Church in
March—complained that Buchanan and Palin should “look into their own
hearts” before questioning his actions, and suggested that they are
“simply jealous, having repeatedly failed to be elected to high office
themselves.” - See more at:
http://www.newslo.com/pope/#sthash.UmbtaZlm.dpuf

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Some xpropriators r xpropriated : Venezuela jails 100 'bourgeois' businessmen in crackdown

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"Along with the constantly diminishing number of the magnates of
capital, who usurp and monopolize all advantages of this process of
transformation, grows the mass of misery, oppression, slavery,
degradation, exploitation; but with this too grows the revolt of the
working class, a class always increasing in numbers, and disciplined,
united, organized by the very mechanism of the process of capitalist
production itself. The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the
mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and
under it. Centralization of the means of production and socialization
of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with
their capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The
knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are
expropriated."
"


Venezuela jails 100 'bourgeois' businessmen in crackdown



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Venezuela says 100 'bourgeois' businessmen jailed in crackdown

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By Andrew Cawthorne and Deisy Buitrago

Nov 14 (Reuters) - Venezuela's socialist government has arrested more
than 100 "bourgeois" businessmen in a crackdown on alleged
price-gouging at hundreds of shops and companies since the weekend,
President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday.

"They are barbaric, these capitalist parasites!" Maduro thundered in
the latest of his lengthy daily speeches. "We have more than 100 of
the bourgeoisie behind bars at the moment."

The successor to the late Hugo Chavez also said his government was
preparing a law to limit Venezuelan businesses' profits to between 15
percent and 30 percent.

Officials say unscrupulous companies have been hiking prices of
electronics and other goods more than 1,000 percent. Critics say
failed socialist economic policies and restricted access to foreign
currency are behind Venezuela's runaway inflation.

"Goodyear has to lower its prices even more, 15 percent is not enough,
the inspectors have go there straightaway," Maduro said in his evening
address, sending officials to check local operations of the U.S.-based
tire manufacturer.

Since the weekend, soldiers and inspectors have gone into 1,400 shops,
taken over operations at an electronics firm and a battery-making
company, and rounded up a handful of looters.

The move - Maduro's boldest since taking office in April - is
reminiscent of the dramatic governing style of Chavez, who
nationalized swaths of the OPEC member's economy during his 14-year
socialist rule.

Like Chavez, Maduro says he is defending the poor.

The inspections have shaken Venezuela three weeks before local
elections that his opponents are casting as a referendum on the
50-year-old former bus driver. Maduro has made preserving Chavez's
legacy the mainstay of his government and has been matching his former
mentor's anti-capitalist rhetoric.

"It's time to deepen the offensive, go to the bone in this economic
war," he said.

Only a few of the hundreds of shops targeted with surprise inspections
had been found to be offering "fair prices," officials say. Some
businesses are voluntarily lowering prices - or staying closed - in
case the inspectors come.

"We've reduced everything by 10 to 15 percent, but it's not fair. I
can't make a profit now," said the owner of one small electronics
store, who asked not to be identified.

"I agree they should go for the big fish, the real speculators, but
they risk hurting us all."

Venezuela's official inflation, 54 percent annually, is the highest in
the Americas.

Maduro said the forced price discounts should lead to negative
inflation of 15 percent in November and 50 percent in December -
forecasts that brought immediate mockery from critics on Twitter.

CROWDS AT SHOPS

Around Caracas and other major cities, crowds of shoppers are flooding
electronics, clothing and other outlets where price cuts are
anticipated. There has been some violence.

The Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflicts reported 39 incidents
of looting or attempted looting since Friday. "We ask officials to
moderate language in speeches that could be interpreted as calls to
violence," the local non-governmental organization said.

The rhetoric on both sides is becoming more strident.

The campaign to reduce prices and blame entrepreneurs may play well
with Maduro's power base among the poor and could help unite factions
within the ruling Socialist Party.

Given Venezuelans' anxiety over inflation, and scarcities of basic
goods from toilet paper to milk, Maduro was risking a backlash at the
December 8 nationwide municipal elections.

Plenty of Venezuelans have applauded his measures, saying price hikes
were out of control, while others have expressed fears that Maduro
could be uncorking dangerous forces.

Critics say the moves do not tackle the roots of

[Marxism-Thaxis] Moscow subway riders have the option of paying for their tickets in 30 squats:

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Russian still has a lot of socialism:

CNET

As part of a Russian campaign to make citizens healthier, Moscow
subway riders have the option of paying for their tickets in 30
squats: http://cnet.co/1dZIOkA

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Karl Marx is the world's most influential scholar.

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Information Scientists at Indiana University have determined Karl Marx
is the world's most influential scholar, according to this article
from Smithsonian.org:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/11/karl-marx-is-the-worlds-most-influential-scholar/

International Publishers proudly carries Marx's key works, including
the most important book in working class history, Capital: The Process
of Capitalist Production, Volume 1.

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Major has suddenly noticed the logical consequences of policies that screw the working class.

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He got visits from the ghosts of Christmas past and John Maynard Keynes

CB

Bruce Bartlett

"Major has suddenly noticed the logical consequences of policies that
screw the working class."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10439303/Truly-shocking-that-the-private-school-educated-and-affluent-middle-class-still-run-Britain-says-Sir-John-Major.html

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Bruce Bartlett: " I think it is only a matter of time before the Tea Party morphs into unapologetic fascism"

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Bruce Bartlett

  " I  think it is only a matter of time before the Tea Party morphs
into unapologetic fascism. It's the inevitable development of
movements that cannot achieve their goals democratically."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/09/world/europe/right-wings-surge-in-europe-has-the-establishment-rattled.html?_r=0

https://www.facebook.com/bruce.bartlett?fref=ts

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[Marxism-Thaxis] DAVID TALBOT IS THE FOUNDER OF SALON.COM He is writing a new book about Allen Dulles and the CIA coordination of the JFK Assassination

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Yep, that's the way I've always said it was - coup d'etat for being
soft on Communism

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Nathaniel Heidenheimer

DAVID TALBOT IS THE FOUNDER OF SALON.COM He is writing a new book
about Allen Dulles and the CIA coordination of the JFK Assassination…
you know.. the Only-Organization-NOT-involved-in-the-JFK
Assassination… if you listen to the Corporate Media and their
Corporate Foundation Funded
"Alternatives"…http://www.salon.com/2013/11/06/the_jfk_assassination_we_still_dont_know_what_happened/

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[Marxism-Thaxis] http://www.wikihow.com/Be-Okay-with-Having-a-Communist-Friend

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http://www.wikihow.com/Be-Okay-with-Having-a-Communist-Friend

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Comedy as superior to tragedy: Saturday Night Live

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“Saturday Night Live” and Richard Pryor: The untold story behind
“SNL’s” edgiest sketch ever
The amazing word-association sketch between Pryor and Chevy Chase
capped a tense week -- here's the inside story VIDEO
By David Henry and Joe Henry


Topics: Video, Books, TV, Television, Richard Pryor, Saturday Night
Live, Lorne Michaels, Chevy Chase, Johnny Carson, Editor's Picks,
Entertainment News
Excerpted from "Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him"

Up until the mid-1970s, the networks had little interest in Saturday
late-night shows. After the eleven o’clock news, the airwaves were a
bone-yard for local affiliates, the final resting place for schlock
movies from the 1950s and ’60s. NBC stations had the option of
rerunning recent episodes of “The Tonight Show” to predictably tepid
ratings, which did not please either the affiliates or Johnny Carson.
When Carson pulled the weekend reruns, preferring to repackage them as
“best of ” programs to air on weeknights so that he could enjoy some
time off, NBC president Herbert Schlosser and vice president of late
night programming Dick Ebersol tapped Lorne Michaels, a veteran of
Rowan and Martin’s “Laugh-In,” to create something edgy and new.

Johnny Carson dismissed “Saturday Night” as crude and sophomoric. He
was right. That he considered the jibe a debilitating argument against
the show only underscores how out of step “the lonesome hero of middle
America” (as a 1970 Life magazine cover proclaimed him) had become.
Crude and sophomoric was exactly what Saturday Night’s demographic
craved.

* * *

Conventional wisdom held that it would be ludicrous to expect the
show’s target audience to sit at home watching TV at eleven thirty on
a Saturday night. Michaels knew different. The audience he was after
had grown up watching TV. Too much TV. It was their collective point
of reference, the communal campfire around which they all gathered in
the new global village. They lived and breathed TV with an ironic
self-awareness that Michaels and his team used to frame the jokes
within the Big Joke that would define the show and leave most
Americans born before 1948 muttering to themselves and scratching
their heads.

NBC’s “Saturday Night” was arguably the first television show about
television. Then, as now, the show was dominated by ironic takedowns
of commercials, newscasts, sitcoms, talk shows, PBS-styled cultural
programming, punditry, and presidential debates. Even those skits that
ventured beyond television’s domain would typically break through the
fourth wall to skewer — or at least wink at — the familiar conventions
of variety-show sketch comedy. Perhaps that’s why Richard’s turn as
guest host proved such a sensation. His stand-up bits were a bracing
blast of fresh air for a generation accustomed to peering out at the
world through a peephole the size of a TV screen and snickering at
what they saw. The characters Richard brought out during his solo
spots that night bore little resemblance to television’s stock types.
The decent guy who turns into a violent drunk on weekends, the
Hennessy-quaffing cat who accepts a hit of acid at a party, the
junkie-berating wino — all were renegades who rode into the medium’s
gated community with news from the outside world.
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/03/saturday_night_live_and_richard_pryor_the_untold_story_behind_snls_edgiest_sketch_ever/

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[Marxism-Thaxis] The Decline of the Tea Party

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The Decline of the Tea Party
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/the-decline-of-the-tea-party/?_r=0

By BRUCE BARTLETT

Bruce Bartlett held senior policy roles in the Reagan and George H.W.
Bush administrations and served on the staffs of Representatives Jack
Kemp and Ron Paul. He is the author of the forthcoming book “The
Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform – Why We Need It and What It Will
Take.”

There is an apocryphal story about the origins of neoconservatism in
the 1960s. Some liberal professors at Harvard were sympathetic to the
New Left and such radical groups as Students for a Democratic Society.
But one day one of these professors heard the radicals suggest burning
down the Harvard library as an act of protest, and the professor
suddenly realized that he had nothing in common with them at all. He
organized some other professors into a vigil to protect the library at
all cost.

Today’s Economist

Perspectives from expert contributors.

Today, the problem isn’t the New Left, but the radical right, which
has dominated American politics at least since the rise of the Tea
Party movement in 2009 following the election of Barack Obama. It’s
too soon to say for sure, but recent events suggest that some of those
previously supporting the Tea Party have had their Harvard library
moment. There are signs of a pushback among the wealthy, conservative
elites and the business community that may see the political pendulum
begin to swing back toward the middle.

No one particular event seems to have created this moment. The
government shutdown is one, the impending Republican loss in the
Virginia governor’s race is another, and so is the dawning recognition
that the right-wing war on the poor and glorification of profits and
wealth may have gone too far.

One sign is the widely discussed essay published on Nov. 1 by the
managing director of Pimco, William H. Gross, on “Scrooge McDucks.”
McDuck, the cartoon character noted for his vast fortune and miserly
ways, was ranked first by Forbes among the fictional wealthy, with a
fortune estimated at $65 billion.

Mr. Gross, ranked 252nd on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest
Americans, said in his essay that having become wealthy in part
because of the tax cuts carried out by Ronald Reagan and George W.
Bush, as well as the low interest rate policies of the Federal Reserve
that facilitated leveraged borrowing, he had become concerned about
the plight of labor. That is, the declining share of national income
going to workers and the rising share going to capital, which is a
growing topic of concern among economists.

He calls this era the “gilded age of credit.” The Gilded Age was a
period of American history in the 1870s and 1880s not dissimilar to
today, when wealth was glorified and such intellectuals as the Yale
economist William Graham Sumner and the philosopher Herbert Spencer
justified the pursuit of riches and rising income inequality on
grounds that have come to be called “social Darwinism.” That is,
survival of the fittest.

Mr. Gross now thinks that labor has suffered too much from excessive
gains by the wealthy. “Those who borrowed money or charged fees on
expanding financial assets had a much better chance of making it to
the big tent than those who used their hands for a living,” he
laments.

He thinks the wealthy ought to support higher taxes on themselves. Mr.
Gross favors higher statutory tax rates, taxing capital gains as
ordinary income – they are now taxed about half – and abolition of the
“carried interest” loophole that allows hedge fund managers to pay
capital gains rates on their ordinary income.

Another growing concern of the wealthy and business groups is the
recognition that they lack any control over the Tea Party. A major
problem is that Tea Party people are only interested in nominating
Republicans based on their rigid adherence to right-wing principles,
even if they make such candidates unelectable in the general election.

A number of Senate elections have been lost in recent years because
Tea Party insurgents upset in primaries or party conventions some
mainstream candidates who probably would have won their races. This
appears to be happening again in the Virginia governor’s race, where
Republicans nominated for governor and lieutenant governor two
candidates who are very far to the right in a state that is trending
left.

The business community is especially upset by having the Tea Party
repeatedly throw away winnable races and is trying to inject more
political realism into the nominating process. Some business groups
are even reaching out to Democrats. The Fairfax Chamber of Commerce in
Virginia, for example, endorsed the Democratic candidate for governor
this year for the first time in recent memory.

It isn’t only rich people feeling guilt over their riches and
pragmatic business groups that are dissenting from the Tea Party
orthodoxy. Some Republicans and conservative intellectuals are now
saying that cuts to the welfare sta

[Marxism-Thaxis] Mike Lofgren | The Revolt of the Lower Middle Class and the Stupidity of the Elites

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http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19618-the-revolt-of-the-lower-middle-class-and-the-stupidity-of-the-elites

Mike Lofgren | The Revolt of the Lower Middle Class and the Stupidity
of the Elites

Monday, 28 October 2013 10:30 By Mike Lofgren, Truthout | Op-Ed



Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks to reporters after a Senate meeting on
Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 16, 2013. (Photo: Doug Mills / The
New York Times)

We read in the aftermath of the government shutdown and near default
on the country's sovereign debt that the US Chamber of Commerce is
clutching its pearls. "We are going to get engaged," said a mouthpiece
for the chamber. "The need is now more than ever to elect people who
understand the free market and not silliness." The chamber is the top
lobbying organization in America, and it gave 93 percent of its
political contributions to Republican candidates in the 2010 election
that birthed the Congressional Tea Party Caucus. Apparently it is now
having buyer's remorse. Politico, the newsletter of the Beltway
illuminati, reports similar tidings: Rich Republican mega-donors like
hedge fund vulture Paul Singer are expressing frustration with
Republican office holders, even though Singer has been a major
financial backer of the Tea Party-oriented Club for Growth, which
egged on the politicians who forced the shutdown. Even the Koch
brothers have been distancing themselves from the shutdown.

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Most Democrats, needless to say, are rubbing their hands with glee,
and predictions of doom for the GOP are too numerous to count. The Tea
Party, according to this narrative, has taken over the Republican
Party and will lead it to inevitable electoral oblivion: The sheer
irrationality of their demands constitutes electoral suicide. Others
are not so sure. Michael Lind has advanced the theory that the Tea
Party is an aggregation of "local notables," i.e., "provincial elites
[disproportionately Southern] whose power and privileges are
threatened from above by a stronger central government they do not
control and from below by the local poor and the local working class."
He links it to a neo-Confederate ideology that is "perfectly rational"
in terms of its economic objectives - a stark contrast to the
prevailing description of the Tea Party as irrational. Lind further
contends that progressives have misread the Tea Party, downplaying the
element of elite control and obsessing over the anger and craziness of
its followers.

There is some truth in this. The Tea Party definitely is
disproportionately Southern, as Lind stipulates, and any movement that
seeks to hobble the functioning of the federal government naturally
will advance themes and tactics that sound a lot like the template of
the Confederacy: states' rights, disenfranchisement of voters, use of
the filibuster and so forth. Some Tea Party candidates look an awful
lot like neo-Confederate sympathizers. But Lind misconstrues some of
the data. If, as he says, 47 percent of white Southerners express
support for the Tea Party, how does that square with his "local
notables" theme: That the "backbone" of the movement is "millionaires
[rather than] billionaires?" It is doubtful that 47 percent of the
white population in the poorest region of the country consists even of
local notables, much less millionaires.

That a fair number of local big shots is involved in the movement is
unsurprising and natural, given their economic interests; what is more
interesting from a sociological point of view, as well as more
significant from a political perspective, is the millions of non-rich
people, including those dependent on federal programs like Social
Security and Medicare, who pull the lever for Tea Party candidates.
The fact that 144 of 231 voting Republican House members opted for
shutdown and default is not explained by the Svengali-like influence
of a relatively small, regionally based group of Lind's "second-tier"
affluent people, especially because the first tier, the people that
the U.S. Chamber of Commerce represents, was opposed strongly to the
shutdown and to allowing a default. The most plausible answer is that
there is a mass popular movement (albeit working in carefully
gerrymandered Congressional districts) that would throw these members
of Congress out of office if they had voted otherwise. If big-shot
money were the sole criterion, the office holders would never have
threatened default in the first place.

In advancing his thesis that Tea Party adherents are more affluent and
more educated than average, Lind cites a New York Times/CBS News poll
from early 2010 that claims those findings. This poll is frequently
quoted in characterizations of the Tea Party, and there has been
relatively little work done on the demographics of the movement since
then. But one study found slightly lower levels of ed

[Marxism-Thaxis] "Governments should exist to protect people, not institutions." Conservative John Major

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"Governments should exist to protect people, not institutions."
Conservative John Major proposes windfall profits tax on big oil and
slackening of right wing concentration on possible fraud by the poor
as very cold winter forecast for Great Britian - Excellent article

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/22/john-major-windfall-tax-energy
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Charles Brown Wow, is John Major becoming the British Bruce Bartlett ?

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[Marxism-Thaxis] An old classic from Joan Robinson, An Essay on Marxian Economics

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Jim Farmelant

An old classic from Joan Robinson, An Essay on Marxian Economics.

http://digamo.free.fr/robimarx.pdf



Jim Farmelant I think she could be considered to have been a
grandmother of Analytical Marxism. She attempted to translate the
language of Marxian economics into a form that would make sense to
more conventional academic economists, that is ones trained in
neoclassical economics. She read Marx in such a way as to make his
theories seem similar to those of Keynes. She, in the process,
dispensed with the labor theory of value arguing that nothing
essential in Marx hinged upon it. In this, and other respects, she
anticipated the approaches taken by Analytical Marxists like John
Roemer.


ou, Grace Loehr, Julio Huato and 2 others like this.
Thomas Moe Seay That's a good one! I read that the first semester of
my Freshman year of college. I took a course in Labor History the
second semester and AMAZED my professor. True story. Ok, so maybe he
was just acting amazed. Anyway, it's an excellent book. Very lucid.
12 hours ago · Like
Jim Farmelant Joan Robinson was the economics Nobelist who never was.
11 hours ago · Like · 3
Ian Murray As superb a use of Occam's Razor in political economy as
I've ever read.
11 hours ago · Like · 1
Jim Farmelant No woman won the Nobel in economics until 2009.
11 hours ago · Like
Jim Farmelant So Moe, did that labor history professor say some Affirmations?
11 hours ago · Like · 1
Jim Farmelant Two of Joan's students did win Nobels: Amatya Sen and
Joseph Stiglitz.
9 hours ago · Like
Barkley Rosser when she was still alive I got a story into the
Washington Post how she and Sraffa deserved it. That was shortly
before her death. The first time I attended an AEA meeting it was 1973
in New York, a few years after the econ Nobel was established. I
overheard Lionel McKenzie talking to someone declaring that Joan would
get the next prize but that she would reject it. In the end, neither
she, nor Lionel who fully deserved it, got it.
9 hours ago · Like · 1
Jim Farmelant I think she could be considered to have been a
grandmother of Analytical Marxism. She attempted to translate the
language of Marxian economics into a form that would make sense to
more conventional academic economists, that is ones trained in
neoclassical economics. She read Marx in such a way as to make his
theories seem similar to those of Keynes. She, in the process,
dispensed with the labor theory of value arguing that nothing
essential in Marx hinged upon it. In this, and other respects, she
anticipated the approaches taken by Analytical Marxists like John
Roemer.
9 hours ago · Unlike · 2
Jim Farmelant She actually did want the Prize because she hoped to use
the money to fund her charities. She is said to have written a letter
to the Nobel committee to reassure them that she wouldn't embarrass
them. But to no avail.
9 hours ago · Like
Barkley Rosser About 30 years ago I was told by a Swedish insider that
there were two who would get the prize over "the dead body of" the
supposed "insider," They were Buchanan and Joan. Assar Lindbeck, then
the ruliing inside, decided oherwise. As it turned out, Joan died in
83 and Buck got the prize in 86, with Assar still in the saddle. The
latter award,b aside from screwing both Musgrave and Tullock, was
apparently awarded because the Sveriges Riksbank did not like Reagan's
deficit spending surge, and the Buck rather stupidly had come out for
a balanced budget amendment, and well,that is how some of those awards
are madel...
7 hours ago · Like · 1
Charles Brown She is said to have written a letter to the Nobel
committee to reassure them that she wouldn't embarrass them. But to no
avail./// She lived during the Cold War, so...
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[Marxism-Thaxis] questions-for-free-market-moralists/?

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http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/questions-for-free-market-moralists/?hp

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[Marxism-Thaxis] author-calls-for-fight-to-prevent-extinction-of-the-college-prof/

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http://peoplesworld.org/author-calls-for-fight-to-prevent-extinction-of-the-college-prof/

Author calls for fight to prevent extinction of the college prof



by: Larry Sillanpa
October 17 2013

tags: education, teachers, college, books, analysis

DULUTH, Minn. (PAI)-"Obstreperous" isn't a word often associated with
a teacher, much less a college professor. It more often would be used
to describe a teacher's nightmare - a noisy student who's difficult to
control.

But it was a word Benjamin Ginsberg of John Hopkins University used a
number of times at his Sept. 26 presentation to University of
Minnesota-Duluth faculty, members of the University Education
Association/Education Minnesota, the joint American Federation of
Teachers-NEA affiliate in Minnesota.

Ginsberg urges all university faculty to become obstreperous in
dealing with their administrations. Author of 24 books on a wide range
of subjects, Ginsberg's book, The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the
All-Administrative University and Why it Matters, led UEA to invite
him to campus. His book explains a phenomenon they know too well.

"It's been with us for 40 years," said Steven Matthews, who leads the
university's History Department and led the forum. "This is what we
need to do - bring in speakers to talk about important issues. We need
a free exchange of ideas or there is no university."

Ginsberg said universities were originally run by their faculties, who
would take part-time or temporary jobs in administering their schools.

"Deans planned to go back to being faculty," he said. The joke was
"don't do a good job or they'll promote you."

Today only a few universities are faculty driven, he said. Harvard and
the University of Chicago are among them and are among the best
institutions in America. So what happened?

A class of professional administrators started growing. Some were
faculty who failed to gain tenure. Most had little faculty experience,
Ginsberg said he found out in researching his book. "Now we have many
administrators who never taught a student."

And the ratio of administration to faculty is exploding. Ginsberg
found that nationally in 1965 there were 446,000 professors to 269,000
administrators and staff. By 2005 the number of professors had risen
to 675,000, but administration numbers had leaped to 800,000. During
that time the amount of money to pay professors had risen 128 percent,
but administration costs rose 148 percent.

Tuition costs were forced to increase to fund administration, he
said-and not to pay for the people who were actually teaching and
doing the research that makes a university a university.

Ginsberg cited a 2012 research paper by Carter Hill and Robert Martin
that found rising administration spending drove two-thirds of the
increase in higher education costs in the past 20 years. Hill and
Martin found that in terms of costs only there should be one
administrator for every three faculty members, but in actuality it was
two administrators to three faculty.

The recent recession produced some decline in administration numbers,
Ginsberg said, but tight money has more often led to program and
across-the-board cuts, harming the schools and their students.

Now faculty is seldom consulted on university matters, he adds.

"Senior administration is relatively autonomous," he said. "We find
out (decisions) in the paper."

While numbers can point to the economic effects of administrative
growth, the effect it has on the character and academic excellence of
universities is even worse, Ginsberg stated.

Teaching and research is what a university should be about, he
explained. All else, including buildings and extracurricular
activities, is ancillary. But that is what administration uses to
"bring customers to the store. They think they have to be
customer-friendly and not scare prospective students and their
families with such dreaded topics as calculus."

They don't know what to do

"Administration doesn't know what we do," Ginsberg said. "They think
one visit to a class will inform them." He added the army of
administrators sometimes does no harm "but they can be weapons of
academic destruction."

Professional administrators learn from and mimic one another. That's
why there is a concerted effort nationally to end the tenure system
for university professors. As a result only 25 percent to 30 percent
of faculty are tenure-tracked.

"Tenured faculty are the trouble makers, we don't do as we're told, we
hold meetings like this one," Ginsberg deadpanned.

By contrast, non-tenured adjunct professors, who often must hold two
or three such posts to earn enough income, need to work from
administration's playbook in order to keep their jobs. Ginsberg drew
applause when he asked, "If part-time is so good why don't we have
part-time administration? Full-time faculty and adjunct
administration...Without tenure there is no academic freedom...We're
about not agreeing with everyone. We need to try ideas out."

Ginsberg said it is t

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Marx's theory of human nature

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sciousness.
  Today, that means that the
direct naked appeal to the working class'
class self-interest is inadequate
 in itself-necessary but not sufficient
in the formal logical sense -to
inspire revolution.  That appeal
 cannot be
dropped - the vast majority
are working class, wage
laborers - but must be
complemented with appeals to other consciousness, other consciousness =
determined by being
(gender, for example) and
consciousness that is
determined more by consciousness.
  Overall one wants to change
the world based on interpreting it,
changing
it through practical-critical activity,
 a unity of theory and practice
still.








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>
> Marx's theory of human nature has an important place in his critique
> of capitalism, his conception of communism, and his 'materialist
> conception of history'. Marx, however, does not refer to "human
> nature" as such, but to Gattungswesen, which is generally translated
> as 'species-being' or 'species-essence'. What Marx meant by this is
> that humans are capable of making or shaping their own nature to some
> extent. According to a note from the young Marx in the Manuscripts of
> 1844, the term is derived from Ludwig Feuerbach’s philosophy, in which
> it refers both to the nature of each human and of humanity as a whole
> [1]. However, in the sixth Thesis on Feuerbach (1845), Marx criticizes
> the traditional conception of "human nature" as "species" which
> incarnates itself in each individual, on behalf of a conception of
> human nature as formed by the totality of "social relations". Thus,
> the whole of human nature is not understood, as in classical idealist
> philosophy, as permanent and universal: the species-being is always
> determined in a specific social and historical formation, with some
> aspects being biological.
>
> Contents
>
> 1 The sixth thesis on Feuerbach and the determination of human nature
> by social relations
> 2 Needs and drives
> 3 Productive activity, the objects of humans and actualisation
>
> 3.1 Humans as free, purposive producers
> 3.2 Life and the species as the objects of humans
> 3.3 Humans as homo faber?
>
> 4 Human nature and historical materialism
>
> 4.1 Human nature and the expansion of the productive forces
>
> 5 Human nature, Marx's ethical thought and alienation
>
> 5.1 Alienation
>
> 6 Gerald Cohen's criticism
> 7 References and further reading
>
> 7.1 Primary texts
> 7.2 Accounts prior to 1978
> 7.3 Recent general accounts
> 7.4 The debate over human nature and historical materialism
>
> 8 Footnotes
> 9 See also
>
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Dirty Antebellum Secrets in Ivory Towers

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http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/10/19/books/ebony-and-ivy-about-how-slavery-helped-universities-grow.html?from=arts

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[Marxism-Thaxis] I'm Not Going To Pretend That I'm Poor To Be Accepted By You

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Bruce Bartlett

Wanker-in-training who lives off her wealthy father's money.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/rachael-sacks/2013/10/im-not-going-to-pretend-that-im-poor-to-be-accepted-by-you/

I'm Not Going To Pretend That I'm Poor To Be Accepted By You
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I’m not one of those people who try to be poor to relate to people. I
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No, she's one of those self-absorbed people who hate anyone who
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decisions.
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projecting twatwaffle cunt who shall forever be alone and thus not
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Actually we could talk of Eureka, and how it's essentially Oregon.
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patrician mannerisms. I am not going with any selfish bitch who thinks
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Marx's theory of human nature

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_human_nature

Marx's theory of human nature has an important place in his critique
of capitalism, his conception of communism, and his 'materialist
conception of history'. Marx, however, does not refer to "human
nature" as such, but to Gattungswesen, which is generally translated
as 'species-being' or 'species-essence'. What Marx meant by this is
that humans are capable of making or shaping their own nature to some
extent. According to a note from the young Marx in the Manuscripts of
1844, the term is derived from Ludwig Feuerbach’s philosophy, in which
it refers both to the nature of each human and of humanity as a whole
[1]. However, in the sixth Thesis on Feuerbach (1845), Marx criticizes
the traditional conception of "human nature" as "species" which
incarnates itself in each individual, on behalf of a conception of
human nature as formed by the totality of "social relations". Thus,
the whole of human nature is not understood, as in classical idealist
philosophy, as permanent and universal: the species-being is always
determined in a specific social and historical formation, with some
aspects being biological.

Contents

1 The sixth thesis on Feuerbach and the determination of human nature
by social relations
2 Needs and drives
3 Productive activity, the objects of humans and actualisation

3.1 Humans as free, purposive producers
3.2 Life and the species as the objects of humans
3.3 Humans as homo faber?

4 Human nature and historical materialism

4.1 Human nature and the expansion of the productive forces

5 Human nature, Marx's ethical thought and alienation

5.1 Alienation

6 Gerald Cohen's criticism
7 References and further reading

7.1 Primary texts
7.2 Accounts prior to 1978
7.3 Recent general accounts
7.4 The debate over human nature and historical materialism

8 Footnotes
9 See also

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Reporters I know at the WSJ get very upset when I say that Murdoch has corrupted the news coverage there.

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Bruce Bartlett

Reporters I know at the WSJ get very upset when I say that Murdoch has
corrupted the news coverage there.

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2013/10/8534778/new-book-wall-street-journal-reporters-stymied-news-corp-phone-hack-sc

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Right wing Keynesians: they REALLY believe in deficit spending

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Bruce Bartlett :
My new column explains why the wankers don't just want debt default,
they want debt repudiation.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/for-many-hard-liners-debt-default-is-the-goal/
For Many Hard-Liners, Debt Default Is the Goal
economix.blogs.nytimes.com

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Fascism American style

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http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/you-think-you-knew-crazy-think-again-10-shockers-increasingly-unhinged-right

http://peoplesworld.org/shutdown-new-phase-in-a-very-american-coup/

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[Marxism-Thaxis] obama-picks-full-employment-advocate-yellen-to-head-federal-reserve/

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http://peoplesworld.org/obama-picks-full-employment-advocate-yellen-to-head-federal-reserve/

Obama picks full-employment advocate Yellen to head Federal Reserve

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by: John Wojcik
October 9 2013

tags: Federal Reserve, economy, jobs, unemployment, inflation, housing
bubble, monetary policy

WASHINGTON - President Obama has nominated Janet Yellen, Federal
Reserve vice chair, to run the Federal Reserve, the most important
central bank in the world.

If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Yellen will be the first woman to
lead the Federal Reserve in its 100-year history.

Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women,
praised the nomination, describing it as "another crack in a glass
ceiling that needs to be shattered. O'Neill said that "in the middle
of a government shutdown brought about by bitter extremism, Dr.
Yellen's nomination is an opportunity for Republicans to show they
really can work with Democrats - they should take it."

Yellen won confirmation to her original term on the Federal Reserve in
a 94-6 vote, and sailed through her confirmation as Fed Vice Chair on
a voice vote.

In addition to women's groups, the nomination of Yellen is getting
high marks from labor and its allies who see her promotion as a sign
that the Federal Reserve will acknowledge that bringing down
unemployment is no less important than keeping inflation in check.

"The AFL-CIO applauds President Obama for nominating Janet Yellen,"
the nation's largest labor federation said in a statement today.
"Prof. Yellen is a brilliant economist with a strong record of
leadership."

Yellen has earned a reputation as the Fed official most concerned
about unemployment and least concerned about inflation.

"With employment so far from its maximum level and with inflation
running below 2 percent, I believe it's appropriate for progress in
the labor market to take center stage in the conduct of monetary
policy," she said in March.

Yellen served as president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank
where she says she got a firsthand look at the over-heated real estate
market. She was first among her colleagues to warn of the impending
and disastrous housing bubble, a major factor in the Great Recession.

"President Obama's nomination of Janet Yellen to be the next chair of
the Federal Reserve is encouraging news," said Josh Bivens, an
economist at the Economic Policy Institute. "Most importantly, she has
had a correct diagnosis of what is driving the chronic joblessness
crisis in the U.S. economy: aggregate demand for goods and services
remains too weak to support full employment."

Bivens said that the "contractionary" fiscal policy pursued in recent
years has caused the recovery from the Great Recession to proceed much
more slowly than it otherwise would have.

"Government spending over this recovery has been nowhere near the
trajectory it was on after every single other recession since World
War II," he explained. "Had it been equivalent to the increased
spending trajectories that happened after those prior recessions, 90
percent of our excess unemployment would be gone by now. And, the
unfortunate thing is that we just didn't do things to slow the
recovery but we actually did things to additionally damage the
economy.

"Soon after the recession hit, we began on a path to austerity - this
was damaging enough but then, on top of that, we threw in the
sequester. Even without the sequester we were on a path to 700,000
fewer jobs at the end of 2013. With the sequester, it's worse."

Obama selected Yellen after a former economic adviser, Lawrence
Summers, withdrew from consideration in the face of strong opposition
from progressives in the president's own Democratic Party. With
Republicans opposing anything Obama does and the opposition of liberal
Democrats it would have been impossible, observers say, for Summers to
win Senate confirmation.

"In any case," said Bivens, "Yellen is a much better choice because
she doesn't have Summers' long record of deregulating the financial
sector.

Bivens said he was also impressed by Yellen's "willingness to admit"
that in the early 2000's the Fed didn't "worry enough" about the
housing bubble and deregulation. "She has the ability to come out and
say 'we were wrong.' That's encouraging." Yellen made those admissions
he was referring to at a March forum held at AFL-CIO headquarters in
Washington D.C.

Republicans can be expected to challenge the president's nomination of
Yellen. Conservatives disapprove of her position that inflation is
less worrisome than unemployment. Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, a
Republican, said he has concerns about her "proclivity to print
money."

"I voted against Vice Chairman Yellen's original nomination to the Fed
in 2010 because of her dovish views on monetary policy," Sen. Bob
Corker of Tennessee, another Republican said. "We will closely examine
her record since that time, but I am not aware of anything that
demonstrates her views have

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fwd: Negative dialectics

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Two reason's the tea Republicans may be doing the bidding of the 1% in
forcing a default on the US national debt:

1) If the US defaults, it will be an excuse for Wall Street to raise
the cost of borrowing for decades increasing 1% profits over the long
run.

2) One capitalist always kills many, especially in crashes, panics and
depressions, when they can buy up a lot of failing capital cheap. So,
the tea Republicans have long been blocking government actions to help
"the" economy; and that's because,not only were they trying to make
Obama look bad, but the "one" capitalists, the corporations with the
greatest concentrations of money want another recession so they can
clean up on weak capitals, cutthroat competition. Another slang
expression of this is "when the going gets tough, the tough get
going", going to cannibalize other capitals.

 3) The capitalist ideological leaders and economists have long
accepted that recessions, panics,crashes are cyclically inevitable in
capitalism. So, they have decided they can survive and exploit them
best if they start them, with planning in advance. They have also won
a too-big-to-fail
bailout doctrine as US policy.There is a long history of government
bailout of corporations (
(History of U.S. Gov't Bailouts
  http://www.propublica.org/special/government-bailouts
:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_big_to_fail)

 The decades of
universal cyclical crises have drummed negative dialectics into the heads of
the practical bourgeoisie.


  "The contradictions inherent in the movement of capitalist society
impress themselves upon the practical bourgeois most strikingly in the
changes of the periodic cycle, through which modern industry runs, and
whose crowning point is the universal crisis. That crisis is once
again approaching, although as yet but in its preliminary stage; and
by the universality of its theatre and the intensity of its action it
will drum dialectics even into the heads of the mushroom-upstarts of
the new, holy Prusso-German empire."

Karl Marx
London
January 24, 1873

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Occupy Finance

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Occupy Finance
http://www.scribd.com/doc/168661471/Occupy-Finance

www.scribd.com
Occupy Finance was written collaboratively by the Alternative Banking
Group of Occupy Wall Street. We are dedicated to the proposition that
citizens are both capable of and entitled to an understanding of

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[Marxism-Thaxis] "One capitalist always kills many"

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Keith Igoe on facebook: Anyone who has followed the over-leveraged
real estate market for the last 12 years knows that the uber-investors
have been waiting to cash in on the millions of credit defaults that
they have engineered to explode over that time. The real estate bomb
will make them trillions, but they've been thwarted in their attempts
to tank the economy and cash in on a couple occasions. This current
crisis is their ultimate gambit.

Charles Brown That's been my guess, Keith Igoe, though you are more
specific than I.
 Two reason's the tea Republicans are doing the bidding of the 1% in
forcing a default on the debt:
1)If the US defaults, it will be an excuse for Wall Street to raise
the cost of borrowing for decades increasing 1% profits over the long
run.

2) One capitalist always kills many, especially in crashes, panics and
depressions, when they can buy up a lot of failing capital cheap. So,
the tea Republicans have long been blocking government actions to help
"the" economy; and that's because,not only were they trying to make
Obama look bad, but the "one" capitalists, the corporations with the
greatest concentrations of money want another recession so they can
clean up on weak capitals, cutthroat competition. Another slang
expression of this is "when the going gets tough, the tough get
going", going to cannibalize other capitals.

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Will the U.S. Default?

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Automatic socialism
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424053111903320604579107383630972324.html?mod=BOL_twm_col

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[Marxism-Thaxis] The latest Republican offer is that they will allow the government to reopen, if...

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Bruce Bartlett:

"The latest Republican offer is that they will allow the government to
reopen if the descendants of slave owners are compensated for the loss
of their property."

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Fwd: They will find ways to invest “in” Detroit, but so that most of the local population will not benefit. They will exploit and skate, their forte.

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Subject: They will find ways to invest “in” Detroit, but so that most
of the local population will not benefit. They will exploit and skate,
their forte.


The bourgeoisie cannot really undo what they have done. They are
hoisted on their own petard. Detroit is a pariah society in the
national media still. White masses are shy to move back in to Detroit,
desegregate. The bourgeoisie will not invest in an African town, like
this, with so few white people to benefit. They must blockade us like
Cuba, or Haiti.

Like the great Heavy Weight Boxing Champion of the World, Jack
Johnson, Detroit is unforgiveably Black and Proud.

I take that back. They will find ways to invest “in” Detroit, but so
that most of the local population will not benefit. They will exploit
and skate, their forte.


http://coreysviews.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/detroit-is-haiti-unforgivably-black/

Detroit is Haiti: Unforgivably Black

By cpmondello on February 18, 2010

By Shields Green

The Detroit rebellion of 1967 had the impact of crystalizing an
economic embargo that had then been developing for 15 years on the
city. The relationship of business to Detroit since then is something
like the relationship of world capitalism to Haiti since the
revolution there a couple of centuries ago.

In Detroit, there was the bullet and then the ballot, a la Malcolm X
in reverse: The rebellion and then the election of Coleman Young as
Black mayor, extraordinaire. For this, and really for being an 85
percent Black population, Detroit is still under economic blockade
punishment by the powers-that-be.

These were the culmination of a socioeconomic, historical shift, which
was marked by segregating residence based on race through white flight
to the suburbs, especially beginning in the 50s, escaping the move
toward integration represented in open housing law (see Sugrue, The
Origins of the Urban Crisis; Coleman Young, Hardstuff).

It was also part of a relative scattering of some main points of
industrial production from a concentration in the city of Detroit (and
Dearborn) to the surrounding suburbs. It was a breaking up of the
Arsenal of Democracy, which had many leftwingers,naturally. In a way,
it seems to have been a shift of the location of basic production from
the mid West to the South, from the U.S. to other countries, in what
gets termed post-industrialism, post-Fordism, restructuring. The
concentrated proletarian powerhouse was busted up and racially
resegregated on the typical American model, Black vs. white.

The bourgeoisie cannot really undo what they have done. They are
hoisted on their own petard. Detroit is a pariah society in the
national media still. White masses are shy to move back in to Detroit,
desegregate. The bourgeoisie will not invest in an African town, like
this, with so few white people to benefit. They must blockade us like
Cuba, or Haiti.

Like the great Heavy Weight Boxing Champion of the World, Jack
Johnson, Detroit is unforgiveably Black and Proud.

I take that back. They will find ways to invest “in” Detroit, but so
that most of the local population will not benefit. They will exploit
and skate, their forte.

So, TIME magazine, several months ago, had a cover story that poverty
in Detroit today is in part due to the rebellion of 1967, cause and
effect, politically and economically, case closed.

Actually, it is. The bourgeoisie are still punishing the rebellion,
among other things. Perhaps, TIME was making a confession.

With Umoja, Ujima and Ujamaa Detroit and Haiti will be champions again !

Source:  
http://www.michigancitizen.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=76&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=8274&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1070&hn=michigancitizen&he=.com

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[Marxism-Thaxis] House Republicans just proved once and for all that their sacred principles are worth shit.

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Bruce Bartlett

House Republicans just proved once and for all that their sacred
principles are worth shit. Their principles say government spending is
out of control and must be slashed. Their principles also say that all
government workers except the military are lazy bums who do nothing.
So how does paying them for at least a week of no work fit in? I wish
some GOP cheerleader--you know who you are--would explain so I can
understand.

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Donald Antal back pay is a core Christian value!
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Doug Walsh I don't get it, if you are going to pay all Federal
Employees back pay, why not just open the government back up and let
them go to work? Where exactly is the "savings" here?
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Tim Mallace This is equivalent to feeding the hostages.
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Bruce Bartlett Exactly my point. All Republicans have done is screw
the taxpayer by giving them no services for a week.
4 minutes ago · Unlike · 2
William Tetzlaff Just trying to curry favor with government workers,
by promising missed paychecks. They voted for it the last time the
closed the government too. With Fox News crowing about how the lazy
bums will get stiffed on their pay, I figured that when it was ...See
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[Marxism-Thaxis] I remind people that trashing your Tea Party moron congresspersons on Twitter is the most effective way to do so

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Bruce Bartlett

I remind people that trashing your Tea Party moron congresspersons on
Twitter is the most effective way to do so. Use their Twitter handle
to make sure they see it.

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Treasury says a debt default could trigger a financial meltdown like 2008

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"Treasury says a debt default could trigger a financial meltdown like
2008. Republicans don't give a shit because their precious principles
come first." - Bruce Bartlett

http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl2178.aspx

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Detroit harms Big Banks

[c b]

Detroit bankruptcy weighs down banks around the world


>From The Detroit News:
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20131003/METRO01/310030045#ixzz2gfQzZOKV


http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20131003/METRO01/310030045/Detroit-bankruptcy-weighs-down-banks-around-world?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

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[Marxism-Thaxis] potential_government_shutdown_how_would_the_u_s_media_report_on_it_if_it

[c b]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2013/09/30/potential_government_shutdown_how_would_the_u_s_media_report_on_it_if_it.html

If It Happened There ... the Government Shutdown


By Joshua Keating
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 30: The sun sets on an uneasy capital.

Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images

This is the first installment of “If It Happened There,” a regular
feature in which American events are described using the tropes and
tone normally employed by the American media to describe events in
other countries.

WASHINGTON, United States—The typical signs of state failure aren’t
evident on the streets of this sleepy capital city. Beret-wearing
colonels have not yet taken to the airwaves to declare martial law.
Money-changers are not yet buying stacks of useless greenbacks on the
street.

But the pleasant autumn weather disguises a government teetering on
the brink. Because, at midnight Monday night, the government of this
intensely proud and nationalistic people will shut down, a drastic
sign of political dysfunction in this moribund republic.

The capital’s rival clans find themselves at an impasse, unable to
agree on a measure that will allow the American state to carry out its
most basic functions. While the factions have come close to such a
shutdown before, opponents of President Barack Obama’s embattled
regime now appear prepared to allow the government to be shuttered
over opposition to a controversial plan intended to bring the nation’s
health care system in line with international standards.

Six years into his rule, Obama’s position can appear confusing, even
contradictory. Though the executive retains control of the country’s
powerful intelligence service, capable of the extrajudicial execution
of the regime’s opponents half a world away, the president’s efforts
to govern domestically have been stymied in the legislature by an
extremist rump faction of the main opposition party.

The current rebellion has been led by Sen. Ted Cruz, a young
fundamentalist lawmaker from the restive Texas region, known in the
past as a hotbed of separatist activity. Activity in the legislature
ground to a halt last week for a full day as Cruz insisted on
performing a time-honored American demonstration of stamina and
self-denial, which involved speaking for 21 hours, quoting liberally
from science fiction films and children’s books. The gesture drew wide
media attention, though its political purpose was unclear to
outsiders.

With hours remaining until the government of the world’s richest
nation runs out of money, attention now focuses on longtime opposition
leader John Boehner, under pressure from both the regime and the
radical elements of his own movement, who may be the only political
figure with the standing needed to end the standoff.

While the country’s most recent elections were generally considered to
be free and fair (despite threats against international observers),
the current crisis has raised questions in the international community
about the regime’s ability to govern this complex nation of 300
million people, not to mention its vast stockpiles of weapons of mass
destruction.

Americans themselves are starting to ask difficult questions as well.
As this correspondent’s cab driver put it, while driving down the
poorly maintained roads that lead from the airport, “Do these guys
have any idea what they’re doing to the country?”

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Capitalist collapse in its own contradictions; General crisis.

[c b]

from Nicholas J. Evancik : "What is about to happen if the Republicans
refuse to raise the debt ceiling is called "Sovereign Default".
Basically the country will not be able to pay interest payments to
bondholder.
"If the debt ceiling isn't lifted again this fall, some serious
financial decisions will have to be made...At some point, the
government won't be able to pay interest on its bonds and will enter
what's known as sovereign default, the ultimate financial disaster
achieved by countries like Zimbabwe, Ecuador, and Argentina (and now
Greece)...If the American government can't stand behind the dollar,
the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will
very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much
less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest
self-imposed financial disaster in history."

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[Marxism-Thaxis] In relatively free competition, eventually some capitalist wins the competition

[c b]

In relatively free competition, eventually some capitalist wins the
competition, some capitalist becomes number one, the "one" capitalist
who always kills many, and winning means the losers go out of
business. By this contradiction free competition tends to monopoly.

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[Marxism-Thaxis] The Communist Party of America, Section of the Communist International (a.k.a. "unified CPA") 2. -- "2nd National Convention" -- Bridgman, MI -- Aug. 17 - 22, 1922

[c b]

http://www.marxisthistory.org/subject/usa/eam/communistparty.html

IV again) -- The Communist Party of America, Section of the Communist
International (a.k.a. "unified CPA") 2. -- "2nd National Convention"
-- Bridgman, MI -- Aug. 17 - 22, 1922

The Bridgman Convention of 1922 was an absolute debacle, held in
secret in a state with a strict "Criminal Syndicalist" Law. The
gathering was penetrated by an agent of the Department of Justice,
Francis Morrow (party names "Day" and "Ashworth"), who was elected as
a delegate from Camden, NJ -- the raid resulting in a series of
litigation that tied up the energy and resources of the American
Communist movement for years.

The Bridgman Convention was held in gullies amidst wooded dunes on the
estate of Karl Wolfskeel, less than a mile from Bridgman and about 12
miles from the neighboring towns of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor. The
"Wolfskeel Summer Resort" had a number of cottages that were routinely
rented out to campers, which served to house the 70 or so who attended
the gathering. The location could be reached only by an unpaved road,
which helped to maintain the site's isolation. The meeting was
attended by "Ward Brooks" (aka Genrikh Valetskii, born Maximilian
Horwitz) as the representative of the Communist International.

[fn. R.M. Whitney, Reds in America. (NY: Beckwith Press, 1924), pp. 20-21.]

The Bridgman Convention was called to order by Executive Secretary Jay
Lovestone on behalf of the party's Central Executive Committee. The
agenda of the gathering was crowded with discussions on a wide range
of topics. Ben Gitlow and Caleb Harrison were chosen as chairmen of
the convention, heading its various sessions and resolving matters of
parliamentary procedure. Comintern Rep Valetskii delivered a keynote
address to the gathering in German, during which he stated that while
capitalism's economic prospects were improving, the consciousness of
the workers was still growing and the class struggle sharpening. The
Communist Party had emerged from its factional struggles stronger than
before, having carefully studied various questions of tactics,
Valetskii hopefully asserted.

Jay Lovestone reported on the progress of the party-related
organizations the African Blood Brotherhood and The World War
Veterans, while on Saturday, Aug. 19, William Z. Foster addressed the
gathering on behalf of the Trade Union Educational League.

The agenda of the gathering was chiefly concerned with the issue of
whether the underground CPA should be dissolved and was divided on the
issue between a narrow majority favoring retention of the underground
organization (the "Goose Caucus") and a slight minority favoring its
termination (the "Liquidators"). The decision ultimately reached by
the gathering (with the vote deciding the matter by the narrowest of
margins) called for the continuation of a controlling underground
Communist Party, but with the primary work of the movement centered in
open, "legal" work.

Abram Jakira ["J. Miller"] was named Executive Secretary of the
underground CPA by the convention.

Aware that there was a growing police presence in the little town of
Bridgman, the convention was prematurely terminated (with no final
decision reached on the status of the underground party) and its
documents buried in two barrels. Early in the morning of Tuesday, Aug.
22, the gathering was sensationally raided by police, with the hidden
cache of documents easily uncovered due to Morrow's penetration of the
gathering. Some 17 members of the CPA were arrested on the site, with
many other participants -- including Foster -- arrested later under
warrants issued on the basis of documents seized in the Bridgman raid.

The following members of the CPA were arrested in conjunction with the
Bridgman convention: Phillip Aronberg, Alex Bail, Eugene Bechtold,
Earl R. Browder, William F. Dunne, Charles Erickson, William Z.
Foster, Alex Georgian, Caleb Harrison, Charles Krumbein, Cyril
Lambkin, Max Lerner, Elmer McMillin, John Mihelic, Seth Nordlin,
Thomas J. O'Flaherty, William Reynolds, C.E. Ruthenberg, A. Severino,
T.R. Sullivan, Norman H. Tallentire, and Joseph Zack [Kornfeder].

A legal defense organization called the "Labor Defense Council"
emerged in the fall of 1922 to raise consciousness about the fate of
the Bridgman defendants and funds for their trials. This group, of
which William Z. Foster was National Secretary, included a 21-member
National Committee, including such non-CPA figures as Roger N. Baldwin
of the ACLU, Father John A. Ryan of the Catholic Welfare Council,
Eugene V. Debs of the Socialist Party, and John Haynes Holmes.



After Bridgman, the CPA began to divide its Central Executive
Committee into smaller and pivotal subcommittees, the "Organization
Committee" or "ORCOM," which handled financial and personnel matters,
and the "Political Committee," or "POLCOM," which handled resolutions,
manifestos, and tactical decisions. A complete list of meetings of the
CEC, POLCOM, and O

[Marxism-Thaxis] Communist Party of America 1919 -1946 downloadable documents

[c b]

http://www.marxisthistory.org/subject/usa/eam/communistparty.html

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[Marxism-Thaxis] jpmorgan-said-to-face-u-s-mortgage-securities-charges.html

[c b]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-23/jpmorgan-said-to-face-u-s-mortgage-securities-charges.html

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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 119, Issue 16

[c b]

In the period of mega-bailouts, the Wall Street leaders told the
President to give them trillions and he obeyed. GM and Chrysler had to
go hat-in-hand to Congress to ask for $85 billion. That incident is
evidence that finance capital as the merger of industrial capital and
finance capital has finance capital is the dominant part.

On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Jim Farmelant  wrote:
>
>
> From: 
> To: 
> Subject: Fw: Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 119, Issue 16
> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 11:37:36 +0200
>
> Classes and MegaclassesThe above post prompts a commentary on the
> definition of class.  Marxists are fond of talking about a single capitalist
> ruling class, with some fractions to it. This procedure is, however,
> inadequate. As, among others, the recent crisis has amply demonstrated, the
> divisions in question are much more than just sub-class in nature. In actual
> fact, industrial capitalists, financial capitalists, or commercial
> capitalists, to mention but a few, constitute not just class fractions or
> strata, but socio-economic classes in their own right-characterised by their
> respective configurations of economic property relations. Conflicts between
> those classes are very probable and very frequent, constituting an important
> case of class struggle, nb. analysed also by Marx. This does not mean that
> the single capitalist class is a fiction; it is only that to create such a
> concept of what should be termed "megaclass" one takes consideration of the
> common characteristics of the various bourgeois classes, leaving out their
> specific, individualising aspects of property relations.  This is a far more
> realistic framework within which to consider and interpret a wide variety of
> inter-class relationships, which may, and often do, take the form of open
> conflicts.- Original Message -
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[Marxism-Thaxis] americas-top-communists-of-all-time

[c b]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/americas-top-communists-of-all-time/2013/09/23/64d686a8-2072-11e3-b7d1-7153ad47b549_gallery.html#photo=13

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Detroit is Haiti: Unforgivably Black

[c b]

http://coreysviews.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/detroit-is-haiti-unforgivably-black/

Detroit is Haiti: Unforgivably Black

By cpmondello on February 18, 2010

By Shields Green

The Detroit rebellion of 1967 had the impact of crystalizing an
economic embargo that had then been developing for 15 years on the
city. The relationship of business to Detroit since then is something
like the relationship of world capitalism to Haiti since the
revolution there a couple of centuries ago.

In Detroit, there was the bullet and then the ballot, a la Malcolm X
in reverse: The rebellion and then the election of Coleman Young as
Black mayor, extraordinaire. For this, and really for being an 85
percent Black population, Detroit is still under economic blockade
punishment by the powers-that-be.

These were the culmination of a socioeconomic, historical shift, which
was marked by segregating residence based on race through white flight
to the suburbs, especially beginning in the 50s, escaping the move
toward integration represented in open housing law (see Sugrue, The
Origins of the Urban Crisis; Coleman Young, Hardstuff).

It was also part of a relative scattering of some main points of
industrial production from a concentration in the city of Detroit (and
Dearborn) to the surrounding suburbs. It was a breaking up of the
Arsenal of Democracy, which had many leftwingers,naturally. In a way,
it seems to have been a shift of the location of basic production from
the mid West to the South, from the U.S. to other countries, in what
gets termed post-industrialism, post-Fordism, restructuring. The
concentrated proletarian powerhouse was busted up and racially
resegregated on the typical American model, Black vs. white.

The bourgeoisie cannot really undo what they have done. They are
hoisted on their own petard. Detroit is a pariah society in the
national media still. White masses are shy to move back in to Detroit,
desegregate. The bourgeoisie will not invest in an African town, like
this, with so few white people to benefit. They must blockade us like
Cuba, or Haiti.

Like the great Heavy Weight Boxing Champion of the World, Jack
Johnson, Detroit is unforgiveably Black and Proud.

I take that back. They will find ways to invest “in” Detroit, but so
that most of the local population will not benefit. They will exploit
and skate, their forte.

So, TIME magazine, several months ago, had a cover story that poverty
in Detroit today is in part due to the rebellion of 1967, cause and
effect, politically and economically, case closed.

Actually, it is. The bourgeoisie are still punishing the rebellion,
among other things. Perhaps, TIME was making a confession.

With Umoja, Ujima and Ujamaa Detroit and Haiti will be champions again !

Source:  
http://www.michigancitizen.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=76&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=8274&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1070&hn=michigancitizen&he=.com

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[Marxism-Thaxis] divisions in the ruling class : wall-street-gop-are-you-nuts

[c b]

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/wall-street-gop-are-you-nuts-97425.html

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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 118, Issue 6

[c b]

However, the use of "class" at all in the mainstream discourse is an
advance over the last 60 years in the US, so, with that historic
context, the technical incorrectness of "middle class" is not
correctly raised at this point in the progress of the US working
class' class consciousness. The Occupy WallStreet terminology of 1% vs
99% is not technically correct either, as it refers to income instead
of relationship to the means of production, but it is a glorious
propaganda advance for the US working class at this time in history
that it is so popularized

CB

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Jim Farmelant  wrote:
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>
>
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>
>
>> 'The middle class' is an oxymoron
>> ja...@amu.edu.pl
>> Jacek Tittenbrun
>> Apart from anti-worker attitudes and feelings, that Detroit piece
>> demonstrates yet another truth. This is commonly overlooked, but the
>> concept of middle class makes no sense at all. In this case this is
>> apparent because it has been applied to the working class. So, is a GM
>> machinist member of the working or middle class? He cannot be both. What
>> hides behind this puzzle is the fact that the term 'the middle class' is
>> drawn from the stratification rather than class vernacular. Middle, upper,
>> lower classes are terms pertaining to stratification, for it is the latter
>> only that is inherently hierarchical; by contrast, class structures are
>> more complex sets of interrelationships. The petty bourgeois clas, for
>> instance, may be in some respects 'higher', that is, privileged in
>> relation to the working class, but this does not necessarily concerns some
>> other things, e.g. income; an artisan may well be poorer than "the
>> affluent worker" [such was even the title of once famous Lockwood's book
>> on the subject]. There are many more important differences between
>> stratification and class; strata are universal [in time and space],
>> classes  emerged only at some stage of historical development and, in
>> theory, may disappear in the future, whereas income, lifestyle, and other
>> suchlike distinctions would not.
>> In a word, the word 'class' in juxtaposition with the word 'middle', or
>> 'upper and 'lower', for that matter is an oxymoron. And politically and
>> ideologically harmful at that.
>> - Original Message -
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>>> rich (relatively; "middle class"). When we got "rich". We got
>>> satisfied and happy as we should have. When we got happy, we got lazy.
>>> When we got lazy , we got dumb.
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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: FWD from Jacek Tittenbrun - Socialism

[c b]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Jim Farmelant  wrote:
>
>
> Thank you. Below is my comment to the post on communism and socialism through 
> the prism of government ownership and control.
>
> Ownership and Control
> If one wishes to speak about communism and socialism and their
> interrelations, one's starting point, at least in the present context, should 
> be Marx and Engels' writings.   And for the latter, as it is well-known , 
> communism was the next historical stage after socialism, a stateless 
> formation, so any claim on government control or ownership of the means of 
> production in that socio-economic system is baseless from that standpoint.

^^
CB: If you look at Lenin's _The State and Revolution_ you will find
all the citations of Marx and Engels for the argument that the state
does not whither away in the Marxist sense until the later phase of
communism. The state persists as the dictatorship of the proletariat (
Marx's term in a letter to Wedeymeyer) in the beginning of socialism.
In the _Manifesto of the Communist Party_ the State is referred to as
part of socialism explicitly , thusly:

"5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a
national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the
hands of the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the
State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the
improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. "

and implicitly in several elements of the first steps of socialism:

Also, they say this:

The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree,
all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of
production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat
organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive
forces as rapidly as possible.

Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means
of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions
of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear
economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of
the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon
the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely
revolutionising the mode of production.



  But this is mot the end of the story. Historical materialism takes a
socio-economic, as opposed to juridical view of reality; and it is
solely from the latter perspective that the concept of governmement
ownership makes sense. It is the case because in law the concept of
the so-called legal person is used; such persons are exemplified by
business corporations, universities, and the state. But there is sill
more to this matter than that. Even assuming the aforementioned
socio-economic perspective is not enough, since there there is no
single notion of economic ownership. Many writers, including Marxists
or neo-Marxists, treat control as differentia specifica of economic
ownership. This is  fallacious, however, since the notion of control,
decision-making, disposal of the means of production refers to the
preconditions or effects rather than the substance of ownership, which
should be conceived of as benefit, more precisely as free benefit; it
is for that reason that I've termed my approach to ownership a
rent-base one. Thus, on that count as well the argument presented in
the post on the distinction between communism and socialism should be
rejected.

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CB:Much public property is substantially not private property even
under all overall capitalist private property dominated systems, . For
this reason and because you are fundamentally mistaken concerning the
Marxist position on the existence of a state in the first phase of
communism, it is your criticism that should be rejected.


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[Marxism-Thaxis] Circular firing squad; euthanasia of the rentiers

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[Marxism-Thaxis] "Labor in the white skin cannot emancipate itself when in the black skin it is branded." - Capital, Vol. 1, Karl Marx http://peoplesworld.org/detroit-through-the-lens-of-class-and-rac

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"Labor in the white skin cannot emancipate itself when in the black
skin it is branded." - Capital, Vol. 1, Karl Marx
http://peoplesworld.org/detroit-through-the-lens-of-class-and-race/

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Market socialism as socialism within the Market

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Charles Brown
September 21 at 10:06am ·

As Paul Samuelson indicated, capitalist economies are mixed
socialist/capitalist economies and have been for a long time. Even the
US is a very mixed economy. Really since Wall Street and GM and
Chrysler are insured by the federal government, the banking system and
big industry are socialized. The fig leaf of paying back the bailouts
doesn't hide the fact that People remain sureties of the
too-big-to-fails in any failings in the future. Objectively, the US
banks have been socialized whatever name they put on it.

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Charles Brown There is a long history of government bailout of corporations (
(History of U.S. Gov't Bailouts
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:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_big_to_fail)
History of U.S. Gov’t Bailouts
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Justin Schwartz No, Charles. After all these years you should be more
clear on this. Public ownership and planning are not "socialist." They
can be a tool of capitalist economic management. What makes it
socialist is worker control, at the point of production, over
strategic planning, and in political power. And that capitalist
economist have not had, regardless of how much public ownership and
planning they may have involved.
September 21 at 11:28am · Like · 1
Geoffrey Jacques That's one view of what constitutes socialism, Justin
Schwartz, but that's not the only view. The problem becomes more
complicated when you consider relations between the democratic
political order and these economic decisions made by it with regard to
management, ownership, regulation, and control of "private"
enterprise. (I know there are still some who believe there is such a
thing as "bourgeois" democracy, as opposed to some other kind. Not me.
I think nobody's ever seen such. If so, show me.) Charles's view is
historically authoritative and accurate, as it illustrates exactly the
point that no Socialist of 100 years ago, of whatever school, and no
Liberal or Conservative of 1913, would have looked on our contemporary
political and economic order and recognized it as purely capitalist.
The would have seen, instead, the "mixed" economy.
September 21 at 12:20pm · Unlike · 2
Marilyn Daniels What about political intent and political content, Mr.
Jacques? Do you seriously believe we have a "mixed" economy? If you
do, you're feeling a hell of lot less oppressed than I am. Everywhere
we turn, we see the socio-political order manipulated on behalf of the
bourgeoisie. We witness it and feel it on every level, from credit
card rules all the way up to the military contractor system. We do
indeed have a "bourgeois democracy," a society set up in the interest
of a ruling class , although the democracy bit is definitely fraying.
Although it's handy to talk about "socialism for the upper class,"
it's incorrect by definition. I think Justin got right to the heart of
it.
September 21 at 4:54pm · Like
Geoffrey Jacques First of all, I wasn't talking about articles of
faith or belief. We live in a society that combines various forms of
public and private ownership, regulation, and control of economic
activity under the governance of a democratic state. To the extent
that belief plays a role, this probably has more to do with the
differing values among various sections of the population than with
anything else. That's our reality. Second, whether or not we have a
mixed economy has nothing whatsoever to do with whether one feels
oppressed. I don't doubt you when you say that everywhere you turn you
"see the socio-political order manipulated on behalf of the
bourgeoisie." I get that there are those who look at our reality and
all they see is what you've described. But a mixed economy is just
that: mixed. As for "bourgeois" democracy, I understand the views of
those who embrace the term and who argue that it offers a more fitting
critique of social reality than the more historically accurate term
"liberal" democracy. I used to use the term "bourgeois" democracy
myself, but then found it too inaccurate and intellectually confining
to account for the existing political reality.
September 21 at 6:20pm · Unlike · 2
Rama Kant Sharma Charles is digging the fundamentals in with his
hoe.In a Social stage where in Peaks of the economy are in the hands
of capitalists,the state is obviouly of -by -and for that
class,regardless of mixed economy features of low or high level.This
is the case in most developed capitalist nations of the world.But
states where in public sector predominates as in China (as was
declared in last party congress of Chinese Party),or even in
Russia,Cuba,Vietnam,the power of the contending classes becomes mixed
and unstable-and this anomaly is transitional to these times. Coming
to pow

[Marxism-Thaxis] Capitalist economies are mixed socialist/capitalist economies

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As the late, great economist Paul Samuelson indicated, capitalist
economies are mixed socialist/capitalist economies and have been for a
long time. Even the US is a very mixed economy. The main local
government functions are major socialist enterprises at the base of
the US economy. Water and sewerage, roads and highways, public
schools, etc. Really since Wall Street and GM and Chrysler are insured
by the federal government, the banking system and big industry are
socialized. The fig leaf of paying back the bailouts doesn't hide the
fact that the People remain sureties of the too-big-to-fails in any
failings in the future. Objectively, the US banks have been socialized
whatever name they put on it.
There is a long history of government bailout of large corporations.
Chrysler has been bailed out twice in the last 35 years (History of
U.S. Gov't Bailouts
  http://www.propublica.org/special/government-bailouts
:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_big_to_fail)


Theoretically, the is part of the General Crisis of Capitalism,
wherein capitalism objectively tends to turn into socialism, even
without a socialist conscious Bolshevik party and working class
vanguard seizing state power. Much of the process of socialization of
society  is just dull evolutionary rationalization of capitalist
economic functions and institutions, rather than exciting
revolutionary insurrection.

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[Marxism-Thaxis] socialism is defined as a system whereby the government controls the means of production, with communism being the extreme,

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Jonathan Walters Charles, msocialism is defined as a system whereby
the government controls the means of production, with communism being
the extreme, whereby the government owns the means of production.
Since money today is technically not an asset (it's not backed by
anything) its sole purpose is as a means to conduct commerce, and
since money is created, controlled, and destroyed by government, it
becomes the ultimate means of controlling production, and is therefore
socialist in nature.

Now Charles, I didn't say that the argument was correct, but only that
it can be argued, and logically deduced that it is such, but logic is
not always correct.
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Joseph Sciortino Uh, no, that's not communism.
21 minutes ago · Like
Natalia Petrova Communism is ultimately a classless stateless
propertyless moneyless society.
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Jonathan Walters joseph, you missed the last part of what I said, and
I also said socialist in nature, not communist in nature. But hey,
whatever.
20 minutes ago · Like
Jonathan Walters natalia, hence the government owns the means of
production, meaning that in the end, they own everything.
19 minutes ago · Like
Joseph Sciortino Socialism doesn't have to involve the state either.
18 minutes ago · Like
Charles Brown Yes, no _private_ property in the basic means of
production. You own your own underwear, etc. Water and sewerage system
, etc. are owned in common for the public
17 minutes ago · Like
Charles Brown The state persists in socialism until there are no
capitalist states left. Then the state whithers away in the Marxist
conception.
16 minutes ago · Like
Charles Brown The state has not always existed in human society. For
the first 200,000 years there was no state. State originates in
Mesopotamia ( Iraq) , 8 to 11,000 years ago ( See Henry Wright,
archaeologist for example)
11 minutes ago · Like
Jonathan Walters charles, yes, that is correct, but society was not
developed, with human populations clustered in small groups, that
really didn't need a state to function. The larger those groups, the
larger the state needs to be.
9 minutes ago · Like
Charles Brown Yes, Jonathon Walters that's what people usually say.
But what does the state do that is necessary with larger populations ?
People are _not_ inherently greedy or violent ( contra social
darwinists ). The state only arises with private property and economic
oppressing and exploiting classes. The state is necessary to repress
the exploited class which is in artificially produced scarcity to
coerce them to produce surpluses to be appropriated by the exploiting
class; not because as populations get larger there arise inborn social
misfits that didn't exist with smaller populations.

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[Marxism-Thaxis] socialism is defined as a system whereby the government controls the means of production,

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Jonathan Walters Charles, socialism is defined as a system whereby the
government controls the means of production, with communism being the
extreme, whereby the government owns the means of production. Since
money today is technically not an asset (it's not backed by anything)
its sole purpose is as a means to conduct commerce, and since money is
created, controlled, and destroyed by government, it becomes the
ultimate means of controlling production, and is therefore socialist
in nature.

Now Charles, I didn't say that the argument was correct, but only that
it can be argued, and logically deduced that it is such, but logic is
not always correct.
28 minutes ago · Unlike · 1
Joseph Sciortino Uh, no, that's not communism.
21 minutes ago · Like
Natalia Petrova Communism is ultimately a classless stateless
propertyless moneyless society.
20 minutes ago · Edited · Unlike · 1
Jonathan Walters joseph, you missed the last part of what I said, and
I also said socialist in nature, not communist in nature. But hey,
whatever.
20 minutes ago · Like
Jonathan Walters natalia, hence the government owns the means of
production, meaning that in the end, they own everything.
19 minutes ago · Like
Joseph Sciortino Socialism doesn't have to involve the state either.
18 minutes ago · Like
Charles Brown Yes, no _private_ property in the basic means of
production. You own your own underwear, etc. Water and sewerage system
, etc. are owned in common for the public
17 minutes ago · Like
Charles Brown The state persists in socialism until there are no
capitalist states left. Then the state whithers away in the Marxist
conception.
16 minutes ago · Like
Charles Brown The state has not always existed in human society. For
the first 200,000 years there was no state. State originates in
Mesopotamia ( Iraq) , 8 to 11,000 years ago ( See Henry Wright,
archaeologist for example)
11 minutes ago · Like
Jonathan Walters charles, yes, that is correct, but society was not
developed, with human populations clustered in small groups, that
really didn't need a state to function. The larger those groups, the
larger the state needs to be.
9 minutes ago · Like
Charles Brown Yes, Jonathon Walters that's what people usually say.
But what does the state do that is necessary with larger populations ?
People are _not_ inherently greedy or violent ( contra social
darwinists ). The state only arises with private property and economic
oppressing and exploiting classes. The state is necessary to repress
the exploited class which is in artificially produced scarcity to
coerce them to produce surpluses to be appropriated by the exploiting
class; not because as populations get larger there arise inborn social
misfits that didn't exist with smaller populations.

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Charles Brown Jonathan Walters "People are _not_ inherently greedy or violent"

On the contrary, people ARE inherently greedy and violent. As a
species of mammal we are. It's those behaviors that society creates
that inhibits those natural tendencies.
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Charles Brown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society
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Jonathan Walters what is hunting?
8 minutes ago · Like
Charles Brown No species , of mammals or otherwise, is inherently
inclined to be violent against other members of its own species. That
characteristic is patently maladaptive, and any species that developed
same would like have gone extinct. Think about it. Carnivores are
instinctively violent toward _other_, _prey_ species, not against
their own kind. Humans are not instinctively violent toward humans.
Nor need they be "greedy" as humans have had plenty of food since our
origin. See leading anthropologist Marshall Sahlins' "the original
affluent society" and _Stone Age Economics_. We were very efficient
food getters because 1) we are more social than any other species,
i.e. super-cooperative, friendly to each other and 2) We have customs,
traditions , culture, history, accumulate experience and knowledge
passed on not through our genes across generations. no other species
has that adaptive advantage of culture and history. So, we have enough
food and there's no need for greed, except after artificial scarcities
are created in class exploitative society, starting 11,000 years ago.
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The "original affluent society" is a theory postulating that
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first articulated by Marshall Sahlins at a symposium entitled "Man the
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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] "Marxism and Philosophy" by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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> would prefer religious pacifist who pursues the lonely way
> beyond political groups or church sects. One who cherishes
> the writings of Tolstoi and the music of Mozart would be
> especially welcome, but any warmhearted fellow-sinner
> who will not shy away from a dung-pit or the sweet
> monotony of toil in hot summer fields will be gladly received. Write: James 
> P. Cooney, Morning Star Farm,
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> Subject: [Marxism-Thaxis] "Marxism and Philosophy" by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:55:32 -0400
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[Marxism-Thaxis] "Marxism and Philosophy" by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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http://www.unz.org/Pub/Politics-1947jul-00173

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Lenin's Conspectus of Hegel's Science of Logic: Book III (Subjective

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Lenin's Conspectus of Hegel's Science of Logic: Book III (Subjective ...

www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/cons-logic/ch03.htm
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ... and to Hegel's Encyclopaedia of the
Philosophical Sciences in Outline, also known as the . to
understand Marx's Capital, and es-

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Unpublished novel by Karl Marx:_ Scorpion and Felix_, A Humoristic Novel

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Putin is correct

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[Marxism-Thaxis] False, Individualist bourgeois metaphysics of the human being

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Charles Brown Children don't have the "truth" within them.
Spontaneous child "creativity" is over rated in developmental
education. It is based in a bourgeois individualist conception. Ok,
important even, to have fun. But it's not academically "developmental"
as implied by use of paint which is a form of  "writing".
 The child is not the father of the man to the extent 19th Century
romantics in Britain thought.

x. Conservatives fail children with their over-emphasis on rote
learning and standardized tests.
Charles Brown I didn 't say anything about rote learning and
standardized tests. Play is fine. Children must learn to enjoy life.
However, children's creativity in their academic - reading , writing
and arithmetic - development is overrated.
This error concerning children as the source of their own wisdom is
rooted in the bourgeois metaphysics of Individualism, as if knowledge
is inborn in the individual person, is in the child and comes out in
"creativity". This is a false metaphysics of the human being.

The human individual organism is an especially social individual. Is
in fact, indivisible from society.

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[Marxism-Thaxis] The Complete Henry C K Liu

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Others/Henry.html
MONEY AND COMMODITY MARKETS
Henry C K Liu was born in Hong Kong and educated at Harvard
University, US,in architecture and urban design. His interest in
economics and international relations started when he participated in
interdisciplinary work on urban and regional development as a
professor at the University of California Los Angeles, Harvard and
Columbia. He is currently chairman of a New York-based private
investment group.



New Articles
by
Henry C.k. Liu


http://henryckliu.com/

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Misdirected QE is mere sleight of hand By Henry C K Liu

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/GECON-01-170713.html
Misdirected QE is mere sleight of hand
By Henry C K Liu

(The following is an extract from the first of a new series of
articles discussing quantitative easing, initially published on the
web site of Asia Times Online regular contributor Henry C K Liu.)

In early April, 2013, the Bank of Japan, a central bank, under its new
chairman Haruhiko Kuroda, announced that it would implement both
quantitative and qualitative easing (QE) to stimulate the stalled
Japanese economy. (See my April 17, 2013, article, Bank of Japan
Bashing.)

QE is a monetary measure that a central bank in desperation can
undertake as a last resort to stimulate a stalled economy when the
short-term benchmark inter-bank interest rate target is set at or near
zero and cannot be lowered through central bank open



market operations, in which the central bank buys or sells short-term
government bonds in the open market such as the repo market to keep
the inter-bank interest rate near its set target.

Such a situation is known as a "liquidity trap", a term introduced by
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) in 1936 to describe a market situation
in which injection of cash by the central bank into the banking system
to lower the short-term interest rate fails to stimulate growth. Such
a liquidity trap is caused by market participants hoarding cash on
expectation of adverse market developments such as deflation caused by
insufficient aggregate demand due to high employment.

QE by a central bank increases the money supply through buying
sovereign or other top-rated securities from big banks and other
systemically significant financial institutions at face value without
reference to market value or interest rate. QE floods stressed
money-issuing/transmitting financial institutions with additional
reserves in an effort to provide more liquidity in the market and to
boost bank lending into the stalled economy. In the current debt
crisis that began in mid-2007, most over-leveraged institutions have
been using QE money to de-leverage to lower required reserve rather
than to raise existing reserve to boost lending.

QE measures generally expand the balance sheets of the buying central
banks, transferring troubled assets of eclipsed market value from the
private sector to the central bank at full face value, saving
endangered systemically significant (too-big-to-fail) institutions
from pending insolvency.

In an over-leveraged debt market economy, QE can run the risk of
reducing private sector incentive to try with determination to create
new wealth to retire outstanding liabilities with newly earned money
in a difficult market. This decline in incentive is due to the easy
availability of unearned QE money issued by the central bank to
relieve stressed institutions from pending insolvency.

Such unearned money released by central bank QE has no real worth
behind it except as sole legal tender accepted by government for
payment of taxes. Yet tax payment by definition is reduced in a
recession, thus reducing the demand of money needed for payment of
taxes.

Under such conditions, QE money released by central bank has reduced
stored value because such money is not backed by additional tax claims
by government. In fact, even fiat money already in circulation,
presumably backed by its acceptance for payment of taxes, face
impairment in value in a recession when tax revenue generally
declines. Additional QE money in a recession further dilutes the
stored value of all money in circulation.

QE money cannot be backed by stored value of any other kind without
such money being productively employed directly to create new wealth
beyond the removal of troubled assets from the banking system in the
private sector. Troubled assets held by creditors are assets whose
market values are discounted by price deflation or debtor default.

Furthermore, QE money directly reduces the need on the part of debtors
in the private sector for earned money to repay debt because such debt
has been transferred to the central bank at full face value in
exchange for QE money not backed by equivalent tangible assets or
additional tax revenue.

QE without direct focus or impact on reducing unemployment is by
definition not a Keynesian measure of deficit financing to reduce
unemployment in the recessionary phase of a normal business cycle.

Unless QE money is targeted directly on creating new employment to
restore consumer demand, and not targeted merely toward manipulative
transfer of troubled assets to the central bank from financial
institutions in private sector facing insolvency, QE is merely a
monetarist maneuver. More

(This is the first article in a series. Next: The Debate on Negative
interest Rates.

Henry C K Liu is chairman of a New York-based private investment
group. His website is at http://www.henryckliu.com.

(Copyright 2013 Henry C K Liu.)

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[Marxism-Thaxis] The Complete Henry C K Liu Sep 10, 2013

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Others/Henry.html

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[Marxism-Thaxis] the-financial-crisis-and-the-second-great-depression-myth

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http://truth-out.org/news/item/18694-the-financial-crisis-and-the-second-great-depression-myth

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[Marxism-Thaxis] MANIFESTO for PRAXIS SOCIETIES and for A Global Democratic and Socialist Political Economy April, 1998

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http://www.critcrim.org/redfeather/journal-pomocrim/vol-1-intro/manifesto.html

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[Marxism-Thaxis] but socialism and collectivism are as American as apple

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   - Occupy Healthcare
   Ridiculous! Why would anyone listen to him?
   “Heritage Foundation president and former Senator Jim DeMint suggested
   to a town hall audience in Wilmington, Delaware Thursday that health care
   programs like Medicare and Medicaid are “un-American” and built on the
   principles of “socialism and collectivism.”’
   Like · · 17282 · August 30 at 7:00pm ·

   Charles Brown They are built on principles of socialism and collectivism
   , but socialism and collectivism are as American as apple pie. The
   following are built on the same principles: pretty much all local
   government , including water and sewerage, garbage pickup, police and fire
   services, public health, public parks etc. Also socialist are public
   schools, Social Security, public roads and highways, the whole military.
   America has a long history of successful socialist institutions.
   
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  Janet Roe-Darden  DeMint is
  an effing idiot, and I was appalled when he left politics to head the
  Heritage Foundation. Ye gods
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  ever see a good politician out of SC, do let me know. So far, I'm pretty
  underwhelmed. No wonder the Civil War started down there.
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  Geoffrey L. Garfield  Yet
  he benefits from both.
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However,
  he is correct that Medicaid and Meticare are based on socialist and
  collectivist principles. It is just that socialism and collectivism are
  good principles, and they are very American given all the socialist
  institutions that long have been basic to America.
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Bruce Bartlett

[c b]

Bruce Bartlett brings an honesty to discussion of white supremacy that is
pretty close to unique for white mainstream journalists. The issue of white
fear of retribution in righteous indignation from Black people is the
underpinning of much of white supremacist attitudes today. Also, many
whites are envious of the Christian moral supremacy of "turning the other
cheek" by Black people, who by and large have not sought retribution. The
brilliance of mass Black consciousness even in the superficially violent
"riot"/protests of the 60's in which Black neighborhoods, not white ones ,
were destroyed, still did not cross the segregation line into retribution.
They were grand grassroots guerilla theater .true street demonstrations of
just anger. Destruction of property is not violence.

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2013/08/30/What-Martin-Luther-King-Really-Gave-to-America.aspx#page1
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[Marxism-Thaxis] CONTAMINATED FUKUSHIMA FISH RECYCLED AS FOOD AID

[c b]

Occupy 
Chicago
CONTAMINATED FUKUSHIMA FISH RECYCLED AS FOOD AID: Canned Fish from Tohoku
sent to Developing Countries, With Help of WFP
Demand that Fish Be Tested for Radiation

We’ve extensively documented that radioactivity from Fukushima is spreading
to North America.

More than a year ago, 15 out of 15 bluefin tuna tested in California waters
were contaminated with radioactive cesium from Fukushima.

Bluefin tuna are a wide-ranging fish, which can swim back and forth between
Japan and North America in a year.

But what about other types of fish?

Sockeye salmon also have a range spanning all of the way from Japan to
Alaska, Canada, Washington and Oregon:



Article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/is-fukushima-radiation-contamin
ating-tuna-salmon-and-herring-on-the-west-coast-of-north-america/5346942
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Fwd: CHRYSLER HAS BEEN BAILED OUT TWICE. DO WE SAY WHITE PEOPLE CAN'T RUN CHRYSLER ?

[c b]

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From: c b 
Date: Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 1:41 PM
Subject: CHRYSLER HAS BEEN BAILED OUT TWICE. DO WE SAY WHITE PEOPLE CAN'T
RUN CHRYSLER ?
To: bthomp...@michroicle.com


CHRYSLER HAS BEEN BAILED OUT TWICE. DO WE SAY WHITE PEOPLE CAN'T RUN
CHRYSLER ?

By C.D. Brown

When GM and Chrysler went managed bankrupt for something like
$80 billion, nobody said that white people are not ready to be in charge
of transnational industrial corporations and, that Chrysler was
dependent on
free tax money from
us; that , as Corporation leader and Presidential candidate Mitt
Romney insultingly said to the NAACP convention, to paraphrase, u
people want too much free stuff.

Chrysler Corporation has been bailed out twice by the federal
government. Congressman James Blanchard road his championing that free
stuff for Chrysler to the Michigan governor's chair. But Prince
Richard Snyder
doesn't want a bailout for Detroit. It is because, unlike Chrysler,
Detroit
has a Black majority represented in electoral offices running City
government.

Mayor Coleman A Young, Black Mayor Extraordinaire, won a loan from
the federal government for the
City of Detroit to help Chrysler Corporation build the Jefferson North
Assembly plant. The federal government can forgive that loan which
benefited Chrysler and America handsomely.

Snyder,the Barbarian Governor, doesn't want a
bailout for Detroit, thereby
speaking against the best interests of Detroit. He should be
aggressively seeking a bailout for Detroit, like Governor Christie
aggressively
sought aid for New Jersey for relief from hurricane damage or
Blanchard and Granholm sought bailouts for Chrysler. Detroit
has been under economic "hurricanes" almost continuously for 50 years.

Chrysler has been bailed
out twice from those storms ! (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chrysler). Not only was
there divestment from the city proper in
capital flight for 60 years, but the auto industry corporations
centered in Detroit have been crushed in the world competition as
emblemized in Chrysler's two insolvencies. The City of Detroit's
elected
officials could do about as much about those auto company disasters in
Detroit's economy as New Jersey elected officials could do to stop the
hurricane. So, city officials should not be scapegoated in loss of
powers under Snyder savage dictator law.

As part of the economic hurricanes, the State of Michigan itself ,
including Detroit, suffered a
one state recession (as the monopoly media termed it) in the years
leading up to two of Michigan's
private auto giants falling into the final insolvencies As a result

the State of Michigan fell into fiscal irresponsibility greater than
Detroit's and, had to be bailed out by the Obama
Stimulus for $7.8 billion ( See
http://www.house.mi.gov/hfa/PDFs/ARRA%20Forum%20Dec%202009.pdf
). Then it was not even considered that whites ,who dominate
Michigan's governorships and legislatures (
including many who are still there) couldn't run our State, and liked
"Federal Welfare and Entitlements", free stuff, to bail them out
of their fiscal
irresponsibility. Savage Snyder's current budget "surplus" is wholly
based on the bailout by President Obama and the Democratic majority
Congress of Obama's first term.

Similarly when New York City, New York was in
receivership/emergency financial management in 1975, it was not said
that white people couldn't run a major city. NYC got a $2.3 billion
bailout from the federal government under President Gerald Ford of
Michigan when it was insolvent.
but it was not even whispered that the white people in charge of NYC
liked
free stuff. NYC was bailed out when it was insolvent in 1975.

( Bill Summary & Status - 94th Congress (1975 - 1976) - S.2725 -
THOMAS

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d094%3ASN02725%3A%40%40%40D&summ2=m&;
;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_York_City_(1946–77)

So, when Detroit has an immediate deficit we should not say Black
people don't
know how to administer a major city. Since all these other institutions
were
bailed out, why not bailout out Detroit without any of this " Black
people like free stuff"?

There is a long history of government
bailout of monopoly private corporations. especially banks and hedge
funds based in New York City (
(History of U.S. Gov't Bailouts
http://www.propublica.org/special/government-bailouts
:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_big_to_fail).

What's good for the
goose is good for the gander.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fwd: Crain's article The State of Michigan bailed itself out of "fiscal irresponsibility "with Obama stimulus money

[c b]

Crain's article The State of Michigan bailed itself out of "fiscal
irresponsibility "with Obama stimulus money

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Subject: Crain's article The State of Michigan bailed itself out of "fiscal
irresponsibility "with Obama stimulus money
To: charles brown 


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Date: Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM
Subject: The State of Michigan bailed itself out of "fiscal
irresponsibility "with Obama stimulus money
To: Tony Trupiano 


More on Obama bailout of State of Michigan




The State of Michigan bailed itself out of fiscal irresponsibility
with federal stimulus money that Republicans publically denounced.
Here is a report from the Michigan House of Representatives on the
State of Michigan bailout:
http://www.house.mi.gov/hfa/PDFs/ARRA%20Forum%20Dec%202009.pdf
http://www.house.mi.gov/hfa/PDFs/ARRA%20Forum%20Dec%202009.pdf
www.house.mi.gov
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   Charles Brown
http://washingtonindependent.com/115010/michigan-republicans-sought-stimulus-funds-argued-money-would-generate-jobs
   Michigan Republicans sought stimulus funds, argued money would
generate jobs
   washingtonindependent.com
   Newsweek reveals a series of newly released documents from the
Department of Energy that shows all of the Republican members of the
Michigan congressional delegation seeking stimulus funding for
projects in the state on the grounds that such spending would create
jobs — despite frequently claiming t...
   37 minutes ago · Like ·
   Charles Brown
   Did the State of Michigan bail itself out of it's deficits with this
   federal government, Obama "welfare". Oh no the Tea Party wouldn't
   stand for that . Oh yes they would.

   This is beyond the $220 million in revenue sharing money that Engler
   made a deal with Archer to give Detroit that even the Detroit News
had
   an editorioal saying Detroit is owed. This would fix the _short_ term
   or immediate deficit and crisis. The interest on it would make it
   bigger.

   Some of the Stimulus money that Michigan took would help with an even
   longer short term deficit in Detroit.


http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20090518/FREE/905189987/michigan-gets-more-than-3-8-billion-in-federal-stimulus-funds&template=printart
   Crain's Detroit Business
   www.crainsdetroit.com
   Daily news and features from crainsdetroit.com and from the
weekly newspaper Cra...See More
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   #occupy kalamazoo Great post!
   31 minutes ago · Unlike · 1
   Charles Brown Lets stop Kaiser Snyder and his fiscally
irresponsible savages and thieves.
   30 minutes ago · Like
   Charles Brown
   Robber Dictator Part of the basis for opposing Financial
Dictators in Michigan is that
   they don't
   solve the problem, which is revenue losses due to specially depressed
   local economies ,not fiscal irresponsibility of local governments.
   Secondly, the posture of fiscal moral superiority of the State of
   Michigan "coming
   in to straighten out these spendthrift , fiscal miscreants" is fake
   since the State of Michigan, including the current Republican
majority
   Senate, used Obama Stimulus monies to bail itself out of a much
bigger
   deficit. The State is itself a spendthrift , fiscal miscreant if
   Detroit is one.

   However, both State
   and local deficits are really caused by economic recession and
   depression. And it is decision by the private sector , not
government,
   that determine the ups and downs of the economy because this is a
   _private_ enterprise system, not a system in which the government
   controls the economy. So, what's
   good for the goose (the State) is good for the gander (the City) -
   bailout. Finally, EM's
   don't solve the problem ,because public services are needed and
   government jobs are jobs. Jobs, including government jobs, are key to
   economic health. Financial Dictators only
   cut jobs and services, and don't bring in revenues, jobs or
   businesses to a city. They are like the old "physicians" who had a
   theory that bleeding people would heal them.

   The main purpose of a Robber Dictator seizing the City of Detroit is
   to take its assets, revenues, pensions, wages and benefits and give
   them to the very private sector, the 1% , whose decisions caused
   Detroit's economy to be in recession and depression.
   28 minutes ago · Like
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Fukushima "warming" is faster than global warming

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Might have to bring back Mark Jones' "Crashlist"

http://www.globalresearch.ca/west-coast-of-north-america-to-be-hit-hard-by-fukushima-radiation/5346470

http://www.whiteoutpress.com/articles/q32013/japanese-gamble-armageddon-in-last-ditch-fukushima-effort/

http://intellihub.com/2013/05/29/absolutely-every-one-bluefin-tuna-tested-in-california-waters-contaminated-with-fukushima-radiation/
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Obama: Healthcare is a right, not a privilege

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http://egbertowillies.com/2013/08/18/obama-in-the-usa-health-insurance-isnt-a-privilege-its-your-right-video-obamacare/


Rightwingers: "Obama is a Communist !"
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Fwd:

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Facebook as platonic or idealist relationships

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Facebook meme:

 Who says facebook friends are not real friends. They enjoy seeing you on
the internet everyday. Miss you when you're not on. Show compassion when
you lose someone you love. Send you greetings on your birthday. View
pictures you upload. Like your status. Make you laugh when you are sad.
Share this if you are grateful for your facebook friends.
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Security Notice!

[c b]

This has happened in downtown Newark quite a bit.

Bev

Cordelia
> Subject: Fw: Security Notice!
>
> fyi
>
>Share with those accustomed to using phone walking in street.
>
>(Rodabe for Rustam)
> - Forwarded Message -
> From: Sam Magar 
> To: "Lynn Burdell (
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 3:15 PM
> Subject: FW: Security Notice!
>
>
>
> Samuel J. Magar
> MAGAR & COMPANY
> 22100 Woodward Avenue
> Ferndale, MI  48220

>
> Sean,
>
> Can you get this out to the security committee. I am sure everyone has heard 
> about the shooting at the Ren Cen this morning. The person shot this morning 
> is a personal friend of mine. The crime that Calvin was trying to stop is 
> called "Apple Picking" and is the new trend in criminal activity across the 
> nation and in our area as well. Recently we have had over 70 "Apple Picking" 
> incidents in this area alone.
>
> I would like to remind everyone to always be aware of your surroundings. A 
> new phenomenon in crime is called "Apple Picking". This is where thief's 
> steal your phone right out of your hands while you are walking down the 
> street looking at emails, texting or looking through your music lists. Over 
> 70 cases have occurred recently within the area.
>
> Please see the reports below. Do not become a statistic and think about what 
> someone could gain by taking your phone; banking information, personal 
> information, your home address, your calendar, your emails, your pictures, 
> your text messages or whatever. If they know your home address and have your 
> calendar, they know when your not at home and they might even have pictures 
> of your house and what is in it. Think about it!
>
> 
>
> APPLE PICKING CRIME STATISTICS
>
> New York, New York
> 2012: 16,000 cell phone thefts = 14% of all crimes
> Source: 
> http://www.bbb.org/blog/2013/01/apple-picking-heightens-crime-rates-safeguard-your-apple-devices/
>
> 2012: Apple thefts increased by 3,890.
> Source: 
> http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/apple-crime-spree-221345517.html
>
>
> Washington, D.C.
> 54% more cell phone robberies occurred in 2011 than in 2007.
> Source: 
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/apple-picking-stolen-iphones_n_2818488.html
>
> 67% of items snatched and pickpocketed on the Metro transit system in the 
> first three months of 2013 were iPhones (100 out of 144 devices stolen).
> Source: 
> http://washingtonexaminer.com/thieves-on-metro-target-iphones/article/2529016
>
> 2012: 40% (1,829) of total reported robberies in D.C. were cell phone 
> robberies.
> Source: 
> http://inthecapital.streetwise.co/2013/05/07/iphones-are-officially-the-number-one-target-for-theft-on-the-metro/
>
>
> San Francisco, California
> Half of all robberies in San Francisco involved mobile devices in 2012, most 
> of which occurred near transit centers.
> Source: 
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57587835-94/apple-others-to-meet-with-law-enforcement-over-violent-phone-thefts/
>
>
> Los Angeles, California
> Cell phone thefts accounted for more than a quarter of all robberies in Los 
> Angeles as of October 2012.
> Cell phone thefts increased by 27% in 2012 as compared to 2011.
> Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/20/stolen-iphones_n_1992843.html
>
> Cell phone thefts near University of Southern California campuses
> 2010 = 56
> 2011 = 81
> 2012 = 116
> 2013 YTD as of 04/20/2013 = 47
>
> iPad thefts near University of Southern California campuses
> 2010 = 0
> 2011 = 9
> 2012 = 27
> 2013 YTD as of 04/20/2013 = 14
>
> iPod thefts near University of Southern California campuses
> 2010 = 36
> 2011 = 29
> 2012 = 22
> 2013 YTD as of 04/20/2013 = 8
> Source: http://capsnet.usc.edu/department/department-public-safety/crime-stats
>
>
> Chicago, IL
> Police say “Apple Picking” has helped increase robberies 23% on the Chicago 
> Transit Authority.
> Source: 
> http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-07-11/classified/ct-met-getting-around-0711-20110711_1_cta-property-smartphone-thefts-cta-riders
>
>
> London, UK
> More than 300 cell phones are stolen in London every day, according to the 
> Metropolitan Police. A significant number are iPhones.
>
> Evening Standard reported figures in December 2012 9,751 cell phones stolen.
> Metropolitan Police reported April-September 2012, 28,800 iPhones stolen. 
> Total number of cell phones stolen 56,680, 157 each day and of these 79 were 
> iPhones.
>
> Common profile for victims: young professional aged between 20 and 30, out in 
> the city at an “entertainment spot” or other public place
>
> Source: 
> http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/01/15/iphone-theft-soars-in-london-as-300-mobile-phones-are-stolen-every-day/
>
>
> General Statistics
> Top 10 U.S. cities most likely to get a cell phone stolen: Philadelphia, 
> Seattle, Oakland, Long Beach, Newark, Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore, New 
> York, Boston.
> Source: http://bgr.com/2012/11/08/smartphone-theft-st

[Marxism-Thaxis] Rep. Steve King Says Latino Immigrants Are From A ‘Violent Civilization,’ Will Bring ‘More.

[c b]

Bruce Bartlett
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/08/13/2457051/steve-king-immigrants-violent-further-south/

Rep. Steve King Says Latino Immigrants Are From A ‘Violent
Civilization,’ Will Bring ‘More.

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Peering Into The Rotting Entrails Of The Intellectual Right

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Bruce Bartlett
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/08/13/peering-into-the-rotting-entrails-of-the-intellectual-right/

Peering Into The Rotting Entrails Of The Intellectual Right « The Dish
dish.andrewsullivan.com
Is there a point at which a “movement” actually hits bottom? You know:
like an addict? My only true experience with this was observing the
British left in the 1970s and 1980s, reacting to the tectonic shift
toward less state control in Britain and America. Instead of examining
their own

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[Marxism-Thaxis] 12 Ridiculous Anti-Woman Myths From The Dark Ages That Conservatives STILL Believe

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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/08/right-wing-anti-woman-dark-ages-myths/

12 Ridiculous Anti-Woman Myths From The Dark Ages That Conservatives
STILL Believe

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Bertrand Russell "Considered purely as a philosopher, Marx has grave shortcomings.

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Bertrand Russell
"Considered purely as a philosopher, Marx has grave shortcomings. He
is too practical, too much wrapped up in the problems of his time. His
purview is confined to this planet, and, within this planet, to Man.
It has been evident that Man has not the cosmic importance which he
formerly arrogated to himself. No man who has failed to assimilate
this fact has a right to call his philosophy scientific. Marx
professed himself an atheist, but retained a cosmic optimism which
only theism could justify."

-Bertrand Russell "A History of Western Philosophy" (1945) Book Three,
Part II, Chapter XXVII Karl Marx p.788

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Bertrand Russell "Considered purely as a philosopher, Marx has grave shortcomings.

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Bertrand Russell
"Considered purely as a philosopher, Marx has grave shortcomings. He
is too practical, too much wrapped up in the problems of his time. His
purview is confined to this planet, and, within this planet, to Man.
It has been evident that Man has not the cosmic importance which he
formerly arrogated to himself. No man who has failed to assimilate
this fact has a right to call his philosophy scientific. Marx
professed himself an atheist, but retained a cosmic optimism which
only theism could justify."

-Bertrand Russell "A History of Western Philosophy" (1945) Book Three,
Part II, Chapter XXVII Karl Marx p.788
"Considered purely as a philosopher, Marx has grave shortcomings. He
is too practical, too much wrapped up in the problems of his time. His
purview is confined to this planet, and, within this planet, to Man.
It has been evident that Man has not the cosmic importance which he
formerly arrogated to himself. No man who has failed to assimilate
this fact has a right to call his philosophy scientific. Marx
professed himself an atheist, but retained a cosmic optimism which
only theism could justify."

-Bertrand Russell "A History of Western Philosophy" (1945) Book Three,
Part II, Chapter XXVII Karl Marx p.788
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Charles Brown Russell's comment pretty much constitutes a critique of
himself. He doesn't seem to realize he praises and affirms Marx as
pre-eminent wise man of our epoch.
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Jim Farmelant Most of those points speak in Marx's favor IMO. In other
words, he was concerned mostly with "the problems of men," to use John
Dewey's terminology.
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Houman Fiftyseven Sir, the cherry picking you do of Russell's quotes
gives a very reactionary bias. I do not mean that one should not
critisize Marx and/or socialism (or whatever you want to call it), but
your focus is mainly on that side. Thus you mainly seem to focus on
Russell's criticism on 'revolutionaries' (I use this term in lack of
being able to come up with something better), so it seems to me at
least. The Russell you portray seems very much in harmony with the
current state of affairs, and doesn't show any form opposition against
the hegemonic powers as is very necessary, even more so as, say,
criticism against the (revolutionary) left, which is what you mostly
focus on. The Russell you portray could be very much a proponent of
Margaret Thatcher for example, confirming her famous phrase of 'loony
lefties'. To Balance out your Bias, I give the following quote by
Bertrand Russel himself:

"I have placed these general reflections at the beginning of
our study, in order to make it clear to the reader that, whatever
bitterness and hate may be found in the [Anarchist and Socialist]
movements which we are to examine, it is not bitterness or hate, but
love, that is their mainspring. It is difficult not to hate those who
torture
the objects of our love. Though difficult, it is not impossible;
but it requires a breadth of outlook and a comprehensiveness
of understanding which are not easy to preserve amid a desperate
contest. If ultimate wisdom has not always been preserved
by Socialists and Anarchists, they have not differed in
this from their opponents; and in the source of their inspiration
they have shown themselves superior to those who acquiesce
ignorantly or supinely in the injustices and oppressions
by which the existing system is preserved."
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Umair Nasir Doesn't one get the feeling that he is criticizing and
praising Marx at the same time?
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Franz Fritz You could just say the same thing about Plato, etc..
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Dimas Fernández Otero Marx proposed a kind of materialist analysis
that can be still used today applying the critiques that the
difference between our time and Marx's forces us to accept. I don't
believe that the goal of a political or social philosopher is to speak
the truth, but to make powerful and original interpretations, to go
beyond what is purely empirical. I suggest the moderator of this page
to focus on Russel's own interpretations and not on his righteous and
self-centered assertions on other philosophers (specially when
Russel's own philosophy of language and science, logical atomism, was
proved to be insufficient to deal with most philosophical problems by
Wittgenstein and many others that followed his critiques on Russel's
views)
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Bell Noor ironic, how he gained fame when there were more critical
thinkers at the given time, place?! Ohh and what I so dislike is that,
when people notice any 'left' sign in one, they class one as Marxist.
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Dani Kaye Bertrand Russell: a fine cr

[Marxism-Thaxis] SEC judge rules Stanford executives are liable for fraud

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-sec-stanford-idUSBRE97410620130805

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Wall Street Dictator to Detroit workers: you are dumb, rich, happy and lazy

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I figured it out. First we were smart and hungry. That's how we got
rich (relatively; "middle class"). When we got "rich". We got
satisfied and happy as we should have. When we got happy, we got lazy.
When we got lazy , we got dumb.

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[Marxism-Thaxis] Today in labor history: Workers’ rule crushed in Hungary

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http://www.peoplesworld.org/today-in-labor-history-workers-rule-crushed-in-hungary/

Today in labor history: Workers’ rule crushed in Hungary

by: SPECIAL TO PEOPLESWORLD.ORG
august 5 2013
tags: Hungary, Bela Kun, World War I, oppression, communists,
socialist, trade unionists

Bela.Kun.Revolution.1919520x300
On August 7, 1919, the Republic of the Councils of Hungary in Budapest
was crushed by foreign reactionaries.

On August 5, 30,000 Romanian troops entered the capital and began a
reign of terror. They massacred a thousand workers in Csepel (on an
island in the Danube between Buda and Pest), on August 10. Thousands
of Communists, socialists, unionists and innocent civilians were
rounded up by fascist gangs, and then beaten, tortured and killed.

A People's World article by Emile Schepers gives this detailed background:

In the First World War, Hungary was part of the old Austro-Hungarian
Empire, with a large amount of internal autonomy, though the emperor
of Austria was also the king of Hungary.

After the defeat of the Central Powers in 1918, large pieces of
Hungary's land and population were divided up among its neighbors,
Romania and two new states that came out of the war, Czechoslovakia
and Yugoslavia. The old regime in Hungary, which was dominated by
landholding aristocrats and urban bankers and industrialists, was
swept from power.

First a liberal regime (under Mihaly Karolyi) and then a short-lived
communist one (under Bela Kun) were unable to solve the country's
internal problems or successfully resist pressure from the victorious
Entente powers, especially Romania and France.

As a result, not only did Hungary lose territory in the Trianon Treaty
of 1919, but as many as a third of the Magyars, or ethnic Hungarians,
ended up outside Hungary's borders. There was a special resentment of
the fact that Transylvania, formerly an autonomous principality with a
large Magyar population, went to Romania.

In 1919, reactionary forces grouped around Admiral Miklos Horthy de
Nagybanya swept into power, displacing Bela Kun's communist-led
government. Their project of repressing communists, socialists and
trade unionists inspired the promotion of a right-wing nationalist
ideology that could justify such measures. The right-wing slogan "nem,
nem soha" ("no, no never"), which referred to the loss of Hungarian
territory and people, dates from this time.

Photo: Bela Kun speaking to crowd.

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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [lbo-talk] Remarkably insightful review of Atlas Shrugged by Whittaker Chambers.

[c b]

 JOANNA  A.  wrote:
> Yes and no. I have yet to read a critique of Rand that happens to mention the 
> fact that at the end of "Shrugged" the way by which this elite manages to 
> survive is by having discovered some infinite, magical source of energy so 
> that they no longer need.wait for itworkers.
>
> It is actually very funny: for the first time in literaturethe deus ex 
> machina is replaced by the prole ex machina.
>
>
> Joanna



CB: Perpetual motion machines; overthrow of the Second Law of Thermodynamics


However, robots don't buy cars ,or take out mortgages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion

Perpetual motion
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Perpetual motion (disambiguation).


Robert Fludd's 1618 "water screw" perpetual motion machine from a 1660
wood engraving. This device is widely credited as the first recorded
attempt to describe such a device in order to produce useful work,
that of driving millstones.[1] Although the machine would not work,
the idea was that water from the top tank turns a water wheel
(bottom-left), which drives a complicated series of gears and shafts
that ultimately rotate the Archimedes' screw (bottom-center to
top-right) to pump water to refill the tank. The rotary motion of the
water wheel also drives two grinding wheels (bottom-right) and is
shown as providing sufficient excess water to lubricate them.
Perpetual motion describes motion that continues indefinitely without
any external source of energy.[2] This is impossible in practice
because of friction and other sources of energy loss.[3][4][5]
Furthermore, the term is often used to in a stronger sense to describe
a perpetual motion machine of the first kind, a "hypothetical machine
which, once activated, would continue to function and produce work"[6]
indefinitely with no input of energy. There is a scientific consensus
that perpetual motion is impossible, as it would violate the first or
second law of thermodynamics.[4][5]
Nikola Tesla noted that we are immersed in a variety of energetic
fields, so that cases of apparent perpetual motion can exist in
nature, but such motions either are not truly perpetual or cannot be
used to do work without changing the nature of the motion (as occurs
in energy harvesting).[7] For example, the motion or rotation of
celestial bodies such as planets may appear perpetual, but are
actually subjected to many forces such as solar winds, interstellar
medium resistance, gravitation thermal radiation and electro-magnetic
radiation.[8][9]
The flow of electric current in a superconducting loop may be
perpetual and could be used as an energy storage medium, but following
the principle of energy conservation the source of energy output would
in fact originate from the energy input with which it was previously
charged.
Machines which extract energy from seemingly perpetual sources—such as
ocean currents—are capable of moving "perpetually" (for as long as
that energy source itself endures), but they are not considered to be
perpetual motion machines because they are consuming energy from an
external source and are not isolated systems. Similarly, machines
which comply with both laws of thermodynamics but access energy from
obscure sources are sometimes referred to as perpetual motion
machines, although they also do not meet the criteria for the name.
Despite the fact that successful perpetual motion devices are
physically impossible in terms of the current understanding of the
laws of physics, the pursuit of perpetual motion remains popular.





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> Atlas is probably the best-selling POS in literary history.
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Rand School of Social Science

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_School_of_Social_Science

Rand School of Social Science
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rand School of Social Science
Successor   Tamiment Institute and Library and later Tamiment Library
and Robert F. Wagner Archives
Formation   1906
Extinction  1935
TypeCollege
Purpose/focus   Education
HeadquartersPeople's House, 7 East 15th Street, New York, NY 10003
Official languages  English
Secretary   W. J. Ghent (later Algernon Lee and Bertha H. Mailly)
Key people  Founders Caroline (Carrie) A. Rand (Mrs. E. D. Rand) and
George D. Herron; Teachers Scott Nearing, Morris Hillquit, Charles A.
Beard, John Spargo, Lucien Sanial, James Maurer, David P. Berenberg,
Anna A. Maley, August Claessens
AffiliationsSocialist Party of America, Intercollegiate Socialist
Society, Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union
Website www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/
The Rand School of Social Science was formed in New York City by
adherents of the Socialist Party of America in 1906. The school aimed
to provide a broad education to workers, imparting a politicizing
class-consciousness, and additionally served as a research bureau, a
publisher, and the operator of a summer camp for socialist and trade
union activists. The school changed its name to the "Tamiment
Institute and Library" in 1935 and it was closely linked to the Social
Democratic Federation after the 1936 split of the Socialist Party. Its
collection became a key component of today's Tamiment Library and
Robert F. Wagner Archives at New York University in 1963.
Contents  [hide]
1 Institutional history
1.1 Formation
1.2 Development
1.3 Mob attacks
1.4 Lusk Committee raid and prosecution
1.5 Post-war development
1.6 The Rand School after the 1936 split
1.7 Termination and legacy
2 Footnotes
3 See also
4 External links
Institutional history[edit source | editbeta]

Formation[edit source | editbeta]
The idea for the Rand School of Social Science began with the
Christian socialist minister, George D. Herron, and his mother-in-law,
the widowed lumber baroness from Burlington, Iowa, Caroline (Carrie)
A. Rand. Due to his radical and overtly anti-clerical ideas, Herron
was forced from his position as head of the department of Applied
Christianity at Iowa College (now Grinnell) in November 1899.
He married in 1901 Mrs. Rand's only daughter (also named Carrie), and
they resided together in New York City in an apartment at 59 West 45th
Street. After joining the Social Democratic Party in late 1900, Herron
rose to a position of influence among American Socialists and played a
key role in the formation of the Socialist Party of America at
Indianapolis in the summer of 1901. He also authored the SPA platform
in 1904 and gave the nominating speech for the party's presidential
candidate, Eugene V. Debs. In a detailed letter to the prominent New
York socialist Morris Hillquit, Herron outlined the Rand School's
origins, beginning with the germ of the idea back in Iowa in the
1890s:
Mrs. Rand originally had under consideration the establishment of
school of Social Science in connection with Iowa College. But when she
became aware that it would be impossible to establish such foundation,
especially following my enforced resignation, she gave up the thought
of what she had in mind at Iowa College... The school is, in fact,
some such thing as Mrs. Herron and I had planned and talked about for
many years, and to which I expected at the time, to give my own life
personally, as a teacher and organizer of the same.[1]
The school was established in 1906, made possible by a $200,000
endowment by Mrs. Rand at the time of her sudden death in 1905.[2] The
fund was administered by Rand's daughter, Carrie Rand Herron, and
Morris Hillquit.[3] A total of about 250 students were enrolled for
courses during the school's first year.[4]
Operations of the Rand School were governed by the American Socialist
Society, incorporated in 1901, and its board of directors. The initial
board members included Algernon Lee, Job Harriman, Benjamin Hanford,
William Mailly, Leonard D. Abbott, and Henry Slobodin.[2] Formal
direction of the school was conducted by a Secretary, originally
author and publicist W. J. Ghent.[5] Ghent was succeeded late in 1909
by Algernon Lee.[5] A reorganization in about 1911 replaced the
position of Secretary with an Education Director and an Executive
Secretary, both responsible to the Board of Directors.[5] Lee was
retained in the former role, while Cornell University graduate Bertha
H. Mailly was employed in the latter position.[5]
Development[edit source | editbeta]

The Lusk Committee raided the Rand School in the summer of 1919 and
seized documents to fuel its investigations.
In its early years, the school conducted regular lectures and night
courses. The first location of the school was at 112 East 19th Street
— a one family house converted to use as a school.[6] To help red

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] American history is full of successful socialist institutions

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thanks.

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Peggy Dobbins  wrote:
> Welcome comment, that
>
> On Aug 1, 2013, at 2:26 PM, c b  wrote:
>
>> America has a lot more successful socialism than Americans know. The
>> Post office system is a successful socialist enterprise. That's why
>> the tea Republicans r trying to kill it, and privatize government as
>> well. Privatization is capitalist stealing from successful socialist
>> institutions within a mixed capitalist/c/socialist economy  (
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_economy) . Much of local government
>> , such as water and sewerage departments (!!; ever heard of anyone
>> being poisoned by drinking water from the public water system ?)
>> garbage pickup, fire departments, public lighting, EMS, public parks,
>> are socialist institutions. Social Security, Medicare, unemployment
>> compensation, workers compensation, Welfare, PUBLIC EDUCATION (!) are
>> all successful socialist institutions in America. Of course, the
>> military is socialist. Computers were first built by the military. The
>> space program is socialist; it took us to the moon. America has a
>> mixed socialist/capitalist system.
>>
>> In Detroit, the capitalists are trying to steal money from the
>> socialist municipal government pension system , extraordinarily
>> successful.
>>
>> Britain , Canada and France have socialist health care systems.
>>
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[Marxism-Thaxis] How about the multi-trillion dollar bailout of Wall Street caused this stock market boom ?

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How about the multi-trillion dollar bailout of Wall Street caused this
stock market boom ?


Also, the mortgage banks are collecting fully on the bad mortgages
they lent out, because of lots of insurance on the mortgages from
Fannie and Freddie ; so the stock market is getting that in addition
to the federal bailout money. The Stock Market made money coming and
going on the Housing Bubble. Plus, they can lend freely because if
they fail they know they will get bailed; they are to big to fail. The
doctrine of moral hazard is dead for the biggest banks and financial
institutions because they don't have to take risks in lending money,
especially the more they lend, the more likely they get bailed if they
fail . So, the Stock Market now reflects that new Big Creditors'
reality. We're Too-Big-To-Fail.

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[Marxism-Thaxis] American history is full of successful socialist institutions

[c b]

America has a lot more successful socialism than Americans know. The
Post office system is a successful socialist enterprise. That's why
the tea Republicans r trying to kill it, and privatize government as
well. Privatization is capitalist stealing from successful socialist
institutions within a mixed capitalist/c/socialist economy  (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_economy) . Much of local government
, such as water and sewerage departments (!!; ever heard of anyone
being poisoned by drinking water from the public water system ?)
garbage pickup, fire departments, public lighting, EMS, public parks,
are socialist institutions. Social Security, Medicare, unemployment
compensation, workers compensation, Welfare, PUBLIC EDUCATION (!) are
all successful socialist institutions in America. Of course, the
military is socialist. Computers were first built by the military. The
space program is socialist; it took us to the moon. America has a
mixed socialist/capitalist system.

In Detroit, the capitalists are trying to steal money from the
socialist municipal government pension system , extraordinarily
successful.

 Britain , Canada and France have socialist health care systems.

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[Marxism-Thaxis] japanese-communists-may-emerge-as-main-opposition-to-abenomics/

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http://peoplesworld.org/japanese-communists-may-emerge-as-main-opposition-to-abenomics/

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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [lbo-talk] From the WSJ: Crackdown in Egypt Fans U.S. Fears

[c b]

"Despite those exhortations, _Gen. Sisi called for massive
demonstrations on Friday_ (emphasis added -CB), which precipitated the
deadliest single incident in the more than two years since Egypt's
revolution. The U.S. also had sent messages urging calm to Brotherhood
leaders, but officials said the group, like the military, showed
little sign of backing down."

CB: Sounds like an Egyptian Chavez or Fidel

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Marv Gandall  wrote:
> (The Obama administration is anxious that repression will exclude and 
> alienate the Muslim Brotherhood and its mass following from electoral 
> politics, but not anxious enough to cut ties with its main strategic ally, 
> the Egyptian high command. Instead, it is trying directly and through Egypt's 
> acting vice president, Mohamed ElBaradei, to restrain the military from 
> further provocations.)
>
> Crackdown in Egypt Fans U.S. Fears
> By ADAM ENTOUS
> Wall Street Journal
> July 29 2013
>
> WASHINGTON—The Obama administration increasingly fears that Egypt's military, 
> ignoring American appeals, is deepening a crackdown that could spark a 
> sustained period of instability and lead members of the country's Muslim 
> Brotherhood to take up arms.
>
> In a series of private messages in recent days, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel 
> and other American officials warned Egyptian military leader Gen. Abdel 
> Fattah Al Sisi that his clampdown on the Brotherhood risked driving the 
> Islamist group back underground, say U.S. officials involved in the 
> discussions.
>
> Despite those exhortations, Gen. Sisi called for massive demonstrations on 
> Friday, which precipitated the deadliest single incident in the more than two 
> years since Egypt's revolution. The U.S. also had sent messages urging calm 
> to Brotherhood leaders, but officials said the group, like the military, 
> showed little sign of backing down.
>
> At least 74 people were killed and hundreds of others were injured early 
> Saturday when security forces fired live ammunition on Brotherhood backers 
> during chaotic counter-demonstrations by both sides.
>
> On Sunday, the scene in Cairo was mostly calm and Western diplomats expressed 
> hope that a European Union delegation, led by foreign policy chief Catherine 
> Ashton, would be allowed to visit with former President Mohammed Morsi on 
> Monday. Such a visit, the first since Mr. Morsi's arrest, could be a sign 
> that Gen. Sisi may be trying to lower the temperature and respond to American 
> and international demands, U.S. officials said.
>
> The weekend's violence underscored a philosophical split between Washington 
> and Cairo about how to handle the Brotherhood followers of Mr. Morsi, who was 
> ousted by the military on July 3.
>
> The developments also reflected the limits of U.S. influence in Egypt despite 
> $1.5 billion a year in aid to Cairo and decades spent building up 
> military-to-military ties, U.S. officials acknowledge.
>
> As little as three weeks ago, U.S. officials thought demonstrations were 
> starting to die down and that Gen. Sisi was open to reaching out to the 
> Brotherhood. Saturday's violence, however, convinced many top officials in 
> Washington that the outlook for reconciliation was increasingly bleak.
>
> Many administration officials are mystified by the harder line being taken by 
> both Gen. Sisi and the Brotherhood. "None of us can quite figure this out," a 
> senior U.S. official said. "It seems so self-defeating."
>
> Despite repeated U.S. appeals for the military to avoid harsh tactics, 
> Egypt's interim civilian government moved toward reviving the police state 
> that characterized the widely hated regime of longtime former President Hosni 
> Mubarak.
>
> On Sunday, the government granted soldiers the right to arrest civilians, 
> reviving sections of an emergency law under Mr. Mubarak. A day earlier, 
> Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said he planned to reconstitute a secret 
> police unit that was responsible for decades of oppression under Mr. Mubarak.
>
> In the run-up to the coup, Gen. Sisi privately voiced his own concerns to 
> U.S. officials about the prospects of a violent showdown between Islamists 
> and non-Islamists, according to officials involved in the discussions. Gen. 
> Sisi argued at the time that such anarchy could be triggered by massive 
> street protests, these people said.
>
> U.S. officials now say Gen. Sisi's post-coup campaign against the Brotherhood 
> risks igniting the very showdown that he told the Americans his coup was 
> meant to head off.
>
> Exacerbating the dangers, U.S. and Egyptian officials say, has been a flood 
> of arms into Egypt from the ungoverned eastern half of Libya, which has sowed 
> instability, particularly in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
>
> When Gen. Sisi met Mr. Hagel in Cairo in April, he specifically raised 
> concerns about the flow of arms and asked the Pentagon chief to help press 
> the Libyan government to more closely police t

[Marxism-Thaxis] Chris Hedges: As a Socialist, I Have No Voice in the Mainstream -

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http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10482

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[Marxism-Thaxis] 80% of All Adults in U.S. Face Near-Poverty or Unemployment

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http://gawker.com/80-of-all-adults-in-u-s-face-near-poverty-or-unemploy-941682318?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

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