Why marxists should not mention liberation and production in the same breath:
A neoprimitivist critique from John Zerzan:
5 . DIVISION OF LABOR
Di-vi-sion of la-bor n. 1 . the breakdown into specific, circumscribed tasks
for maximum efficiency of output which constitutes manufacture; cardinal as
“The Democrats are worthless”: An interview with Howie Hawkins
Gregor Baszak, Platypus Review 126 | May 2020
https://platypus1917.org/2020/05/01/the-democrats-are-worthless-an-interview-with-howie-hawkins/
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"... I think the problem in this country is that since 1936 the
Popular Front, when t
Thanks Andrew.
we know that anarchism is a political ideology/perspective that has
developed mainly from within petit-bourgeois sectors of capitalist (or
becoming-capitalist) societies
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 6:43 AM Andrew Pollack wrote:
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The case for an independent Left party
by Howie Hawkins
International Socialist Review, Issue #107, 2018
https://isreview.org/issue/107/case-independent-left-party
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Andrew Stewart,and anybody else,what,do suggest then,is the best way forward
for left,if our goal is to organize,and build our numbers?
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You know that Nader - in addition to never identifying explicitly as a
socialist - was also never a member of the Green Party? The Greens
approached Nader about running on their ballot line as a means of
popularizing the Greens. In the presidential campaign of 1996 Nader okayed
the Greens using h
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/07/green-billionaires-planet-of-the-humans/
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Thanks for the kind word Michael. Could the WEST WING episode re: Gault entail
the Rosenbergs as well? Probably, the whole theory of simulation and simulacra
posits the invocation of memory, not genuine historical facts, and the
blurriness is part of what makes the system effective. It is all ab
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On 9/11/20 4:55 PM, Carol Stokes wrote:
I don't know if you are referring to some other time Reed discussed
Nagle, but in the Katie Halper interview, Reed does not say he turned
down the $2,000 because of Nagle, and he does not call her a fascist.
Yes, you're right. But he did call Julius Kr
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 12:09 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
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> I haven't read Nagle but I've heard a lot about being "hostile to the
> working class" from Adolph Reed Jr. who refused $2000 from American
> Affairs because she had written an article there. He referred to her as a
> fascist but th
The 1930s and early 1940s were a time in which scientists in Britain
became increasingly radical in their political orientation, reflecting
the battle against fascism. C. P. Snow estimated that of the two hundred
brightest young physicists in Britain, around three-quarters considered
themselves
In chapter nine of "Return of Nature", Foster discusses Bukharin's
"Philosophical Arabesques", a work written in prison. I reviewed it for
"Revolutionary History" in 2005. It is a reminder that Trotsky was not
the only brilliant revolutionary in the USSR.
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/
John Molyneux lectures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_3S8Zg12ig
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There are no good guys or gals. There are only those relatively not bad
good gals and guys. The rest are neutral (which in the worse times is the
worse than being bad) and then exploitative and murderous and thugs and
oppressors.
Those of us who aspire to recognize our "kinship with all living bei
Oh my!
You take me too seriously here. I was being ironic (jealous, envious?) but
thank you. I in fact subscribed on your recommendation and watched HAPPY
HOUR on Brody’s recommendation at the New Yorker.
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 12:45 PM Louis Proyect wrote:
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Looks like they're back up and running but part of their rebirth was
eliminating the Marxism list, not that I'd want to go back there after
what we went through. One benefit about them rebooting is the
availability of our archives that go back to the earliest days, starting
in 1994 with the Mar
Michael Meeropol's book "Surrender: How the Clinton Administration Completed
the Reagan Revolution" appears to be available at the link below. (I write
"appears" because I had a little bit of difficulty with the publisher's
website.)
https://www.fulcrum.org/ concern/monographs/bv73c1298 (
http
Andrew thanks for that most interesting and informative analysis ---
Recognizing the role of the Clinton Administration (and the DLC "capture"
of the Democrats around that time) leads me to once again give a commercial
for my 1998 book SURRENDER, HOW THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION COMPLETED THE
REAGAN
On 9/11/20 12:41 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote:
How do you rate a personal method from Priscilla Posada. I've
subscribed to Ovid for a while now and never got a personal message
from her.
I'm a film critic, specifically CounterPunch's film editor and a member
of New York Film Critics Online with o
we can take turns!
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 12:37 PM Jerry Monaco wrote:
> Thank you for this. I am on the email list for NSA but somehow I missed
> this.
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Louis,
How do you rate a personal method from Priscilla Posada. I've subscribed to
Ovid for a while now and never got a personal message from her.
And yes, this is the Netflix for Leftists. But every once in a while they
have something that should be in the mainstream but because of the quarks
of
Thank you for this. I am on the email list for NSA but somehow I missed
this.
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 12:11 PM Dennis Brasky
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> *Washington, D.C., September 11, 2020 –* In a highly-anticipated, and
> long-awaited ruling, the National Court of Spain today convicted a retired
> Salvadoran mi
*Washington, D.C., September 11, 2020 –* In a highly-anticipated, and
long-awaited ruling, the National Court of Spain today convicted a retired
Salvadoran military colonel for acts of state terrorism and murder in the
assassination of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her teenaged
daughter
On 9/11/20 12:01 PM, Carol Stokes wrote:
Regarding Nagle in general, she's part of a small but growing group of
people who refer to themselves (sometimes, for lack of a better
description) as post-left. Their argument is that the left has become
a petite bourgeois project that is hostile to t
OVID TV is great. The Netflix for radicals.
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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:47:29 +
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To: Louis Proyect
Hi Louis,
We've curated a collection of 8 films based around the cia-
It's useful as a snapshot of a time in the development of online interactions.
By the time she gets to the end of the book, she describes how much of what she
wrote about has already changed. It's an easy read; get a library copy. :)
Regarding Nagle in general, she's part of a small but growing
I’m working as fast as I can. There are just so many bad people (like I guess
Chris Hedges is bad??) it’s hard to know where ya’lls battle lines are. I’m not
asking to be spoonfed. Never have. I appreciate the list for the links to
articles and the history mostly. Thanks for doing it.
—Ryan
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That is what the history of Leninism is--a history of ad hominem attacks on and
by "good guys" vs. "bad guys". It serves a shortcut for shortcut thinking in
general--a rigid belief in truisms such as "there can be no peaceful transition
back to capitalism from a deformed workers state because th
On 9/11/20 11:33 AM, Ryan via groups.io wrote:
There are a lot of ad hominem attacks on this list. Makes it difficult for a
relative newcomer to socialism (8 yrs rather than 60) to sort out who the “good
guys” and “bad guys” are.
Nobody is going to spoon-feed you background, Ryan. You have ta
There are a lot of ad hominem attacks on this list. Makes it difficult for a
relative newcomer to socialism (8 yrs rather than 60) to sort out who the “good
guys” and “bad guys” are.
—Ryan
> On Sep 11, 2020, at 8:18 AM, Tristan Sloughter wrote:
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>Just consider that Catalyst published an article by Amber A'Lee Frost who is
>okay with Nagle. Six degrees of separation...
Yup. I was very disappointed to see her in Catalyst. I wish ISR was still
around. I'll be subscribing to Spectre instead.
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> Her book "Kill All Normies" is great.
I never read it so basing this on reviews and quotes but wasn't "Kill All
Normies" basically just taking the online rights word for what created them
(tumblr!) and fails at basic things like getting Canada's C-16 law correct. It
sounds more like the NYTi
On 9/11/20 10:25 AM, Carol Stokes wrote:
Way too much is being made of this. He mentioned her in passing. If
anything, it should increase her readership.
Yeah, her reputation precedes her. At one point, she was considered part
of the left. After this article appeared, she became toxic except f
Way too much is being made of this. He mentioned her in passing. If anything,
it should increase her readership.
Her book "Kill All Normies" is great.
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On 9/11/20 9:48 AM, Tristan Sloughter wrote:
This is pretty funny. Reed was interviewed by Katie Halper and brought up
American Affairs and Angela Nagle. I scanned through the interview to find the
time of the clip that is floating around twitter:
https://youtu.be/wwPDTkKJVDk?t=7232
Tristan
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/11/re-appraising-the-west-wing-a-multi-season-hyperreal-clinton-sobriquet-cum-apologia-for-thermidor/
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This is pretty funny. Reed was interviewed by Katie Halper and brought up
American Affairs and Angela Nagle. I scanned through the interview to find the
time of the clip that is floating around twitter:
https://youtu.be/wwPDTkKJVDk?t=7232
Tristan
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"In every case, individuals at the 10th percentile earn less than a third of their race-wide median. For Blacks, the number is less than 25 percent. As a result, knowing the race-wide median provides minimal insight into the lives of the poor regardless of their race."
https://www.peoplespolicy
https://theconversation.com/irans-secular-shift-new-survey-reveals-huge-changes-in-religious-beliefs-145253
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On September 5^th , Joe Biden added four new members to his transition
team, which was not really a team. It consisted only of Ted Kaufman, the
81-year old Democratic senator from Delaware. Considering Kaufman’s
reputation as a deficit hawk and his advanced age, Biden had to cover
his left flan
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 07:27 AM, Louis Proyect wrote:
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You can upload files to this group.
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Quote: ' There are three comprehensive accounts of the Abraham affair: a
six-column article in the NYT ,
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/23/arts/a-quarrel-over-weimar-book.html (
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1984%2F12%2F23%2Farts%2Fa-quarrel-over-weimar-book.htm
Interview with Asad Haider – part 2 (reductionism refers to class/race)
https://www.tempestmag.org/2020/09/strategic-implications-of-the-reductionism-debates/
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Roaming Charges is my absolutely favorite thing to read on CounterPunch.
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I have a different take than Jesse Singal. As transracialism gains acceptance,
Rachel Dolezal's reputation will turn around. She may be president one day!
https://www.rocanews.com/blog-posts/identitarianism-created-jessica-krug
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Written by a former FBI agent.
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Jeffrey St. Clair reports on the Oregon fires.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/11/roaming-charges-under-furious-skies/
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I guess they're counting on the smoke to do the job for them.
https://www.opb.org/article/2020/09/10/portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-bans-use-of-tear-gas-in-ongoing-protests/
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