The Red Guards no doubt believed they were advancing socialism. But their
actions set back the struggle for socialism.
Mao initiated the Cultural Revolution as a strategy to restore himself to a
position of unchallenged leadership. He had been sidelined after the failure
of the Great Leap For
Henwood's pushing a pretty good line on the securities markets in this
interview--not too different from Michael Roberts IMO. Trevor Noah is IMO
incredibly intelligent, funny, and likable compared with the US competition, as
advertised. Another point in his favor is his relative lack of the fr
love the Sisyphus reference -- it was why existentialism was so attractive
in high school (and still is!!!)
It was so much "easier" when we could celebrate victories like the 1964 and
65 acts that constituted the "Second Reconstruction" or the victory of the
Vietnamese people in 1975 ---
The worl
On 1/31/21 2:39 PM, Michael Meeropol wrote:
I don't agree Michael. Writing books, articles, making speeches,
attending demonstrations, making contributions. --- EVERYTHING should
be tried even though nothing seems to work (this is an inversion of my
favorite aphorism from Paul Buhle: "Nothing
I don't agree Michael. Writing books, articles, making speeches, attending
demonstrations, making contributions. --- EVERYTHING should be tried even
though nothing seems to work (this is an inversion of my favorite aphorism
from Paul Buhle: "Nothing works so everything should be tried!") --- we
a
Sakhnin has left Russia after protests in 2011 in Sweden where he became a
stench supporter of the Russian imperialist annexation of Crimea.
Now seems Sakhnin founds a new job and spread similar agenda like RT which
portrays liberal opposition as fascists Trumpist. Seems, that that
pseudo-Progr
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On 1/31/21 12:33 PM, Kevin Lindemann and Cathy Campo wrote:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/01/alexei-navalny-russia-protests-putin
I'm afraid Jacobin is behind the curve. Navalny shared the magazine's
enthusiasm for Bernie Sanders.
https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-alexei-navalny-russia
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/we-are-cuba-review-socialism-soviet-union
The article that Louis forwarded is well worth reading. There are good reasons
that so many people are so fiercely supportive of Cuba. We should all take
pride in their achievements. Last year I had the opportunity to se
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Banaji is always good. I dealt with the world's working class, in detail and
with evidence, in Can the Working Class Change the World? This book was of more
interest in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and elsewhere in the Global South
than in the US. It is also a book that is accessible. But so wh
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I am curious whether the "purpose" the RED GUARDS served had anything to do
at all with building socialism in China? I read William Hinton's long
treatment in MR "The Cultural Revolution at Tsunghua (sp?) University and
do not really remember whether the power struggle he described did ANYTHING
f
Best regards,
Andrew Stewart
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I have my disagreements with Doug on plenty of issues but I don't
think name-calling is necessary.
Yeah! Doug was great!
And hear hear on his interviewer. From my hometown Johannesburg, over
these last few decades, we've sent you ungrateful jerks in
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I have my disagreements with Doug on plenty of issues but I don't think
name-calling is necessary.
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The dowager queen and princess of smashing sexist stereotypes are Hillary and
Chelsea Clinton, who in 2019 published The Book of Gutsy Women, an anthology of
inspiring female pioneers. The Clintons' "gutsy women" include, for example,
Margaret Chase Smith, the first woman to serve in both US Hou
The Cultural Revolution famously depended on college students and the Red
Guards. The Red Guards began as an independent but politically-interested group
of university students who supported a broadly Maoist cultural agenda. The
formal alliance between Mao and the student movement began at Pekin
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