[marxmail] Reflecting on 50 Years of Paredon | Barbara Dane | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings via Portside

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Re: [marxmail] Putin and Navalny Both Represent Big Russian Capital – Alexander Buzgalin

Hari -- so if that's true, then Navalny is the "internationalist" like the "establishment" in the US --- and Putin is Trump??? On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 8:01 PM hari kumar wrote: > Hello Michael: > I would disagree it is that simple. I would suggest that there are two > wings - the One of Putin

Re: [marxmail] Putin and Navalny Both Represent Big Russian Capital – Alexander Buzgalin

Hello Michael: I would disagree it is that simple. I would suggest that there are two wings - the One of Putin to retain all profiteering to the Russian based oligarchy - and a pro-Western wing. Navalny is only doing what before him Khodorovsky wanted to do. This viewpoint is at: https://www.thelef

Re: [marxmail] Is Russia waking up? | Aleksandr Buzgalin | MR Online

On 2/1/21 7:18 PM, Kevin Lindemann and Cathy Campo wrote: https://mronline.org/2021/02/01/is-russia-waking-up/ At least Buzgalin makes the case that the Russian people are getting screwed by Putin and the oligarchs even if he holds the protestors at arm's length. I wonder if the anonymous nitw

[marxmail] Navalny's viral video on Putin's palace

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[marxmail] Is Russia waking up? | Aleksandr Buzgalin | MR Online

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[marxmail] Not Just an Artifact

For many American and European leftists, the Russian left appears as an artifact. They valorize Russia for its revolutionary past — taking its desires and achievements as a source of inspiration and its mistakes and tragedies as a cautionary tale — but reduce its contemporary manifestation to a

[marxmail] "WhoismisterPutin" with eng SUB. A film by Valery Balayan - YouTube

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[marxmail] The Spartacist League courts ‘The Leninist’, 1982-83

In 1982-83, the Spartacist League in the UK courted The Leninist, a faction in the old Communist Party of Great Britain. This is the story of that courtship... https://communistpartyofgreatbritainhistory.wordpress.com/2021/01/29/spartacist-league-the-leninist/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io

Re: [marxmail] Liberalism’s War on the Internet

We could all hop on the Dark Web or revert to Gopher.  If you don't mind endlessly warring with script kiddies trying to knock you offline using scripts they barely understand, you could also use Internet Relay Chat (IRC).  Nobody's using short-wave radio much these days--perhaps that would enab

Re: [marxmail] Fascism, Fascisation, Antifascism | Historical Materialis

what fascism proposes is precisely to make capitalism work under a regime of tyranny The article proposes a two-phase view of fascism--evidently both primitive and neo--in which a "third way" phase offers a solution neither left nor right and begins overtly to propose the "regime of tyranny."

Re: [marxmail] Putin and Navalny Both Represent Big Russian Capital – Alexander Buzgalin

so it's just an example of "thieves falling out"!! On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 1:14 PM Andrew Stewart wrote: > https://youtu.be/MnmcdqF1BxI > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6009): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/

Re: [marxmail] “Where is the working class? It’s all over the world today”: Jairus Banaji in conversation with Sheetal Chhabria and Andrew Liu — borderlines

I understand the frustration with writing books. Those of us who do this are products of a time when it seemed to be valuable and important. For many of us, it has been the only little microscopic corner of the public platform we've been permitted. In a society that disparages anything that takes

[marxmail] Two Collin College Professors say They Were Fired for Challenging COVID-19 Reopening Plan | Dallas Observer

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[marxmail] RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM

NY Times Sunday Book Review, Jan. 31, 2020 The Religious Roots of Our Free Enterprise System By Alan Wolfe RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM By Benjamin M. Friedman Illustrated. 560 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $37.50. What does an esoteric concept like Calvinist soteriology have to do with the rise

[marxmail] Putin and Navalny Both Represent Big Russian Capital – Alexander Buzgalin

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[marxmail] Nipah virus: If it mutates we are in REAL trouble

I have been saying that we are lucky that the Covid virus has a relatively low mortality rate. The high number of deaths is due to how easily it spreads. I have specifically compared it to the virus that causes Nipah, which has a massive mortality rate but isn't spread easily at all. If that change

Re: [marxmail] “Where is the working class? It’s all over the world today”: Jairus Banaji in conversation with Sheetal Chhabria and Andrew Liu — borderlines

Wrote a (bad) poem once in which I tried to imagine what would happen if/when Sisyphus made it to the top of the hill. Total anticlimax. A lot of dried weeds and a faint echo of Turkey in the Straw from an ice cream truck on the National Mall, which lies adjacent to the underworld. All the sweat

[marxmail] The “Moral Imperative” of Imperialist Killing

The “Moral Imperative” of Imperialist Killing How leading circles in the U.S. cynically justify the development of Artificial Intelligence weapon systems By Michael Pröbsting, 30 January 2021 https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/the-moral-imperiative-of-imperialist-killings/

Re: [marxmail] H-Net Review [H-CivWar]: Summers on Richardson, 'How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America'

I think the review of Richardson's book is pretty devastating -- I am actually very surprised and unhappy since she seems to do a great job with her daily briefings on current issues ... > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#

Re: [marxmail] H-Net Review [H-CivWar]: Summers on Richardson, 'How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America'

Certainly there is plenty of truth in Richardson's general argument. Critics, though, will wonder whether cherry picking bits of the past may overstate the argument. Beyond doubt, the myth of western individualism was used to undercut public action on behalf of the unprivileged; unquestionably,

[marxmail] H-Net Review [H-CivWar]: Summers on Richardson, 'How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America'

-- Forwarded message - From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW Date: Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 11:47 AM Subject: H-Net Review [H-CivWar]: Summers on Richardson, 'How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America' To: Cc: H-Net Staff Heathe

[marxmail] Embrittlement in Nuclear Power Plants - CounterPunch.org

Here’s how Arnold “Arnie” Gundersen, a nuclear engineer with more than 44 years of experience in the nuclear industry, who became a whistleblower and is now chief engineer at Fairewinds Associates, explains embrittlement: “When exposed to radiation, metal becomes embrittled and eventually can c

[marxmail] How Black Lives Matter Came to the Academy

The New Yorker, January 30, 2021 The Political Scene How Black Lives Matter Came to the Academy By Kristal Brent Zook On a Saturday night in early June, Shardé Davis, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Connecticut, was sitting on a couch in a rented a

[marxmail] Racism with Chinese Characteristics – China Channel

Due toincidents last year in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, where Africans were evicted and forced to sleep on the street simply because they are African, there is a growing realization around the world that

[marxmail] The Biggest Unionizing Struggle in Amazon’s History is Happening in Alabama | Left Voice

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[marxmail] Antiracist History, Crisis Theory, and University Workers’ Struggles – Spectre Journal

The struggle against oppression is an intrinsic feature of Marx and Engels’ politics, along with the conviction that the capitalist tiger can’t be skinned claw by claw. The second volume of Henryk Grossman’s/Works/, edited and introduced by*Rick Kuhn*, was published recently in the/Historical M

[marxmail] Biden-Kerry International Climate Politricks - CounterPunch.org

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[marxmail] Why Black Marxism, Why Now? | Boston Review

By Robin D.G. Kelley The inspiration to bring out a new edition of Cedric Robinson’s classic,/Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition/, came from the estimated 26 million people who took to the streets during the spring and summer of 2020 to protest the killings of George Floy