[marxmail] [Mood Cube ★] new curfew video demos

[Edited Message Follows] (Any anarchosurrealists here? Surrealist times par excellence) https://moodcubestar.blogspot.com/2021/02/surrealist-women.html (challenge your perspective, proposal for IFFR poster 2034...) https://moodcubestar.blogspot.com/2021/02/iffr-2034-1.html (Day birds of the nigh

[marxmail] [Mood Cube ★] new curfew video demos

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[marxmail] Thousands of Wild Bee Species Haven’t Been Seen Since 1990

> Between 2006 and 2015, researchers worldwide observed 25 percent fewer bee > species than they had before 1990 > > > https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thousands-wild-bee-species-havent-been-seen-1990-180976901/ > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent

[marxmail] Hubert H Harrison Bio vol 2 review

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[marxmail] Russian Activist Navalny Sentenced to More Than 2 Years in Prison

Russian Activist Navalny Sentenced to More Than 2 Years in Prison A Moscow court found that President Vladimir Putin’s loudest critic violated his parole. “You cannot lock up the whole country,” Aleksei A. Navalny told the court after large protests in support of him recently. *

Re: [marxmail] Long Road to Harpers Ferry: The Rise of the First American Left on JSTOR

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Re: [marxmail] Long Road to Harpers Ferry: The Rise of the First American Left on JSTOR

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[marxmail] The Arab Spring, a Decade Later

No longer behind a paywall. https://catalyst-journal.com/vol4/no3/the-arab-spring-a-decade-later -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6051): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6051 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/8033

Re: [marxmail] Who Are the Working Class?

[Edited Message Follows] [Reason: Changed a few small faults that could fuel the evidently much-desired flame war] Let me clarify the point of this post. Briefly, I aimed to present three concrete examples of what in 21st century terms can be considered working-class occupations, but in very di

Re: [marxmail] Who Are the Working Class?

Let me clarify the point of this post. Briefly, I aimed to present three concrete examples of what in 21st century terms can be considered working-class occupations, but in very different objective circumstances. * In the first case, we see "classic" factory work--the person inside the machine

[marxmail] Three Decades After his Death, Kahane’s Message of Hate is More Popular Than Ever

The Kahanists learned lessons from that battle over the Sinai and put them to use a decade later when Israel’s second peace treaty (this time with the PLO) was drafted in 1993. Just months after the Oslo Accords were signed in Washington, DC on the White House lawn, a former candidate for Knesset

Re: [marxmail] COVID-19: An Impressive Mass Demonstration in Austria Despite Being Outlawed by the Police

On 2/2/21 3:42 PM, RKOB wrote: COVID-19: An Impressive Mass Demonstration in Austria Despite Being Outlawed by the Police Report (with Pictures and Videos) about big protests against the governments’ COVID-19 policy in Vienna on 31. January 2021, RKO BEFREIUNG (Austrian Section of the RCIT)

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

More or less - but obviously Puytin is far worse than Trump. Karen Dawisha's book 'Putin's Kleptocracy' details how the state-CPSU was completely stripped of assets by Putin and his gang. Obviously by this time the CPSU had nothing to do with any 'socialism'. It was a facade, but behind it profit w

Re: [marxmail] Long Road to Harpers Ferry: The Rise of the First American Left on JSTOR

It might be worth adding that, in addition to Bill Pelz's _People's History of Modern Europe_, Pluto Press, my own _Long Road to Harpers Ferry: The Rise of the First American Left_ is also available for free through the open access "People's History" section of JSTOR.

[marxmail] COVID-19: An Impressive Mass Demonstration in Austria Despite Being Outlawed by the Police

COVID-19: An Impressive Mass Demonstration in Austria Despite Being Outlawed by the Police Report (with Pictures and Videos) about big protests against the governments’ COVID-19 policy in Vienna on 31. January 2021, RKO BEFREIUNG (Austrian Section of the RCIT) https://www.thecommunists.net/r

Re: [marxmail] NY Times: He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?

Thank you Andrew, I totally agree --- I know not everyone reads everything --- but this one was PARTICULARLY good ... One thing not developed in the article is that for much of the 19th and 20th century -- both the POLITICAL CLASS and the "civil service" in the British Empire was FULL of people wh

[marxmail] Callout: The Cry of the Poor | Fran Lock | Culture Matters

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[marxmail] NY Times: He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?

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

On 2/2/21 7:19 AM, Dayne Goodwin wrote: What do you think of this? - On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 11:26 AM Jim Farmelant wrote: Sifting the “Stony Soil” of Black Marxism: Cedric Robinson, Richard Wright, and Ellipses of the Black Radical Tradition https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/088543

[marxmail] Saxony’s New Nazis - CounterPunch.org

Along with its remoteness, darkness and cultural conservatism, Saxony boasts an exceptionally high support for the AfD. Saxony also feature a highly organised, well-armed, and very activeNeo-Nazis

[marxmail] Term Limits? Not for Vietnam’s Hard-Line Communist Leader

Term Limits? Not for Vietnam’s Hard-Line Communist Leader Nguyen Phu Trong, 76, was named to a third term in office as party leaders were unable to reach consensus on a successor. The reappointment may have put off a transition to more pragmatic leadership. *

Re: [marxmail] Momus: I Was A Maoist Intellectual

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Re: [marxmail] Momus: I Was A Maoist Intellectual

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[marxmail] Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins: We messaged Alexei Navalny and said, ‘Hey, we know who tried to kill you’

The investigative organisation’s leader on why reports about Vladimir Putin’s spies have left him in fear of Russian assassination squads after pioneering a new type of journalism https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/bellingcat-eliot-higgins-interview-russia-alexei-navalny-vladimir-putin-853205

[marxmail] Lenn's 150th

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Re: [marxmail] Who Are the Working Class?

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[marxmail] Helen Yaffe, Day Zero in Cuba — Sidecar

HELEN YAFFE 02 FEBRUARY 2021ECONOMICS The first of January 2021 was known as ‘Day Zero’ in Cuba. After almost three decades of operating with a dual currency, Cuba’s national peso (CUP) and its convertible peso (CUC) were unified as

Re: [marxmail] Maoism and Trumpism

Chris: “The Red Guards no doubt believed they were advancing socialism. But their actions set back the struggle for socialism.” Yes, and Dayne above also makes the point that, whatever their motives, the ultimate victors were the privileged, the big bureaucracy that set about capitalist restoratio

[marxmail] Trump's Border Wall Is Threatening Endangered Species

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[marxmail] Economics' failure over destruction of nature presents ‘extreme risks’ | Biodiversity | The Guardian

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[marxmail] The Two Things Unions Traded Away That Handed Workers to Trump - In These Times

Industrial workers know their unions can’t stop plant closures. In These Times STAUGHTON LYND JANUARY 25, 2021 Joe Marshall, Jr. and Joe Marshall Sr., amid the ruins of the demolished Ohio Works, U.S. Steel in Youngstown, 19

[marxmail] Hedges: Papering Over the Rot - scheerpost.com

Typical sermonizing from Chris Hedges but useful data on inequality. https://scheerpost.com/2021/02/01/hedges-papering-over-the-rot/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6028): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6028 Mute T

[marxmail] Momus: I Was A Maoist Intellectual

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[marxmail] The Forever Disease: How Covid-19 Became a Chronic Condition

The New Republic Alexander Zaitchik /February 2, 2021 The Forever Disease: How Covid-19 Became a Chronic Condition Thousands of people have been suffering a slew of crazy post-infection syndromes for months—and there’s no end in sight

[marxmail] Kremlin Foe Navalny Faces Court That May Jail Him For Years | HuffPost

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[marxmail] The Revolutionary Karl Kautsky with Ben Lewis - COSMONAUT

I just don't get the Kautsky revival. Cosmonaut is far more committed to Marxism than Jacobin. But I've managed to get through life without reading more than a couple of his articles. I would put him far beneath Bukharin, Mariategui, Gramsci and CLR James in terms of relevance to the class stru

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

What do you think of this? - On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 11:26 AM Jim Farmelant wrote: > Sifting the “Stony Soil” of Black Marxism: Cedric Robinson, Richard Wright, and Ellipses of the Black Radical Tradition > https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08854300.2020.1862559?fbclid=IwAR1EpJqmm_L5yF

[marxmail] What the new variants of the coronavirus mean for us

Extremely informative article on the variants of SARS-CoV2. Of course, at the end of the day, we have to deal with the ultimate cause of zoonoses, but this article is important and informative. Among other things, it mentions how in Britain they are now giving single shots of the vaccine instead of

Re: [marxmail] RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM

Christianity since the Middle Ages has confronted the faithful with a faint hope of salvation and the practical certainty that nearly everyone is damned.  The life of the believer is a self-centered melodrama based on the unending agonized contemplation of this dilemma. It's important to remembe