[marxmail] On recent events in Cuba

http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article56649 We reproduce below a statement published at the end of November on the blog Comunistas under the title “Declaración sobre algo màs que los sucesos de San Isidro”. Comunistas is an online publication launched in June 2020 in Cuba, which aims

[marxmail] Belden "Noonie Man" Batiste runs for congress

The lack of a mass working class party in the US is the key to the crisis workers are facing. If and when that starts to build, that will transform US and world politics. One way that such a party could start is through individual working class fighters running for office on a program that calls fo

[marxmail] H-Net Review [H-Asia]: Lucia on Whitmore, 'Mountain, Water, Rock, God: Understanding Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century'

Best regards, Andrew Stewart Begin forwarded message: > From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW > Date: February 3, 2021 at 9:57:07 PM EST > To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > Cc: H-Net Staff > Subject: H-Net Review [H-Asia]: Lucia on Whitmore, 'Mountain, Water, Rock, > God: Understanding Kedarnath in t

[marxmail] Lincoln Rejects the King of Siam's Offer of Elephants | American Battlefield Trust

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[marxmail] Navalny and the Left | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

As might have been expected, Alexey Navalny has his detractors on the left. Jacobin published an article by Alexey Sakhnin and Per Leander titled “Russia’s Trump ” that dismissed his intrepid campaigns against corrup

Re: [marxmail] Swans Commentary: Reflections on Rennie Davis, Jerry Rubin, and Abbie Hoffman, by Louis Proyect - lproy45

NY Times obit at https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/us/politics/rennie-davis-dead.html ** Rennie Davis, ‘Chicago Seven’ Antiwar Activist, Dies at 79 ** The trial arising from the “poli

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

My apologies for perhaps being a bit of a skunk at the picnic --- I will not specifically respond to the various postings from various comrades but instead state very simply what I believe the evidence shows --- All the discussion about the Reconquista (the effects of which did not end in 1492 wit

Re: [marxmail] Swans Commentary: Reflections on Rennie Davis, Jerry Rubin, and Abbie Hoffman, by Louis Proyect - lproy45

We needed mass organizing and the young to join the antiwar movement. I was in high school and the counterculture political freaks did a lot more to get me protesting the war than the SWP pamphleteers.  Pathfinder was a good publisher, though.  You're pretty right on about Abbie, though. -=-=-

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

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Re: [marxmail] Who Is Aleksei Navalny? NYT Once Knew, but Has Since Forgotten

On 2/3/21 2:47 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: On 2/3/21 1:05 PM, Andrew Stewart wrote: Of course, the fact that there were people who turned out in support of Navalny doesn't really tell you anything at all about who he actually is. For that, the *Times* audio team would have been better off going

Re: [marxmail] Who Is Aleksei Navalny? NYT Once Knew, but Has Since Forgotten

On 2/3/21 1:05 PM, Andrew Stewart wrote: Of course, the fact that there were people who turned out in support of Navalny doesn't really tell you anything at all about who he actually is. For that, the *Times* audio team would have been better off going to the *Times* archives, where they woul

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

On 2/3/21 12:40 PM, Mark Lause wrote: There certainly were particularly racist ideas in the 15th through 17th centuries (or earlier), but scholars have made a compelling argument that "race" remained a fluid concept. Mark won't be surprised that I am a lot tougher on Post than most people. F

[marxmail] Navalny and the contradictions of Putin’s robber capitalist regime | Editorial | The Morning Star

 https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/e/navalny-and-contratictions-putins-robber-capitalist-regime Editorial Navalny and the contradictions of Putin’s robber capitalist regime Tuesday 02nd Feb 2021 A woman holds a banner with portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin and reads ‘We'

Re: [marxmail] Fault Line of the American Civil War – The Brooklyn Rail

The article also noted with respect to the Civil War: "At the time the northern states had 801,000 factory workers against 79,000 in the South ... It should be noted that in the Union or pro-Union states there were about 443,000 enslaved people, in contrast to the 3,522,000 in the Confederate sta

Re: [marxmail] Who Are the Working Class?

(JAI:  I don't know if this posting's formatting will survive its posting to this listserv.  If it does not you may write me and I will forward the document as an attachment.) To my way of thinking, the question is better framed:  "Who are the Working Classes".  Here it is proposed that there a

[marxmail] Who Is Aleksei Navalny? NYT Once Knew, but Has Since Forgotten

Best regards, Andrew Stewart Begin forwarded message: > From: FAIR > Date: February 3, 2021 at 1:04:29 PM EST > To: hasc.warrior.s...@gmail.com > Subject: Who Is Aleksei Navalny? NYT Once Knew, but Has Since Forgotten > Reply-To: FAIR > >  > > > > View article on FAIR's website > Who Is

[marxmail] H-Net Review [H-LatAm]: Delucia on Beaule and Douglass, 'The Global Spanish Empire: Five Hundred Years of Place Making and Pluralism'

Best regards, Andrew Stewart Begin forwarded message: > From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW > Date: February 3, 2021 at 1:00:14 PM EST > To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > Cc: H-Net Staff > Subject: H-Net Review [H-LatAm]: Delucia on Beaule and Douglass, 'The > Global Spanish Empire: Five Hundred Y

[marxmail] Uncensorable Internet and the Lbertarian Paradise of Bitcoin

[Edited Message Follows] As old age and forced retirement grease my slide away from actual "technical" competence, always doubtful in the case of a technical writer, I lose touch more and more with the breathless pace of IP innovation. The right are responding with a Big John giant groan to the

[marxmail] Uncensorable Internet and the Lbertarian Paradise of Bitcoin

As old age and forced retirement grease my slide away from actual "technical" competence, always doubtful in the case of a technical writer, I lose touch more and more with the breathless pace of IP innovation. The right are responding with Big John giant groan to the challenge of liberal censo

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

I don't share Charlie's view of the antebellum Southern labor system as pre-capitalist, but I think he's making an important point here . . . though I may be missing some nuance of difference here. There certainly were particularly racist ideas in the 15th through 17th centuries (or earlier), but

[marxmail] 'Robert E. Lee and Me’ dismantles Confederate mythology

> > Historian and retired brigadier general Ty Seidule issues a full-throated > indictment of the “Lost Cause” and dethrones the Confederate general. > > > https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2021/0125/Robert-E.-Lee-and-Me-dismantles-Confederate-mythology > > He aspired to be a “Virginian

[marxmail] Swans Commentary: Reflections on Rennie Davis, Jerry Rubin, and Abbie Hoffman, by Louis Proyect - lproy45

Rennie Davis, SDS leader, just died. I wrote a not-too-friendly critique of him and fellow "60s radicals" Jerry Rubin and Abby Hoffman in 2008. http://www.swans.com/library/art14/lproy45.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Onli

[marxmail] Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism | Climate

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

On 2/2/21 11:58 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: 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://w

[marxmail] The Money Theory of the State – The Brooklyn Rail

Kafka’s unfinished final novel,/The Castle,/can be read as a parable about the misrecognition of power. In the course of trying to discover if he has, or has not, been appointed as a land surveyor by the local authorities, the protagonist K. becomes obsessed with the authorities themselves, the

[marxmail] The Longue Durée of Racialized Capitalism – The Brooklyn Rail

In his recent article for Field Notes,^2 Charlie Post insists on the need to think racism and capitalism together but is keen to move the discussion “beyond racial capitalism” perspectives^3 because of disagreements about the spatial and temporal origins of racism, and about the explanation tho

[marxmail] Fault Line of the American Civil War – The Brooklyn Rail

The North, at the time of secession, was headed, along with the rest of the country, by Abraham Lincoln, who was also the first president of a newly-born party the Republicans; while the Confederate states were represented by a Democratic party, which in that era, and for some time afterwards,

[marxmail] The Coup That Wasn’t – The Brooklyn Rail

ByPaul Mattick One might have thought that Trump’s departure from the White House would put an end to the constant worry—and not just on the part of left-leaning pundits—that he represented a rebirth of fascism.^1 In any event, the typically

[marxmail] Linsey McGoey | Game On · LRB 1 February 2021

Adam McKay’s movie/The Big Short/ , based onMichael Lewis’s book of the same name, tells the story of Michael Burry, an investor who realised that subprime

[marxmail] Will We Ever Fully Understand Humans’ Impact on Nature?

The Nation Magazine Will We Ever Fully Understand Humans’ Impact on Nature? A conversation with Elizabeth Kolbert about her new book, efforts to “control the control of nature,” and how the climate beat has changed. By Naomi Elias TODAY 5:45 AM To say that Earth is in crisis is an understatemen

[marxmail] Social services and the care sector during and beyond the pandemic: Issues of Czech social and care workers and possible solutions through sectoral unions | Lefteast

/ The pandemic caught us all unprepared, but also showed that many current issues are rooted in long-term systemic problems. This article looks at some of the issues in the social services and care sector in the Czech Republic. It argues that many of them have already been affecting social ser

[marxmail] The mainstream: meeting the historic challenges? – Michael Roberts Blog

Recently, newly confirmed US Treasury secretary and former Fed chief, Janet Yellen, spelt out the challenges facing US capitalismin a letter to her new staff.

[marxmail] Moderator's note

On 2/3/21 7:35 AM, RKOB wrote: And here is a video from a march against mass curfews in Danemark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=nvivmZE9y-I The symbols and placards are pretty clear. You can go peddle this propaganda el

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

And here is a video from a march against mass curfews in Danemark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=nvivmZE9y-I The symbols and placards are pretty clear. Am 02.02.2021 um 22:08 schrieb Louis Proyect: On 2/2/21 3:42 PM, RK