Re: [marxmail] Fare thee well, comrade: A tribute to Ernie Tate

Ah, whenever I saw Jess and Ernie in Toronto, it brought the greatest pleasure - partly as Ernie and I shared a birth hospital. He will be missed enormously - what a fantastic revolutionary career. That's a fine obit in /SpringMag /... And this is excellent, Louis, especially his nearly hour-lo

[marxmail] Fare thee well, comrade: A tribute to Ernie Tate

By James Clark and Pam Frache Ernest (“Ernie”) Tate, lifelong revolutionary socialist, died at home on February 5. He was 86. We send our deepest condolences to Jess MacKenzie, his companion of more than half a century. https://springmag.ca/fare-thee-well-comrade-a-tribute-to-ernie-tate -=

Re: [marxmail] Who were the Capitol Hill rioters?

Well if that's the case, it would seem that there may well not be--in fact probably isn't--a sudden change in the class composition of right-wing activism across the board.  This has to restart the question of just how petty bourgeois the trumpists are as a rule--maybe the WC trumpists are just

Re: [marxmail] Can central planning work?

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[marxmail] Big Publishing Pushes Out Trump’s Last Fan

NYT, Feb. 7, 2021 Big Publishing Pushes Out Trump’s Last Fan By Ben Smith If you were a certain kind of distinctly Trumpy public figure — say Donald Trump Jr. or Corey Lewandowski — looking to sell a book over the last four years, there were surprisingly few options. The Big Five publishing co

[marxmail] Simulation of a Nuclear Blast in a Major City - YouTube

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Re: [marxmail] YouTube personality Jimmy Dore promotes fascist Boogaloo Boy - World Socialist Web Site

Here's the operative issue for me and the real grist to chew through: Back in 2016, I had a chat on the phone with Noel Ignatiev and he told me "I think the two of us both realize we are going to need to talk to these people." Ignatiev understood that there's a lot of recruitment still to be don

Re: [marxmail] YouTube personality Jimmy Dore promotes fascist Boogaloo Boy - World Socialist Web Site

The wsws is currently rehashing 'security and the Fourth International ' . They better start writing 'Security and the Planet Earth'. I approached the German SEP briefly ten years ago only to be saturated with sectarian stuff which, I admit, I have read. SInce then I have split off from every se

[marxmail] Cuba lifts ban on most private business

FT.com Cuba lifts ban on most private business Marc Frank in Havana 3 HOURS AGO Cuba has announced a big expansion of the private sector as the communist government struggles to deal with the worst economic crisis since the fall of the Soviet Union. Only weeks after devaluing the peso and scr

[marxmail] Corruption in Bangladesh

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Re: [marxmail] YouTube personality Jimmy Dore promotes fascist Boogaloo Boy - World Socialist Web Site

I used to read the World Socialist Web Site religiously. Sadly, I feel they were one of the casualties of the Trump years. Today, they are little more than a conspiracy web site. I can't remember the last time I posted a link to an article of theirs. Regarding Jimmy Dore, I subscribe to his You

Re: [marxmail] Black Women in the United States and Unpaid Collective Work: Theorizing the Community as a Site of Production

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[marxmail] The Real Rosa Parks Story Is Better Than the Fairy Tale

The Real Rosa Parks Story Is Better Than the Fairy Tale The way we talk about her covers up uncomfortable truths about American racism. ByJeanne Theoharis Dr. Theoharis is a professor of political science and the author of eleven books on the civil rights and Black Power movements includin

[marxmail] YouTube personality Jimmy Dore promotes fascist Boogaloo Boy - World Socialist Web Site

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[marxmail] Trump May Be Gone, But Neofascism Remains

"A Trumpian Presidency demonstrated how an anti-democratic, neo-fascist, could use the weaknesses of a corporate controlled market democracy to rise to the apex of the US political system. Money, exclusionary nationalism, a sympathetic right-wing media and an effective social media strategy easily

[marxmail] Angelique Richardson | On Profiteering · LRB 5 February 2021

While profiteers have been sending out pitiful portions of what appears to betuna in a coin bag forfree school lunches ,fish

Re: [marxmail] Can central planning work?

It is interesting to not that while nowadays most bourgeois economists have to come to embrace the Misean-Hayekian position that socialist economic planning cannot work, even in principle, in the past that wasn't necessarily the case. The conservative economist Joseph Schumpeter was one such eco

[marxmail] The 400-Year Continuum We All Share with Ida B. Wells – Chicago Review of Books

Reading about Ida B. Wells is like reading a biography of activism itself, of a whole flock of lives lived. Born into enslavement in Mississippi in 1862, Wells died in 1931, a year after running for the Illinois State Senate. In between, she became, at sixteen, the primary caregiver to five y

[marxmail] Rear Window videos - Dailymotion

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[marxmail] W. E. B. Du Bois Papers Overview

Scholar, writer, editor of The Crisis and other journals, co-founder of the Niagara Movement, the NAACP, and the Pan African Congresses, international spokesperson for peace and for the rights of oppressed minorities, W.E.B. Du Bois was a son of Massachusetts who articulated the strivings of Af

Re: [marxmail] Who were the Capitol Hill rioters?

i see the point you're trying to make. The difference in this case is that the people who went to Washington did so voluntarily. They were not captives with "managerial" positions. This graph, from the Washington Post, demonstrates that changes in employment had a greater impact on support for