[marxmail] H-Net Review [H-Japan]: Curtis on Farris, 'A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea'

Best regards, Andrew Stewart Begin forwarded message: > From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW > Date: February 10, 2021 at 10:04:53 PM EST > To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > Cc: H-Net Staff > Subject: H-Net Review [H-Japan]: Curtis on Farris, 'A Bowl for a Coin: A > Commodity History of Japanese Tea

[marxmail] RIP-Ed Pearl of the Ash Grove

Karen Pomer --- to me (JAI:  Hard to overestimate the importance of Ed Pearl and his "Ash Grove" music hall to the culture of the movement in LA during 'The '60's.) https://www.latimes.com/ entertainment-arts/music/ story/2021-02-09/ed-pearl- dead-ash-grove ( https://www.latimes.com/e

[marxmail] London Green Left Blog: Degrowth: Socialism without Growth

Notable (eco)socialists have recently criticized the idea of degrowth *^1 *. Here we want to argue that such criticism is misplaced. Growth is a problem over and above capitalism. A sus

[marxmail] Leo Panitch letter (with Colin Leys)

Vol. 3 No. 1 7 January 2921 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n01/letters Labour and Antisemitism James Butler writes that the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s report on antisemitism in the Labour Party found it ‘responsible for three breaches of equality law, including indirect discr

Re: [marxmail] Paul Street, Antonio Gramsci, and understanding fascism | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

. . . and so it goes. I think that, as people get older, they want to see signs of the Götterdämmerung, . Every four years of aging among my contemporaries seems to shave a few more off. Last round, the former president of my union responded to my criticisms of Biden that making such criticisms

[marxmail] Paul Street, Antonio Gramsci, and understanding fascism | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

Paul Street At nearly 4,500 words, Paul Street’s article titled “The Anatomy of Fascism Denial ” is just the first half of a polemic against those on the left who do not share his analysis that Trump was an imminent fasci

[marxmail] Add New Post ‹ Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist — WordPress

At nearly 4,500 words, Paul Street’s article titled “The Anatomy of Fascism Denial ” is just the first half of a polemic against those on the left who do not share his analysis that Trump was an imminent fascist threat. T

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

Andrew Stewart wrote > > In the Grundrisse , which was only published in 1939 in Moscow and in > English in 1973 by Vintage, has a direct mention of American slavery as a > form of capitalism, throwing to the wind the claim by Post, Eugene > Genovese, et. al. that the South was a feudal economy.

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

The publisher has removed the firewall: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0034644620962811 On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 11:20 AM Andrew Pollack via groups.io wrote: > here's the article; thanks to the comrade who sent it. > Personally I think it's a welcome addition to our theoretical arsen

[marxmail] There is no Color-Blind Road to Socialism in the United States | Black Agenda Report

Tho I readily admit disagreement with Danny Haiphong sometimes, he hits the nail on the head perfectly with regards to the failures of the Left regarding racism in all venues of engagement. https://www.blackagendareport.com/there-no-color-blind-road-socialism-united-states Best regards, Andrew

[marxmail] Motorized Youth Rebellion - Ed Pearl

Sad news to hear. I last saw Ed Pearl in late 2018, at a anniversary commemoration of the Ash Grove, held at the Los Angeles main library. He was active in many causes and efforts. He was in the New American Movement (NAM), along with his comrades Dorothy Healey and Ben Dobbs, who left the CPUS

Re: [marxmail] Motorised Youth Rebellion

Ed Pearl, the owner of the Ash Grove, one of the folk clubs that was raided by LAPD mentioned in Set the Night On Fire died yesterday of COVID. Ed was politically and culturally active in Los Angles since childhood.  Raised in Boyle Heights, his first organization was Habonim, a Labor Zionist gr

[marxmail] YouTube deletes neo-Nazi account that promoted hate toward Jews

Further on Cynthia McKinney https://www.blackagendareport.com/content/12000-us-troops-poised-move-malta-libya https://www.facebook.com/CynthiaMcKinney/posts/10157259857424849 https://twitter.com/cynthiamckinney/status/1261610479056826372?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Also, this report on a public forum

[marxmail] H-Net Review [H-Buddhism]: Ying on Ritzinger, 'Anarchy in the Pure Land: Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism'

-- Forwarded message - From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW Date: Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 11:21 AM Subject: H-Net Review [H-Buddhism]: Ying on Ritzinger, 'Anarchy in the Pure Land: Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism' To: Cc: H-Net Staff Justin Ritzinger. Anarch

[marxmail] Review of Ernie Tate memoir

From FB page of Spokesman the publishing imprint of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Ernie Tate, who died at home in Canada on 5 February 2021, had a close-up view of the Russell Foundation during the 1960s, whilst Bertrand Russell was still alive. Ernie recounted his experiences during

Re: [marxmail] YouTube deletes neo-Nazi account that promoted hate toward Jews

UNBELIEVABLE -- McKinney really went off the deep end I think when she lost a re-election bid, she blamed her erstwhile "allies" and determined to "get even" > On social media, she's > questioned the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust and lamented > Congress's funding of Holocaust educa

[marxmail] YouTube deletes neo-Nazi account that promoted hate toward Jews

Since its launch in August 2020, the American Third Position channel posted 44 videos on everything from GameStop to the Proud Boys, an extremist group whose members helped organize the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. One of its last videos featured a former Democratic six-term membe

[marxmail] Forrest Hylton | Victor Peña’s Odyssey Continued · LRB 8 February 2021

For Victor Peña, a/cacique/of the Zenú people, Colombia’s second most numerous indigenous group, 2021 is shaping up to be a continuation of 2020, which is to say dreadful beyond measure. The year started with Victor running out of gas for cooking rice and eggs in his kitchen: the only staples h

[marxmail] Putin’s Palace

LRB, Vol. 43 No. 4 · 18 February 2021 SHORT CUTS Putin’s Palace Tony Wood Share on Twitter

[marxmail] “Armed self-defense is a fact of life in black communities”: The Story of Robert F. Williams | Left Voice

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[marxmail] Dawn: Marxism and National Liberation

Only at the end of his life did Karl Marx leave the shores of Europe and travel to a country under colonial dominion. This was when he went to Algeria in 1882. ‘For Mussulmans, there is no such thing as subordination’, Marx wrote to his daughter Laura Lafargue. Inequality is an abomination to ‘

Re: [marxmail] Remembering Leo Panitch

Thanks for your careful evaluation of Leo Panitch, Richard. It deepens my disagreement with Panitch's political perspective. I do appreciate Panitch's dedication and steady work over the decades. In March of 1983 - somewhat adrift and politically disoriented after my departure from the U.S. SWP