[marxmail] Racism, sexism and ‘Karens’ | Elaine Graham-Leigh | Counterfire

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[marxmail] Vilifying India’s protesting farmers is central to the BJP’s playbook

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[marxmail] Amistad

Watching Spielberg's "Amistad" (not for the first time.) Curious to see what Marcus Rediker had to say about it as the author of a scholarly history of the slave rebellion. This looks interesting: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/peculiar-revolt-marcus-redikers-amistad-rebellion/ -=

[marxmail] Mogadishu police open fire on protesters

>From Mohamed Abdi Nour: "Gunfire erupted in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, Friday morning after security forces cut off a planned opposition protest. The opposition is in a standoff with President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo over the election process and has been calling for him to leave office sinc

[marxmail] What is, and What is Not, a Capitalist Empire | James Parisot - Academia.edu

This study argues that a historical materialist theory of what a capitalist empire is has yet to be fully articulated. It proceeds to lay out such a theory. The paper outlines a theory of capitalist empire situated in relation to a historical materialist conceptualization of how capitalism oper

[marxmail] Andrew Cuomo’s Report on Controversial Nursing Home Policy for COVID Patients Prompts More Controversy — ProPublica

So the bastards at McKinsey helped prepare the report that Cuomo released to clear his ass... https://www.propublica.org/article/andrew-cuomos-report-on-controversial-nursing-home-policy-for-covid-patients-prompts-more-controversy -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messa

[marxmail] The Texas Freeze: Why the Power Grid Failed

(Behind a pay wall, so no url. SR) The Texas Freeze: Why the Power Grid Failed The state’s electricity system was considered a model. This week’s outages revealed shortcomings in the market structure. By Katherine Blunt and Russell Gold/Wall Street Journal/Feb. 19, 2021 6:41 pm ET A fundamenta

Re: [marxmail] After Capitol Riots, Billionaire’s ‘Scholars’ Confront Their Benefactor

It’s funny what gets people mad enough to try to stop these monsters. He’s a conservative supporting conservative politicians because they make him rich. These Schwarzman scholars are just now connecting the dots. But on a daily basis Schwarzman makes American lives a living hell. https://www.

Re: [marxmail] Arianne Shahvisi | Cranks and Shills · LRB 19 February 2021

The shite that is coming from the Democratic Party could be more dangerous in the long run than Trump's little gang of would-be-nazis who can't shoot straight.  This appears to be an example. Exactly what price are "what-you-mean-we" going to pay for Biden' alleged turn to the left, and this Ca

[marxmail] Why Did Bridgerton Erase Haiti? – Avidly

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[marxmail] After Capitol Riots, Billionaire’s ‘Scholars’ Confront Their Benefactor

NY Times, Feb. 20, 2021 After Capitol Riots, Billionaire’s ‘Scholars’ Confront Their Benefactor By Kate Kelly The private equity billionaire Stephen A. Schwarzman has spent many years financing educational programs, from his old high school to the Ivy League. But the Blackstone chief executiv

Re: [marxmail] What can be done about counterrevolution?

On 2/20/21 10:07 AM, judeanpeoplesfront via groups.io wrote: I would be interested to hear thoughts of people on the list as well as any literature on the topic. James P. Cannon might have been wrong to try to build a Trotskyist party in the USA based on Zinoviev's fucked-up organizational n

Re: [marxmail] Diane Morgan and Adam Curtis on Brexit, Trump and his new series

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[marxmail] What can be done about counterrevolution?

I recently read Alan Woods’s 1979 piece “Lessons of Chile 1973” (https://www.marxist.com/lessons-of-chile-1973.htm). Although not the primary focus of the paper, one of the biggest lessons for me is that there is _always_ a counterrevolution. (I suppose I knew this already because examples aboun

[marxmail] Amazon workers and the southern key? - Tempest

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[marxmail] Frederick Douglass Railed Against Economic Inequality

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[marxmail] A Bleak Future for Water | Ray Levy Uyeda

IN OUR MOMENT OF RABID FOR SALE-ISM, it would be easy to react to the announcement that even the future of water in California is for sale with a glib/of course it is/. As ofDecember 7

[marxmail] Arianne Shahvisi | Cranks and Shills · LRB 19 February 2021

‘A change in the name of theUSWar Department to “Defense Department” in 1947,’ Noam Chomsky and Edward Hermanwrote in/After the Cataclysm/, ‘signalled that henceforth the state would be shifting from defence to aggressive war.’ I was reminded of this a few day

[marxmail] America’s Hidden Gulag

NY Review of Books, Feb. 19, 2021 America’s Hidden Gulag The nationwide federal detention of immigrants in county jails perpetuates a profit-driven system of mass incarceration.by Jacob Kang-Brown and Jack Norton In the summer of 2018, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents brought

Re: [marxmail] Diane Morgan and Adam Curtis on Brexit, Trump and his new series

I haven't watched it but skimmed some of this review the other day https://letterboxd.com/i_l/film/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head-an-emotional-history-of-the-modern-world-2021/ Does it really end like this: > the film’s final montage where Curtis connects footage of a Nazbol rally with > Black Liv

[marxmail] New York City and the persistence of the Middle Passage.

TheNation, MARCH 8/15, 2021, ISSUE A Poisonous Legacy New York City and the persistence of the Middle Passage. By Gerald Horne THE LAST SLAVE SHIPS: NEW YORK AND THE END OF THE MIDDLE PASSAGE By John Harris In the middle of 1856, the soon-to-be-celebrated poet Walt Whitman visited an impounded

[marxmail] How Can We Revive Herd Immunity to Fascism?

The Nation, Feb. 19, 2021 How Can We Revive Herd Immunity to Fascism? There is a clear correlation between the neoliberal onslaught that started in the 1980s and the rise of neofascism and religious fundamentalism. By Gilbert Achcar Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? The

Re: [marxmail] Diane Morgan and Adam Curtis on Brexit, Trump and his new series

His approach is sensationalist, Nihilistic & ego driven with no sign of class analysis or politicisation. Good MTV like research though. On Fri 19 Feb 2021, 23:01 Stephen Broeck via groups.io, wrote: > I watched this 6-part documentary recently and found it interesting, if a > little long-winded

Re: [marxmail] FYI - Glen Greenwald

I used to admire Greenwald as a journalist but he has either lost his mind under the pressures he has faced in Brazil or his true colors have risen to the surface, He left the Intercept because they refused to publish his promotion of  aright-wing conspiracy n the run-up to the election. Now he

Re: [marxmail] FYI - Glen Greenwald

I used to admire Greenwald as a journalist but he has either lost his mind under the pressures he has faced in Brazil or his true colors have risen to the surface, He left the Intercept because they refused to publish his promotion of  aright-wing conspiracy n the run-up to the election. Now he

[marxmail] Go St. Pauli! Beat Fascism!

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Re: [marxmail] FYI - Glen Greenwald

I got around to reading the article by Greenwald. Below is an excerpt from his article. Below that are excerpts from the prosecutors court filing. Greenwald has not accurately described what is in the court filing. ken h https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-false-and-exaggera