[marxmail] H-Net Review [H-Africa]: Wylie on Grant and Pringle, 'Anxiety in and about Africa'

-- Forwarded message - From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW Date: Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 4:52 PM Subject: H-Net Review [H-Africa]: Wylie on Grant and Pringle, 'Anxiety in and about Africa' To: Cc: H-Net Staff Andrea Mariko Grant, Yolana Pringle, eds. Anxiety in and about Africa. Cambr

[marxmail] Karl Radek versus James Joyce

Jeffrey Segall, Between Marxism and Modernism, or How to Be a Revolutionist and Still Love "Ulysses", James Joyce Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Summer, 1988), pp. 421-444 The name of James Joyce is truly a collective name for many [Western writers], and not for the worst bourgeois intellectuals..

[marxmail] H-Net Review [H-Poland]: Logemann on Jaeger, 'The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum: From Narrative, Memory, and Experience to Experientiality'

Best regards, Andrew Stewart Begin forwarded message: > From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW > Date: April 6, 2021 at 7:05:55 PM EDT > To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > Cc: H-Net Staff > Subject: H-Net Review [H-Poland]: Logemann on Jaeger, 'The Second World War > in the Twenty-First-Century Museum:

[marxmail] Karl Polanyi’s Great Transformation and the Countermovement to Capitalism

Media pundits hail the Austrian economist Karl Polanyi as a brilliant theorist of capitalism and a thinker for our time. In order to understand Polanyi’s ideas, however, we need to see him in the context of his own time: Europe’s "age of catastrophe" in the early twentieth century. https://ja

Re: [marxmail] Paul Glusman on "Trial of the Chicago 7" (from FB)

On 4/6/21 6:19 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: On 4/6/21 6:12 PM, Ryan via groups.io wrote: Thanks for sharing this, Louis. Is this on your blog, I assume? No. There's an SDS &60s Leftists group on FB. It was posted there. https://www.facebook.com/groups/203677943435 I wrote my own review but it wa

Re: [marxmail] Paul Glusman on "Trial of the Chicago 7" (from FB)

On 4/6/21 6:12 PM, Ryan via groups.io wrote: Thanks for sharing this, Louis. Is this on your blog, I assume? No. There's an SDS &60s Leftists group on FB. It was posted there. https://www.facebook.com/groups/203677943435 I wrote my own review but it was focused more on how the defendants far

Re: [marxmail] Paul Glusman on "Trial of the Chicago 7" (from FB)

Louis, I don't think you posted it to Marxmail. One thing I think you might have emphasized even more --- that the protests in Chicago were against the DEMOCRATS -- Johnson, Daley, etc. -- who were prosecuting the war (or aiding and abetting it by making sure Humprey got the nomination) --- By hav

Re: [marxmail] Paul Glusman on "Trial of the Chicago 7" (from FB)

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[marxmail] Paul Glusman on "Trial of the Chicago 7" (from FB)

Not sure if I posted this here when the movie came out, but here is my review of the Chicago 7 movie. Hint: it isn't favorable. TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 REVIEW – Spoilers. I was a journalist at the Chicago 8 (later 7) trial, reporting for Ramparts Magazine. I was there, day by day, in the courtroo

[marxmail] H-Net Review [H-Environment]: Jones on Steller, 'Eastbound through Siberia: Observations from the Great Northern Expedition'

Best regards, Andrew Stewart Begin forwarded message: > From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW > Date: April 6, 2021 at 11:14:28 AM EDT > To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > Cc: H-Net Staff > Subject: H-Net Review [H-Environment]: Jones on Steller, 'Eastbound through > Siberia: Observations from the Gre

[marxmail] In ‘Exterminate All the Brutes,’ Raoul Peck Takes Aim at White Supremacy

(Premieres tomorrow night on HBO.) NY Times, April 6, 2021 In ‘Exterminate All the Brutes,’ Raoul Peck Takes Aim at White Supremacy By Robert Ito After completing his 2016 documentary “I Am Not Your Negro,” the director Raoul Peck felt he’d had his say on the topic of U.S. race relations. Or a

[marxmail] Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds

Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds The two employees had publicly pushed the company to reduce its impact on climate change and address concerns about its warehouse workers. *

[marxmail] Amazon’s Clashes With Labor: Days of Conflict and Control

Amazon’s Clashes With Labor: Days of Conflict and Control Amazon was built on an underdog philosophy, but its workers are finding a voice. That presents a problem for the company that goes far beyond the union vote in Alabama. *

[marxmail] Transgender Childhood Is Not a ‘Trend’

Opinion NY Times, April 6, 2021 Transgender Childhood Is Not a ‘Trend’ By Jules Gill-Peterson There’s a story I know of a young transgender girl from rural Wisconsin, who before the age of 5 made it clear enough to her parents that she was a girl, not a boy, that they changed her name and dress

[marxmail] China Tries to Counter Xinjiang Backlash With … a Musical?

<https://www.nytimes.com/by/amy-qin> NYT, April 5, 2021UpdatedApril 6, 2021,6:10 a.m. ET 阅读简体中文版 <https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20210406/china-uyghurs-propaganda-musical/>閱讀繁體中文版 <https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20210406/china-uyghurs-propaganda-musical/zh-hant/> In one scene, Uyghur

[marxmail] Bringing Kautsky Back?

*/After spending a century in obscurity, usually only considered in passing as a cautionary tale or cartoon villain, the ideas of Karl Kautsky have become a topic of debate on the left in recent years. Here Cian Prendiville makes an initial contribution to the discussion and argues that even ‘t

[marxmail] Black Liberation and Socialism with Frank Chapman

Opens with Chapman engaging in a critique of Cedric J Robinson that pretty robust https://youtu.be/u3ktRX8eL6w Best regards, Andrew Stewart -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7793): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/77

[marxmail] Dialectical Ecology – Daniel Saunders

But as the global climate crisis worsens, with more and more evidence linking ecological collapse to the limitless expansion of growth that characterizes the irrational logic of capitalism (in what has been aptly named the capitalist “treadmill of accumulation

[marxmail] Amazonification Is the Future of Capitalism | Left Voice

Interview with Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, coeditor of The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy /Jake Alimahomed-Wilson is a professor of sociology at the California State University, Long Beach, and a member of the California Faculty Association. His research has focused on the mov

[marxmail] How to Avoid the Anti-Imperialism of Fools

The Nation, April 6, 2021 How to Avoid the Anti-Imperialism of Fools The logic of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is a recipe for empty cynicism. By Gilbert Achcar The last three decades have witnessed increasing political confusion about the meaning of anti-imperialism, a notion that, in

[marxmail] The Mysteries of Stephen Hawking’s Universe

The Mysteries of Stephen Hawking’s Universe Why did “A Brief History of Time” make its author the most famous scientist in the world? IAN BERRY/MAGNUM The New Republic, Samanth Subramanian /April 6, 2021 The last time Stephen Hawki

[marxmail] Beyond Suez. Escalating Ship Sizes and their Consequences - Lefteast

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[marxmail] Middle East, Africa, in Special Trouble as Human-Caused Climate Emergency causes 30% drop in Agricultural Productivity Growth

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Re: [marxmail] Did China use a sock puppet to bolster support for its forced assimilation of the Uighurs? | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

On 4/6/21 2:33 AM, Roger Kulp wrote: Has the Le Monde article been removed? The link goes to a blank error page. A reporter from /Le Figaro/  was able to track down "Laurène Beaumond" ,and found it was a real person, writing under a pseudonym. https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/miweb

Re: [marxmail] The Problem of Sir Keir Starmer and UK Labour

That article Starmer's Socialist Alternatives ( https://www.thesocialreview.co.uk/2020/05/28/starmers-socialist-alternatives/ ) is just another reminder that the cabinets of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were filled with both ex-Trotskyists and ex-Stalinists. Nothing really surprising here.

Re: [marxmail] The Problem of Sir Keir Starmer and UK Labour

Tnx. Gary. Should never have happened in the 1st place. Lords of labor rubs one the wrong way! Dónal On Tue 6 Apr 2021, 01:14 Louis Proyect, wrote: > On 4/5/21 7:17 PM, Gary MacLennan wrote: > > Well Donal there is a long tradition in UK Labour of accepting > knighthoods and of course elevation