Re: [marxmail] GOP Still Wants to Pretend the Preservation of Slavery Wasn’t a Major Reason for the American Revolution - CounterPunch.org

Yes, insofar as the bourgeois revolutions were about securting the right of property, they are about slavery . . . But what that has to do with specifically with why the American Revolution took place to avoid the British elimination of slavery remains a tad smudged. On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 7:

Re: [marxmail] How Socialism Stopped Being a Dirty Word...And Started Winning Elections Across America

On 5/6/21 8:37 PM, Dayne Goodwin wrote: This is greater than at any time since about 1912, when the Socialist Party had a strong foothold in both urban and rural America. Most of the socialists who have recently been elected to office represent safe blue areas, but they have also made inroads i

[marxmail] How Socialism Stopped Being a Dirty Word...And Started Winning Elections Across America

How Socialism Stopped Being a Dirty Word for Some Voters - And Started Winning Elections Across America by Joshua Kluever, The Conversation, May 5, 2021 https://theconversation.com/how-socialism-stopped-being-a-dirty-word-for-some-voters-and-started-winning-elections-across-america-156572 The left

[marxmail] The Lithium Gold Rush: Inside the Race to Power Electric Vehicles

NY Times, May 6, 2021 The Lithium Gold Rush: Inside the Race to Power Electric Vehicles A race is on to produce lithium in the United States, but competing projects are taking very different approaches to extracting the vital raw material. Some might not be very green. By Ivan Penn and Eric Lip

Re: [marxmail] GOP Still Wants to Pretend the Preservation of Slavery Wasn’t a Major Reason for the American Revolution - CounterPunch.org

Sharing this for perhaps the 7th time in the past 18 months, Horne responding to the WSWS re: 1619 https://washingtonbabylon.com/nyt-1619-horne/ It seems that WSWS is littered with little more than false tautologies and cliches. For instance, one can easily transpose the argument about the Fre

Re: [marxmail] GOP Still Wants to Pretend the Preservation of Slavery Wasn’t a Major Reason for the American Revolution - CounterPunch.org

[Edited Message Follows] Please excuse the rather glaring date mistake--I wrote those lines when preparing for a colonoscopy and there was evidently some leakage. The actual discussion of the 1619 project has AFAIK a fair number of key points, some of which turn on points of history whereof I h

Re: [marxmail] GOP Still Wants to Pretend the Preservation of Slavery Wasn’t a Major Reason for the American Revolution - CounterPunch.org

Please excuse the rather glaring date mistake--I wrote those lines when preparing for a colonoscopy and there was evidently some leakage. The actual discussion of the 1619 project has AFAIK a fair number of key points, some of which turn on points of history whereof I have to remain silent. At

[marxmail] H-Net Review [H-German]: Nees on Weber, 'Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes: Performing the Wild West in German Festivals'

Best regards, Andrew Stewart Begin forwarded message: > From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW > Date: May 6, 2021 at 5:08:16 PM EDT > To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > Cc: H-Net Staff > Subject: H-Net Review [H-German]: Nees on Weber, 'Blood Brothers and Peace > Pipes: Performing the Wild West in Ger

[marxmail] H-Net Review [H-Environment]: Frohlich on Kirchhelle, 'Pyrrhic Progress: The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production'

Best regards, Andrew Stewart Begin forwarded message: > From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW > Date: May 6, 2021 at 5:11:39 PM EDT > To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > Cc: H-Net Staff > Subject: H-Net Review [H-Environment]: Frohlich on Kirchhelle, 'Pyrrhic > Progress: The History of Antibiotics in A

Re: [marxmail] GOP Still Wants to Pretend the Preservation of Slavery Wasn’t a Major Reason for the American Revolution - CounterPunch.org

WSWS/SEP (formerly "Workers League") are the ultimate sectarians. They still peddle Gerry Healy's canard that leaders of the SWP (U.S.) were involved in organizing the assassination of Trotsky. On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 5:11 AM Tristan Sloughter wrote: > There is a very good article in the World

[marxmail] Masterful new history exposes America's dangerous misunderstanding of Iran (due partly to Israel lobby pressure)

The Israel lobby has prevented a warming of relations between the U.S. and Iran, even if it can't prevent a return to the nuclear deal, John Ghazvinian writes in his superb new history. "Perhaps the most unfortunate effect of all this domestic political wrangling was that it destroyed any hope that

[marxmail] H-Net Review [H-War]: Daniels on Daniel III, '21st Century Patton: Strategic Insights for the Modern Era'

Best regards, Andrew Stewart Begin forwarded message: > From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW > Date: May 6, 2021 at 7:34:59 AM EDT > To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > Cc: H-Net Staff > Subject: H-Net Review [H-War]: Daniels on Daniel III, '21st Century Patton: > Strategic Insights for the Modern Era

[marxmail] H-Net Review [H-War]: Podliska on Dick, 'From Victory to Stalemate: The Western Front, Summer 1944, Vol. 1, Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations'

Best regards, Andrew Stewart Begin forwarded message: > From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW > Date: May 6, 2021 at 7:35:27 AM EDT > To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > Cc: H-Net Staff > Subject: H-Net Review [H-War]: Podliska on Dick, 'From Victory to Stalemate: > The Western Front, Summer 1944, Vol.

[marxmail] H-Net Review [H-War]: McMicken on Klein, 'When the Irish Invaded Canada: The Incredible True Story of the Civil War Veterans Who Fought for Ireland's Freedom'

Best regards, Andrew Stewart Begin forwarded message: > From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW > Date: May 6, 2021 at 7:35:16 AM EDT > To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > Cc: H-Net Staff > Subject: H-Net Review [H-War]: McMicken on Klein, 'When the Irish Invaded > Canada: The Incredible True Story of th

[marxmail] Florida State student alleges university abandoned him when he faced anti-Palestinian harassment

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[marxmail] Portrait of the United States as a Developing Country | Boston Review

Dispelling myths of entrepreneurial exceptionalism, a sweeping new history of U.S. capitalism finds that economic gains have always been driven by the state. http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality-politics/justin-h-vassallo-portrait-united-states-developing-country -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

[marxmail] Gig Work in CEE's Platform Economy: Delivery Drivers in Croatia - Lefteast

/Up until 2018., everything was relatively fine, but shit started hitting the fan around 2019… If you want to make any money you have to work 12 hours on average. This is capitalist  exploitation at its best – the first stage of capitalism. For Uber and Bolt, we are nothing but slaves. They are

Re: [marxmail] GOP Still Wants to Pretend the Preservation of Slavery Wasn’t a Major Reason for the American Revolution - CounterPunch.org

> There is a very good article in the World Socialist Web Site that dismantles > this idea: Gerald Horne's counterrevolution against 1776 > . WSWS has done a > remarkable job covering this, from a Marxist perspective. This article is a