Re: [marxmail] thank you, ultra left sectarians

2024-10-01 Thread Mark Lause
I don't think I misunderstoof\d you, but I apologize if I did. On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 6:21 PM gojko rakic via groups.io wrote: > To help you. That my stament shoud be an obvious response to "It will > likely distract people from the real struggle and contribute to a continued > faith in these pe

[marxmail] Election Season Strike Wave

2024-10-01 Thread Anthony Boynton
"There are more than 45,000 dock workers on strike on the East Coast ( https://paydayreport.com/dockworkers-impressed-by-biden-calling-out-foreign-owned-shippers/ ) , 32,000 Boeing workers in Washington State ( https://paydayreport.com/boeing-could-face-credit-downgrade-over-strike-sherrod-brown

[marxmail] The Pinochet Regime at 50 The Assassination of General Carlos Prats and Sofía Cuthbert

2024-10-01 Thread Dennis Brasky
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile/2024-10-01/pinochet-regime-50-assassination-general-carlos-prats-and-sofia -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#32665): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/32665 Mute This Topic: ht

Re: [marxmail] [Mltlist] Marxism-Leninism Today Website Updated

2024-10-01 Thread Dennis Brasky
Trotsky wrote in the 1926 faction fight that the Stalin faction was using an old anti-Semitic slogan - "Beat the Jews and save Russia" with a new twist - "Beat the Opposition and save Russia!" Everyone who had a memory of the old slogan understood the meaning of the second, since the Left Oppositio

Re: [marxmail] thank you, ultra left sectarians

2024-10-01 Thread gojko rakic
To help you. That my stament shoud be an obvious response to " It will likely distract people from the real struggle and contribute to a continued faith in these people" No any connection why someone should  vote for Harris. I apologize for this exchange. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links

Re: [marxmail] thank you, ultra left sectarians

2024-10-01 Thread Mark Lause
My central concern is to leave ourselves the best possible grounds for mass movement after the election. My biggest objection is to the "my way or the highway" dogmatism that uses the electoral On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 5:58 PM Mark Lause via groups.io wrote: > I didn't invent anything. I directl

Re: [marxmail] thank you, ultra left sectarians

2024-10-01 Thread gojko rakic
How from " ( https://groups.io/g/marxmail/topic/108689289?p=Created,,,20,1,20,0::recentpostdate,,,20,2,0,0 ) There is no any real strugle in the US that will help workers. Most workers prefer Trump." you can deduct that this is my argument to vote for Harris. That was yours pure invention, do y

Re: [marxmail] thank you, ultra left sectarians

2024-10-01 Thread gojko rakic
Yes, you quoted what I wrote, but that have nothing with voting fo Harris. How dido you make that connection? Also where I said something like this :"You also said earlier that you deigned to discuss these questions because they were settled." -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receiv

Re: [marxmail] thank you, ultra left sectarians

2024-10-01 Thread Mark Lause
I didn't invent anything. I directly uoted what you wrote. You also said earlier that you deigned to discuss these questions because they were settled. I don't give a shit about arguing for sake of arguing with you or anyone. When I take the time to write something for the list or social media,

Re: [marxmail] thank you, ultra left sectarians

2024-10-01 Thread gojko rakic
Hi Mark, I am somewhat familiar with the revival of activity of certain unions in America such as Amazon or in the Auto industry, more following the support of Barney Sanders for those activities. but what percentage of workers are in unions in the USA, somewhere around 10%. I know that union ac

Re: [marxmail] thank you, ultra left sectarians

2024-10-01 Thread John Edmundson
Indeed. The government announced a scale back of the hospital rebuild in Dunedin, a city a few hundred km south of where I live, a city of less than 130,000. 35,000 people attended a protest march a couple of days later. This is probably rhe biggest protest ever in Dunedin and one of the biggest ev

Re: [marxmail] The White Working Class and the 2016 E

2024-10-01 Thread sartesian
That thread barely moves the needle on the flame-0-meter.   The issue is as the issue was, As  a tactic ,does voting for the Democratic ticket represent an effective response to the convergence of the Republicans with fascists without hindering the prospects  of independent class-based movement?

Re: [marxmail] [Mltlist] Marxism-Leninism Today Website Updated

2024-10-01 Thread Duane Filan
*Thanks for the update, Abraham* */* ", it is cowardice not to respond to the lies that still surround Stalin and the Soviet Union". /// Why and How Stalin Hated Jews

[marxmail] A world spinning out of control as Israel invades Lebanon and Zionism, Hezbollah and Hamas oppose and also rest upon each other

2024-10-01 Thread John Reimann
"As the Netanyahu government drives towards a regional war, the most important task of socialists is to understand the nature of this ongoing catastrophe, how it got to this state of affairs, what might develop and, based on that, what working class socialists can do and should advocate." Some on t

Re: [marxmail] Finkelstein: "Gaza is GONE"

2024-10-01 Thread hari kumar
Thank you Michael: I personally think that the incomparable Finkelstein has always been willing to tell the truth - braving any potential disagreement. Regrettably, I think he is right. Both this article and some private correspondences have encouraged me to try to frame the following hypothesis

Re: [marxmail] Israel crosses into Lebanon

2024-10-01 Thread Marv Gandall
In wars, when the fighting ends, the reckoning begins - among the vanquished, that is. Exuberant when the shooting starts, confident in victory, war weariness sets in as infrastructure is devastated, production ceases, basic services collapse, and the masses succumb to cold, hunger, homelessness

[marxmail] MERIP - Lebanon in the Archives

2024-10-01 Thread Dennis Brasky
On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 10:03 AM MERIP wrote: > View this email in your browser > > > *Middle East Research and Information Project* > *Critical coverage of the Middle East since 1971* > *Lebanon in the Archives* > > An archiva

[marxmail] Karen Greenberg, The Forever Prison and the Forever Wars

2024-10-01 Thread Dennis Brasky
> > Can you even imagine a world where the response of President George W. > Bush to al-Qaeda's acts of horror in September 2001 wasn't the launching of > "the Global War on Terror" which, from Afghanistan and Iraq across the > Middle East and deep into Africa >

Re: [marxmail] thank you, ultra left sectarians

2024-10-01 Thread Mark Lause
gojko rakic via groups.io wrote: > John, > There is no any real strugle in the US that will help workers. Most > workers prefer Trump. > This is the heart of the difference. The idea that there is no real struggle benefiting workers outside the electoral process really sums up the argument. We

[marxmail] Revealed: how the fossil fuel industry helps spread anti-protest laws across the US

2024-10-01 Thread Dennis Brasky
Lobbyists and lawmakers have coordinated to enact new laws that increase criminal penalties for peaceful protests ‘Fear and intimidation’: how peaceful anti-pipeline protesters were hit with criminal and civil charges

[marxmail] Lebanon War: Some Lessons from the Setbacks of the Resistance

2024-10-01 Thread RKOB
*Lebanon War: Some Lessons from the Setbacks of the Resistance* /By Michael Pröbsting, RCIT, 1 October 2024/ It is the duty of revolutionaries to soberly assess the conditions of the liberation struggle as they are and not to lend themselves to illusions. It is clear that the Lebanese resistan

[marxmail] Finkelstein: "Gaza is GONE"

2024-10-01 Thread Michael Karadjis
I'm not posting this from Finkelstein to bring spirits down (and obviously I don't walk into the weekly Palestine demo with this slogan), rather, as he says in this interview, "I don't like to be a bearer of bad news, on the other hand, if we're speaking to adults we should treat them respectfully

Re: [marxmail] Another Respected Figure on The Left Discredits Himself for Kamala

2024-10-01 Thread sartesian
Maybe I haven't been clear.  Can anybody identify a mass movement initiated by working within the Democratic  Party-- apart fromthe slaveholders' rebellion and anti-Reconstruction and Asian exclusion? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Rep