[marxmail] For sustainable finance to work, we will need central planning

FT.com, July 11, 2021 Opinion: Sustainable capitalism For sustainable finance to work, we will need central planning By Max Krahé The writer is a political economist at the University of Duisburg-Essen The holy grail of sustainable finance is figuring out how to distinguish sustainable from uns

[marxmail] Organizer of Trotky conference in Cuba is arrestd

From FB: Good friend Frank Garcia Hernandez was arrested today in Havana. Young Cuban Communist who writes about Sandalio Junco and who organized Trotsky's unusual event in Havana, Cuba. Little do we know about his arrest. But what if we know with absolute certainty is that he is clearly a co

[marxmail] Pipeline Protesters Face Corporate Counterinsurgency in Minnesota

ndigenous Water Protectors Face Off With an Oil Company and Police Over a Minnesota Pipeline https://theintercept.com/2021/07/07/line-3-pipeline-minnesota-counterinsurgency/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Gr

[marxmail] Opinion | The Differences Between Fascism and Trump(ism) | C.J. Polychroniou

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[marxmail] Ask Ethan: Is There A Hidden Quantum Reality Underlying What We Observe?

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[marxmail] Is the Universe Open-Ended? - Issue 102: Hidden Truths - Nautilus

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[marxmail] Nuclear Stockholm Syndrome - CounterPunch.org

Bhaskar Sunkara’s recentopinion piece extoling the virtues of nuclear power and castigating its opponents as paranoid and ill-informed, is clearly motivated by his deep c

[marxmail] A Battle Between a Great City and a Great Lake - The New York Times

Chicago is a ticking ecological time bomb. Years ago, I got a big laugh out of William Cronin's "Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West" that used the term ecology so broadly that the stockyards fell under that rubric. I have a few remarks about Cronon here https://louisproyect.org/201

[marxmail] How Local Guerrilla Fighters Routed Ethiopia’s Powerful Army

NY Times, July 11, 2012 How Local Guerrilla Fighters Routed Ethiopia’s Powerful Army by Declan Walsh SAMRE, Ethiopia — The Tigrayan fighters whooped, whistled and pointed excitedly to a puff of smoke in the sky, where an Ethiopian military cargo plane trundling over the village minutes earlier

Re: [marxmail] Video: Understanding China's socialism: Book launch event for John Ross’ *China's Great Road* | The Morning Star, Tricontinental Institute, Geopolitical Economy Research Group, Learning

On 7/11/21 9:54 AM, Kevin Lindemann and Cathy Campo wrote:  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_jlkWQa7MSY _ John Ross must have been inspired by Arne Swabeck. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ross_(academic) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io L

[marxmail] Gasoline and Coal's Climate Freak Show: Fire-nado, 1 Billion Dead Marine Animals, and Earth's All-Time Record Heat

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[marxmail] Capitalism: has the leopard changed its spots? – Michael Roberts Blog

/“Let me be clear: capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism. It’s exploitation/.”, US President Biden tweeted when signing an executive order to expand competition across the economy and crack down on monopolistic practices, describing a misguided 40-year/“experiment”/in letting US corpo

[marxmail] Habitat Destruction For Lithium is Climate and Extinction Crisis Denialism | Sierra Nevada Ally

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[marxmail] Like in ‘Postapocalyptic Movies’: Heat Wave Killed Marine Wildlife en Masse

(Just like the Marmara sea) NY Times, July 10, 2021 Like in ‘Postapocalyptic Movies’: Heat Wave Killed Marine Wildlife en Masse By Catrin Einhorn Dead mussels and clams coated rocks in the Pacific Northwest, their shells gaping open as if they’d been boiled. Sea stars were baked to death. Sock

[marxmail] Biddy Bridget Mason

(From FB) Biddy Bridget Mason (1815-1891) was born into slavery and given as a wedding gift to a Mormon couple in Mississippi named Robert and Rebecca Smith. In 1847 at age 32, Biddy Mason was forced to walk from Mississippi to Utah tending cattle behind her master’s 300-wagon caravan. After fo

[marxmail] Texas Man Who Waited Hours to Vote Is Arrested on Charges of Illegal Voting

NY Times, July 10, 2021, 5:14 p.m. ET Texas Man Who Waited Hours to Vote Is Arrested on Charges of Illegal Voting By Isabella Grullón Paz A 62-year-old Texas man who waited hours to cast a ballot in last year’s presidential primary was arrested this week on charges that he had voted illegally.

[marxmail] Citizens, Not the State, Will Enforce New Abortion Law in Texas

Citizens, Not the State, Will Enforce New Abortion Law in Texas The measure bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. And it effectively deputizes ordinary citizens to sue people involved in the process. *

[marxmail] Woman faces a year in prison for stomping a ‘Back the Blue’ sign and ‘smirking in an intimidating manner’

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[marxmail] Seduced by China's Belt and Road Initiative, Taliban also forsake Uyghurs - The Economic Times

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[marxmail] Striking Alabama Miners Are Done Playing Nice - In These Times

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[marxmail] Warehouse Workers Review Nomadland - LeftStreamed

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[marxmail] 'We Saw Jews With Hearts Like Germans': Moroccan Immigrants in Israel Warned Families Not to Follow

Haaretz, Jul. 10, 2021 9:03 AM 'We Saw Jews With Hearts Like Germans': Moroccan Immigrants in Israel Warned Families Not to Follow Thousands of letters written in the early years of the state by immigrant soldiers to their families in Morocco reveal a gloomy picture. Most wanted to go home by

[marxmail] » Keeping Poor Countries Poor: The Absurdity of Comparative Advantage

One of the worst economic theories that has been forced upon poor countries, and economics students, is known as comparative advantage. This means that each country should specialise in what it can make, grow or do ‘best’(1) and this will benefit everyone. If a country has the right climate the

[marxmail] THE D-ECON DATABASE: A RESPONSE TO THE MOST COMMON EXCUSE

*The Economics profession has long been too white, too male, too Western-centric, and too hostile to non-mainstream approaches. Today, a new tool – the D-Econ Database – is being launched to address this. * “All the women were busy.” “There are no people of color working on this topic.” “It’s

[marxmail] Why Brazilian Workers Love Lula

Lula refused to set himself apart from the rank and file. Interviewed by a prominent newspaper baron in 1978, he framed his ascent as inseparable from his class background. As union leader, he simply said “what any worker would wish to say if he were placed in front of a microphone.” https://j

[marxmail] ‘Her Socialist Smile’ Review: Helen Keller, Radical

(I honestly have my doubts about this film, despite the subject matter.) NY Times, July 9, 2021 ‘Her Socialist Smile’ Review: Helen Keller, Radical This new documentary is a fascinating and challenging exploration of Keller’s political thought. By Glenn Kenny Her Socialist Smile Helen Keller

[marxmail] The Other Regional Counter-Revolution: Iran’s Role in the Shifting Political Landscape of the Middle East - New Politics

What is less understood is the counter-revolutionary role that Iran plays in the region’s politics. This is poorly understood and under-examined because it flies in the face of the dominant narrative, that of Iran as a “revolutionary” state in the vanguard of a regional “Axis of Resistance” to

Re: [marxmail] John Pennington 1945-2021

On 7/9/21 1:57 PM, Alan Ginsberg wrote: John died on June 30. He had been an activist in Students for a Democratic Society at Harvard, and a member of the Progressive Labor Party. Upon the split in SDS, he became National Secretary of the SDS organization aligned with the Worker-Student Allianc

[marxmail] Socialists and the defense of voting rights - Tempest

August Nimtz, professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, author of The Ballot, The Streets, Or Both?: From Marx and Engels to Lenin and the October Revolution, explained how figures like Marx and Lenin viewed fighting for the right to vote and participating in electoral poli

[marxmail] ‘Thoroughgoing Emancipation’ - Interview with the editors of 'Transgender Marxism'

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[marxmail] Chemical Warfare In Syria, and Its Corrosiveness Beyond | manuelgarciajr

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Re: [marxmail] A century of the Communist Party of China: no Great Wall | Carlos Martinez | The Morning Star

On 7/9/21 12:57 PM, Kevin Lindemann and Cathy Campo wrote:  https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/century-communist-party-china-no-great-wall A century of the Communist Party of China: no G

Re: [marxmail] Macedonian Question

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[marxmail] Bard grapples with what it might mean to be declared ‘undesirable’ in Russia

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[marxmail] Jeffrey St. Clair on an obscure Tracy-Hepburn film

(From his column in today's CounterPunch) I watched George Cukor’s Keeper of the Flame over the holiday weekend, not expecting much, except for some snappy repartee between Hepburn and Tracy. Tracy plays a reporter during the early days of WW2, who travels to Maine to interview the widow of a

[marxmail] Alfred Döblin’s Anthropocene

/MOUNTAINS OCEANS GIANTS/is perhaps the most forgotten modernist epic of the Anthropocene. It was written in the tumultuous years following World War II — marked by the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, the Bolshevik Revolution and (counter)revolutionary seesaw of paramilitarism and pogroms, and the a

Re: [marxmail] Macedonian Question

On 7/9/21 8:28 AM, ioannis aposperites wrote: Dear comrades The Macedonian question is pending since the second half of the 19th century to our days. Here is my take on the present situation issued by the Prespa agreement. https://lefteast.org/the-macedonian-question-prespa-in-a-broader-cont

Re: [marxmail] Xinjiang Denialists Are Only Aiding Imperialism

On 7/8/21 4:45 PM, wytheh...@cox.net wrote: The few Uighurs I know are certain that the Chinese government treats them in repressive ways. They recount many instances and policies of oppression. But it is a mistake to assume that there is an ethnic group called "Uighurs." That is really a bla

[marxmail] Israeli settlers' Chelsea boss backer - BBC News

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Re: [marxmail] Is China Socialist? | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

On 7/8/21 12:25 PM, Andrew Stewart wrote: Part of the problem is that these debates fundamentally fail to acknowledge that the market socialist position, no matter how disrespected, is a valid one within the Communist political spectrum going back to the NEP. Tito, Khrushchev, Deng, Gorbachev,

[marxmail] Richard C. Lewontin, Eminent Geneticist With a Sharp Pen, Dies at 92

Richard C. Lewontin, Eminent Geneticist With a Sharp Pen, Dies at 92 He demonstrated that differences in DNA between groups of people were far smaller than originally believed. He was also a noted opponent of aspects of sociobiology. *

[marxmail] ‘Heat dome’ probably killed 1bn marine animals on Canada coast, experts say | Canada | The Guardian

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[marxmail] Utopia in the Catskills - CounterPunch.org

In assembling still photos to be included in a video I am doing on a trip up to my hometown in the Catskills in August, I could find nothing on the net that showed Woodridge in its prime. A visit to the Sullivan County Historical Museum in Hurleyville turned up the intriguing first page of a PM

[marxmail] Amazon Transformed Seattle. Now, Its Workers Are Poised to Take It Back.

OPINION GUEST ESSAY Amazon Transformed Seattle. Now, Its Workers Are Poised to Take It Back. NYT, July 5, 2021 Credit...Jason Redmond/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images *

[marxmail] The Volvo Strike - CounterPunch.org

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Re: [marxmail] Xinjiang Denialists Are Only Aiding Imperialism

On 7/7/21 8:53 AM, Vladimiro Giacche' wrote: …so CIA actively counters imperialism. 😂😂😂 Of course not. But the article does reflect the liberal left's growing estrangement from forced assimilation in China. Up until now, it has mostly been Pompeo at all taking up the cause of the Uighurs.

[marxmail] Xinjiang Denialists Are Only Aiding Imperialism

Xinjiang Denialists Are Only Aiding Imperialism Denying China’s oppression of Uighurs helps empire—both China’s and the US’s. ByGerald Roche Twitter The Nation Magazine, YESTERDAY 10:2

[marxmail] When Junius Scales went into industry | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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[marxmail] A Brief History of Settler-Colonialism and Indigenous Resistance in Ohio (Part 1) | Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists

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[marxmail] Steve Chase memorial meeting

I hardly knew Steve but the review of the book about his 30s radical relatives made me want to find out more. https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsdeqqrjkiH9aDbowfn5o2vV1D67KANQh8 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (

Re: [marxmail] Is China Socialist? | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

On 7/6/21 9:31 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: https://louisproyect.org/2018/06/11/is-china-socialist/ Richard Smith comments: There’s nothing socialist about China and never has been. There’s no denying that Mao Zedong organized and led a stunningly successful and novel national liberation

[marxmail] The Unrepentant Marxist comic book, final chapter | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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[marxmail] Is China Socialist? | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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[marxmail] Palestinian liberation and the MENA revolutions - Tempest

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[marxmail] Nikole Hannah-Jones Rejects UNC Tenure Offer, Will Teach At Howard University Instead | HuffPost

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[marxmail] China watches Afghanistan anxiously as the US withdraws

FT.com, July5 2021 China watches Afghanistan anxiously as the US withdraws Beijing is ready to co-operate with Taliban to prevent chaos across its border, diplomats say Stephanie Findlay in New Delhi, Christian Shepherd in Beijing and James Kynge in Hong Kong It is not without reason that Afgh

[marxmail] From Cochabamba to a People's Green New Deal with Max Ajl - Cosmonaut

Ajl is atrocious on Syria but quite good on ecosocialism. https://cosmonautmag.com/2021/07/from-cochabamba-to-a-peoples-green-new-deal-with-max-ajl/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#9739): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/mes

[marxmail] Justice is catching its last breath. Stanislav Tomáš. Say His Name. - Lefteast

On the 19^th of June, video footage of a police officer kneeling on the neck a cuffed Roma man named Stanislav Tomáš in the City of Teplice, Czech Republic, was published. Although the original video was removed, various media outletsreposted

[marxmail] Marx’s reproduction schema – Michael Roberts Blog

Recently, I madea short presentation to a discussion groupof the Communist Party of India (M) youth on Marx’s reproduction schema. I thought the subject might also be worth a post on my blog. Marx’s reproduction schema are to be found inCapita

[marxmail] The Unrepentant Marxist comic book, chapter six | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

*The turn toward industry and my turn away from the SWP* https://louisproyect.org/2021/07/05/the-unrepentant-marxist-comic-book-chapter-five-2/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#9725): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/

[marxmail] The Economy vs. Democracy in Ortega’s Nicaragua - The Dialogue

The economic impact of the FSLN’s return to power has been surprising, considering the leftist revolutionary party’s history. Ortega’s scorn for “neoliberal imperialism” and “global capitalism’s tyrannical dictatorship” recalls the Sandinista revolutionary government, which presided over a seve

[marxmail] The Dark Side of Congo’s Cobalt Rush | The New Yorker

Cell phones and electric cars rely on the mineral, causing a boom in demand. Locals are hunting for this buried treasure—but are getting almost none of the profit. These days, most of the cobalt in southern Congo comes from industrial mines, which are largely owned by Chinese companies. In 201

[marxmail] A new Cold War?

(Forwarded from Anthony Brain.) Due to the crisis of leadership with the Stalinists who want peaceful co-existence and the 3rd campers seeing nothing to defend against Imperialism through intimidation trying to maximise the capitalist inroads within Russia and China is causing paralysis.  Is t

[marxmail] Why capitalist crisis is producing worse crisis in social relations in 10,000 years of class societies! by Anthony Brain - understandinghistory.simplesite.com

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Re: [marxmail] Is China Transforming the World? | Tony Andréani, Rémy Herrera, and Zhiming Long | Monthly Review

On 7/5/21 4:59 AM, Kevin Lindemann and Cathy Campo wrote: https://monthlyreview.org/2021/07/01/is-china-transforming-the-world/ "China is currently accused of neocolonialism: in its exchanges with this third world, it only imports raw materials and buys land and mines there. This is to forget

[marxmail] Two Books on the Bizarreness of Texas

NONFICTION Two Books on the Bizarreness of Texas *

[marxmail] These Chinese Millennials Are ‘Chilling,’ and Beijing Isn’t Happy

These Chinese Millennials Are ‘Chilling,’ and Beijing Isn’t Happy Young people in China have set off a nascent counterculture movement that involves lying down and doing as little as possible. *

[marxmail] 3531. The Case for Ecocentric Socialism

3531. The Case for Ecocentric Socialism By Kamran Nayeri, July 4, 2021 “I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contraste

[marxmail] Steve Chase passing

(From Barbara M. on FB) Steve Chase, a branch and national leader of the SWP over many decades passed away on July 2 of internal bleeding. His beloved sons, Joey and (Nate) Nathaniel Chase were with him in a Denver hospital when he died. He was 77. Steve grew up in Boston with working class an

[marxmail] The Unrepentant Marxist comic book, chapter five | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Re: [marxmail] Please re-subscribe me

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[marxmail] Moderate Democratic Sen. Bob Casey Jr. says GOP-led restrictive voting bills 'are about white supremacy'

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[marxmail] To Rethink the Constitution

July 2, 2021 •The Constitution, first drafted in 1787, stands as the supreme law of the land in the U.S. But Mary Anne Franks — a law professor at the University of Miami who grew up attending a fundamentalist church in Arkansas — says that often "we read it not as a text but as Sc

[marxmail] Project 1619 comes to the NYT puzzle page

The solution to today's Acrostic: "The British promise of liberty caused widespread slave escapes across the South when war moved to the region. Jefferson estimated that thirty thousand slaves had run away in Virginia alone, including many of his own." Conwill, "Dream a world anew" Full iden

[marxmail] The Theory and Practice of Marxism in Japan

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[marxmail] University of Massachusetts. Hiring a flock of "radical economists", 1973 - Economics in the Rear-View Mirror

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Re: [marxmail] Two Communist Brothers from Washington, New Hampshire and their Fight Against Fascism

On 7/3/21 9:41 PM, Dennis Brasky wrote: "Page Not Found" On Sat, Jul 3, 2021 at 8:24 PM Louis Proyect <mailto:l...@panix.com>> wrote: From Alan Wald. Steve Chase, once a leader of the 1960s-70s Boston SWP, just died yesterday. I think this recent book, TWO COM

[marxmail] Two Communist Brothers from Washington, New Hampshire and their Fight Against Fascism

From Alan Wald. Steve Chase, once a leader of the 1960s-70s Boston SWP, just died yesterday. I think this recent book, TWO COMMUNIST BROTHERS, is about his father (Joe Chase) and uncle (Homer Chase) https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/donald-h-forbes/two-communist-brothers-from-washington-new-ham

Re: [marxmail] Max Xi Blumenthal, Tool of CIA, Imperialism and Neoliberalism, Detained, Tried and Sentenced to 1,000 Years Hard Labor This Morning - Washington Babylon

On 7/3/21 6:41 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: Not exactly. There have been some substantial pieces on Grayzone. What a faux pas! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#9662): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/9662 Mute This

Re: [marxmail] Max Xi Blumenthal, Tool of CIA, Imperialism and Neoliberalism, Detained, Tried and Sentenced to 1,000 Years Hard Labor This Morning - Washington Babylon

On 7/3/21 6:12 PM, Chris Slee wrote: The Washington Babylon article is satire.  It is not meant to be taken seriously. Not exactly. There have been some substantial pieces on Grayzone. It is mostly Ken Silverstein and Andrew Stewart's bully pulpit. I've known Ken since the late 80s when he wa

[marxmail] The Unrepentant Marxist comic book, chapter four | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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[marxmail] Ai Weiwei’s “Trace”: A Graphic Homage to Prisoners of Conscience

/TRACE/was initially created for the lugubrious island fortress of Alcatraz federal prison, now a tourist site but by no means softened for sensitive visitors. Understandably, Ai considered this an appropriate setting for his eloquent tribute to fellow troublemakers, entirely designed and execu

[marxmail] The Three Revolutions of the Chinese Communist Party - FPIF

By Walden Bello. After a visit to the new Soviet Union in the 1930s, the American journalist Lincoln Steffens famously wrote, “I have seen the future and it works.” In a similar manner, China’s startling success has captivated many outside China. One of those most mesmerized is the Columbia

[marxmail] 100 Years of the Chinese Communist Party

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Re: [marxmail] A century of the Communist Party of China: Reform and opening up — the great betrayal? | Carlos Martinez | The Morning Star

On 7/3/21 6:42 AM, Kevin Lindemann and Cathy Campo wrote:  https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/century-communist-party-china-reform-and-opening-great-betrayal As Len

[marxmail] ‘Still Exploiting Him’: Remembering Ishi, the ‘Last Wild Indian in California’ - Indian Country Today

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[marxmail] New Jersey Communists in the 1920s - Tempest

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[marxmail] The Unrepentant Marxist comic book, chapter three | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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[marxmail] Uncanny Planet

NY Review of Books, July 22, 2021 issue Uncanny Planet by Mark O’Connell A new collection of essays by Nathaniel Rich argues that there is no going back to whatever might be meant by “nature” Reviewed: Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade by Nathaniel Rich MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2

[marxmail] Freedom for Sale

NY Review of Books, July 22, 2021 issue Freedom for Sale by Fintan O’Toole In the 1950s and 1960s, a new generation of American artists began to think of advertising and commercial imagery as the new avant-garde. Reviewed: The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand Farrar,

[marxmail] The Strange, Sad Death of America’s Political Imagination

(The author is a bona fide radical.) NY Times, July 2, 2021 The United States used to be a country of dramatic invention and dynamic change. Today, our politics are sclerotic, and our dreams are small. What happened? The Strange, Sad Death of America’s Political Imagination By Daniel Immerwahr

[marxmail] ­­ON REVOLUTION AND RADIO WAVES

(Haven't checked this guy's blog in a long time. He's a PhD physics student in Canada and absolutely brilliant.) “Marx says that revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the passengers on this train – namely, the

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[marxmail] Voting Rights Should Include the Right to Vote for Who You Want - CounterPunch.org

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[marxmail] Where is Socialism in Venezuela? Lessons from the Cultural Revolution - CounterPunch.org

By Chris Gilbert Today, in the face of the almost decade-long Thermidor in Venezuela, I think we should be asking the same question: Where is socialism? Certainly, it has little presence in the government’s main plans and programs, which represent at best a grim realism and the spirit of prag

[marxmail] Digital Money Beyond Blockchain with Rohan Grey | MR Online

*William Saas:*So your project, as we understand it, is to design a digital fiat currency system that radically restructures finance around public and environmental interests and severely contrasts, or in Keynes’s words, euthanizes the private rentier banking system. But before we get too deep

[marxmail] Conditions are ripe for repeat of 1970s stagflation and 2008 debt crisis | Nouriel Roubini | The Guardian

By Nouriel Roubini In April, I warned that today’s extremely loose monetary and fiscal policies, when combined with a number of negative supply shocks, could result in 1970s-style stagflation (high inflation alongside a recession). In fact, the risk today is even bigger than it was then. ht

[marxmail] China and the Lure of Global Capitalism | Boston Review

A new book by political economist Isabella Weber, How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate, calls both of these positions into question by tracing the intellectual roots of Chinese reforms to historical precedents, exchange, and experimentation. In her telling, reformers transf

[marxmail] The Unrepentant Marxist comic book, chapter two | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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[marxmail] Supreme Court upholds restrictive Arizona voting laws in test of Voting Rights Act

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