Re: [marxmail] Lee Camp interview with Aaron Mate

I clicked on this, getting the blood boiling in the morning helps wake me up, and just picked a random spot in the video. Wow, it did not disappoint in making my blood boil (12:20): Aaron: "I think its not even close. The most extreme form of authoritarianism in Syria right now is the US autho

Re: [marxmail] Galloway and the CPGB-ML: notes on a romance

> although there has recently been some internal controversy around the issues > of identity politics and transsexual rights that I’m not qualified to comment > on. Not qualified to comment on? What qualification does one need to point at statements from CPGB-ML and Galloway that are transphobi

Re: [marxmail] The Selfish Fallacy

I thought of this awfulness from deBoer when I saw this great clip of Marc Lamont Hill with some authors attempting to debate CRT with him, includes a little Gramsci thrown in for good measure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJObwe259CQ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive al

Re: [marxmail] What Role Did Native Americans and Horses Play in the Decline of Bison? - CounterPunch.org

I didn't do more than skim and search around in GW's article and found it really odd. He has a couple quotes from 2 congressmen and a Major General to downplay the role of the government in slaughtering buffalo to deprive Native Americans of food, housing, clothes and trade. But none of that cha

Re: [marxmail] Biden Capitulates: Cuts Corp Taxes

Ah, so his proposal is to keep them at 21% but with the additional 15% minimum? Which they say kicks in if a company's tax rate dips below 15% due to credits and other trickery. I find it hard to believe that is how the 15% would really work and haven't seen the actual text of the proposal. Wou

Re: [marxmail] My review +Watch THE LAB by Yotam Feldman (English subtitles) Online | Vimeo On Demand on Vimeo

It is also available on Kanopy (free with a US public library card) https://dcl.kanopy.com/video/lab -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#9057): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/9057 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/83

Re: [marxmail] Biden Capitulates: Cuts Corp Taxes

> cutting corporate taxes instead of raising them I can't find the source for cutting corporate taxes to 15% like Rasmus says here. Is it that either Rasmus or I misunderstand the minimum corporate tax proposal of 15%, or is there something else he's now proposed that I missed? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: [marxmail] Which Side Are You On? The Answer is Clear for Today’s Useful Idiots for the Right | Washington Babylon

Part I where Ken quotes Chomsky about Greenwald, “He’s a friend, has done wonderful things, I don’t understand what is happening now… I hope it will pass.”, is really great now that Greenwald has written a post basically comparing his being attacked today to liberals attacking Chomsky -- who ac

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

[marxmail] The Bizarre Amazon Boycott That Its Unionizing Workers Never Asked For

Who is the "Left Unification Party"? https://slate.com/technology/2021/03/amazon-union-alabama-boycott-twitter.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7149): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/7149 Mute This Topic: https://

Re: [marxmail] Marxist Unity Slate proposal for DSA national political platform

When I saw a week or so ago there was yet another "marxist" caucus/slate/whatever in DSA I hoped to find this one different. But they seem to solely focus on elector-ism, not what I expected from a self-described Marxist slate. Very frustrating, particularly as there are important workers strug

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

Re: [marxmail] FBI official key figure for Jan. 6 riot

> I myself held a Secret clearance for five years Funny there are at least 2 of us on this list... I was going to reply with the same point. I had Top Secret clearance (TS-SCI) many years ago. After having the clearance you still have access only to the specific data related to your work at a p

Re: [marxmail] On Jimmy Dore

> Someone in the other thread said "we" should try to win over the "whole > working class." Who says these fellows are working-class? I didn't say they were. I was trying to make the point that it is a straw-man pulled out by Dore defenders when people call these type of actions by Dore detri

Re: [marxmail] YouTube personality Jimmy Dore promotes fascist Boogaloo Boy - World Socialist Web Site

> I'm not wild about Dore but he has an audience. Your denunciations and > incriminations are not going to lead people to start supporting your > organizations or reading your blogs because, like it or not, Dore produces > content that is engaging, funny, and interesting while your blogs that >

Re: [marxmail] YouTube personality Jimmy Dore promotes fascist Boogaloo Boy - World Socialist Web Site

It is ridiculous to pretend anyone wants to refuse to talk people out of this shit. But there is a lot of nuance that is lost by many. Thinking Jimmy Dore is a moron for giving air time to a boogaloo to act like they aren't all that different in objectives to the left is not the same as saying w

Re: [marxmail] Why Black Marxism, Why Now? | Boston Review

On Fri, Feb 5, 2021, at 08:56, Michael Meeropol wrote: > view of the slave power as retarding the development of American capitalism > and their strong belief that the victory of the North would be a progressive > step forward (in keeping with Marx's view that capitalism had an "historic > missi

[marxmail] Doug Henwood on Daily Show

I sure wasn't expecting this when I turned on last night's Daily Show this morning. They brought on Henwood to talk about GameStop, AMC, etc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MwxU8Qd0KE -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5925

Re: [marxmail] This isn’t over!’: Trump supporters refuse to accept defeat

> If you choose to not want to be angry, or actively side against the religious > fanatics oppression I don't know if there is any point in replying, there usually isn't when someone so completely changes what someone says. I didn't reply to anything about "religious fanatics oppression", so do

Re: [marxmail] This isn’t over!’: Trump supporters refuse to accept defeat

On Mon, Nov 9, 2020, at 19:06, fkalosar...@yandex.com wrote: > I am anti-*Christian* and *anti religious* and proud of it and so should any > true Marxist be. No, Marxists should not be. I felt somewhat similar to you long ago, having been raised Catholic. But I never was really a believer, des

Re: [marxmail] Proud Boys, Black Lives Matter leaders hold joint conference: We 'denounce White supremacy'

The Proud Boys declare themselves to be "proud Western chauvinists" and in their initiation they repeat "I refuse to apologize for creating the modern world". A bunch of white guys talking about how they created the modern world in some idiotic "ceremony" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPABaFF

Re: [marxmail] Adolph Reed on American Affairs and Angela Nagle

>Just consider that Catalyst published an article by Amber A'Lee Frost who is >okay with Nagle. Six degrees of separation... Yup. I was very disappointed to see her in Catalyst. I wish ISR was still around. I'll be subscribing to Spectre instead. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You rec

Re: [marxmail] Adolph Reed on American Affairs and Angela Nagle

> Her book "Kill All Normies" is great. I never read it so basing this on reviews and quotes but wasn't "Kill All Normies" basically just taking the online rights word for what created them (tumblr!) and fails at basic things like getting Canada's C-16 law correct. It sounds more like the NYTi

[marxmail] Adolph Reed on American Affairs and Angela Nagle

This is pretty funny. Reed was interviewed by Katie Halper and brought up American Affairs and Angela Nagle. I scanned through the interview to find the time of the clip that is floating around twitter: https://youtu.be/wwPDTkKJVDk?t=7232 Tristan -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You re

Re: [marxmail] Movement For A People's Party - A Party For Us

On Mon, Sep 7, 2020, at 18:55, Roger Kulp wrote: > The point of the Grayzone article was the fact the DSA/Jacobin conference was > the abandonment of,or softening of,anti-imperialist views by many in the > leadership of the DSA,and allowing a positive space for speakers who had ties > to groups

Re: [marxmail] Movement For A People's Party - A Party For Us

I always find it funny when I see this article again is how they completely omit their connections to Socialism Conference. I don't know about Norton but Blumenthal and Khalek were regulars. Khalek was there the last time I was able to attend -- looks like that back back in 2015, how time flies

Re: [marxmail] Black Americans Want Police to Retain Local Presence

On Fri, Sep 4, 2020, at 07:36, Max Power wrote: > It's hard to reconcile claims that the majority of people support the aims of > this or that multi-million dollar NGO with this: > > https://news.gallup.com/poll/316571/black-americans-police-retain-local-presence.aspx > What NGO wants to aboli

Re: [marxmail] The contagious idea that Black Lives Matter | Richard Seymour on Patreon

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020, at 20:09, Max Power wrote: > Where is today’s Fred Hampton? > https://youtu.be/WbIpV-5wDuw Weird, I would have assumed you'd consider him a segregationist. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1150): htt

Re: [marxmail] Movement For A People's Party - A Party For Us

I'm sure everyone here is familiar with Cindy Sheehan. For those lucky enough to not know of or much about Jimmy Dore, https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jimmy_Dore -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1146): https://groups.io/g/ma

Re: [marxmail] Reflections on the DSA Experience

> As I wrote, the responsibility lies with DSA itself; AFROSOC is taking the > heat for the larger group. This is explained further in this piece, by the > Class Unity caucus of DSA: > https://classunity.org/spiraling-anti-marxism-in-the-dsa/ Wanting to turn an event with Reed into a debate is

Re: [marxmail] The Case for a Left Patriotism

On Sat, Aug 22, 2020, at 06:39, Max Power wrote: > “How can a populist left that wants to win elections and supposedly help the > working class do so if it hates the very country it wants to govern, > especially when such bourgeois opinions are at direct odds with what workers > feel?” Ignorin

Re: [marxmail] The Left Has Turned Into a Guild Hall

> If these articles really are a dime a dozen, why don't they dominate the > "left" discourse? Why are the people who write them deplatformed? I said the podcasts were a dime a dozen. But you are right, the articles complaining are also popping up all over. And they are simply not published by

Re: [marxmail] The Left Has Turned Into a Guild Hall

The Bellows appears to be a site created by people who for some reason consider themselves "leftists" (in some cases even "Marxist" somehow!) but can not get their right wing views published in left publications and thus needed a place to complain? I've wondered if this is a new phenomenon or s