Re: piece about Julian Assange

2020-11-23 Thread Kenny McBride
Despicable and risible pro-Clinton rant dressed up as a strange kind of love for Julian. All you have succeeded in doing here is reinforce some lame 'reasons' to extradite him. Shame on you. Sore loser. Very best, Kenneth McBride On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 at 03:18, Andy Bichlbaum wrote: > Hey all,

Big tech, the return of capital to its C18 supremacy, and the decline of American democracy

2020-11-23 Thread Rana Dasgupta
Dear Nettimers Here's a recent essay which owes much to my contemplation of the various conversations on this list.  I apologies: I'm not spontaneous enough to participate in those conversations: I discover only much later what I think, and through writing pieces like this.

Re: Thoughts on coups

2020-11-23 Thread Brian Holmes
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 8:23 PM Max Herman wrote: > > > What if socialism has also won the Cold War, i.e. a system has prevailed > in which periodic bubbles are cushioned by ever-replenishing state > bailouts? > Toni Negri had this idea quite a while ago, in a text that more or less launched

Thoughts on coups

2020-11-23 Thread Max Herman
Hi all, Can we say that coups have now become quantum, both happening and not happening at the same time in a cloud of probability? Classical Marxism, if I am correct, predicted that capitalism would inevitably collapse and disappear to be replaced by a system in which the workers control

piece about Julian Assange

2020-11-23 Thread Andy Bichlbaum
Hey all, Geert suggested folks might be interested in this piece I published last week in Waging Nonviolence , copied below. Make sure to also check out the fun video linked in the first paragraph