Re: [marxmail] Create a Mass Party! - COSMONAUT

gojkor@. said: It seems , in this group , there is no problem that in all those socialist countries, countries were run by dictators, as Stalin, Tito, Castro where any opposition or critique was not possible. Here I am talking of critique from the left position, from people who belonged to the

[marxmail] The fortunate Marxist: Ernie Tate (1934-2021) – Canadian Dimension

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[marxmail] Coda: Collin College Fires Another Professor | Afflict The Comfortable (The Mind of Bob Buzzanco)

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[marxmail] On the Black Panther Party 2 Regarding “41st and Central: The Untold Story of the L A Black Panther Party”-On Snitches

On the Black Panther Party 2 Regarding “41st and Central: The Untold Story of the L A Black Panther Party”-On Snitches (JAI: The below is an adaptation of a letter just sent to my oldest comrade, the man who brought me into the BSU in 1967.) Watched “41st and Central” ( https://www.google.com/s

Re: [marxmail] Rand Paul Launches Into Transphobic Rant Against Trans Nominee

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Re: [marxmail] Create a Mass Party! - COSMONAUT

> It seems , in this group , there is no problem that in all those socialist > countries, countries were run by dictators, as Stalin, Tito, Castro where any > opposition or critique was not possible. Louis knows the number, but there must be more than a thousand people on this listserv. How

Re: [marxmail] Leonard Cohen’s haunting rendition of Irish rebel song, Kevin Barry

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Re: [marxmail] Rand Paul Launches Into Transphobic Rant Against Trans Nominee

On 2/26/21 4:54 PM, Jim Miller wrote: Transgender women in sports has become a major issue in high school sports, largely because of the potential for transgender women to increasingly dominate, the longer this is allowed. This is already demoralizing women who w

Re: [marxmail] Create a Mass Party! - COSMONAUT

It seems , in this group , there is no problem that in all those socialist countries, countries were run by dictators, as Stalin, Tito, Castro where any opposition or critique was not possible. Here I am talking of critique from the left position, from people who belonged to the same movement, b

Re: [marxmail] Rand Paul Launches Into Transphobic Rant Against Trans Nominee

Transgender women in sports has become a major issue in high school sports, largely because of the potential for transgender women to increasingly dominate, the longer this is allowed. This is already demoralizing women who want to keep women's sports to be an area in which only women participat

Re: [marxmail] Bitcoin and Baseball Cards - CounterPunch.org

On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 10:04 PM, John Obrien wrote: > > Just as tulips were viewed in the Netherlands - as "great value" > > It is a matter of supply and demand > What else is new? Economics starts not with the deficit but with surplus grain. Before civilisation and agriculture arrived peopl

Re: [marxmail] Create a Mass Party! - COSMONAUT

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 08:46 PM, wrote: > > If I could I'd like to travel to Cuba and talk to some revolutionaries and > find out what they think we should do in the US. Real marxists do not ask what todo, they just do it. There was a Trotsky conference not long ago in Havana with people from

[marxmail] Bitcoin and Baseball Cards - CounterPunch.org

Just as tulips were viewed in the Netherlands - as "great value" It is a matter of supply and demand Bitcoins are as the U. S. dollar - viewed by some as "value" Others view gold - as "great value" Obviously, LeBron James is "real value" - if you are a basketball fan I prefer ice cream - as va

Re: [marxmail] We Are Living In The Shitposter Economy | Defector

On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 02:11 PM, Jim Miller wrote: > > As far as WSWS is concerned, they have some good arguments against the > 1619 Project and identity politics in general. I think there are many > Marxists who recognize an antagonism between marxism and identity > politics. The main antagoni

[marxmail] NY Times obit of Sheila Washington -- established a museum, and helped exonerate Scottsboro defendants

** Sheila Washington Dies at 61; Helped Exonerate Scottsboro Boys ** She fought for decades to get their names cleared from an egregious injustice in the Jim Crow South, and cre

[marxmail] H-Net Review [H-SHGAPE]: King on Maddux, 'Practicing Citizenship: Women's Rhetoric at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair'

-- Forwarded message - From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW Date: Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 2:18 PM Subject: H-Net Review [H-SHGAPE]: King on Maddux, 'Practicing Citizenship: Women's Rhetoric at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair' To: Cc: H-Net Staff Kristy Maddux. Practicing Citizenship: Wom

Re: [marxmail] Rand Paul Launches Into Transphobic Rant Against Trans Nominee

Never understood how that attack on Paul ended the way it did. There was a perfectly good lawn mower nearby and it was running. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6775): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6775 Mute This Top

Re: [marxmail] Rand Paul Launches Into Transphobic Rant Against Trans Nominee

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[marxmail] Open Letter to Editors of Jacobin Magazine and Monthly Review :

(I'm going to have to get up to speed on this stuff.) Open Letter to Editors of Jacobin Magazine and Monthly Review : Stop Racist and Misogynist Attacks on the Emergent Indigenous, Eco-Feminist Left in Latin America, and Address the Crisis in Today's Ecuador https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/

Re: [marxmail] Rand Paul Launches Into Transphobic Rant Against Trans Nominee

Many libertarians (e.g. Jordan Peterson, Rand Paul, Jonathon Haidt) have taken advantage of the negative effects of the gender self-identification movement to build support for their political agenda. The transgender movement tends to undermine the rights of women by allowing men to define thems

Re: [marxmail] The Roman Road to Capitalism and the Rise of the West

Aside from Marx's "Capital", David Graeber's book "The History of Debt" provides a fascinating, in depth history of the rise of capitalism and the evolution of economics from pre-Roman times. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online

[marxmail] A Cineaste’s Picks for the Best Films of 2020 | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

The pandemic has turned the yearly ritual of film awards ceremonies a molehill out of the mountain they once were. With major Hollywood studios shelving multi-million dollar prestige movies, except for Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” that was largely dismissed as a flop, it has been left to less co

[marxmail] Health Care and Colonialism: A Sickness unto Death

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[marxmail] How Sir Kier Starmer Got His New Labour Mojo Back! - CounterPunch.org

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[marxmail] The Roman Road to Capitalism and the Rise of the West

Historian Walter Scheidel claims to have found the surprising secret of Europe’s rise to world domination: the collapse of the Roman Empire. Scheidel’s work is an impressive, globe-trotting feat of scholarship, but his argument ultimately fails to convince. https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/empir

[marxmail] Bitcoin and Baseball Cards - CounterPunch.org

/I saw thispiece last week on the soaring price of baseball cards and naturally started thinking about Bitcoin. The article begins with a story about how a rare LeBron James trading card (it’s a

[marxmail] For a democratic DSA - Tempest

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[marxmail] After the Pandemic Slump, What Next? – Spectre Journal

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[marxmail] parenting in a pandemic

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[marxmail] More than 25m drink from the worst US water systems, with Latinos most exposed | US news | The Guardian

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[marxmail] What an Oaklandsocialist Campaign for Mayor in 2022 could accomplish

While the US capitalist class is in a political crisis, so is the US working class. That crisis of the working class is largely due to a 75-year campaign against class consciousness This campaign that has been carried out by the union leadership, among others. In a nutshell, it is summarized by the

[marxmail] A Cuban driving truck in the US

Most of the articles that appear on this website are criticisms of the Cuban government. It also carries an interesting mix of other articles, including from Democracy Now. I believe it is published from Nicaragua. I am intrigued to consider how this article will be received by readers in Cub

Re: [marxmail] We Are Living In The Shitposter Economy | Defector

As far as WSWS is concerned, they have some good arguments against the 1619 Project and identity politics in general. I think there are many Marxists who recognize an antagonism between marxism and identity politics. Perhaps more discussion of this issue would be appropriate. I have an essay on

Re: [marxmail] Create a Mass Party! - COSMONAUT

There are stages in the real capacity of socialist development that are held back and limited by the realty of being isolated and constantly under attack from capitalist countries and forces. This goes back to the old question of whether socialism in one country was even possible. The answer tur

Re: [marxmail] We Are Living In The Shitposter Economy | Defector

> On Feb 25, 2021, at 12:52 PM, Jim Miller wrote: > > Re: Bari Weiss. She deserves the same respect as any other person who tries > to carve out a space in the online debating space. Her letter of resignation > from the NYT is worth reading: https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter > > As