Re: [marxmail] Biology and society and gender variation

2024-03-05 Thread John Obrien
Your question has a narrow incomplete answer in there was a research study of limited numbers that produced results by Alfred Kinsey that produced much homophobic reaction and denials of what then was considered in 1948 - such large numbers being not strictly hetero. However, as Marxists we shou

Re: [marxmail] What Is Left?

2024-03-05 Thread Mark Baugher
> On Mar 5, 2024, at 10:03 AM, Barry Brooks wrote: > > > What Is Left? > > Rebecca Solnit > February 23, 2024 > Literary Hub > https://lithub.com/what-is-left-rebecca-solnit-on-the-perennial-divisions-of-the-american-left/ > Rebecca Solnit on the perennial divisions of the American Left: “

[marxmail] Big Labor Gamble: Push to Unionize Every U.S. Auto Plant

2024-03-05 Thread Dayne Goodwin
*A looming election at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga could be pivotal in the United Automobile Workers’ effort to organize the entire industry.* by Noam Scheiber, NYTimes, March 2, 2024 Noam Scheiber reported this article from Chattanooga, Tenn. He has covered auto industry organizing since 201

Re: [marxmail] Biology and society and gender variation

2024-03-05 Thread hari kumar
Hello Charlie: Indeed, very difficult - should one say likely impossible (?)- questions to answer. Engels talks a little about in 'Origins of the F,PP & S". But gives no data. H -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29279): htt

Re: [marxmail] Biology and society and gender variation

2024-03-05 Thread Charlie
What is the historical research on the percentage of the population who were one or another gender identity and one or another sexual preference? And how it broke out by class and by the stage of the mode of production? Probably difficult questions to answer with solid evidence, but any well-fou

Re: [marxmail] Biology and society and gender variation

2024-03-05 Thread Mark Baugher
> On Mar 3, 2024, at 3:55 PM, hari kumar wrote: > > “Nothing Human Is Alien To Me” – Theses on Gender and Sexuality > https://mlrg.online/gender-and-sexuality/nothing-human-is-alien-to-me-theses-on-gender-and-sexuality/ Hari's work is important to Marxists, especially activists in the US and

Re: [marxmail] The Intercept debunks the infamous New York Times story about "mass rapes by Hamas"

2024-03-05 Thread David Green
This story was debunked by the hard work of Max Blumenthal and Ali Abunimah, which Grim regurgitates without attribution. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29276): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29276 Mute This Topic:

[marxmail] Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, 1

2024-03-05 Thread Ian Angus
Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, 1 In our time, pandemics will occur more often, spread more rapidly, and kill more people This is the first of a series of articles on the causes and implications of global capitalism’s descent into an era when infectious diseases are ever more common. My views ar

Re: [marxmail] Biology and society and gender variation

2024-03-05 Thread Marv Gandall
On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 06:28 AM, David Walters wrote: > > few on this list refer to themselves as "Marxist-Leninists". I would make > the same criticism of similarly titled "Trotskyist" reviews of the same > type. Interestingly enough, especially with respect to the war in Ukraine, both camps a

[marxmail] The red flag over Palestine

2024-03-05 Thread Barry Brooks
The red flag over Palestine https://mondediplo.com/2023/12/05communist-palestine In the early 20th century, the Palestine Communist Party regarded the creation of a Jewish state as an imperialist plan to continue to divide and rule. The second world war would put their resolve to the test. Co

[marxmail] What Is Left?

2024-03-05 Thread Barry Brooks
What Is Left? Rebecca Solnit February 23, 2024 Literary Hub https://lithub.com/what-is-left-rebecca-solnit-on-the-perennial-divisions-of-the-american-left/ Rebecca Solnit on the perennial divisions of the American Left: “It should be a modest request to ask that ‘left’ not mean supporters of

Re: [marxmail] More on George Galloway - who throws more than his hat into the ring

2024-03-05 Thread Marv Gandall
My answer is yes, BTW. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29271): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29271 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104735012/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous tex

[marxmail] Free Boris Kagarlitsky

2024-03-05 Thread Charles Keener via groups.io
Free Boris Kagarlitsky | The Nation | | | | | | | | | | | Free Boris Kagarlitsky The Nation joins the global appeal for his release. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Free Boris Kagarlitsky The Nation joins the global appeal for his release. | | | -=-=

Re: [marxmail] More on George Galloway - who throws more than his hat into the ring

2024-03-05 Thread Marv Gandall
Unreported in the Guardian article is Galloway’s challenge to Corbyn that he leave Labour to lead a new socialist organization in alliance with the Workers Party.. It will be interesting to see if Corbyn reponds. Galloway didn’t help the cause when he  referred to Corbyn at yesterday's press con

Re: [marxmail] Why did the Supreme Court - unanimously - enable Trump to stand?

2024-03-05 Thread Erik Toren
I'll just add the following. No legal scholar and not a constitutional lawyer. During the livestream, I believe it was Judge Alito who asked The State of Colorado lawyer what would happen if they sided with Colorado and what would prevent another state let's say Texas from taking Biden off the ba

Re: [marxmail] Why did the Supreme Court - unanimously - enable Trump to stand?

2024-03-05 Thread Mark Lause
This way of blocking Trump's reelection was doomed. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment had no teeth in it because it wasn't really effective at keeping "insurrectionist" from returning to office. The Confederate general whose troops burned part of the town I grew up in wound up the governor of the sta

Re: [marxmail] Why did the Supreme Court - unanimously - enable Trump to stand?

2024-03-05 Thread Les Schaffer
relevant snippets from the liberal threesome's Opinion: In this case, the Court must decide whether Colo- rado may keep a Presidential candidate off the ballot on the ground that he is an oathbreaking insurrectionist and thus disqualified from holding federal office under Section 3 o

Re: [marxmail] Why did the Supreme Court - unanimously - enable Trump to stand?

2024-03-05 Thread David Walters
The problem is this. The 14th Amendment is a Reconstruction era U.S. Constitutional amendment that is flawed. Designed to prevent the defeated Confederate officer corp and slavocracy from running in the elections, it was never intended to go seriously beyond that as another Civil War was never