Re: [marxmail] The old tendency lines are breaking down

>From this item three weeks ago, we see by comparison that Gandall is a keen >observer of the surface of things, period. Today some Trotskyites still dwell on cursing Stalin, while others prefer to move on. This is a secondary thing. The Trotskyites’ central doctrine of world revolution remains

[marxmail] Israel Is Ethnically Cleansing Northern Gaza

Israel Is Ethnically Cleansing Northern Gaza Carpet-bombing entire residential blocks, wiping out entire neighborhoods, slaughtering at least 100. It’s another weekend of Israel’s impunity in killing Gazans, this time in Beit Lahiya in the north. One year into genocide, Israel continues to m

[marxmail] The old tendency lines are breaking down

They may abhor the suggestion, but avowed ML-ists and Trotskyists are making common cause in the current US election against the Trumpist right and invoking Lenin's Left-Wing Communism against their respective sectarians in both camps. https://mltoday.com/from-the-classics-lenin-on-participation

[marxmail] on leaks etc

I think we are all inclined to make the mistake and think that the State is a monolith. Given that Biden's administration has been a total disaster outside his neo-Keynesianism for which he gets like a 40% pass mark. We are left then to consider his total performance re the State Department. It ha

Re: [marxmail] Did US leak Israel attack plan to Iran?

I see that the story has also been covered extensively in the past 48 hours by the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, CNN, ABC, NBC and other mainstream media and by Democracy Now alone on the left. All are treating the source of the leak as authentic, but no one seems to have conside

[marxmail] Why Are Young Working-Class Men More ‘Conservative’?

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Re: [marxmail] Did US leak Israel attack plan to Iran?

On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 05:58 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > > speculation by the well-informed military policy analyst Stephen Bryen > that the Biden administration, *or* someone within it , leaked top secret > Israeli attack plans to Iran Weasel wording: The emphasized phrases are a mashing of oppo

Re: [marxmail] Do animals need words to think?

I agree with your analysis of musicianship But the subject is do animals need words to thinkIf harmony is a language, it is one that can be used to communicate in real time without using words On Oct 21, 2024, at 2:13 PM, jay lyon via groups.io wrote:“Left out of this discussion is the way musici

[marxmail] Fighting to the End - A Hero’s Death Puts More Iron in the Soul

Fighting to the End - A Hero’s Death Puts More Iron in the Soul - Palestine Chronicle | | | | | | | | | | | Fighting to the End - A Hero’s Death Puts More Iron in the Soul admin Sinwar resisted to the end, fighting off the Israelis with grenades and even with his hand blown off

Re: [marxmail] Do animals need words to think?

Music, with its internal rules, is NOT a language. Language is not just a set of symbols, nor is it only communication. After the structuralist linguistics, we know that language is characterized by a double articulation. Structuralism is generally wrong, but not always or all along. Jay's obj

Re: [marxmail] Do animals need words to think?

Jay's explication of jazz is helpful. The common thing here between language (in a fairly strict sense: Chinese, English, Dine, etc.) and jazz harmony is that both are sets of symbols with relations among the symbols in the set. So where in the brain do the manipulations of symbols according to

[marxmail] The history (and present) of anti-Haitian racism in the Dominican Republic

An interview on the far-right violence, repression, and mass deportation facing Haitians and black Dominicans https://tempestmag.org/2024/10/the-history-and-present-of-anti-haitian-racism-in-the-dominican-republic/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this gr

Re: [marxmail] Do animals need words to think?

“Left out of this discussion is the way musicians, and especially jazz musicians, communicate in the moment and react while listening and playing….no language involved, thinking in rhythm and harmony” Harmony is a language.  Most jazz improvisation occurs over fixed chord sequences, or “progres

Re: [marxmail] Reminder, in 10 minutes: BRICS+ from below webinar on Monday, 21 Oct, 5-7pm SA time

> On Oct 21, 2024, at 7:50 AM, Patrick Bond via groups.io > wrote: > > (A friendly, informal chat, to share info and resistance stories - join us!) > BRICS+ from below, ahead of the Kazan Summit: Critical discourses against > geopolitical confusion, climate greenwashing and financial sub-imp

[marxmail] the assassination of Yahya Sinwar

Israel's assassination of Yahya Sinwar was part and parcel of its terrorist war against the Palestinian people. It must be opposed. But we also must not let opposition to Israel's crimes confuse us about the nature of Hamas nor who Sinwar was. Contrary to what some who enjoy posturing claim, he cer

Re: [marxmail] Venezuela's Maduro gives industry to Alex Saab

Chris says: "This must be put in the context of the US economic war against Venezuela." I would say more than putting Saab's appointment and Maduro's pro-capitalist economic strategy in the context of "the US economic war" it has to be put in the context of Venezuelan society and the class war

Re: [marxmail] potatoes and famine

I think we should abandon the phrase 'Irish Potato Famine'. The potato crop, which for a variety of reasons Irish peasants relied upon, failed. Food continued to be exported from the island and little was done by the English colonial government to alleviate the situation. In fact, they thought