[marxmail] Lost in Transition: Seeing CONCLAVE Last Weekend

2024-11-05 Thread Andie Stewart (she/they)
https://stew312856.substack.com/p/lost-in-transition-seeing-conclave Best regards, Andie Stewart (She/they, AMAB🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈) “Be as radical as reality itself.” -Ilyitch -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6): https://groups

[marxmail] The case for abandoning the burning house

2024-11-05 Thread Dennis Brasky
The Gaza genocide has revealed the role of liberalism in upholding the brutality of the West. On the eve of U.S. elections, the question remains: what comes next for those wanting to build a new world? Excerpt - *The irrelevance of the U.S. Left * The inability to impede the neoliberal right’s co

Re: [marxmail] Ranked-choice voting changes the game

2024-11-05 Thread David Walters via groups.io
San Francisco City elections are ranked choice. It is a LOT more democratic than what exists now and it allows 3rd electoral parties to be a more serious choice. I'm not sure how it would work nationally but it would be better than the idiotic system we have now. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups

[marxmail] Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2024

2024-11-05 Thread Ian Angus
Essential reading on capitalism and climate crisis, restoring forests, waters in revolt, and a dangerous billionaire. https://climateandcapitalism.com/2024/11/05/ecosocialist-bookshelf-november-2024 /Ian Angus Editor, Climate & Capitalism https://climateandcapitalism.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: [marxmail] Ranked-choice voting changes the game

2024-11-05 Thread Anthony Boynton
Ranked choice voting is definitely not a total fix, but it definitely is more democratic than the rube Goldberg electoral system in the USA. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#2): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/

Re: [marxmail] The New Denial of Imperialism on the Left

2024-11-05 Thread Mark Baugher
> On Nov 4, 2024, at 7:53 PM, Marv Gandall via groups.io > wrote: > > What you're picking up from me is that I believe the central issue which > Bellamy Foster is addressing has been debated many many times on the list. I think JBF and MR contributors have analyzed these issues in other ven

Re: [marxmail] The New Denial of Imperialism on the Left

2024-11-05 Thread Avram Rips
China is not a capitalist system? Expropriates capital through out the world has a class system with billionaires anti independent unions and workers. On Monday, November 4, 2024, Marv Gandall via groups.io wrote: > [Edited Message Follows] > [Reason: Corrected to clarify that Bolivarian Venezu

Re: [marxmail] The New Denial of Imperialism on the Left

2024-11-05 Thread sartesian
Yes, I've read it, although I have not read many of the people he criticizes in his essay.   It seems to me that it's quite possible to disagree with Lenin's theory without denying a) the existence of imperialism b) the fundamental fact that advance of class struggle in the so-called advanced ca

[marxmail] Conference of Russian Socialists against Putin’s War in Ukraine

2024-11-05 Thread RKOB
*Conference of Russian Socialists against Putin’s War in Ukraine* */A brief report from the “Forum of Anti-War Left Emigration” on 2/3 November/*// /By the RCIT Media Team, 5 November 2024/ On the weekend 2/3 November an important conference of Russian socialists was held which discussed Put