Re: [marxmail] New rules for radical resistance in the accelerated age of Trump

2025-02-08 Thread Charles Keener via groups.io
Attacks on the LGBTQI and immigrant communities are also problematic for me.Transphobic bigotry is also personally hurtful for me. Charles On Sunday, February 9, 2025 at 12:10:33 AM EST, Mark Baugher wrote: > On Feb 8, 2025, at 12:27 PM, sartesian via groups.io > wrote: > > In foc

[marxmail] Surplus profits, capital exports and imperialism: An interrogation of commonly held beliefs and assumptions

2025-02-08 Thread Fred Fuentes via groups.io
By James Doughney The following contribution aims to interrogate commonly held beliefs and assumptions concerning monopoly capital, surplus profits, surplus capital and the export of capital. It will explain that such beliefs are not coherent. The arguments that follow are not empirical, though

Re: [marxmail] New rules for radical resistance in the accelerated age of Trump

2025-02-08 Thread Mark Baugher
> On Feb 8, 2025, at 12:27 PM, sartesian via groups.io > wrote: > > In focusing on the "noise" of MacVeety's post you are missing the signal > which the reactionary content of Kristin's posts- her support of the > characterizations and misinformation pumped out by the reactionaries around,

Re: [marxmail] The brilliant "Marxist" geniuses

2025-02-08 Thread Mark Baugher
> On Feb 8, 2025, at 3:48 PM, sartesian via groups.io > wrote: > > Practical example? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Labor_Defense -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35109): https://groups.io/g/marxmail

Re: [marxmail] Dialectics Maybe

2025-02-08 Thread Charlie
Aristocratic rule, bourgeois rule, working-class rule – these are opposites taken as external successions. Internal contradiction, a unity and struggle of opposites within something, develops the something. Neither the class contradiction nor the contradiction between productive forces (includin

Re: [marxmail] Trump Orders Halt to Aid to South Africa, Claiming Mistreatment of White Landowners

2025-02-08 Thread sartesian via groups.io
Close the borders! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35107): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35107 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/111080047/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text wh

[marxmail] Trump Orders Halt to Aid to South Africa, Claiming Mistreatment of White Landowners

2025-02-08 Thread Dennis Brasky via groups.io
The racist sympathizer ordered that all foreign assistance to South Africa be halted and said his administration would prioritize the resettling of white, “Afrikaner refugees” into the United States. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/politics/trump-south-africa-aid-white-landowners.html Move

Re: [marxmail] So I thought I'd

2025-02-08 Thread Tom Walker via groups.io
MEW Band 23 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35105): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35105 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/111037083/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when repl

Re: [marxmail] So I thought I'd

2025-02-08 Thread hari kumar via groups.io
Thx Charlie: I had forgotten about that correspondence, but as soon as I saw it I recalled! No neither of the two co-editors say anything about that or about Brown. H -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35104): https://groups.

Re: [marxmail] New rules for radical resistance in the accelerated age of Trump

2025-02-08 Thread Bobby MacVeety via groups.io
Thank you to sartesian for getting it My apologies to you Mark for offending you, definitely not my intention All your points are well made and I agree and I appreciate the effort and responsibility of moderation peace b On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM sartesian via groups.io wrote: > Mar

Re: [marxmail] So I thought I'd

2025-02-08 Thread sartesian via groups.io
Same problem, different language:  which German edition? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35102): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35102 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/111037083/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #

Re: [marxmail] The brilliant "Marxist" geniuses

2025-02-08 Thread sartesian via groups.io
You've moved the discussion from tactics and into strategy and program with your exposition on a "united front" around civil liberties, that somehow sees an advantage in separating class content, and class  analysis from both the attack and defense.  Civil liberties are not a thing in itself, no

Re: [marxmail] The brilliant "Marxist" geniuses

2025-02-08 Thread Mark Baugher
> On Feb 8, 2025, at 9:44 AM, sartesian via groups.io > wrote: > > Disruptions are a tactic, where sometimes the negatives outweigh the gain and > vice-versa. Rejecting disruption categorically can mean missing tremendous > opportunities to expose issues-- like the sit-ins a lunch counters

Re: [marxmail] So I thought I'd

2025-02-08 Thread Tom Walker via groups.io
On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 02:51 PM, wrote: > > Charles H Kerr Speaking of Charles Kerr, I highly recommend Matthew Siegfried's talk on the life and work of Mary E. Marcy https://youtu.be/LzBClhpdPSo?si=-ub9ZzEKLXVOt6Mu ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzBClhpdPSo&pp=ygUKbWFyeSBtYXJjeQ%3D%3D )

Re: [marxmail] So I thought I'd

2025-02-08 Thread Tom Walker via groups.io
I am not persuaded of the necessity for a new translation every fifty years. All translations have their shortcomings and when in doubt the serious reader must always go back to the original, even if one is not fluent in the language. Maybe especially if one is not fluent because consulting the

Re: [marxmail] So I thought I'd

2025-02-08 Thread sartesian via groups.io
My hard copy is an old Charles H Kerr edition.  Haven't checked the Princeton U Press edition -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35097): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35097 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/1110370

[marxmail] Ecosocialist Bookshelf. February 2025

2025-02-08 Thread Ian Angus via groups.io
Seven recent books on movement building, modern capitalism, evolution, ecology and colonialism. https://climateandcapitalism.com/2025/02/08/ecosocialist-bookshelf-february-2025/ Ian Angus Editor, Climate & Capitalism https://climateandcapitalism.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You

Re: [marxmail] So I thought I'd

2025-02-08 Thread Charlie
H.K.asks about "the new translation out of Princeton U Press (Co-Editors Paul North & Paul Reiter?" Have North or Reiter criticized anything in Wendy Brown's foreword? She devotes herself to poisoning the drink. See previous discussion at https://groups.io/g/marxmail/topic/108835219 -=-=-=-=-=

[marxmail] An open letter to Sen Jack Reed

2025-02-08 Thread Andie Stewart (she/they) via groups.io
An Open Letter to Sen. Jack Reedopen.substack.comBest 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 (#35094) | Reply to Group | Rep

Re: [marxmail] So I thought I'd

2025-02-08 Thread hari kumar via groups.io
You'd be surprised Artesian! However maybe - as I commented before to Tom on a related remark he made - fully reasoned responses to the finer technical details/issues out of "Das K" may be fewer to come by however. I do have a vaguely related query to ask the several here who are 'Capital" expe

Re: [marxmail] New rules for radical resistance in the accelerated age of Trump

2025-02-08 Thread sartesian via groups.io
Mark, In focusing on the "noise" of MacVeety's post you are missing the signal which the reactionary content of  Kristin's posts- her support of the characterizations and misinformation pumped out by the reactionaries around, and of, Trump and Musk.   That's the real issue. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: [marxmail] Pakistan"s rush for rooftop solar brings dreams and nightmares"

2025-02-08 Thread duen filan via groups.io
"by mid 2024, sales prices were, at less than 13 euro cents per watt, half the level of 2022" This doesn't make sense. Where I live the residential rate is 10 Canadian cents per kilowatt hour. One Canadian cent, if you can still find one - the cash registers started rounding off to the nearest ni

Re: [marxmail] New rules for radical resistance in the accelerated age of Trump

2025-02-08 Thread Mark Baugher
> > Such a shame, we finally get a woman posting and it’s a troll Here is a sentence devoid of self-awareness. The sentence trolls someone by accusing them of being a troll. It's also devoid of information, which is the real offense here: The mission of marxmail displayed on our masthead is

Re: [marxmail] The brilliant "Marxist" geniuses

2025-02-08 Thread sartesian via groups.io
Part of the problem might be in generalizing from a small "sample size."  The massive anti-war marches in the 60s (and early 70s, but particularly the 60s) were preceded by countless, smaller, and frequently more militant, disruptive, actions which "publicized" the conflict and made the bigger d

Re: [marxmail] So I thought I'd

2025-02-08 Thread sartesian via groups.io
In the unlikely event that anyone is interested, re intensification of labor process, the below is from vol 1 Ch 15 of Capital: > > Generally speaking, the mode of producing relative surplus-value consists > in raising the productive power of the workman, so as to enable him to > produce more in

Re: [marxmail] The brilliant "Marxist" geniuses

2025-02-08 Thread Mark Baugher
> On Feb 8, 2025, at 8:43 AM, sartesian via groups.io > wrote: > > I'm not sure that that's accurate, or one precludes the other. or that > there's any tactic that doesn't require direct action initiated by a small > group in order to gain more participation, particularly when police enforc

Re: [marxmail] The brilliant "Marxist" geniuses

2025-02-08 Thread sartesian via groups.io
On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM, Mark Baugher wrote: > > The tactic of shutting down traffic reflects the mistaken strategy of > trying to force Democratic Party politicians to act at the expense of > expanding the mass appeal of the movement. For many, it's a stunt to get > more media coverage o

[marxmail] Dialectics Maybe

2025-02-08 Thread Kristin Bayrd via groups.io
Something that I’ve been thinking about for at least ten years now, and I don’t know if anyone else has thought this or if this is even close to being accurate but here it is. We all know that aristocratic rule engendered its opposite, which was bourgeois rule, which overturned the aristocratic

Re: [marxmail] New rules for radical resistance in the accelerated age of Trump

2025-02-08 Thread Bobby MacVeety via groups.io
Such a shame, we finally get a woman posting and it’s a troll On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM Kristin Bayrd via groups.io wrote: > There really isn’t a Resistance 2.0. I believe the reason is because most > Democrat voters agree with what Trump is doing. They support closing the > border and depo