Fred Fuentes says:
Chris has once again sought to attack a Venezuelan left activist on the
spurious ground that they do not take the sanctions serious enough. (His
previous target was Edgardo Lander
https://links.org.au/venezuela-us-blockade-and-election-response-edgardo-lander)
His sole proof
marxism.com The Spark (RCI Taiwan) 05 August 2022
[by Ted Grant's apostles]
The Taiwan National Question and the Tasks of the Taiwanese Marxists
"... As Marxist we refuse to take sides in what, from the point of view of
workers and the poor, is a false dichotomy; a choice between two
reactiona
*Assembly of Russian and Ukrainian Socialists at the 3rd Anniversary of
Putin’s Invasion*
*/Report from a meeting of representatives of left-wing groups in Paris
on 24 February/*
/By the RCIT Media Team, 25 February 2025/
The /Union of Post-Soviet Left/ (PSL) and the "/Peace Below/" initiati
https://stew312856.substack.com/p/six-questions-with-dr-johnny-eric
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Andie Stewart
(She/they, AMAB🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈)
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 02:02 PM, Tom Walker wrote:
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> What contradiction is that you may wonder? The tendency of capital, "on
> the one side, to create disposable time, on the other, to convert it into
> surplus labour." If capital succeeds "too well" it becomes unable to
> realize the surplus
I think the distinction is that AI is self-referential--not only is the
"information" it presents derivative, but is derived from links and chains
"validated" by the use of the AI itself. So user 1 reproduces information from
AI enterprise B, enterprise B then absorbs that very reproduction and
Here's the link I meant to include,
https://www.investigatewest.org/investigatewest-reports/a-thin-green-line-with-global-impact-17692925?utm_source=chatgpt.com
> On Feb 26, 2025, at 16:11, Mark Baugher via groups.io
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>> On Feb 26, 2025, at 09:03, Fred Murphy via groups.io
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> On Feb 26, 2025, at 09:03, Fred Murphy via groups.io
> wrote:
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> Anthony Galluzzo has coined the term "deceleration," which I think does a
> better job of capturing what degrowth advocates are getting at.
> https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Death-Decelerationist-Politics-Seventies-ebook/dp/B0D
> On Feb 26, 2025, at 13:58, sartesian via groups.io
> wrote:
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> FWIW, I'd suggest prohibiting reproduction of AI responses
>
Maybe. I think unidentified AI response posts are wrong. But what about
reproducing the response by paraphrasing the response? Instead, why not
reassert our tradi
> On Feb 26, 2025, at 12:30, workerpoet via groups.io
> wrote:
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> Maybe you should research it beyond Wikipedia. Start with the Azov
> Battalions.
Workerpoet, you apparently didn't read the Wikipedia article in my post,
https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35492, which has a section on t
Hari:
1. the implicit endorsement refers to that made by CK, the original poster, not
the list.
2. When I had the bad manners to respond to a similar acritical reproduction of
similar liberal bourgeois talking points by the same original poster, pointing
out that the supposed "radical" columnis
Hello Fred: Do you have a short paragraph that describes the position in
brief...? To factor in whether to acquire said book.
Thanks for considering, H
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Sartesian;
As you well know, this is not a list which gives either "implicit" endorsement,
or indeed any explicit endorsement - on the whole anyway - to any particular
viewpoint. This is a rather capacious tent. If there was any such 'endorsement'
it could only be gauged by an 'apparent' concen
On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 02:10 PM, Mark Baugher wrote:
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> We no doubt need an AI policy for contributions to this list.
FWIW, I'd suggest prohibiting reproduction of AI responses
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM, Mark Baugher wrote:
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> the phrase "the Stalinist-capitalist regime in Beijing" is a tortured
> ahistorical oxymoron in my view.
Not if your group traces its origins to the International Socialist Tendency
and state capitalist theory, as I believe is the case h
According to the paper’s AI-generated Conversation Summary, “the comments
express strong disapproval of The Washington Post's new focus on 'personal
liberties and free markets' in its opinion section. Many readers perceive this
shift as a move towards right-wing ideology and a departure from the
Maybe you should research it beyond Wikipedia. Start with the Azov Battalions.
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This calls into question somewhat the claims that the HTS-led overthrow of
Assad was an Israeli proxy action.
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Trump undercuts Zelenskyy — but Americans are not abandoning Ukraine |
Salon.com
As Trump tries to demean Ukraine, millions of Americans reach out to President
Volodmyr Zelenskyy
What America’s barely-elected president is trying to do to Ukraine and the
world order is a disgrace. Most Amer
> On Feb 26, 2025, at 08:28, dan via groups.io
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> No sources for the time being because this is not necessary
Your quote makes conclusions about two completely different systems, four
hundred years apart, from nation states having different modes of production in
a different
I have argued against using the degrowth name for two decades within the
degrowth community. It misleadingly implies using the same metric of GDP but in
reverse, which would be irrational -- perhaps even more irrational than the
conventional "rising tide trickles down" usage. A variation, "post
OK here's a challenge. According to a moderator:
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> So what? Again, even a liberal bourgeois ideologue may have knowledge or
> information of value. Those types get posted to this list on a regular
> basis.
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What knowledge or information of value does the above article by Haake p
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I have argued against using the degrowth name for two decades within the
degrowth community. It misleadingly implies using the same metric of GDP but in
reverse, which would be irrational -- perhaps even more irrational than the
conventional "rising tide trickles down"
On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 01:31 PM, Mark Baugher wrote:
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> That was interesting, but the phrase "the Stalinist-capitalist regime in
> Beijing" is a tortured ahistorical oxymoron in my view.
And all 3 at once! That's impressive.
But...not that I necessarily agree with MP's characterization, nor t
> On Feb 26, 2025, at 09:15, Kristin Bayrd via groups.io
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> I don’t think you understood what I said.
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Sorry. That's certainly possible. Feel free to correct me.
Mark
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> On Feb 26, 2025, at 09:43, workerpoet via groups.io
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> The Banderites that, with U.S. help, took over in Ukraine are fascists as
> well.
When did that happen workerpoet? From the reference that I got from chatGPT:
"During Ukraine's post-Soviet history, the far-right has remained
thank you
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> On Feb 26, 2025, at 08:43, RKOB via groups.io
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> http://links.org.au/did-chinese-communist-party-always-consider-taiwan-part-chinese-nation
That was interesting, but the phrase "the Stalinist-capitalist regime in
Beijing" is a tortured ahistorical oxymoron in my view.
Mark
Rich people rule but they cannot sustain a modern national capitalist economy
without the rest of us. As Keynes pointed out decades ago, capitalism cannot
create the needed number of jobs to keep any capitalist country above severe
depression. It required a certain percent of public employment t
Agreed, I don't even think Putin is interested in the Baltic states much less
taking over Europe. This is just scare-mongering.
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The Banderites that, with U.S. help, took over in Ukraine are fascists as well.
There are no good guys in this picture. Still even NATO's Jens Stoltneberg
admitted the invasion would not have occurred without the NATO push. I hope the
inter-fascist proxy war ends soon, though it looks like Trump
Mark,
I don’t think you understood what I said.
Kristin
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Yes, the CPC advocated the right of national self-determination until
the early 1940s.
*Did the Chinese Communist Party always consider Taiwan as part of the
Chinese nation?*
by Michael Pröbsting, /LINKS/ (Links International Journal of Socialist
Renewal), 06 October 2022.
http://links.org
Anthony Galluzzo has coined the term "deceleration," which I think does a
better job of capturing what degrowth advocates are getting at.
https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Death-Decelerationist-Politics-Seventies-ebook/dp/B0D1Q6PP7X
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On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM Murtaza Hussain <
dropsitenews+murtaza-huss...@substack.com> wrote:
> Israeli airstrikes and ground incursions threaten to destabilize Syria as
> it struggles to recover from a decade-plus civil war
> ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
No sources for the time being because this is not necessary
It is not about specific facts but about general observations that are obvious
to everyone..
And as a historian I know very well how the VOC operated...
how Leopold II operated in his Congo Free State...
and how the Belgian State deal
https://newbloommag.net/2024/08/06/qiao-tw-mr/
On Wednesday, February 26, 2025, Avram Rips via groups.io wrote:
> No alike and different. That’s the extent of the pro authoritarian
> government “left” where you think everyone will cheer if Taiwan is
> permanently occupied by China. Oh by the wa
On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 04:29 AM, duen filan wrote:
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> Ukraine is a sovereign nation, while Taiwan is one of China's islands.
Would that we had the power in both cases to hold plebicites ensuring that the
people rather than competing states determined their destiny.
In the absence of such pl
> On Feb 26, 2025, at 07:59, dan via groups.io
> wrote:
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> Yes, economically and financially the strategy of both the VOC then and China
> now is much more rational than traditional military conquests and colonial
> rule. This is because they gain influence and wealth without the high cost
You said:
The Dutch VOC set up trading posts all over the world without ever actually
occupying those countries. Is this comparable to what China is doing in the
Third World now?
ChatGPT said:
That is an interesting comparison. The Dutch VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische
Compagnie) set up trading po
No alike and different. That’s the extent of the pro authoritarian
government “left” where you think everyone will cheer if Taiwan is
permanently occupied by China. Oh by the way there’s a left in Taiwan.
On Wednesday, February 26, 2025, duen filan via groups.io wrote:
> The chart in Ben Seatt
On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 07:29 AM, duen filan wrote:
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> When Taiwan finally goes down, all of Asia will cheer, as it did after
> learning imperial Japan had just bombed the crap out of the white
> supremacist pigs' Pearl Harbour fleet.
>
>
First, the island sustained an indigenous populat
On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 09:50 PM, Charles wrote:
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> ...talk to the Congolese copper miners and truckers who toil for Chinese
> state corporations.
In his quest to show demonstrate that Lenin's inter-imperialist rivalry best
describes contemporary international relations, notably between the US
> On Feb 25, 2025, at 18:22, Tom Walker via groups.io
> wrote:
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> See also:
> Disposable Time and The Theory of The Future Society--Pursuing Marx's
> Footsteps
> SHII Kazuo, Chair, Central Committee, Japanese Communist Party
> Member of House of Representatives
> Tokyo
> June 25, 2024
>
The chart in Ben Seattle's post asks the question "Is Taiwan like
Ukraine?"
I'll bite - No, Ukraine is a sovereign nation, while Taiwan is one of
China's islands that has enjoyed the protection of America's war ships over
the past eighty years.
When Taiwan finally goes down, all of Asia will ch
Hi Tom, thanks for considering this, not sure where your quotation is
headed…?
On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM Tom Walker via groups.io wrote:
> "Proudhon, who certainly hears the bells ringing but never knows where,
> therefore sees the origin of overproduction in the fact ‘that the worker
> can
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