Re: [marxmail] 'Maduro has done tremendous damage to the left': An interview with Atenea Jimenez ( Alliance for Sovereignty and Democracy, Venezuela)

2025-02-23 Thread duen filan via groups.io
charlie - "She does not mention the Communist Party of Venezuela at all" Apparently, Atenea's organization and Charlie's Popular Democratic Front aren't working together to defeat Maduro. Which group do you support, Fred? Atenea's or the CP front that has also discredited the left for the masses?

Re: [marxmail] The continuing US corporate domination of the global economy

2025-02-23 Thread Mark Baugher
> On Feb 22, 2025, at 22:17, Charlie via groups.io > wrote: > > > • China is displacing the U.S. in trade with country after country. > > • China is displacing the U.S. and Western powers in taking raw materials out > of Africa. > > • China has built up its military at a far faster rate t

[marxmail] War of Words: From the Mekong Delta to Gaza

2025-02-23 Thread Dennis Brasky via groups.io
It is the Palestinian’s people’s refusal to disappear, to hang on to their land, that has led so many Israelis to deploy the racist imagery of “human animals.” https://portside.org/2025-02-22/war-words-mekong-delta-gaza -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to thi

[marxmail] A Jewish man’s shooting of two Israelis in Miami revealed the violent truth of Zionism

2025-02-23 Thread Dennis Brasky via groups.io
Media coverage of the shooting of two Israeli tourists who were mistaken for Palestinians ignored the root cause of the violence: Zionism. https://mondoweiss.net/2025/02/a-jewish-mans-shooting-of-two-israelis-in-miami-revealed-the-violent-truth-of-zionism/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links

Re: [marxmail] The continuing US corporate domination of the global economy

2025-02-23 Thread Mark Baugher
> On Feb 23, 2025, at 09:32, Charlie via groups.io > wrote: > > If you think the China-US contradiction today develops at the same rate as > the US-British relation back then, No, that's not what I wrote. Mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this

Re: [marxmail] Thousands march for Ukraine solidarity in D.C., London, ...

2025-02-23 Thread Charles Keener via groups.io
Are you signed up for our updates? Ukraine Solidarity Network | We oppose Russia’s war on Ukraine & support Ukraine’s self-determination On Monday, February 24 from 2pm to 3:30 pm EST, we will have a panel discussion sponsored by Haymarket Books and the Ukraine Solidarity Network: Ukraine’s Figh

[marxmail] resistance through boycotts

2025-02-23 Thread Michael Meeropol via groups.io
Hi All --- I am skeptical of the one day consumer boycott but focusing on some big corporations for 3 or more days sounds like a worthwhile effort. [image: economic resistance dates copy.png] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online

Re: [marxmail] The continuing US corporate domination of the global economy

2025-02-23 Thread Marv Gandall via groups.io
Sartesian makes several very important points. Interesting also to note that Starrs’ views largely coincide with those of Michael Roberts, who I highly regard even if not wholly convinced by his insistence on the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. Sean Starrs from Kings College, London the

[marxmail] book for review

2025-02-23 Thread george snedeker via groups.io
Socialism and Democracy is looking for someone to review: A Rotten Crowd: America, Wealth, and One-Hundred Years of The Great Gatsby by John Marsh MR Press One century ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald invited us into the lives of the "rotten crowd," Jazz Age Americans with far more money than morals

Re: [marxmail] The continuing US corporate domination of the global economy

2025-02-23 Thread Charlie
On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM, Mark Baugher wrote: > > The US overtook Great Britain in GDP in the 1870s but did not supplant the > British Empire for another 70 years. There was other stuff going on, > Charlie, like the fact that the US was built with British capital. If you think the China-

Re: [marxmail] The continuing US corporate domination of the global economy

2025-02-23 Thread sartesian via groups.io
First off, we've been hearing about the demise and replacement of US capitalism in the world markets for years.  Brazil, the pre-China, was supposed to be the great replacement, then it was going to be the EU, then Japan, then the "Asian Tigers," then China, then the BRICS, then China, then--wha

Re: [marxmail] Thousands march for Ukraine solidarity in D.C., London, ...

2025-02-23 Thread Mark Baugher
I wonder what the US Ukraine Solidarity Network is planning. Mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35377): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35377 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/111346012/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES

Re: [marxmail] resistance through boycotts

2025-02-23 Thread Michael Meeropol via groups.io
let's try this way --- /000/6/1/9/22916/userfiles/image/economic%20resistance%20dates.jpeg let's see if this one works. Thanks, Mike On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM Michael Meeropol wrote: > Hi All --- I am skeptical of the one day consumer boycott but focusing on > some big corporations for

Re: [marxmail] Ben Seattle's WITBD? -- (part 2)

2025-02-23 Thread abraham Weizfeld PhD via groups.io
This programme here following is feasible if the political pole of attraction would be a United Front of the various social movements in Civil Society. This would be a federated party as I the Russian Social-Democratic Party prior to the split into the Communist Party. The difference being that

Re: [marxmail] resistance through boycotts

2025-02-23 Thread Michael Meeropol via groups.io
damn -- -many apologies On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM Michael Meeropol via groups.io wrote: > let's try this way --- > > /000/6/1/9/22916/userfiles/image/economic%20resistance%20dates.jpeg > > > let's see if this one works. > > Thanks, Mike > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM Michael Meeropol

Re: [marxmail] Ben Seattle's WITBD? -- (part 2)

2025-02-23 Thread David Walters via groups.io
After October 1919, *most* of the Bund in Russia, Ukraine and the Balkan countries split from the Bund to join the Communist Party. The majority of the Latvian, Lithuanian, and Polish CPs were made up of ex-Bundists. David -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent

Re: [marxmail] The continuing US corporate domination of the global economy

2025-02-23 Thread sartesian via groups.io
Context would be great, Charlie.  So exactly what is the context behind your "snippets"?  What exactly is your point? The US is/is not being eclipsed by China?  China is/is not emerging as a new hegemon.  The US bourgeoisie don't have ownership/claim to the greatest portion of profits allocated

Re: [marxmail] ‘Maduro has done tremendous damage to the left’: An interview with Atenea Jiménez (Alliance for Sovereignty and Democracy, Venezuela)

2025-02-23 Thread Chris Slee via groups.io
Atenea Jimenez downplays the significance of US sanctions against Venezuela. She says: "When you analyse the situation, there was evidently a process of economic decline prior to the sanctionsOnly after this did the sanctions impact society". It is true that there was a downturn in the Ve

Re: [marxmail] ‘Maduro has done tremendous damage to the left’: An interview with Atenea Jiménez (Alliance for Sovereignty and Democracy, Venezuela)

2025-02-23 Thread Charlie
On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 03:59 AM, Chris Slee wrote: > > The Maduro government justifies its concessions to the capitalist class by > arguing that they are necessary to circumvent the blockade. Slee has repeated this line in many previous posts, but just why is oppression of working people, regr

Re: [marxmail] The continuing US corporate domination of the global economy

2025-02-23 Thread Charlie
On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM, Mark Baugher wrote: > > What about the main point of the article, Charlie, which is that GDP is a > poor metric and not as useful as surplus-value extraction? Useful for what? Definitely useful for waving aside lots of material realities. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: [marxmail] The continuing US corporate domination of the global economy

2025-02-23 Thread Mark Baugher
> On Feb 23, 2025, at 08:32, Charlie via groups.io > wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM, Mark Baugher wrote: > What about the main point of the article, Charlie, which is that GDP is a > poor metric and not as useful as surplus-value extraction? Useful for what? > Definitely usefu

[marxmail] resistance through boycotts

2025-02-23 Thread Mark Baugher
> Begin forwarded message: > > From: "Michael Meeropol via groups.io" > Subject: [marxmail] resistance through boycotts > Date: February 23, 2025 at 12:17:16 PST > To: Marxmail > Resent-From: mamee...@gmail.com > Reply-To: marxmail@groups.io > > Hi All --- I am skeptical of the one day consum

Re: [marxmail] resistance through boycotts

2025-02-23 Thread Mark Baugher
> On Feb 23, 2025, at 16:56, Michael Meeropol via groups.io > wrote: > > damn -- -many apologies I forwarded this to our IT department. Mark > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM Michael Meeropol via groups.io > wrote: > let's try this way --- > > /000/6/1/9/22916/userfiles/image/economi

Re: [marxmail] The continuing US corporate domination of the global economy

2025-02-23 Thread Charles
Gandall and his bros of the moment Roberts and Starrs bloviate about foreign companies in China and their exports. It is just a snippet of economics with no overall framework. So let us throw in one more snippet. The chart shows exports as a percentage of GDP. As you can see, China's exports ar