[marxmail] “A Defeat for Russia in this War would be an absolute Blessing for Russian Workers!” (Interview)

2025-02-27 Thread RKOB via groups.io
*“A Defeat for Russia in this War would be an absolute Blessing for Russian Workers!”* /Interview with a Russian revolutionary militant about the political situation in his country and the perspectives of the class struggle, 23 February 2025/* * *Note of the Editor:*Below we publish an inter

Re: [marxmail] Notes on the present conjuncture in Europe (thinking out loud)

2025-02-27 Thread Mark Baugher
> On Feb 27, 2025, at 01:50, Ed George via groups.io > wrote: > > (This is a piece of thinking out loud.) Thanks for the insightful post. I'm thinking out loud, too. > > ... > I > ... > Whatever might happen in US politics in coming years, there seems no going > back on this. This wo

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

2025-02-27 Thread Marv Gandall via groups.io
You might consider moving the last several posts concerning AI and LLM's to a new thread of their own for future reference since they have deviated from the subject matter of this one. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#3553

Re: [marxmail] Notes on the present conjunture in Europe (thinking out loud)

2025-02-27 Thread duen filan via groups.io
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Re: [marxmail] Latin America under attack by Yankee imperialism

2025-02-27 Thread Kristin Bayrd via groups.io
Mark, What you wrote was: The places with the most undocumented workers are run by Democratic Party politicians, who would be punished by the voters for assisting Trump. Then I wrote that I was not convinced that these Democrats would be punished for assisting Trump, or for not standing in his

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-27 Thread Marv Gandall via groups.io
On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 11:40 AM, David Walters wrote: > > The part of the class struggle, in fact a combined and prerequisite for it > is national liberation through the expulsion of foreign troops. While that > occurs the class struggle in all its forms continues, unabated. The reality, as opp

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

2025-02-27 Thread sartesian via groups.io
On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 09:15 AM, Mark Baugher wrote: > > If you choose not to be a Marxist monk, search tools can be very helpful. > I have not yet found an LLM, however, that reports having access to MEGA. > But that's a logical step - once we have safe procedures for using an > LLM.ut MIA alr

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

2025-02-27 Thread Mark Baugher
> On Feb 27, 2025, at 10:18, sartesian via groups.io > wrote: > > MIA already has, and for some time, a search tool that does that work. > The query interface is primitive compared to LLMs. The MIA is great, but I'd like to find an LLM that supports queries on the MEGA. I don't want to

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-27 Thread David Walters via groups.io
The part of the class struggle, in fact a combined and prerequisite for it is national liberation through the expulsion of foreign troops. While that occurs the class struggle in all its forms continues, unabated, at this point with the bosses government in Kiev winning. The unions are back on t

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

2025-02-27 Thread Charles
On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 09:15 AM, Mark Baugher wrote: > > I read recently (not on an LLM) that Das Kapital constitutes 1/70th of > Marx's economic writings. If you choose not to be a Marxist monk, search > tools can be very helpful FROM MARX TO MAO website: About the Search Engine And What It Wi

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-27 Thread sartesian via groups.io
What I don't get is the entire lack of class conscious perspective on the part of both/either of the antagonists/proponents in this debate- like is anything DW hopes for--"Ukraine liberating the eastern half of the country" possible without a social revolution that deposes the current regime-- o

[marxmail] New report details police repression of Palestine activism at UCLA

2025-02-27 Thread Dennis Brasky via groups.io
According to a new report, a total of $12.3 million was spent on "managing" UCLA’s protests around the school's Gaza solidarity encampment last year. Additionally, there were over 200 arrests, and more than 10 degrees were withheld from students. https://mondoweiss.net/2025/02/new-report-details-po

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

2025-02-27 Thread David Walters via groups.io
This was written over 20 years ago. Things haven't changed? Modern, mostly university sites or large funded private archives, had put their documents into a form that allows for on-the-fly formatting. This also allows the files to be sorted and searched in a database format, basically almost in

[marxmail] Notes on the present conjuncture in Europe (thinking out loud)

2025-02-27 Thread Ed George via groups.io
(This is a piece of thinking out loud.) *** Notes on the present conjuncture in Europe The recent speeches by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vicepresident J D Vance, along with a reported telephone conversation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and the opening of a formal diplomat

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

2025-02-27 Thread Mark Baugher
> On Feb 26, 2025, at 17:09, sartesian via groups.io > wrote: > > It, AI, is a billion digital androids of Joseph Goebbels. > Then give them all lobotomies and simple, useful tasks that are verifiable like "what reference wrote X," "where did Y say Z," and "what references describe W" rath

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-27 Thread David Walters via groups.io
Abraham, the Russian invaders control about half of most of these Oblasts and the Ukrainians control half or can't you read a map? The Ukrainians still control almost 80% of the population of Kherson, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia. The Russian Imperialists haven't really moved anywhere in 3 months a

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-27 Thread abraham Weizfeld PhD via groups.io
In case David Walters had not noticed, the Russian advance through Donetsk and Lugansk have reached the borders of those provinces and stopped there. There is a fraction that has yet to be liberated from Kyiv yet, although these facts are proof of the respect for Ukrainian Right to Self-Determin

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

2025-02-27 Thread Simón Rodríguez via groups . io
There have been some inaccuracies and errors in this thread about Venezuela. In 2015 Obama imposed some individual sanctions against Maduro government officials, which meant denying them US visas and freezing their bank accounts and assets in the US. They were not properly economic sanctions but

[marxmail] U.S. Foreign-Aid Halt Is Making Scrutiny of China Even Harder - WSJ

2025-02-27 Thread Marv Gandall via groups.io
The Trump administration’s cutoff of aid to NGO’s has cast a spotlight on the purpose and reliability of reporting by China Labor Watch, China Digital Times, China Dissent Monitor, and other US government-funded nonprofits on which China critics from the far left to the far right have relied for

Re: [marxmail] Israel Launches Major Air Assault on Damascus

2025-02-27 Thread Michael Karadjis via groups.io
On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 6:28 AM John Edmundson via groups.io wrote: This calls into question somewhat the claims that the HTS-led overthrow of Assad was an Israeli proxy action. Well, to say the least. But who says that, other than crazed tankies and conspiracy theorists? Israel has reacted with