The economy matters, but the likes of Trump succeed by offering voters revenge
for problems both real and imagined.
D onald Trump, for the first time, won a majority of the popular vote. He took
the US presidency with huge swings (
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/05/us/elections/res
I think that almost every intro economics textbook notes that lenders hate
inflation and that borrowers love it. Beyond that, things get more complicated
in terms of who benefits from inflation and who is hurt by it. Long ago, Keynes
noted that inflation was a convenient way for reducing workers
I was just looking at what both Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx had to say on
free trade versus protectionism. Both Engels and Marx held that the workers
movement didn't have a dog in the fights between free traders and
protectionists but they certainly had thoughts on the roles that both
protec
On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 07:26 PM, Charlie wrote:
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> Is this quotation from Engels supposed to be a damning condemnation of
> tariffs today?
Certainly not for developing economies. As both Marx & Engels were well aware,
countries like the US had used tariffs to spur industrialization. And as I
On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 08:31 PM, Mark Baugher wrote:
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> I think it is different today, or at least it is not about tariffs in the
> abstract but at a particular point in history. In a search for cheap labor
> and cheap nature, extensive supply chains criss-cross oceans with
> environmental dest
On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 02:20 PM, Charles Keener wrote:
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> The first is that in the 1920s, there was a strong leftist movement
> represented by Communists and social democrats. Yes, they quarrelled and
> obstructed each other. But they were strong and popular. Today, no such
> movement exists.
Alexander Bogdanov was a brilliant physician, scientist, economist and
revolutionary — who proposed his own philosophy, empiriomonism, which sought to
integrate into Marxism the insights of Ernst Mach and Richard Avenarius, and
who vied against Lenin for leadership of the Bolshevik faction in th
It Should be pointed out that the philosophy that known today as
“dialectical materialism” was not something that was immediately
adopted as the official philosophy of the Soviet Union. Rather,
dialectical materialism was something that emerged in the Soviet Union
after years of debate and politica
The industrialists in Britain needed to have the corn laws overturned because
they drove up the cost of living for workers thereby making labor more
expensive for the industrialists. Once those laws were overturned,
industrialists could now keep wages down more easily and thus prices of
manufac
Hi all,
Here is my lateHere is my latest essay which is a short book review of
Trotsky's Comintern Conspiracy by noted Stalinist hack Grover Furr. The essay
deals with many of the same arguments of my forthcoming Prophet Persecuted that
discusses neo-Stalinist defenses of the Moscow Trials and
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/nyregion/shen-yun-federal-investigation.html
Investigators with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and State
Department have also interviewed former performers in the dance group about
their working and living conditions.
The dance group Shen Yun has bec
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This Unreadable Russian Novel Is Xi Jinping’s Spiritual Guide
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Dec. 15, 2024
By John Garnaut and Sam Chetwin George
Mr. Garnaut, a co-founder of the geopolitical risk adviso
Speaking of Chernyshevsky, he is often considered part of a Russian
intellectual and cultural movement that came to be called Nihilism. As I have
noted elsewhere, t he tern Nihilism in mid 19th century Russia meant something
a bit different from what we mean by the term nowadays. The Russian Nih
On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM, David Walters wrote:
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> As Jim explains in his document,
Although, I would have taken pride if I had written such a document, it was
Doug Greene who authored it.
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To quote Ian Scott Horst:
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> Checkmate ENaa! "But Greene cites no evidence that any defendant confessed
> because he was threatened with execution!" Just because they were all
> executed doesn't mean they were threatened with it!
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https://news.mit.edu/2025/loren-graham-professor-emeritus-history-science-dies-0106
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Loren Graham, professor emeritus of the history of science, dies at 91
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A few years ago, we had him speak, via Zoom, before the Greater Boston
Humanists, where he spoke about the revival of Lysenkoism in today's Russia.
That talk was supposed to have been recorded but is apparently lost in the
ether. However, he did give several other talks at different venues on th
>
> should we celebrate Trump's destructiveness of NATO and putting idiots in
> charge of the milityary because it will make AMerican imperialism WEAKER?
> OR is that growing weakness something that will make war by miscalculation
> (say with China over Taiwan) more likely?
>
>
A weakened US,
>
> It's hard to see NATO surviving any US military action.
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I doubt that Trump would be too upset if that turned out to be the case.
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BTW I have written severak different posts on Medium where I drew upon Loren
Graham's work *.* These include the following:
On Loren Graham’s Science, Philosophy, and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union (
https://medium.com/@jimfarmelant/on-loren-grahams-science-philosophy-and-human-behavior-in-t
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/technology/tampons-silicon-valley-workers-protest.html?unlocked_article_code=1.s04.nDhE.HSryABCQbDj6&smid=url-share
As Mark Zuckerberg and other tech titans have embraced President Trump and
muffled internal dissent at their companies, their mostly left-leaning
Speaking of E. O. Wilson, since he was mentioned in the Jacobin article on
Gould, there is the curious fact that his book Sociobiology received a
surprisingly favorable reception in the Soviet Union, at least according to
science historian Loren Graham.
The reception of E. O. Wilson's Sociobiol
I wrote a short answer about Gould answer on Quora (
https://www.quora.com/Did-the-Marxism-of-famous-social-scientist-Stephen-Jay-Gould-affect-his-scientific-conclusions-Does-it-affect-those-of-the-nearly-20-of-social-scientists-today-who-describe-themselves-as-Marxist/answer/Jim-Farmelant#comment
That's a problem that this list has suffered from since it began in 1998. There
have been relatively few women participating in this list. Hence, the lack of
woman moderators comes as no surprise.
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