Read the article --- it doesn't measure whether by creating REAL violence,
Trump's use of troops might move some of the PERSUADABLES back to his side
as evidence of real violence (no matter how few individuals participate in
it) makes Trump's case
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well -- there are so few Jews in Georgia and they're all democrats, right?
(Nixon said all Jews were left wing!! as my Yiddish speaking relatives
would say, "H'alavai!" --- silent "H")
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THis takes me back to that wonderful series of articles published in book
form called THE MEAN SEASON I believe it was published in1987 in
response to the Reagan ADministration's demonization of "welfare queens"
and a popular prejudice against people utilizing the old AFDC program --THe
work w
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Thank you Louis -- an outstanding article with lots of food for thought ---
worth re-reading!
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Just read it --- I personally think Bruce Franklin is a meticulous
researcher --- So I would take what he said seriously.
(I think Martin's ALL HONORABLE MEN is a useful source about the failure of
"de-nazification" after WW II)
(Mike Meeropol)
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thank you, Louis. Very interesting --- useful pre-emption of types of
"trutherism" re 9-11
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I think if Biden wins the vote, the ruling class (through the military --
Trump's "deep state") will figure out a way to make Trumpleave.
Maybe Biden will promise not to prosecute him (and maybe NY AG James will
"go along" for the good of the country) and he'll leave office and take up
his positio
Don't agree --- the "austerity" ship has sailed. The progressive wing of
the Dems already has virtually made cuts in entitlements a la the Ryan
Budget (which admittedly Obama would have accepted as part of a "grand
bargain" with the Repugs) anathema. In the context of covid-19 and the
ensuing r
Has the ring of truth. Of course, there might be all sorts of made up
stuff to juice the book's sales --- but the character analysis seems right
(especially paired with the guy who wrote THE ART OF THE DEAL and Mary
Trump's book).
So interesting that all you have to do is add an "e" and you move
WOW --- tell us how you really feel!! Please don't hold back!!!\
But seriously, check out Robert Shelton's book NO DIRECTION HOME which is a
really good biography of Dylan --- he (Dylan's) got MUCH more substance
than your assertion --
But, as the French say, "Chaun a son gout!" (everyone has
Thank you for the set of strong statements --- I hope what follows is
(somewhat) coherent as I am "composing" rather than first-drafting --
FIRST: I start at the end with your argument against "the pleasure of art
consumption" --- You are OF COURSE right that one thing capitalism has done
in spa
Don't think so Mark --- "the best" is in the verse BEFORE his brother gets
killed by "a Yankee" --- in the earlier verse they (Confederates) are
"chopping wood" - and their "money's no good" --- they're the ones "taking
what you need and leave the rest" .
Thus, (QED), the "very best" is everyt
Dear Marxmail folks ---Do I get a prize for reading that dreck all the way
to the end?
Almost unbelievable --- I would probably take DAYS to pick apart the false
assertions in this piece ---
I don't know the Hebrew translation of "schmuck" but I sure wish I did so I
could call him that
On T
How many people heard the name CHARLOTTA BASS when someone at the
Democratic convention (maybe one of the nominators?) mentioned a list of
women who had run for President or Vice PResident and included Shirley
Chisholm and CHARLOTTA BASS.
Quick quiz --- who was she?
She was the nominee of the PRO
what will that "accelerate?"The demonstrators in the street that came
out after George Floyd was murdered got some GIVE from the powers that be
--- with Trump in for four more years, with the judiciary re-made, with
Barr still as A.G. and the Senate able to block anything the House does, he
wil
Don Harris was a wonderful economics professor at Wisconsin (in fact, Annie
and I had him, Shamyla (sp?) and little Kamala to dinner in 1968 or 69)
when I was a graduate student. I had numerous fruitful conversations with
him --- he is a brilliant Mathematical economist AND a Marxist --- which is
>
> I am not saying we should not participate in bourgeois elections,I am
> saying we ought to apply the standards Lenin wrote about one hundred years
> ago,to the parties we support.Are they a party of the working class?Are
> they working to support,and build,class conciousness?If not,then why sho
Peter of course makes a good point -- I don't think the white working class
is actually "pro-capitalist" but they are definitely anti-communist which
includes being anti-socialist (I think it's mostly younger people who have
a relatively favorable view of "socialism" --- whatever that actually mean
THoughts on Peter's post ---
I put "white" in front of working class to distinguish those folks who are
more susceptible to racist infection than the rest of the multi-racial,
multi-cultural working class --- The point is that there are countless
examples of class unity being disrupted --- (someti
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I sure wish I agreed 100% with Peter's last sentence --- certainly there
was evidence of that in the CIO organizing ---
My overall point being: While these differences are real, and that
> Socialist Equality Party point of advocacy that class is the only issue is
> simply wrong, we have more in c
>From Comrade H. Bruce Franklin --
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"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is,
Thank you for these postings -- as an "outsider" who reads very little of
this "intra-left dialogue" I am amazed --- this discussion is VERY USEFUL
for such outsiders like me (and perhaps there are a lot on this list, who
knows)
AH -- life was so much "simpler" in the period when the US was w
I don't know why Will Kaufman is "uncertain" about Woody's "communism" ---
At the beginning of a well known biography of Woody, Pete Seeger is quoted
as saying definitively that "Woody was a communist." It is conceivable
that he was a "very close" "Fellow Traveler" rather than an actual member,
b
in reply to Jerry's post --- it's probably time to re-read the essay by
Noam Chomsky in AMERICAN POWER AND THE NEW MANDARINS entitled "The
Revolutionary Pacifism of A.J. Muste" ---which focuses on "the Pacific War"
---don't remember it will, except that Noam used it as a way of "testing"
whether pr
Perfect response to the armchair theorist in favor of "looting" --
>From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about Kenosha:
Scott Carpenter is trying to push ahead. He runs the family-owned B&L
Office Furniture at 1101 60th St.
After Blake's shooting and the initial protests, he remained hopeful that
TO Jerry ---
Let's also remember (and I certainly was guilty of this in my teen years)
that there were lies heaped on lies told about the left in the US --- my
brother always gives this example: The communist party is at a
demonstration where the police come in and crack heads and the newspapers
let's all dust off our BARAN and SWEEZY ---(Monopoly Capital --- showing my
age, right?) --- especially the chapter MILITARISM and IMPERIALISM.
They argue that the ONLY really good way to push the "wolf" of stagnation
from the door in the age of Monopoly Capitalism is to prepare for war or
(BETTER
Hi Dennis --- one clarification --- I think Trump has already promised the
biggest mass detention in history for "illegals" --- not for leftists.
(though if there were demonstrations, he would use the insurrection act to
cow, intimidate, and (if the demonstrators were black) shoot to kill .
W
I agree with you, Hari --- Using the South African analogy, the only way
Pappe can be right is if Israel becomes as ISOLATED as was the Apartheid
regime --- Unlike South Africa where the fall of the Berlin Wall signalled
the end of the "Soviet bloc" and thus the US did not need to support them
any
Marv's post reminds me of Paul Baran's rejoinder to Alfred Marshall.
Marshall made as his motto at the beginning of his Principles of Economics
book the Latin translation of "Nature Makes no Leaps." Baran argued the
opposite (which he also put in Latin) --- "Nature Makes Leaps!"
certainly th
Marv's point is VERY WELL TAKEN and to be honest, I am uncertain what
the "right" answer would be in November if the killing in GAZA has not
stopped and Netanyahu's war aims not thwarted ---
That does not mean that the votes against Biden in Democratic primaries are
not valuable --- they woul
The story of the Hormel strike reminds me of the long (and ultimately
unsuccessful) miners' strike in Great Britain --- It was a major test case
for national (and international -- there were fund raisers for the miners
all over the US as well) resistance to THatcherism and despite the loss,
the min
Mark is 100% right --- the Democrats' surrender (the title of my book by
the way shameless plug --- and it's free on line!) actually begins in
the Carter Administration --- I might date it from the failure to pass a
miniscule Labor Law "reform" and the cut in captial gains taxes in 1978 as
wel
COme on folks --- we should be a bit more open-minded to those we disagree
with ---
after all, to quote someone for whom I have a lot of respect: "NOTHING
WORKS, SO EVERYTHING SHOULD BE TRIED!"
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The thing that never fails to amaze me (and of course it shouldn't) is that
the official organs of the US ruling class are often very frank about "our"
needs and methods and goals (and even reasons) but the way that information
gets to the rest of the public is through the "we are the greatest" fil
lestianians a Trump foreign policy would actually be
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 2:56 PM Michael Meeropol via groups.io wrote:
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> that the official organs of the US ruling class are often very frank about
> &quo
Here's the most serious problem (IM not so HO) --- whereas the "breakdown
controversy" that was rampant from the time Capital Vol I was published
with that stirring passage that ended "the expropriators are expropriated"
through the Great Depression was based on the idea that the capitalist
recurre
very thoughtful and well reasoned --- but I really have a problem with both
West and Stein as individual candidates ...
when we tried to organize the WISCONSIN ALLIANCE in 1968 - 72 Wisconsin, we
tried to make an important distinction between a THIIRD PARTY and a Third
TICKET --- the ticket was a
BY the way -- the Times as the "newspaper of record" has a LONG history of
slanting the news in the direction the rulling class wants it to go ---
During the 1980s, there was even a brief newsletter called LIES OF OUR
TIMES which made a habit of "catching" the Times on certain slants ---
I have g
I think the major take-away has to be what Piketty said --- the privileges
of the party elite were very dramatic and impossible to quantify
The ability of "managers" to skim a little off the top (bureaucracies
are infinitely corruptible!) meant that measured inequality was
completel
following up on Marv's point about the way Soviet workers were "inducedf"
to increase productivity all planned goals were set in QUANTITIES not
"values" as under capitalism.
THis, unfortunately, led to irrationalities --- for example, if the nail
quota was in NUMBERS of nails, they were made
Much as I hate to disagree with Comrade Marv --- and I do , this is not a
gratuitous aside I would like to (everyone knows what's coming) agree
with the reviewer that Trump and Trumpism are a "fascism on the march" ---
I do --- however -- agree that the swipe at "identity politics fanatics"
wa
Am SO GLAD Dave weighed in on the site. As an avid reader of his book and
viewer of his film --- and a "somewhat interested party" (that's a somewhat
weak attempt at gallows humor) given that my parents were killed for what
Fuchs and Ted did I was privileged to meet Ted and Joan (and their daughte
Dear Dave --- and all --- The evidence is now clear that the way the FBI
investigation of my father unfolded was that they knew of a spy code named
"Liberal" who had co-conspirators (forget their code names) and a wife
named "Ethel" who had recruited the wife's brother and sister-in-law ===
code na
Dave, let's not forget Fuchs made the same decision as TED ...
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 12:39 PM Dave Lindorff wrote:
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> his considerable clout to convince Roosevelt to bring America's wartime,
> the Soviet Union in on the b
Dennis, the world is ridiculously complicated --- think of the Trotskyists
who witnessed the MURDER of Trotsky, the famine in Ukraine, the betrayal of
Poland (Nazi-Soviet Pact) etc. YET they still supported the defense of the
Soviet Union when Hitler invaded.
You know who's a great supporter of Pu
I do think that the ruling class has NO INTEREST in fascism because the
working class is so weak --- but Trump is "SUI GENERIS" --- he is an
individual grifter who sees the Presidency is the ultimate grift --- ON THE
WAY, however, he will empower the American "ORBANITES" who think they'll
protect w
Dennis and John --- You are both making good points --- Your hypotheticals
definitely sit me up straight --
Gotta do some serious thinking ---
(One of my "hopes" is that Biden will get Netanyahu to stop before he
ethnically cleanses all of GAZA)
If the war is going on in November, I may have to
I have learned a lot from the debate but I wonder if all the talk about
commanding heights and which entity "owns" the means of production is
leaving out the most important issue --- what is the power relationship at
the POINT of production. Are workers even partially in CONTROL?
(in the old Sovi
sorry to be a skunk at the picnic (a bad habit, I know) but what is the
point?
Did Hamas behave according to the rules of war by making sure that only
soldiers were shot and all civilians were not shot? Is Hamas an
organization that respects human life, not like the murderous Israelis who
bomb c
maybe a historical analogy will help in the discussion of whether rivalry
between the US and CHina has within the the danger of (sorry for the
buzz-word) "inter-imperialist war".
What led to WW I was the division of the world capitalist system into
competing blocs --- what almost led to WW III was
again -- apologies for sounding like a blockhead --- but suppose there were
no rapes and the Israeli government did NOT make up stories --- would the
Israeli people therefore NOT react as violently to the murder of civilians,
including babies? would they have forced their government not to engage
Once the Soviets decided they would have to build "socialism in one
country" at least for the "time being" (which in the end lasted at least
till WW II --- after WWII there was a :"socialist bloc":that MIGHT have
been able to overcome "backwardness". "underdevelopment". whatever one
wants to call
OK, Hari --- I will (try) to bite ---
Let's see if I can only deal with what you specifically asked of me --
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> The question for me - is how does that appreciation - retrospectively - of
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very quick question for Hari did you read the first few volumes of
E.H.Carr's history? I myself was very taken with the thoroughness of his
research and the honesty of his presentation --- and of course he was no
Marxist-Leninist ---
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I imagine there has been SOME research since Foner's majestic
RECONSTRUCTION, but I bet reading that closely gives one almost all one
needs to know in terms of remembering that PAST IS PROLOGUE --
this review does a good service --- glad I don't have to read that book.
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 10:
I stopped reading when I read that Hamas is not a terrorist organization ---
It is --- Israel is a terrorist state ---
Those are facts.
(Of course whenever one asserts that she/he "knows" something "for a fact"
it is essential to admit he/she MIGHT be wrong --- so I admit, I might be
wrong --- b
Dear Hari --- so now I am confessing ignorance (and an ignorance of
"commission" not omission) --- I thought Putin's government has "owned up"
to the Katyn massacre am I wrong?
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Hari, the only thing I know about Tukachevsy is that in Deutcher's
biography of Stalin he (D.) says that Tukachevsky actually tried to take
out Stalin -- he was brave enough to see what Stalin was doing to his
beloved Bolshevik Revolution and tried to stop him --- in other words, he
didn't become a
Hari --- your reading is PRODIGIOUS !!! very informative though my
head started spinning ---
My Deutscher memory is from STALINI A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY not from the
TROTSKY trilogy -- and there I am almost certain (with memory lapses always
possible) that Duetscher came down on the side that T
Dennis could not be more right --- what we have called "McCarthyism" begins
as early as 1946 with the adoption by Truman of the so-called Loyalty
PRogram --- the red baiting of Henry Wallace's progressives was organized
by Clark Clifford for the Truman campaign -- long before that, for example,
Hub
Just read the article -- I know and respect Ellen Schrecker but I think she
emphasizes the PARTISAN nature of "McCarthyism" too much --- YES,
Republicans wanted to tar the New Deal with the communist brush but liberal
democrats were ini the FOREFRONT of the anti-communist fights. When the
Taft Ha
Wow, Steven -- very interesting. I wonder if I am convinced?? --- I mean,
when you have a political superstructure -- even one as varied as the
United states --- cannot we argue that there clearly is a dominant mode of
production that emerged over the course of the 19th century which sure as
Hell
I would argue in response to Marv that the fight against imperialism is not
a fight in favor of the countries that are being exploited by the
imperialists --- though, of course, I admit that in the 1960s I thought the
Vietnamese were going to build socialism --- and perhaps I thought that
defending
Hari -- I join Michael in saying I think you are right about the US and
IRAN --
however --- Netanyahu is trying to force a further escalation and Biden is
going to have to threaten a complete cut off to get Netanyahu to stop
engaging in further provocations ---
that's the difficult situation ...
And remember, the US media makes it seem like the Iranian "attack" was some
kind of danger to Israel as opposed to a "show" for their domestic
supporters.
Biden is TRYING to get Israel to "take the win" but unless he threatens a
real cut-off in aid, I think Netanyahu will continue trying to provok
One other issue --- has Israel been emboldened to actually continue
ratcheting up the pressure on Iran to respond more completely so the
Israelis can go to war with Iran is Netanyahu that crazy??
and is Biden that toothless??
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you are absolutely right, Mark --- no purges --- let us just imagine the
STRENGTH and INTENSITY of Louis' refutation -- but I bet it would have been
a decent back and forth.
So to bore people with something I suggested about two years ago --- here's
my historical analogy
(and admittedly it's not
WOW -- what an incredible young woman ---
I hope she publishes the text of the speech she would have given --- it
will get more play than if she had just given it to her classmates and
visitors
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Operation Dixie, Mark II is up and running
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Wonder what folks like u
RE: A single democratic state in Palestine ...
Here's a problem I have had ever since many people have (perhaps rightly
--- I am relatively ignorant) concluded that a two-state solution is
impossible
Can different "groups" however identified --- either racially as in the US
--- European-Amer
Thank you, Hari. VERY THOUGHTFUL -- will require re-reading and more
thought --- BUT you have correctly hit on the issue that "bothers" me ---
and (on first read) I believe there does not appear to be any kind of
"easy" answer ---
quick thought about "nation" and religion --- Oftentimes, a nation
and 300 were arrested in Brooklyn's GRAND ARMY PLAZA celebrating a SEDER
demanding that Majority Leader Shumer cut off military aid to Israel --
The NY Times chose not to cover it in today's paper --- I bet the reason is
that almost all of those arrested were Jewish ---
yes --- they can call us "
This has a bit of "rose-colored" glasses in it but it gives a pretty good
summary of the role of organized labor --- the "mis-leading" of the
leadership as it supported the Cold War --- and the growing opposition to
that leadership on US foreign policy from within the Labor Movement --- I
also like
this guy buys the "ruling class splits" argument so I figured comrades
on this list might be interested in digging into his argument
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which makes pressing BIden to "DO SOMETHING" to stop Netanyahu
absolutely essential for the survival of what little remains of "American
democracy" --- otherwise, he's toast
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There are two ways Settler Colonies can go --- One is the French Army of
Resistance to Algerian independence which involved at least one almost
successful effort to assassinate DeGaulle. Most of them (Pieds Noirs) left
Algeria after independence. But there is also the decision of the South
Afric
TOTALLY AGREE JOHN ---
communities of resistance --- On the Reproductive Rights Front that must
include an UNDERGROUND RAILROAD to both deliver people to places that still
support abortion rights and deliver mail order contraceptives and PLAN A
and PLAN B pills.
A tweak of your willingness to giv
My favorite remains PAINT 'ER RED by Ralph Chaplin --- I think it was the
Wobblies' theme song
Come with us you working men,
and join the rebel band,
Come you discontented ones,
and give a helping hand.
We march against the parasite,
to drive him from the land,
With one big industrial union,
This
I am glad to see the current Nicaraguan government is doing some things of
valuable for the people
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John, I respect what you are saying and especially your practice ---
I would argue that in a situation where workers have completely lost
"faith" in the alleged "pro-labour" party --- in the US that would be the
Democrats --- the real problem is how many workers are seduced by the siren
Song of "T
THank you Mark --- I find the analogy to Earl Warren interesting --- Let us
remember that Hugo Black, the "great' defender of Civil Liberties on the
Supreme Court has been part of the ruling that permitted the incarceration
of the Japanese Americans --- From what I learned from the details in the
K
UCLA was worse than that ---
The short bursts of informations we have about UCLA does not tell the whole
of it --
from what I've heard (and there will be more extensive writing soon) there
was not just ONE attack --- the mob was energized and attacked continuously
from the moment the Chancellor d
WHat these writers do not seem to understand --- it seems only novelists
can do things like that --- is that as the global-warming induced
environmental catastrophes pile up all over the world, the CHINESE version
of capitalism is much more capable to responding quickly to the changes
that will be
please don'[t get me wrong -- I believe millions will die in China during
the response to catastrophe but the cnetralized state will remake the
economy as carbon neutral MUCH FASTER than the rest of the world --- and
the massive populatioin transfers that will be necessary will also be
possible ---
and according to the headlines in HAARETZ, Hamas has called Biden's bluff
-- wonder how Netanyhu will wriggle out of this one!
On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 12:10 PM Dennis Brasky via groups.io wrote:
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> something far beyond a cyclic
far cry from the original COMITERM, eh?
So sad
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Very provocative point, Michael. But I am not sure that imperialism with
it's incredibly repressive (at times genocidal) behavior "on the periphery"
tells us anything about the political economy of the "mother country."
For example --- the increased "democracy" in Great Britain going all the
way
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Stiglitz is someone who rose to the heights of policy-making and took a
good look and HONESTLY reported on what he saw --
He's no Marxist but he is a total realist about the failures of the most
recent version of capitalism --
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I remember very well the "drumbeat" that the Israelis had offered the
Palestinians "peace" and Arafat refused the "nit-picking" detail guy,
Noam Chomsky noted that the proposed map of the "generaous offer" was NEVER
published --- all we had was the WORD of the pro-Israelis that the offer
had b
No question Stiglitz is no Marxist --- I wonder if he ever considered it
seriously When he was a graduate student at Cambridge University, he
was very much into very high powered mathematical economics --- (and he was
only there one year) ---
I think his experiences in the real world woke him
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d but of course the current beneficiaries of the fossil-fuel based
economy have a lot of power to thwart those changes ---
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I have always been skeptical about long wave theory --- the one piece I
remember reading by Kondratieff himself used PRICE WAVES as indicators of
long waves --- and both he and Schumpeter seemed to think "long waves" were
endogenous like the "regular" business cycle ---
SSA theory argues that a se
Fascinating article on front page of NY Times today. “New Centrism”
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Reading the information about Chinese workers engaging in (very dangerous)
acts of resistance suggests a possible parallel ---
American Slavery (in the US) created a system of total oppression where the
lives of enslaved people were totally circumscribed by rules set both by
owners and the governm
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