Re: [marxmail] PSL ups the crowd-inflation factor

2024-01-18 Thread Michael Pugliese
Over 300K by what Truthout reported. https://truthout.org/articles/this-weekends-dc-protest-was-largest-pro-palestine-mobilization-in-us-history/ Ahem, the WSWS, “over 100,000.” https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/01/16/ivor-j16.html On that day, monitoring X/Twitter threads the first claims I

Re: [marxmail] PSL ups the crowd-inflation factor

2024-01-18 Thread Michael Pugliese
[Edited Message Follows] [Reason: Brain exhausted, sent out too quickly. ] Over 300K by what Truthout reported. https://truthout.org/articles/this-weekends-dc-protest-was-largest-pro-palestine-mobilization-in-us-history/ for the November March. Ahem, the WSWS, “over 100,000.” https://www.wsws.org

Re: [marxmail] PSL ups the crowd-inflation factor

2024-01-18 Thread Michael Pugliese
I’ll be happy as long as the marches don’t feature imagery like this. Via https://x.com/menshevik/status/377517635086200832?s=46&t=thf2gsXv3Gi946-uvyZAzw . At other ANSWER Coalition Rallies in LA, Arab-Americans for Syria, Johnny Achi’s crew , had fans with the same photo of Assad. The last couple

Re: [marxmail] "There is No Such Thing as Stalinism"

2024-01-19 Thread Michael Pugliese
Lordy me, John Reimann , I am 62, and have been an anti-Stalinist Marxist since I became a Marxist when I was 17. I posted the links to the articles from the Stalinoid M-L's on reddit and the other sources to illustrate the degeneration of discourse in certain sectors of the left , esp. the youn

Re: [marxmail] "There is No Such Thing as Stalinism"

2024-01-19 Thread Michael Pugliese
[Edited Message Follows] Lordy me, John Reimann , I am 62, and have been an anti-Stalinist Marxist since I became a Marxist when I was 17. I posted the links to the articles from the Stalinoid M-L's on reddit and the other sources to illustrate the degeneration of discourse in certain sectors o

Re: [marxmail] "There is No Such Thing as Stalinism"

2024-01-19 Thread Michael Pugliese
ly Review Pres in the 70's, to no avail. C.L.R. James, Agnes Heller, Ferenc Feher and Gyorgy Markus on, "Dictatorship Over Needs, " Rudolf Bahro in, "The Alternative in Eastern Europe." Many others. But, these communists are all just red-baiters, to some. Michael Pugliese

Re: [marxmail] "There is No Such Thing as Stalinism"

2024-01-19 Thread Michael Pugliese
hat was published by Monthly Review Pres in the 70's, to no avail. C.L.R. James, Agnes Heller, Ferenc Feher and Gyorgy Markus on, "Dictatorship Over Needs, " Rudolf Bahro in, "The Alternative in Eastern Europe." Many others. But, these communists are all ju

Re: [marxmail] "There is No Such Thing as Stalinism"

2024-01-20 Thread Michael Pugliese
No. I have to add you are dense not to have understood my previous reply. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#28565): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/28565 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/103690802/21656 -=-=- POSTIN

Re: [marxmail] "There is No Such Thing as Stalinism"

2024-01-20 Thread Michael Pugliese
Kristen’s line that : Stalinism is just Marxism-Leninism, is another one of those habitual refrains on r/communism on reddit and other fora where , predominently young M-L’s congregrate . Where Trotskyists , libertarian communists and any other anti-Stalinists are quickly purged. ironically suc

[marxmail] Marxism message, RE: Bill Mandel

2024-01-20 Thread Michael Pugliese
Ed George sending that reply in the last hour of his excellent post, a model argument, civil and cogent, made me dig into other posts from that month via the archive dot org caches. A few months ago I read a bit of the book by Mandel, given a thrashing in this blast by one of more polemical member

Re: [marxmail] DSA finances

2024-01-20 Thread Michael Pugliese
“DSA is in this position because of financial mismanagement by past terms of the NPC while membership dues were known to be declining. Our situation is not a surprise. DSA hired more people than our dues could sustain. The decisions made and why are important for membership to discuss, but in th

[marxmail] DSA Staff Union to the NPC

2024-01-21 Thread Michael Pugliese
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U2hQAY6-k2a4zLSzm3sj0nOjZqbTGJ5qAs1Tu8T2DIo/preview Michael Pugliese -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#28576): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/28576 Mute This Topic: https

Re: [marxmail] Question about China under Mao

2024-01-23 Thread Michael Pugliese
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:43 PM John Edmundson wrote: > Is case anyone is curious I got this less than reassuring response from > the author, Sam Kean: > > "The bit about Mao's regime allowing incest came from a book called > "Hungry Ghost", around page 69. It's a brief reference from a doctor

Re: [marxmail] Question about China under Mao

2024-01-23 Thread Michael Pugliese
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/01/19/tan-hecheng-chinese-unspeakable/ , another review from the NYRB : In the Cultural Revolution, Mao whipped up the propaganda another notch, declaring that enemies were readying a counterrevolution. In Dao County, stories began to fly that the black elemen

[marxmail] UAW Endorses Biden , Ceasefire Now protesters dragged out.

2024-01-24 Thread Michael Pugliese
https://twitter.com/prem_thakker/status/1750283514346455202 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#28616): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/28616 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/103943746/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTE

[marxmail] Bolshevism Mystified . John Marot on Lars Lih

2024-01-25 Thread Michael Pugliese
https://www.tempestmag.org/2024/01/bolshevism-mystified/ Reviewing ,"What Was Bolshevism?," https://brill.com/display/title/19139?language=en Marot's book , https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/511-the-october-revolution-in-prospect-and-retrospect is excellent. Especially this chapter , http

Re: [marxmail] Growing divisions in the Biden administration

2024-01-25 Thread Michael Pugliese
Re : " In the US, for example, that existence was one factor that forced JFK and after him LBJ to make concessions to the rebellion of black people in the South. In other words, U.S. capitalism had to take on a more “progressive” face." Predates their Presidencies. * " Cold War Civil Rights: R

[marxmail] Take Our Border Back Trucker Convoy

2024-01-27 Thread Michael Pugliese
https://x.com/vps_reports_1/status/1749984433309114781?s=46&t=thf2gsXv3Gi946-uvyZAzw Rise Above Movement is active in Orange County, Ca. Their members assaulted antifa anarchists and journalists for the OC Weekly at a Trump Rally back in the period when Trump had just been elected or inaugurated.

[marxmail] Who is Dr. Melina Reimann Abdullah?

2024-01-28 Thread Michael Pugliese
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6IumbbYxI8 No wonder why when I chatted with her for a moment , during a break in a panel she spoke on at Ralph Bunche Hall in UCLA with Robin D. G. Kelley and a couple others, it was clear she knew the ins and outs of the socialist and communist left. Michael Pugliese

Re: [marxmail] Who is Dr. Melina Reimann Abdullah?

2024-01-28 Thread Michael Pugliese
No, Glenn. Was not aware of that lawsuit or any article from the NY Post or elsewhere on it. Was going through posts on leftist trainspotters on BLM, https://www.facebook.com/groups/leftisttrainspotters/posts/1689384741510838/ , and seeing Melina was noted , and digging into any other articles

Re: [marxmail] Who is Dr. Melina Reimann Abdullah?

2024-01-28 Thread Michael Pugliese
Seeing Tweets like this ( https://x.com/peterbrimelow/status/1417640332334936071?s=20 ) a moment ago on RW Twitter accts. said to myself, could that really be true or is it RW BS? That Twitter acct. is the one of Peter Brimelow ( https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individua

Re: [marxmail] Take Our Border Back Trucker Convoy and other far rightists

2024-01-28 Thread Michael Pugliese
Alabama. Patriot Front. “No Zionists in Government. We Serve One Nation.” https://t.me/SonsColumbia/4132 ( https://t.me/SonsColumbia/4132?fbclid=IwAR3HHWHM7YfXdGVl1KuhQ9kOTVnaFqM-Soxvc-_3nVYURti22d6d6jgRbFs ) Scrolling through far right Twitter accounts , ranging from Trump supporters to expli

Re: [marxmail] Take Our Border Back Trucker Convoy and other far rightists

2024-01-28 Thread Michael Pugliese
[Edited Message Follows] Alabama. Patriot Front. “No Zionists in Government. We Serve One Nation.” https://t.me/SonsColumbia/4132 ( https://t.me/SonsColumbia/4132?fbclid=IwAR3HHWHM7YfXdGVl1KuhQ9kOTVnaFqM-Soxvc-_3nVYURti22d6d6jgRbFs ) Scrolling through far right Twitter accounts , ranging from

Re: [marxmail] "the Democratic Party Hates America" by Mark Levin

2024-02-15 Thread Michael Pugliese
Michael Meeropol wrote: Hi Dennis --- one clarification --- I think Trump has already promised the biggest mass detention in history for "illegals" --- not for leftists. The Hill : Trump goes all in on Nazi rhetoric, and the media gives him another free pass

[marxmail] Yemen Rises: Counter-Hegemony and Solidarity in the Red Sea

2024-02-15 Thread Michael Pugliese
with Yemen - Jehan Hakim, Chair, Yemeni Alliance Committee - Max Ajl, Researcher, Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment Zoom links will be provided after registration. *All are welcome!* Michael Pugliese -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You

Re: [marxmail] Anyone looking for full texts on-line for M&E - And it seems others

2024-02-17 Thread Michael Pugliese
Also , a wealth of texts at https://www.bannedthought.net/. How to get around that? D/L the Tor browser and follow the advice here. How can I access websites and apps that are blocked in any country? *https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-access-websites-and-apps-that-are-blocked-in-any-country#:~:tex

Re: [marxmail] Ukraine War: Reply to another ill-considered Polemic of PO (Argentina)

2024-02-17 Thread Michael Pugliese
--- Money for sidewalks or for the army? ( https://prensaobrera.com/internacionales/dinero-para-las-aceras-o-para-el-ejercito ) -

Re: [marxmail] “The Great Leap Backward”, letter by Charles Bettelheim, March 3, 1978

2024-02-17 Thread Michael Pugliese
Joan Robinson replied in  /https://www.bannedthought.net/China/MaoEra/ContemporaryCommentary/US-China-PFA/NewChina/NewChina-V5N1-1979-Spring.pdf . That issue  also has a piece by William Hinton. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Onli

Re: [marxmail] “The Great Leap Backward”, letter by Charles Bettelheim, March 3, 1978

2024-02-17 Thread Michael Pugliese
[Edited Message Follows] Joan Robinson replied in https://www.bannedthought.net/China/MaoEra/ContemporaryCommentary/US-China-PFA/NewChina/NewChina-V5N1-1979-Spring.pdf . That issue  also has a piece by William Hinton. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to th

Re: [marxmail] Cornel West on Brother Navalny

2024-02-17 Thread Michael Pugliese
“Reminder of why Alexei Navalny was arrested in the first place Top Navalny aid and close associate Vladimir Ashurkov being caught red handed asking MI6 officer James William Thomas Ford for $10-20 million a year to start a color revolution in Russia” https://x.com/hotspothotspot/status/1758643715

Re: [marxmail] With Navalny’s death, Russia’s opposition loses its last leader - CSMonitor.com

2024-02-18 Thread Michael Pugliese
"Alexei Navalny, the man Joe Biden and the left are praising so dearly, was a part of the Russian Imperial Movement, a Nazi organization that has been banned inside Russia." https://x.com/DrLoupis/status/1759133446935367806?s=20 "Navalny was a massive Zionist who referred to Muslims as cockroac

Re: [marxmail] With Navalny’s death, Russia’s opposition loses its last leader - CSMonitor.com

2024-02-18 Thread Michael Pugliese
"Here's the pro-Kremlin talking points about Navalny's death: - What about Gonzalo Lira? - People barely knew Navalny in Russia, he polled 2% - He was only supported by neo-Nazis - He got blood clots from the COVID-19 vaccines (this one's just to feed the conspiracy theorists) - Navalny was a fa

[marxmail] Navalny dies in prison − but his blueprint for anti-Putin activism will live on

2024-02-18 Thread Michael Pugliese
Navalny dies in prison − but his blueprint for anti-Putin activism will live on https://theconversation.com/navalny-dies-in-prison-but-his-blueprint-for-anti-putin-activism-will-live-on-223774 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Onlin

[marxmail] Cuban Delegation: Article from a DSA’er

2024-02-19 Thread Michael Pugliese
Members of the DSA discussing this heatedly on the online DB. https://reformandrevolution.org/2024/02/17/cuba-between-imperialism-and-socialism/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29000): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/

[marxmail] Omelets with Eggshells: On the Failure of the Millennial Left - American Affairs Journal

2024-02-22 Thread Michael Pugliese
Omelets with Eggshells: On the Failure of the Millennial Left - American Affairs Journal “In If We Burn, Vincent Bevins, a former correspondent in Brazil and then in Southeast Asia for leading U.S. newspapers, weaves a narrative from January 2010 to January 2020 that ties together mass protest in

[marxmail] Howie Hawkins on Stein and West.

2024-02-23 Thread Michael Pugliese
https://newpol.org/issue_post/cornel-west-jill-stein-and-the-green-party/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29094): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29094 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104539418/21656 -=-=- POSTIN

Re: [marxmail] At what stage do United Frontists vs Trump pull the plug on Biden?

2024-02-24 Thread Michael Pugliese
As John Reimann noted being a founding member of the predessor to Socialist Alternative. Cue to a polemical boilerplate denunciation of Labor Party Associates , for dissolving the noted chapter pushing for a break from the graveyard of social movements, the 2nd Party of the imperialist bourgeois

[marxmail] The early history of what became Socialist Alternative, and beyond – Oakland Socialist

2024-02-24 Thread Michael Pugliese
The early history of what became Socialist Alternative, and beyond – Oakland Socialist https://oaklandsocialist.com/2015/09/21/the-early-history-of-what-became-socialist-alternative-and-beyond/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Onli

[marxmail] The early history of what became Socialist Alternative, and beyond – Oakland Socialist

2024-02-24 Thread Michael Pugliese
[Edited Message Follows] The early history of what became Socialist Alternative, and beyond – Oakland Socialist https://oaklandsocialist.com/2015/09/21/the-early-history-of-what-became-socialist-alternative-and-beyond/ https://oaklandsocialist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/lmvs-history-from-we

[marxmail] Is This Man a Russian Agent Operating in the Black Community of St. Louis? By: Jeremy Kuzmarov - MIDWESTERN MARX

2024-02-24 Thread Michael Pugliese
ps://x.com/Commonsensepre2/status/1758931194836570118?s=20> While in Moscow: Report <https://x.com/Commonsensepre2/status/1758931194836570118?s=20> https://www.semafor.com/article/02/08/2024/tucker-carlson-edward-snowden-tara-reade-moscow . Michael Pugliese -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Gr

Re: [marxmail] Is This Man a Russian Agent Operating in the Black Community of St. Louis? By: Jeremy Kuzmarov - MIDWESTERN MARX

2024-02-24 Thread Michael Pugliese
Agitation and Propaganda: Russian Indicted for Using US Political Groups as Foreign Agents A Russian national backed by the Russian state has been indicted by the US Justice Department for funding and using members of American political groups as foreign agents of Russian Intelligence in nearly a

Re: [marxmail] Yockey>Dugin>Prashad

2024-02-24 Thread Michael Pugliese
nd its attempt to form alliances or infiltrate far-left opponents of Western imperialism and globalization. Jean-Francois Thiriart On Thiriart see, several chapters of https://www.amazon.com/Beast-Reawakens-Resurgence-Spymasters-Right-Wing/dp/0415925460 . Michael Pugliese -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.i

Re: [marxmail] Internationalist Meeting in Milano: An Inspiring Conference!

2024-02-29 Thread Michael Pugliese
https://lis-isl.org/en/2024/02/28/italia-ii-encuentro-internacionalista/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29183): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29183 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/10460/21656 -=-=- POSTING

Re: [marxmail] Interview with Leila Khalid (Green Left)

2024-02-29 Thread Michael Pugliese
A younger Khalid.  https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/5fzff0/leila_khaled_discussing_a_meeting_with_western/ >From My People Shall Live, the Autobiography of a Revolutionary : > > > > 'The training schedule was exacting, but occasionally left us time for a > little fun. We were 'enter

Re: [marxmail] "Games of Khrushchev and the boys"

2024-03-08 Thread Michael Pugliese
I assume Hari was alluding to this work. Is the Red Flag Flying? The Political Economy of the Soviet Union https://archive.org/details/is_the_red_flag_flying/mode/1up Also of note. Soviet Union — Socialist or Social Imperialist. Part II. https://archive.org/details/soviet_union_socialist_or_so

Re: [marxmail] "Games of Khrushchev and the boys"

2024-03-09 Thread Michael Pugliese
Re : Privilege in the Khrushchev-Brezhnev-Gorbachev era and its role in the collapse of the Soviet Union are examined in "Material Forces that Turn Socialism into Capitalism" at https://www.idcommunism.com/2023/04/material-forces-that-turn-socialism-into-capitalism.html. It argues from the data

[marxmail] Joti Brar’s Tantrum About the Imperialist Pyramid

2024-03-09 Thread Michael Pugliese
Joti Brar’s Tantrum About the Imperialist Pyramid Joti Brar, a leader of the CPGB M-L and the World Anti-Imperialist Platform, worked up a froth over a simple analogy. This brief note, published by New Worker on

[marxmail] Cornel West has named as his running mate Melina Abdullah

2024-04-10 Thread Michael Pugliese
Melina Abdullah , grandaughter of John Reimann. Longshot candidate Cornel West chooses Los Angeles academic for his running mate - USA TODAY https://apple.news/AVF6nLvX5RHOiMCgSbdbM_Q -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#2985

Re: [marxmail] Cornel West has named as his running mate Melina Abdullah

2024-04-10 Thread Michael Pugliese
You are correct, Anthony. For more on her see, https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/28656?p=%2C%2C%2C20%2C0%2C0%2C0%3A%3ACreated%2C%2CReimann%2C20%2C2%2C0%2C104012787 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29861): https://groups.

Re: [marxmail] From World War II to Gaza:

2024-04-27 Thread Michael Pugliese
" Unions and Cold War Foreign Policy in the 1980s: The National Labor Committee, the AFL-CIO, and Central America ( https://www.jstor.org/stable/24914470 ) ," ANDREW BATTISTA Diplomatic History Vol. 26, No. 3 (Summer 2002) ( https://www.jstor.org/stable/i24914464 ) , pp. 419-451 (33 pages) **

Re: [marxmail] An Interview with Jill Stein

2024-04-27 Thread Michael Pugliese
Jill Stein : “So a four-way race, it depends how the numbers fall out, but it is possible in a four-way race to win the election with as little as 26% of the vote. That is the popular vote. And if the popular vote is won in various states, even a plurality that is less than a majority of the pop

Re: [marxmail] An Interview with Jill Stein

2024-04-28 Thread Michael Pugliese
John you are not an outlier in this regard, as there has been for decades a substantial literature from scholars and journalists on Christian Zionism, and on Christian Nationalism. Plug both terms into Google Scholar, libgen and Amazon, and there is a vast corpus on both. There are numerically f

Re: [marxmail] An Interview with Jill Stein

2024-04-28 Thread Michael Pugliese
[Edited Message Follows] John you are not an outlier in this regard, as there has been for decades a substantial literature from scholars and journalists on Christian Zionism, and on Christian Nationalism. Plug both terms into Google Scholar, libgen and Amazon, and there is a vast corpus on bot

Re: [marxmail] "The CONTRADICTION of Advanced Capitalist Society and its Resolution" by Martin Nicolaus

2024-05-05 Thread Michael Pugliese
Kent State University website has a copy of the Radical Education Project pamphlet by Martin Nicolaus. https://omeka.library.kent.edu/special-collections/files/pdfs/3177.pdf. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30245): https:

Re: [marxmail] We need "Outside Agitators"!

2024-05-08 Thread Michael Pugliese
On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 6:39 AM Dennis Brasky via groups.io wrote: "Pro-Palestine student protesters are being smeared as puppets of shadowy “outside agitators.” The presence of community members and experienced activists in the protests is nothing to be ashamed of: we need outside agitators to bui

[marxmail] Russia Hosts Large Far Right Conference Attacking LGBTQ+ Rights, “Russophobes,” and “Globalists” - Global Project Against Hate and Extremism

2024-05-09 Thread Michael Pugliese
Russia Hosts Large Far Right Conference Attacking LGBTQ+ Rights, “Russophobes,” and “Globalists” https://globalextremism.org/post/russia-hosts-large-far-right-conference-attacking-lgbtq-rights-russophobes-and-globalists/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to

[marxmail] Antifascism After Gaza

2024-05-09 Thread Michael Pugliese
“Over the past few years,discussions of fascism in the United States have, unsurprisingly, followed an electoral cadence, focused more on the presidency of Donald Trump — past and possibly future — than on the formidable far-right mobilization taking place through private foundations and state legi

Re: [marxmail] Sahra Wagenknecht - Interview in NLR

2024-06-01 Thread Michael Pugliese
y to develop transnational alternatives capable of addressing the realities of globalised capitalism?..." Michael Pugliese -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30577): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30577 Mute This

Re: [marxmail] Sahra Wagenknecht - Interview in NLR

2024-06-01 Thread Michael Pugliese
of and behind the scenes for 11 years: Gregor Gysi, the top candidate of the PDS-Berlin and his party's eternal tutor. Echo as predicted Meanwhile, the SPD and CDU reacted as expected. SPD General Secretary Franz Müntefering praised the PDS statement as a "clear" distancing in "cl

[marxmail] The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky

2024-06-01 Thread Michael Pugliese
te some rhetorical differences, the neo-Kautskyism of both Blanc and Mcnair shares the same underlying reformism. The Renegade Kautsky and his Acolyte Eric Blanc <https://libcom.org/article/renegade-kautsky-and-his-acolyte-eric-blanc> Michael Pugliese -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Lin

Re: [marxmail] Tens of thousands to surround White House on June 8 in protest of Rafah invasion

2024-06-06 Thread Michael Pugliese
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Re: [marxmail] Repression of Marxists in Ukraine – Freedom for Bohdan Syrotyuk!

2024-06-09 Thread Michael Pugliese
rge is tenuous at best: screenshots show Tkachev asking members of his Telegram channel for information about what kind of fighting, if any, was happening where they were located https://jacobin.com/2023/02/ukraine-censorship-authoritarianism-illiberalism-crackdown-police-zelensky Michael Pug

[marxmail] The Struggle for Democracy in Ukraine : An Interview with Volodymyr Chemerys

2024-06-09 Thread Michael Pugliese
ackdown-police-zelensky <https://jacobin.com/2023/02/ukraine-censorship-authoritarianism-illiberalism-crackdown-police-zelensky> . * Michael Pugliese -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30695): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/

[marxmail] MARXISM AND THE CRITIQUE OF ANTISEMITISM

2024-06-21 Thread Michael Pugliese
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/journal/issue-32-12-marxism-and-the-critique-of-antisemitism/ Of particular note, are two pieces. NOT YOUR GOOD GERMANS Holocaust Memory, Anti-Fascism, and the anti-Zionism of the Jewish

Re: [marxmail] F.T.A. – Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland – Official Re-Release Trailer

2024-06-21 Thread Michael Pugliese
On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 8:48 AM Michael Meeropol via groups.io wrote: All praise to Sutherland, Fonda and the entire crew --- and to the man who had the idea for the GI coffee houses --- FRED GARDNER (a former high school mate of mine!) The Pray-in at Fort Jackson

Re: [marxmail] ultraleft campism, Chomsky style

2024-06-23 Thread Michael Pugliese
Via, https://newlinesmag.com/review/chomskys-america-centric-prism-distorts-reality/ A sense of the embarrassing level of Chomsky’s knowledge about Syria can be seen in the same video interview in which he claims that there was no uprising in Syria in 2012 (according to our subaltern knowledge, th

Re: [marxmail] ultraleft campism, Chomsky style

2024-06-23 Thread Michael Pugliese
19/06/five-biggest-takeaways-shane-bauer-syria-civil-war/ . Trailer: Introducing “Behind the Lines” <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIkVOfKwh3U> Michael Pugliese On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 8:28 AM Michael Pugliese via groups.io wrote: > Via, > https://newlinesmag.com/review/chomsky

Re: [marxmail] ultraleft campism, Chomsky style

2024-06-23 Thread Michael Pugliese
And here is Chomsky blurbing another book , the sub-title of which calls it an uprising. Revolt in SyriaEye-Witness to the Uprising Stephen Starr

Re: [marxmail] [Tony Greenstein's Blog] New comment on Open Letter to Norman Finkelstein – Zionism has Failed – Two States is Dead - Stop Undermining the Global Movement in Support of the Palestin

2024-06-25 Thread Michael Pugliese
The No-State Solution: A Conversation with Daniel Boyarin By Shaul Magid https://ayinpress.org/the-no-state-solution-a-conversation-with-daniel-boyarin/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30908): https://groups.io/g/marxmai

Re: [marxmail] ultraleft campism, Chomsky style

2024-06-26 Thread Michael Pugliese
*Noam Chomsky's Denials of Serbian War Crimes and other misleading and false statements he has made on the Bosnia and Kosovo conflicts* http://balkanwitness.glypx.com/chomsky.htm Among the hyperlinked pieces. *See No Evil ( http://www.monbiot.com/2012/05/21/see-no-evil/ )* How did genocide den

Re: [marxmail] Drop Out Biden

2024-07-09 Thread Michael Pugliese
Michael Meeropol ( https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30981 ) Jul 3 #30981 ( https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30981 ) I don't think there's a split in the billionaire class --- the odd individual billionaire like Musk is hardly evidence --- I wouldn't be surprised if the capitalists come t

Re: [marxmail] It heats up - threats from Trumpites

2024-07-12 Thread Michael Pugliese
As the hyperlinked article @ Raw Story, if one clicks the link from Hartmann’s Substack, immediately asks one to subscribe, here is an archived copy, https://web.archive.org/web/20240710112709/https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/ivan-raiklin/. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You

[marxmail] Cornel West signature gatherers

2024-07-16 Thread Michael Pugliese
On Scott Presler, noted below, https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/pennsylvania-republicans-are-working-stop-steal-and-qanon-conspiracy , https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna144144 . “Petition drives for Cornel West

Re: [marxmail] Does an increasing interest in Trotsky and Joseph Hansen within Ukraine indicate an abrupt left turn by a layer from fascism and Stalinism!

2024-07-19 Thread Michael Pugliese
alin and Stalinism, and pseudo-historians like Furr are doing this movement a great disservice by lying to honest activists who want to fight for a better world. The piece noted by a Charles Loyola, fwiw, The Forgery of the 'Lenin Testament' https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv7n

Re: [marxmail] Does an increasing interest in Trotsky and Joseph Hansen within Ukraine indicate an abrupt left turn by a layer from fascism and Stalinism!

2024-07-19 Thread Michael Pugliese
Hari notes that the first volume of Stephen Kotkin's biographies on Stalin has been removed from archive dot org. However it can be downloaded via LibGen ( http://library.lol/main/1102789B517A4BEFD59259A832F7808C ). His third and final volume should be published in mid-July 2025. An audio versio

Re: [marxmail] Does an increasing interest in Trotsky and Joseph Hansen within Ukraine indicate an abrupt left turn by a layer from fascism and Stalinism!

2024-07-19 Thread Michael Pugliese
[Edited Message Follows] Hari notes that the first volume of Stephen Kotkin's biographies on Stalin has been removed from archive dot org. However it can be downloaded via LibGen ( http://library.lol/main/1102789B517A4BEFD59259A832F7808C ). His third and final volume should be published in mid-

Re: [marxmail] A Spectacular Strike! (Houthis Hit Tel Aviv with Drone)

2024-07-19 Thread Michael Pugliese
[Edited Message Follows] ** ‘Deterrence has collapsed’: Israeli media laments ‘mega-failure’ after Yem

Re: [marxmail] A Spectacular Strike! (Houthis Hit Tel Aviv with Drone)

2024-07-20 Thread Michael Pugliese
Israel has dropped bombs on Yemen’s city of Hodeidah and Yemen’s main port. Huge fire. Video clips on X. https://x.com/pardessi_ali/status/1814687429749543120?s=46&t=thf2gsXv3Gi946-uvyZAzw , https://x.com/shaykhsulaiman/status/1814689121362977145?s=46&t=thf2gsXv3Gi946-uvyZAzw , https://x.com/cher

[marxmail] “O’Brien, the Teamsters, TDU, and the Labor Left: A Controversy“ by Dan La Botz on Medium: https://danlabotz.medium.com/obrien-the-teamsters-tdu-and-the-labor-left-a-controversy-1f9bc32684e

2024-07-20 Thread Michael Pugliese
Read “O’Brien, the Teamsters, TDU, and the Labor Left: A Controversy“ by Dan La Botz on Medium: https://danlabotz.medium.com/obrien-the-teamsters-tdu-and-the-labor-left-a-controversy-1f9bc32684e3 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Onl

Re: [marxmail] Books on liberation wars and apartheid wars in southern Africa

2024-07-23 Thread Michael Pugliese
1B25FA0F0E95> : Africa’s Cold War by Jeffrey James Byrne, *The Cold War in the Third World <http://library.lol/main/08AA98CAAB89157D516A1B25FA0F0E95> ed. by * *Robert J. McMahon, * Oxford University Press. Michael Pugliese On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 7:55 AM Glenn Kissack via groups.io wr

Re: [marxmail] Venezuela: the end game?: Michael Roberts

2024-07-29 Thread Michael Pugliese
> Via https://twitter.com/i/lists/108732238 , ,"A list of Venezuela sources > and reporters," and https://twitter.com/i/lists/865239659093180416 , > which is my own list of X accts. focused on Venezuela, 5:53 pm — Pro-Maduro government armed groups shoot at peaceful demonstrators in Urdaneta Av.,

Re: [marxmail] An Attack on Venezuela’s Democracy - ZNetwork

2024-08-03 Thread Michael Pugliese
*https://socialistcall.com/2024/08/03/the-situation-in-venezuela/ We republish below a short account by Edgardo Lander, a Venezuelan sociologist and professor at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, of the steps taken by the governm

Re: [marxmail] JD Vance and looming fascism

2024-08-04 Thread Michael Pugliese
> > Correct url pointer, https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024/08/01/vance-trump-new-right-republican-election . The Seven Thinkers and Groups That Have Shaped JD Vance’s Unusual Worldview Post-liberals, “crunchy

Re: [marxmail] Forum assessing US 2024 elections

2024-08-16 Thread Michael Pugliese
undergraduate is likely to take your stumping for the Democratic Party and class peace too seriously. Why don't you stick with dream studies? Until I did a google search on you, I had no idea you were so involved with such an esoteric subject. Your book "The Mystique of Dreams" ear

Re: [marxmail] Support Cornel West?

2024-08-16 Thread Michael Pugliese
"Secretary of State's office disqualified Cornel West from Michigan's November balloted based on challenges to his Affidavit of Identity." https://x.com/cadaverousmutha/status/1824513270881063263 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Onl

Re: [marxmail] Dr Jill Stein and Dr Butch Ware are officially the 2024 Green Party candidates

2024-08-19 Thread Michael Pugliese
> > Jason Call, noted by Charles Keener, a moment ago . > https://x.com/CallForCongress/status/1824587075548524561 In reply to : "After > thoughtful deliberation,the Green Party & I could not agree on terms of > campaign re strategy. This means I will not join their slate as VP. My > priority remai

[marxmail] The revenge of the superstructure

2024-08-22 Thread Michael Pugliese
Also : Disaster Nationalism:The Downfall of Liberal Civilization by Richard Seymour , 288 pages / 29 October 2024 , https://www.versobooks.com/products/3147-disaster-nationalism?srsltid=AfmBOoqJFagFkaiUHoPM4fq05Pm7olfVjsKjmlB8diDd0w7uK0zW

Re: [marxmail] Forum assessing US 2024 elections

2024-08-23 Thread Michael Pugliese
Re : Is he the author that wrote about redevelopment in New Haven? , asks Avram Rips. Not that I ever read it in college but, think you are alluding to ,"Who Governs? : Democracy and Power in the American City," originally published in 1961, by Robert Dahl?

Re: [marxmail] Theses on World Perspectives: In the Midst of a Cycle of Wars and Revolutions

2024-08-24 Thread Michael Pugliese
*https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii147/articles/the-neck-and-the-sword the interview noted by Mark Baugher. There was some hope expressed early on that Hezbollah, with the backing, quietly or publicly, of the Iranian regime,

Re: [marxmail] The two sorts of international observers of the Venezuelan election

2024-08-28 Thread Michael Pugliese
resident of the Simon Bolivar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples. Michael Pugliese > _._,_._,_ > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31870): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31870 Mute Th

Re: [marxmail] The two sorts of international observers of the Venezuelan election

2024-08-28 Thread Michael Pugliese
> Note that the technical briefing on the electoral process (scroll to the > 3:56 mark in the YouTube video) was by Diosdado Cabello , Maduro's > campaign manager and the new Minister for Internal Affairs, Justice and > Peace, https://venezuela-news.com/diosdado-cabello-denuncio-ataque-sistema-el

[marxmail] GOP operatives back Cornel West's candidacy in battleground states | AP News

2024-09-01 Thread Michael Pugliese
GOP operatives back Cornel West's candidacy in battleground states | AP News BY BRIAN SLODYSKO AND DAN MERICA Updated 11:16 AM PDT, September 1, 2024 WASHINGTON (AP) — Italo Medelius was leading a volunteer drive to put Cornel West

Re: [marxmail] GOP operatives back Cornel West's candidacy in battleground states | AP News

2024-09-02 Thread Michael Pugliese
Disbursements Nick Brana, that grifter from the Movement for a Peoples Party, made off like a bandit, last yr. |Amount|$6,666.67| | — | — | |Disbursem

Re: [marxmail] Jill Stein, Cornel West: stalking horses for Trump, Putin and Assad, Part 1

2024-09-04 Thread Michael Pugliese
Fritjof Capra More at https://www.cagreens.org/history/early-years-roots Michael Pugliese Michael Pugliese On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 6:43 AM Dennis Brasky via groups.io wrote: > > So Reimann's thesis (if consistent) is that any and all opposition to "the > lesser evil&

[marxmail] Green politics is “neither left nor right, but ahead.”

2024-09-04 Thread Michael Pugliese
udenmaier-ecofascism-lessons-from-the-german-experience#toc17 , James Hart & Ullrich Melle ,"On Rudolf Bahro," https://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/dn/vol4/hart_melle_bahro.htm . "Reply to Hart and Melle," by Janet Biehl, https://www.democracynature.org/vol4/biehl_bahro.htm

[marxmail] United campaign: against repression in Venezuela!

2024-09-05 Thread Michael Pugliese
https://newpol.org/united-campaign-against-repression-in-venezuela/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#32035): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/32035 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/108294694/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULE

Re: [marxmail] Kamenev

2024-09-08 Thread Michael Pugliese
“Makers of Russian Revolution,” co-edited by Haupt, anong its dozens of pieces, has one on Kamenev. D/L a copy here, https://annas-archive.org/md5/9e7a6d0493b96b32c2e4431c7e2ce5d5 . While Worldcat lists a number of dissertations in English on Kamenev, there has no been full length biography of Kam

Re: [marxmail] Jill Stein & Cornel West, stalking horses for Trump & Putin, Part 3: the US left

2024-09-09 Thread Michael Pugliese
Via https://oaklandsocialist.com/2024/09/08/jill-stein-cornel-west-stalking-horses-for-trump-putin-and-assad-part-3-the-left-and-the-elections/ “Smith’s no position on how we vote amounts to a “no position” on the importance of who wins the election. It leads to a dismissal of the enormous threat

Re: [marxmail] Is Trump Building an Army of Modern Blackshirts? | The Nation

2024-09-10 Thread Michael Pugliese
Re : "Georgia because it contains the great majority of black voters in the state. If the Democrats are to win that state, they must get a huge majority in Fulton County. And something peculiar happened in the May primary in Fulton County. One of the election board members, Julie Adams, refused to

Re: [marxmail] Jill Stein & Cornel West, stalking horses for Trump & Putin, Part 3: the US left

2024-09-10 Thread Michael Pugliese
> Re : *Claudia de la Cruz and Party for Socialism and Liberation > * > > At the far end of the “left” spectrum is the Party for Socialism and Liberation – PS

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