Re: [marxmail] Bertell Ollman?

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Re: [marxmail] Bertell Ollman?

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Re: [marxmail] Oppenheimer< victory at the Academy Awards - World Socialist Web Site

I second Michael Meeropol's comments. Who today doesn't think Trump's party is fascist? Even his own followers do, but they like it that way. See Jon Stewart's "Daily Show " clip about this from.last week for example... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to

Re: [marxmail] The economic systems of Fascism and Communism, including the present-day People's Republic of China

There's some useful stuff here, but the glaring thing missing is the working conditions and degree of self-organization of the workers.  For Marx,  a mode of production was defined by whether and how workers were exploited and by the degree to which they had control of means of production and su

Re: [marxmail] The economic systems of Fascism and Communism, including the present-day People's Republic of China

" But, the transformation — either into joint-stock companies and trusts, or into State-ownership — does not do away with the capitalistic nature of the productive forces. In the joint-stock companies and trusts, this is obvious. And the modern State, again, is only the organization that bourgeo

Re: [marxmail] ML-ist Greg Godels on the contradictory nature of the People's Republic of China

Thanks for this post Marv Gandall. I think it is always a mistake to conflate two things: countries,  which are complex, concrete existing historical entities in constant development and evolution- primarily due to class struggle internal and external- and systems,  which are abstract concepts i

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

Thank you Michael.  When I was a union organizer in the late 80s and 90s, I tried to explain to my leadership and colleagues that we needed to oppose the wars in Central America,  which would lead also to job loss in the US when companies moved there to take advantage of cheap labor after the US

Re: [marxmail] The liberal establishment and the Rosenberg case

Thank you for posting this.  Michael Meeropol's article is an example of a creative use of Marxist theory to explain the trajectory of an individual,  Judge Kauffman,  and of the political environment of the US over at least a generation.  That it explains the behavior of the court and the syste

Re: [marxmail] Marx's fetters and the realm of freedom: a remedial reading

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Re: [marxmail] The ruling class continues to be split

That's a great point Michael! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31919): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31919 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/10816/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extrane

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

I think that class is the conditions one was raised in AND one's aspirations and expectations.  These dialectically condition what class one identifies with.  Thus Reagan or Nixon or JD Vance, but on the other side Engels and any number of us here who are objectively professionals, but who have

Re: [marxmail] Political Collapse: Lessons From Fallen Empires

Anyone here who doesn't know "The Fall of Civilizations" channel on YouTube,  it is arguably the best thing on the whole Internet. Great documentary videos and audio podcasts.  Here is the link to the channel: https://youtube.com/@fallofcivilizations?si=1yjcI-lLTCAdp_q6 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: [marxmail] A Thousand Tennessee Autoworkers Just Joined the UAW

On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 01:45 PM, Michael Meeropol wrote: > > I think this is very good news -- a small step but definitely in the RIGHT > DIRECTION ... > > -- Forwarded message - > From: *Portside Labor* < modera...@portside.org > > Date: Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 11:39 PM > Subject: A

Re: [marxmail] What if Marx had emigrated to Texas?

Actually,  and I assume it was the whole point of this thread,  Msrx was seriously considering moving to Texas at one point.  I think my friend Harry Cleaver may have written on it. I can't remember at which point in his life, but he was in contact with German communists in Texas. Harry wrote th

Re: [marxmail] Do animals need words to think?

Thanks for this.  This was always a big problem,  among others,  with postmodernism,  which presupposes ontologically the primacy of language and especially written language,  excluding "experience " as an unmediated category.  But you can think and react without words, and my cat does it all t

Re: [marxmail] Yahya Sinwar – The Che Guevara of Our Times (Necrology)

We are all appalled at Israel's genocide in Gaza. But when did Che Guevara organize a massacre of thousands of civilians as a form of struggle? And when did Hamas declare itself for class struggle,  or socialism,  or the liberation of all  worldwide? I appreciate the sentiment,  but let's not be

Re: [marxmail] Discussion: The American Deal: Reframing the Economic Debate

On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 01:24 AM, Michael Meeropol wrote: > > SORRY Duane --- I think the article attempts to present a "NEW DEAL" > between AMerican workers and Capitalists --- It seems simple minded but > the question of whether workers can get much more than "subsistence" (A LA > CAPITAL) and

Re: [marxmail] Democrats: The Party of American Capital

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Re: [marxmail] Contemporary Western Marxism and "crisis of leadership" theory

I think all the evidence is that Lenin wanted a normal social democratic party but unlike his opponents in the movement,  he understood that it wasn't possible under Czarism, hence the "Leninist " party, which he never intended as a model, but as a necessary and effective instrument under condit

Re: [marxmail] Democrats: The Party of American Capital

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Re: [marxmail] Could the farmers protests being organised in the next two days bring millions of workers on the streets on mainland Britain!

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Re: [marxmail] The place of capital exports in Lenin’s conception of imperialism — A response to John Bellamy Foster

Thanks Michael.  Yes, the impact of capital exports to colonized countries was obviously very different.  Though in  calling the US a "developed " economy between 1865 and 1915, let's say that it certainly was at the end of that period,  but sharecropping in the South, and the scale of the Popul

Re: [marxmail] The place of capital exports in Lenin’s conception of imperialism — A response to John Bellamy Foster

It's true that Lenin saw the export of capital as a central aspect of imperialism.  A weakness of his analysis is not theoretical,  but empirical  - the lion's share of European capital invested overseas went, of course to where profit rates were highest,  namely to the United States,  not to co

Re: [marxmail] Martin Wolf as a mirror of neoliberal distress

Thanks for posting this.  When I was active in the anti-globalization movement,  I definitely saw Wolf as the most important intellectual defender of neoliberal globalization.  Thomas Friedman was superficial, and while I hatevto give credit to a war criminal,  Samuel Huntington took Friedman do

Re: [marxmail] Far-Right and Anti-Government Groups Gain a Foot Hold In New York City Suburbs

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Re: [marxmail] War of redivision

In "Looking Over the Abyss " I argued that "nation building " approaches like social democracy combined with international cooperation can be stable politically and maintain peace, while, if not yet doing away with capitalism,  severely reducing its influence in society and the world.  But of co

Re: [marxmail] Tariff follies

Everyone in the universe knows by now that Free Trade is a weapon against the working class, for putting workers into competition with each other in a race to the bottom. I am sure that Trump's tariffs will be poorly done and in ways that benefit  him, his regime, his buddies, and capital over

Re: [marxmail] War of redivision

Yes, "lebensraum" - ahem, German for "Manifest Destiny ", was about uniting Europe,  including the Soviet territory under German rule so as to have the resources necessary to confront the continent scale US economy on a global level.  In my view the Nazi system absolutely required lebensraum,  b