http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159735 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== I have met a few of these signers. I respect them and the others i know of... but it's hard to believe they can still advise anyone to put time, resources, political support and hope into Democrats. *An Open Letter to Opponents of Aggressive, Undeclared,** ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Dayne Goodwin 2012-05-26T20:17:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159733 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/25/montreal-pots-and-pans-video-bill-78_n_1546694.html ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Louis Proyect 2012-05-26T18:27:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159732 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-end-of-fish-in-one-chart/2012/05/19/gIQAgcIBbU_blog.html ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Louis Proyect 2012-05-26T18:25:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159731 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== http://lbo-news.com/2012/05/26/bain-actually-loves-dems/ ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Louis Proyect 2012-05-26T18:24:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159730 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== http://translatingtheprintempserable.tumblr.com/ ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Ron Jacobs 2012-05-26T16:13:19 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159729 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== Let me try this again...with the actual link inserted http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2012/05/tentacles-of-empire.html ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Ron Jacobs 2012-05-26T13:33:41 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159728 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== To conjure up racist images of Chinese workers marching into Australia, as Doug Cameron has done, is the desperate cry of a political and industrially bankrupt politician and unionist on a path to nowhere. Doug Cameron's world of class c...ollaboration is collapsing around him as the bosses' demons he and his ilk unleashed consume him. So instead of class struggle to defend jobs he raises race as the defining issue. Shame, Doug Cameron, shame. For more: http://enpassant.com.au/2012/05/26/saturdays-socialist-speak-out-44/ ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> En Passant with John Passant 2012-05-26T02:36:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159726 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== There are real contradictions between management and labor in Cuba, resolved by thousands of grievance hearings on the shop floor. Here is where local and national needs confront each other within a context of a common goal. ========================= Richard Levins ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Richard Levins 2012-05-25T22:53:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159723 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2012/05/tentacles-of-empire.html?m=0 ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Ron J 2012-05-25T22:27:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159721 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== Fuchs, Christian and Vincent Mosco, eds. 2012. Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today. tripleC–Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society (http://www.triple.c.at) 10 (2): 127-632. Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce publication of tripleC's special issue "Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today" that contains 29 contributions on more than 500 pages. http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/current The entire issue as one single file is available here: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/427 The contributions shows that Marx and Marxism are truly back! With kind regards, Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco --- Table of Contents 127-140 Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco Introduction: Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today. Marx, the Media, Commodities, and Capital Accumulation 141-155 Nicole S. Cohen Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation 156-170 Mattias Ekman Understanding Accumulation: The Relevance of Marx’s Theory of Primitive Accumulation in Media and Communication Studies 171-183 Eran Fisher How Less Alienation Creates More Exploitation? Audience Labour on Social Network Sites 184-202 Richard Hall and Bernd Stahl Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies 203-213 William Henning James Hebblewhite “Means of Communication as Means of Production” Revisited 214-229 Vincent Manzerolle and Atle Mikkola Kjøsen The Communication of Capital: Digital Media and the Logic of Acceleration 230-252 George Pleios Communication and Symbolic Capitalism. Rethinking Marxist Communication Theory in the Light of the Information Society 253-273 Robert Prey The Network’s Blindspot: Exclusion, Exploitation and Marx’s Process-Relational Ontology 274-301 Jernej Prodnik A Note on the Ongoing Process of Commodification: From the Audience Commodity to the Social Factory 302-312 Jens Schröter The Internet and “Frictionless Capitalism” 313-333 Andreas Wittel Digital Marx: Toward a Political Economy of Distributed Media Marx and Ideology Critique 334-348 Pablo Castagno Critical Transitions: Marxist Theory and Media Democratization in Post-Neoliberal Argentina 349-391 İrfan Erdogan Missing Marx: The Place of Marx in Current Communication Research and the Place of Communication in Marx’s Work 392-412 Christian Fuchs Towards Marxian Internet Studies 413-424 Christian Garland and Stephen Harper Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism?: On the Uses and Limitations of a Critical Concept in Media and Communication Studies 425-438 Jim McGuigan The Coolness of Capitalism Today 439-456 Brice Nixon Dialectical Method and the Critical Political Economy of Culture 457-473 Michelle Rodino-Colocino “Feminism” as Ideology: Sarah Palin’s Anti-feminist Feminism and Ideology Critique 474-487 Gerald Sussman Systemic Propaganda as Ideology and Productive Exchange Marx and Media Use 488-508 Brian A. Brown and Anabel Quan-Haase “A Workers’ Inquiry 2.0”: An Ethnographic Method for the Study of Produsage in Social Media Contexts 509-517 Katarina Giritli Nygren and Katarina L Gidlund The Pastoral Power of Technology. Rethinking Alienation in Digital Culture Marx, Alternative/Socialist Media and Social Struggles 518-536 Miriyam Aouragh Social Media, Mediation and the Arab Revolutions 537-554 Lee Artz 21st Century Socialism: Making a State for Revolution 555-569 Peter Ludes Updating Marx’s Concept of Alternatives 570-576 Vincent Mosco Marx is Back, But Which One? On Knowledge Labour and Media Practice 577-599 Wilhelm Peekhaus The Enclosure and Alienation of Academic Publishing: Lessons for the Professoriate 600-617 Sebastian Sevignani The Problem of Privacy in Capitalism and the Alternative Social Networking Site Diaspora* 618-632 Padmaja Shaw Marx as Journalist: Revisiting the Free Speech Debate ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Christian Fuchs 2012-05-25T22:08:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159715 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/news/the-role-of-unions-in.html A really excellent article by Gloria La Riva on the role of unions in a socialist country, in contrast to the position of the ISO (who, of course, doesn't even consider Cuba socialist). A reminder of an old post of mine on the ISO which bears on some of the same issues: http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2007w01/msg00146.html Eli Stephens Left I on the News http://lefti.blogspot.com ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Eli Stephens 2012-05-25T18:50:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159714 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== Since I know all those supporters of the Libyan "revolution" won't be posting this here, I guess it's up to me: http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/25/libya-africa-and-africom One excerpt: "It is no coincidence that barely a month after the fall of Tripoli ­ and in the same month Gaddafi was murdered (October 2011) ­ the US announced it was sending troops &lt;http://www.johnpilger.com/articles/the-son-of-africa-claims-a-continents-cr own-jewels&gt; to no less than four more African countries ­ the Central African Republic, Uganda, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. AFRICOM have now announced an unprecedented fourteen major joint military exercises &lt;http://www.africom.mil/getArticle.asp?art=7673&gt; in African countries for 2012. The military re-conquest of Africa is rolling steadily on. "None of this would have been possible whilst Gaddafi was still in power. As founder of the African Union, its biggest donor, and its one-time elected Chairman, he wielded serious influence on the continent. It was partly thanks to him that the US was forced to establish AFRICOM¹s HQ in Stuttgart in Germany when it was established in February 2008, rather than in Africa itself; he offered cash and investments to African governments who rejected US requests for bases. Libya under his leadership had an estimated $150 billion of investments in Africa, and the Libyan proposal, backed with £30billion &lt;http://www.africanews.it/english/kadhafi%E2%80%99s-africa-the-untold-story- by-j-p-pougala/&gt; cash, for an African Union Development Bank would have seriously reduced African financial dependence on the West. In short, Gaddafi¹s Libya was the single biggest obstacle to AFRICOM penetration of the continent." Eli Stephens Left I on the News http://lefti.blogspot.com ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Eli Stephens 2012-05-25T18:42:41 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159713 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== We remember how the neoconservatives will solve warfare as a way to out American softness and recover the noble heroism associated with past military victories. Here is a snippet from the post-Civil War period, which adds an interesting twist: the editorial in question makes a distinction between the ethic of warfare and the sordid moneymaking at the time. Today, the presumptive ethical basis of both the military and the moneymaking crowd deserve our highest admiration, even though the moneymakers are engaged in warfare against the same people that the military is supposed to be protecting. 94-5: "The fervor with which Americans practiced the rituals of Memorial Day began to fade in the late 1870s and early 1880s. Graceful popular ceremonies," declared The New York Tribune in May 1878, no longer fit in a society characterized by "the pioneers of the prairie and the speculators in railway stock." Bitterness had waned, and as "individual sorrow for the fallen fades away," said the Tribune, Decoration Day "gradually loses its best significance." By 1880, the same paper editorialized on how Decoration Day had "become coarser and more blurred" in its meaning, and how it had fallen into the "slough of politics." In the Gilded Age, the Tribune claimed that the truly "loyal" would continue to honor the Civil War dead, but also make every "effort to put out of sight the causes of the war, the hate and bitterness which we thought immortal." At stake now was the next generation and the social and moral order. Civil War memorialization should not be used for political purposes among the children born since the war, claimed the Tribune, but the sacrifice of soldiers should very much be used as lessons in morality and patriotism. "The days they [postwar children) have been born in are not heroic," declared the Tribune, "they are full of fraud, corruption, bargain, and sale. Men are not pushing to the battlefield to die for an idea; they are pushing into place." As an antidote to America's "sordid expertness in money-getting," the editors spoke for a large cross-section of the culture that now looked to the Civil War dead, as well as to living veterans, as the alternative to their unheroic age, as sources of honest passion, higher morality, something "noble and true ... kept for our children." </pre> michael perelman 2012-05-25T16:29:46 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159712 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/25/black-bloc-anarchists-and-state-terrorism/ http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/25/libya-africa-and-africom/ ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Louis Proyect 2012-05-25T16:07:59 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159711 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-25/jpmorgan-gave-risk-oversight-to-museum-head-who-sat-on-aig-board.html ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Louis Proyect 2012-05-25T15:58:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159710 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/05/2012521151225452634.html ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Louis Proyect 2012-05-25T15:56:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159707 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== After letting my book languish for almost five years Palgrave let The Confiscation of American Prosperity, they are about to release a paperback edition. In addition, they are featuring me as author of the month and reprinting my new introduction, which I explain why the book was constructed as a crime story. My picture and the introduction are at the bottom. http://view.mail.macmillan.com/?j=fe5816787c6d057f7316&amp;m=feee1c737d6c02&amp;ls=fdd015717762057b7511777465&amp;l=fe5c1575746d01757512&amp;s=fe3010727564037b731171&amp;jb=ffcf14&amp;ju=fe1f1773716d027b721777&amp;r=0 </pre> michael perelman 2012-05-25T04:06:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159706 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== Anitra Nelson, Montreal In Occupy-style, they are pop-up and pop-out protesters on Montreal's streets. http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51124 </pre> Stuart Munckton 2012-05-25T03:07:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159704 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-is-running-a-massive-spying-campaign-on-the-occupy-movement-2012-5 </pre> Stuart Munckton 2012-05-25T00:56:57 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159701 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== NY Times Op-Ed May 23, 2012 Our Not-So-Friendly Northern Neighbor By LAURENCE BHERER and PASCALE DUFOUR Montreal WHEN Vladimir V. Putin first came to power in Russia, Quebecers could not help but laugh. Poutine, as he is called in French, is also the name of a Québécois fast-food dish made of French fries, gravy and cheese. But these days the laughter is over, as Quebec gets a taste of Mr. Putin’s medicine. For a change, Americans should take note of what is happening across the quiet northern border. Canada used to seem a progressive and just neighbor, but the picture today looks less rosy. One of its provinces has gone rogue, trampling basic democratic rights in an effort to end student protests against the Quebec provincial government’s plan to raise tuition fees by 75 percent. On May 18, Quebec’s legislative assembly, under the authority of the provincial premier, Jean Charest, passed a draconian law in a move to break the 15-week-long student strike. Bill 78, adopted last week, is an attack on Quebecers’ freedom of speech, association and assembly. Mr. Charest has refused to use the traditional means of mediation in a representative democracy, leading to even more polarization. His administration, one of the most right-wing governments Quebec has had in 40 years, now wants to shut down opposition. The bill threatens to impose steep fines of 25,000 to 125,000 Canadian dollars against student associations and unions — which derive their financing from tuition fees — in a direct move to break the movement. For example, student associations will be found guilty if they do not stop their members from protesting within university and college grounds. During a street demonstration, the organization that plans the protest will be penalized if individual protesters stray from the police-approved route or exceed the time limit imposed by authorities. Student associations and unions are also liable for any damage caused by a third party during a demonstration. These absurd regulations mean that student organizations and unions will be held responsible for behavior they cannot possibly control. They do not bear civil responsibility for their members as parents do for their children. Freedom of speech is also under attack because of an ambiguous — and Orwellian — article in Bill 78 that says, “Anyone who helps or induces a person to commit an offense under this Act is guilty of the same offense.” Is a student leader, or an ordinary citizen, who sends a Twitter message about civil disobedience therefore guilty? Quebec’s education minister says it depends on the context. The legislation is purposefully vague and leaves the door open to arbitrary decisions. Since the beginning of the student strike, leaders have told protesters to avoid violence. Protesters even condemned the small minority of troublemakers who had infiltrated the demonstrations. During the past four months of protests, there has never been the kind of rioting the city has seen when the local National Hockey League team, the Canadiens, wins or loses during the Stanley Cup playoffs. The biggest demonstration, which organizers estimate drew 250,000 people on May 22, was remarkably peaceful. Mr. Charest’s objective is not so much to restore security and order as to weaken student and union organizations. This law also creates a climate of fear and insecurity, as ordinary citizens can also face heavy fines. Bill 78 has been fiercely denounced by three of four opposition parties in Quebec’s Legislature, the Quebec Bar Association, labor unions and Amnesty International. James L. Turk, the executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, called Bill 78 “a terrible act of mass repression” and “a weapon to suppress dissent.” The law will remain in force only until July 1, 2013. The short duration says it all. It amounts to a temporary suspension of certain liberties and allows the government to avoid serious negotiations with student leaders. And it grants the authorities carte blanche for the abuse of power; just hours after it passed, police officers in Montreal began to increase the use of force against protesters. Some critics have tried to portray the strike as a minority group’s wanting a free lunch. This is offensive to most Quebec students. Not only are they already in debt, despite paying low tuition fees, but 63 percent of them work in order to pay their university fees. The province has a very high rate of youth employment: about 57 percent of Quebecers between the ages of 15 and 24 work, compared with about 49 percent between the ages of 16 and 24 in the United States. Both Quebec and Canada as a whole are pro-market. They also share a sense of solidarity embodied by their public health care systems and strong unions. Such institutions are a way to maintain cohesion in a vast, sparsely populated land. Now those values are under threat. Americans traveling to Quebec this summer should know they are entering a province that rides roughshod over its citizens’ fundamental freedoms. Laurence Bherer and Pascale Dufour are associate professors of political science at the University of Montreal. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Louis Proyect 2012-05-24T16:53:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/159700 <pre>====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ====================================================================== Obama’s Bain Backers “Okay, it's all a drop in the bucket compared to the $2.5 million given to Romney's campaign or Restore Our Future, the super PAC supporting him, by employees of Bain Capital . . .” http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/05/obamas-bain-backers.html Bear Market For Wall Street's Contributions “The [securities and investment] industry is only the fifth-most generous to Barack Obama's campaign, which has never come close to matching Romney's totals in this realm.” http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/05/bear-market.html ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism&lt; at &gt;greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/marxism%40gmane.org </pre> Jeff Goodwin 2012-05-24T16:19:38 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail