en-us http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/ Fri, 21 Feb 2020 15:38:33 GMT Fri, 21 Feb 2020 15:38:33 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20200217/000462.html I recall Carrol Cox, one of the larger personalities on the list during its heyday, quoting Marx s last words as Struggle. Google says they actually were, shouted at his housekeeper from his deathbed, when asked if he had any last words: Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't sai]]> Wed, 19 Feb 2020 01:55:34 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20200217/000461.html On Feb 18, 2020, at 5:09 PM, Bill Bartlett wrote: > > I suspect that the hysterical American accusations against Huawei, that they are using the technology to spy on customers, is likely a case of projection. The real concern being that anyone buying Chinese information technology won t be vulnerable to American spying via the back-doors American companies install for use by the American intelligence community. > > Maybe I m paranoid, but given the history of American spying I can t be alone and many potential customers would probably also think that US technology was the greater espionage risk. This is also Goldman s view. See https://asiatimes.com/2019/07/us-china-tech-war-and-the-us-intelligence-community/?_gl=1%2A1pgs2o1%2A_ga%2AMTIyNDE2NTIwMi4xNTUyNTAyMjQz Also, from a Washington Post article last August about quantum cryptography: China is harnessing qubits to safeguard its communications from hacking one of the fields in which China appears to have ]]> Wed, 19 Feb 2020 01:09:40 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20200217/000460.html On 19 Feb 2020, at 6:29 am, Marv Gandall wrote: > > Huawei, with its game-changing lead in 5G technology, remains the prime target. The strategic importance attached to its destruction is reflected in the rare example of bipartisan cooperation between the Trump administration and congressional Democrats to deny global markets to the company and to starve it of essential components. This past wee]]> Tue, 18 Feb 2020 19:29:55 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20200217/000459.html Wed, 05 Feb 2020 19:03:15 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20200203/000458.html On Feb 4, 2020, at 12:30 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > > A report in today s Financial Times illustrates the breathtaking losses the world s oil, gas, and coal companies would incur if they re not allowed to extract and burn their enormous reserves. > > In total, their potential CO2 emissions are estimated at 2,910 gigatonnes or nearly three trillion metric tons. To put that number in context, a sole gig]]> Tue, 04 Feb 2020 20:30:07 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20200203/000457.html Fri, 27 Dec 2019 22:27:22 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20191223/000456.html > The Economist, together with the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, is one of the three leading house organs of English-speaking international capitalism. As Noam Chomsky observed in Class Warfare (1995) these media have to tell the truth to their readers to let their audience, an elite audience, gain a tolerably realistic picture of what s going on in the world. > > An important new book by Alexander Zevin, an editor at New Left Review, sees the evolution of the most venerable of the three, The Economist, as both mirroring and helping to shape the trajectory of capitalism from the publication s birth in 1843 to the present. I've linked to a review of the book, titled Liberalism At Large, by the US historian Patrick Iber. > > The Economist has always been a con]]> Wed, 25 Dec 2019 02:39:39 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20191223/000455.html Sat, 21 Dec 2019 21:23:43 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20191216/000454.html Mon, 16 Dec 2019 20:13:32 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20191216/000453.html Thu, 28 Nov 2019 20:20:06 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20191125/000452.html Tue, 26 Nov 2019 21:57:47 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20191125/000451.html Thu, 21 Nov 2019 11:27:34 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20191118/000450.html Sat, 16 Nov 2019 19:28:12 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20191111/000449.html Fri, 15 Nov 2019 21:50:52 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20191111/000448.html Fri, 15 Nov 2019 21:24:42 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20191111/000447.html Sun, 10 Nov 2019 18:51:38 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20191104/000446.html Sat, 19 Oct 2019 15:00:27 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20191014/000445.html 18 Oct]]> Fri, 18 Oct 2019 17:44:54 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20191014/000444.html Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:08:39 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20191014/000443.html On Oct 17, 2019, at 11:13 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > > "Those sockless people in Top-Siders, ..."]]> Fri, 18 Oct 2019 03:13:34 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20191014/000442.html Thu, 17 Oct 2019 19:02:33 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20191014/000441.html Thu, 03 Oct 2019 21:35:40 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190930/000440.html Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:49:42 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190930/000439.html Mon, 30 Sep 2019 17:01:11 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190930/000438.html Wed, 11 Sep 2019 16:30:11 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190909/000437.html Mon, 02 Sep 2019 15:14:04 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190902/000436.html Sun, 25 Aug 2019 17:48:44 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190819/000435.html Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:17:47 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190812/000434.html Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:46:26 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190812/000433.html Tue, 23 Jul 2019 18:38:41 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190722/000432.html Thu, 18 Jul 2019 03:45:13 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190715/000431.html Tue, 16 Jul 2019 23:42:20 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190715/000430.html Sat, 13 Jul 2019 03:30:41 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190708/000429.html On 13 Jul 2019, at 7:53 am, Doug Henwood wrote: > > I understand where this sort of thing comes from, but these critiques are written by people whose political tradition has accomplished approximately nothing in many decades. It s not like they have a record of success to counterpose. > Yeah, but even if we accept your implied premise that none of the gains of the last 150 years can be attributed to communists and instead give all credit to the social democrats, the 'gains of social democracy' are now being rolled back so fast that we are almost back to the times of the Communist Manifesto in terms of distribution of wealth and power between the classes. At this rate we will be enduring conditions akin to pre-revolutionary Russia within a generation. But, I don t think what Engel had to say about the perception of socialism applies quite so much to the USA? Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas]]> Fri, 12 Jul 2019 21:53:52 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190708/000428.html On Jul 12, 2019, at 5:32 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > > > > > Writing in the preface to the 1888 English edition of the Communist Manifesto, Frederick Engels explained why he and Marx did not call their pamphlet the Socialist Manifesto. According to Engels, socialism was identified with utopian dreamers and reformers who wanted to eliminate social abuses through their various universal panaceas and all kinds of patch-work, without hurting capital and profit in the least. In contrast to socialists, communists were considered dangerous to the ruling class since they stood for working-class revolution and the radical reconstruction of society that would end all exploitation and oppression. In other words, Marx and Engels were co]]> Fri, 12 Jul 2019 21:32:34 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190708/000427.html Wed, 10 Jul 2019 17:56:49 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190708/000426.html Sun, 30 Jun 2019 16:53:26 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190624/000425.html Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:34:38 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190624/000424.html Wed, 26 Jun 2019 14:07:12 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190624/000423.html Wed, 19 Jun 2019 20:59:32 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190617/000422.html Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 at 17:47 Subject: Re: [MEA] MEA Digest, Vol 188, Issue 2 To: mea at lists.ibiblio.org The Dept. of Television, Radio, and Emerging Media at Brooklyn College, CUNY, is looking for instructors to teach the following courses for the fall 2019 term: Media Criticism -- T, Th . 2:15-3:30 Communication Law and Policy -- Th 3:40-6:25 Please contact me directly for more information. Thanks, Katherine Fry katfry at brooklyn.cuny.edu Katherine G. Fry, PhD Professor of Media Studies Chair, Dept. of Television and Radio Brooklyn College CUNY (718) 951-5555 ________________________________________ From: MEA [mea-bounces+katfry=brooklyn.cuny.edu at lists.ibiblio.org] on behalf of mea-request at lists.ibiblio.org [mea-request at lists.ibiblio.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 12:00 PM To: mea at lists.ibiblio.org Subject: MEA Digest, Vol 188, Issue 2 CAUTION: Thi]]> Tue, 18 Jun 2019 01:25:29 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190617/000421.html (https://leftforum.org) in New York City. The panels focus on perspectives for confronting Trumpism and, more broadly, for confronting the resurgence of authoritarianism both the right-wing and left-wing (pro-Stalinist) varieties. Speakers include Jason Stanley, the author of How Fascism Works; Anne Jaclard, MHI s organizational secretary; Bill Weinberg of CounterVortex; Andrew Kliman, author of Reclaiming Marx s Capital ; Brendan Cooney of Kapitalism101; Eric Andrian, a London-based anti-war and anti-racist activist, and Adam Plante of MHI. Both panels will take place during the afternoon of Sunday, June 30. Both will be held in Room H301 of Long Island University s Brooklyn campus (1 University Plaza, Brooklyn, NY). The first panel, Confronting the Resurgence of Authoritarianism, Right and Left, will begin at 12:30 pm. The panelists and their presentations a]]> Thu, 13 Jun 2019 17:58:53 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190610/000420.html Tue, 11 Jun 2019 03:50:03 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190610/000419.html Sat, 08 Jun 2019 00:25:36 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190603/000418.html Tue, 04 Jun 2019 23:10:49 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190603/000417.html On Jun 5, 2019, at 4:49, Tek Murphy wrote: > > What is the text? Can we have a look and make suggestions It's an article by Richard Seymour: https://www.patreon.com/posts/soviet-power-26547085 Jean-Christophe Helary ----------------------------------------------- http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune]]> Tue, 04 Jun 2019 19:49:05 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190603/000416.html wrote: > I'm looking for such a thing for a translation of an article I would like > to be readable because it's important... Any pointer ? > > (google did not bring much and for some reasons some terms don't have > equivalents to French on Wikipedia). > > > Jean-Christophe Helary > ----------------------------------------------- > http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune > > > > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk > -- Regards Tim]]> Tue, 04 Jun 2019 02:22:07 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190603/000415.html Mon, 27 May 2019 16:24:37 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190527/000414.html From an unlikely source, the Financial Times, an admiring look at China's drive to end rural poverty: "Remote counties are frantically building roads, apartment blocks and vocational training centres to consolidate people in nearby towns at a cost of $18.7bn this year alone. The goal is to cut the number of people living in absolute poverty from 30m in 2017, to zero in 2020. You can only do this in China. I ve never heard of another country in history doing this , a local Communist Party official told the FT. https://www.ft.com/content/c8e6c8c0-6d9b-11e9-a9a5-351eeaef6d84?desktop=true&segmentId=7c8f09b9-9b61-4fbb-9430-9208a9e233c8#myft:notification:daily-email:content (behind a paywall) Beijing s relentless march to eliminate poverty Xi Jinping is ploughing billions into resettling rural residents. Will it work? By Lucy Hornby Financial Times May 26 2019 Like many adults in rural China, Li Xiuying has tried migrating for work. She toiled at a sock-making factory elsewhere in Yunnan pr]]> Thu, 23 May 2019 07:47:55 GMT http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20190520/000413.html