BookMarx for 2009-01-11
Sunday, January 11, 2009
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"US imperialism is being consistent and true to its evil nature. It has supplied Israel with all the military, political and economic resources to wage aggression repeatedly against the Palestinian people since 1948, occupy Palestine and drive away millions of Palestinians from their homeland. The US has used Israel as the bridgehead of US imperialist hegemony in the Middle East and as the platform for threatening and blackmailing countries in the region, making them military and political clients and controlling the oil resources."
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My former professor and now supervisor is mentioned on As'ad's blog!
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"In his first full day as a city supervisor, Eric Mar joined the legions of supes before him who have interjected themselves into national and international affairs.
This time, it was a protest and press conference this afternoon on the steps of City Hall to express anger over Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
"It's my first day on the job, and I'm terribly proud to be standing here in solidarity with you," Mar told scores of pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Joined by Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, Mar vowed that "global justice" will be a priority for the new board."
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Pics and videos from the protest in London.
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"The estimated turnout for this protest, according to Andrew Murray, was 200,000. I don't mind what precise figure people put on it, but it was massive, and certainly above 100,000. To this can be added the protests across the UK, which respectively numbered in hundreds and thousands. As I said earlier, this was the largest ever pro-Palestinian demonstration in the United Kingdom."
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"NEARLY everything you’ve been led to believe about Gaza is wrong. Below are a few essential points that seem to be missing from the conversation, much of which has taken place in the press, about Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip.
The Gazans
The Occupation
The Blockade
The Cease-Fire
War Crimes"
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"Paul Le Blanc's introductory essay probes the structure and dynamics of Marxism as a political orientation, tracing connections among components that can be found in the readings: the theory of capitalist development, the theory of the labor movement, the strategy of revolution, the conception of the transition to socialism. Others identified with the Marxist tradition—such as Plekhanov, Kautsky, Stalin, Mao—are also discussed, and attention is given to perspectives of such varied critics of Marxism as Sidney Hook, Bertram D. Wolfe, James Burnham, Daniel Bell, Robert Heilbroner, and C. Wright Mills. Historical reflections are blended with discussion of the durability of capitalism, the disappointment of hopes for workers' revolution, the "collapse of communism," issues of race and gender, the environment, and challenges of the twenty-first century."
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"Drawing on passages from a wide range of Marx’s writings, and showing the links among them, Osborne refutes the myth of Marx as a reductively economistic thinker. What Marx meant by “materialism,” “communism,” and the “critique of political economy” was much richer and more original, philosophically, than is generally recognized. With the renewed globalization of capitalism since 1989, Osborne argues, Marx’s analyses of the consequences of commodification are more relevant today than ever before."
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"if you put the number “8″ next to a closing parenthesis, you get that little sunglass sporting smiley face. Pretty annoying, huh?
So here’s how to turn them off"
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"In 2001 Harvard Unversity Press published a post-modern analysis of imperialism by the Harvard scholar Michael Hardt and the independent Italian leftwing intellectual Toni Negri. The book, Empire, quickly became a huge bestseller in the US. Many other leftwing intellectuals, however, have been deeply disturbed by the book, feeling that it is analytically deeply misconceived; has unfortunate implications for political resistance to imperialism, and that it ignores both the experience and intellectual analysis of thinkers from the South. Atilio Boron is one of those. He argues that Hardt and Negri‘s concept of ‘imperialism without an address‘, though well intentioned, ignores most of the fundamental parameters of imperialism. The nation state, far from weakening, remains a crucial agent of capitalism, deploying a large arsenal of economic weaponry to protect and extend its position and actively promoting globalization in its own interests."
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Obviously it is Cynthia.
The Mustard Seed 
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