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I can’t hear it, but here it is on youtube:Marcos:Re your #176904:I emailed both slpns@slp.org and socialist@slp.org on 18 January and heard nothing back. Weeks later I emailed again, and this time also asked for acknowledgment of reception of my email. April now. Still no reply.So, question to you: since you know of the existence of the newsletter, presumably you are a recipient. About how often does it come out? But more to the point: when did you last receive one?
@ alanjjohnstone
Don’t understand. What is it you’ve never heard of? ‘Cultural Marxism’? Really?? Apparently http://www.unz.com (to give just one example) is not on your daily or even monthly reading list.The ideas about the objectives/function of the Frankfurt School etc are mostly the doing of the world’s leading and most scholarly anti-semite, Kevin MacDonald. (No, not the film director.) Here, in this interview, interested persons can familiarise themselves in concentrated form with his views. (The idiotic term ‘Cultural Marxism’ is, however, not used in the interview.)(The mentioned ‘CoC’ refers to a series of books by him, sympathetically summarised on this ‘alternative’ Wikipedia: https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Jewish_group_evolutionary_strategy . )I invite comment on this article I linked to on 19 March that claims to present a ‘quick list of instances in which the Zionist lobby skewed US foreign policy at the highest level, going back to Israel’s creation’: https://mondoweiss.net/2019/03/accept-criticize-israel . The picture given is of foreign policy determined not by economico-strategic considerations, but by what virtually amounts to bribery. (Cf Marx infamously on Palmerston??)Unrelated:
@ alanjjohnstone:
In a post of yours I can’t find now, you mentioned having relatives in … the Shetlands? If they are (relatively speaking) autochthonous, rather than migrants from mainland Scotland (or elsewhere), are they imbued with any measure of ‘Norse-consciousness’, as I understand some people there to be? I get that impression from, for example, this: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/11066878/British-isles-where-Viking-blood-still-flows.html
. Are there are currently those there that in the event of Scottish independence would favor some kind of arrangement with Norway rather staying with Scotland or remaining in a rump UK?(Only of linguistic interest: the article is wrong in saying that *Norwegian* still had speakers until 1850. What they spoke there — ‘Norn’ — is thought to be close to Faroese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norn_language .
Says Conrad in that article:
‘Put aside Marx’s own Jewishness, a religiously pious mother and rabbinical lineage: a good case can be made for his communism being connected, consciously or otherwise, with messianic Old Testament prophets, such as Amos, Micah and Habakkuk.18 Possibly this came through his personal acquaintance with the proto-Zionist Moses Hess (1812-72), who likewise condemned the “Judeo-Christian huckster world”; a line of thought that surely came via Spinoza, Goethe and Hegel. ‘
I think any anti-semite would be delighted to read that.
The fact of the matter is that Marx got his initial communism from Frenchmen, not from Hess — and certainly not from the OT. And Hess (from whom Engels indeed is said to have ‘learned his communism’) at that time was called Moritz, not Moses; he was not yet a Jewish nationalist (proto-zionist or otherwise) — that happened later on, the 60’s.
In your untiring and commendable daily perusal of alternative news sites, do not neglect (if you do) the following:(- where you yesterday would have seen this great little history —2) The US (market-)libertarian site https://www.antiwar.com .3) https://www.wsws.org (where, despite all, there is now and then something worth reading.)(Not necessarily just in connection with the zionism-topic of course.)Excellent. But a trigger-warning to the reviewer: this book contains long sex scenes as well as neo-genderal phenomena. This can be distressing to certain older readers.
Ok. Thanks for the further clarification.
If there is no such thing as a down-vote I have nothing against it.
I didn’t ask *what*, I asked *why*.
Since you and I both are familiar with it from libcom, this is precisely the reason why I wonder what you find positive about it.
I think it’s meaningless, and, in fact a terrible, distraction.
Say, the IdPolist and the anti-IdPolists are at polemics (to give just *one* example). Those on the one side will vote down posters from the other side, and vice-versa. And I’m sorry to to say that juvenile as that is, I find myself drawn into doing it as well. Can’t let the side down after all.
That’s my case ‘against’. What’s your case ‘for’?
By the way, off the topic, what book-gift did you finally settle on for the 12-year old niece-or-nephew? (Not the graphic novel about Luxemburg that KAZ had ‘heard good things about’ I hope! It’s a disgrace.)
ALB, your #184020 and #184022:
Has this been — so far — the end of it? The theme has not been taken up certain sections of the media, or repeated by other politicians, that sort of thing?
How fitting that the article in the link appears to be by none other than Cory Doctorow, author of the communistico-futurist novel ‘Walkaway’.I don’t think I have ever read a piece of fiction whose readability is of such low uniformity. Around the middle, I nearly deleted it, but at the other extreme, there may be as much as a fifth or more of it of it that I can say I liked well enough that I don’t regret having read it.What’s the content? Society is divided into two parts: a) The ‘Default’ (ie mainstream, normal propertarian society); b) the Walkaway zone (or zones).What kind of things are in the story?1) Personalistics; 2) Technology sufficiently advanced (it’s c. 2070) that a group of people can fairly easily DIY anything. (Not too clear why this is not done much in ‘Default’. I suppose because of property / patent enforcement. ) The Walkaway zone is then a society of free-access material abundance, or potentially so. 3) A lot of talk about cybernetics and the web, plus discussion of, and practice of, life-extension; 4) military assault by ‘Default’ against the Walkaway zone(s); ( and sometimes fraternisation of the assaulting military). There much much much too much of (1), a lot of it quite idiotic.(If I remember correctly there is some conflict between free-accessors and a small minority who who believe in ‘remuneration’ (in kind?) based on labor-perfomed/recorded.)@alanjjohnstone, your #184082:
*Why* should it have a vote up or vote down application??
Richard B Lee:
‘Hunter-Gatherers and Human Evolution: New Light on Old Debates’ (2018):
