Why does this "rewrite" seem so familiar to those Marxists familiar with the writings of Lewis Henry Morgan (Ancient Society, The League of the Iroquois) Frederick Engels (The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State) and Vere Gordon Childe (Man Makes Himself, What Happened in History) and many other historians, archaeologists and anthropologists in the Marxist tradition. I haven't read the book under discussion but there is nothing in this review that will not sound old hat to those educated in the tradition of Marxist historiography and dialectical and historical materialism. If you have had a throughly conventional bourgeois education, reading this book would probably be helpful, but if it's an American education you probably won't know anything about what they are discussing unless your own curiosity and initiative has led you to study these issues.
Friday, October 22, 2021
Monday, October 18, 2021
Police Mutiny
The police work for the state and (in theory) for the people. They claim they Serve and Protect. The organized police lobbies (pretending to be a unions) make demands and acts as if they can defy the state that pays them and dismiss the welfare of the public when it suits them. We know many of the departments and unions have been infiltrated by white supremacist and fascist groups which have ideologies that support anti-science and police state views. The state vaccination mandates are based on science and promote the general health and well being of the American people. Those police who refuse to follow the lawful orders of the state in this regard ( i.e., who engage in mutiny) should be summarily dismissed. If a shortage of police protection results the state should call for, and screen, a popular people's militia to replace them re street patrols. This would involve paying the citizens of the local communities in which they live for policing themselves and democratically selecting the militia officers to carry out the policing function. This is what would be done by any progressive democratically elected progressive local or state government faced with a police mutiny. This is what the people should demand and demand of their elected representatives and what the CCDS, CPUSA, DSA, PSL, WWP and all other groups claiming to be socialist should demand.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
The Pentagon's Tragic Mistake!
Tragic mistake indeed. This is par for the course with US drone strikes. The Pentagon spent a week trying to justify this "mistake." The only reason we know about it is these idiots did it in Kabul in front of the press. Thousands of civilians have been killed in the mountains and villages of Afghanistan out of sight of the NYT. We alienated the population outside the occupied cities slaughtering peasants just as we did in Vietnam. These Nazi tactics never work in the long run but they are the only ones the US knows how to use since people don't like hostile armies in their countries. Biden voted for this war when he was in the Senate and he has learned nothing in the meantime as his current foreign policy is an aggressive one towards, Cuba, Russia, Iran, China, etc., and is supportive of dictators around the world who kowtow to American interests. Trumpism with a "human" face.
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