[Marxism] Swans Release: February 9, 2009

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Swans Commentary
> http://www.swans.com/
> February 9, 2009
> 
> Note from the Editors:  As the US economy shed another 600,000 jobs last 
> month for a total of 3.6 million in the past 13, Congress remains mired in 
> paralysis, engulfed in partisan bickering, and wealthy executives bitterly 
> whine that they cannot possibly live on $500K in Manhattan -- they'd need a 
> bare $1.6 million minimum to keep frequenting les salons dorés in good 
> company. Art Shay has a message for ces gens là that they should heed in a 
> hurry, as the ship is nonchalantly careening in stormy pre-Depression waters: 
> These people stink. Shay, with his renowned photographic memory, provides an 
> apercu of our pre-Depression dysfunctional age as well as reminiscences of 
> long forgotten yesteryears. Reading Jan Baughman, one has to wonder whether 
> we are well past the stage of dysfunction and have entered the territory of 
> irremediable dystopia, in spite of the anguished and angry calls by Charles 
> Marowitz for Obama to shake the darn tree so forcefully that all the dead, 
> rotten branches will finally complete their rotting process on the ground and 
> let the tree grow again, sound and alive. Though if you follow the continuing 
> saga of our Ponzters, Fraudsters, and Banksters that Gilles d'Aymery has been 
> faithfully portraying in his persistent Blips you should not hold your breath 
> for a favorable outcome. The system is not just corroded. It is putrefied. 
> And it's not limited to the financial world. Michael Barker, equally 
> persistent, underscores how much wealth controls and sets the agenda of human 
> rights organizations, this time in the Israel-Palestine conflict -- in the 
> same fashion the MSM controls the news and how countries are depicted; e.g., 
> Nigeria as Femi Akomolafe reports. Not surprisingly, the same corrupt 
> processes extend to the environment as Martin Murie shows, taking the example 
> of the jaguar. Not a happy spectacle, to say the least.
> 
> Fortunately, to avoid falling into a deep depressive mood, Isidor Saslav 
> brings us a world of music thanks to his latest visit to the New York 
> Philharmonic; Peter Byrne reviews two books by Scott Turow; Guido Monte and 
> Marie Rennard add a touch of poetry; Raju Peddada explores the world of 
> luxury with some conclusions you will appreciate; and Scott Porter mulls over 
> the benefits of being attentive to others -- the art of listening. We end 
> this edition with your letters. Enjoy.
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> http://www.swans.com/library/art15/ashay08.html
> The Real World of Deerfield And The Coming Depression - Art Shay
> 
> http://www.swans.com/library/art15/jeb205.html
> National Priorities In The Economic And Digital Divide - Jan Baughman
> 
> http://www.swans.com/library/art15/cmarow129.html
> Obama's Gordian Knot - Charles Marowitz
> 
> http://www.swans.com/library/art15/desk079.html
> Blips #79 - From the Martian Desk - Gilles d'Aymery
> 
> http://www.swans.com/library/art15/barker13.html
> Engineering Human Rights In The Israel-Palestine Conflict - Michael Barker
> 
> http://www.swans.com/library/art15/femia04.html
> Understanding Nigeria - Femi Akomolafe
> 
> http://www.swans.com/library/art15/murie64.html
> The Jaguar Scandal - Martin Murie
> 
> http://www.swans.com/library/art15/saslav11.html
> Conductors' Guild Convention In New York 2009 - Isidor Saslav
> 
> http://www.swans.com/library/art15/pbyrne92.html
> To Kill Or Not - Book Review by Peter Byrne
> 
> http://www.swans.com/library/art15/gmonte61.html
> War n.2 - Multilingual Poem by Guido Monte
> 
> http://www.swans.com/library/art15/marier26.html
> The Day I Die... - Poem by Marie Rennard
> 
> http://www.swans.com/library/art15/rajup07.html
> What Is Luxury? - Raju Peddada
> 
> http://www.swans.com/library/art15/porter13.html
> Learning From Everyone - R. Scott Porter
> 
> http://www.swans.com/library/art15/letter158.html
> Letters to the Editor
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