[Xmca-l] Re: My Hometown Minneapolis

[Haydi Zulfei]

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On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 3:10 PM Haydi Zulfei <haydizulfei@gmail.com> wrote:

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> to normal?
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> by michael roberts
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>
> The recent release of the US jobs data for May, which apparently showed a
> reduction in the unemployment rate from April, sparked a sharp rally in the
> US stock market. And if you were to follow the stock markets of the major
> economies, you would think that the world economy was racing back to normal
> as the lockdowns imposed by most governments to combat the spread of
> COVID-19 pandemic are relaxed and even ended.
>
> The stock markets of the world, after dropping precipitately when the
> lockdowns began, have rocketed back towards previous record levels over the
> last two months. This rally has been driven, first, by the humungous
> injections of money and credit into the financial system by the major
> central banks.  This has enabled banks and companies to borrow at zero or
> negative rates with credit guaranteed by the state, so no danger of loss
> from default. At the same time, governments in the US, UK and Europe have
> made direct bailout funds to major companies stricken by the lockdowns,
> like airlines, auto and aircraft makers, leisure companies etc.
>
> It’s a feature of the 21st century that central banks have become the
> principal support mechanism for the financial system, propping up the
> leverage that had grown during the ‘great moderation’ a phenomenon that I
> detailed in my book, The Long Depression
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/693-the-long-depression__;!!Mih3wA!UzMEdDO39xPVjd2MsSft7NOtlfoZ7JGdroeuXNvEZMIP9Riq59CC5SWePxav8V0IXbTm_Q$ >.  This has
> combated the low profitability in the productive value-creating sectors of
> the world capitalist economy.  Companies have increasingly switched funds
> into financial assets where investors can borrow at very low rates of
> interest to buy and sell stocks and bonds and make capital gains. The
> largest companies have been buying back their own shares to boost prices.
> In effect, what Marx called 'fictitious capital' has risen in ‘value’ while
> real value has stagnated or fallen.
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 2:29 PM Haydi Zulfei <haydizulfei@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> JUNE 4, 2020Our History is Our Future
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>> DAVIS <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.counterpunch.org/author/john-davis/__;!!Mih3wA!UzMEdDO39xPVjd2MsSft7NOtlfoZ7JGdroeuXNvEZMIP9Riq59CC5SWePxav8V0WdkJh9Q$ >
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>>
>> Christopher Columbus on Santa María in 1492, oil – Public Domain
>>
>> We can be sure that the public grandiloquence of Barack Obama grated
>> mightily on at least half of the country during his eight years in the Oval
>> Office. Now, we Libtards find every Trump tweet excruciatingly inane – or
>> horrifyingly inflammatory. As ever, it is the style, not the content, of
>> American political leadership that is in question. For Its neoliberal
>> ideology has been unwavering for four decades and is but the contemporary
>> version of an implicitly racist dedication to the well-being of the wealthy
>> that was fundamental to the founding of the Republic. Committed to the
>> economization of all facets of public and private life, we citizens are
>> remade as human capital: mini entrepreneurs whose only civic duty is
>> towards pumping up the GDP. This is what our government demands of us, and
>> we would be foolish to expect more from it than further destruction of the
>> public realm and further trivialization of the democratic process. Having
>> relinquished our individual roles as a necessary part of the Republic’s
>> sovereignty, our vote is rendered superfluous at a time of a viral
>> pandemic, unprecedented unemployment and expectations of further economic
>> dislocation likely to eclipse the melt-down of 2008.
>>
>> On a weekend when the nation’s streets exploded in violent protest
>> against racialized police brutality, the President and the Vice President
>> chose to attend a manned rocket launch contracted by SpaceX, a private
>> corporation. Politics have been dethroned, the public realm abandoned and
>> the public good forsaken. Trump is ascendant, his sun-bronzed, narcissistic
>> gaze reflected in the ruddy glow of burning streets. His military, on high
>> alert, awaits its orders.
>>
>> Our smoldering streets may no longer be safe for Trump’s ‘warriors’
>> attempting, around the country, to fully re-open the American economy. Many
>> will doubtless now enlist as his Law and Order ‘vigilantes’. Neoliberalism
>> demands the appearance of vibrant, life-sustaining markets. Trump has seen
>> the financial
>> indices decline as the epidemic curve has arced skyward, but his focus
>> has always been on economic rather than public health. He, and his
>> ‘warriors’, are quite prepared to sacrifice ‘flattening the curve’ for the
>> sake of a rising Dow but his calculus must now include appeasing his newly
>> enrolled ‘vigilantes’ while not entirely disaffecting African Americans.
>>
>> Neoliberalism, as the SARS-CoV-2 viral pandemic and the uprising
>> demonstrate, is this country’s comorbidity – a precondition making it
>> extremely susceptible to both viral disease and to the recapitulation of
>> long-ago racial injustice. In, The Road to Serfdom
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226320553/counterpunchmaga__;!!Mih3wA!UzMEdDO39xPVjd2MsSft7NOtlfoZ7JGdroeuXNvEZMIP9Riq59CC5SWePxav8V18ctJd4w$ >,
>> 1944, Friedrich Hayek, the Anglo-Austrian economist, explicitly equates the
>> freedom of the individual with the unfettered workings of the market. By
>> way of contrast, he identifies the centralized economic planning evidenced
>> in National Socialism, Communism and Social Democracies as inevitably
>> trending towards totalitarianism. He suggests that governments restrict all
>> attempts to establish social objectives and by extension, any encouragement
>> of the citizen’s role in shaping these objectives. In other words, he
>> recommends abandoning both the social and the political realm in favor of
>> the invisible hand of the market, a goal that continues to inform
>> neoliberalism as it is practiced across Europe and the Americas, and is the
>> ruling ideology that has shaped the United States since the election of
>> Ronald Reagan in 1980. Hayek’s ideas, developed out of his deeply felt
>> reaction to German and Soviet totalitarianism, have had disastrous
>> consequences in the United States where the gross injustices of its past
>> continue to haunt its present, and where its best moments have been
>> enshrined in exactly the kind of social objectives, such as FDR’s New Deal
>> and LBJ’s Great Society, that Hayek spurns.
>>
>> In the 1830’s, the two signature, home-grown horrors that have shaped
>> American history, the genocidal eradication of indigenous peoples and
>> slavery, coalesced in President Andrew Jackson’s ‘Indian Removals’ which
>> aimed to deport a number of surviving Indian tribes to west of the
>> Mississippi to make way for the establishment of further industrial cotton
>> plantations. This expansion of slavery
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1786636727/counterpunchmaga__;!!Mih3wA!UzMEdDO39xPVjd2MsSft7NOtlfoZ7JGdroeuXNvEZMIP9Riq59CC5SWePxav8V1h1WM3lA$ >was
>> partly funded by securitized bonds, sold in New York, London, Paris, and
>> other finance capitals, in a process that involved the financialization of
>> human flesh. The violence necessary to convert slaves into a fungible
>> commodity had existed for over two centuries, practiced in their initial
>> capture in Africa, in their transportation, and in their work. The stain of
>> slavery was then embedded in the capital generated by the cotton crop which
>> went on to be invested in the Industrial Revolution and formed the basis
>> for this country’s extravagant wealth. It is a wealth that has not been
>> shared by most of its citizens.
>>
>> The highly visible murders of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, performed
>> on the street and reprised endlessly as viral videos on social media, go to
>> the heart of this country’s racialized hierarchies established in 1492 and
>> then compounded in 1619, with the arrival of the first shipment of African
>> slaves introduced to this country as stolen human capital. Neoliberalism
>> has made human capital of us all, but has vastly accentuated the wealth
>> divide because, as Piketty has shown, it is from investment and inherited
>> wealth that the rich are made – not from an honest day’s work. The majority
>> of the U.S. population, and certainly most African Americans, rely not on
>> wealth from inheritance or investments, but on the mythology of the
>> equitable rule of law and equal economic opportunity. As the looting
>> component of the uprising suggests, egregious racialized murder exposes an
>> awareness of this country’s endemic economic injustice.
>>
>> Nick Estes writes in, Our History is the Future
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1786636727/counterpunchmaga__;!!Mih3wA!UzMEdDO39xPVjd2MsSft7NOtlfoZ7JGdroeuXNvEZMIP9Riq59CC5SWePxav8V1h1WM3lA$ >,
>> 2019, “Indigenous elimination, in all its orientations, is the organizing
>> principle of settler society.” In documenting the Lakota tribes’ struggles
>> to prevent the Dakota Access Pipeline passing under, and across sacred
>> indigenous lands, Estes lauds the ongoing struggles of native peoples to
>> resist a colonizing civilization that possesses an overbearing commercial
>> ethic which leaves little room for the recognition of other, non-material
>> values. Across the continent, indigenous peoples regarded the native soil,
>> along with its flora and fauna, as co-creators of their lives, and the
>> concept of its individual ownership was unthinkable. Genocide after
>> genocide has still not entirely eliminated their awareness of belonging to
>> the land – ever in conflict with those who so clearly prize the value of
>> individual ownership, property rights and, of course, the strange notion
>> that the land belongs to them.
>>
>> It is in this country’s varied civilizational currents that the supreme
>> value of the almighty dollar emerged. As a nation, we have bought and sold
>> people, bought and sold the land’s natural beneficences, and now we have
>> sold our sovereign right to vote to corporations that exist only to give
>> succor to their owners and shareholders. The neoliberalism that was created
>> out of a fear of totalitarianism has now made societies beholden to a
>> totalized economy in which all is subsumed. Its values are those of the
>> market, entirely blind to the human concerns of a richly diverse population
>> many of whom it makes vulnerable to an ever increasing precarity in their
>> livelihood, housing and health care. The current pandemic, natural
>> disasters, debt crises, and recessions expose the venal character of this
>> prevailing ideology, while emergency relief and bailouts are leveraged by
>> the wealthy to expand capital in readiness for the next ‘recovery’ –
>> widening the corrosive gulf between the rich and everybody else.
>>
>> As a Native American academic, Estes celebrates his peoples’ ongoing
>> resistance to the dominant culture, established shortly after 1492. By
>> declaring that “Our History is Our Future”, he is committing to a
>> continuance of this struggle. White members of the dominant culture can
>> find no such guidance in their past. We see our history reenacted in
>> violence and racial injustice entirely too often to wish it to be our
>> future. We suppress our past and fear our future for good reason.
>>
>> Neoliberalism has obliterated the conditions for democracy by
>> concentrating wealth, eschewing the public good and causing civility to be
>> drowned out by over-amplified, profit-seeking media. The democracy that now
>> struggles to exist in this country, does so only as a fully financialized
>> product fertilized by corporate money featuring a roster of politicians
>> pitifully beholden to the special interests that support their reelection
>> campaigns. Estes is right to reaffirm his peoples’ history. Our salvation
>> might be in confronting ours.
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>> More articles by:JOHN DAVIS
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>>
>> *John Davis* is an architect living in southern California. Read more of
>> his writing at urbanwildland.org
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 3:58 AM HENRY SHONERD <hshonerd@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> IMHO
>>> David says, "Perhaps American-centrism and American-exceptionalism is in
>>> the way we read events rather than in the events themselves.” I am thinking
>>> about what Andy Blunden said, something to the effect that every experience
>>> is both mediated and un-mediated. Anthony seems to be looking for something
>>> more objective, something that transcends ideology. David K. might object
>>> that the facts of murderous and explotative British and French colonialism
>>> and the brutality of the Chinese regime are simply the facts, the kinds of
>>> facts that drive the passion and compassion of the people on the street in
>>> the U.S. Let cool heads prevail? That is the Cartesian take. The Spinoza
>>> turn in Vygotsky circles would conclude that without affect (passion and
>>> compassion) reason is impossible. Perhaps Anthony’s quest is Quixotic, laid
>>> out on the windmill. He’s certainly been a caballero about his trouncing. I
>>> admire him for that.
>>> Henry
>>>
>>> On Jun 5, 2020, at 3:10 PM, David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> (Is this thread American-centric? If so, 'twere a grievous fault. But
>>> grievously hath Haydi answered it--I don't think anybody can consider his
>>> dense, encyclopaedic blocks of text--the polar opposite of Anthony's
>>> American-centric orthography as well as Anthony's style and content--in any
>>> way American-centric....)
>>>
>>> Perhaps American-centrism and American-exceptionalism is in the way we
>>> read events rather than in the events themselves, Anthony. To me, the
>>> situation in and around Washington DC looks very much like the situation in
>>> and around Beijing in May1989. As in DC, Beijing had laws preventing the
>>> entry of the armed forces other than those of the Beijing Military
>>> Region into the city (the exclusion laws were actually written into the
>>> Chinese constitution by Mao, who was always afraid of powerful military
>>> opponents like Peng Dehuai and Lin Biao). The Beijing Military Region,
>>> however, was loyal to the people of Beijing and to the General Secretary
>>> Zhao Ziyang, and they opposed to a coup. So, as in DC, the "martial law"
>>> forces were called to the city perimeter where they halted for several
>>> weeks. As in DC, the provenance of the "martial law" forces were quite
>>> mysterious--they didn't carry insignia and it later turned out that these
>>> were forces personally loyal to two PLA warlords, the brothers Yang Baibing
>>> and Yang Shangkun. As in DC, there were different waves of demonstrators
>>> inside the city: someone put up artworks in the square (as the mayor did in
>>> DC this morning) and others told people to go home and organize and not
>>> stay to be massacred. And then, almost exactly thirty-one years ago, the
>>> unmarked shock troops went in shooting, and at least a thousand people
>>> died.  I hope that part is NOT like DC, but so far the "American
>>> exceptionalists" have been proved wrong on every single detail.
>>>
>>> Clorox on cloth? Gadzooks, Peg. Don't Americans have real N-94s yet? At
>>> the very height of the Daegu outbreak people had to resort to cloth masks
>>> (I don't think anybody used Clorox, though). Then the government brought in
>>> a rationing system so that health care workers could get PPE, and the
>>> extras are still rationed according to the numbers on registration cards:
>>> we go to the pharmacy twice a week to pick up our ration of three masks. No
>>> one is allowed onto a bus, a subway, or into a public building without one.
>>> Yesterday I went hiking for two hours and whenever I saw someone coming
>>> towards me they hastily put on a mask and bowed.
>>>
>>> (Do you know, the largest factory for PPE in the USA, and possibly the
>>> world until recently, is 3M in Minneapolis? There's a solid
>>> transitional demand for a general strike--Masks for all! Occupy 3M!)
>>>
>>> David Kellogg
>>> Sangmyung University
>>>
>>> New Article: Ruqaiya Hasan, in memoriam: A manual and a manifesto.
>>> Outlines, Spring 2020
>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://tidsskrift.dk/outlines/article/view/116238__;!!Mih3wA!UzMEdDO39xPVjd2MsSft7NOtlfoZ7JGdroeuXNvEZMIP9Riq59CC5SWePxav8V2XiJqQNQ$ 
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>>> New Translation with Nikolai Veresov: *L.S. Vygotsky's Pedological
>>> Works* *Volume One: Foundations of Pedology*"
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 6:30 PM Anthony Barra <anthonymbarra@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thank you, I'll take a look. Sounds similar to dialectics, little I
>>>> know of both.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, June 4, 2020, Richard Beach <rbeach@umn.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Anthony, the concept of “expansive learning” posits that
>>>>> objects/motive in activity are ideally always open to
>>>>> change/transformation—that they are never fixed given that as participants
>>>>> encounter new contradictions/challenges, they “learn to”/formulate new
>>>>> objects/motives. This requires learners to be open to exploring optional
>>>>> actions/tools/norms as they redefine/revise their ever expanding
>>>>> objects/motives.
>>>>>
>>>>> Coping with decades-long racist practices in Minneapolis, requires
>>>>> “expansive learning” to continually experiment with new objects/motives
>>>>> given that some of the tools/practices attempted in the past haven’t
>>>>> necessarily worked, although attempts were made to do so, only to be
>>>>> blocked by a timid political leadership
>>>>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.startribune.com/in-2008-we-had-a-reform-plan-for-the-mpd-it-got-derailed-by-politics/570998162/__;!!Mih3wA!SLGpQj8PmApHqKlEeH3z-ohB8R76qeqnpglVMrj9N2HOiJRn_QxL9FXpHMmS9eXEdK2Cgg$>
>>>>> .
>>>>>
>>>>> For more on expansive learning theory, see attached reports:
>>>>> Engeström,Y., & Sannino, A. (2010). Studies of expansive learning:
>>>>> Foundations, findings and future challenges. *Educational Research
>>>>> Review, 5*, 1–24.
>>>>> Sannino, A., Engeström, Y., & Lemos, M. (2016). Formative
>>>>> interventions for expansivelearning and transformative agency. *Journal
>>>>> of the Learning Sciences, 25*(4), 599-633.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
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