[Peace-discuss] Current issue of Public i

[Mueth Paul]

Awaiting your article

That's to anyone who sees this

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> On Jan 29, 2017, at 11:11 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> http://publici.ucimc.org/
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> Unfortunately, with the exception of the opening of Belden Fields article, the current issue fails to address the neoliberal origins of Trump's victory. In fact, the word neoliberalism is absent from the entire issue.
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> The interesting and informative article by Janice Jayes about militarism fails to mention the neoconservative foreign policy that Trump, in his erratic and personal way, has rejected, to the consternation of Thomas Friedman and Charles Krauthammer alike.
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> The opening article by Brett Kaplan unfortunately quotes Van Jones about the "whitelash" of Trump voters. That seems to me a mischaracterization (and gratuitous denigration) of economically struggling voters who could not find a reason to vote for the neoliberal warmongering feminist that was put forward by the Democratic Party after their apparatchiks dispensed with Bernie Sanders. I wonder if Van Jones would appreciate the term "blacklash" to describe protestors in Ferguson in 2014.
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> The article by Michael Rothberg about anti-semitism does not resonate with me in the least. Notwithstanding Bannon and the alt-right, anti-semitism has nothing to do with any of this in any meaningful sense. The fancy quotations about anti-semitism in relation to European fascism are interesting, but have nothing whatsoever to do with Trump's appeal to the beleaguered working class of this country, or a coherent response. It may be comforting to some that anti-semitism is now seen as being back on the political far right where it rightfully belongs, but that is hardly relevant to the issues at hand. (BTW, I do not agree either with the emphasis on anti-semitism that is currently being promoted by Jewish Voice for Peace).
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> The specter of no-longer-relevant anti-semitism was historically used against the black power movement, and of course against the pro-Palestine movement. There is no reason to revive this canard in the current context, even against Trump and his Jewish settler-loving son-in-law.
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> A lot of organizing good can come out of the current situation; but not without a more coherent analysis of the material origins of this context. I agree with what Carl Estabrook said on our most recent edition of News from Neptune: we need to get over Donald Trump; we need to get over the Democratic Party; I would add that we need to get over progressivism, i.e. neoliberal progressivism, as it is currently being articulated, as critqued by Nancy Fraser.
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> Of course I appreciate the concerns of those who now feel threatened and intimidated. But I would also hope that the next issue of the Public i will begin to get down to business, so to speak.
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