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Titolo: Marxismo volgare

Vabbeh. Un minimo di meccanicismo, cum grano salis, non fa mai male...
1. "La borghesia ha stracciato nel rapporto familiare il velo di commovente
[<g>] sentimentalismo riducendolo a un mero rapporto di denaro" (K. Marx,
"Il Manifesto del Partito Comunista").
2. MOSCOW, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- A Russian woman faces a 6-year
prison term for selling her daughter for $10,000 despite warnings
the child's body parts would be sold.
Russian news agencies quoted a release on the Web site of
the Prosecutor General's Office as saying Olga Zelentsova was
convicted of human trafficking. The statement described her as an
unemployed alcoholic.
Zelentsova tried to sell her daughter to an undercover
agent, who told the woman the child would be sexually abused before
her organs were removed and sold.
The report said further court action is under way to
determine whether Zelentsova's custody should be stripped. She also
has a 3-month-old son.
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Shalom.
Namib
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"Omne opus justi damnabile est et peccatum mortale" (Lutero)

 "Il Manifesto del Partito Comunista").
Credo neanche Marx poteva immaginare per quanto la sua analisi fosse
profetica per una societa' e un tempo completamente diversi dal suo.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1599261,00.html
Importing our carers adds up to emotional imperialism
Young women from poor countries come to look after our young, sick and
elderly - and their families pay the price
Madeleine Bunting
Monday October 24, 2005
The Guardian
The piles of cheap clothing on our high streets come with a high price
tag. We know about the low pay and poor working conditions of those
producing these garments, as described in the work of writers such as
Naomi Klein. What we know much less about is the impact of those
working conditions on the workers' families. The next time you pick up
an elaborately stitched jacket or pair of shoes, ask yourself where the
seamstress's children were when she was hunched over her sewing
machine.
Article continues
A book to be published next month is a stab at tracking the impact of
rapid economic globalisation on family life. Jody Heymann's Forgotten
Families is based on research on hundreds of families in countries
across the world, from Botswana to Vietnam and Mexico, and it quickly
punctures some pervasive myths about extended families. Increasing
numbers of women are taking up paid employment across the developing
world and, at the same time, the migration from rural areas to cities
is accelerating. The combination of these two is rupturing
centuries-old traditions of child rearing and care - in particular, the
habit of a mother keeping children with her while she worked in the
fields or in the home, and the support offered by the extended family
to help care for children.
A young mother working in a free-trade zone in Asia or central America
rarely has her mother nearby to help out, and she can't take her child
to a factory. The problems she faces are deeply familiar to women in
the developed world - finding reliable childcare, coping when the child
is sick or has school holidays - but the picture of how she copes (and
the burden of coping does fall disproportionately on women) is
dramatically more stark, according to Heymann's Harvard research
project. Places at workplace nurseries are often limited or
nonexistent, and employment rights, such as decent maternity leave or
leave for a family emergency, are restricted. Heymann found that of the
families they interviewed, 36% admitted they had had to leave young
children at home alone, 39% had left a sick child at home alone and 27%
had left a child in the care of another child.
Parents described in interviews with researchers how they had no choice
but to leave eight-year-olds in charge of their toddler siblings,
sometimes locking them into the home to try to ensure their safety. But
safety is one of the biggest problems - in half of the families
interviewed in Botswana and Mexico, children had suffered accidents
while their parents were at work. Some were the result of children
trying to cook meals for themselves and their siblings. Mothers
recounted the anguish of leaving sick children because if they missed
work their pay was docked - and they needed every penny to pay for the
medicines required.
What makes the picture all the more bleak is that there is a bigger
care burden in many developing countries, which makes the conflict
between the demands of poorly regulated workplaces and care
responsibilities acute. The ratio of children and elderly to
working-aged adults is more than 50% higher than in the developed world
and the illness rates are higher; Aids will hugely aggravate the care
burden in countries across the developing world.
Burgeoning free-trade zones across Asia may well be improving the
material conditions of many millions of families, but there is an
uncounted cost in unmet needs in the care economy - the routine tasks
of having and raising children, and caring for the sick and the
elderly.
Work-life balance is not just part of the politics of the affluent
west; it's part of a global story of how the organisation of economic
life is invading ever more aggressively the processes and relationships
of care. Increasingly, in the affluent west and the developing world,
the inflexible demands of long hours of paid employment are prioritised
over domestic responsibilities - leaving a care gap.
The solution in the west is to outsource care - pay someone else to do
it - and that is often provided by migrant female labour from the
developing world. So the care gap of the west is resolved at the cost
of exacerbating the care gap of the developing world. It's bad enough
when a woman has to leave her children alone to go to work in a factory
for 12 hours a day; it's even worse when she has to get on a plane and
leave her children behind for years at a time, using some of her pay to
cover the cost of a maid substitute.
It's a form of asset-stripping - though this time the asset is not oil
or diamonds but care. Alongside economic inequality emerges the
inequality of care. It's what the American academic Arlie Russell
Hochschild describes as the "care drain", as young women move to richer
countries to care for the young, sick and elderly. The scale of this
care drain is projected to grow dramatically; by 2020 the US alone will
be able to absorb the entire world's supply of nurses, a demand in part
generated by an increasingly elderly population.
For the first time in history, half of all migrants are women. In some
countries, such as the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand, women make
up the majority of all migration. For many of them it is the need to
earn to care for their own children that forces them to leave; the
average age of migrant women entering the US is 29, an age by which
most of them have had children.
To Hochschild, the family and the traditional caring roles of women
represent the last "commodity frontier", as she explained in a lecture
for the Young Foundation in London last month. In the 20th century the
model of home and the wife was idealised as "a haven in a heartless
world"; this was the one area of life kept separate from the principles
of competition and efficiency and the market disciplines of economic
life. No longer. Hochschild cites agencies advertising in her home
state of California, such as Rent-A-Mom, which can undertake any
domestic task from childcare to clearing out closets, sorting family
photo albums, organising birthday parties and spending "quality time"
with elderly relatives. All for a fee.
Hochschild insists that she is not describing some wacky Californian
fad but the way in which affluent family life will evolve in the
developed world. Already characteristics of this are evident, she would
argue, in how we specialise ourselves and our emotional lives to fit
the workplace - and pay others to provide the emotional skills needed
in the home. She quotes the director of a San Francisco nursery that
employs central American staff because they "know how to love a child
better than middle-class white parents. They are more relaxed, patient
and joyful ... these professional parents are pressured for time and
anxious to develop their kids' talents." A mother who is a lawyer
concurs with the analysis, conceding that her son's nanny is better for
him than "anxious, busy parents like us".
Put the work of these two American academics alongside each other and
you see how the nightmare worlds they describe interconnect in what
Hochschild describes as "emotional imperialism"; a work-orientated west
deskills itself of the emotional skills required for care - patience in
particular - and imports them.

 profetica per una societa' e un tempo completamente diversi dal suo.
Credo invece che l'avrebbe immaginato benissmo: da dove credi che
venisse il personale di servizio - donne per la maggior parte - delle
famiglie borghesi coeve di Marx se non dalle zone piu' depresse e dalle
classi piu' disagiate?
Palmiro Pangloss

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Sempre la teoria della cameriera, mh?
In realta', Marx con l'aiuto di Engels,passo in rassegna le grandi 
inchieste sulla poverta' che andava compiendo allora il Parlamento 
Britannico, e che fornirono i primi dati statistici affidabili su una 
situazione terribile.
 Eppoi vivendo a Londra aveva quei mali sotto gli occhi. Basta leggere 
il coevo Dickens. Infine era anche un gran lettore di Balzac e della 
Comedie Humaine.
Am.

 Sempre la teoria della cameriera, mh?
No, semplicemente penso contrariamente a Torrieri che Marx si sarebbe
potuto immaginare cio' che l'articolo descrive dato che consoceva
perfettamente - come anche tu evidenzi piu' sotto - fenomeni simili
nella qualita' ed essenzialemnte diversi solo per la dislocazione
geografica dei protagonisti.
Palmiro pangloss
P.S. quel "mh" e' odioso.

 
Intendi dire che il parlamento britannico si era mosso prima di Marx per 
fare qualcosa per migliorare le condizioni del proletariato? Molto 
interessante.
-- 
lo Splenetico
"Si, sappiamo, sei un creazionista.
Ma non sei mai finito incinto per caso". (Amalric)

 interessante.
Sei un fulmine, Splenetico. Sebbene sia un ossimoro...
Am.

La settimana prossima verra' Norman Finkelstein.  Purtroppo saro' in
Italia :-((
http://www.mcgilldaily.com/view.php?aid=4359
War resister seeks refugee status, shares horrors of "illegal" war
in Iraq
By Charles Mostoller
The McGill Daily
Darrell Anderson won a purple heart in Iraq. Now, he's in Canada
fleeing a second tour of duty.
The former American soldier was at McGill on Tuesday to recount his
personal story of resistance and to bring international attention to
the thousands of soldiers who oppose the war in Iraq.
Anderson joined the military three months before the war began because
he wanted to earn money to go to university. Like many other young
Americans, Anderson was working a minimum wage job with no healthcare,
and found that he had few career options that would bring the benefits
offered by the Army.
"In high school the military recruiter would come up to us and we'd
just laugh in his face. But then we were rock bottom and ended up in
the recruiter's office, asking how to join," he said.
After a year of training in Germany, he arrived in Baghdad, unsure of
the cause that he was fighting for. After a few months, Anderson found
that the reasons he had been given were far from the truth.
"It was obvious after the first month that there were no weapons of
mass destruction. We knew we were fighting an illegal war, but we're
there, in downtown Baghdad, and we have to survive - so we fight."
In Baghdad, Anderson quickly realized that figuring out whom to fight
is no easy task. The guerilla tactics used by the insurgency were
quickly wearing down American forces, and the Army introduced a new
policy regarding enemy combatants.
"[They told us that if] you're fired upon in a public place, open
fire on everyone there," Anderson said, recalling the horror of
killing civilians.
"I'd killed civilians, that was it. There was nothing I could do to
stop it," he continued. "As a soldier it's our duty, our
obligation to choose not to commit war crimes. In Iraq, the whole war
is a war crime."
In April of 2004, the scale of the civilian casualties became apparent
when his unit was sent to Najaf. Anderson recalled a long night battle
between his unit and what they believed to be 10 insurgents firing
mortars at their position. His unit responded with large Howitzer
artillery, much more powerful than the Iraqi mortars. The next day he
found out that they had killed almost 100 people, mainly civilians.
While home from Iraq last Christmas, Anderson fled to Canada to seek
refugee status on the grounds that the war in Iraq is illegal. If he is
rejected, he faces deportation and one to five years in prison in the
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Canada has already denied two other
soldiers refugee status, but because both have appealed the decision,
they remain in Canada.
There are 15 other American soldiers who have applied for refugee
status, and Anderson believes that hundreds more are in hiding. The
U.S. army has said that 5,000 soldiers are absent without leave. By
applying for refugee status, he believes that they are bringing the
anti-war cause into the limelight, fighting to end the war, and bring
their fellow soldiers home.
"If I were [Iraqi], I know I would be fighting this occupation. A
huge part of our history is fighting the occupier, but now we're the
occupation."

Purtroppo saro' in Italia :-((
Che sfiga!
*grin*
-Stefano

From The Horse's Mouth: Israel fans the flames of anti-Semitism:
Finkelstein
Norman Finkelstein is an American Jewish intellectual who has written
extensively on Palestinian Human rights issues, and how Israel and
Jewish organizations that support Israel manipulate anti-Semitism for
their own political use. Both of Finkelstein's parents survived the
holocaust.
He currently teaches Political Science at DePaul University in Chicago.
In his most recent book Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of anti-Semitism
and the Abuse of History, Finkelstein challenges Alan Dershowitz's
book The Case For Israel, by attacking so-called "new
anti-Semitism" - a redefinition by Zionists that equates any
criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. He will be speaking at McGill
on Tuesday, November 8 in Stuart Biology s 1/4.
The McGill Daily: What's the idea behind the title of your talk,
Israel and Palestine, Misusing Anti Semitism, Abusing History?
Norman Finkelstein: That's basically a summary of the thesis of my
book, which is that the factual record on the Israel Palestine conflict
and the documentary record on the human rights issues is pretty
straight forward. So my book explores the question of if everyone
pretty much agrees on the facts, why is there all this controversy
surrounding the conflict? And the argument I make in the book is that a
lot of the controversy is contrived, fabricated - the main purpose of
which is to sow confusion and deflect attention from the factual
record, and so forth. The claims of the "new anti-Semitism" are
part of this effort to deflect attention from the factual record.
MD: Is Israel using "new anti-Semitism" as justification for the
illegal separation barrier?
NF: No, that argument is about terrorism. The "new anti-Semitism"
is used to discredit anyone who says anything honest about what Israel
is doing. I have on my web site some of the latest articles attacking
me in the Jerusalem Post and elsewhere and they're claiming that
Amnesty International is anti-Semitic, Physicians for Human rights in
Israel is anti-Semitic, Human Rights Watch is anti-Semitic.
MD: What's the link between Dershowitz's false positive portrayal
of Israeli policy in and the abuse of Palestinian human rights?
NF: The link is very strong since the core of Professor Dershowitz's
book The Case for Israel is a defence of Israel's human rights record
in the occupied territories, which according to him is generally
superb. Whereas if you look at what human rights organizations have
copiously documented over a 20 year period, the only reasonable
conclusion that one can draw is that Israel's human rights record is
generally abysmal. Dershowitz manages to convert an abysmal record into
a superb record by fabricating and falsifying what Israel is actually
doing.
MD: Why are the implications of this manipulation?
NF: I think the major implication is that the American people aren't
being told the truth about what is happening. For the very simple
reason that if they knew the truth, it's unthinkable, I think, that
they would support it. So people like professor Dershowitz are
responsible for misinforming the American people and accordingly are
responsible for allowing these atrocities and violations of human
rights to continue.
MD: One of Neve Gordon's major points in his review of your book is
that you accuse Israel and the Sharon administration of fanning the
flames of anti-Semitism. He says that the blame of anti-Semitism can
only fall on the shoulders of those that are anti-Semites.
NF: Ask any German and they'll tell you that the Nazi regime fanned
the flames of anti-German feeling. Ask most American's that lived
during the era of the war in Vietnam and they well tell you that U.S.
aggression against Vietnam fanned the flames of anti-American feeling
around the world and so on and so forth. So there is nothing
particularly novel about saying that the actions of a self proclaimed
Jewish state will fan the flames of anti-Jewish feeling around the
world. The real novelty would be if it weren't the case.
MD: Isn't Gordon saying that the actions of the Israeli state can't
be blamed for fuelling anti-Semitism, seeing as most Jews are not
Israeli?
NF: Israel calls itself the state of the Jewish people, it's legally
the state of the Jewish people. And Jewish organizations around the
world publicly identify with whatever Israel does, and say that Israel
speaks for the Jewish people. In the face of all of that it would be
surprising if ordinary people had the discerning capacity to make the
distinctions between Israel and Jews. Incidentally to say that Israel
doesn't represent Jews is also called anti-Semitic, it works both
ways.
MD: How do you respond to accusations by Jewish groups that you are a
tool for holocaust deniers or that you are a holocaust denier?
NF: I know what they say but let's see the evidence. Show me one
statement - and I have an extensive public record, an extensive
written record which has been examined quite minutely by those Jewish
organizations. So find me a statement, I'd be curious. I will pay
personally for a full page add in the school newspaper in which they
can list every statement by me that is holocaust denying.
-compiled by Jesse Rosenfeld

 Israel is anti-Semitic, Human Rights Watch is anti-Semitic.
gia'. Gli autori di queste affermazioni saranno parenti di alcuni stranoti
imbecilli che bazzicano IPI e IPII che danno dell'antisemita a chi non lo
e' affatto. 
 
 
 
 
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 e' affatto.
Mentecatto, tu non sai cosa significa antisemita, come puoi sapere chi
lo è e chi non lo è affatto?
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 ..sergio. ha scritto:
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puntuale e' arrivato il fascistoide bottegaro di filmini porno.
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 e' affatto. 
Finkeslatein è uno che ha il coraggio di dirle certe verita' scomode
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ciao
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 puntuale e' arrivato il fascistoide bottegaro di filmini porno.
Beh, quando si muove una star come te, è sicuro che si fa il pienone
(oltre che nei tuoi orifizi, intendo).
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 (oltre che nei tuoi orifizi, intendo).
quando eri piccolo ti deve aver scioccato veder tua madre "all'opera"...
vai da uno psicologo, bottegaro...
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