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Mapping immune response profiles: The emerging scenario from helminth immunology
Article first published online: 14 NOV 2007
DOI: 10.1002/eji.200737765
Copyright © 2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
European Journal of Immunology
Volume 37, Issue 12, pages 3319–3326, December 2007
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Díaz, A. and Allen, Judith E. (2007), Mapping immune response profiles: The emerging scenario from helminth immunology. Eur. J. Immunol., 37: 3319–3326. doi: 10.1002/eji.200737765
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- Issue published online: 29 NOV 2007
- Article first published online: 14 NOV 2007
- Manuscript Accepted: 15 OCT 2007
- Manuscript Revised: 5 OCT 2007
- Manuscript Received: 15 AUG 2007
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- Medical Research Council UK
- Wellcome Trust
- Asthma UK
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- Helminth;
- Regulatory T cells;
- Th17;
- Th2
Metazoan parasites of mammals (helminths) belong to highly divergent animal groups and yet induce a stereotypical host response: Th2-type immunity. It has long been debated whether this response benefits the host or the parasite. We review the current literature and suggest that Th2 immunity is an evolutionarily appropriate response to metazoan invaders both in terms of controlling parasites and repairing the damage they inflict. However, successful parasites induce regulatory responses, which become superimposed with, and control, Th2 responses. Beyond helminth infection, this superimposition of response profiles may be the norm: both Th1 and Th2 responses coexist with regulatory responses or, on the contrary, with the inflammatory Th17 responses. Thus, typical responses to helminth infections may differ from Th2-dominated allergic reactions in featuring not only a stronger regulatory component but also a weaker Th17 component. The similarity of immune response profiles to phylogenetically distinct helminths probably arises from mammalian evolution having hard-wired diverse worm molecules, plus tissue-damage signals, to the beneficial Th2 response, and from the convergent evolution of different helminths to elicit regulatory responses. We speculate that initiation of both Th2 and regulatory responses involves combinatorial signaling, whereby TLR-mediated signals are modulated by signals from other innate receptors, including lectins.


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Documentary producer Morgan Spurlock, who previously covered comics fandom in his San Diego Comic-Con documentary Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope, has turned his camera on My Little Pony fans in a new documentary release premiering in July.
A Brony Tale is the first release under Executive Producer Morgan Spurlock's (Super Size Me, One Direction: This is Us) "Morgan Spurlock Presents" label. Directed by Canadian Brent Hodge (CBC's Winning America, The Cockumentary), the movie will premiere in theaters on July 8th, and come to Video on Demand on July 15th. It follows Hodge as he learns about what he says are the estimated three million adult males in the United States that identify as fans of the cartoon show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (although by Brony census statistics, that number seems a bit low, see "12 Million Bronies").
The main thread of the documentary follows Canadian voice actress Ashleigh Ball, who voices Applejack and Rainbow Dash on the show, on her journey to the 2012 BronyCon event in New York City as she meets members of the fandom.
The documentary may have been filmed too early to include Enterplay's My Little Pony CCG (see "Summer 'MLP CCG' Releases") or the IDW Publishing My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic comic either (see "IDW Does 'My Little Pony'"). But regardless of specific product references, it sounds like a nice celebration of the phenomenon.
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George "Junior" Bruns, age 82, of Alta, passed away on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at his residence. A funeral service was held on Saturday, May 29, at 10:30 a.m. at the Alta United Methodist Church. Burial was held at the Buena Vista Memorial Park Cemetery of Storm Lake. A visitation was held on Friday, May 28 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. with the family present from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Nicklas D. Jensen Funeral Home of Alta. The Nicklas D. Jensen Funeral Home of Alta was in charge of the arrangements.
Junior was born on Oct. 27, 1927 on a farm near Galva to George H. and Sylvia (Kretzmeier) Bruns. Also welcoming Junior home were his three older brothers Leslie, Delmer and Orin. He would later become the older brother to Waldo. At the age of 1 Ω, Junior moved with his family to a farm north of Alta. Growing up there he attended Fairview Consolidated School graduating in May of 1945. On June 9, 1946, Junior was baptized into the Christian faith at the First Methodist Church in Alta.
In 1947, Junior met Rozella Jean Dyslin of Aurelia. On Feb. 14, 1948 they became engaged and were married June 5, 1949 at the Alta United Methodist Church. To this union three children were born: Rodney, Marsha and Scott.
He was engaged in farming with his dad until 1950 at which time Junior and Rozella began their farming lives together. Junior loved the land he farmed but would always leave the field at 6 p.m. to enjoy supper and the evening with his family. For 14 years during the winter months he was a welder at Caswell Mfg. Co. in Cherokee with an additional two years at Lundell Mfg. of Cherokee. After retiring from farming, Junior worked for many years with Professional Seed Associates.
Being a lifelong member of the Alta United Methodist Church, Junior served as layleader, trustee, administrative board member, PPR committee, choir member and MYF leader. Junior was also chairman of the Fairview Alumni Association and until his death, an active board member of the BV County Farm Bureau.
Junior enjoyed his children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, and could usually be prodded into playing 500, dice, penny game, or aggrevation. Another passion was puzzles, whether it was jigsaws or crosswords.
Those who knew Junior well will remember that he never said, "Goodbye," that was too final. His was always a simple "So long," meaning until next time. So at this time we'll just say, "So long, Junior."
To Junior's family and friends please don't linger in sadness but instead rejoice in your memories.
In Lieu of Flowers memorials may be directed to the Alta United Methodist Church of Alta.
Preceding Junior in death were his parents; his wife of 59 years, Rozella; brother Leslie; and sisters-in-law Lois and Hazel.
Left here to celebrate his memory are his children, Rodney and Sylvia Bruns of Minneapolis, Minn., Marsha and Tim Hills of Greenfield, Ind., and Scott Bruns of El Cajon, Calif.; grandchildren, Nicole and Brian Sletten, Chad and Jessica Hills, T.J. and Tina Hills, Melissa Ferrell, Angela and Mikey Forga, Jason Bruns, Ashley Bruns, Sunny Bruns and Stacy Bruns; great-grandchildren, Jaylen and Jordyn Hakes, Leo Sletten, Meghan and Mikayla Ferrell, Gavin and Nevada Forga, Avery, Taylor, Kylie and Brecken Hills, Tia Mathiew and Brendan Harris; brothers and sisters-in-law Delmer and Phyllis Bruns, Orin and Dorothy Bruns, and Waldo Bruns.


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This is probably a weird question but is there a reason or intuition we write higher order derivatives as \[ \frac{d^n y}{dx^n} \] instead of \[ \frac{d^n y}{d^n x} \] or something similar?
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do u understand mate
that's not what I am asking though
do you agree that \[\huge \frac{dy}{dx} = \frac d{dx}\] they're the same. right?
I have never the right hand side notation before
you're not familiar with d/dx?
is it the same by definition?
that's a bummer...i would assume you're at the start of your calculus class...hmm i'll try thinking of another analogy
I'm actually doing real analysis
...then why are you not familiar with d/dx?
I have never seen it before, not in my books
But I've never taken calculus before ra so that might explain it
hmm i can't think of any other way to explain the reason behind d^n y/dx^n without using d/dx...so i suppose i should explain that
actually i wanted to show u that if \[d ^{n}y /d ^{n} x\]would have meant that its reciprocal had just an inverse relationship with it but actual \[d ^{n}y /d ^{n} x\] is differently related to \[d ^{n}x /d ^{n} y\]
\[\frac{dy}{dx} = \frac d{dx}\] mainly because \[\frac{dy}{dx} \implies \frac{d}{dx} (y)\] (this is algebra) then since y is usuallyimplied in functions, it is usually ommitted..that's why they just write d/dx for dy/dx
the derivative of a function is the rate that dependent variable changes as the independent variable varies in order
then... let's say you want the second derivative...the second derivative would be \[\frac d{dx} (\frac{dy}{dx})\] so again...using algebra, you get \[\frac{d^2y}{dx^2}\] i don't know if that made anything clearer for you....
oh, we write f' or dy/dx instead of d/dx
d/dx means derivative of with respect to x so dy/dx means derivative of y with respect to x
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\[y=x^2\]\[\frac{\text dy}{\text dx}=2x\]\[\frac{\text d^2y}{\text dx^2}=2\] \[\frac{\text d^2y}{\text dx}=2\text dx\]\[{\text d^2y}=2\text dx{\text dx}\]\[{\iint \text d^2y}=2\iint\text dx^2\]\[\int \text dy=2\int( x+c)\text dx\]\[y=2\frac{x^2}2+c\]\[y={x^2}+cx+d\]


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Gavin Schmidt, head of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, announced last week his expectation that the Earth's average global temperature will in 2016 approach +1.15° to +1.45°C beyond the pre-industrial baseline, as based on the record-shattering temperatures that have been recorded throughout the Earth during the first three months of the year. As Dahr Jamail has pointed out, the upper boundary of this prediction closely approaches the +1.5°C "target" that the world's states acknowledged as a desirable goal for limiting global warming at the Paris climate talks last December (COP21). It bears noting that the Paris Agreement, which is entirely voluntary, does not mandate any reduction in carbon emissions until 2020 at the earliest. Meanwhile, 93% of the Great Barrier Reef has been bleached this year, and western India is suffering an unprecedented drought and heatwave, with an estimated 330 million people affected.
Science Fiction and Radical Politics: An Interview with Kim Stanley RobinsonApril 12, 2016
In the current issue of CounterPunch magazine (volume 23, number 1 [March 2016]), I have an interview with radical sci-fi novelist Kim Stanley Robinson, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards and the author of more than twenty books, including the Mars trilogy, Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt, 2312, and Aurora. We discuss political philosophy, religion, history, existentialism, commitment, ecology, and nature, among other things. An excerpt follows below; the interview in full can be accessed by purchasing the issue or subscribing regularly to CounterPunch.
JSC: Many of your works deal centrally with history, whether actual, alternate, or speculative-futural. In The Years of Rice and Salt [2002], you present several different compelling interpretations of human and natural history: for example, the image of a rising gyre, "dharma history," or "Burmese history"—"meaning any history that believed there was progress toward some goal making itself manifest in the world," or "Bodhisattva history," which "suggested that there were enlightened cultures that had sprung ahead somehow, and then gone back to the rest and worked to bring them forward—early China, Travancore, the Hodenosaunee, the Japanese diaspora, Iran—all these cultures had been proposed as possible examples of this pattern […]." In Aurora (2015), moreover, you mention the idea of history being parabolic, cyclical—as in Hindu cosmology—or as resembling a sine wave or an S-curve. It would seem to me that we are at the apex of the parabola, or just after it on the downward curve, such that we must somehow invert it, transforming it more into an S-curve shape. Which view(s) of history do you think best represent(s) the history of humanity?
KSR: I like thinking about historiography, and the various patterns or shapes that people have ascribed to history so far, but as we don't have any counter-examples to what's happened, and the entire sequence of world history seems quite contingent and non-repetitive, even non-patterned, I think we can only regard these theories as highly fanciful, and use them as ways to suggest how to act now.
I like Marx's basic pattern or sequence of capital accumulation and class warfare, and Arrighi's elaboration of it, describing capitalism's expanse from Genoa to Holland to Britain to America. I also like Hayden White's analysis suggesting that all theories of history fit with suspicious accuracy a few extremely basic narrative patterns from literature (going right back to oral storytelling of the paleolithic). This makes all historical patterns look suspect, as being stories we like to tell ourselves, and very simple stories at that.
Various trajectories of technology, culture, and the planet itself all mesh together into what we call history, so a shape for history itself is very hard to see. Still it is probably worth trying, as a way of organizing our political hopes and purposes. It could be said that the attempt to do history at all is itself a utopian project, as we try to organize our efforts in the present. One utopian shape to history is the rising gyre; things cycle, as with Arrighi's capitalism, but at each turn of the cycle, it gets bigger or moves into in a different modality. Another is the logistic curve, the S curve, repeated upward in stepwise fashion as we marshall new abilities and get better at enacting global civilization. Often I think of history as a pursuit is just another kind of fiction, a genre — a good genre, including lots of summarization and analysis as compared to dramatization, an emphasis I like. More than most fiction, this genre makes an attempt to fit with what really happened in the past, which is hopeless in some ways, but valiant. Thus a kind of realism, and all realisms are always artificial, but interesting. So history is a great genre of literature, a cousin to novels.
JSC: There are also clear existential-psychological dimensions to your novels. In The Years of Rice and Salt, you portray Khalid and Iwang, the drivers of the Samarqand Awakening of science, arguing with the Sufi Bahram in the bardo, or the Tibetan vision of the afterlife, after they had been killed by a resurgent plague. Khalid channels Shakespeare's Earl of Gloucester: he declares that the gods "kill us for sport" and impugns Bahram for the latter's devotion to love amidst the power of a world-historical course so indifferent to human happiness, while Bahram in turn stresses that courage underpins love, hope, and the commitment to struggle. Perhaps the existential dimension is most present in Aurora, particularly once the surviving crew reaches Tau Ceti and realizes the dream of settling any of its planets to be illusory. Despair grips the survivors, and many turn to suicide. Thus a cruel fate confronts them: now what, if anything, they ask?
KSR: Existentialism is the best way to express all this. I take it this way: the universe is meaningless, but has cast up the human species by a kind of miraculous accident: here we are, brief dust devils of awareness. The only meaning this cosmic accident has is what we make up for it ourselves. If we can make a meaning, good. But inevitably it's the creation of mortal and transient creatures, so it's not easy to see how to make a truly hopeful and inspiring meaning. Trying for one can feel better than not trying; sometimes much better. Even very satisfying. Certainly history, which makes each of us part of a larger story that outlasts us as individuals, is one of these attempts at meaning — as are all the religions. But again, the creation of meaning is another work of fiction-making. Possibly a life of writing novels has made everything (philosophy, religion, history) look like literature to me. Sorry; my religion, I suppose.
FARJ: "Bakunin, Malatesta y el Debate de la Plataforma"March 20, 2016
Esto es un vínculo a y fragmento de la traducción de "Bakunin, Malatesta y el Debate de la Plataforma," escrito por integrantes de la Federación Anarquista de Rio de Janeiro (FARJ) y publicado en Anarkismo. Aunque sí revindicamos y retomamos el argumento en general, denunciamos toda asociación entre la Plataforma y el pensamiento de Michael Schmidt.
"El presente texto – cuyo núcleo fue tomado de la introducción que escribimos para la edición en francés de Anarquismo Social y Organización, de la Federación Anarquista de Rio de Janeiro[1] – tiene por objetivo discutir la cuestión de la organización política específica anarquista, a partir de las contribuciones de Mikhail Bakunin, Errico Malatesta y de la "Plataforma Organizacional de la Unión General de los Anarquistas", escrita por los militantes articulados en torno a la revisa Dielo Truda, entre los cuales se encontraban Nestor Makhno y Piotr Arshinov.[2]
Por tanto, retomaremos contribuciones de Bakunin y de Malatesta y estableceremos un dialogo entre ellos y la Plataforma, similitudes y diferencias entre los anarquistas que defienden un dualismo organizacional y los bolcheviques, y las aproximaciones de Malatesta con la Síntesis, así como el impacto histórico de la Plataforma, que permitirá elucidar las posiciones que vienen siendo difundidas acerca de ese debate."
Feria Libertaria del Libro y la Publicación (FLLP 2016) MonterreyFebruary 24, 2016
El fin de semana que viene, estaré presente en Monterrey para dar dos ponencias en la Feria Libertaria del Libro y la Publicación (FLLP 2016). El primer será presentar un ensayo conjunto que he escrito con Andrew Smolski y Alexander Reid Ross, "Tierra y Libertad: El Anarquismo y las Alianzas Campesinas-Proletarias en México y Rusia, 1848-1924" (el sábado 5 marzo a las 16:30). Por otra parte, presentaré la traducción de mi libro Clima, Ecocidio y Revolución, publicada por Revuelta Epistémica hace un año, el domingo a las 16h. Muchas gracias a l@s organizadores de la feria por darme esta oportunidad. Además estoy contento que voy a estar compartiendo espacio de nuevo con mi compa scott crow.
Next weekend, I will be in Monterrey to give two talks at the Anarchist Bookfair (FLLP 2016). The first will be to present an essay I have written jointly with Andrew Smolski and Alexander Reid Ross, "Land and Liberty: Anarchism and Campesino-Proletarian Alliances in Mexico and Russia, 1848-1924" (Saturday 5 March at 4:30pm). Next, I will present the translation of my book, Imperiled Life: Revolution against Climate Catastrophe, published by Revuelta Epistémica a year ago, this on Sunday at 4pm. Many thanks to the organizers of the bookfair to allow me this opportunity. I am pleased as well that I will be sharing space again with my comrade scott crow.
"ZACF Reply to the Misrepresentation of the ZACF by American Journalists and on the Schmidt Affair"February 24, 2016
Published on Anarkismo, 19th February 2016
The following is the official statement of the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) of South Africa on the controversy that erupted around Michael Schmidt, a South African activist, several months ago. It follows a careful collective discussion process and research and comes several weeks after the last installment in a series of articles claiming to be an expose of Schmidt. As we are also committed to a number of ongoing workshops, activities and publications, our time was limited. It has two main aims: to outline our position on the claims made for, and against, Schmidt, and to respond to a number of false statements that have been made about the ZACF in the course of the developing Schmidt affair.
The statement opens with an executive summary, followed by a much more extensive discussion.
The statement was collectively crafted and issued by the ZACF: www.zabalaza.net
1. The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF, or "Zabalaza") is a small anarchist / syndicalist organisation in South Africa, dating back to 2003. It has a long history of militant work and publication, a majority black and working class composition, and connections in neighbouring countries. It was formed on May Day 2003 by independent collectives involved in student and township struggles and in the "new social movements" of the time. In line with its founding documents, the ZACF Constitution and Position Papers, the ZACF opposes all forms of oppression, including racial domination, national oppression, imperialism, the oppression of women and immigrants, and capitalism and the state (http://zabalaza.net/organise/theoretical-positions-of-the-zacf/).
2. We stand for the complete national and class emancipation of the black working class in South Africa through revolutionary struggle, and have a long track record as an organisation that's political work and social base lie primarily with the black working class and its organisations (see e.g.www.zabalaza.net and www.saasha.net and www.facebook/zabalazanews). The anarchist and syndicalist movement in South Africa is very small, and the ZACF is a substantial and important part of this movement, not a minority strand.
3. In this statement the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) discusses the controversy that has surrounded accusations against former ZACF member Michael Schmidt, by the American journalists Alexander Reid Ross and Joshua Stephens and the America-based publisher AK Press. Schmidt left active work in ZACF in early 2009, and resigned in early 2010. The allegations are that Schmidt was, from at least 2002 to the present, a fascist and racist cadre infiltrating the anarchists – including ZACF. Schmidt argues that he has been misrepresented, that his track record and the evidence are at odds with the claims, and that fake right-wing statements he made as an undercover journalist investigating the white radical right have been misrepresented as his real views. Schmidt's accusers claim these statements reflect his real views, and are part of a larger pattern of ongoing right-wing thought and action.
4. This is the second ZACF statement on the Schmidt affair, in the sense that ZACF was party to a statement issued by the global Anarkismo network on 29 September 2015, which currently comprises over a dozen revolutionary anarchist groups on five continents, most, historically, from the Global South. This statement did not take sides, but called instead for a careful evaluation of the case, the release of all evidence, and on AK Press to state that the accusations applied to Schmidt alone (not to everyone with whom he had been associated (www.anarkismo.net/article/28576). This statement was not acknowledged by Reid Ross and Stephens, or AK Press. The gravity of the allegations does not justify a lack of fair process.
5. ZACF completely distances itself from any and all racist and fascist and white supremacist positions, and condemns them in the strongest possible terms.
6. ZACF completely distances itself from any offensive statements that Schmidt has made, regardless of the rationale for such statements. We are disgusted by what we have read, and by the number of these statements, and note that these statements are indeed deeply racist and sometimes fascist. The "manifesto" and blog posts attributed to Schmidt on the right wing website Stormfront and on his blog at strandwolf.blogspot.com (linked to a group he now admits to setting up named Black Battlefront) are horrifying. It is very difficult for us to reconcile these awful blog posts (and those of several related online personas) with our experiences of Michael Schmidt as an active and dedicated member of our organisation.
7. ZACF views the accusations against Schmidt with the utmost gravity. If the accusations are proven true, ZACF will denounce Schmidt and take all appropriate steps. If proven, the accusations would indicate activities and views completely at odds with the positions and practice and social composition of the ZACF, at odds with the class-struggle, anti-racist and anti-oppression anarchist and syndicalist traditions that ZACF champions, as well as manifest dishonesty on Schmidt's part. And the ZACF would have been the primary victim of Schmidt's activities. Schmidt, if guilty, must bear the consequences of his actions.
8. ZACF also wishes to put on record that Schmidt has not been a member or participant in ZACF for over five years, has played no role in the development of this statement, or in any proposals and points that this statement makes, and has not been shown drafts or asked for comment, and also that ZACF has not been lobbied by Schmidt – or anyone else – to make any particular statements on the Schmidt affair, 2015-2016.
9. It is our position that the Schmidt affair cannot be resolved through another round of online articles, social media debates or statements. Not only have the online debates become unproductive and polarised (see point 27) but so much information and analysis has been produced that it is very difficult for individuals and organisations to methodically process and evaluate all arguments made by both sides.
10. In terms of evaluating the charges against Schmidt, ZACF instead supports the 30 January 2016 Anarkismo proposal for an inclusive and international anarchist and syndicalist commission of inquiry, to examine the allegations against Schmidt, as well as Schmidt's replies to the allegations, with accusers and accused and sources available to answer questions and provide materials to the commission. The proposal does not envisage an Anarkismo-controlled process. Nor would Reid Ross and Stephens, AK Press or Schmidt, decide on its composition. See http://anarkismo.net/article/29047
11. We believe there are real problems with some of the statements made by both the accusers of Schmidt against Schmidt himself, as well as in Schmidt's responses to these accusations. These may be open to innocent explanations: we keep an open mind. The ZACF will make a formal submission to the proposed commission, and be available for questions and to provide additional materials to that commission. We have extensive archives and records, which back up our claims, for example, about ZACF history (see below).
12. ZACF will also consider itself guided by the findings and recommendations of the proposed commission. The ZACF will address all the allegations against Schmidt himself, as well as his defence, in a separate statement at the conclusion of the commission's investigations.
13. ZACF wishes to place on record that when similar accusations were levelled against Schmidt from 2011 onwards, we confronted and checked on Schmidt several times. He has always maintained the same basic defence as that he has presented in 2015. Given the evidence we had to hand, and given Schmidt's record and status as a long-standing comrade, we felt that we had no real choice but to give him the benefit of the doubt. Historically we have critically accepted Schmidt's explanation for what we felt was the lack of an alternative, but we recognise that an extensive case has now been made against Schmidt, and new evidence brought to bear. This new material and debate merits careful reflection and evaluation, but must be weighed up carefully against his own counter-case – honestly and fairly.
14. ZACF expresses its disappointment with Schmidt's now-admitted non-disclosure of aspects of his claimed underground journalistic work to the ZACF, both during his tenure in the ZACF and when it previously spoke to him from 2011 onwards. ZACF is highly disappointed by Schmidt's now-admitted failure to inform ZACF that he knew the identity of a National Intelligence Agency (NIA) spy moving in left circles.
15. We do not, in this statement, therefore discuss whether Schmidt is indeed guilty of all the charges that have been made against him by AK Press, and Reid Ross and Stephens. This statement is not a point-by-point discussion of evidence around Schmidt, and should not be misconstrued as such. It is detailed, not to bury issues in words, but because serious allegations need a serious reply.
16. ZACF rejects the version of ZACF history and politics contained within Reid Ross and Stephens' articles. We realise well enough that ZACF was not the focus of the articles, and take it in good faith that we entered the conversation only by way of association, but we have to respond to what constitutes (even if unintentionally) a series of very serious, very damaging (and, as we show, false) allegations about our organisation. They were not irrelevant to it, or trivialities that can be ignored on the grounds that the focus was on Schmidt.
17. ZACF specifically rejects the following central claims put foward by Reid Ross and Stephens: that the ZACF considered a proposal for racial segregation in 2003 (untrue), that Schmidt successfully engineered the expulsion of black and township ZACF members in 2005 to whittle ZACF into a white group (untrue), that ZACF's organisational culture was deeply shaped by an allegedly racist and fascist Schmidt (untrue), that ZACF ignored evidence that Schmidt was involved with the radical right (untrue), that other ZACF members shared Schmidt's alleged right-wing opinions (untrue), that ZACF opposed feminism (untrue), that a ZACF social centre and garden in Soweto was run on racist lines (untrue), and they speak of a "Schmidt-era" of ZACF lasting into 2009 (untrue). ZACF also rejects Reid Ross and Stephens' claims about the "national" character of ZACF, claims about the 2007 ZACF congress, claims about ZACF financial practices, claims about ZACF organisational culture and standards, and claims that ZACF ignored a problematic document that Schmidt issued internally in 2008 called "Politico-Cultural Dynamics of the South African Anarchist Movement" (ZACF discussed and rejected the document, and Schmidt also formally repudiated it that year).
18. There is no evidence whatsoever that ZACF was subverted, before, during or after 2008 by any fascist or racist or radical white right agenda, by anyone whatsoever. We are not concerned here with the separate issue of what Schmidt might have done elsewhere, covertly or otherwise in this period, we are stating that ZACF was never influenced by these politics – and that Schmidt never openly pursued any such politics while in ZACF. Contrary to the impression given by Reid Ross and Stephens, ZACF has always strived to act decisively and in line with its revolutionary principles and approach. There was no transition from a so-called right-wing "Schmidt-era" of ZACF, to a new, transformed ZACF later: ZACF theory and perspectives never changed, and the black working class orientation of ZACF never changed.
19. This criticism of the articles is not a matter of "shooting-the-messenger," but of demonstrating that the message (as regards ZACF) is wrong. It is essential to our honour as revolutionaries to challenge, on the basis of facts, the profoundly inaccurate Reid Ross and Stephens' version of ZACF history and politics, to clarifying the record of the ZACF, this including Schmidt's role in ZACF, and ZACF's relations to Schmidt, when he was a member, and subsequently.
20. Reid Ross and Stephens' inaccurate representation of ZACF is based on poor research and analysis, and serious factual and analytical problems, regarding not just ZACF but South Africa generally. Eurocentrism and an uncritical embrace by the two journalists of deeply problematic anti-left arguments associated with the South African state and ultra-nationalists, but rooted in the colonial geography of reason, are part of the problem.
21. No use was made of easily available ZACF source materials and archives, and the two journalists have failed to contact ZACF throughout the series to check facts or to provide right-of-reply to charges made. Their account of ZACF is almost entirely based on the views of one former member active for a relatively short period, outsider opinions, dubious inferences from an inaccurate document by Schmidt that was rejected by ZACF, and unsubstantiated and often demonstrably false assertions. The history of ZACF cannot be based on so few sources, especially given that claims made by these sources contradict a larger body of other evidence that has been ignored.
22. Silencing black and African voices, and the ZACF, has been central to the articles' methodology. ZACF sources were ignored. Contradictory data and testimony was ignored. In particular this relates to one ZACF ex-member and founder member, comrade Mzamani Philip Nyalungu, who was made central to one article (in fact he is the only person we feel was insulted by name, besides Schmidt, in their seven articles.) His testimony, at odds with key claims by the journalists, was not cited, yet the testimony of two white ex-ZACF members was repeatedly presented as self-evidently true. This can be construed as racist: while Reid Ross and Stephens may argue that they have grounds to criticise Schmidt harshly, there is no justification for this treatment of a serious black working class militant.
23. Claims that we are unduly emotional about what we feel is an unjustifiable misrepresentation of the ZACF, that trivialise this misrepresentation, or that present ZACF as ill-informed or ill-motivated, reflect the same colonial and silencing outlook.
24. There was a double-standard throughout the discussion of ZACF, which placed ZACF in a subordinate position, and had racial overtones. Reid Ross and Stephens stated that they concealed the names of the sources cited to ensure their personal security. Yet they provided the name and residential information of a prominent, township-based, black working class ex-ZACF member, while diligently concealing the details of a white middle class ex-ZACF member, no longer even resident in South Africa. No account was taken of the often violently intolerant contexts in which ZACF operates, and how the claims made in the articles against ZACF place it and its members at risk. If Schmidt was a fascist, racist infiltrator who was allegedly sufficiently dangerous to require that sources be kept concealed for safety, as the journalists insisted, then their immediate responsibility was actually to inform ZACF of a potentially deadly security threat. This would have allowed us to take immediate steps for the security of our black working class base. This never happened.
25. The same double standard was evident in the contrasting treatment of AK Press and ZACF. ZACF believes it completely unacceptable that Reid Ross and Stephens informed AK Press of their investigations into Schmidt and pending articles, allowing it to avoid reputational damage with a pre-emptive public statement – yet did not contact ZACF in a similar manner.
26. The development of the Schmidt affair raises questions about the future of the anarchist movement in the Global South and elsewhere. Certainly if Schmidt is guilty there are grounds for serious concern, but we have in mind here other issues that are just as important. The absence of a proper right-of-reply prior to publication, for both ZACF and Schmidt, the neglect for the safety and wellbeing of a black ZACF founder member, the hostile and personalised tone of many claims in the articles, the trial-by-media that has taken place, and the serious inaccuracies in the story around the ZACF, are some of the problems.
27. The ZACF also expresses its serious concern about the venomous and polarised tone that online debates on the Schmidt affair have assumed. A vocal anti-Schmidt current dominates many forums by relying, not on substantive debate, but on innuendos and on labelling, with any disagreement with any part of Reid Ross and Stephens' / AK Press' claims treated as the work of fascists, racists, tools of Schmidt etc. In this climate, those with contrary views soon withdraw, rational debate is closed, and more nuanced views that do not fit a neat pro-/ anti-Schmidt position, are lost. This is not a constructive approach to any debate, regardless of the severity of the accusations.
28. A sectarian current has also used the Schmidt affair to attack the ZACF, Anarkismo, and the whole anarcho-syndicalist, revolutionary syndicalist and anarchist-communist mainstream of anarchism. The simple fact of the matter is that, if Schmidt is indeed guilty, he would have betrayed the basic principles of class-struggle anarchism, the ZACF he helped found, the anarchists he has worked with as a militant and as a writer, and the movement generally. Therefore it is false to assume that if Schmidt is guilty, that his views represent, or arise from, class-struggle or Platformist/especifista anarchist traditions.
29. We are appalled that the worst public caricature that has ever been made of the ZACF comes, not from the state, not from capital, not from other left groups, but from people who claim to be anarchists. This is not a sign of a healthy movement.
30. ZACF believes there are also serious North/ South power dynamics at play in the affair that need attention. Precisely because countries like the USA dominate media, knowledge production and publication globally, even obscure writers in the Global North have a louder voice than almost any in the Global South. This is the context that allows the tiny collective running the America-based publishing house AK Press, and two minor (although doubtless well-intentioned and sincere – we are not debating their personalities) American journalists, Reid Ross and Stephens, to propagate their views on a global scale. ZACF simply has no commensurate power, this being directly linked to its African basis.
31. This North/ South situation allows the views of ZACF and Anarkismo, representing far more people and countries than one American publishing cooperative and two American journalists, to be completely marginalised, power reinforcing the process of silencing the African and black and ZACF voices that we have mentioned. It allows AK Press to effectively ban from publication Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism, which was primarily authored by one-time ZACF member, comrade Lucien van der Walt, almost a decade ago, as part of a larger project with Schmidt. It allows Anarkismo's efforts to democratise the AK Press space by taking responsibility, qualifying its claims, and carrying different views on the story, to be ignored. It allows Reid Ross and Stephens to say what they wish about ZACF from behind the secure walls of the dollar and the American legal system. And it allows the unedifying spectacle of two white Americans doling out advice on racial politics and "the deleterious effects of institutionalized power disparities" to African and black anarchist revolutionaries.
32. We reject the AK Press collective's attempts to deny responsibility in this affair. By their own admission, they worked with Reid Ross and Stephens to investigate Schmidt, and collaborated with them in compiling evidence; and they have provided the main platform for the mass dissemination of Reid Ross and Stephens' seven articles. They are as responsible as Reid Ross and Stephens for what the ZACF has endured.
33. All of this is far from the prefigurative, solidaristic and internationalist movement we would like to see change the world. To avoid similar situations in future, we advocate a code of conduct for anarchist or anarchist-identified writers and journalists, that measures be put in place to keep small collectives controlling massive resources – including publishers like AK Press – accountable to the movements they claim to serve, the development of a more inclusive anarchist press, in which voices from working class and peasant movements, from ghettoes, from townships, from labour movements, from the oppressed nationalities and classes, and from the Global South as well as the Global North, are central.
34. ZACF also believes that substantial sectors of the self-identified anarchist movement need to have some serious introspection about the political culture of venom, sectarianism, and McCarthyite-style paranoia, obsessed with ultra-fringe forces like "national-anarchism," exposed in the Schmidt affair. This that often substitutes for, and certainly hinders, building a mass, sustained, organised anarchism and syndicalism rooted in the popular classes, in labour movements, in oppressed nationalities, and in actual revolutionary struggles. Approaches like those proposed by Anarkismo and ZACF – a cautious approach to serious allegations, the use of a commission – can play an important role in this process.
35. We do not object to debate, or to criticism or self-reflection. Nor do we object to the anarchist and syndicalist movement having open and frank discussions. We do not call for a unity based on ignoring differences or on silence. We welcome open and honest debate as an essential part of an effective political practice. But what we do object to are debates based on sectarianism, personal attacks, innuendos, labelling, and bullying, and a lack of sensitivity to power dynamics.
36. We wish to stress that we have no personal issues with either Reid Ross or Stephens, neither of whom we know. We have no objections to critique. And we note Reid Ross emailed us on 27 December 2015 to state, "You have only my deepest respect for carrying on your incredible work" and stated he was "deeply sorry" if the articles created problems for ZACF. He also stated, "It was always my intention to remove both your collective and Lucien [van der Walt] from the investigation in such a way that would prevent a kind of 'witch hunt' effect." We appreciate this effort to reach out to us, and the sentiment contained in these statements.
37. But the fact remains that the articles have, whether intentional or not, promoted falsehoods about ZACF, created serious problems for ZACF, silenced and even lectured ZACF. Neither AK Press, nor Stephens, nor Reid Ross have admitted this publicly; AK Press cancelled "Black Flame," of which comrade van der Walt was primary author, Reid Ross and Stephens slated that book in their articles and by implication comrade van der Walt, and the articles presented ZACF as fundamentally subverted by a fascist and racist agenda. This obviously creates problems for ZACF.
38. Although Black Flame has, like any book, various flaws, and is not a ZACF publication, we insist that it is a revolutionary anarchist classic that remains of enduring value. It is a non-Eurocentric South-centred text that, for the first time, places people of colour, the Global South and struggles against imperialism and racism at the very centre of the history, canon and movements of historic anarchism and syndicalism. Reid Ross and Stephens themselves concede the book asserts the "primacy of class struggle and workers' movements" in a global anarchist struggle – and this is not a rightist or a nationalist position.
39. We therefore urge both Reid Ross and Stephens, as well as members of the AK Press collective, not to fire off a hasty response to what we have written, but to consider seriously and respectfully the problems they have created for ZACF, one of the main anarchist organisations in Africa. And to admit there is fault, and that there are errors in the articles and the process that created them. We have no personal issues with any of these parties: we are raising issues of principle and process that deserve due consideration and a respectful conversation. We urge them to avoid statements that trivialize what has been done to ZACF, and how it has been done, or that evade responsibility by suggesting our responses are unduly emotional or ignorant.
40. If they are deeply sorry for the problems they created, as Reid Ross stated in his e-mail to the ZACF, they should issue a public apology to ZACF and to comrades Nyalungu and van der Walt (approved by ZACF in advance), for the misrepresentations that have been made, and also make a clear public statement (approved by ZACF in advance) explicitly stating that the allegations that they have made against Schmidt refer to Schmidt alone, and not to any publishers, co-authors, editors, left organisations or currents with which he may have been associated. (To his credit, Reid Ross has suggested that he is amiable to the idea of such a statement although we note that it has not, so far, appeared. We note with appreciation a statement by Reid Ross published on 17 February ( http://alexanderreidross.com/ideological-influence-and-the-schmidt-affair/ [10]) in which he states that "some have implicated the wrong people, groups, or sets of ideas", but do not feel this goes far enough in addressing our concerns and ameliorating the damage done to the political work, dignity and reputation of the ZACF, comrades Nyalungu and van der Walt or "Black Flame".)
*1A. ZACF: Politics, Record and the Black Working Class Revolution
*1B. Locating ZACF in Southern Africa's Radical "Humanism" and Revolutionary Non-Racialism
*1C. Online Resources on the ZACF
*2A. Overview of the 2015 Controversy over Michael Schmidt
*2B. How Anarkismo and ZACF Intervened at the Start of the Michael Schmidt Controversy
*2C. A Proposed Anarchist/ Syndicalist Commission into the Charges against Schmidt in 2016
*2D. FACT: ZACF Questioned Schmidt When Similar Allegations were made from 2011 Onwards
*2E. FACT: ZACF has Not Yet Taken a Position For or Against Schmidt in 2015/ 2016
*3A. A Summary of Reid Ross & Stephens' Inaccurate Claims about ZACF
*3B. FACT: The ZACF Never Considered any Proposal for "Segregation," Argued Instead for a Black Working Class Focus, in 2003
*3C. FACT: The ZACF Never "Purged" Township Groups or Members
*3D. FACT: ZACF Mass Work in Motsoaledi, Soweto as Against Reid Ross & Stephens' Disrespect for Comrade Nyalungu and PMCP/ BAG
*3E. FACT: ZACF Spending and ZACF Democracy
*3F. FACT: The 2007 ZACF Congress Aimed to Rebuild the ZACF Presence in the Black Working Class
*3G. FACT: The ZACF (and Schmidt) Rejected Schmidt's "Politico-Cultural Dynamics …" Document in 2008
*3H. FACT: The Revolutionary Politics of "Black Flame"
*3I. FACT: Dispelling the Myth of a ZACF Debate on the "Recruitment of People of Colour" and of ZACF Becoming "Increasingly Open"
*3J. FACT: Claims that Schmidt Allegedly Voted FF+ were Never Ignored
*3K. FACT: Dispelling the Myth of a ZACF Debate on the "Inclusion of Feminism," 2009-2010
*3L. FACT: Dispelling the Myth of a Debate on Working with "Collectives with Ideological Differences," 2009-2010
*4A. Extraordinarily Narrow Data Collection, which Silenced ZACF, African and Black Anarchists
*4B. A Selective Use of Evidence and Leading the Witness
*4C. The Need to Distinguish Direct Witness Testimony, Second-hand Information and Opinion
*4D. Research Problems with Excessively Using Anonymous Sources
*4E. Fact-Checking Controlled by the Authors
*4F. Was Such Extensive Anonymity Really Required?
*4G. Time Constraints Do Not Explain the Mistakes
*4H. The Lack of a Proper Editorial or Peer-Review Process
*5A. Authoritarian Nationalism and Colonial Reason: The Roots of Anti-Left Arguments
*5B. The Unknown Country: Reading South Africa off the USA and Western Europe
*6A. For a Constructive Debate, Against Sectarianism
*6B. The Importance of Consistent Principles: The Double Standards of Personal Security in the Schmidt Affair
*6C. The AK Press Connection: Also Guilty
*6D. The North/ South Dynamics of the Schmidt Affair
Link to the full statement
The Insurgent Kingdom of God: On The Politics of ZealotFebruary 18, 2016
First published on Anarkismo, 18 February 2016
Reza Aslan, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. New York: Random House 2013. 296pp.
Professor Reza Aslan's Zealot is in large part the story of how the life of Jesus of Nazareth was "revised" ex post facto by the evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. While Jewish themselves, these early Christians wished to break definitively with their mother religion in the wake of the brutal counter-insurgent campaign waged by Rome against the Jewish Revolt that had been launched in Palestine in 66 C.E., only to be finally put down when the Romans destroyed the Temple and ravaged Jerusalem in 70 C.E. Indeed, it was in this year or the very next one that the first Gospel, written by Mark, was composed; the rest of the gospels were written later, between 90 and 120 C.E. Aslan makes clear that the birth of Christianity was not the end sought by Jesus or his closest disciples, including Simon (Peter) and his brother James, but was rather the result of the unflagging efforts of Saul (later Paul) of Tarsus, who in his missionary epistles to the Greco-Roman gentiles stressed the divinity of Jesus, thus transforming the rebel-prophet Jesus into Christ the messiah, a "Romanized demigod" (171).
In this way, the ascendancy of Pauline Christianity was largely due to historical circumstance: with the "Jerusalem branch" of Jesus' followers wiped out by the Roman attack on Jerusalem, Paul's vision of Jesus was the only one left standing, with the exception of the hypothetical Q document on which Matthew and Luke were based (214). Plus, as Aslan observes, Paul's views certainly permeate in Luke and John (215). According to the author, this geographical shift from Jerusalem to the Greco-Roman Diaspora implied the opportunistic transformation of the historical zealot Jesus into a pacifist and of the Kingdom of God he had proclaimed into an ethereal matter reserved for the afterlife. As Aslan notes, such conscious manipulation of history cannot be dissociated from the virulence of European Jew-hatred over the past two millennia, as inspired by the evangelists, who portray the Jewish rabble and/or their corrupt leaders as responsible for Christ's execution, with Pilate merely "washing his hands," when in fact Jesus was murdered by the State, the occupying power of Rome.
Aslan makes clear that Jesus was crucified for sedition—indeed, that crucifixion was the punishment reserved for political offenders, and that the two prisoners executed alongside Christ on Golgotha were "bandits" (lestai), not "thieves." The author places Jesus' rebellion within the context of the times, echoing the demands and fate of similar anti-Roman messianic figures and the movements they led from the century leading up to the general Revolt, such as the bandit chief Hezekiah, Judas the Galilean, "the Samaritan," and "the Egyptian" (79). Ironically enough, Aslan argues that Jesus was effectively John the Baptist's disciple, for Christ adopted John's ascetic-defiant announcement of the Kingdom of God, and even shared the same fate as his master at the hands of the State (80-9).
In addition, the author provides a compelling clarification of Jesus' well-known proclamation regarding the need to "render unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and render unto God what belongs to God" (Mark 12:17/Matthew 22:21/Luke 20:25). Though this line has often been used to rationalize Christian subordination to the State, its meaning is in fact quite revolutionary, as demonstrated by the evangelists' recording of the audience's reaction, "amazed at him." In response to the question posed by the Pharisees or their spies about whether Jews should agree to pay tribute to Rome, Jesus requests to be shown a denarius, an imperial coin, and asks "whose image and inscription hath it?" In response to his listeners' correct identification, Christ tells the audience that the symbolic coin must be returned to Caesar, to whom it belongs, just as the land of occupied Palestine must be rendered holy, emancipated from the yoke of Roman occupation (76-8). Though the national-liberation zealot movement as represented by the Zealot Party would not formally be founded for another three decades after the death of Christ, Aslan observes that Christ's view of the denarius and Caesar clearly communicates the prophet's affinity for the philosophy of that movement. Of course, Jesus' proclamation of the Kingdom of God being at hand should be interpreted similarly as a fundamental challenge to the established system of clerical-military domination, for "God's rule cannot be established without the annihilation of the present leaders" (119).
Hence, Aslan clearly acknowledges that the "Kingdom of God is a call to revolution, plain and simple" (120). However, in his discussion of this insurgent concept, Aslan calls into question what is perhaps most radical within Christ's teachings: the affirmation that the "greatest commandment" is to love one's neighbor as oneself (Matthew 22:39). Aslan writes that Jesus' declaration of this maxim was meant to be applied only to members of the Jewish nation only, and thus should not be understood as a universal humanistic declaration of equality and solidarity (120-2). "There is no reason to consider Jesus's conception of his neighbors and enemies to have been any more or less expansive than that of any other Jew of his time" (122). To support this claim, Aslan argues that Christ's clarification that he came not to destroy Mosaic law but to fulfill it (Matthew 5:17) necessarily means that the prophet must have endorsed chauvinist conceptions about peoples other than Jews. However, this claim is somewhat imprecise; it is unclear why Christ's affirmation of the Golden Rule, if directed primarily toward Jews, could not also dialectically apply to gentiles or humanity in general. Beginning three centuries before Christ, the Stoics had identified the innateness of human equality and the unity of humankind through natural law.1 In parallel, four or five centuries before Christ, Buddha had developed the concept of the common struggle of all suffering beings. Christ's "new commandment" for his followers to "love one another" (John 13:35) self-evidently shares a great deal with these other egalitarian philosophies.
Related to the question of Christian, Buddhist, or Stoic egalitarianism is Aslan's presentation of the Kingdom of God. Aslan intimates that Christ's proclamation of the Kingdom of God was "neither purely celestial nor wholly eschatological," but rather real and physical, such that Jesus envisioned himself ruling a reconstituted, liberated Israel in God's name, with the twelve apostles serving as his lieutenant-governors (118-25). The accusation of Christ's having proclaimed himself King of the Jews (INRI), was, according to the Gospels, the "evidence" for the charge of sedition on which he was executed. Yet Aslan also discusses the translation of a line unique to John that may have been uttered by Christ during his interrogation by Pilate: "My kingdom is not of this order [or system]" (John 18:36) (116). Usually translated as not being "of this world"—and hence understood as being reserved for the afterlife—Christ's "kingdom" in this sense presents a very different vision of social organization, whether we think of the classical eastern Mediterranean or the world of our own day. This is particularly the case if we juxtapose this heretical declaration with the prophet's condemnation of private property, for example, in the Sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes (Matthew 5-7), the parables about the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:29-37) and Lazarus and the wealthy man (Luke 16:19-31), and the apocalyptical vision of Judgment Day, when the rich would be cast into hell, while the oppressed and those promoting mutual aid would be saved (Matthew 25:31-46)—to say nothing of his physical clearing of the Temple in Jerusalem of the money-changers (Mark 11:15-19/Matthew 21:12-17/Luke 19:45-48). Though Aslan recognizes Christ's revolutionary vision, he does not explicitly acknowledge the Kingdom of God's proto-communist character or the materialist metaphor of Christ's healing of the sick free of charge, preferring to associate the former concept with the national-liberation struggle against the Romans and the concept of divine sovereignty. Nevertheless, he describes how Christ's revolutionism influenced his brother James, known as "the Just," who too would be executed for championing the cause of the oppressed (197-212).
One final matter to discuss from Aslan's volume is the author's dismissal of the evangelists' imputing to Christ a stance of pacifism and the espousal of non-resistance to evil by violence. In Matthew 5:38-44 and Luke 6:27-29, Jesus includes within his Sermon on the Mount a critique of the established lex talonis stipulating "an eye for an eye" and in its place presents the injunction to "turn the other cheek" and "love your enemies." Aslan rejects these teachings as fabrications, for they contradict his account of Christ's zealotry; he clarifies his view that Jesus was "no fool" when it came to social change, meaning that he "understood" that force would be necessary to realize the Kingdom of God (120-2). Aslan cites Christ's statement that he had "not come to bring peace, but a sword" (Matthew 10:34) to support the line of argumentation, though he entirely decontextualizes this statement—with the image of "sword" incidentally being translated in Luke 12:51 as "division" to express the same idea—for in Matthew the very next lines read as follows: "I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother […]. He that loveth father or mother [or child] more than me is not worthy of me […]. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me" (Matthew 10:35-8). Hence, while it is evident that Christ's critique shares much in common with zealotry in terms of the question of the Roman occupation—as reflected, verily, in the prophet's warning to his apostles that they would likely face execution for joining him—it is far less clear that Jesus agreed with the violent tactics used by zealots against Rome. Indeed, next to the commandment to love one's neighbor, the calls for non-violent non-cooperation and the harmonization of means and ends are among the most innovative of Christ's teachings. In this vein, while in no way uncritically advancing pacifism, one wonders if Aslan would also call Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., or their followers "fools."
In sum, Aslan has certainly provided a thought-provoking account of the "life and times" of Jesus of Nazareth. He places one of history's most fateful personalities directly within the political and economic realities that led him on the path of anti-colonial, proto-socialist rebellion. In so doing, the author implicitly condemns the depoliticized image of Christ that has been propagated by the various institutionalized churches which arose over the past two millennia to officially "represent" Christianity—however fundamentally essentially all of these churches have departed from the essence of Christ's teachings, summarized by Tolstoy as being the proclamation of "universal brotherhood, the elimination of national distinctions, the abolition of private property, and the strange injunction not to resist evil by violence."2 As a biographical and philosophical examination of the world-historical Jewish prophet who demanded that his disciples "call no man [their] father upon the Earth [… and] neither be called masters" (Matthew 23:9-10), Zealot bears a great deal of contemplation, discussion, and action.
1Ernst Bloch, Natural Law and Human Dignity, trans. Dennis J. Schmidt (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986), 10-16.
2Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You and Peace Essays, trans. Aylmer Maude (London: Oxford University Press, 1960), 134.
Review – The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-LeftFebruary 9, 2016
First published on Marx and Philosophy, 8 February 2016
The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left: A Marxist Critique
Mehring Books, Oak Park, Michigan, 2015. 320pp., $24.95 pb
In his "Marxist Critique" of The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism, and The Politics of the Pseudo-Left, David North, a high-ranking member within the Trotskyist Fourth International, chairman of the U.S. Socialist Equality Party (SEP), and editor of the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS), reprints polemical essays (2003-2012) voicing the response of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) to the heterodox theoretical suggestions made by fellow travelers Alex Steiner and Frank Brenner to incorporate greater concern for psychology, utopia, gender, and sexuality into the ICFI's program. Whereas Steiner and Brenner sought to open the Fourth International to the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School and Wilhelm Reich's sex-pol approach, North repudiates any such suggestion as beyond the pale and plainly communicates his revulsion with the Frankfurt School as an alternative to Marxism-Leninism. To rationalize his dismissal of Critical Theory, he rather baselessly ties its legacy to the rise of postmodernist irrationalism. North essentially claims any left-wing intellectual "deviation" from the ICFI's Trotskyism irredeemably to espouse "pseudo-left," "petty bourgeois," "anti-Marxist," even "anti-socialist" politics. To sustain such fantasies, North presents a highly dishonest, even unhinged analysis of the Frankfurt School theorists and theories.
Starting in his Foreword (2015), North clarifies the association he sees among the "anti-materialist and anti-Marxist intellectual tendencies" represented by the Frankfurt School, existentialism, and postmodernism, which for him converge to form the "pseudo-left" (v). North facilely groups the Frankfurt School theorists together with the thought of Nietzsche, Sorel, and postmodernists like Foucault, Laclau, and Badiou (vii). Centered on "race, nationality, ethnicity, gender, and sexual preference," "pseudo-left" approaches have in North's opinion "come to play a critical role in suppressing opposition to capitalism, by rejecting class […] and by legitimizing imperialist interventions and wars in the name of 'human rights'" (vii). North cites SYRIZA (Greece) and "the remnants and descendants of the 'Occupy' movements influenced by anarchist and post-anarchist tendencies" as typifying "pseudo-leftism" (xxii). He then enumerates the following accusations against the "pseudo-left":
- that it rejects Marxism,
- advances "subjective idealism and philosophical irrationalism" in place of historical materialism,
- opposes class struggle and socialism,
- denies the centrality of the proletariat and the need for revolution,
- promotes identity politics,
- and advances militarism and imperialism (xxii-xxiii, 205).
In his stentorian 2006 letter to Steiner and Brenner, "Marxism, History, and Socialist Consiousness," North dismisses his counterparts' attempts to "infiltrate the disoriented anti-Marxist pseudo-utopianism of Wilhelm Reich, Ernst Bloch, and Herbert Marcuse" into the ICFI's program, and dismisses the sexual-psychological dimensions of Steiner's concern for the development of socialist consciousness (24, 30). Almost in passing, in an attempt to discredit Marcuse and Theodor Adorno, North opportunistically claims that these thinkers supported Stalin's Moscow Trials, yet no evidence is produced for such serious charges (44). North employs the same line against Bloch, who, unlike Adorno and Marcuse, admittedly was a Stalinist for some time: the author hypothesizes that Bloch's utopianism "has something to do" with the "political swinishness" Bloch evinced during Stalin's purges (44).
In this essay, North identifies communism as the culmination of Enlightenment materialism and rationalism, while dissociating Steiner and Brenner from Marxism altogether. In North's words, these latter take after the "demoralized petty-bourgeois theorists of the Frankfurt School," who for the SEP chairman are supposed to have rejected Marxism and the Enlightenment wholesale (64-9). Turning to a discussion of utopianism, the author indicates that "Utopia […] is not part of a Marxist program" (72, original emphasis). North argues that the relevance of utopia had been superseded even in Marx and Engels' day (76-80). Yet tellingly, North boasts of Marx and Engels' "brutally critical" approach toward "any tendency expressing a retreat from these theoretical conquests [they had made]" in the early years of international communism (80).
North then associates utopianism with idealism, presenting a deterministic account of the development of these philosophies, such that socialism remained "utopian" before the onset of industrial capitalism (82-4). He accuses Steiner and Brenner of resurrecting Bernstein's reformism because Bernstein disagreed with Engels' repudiation of utopianism, and of sympathizing with Kant due to their concern for morality (98-102).
The author then launches a tirade against Wilhelm Reich, whom he denounces for being "pessimistic" in his analysis of the rise of Nazism (Mass Psychology of Fascism [1933]), an account that challenges the inevitability of revolution under sexually repressive monopoly capitalism (113-21). Against Steiner's recommendations, North clarifies that contemplation of Reich's sex-pol "can only result in the worst forms of political disorientation" (114-5).
In "The Political and Intellectual Odyssey of Alex Steiner" (2008), the ICFI's response to Steiner and Brenner's reply to "Marxism, History, and Socialist Consciousness," North expounds more invective against the Frankfurt School. Sketching his view of the affinities among Critical Theory, Marxist humanism, and the New Left's "middle-class radicalism," North explains his view of how such "pseudo-left" thinking has penetrated the academy: that is, through the efforts of the "ex-radicals" of the 1960s, who putatively propagated an "unrelenting war—not against capitalism, but, rather, against Marxism" (134). He proceeds to slanderously claim Critical Theory as being "grounded in a reactionary philosophical tradition—irrationalist, idealist, and individualistic" (140, emphasis added). Passing to comment on Steiner's "apologetic defense" of Marcuse's Eros and Civilization (1955), North observes that his counterpart's affirmation of Marcuse's account cannot be separated from the critical theorist's "rejection of the revolutionary role of the working class" (193-5). The author peremptorily concludes by reiterating the charge of "petty-bourgeois" ways of thinking—all the while counterposing the thought of Marx and Trotsky, who epitomized the petty bourgeoisie; of Engels the grand capitalist; and of Plekhanov and Lenin, Russian nobles.
In "The Theoretical and Historical Origins of the Pseudo-Left" (2012), North endorses the continued centrality of Trotsky's concern for resolving the "historical crisis of the leadership of the proletariat" and dismisses accusations of state capitalism raised against the USSR (202-3, 206-7). North contrasts Trotsky's structured vanguardism to the "petty-bourgeois despair" he sees Adorno and Max Horkheimer advancing in Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944/1947) (207-10). North asserts the revisionist repudiation of reason and the proletariat to be fundamental to the thought of Marcuse, Raya Dunayevskaya, and "countless anarchist, post-anarchist, and post-structuralist tendencies," and he ties together Marcuse's Freudianism with the "post-Marxist Left" that arose after 1968 (210-9). On North's account, the affinity that the "petty-bourgeois" and "affluent" left has for heresies such as Critical Theory, post-Marxism, and even postmodernism putatively reflects its "hostility to the struggles of the working class" (219-20, emphasis in original).
Besides the centrality of ad hominem attacks within these "interventions" by North, one is struck that the essays in this volume actually contain only a handful of oblique references to Critical Theory. North offers no serious analysis of the Frankfurt School here. Instead, he resorts to slanderous character assassination and half-baked theories of guilt by association. The text often repeats the point either that Critical Theory is non-identical to Trotskyism and as such merits little attention, or that the Frankfurt School served as a major inspiration for postmodernism due to the challenges it raised against orthodox Marxism, and as such should be considered taboo. Both claims are nonsensical. Part of the issue, clearly, is North's reduction of Marxism to Trotskyism, particularly that of the ICFI/SEP.
In assessing North's account, one must firstly examine the author's most inflammatory charge: that Adorno and Marcuse "went along" with the Moscow Trials (1936-1938). North provides no evidence for this accusation, though it is quoted without citation in WSWS writer Stefan Steinberg's "Letter and reply on Theodor Adorno" (2009). North's source for the accusation is a 1938 letter Adorno wrote to Horkheimer, identifying Hitler as a capitalist pawn who would soon attack the USSR, expressing his disappointment with the Moscow show trials and Soviet cultural policies, yet concluding that "the most loyal attitude to Russia at the moment is probably shown by keeping quiet" (Wiggershaus 162). This is not definitive proof of North's charge. The allegation is belied by Adorno's May 1938 letter to Walter Benjamin, commenting on a meeting with Hans Eisler: "I listened with not a little patience to his feeble defence of the Moscow trials, and with considerable disgust to the joke he cracked about the murder of [Nikolai] Bukharin" (Claussen 237-8, emphasis added). Adorno's biographer explains that Benjamin, Adorno, and Horkheimer all disagreed with Bloch's support for the Moscow Trials (ibid). Thus is North's charge against Adorno disarmed. And Marcuse? He mentions the trials in the 1968 preface to Negations: "The last time that freedom, solidarity, and humanity were the goals of a revolutionary struggle was on the battlefields of the Spanish civil war […]. The end of a historical period and the horror of the one to come were announced in the simultaneity of the civil war in Spain and the trials in Moscow" (Marcuse 1968, xv).
While this does not evidence Marcuse's contemporary views of the Moscow Trials, it speaks for itself. I asked Peter Marcuse, Herbert's son, what he thought of the accusation that his father had supported or "gone along" with the Moscow Trials: "That's absurd. Though my father had identified tendencies within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) that he felt intended to subvert the Soviet Constitution, he didn't believe the Moscow Trials were the proper means of dealing with this" (personal conversation, 13 January 2016). North's accusations against Adorno and Marcuse thus appear baseless.
Another clear issue is North's conflation of Critical Theory with postmodernism—a gross distortion. While the critical theorists certainly challenged several fundamental points of orthodox Marxism, it is untrue that all of them rejected revolution and opposed class struggle and socialism, as postmodernists do. One cannot reasonably charge the libertarian-socialist revolutionists Marcuse and Benjamin with repudiating the Enlightenment or advancing "irrationalist […] and individualistic" politics.
Regarding the claim that Critical Theory rejects class struggle and the revolutionary role of the proletariat, it bears noting that the various members of the Frankfurt School differed on these questions and shifted their views over time. While Adorno generally disagreed with the historical-materialist view of the proletariat, the same is not true of Benjamin, Marcuse, or the young Horkheimer. Marcuse challenges Marx's analysis of the proletariat when examining U.S. society in One-Dimensional Man (1964), but by the end of the same decade, he had jettisoned such pessimism. In An Essay on Liberation (1969), Marcuse clarifies his belief that the proletariat retains its revolutionary role, amidst the "historical power of the general strike and the factory occupation, of the red flag and the International" (Marcuse 1969, 51-3, 69).
For Adorno, the relationship with the proletariat is complex. In "Society," one of his final essays, Adorno writes that "[s]ociety remains class struggle, today just as in the period when that concept originated" (Adorno, 272). This quote definitively illustrates the falsehood of North's accusations and clearly delineates Critical Theory from postmodernism. Though Adorno is no syndicalist, given his decentering of the proletariat as world-historical subject, his negative-dialectical approach remains revolutionary, expanding the Marxian concern with exploitation and class society into an overarching anarchistic critique of domination. Class struggle thus is not "disappeared" in Adorno's thought, or in Critical Theory, but rather forms one current within a confluence of generalized anti-systemic revolt.
Adorno, Theodor W. 1989. "Society," in Stephen Bronner and Douglas Kellner (eds), Critical Theory and Society: A Reader (New York: Routledge).
Claussen, Detlev 2010. Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).
Marcuse, Herbert 1968. Negations: Essays in Critical Theory (Boston: Beacon Press).
Marcuse, Herbert 1969. An Essay on Liberation (Boston: Beacon Press).
Wiggershaus, Rolf 1994. The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories, and Political Significance (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press)


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