"... If one were to believe the snake-oil of First Worldism, one would have to believe that different organic compositions of capital between the First and Third World are simply incidental and have no relation to the history of imperialist exploitation. In reality, advanced productive forces are a form of capital derived from exploitation. ... highly developed productive forces are accumulated and concentrated in the First World as a result of the super-exploitation of the Third World. Moreover, it takes a certain amount of chauvinism to ignore the social role of various forms of physical capital. As Post would have us believe, a cobalt mine in central Africa, an export manufacturer in Goangzhou, an electronics retailer in the Cleveland, and a recycling depot like Guiyu are all one in the same. ... ... Metropolitan labour’s dependence upon imperialism for its existence as such – that is as labour whose affluence is predicated upon the maintenance of the core-periphery divide – clearly precludes the possibility that its conservatism is based purely on intellectual myopia...." anti-imperialism/2013/09/11/summary-and-review-global-wage-scaling-and-left-ideology-a-critique-of-charlie-post-on-the-labor-aristocracy-zak-cope-2013/
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:10:08 +0000
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