Re: Sweatshops (was Re: Made in China)

From: Travas Gunnell (travasg@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 17 2001 - 19:04:29 MDT


--- Lee Corbin <lcorbin@ricochet.net> wrote:
>
> > C.7.1 What role does class struggle play in the
> business
> > cycle? At its most basic, the class struggle (the
> > resistance to hierarchy in all its forms) is the
> main
> > cause of the business cycle. As we argued in
> section
> > B.1.2 and section C.2, capitalists in order to
> exploit
> > a worker must first oppress them. But where there
> is
> > oppression, there is resistance; where there is
> authority,
> > there is the will to freedom. Hence capitalism is
> > marked by a continuous struggle between worker and
> > boss at the point of production as well as
> struggle
> > outside of the workplace against other forms of
> > hierarchy.
>
> > http://www.infoshop.org/faq/secC7.html#secc71
>
> Ah, it makes me nostalgic for the old days. It has
> been so long since I savored good old Marxist prose,
> "class struggle", "exploitation", and "oppression".
>
> Well, at least it proves that ideas can never die,
> which may be good. Or, maybe not.
>
> Lee Corbin

Well, it wasn't Marxist. T'was anarchist, as was
mentioned in my other recent post. Definitely
anti-capitalist though.

-Travas

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