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Global chauvinism and the labor aristocracy

Posted by: Stoller on January 10, 19100 at 18:53:30:

In Reply to: assembly line example posted by Jason on January 10, 19100 at 12:25:59:


: I haven't been around in a long time, since college is a bit higher on my list of priorities.

Thanks for sharing that with us. Please see this post...

: I find it interesting that pro-Communist and socialist arguments continue to focus on industrialization. The Industrial Revolution is long done and gone. We're in the Internet Revolution now and if you haven't noticed, technology will employ many times more people in the future than industry...

Are you ever deluded! Just because the global division of labor has put the production process out of your sight (here in the 'advanced'---read: imperialist---nations) doesn't mean that busy little hands are not making all the goodies you take for granted. As far as the 'internet revolution' goes, only 25% of the (bourgeoisified) American workers have access (Statistical Abstract of the United States 1998, table 916, p. 573)... BTW, Labor Department data: the top four occupations in America are cashiers, janitors, salespeople, and waiters (New York Times, 31 August 1997, sec. 4, p. 9). Some 'information age'...

: Just my opinion, but utopia on this planet will never exist as long as people are sinful. The world as God intended it was perfect and fortunately heaven is.

Well, the rest of your post goes into the trash... Get back to your 'studies,' Jason...


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