Re: Capitalist collectivization. (fwd)

[boddhisatva <kbevans@xxxxxxxxx>]

                Mr. Flanders,



        You wrote:

"I beg to differ. There is nothing, I repeat nothing, inherently progressive
about the huge corporate hog farms, dairy farms etc., that are driving the
small farmer off the land."



        There is nothing except the fact that they produce pork and milk
with less labor.  There is nothing except that they bring agricultural
capital in the real world of industrial production from the fantasy of the
"family farm."  There is nothing except that now government subsidies for
over-capitalized natural-resource industries no longer have the coveralled
hay-seed for a poster-boy.



        You know it's funny, but I seem to recall the minimum wage being
fairly strongly objected to by some "family farmers" who need seasonal
work.  I recall that Caesar Chavez had quite the little trouble with
"family farmers."  Ask yourself this: why don't labor laws apply
to agricultural workers?



        Life under capitalism is a dirty business.





        peace






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