Re: [Marxism] looking for general guidance: class analysis of today's society...

[DLVinvest@xxxxxx]

In a message dated 5/15/04 5:57:18 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
tim_gmk@xxxxxxxx writes:
> This rise in the standard of living of much of the proletariat in the
> industrialized world is made possible by the brutal expolitation of third 
> world
> workers by the first world bourgweoisie.

This proposition, stated as fact, arose to explain the lack of class
consciousness of the proletariat in the US after World War II. It is often 
repeated,
but ignores the role of class struggle in the more developed capitalist
countries in raising wages at certain times, in certain sectors, and how higher 
wages
induce technification that alters the composition of capital -- a key element
in the labor theory of value as refined and developed by Marx in Capital. If
true, the statement should be supported by data that shows how and how much
surplus value expropriated in e.g., Haiti or Malaysia at a higher rate of
exploitation finds its way into the pockets of "much" of the proletariat.

Douglas L. Vaughan, Jr.
Investigations
for Print, Film & Electronic Media
3140 W. 32nd Ave.
Denver CO 80211
303-455-9429
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