[PEN-L:7738] Re: exaggeration

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Capitalism's concentration camps are the Levitt Towns and similar suburbs
>and the
>"job" in the corporate system.  The plants of GM are frightenly similar to the
>network of concentration camps, albeit more outwardly humane, but not less
>violent.  Harlem is an occupied zone.

Except for the part about Harlem, this seems an exaggeration. This is one
of the richest countries in the world you're talking about. Working-class
suburbs like Levitt Town may be drab and alienating, but I think you'll
find that the vast majority of the people who live there would disagree
with your analysis. It's true that they have a superficial analysis of
what's going on (missing the totality of the capitalist mode of
production), but that contrasts with _actual_ concentration camps, in which
the people know that they're in such camps. (In other words, you don't have
to accept what people see, but it's good to respect their point of view.)

It's also unfortunate that the phrase "concentration camp" (as in most
anti-insurgencies) has been merged in popular language with Hitlerian death
camps. It leads to the wrong connotations. But that's hardly your fault.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
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