[PEN-L:9517] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: My Ideologies

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The generalization that Doug is making is what I mean when I say that racism/colonialism are as necessary and definitional of the relations of production of the capitalist mode of production as wage-labor. Except that I would add that the marginalization and oppression is not only "elsewhere" but
also "right here".  A major structure in the infrastructure of capitalism, a major division in the division of labor in capitalism is a many forms of specially oppressed and marginalized labor.

An empirical or factual review of the actual history of capitalism from the primitive accumulation to neo-liberal globalism require that Marx's definition must be modified to :
Capitalism = wage labor+racism/colonialism.


Charles Brown

>>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx> 07/22/99 11:23AM >>>
Eugene Coyle wrote:

>Brad misses my point.  My point is that the deaths in Indonesia -- see his own
>quote below -- need to be attributed to liberal U. S. capitalism.

Which is the political economy analogue of the point I was making the
other day about the bourgeois subject: the propserous "freedom" of
the BS and the imperial hegemon thrive on marginalization and
oppression elsewhere.

Doug