Re: Lenin on immigration and Taylorism

[Joanna Bujes <jbujes@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Although I picked up the 674 page "Lenin on the United States" mainly for what he
> had to say about the civil war and slavery, there were a couple of articles on
> other topics that grabbed my attention.
>
Thanks for forwarding those. On a personal note, I just received an email from one
of the officials of the National Writer's Union warning me about the impending
migration of technical writing jobs to India. (I am a tech writer.)  A lot of
programming jobs are already on their way there and enrollment in computer science
programs are reportedly declining rapidly as a result.

My sense of this is that capitalist "logic" is working itself out and that Capital
has no more interest in protecting "brain" work than it has to protect factory work.
To agitate politically in order to keep these jobs for American workers doesn't
really make sense. So long as capitalism is the prevailing economic form of
organization, this stuff will happen. At most, we can slow it down a bit. But, so
long as Capital is in the saddle, all this will happen not as a result of evil but
as a result of the way Capitalism works.

We must work to replace it, not to reform it. You can't improve greed.

Joanna