Re: Europe's cheap US labor

[Mike Ballard <swillsqueal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- Jurriaan Bendien <bendien@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, but here in Europe, American corporations are
> accused of same. This is
> why Marx thought an International of the working
> class was necessary, aided
> by intellectuals who looked a bit further ahead than
> their next slice of
> ham. It was specifically called an "Inter-national",
> and not a "Global", in
> recognition of specific national realities which
> could not be ignored.

I've always suggesed the Industrial Workers of the
World as a way of connecting:

  www.iww.org/

snipped for brevity:
>  In reality of course, that isn't the
> case, capitalist morality
> and socialist morality are different. We can of
> course counterpose
> totalitarianism and libertarianism and thus arrive
> at all sorts of clever
> distinctions, but that doesn't really solve the
> problem at all.
>
> J.

No.  The point is to change that reality and that can
only be done by consciously organizing as a class
across the borders and fences put up by our national
ruling classes.

Best,
Mike B)



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