Re: Europe's cheap US labor

[Jurriaan Bendien <bendien@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The way I view "anti-globalisation" is a part of the
> overall *movement* resisting the rule of Capital.

Well of course you have to support "resistance" if it is resistance against
real oppression and real exploitation, if it is effective, and if that
resistance expands the scope of human freedom people have or blocks the
erosion of civil rights. But I think there is often more "rhetoric" about
resistance than "real resistance". At stake in this "anti-globalisation"
debate is arguing effectively for socialist alternatives and whether you can
pick a fight you can win, and that really changes things, that achieve
social progress. And I have strong doubts about that.

> Not people who understand that borders are really just
> another expression of private property and class rule.

Well I could give you some really funny anecdotes about that, but I won't do
that. Let's just say that for the purpose of defining insiders and
outsiders, private property and class rule may be irrelevant to that, but
that "borders" are not abolished thereby at all.

> I agree.  As the social product of the workers gets
> further from their ownership and control, so
> alienation of all classes from each other and from
> themselves as human beings will grow.

For me the ghettoisation trend involves much more, and because it is ceteris
paribus the longterm tendency, the "anti-globalisation" rhetoric is doubly
ridiculous. Like I said, they should join the flat earth society.

J.