Re: Europe's cheap US labor

[Eubulides <paraconsistent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Jurriaan Bendien" <bendien@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> 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.

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"Anti-globalization" rhetoric is the product of the media after Seattle.
No one I know of organizing for that event thought of themselves or the
issues in terms of globo/anti-globo. Why some insist on using labels that
have been imposed on the 21st century social movements by people who
pretend to think boggles my mind. The idioms/vocabularies/epitemes of 21st
century social movements are not wholly reducible to 19th century
categories and to insist that they must be intimates an authoritarianism
which ought to be abandoned. This goes doubly for asserting that the new
social movements think about alternatives while also asserting that there
can be no cookbooks for the future. Capitalism is too authoritarian as it
is, especially at the point[s] of production so why we would want to
substitute on form authoritarianism for another escapes me.

In a sense, John Roemer is right; if one cannot think about just what
kinds of institutions, socio-legal relations, technologies etc. would
constitute a socialism that does not lead to totalitarianism, then it's
time to hang up the phone. To assert that whatever ideas someone puts
forward does not constitute socialism, without in turn making some
significantly better specific proposals then one is simply caught in a cul
de sac of negativism which is not creative thinking. On that score
Einstein was right: "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

Ian