is this from speech to Democratic Assn. of Brussels (9 Jan. 1848) in which Marx said:
'when you have torn down the few national barriers which still restrict free development of capital, you have given it complete freedom of action. So long as the relation of wage labour to capital is permitted to exist, no matter how favorable the conditions under which you accomplish the exchange of commodities, there will always be a class which exploits and a class which is exploited'
Controlling capital will depend upon whether a 'class in itself' of international laborers and wage-earners becomes a 'class for itself.' Policymakers will continue to have little, if any, interest, in debt relief, labor rights for workers, job retraining, or effective health, safety, and environmental standards so long as working class remains subjectively divided - nationalistic, protectionistic, xenophobic. As the *Labor Notes* folks suggest, agreements like NAFTA (which is really a managed trade agreement) can make it easier for working people of all lands to identify their common adversaries - transnational corporations and capitalist politicians - and to recognize their common needs. Capitalism may yet sew the seeds of its demise. Michael Hoover