delinking does not equal autarchy

Seth Ackerman SAckerman at FAIR.org
Wed Feb 7 10:16:10 PST 2001


Doug Henwood wrote:


> Patrick Bond wrote:
>
> >As for reforming Empire
>
> Who's talking about reforming Empire? The idea is to take the social
> networks that Empire has produced and move beyond them - throw off
> the constraints of capital and liberate the multitude.
>
>
>
But what does that have to do with *economic* linkages? When Thai farmers send commodities to a Mexican maquiladora to be exported to New Jersey, is that a "social network"? Or is it just an expoitative economic network that needs to be unraveled.

Seth



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