>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.
I'm not aware of many Thai ag products going to Mexico for processing, but aside from that - capitalist production has always been about creating social production on a large scale. Since few of us work in giant factories any more, the networks are a lot more dispersed, but given modern communications technology, it's not impossible that people could make meaningful contact with each other. So why shouldn't Ford workers in Detroit, Hermosillo, and Durban make contact with each other, adopt common strategies against their common employer? What does it mean to "unravel" exploitative economic relationships? Return to some world where the workers of Detroit, Hermosillo, and Durban had nothing to do with each other? So then you have exploitative economic relations in a local or national scale. Just how's that any better than the status quo?
Doug