>>> SAckerman at FAIR.org 02/07/01 01:16PM >>>
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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CB: Agree with Seth. It is the technical networks that are the infrastructure for socialism and communism. The social networks or relationships between people in production are that which have to change.