Migration & Primitive Accumulation (was delinking does not equal autarchy)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Feb 7 14:14:03 PST 2001


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>If Hardt & Negri really think that the work of internationalist
>revolutionaries is to advocate increased migration, they might as
>well advocate a faster pace of primitive accumulation -- kicking off
>direct producers from their land -- and more wars (especially wars
>that result in the expulsion of a large number of people from their
>homes). It is said that "the 50-70 per cent of the world's
>population...is still agricultural" (at
><http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/sector/techmeet/tmad00/tmadr.htm>),
>so there's a lot of primitive accumulation left to do!

Why do you insist on attributing cruel or stupid positions to Hardt & Negri? They're neither right wing nor idiots, as you must know, so what's the point?

You're a migrant, no? Don't you see any value in that?

Doug



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