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

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Feb 7 14:25:42 PST 2001


Doug Henwood wrote:


>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?

Especially since I made a point of saying in my summary of their position:


>Of course, this [migration] should be voluntary, not the result of
>economic desperation or political persecution....

Doug



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