BK on Identity

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>I think that the U.S. working class don't benefit from imperialism. 
>>They just bear the costs of imperialism.
>
>A poverty income in the U.S. is at something like the 90th 
>percentile of the world income distribution. Isn't there some 
>imperial advantage behind this fact?
>
>Doug

That's a relative advantage akin to the advantages that white workers 
enjoy over black & other discriminated-against workers.  Likewise, by 
pursuing such relative advantages, the U.S. working class have lost 
in class struggles against capital.

Yoshie