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Mark Rickling rickling at softhome.net
Fri Aug 9 17:33:22 PDT 2002


From: <s-t-t at juno.com>


> And how precisely are "U.S. workers exploiting the workers in the Global
> South"? They don't run sweetshops and aren't in control of the companies
> that due. What wealth companies due bleed from the Global South isn't at
> the command of workers.
>
> It sounds like collective guilt.

There's a certain argument, expressed often on this list, that there is something amiss with the claim that the American working class has grown fat off of the exploitation of the Global South, given the tiny percentage of trade with the Global South in total output. I've yet to see a convincing rebuttal to this critique.

mark



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