[lbo-talk] WWP/N. Korea

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Sun Feb 1 01:43:20 PST 2004


Quoting Lance Murdoch <lbotalk at lancemurdoch.org>:


> In a just world, white liberal yuppies would have to go to North Korea,
> Cuba, Guatemala, Colombia, Palestine and so forth and get down on their
> knees and beg the workers there for forgiveness for what they and their
> government have been doing to them.

First of all, professional-class workers don't own and operate the Fortune 500 and certainly don't set the priorities of the System. Second of all, the System isn't the US Government -- it's the world-market of capital, a.k.a. the total system, a.k.a. multinational capitalism. It's a faceless, bodiless set of social abstractions, very difficult to grapple with, analyze or combat, despite its horrific effects on human beings.

The Long March goes through the corporate databanks as well as the streets.

-- DRR



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