> Don't let the glitz blind you. Just because a country is materially
prosperous and >industrially advanced doesn't mean that it is bound to use
more "sophisticated" or >"advanced" methods of repression and class warfare.
Racism has worked just fine for two >hundred years; so, why mess with a sure
thing?
The welfare state can be more proftable if conditions are right. As Lukacs says,"...insofar as the exploitation of the working class is shifting even further away from exploitation through absolute surplus value towards exploitation towards relative surplus value, which means that a rise in exploitation can even be combined with an increase in the standard of living of the workers." Conversations with Lukacs, p. 54, The MIT Press.
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