[lbo-talk] Narmada Dam (was Arundhati Roy etc.)

[Sean Andrews]

On 4/1/07, John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Rheumatic (Rheumatoid) Arthritis is a genetic disease. Grinding wheat
> does not cause it.

I think Carrol is talking, generally, about repetitive stress injuries
under the dated term "rheumatism."  The term might be wrong but
quibbling over it doesn't make the condition he speaks of any less so,
particularly when there is much evidence that there is a real
resurgence the labor regime which thrives on the kind of absolute and
relative extraction of surplus value that leads pretty directly to
this kind of physical condition for the workers involved.  But maybe
you're just helping Carrol get his terminology right in which case we
might call it the predictable result of, following Lipietz, "Bloody
Taylorization."

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