[lbo-talk] Zizek: "Where to look for revolutionary potential?"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Mar 18 06:21:20 PDT 2007


On Mar 18, 2007, at 12:10 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> You mean wage workers in the formal sector, especially in the North,
> since they probably produce the most capital by conventional
> accounting or Marxist accounting (for instance, by those Marxists who
> still try to get to value from price)?

The world working class is a lot larger than that - the working classes of Asia, Latin American, peripheral Europe, and parts of Africa number in the hundreds of millions. You seem to be embracing the completely marginalized as some sort of revolutionary vanguard, but they're too disorganized, too disconnected, and too powerless to do the job.

Doug



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