[lbo-talk] corporate rationality

[Asad Haider]

What on earth do you mean? If the working class measures its self-worth
according to how closely it emulates European standards of beauty (or
education, or table manners, whatever), it will probably have minimal
interest in resisting the power structure established by a history of
European exploitation, much less its own, indigenous forms of exploitation.
Remember that communist movements in Asia--and how many other places in the
colonial world!--were articulated at their inceptions with the struggle for
national liberation.

And how do *you* expect to encourage anyone to overthrow capitalism if you
don't side with the working class against everyday forms of oppression? I
think the point is well taken that capital doesn't *need* anything (except,
I would say, labor power and a class relation of exploitation), and that
probably includes war, liberal presidents, privatized health care, but it
seems to be perfectly acceptable to spend lots of time talking about those.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> Is it dividing the working class and preventing them from overthrowing
> capitalism?
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