[lbo-talk] corporate rationality

[Chris Doss]

I am simply doubting that the popularity of cosmetic lightening techniques among some people in Asia is a capitalist attempt to divide the Asian working class against itself.

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From: Asad Haider <noswine at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wed, October 14, 2009 5:13:05 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] corporate rationality

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.