[lbo-talk] corporate rationality

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 14 06:44:40 PDT 2009


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.

----- Original Message ---- From: Asad Haider <noswine at gmail.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org 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.



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