Workers-Control-Over-Prod
2nd August 2012, 08:41
Since the creation of the world market, goods have constantly increased in their global circulation. The current absolutely absurd and unrestrained capital-ist global division of labor driven by the drive for higher profits through more "efficiency", are naturally unsustainable besides their internal contradictions and domestic social impacts.
The United States' exports went from 40,000 Million US Dollars a month in 1992 to 190,000 Million dollars a month in 2012. The Brazilian counterpart has also nearly quadrupled its exports within the last twenty years. Germany's exports went from 68 Billion Euros a month in 2006 to 100 Billion Euros a month in 2012, while its former (and i say this lightly) colony Namibia went from 4,000 NAD a month in 2006 to 8,000 NAD in 2012. This is a global, expansionary, explosive process individual to that of growth rates. It in fact gives the appearance of a monopolisation process that Marx and Lenin described, a monopolisation of countries economies to focus on the efficient production of certain economic sectors. This is Lenin's theory of monopolisation brought on a global national economic scale.
Since the dawn of Capitalism, colonies have served as suppliers of raw materials for western Industry, and sadly not much has visibly changed since then. These are lists of the main exports of countries:
D. Republic of the Congo: gold, copper, cobalt, diamonds, wood products, crude oil, coffee
. . .compare with
Belgium: machinery and equipment, chemicals, finished diamonds, metals and metal products, foodstuffs The country of Belgium used to claim colonial ownership of the Congo, eradicated half of its population during hundreds of years of occupation and exploitation.
Bolivia: natural gas, soybeans and soy products, crude petroleum, zinc ore, tin
Mexico: manufactured goods, oil and oil products, silver, fruits, vegetables, coffee, cotton
. . .compare with
Spain: motor vehicles; foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, medicines, other consumer goods
Nigeria: uranium ore, livestock, cowpeas, onions; Nigeria: petroleum and petroleum products 95%, cocoa, rubber
. . .compare with
France: machinery and transportation equipment, aircraft, plastics, chemicals, pharmaceutical products, iron and steel, beverages
European Union: machinery, motor vehicles, aircraft, plastics, pharmaceuticals and other chemicals, fuels, iron and steel, nonferrous metals, wood pulp and paper products, textiles, meat, dairy products,
USA: capital goods (transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment) 49.0%, industrial supplies (organic chemicals) 26.8%, consumer goods (automobiles, medicines) 15.0%
The west still exploits raw materials and tries to keep third world countries in their submissive position to feed western industrial capitalism. Raw materials are brought from the third world, such as Oil from Nigeria, to be processed into "fuels" in Europe and sold back to Nigeria from European refineries for the Africans to power their western produced cars...
In Lenin's "Imperialism as the highest Stage of Capitalism" he says that the return of capital is the one and foremost goal of monopoly capitalism. But the individual monopolies of the west are very conscious in keeping down the submissive national economies, i.e. will "invest" in (more like occupy) Nigerian oil fields to sell it to their own refineries in Europe, to fuel their industrial economies. Essentially, it is of course still all about bringing back capital from the third world, but it has a clear dimension of national economic suppression.
The monopolisation of national economies due to increased socialisation/productivity of labor is as well phenomenon which is so blatantly seen in the Imperialist world of today. Even though farm workers in Germany who grow cows for meat produce a surplus on milk, it is not bought because its production is not "efficient". Milk is to 30% bought from foreign national economies although the cows (and the milk!) exists nationally, soy beans are produced in Brazil that are destroying soil nutritiousness while there is no demand for soybeans in Brazil and people are dying of starvation there. Wheat is produced in the western States (#1 USA, #2 France, #3 Canada, #4 Australia..) because it is more profitable and is globally exported wherever there demand. These contradictions are glaring anti-human realities to the people of the third who see (or plant) coffee to export it to western industries (Germany is the world's largest coffee manufacturer, because the processing of coffee is where the money is made) while they are starving.
This absurd sought for efficiency is a figment that capital seeks in its pursuit of profitability. It is unsustainable. The productive forces have advanced to such a degree (see Computers, see 3D printers [an innovation signalling the end of the factory] etc.) that human labor to produce humanity's material needs is not needed anymore. Communism seeks seek the end all divisions of labor. The localisation (and eventual de-centralisation/end of the division of labor) of the economy is a necessary prerequisite to communism, and that is now a possibility. The only obstacle in the way is the class enemy, Workers of the World Unite!
The United States' exports went from 40,000 Million US Dollars a month in 1992 to 190,000 Million dollars a month in 2012. The Brazilian counterpart has also nearly quadrupled its exports within the last twenty years. Germany's exports went from 68 Billion Euros a month in 2006 to 100 Billion Euros a month in 2012, while its former (and i say this lightly) colony Namibia went from 4,000 NAD a month in 2006 to 8,000 NAD in 2012. This is a global, expansionary, explosive process individual to that of growth rates. It in fact gives the appearance of a monopolisation process that Marx and Lenin described, a monopolisation of countries economies to focus on the efficient production of certain economic sectors. This is Lenin's theory of monopolisation brought on a global national economic scale.
Since the dawn of Capitalism, colonies have served as suppliers of raw materials for western Industry, and sadly not much has visibly changed since then. These are lists of the main exports of countries:
D. Republic of the Congo: gold, copper, cobalt, diamonds, wood products, crude oil, coffee
. . .compare with
Belgium: machinery and equipment, chemicals, finished diamonds, metals and metal products, foodstuffs The country of Belgium used to claim colonial ownership of the Congo, eradicated half of its population during hundreds of years of occupation and exploitation.
Bolivia: natural gas, soybeans and soy products, crude petroleum, zinc ore, tin
Mexico: manufactured goods, oil and oil products, silver, fruits, vegetables, coffee, cotton
. . .compare with
Spain: motor vehicles; foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, medicines, other consumer goods
Nigeria: uranium ore, livestock, cowpeas, onions; Nigeria: petroleum and petroleum products 95%, cocoa, rubber
. . .compare with
France: machinery and transportation equipment, aircraft, plastics, chemicals, pharmaceutical products, iron and steel, beverages
European Union: machinery, motor vehicles, aircraft, plastics, pharmaceuticals and other chemicals, fuels, iron and steel, nonferrous metals, wood pulp and paper products, textiles, meat, dairy products,
USA: capital goods (transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment) 49.0%, industrial supplies (organic chemicals) 26.8%, consumer goods (automobiles, medicines) 15.0%
The west still exploits raw materials and tries to keep third world countries in their submissive position to feed western industrial capitalism. Raw materials are brought from the third world, such as Oil from Nigeria, to be processed into "fuels" in Europe and sold back to Nigeria from European refineries for the Africans to power their western produced cars...
In Lenin's "Imperialism as the highest Stage of Capitalism" he says that the return of capital is the one and foremost goal of monopoly capitalism. But the individual monopolies of the west are very conscious in keeping down the submissive national economies, i.e. will "invest" in (more like occupy) Nigerian oil fields to sell it to their own refineries in Europe, to fuel their industrial economies. Essentially, it is of course still all about bringing back capital from the third world, but it has a clear dimension of national economic suppression.
The monopolisation of national economies due to increased socialisation/productivity of labor is as well phenomenon which is so blatantly seen in the Imperialist world of today. Even though farm workers in Germany who grow cows for meat produce a surplus on milk, it is not bought because its production is not "efficient". Milk is to 30% bought from foreign national economies although the cows (and the milk!) exists nationally, soy beans are produced in Brazil that are destroying soil nutritiousness while there is no demand for soybeans in Brazil and people are dying of starvation there. Wheat is produced in the western States (#1 USA, #2 France, #3 Canada, #4 Australia..) because it is more profitable and is globally exported wherever there demand. These contradictions are glaring anti-human realities to the people of the third who see (or plant) coffee to export it to western industries (Germany is the world's largest coffee manufacturer, because the processing of coffee is where the money is made) while they are starving.
This absurd sought for efficiency is a figment that capital seeks in its pursuit of profitability. It is unsustainable. The productive forces have advanced to such a degree (see Computers, see 3D printers [an innovation signalling the end of the factory] etc.) that human labor to produce humanity's material needs is not needed anymore. Communism seeks seek the end all divisions of labor. The localisation (and eventual de-centralisation/end of the division of labor) of the economy is a necessary prerequisite to communism, and that is now a possibility. The only obstacle in the way is the class enemy, Workers of the World Unite!