Snitza
6th August 2004, 04:57
I should be in bed getting rested for work tomorrow, but while I was laying up there, under all my covers, in the dark, my mind wandered. I was suddenly struck by a few ideas all at once.
The first idea considered the contemporary condition of the American proletariat. Being the most advanced capitalist country on earth, coupled with economic imperialism, the United States has the highest living standards for all citizens, and the highest level of luxury. Even the proletariat lives well off historically, and compared to other places in the world. The U.S., with it's expansion of production to the 3rd-world, where labour-power comes extremely cheap, has done away with a good portion of the American working-class, leaving them out of jobs, though with many welfare and unemployment benefit programs to keep them at least living.
The fact that so little labour and production is actually put to use in the United States has resulted in the most reactionary working-class known to date. Most workers in America are extremely religious and patriotic, either as a result(or resulting in) a lack of education that higher classes in American society have. This is not surprising, however, as the working class has, hitherto, been the class that has the fewest and poorest educations.
Because the labour that the United States employs is so godamn cheap overseas, the surplus money can be spent to "buy off" the loyalty of the domestic proletariat into such conservative beliefs, and even extreme nationalism. More and more goods and material 'things' are made readily available to almost everyone in America, simply because there is enough money to go around. The point is, that people in America are kept wealthy and happy, at the expense of the exploited and, essentially raped peoples of foreign land, into which American companies are investing majorities of their production power.
If trends continue, I believe, we will eventually have very, very, very few workers left in America, as virtually all labour will be put to use in foreign endeavors. Other wealthy nations, such as the UK and Canada will follow this trend, of course.
Thus, while America grows richer and richer, and it's "poor" population shrinks, the rest of the world will grow poorer and poorer, digging themselves deeper into the desperation of exploitation.
The 3rd world is where the first truly(not Leninist)proletariat revolutions will occur. Once these revolutions happen, and start spreading throughout the industrialized and subsidized poor countries, and they become dictatorships of the working class, America will cease to grow. It will be forced into employing domestic labour, because the new "socialized" nations will trade amongst themselves, and refuse to help American juggernaut of capitalism. As the 3rd world revolutions CONTINUE to spread and grow, and as the 3rd world becomes a base of proletariat freedom, America will rely on itself more and more, giving birth to more and more generations of American working classes.
With no one left to exploit, all labour-power in the United States will be put to use, and the USA will be split yet again into class war. Having the backing of all the socialized nations of the world, the then (hopefully) revolutionary American working class will easily be able to overthrow the ruling classes of the then-industrialized America.
Once this occurs, and all national borders are stripped, the road to global communist society is opened, and easily tread upon. All resources become globalized, and proletariat dictatorship will shrink and shrink, as the working men and women of the world grow.
The world will, by this time, have accumulated enough capital and productional facilities to support everyone of the entire world. The 3rd world, having been industrialized through years of foreign investment from the advanced capitalist nations, will be ready to serve the people. The advanced capitalist nations, having been forced to industrialize themselves again, will have enough productional power to support everyone.
Eventually, any governing body left around will "wither away" as Engels put it. The free people of the world will run the world, with free and collective ownership of the means of production, of that produced, and of property all around.
I need sleep!
The first idea considered the contemporary condition of the American proletariat. Being the most advanced capitalist country on earth, coupled with economic imperialism, the United States has the highest living standards for all citizens, and the highest level of luxury. Even the proletariat lives well off historically, and compared to other places in the world. The U.S., with it's expansion of production to the 3rd-world, where labour-power comes extremely cheap, has done away with a good portion of the American working-class, leaving them out of jobs, though with many welfare and unemployment benefit programs to keep them at least living.
The fact that so little labour and production is actually put to use in the United States has resulted in the most reactionary working-class known to date. Most workers in America are extremely religious and patriotic, either as a result(or resulting in) a lack of education that higher classes in American society have. This is not surprising, however, as the working class has, hitherto, been the class that has the fewest and poorest educations.
Because the labour that the United States employs is so godamn cheap overseas, the surplus money can be spent to "buy off" the loyalty of the domestic proletariat into such conservative beliefs, and even extreme nationalism. More and more goods and material 'things' are made readily available to almost everyone in America, simply because there is enough money to go around. The point is, that people in America are kept wealthy and happy, at the expense of the exploited and, essentially raped peoples of foreign land, into which American companies are investing majorities of their production power.
If trends continue, I believe, we will eventually have very, very, very few workers left in America, as virtually all labour will be put to use in foreign endeavors. Other wealthy nations, such as the UK and Canada will follow this trend, of course.
Thus, while America grows richer and richer, and it's "poor" population shrinks, the rest of the world will grow poorer and poorer, digging themselves deeper into the desperation of exploitation.
The 3rd world is where the first truly(not Leninist)proletariat revolutions will occur. Once these revolutions happen, and start spreading throughout the industrialized and subsidized poor countries, and they become dictatorships of the working class, America will cease to grow. It will be forced into employing domestic labour, because the new "socialized" nations will trade amongst themselves, and refuse to help American juggernaut of capitalism. As the 3rd world revolutions CONTINUE to spread and grow, and as the 3rd world becomes a base of proletariat freedom, America will rely on itself more and more, giving birth to more and more generations of American working classes.
With no one left to exploit, all labour-power in the United States will be put to use, and the USA will be split yet again into class war. Having the backing of all the socialized nations of the world, the then (hopefully) revolutionary American working class will easily be able to overthrow the ruling classes of the then-industrialized America.
Once this occurs, and all national borders are stripped, the road to global communist society is opened, and easily tread upon. All resources become globalized, and proletariat dictatorship will shrink and shrink, as the working men and women of the world grow.
The world will, by this time, have accumulated enough capital and productional facilities to support everyone of the entire world. The 3rd world, having been industrialized through years of foreign investment from the advanced capitalist nations, will be ready to serve the people. The advanced capitalist nations, having been forced to industrialize themselves again, will have enough productional power to support everyone.
Eventually, any governing body left around will "wither away" as Engels put it. The free people of the world will run the world, with free and collective ownership of the means of production, of that produced, and of property all around.
I need sleep!