Re: Sowing Dragons (fwd)

[Charles Brown]

>>> Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/13/00 08:48PM >>>


Actually, the good news about the move to the city is _not_ any kind of 
automatic increase in the standard of living (since the powers that be, 
including not only the US, the IMF, and the World Bank but also the local 
bourgeoisie will struggle mightily to prevent that kind of increase) but 
rather the fact that the concentration of workers into cities and factories 
helps creates conditions that allow workers to unite and actually win some 
of their demands. (Being scattered across the countryside in distinct 
communities with small holdings of property makes it hard to organize 
collectively. I think that atomization is what Marx was talking about when 
he referred to the "idiocy of rural life.")

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CB: Capitalism creates its own gravediggers , still.