Re: [ox-en] Labor contradictions
- From: Michael Bauwens <michelsub2003 yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:26:24 -0800 (PST)
Stefan,
why is such a transition to "accumulation with a global passive state" necessary you ask:
don't remember the author's detailed ideas, here just mine:
because of the large unused potential of premodern populations largely excluded from the consumerist logic, and therefore also unprofitable. There is a growing base of the pyramid social-capitalist movement which could be the seed of new types of practices, see microfinance, fair trade, social entrepreneurship, microfinance ... Much of the Thaksin-driven populism in Thailand for example, is driven by the project of creating domestic economies based on more extensive broadening of capitalism ...
I think the reform proposals of George Soros, but also Gore, Stiglitz etc ... are geared to a creation of precisely the structural conditions for it.
These are not especially naive people, but rather the more 'enlightened' representatives of the elite, with a view of the long term interest of the system,
No system radically transforms in one go, but rather it tries to reform while retaining the core of the old system, this is why such an attempted transition makes sense,
Michel
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From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
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Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 12:25:50 AM
Subject: Re: [ox-en] Labor contradictions
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Hi Michel and all!
3 weeks (21 days) ago Michael Bauwens wrote:
He distinguishes four factors, divided over two axes.
[...]
Transition III: capital starts transcending national
boundaries but in a way that can no longer be contained
by
nation-states;
diffusion completes but at the same times also fails to go very
deep,
causing
deep cultural strains in the developing world; lack of global
state
power
renders inoperable any solution to deep social divisions
Phase 4: external
accumulation with a global passive state
This sounds to me a bit like wishful thinking - probably because he
has one quarter left in his square which he needs to fill.
Does he give any reasons why such a transition is necessary. And I
mean from the perspective of capital - not some moral perspective
which largely plays no role.
Gr�ü�ße
Stefan
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