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On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:39:47 -0500 Carrol Cox <[email protected]> writes: > > > Fred Feldman wrote: > > > > > > More Labor Trouble in China for Honda > > By DAVID BARBOZA > > Published: June 9, 2010 > > > > Clearly, however, a layer of Chinese workers is feeling their > oats, which is > > a good thing. > > Thiis provides illustration of a claimmade by Moishe Postone that > "class > struggle" is an essential ingredient in the development of > capitalism. That's not exactly a new idea. A century ago, the French anarcho-syndicalist political theorist and economist Georges Sorel advanced very similar ideas. He argued that class struggle promotes the development of the forces of production under capitalism by driving up labor costs which encourage capitalists to increase their usage of labor-saving technologies. And Postone's argument also has a clear Keynesian component to it as well. > I > paid less attention to this part of Postone's argument and do not > argue > for it here, but the point is worth considering. China's home > market, as > has often been pointed out, is anemic, its industry mostly export- > driven. But if this developmenbt of China's workers does continue, > and > grows, it will indeed force the development, willy-nilly what the > Chincese government desires, of a home market and thus a stronger > and > more flourishng Chinese capitalism. The growth of capitalism in > both > England and the U.S. was subject to such labor turbulence. > > Carrol > > Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant ____________________________________________________________ Penny Stock Jumping 2000% Sign up to the #1 voted penny stock newsletter for free today! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4c102473c4f457bbfam03vuc ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
