Turmoil marks every aspect of political relations world wide - globally, today. In the international arena ancient enemies are finding ways to co-operate and old friends are no longer reliable. It seems that the "axis of evil" now has to include Russia and China as they make it clear that they will not tolerate any attacks on Iran. It is clear that the effort to strangle Iran is aimed at controlling oil supplies to China and therefore controlling its development. The hoard of American dollars in position of the government of China and their slow efforts to withdraw from the relationship of dollar hegemony, reminds me of the man with this head in the mouth or a lion, as he slowly tired to escape in one piece.
America is being prepped for an expanded war in Afghanistan, Detroit and part of New York. Russia has already made its meaning very clear in respect to the aggression - (war of Georgia - "against Russian citizens)," with its rapid and harsh response. A new wave of militarization is underway that has no end insight. Putting missiles in Poland means directly targeting Poland with possible annihilation - not the US or NATO, and has to be the dumbest "smart idea" of the decade. Someone actually said, "why not put missiles in Poland?" And someone else said, "yea, that sounds like a good idea." North Korea stopped dismantling its nuclear weapons program after the U.S. announced it would not lift sanctions, as promised, until North Korea is defenseless. It is neither a defense or repudiation of the regime in North Korea, to state that defenselessness is unacceptable. The recent clumsy attempt to tighten the imperial noose around the Caspian basin and the saber rattling by the U.S. were nullified by an awesome silence from NATO. In the Caribbean, the Russian navy is conducting joint exercises with Venezuela while it reconstructs its relations with Cuba. Periodically, my ear is bent by old generation reactionary Cuban immigrants - still fighting Castro, as they bemoan the Chinese agreements with Cuba, to drill for oil off "the coast of Florida." A concerted push for a South American regional economic and political block and talk of a regional currency is underway. Everyday the space for peaceful resolution of the world's problems seems to be diminishing and the threat of war increases everywhere. This seems to my tired eyes to be the face of globalism and "the One World, One Species aspects of "capitalist globalization," but what do I know? I did however reread, again Chapter 32 of Capital and its four paragraphs, which was written in 1867, 141 years ago. Interestingly, Chapter 32 of Marx Capital is titled: _Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation_ (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch32.htm) . I emphasize the words "historical" and "tendency." Perhaps in another 141 years under "socialism," there will be the "the One World, One Species aspects of "capitalist globalization," but it is a world I wish on no mortal. Rather than proclaim that "Marxists" - (a very wide ideological block that runs from the left to the right of the political sphere and to groupings outside both) "see "globalization" as laying the groundwork for socialism," would it not be more modest and accurate to state such is your vision? Chapter 32 of Capital 1 is as stated four paragraphs and begins with a discussion of primitive accumulation of capital and the process - tendency of capital to socialize and concentrate the individualized and scattered means of production. With Hegelian formulation in hand Marx speaks of negation as the inner movement logic of this historical tendency. At paragraph one I see nothing that evenly remotely speaks of "the One World, One species aspects of capitalist globalisation." Paragraph two witnesses Marx dance of the dialectic, firmly holding upon the negation, as he describes the laborer being converted into proletarian; as part of the historical process making the next person to be expropriated - negated, our very own capitalists, who negated a previous existing form of private property. I still cannot locate the part that implies that Marxists see "capitalist globalization" - rather than socialization of the productive forces, as laying the ground work for a socialism that has something to do with socializing aspects of "capitalist globalization". In fact I do not see the part about one species. Unless one means the conversion of the laborer into proletarian. In the third paragraph Marx completes his dialectical dance, with music in the background, and we witness a summary where the first negation of individual private property on the basis of the individual laborers, is negated by the capitalist and then owing to concentration and centralization of production, capitalist private property is negated by property in common "based on the acquisition of the capitalist era: i.e., on co-operation,' as manifestation of the historical tendency of capitalist accumulation. Again I read paragraph three and see nothing about "world economy . . . retaining the One World, One Species aspects of "capitalist globalization." "World economy . . . retaining the One World, One Species aspects of "capitalist globalization," might have strongly different meanings to four out of five dentist. Paragraph 4 is two sentences long - long sentences, but two none the less. "The transformation of scattered private property, arising from individual labor, into capitalist private property is, naturally, a process, incomparably more protracted, violent, and difficult, than the transformation of capitalistic private property, already practically resting on socialized production, into socialized property. In the former case, we had the expropriation of the mass of the people by a few usurpers; in the latter, we have the expropriation of a few usurpers by the mass of the people. [2] " Capitalist globalization, (has there been any other kind of globalism in human history), or this phase of financial imperialism probably expresses something that is bound up with that that is truly historical in the tendency of capital accumulation. Do Marxists see capitalist globalization as laying foundation for . . . wait a minute. Do four out of five Marxists dentist recommend sugarless gum? . Waistline >>> First, GSD shares neoliberalism's bias for globalization, differentiating itself mainly by promising to promote globalization better than the neoliberals. This amounts to saying, however, that simply by adding the dimension of "global social integration," an inherently socially and ecologically destructive and disruptive process can be made palatable and acceptable. GSD assumes that people really want to be part of a functionally integrated global economy where the barriers between the national and the international have disappeared. But would they not in fact prefer to be part of economies that are subject to local control and are buffered from the vagaries of the international economy? Indeed, today's swift downward trajectory of interconnected economies underscores the validity of one of anti-globalization movement's key criticisms of the globalization process..<<< ^^^ CB: Generally, Marxists see "globalization" as laying the groundwork for socialism, just as capitalist monopoly lays the groundwork in another way. Marx conceived of Communism as a world system, a "centralized" or holistic world economy and as retaining the One World, One Species aspects of "capitalist globalization" . Marx outlined the general principles and processes in the pen-ultimate chapter of _Capital_ I _http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch32.htm_ (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch32.htm) **************One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025)
_______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
