In a message dated 7/22/2010 8:49:59 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
_cb31...@gmail.com_ (mailto:cb31...@gmail.com) :
> In Marxist theory, those workers (proletarians) in developed countries
who benefit from the superprofits extracted from the impoverished
workers of underdeveloped countries form
In an interview with director of 'Fast Food Nation' (a fictionalized version
of the book with the same name), we probably get closer to the 'truth' about
labor and the impoverished in the US. Perhaps, btw, I'll have to give the PK
Dick novel, A Scanner Darkly another try (and has anyone seen the ro
I am surprised that no mention was made in the
article concerning Maoist takes on the
labor aristocracy. In the US, many Maoists
like Bob Avakian's RCP contend that
most American workers belong to the
labor aristorcracy and so cannot be
counted upon to develop a revolutionary
consciousness (the
Labor aristocracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_aristocracy
"Labor aristocracy" or "Labour aristocracy" (or "aristocracy of labor"
or "aristocracy of labour", see also English spelling differences) has
three meanings: as a term with Marxist theoretical underpinnings, as a
specific type of tr