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Monday, October 31 2011 - 02:49 AM Yours in revolution. (Please note that the following type of comment posts will be deleted from this thread: those containing childish or otherwise offensive material; those containing cut-and-pasted material that exceed fifty-percent of their total content; and those containing video clips regardless of whether or not they might be accompanied by any amount of original writings [the embedding of URLs or “hotlinks” within comment posts which serve to direct readers to video clips will be accepted as long as all such posts also contain original writings of no fewer than fifty words.]
Capitalism: '...the borders remain porous' (Part II)
Those who contend that I do not condemn the capitalists who benefit from undocumented immigration are correct, for I condemn and call for the abolition of that which allows for the existence of capitalists and undocumented immigration in the first place – the capitalist system of production itself.
As evidenced by my having written " …the simple fact of the matter is that, although social ills the likes of undocumented immigration and unemployment have been worsened by NAFTA and other international agreements, capitalist treaties and trade are not the cause of said social ills" (ninth paragraph), it is my belief that the human beings known as capitalists are simply not the problem. Matter-of-factly, were we to eliminate the capitalist system thereby assimilating capitalists into the working class as useful producers, no longer would human beings be compelled to leave their loved ones behind and engage in the dangerous endeavor known as undocumented immigration.
But, beyond NAFTA, CAFTA and still other capitalist-class-serving international trade agreements, what is it that causes undocumented immigration?
First of all, the United States is within a set of circumstances in which its economy is swimming in capitalist-held capital while Mexico is swimming in idle labor power much more than what we are. Given the immutable rules of capitalism these two forces carry with them the consequence of poverty stricken Latino workers crossing imaginary lines without caring as to whether or not they are breaking any laws. For their part, agricultural capitalists, hotel and restaurant capitalists, construction capitalists and others hire undocumented workers precisely because they are undocumented and therefore far more exploitable than are American citizens. (The need to grant citizenship to the undocumented precisely for that reason being the subject of another thread.) Ergo, all of this occurs largely unchecked simply because the demands of the capitalist system are much stronger than is the American public’s demand that immigration laws be enforced.
So too does capitalism’s laws of international competition serve to exacerbate undocumented immigration. The still rather crude Chinese capitalist system, for example, is so exploitive of its working class and natural environment that it is able to undersell Third World-produced commodities, including those produced within Mexico.
The ever-present possibility of runaway inflation is also a factor behind undocumented immigration. Were the relationship between undocumented workers and the capitalist who employ them not to exist, these capitalists would use it as an excuse to raise the cost of food and other consumer goods thereby setting in motion yet another round of inflation.
Moreover, since the price of foodstuffs are amongst the most pivotal of the laws governing capitalist economies, the cost of nearly everything would rise in direct proportion to rising food prices.
In conclusion, the lot of you can and likely will continue to complain about the symptoms of the social ill known as undocumented immigration. But unless and until a majority of the American citizenry arrives at the understanding that it is the capitalist system itself rather than “‘greedy’ capitalists” that created undocumented immigration, it will never end and surely worsen.
Therefore, to stand in support of the capitalist system of production is to stand in tacit support of undocumented immigration.
Guy R. Marsh
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Cybertariat says...
With all due respect, James, your point concerning greed will be valid only for as long as we allow ourselves to be conditioned into believing that greed is an intrinsic share of the human condition rather than, like racism, an artificial condition born of the material deprivations crated by class rule. In fact, greed is not so much as a central tenet of capitalism. Capitalists who “greedily” cut wages and the like do not do so out of greed. Rather, they do so because of capitalism’s competition-induced tendency toward an ever-declining rate of profit; out of a desire to keep their businesses and thus their priveleged positions within capitalist society.
So, you see, there was nothing for you to have agreed with me vis-a-vis “human greed” because never have I stated that “capitalism is just greed” because it isn’t.
Beyond that and as I have stated within these pages on several occasions, no one within a futuristic socialist society would have the opportunity to be greedy even if they chose to be due the fact that no amount of productive property – the means of industrial/economic production – would be for sale to any individual or group of individuals. In other words, no member of socialist society would be able to accumulate economic wealth through the labor power and/or intellectual power of other human beings.
Ergo, the only “stumbling block” before us is the capitalist class’ all but ubiquitous disinformation machine known as capitalist culture which has conditioned us to believe, amongst many other such things, that greed is a natural and irremovable portion of the human psyche when, in reality, it is anything but.
Persevere.
Guy
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roxi says...
I wonder what those who support American Capitalism, New World Order, NAFTA, CAFTA etc think of the news today with UNESCO’s vote to admit Palestine to their U.N. organization?
The Obama administration, heeding to a 1990 agreement, has said it will end funding for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations after Monday’s 107 to 14 vote to accept the Palestinian Authority as a full member.
(See today’s LATimes.com – U.S., UNESCO clash over vote on Palestine)
If the U.S. does withdraw from UNESCO, it will affect World Intellectual Property protections now in place which help U.S. high-tech, entertainment and other industries property rights, including patents around the world.
It also will affect our connection with the International Atomic Energy Agency, “which has helped Western governments monitor Iran’s nuclear program, the International Civil Aviation Org., and the World Health Org.”.
Apparently, GWBush rejoined UNESCO after 2003 with hopes to use the agency to spread democracy and Western values to developing countries….
I wonder if American Corporations will follow the Religious Right’s love affair with Israel with total support, and be willing to let go of Gov’t support of their international protections – via taxpayer’s $$?
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AV Town Crier says...
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In theory I agree with you. Capitalism in and of itself is just greed.As for a society totally run on a capitalist agenda will fail as at some point the rich have all the money and the rest our doomed to poverty.
Those in poverty will fight for the scraps of leftovers. By that time, illegal immigration won’t be a factor.
On the same token a totally socialist society can only work on paper. It would be great if it were feasible. The one stumbling block in human greed. If they come up with a pill to get rid of it, I’ll take it in a New York minute (especially if it has hallucinogenic side effects).
But in the real world the best we can do is have a balance of both. You cannot allow untethered capitalism without some social responsibility.
On one extreme you will have some capitalistic pigs. On the other end, you will have those who grow up with a feeling of entitlement or just lazy sponges who live off the society and contribute nothing.
If however, both ends were balanced and only a few end up at either end of upper mentioned spectrum, then you would have a balance. Yo would achieve almost 100 % employment. As such, the illegals wouldn’t be (or seem) to be a burden. In fact, a guest worker program would be a reality and illegals could do the jobs that no one wants.
When you have full employment, you will NOT be able to get very many people to apply for those jobs that the illegals do and even those they are not legally allowed to do under any circumstances. When I was a Supervisor in the M & O branch with the LA City Schools, when unemployment was low, we could not fill custodial and gardening jobs. When it was high, we had former executives applying.
The bottom line is that the illegals aren’t really the problem, per se. The problem is a system that is out of control, out of balance and has no social responsibility.
Right now ruthless capitalism rules and they rule the world via The Bilderberg group of the Club of Rome.
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