and
It is definitely a trend in this time
of crisis, to combine shameless overconsumption with a shameless
exploitation of labourers on national and global level. "Science"
i.e. the bourgeois economists unsurprisingly supports this.
Remarkably, however, is the insouciance
with respect to the maintenance of social peace that accompanies this
class struggle from above.
It seems like the upper-class dreams of establishing "colonial” conditions in capitalisms heartland (Europe and USA). This is propagated as a consequence of "globalization" and the free markets inevitable law.
It seems like the upper-class dreams of establishing "colonial” conditions in capitalisms heartland (Europe and USA). This is propagated as a consequence of "globalization" and the free markets inevitable law.
To assume, that hungry Europeans or
Americans will exhibit the same helplessness and lethargy as the
poorest in the Indian caste society, must be considered naivety
bordering on idiocy. Who imagines that our state rulers ore private
enterprises could recruit a sufficient number of suppressed
individuals to paramilitary forces to keep the rest of the plebeians
in place?
And even if this were to succeed for a
while - how would the quality of life be for the upper class -
behind barbed wire and hidden in armoured vehicles?
Permanent emigration to Dubai or similar resorts is probably not attractive for a spoiled upper class who is accustomed to bask in peace in Nice or Coronado Beach and shop in London or Milan.
Beside this social mayhem unfolds an
ecological one, where the chance to "use the crisis" for a
socially balanced reduction of consumption is wasted in favour of a
redistribution of funds to the very class which - overall - behaves
most stupid in relation to the environmental challenges we humans are
facing.
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