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tama

(9,137 posts)
16. Divide and conquer
Thu Jan 3, 2013, 02:28 PM
Jan 2013

While capital can move freely over national borders while labor cannot, that is obviously divide and conquer force of the race to the bottom.

But the divide and conquer goes much deeper, as also people dislocated and robbed and turned into working sub-class wear the chains of dividing and conquering the whole of nature into consumer-subjects and nature objectified as consumable resources.

So as long as working sub-class stays chained into dividing and conquering whole of nature similarly to their capitalist masters, they are easy to divide and conquer as sub-class of consumer subjects.

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Time to repeal Taft-Hartley [View all] Starry Messenger Dec 2012 OP
The "ultra-right" you mention is now called "The Congress." immoderate Dec 2012 #1
The bible tells them so reteachinwi Dec 2012 #2
I always love a good biblical quote. bvar22 Dec 2012 #8
There are many reteachinwi Dec 2012 #10
The entire fifth chapter of of James if full of wonderful gems. white_wolf Dec 2012 #15
You want to go back to closed shop? Recursion Dec 2012 #3
So what do you propose? nm rhett o rick Dec 2012 #9
An alternative that was long part of the Dem platform: Repeal section 14(b) Jim Lane Dec 2012 #12
I wasnt aware of the specifics. THank you. nm rhett o rick Dec 2012 #13
A couple recent news stories limpyhobbler Dec 2012 #4
I started hearing a little more about it when Occupy started up. Starry Messenger Dec 2012 #6
Divide and Conquer Left Turn Only Dec 2012 #5
Great, amazing post. Starry Messenger Dec 2012 #7
Hey! Welcome to DU! immoderate Dec 2012 #11
Divide and conquer tama Jan 2013 #16
capitalist economics Left Turn Only Jan 2013 #17
aka "overshoot" nt tama Jan 2013 #18
kr. as soon as the war was over, business started moving against the gains labor had made. T-H HiPointDem Dec 2012 #14
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