File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1996/96-11-17.131, message 38


Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 04:34:20 +0000
From: Antonio Mota <antonio_mota-AT-geocities.com>
Subject: M-I: Revolution in the future


Here's another thinkings.

Segalla says in a interview population on earth in year about 2020 will
be 14 billion people, with only 1 billion people beeing "rich".

A report on Internet growing says by 2010 will be 1 billion people
making any kind of commercial transactions over the net.

One thinks, reading these two news, that probably that 1 billion are the
same people. So, beeing "rich" is sinonimous of being "online". Is this
meaning that no longer we have the difference of those who "have the
means of production" versus the ones who sell theyr labour power, but
simply the difference between the ones "on-line" and the ones that
don't?

If this is so, we cannot expect any kind of revolutionary attitude of
the workers of the devvelopped countrys, i.e. those "on-line", because
even if they are being exploited within their countrys they will never
want to give up of their "status" comparing to the rest of the world.
They will support much easilly the rise of reactionary classes on the 3
wordl instead of a general uprising of the people. I mean, suppose we
have 1 billion capitalist facing a 13 billion people of exploitees. They
easelly support the upsurging of another billion of "rich" people,
giving up some of their privileges, to a situation where there be 2
billion capitalists and 12 billion of workers, and so on.

The point here is that we can only expect true socialist revolutions not
in developped countrys, countrys where capitalism reached a certain
level of devellopment (like tradicional marxist will argue), but au
contraire in contrys where the capitalism as not reach a point of
"social sastifaction" of their workers. The development of capitalism
turns the workers *in the developed countrys* reactionaires. There is
*no* solidarity between workers of the first world and those of the
third world.

Once again, I don't know if my messages are beeing understood, I get the
feeling I write in English like a 6 years child, so I really like if
someone said something about it.

Regards.

P.S. This last idea reminds some of Louis G. opinion that revolution are
more likely in colonial country nowadays.



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