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. --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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