Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 20:36:08 -0500 From: Yoshie Furuhashi <Furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu> Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: M-I: Primitive Accumulation Lou P replied to me: >Also, lots of peasants/indigenous peoples >>who are being expelled from land now in the Third World are more likely to >>go into the urban informal sector (peddling, hustling, going in and out of >>personal service/petty production/casual labor, etc.) than become wage >>workers. (I infer this from astonishingly high rates of Third World >>unemployment rates.) >> > >The phenomenon of the "informal economy" is so wide-spread in Latin America >that it led Mexican journalist Jorge Castaneda to theorize a "civil >society" based on street peddlers, etc., who would constitute a >petty-bourgeoisie of a new type and provide a social base for democracy. >This optimistic viewpoint is really at odds with Latin American reality. >The street peddlers are outside of any political framework and are too >marginalized to move in that direction. This fact of marginalization--the likelihood that uprooted peasants/indigenous peoples will be in the informal economy rather than become wage workers, especially in Latin America--should, in my opinion, highlight the importance of ongoing struggles for land. Yoshie --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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