A powerful argument. In the last instance, production matters. Neoliberalism is really a one-sided class war (see David Harvey, "A Brief History of Neoliberalism"). By offshoring production, our ruling class imposed a harsh discipline on American workers, reducing Americans to consumers in a financialized economy that prioritized profits, hollowing out our cities and gutting the industrial core of the USA.
As a result of this spatial fix for capital (D. Harvey), China is now home to more manufacturing capacity than the US, EU, Japan, and the ROK combined. About 30-35% of all manufactured goods come from China and the Asian productive ecosystem that extends into Africa. The collective West is the past, Asia is the present, and Africa is the future.
Another consequence of neoliberal globalization was the displacement of peasants off the land and into megacities of the Global South, creating a global proletariat in a "Planet of Slums" as the late great Mike Davis put it. Those former subsistence farmers and small commodity producers now must sell their labor power within a governance system framed by dependency and neo-colonialism. This has had a dramatic effect on Africa and cities of the Global South as AbdouMaliq Simone notes in the "City Yet to Come".
Despite the hope of "making America great again" the genie is out of the bottle and no amount of re-shoring,blustering, and bombing can undo what was done when the process was global as Peter Dicken notes in "Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy". Electing Harris is no panacea, but a necessary strategic move to shape the terrain in what promises to be a tumultuous period of change "unseen in a century" (Xi Jingping).
The three day BRICS meeting occurring right now in Kazan might mark a turning point in the relationship between the formerly colonized and former colonizers, and the beginnings of a pluralistic system that could compliment and eventually supercede the rules based order made in Washington, NYC, Paris, Brussels, Tokyo, and London.
Excellent. It's the story of my hometown, Aliquippa, in Western PA. Nearly every word of it. Going forward, it's worth making use of the resources of the Federation for a Manufacturing Renaissance, chaired by Dan Swinney in Chicago, with many U.S. allies and connected to the Mondragon Coops in the Basque Country of Spain as well.
A powerful argument. In the last instance, production matters. Neoliberalism is really a one-sided class war (see David Harvey, "A Brief History of Neoliberalism"). By offshoring production, our ruling class imposed a harsh discipline on American workers, reducing Americans to consumers in a financialized economy that prioritized profits, hollowing out our cities and gutting the industrial core of the USA.
As a result of this spatial fix for capital (D. Harvey), China is now home to more manufacturing capacity than the US, EU, Japan, and the ROK combined. About 30-35% of all manufactured goods come from China and the Asian productive ecosystem that extends into Africa. The collective West is the past, Asia is the present, and Africa is the future.
Another consequence of neoliberal globalization was the displacement of peasants off the land and into megacities of the Global South, creating a global proletariat in a "Planet of Slums" as the late great Mike Davis put it. Those former subsistence farmers and small commodity producers now must sell their labor power within a governance system framed by dependency and neo-colonialism. This has had a dramatic effect on Africa and cities of the Global South as AbdouMaliq Simone notes in the "City Yet to Come".
Despite the hope of "making America great again" the genie is out of the bottle and no amount of re-shoring,blustering, and bombing can undo what was done when the process was global as Peter Dicken notes in "Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy". Electing Harris is no panacea, but a necessary strategic move to shape the terrain in what promises to be a tumultuous period of change "unseen in a century" (Xi Jingping).
The three day BRICS meeting occurring right now in Kazan might mark a turning point in the relationship between the formerly colonized and former colonizers, and the beginnings of a pluralistic system that could compliment and eventually supercede the rules based order made in Washington, NYC, Paris, Brussels, Tokyo, and London.
Excellent. It's the story of my hometown, Aliquippa, in Western PA. Nearly every word of it. Going forward, it's worth making use of the resources of the Federation for a Manufacturing Renaissance, chaired by Dan Swinney in Chicago, with many U.S. allies and connected to the Mondragon Coops in the Basque Country of Spain as well.
Well done Jeff.