What this string of disasters exposes is not a crisis of neo-liberalism or any other style of management but a crisis of the value form itself, of the commodification of life. Continuing to produce things for their exchange-value, for the profit they can yield, continuing to base human relations on the wage-labor/capital relation, while destroying all those relations that fall outside of it, guarantees far worse disasters ahead.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Internationalist Perspective Public Meeting in New York
from Internationalist Perspective. In addition to the invitation to a meeting in New York, the article provides a good analysis of the current contradictions of capitalism that are fueling the various economic crises throughout the world.