“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Sunday, February 13, 2011

Changfu on Globalized Labor and Capital

Peter Gratton has a good post on a talk in which it's argued--an intuition I've held for about 20 years now--that labor as well as capital should globalize, a stage missed out by Marx.

I had some major thoughts on Marx and hyperobjects, stand by for those.



3 comments:

Joe Clement said...

Is removing barriers to labor mobility supposed to be progressive? Sounds to me like labor mobility - where labor is not "what workers do" (i.e. transhistorical) so much as "what capital enjoins workers to do" - is about the interests of restless capital and not workers.

Timothy Morton said...

No, it's supposed to suck. But according to a certain Marxist view it's what has to happen in order for a truly global communist movement to arise.

Timothy Morton said...

PS Joe--it doesn't make much sense to me either...