appearance and essence of global class conflict

appearance and essence of global class conflict

People like Plato, Marx, Sir Walter Bagehot, and many Canadians
distinguish between appearance and essence - the surface and what's
really behind it. Take Argentina (recent events) for example. People
were demonstrating in the streets and battling with police about
economics. That looks like a national class conflict. But
those-in-the-know know that the Argentinian government's policies were
enlightened by the great enlightened one - namely, the IMF
(International Monetary Fund). This leads me to believe that the
*essence* of the conflict is Argentinian people versus global corporate
class,  and that the *appearance* of the conflict is Argentinian people
versus Argentinian government and Argentinian corporate class. Lesson -
In a globalised world, in which national jurisdictions are but provinces
of the world(-)system, any class conflict appearing locally is but an
appearance of the one, grand, and essentially global class conflict. How
do you like this bit of e-philosophy?

Gernot Kohler





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