Re: how many global class struggles? (fwd)

On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, g kohler wrote:

> to nationally conceived and acting classes. This raises the next set of
> questions: What is a "global class", as opposed to a national class? How
> many global classes are there at the present time? Who can be a member of a
> global class -- only individuals or also countries? 

Well, there's the Eurobourgeoisie, there's the US Bubble-bourgeoisie, and
there's the Asiabourgeoisie, plus various and sundry proletariats. I'm
leery of "global" as an adjective; this is basically a multinational
capitalism, not a transnational one, shot through with local, regional and
national capitalisms. On the other hand, you *could* make the argument
that finance capital is the closest thing we have to being a truly global 
phenomenon: every Third World country is locked into the world-system via
humongous, crushing debts (and has a local comprador class, charged with
managing this value-stream), every Second World country is trying to
export like mad to pay its creditors (because if it doesn't, it ends up
in category #1), every First World zone collects global finance-rents and
plows these right back into the vortex of accumulation. 

A simple way of saying, it ain't simple.

-- Dennis