Food: the key to capitalist domination

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Sep 10 2012 00:43
Food: the key to capitalist domination

I'm going to wright something longer on this later but here are my basic points:

1. By controlling basic needs capitalism is able to force people to work for wages, food is the most basic need, their for it should be taken out of capitalist production.

2. under our current conditions food production is complex and spread over vast areas, the transportation of food is a major factor in global warming.

3. Any revolutionary movement will be easily starved out by the corporate system.

4. A successful revolutionary movement would be prone to a forming of a new ruling class based in the management of food transportation because its complex nature would make it a highly skill job which would take years to master. (This is actually true for all transportation, I can see the new collective enterprise formed by the merger of UPS, the mail service, plains and truck driving corporations forcing people to copulate by threatening to refuse to supply them with goods.)

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Sep 11 2012 11:22

Has any historical ruling class ever emerged because it held a personal monopoly on the production of some particular resource? In my understanding, ruling classes emerge because they are able to occupy a role of intermediatory that is necessary in the mode of production in question, rather than because they. Feudal aristocrats play a necessary role in the organisation of the manor, capitalists of the factory (individual or social), and so on.