The GOP Agenda: Controlling the Means of (Re)Production

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.politicususa.com/en/the-gop-agenda-controlling-the-means-of-reproduction



Sometimes it takes me a while, but the pieces have finally slid into place. Like a lot of others, I have been mistakenly thinking that the GOP’s legislative campaign against women is about domination or subversion or repression or some other kind of man-woman conflict. It’s not at all. It is about dehumanization: the puppet party of business seeking dominion over the population by controlling our reproduction.

Consider that the ideal environment for multinational corporations is pretty much the opposite of what benefits humans:

Corporations would like to drive down the worldwide cost of human capital in order to own and manage a world economy. We have already seen how this is accomplished. On the production side, corporations play leapfrog, moving factories from country to country based on marginal labor savings. On the revenue side, they drain the private assets of countries whose citizens still have money. With no resources, the citizens are ripe to be exploited as the next labor force.

This creates an endless boom and bust cycle. Countries start as exploited labor. From that labor, a middle class emerges. The middle class becomes a target consumer market, but the middle class also prices itself out of the cheap labor market. While the middle class is establishing itself, its foundation is being dissolved as jobs and factories move to poorer countries. A critical mass of countries must participate to make this work, but it need not be every country. Certain conditions maximize the impact of this cycle, including the absence of trade restrictions and taxes.

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