Episode 67: Are revolutions in the west impossible? - unequal exchange with Torkil Lauesen
The Deprogram
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The Paradox of Capitalism
I think that imperialism has always been a necessary part of the capitalism. The more you want profit, the less you give to wages and wages is an essential part of the consumption power. To solve this problem, a transfer from value from outside solves the problem because it raises the profit. But their wages are actually to know the value so they cannot have a dynamic capitalism. They can only have a capitalism which export raw materials and food for the entire list center and also the transfer of the value. So you have on one side super exploitation in the periphery and you have a raising wage level in the center due to this colonial structure. And when they exchange products in the 19th century, it was
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