Third World Nationalism and the State by Sam Dolgoff

The progress of the new society will depend greatly upon the extent to which its self-governing units will be able to speed up communication – – to understand each other’s problems and thus better coordinate their activities. Raffaele (Professor of Economics, Drexel Institute of Technology) are unintentionally and unconsciously writing like anarchists! Raffaele writes: “we are moving toward a society of technical co-equals in which the line of demarcation between the leader and the led become fuzzy.” Management consultant Bernard Muller-Thym emphasizes that: “within our grasp is a kind or production capability that is alive with intelligence, with information, so that is will be completely flexible in a world-wide basis.” Many of them will be receptive to our ideas if intelligently and realistically presented. These frustrated professional workers already outnumber relatively unskilled and skilled “blue collar” manual workers rapidly displaced by modern technology. They are often compelled, on pain of dismissal, to perform monotonous tasks and are not free to exercise their knowledge. They are particularly outraged that their training and creativity are exploited to design and improve increasingly-destructive war weapons and other anti-social purposes. Quite a few whom I interviewed complain that nothing is so maddening as to stand helplessly by while ignorauses who do not even understand the language of science dictate the direction of research and development. Many scientific and technical workers are unhappy.

The Bulova Watch Corporation makes watch movements in Switzerland, assembles them in Pogo Pogo and ships them to be sold in the Unites States. General Motors promised to build a new plant in Kansas City but will build it in Spain. For example, Japan with very few natural resources is nevertheless a first class industrial power exporting and competing with the United States and other industrialized nations in the production of steel, automobiles, electrical products and other goods. Automobiles, clothing, shoes, electronic equipment, machinery almost everything formerly manufactured in the United States is now being made abroad even in “third world” countries like Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria, Korea – – though many of these countries lack essential natural resources. in remote, non-industrial, non-union areas were wages and working conditions are poor. They simply built new plants abroad or here in the U.S. But the industrial corporations did not go out of business. Steel, auto, agricultural machinery, mines, electronic plants, and other installations are rushing away.

The cities in what was once the industrial heartland of American now look like abandoned ghost towns.

Third World Nationalism and the State by Sam Dolgoff