Only a global socialist redistribution can remedy backward-capitalist poverty

Evidence

This structural inability of capitalism to provide for the vast majority of the populations which it has sucked into irs own dominion constitutes the basic, incurable flaw in the system as a whole. Such a contradiction can be overcome neither by the will of the national bourgeoisies nor by the edicts of the IMF and the World Bank, nor indeed by all the governmental and non-governmental agencies of advanced capitalism, so long as the system itself remains. Negation of this contradiction can come only from outside the terms of this system as such, because the backwardness of the backward capitalist countries, hence the pover.ty of the majority of the world’s population, cannot be undone except through a complete redistribution of wealth and an altogether different structuring of productions and consumptions on a global scale, among classes, regions, countries and continents of the world. Socialism is the determinate name for this negation of capitalism’s fundamental, systemic contradictions and cruelties, and the necessity of this negation will remain, regardless of the fate of the Soviet Union as such. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 1341

Categorization

• XREF: Ahmad’s claim that the negation must come ‘outside the terms of this system’ is the materialist version of the escape problem strategic essentialism poses: for Spivak the outside is a deconstructive position, for Ahmad it is socialism — a live tension worth tracing. — connects to: First-world wealth does not causally depend on third-world poverty — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 405; Integration into global capitalism reinforces, not relieves, the periphery’s subordination — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 292; Post-capitalism must be globally coordinated, not a return to village scale. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2202

Broader Connections

• Integration into global capitalism reinforces, not relieves, the periphery’s subordination #corroborates (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 292
• First-world wealth does not causally depend on third-world poverty #complicates (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 405