The global capital-labour struggle unites the world more than any ideology
Evidence
What gives the world its unity, then, is not a humanist ideology but the ferocious struggle between capital and labour which is now strictly and fundamentally global in character. The prospect of a socialist revolution has receded so much from the practical horizon for so much of the metropolitan Left that the temptation for the US Left intelligentsia is to forget the ferocity of that basic struggle which in our time transcends all others. The advantage of coming from Pakistan, in my own case, is that the country is saturated with capitalist commodities, bristles with US weaponry, borders on China, the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, suffers from a proliferation of competing nationalisms, and is currently witnessing the first stage in the consolidation of the communist movement. It is difficult, coming from there, to forget that primary motion of history which gives our globe its contradictory unity. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 164
Categorization
- XREF: Epistemic-position argument parallels standpoint theory and postcolonial critiques of metropolitan theory production.