02-01-2018, 02:01 PM
(02-01-2018, 12:52 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: > I see an old pattern from early capitalism: at the start,
> capitalists need veritable armies of day laborers to do the hard,
> dirty, dangerous work of building the basic infrastructure. So it
> was with laying railroad track, building structures, and digging
> ditches. The workers usually end up in temporary housing, the
> housing typically jerry-built with poor sanitation. Vice
> flourishes. But once the early boom ends, the day laborers are no
> longer necessary. Maybe they move on. More troubling, they might
> want to stay and take a piece of the action as regular employees,
> skilled workers, or as small-scale entrepreneurs. Many do not make
> the transition, and the powers-that-be want such people out. The
> technology may be different, but the social pressures are much the
> same.
> The day laborers are the most genuine proletariat in the Marxist
> sense. They see capitalism at its worst and get the least out of
> it. Of course they want better. But will they get it?
So what would be an example of a capitalist society where the laborers
built a city, and then the government came in and evicted 10% of the
population and threw them out into the streets in a period of a few
months?
Or is your point that you want to claim that China is in "early
capitalism"?