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it is a capitalist economic crisis

The labor leaders repeat the line of the propagandists of capital in calling the present situation an economic crisis - a classless characterization - when, in fact, it is a capitalist economic crisis. It is a crisis of the system of exploitation in which the bosses are trying to pass their cri…

—p.xviii Introduction (v) by Fred Goldstein
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eroding the national determination of wages

In fact, the revolution in technology and hte globalization of capitalist production and services are eroding the national determination of wages.

The wage level of the working class in the imperialist countries, under pressure of the global competition set up by the giant monopolies, is being i…

—p.xvii Introduction (v) by Fred Goldstein
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the greatest leverage capital enjoyed

[...] A dangerous shift to the right in labor relations was underway.

It soon became clear that hte bosses were aiming to reverse the historic gains of the working class that dated back to the tempestuous class struggles of the Roosevelt New Deal era [...]

But the strength of organized labor …

—p.vi Introduction (v) by Fred Goldstein
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the enemy is already inside

weizman: A ‘classical’ border set-up like that would be based on the assumption that the ‘enemy’ is always outside. Today’s system is based on the belief that the enemy – whether that is a migrant, a terrorist, a social movement or group of protesters – is already inside.

Surveillance exists not…

—p.169 Granta 151: Membranes Crimes of Space (157) by Granta