ITT: clueless maoist-thirdworldists in real-time repeat the first steps taken by Benito ᴉuᴉlossnW away from socialism towards fascism.
Jokes aside nation is NOT a class category. If we take nation as a form of social being than we have to pinpoint its connection to the bourgeoisie. It is basically a homogeneous market and other conditions for the reproduction of total social capital. The nation-state is only a collective expression of the general intrests of the most powerful part of a country's capitalist class. That being said, there is a hierarchy of nations in the imperialist pyramid, and its place leaves a mark on its people. That doesn't mean that the people have common intrests with the capitalists of their country in climbing the hierarchy of power among capitalists. It just means more GDP. Of course being at the bottom doesn't mean underdeveloped either. Lenin explained that extraction of capital means DEVELOPMENT of the productive forces, only in a way that transfers contradictions of a hyper-ripe capitalism in a society that isnt ready for them. That means that absolute surplus value extraction in said countries goes beyond the limit that Marx presupposes for purposes of scientific exposition in Capital, namely it goes over and beyond that which can biologically reproduce labour power. When 12 yo children work 15 hours in Congolese mines for Elon's cobalt they cannot be reproduced biologically. That is over exploitation. However, the total social capital of Congo, the Congolese bourgeoisie wants this, it needs this in the context of global labour division. It benefits from the overexploitation of its people. Pockets of overexploitation exist in imperialist countries as well. It doesn't matter wether there are skyscrapers or favelas around, when a homeless person dies on the street like a dog their material situation is the same. But, most importantly, it is crucial to fight capitalism, even in order to fight its monopoly stage overexploitation. And capitalism runs on simple logic: extraction of surplus value. Technically speaking, in countries where the organic synthesis of capital is higher the degree of exploitation is higher. Relative surplus value can be greater than absolute surplus value exactly because there is no physical limit. The development of the productivity of labor means that highly productive labor is technically more exploited, because even if westerns work less (though this tends to change with the new power relations amo
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