[Marxism] Accumulation in NZ - what facts?

[cwarren]

It is amazing that so much squabbling can emerge over whether NZ is/was 
a semi-colony.

Particularly as not one participant in this squabble has produced any 
data to back up their dueling opinions.

NZ is firmly attached to the OECD economic of global exploitation and is 
complicit in that exploitation.

What matters in NZ (for Marxists) is the trends underpinning that 
exploitation - the trends in wages and profits and trends within 
countervailling tendencies such as population increase and per capita 
debt increase.

For my part I would expect commodities coming from a hi-tech economy 
would in fact be cheaper than those coming from low tech peasant 
economies.  But then commodities can be even cheaper if you combine 
Western high-tech with Third World low wages, so the capitalist future 
for both NZ and Australia does not look too rosey.  It is not clear to 
me that you can separate NZ and Australian economies even though 
formally they are distinct States.

Capital accumulation destroys capitalism - semi-colony or not.  The 
countervailing tendencies may last a few decades but eventually collapse 
under their own inherent contradictions.  Maybe some NZ data could show 
us all where the trends are going in NZ.



Chris Warren






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