Basically every economist, including ‘Marxian’ ones.

Do chocolate next. There is no reason Europeans have to be involved in the production of chocolate.

I’m hearing that AOC is endorsing Trump, it’s what the unions wanted her to do.

By world order they mean The Empire

Good feature, sorry.

Which is insanely a-historical incidentally.

Actually, Chinese people who spend a few years in the US become more anti-US and more pro-China. In any case, my bet is your whole story is made up.

That is a lower bound though, since they also make enormous amounts of money from using the intellectual property to not have competitors. Still is pretty small in the scale of the whole economy, I would expect.

A huge section of the working class in the global South has been “rendered superfluous” by the inability of modern production methods to soak up enough labor to prevent rising unemployment, and this alone, even before we take into account the much harsher labor regimes prevalent in low-wage countries, exerts a powerful force that makes “the price of their labour-power fall below its value.”

This is totally incoherent. I doubt this author has ever read Marx, they certainly haven’t grasped the thrust of his argument.

Slightly more systematic analysis:

Part1 is an unremarkable and outdated if largely correct collection of empirical points. Fine.

Part 2 rests largely on incorrect empirical claims.

Companies like Apple and H&M export no capital to Bangladesh and China—their iPhones and garments are produced by arm’s-length production processes. Untrue. Also if some Taiwanese company is doing the capital export, that is still imperialism as Lenin defined. This resonates powerfully with contemporary global capitalism, where imperialist transnational corporations share the spoils of super-exploitation with myriad service-providers and their own employees, and where the biggest cut of all is taken by the state.

Apple famously a highly taxed company. Also there is no evidence that Apples shares spoils with its employees, moreover there is no reason to believe they would do so and every reason to believe they wouldn’t.

In general this article seems to be laundering a non-materialist argument and world model via a smattering Marx and Lenin quotes, largely without making any attempt to understanding the quotes themselves. Laundering the total rejection of Marx and Lenin via their own words by totally misunderstanding them. It really isn’t worth my time to fully dissect this article, so I leave it here.****

The wages are often too low to make it cost effective to mechanize. Also, you have to keep in mind that India is not a rationally planned economy. India as a whole would enormously benefit from mechanization of agriculture, but capitalists and landowners have different interests.

I agree that intellectual property law is creating unequal exchanges, but I suspect that this is still quite a small effect relative to the total global economy. I welcome an investigation into that.