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The Politics and Morality of Unequal Exchange: Emmanuel and Roemer, Analysis and Synthesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

David Schweickart
David Schweickart
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Loyola University of Chicago
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When the relative importance of the national exploitation from which a working class suffers through belonging to the proletariat diminishes continually as compared with that from which it benefits through belonging to a privileged nation, a moment comes when the aim of increasing the national income in absolute terms prevails over that of the relative share of one part of the nation over the other. From that point onward the principle of national solidarity ceases to be challenged in principle, however violent and radical the struggle over the sharing of the cake may be. Thereafter a de facto united front of the workers and capitalists of the well-to-do countries, directed against the poor nations, coexists with an internal trade-union struggle over the sharing of the loot. (Emmanuel, 1972, p. 180)

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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , April 1991 , pp. 13 - 36
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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