En voi vastustaa kiusausta jatkaa tähän.
Eräät sedät kirjoittivat näin 1848:
"The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everwhere, settle everywhere... The bourgeoisie through its exploitation of the world market gives a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of reactionaries it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground which it stood... In place of old local and national seclusion and self sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal interdependence of nations...
The bourgeoisie by its rapid improvement of all the instruments of production, by the immensly facilitated means of communication draws all... nations into civilisation. The cheap price of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls... It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production... In one word, it creates a world after its own image."
"Bourgeois society... that has conjured up such a gigantic means of production and of exchange is like a sorcerer who is no longer able to control the power of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells... It is enough to recall the great commercial crises that by their periodical return put the existence of the entire bourgeois society on trial, each time more threatingly... In these crises breaks out an epidemic that in earlier epochs would have seemed an absurdity - the epidemic of over-production... I appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, has cut off the supply of every means of subsistence: industry and commerce seem to have been destroyed. And why? Because there is too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce... And how does the bourgeoisie get out of these crises? On the one hand, enforced destruction of a mass productive forces; on the other, by conquest of new markets and by the more thorough exploitation of older ones. That is to say, by preparing the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means by which such crises are prevented."
Kirjoittajana toimivat tietenkin
Tämä on sinänsä mielenkiintoista, että he ovat onnistuneet tekemään näin tarkan kuvauksen 2000-luvun globaalista kapitalismista. Voisi myös mainita, että akateemisissa ja erilaisissa vähemmän akateemisissa tutkimuksissa Smithiä käytetään edelleen varsin innokkaasti,
Kansojen varallisuutta siteerataan ties missä yhteyksissä, mutta noiden kahden sedän teokseen jos erehdyt viittaamaan, niin olet kommunisti, bolshevikki etkä ymmärrä että Marx ei enää ole ajankohtainen, ja sietäisit joutua maakuoppaan.
