People don't like this but you have to look directly at it.

Labor power is a commodity, and the labor locked up behind a revolution makes capital salivate as much as the natural resources do

I'm not "blaming China," I'm saying we owed our concessions in part to their revolution

The retreat from the high water mark of proletarian power in China shifted fortunes everywhere precisely because we had been buoyed by their triumph.

When their power was broken and they were forced back onto the market we were put back into competition with each other.

Someone else tweeted this much more thoroughly a while ago and got blasted for it. But it's true.