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fistf: the underlying claim is that the same mutation in capitalist organization that is and has been ravaging the southern hemisphere is also ravaging sectors of the american population--particularly in what once were working class areas. i dont think i made that clear enough. mea culpa. hopefully, this is enough to enable you to sort out whati was trying to say.
as for the "attractiveness" of the american mode of oranization--well, if "structural adjustment" and other such american export treats have the effect of destroying (more or less autonomous) local systems of production, it follows that this destruction creates what marx called an "industrial reserve army"--what you would call "immigration"---the solution to this "problem" is a different development model. i dont see anything in the fact of migration patterns to the states that implies anything beyond the symptomatic level---that is, the attractiveness of the american system at the moment is a function of the consequences of that model as they are displaced onto other regions of the world. reaction to the fact of thematter rather than aything like an endorsement of either the model or the country within which it is dominant.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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