Amerikkkans rich, Indians poor, so-called “ICM” deaf and dumb

Amerikkkans rich, Indians poor, so-called “ICM” deaf and dumb

by Prairie Fire

(monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com)

A rough figure for median personal income per workday for people (working and non-working) in the United States over 15 years of age is $119.03 (roughly Rs. 4,946.88, we are using the current exchange rate). (1) According to a recent report, 394.9 million Indians, 86% of the workforce, are employed in the unorganized sector and work in “utterly deplorable conditions.” 316 million (roughly 8 out of 10 working in this main sector of the Indian economy), the vast majority of the workforce, make less than Rs. 20 or $0.49 a day. (2) We are going to compare the United States and India in terms of income per work day to get a rough idea about how great the gap is between the wealth of first world “workers” and third world workers. According to these numbers, the personal income per work day for at least half of the people (working and non-working) in the United States over 15 years of age is 243 times that of the vast majority of India’s workforce. In addition, this disparity of income is greater than these daily figures indicate because Indians often work more hours per day. (3)

In addition to this, we should consider that people in the United States are generally employed in cushy jobs in the non-productive sector in safe environments. Indians, by contrast, are employed doing backbreaking and unsafe labor. (4) (5) (6) (7)

The standard chauvinist reply will be “But half of people in the United States make less than the median.” This is, of course, true. To that we reply that the *minimum* wage for a full-time “worker” in the United States is $5.15 (roughly Rs. 214.075) an hour, or $41.20 (roughly Rs. 1,712.60) a day, and that’s still almost 100 times what working Indians at around the *80th* percentile are paid. Nearly all working people in the United States make well over the minimum wage. For that matter, we could look at welfare and see that it is vastly higher than $0.49 a day (which is about $10 a month if we count only “working” days). So even persons on welfare in the United States are much better off than most Indian workers. Indeed, so is the United States lumpenproletariat. Anybody in the united $nakes can get ahold of $10 in a month’s time. Few Indians can.

 

It is a good bet that many, if not most, in the so-called “working class” in the United States have more access to capital than many who are considered bourgeoisie in India. When there is this much income disparity between “workers” in the United States and Indian workers, there is no meaningful sense in which we should consider these groups as part of the same class. There is no meaningful sense in which there is an alignment of class interests between a worker making $0.49 cents a day and someone who makes 100 to 243 or more times that amount, for example. In addition, other factors besides income raise the standard of living in the first world vis a vis the third world. People in the United States have lives of luxury, Indians live at subsistence and sub-subsistence levels.

Let’s consider the system of capitalist-imperialism as a whole. Within this system, people in the United States are getting more than their share of income and purchasing power. They are net-beneficiaries of the global distribution of wealth. There is no meaningful sense in which they can be considered exploited nor part of the proletariat as a revolutionary class. With a just distribution globally, all people in the United States legally would have their income, wealth, standard of living and purchasing power greatly decreased. Any way we examine it, virtually all people in the United States are getting more than their share of the global social product. First world “workers” are a labor aristocracy whose interests align with capitalist-imperialism against third world.

Marx said that we have to break with metaphysical approaches and look beneath surfaces. The disparity of wealth is caused by capitalist-imperialism, a system where whole nations benefit by super-exploitation and oppression of the third world. First world so-called “communist ” parties that agitate on behalf of first world “workers” are not true communist parties. They are first world social-fascist organizations agitating for a bigger cut of super-profits stolen from the third world. Third world parties that make alliances with these social-fascist fake-Maoist organizations should be looked at with great skepticism by true communists. Parties who lack common sense or science enough to see the obvious should stop calling themselves Maoist.

Notes.

1. http://pubdb3.census.gov/macro/032006/perinc/new05_001.htm According to the United States Census Bureau, people in the United States over 15, working or not, the median personal income was $28,567 (roughly Rs. 1,187,473.00) for 2005. People in the United States typically work about 240 days a year. They work five days a week. They get two weeks in holidays off and another two weeks in vacation time. So, let’s divide $28,567 by 240 to get roughly of $119.03 (roughly Rs. 4,946.88 ) for a very rough lowball median personal income per workday for people (working and non-working) in the United States over 15 years of age.

2. http://www.thehindu.com/2007/08/10/stories/2007081056671600.htm

3. http://naxalrevolution.blogspot.com/2007/08/8-out-of-10-working-indians-earn-less.html pp 70

4. http://naxalrevolution.blogspot.com/2007/08/8-out-of-10-working-indians-earn-less.html pp 58

5. http://naxalrevolution.blogspot.com/2007/08/8-out-of-10-working-indians-earn-less.html pp 66

6. http://naxalrevolution.blogspot.com/2007/08/8-out-of-10-working-indians-earn-less.html pp 97

7. http://naxalrevolution.blogspot.com/2007/08/8-out-of-10-working-indians-earn-less.html pp 99