Population surplus i think isn’t an idea form Marx but (I think) from Mike Davis.
But the way Davis uses it, is beyond the reserve army of labor, racial capitalism creates so many jobless people that it doesn’t even need them as the reserve army of labor. Like, black unemployment reaches 40% at times.
These “surplus people” are managed spatially. The ones who are needed as the reserve army of labor are, and the rest are separated from productive society through borders, prions, ghettos, segregation and Apartheid.
A great example is how unemployment in Israel is about 5 to 10% but in the Gaza strip is 40 to 50%. Then, Palestinians are selectively let into Israel to perform below-market-rate labor while the rest are subjected to ghettoization and genocide.
Population surplus i think isn’t an idea form Marx but (I think) from Mike Davis.
But the way Davis uses it, is beyond the reserve army of labor, racial capitalism creates so many jobless people that it doesn’t even need them as the reserve army of labor. Like, black unemployment reaches 40% at times.
These “surplus people” are managed spatially. The ones who are needed as the reserve army of labor are, and the rest are separated from productive society through borders, prions, ghettos, segregation and Apartheid.
A great example is how unemployment in Israel is about 5 to 10% but in the Gaza strip is 40 to 50%. Then, Palestinians are selectively let into Israel to perform below-market-rate labor while the rest are subjected to ghettoization and genocide.