What is the new global proletarian class?
The new methods of production are also forming a new global class of propertyless. As the rapid and easy flow of capital across national borders draws workers of all countries into the same shrinking market for labor power, it also puts all workers into competition with the robot and drives wages down toward the lowest level available. We can see the formation of this new class in the increase in sweatshop and slave labor, rampant unemployment and job insecurity, and the growing gap between wealth and poverty in the world. The precarious existence of this new class expresses the incompatibility of today’s new productive forces with the old productive relations. The new methods of production are increasingly separating this proletarian class from wages; meanwhile, private property rules that those without money do not eat. The interests of this new class will not be served by the “winners” in the global game being forced to help out the “losers.” Therefore, the program of this new class
