Erik Wright's 'Class Counts': Summary
In his book "Class Counts", Erik Wright (1997) offers the following illustration about how two classes might have totally incompatible interests. In the 1940s comic Li’l Abner, there are only two classes, workers and capitalists. The capitalists are looking for a community where labor is cheap and settle on the town of Dogpatch, which, it just so happens, has become overrun by a benevolent creature called a "shmoo." Shmoos have the ability to change themselves into anything necessary for human existence but not into luxury items. Even better, since the shmoos can multiply themselves an infinite number of times and desire only to serve humans, "in effect, the shmoo restores humanity to the Garden of Eden.” Allow me to depart from the original comic story to translate Wright’s illustration of class interests in capitalist society to render the mechanisms behind the emerging cannabis industry more visible. The story of capitalists looking for the right place to expand their businesses and extract cheap labor resembles the story of the DGH investment into cannabis industry in Czech Republic. While the Li’l Abner’s capitalists settled in the …show more content…
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