Will Griffin: How the U.S. Military Shaped Global Capitalism

Screenshot by Dandelion Salad via Flickr
Watch the video below

With Will Griffin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Peace Report
March 14, 2019

The Peace Report on Mar 10, 2019

Patrick Chung article “From Korea to Vietnam”
This channel works for donations:
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepeacereport
Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/thepeacereport

Join The Peace Report to fight empire one video at a time: Weekly Newsletter

From Korea to Vietnam

by Patrick Chung
Radical History Review
Jan. 1, 2019

Abstract

“This article provides a prehistory of the “container revolution” that occurred during the Vietnam War. It situates containerization in Vietnam within the broader history of US military-led capitalist globalization, demonstrating how US military contracting influenced the development of labor relations and business practices around the globe. Starting in Korea, US military leaders implemented a range of policies to promote cost savings and efficiencies in the construction and operation of its supply chains. Of most consequence was its promotion of racialized labor practices and privatization. These distinct but interrelated processes spoke to the US military’s complicity in the exploitation of workers in the pursuit of cost savings. Further, they ultimately led to the US military’s embrace of containerization. Though the negative impact for workers was abundantly clear even at the time of Vietnam, the US military rigorously promoted the technology and helped make the “box” the standard in the shipping industry.”

From the archives:

David Swanson: If Everybody Matters, War Can Never Be Justified At All

Will Griffin: Militarism is Capitalism

Anything War Can Do, Peace Can Do Better by David Swanson

Meet the One Percent: Peter Phillips’ Giants: The Global Power Elite by Marc Eliot Stein

Capitalism Is Always At War by William T. Hathaway

History of Capitalism in the United States: Exposing the Myth of America + Full Transcript

War = Capitalism, Capitalism = War by William Bowles

Smedley Butler: I Was A Racketeer, A Gangster For Capitalism