‘There Are Majorities’

Where the growth of the firm could be said to be in some sense in the interest of many workers in the "Golden Age" of the Global North, today the growth—or more so the profitability—of the firm is an integral part of the same circuit which also internalizes the further immiseration, exhaustion, alienation, or disenfranchisement of those same workers and communities.

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In other words, for the first time in modern history, there are majorities on both sides of Du Bois's "color line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea,” across the whole of empire, whose most mundane, material interests align.

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Continued colonization compounds their exhaustion; decolonization promises the possibility of both their increased power and their material benefit.

—Ajay Singh Chaudhary, in The Exhausted of the Earth