marx

The last two stages I will go over are the acts of distribution and exchange. As stated in their name, each act does what it is suppose to. For instance, after the object is produced and then it is distributed to be consumed, hence distribution. Or it is the exchange between the production and consumption or the act as a go-between between productions with its production-determined distribution.

The above picture, please don’t make fun of my overly exciting first day of college face, is my school id, or as we call it here around the university, our Fiu One Card. Basically, FIU distributes one of these cards to each of their students as they come in their first year in FIU and it acts as an ID around school campus but it also has multiple functions. For instance, financial aid refunds are disbursed onto your One Card or one may add funds to it and it may be used around school in different places like my favorite, Pollo Tropical and of course for the long hours in the Green Library, Café Bustelo. Not only can you use it on school grounds, but also it ultimately serves as an ATM card where you can take out money from it. Very practical, if you get financial aid refunds deposited into it, if not, for students like myself, I barely use the card, only for identification purposes. FIU produces these FIU One Cards and distributes it to each of its students, in exchange for this card, the students may use it to consume products that are sold around school campus like food locations that I mentioned previously. So how Marx explained, the process always returns to production to begin all over again. And what can be obviously noted from this analysis is that exchange and consumption cannot be predomi...

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..., reward cards and so on and so forth. In FIU, again going back to the FIU One Card, FIU’s accounting department does not bank it; no on the other hand. Wells Fargo, a much larger bank, manages it. Wells Fargo is an example of when a bank of that magnitude buys a smaller probably private-owned bank, which in the real world it did purchase Wachovia Bank a couple years back. So, FIU itself is a source of imperial structuring when it provides students that card, because behind that simple plastic card there is a large corporation behind it that has already been imperialized, for sake of a better word, and it continues the work of imperialism the more and more cards FIU distributes.

“If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.” – Vladimir Lenin

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