有一个在加拿大洋插队的孩子突然在今夏回到北京来度暑假,她向我谈起她在域外利用节假日去为一家华裔食品厂推销速冻饺子的一些“趣闻”。 她是一位大学生,自然知道什么叫剥削,什么叫剩余价值一类的政治经济学词汇,然而她更明白,在西方社会,如果身无分文,就无法在大洋彼岸生存下去。生活逼得她要利用一切课余时间去打工,于是她选择了自以为比较容易干好的一种活计——在超级市场卖饺子。 One of the children jumping into the Canadian Ocean abruptly returned to Beijing this summer for summer vacation. She talked to me about some of the “anecdotes” she used to take advantage of holidays outside the country to market frozen dumplings for an ethnic Chinese food factory. She is a college student who naturally knows what it means to exploit and what is the value category of political economy in terms of surplus value. She understands, however, that in Western society, if there is no penniless money, she can not survive the other side of the oceans. Life forced her to use all her spare time to work, so she opted for a job that she thought was easier to do - selling dumplings in supermarkets.