globalization

Articles

• Workers, Unions and the Left: Responding to the Global Crisis*
  4 February 2012, by siawi3

  Anti-globalisation activists often called themselves anti-capitalist, and used the terms interchangeably. But if globalisation is capitalism by another name, why not simply call it capitalism? Substituting ‘globalisation’ for ‘capitalism’ implies that the real enemy is international capital: and that is dangerous. Opposition to global capital has been a defining feature of fascism since Hitler wrote, in Mein Kampf, ‘that the hardest battle would have to be fought not against hostile nations but against international capital’. At best, selective opposition to international capital propagates the illusion that capitalism can solve problems of poverty and unemployment so long as it remains national. At worst, it condones barbaric oppression and exploitation by indigenous capitalists, and encourages racism and xenophobia. Globalisation may be a phase of capitalism, but anti-globalisation can never be anti-capitalist, because genuine opposition to capitalism doesn’t distinguish between ‘national’ and ‘international’ capital, or support the former against the latter.

• Marx’s Revenge: How Class Struggle Is Shaping the World
  28 March 2013, by siawi3

  If policymakers don’t discover new methods of ensuring fair economic opportunity, the workers of the world may just unite. Marx may yet have his revenge.
  Marx theorized that the capitalist system would inevitably impoverish the masses as the world’s wealth became concentrated in the hands of a greedy few, causing economic crises and heightened conflict between the rich and working classes. “Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole,†Marx wrote.

• USA: Globalization: Resurgence of Fanaticism or Celebratory Multiculturalism?
  26 November 2016, by siawi3

  Does Globalization Often Lead to Cultural and Religious Fanaticism by Emphasizing a Conception of Identity Between the “Authentic” and the “Demonic”? Are we seeing that phenomenon world-wide, particularly in the wake of the recent presidential election?

• « La nuit tout le jour »
  30 mars 2020, par siawi3

  La nuit, avec le vide urbain et le silence, chacun à sa propre fenêtre en ces heures pénibles, on peut voir ce nouveau tracé des frontières qui se meuvent vers nos pas de portes. Nous vaincrons, comme souvent. Mais il nous faut au moins le faire dans la négociation et l’humilité : si nous voulons que le monde ne nous tue pas, il ne faut plus qu’on tue le monde avec autant de mépris.« L’inhabité » nous revient au visage car nous sommes coupables d’un monde désormais inhabitable.