Is “Anti-Globalization” a Tired Replay?
It is true the traditional Left is old and tired, its vision dimmed. One way to look at globalization is as a replay on a vast scale of what happened on a national scale in the first industrial countries. In the nineteenth century, European and U.S. capitalist entrepreneurs raced away from community accountability. Some of the things they did were great for the people, while others were terrible and caused huge suffering and destruction of nature. It took innumerable struggles, organizing efforts, conflicts, creative innovations, and leaps of empathy and cooperation to create a culture and expectation of accountability, backed by a set of laws and institutions to make it real and enforceable. That culture and those institutions are called freedom, democracy, fair trade, social safety nets, civil rights, civil responsibilities, equal pay, pluralism, truth in labeling, collective bargaining, and all the other good things that were indeed achieved to a greater or lesser degree in today’s
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