Is globalization inevitable?
By Sean Healy ZMagazine March 2001 The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. Roger Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey), The Usual Suspects, 1995. M1 can be as big as it likes, someone recently said to me, but isn’t opposing globalization a bit like opposing the telephone? Not quite. Rulers always justify their actions with high words and lofty claims. They seek to conquer the high moral ground and, with it, the mantle of inevitability. Roman emperors termed the enslavement of Europe and the Middle East civilization; the owners of the dark, satanic mills of the Industrial Revolution dubbed their work progress; and the investment bankers, stockmarket gamblers and multi-millionaire business executives of todays corporate capitalism call their subjugation of the world globalization. With such words, rebelling slaves, striking factory workers, anti-corporate protesters cease to be partisans fighting oppression and become ignorant throw-backs who oppose civili
