[Fwd: On "Globalism"]

[Bert Bakker]

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2009/11/3 Antid Oto <aorta at home.nl>

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> Re: 'nationalistisch' globalisme. SRD vat het samen in de eerste zin
> van deze post.
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: On "Globalism"
> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:43:54 -0800 (PST)
> From: srd <srdiamond at gmail.com>
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> "Globalism" is the drive of the bourgeoisie to resolve within the
> imperialist framework the contradictions in capitalism expressed in
> the limits of the nation state. Policies expressing "Globalism"
> include the creation of the EU, NAFTA, and international treaties
> purported to avert global warming. Globalist policies are as old as
> imperialism, as is Leninist opposition: an early Globalist experiment
> was the League of Nations. Notice that Lenin's hatred of the League of
> Nations had nothing in common with the abstract denunciations of
> "world government" featured by fascists and certain peasant-based ex-
> Trotskyist tendencies.
>
> Globalism is merely concerted imperialist thievery; some see a new
> Globalist era rooted in the ascendancy of transnational corporations,
> but the export of capital is a phenomenon distinct from the
> international bourgeoisie's reactionary *political* program. The "anti-
> Globalists," who, like the fascists, amalgamate the two do so by
> imagining that export of capital and import of labor are driven by an
> imperialist social vision of a new world order based on transnational
> corporations, in denigration of the "nation state." The reality of
> *capitalism* is that bourgeois states and large corporations both
> pursue policies for their particular profit, rather than effectively
> coordinating their efforts to implement a grand, reactionary social
> vision. "Anti-Globalism" is ineradicably rooted in conspirativism,
> which helps make it acceptable to both fascists and peasant-based
> populists.
>
> The imperialist bourgeoisie has always been divided between
> "Globalists" and nationalists, going back to the League of Nations.
> This division roughly corresponds to that between foreign-policy
> liberals and conservatives, with the wrinkle that the neo-Con movement
> has been called Globalist, despite being ultra-patriotic and go-it-
> alone in international policy. "Globalism" as a tendency embracing
> neoCons and Soros liberals both is an amalgam created by their
> populist and fascist opponents. While Marxists needn't lose sleep over
> clarifying the confusion to Bush/Cheney's or Soros's benefit, they
> should avoid sharing the confusion.
>
> Globalism, like all reactionary tendencies of imperialism, increase as
> imperialism enters what may be a new period, characterized not
> specifically by "Globalism" as by accelerating economic contraction. A
> one-sided emphasis on "globalization" is an adaptation to populism or
> worse.
>
> srd
>
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