Globaloney

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

>        BTW, where's the Doug Henwood who used to
>tell people that globalization is no more advanced than
>it used to be, especially if one measures trade by percent
>of GDP, or who sneered at the national culture of Canada?

To be fair to Doug, I don't think his views on the economic questions have
changed at all. He just seems less interested in exposing purveyors of
"globaloney." (Globaloney is a term that Doug coined to describe the view
that what's wrong with the world is corporations and outfits like GATT,
WTO, NAFTA, etc. superseding the national state.)

His main target in the past was an outfit called the International Forum on
Globalization upon whose board of directors and associates sit the movers
and the shakers behind the Seattle protests: Maude Barlow, (the "Ralph
Nader of Canada"), Lori Wallach, Ralph Nader himself, David Korten, Jerry
Mander, et al. This constellation of 'globaloney' figures teamed up with
the AFL-CIO and local Seattle anarchists to make the whole thing happen.

It is correct to state, by the way, that these globaloney types are not
opposed to capitalism as a system. It is "corporations", "unaccountable
trade bodies" or "currency speculators" that are the problem. The correct
Marxist term for this ideology is reformist illusion.

Louis Proyect

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