Re: FW: Krugman

[Sabri Oncu <soncu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug writes:

>C'mon folks, there is an "anti-globalization" left.
>It's not the whole movement, for sure, but plenty
>of people talk about localism and self-reliance,
>and object to cross-cultural influences. The
>International Forum on Globalization, a lot of Greens,
>Ralph Nader, and the New Internationalist's No-Nonsense
>Guide To Globalization, recently published by Verso,
>all embody this trend.
>
>Doug

Doug is right. There is an "anti-globalization left". I don't
follow the American scene that closely so I will take Doug's word
on the above. But I know that there are some on the "left" back
home along the above lines and worse. On the other hand, if you
watch them, that is, the ones back home, closely, they hardly
qualify to be called leftists. Some of them are borderline
fascist nationalists whereas some others are outright fascist
nationalists, even though they call themselves socialists,
anarchists, greens and the like. As Doug would probably remember
and Michael Pugliese knows quite well, because of this, some two
years ago a group of leftists in the movement, after a call from
an anarchist by the name of Alain Kessi, made an attempt to study
the influences of the right on the left and counter the entry of
the right into the movement. I have been a member of that group
and a subscriber of their list where we were sharing information
and based on what read there, even after some discounting, I can
safely say that you cannot imagine how fucked up it is out there.

Here is a question to our American friends: Is Ralph Nader is a
leftist?

Best,
Sabri