[Pen-l] "globalisation in action"

["Chris Burford" <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Review of the week by an assistant editor of the Financial Times on BBC 1
this am: -

What we have seen is "globalisation in action"

Although the British economy has taken action, it needs other economies
around the world to do the same
(?)

It is rather like a modern day pandemic, like avian influenza.


She warned that the trend towards greater nationalism could be a danger, but
did not talk about isolating an infection. Nor did not use another metaphor
that occured to me -
where are the bulkheads to damp down lurching water in a leaking ship?

Apparently she has a PhD in social anthropology so maybe some of her
commentaries are deeper.

http://www.ft.com/comment/columnists/gilliantett



I thought the analysis was not very profound but the language is shifting.
BBC commentators and their interviewees are starting to talk again frankly
about globalisation and capitalism. The ground is shaping up for more social
control of capital on a global scale.

Whether that social control is mainly in the interests of the great majority
of the population or mainly in the interests of the power elite will depend
not on technicalities but on the political strength and coherence of the
different classes and strata.

The global intelligentsia may be pivotal.

Gramscian concepts of civil society as a terrain of struggle, including 
global civil society, may once again become relevant.
Provided the struggle for ideological hegemony is linked to material 
reality, this could be pivotal.
The terrain has opened up perhaps even wider than it was in 2000, before the 
excitatory diversions of terrorism.

Chris Burford
London

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