Marx on free trade

[Carl Remick]

>>[CR:] This whole flap
>>over genetically modified foods, for instance -- do you think
>>[this] reflects
>>legitimate scientific worries or sheer protectionism?
>
>[DH:]I think there's also a very interesting
>psycho-emotional component to the anxiety too: an anxiety about
>purity and outsiderhood analogous to anxieties about "globalization"
>and immigration.

Anxieties about immigration can get pretty ugly pretty fast since they so 
often focus on the powerless. However, when it's multinational corporations 
that are getting their comeuppance as suspected poisoners -- I say, sit back 
and enjoy the show!


>[The stance that] there was once an Eden of sensitive,
>localized capitalism that's been destroyed by outsiders - a stance
>... blocks any consideration of capitalism itself.

Au contraire, while people may have a romanticized view of the "sensitive, 
localized capitalism" of yore, I think multinational corporations *force* 
people to recognize how little sway over corporate conduct they actually 
have.  People soon realize that combating MNCs -- which are everywhere and 
nowhere at the same time -- is like grappling with a fog bank.

Carl

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