Naderites Craft "Fix It or Nix It" Campaign

[Max Sawicky]

But given America's current politics, "reform" or elimination of the IMF
and the WTO will push us toward an America that Pat Buchanan likes and not
toward an America that Lori Wallach likes, no?
Brad DeLong
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[not addressed to BDL in particular]

I'm not sure what Lori W. likes or dislikes, but if
liberalization is so all-fired important, any destruction
of an institution like the IMF or WTO must be followed by
new pressures to recreate them.  If the predominant left
wing of the anti-global constituency holds out against
corporatist reformulation, it can negotiate a more
democratic one.

The same pragmatism in labor that is regularly excoriated
here makes a "nix" call an invitation to fix.  The only
question is how good a deal labor decides to fight for.

There is no meaningful right-wing, anti-global organized
force.  It is solely a creature of Buchanan and Perot.
Just consider the Reform Party, which makes the Dems a
paragon of organization and discipline by comparison.

"National capital" is similarly a joke.  Millikin can
spend all the money he wants.  He's not going to
create a movement out of incoherent logic and the
likes of Lenora Fulani.  Where is the great line-up
of 'national capitalists'?  What have they got
besides a few hole-in-the-wall organizations?

So the logic of anti-globalism/anti-neoliberalism
is social-democratic and left-populist.

mbs