The farce of free-trade side-agreements

[Chuck0]

John Gulick wrote:
> 
> An LB0-talker posted:
> 
> >[From the Guardian]
> >Cut the blah blah blah
> >Naomi Klein in Quebec City
> >Thursday April 19, 2001
> 
> I sez:
> 
> Wow, this is good to see. A popular spokesperson for the "anti-corporate
> globalization" movement, putting a red-green spin on what ties together the
> mutlitudinous movements North and South -- i.e., making direct links b/w
> beating back the real subsumption of labor to capital in the North (i.e.
> expanded reproduction) and the formal subsumption of labor to capital (i.e.
> (primitive accumulation) in the South. Doug, you've interviewed Naomi Klein
> before. Does this red-green tack represent an evolution -- no, a revolution
> -- in her thought ? Before she seemed to focus so much on distributional issues
> (i.e. sweatshop wages and conditions in the South, superprofits and
> manufacturing job loss in the North). Anyway, since I'm always full of
> Frankfurtian doom and gloom, I'll say something positive for a change --
> it is really great to witness a movement "popularizer" in coherent red-green
> mode.

Academic jargon warning! 

What the hell do you mean by "Frankfurtian"?

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