The ridiculousness of it all: Banker's minions resuscitating the specter of a "globalist" Marx against globalizing "anti-globalization" protests. Go figure. Perhaps they really are selling us the rope...
-Brad Mayer
At 08:09 PM 8/12/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 16:08:39 -0400
>From: "Gregory Geboski" <ggeboski at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Pro Business guy chides Marxists for "abandoning
>Internationalism"
>
>It's interesting in that it shows that the Old Man still has some cachet in
>Africa, if capital's propagandists there find it useful to use him as a club
>against the Left. Reminds me of the anti-affirmative action crowd in the
>US always quoting Martin Luther King.
>
>Otherwise, it's the same old crap: "Opponents of globalisation are
>shamelessly anti-Third World and anti-poor." Blah blah blah. The writer
>has his (nonsensical, hypocritical) lines down pat. But it's apparently
>adapted to local intellectual conditions! Impressive, to a point. The
>caps--or the PR firms that they hire--are good at this kind of thing, y'know.
>
>- ----Original Message Follows----
>From: Kevin Robert Dean <qualiall_2 at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Pro Business guy chides Marxists for "abandoning Internationalism"
>Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 10:45:25 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Well here's a strange twist in the argument for
>"Globalization". The author, Leon Louw, is exec.
>director of the "Free Market Foundation". What is
>interesting is that he doesn't use the old arguments
>from a pro business sense, but tries to make Marxists
>feel guilty for being "against internationalism"
>
>Globalisation is Old Hat
>
>Moneyweb (Johannesburg)
>
>http://allafrica.com/stories/200108100047.html
>
>OPINION
>August 10, 2001...