Pro Business guy chides Marxists for "abandoning Internationalism"

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  >>> furuhashi.1 at osu.edu 08/13/01 04:56PM >>>
>>After Genoa, this appears to be a recent tack - see also Time
>>Magazine's essay on Negri & Hardt's "Empire" (text of which was
>>recently posted in full on LBO and is searchable in its archives).
>>
>>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
>
>Leftists have ourselves to blame, in that we have yet to make global
>protests against G8, the WB, the IMF, & the like clearly protests
>against capitalism & imperialism, rather than against "free trade" &
>"globalization."  I don't think we'll be able to create the
>internationalist Left & make it grow by letting the other side
>portray us as opponents of "free trade" & "globalization."
>
>(((((((((
>
>CB: I wonder what the masses of workers are listening to and hearing 
>with respect to the anti-imperialist protestes (named 
>"anti-globalist").

I think we need to "Bring the War Home" so to speak.  That's what I 
was trying to say to Ian:

At 3:02 PM -0400 8/13/01, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>You mean such institutions as the WB & the IMF, multinational 
>corporations, etc.?  Why not the U.S. government, the preeminent 
>institution that keeps The Market going?  Why not make it the main 
>target?

The question is how, though.

Yoshie