WB on its critics

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sat Aug 18 13:16:38 PDT 2001



>Peter K. wrote:
>
>> >Ian Murray wrote:
>>>
>>>>Globalization is a theory?
>>>
>>>No, it's a propaganda word. Or an empty signifier.
>>>
>>>Doug
>>
>>What's a leftist to do when the word arises? Point out
>>it's a propaganda word, or at most an empty signifier?
>>I believe the word is gaining wider usage.
>
>It is; I've even got the nexis stats to prove it (though usage in
>the first half of 2001 was off a bit from 2000H1, after a sharp
>five-year rise). I think one should name the things that
>"globalization" effaces - the intensification of market disciplines,
>the shredding of the welfare state, the growth of imperial power -
>and, holding contradictory thoughts firmly in mind, also point, a la
>Empire, to the good things hidden within it, like cosmpolitanism,
>fascinating cultural cross-pollination, etc.
>
>Doug

Are good & bad things brought to you by capitalism & resistance to it inseparable from one another? Or are they separable, linked to one another only contingently? (These aren't rhetorical questions!)

Yoshie



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