WB on its critics

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>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