Scientific Third Wayism

[Kevin Robert Dean]

The recent talk about scientific Marxism fell
perfectly with this little doozy I found while surfing
around the net.  This is a "Third Wayer" scientist,
trying to give a "scientific" explanation of
"Globalization"--his analysis of the social welfare
state is quite strange in this regard...

THE SECOND GLOBALIZATION DEBATE
A Talk With Anthony Giddens 
One of the big debates at the moment concerns the
theme of globalization. This is a completely amazing
thing, because only about 10 to 12 years ago it was
hard to get people to talk about it, to use the notion
of globalization at all. And now only a decade later,
everybody's using it. It's in the papers all the time.
Politicians talk about it. Businessmen talk about it.
The whole globalization debate has itself become
globalized, and that shows you that this truly is a
period of dramatic, intense change. When you get a
notion which comes from nowhere and comes to be
everywhere, it's obviously going to get debate about
it, and there is a very intense debate, and there were
two phases to that debate. 

Full article at:
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/giddens/giddens_p2.html

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