Scientific Third Wayism

Kevin Robert Dean qualiall_2 at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 6 00:12:12 PST 2001


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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